Stopping the boats gives our neighbour's kids freedom
Ross B. Taylor T he only news we read these days about asylum seekers is from human rights groups who express concern over the detention of children being held in detention centres in Australia, Manus Island and Nauru. Only last month the distinguished Australian, Alastair Nicholson AO , who is a former chief justice of the Family Court and current chair of the advocacy group Children’s Rights International, expressed his deep concern about the plight of foreign children being held in custody by Australian authorities. These concerns are…
Look north to our greatest ally against Islamic State
Australia is now embroiled in a desperate campaign to stop the feared and brutal Islamic State ( IS ) in its tracks. Whilst the IS war machine and its thugs are currently contained to the Middle East, there are deep, and justified, concerns that the ultimate objective of IS is to create a world-wide Caliphate. Our government is right in embracing the Muslim community here in Australia in an attempt to stop the flow of – in particular – young Australian Muslim men heading off to join the war in Iraq and Syria. But immediately to A…
Keeping Bali safe from another terrorist attack
Next month Australia will pause to commemorate the 12thAnniversary of the first of the Bali bombings that occurred on 12th October 2002. In one terrifying night 202 innocent people died including 88 Australians and 38 Indonesians. Since that time the Australian Federal Police have built a strong and lasting coalition with the Indonesian National Police (POLRI) that has seen most of the Bali bombers either executed or sentenced to extended periods in jail. The Jemaaah Islamiyah (JI) terrorist group has, as a result of the police activities…
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