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25.01.2022 George Pell: ABC gatekeepers ignore story that doesn’t quite fit their narrative on Cardinal CHRIS MITCHELL, The Australian 12 October 2020 The ABC was criticised last week for not covering the latest corruption revelations from the Vatican linking the demotion of powerful Sardinian-born Cardinal Angelo Becciu to the transfer of $1.1m cash to Australia, a transaction three Italian newspapers and The Times of London tied to the failed Victorian pedophile case against Cardinal ...Continue reading

25.01.2022 "The ROC is a free country, in fact one of the freest countries in Asia. Businesses operate with little interference from the authorities. The PRC communist Government in Beijing, on the other hand, demands that all businesses operate, not according to what is best for the business and the public, but according to what is best to further Chinese Government interests."

25.01.2022 There’s enough information out there to show that this second round of lockdowns is due to the incompetent handling and really, the negligence of the Government appointing the security companies to look after returned travellers.

25.01.2022 Find our coverage of Australian agriculture here: https://ncc.org.au/?s=farming

25.01.2022 **SPOTLIGHT ON SPEAKER** Over the next week we'll be highlighting speakers from our upcoming Virtual Conference. Today's speaker is Terri Kelleher, President of the Australian Family Association. ... Terri will be sharing on 'Cancel Culture: What will be banned next?' --- Terri Kelleher is the National President of the Australian Family Association (AFA). Her work involves research into issues that affect the family, social, political and economic, providing the basis to lobby government on family-friendly public policies. Terri is also a founding member of the AFA/SafeKids Alliance set up to work for broad-based inclusive anti-bullying alternatives to the Safe Schools and Respectful Relationships programs and to remove/ban the promotion of transgender or gender fluid theory from programs in Australian schools. BOOK THIS SESSION: https://ncc.org.au/produ/single-session-defending-freedoms/ BOOK WHOLE CONFERENCE PACKAGE TICKET: https://ncc.org.au/product/package-full-conference/

24.01.2022 "The general principles of distributism arise from a consideration of human flourishing. Under what circumstances would a human person have the best opportunity to flourish as a person?"

23.01.2022 'Ironically, he soon gained the respect of the prisoners with whom he shared a cell, conducting prayer meetings, and offering counselling to other inmates. He was also successful in having pornographic images removed from the communal showers in his section of the prison. His prison term also drew attention to the pro-life movement. Hoye’s faith, visits from his wife, and a visit from the then Catholic Bishop of Oakland, Salvatore Cordileone, sustained him during his imprison...ment. Hoye was released early for good behaviour. Later, in 2010, the verdict was quashed on a legal technicality, and in 2011 the Court of Appeals declared the bubble-zone law that Hoye had been convicted of violating unconstitutional.' #prolife #bookreview

22.01.2022 "We can struggle against bigotry and we can be confident we will win. I suppose we have to see it as it is and trust that people will wake up."

22.01.2022 "In writing 'Daniel Rudd: Calling a Church to Justice', Agee has made known to modern readers the great contribution Rudd made to the cause of justice for African Americans towards the end of the 19th century, as to the Catholic Church."

22.01.2022 Australian Catholic University (ACU): "Students will also have the opportunity to major in their choice of drama, English, history, philosophy, politics, international relations, sociology, theological studies, or visual arts, while gaining a broad understanding of the intellectual traditions which frame their discipline. It is thought that each of these areas will provide a treasure house of knowledge and insight to students."

21.01.2022 "New forecasts suggest that the fertility rate will drop to an all-time low of 1.59 during this financial year, recover in 2024 but then continue to drop to a little over 1.6 by the end of the decade." Access our coverage on Australia's demographic situation: https://ncc.org.au/?s=Australia+population

21.01.2022 "It means that every day we get 20 per cent behind our production through the packing shed, so that builds up. "It's a similar experience that the citrus packers had in winter with not enough people." More on Australian agriculture: https://ncc.org.au/?s=farming... #ausecon #COVID19Australia #agriculture #farming #AusNews

21.01.2022 "Behind the angry words, the debate revealed some of the differences between #Trump and Democratic contender Joe #Biden on key domestic issues."

