The Great Depression, in most places, began with the share market crash in 1929 and by the end of 1933 was already receding into history. In 1936, well after the Great Depression had reached its lowest point and recovery had begun, a book was published that remains to this day the most influential economics treatise written during the whole of the twentieth century.

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It was revealed at its launch yesterday that Kevin Rudd, CEO of Titanic Inc, is the author of the company’s new Safety Manual for Seafarers.

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Historian Arnold Toynbee once said “Civilizations die from suicide, not murder”. I don’t think there is much debate about that. There might be some debate however as to which nation today best exemplifies this. A number of countries are clearly in the process of self-destruction. But a good case can be made for nominating the UK as the most obvious example of collective hari-kari.

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Senator Cory Bernardi: "... challenging popular opinion demands courage … And in no sphere is this more apparent than the new religion of climate change where all questions challenging the orthodoxy are treated as heresy and those that dare to raise them are heretics or, worse still, ‘deniers’."

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While the Prime Minister accuses free market capitalism of being an emperor without clothes. But that is how the former NSW Labor Treasurer seems to see the prime minister. The government does not know what to do about the economic crisis. Its answer is just to spend. Already next year’s budget deficit is predicted to be $40 billion- approaching one half of Keating’s debt which Howard and Costello took years to pay off. 

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In the two weeks ended 29 January our Prime Minister made no less than 15 speeches at a time when most Australians, including journalists, are at the beach. Not surprisingly he got limited media coverage. Now he is having a go with an essay.

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A great Australian has just passed away, and almost nothing about his passing can be found in the Australian mainstream media. While Australia has many heroes – especially sporting figures and movie stars – one of the greatest heroes to arise from Australia in recent times has been totally overlooked by our secular, leftist media. I refer to Dr Fred Schwarz, who died last week at age 96.

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It is surely time for so many in the media to stop campaigning for the governments they were so determined to put into office. They should go back to their duty which is, as The Times declared so long ago,  to obtain the best intelligence of the time and make it the common property of the nation.

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Terry Dix is the host of a television current affairs program. He is the brother of the noted Fairfax journalist Dorothy Dix. Although it is said that Dix is an Anchor-For-Life this is not true – it just feels like it.

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With the twin challenges of militant Islam and a West that seems hell-bent on bowing in subservience to it, a number of fearless individuals have risen to the occasion. One of them is Dutch politician Geert Wilders.

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