Mates Help Each Other; They Do Not

Abortion Is The Easy Way Out. It’s Hardly Surprising That People Should Choose The Most Convenient Exit From Awkward Situations.

It's Very Easy For Australians Living In Big Cities To Either Romanticise Or Demonise The Situation In Aboriginal Places - To Kind Of Look At Things Through The 'noble Innocents' Prism Or Through The 'chronically Dysfunctional' Prism, And I Suspect That Is So Often The Case.

Should We Choose To Extend Our Airstrikes Into Syria, We Will Be Doing This In The Collective Self-defence Of Iraq. We Would Be Doing This Out Of A Responsibility To Protect Innocent People At Risk Of Horrible Death From The Most Violent People Imaginable.

Another Big Problem With Any Australian Emissions Reduction Scheme Is That It Would Not Make A Material Difference To Atmospheric Carbon Concentrations Unless The Big International Polluters Had Similar Schemes.

Like The Governor-general, When Asked What You Enjoy Most About The Job My Tendency Is To Say "today", Because Of The Insights You Get Into Our Nation And Because Of The Privileged Contact You Have With So Many People.