Former Indigenous Minister Ken Wyatt has quit the centre-right Liberal Party following the party’s decision to oppose changing the country’s Constitution to include an Indigenous advisory body. “I still believe in the Liberal Party values but I don’t believe in what the Liberals have become,” he told the West Australian newspaper. “Aboriginal people are reaching…
Former Minister Quits Liberal Party Over Voice Stance
April 6, 2023
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IMF Director Says Africa Needs More Loans to Fix Debt Problem
During a speech today for the 2023 Spring Meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank Group in Washington, IMF director Kristalina Georgieva acknowledged that Africa is facing a “tremendous financial crunch” and is “being held back by unsustainable debt built over the years.” However, her solution to the problem is not…
Mexico Faces Illegal Immigration Crisis Along Its Southern Border
Mexico shares a problem with the United States as it deals with an illegal immigration crisis along its southern border with Guatemala. Thousands of immigrants continue to make the dangerous journey through Guatemalan jungles and cross illegally into Mexico, often using coyotes, also known as human traffickers, to make the trek. “I come from a…
Liberals Take Principled Stance on the Voice, Will Australia Be Open to Listening?
April 6, 2023
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Commentary Leadership requires the strength to say “NO” even when those around you clamour to proceed and can’t foresee the inherent danger. With opinion polling suggesting that Australians are positively disposed to supporting “The Voice” proposal to alter their Constitution, the Liberal/National Coalition has taken a strong, principled stand in opposing the proposal both on…
Belarus Leader Meets Putin in Moscow to Discuss Key Alliance Treaty
April 6, 2023
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Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko and Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin presided over an April 6 meeting in Moscow held to discuss the “Union State” treaty between the two countries. In effect since 1999, the Union State treaty is aimed at cementing economic and defense ties between the two former Soviet republics. “Russia and Belarus are stepping…
Transgender Athlete Wins Womens Australian Golf Tournament
Transgender golfer Breanna Gill has won the Australian Women’s Classic at Bonville Golf Resort in the state of New South Wales. The victory was the 32-year-old’s first win in the Women’s PGA Tour of Australia. “I always thought in my head if I ever got the opportunity to actually win a golf tournament and the…
Macron in China Urges ‘Shared Responsibility for Peace’
April 6, 2023
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BEIJING—French President Emmanuel Macron said Wednesday he wants to “engage China toward a shared responsibility for peace” in Ukraine when he meets Chinese leader Xi Jinping this week. French officials said earlier that Macron planned to urge Xi in talks Thursday to use Beijing’s influence with Russian President Vladimir Putin, but didn’t expect a big…
Pelosi Praises McCarthy Meeting With Taiwan President
April 6, 2023
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Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has commended her successor Kevin McCarthy’s (R-Calif.) historic meeting with Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen in California in a rare sign of support. McCarthy introduced Tsai as a “great friend of America” as he hosted her at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley along with more than a dozen lawmakers from both…
The Gender Bullies Run Rampant
Commentary Many years ago, as an undergraduate member of our Union board, it fell to me to chair a meeting at my university. After all those years, I can’t honestly recall what the meeting was about, but the “Rads” (radicals, as we used to call them in those days) evidently decided to break it up….
Women Work Harder Than Men? Phooey!
Commentary “Women work harder than men.” That was the sexist headline for an article earlier this year on The Conversation. Hardly unusual, given that the overburdened woman is a favoured theme with our media intent on singing women’s praises and denigrating men at every conceivable opportunity. But this anthropological study takes the cake. It involved…
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