Contents Issue 18 Winter 2009

 Editorial

Why the major theme of this issue is about Comrade Rudd, the ALP and China Inc. links.

 

The Budget

Spend, spend, spend. Spin spin spin.

 

Corruption in the Body Politic

Linked articles on:

• Labor’s  Chinese Mates - big donors

• Senate defeats the Government’s electoral reform bill 

• Political advertising by lobbyists.

 

Rudd, Fitzgibbon and China

Compromised by free travel and personal links with agents of influence.

 

China Inc

The FIRB and ASIC should treat all Chinese Inc.  investments  as  one.

 

Is Comrade Rudd the Manchurian Candidate?

Examining the evidence from policy decisions taken.

 

Inverell Forum 2009

A personal summary of another very successful meeting.

 

Consumer Task Force

About as useful as the abandoned Grocery Watch.

 

Taliban Singles Online

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Hanson Case Puts Media In A  Poor Light.

Alan Fitzgerald dissects  a  flagrant case of sloppy journalism.

 

Spotlight On The Hill

Foxhunter provides a review of  idiocies in society.

 

 BOOK REVIEWS

Response  Ability

Geoff Mosley reviews an unusual book which deals with our personal ability to respond  to environmental problems.

Travels in Arctic Sunshine

Alan Fitzgerald reviews a book containing some unpleasant truths which maybe we wish to forget.

An Irish Songman 

More an essay than a book review, Nigel Jackson on the varied achievements of one of Australia’s public intellectuals post WW2.

 

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Websites that may be of interest.

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