New South Wales libertarian Senator David Leyonhjelm was poised to introduce a federal bill to change the Commonwealth Marriage Act, as this issue of News Weekly was going to press last week.  According to The Australian (November 25, 2014), the bill would replace “husband and wife” with the words “two people” in the Marriage Act, leaving marriage open to any two people regardless…

France’s socialist Prime Minister, Manuel Valls, wants an international treaty banning countries that allow surrogacy from providing surrogate children to couples who come from countries where surrogacy is prohibited.  French Prime Minister Manuel Valls In 2011, Valls had supported surrogacy, describing it as “an inevitable development”. But since he was appointed Prime Minister of France in April this year, he has changed his…

  KEYNES / HAYEK: The Clash That Defined Modern Economics by Nicholas Wapshott (New York: W.W. Norton, 2011) Paperback: 400 pages ISBN: 9781921844362 Price: AUD$34.95   Reviewed by John Ballantyne   The ongoing debate on how governments should tackle the aftermath of the 2007/08 global financial crisis is not altogether new. It is in a sense a revisiting of the famous clash between…