When you can throw 97 miles an hour and put the ball over the plate anytime you want, it's fun.
The Gillard government must give up its addiction to wasteful spending borrowing and taxing.
We know that so many of the conditions and diseases that we associate with ageing can often be prevented or in fact their onset delayed if we just took preventative steps earlier in our lives.
Dementia is not exclusively a problem of the developed world.
And I believe that the best buy in public health today must be a combination of regular physical exercise and a healthy diet.
We are increasingly recognising and accepting, respecting and celebrating, our cultural diversity.
At the last census it indicated that about 22 per cent of Australians were born overseas.
We all originally came from the woods! it is hard to eradicate from any of us the old taste for the tattoo and the war-paint; and the moment that money gets into our pockets, it somehow or another breaks out in ornaments on our person, without always giving refinement to our manners.
It's rough to go through life with your contents looking as if they settled during shipping.
A cat's idea of a 'good time' is to kill something.
It was impossible for me to believe that conditions in Europe could be worse than they were in the Polish section of Chicago, and in many Italian and Irish tenements, or that any workshops could be worse than some of those I had seen in our foreign quarters.