Japan has had a tumultuous year (2011) with regard to natural disasters. However, Japan will (and is) recovering from these disasters due to the resilience of its people. The Japanese generally have an orientation toward supporting each other to ensure national survival. This approach accords with the Gestalt philosophy in which the [...]

Australia is a nation that has maintained its high standard of living by avoiding the fatal danger of “rent seeking”. The current threat that the proposed carbon tax poses in facilitating a transition to “rent seeking” is outlined as is an argument why there should be a plebiscite on a carbon tax in this [...]

Perhaps the single most astonishing, ridiculously contradictory set of public policies we face, is the left hand of government promoting reduced greenhouse emissions, conservation of diminishing freshwater, soil fertility and other declining natural resources, while the right hand promotes rapid population growth through increased birthrate and immigration.
Is this a classic example of the left hand [...]

For many in Australia, the most pressing issue is that of climate change in relation to global warming.  The focus on the issue of global warming has placed the environment at centre stage for Australians and people around the world, regardless of their ideological orientation.  Social Action Australia does not have a stance in relation [...]