Articles – Archive

BROADCAST ON FRIDAY OCTOBER 2 1998 ON RADIO 2GB’S “BRIAN WILSHIRE PROGRAMME” AT 9 PM, AND ON OCTOBER 4 1998 ON “SUNDAY NIGHT LIVE” AT 10.30 PM. Volunteers are very important for many organizations. But can we alw...

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RADIO 2CBA FOCAL POINT COMMENTARY BROADCAST ON FRIDAY JANUARY 21 2000 ON RADIO 2CBA FM. The international banking system has stopped all US dollar payments to some countries in the South Pacific. It has been alleged that t...

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RADIO 2CBA FOCAL POINT COMMENTARY BROADCAST ON FRIDAY OCTOBER 22 1999 ON RADIO 2CBA FM. The United Nations turns 54 on Sunday October 24. But it will not be having a happy birthday. ...

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RADIO 2CBA FOCAL POINT COMMENTARY BROADCAST ON FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 10 1999 ON RADIO 2CBA FM. With all the conflicts in the world, it is important to remember that there is one logo in all the world’s languages which means t...

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RADIO 2CBA FOCAL POINT COMMENTARY BROADCAST ON FRIDAY DECEMBER 24 1999 ON RADIO 2CBA FM. At Christmas time, when we remember the birth of a very special child, it is worth looking at the state of the world’s children. So...

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RADIO 2CBA FOCAL POINT COMMENTARY BROADCAST ON FRIDAY MARCH 24TH, 2000 ON RADIO 2CBA FM. The recent natural disasters in southern Africa have again forced the world to pay some attention to African affairs. But generally s...

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RADIO 2CBA FOCAL POINT COMMENTARY BROADCAST ON FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 24 1999 ON RADIO 2CBA FM. Australia is paying the price for its lack of integrity in foreign policy. We are now being forced to get involved in East Timor to ...

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RADIO 2CBA FOCAL POINT COMMENTARY BROADCAST ON FRIDAY 25th FEBURARY, 2000 ON RADIO 2CBA FM. Is Australia going to return to the era of the opium dens? A United Nations report issued yesterday has warned that Australia coul...

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RADIO 2CBA FOCAL POINT COMMENTARY BROADCAST ON FRIDAY MAY 26, 2000 ON RADIO 2CBA FM We all have principles and most of us - in one way or another - are now investors. But do our investments match our principles? ...

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RADIO 2CBA FOCAL POINT COMMENTARY BROADCAST ON FRIDAY NOVEMBER 26 1999 ON RADIO 2CBA FM. American foreign policy is becoming bogged down in domestic politics. The US is becoming too insular and it is forgetting its interna...

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RADIO 2CBA FOCAL POINT COMMENTARY BROADCAST ON FRIDAY JANUARY 14 2000 ON RADIO 2CBA FM. Many people have been taking advantage of the summer to spend time at the beach. But few people have been thinking about the challenge...

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RADIO 2CBA FOCAL POINT COMMENTARY BROADCAST ON FRIDAY OCTOBER 15 1999 ON RADIO 2CBA FM. This week’s military coup in Pakistan is a very serious blow for international peace and security on the Sub-Continent. But it may f...

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RADIO 2CBA FOCAL POINT COMMENTARY BROADCAST ON FRIDAY DECEMBER 17 1999 ON RADIO 2CBA FM. On December 20 1999, Macau returns to China. This is the end of the European empires in north-east Asia. ...

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RADIO 2CBA FOCAL POINT COMMENTARY BROADCAST ON FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 17 1999 ON RADIO 2CBA FM. Can a company do well by doing good? Or should a company focus only on profit at any cost? ...

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SRADIO 2CBA FOCAL POINT COMMENTARY BROADCAST ON FRIDAY Feburary 18th, 2000 ON RADIO 2CBA FM. It has been said that fire is a good servant but a hard master. Much the same could be said about cars. They can assist us - but ...

