Censorship of Farrago
‘A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged . . . [it is] the skin of a living thought that may vary in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.’ — US Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. I’ve been dismayed to hear, even amongst the distractions...
Time running out for Khmer Rouge justice
THE crimes of the Khmer Rouge are well known. Between 1975 and 1979, Pol Pot’s regime of ‘Democratic Kampuchea’ turned Cambodia into a ‘land of blood and tears’ — a vast agrarian social experiment that enslaved the population and led to the deaths of an estimated 1.7 million Cambodians. After nearly three decades of legal...
Cambodia: whose tribunal is it anyway?
The West is turning the trial of surviving members of the Khmer Rouge – its former allies – into a piece of self-promoting political theatre
Come back, Nate!
I arrived back from Lancefield on Sunday afternoon to learn the disturbing news that Nathan Ablett had walked out on the Geelong Football Club. The younger Ablett was always a reluctant AFL recruit, and it appears as if this year’s premiership medallion may have finally snuffed out his ambition to continue playing at the top...
Federal Election ’07
Fireworks were set off in the street as John Howard mounted the podium for the last time, the ABC telecast symbolically interrupting Peter Costello’s own smirk-filled victory speech. But after Saturday night’s ‘Ruddslide’ even the treasurer’s smirk, that island in the sea of change that is Australian politics, is no more. With Liberal MPs falling...
REVIEW: ‘Four Classic Quarterly Essays’
How are we to account for the overwhelming successes of the Liberal Party under prime minister John Howard? For a decade he has dominated Australian politics like no other leader in recent memory, using his electoral mandate to forge a new consensus on issues of national security, economic management and climate change. In frustration, some...
Censure or censorship?
In a society that values free and open debate, writes Sebastian Strangio, there should be nothing to fear from The Great Global Warming Swindle
