Peter Westmore
Peter is the former national president of the National Civic Council and on the News Weekly editorial team.
Articles by Peter Westmore:
26 February 2025
2.9 MINS
Shock results in two Victorian by-elections, in suburban Prahran and the outer metropolitan Labor stronghold of Werribee, have put a bomb under Anthony Albanese’s prospects of winning the forthcoming federal election.
19 December 2024
2.9 MINS
Every president has appointed personal friends, business colleagues, party allies and family members to these positions, so we should expect Donald Trump to do the same. It is the American way.
4 November 2024
2.7 MINS
As Australia’s electricity system which charges EVs is overwhelmingly powered by fossil fuels, particularly coal, it is disingenuous to say that more electric vehicles will lead to a reduction in emissions.
23 October 2024
2.8 MINS
While inflation has contributed to the lack of housing affordability, the main factor is undoubtedly the huge increase in demand for housing, driven by the uncontrolled immigration – which more than doubled in a single year.
4 October 2024
2.7 MINS
Ukraine’s asymmetric warfare has kept the Kremlin under pressure, but for how much longer will Kyiv have to defend itself with one arm tied behind its back?
21 August 2024
2.7 MINS
Rolls-Royce, a company synonymous with quality manufacturing, has cleared one of the last major hurdles to begin construction of its first modular nuclear reactor in Britain.
24 July 2024
3 MINS
Assange was not charged over his journalism. He was accused of receiving stolen goods (in this case, government documents), and hacking into government servers in order to steal files.
21 June 2024
2.5 MINS
Shockwaves have followed elections throughout the European Union (EU), where centre-right parties have secured a clear majority in the European Parliament for the first time in over 30 years.
17 April 2024
2.7 MINS
The arrival of three groups of illegal boat arrivals off the far north-west coast of Western Australia indicates that the people smugglers, whose business was shut down by the Abbott government in 2013, are back in business.
20 March 2024
2.9 MINS
An important report from the Grattan Institute has found that up to a third of school-age children in Australia cannot read fluently because of deeply flawed methods used to teach children in schools.
9 February 2024
2.7 MINS
Federal Court Justice Natalie Charlesworth has found that a West Australian academic, Associate Professor Mick O’Leary, lied to try to stop construction of a natural-gas pipeline from the Barossa Gas Field to a processing plant near Darwin.
8 August 2023
2.9 MINS
One of the most striking developments of the past 18 months has been the re-emergence of NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, as a major force in European affairs and its role as the principal supplier of military hardware to Ukraine in defending itself against [...]
19 July 2023
2.9 MINS
Despite the Federal Government’s repeated claims that renewable energy would bring down power prices, the Australian Energy Regulator (AER) has announced that the benchmark default price for household electricity will rise over 20 percent from July 1. The rate of increase in electricity prices is [...]
23 February 2023
2.8 MINS
The latest announcement of Labor’s promised climate policy, unveiled by Climate Change Minister Chris Bowen in Gladstone, Queensland, on January 10, will impose mandatory limits on carbon-dioxide emissions to achieve Labor’s target of 43 per cent emissions reductions by 2030. The limits are backed by [...]
1 February 2023
2.8 MINS
A week before Christmas, the media were falling over themselves to congratulate the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) on the success of NASA’s moon shot, where an unmanned spacecraft flew past the moon, before returning to land safely in the Atlantic Ocean. The Orion [...]
24 January 2023
2.8 MINS
The Australian media regulator, ACMA (Australian Communications and Media Authority), has found that Four Corners, the ABC’s flagship current-affairs program, “materially misled” viewers and breached the ABC’s own code of conduct, which requires accuracy and fair and honest treatment of complaints. The ACMA report was [...]
2 January 2023
3 MINS
Hard data reveals the opposite reality of the catastrophic picture painted by politicians. There is no need to panic that Tuvalu will disappear beneath the sea due to anthropogenic climate change. It was one of the signature moments at the 2021 Climate Change Summit in [...]
10 November 2022
3 MINS
Within the space of a year, the West has moved from a world awash with money, high employment levels and ultra-low interest rates, to one of rising interest rates, lower growth and predicted high unemployment. This can be seen across North America, Western Europe and [...]
1 November 2022
2.8 MINS
So-called renewable energy is reliant on fossil fuels and unethical, unsustainable Chinese manufacturing practices. Proponents of wind and solar energy insist that using renewable energy is saving the planet, because it avoids adding greenhouse gases to the atmosphere. However, as most solar and wind-energy technology [...]
26 August 2022
2.9 MINS
The 46th president of the United States seems to be in denial regarding the disastrous results of his economic policies. He will soon pay the price. With the United States congressional elections less than three months away, polls indicate that the Republican Party will surge [...]