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RADIO 2CBA FOCAL POINT COMMENTARY BROADCAST ON FRIDAY MAY 19th, 2000 ON RADIO 2CBA FM. The traditional view of how corporations can help charities is now beginning to change. There is a need to create a better opportunity ...

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RADIO 2CBA FOCAL POINT COMMENTARY BROADCAST ON FRIDAY DECEMBER 19 1999 ON RADIO 2CBA FM. “Oh to see ourselves as others see us”. It is very important to get a good view of how the rest of the world sees us. ...

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RADIO 2CBA FOCAL POINT COMMENTARY BROADCAST ON FRIDAY APRIL 21st, 2000 ON RADIO 2CBA FM. Easter is a good time for remembering what happens when religious authorities become too happy walking along the corridors of power. ...

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RADIO 2CBA FOCAL POINT COMMENTARY BROADCAST ON FRIDAY MAY 12th, 2000 ON RADIO 2CBA FM. We are living in a period of great change. The change is occurring so quickly that we are often taken by surprise. Indeed this is a hin...

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RADIO 2CBA FOCAL POINT COMMENTARY BROADCAST ON FRIDAY NOVEMBER 12 1999 ON RADIO 2CBA FM. People are voting more but enjoying it less. There is a voter fatigue in many countries. People are still interested in politics but ...

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RADIO 2CBA FOCAL POINT COMMENTARY BROADCAST ON FRIDAY APRIL 14th, 2000 ON RADIO 2CBA FM We have now a new set of initials to remember when we discuss international politics and the long search for peace: DDR. These initial...

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RADIO 2CBA FOCAL POINT COMMENTARY Feb 11th 2000 Every cloud apparently has a silver lining. This may be even true of the controversy surrounding the new Government in Austria. ...

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RADIO 2CBA FOCAL POINT COMMENTARY BROADCAST ON FRIDAY MARCH 10TH, 2000 ON RADIO 2CBA FM. The academic year has started. School and university class rooms hum with lectures. But how many students will have truly memorable e...

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It is amazing how politicians are a lot smarter once they leave office than when they are in office. Perhaps being free of the institutional constraints enables them to think more clearly. This week I have caught up with t...

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RADIO 2CBA FOCAL POINT COMMENTARY BROADCAST ON FRIDAY JUNE 2ND, 2000 ON RADIO 2CBA FM. Now that Jakarta has been driven out of East Timor, the next target for independence is West Papua. ...

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RADIO 2CBA FOCAL POINT COMMENTARY BROADCAST ON FRIDAY OCTOBER 1 1999 ON RADIO 2CBA FM. The American health system is the best that money can buy. Unfortunately many Americans cannot afford to buy it. For example, the avera...

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RADIO 2GB NEWS COMMENTARY 2nd April 1999 Holy Week has again been a time of suffering, when the message of hope has been overshadowed by conflict. Are we hearing too much about conflict and not enough about hope? ...

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BROADCAST ON FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 1 2000 ON RADIO 2GB’S “BRIAN WILSHIRE PROGRAMME” AT 9 PM, AND ON SEPEMBER 3 2000 ON “SUNDAY NIGHT LIVE” AT 10.30 PM. There is a new era for the provision of social welfare. Social we...

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RADIO 2GB NEWS COMMENTARY BROADCAST ON FRIDAY OCTOBER 1 1999 ON RADIO 2GB’S “BRIAN WILSHIRE PROGRAMME” AT 9 PM, AND ON OCTOBER 3 1999 ON “SUNDAY NIGHT LIVE” AT 10.30 PM. This week’s survey of the most influenti...

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RADIO 2GB NEWS COMMENTARY The thalidomide scandal is one of the standard case studies taught in media courses: fearless journalists take on a huge corporation which is behaving badly towards its child victims. But one of t...

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Yesterday marked the 90th anniversary of the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month 1918 - when World War I ended. I was recalling my visit to Turkey a few years ago where I met the British Anglican minister who has h...

