Originally published in The Australian, 28 August 2017 It’s hard to credit but there are still policy makers who think that a welfare dependent male’s right to spend his money on booze trumps his partner’s right to be protected from a drunken rage. The immediate victims of binge drinking are the family members and neighbours…
Originally published in The Australian, 15 August 2017 Same sex marriage is a tough issue. It divides families; it splits political parties; often enough, it tears at individuals too. It was definitely rending the Liberal Party in mid-2015 between those sure that the institution at the heart of our society must not be redefined to…
Originally published The Australian, 7 August 2017 The real villain in the same sex marriage imbroglio is Bill Shorten. He is the one who’s playing politics with this issue and stopping it from being resolved in this term of parliament via the plebiscite that people want. It’s Shorten who told church leaders before the 2013…
Originally published in The Australian, 2 August 2017 Bill Shorten must be getting cocky and taking his opinion poll lead for granted because he’s giving people more and more reasons to vote against him. The latest is his commitment to have a plebiscite on becoming a republic in the first term of a Labor government….