Election fraud Sir, To add a note to Julia Patrick’s article on the “scandalous shambles” of our electoral system (News Weekly, July 20), I happened to be in London at the time of the last federal election and, on seeing queues outside Australia House a week or so before the date, guessed that they were for advance voting. I went along next day…

Despite the rapid decline in the Rudd Labor government’s standing during the early days of the 2013 election campaign, there is widespread agreement that neither side is addressing the larger challenges facing Australia in the years ahead. On the government side, Mr Rudd promised, at the outset, that his election campaign would end the negativity in Australian politics and put forward a positive…

Mobilising superannuation funds for infrastructure development, in order to insulate Australia from the ongoing global financial crisis, should be a high priority for the next federal government. Of the $1,300 billion Australians have now invested in superannuation, only $40-65 billion (3 to 5 per cent) is invested in infrastructure. Further, most of this is invested in foreign, not Australian, infrastructure, according to Infrastructure…

  THE BOOK THAT MADE YOUR WORLD: How the Bible Created the Soul of Western Civilization by Vishal Mangalwadi (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson) Paperback: 464 pages ISBN: 9781595555458 RRP: AUD$33.95   Reviewed by Bill James   This is a classic example of a “Yes, but…!” book. In his commendation of it, the respected American church historian, George Marsden, notes wryly that Dr Vishal…