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...

Katter: Why the ACL are dangerous

Finally, reason and leadership prevail. I was greatly disappointed when, earlier this year, the Prime Minister confirmed she would be making the keynote speech at the Australian Christian Lobby’s (ACL) national conference. There are a few reasons why the news left me...

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?...