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Monday, 7 July 2014

The Forces of Freedom Make Progress in Ukraine




It is still early days, and no doubt Vladimir Putin has some nasty surprises in store, but a victory is a victory.

To read a newspaper report on the latest developments, click this link:
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/07/07/pro-russia-rebels-in-eastern-ukraine-reportedly-prepare-last-stand-in-donetsk/

Thursday, 3 July 2014

Continuing to Roll Up the People Smuggling Red Carpet


Here is a piece in The Australian today by journalist Rosie Lewis. Notice the language of Labor's Immigration Spokesman Richard Marles, and match that with his boasting as per my July-August 2014 Quadrant essay.  

Click the following link to read Rosie Lewis' report:
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/policy/tony-abbott-says-asylumseekers-safe-in-sea-transfer-to-sri-lankan-navy/story-fn9hm1gu-1226976274002

Wednesday, 2 July 2014

How Boat People Brought Down Rudd and Gillard


   
The most remarkable feature of Troy Bramston’s epigrammatic chronicle of the Rudd-Gillard years, Rudd, Gillard and Beyond (2014), is the full disclosure of the 500-word email Deputy PM Julia Gillard sent to PM Kevin Rudd on Monday, June 21, 2010, three days before she replaced him as prime minister of Australia. Gillard’s memo provides us with an important insight into the modern-day Australian Labor Party. Bramston might be a Labor insider but he makes a valiant attempt to understand what went wrong during the Rudd-Gillard-Rudd era. Nevertheless, a foe rather a friend is more likely to deliver the hard truth.

To keep reading the article, click this link:
http://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2014/07-08/boat-people-brought-rudd-gillard/


Monday, 9 June 2014

Obama's Bad Bargain

 
Celebrity Fox News reporter Geraldo Rivera defended President Obama’s arrangement for the return of Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl with the following line: “Wars end when you negotiate with your enemy.” The truth, of course, is slightly different. Change the order of the wording and we get closer to the mark – When wars end, then you negotiate with your enemy. Geraldo Rivera was almost telling the truth. We could, in fact, say that Obama and his defenders are forever almost telling us the truth.

To keep reading this article, click the following link:
http://quadrant.org.au/opinion/qed/2014/06/obamas-bad-bargain/