Peter Faris, QC, wrote in The Australian this week:
In the US state of Oklahoma, voters recently approved a proposal that forbids state courts from considering or using international laws, as well as Sharia, or Islamic law.
… In Victoria, the Charter of Human Rights actually permits the use of international laws and judgments in applying the charter.
[Thanks to reader Lachie.]
Last December Tony Abbott told the Australian Financial Review: “There is still this left-of-centre ethos in the ABC and I hope that Mark Scott continues to address it.” Alas, the ABC’s institutional leftism is incurable.
There was a stark contrast in how ABC’s Lateline covered Margaret Thatcher’s death and the way it treated that of a prominent left wing hero, The Spectator Australia said this week.
There are important lessons to learn from the 2003 Iraq war experience, Tom Switzer says. But some Australian conservatives would prefer to ignore them.
Communications Minister Stephen Conroy’s proposals for media regulation are government licensing in all but name, the Institute of Public Affairs says.
“I just wish those letters weren’t so … similar,” Kerryn O’Brien lamented last night after declaring that an ALP candidate was contesting a seat for the ABC.
The Coalition says its “Policy to Improve the Fair Work Laws”, released today, will improve the prospects of higher real wages for Australian workers, lift standards of behaviour in trade unions, make it easier for small business to employ people and lift Australia’s productive capacity.
The Liberal Party has launched a new TV and social media video campaign to highlight what it describes as “the ongoing chaos, division and dysfunction of Julia Gillard’s Labor government.”
The Australian Christian Lobby has welcomed reported comments by Opposition Leader Tony Abbott that he did not expect the issue of same-sex marriage to come up in the life of the next Parliament should the Coalition win the election.
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