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Despite the undoubted significance of possible Australian participation in a five power Commonwealth security arrangement centred on Malaysia and Singapore, considerations of an Australian nuclear force, the presence of numerous American bases in Australia, and Australian policies towards a Soviet naval presence in the Indian Ocean, the public debate on Australian foreign policy continues to centre on the Indo-China war. This is understandable, for not only has Australia been supplying material assistance to the counter-revolutionary forces in that area since 1953, military advisers since 1962 and a task force since 1965, but the commitment has focussed critical attention on those strategic assumptions which have dominated Australian foreign policy for the last two decades.

First published in 1997, this volume follows Catley and Cristaudo as they defend Western Civilization against all comers: against the rest of the world, especially the Third World, and against its own internal irritants: 'the scribblings of the intelligentsia' by idealist philosophers, feminists, greens, post-moderns, multiculturalists, Orientalists, anti-nationalists, socialists and Keynesians, most of them tenured academics in the arts and social sciences. As academic political scientists themselves they have done time in a number of the ideological prisons they attack, and they write about those states of mind with experienced cynicism .. As in Paradise Lost, the devil gets all the best tunes. The identification of civilization's enemies is wildly, sometimes hilariously, politically incorrect.

THIS IS A REPORT OF A PANEL DISCUSSION ON THE ROLE OF THE PRESS IN A DEMOCRACY, WHICH WAS HELD AT THE 37TH COMMONWEALTH PARLIAMENTARY CONFERENCE IN SEPTEMBER 1991. ALTHOUGH THE PARTICIPANTS AGREED THAT THE PRESS HAS A VITAL ROLE TO PLAY IN A DEMOCRACY, THEY FOCUSED ON PROBLEMS CREATED BY INACCURATE OR SENSATIONALIZED PRESS COVERAGE, MONOPOLY OWNERSHIP OF THE MEDIA, CONFLICT OF INTEREST, AND SO FORTH. THE CONSENSUS WAS FOR REGULATION, EITHER A SELF-IMPOSED CODE OF CONDUCT OR STATUTORY REGULATION.