The Sydney Peace Foundation has handed Wikileaks founder Julian Assange its gold medal for extraordinary achievement in promoting peace with justice. Excuse me while I throw up. The Foundation glowingly reports that this is only the […]
I hate those wretched CAPTCHA things. Too hard to read, and they don’t do a good job anyway. If you have a website where people can sign on to some service, and you need to be […]
In the early eighties I went through a stage of uncertainty about the ordination of women to the priesthood. I was living in Adelaide at the time, studying at Flinders/The Adelaide College of Divinity for priestly […]
As a contrast to the appallingly dumb judicial decision in the previous post, I offer this as a counter-example: Greenpeace has lost a High Court battle to restore its status as a charity. The environmental lobby […]
This is one of those ‘What the #^*?!’ moments. A fast food restaurant manager has been awarded thousands of dollars in compensation after he broke his wrist while bashing a customer. Matthew Styles had previous convictions for […]
I wrote a few weeks ago that the death penalty should be kept as an option, but used very rarely – when it seemed to be the only way to protect society from a vicious and dangerous […]