It’s been a while since I’ve eaten at a McDonalds Australia outlet but from memory, apart from the McOz (which is a promotional burger only), none of their other regular hamburgers contain bacon. Infact the only thing on the entire menu that contains bacon I believe is the Bacon and Egg McMuffin, available only during [...]

One of the things I’m proud of Australia is the fact that, despite having people from all sorts of cultures, religions and creeds, it’s that for the most part we all get along with the same reasonably secular common law. Aborigines and their special courts aside, the rest of us abide by a system that [...]

Carnita Matthews hasn’t had a very good run at being a licensed driver in Australia. Since she first received her learner licence in 1998 at the age of 33, she has twice had her provisional licence suspended for totting up too many demerit points and twice had her licence suspended for non payment of fines. [...]

Australia doesn’t have a detailed history of traitors. We’ve participated in both world wars and have had a foothold in nearly every global and major regional Asia-Pacific conflict since. All this despite a population that is dwarfed by most other countries entering these conflicts. Because of a lack of traitors in our wartime history, it’s [...]

When I think of comparisons between Australia and Europe, I see Australia as lagging behind Europe by about five to ten years. Lagging behind not because of societal or cultural slowness, but because of one key difference: The mining and resources industry. Without the mining and resources industries, Australia is essentially a country with little [...]

I’m not a fan of mixing religion and politics. No matter where it occurs in the world it almost always comes with a damning cost, the cost paid by those who fall outside of the religion. Moderates would have you believe that this isn’t a problem though. Through tolerance and acceptance the idea is that, [...]

Multiculturalism has always been a two way street, you give a little and you get a little. In exchange for being welcomed with open arms and adopted into the local community, you give a up a little bit of where you came from and attempt to secularise. Yes you might not agree with everything and [...]

Over in England the establishment of a sharia court system to deal with civil cases involving the local muslim population occurred in late 2008. This in itself is a tribute to the success of Islamic groups such as Hizb ut-Tahrir. Hizb ut-Tahrir are a global Islamic organisation full of hardline religious nutters hell bent on [...]

The mixing of unrelated men and women in Saudi Arabia has been a giant no-no for quite a long time. This of course in turn creates social problems. Unless chaperoned it’s generally frowned upon for a female to be in the company of any unrelated male friends or acquaintances. This particular example as you can [...]

If I travel to another country and engage in an activity that is illegal there’s a good change I’m going to face some sort of penalty if I’m caught. Here in Australia, commit the illegal act of female genital mutilation (also known as female circumcision), and we’ll not only excuse you – we’ll discuss modifying [...]