The gay lobby should step very carefully in joining with the left in marginalising those holding traditional values. Should real discrimination based on sexual preference ever again raise its ugly head, they may well find conservatives to be their most effective supporters and protectors
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You could argue that Russia's seizure of the Crimea was a popularly endorsed manifestation of robust democracy. Be that as it may, the notion that the invaded's unarmed renditions of their national anthem represents an effective response is clearly lacking
They can amend the law or scrap it entirely and the impact will be minimal. With the courts populated by activist judges, political weathervanes and paid-off party hacks, the surest bet is that those looking to take offence will find new and innovative ways to crimp others' speech
Finally, the national broadcaster has put to air Part II of its shock-horror scoop about the beastly treatment RAN sailors administer to illegal aliens on the high seas. Like Mark Scott's protestations that the ABC plays all stories with a straight bat, the segment cannot be taken seriously
When 7.30 reported its breathless scoop about an orange boatload of would-be illegal aliens being sent back to Indonesia, the hope of some at the national broadcaster might have been to reveal the inhumanity of Operation Sovereign Borders. If so it was an own goal of the first rank
What comes put of the oven depends on what goes in. Like a certain national broadcaster, the nation's leading military baker brooks no criticism of the unpalatable fare it whips up
Even Peter van Onselen seems unable to find anything nice to say about Bill Shorten. Indeed, the next kind word we hear is likely to be the faux praise of party comrades intoning his political epitaph
These breathless reports about the planet never being hotter, take them with a truckload of salt. How can anyone place the slightest credence in claims being advanced by people who fail to grasp, or refuse to grasp, the simple truth about trend lines and temperature
It came to me in a dream: The same extraterrestrials who polished their English skills by monitoring the ABC on their long, intergalactic journey to Earth are now in charge of the national broadcaster. No wonder they still can't grasp the world the rest of us inhabit
Perhaps we really should lament our flaws and take steps to remedy them, as those self-help gurus urge. Then again, isn't it far more honest, not to mention therapeutic, to recognise one's human frailties and embrace them?
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