Analysing Australia's place in the world since 1941
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This week in State of the States, the Federal Government signs a historic deal with India to export uranium, yet a ban on uranium mining still exists in most Australian states; Commonwealth Games Australia gives $4.6 million to Scotland to help Glasgow get “over the line” to host the Games; and new Victorian Premier Ben Carroll is locked in an integrity war with Daniel Andrews after he described…
“For this is how God loved the world: he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life.” (John 3:16, NJB) For those not familiar with the Alliance For Responsible Citizenship (ARC), it was established in 2023, by Dr Jordan Peterson, Sir Paul Marshall, Baroness Philippa Stroud and Legatum Ventures. The current large ARC Advisory Board has 58…
This article is Part 2 of 2. Read Part 1 here. The discourse surrounding Christopher Nolan’s take on The Odyssey has been extraordinary. I’m not saying the discourse is extraordinarily good, but I struggle to recall a time when a mainstream blockbuster sparked everyone – from military historians to classicists to technologists to film buffs – to argue about a film. This level of debate is…
A dear reader – let’s call him Karl, because, by an amazing coincidence, that happens to be his name – has emailed me with an intriguing article from the St Austin Review, an American Catholic cultural journal. I am not sure exactly what was on Karl’s mind when he sent it. I possess precisely zero in the way of psychic powers. Frankly, I have enough trouble understanding what is in my own mind.…
Eminent patron of the Thomas More Centre Joseph Gerard Santamaria KC died at the age of 78 on July 23. St Patrick’s Cathedral, East Melbourne, was full for his Requiem Mass on July 31. Joseph was a humble, deeply prayerful, astute and mostly hidden philanthropist. His generosity was self-effacing. His support often came with timely personal advice that was short and crisp in words yet significant…
Above image: Seeking Beauty host David Henrie. Credit: EWTN Studios What does it mean to seek beauty? EWTN+ series Seeking Beauty shows us how to find beauty in our everyday lives. Hosted by actor and director David Henrie, the travel documentary series explores the different ways beauty manifests itself – in culture, architecture, food, art and music – and how they ultimately point us to the…
Left: W.H. Auden (image copyright 1956, George Cserna) | Right: G.K. Chesterton (public domain image) Anglo-American poet Wystan Hugh Auden (1907-73) helped to reinvigorate English poetry in the middle decades of the 20th century. His poems included contemporary images: infiltrating spies, civil strife, vestiges of industries once vibrant but now obsolete, the prevalence of electricity and…
The ABC screened a segment entitled “Science and politics clash in puberty blockers debate” in its 7.30 news program on July 28. It declared that the “fierce debate” over the safety of puberty blockers for prepubescent teens who believe they are transgender has become “a collision of science, politics and ideology playing out in Australia and across the globe”. Not unexpectedly, the program…
Image credit: World View Films, courtesy of Deployable Energy A new source of safe nuclear The post Aussie Nuclear Innovation Rejected Here Finds a Home in the U.S. appeared first on NEWS WEEKLY .
On June 24, 2026, the Director General of Security (aka, the head of ASIO), Mike Burgess, in ASIO’s Annual Threat Assessment address (available on ASIO’s YouTube channel) said: “When an Australian is killed at the hands of a foreign government on Australian soil, we will be shocked but we shouldn’t be surprised.” He also said the words, “we will be shocked but we shouldn’t be surprised”, or “we…
