February 10, 2014

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Australia faced up to one its biggest moral dilemmas on Sunday night – and this time it didn’t involve the vexing issue of what to do with boat people, or those pesky carbon emissions. Rather, our dilemma related to the choice of televised entertainment , with two much-hyped telemovies – Schapelle, the story of the Bali drug mule, and…

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There was some huge news out of the US today: Missouri college footballer Michael Sam announced to the world that he is gay. I’m only being slightly facetious when I write that this is “huge news.” Because, assuming he gets drafted this US Spring (and I believe it is likely he will) he will become…

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