Few would wish a return to those closeted days when policeman entrapped homosexuals in public lavatories and being actively gay was a crime. So why, with so much gained and attitudes transformed, do activists insist on making themselves so shrilly and insistently unpleasant?

I came to this wonderful country from Hungary, fleeing my homeland one jump ahead of the Russians. Cricket, inedible bread, the bizarre 'football' codes -- they were the negatives but didn't amount to much cause for complaint. Australia, though, how much do I love you?

Our political, civic and even religious leaders are stubbornly unwilling to grasp and accept Islam's true nature, its ambitions and what those things mean in the context of Australia's future. Silence, as they say, gives consent. The need now is to get loud and stay loud

Before recycling became a sign of environmental virtue, not to mention a local bylaw whose defiance can incur a hefty fine, it was a necessity. There is comfort in old and familiar things, just as there is a unique satisfaction to be drawn from the application of the handyman's skills

If Aborigines are to be written into the Constitution, what is that must be added? More than that, will a few sentences of feel-good boilerplate make the slightest difference in remedying the dysfunction and abuse that marks so many Indigenous communities?

If you have entered a major sports stadium recently it will have been only after a bag search and, possibly, a body scan at the turnstiles -- one example of the way in which the freedoms and safety we once took for granted are being inhibited. The only response is to speak frankly about the reason why

This week, five Muslim firebrands refused to stand for the magistrate before whom they appeared, as did their supporters in the body of the court. The defendants understand that their creed submits to no authority but Allah -- a fundamental principle lost on all too many in the politically correct West

I was not yet six years old when the Russians […]