20.01.2022 "The PRC has ramped up pressure this year with an unprecedented 50 centreline aircraft crossings across the #Taiwan Strait, over 1,700 flights of Chinese military aircraft against Taiwan, including several hundred into Taiwan’s southern air-defence identification zone and over 1,000 reports of naval vessels circumnavigating Taiwan." #CCPChina #auspol

19.01.2022 There's nothing more important than investing in the next generation. To that end, we're offering discounted access to National Conference 2021 for all Alumni of our YPAT Program. Check it out here: https://ncc.org.au/pro/ypat-alumni-package-full-conference/

19.01.2022 "With Hollywood, Bollywood, and Choppingwood clapper-boarded up for covid19, dud movies buried in sheds are being dusted off and rereleased. One such, going through the motion(s) picture, is 'Churchfellas: The Saga of an Italian American Family', by auteur (give it away) filmmaker Pat MacStuttles."

19.01.2022 'And, Mum, Dad, you cant run, and you cant hide. The law will capture parents (and others) who seek alternative care for their child outside the ACT. A penalty of 12 months imprisonment will apply.'

19.01.2022 "This book is a very readable account of the biochemistry of the virus, explaining how it is able to infect human cells and initially avoid detection by the bodys natural defences before reproducing massively and overwhelming those defences."

17.01.2022 "Underneath Beijings commentary on the U.S. unrest is a deeply cynical voice that asks: If the U.S. authorities can do it, why shouldnt we?"

17.01.2022 "The fact is that every foreign journalist in China is under surveillance." Access our coverage on China here: https://ncc.org.au/?s=China

17.01.2022 'This legislative re-imagining of the human person is further enshrined in recent laws banning #conversiontherapy. To suggest that a person who has identified as other than their birth sex could be comfortable with their birth sex risks prosecution for engaging in a conversion practice and could attract a severe fine and/or a term of imprisonment. These laws have been passed to protect the rights of LGBT persons. What doesn’t seem to have been noticed or acknowledged is that they have created conflict with the rights of the majority. Is this not contrary to the ideal of #equality?' #springst #auspol #AusNews

16.01.2022 "The U.S. presidential election has displayed once again not only deep flaws in the business of polling data gathering but also the distortions in Western democracies perpetrated by an inherently biased media that works against mainstream views rather than attempting to understand them. The same problems are occurring in Australian politics too..." #USElection2020 #auspol

15.01.2022 "Mindful of what the image of children scrabbling for hand-dug minerals in Africa can do to high tech’s clean and green image, most tech and auto companies using cobalt and other toxic heavy metals avoid direct sourcing from mines." See more: https://ncc.org.au/?s=electric+cars

14.01.2022 "The wide range of different approaches being taken to #vaccine development substantially enhances the prospect that safe and effective vaccines will be produced to counter #Covid19."

14.01.2022 How the heck did they get through the last 200 million years if they can be knocked over by one degree? And remember, it was one degree hotter a few thousand years ago, he said. The idea that the reef is in trouble now from a less than one-degree temperature change is just ridiculous. All these same corals live in the Indo-Pacific warm pool (the Coral Triangle), where it’s two or more degrees hotter, and they grow faster the hotter the better. It’s where the best coral is. #QldNews #qldpol #auspol #GreatBarrierReef #environment

13.01.2022 "Despite his unpredictable character and excessive attachment to Twitter and other social media, for the past four years Donald Trump has recast American politics."

13.01.2022 'If paper genocide, defined as denial of a culture’s very existence, is the destiny for the unrecognized minorities, those who have been recognized as part of the 55 minzu face a different threat, which is cultural genocide and possibly, physical genocide too.' Read more: https://ncc.org.au/?s=genocide

13.01.2022 'Her greatest achievement was her training of both women and men in Morse code and radio. She decided to set up a signals school, initially to train women, after Neville Chamberlain returned from Munich in 1938 proclaiming Peace in our time. She could see that war was coming and that communications would be important during a war. And that women would be needed to replace men, then working in civilian communications, who would join the armed forces.'

