Grattan: Gillard makes the right call

JIM Wallace has the right, given free speech, to say what he likes. Julia Gillard has the equal right to refuse to lend prime ministerial authority to a conference held by the organisation he heads. Of course, a PM’s attendance at a function does not mean...

Raj: Smoking out the gays… yet again

“But what I’m saying is we need to be aware that the homosexual lifestyle carries these problems and … normalising the lifestyle by the attribution of marriage, for instance, has to be considered in what it does encouraging people into it.” Say what now?...