News Weekly

22/08/2025

The LNP conference just voted to abandon Net zero policy 🎉

23/06/2025

Hi everyone,

Mark's latest interview for the Thomas More Centre is up. This week he speaks to Dr Andrew Quinlan, an Australian liturgist who has been training seminarians in Ukraine for the past 14 years. They discuss the challenges faced by the Church in Ukraine, the communist-built intellectual prisons which persist in post-communist countries, Andrew's criticisms of the Latin (Western Catholic) Church, and the role of asceticism in the life of faith.

13/06/2025

Israel Launches Attack on Iran as Tehran Scrambles Jets
The strike was expected to prompt swift retaliation from Iran, likely involving a large barrage of ballistic missiles comparable to that Iran fired during similar escalations last year.

The Israeli government has been making preparations for weeks for an attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities.

05/06/2025

https://newsweekly.com.au/newsweekly/cover-story/belt-or-leash-infographic/

Chinese expansion in the Pacific region.

22/05/2025

None of the nations bordering the Pacific Ocean – the United States, Japan, Philippines, Taiwan and many smaller countries – would disagree (privately) that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is preparing for war.

The United States now has legislation before Congress that is designed to revitalize its shipbuilding and commercial maritime industries

18/05/2025

This remarkable book is full of pleasant surprises. Its title undersells it, for it achieves much more than it claims: it is in fact an elegant, scholarly and at times very witty study not only of the language of public worship, but of the current state of faith and practice in both the Roman Catholic and Anglican churches.

This book will be of interest to Catholics and Anglicans, as well as other Christians who care about language and music in public worship.

17/05/2025

Australia has reached a critical turning point with no vision to solve monumental external and internal problems besetting the nation, and no political leader or force in place to effect change.

Australia has reached a critical turning point with no vision and no political leader or force in place to effect change.

30/04/2025

While Labor states are rolling out anti-conversion therapy laws to force health professionals and parents to support a gender-questioning child to transition to the opposite s*x, a recent Family Court judgement has done just the opposite. It banned a gender incongruent child from receiving any further affirmation treatment.

a recent Family Court judgement has banned a gender incongruent child from receiving any further affirmation treatment.

23/04/2025

The 2025 election campaign has been characterised by two major parties that have completely avoided doing or saying anything that might spook the electorate when it comes to cuts to spending.

The 2025 election campaign has been characterised by two major parties that have completely avoided cuts to spending.

16/04/2025

Economically more developed countries around the world are facing demographic winter with all its challenges, and Hungary is no exception. However, instead of resorting to the quick fix of ramping up immigration rates, the Central European country has instituted pro-family policies under Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, aiming for long-term growth, as well as preservation of Hungarian culture.

Economically more-developed countries around the world are facing demographic winter with all its challenges, and Hungary is no exception

10/04/2025

Gold is not the most valuable commodity in the world: energy is. Gold is only as useful as the labour that it can buy you, but with cheap energy, mankind is able to utilise an infinite number of gadgets and machines and inventions that give one man the capability of thousands.

Cheap, clean, reliable, secure. Australia has not been doing such a good job at holding these four crucial considerations in balance.

01/04/2025

A sobering study released by disinformation watchdog NewsGuard found that ten leading generative AI chatbots repeated false claims from a Moscow-based content network 33 per cent of the time, thereby spreading Russian propaganda.

The NewsGuard study underscores the importance of media literacy – and a healthy scepticism of AI-generated content like those in chatbots.