Issue 2018 November 03
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What religious freedoms does the Government propose removing?
During the Wentworth by-election campaign, Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced his intention to remove protections for the freedoms of faith-based schools to select students in relation to a student’s sexual orientation, that is, their heterosexual or gay or lesbian sexual orientation. Then, days before the ballot, the Greens with Labor’s support moved to ratchet up pressure on the Government by moving…
RECENT RELEASE BOOK
THE MANNIX ERA: Melbourne Catholic Leadership 1920–1970 by Patrick Morgan Connor Court, Redland Bay Paperback: 320 pages Price: AUD$29.95 News Weekly is pleased to present for our readers an extract from Australian historian Patrick Morgan’s forthcoming book, The Mannix Era: Melbourne Catholic Leadership 1920-70. Patrick Morgan is author of the companion volume to this book, Melbourne Before Mannix: Catholics…
LETTERS
CO2 life cycle Engineers and scientists are wasting their time pricing the frivolities of climate gurus. My advice is to explain that carbon dioxide cannot influence the climate but is a beneficial gas that helps produce all our food. At 400 parts per million (ppm) – that is, four parts per 10,000 – this minute concentration of carbon dioxide is deluged by “per…
HUMOUR
THE MARXIST BROTHERS PICTURE PARADE edited by Kyle Cattermole and Tanya Dudd Upanishad & Foyle, Kerala Very hardback (and nose): 180 glossy pages Price: AUD$1 million Reviewed by Sebastian Gunlighter (without the cooperation of Tobias Eisteddfod) This gorgeous, luxurious glossy picture book will amuse and delight all cultural warriors, from those in pink nappies to blood-red-faced raving octogenarians. Even after a…
BOOK REVIEW FDR’s bad example from Depression era
AMERICAN DEFAULT: The Untold Story of FDR, the Supreme Court and the Battle over Gold by Sebastian Edwards Princeton UP, New Jersey Hardcover: 288 pages Price: AUD$64.99 Reviewed by Colin Teese Just when one might have imagined that the last word had been spoken about the Great Depression that hit the United States and then the world back in 1929,…
BOOK REVIEW Cartoon hero puts it in black and white
WHAT THE HELL WAS HE THINKING? John Spooner’s Guide to the 21st Century by John Spooner Australian Scholarly, North Melbourne Paperback: 258 pages Price: AUD$65 Reviewed by Peter Kelleher John Spooner has produced some of the sharpest as well as some of the most confounding political cartoons you will ever see. After a brief stint as a lawyer, Spooner took…
