It was an accident waiting to happen without one.

I really must pop over to Moss Vale with those promised chocolate Freddos in thanks.

As I motored neatly around this new road feature last week without fear of being sideswiped or worse, it came to me that it’s like a crown that needs a head.

Wouldn’t it be attractive if we had a statue anchoring the roundabout at its centre?

And seeing it’s next to Corbett Gardens, a bronze (or trachyte from the Gib) figure of Mrs Ada Corbett comes to mind.

After all, it was through her vision and determination that a rubbish tip paddock transformed into a beautiful garden in 1914.

It took years to raise funds, to obtain support from the Lands Ministry, to plan and supply plantings for such a garden.

She made it happen though, a remarkable lady of true grit, who perhaps deserves to watch over her garden in timeless repose.

What do you all think?

New ACTU secretary, Sally McManus, says, “I believe in the rule of law.… But when it’s unjust I don’t think there’s a problem with breaking it.”

OK, so who decides whether it’s just?

Apparently not the voting public or their elected law-makers.

Perhaps Sally herself wants to be the decider. She’ll need assistants, skilled in standover tactics, to make it happen.

However unsatisfactory democracy is at times, it’s never as unsatisfactory as that.

In my youth, I was a doctor.

I made it clear that if any patient requested a referral for an abortion, I could not/would not supply it.

Under Victorian law, that’s a punishable offence. As it happens, I was never arrested.

Anyway, to justifiably break a law, one must be sure it relates to an absolute, utterly black-and-white moral issue.

You can’t think in terms of absolutes unless you believe in the absolute — namely God.