The government is quite right to draw attention to Julia Gillard’s alleged links with a student organisation that had ties with the Communist Party. But what about young Rupert Murdoch? asks Norman Abjorensen.
Communist party
The High Court: conservatives rule, OK?
Thomas v Mowbray, the High Court’s decision yesterday to uphold the Howard government’s anti-terror laws, will be remembered by historians and legal scholars for two things: that this was one of the most conservative judgments in the Court’s one hundred and four year history, and that Justice Michael Kirby’s full blooded dissent will be forever remembered as one of the great Australian cries for liberty.
Jihad Jack and the dissolution of liberty
The current High Court is capital C conservative, which is of course what you would expect after a decade of Howard government appointments to the Court.
