Men/boys can self-identify as women/girls   If you can change your sex, can you change your age, race?   In the name of “diversity”, “uniformity” imposed on everyone   More rights threatened than under same-sex marriage         The Queensland Government of Annastacia Palaszczuk is proposing to change birth certificates to allow people to register as Male, Female, Indeterminate, Unspecified…

Ever worse water woes Noted your article in the February 24, 2018, issue of News Weekly on the Murray-Darling Basin. The right of landowners in the upper catchment, that is, east of the Hume Freeway, to store water from surplus rain on their land for their own use is gone. All rights to this water were removed, including those written into land title,…

Trade is in the headlines with Donald Trump’s tariffs on Chinese imports and on imported steel, a reaction to decades of trade deficits and the loss of American industry and jobs. More on the U.S. tariffs and what they mean for the world trading system will appear in the next issue of News Weekly. Meanwhile, the Trump Administration moves raise the question: how…

CREDIT CODE RED: How Financial Deregulation and World Instability Are Exposing Australia to Economic Catastrophe by Peter Brain and Ian Manning Scribe, Brunswick Paperback: 224 pages Price: AUD$29.99 Reviewed by David James The warning that Peter Brain and Ian Manning sound in Credit Code Red: How Financial Deregulation and World Instability Are Exposing Australia to Economic Catastrophe, certainly makes sense.…

OUR TIME HAS COME: How India Is Making Its Place in the World by Alyssa Ayres OUP, Oxford Hardcover: 256 pages Price: AUD$33.95 Reviewed by John Barich As this book was being launched by the Australian Institute of International Affairs, Freedom Publishing was selling Everything Under the Heavens: How the Past Helps Shape China’s Push for Global Power by Howard…