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RADIO 2CBA FOCAL POINT COMMENTARY BROADCAST ON FRIDAY DECEMBER 10 1999 ON RADIO 2CBA FM. There was chaos last week in Seattle, as the World Trade Organization tried to start a new round of negotiations. There was chaos bot...

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RADIO 2CBA FOCAL POINT COMMENTARY BROADCAST ON FRIDAY OCTOBER 8 1999 ON RADIO 2CBA FM. The Telstra share offer closed yesterday. It was the largest share float in the world this year. Many Australians have now bought share...

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RADIO 2CBA FOCAL POINT COMMENTARY BROADCAST ON FRIDAY JANUARY 7 2000 ON RADIO 2CBA FM. The new century begins on a sour note: the world economy is deeply divided and unstable. The rich are getting richer and the poor are b...

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RADIO 2CBA FOCAL POINT COMMENTARY. BROADCAST 7th April 2000 Keizo Obuchi, the Prime Minister of Japan since July 1998, suffered a stroke last Sunday. The country now has a new Prime Minister. Mr Obuchi was a victim of the ...

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RADIO 2CBA FOCAL POINT COMMENTARY BROADCAST ON FRIDAY NOVEMBER 5 1999 ON RADIO 2CBA FM. The world’s worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl in 1986 took place in Japan on September 30. Three people are seriously ill and t...

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RADIO 2CBA FOCAL POINT COMMENTARY The Australian Government spends about $11 billion per year on defence - that is about $30 million per day. But are we getting value for money? ...

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RADIO 2CBA FOCAL POINT COMMENTARY BROADCAST ON FRIDAY Feburary 4th, 2000 ON RADIO 2CBA FM. The Prime Minister has been touring the Bush. He is seeing at first hand the anger in the Bush. ...

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RADIO 2CBA FOCAL POINT COMMENTARY BROADCAST ON FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 3 1999 ON RADIO 2CBA FM. People who keep away from drinking alcohol are not “wowsers” - they are winners. ...

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BROADCAST ON FRIDAY MARCH 3rd, 2000 ON RADIO 2CBA FM. Napoleon once described China as the “sleeping giant of Asia”. Indonesia could be described as the “sleeping giant of South East Asia”. ...

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BROADCAST ON FRIDAY DECEMBER 3 1999 ON RADIO 2CBA FM. The British churches are making a great deal of the Millennium and they are providing some ideas that are worth following in Australia. ...

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This morning’s execution of three terrorists responsible for the 2002 Bali bombing closes one chapter in this long-running saga. But there are still many other chapters yet to be written. The three - Armrozi, Imam Samudr...

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A new global era has begun with the election of Barack Obama as the next US President. The new President will be sworn in on January 20 2009 His stunning election victory is a reminder that the US has a tremendous capacity...

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One of the biggest Christian news stories in Britain in the last few months has been the conversion of the former British Prime Minister Tony Blair to the Catholic Church. It has generated many news angles. His conversion ...

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We still do not know who killed "God's banker". Roberto Calvi had a very close financial relationship with the Vatican and so he was known as "God's banker". He was the head of the failed Italian bank Banco Ambrosiano, one of the country's biggest. One of his clients was the...

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25th January 2008 The most violent war since World War II is currently being fought in one of the world's biggest countries: Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Over five million people have been killed since 1998. ...

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Australian students are returning to school after their summer vacations. In a sense, I also went back to school recently. When I was back in London for Christmas I called in at the school I attended 1959-64. This is the f...

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The Bush Administration has claimed that progress is being made in Iraq. That optimism is not shared by everyone. Indeed in the lead up to the fifth anniversary of the March 2003 invasion, it seems that the entire sorry saga is one of missed opportunities. The Middle East re...

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Australia is in a very fortunate position. It does not face an old age pension crisis, similar to that in many other developed countries. Australia's fortunate situation is due to changes made 25 years ago by the then new Hawke Labor Government. ...

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7th March 08 Volunteers play a very important role in helping society to flourish. They are important both for the assistance they give to others and also what such activities do for the people themselves, such as keeping ...

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