AUSTRALIAN nationals do not require a visa to visit the United States as tourists. They merely have to fill in a form on a website, wait for approval and then[...]
Today marks 11 years since Al Qaeda flew planes into the towers of the World Trade Centre in New York and made the US aware that it was not safe[...]
ALL that Lance Armstrong had to do was to release one simple statement: “I have never taken performance-enhancing drugs.” Instead what came forth from the seven-time Tour de France winner,[...]
WHAT does one call a writer who pretends that the life experiences of others are his own, and passes them off as such? A fraud? A poser? A plagiarist? I[...]
THIRTY-TWO Australians have died needlessly in Afghanistan. All of them were young, in their 20s and 30s, and have left young families behind. If there was some point to their[...]
PROFESSOR Zhang Weiwei is not particularly well-known around the world. An author and former translator for the Chinese supreme leader Deng Xiaoping, Zhang is, however, a very important figure in[...]
THE push for democracy in Burma by the West has been going on for just one reason: resources. Burma has gold, copper, tungsten, timber and oil in abundant quantities. All[...]
[Before you read this, go here. Read the post, and the comments. Then come back and you will understand why this item has this particular heading.] IN TIMES of economic[...]
WHEN Britain engineered the split of the Indian subcontinent back in 1947, there was little indication that the colonial masters would face a big blowback. The old policy of divide[...]
AUSTRALIA is putting itself in a dangerous position by agreeing to be the meat in the sandwich between the US and China. The US, realising that it cannot stand up[...]