Muslim Preachers Galore- Over 20 per cent of Muslims Support Radicalism- Brandis Defends New Terrorist Legislation- IPA Study Shows POverty Falling – Abbott & Shorten Support Future Usage of Coal
Muslim Preachers and Their Message It is interesting, and of some importance, to compare the media follow up to the recent Haider... Read More
The Terrorist Threat – Domestic and Overseas
SPECIAL ISSUE I am nominating today’s commentary as a Special Issue not because it is grand final day but because The Age... Read More
RET Policy & Deficient Temps; IS is a Death Cult But this Cult Wider Than IS
Climate Change Today’s AFR has published my letterbelow pointing out that even adopting the best of the two recommendations in the Warburton... Read More
No New Policies on Iraq; Church Leaders Astray; Abbott Right to Draw Out Muslim Leaders; My Letter
In Northern Iraq/ Kurdistan it is reported that US air strikes have helped the Kurds recover control of part of the major... Read More
Counter-Terrorist Activity
My letter published in today’s Financial Review speculates that Abbott may be playing a leading role in international discussions on possible responses... Read More
Budget Selling: No Progress Yet; New Aus Counter-Terrorism Measures; Iraq Caliphate Grows
Budget Selling: No Progress Yet Even allowing for anti-government media bias, it is difficult to see any progress being made with cross... Read More
Budget Strategy; US-Israel Relations; Threats from Terrorism Heightened by US Attorney.
Budget Strategy While attention has been focussed on the process of repealing the carbon tax, both The Australian and the Australian Financial... Read More
RC; Asylum Seekers; Abe Visit
Union Corruption As I predicted, with today’s front page lead extending to the whole of pages 2 and 3 the Herald Sun... Read More
Iraq; Honour Killing; Privatisation; Indonesian Election: Tasmanian Forests Decision; Global Warming
There appears to be fractionally more direct US involvement in Iraq and also some air attacks on ISIS by Syria. This indicates... Read More
Climate Change -Some Exposures of Errors on Policies
In yesterday’s message I referred to the attempts by Fairfax and the ABC to portray Abbott as being behind the ball game... Read More