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First Nations? Second Thoughts
by Tom Flanagan Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press. 2000 Reviewed by Hon. Dr. Gary Johns Tom Flanagan has been writing on Canadian...
Little More Than Fiction
It's an oldie, but a goodie. People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. And media watchdogs should be sure that their facts are right...
It's A Sad Day for Australian Investors
It is rare that a government can add to its nation's economy at the stroke of a pen. It is much easier, as the Howard Government demonstrated with...
When Is a Tax Not a Tax?
Few things anger businesses more than governments tying them down with layers of regulation and then charging them rapaciously for the privilege....
Having Some Faith in Our Democracy
What are the great wrongs that will be set right by an Australian Bill of Rights? Aboriginal deaths in custody? Unlikely, death rates for...
Imprisoned by the Old Ways
In May 1968, while campuses around the world were in open revolt against Western society, the Bulletin magazine wrote about a serious threat to New...
Planet Earth Put on Hold
One of the qualities that make the greens so interesting is their ability to get away with the most alarming and fatuous exaggerations. Who else...
Staffer No Last-minute Inclusion
Point of clarification to Amanda Meade's otherwise fine article on the IPA conference on the ABC (Bias questions at ABC talkfest, Media, 5/4)....
A Difficult Position
Can the 'stolen generations' issue ever be resolved? Last week, during a debate with me on the ABC's 7.30 Report, prominent historian and public...
Corporate Australia Has Failed to Defend Itself
Don't weep for corporate Australia; it has brought the current political heat upon itself through inaction and silence. After taking the high moral...