John Mizon News Today

Why do seemingly rational people, given the opportunity to make the world a better place, want to spend their lives achieving nothing?

We demonise asylum seekers as illegal boat people and lock them up for years. Meanwhile, our lucky citizens can travel to the countries from where refugees originate.

The decision to gazette a one-off public holiday at short notice to grieve the death of the Queen will be highly disruptive and unnecessarily costly.

How anyone could “hate Book Week, passionately, categorically, unreservedly” is puzzling and disturbing.

All the pomp and ceremony from London to mark the Queen’s platinum jubilee only serves to remind us that it’s time we went our own constitutional way.

About 40 years in the past, an Australian colleague shyly advised me that he was going to vote for a republic. “Go ahead,” I mentioned. “It’s your country,

A federal anti-corruption commission would help to protect the public interest and prevent breaches of public trust.