For many years now, the NCC has been developing young leaders through Ypat. Each year at Ypat a wide array of guest speakers from various professions spend one week equipping the younger generations to understand, and gain insight in the political and social spheres. These young adults are our hope of making a difference in our society, communities and institutions. As we finalise…

News Weekly Report New Zealand lobby and research group Family First (not a political party) recently released polling results about attitudes to pornography. The poll, dated April 17, 2017, shows strong support for opt-out internet filtering and a general consensus that viewing pornography is harmful. In 2013, internet service providers (ISPs) in Britain began default opt-out filtering of sexually graphic material and other…

Where is everyone? China had a one-child policy for several years, and currently the world is performing millions of abortions every year. This writer predicts that, as a result, in the next generation there will be an economic crisis as never before. Why? Those individuals who would have been born were to be the workforce of the future. But each one’s absence will…

THE MOLOTOV ADDENDUM by Colin Roderick Fulton Austin Macauley, London Paperback: 377 pages Price: AUD$32.99 Reviewed by Michael E. Daniel   It is the middle of 1939, and Valentin Mikhova, a senior Soviet commissar and hitherto loyal party member, decides to flee the Soviet Union with his daughter. The Molotov Addendum is a gradual re-telling of Mikhova’s life, culminating in…

LENIN THE DICTATOR: An Intimate Portrait by Victor Sebestyen Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London Paperback: 400 pages Price: AUD$35 Reviewed by Bill James   This reviewer recalls that in 1970, the centenary of the birth of Lenin, Melbourne University’s union building was plastered with his image, and the “odour of sanctity” at a symposium dedicated to his memory was dispelled singlehandedly…