Issue 2015 December 05
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Commissioner disappointed Sir, I am deeply disappointed to have been misrepresented in your article, “Bishops being prosecuted for supporting man+woman marriage. Here is what you can do” (News Weekly, November 7, 2015). According to your article, “This prosecution of the Catholic Bishops is happening despite … Federal Human Rights Commissioner, Tim Wilson, saying that redefining marriage would do no harm”. This claim is…
CANBERRA OBSERVED Kidman hectares to stay in local hands … for now
The chasm between the Australian people and the elites of the nation’s big business sector could not be greater on the issue of foreign ownership of national assets, particularly farmland. The Kidman properties, in black above, cover 100,000 square kilometres. On the one hand business people are salivating at the prospect of earning hundreds of millions of dollars in commissions from sales of…
BOOK REVIEW Fantastical Four
THE FELLOWSHIP: The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams by Philip Zaleski and Carol Zaleski (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2015) Hardcover: 656 pages ISBN: 9780374154097 Price: AUD$34.00 Reviewed by Bill James The Inklings was an Oxford club with no rules, agenda, minutes, structure or hierarchy, which met weekly in an atmosphere…

