Overseas sellout
Audacious, repugnant, venal - three Australian banking institutes and Telstra, that grew out of old Telecom and before that other incarnations in Australian history,...
Religious irrelevance responsible for demise
Jim Shanks (SFT, January 26) laments the changing of the Roman Catholic Mass by the decrees of the Second Vatican Council in 1962. He...
Get with the times
I presume Steven Harrison’s letter “Real Australians reject a republic” (SFT, January 26) is not entirely genuine and is indeed looking for a “bite”....
Ignoring referendum results
Dr Paul Williams (Courier Mail, January 24) talks about adding to the constitution through referendum voting, but when the people voted at previous referendums...
Race referendum
Another referendum! The Julia gang has decided that they want to have a referendum to recognise Aboriginal people in the Constitution. The last time...
Problem gamblers
Andrew Wilkie isn’t having a lot of success with his attempt to get legislation to curtail the antics of problem gamblers. The deal he...
Poker face
Andrew Wilkie, who is a person of integrity, is about to find out that Julia Gillard, to his surprise, is not. Just as she...
Swanfels reunion
On February 11 past students and past teachers of the long closed Swanfels School, and also past and present residents, are invited to join...
Spiritual impoverishment
The Bishop of Lismore, Most Reverend Geoffrey Jarret, in his Christmas message, spoke of a falling off of Mass attendance, as a “fatigue of...
Buy Australian made
Julia Gillard came on TV and said to the people of Australia to buy Australian made. I went into a clothes shop and a...
One sided free trade deals
Under free trade agreements Australia is forced to import meat from Argentina, which has foot and mouth disease, salmon from Canada which could infect...
Real Australians reject a republic
Why is it that the extremely vocal republican minority seem to believe that they hold a monopoly on Australian patriotism? How is it that...
T20 teams slog it out
It was a cracking day of cricket at Slade Park at the weekend with Sovereign Animals and Wheatvale picking up victories in the first...
