How could it be possible that we could spend one-third of our national budget on education, force our children to suffer 12 long years of primary and secondary tuition and then still have half of them come out and be unfit to get a job?

Reports of the sickening violence that is endemic in aboriginal communities around Australia have shocked many people.

Once, it was a mark of respect if the boss bought you a beer. A sophisticated boss became one who offered wine and beer.

Tell us something we don't know! We have just been breathlessly informed by our motoring organisations that light coloured cars are the safest because of their higher visibility.

Do television programs merely hold a mirror to our society or are they a major factor in leading a decline in standards?

The Japanese are delicate in their approach to food and it's quite a contrast to the frequent Australian love of over-indulgence.

Anyone who has experienced a surgical operation will appreciate just how much faith and reliance we place in these medicos.

A truly chilling story emerged from South Africa not long back and it highlighted much of the myths and misinformation that still surrounds AIDS, especially among people with little or no education.

You have to feel sorry for the do-gooders who are now saying that the aboriginal head on our $2 coin is somehow demeaning to aborigines.