IF ONLY. If only President George W. Bush had responded to the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on 11 September 2001 in the same way that the Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg and his Foreign Minister Gahr Stre has responded to the terrorist attack a week ago in their country. Continue reading “Norway beats US in war on terror”
Month: July 2011
No privacy lessons to be learned fromUK
YES, we inherited the rule of law and parliamentary democracy from Britain. But we did not inherit its newspaper culture. So when politicians call for new rights to privacy and inquiries into the media based upon what has happened in Britain, we should be wary. Continue reading “No privacy lessons to be learned fromUK”
Media-induced fear is hurting our children
A LESS-OBVIOUS evil and danger lies behind the News of the World’s hacking of the phones of the missing 13-year-old Milly Dowler and the victims of terrorism. And the closing of the paper and the inquiries that ensue will not address it. Continue reading “Media-induced fear is hurting our children”
$228m wasted on soon-to-clogged freeway
THE people of the ACT are being duped by the Territory and Federal Governments over the Majura Parkway. The case is another example of a poor thinking in Australia’s transport system. Continue reading “$228m wasted on soon-to-clogged freeway”
Greens could replace morally wayward Labor
MORE evidence is in that there is no such thing as a “rusted-on” Labor vote in Australia. In the 1990s chunks of the formerly supposed rusted-on blue-collar Labor vote fell away when Pauline Hanson and John Howard applied the WD40. Xenophobes and “battlers” deserted the Labor Party. Continue reading “Greens could replace morally wayward Labor”