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p>The Talk Shows April 20th, 2014 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Sergey Kislyak, Russia’s ambassador to the U.S.; Cardinal Donald Wuerl of Washington. MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Arseniy Yatsenyuk, Ukraine’s prime minister; Sens. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., and Chris Murphy, D-Conn.; Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla.FACE THE NATION (CBS): Gov. Devil Patrick, D-Mass.; Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York.THIS WEEK (ABC): Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas; retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens.STATE OF THE UNION (CNN): Sen. John Walsh, D-Mont.; Lukman Faily, Iraq’s ambassador to the United States; Kim Beazley, Australia’s...

This week, I have learned why Kim Beazley was one of Australia’s best defence minsters. His biographer Peter FitzSimons explained on ABC TV that Beazley, as a trained historian, had this view: “I know that the logic of history, to large land masses populated by a small number of people surrounded by cultures alien to them, is very cruel. I don’t accept that Australia will necessarily be like that. But we have choices. And it is the choices we make now that will determine whether Australia will survive in 2050.” What is so remarkable about Kim Beazley's view of Australia...

TAJ Din al-Hilali has praised militant jihadists in Iraq and Afghanistan, calling them men of the highest order for fighting against coalition forces - which include Australian soldiers - to "liberate" their homelands... The revelation comes as a neighbouring cleric from Sydney's Bankstown accused Sheik Hilali of supporting military Islamic jihad against the West and called on imams from around the country to band together to force the mufti to step down. As John Howard and Kim Beazley called for Muslims to act against Sheik Hilali, Jamal Rifi, from the Australian Muslim Doctors Against Violence, pleaded with the mufti: "Please...

A LIBERAL backbencher has called Kim Beazley a "fat so and so" after the Labor leader labelled him "weak" for supporting the Government's immigration laws. Mr Beazley and West Australian Liberal Wilson Tuckey traded verbal insults, their faces within centimetres of each other, as they arrived at Parliament House in Canberra this morning. The angry exchange came ahead of today's vote on the Government's controversial migration Bill. Some rebel Liberal backbenchers are threatening to cross the floor and vote with Labor against the changes. Mr Tuckey was speaking to reporters as Mr Beazley stood by, waiting for his turn to...

THE nation's (Australia) two main political leaders have snubbed a top international security, energy and environment summit headed by former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev. Mr Gorbachev will co-chair the Earth Dialogues conference in Brisbane next week. But Prime Minister John Howard and Opposition Leader Kim Beazley had both declined invitations from conference organisers to attend, a spokeswoman for Earth Dialogues said today. World experts in energy, security, climate change, water resource management and sustainable development will attend Earth Dialogues, which runs July 22-24 and is part of this year's Brisbane Festival. Queensland Premier Peter Beattie will co-chair the summit with...

The ALP is risking its credibility over terror but the Coalition has its own voter gap, writes National political editor Dennis Shanahan THERE is a great disconnection in Australia between many of our politicians, academics, lawyers and journalists and what the Australian people believe and want. In part, it is a matter of declining trust in our leaders and institutions, but it is also deeper than that, with enormous ramifications for the political landscape. This week's arrests of terror suspects and the fierce political recriminations and allegations that took place before and after them are a stark example of the...

FORMER Labor leader Kim Beazley is returning to the front bench to help his party win government and use his defence credentials to fight terrorism. Opposition Leader Mark Latham today said Mr Beazley would return from the backbenches to become the party's new defence spokesman. Mr Beazley will take over the role from Senator Chris Evans, who now becomes Opposition spokesman on defence procurement, science and personnel. Mr Latham said Mr Beazley's defence credentials made him the best person for the job because of what he could offer to Australia's national security. "I think this is beneficial for Australians across...