12.01.2022 "As minor parties, Katter's Australian Party (KAP) and Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party are proving strong contenders in regional seats, with commitments to building infrastructure and creating jobs. KAP supports the creation of a Special Economic Zone and rural development bank to stimulate investment in rural areas."

12.01.2022 "Christopher Nolan has crafted an incredible film, visually and aurally amazing, and completely lacking in computer-generated imagery. They really do crash a jumbo jet for one scene. As impressive as it is, its unashamed intellectualism and complex structure definitely requires repeated viewings."

12.01.2022 "For example, they have suspended the demolitions of crosses, and now the new order is to place the national flag onto churches. The church holds the flag-raising ceremony every day and even the portraits of Mao Zedong and Xi Jinping are arranged on both sides of the altar cross. Surprisingly, many believers are not opposed to this because they believe it is symbolic of the crucifixion scene of Jesus: Two criminals were also nailed to the left and right." For more coverage: https://ncc.org.au/?s=China+Catholic #CCPChina #religiousfreedom #HumanRightsViolations

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11.01.2022 "There was no agenda, no scope and sequence when learning maths at the knee of my father. Just his warmth, his strong, capable and safe presence reassuring me."

11.01.2022 "Has the Victorian Charter of Human Rights been found wanting in the covid19 crisis?"

11.01.2022 "At a time when racial tensions have been inflamed in America, threatening to cause the country to descend into left-wing engineered chaos, it is worth recalling a fine example of how different cultures could be combined in a fruitful way: the Great American Songbook."

10.01.2022 "RA has just joined eight other national sporting organisations to implement what is touted as a landmark commitment to governance supporting a greater level of inclusion for trans and gender-diverse people in their sports. This comes on the heels of a World Rugby announcement that it is considering a ban on biological males who identify as female, and other gender-diverse people, playing in the women’s competition. Such a change of policy would reverberate through Rugby Australia, on and off the field, and through other sports."

10.01.2022 'Theres also a broader free speech issue at play here, (Senator Chandler) told The Australian. If defending something as fundamental as a womans right to compete fairly in sport is subject to an anti-discrimination complaint, it is abundantly evident that there is an issue with free speech in this country."' Access our coverage on women's right to play sport against their biologically female peers only here: https://ncc.org.au/?s=women%27s+sport

10.01.2022 "For too long, regional communities in the #MurrayDarling Basin have been left out of the decision-making process over the fate of #water allocations on which they depend for their livelihood." #AusNews #nswpol #sapol #springst #environment #ausecon #farming #agriculture #auspol

09.01.2022 "In contemporary popular music the melodies are mostly ordinary; there is rarely any sense the writer is skilled at producing just the right notes and just the right shapes. That is why classic songs from previous eras last."

09.01.2022 "The nub of the issue is that the covid19 pandemic is a health emergency. It should be managed as a health crisis rather than as a law-and-order or policing issue."

09.01.2022 "The problem with China, Colby and Kaplan point out, is not ideology: it is power. The threat would apply equally if China were a democracy. China has reached the point where its economic power constitutes a threat to U.S. power. China’s aim is hegemony in Asia. That fact alone will threaten contemporary U.S. power and influence."

09.01.2022 "The fact is that, for the foreseeable future (and we are talking decades), coal and gas will be absolutely critical components of electricity generation, and Australia is providing much needed high-quality Australian coal and gas to other countries to provide for their energy needs while it continues to underpin our own economy."

09.01.2022 An exciting time for manufacturing in Australia is possible. Make sure you download our White Paper to get the full picture. #RebuildAustralia https://ncc.org.au//2/07/Manufacturing-double-by-2035.pdf

08.01.2022 "Free but coerced rehabilitation and solid education programs in schools, combined with policing that compassionately but firmly dealt with drug use, took Sweden from the most drug-abusing country in the OECD to the least."

08.01.2022 'Australias new doctrine of strategic patience and consistency involves never trading away its sovereignty or security in the face of threats to its economy, according to Mr Morrison. But he maintains that it is not Australia that has changed but it is China that has shifted.'

