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Charles William Wentworth, a poet turned politician, established Australia’s first university in Sydney in 1850. His mission was to provide “the opportunity for the child of every class to become great and useful in the destinies of this country.” There are lamentably few poets in the parliament today, but Wentworth’s
read now The visit to Hebron this week by New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman and Kathleen Kingsbury, The New York Times’ Opinion Editor could see the NYT finally breaking its silence on the Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine proposal published in the Saudi Arabian government-controlled Al Arabiya News on 8 June
read now As far as Australian left-wing politicians were concerned, the threatened endangerment finding on the Great Barrier Reef was just blackmail.And now that some of them have their payday, they’re not even coy about what they were up to. As reported in last week’s Australian: ‘The reason that UNESCO in
read now Great news. The Brittany Higgins case is over. The ACT Director of Public Prosecutions, Shane Drumgold announced yesterday that the sexual assault charge against Bruce Lehrmann will be dropped, because of an “unacceptable risk to the life of the complainant”.In an extraordinary statement to the press, Drumgold claimed the decision
read now Australia is the most generous provider of development assistance – aid – in our region. The recent federal budget increased aid to PNG and our island neighbours.As far as I can ascertain none of our neighbours thanked us for our increased assistance. It seems to be taken for granted. On
read now The Fed Minutes tell us that even though the Fed may reduce the size of the individual rate hikes to 50 basis points, there will be even more rate hikes, lifting the Red Funds rate to an even higher final level. In the first week of November, we had the
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