If Australia is to be taken seriously in the fastest growing region of the world, it will need to expand its population to around 50 million and requires a development bank to put the infrastructure in place. Recently, the Federal Government’s Infrastructure Australia warned that while the population expected to grow by an extra 12 million people over the next…

HILLBILLY ELEGY: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis by J.D. Vance HarperCollins, London Paperback: 272 pages Price: AUD$24.99 Reviewed by Michael E. Daniel Any casual observer will have noticed the growing divide between the “haves” and the “have-nots” in developed countries such as Australia and the United States. The reasons as to why a large proportion of…

THE BEST OF NEWS WEEKLY: 2014–2016 Edited by Peter Kelleher Wilkinson Publishing, Melbourne Paperback: 310 pages Price: AUD$39.99 Reviewed by John Barich This year being the 20th anniversary of the death of B.A. “Bob” Santamaria, it is appropriate that this book opens with Bob’s seminal 1973 speech entitled “Philosophies in Collision”, reprinted here for the first time in some 40…

C.S. LEWIS ON POLITICS AND THE NATURAL LAW by Justin Dyer and Micah J. Watson Cambridge UP, Cambridge Paperback: 172 pages Price: AUD$42.95 Reviewed by Brian Coman “Of the making of books” said the scribe in Ecclesiastes, “there is no end”. This is, no doubt true and no more so than in the case of books about C.S. Lewis. Each…