08.01.2022 "At least the public outcry and the opposition of the Coalition and most crossbench members in the Upper House means extension to the #covid19 state of emergency can be only for a further period of six, not 12, months."

08.01.2022 "The fact that the CCP controls the World Health Organisation (WHO) is well known; the WHO has acted as a policy instrument of the CCP. What is not well known is that the CCP now heads four of the 15 UN specialised agencies: the International Civil Aviation Organisation, the International Telecommunications Union, the Food and Agriculture Organisation, and the UN Industrial Development Organisation. The Washington Post (March 3, 2020) reported that the CCP is aiming to dominate the World Intellectual Property Organisation, which would give it a stranglehold on enforcement of intellectual property rights."

08.01.2022 "The United Nations has appointed as its top expert on health and human rights a former abortionist who advocates for teen prostitution."

07.01.2022 "American society has lost its way because its institutions have lost their sense of purpose or, more particularly, their critical formative role."

06.01.2022 "The McCarrick and Pell sagas contain two unavoidable truths about the clerical abuse scandals, and they must always be held together: Every accusation of abuse has to be taken seriously, but the mere fact of an allegation doesn’t make it true." Access our coverage: https://ncc.org.au/newsweekly/the-cardinal-pell-saga/ #CardinalPell #McCarrickReport #CatholicChurch #clergyabuse

05.01.2022 "3D ultrasounds are an essential element in proving to the courts when a heartbeat begins. This technology has also led to a shift in young peoples attitudes to abortion. They come to realise that abortion is killing a baby with a heartbeat, not just a clump of cells."

05.01.2022 Do other people realise that today's Queensland Government border changes will allow Nimbin residents unrestricted access to Queensland again? A little concerni...ng because how good has it been not to have radical extremists locking themselves to mining equipment or gluing themselves to busy streets? See more

05.01.2022 'Despite claiming that it is fiercely independent, GetUp has been investigated three times in 13 years by the Australian Electoral Commission over its alleged links to political parties.'

05.01.2022 'I find it incredible that we rely on China for one of the most basic of food requirements. When we intone those words, give us this day our daily bread, it seems that we now need to address our prayer to China, not to God.'

04.01.2022 In memory of the Christchurch mosque shooting.

04.01.2022 "A common narrative pushed in the media was that rioting is a quintessentially American activity with a storied history of bringing about positive change."

04.01.2022 "Has the present Victorian Government complied with the Charter of Human Rights? Or, has the Charter failed? If it has failed, is it because the model is fundamentally flawed or because the present Government has paid only lip service to its provisions?"

03.01.2022 'Both Kosovo and Serbia agreed to work more on issues of missing persons, refugees and internally displaced persons from the 1990s Kosovo war. On other foreign policy issues, in deference to U.S. interests, both parties agreed to designate Islamic group Hezbollah in its entirety as a terrorist organisation and prohibit the use of 5G equipment supplied by untrusted vendors in their communications network, presumably referencing China.'

02.01.2022 "Harm reduction was adopted federally in 1985. By 1998, Australia was the most drug-abusing OECD nation, with harm-reductionist New Zealand not far behind."

02.01.2022 "Humans are hardly likely to flourish as persons when they are forced to operate as little more than slaves to machines in a giant factory. Part of the satisfaction of human work comes from that sense of pride that comes of producing and owning a product of excellence. It comes too, from a sense of close relationship with the materials of the labour ownership and care of the tools and the raw materials."

01.01.2022 "What is extraordinary about this tradition is that, despite coming from a cultural and musical melting pot, the songs were fairly similar, sometimes even tritely so. The key changes and cadences tend to be predictable, which is the main reason they make good vehicles for improvisation."

01.01.2022 'Todays trade deglobalisation is described as an unprecedented tectonic shift its slow, persistent and likely to continue for the next decade.'

01.01.2022 'This is now, in my opinion, the strongest, most clear and targeted attack on traditional Tibetan livelihoods that we have seen almost since the Cultural Revolution of 1966 to 1976, said Adrian Zenz, an independent Tibet and Xinjiang researcher, who compiled the core findings about the program.' More on Tibet: https://ncc.org.au/?s=Tibet