The Independent Australian

Journalists have rushed to adopt a new word ‘Islamophobia’ to describe those who oppose or criticise Islam in Australia. It had to happen; for years journalists have branded people who are less than enthusiastic about the activities and claims of homosexuals as ‘homophobic’.This exaggerated label is meant to delegitimise anything said that does not endorse the aims of the homosexual lobby while it escapes any criticism at all. The idea is to close down any open debate about the merits of a situation other than to acquiesce to what is proposed.

OVERLOADING AUSTRALIA
 - how governments and the media dither and deny on population.
Mark O’Connor and William J. Lines.
Envirobook. 2008. 241 pp.  RRP $19.95 Reviewed by Geoff Mosley.

 With Labor in power Federally and in all the States and Territories, except WA, who is going to defend the Australian Constitution from unnecessary change now that the Liberal Opposition is going down the same path of enhancing Commonwealth power. Anyone who thinks that hospitals, public transport, education and many other responsibilities of the States would be run better if power were centralised in Canberra must be dreaming.

This year’s Australian of the Year award to Mick Dodson must rank as the most disgraceful decision made by the committee. The Independent Australian believes that awards should not be handed out just because the recipients is Aborigine or any other background, which we suspect was the case here. Worse, it overlooked Noel Pearson, who deserves the award in his own right.