Mandatory detention of asylum seekers, introduced in 1992 and according to former Labor leader Mark Latham one of the “proud achievements of the Keating administration”, has been watered down by the Rudd Government. Headlines across the world are announcing to would-be asylum seekers that Australia is open for business. Asylum seekers for the first time [...]
Revelations that former immigration minister Kevin Andrews wanted to put Australians in charge of determining who came to Australia has caused criticism from some media commentators, but such criticism won’t wash with the man in the street. Last Saturday’s Australian newspaper ran a story stating that Kevin Andrews apparently favoured accepting Christian immigrants from the [...]
A commitee of UK MPs has done what Kevin Rudd is afraid to do and released a report into the effects that immigration is having upon English society. The report finds that immigration is harming communities and causing “significant public anxiety” that “cannot simply be dismissed as expressions of racist or xenophobic sentiments”. It goes [...]
Cardinal George Pell has shone the light on one of the biggest challenges facing Western civilisation with his statement that “No Western country is producing enough babies to keep the population stable, no Western country”. The Cardinal has highlighted a simple and inconvenient fact – that the population of every Western nation is dying out. [...]
Calling someone a turtle used to be imply that they were doing something in slow motion. That description may be in need of a revamp as members of multicultural societies bunker down and go into their shell instead of dealing with the outside world. Members of multicultural societies have been likened to turtles because of [...]
The Australian Institute of Family Studies conference is currently being held in Melbourne. Interviewed for The Australian today (Return to work is answer to poverty), Professor Whiteford argues that governments should be redirecting some welfare spending into helping low-income parents work after the birth of a child – “The idea that these mothers should stay [...]
Whilst criminals laugh at our weak court system, an article in The Australian today calls for even more lenient sentencing. Rather amusingly, the author Hugh de Kretser asks the question “So, if crime is down, why are prison numbers up?” The answer that crime is down because there are less criminals at large seems to [...]
It seems that leaving children alone for 40 minutes is causing too much violence in our schools these days (see Schools cut lunch breaks to curb bullies) So what’s the solution? More discipline? More respect for authority? Better parenting? Wrong on all counts. The solution is to reduce the duration of the offending playtime so [...]
An article from the UK some months ago provides a good example of how dysfunctional our society has become in relation to other cultures and their place in western society. Replacing Christian with Muslim and Bible with Koran in the article below highlights the intolerance westerners have for their our own culture. Imagine the outcry [...]
British Eastenders star Brooke Kinsella has appealed for an end to violence on London streets after her 16 year old brother Ben was chased down and stabbed to death by a gang of four black youths. Ben was the 17th teenager to be murdered in London this year. 2007 year saw 27 teenagers murdered. The [...]