We won't just automatically click our heels and follow the Americans.

Sport is an important part of the Australian psyche. Anybody who thinks that sport is not part of the fabric of Australian life misunderstands this country quite dramatically.

This is appalling. The idea that a person could be punished because of their religious belief and the idea they might be executed is just beyond belief.

I think when people talk about civil liberties, they sometimes forget that action taken to protect the citizen against physical violence and physical attack is a blow in favour and not a blow against civil liberties.

It's too much to expect in an academic setting that we should all agree, but it is not too much to expect discipline and unvarying civility.

I'm all for it. In these days, regional marketing is the only way to survive.

Young people are at risk of being disinherited from their community if that community lacks the courage and confidence to teach its history.