If nothing else, the steady stream of madness and moral decrepitude one encounters on a daily basis at least keeps life interesting.

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Two recent articles about teen crime in Victoria make for disturbing reading.

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For millennia, the institution of marriage was viewed as a solemn covenant, involving strong obligations and commitment.

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The extent of anthropogenic global warming caused by carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels is a controversial and politicised issue and there certainly is no scientific consensus.

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There are many reasons why we should not legalise euthanasia.

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Carbon is the sixth element in the periodic table. It is unique among the elements in the vast number and variety of compounds it can form.

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Behind me the ladies ate Maltesers, in a satirical manner, while talking of crumbling bones and ABC reruns of As Time Goes By.

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Many reasons have been put forward for John Howard’s failure to win the 2007 election—negative reaction to WorkChoices, his refusal to abdicate in favour of Peter Costello, even a sense that he had just been in power too long—but there was another issue which suffused the Opposition campaign and which played a major part in persuading voters: climate change, in particular the recent drought.

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In the ancient fable, Chicken Little thought one acorn dropping on her head meant the entire sky was falling. Today’s Chicken Littles show similar insight.

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Sometime after the Soviet Army had crushed the Dubcek regime in Prague in 1968, our great cold-war warrior, Frank Kopfelmacher, was described by his opponents in condescending and patronising tones as a “threat expert”.

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