Around 1,500 angry farmers have called for a pause to the Murray-Darling Basin Management Plan, while others have accused non-farmer water investment companies (water barons) of holding back water from sale in the middle of today’s severe drought to spike the water price. In early September, the protesting farmers held a “sit in” on the bridge at Tocumwal across the Murray River. Languishing…

Reasonable doubt I have no involvement in the legal profession; I am simply a concerned resident of Victoria. And the trial and subsequent appeal of Cardinal George Pell have caused me to have severe misgivings about the legal system in Victoria and the consequent affect on our society’s freedom. If “proof beyond reasonable doubt” is not applied in criminal trials, it is not…

The Hong Kong-born federal member for Chisholm, Gladys Liu, certainly has questions to answer over her membership of organisations controlled by the Chinese Communist Party. Gladys Liu But the way in which the ALP and the media have run the controversy, purely to embarrass the Morrison Government and the newly elected MP, ignores the underlying issue of China’s extraordinary attempts…

The inexorable push to drive Australia towards greater reliance on wind and solar power is pushing up average power prices, increasing the unreliability of the system, and may force the premature closure of remaining coal-fired power stations. This is occurring despite prices falling below zero during times of over-supply. Governments in Labor states such as Victoria and Queensland have been ramping up the…

THE CATHOLIC CHURCH SAVED MY MARRIAGE by Dr David Anders EWTN Publishing, Irondale, Alabama Paperback: 222 pages Price: AUD$36 Reviewed by Michael E. Daniel “I hate you.” It has often been said that a great work of writing should engage its readers by entertaining and challenging them. Anders’ reflection begins with these starkly confronting words, said to him by his…

PEOPLE, POWER AND PROFITS: Progressive Capitalism for an Age of Discontent by Joseph E. Stiglitz Allen Lane, London Hardcover: 368 pages Price: AUD$45 Reviewed by Colin Teese Professor Joseph Stiglitz at present teaches at Columbia University. He enjoys a distinguished academic record of teaching and writing. He won the Nobel prize for economics in 2001 for his work on market…

IN SEARCH OF CARDINAL STEPINAC: A Complete Biography by Zvonimir Gavranovic Krscanska Sadasnjost, Zagreb Hardcover: 594 pages Price: AUD$40 Reviewed by Victor V. Vella The decade after World War II was a time of territorial adjustment. Eastern Europe was divided into two communist camps: the Russian Empire under Stalin and the Yugoslav empire/Yugoslavia under Tito. With all the promises of freedom of the…