by John | Sep 15, 2011 | Australian commentary
Love prevailed over prejudice for champion axeman David Foster, says RODNEY CROOME. THERE’S nothing small about world champion axeman David Foster. This man, big of girth and character, has won more world titles than any other Australian sportsman or woman. In...
by John | Sep 14, 2011 | Australian commentary
The following piece was written by AME Campaign Director, Rodney Croome AM, and first appeared on the ABC The Drum. *** For Kids’ Sake, a new report on family and children written by University of Sydney law professor, Patrick Parkinson, and commissioned by the...
by John | Sep 8, 2011 | Australian commentary
In the good old days of Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen, it was not unusual for the civil authorities in Queensland to take a creative approach to public order-and-law enforcement, in the process sometimes overstepping the boundaries of proper conduct. In Mount Isa, dominated...
by John | Sep 5, 2011 | Australian commentary
Labor MPs agreed to find out what their constituents thought about same-sex marriage last year but some of them didn’t seem particularly interested in the results, writes Myriam Robin Almost a year ago, Greens MP Adam Bandt called “on all parliamentarians...
by John | Aug 29, 2011 | Australian commentary
The following article was written by AME Campaign Director, Rodney Croome AM, and first appeared on ABC The Drum Unleashed. ** The response among commentators to the recent same-sex marriage consultations and report-back by federal MPs has been uniformly pessimistic...
