SHOCKED unionists in the building industry are just discovering they can no longer expect to be protected from the full weight of the law by compliant union-friendly Labor governments in Canberra. The union thugs are being chased down, prosecuted, fined — and in a new twist — actually being made to pay up.
The great cover-up of the illegal asylum-seeker traffic to Australia is beginning to unravel.
FORTY years ago, an overwhelming majority of Australians celebrated the results of the referendum – conclusively carried by 90.8 per cent of the vote – which enabled Aboriginal Australians to be included in the national census and enabled the Federal Government to give them legal protection.
NO SINGLE issue better illustrates the Rudd Government’s gross incompetence than its blindly ideological approach to the question of climate change.
TRUTH has suffered a major setback with the awarding of a 2008 John Curtin Prize for Journalism to Tasmanian polemicist Richard Flanagan.
THE most surprising thing about the waves of outrage emanating from the Beijing Olympics about the manner in which the despotic Chinese Government is running the games is that anyone is actually surprised.
THERE are branding problems and branding problems.
THE international Left and our own flag-waving supporters of Hamas, Hezbollah and every other Palestinian terror organisation, look pretty stupid today as Israel provides sanctuary for Palestinians fleeing home-grown terror directed against each other.
VETERAN social researcher, Howard-hater and Fairfax columnist Hugh Mackay was one of those euphoric about the election of the Rudd Labor government last November.
THE capture of mass murderer Radovan Karadzic was due as much, if not more, to concerns about Serbia’s economic links to the European Union than to a desire for justice, but that’s no reason not to celebrate.
THE former Soviet Union killed the Aral Sea, the fourth largest inland body of water.
Former treasurer Peter Costello has the capacity to change the political landscape with his nearly completed political biography.
AUSTRALIA’S arts community needs to drag itself back into reality.
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