Webdiary - Founded and Inspired by Margo Kingston

|| Noam Levy on war's impact on Iraqi children || Investigation into the environmental cost of gold mining || Rebecca Solnit on the democratic revolution in Sth America || Interview on article about Bush's foreign policy || David Brooks says Bush is the future of conservatism || Michael Wolff on the UK newspaper wars || David Horowitz on the life and death of Susan Lydon || Report on the appointment of Greenspan's replacement || REST: Twins singing for white supremacism || Jeff Hewitt is unimpressed by the 10 commandments (satire) || BOOKS: 'Tell Me No Lies: Investigative Journalism and Its Triumphs' edited by John Pilger ||

How Democracies Fight Terrorism
by Malcolm Fraser
Stephen Murray-Smith Memorial Lecture
State Library of Victoria, 19 October 2005
FULL SPEECH - http://margokingston.typepad.com/harry_version_2/webdiary_community/MalcolmFraserlecture.htm

War of words over shoot-to-kill
The Australian, Brad Norington and Samantha Maiden, October 21, 2005
-POLICE can already use lethal force under the federal Government's Crimes Act to protect lives when making arrests for an offence. - http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,16986978%255E2702,00.html

"If Australians are to once again see their government as the instrument of the nation's collective will, and their national parliament as the place consensus is forged, then we have to learn again from Henry Parkes the importance of direct democracy. As Parkes said in here in 1889, it is through democracy that governments gain legitimacy. As our nineteenth century political institutions creak and groan with the effort to keep up with changing times, we are experiencing an increasing deficit of democracy.The apathy and anger that marks our modern Australian democracy is a sign that the deficit of democracy is becoming a lack of legitimacy." John Faulkner

"Under totalitarian regimes, be it Stalinism, Hitlerism or whatever -ism, the code for blind obedience tends to rule. So when my sister Margita failed to follow the code of blind obedience and attended church services in 1979 she was sacked from her teaching post and forced to work in a railway yard. What is perplexing about the communist experience is how so many well-intentioned and apparently decent people could have participated in and defended a movement that directly led to the deaths of millions, and suffering, hardship and lack of freedom for many millions more. It is, in a sense, the key issue of our sad 20th century." Jozef Imrich