Restrictions on the foreign buy-up of farmland are needed, at least until an accurate register of foreign ownerships is established. However, the issue is complicated by the fact that many farmers would be happy to sell to anyone wanting to buy their farms, because of the parlous state of many rural industries. One indicator of farm stress is farm debt, which has risen…

Not necessarily hypocrisy Sir, I refer to Dr Andrew T. Kania’s article, “Must we be slaves of time and place?” (News Weekly, September 14, 2013). If Thomas Jefferson fathered children with his slave, Sally Hemmings, it doesn’t prove that he didn’t consider Afro-Americans to have been “created equal”. For Jefferson to have married his slave would have caused a huge outbreak of racial…

WORSHIPPING THE STATE: How Liberalism Became Our State Religion by Benjamin Wiker (Washington, DC: Regnery) Hardcover: 256 pages ISBN: 9781621570295 RRP: AUD$55.90   Reviewed by Bill Muehlenberg   Of the major competing ideologies and worldviews locked in fierce combat with Christianity to see which will gain supremacy, the one that has been in constant conflict is secular humanism. I have looked at this…