Michael Gorey

I drove through the tiny town of Turriff on my way to and from Mildura. It’s in the Mallee between Hopetoun and Ouyen.
That’s a desolate drive. Like other wheat growing areas of Australia, farms have got bigger, families smaller, populations diminished, shops closed and services gone.
These towns once had much more than the silos and [...]

I was guest speaker this morning at “Breakfast for Blokes”. This is a Christian men’s group that meets monthly for prayer and fellowship.
I was honoured to be invited and used the opportunity to give some personal views on the media’s role in society and more particularly the role of newspapers in country communities.
I finished with [...]

The future of the National Party in Australia is under a cloud following the defection of Victorian Senator Julian McGauran to the Liberals.
Most analysts seem to think the party is in terminal decline. The evidence certainly supports that.
Three-cornered contests after a sitting member retires are invariably won by the Liberal Party.
The question has to be [...]

It’s politically incorrect to question multiculturalism. I don’t worry about that, but I recognise that we can’t turn back the clock and change what’s occurred over several decades.
I do think it’s reasonable though to ponder if current tensions in Australia, and more particularly in Britain, would exist if our demographic composition had remained as it [...]

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An irritant that never fails to bug me is how many companies and organisations assume that everyone lives in a city or suburb.
I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve filled out a form in hard copy or on the web, and when you come to describe the place where you live, the question [...]