The radical environmentalist group Greenpeace has spearheaded a push to block the expansion of Australia’s coal export industry, with “generous support from the Rockefeller Family Fund”, a charitable foundation based in New York.   The organisers’ draft plan says that it aims to raise funds in the United States as well as Australia to bankroll the campaign. Another foreign group involved in the…

Whitlam’s “localism”? Sir, I note that News Weekly’s correspondent (“Labor pushes the self-destruct button”, Canberra Observed, March 3, 2012) has repeated a grave error that most national political commentators have been making since at least 1975. Your correspondent wrote: “The Whitlam Government had a program and a vision for the country that included boosting local government, constitution reform and decentralisation.” These are big…

If Australia legalises same-sex marriage, it will accelerate the gay, lesbian, bisexual, transsexual and intersex (GLBTI) transformation of the curriculum in primary and secondary schools. The Australian Education Union (AEU) is strongly pushing this agenda. In 2006 it adopted a GLBTI policy to have “all curriculum … written in non-heterosexist language”. It said: “Sexuality should be included in all curriculum relating to health…

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 observe it now even if you want to. It’s a human right, apparently, for everything to be open — and therefore it is no longer a human right to have the day off and…