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The greatest danger to society
Sir,
Many non-religious people today think they can find happiness by deciding what is right and wrong themselves (relativism) and protest that Christians want…
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Neither distributist nor decentralist
Sir,
I agree with Mr Tim Wallace (Letters, News Weekly, November 10, 2012) that the distributist and decentralist principles of B.A. Santamaria can help…
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Global warming trend is real
Sir,
Peter Westmore’s article, “Arctic sea ice recovery contradicts ‘global warming’” (News Weekly, October 27, 2012), contains a n…
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Frank Mount’s memoirs
Sir,
Now, having read Frank Mount’s Wrestling with Asia: A Memoir, I would like to congratulate Patrick Morgan on his perceptive review of the book (News We…
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Global warming 1
Sir,
Kim L. Critchley’s letter to News Weekly (September 29, 2012) expressed concern that Arctic ice was shrinking in response to human-induced global warming.
Hi…
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Global warming is real
Sir,
News Weekly, which claims to be a news magazine, has recently published articles denying the actuality of climate change, specifically global warming, and quotes …
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Something desperately wrong
Sir,
Something is wrong when a prostitute can win a verdict against the owners of a motel in the Queensland mining town of Moranbah for not allowing her to hire a…
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Car industry is dying
Sir,
Of the 917,000 new cars sold last year in Australia, 233,000 (25 per cent) were made or assembled from imported parts in Australia. Cars fully manufactured in Aust…
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The good, the true and the beautiful
Sir,
Brian J. Coman’s “mordant reflection” on culture and modernity (News Weekly, August 4, 2012) is a timely reminder that we are in d…
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Superannuation funds I
Sir,
I write with regard to Jeffry Babb’s article, “Labor super rort could bankrupt retirees” (News Weekly, July 7).
In particular, I take issue…
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Christians persecuted by Syrian rebels
Sir,
I am a Christian and I am on our side, the side of the Christians in Syria. There is information to be found on good Catholic news sites (e.g., Ag…
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Whatever happened to Christian charity?
Sir,
I was extremely disappointed, to say the least, at the cover of the last issue of News Weekly (June 23, 2012), along with the accompanying &ldquo…
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Same-sex marriage push
Sir,
The push for same-sex marriage cuts to the heart of natural law, religious freedom and the rights of children to have proper parents.
Radical humanist groups…
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(AS THE WORLD TURNS)*
Marriage and intact families reduce suicide rate
That irrepressible British journalist G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936) vigorously affirmed the goods inherent in wedlock and just as vigorously opposed…
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Afghanistan and Christianity
Sir,
I fail to see the logical connection between the Obama administration’s anti-religious initiatives which Patrick J. Gethin lists (News Weekly, May 12…
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Era of catastrophes
Around the turn of the 21st century, a paradigm shift in our thinking took place: we decided that the era of revolutions was over and that the era of catastrophes had begun.&#…
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Vision needed for Murray-Darling Basin
Sir,
In the year 1887, E.A. Leonard, of the Royal Geographical Society of Queensland, devised a remarkable scheme for the rivers of the far north of A…
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Why bilinguals are smarter
Speaking two languages rather than just one has obvious practical benefits in an increasingly globalised world. But in recent years, scientists have begun to show that …
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Elementary logic
Sir,
I read with interest and some perturbation Dr Alberto Giubilini and Dr Francesca Minerva’s article, “After-birth abortion: why should the baby live?”,…
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UN culpability for Haiti’s cholera epidemic
Since October 2010, cholera has killed more than 7,050 Haitians and sickened more than 531,000, or 5 per cent of the population. Lightning fast a…
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Gonski Report I
Sir,
Kevin Donnelly’s article on the Gonski report (News Weekly, March 17, 2012) highlights the great lie in the propaganda from government, teachers’ unions and …
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Abolishing Sundays
It fell to capitalism (which Karl Marx had praised as the destroyer of tradition and established, old things) to destroy the Christian Sabbath in Britain.
You can’t …
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