Opinion

Jeff Corbett

Comatose cricket

Posted: 03 Aug 09 | Australians feel constrained to profess an interest in cricket, and that was the case, too, long before we became a multicultural nation of migrants who are bemused by cricketers using the ball the scratch their jockstrap itch. |

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Fighting for nurses

Posted: 03 Aug 09 | Until a stay of 10 days in hospital almost five years ago I had no idea of the level of skill in nursing and of the demands of staffing a hospital's front line. |

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Poisonous food

Posted: 30 Jul 09 | The more fruit and vegetables we eat the more poison we ingest. |

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Real nice guys

Posted: 29 Jul 09 | I'm talking genuine nice guys, men and women who attach more importance to the welfare of others than to their own. |

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Unconditional welcome

Posted: 28 Jul 09 | Is there a point at which the criminal record of certain nationalities of migrants and visa-free, long-term visitors to Australia becomes unacceptable? Or should we smile a welcome while being murdered, sexually assaulted, robbed and beaten? |

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Migrant crime rates

Posted: 27 Jul 09 | We are a mix of nationalities, ethnicities and cultures, and when we talk positively we are free to talk of differences. On the other hand, it is frowned upon, it seems, to talk of differences when the subject may be deemed to be negative. |

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Visiting criminals

Posted: 24 Jul 09 | An average of 30 New Zealanders are deported each year, a very low figure in view of the fact that 500,000 New Zealanders are in Australia at any one time and that many more than 30 commit a serious crime each year. |

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Devout discrimination

Posted: 24 Jul 09 | NSW's Anti-Discrimination Act excuses our state's religion-based organisations from the principles of anti-discrimination, and it is time that was reviewed, |

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Mercy shooting

Posted: 22 Jul 09 | Teams of shooters could be met by guides in camouflages at Taronga Zoo wharf, led on tippy-toe to the dying animal, and on the count of three fire their merciful bullets into the ailing animal. |

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A rort on the side

Posted: 21 Jul 09 | It is, it seems, the nouveau fashion in contemporary Australian restaurants, the selling of each accompanying vegetable as something called a side. |

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Too silly at 18

Posted: 20 Jul 09 | We know that 18-year-olds tend not to handle alcohol well, yet 18 as the minimum drinking age is not in question. |

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Who cares?

Posted: 16 Jul 09 | There will be much misery behind unemployment figures as we head for March 2011, and much of that will be due to the fact that the dole is manifestly inadequate for single people and parents with one, two or three children. Who cares? |

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The ancient 60s

Posted: 15 Jul 09 | In the unlikely event that I hit 100, or 90, or more likely 80, I'd love to feel as I do now because I feel better now that I did at age 20. |

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Dob in a hoon

Posted: 14 Jul 09 | With a NSW version of dob-in-a-hoon every idiot will be vulnerable and will know he's vulnerable in every reckless moment. |

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Steak secrets

Posted: 13 Jul 09 | When I fire up the barbie at home to cook steak I'll admit I'm confronted by uncertainty. |

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Shooting elephants

Posted: 10 Jul 09 | Interesting that elephant shooter Robert Borsak is on one hand the head of a political party that is trying to force the government to allow shooters into our national parks and on the other hand the head of a NSW Government statutory authority that would be charged with overseeing shooting in those national parks. |

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World without men

Posted: 09 Jul 09 | I think, sincerely, that women are intrinsically better human beings than men, so a world without men might not be such a bad place. |

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Chewy

Posted: 08 Jul 09 | Footballers chew it on the field, bus drivers chew it behind the wheel, tradesmen chew it on the job, hardware shop assistants chew it while they're telling you what you need, newsreaders chew it on television. |

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A natural contest

Posted: 07 Jul 09 | Would four women sailors have been sent home to Ms Gillard's fury if they'd been seducing as many men as possible? As many women as possible? |

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Swine flu lessons

Posted: 06 Jul 09 | Neither government nor bureaucracy would tell us to withdraw from our work, at least not until a deadly pandemic was out of control and perhaps not even then, so if such isolation is the safest course it is to be the individual's decision. |

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