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An earlier headline said that services around the nation were expected to bring comfort to those who had lost homes or loved ones in fires in Victoria two weeks ago. Expected by whom the headline did not say. There is not much that can compensate for the death of someone you love. But the milllions …

Cornelia Rau was briefly detained in a detention centre for illegal immigrants by Australian offcials four years ago. She did not appear to speak English, said she did not have Australian citizenship, had no identification, and could not explain how she came to be in Australia. It was soon recognised that she had a mental …

But if you can’t or won’t teach the Catholic Faith, you have no business being a Catholic priest. If you want a do-it-yourself faith, and a do-it-yourself Jesus, why not be an Anglican?

Who would have guessed? Alarmingly this simple fact still seems to be escaping the current US administration. Kelsey Grammer is absolutely right. The ‘stimulus’ package is about rewarding people who are unproductive, or who have been irresponsible, by taking money from people who are productive and responsible. This has two effects. First it discourages responsibility. …

According to the Australian ABC, MacDonalds is doing well in Australia, so soon everyone will be obese. This is another one of those increasingly frequent (especially when it comes to health and climate scares), headlines that look alarming, but when you read the story, you find that nothing has happened at all. It’s just some ‘expert’ …

Hmm… The people who lit the fires are immediately responsible. But a measure of responsibility also lies with environmental activists who pressured local councils and other governement agencies to reduce or disallow prescribed (that is controlled protective) burning and other clearing of highly flammable scrub from residential areas.  ‘The green movement is directly responsible for the severity of …

Even though Victoria has cooled a little, there are still about twenty fires still out of control. A fifth of the residents of the town of Maryville may be dead. Many bodies are still in burnt homes. Many of the fires are thought to have been deliberately lit. That means some of those homes  are crime scenes. Investigations …

I can understand this guy being annoyed: along the trails through his property used by illegal immigrants are piles of litter including human faeces, diapers, chewing gum and drug wrappers. Immigrants have destroyed fences, killed cattle, and stolen property. Over the last ten years he has handed over 12,000 illegal immigrants to authorities. That’s 1200 …

I am glad that the Sea Shepherd (which might be more appropriately named the Sea Wolf) has stopped harrassing Japanese whaling vessels. Even if you feel strongly about ending whaling, that is no excuse to ram other vessels in the Southern Ocean. Amusingly, Paul Watson, captain of the Sea Shepherd, claims his reason for ending the …