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» 20/06/2008 5:49:37 PM JL Deland It’s a good thing that you have added a properly considered opinion into a seri.....
» 20/06/2008 1:15:50 PM No women seem to have contributed to this thread as the author’s statement that women have.....
» 17/06/2008 9:42:19 AM Individualism has become a habit. We forget how enjoyable pulling together in something li.....
» 16/06/2008 12:07:12 PM The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is unsolvable. It is already 60 years old. I think that .....
» 2/06/2008 5:01:34 PM From time to time some Australians do the following in support of various causes: From mi.....
» 29/05/2008 9:33:49 AM Binoy. You have writen a load of rubbish - but you have written it well......
» 13/05/2008 11:18:54 AM The ID v Darwin argument can go on forever. What counts is this: In the absence of a beli.....
» 12/05/2008 10:35:15 AM The Greens suffer the same problem that every ideology does. They seek black and white sol.....
» 12/05/2008 10:22:09 AM Brian - Thanks for an easy to read article but you have let yourself be carried away. The.....
» 10/05/2008 3:01:57 PM One day all languages bar English will go the way of Latin. There is a reason for English .....
» 7/05/2008 9:40:18 AM "it is still far from hopeless" Sorry - it is hopeless. Earth is (as David Suzu.....
» 30/04/2008 10:40:30 AM All this is really saying is that we need a global agreement on English spelling. The spo.....
» 28/04/2008 10:01:43 AM This article says a lot about the difficulty in executing someone. Where is the problem? T.....
» 26/04/2008 5:15:45 PM In this thread, two good points were made: [1] We need Anzac Day because that is all we h.....
» 25/04/2008 2:46:54 PM I tried to watch the Gallipoli dawn service but when the hymns started I had to switch off.....
» 24/04/2008 11:36:13 AM Paul.L. It is good that we are including Turks in our memorials. Gallipoli was free of at.....
» 21/04/2008 9:09:45 AM Fear not. The enormous brainpower concentrated at the 2020 will surely sort things out......
» 16/04/2008 10:19:43 AM Lev - you are being much to reasonable. Prisoners sometimes spread their faeces over the .....
» 16/04/2008 10:05:43 AM The reference to "closing the books on new patients" is a disturbing development.....
» 8/04/2008 10:41:01 AM Theories and yet more theories. The only way for the hidden variables in a complex situati.....
» 1/04/2008 10:17:44 AM A great article - there is only one thing wrong with his argument: we are no more percepti.....
» 28/03/2008 1:28:58 PM The more opinions I read about Palestine, Iraq and Afghanistan the more I am convinced tha.....
» 26/03/2008 9:56:06 AM More money away from health and education and into defending ourselves against a potential.....
» 12/03/2008 10:14:55 AM There is one good reason not to teach children a second language - they don't have the tim.....
» 7/03/2008 9:35:03 AM Sometime during my first job a middle-aged female employee told me that the men there supp.....
» 7/03/2008 9:25:34 AM I was shocked at Rudd's "great idea". We have already experienced the pointlessn.....
» 21/02/2008 9:47:05 AM This has all been said before by Edward de Bono decades ago. His advice never went anywher.....
» 15/02/2008 9:16:37 AM "No task is more urgent than to destroy the nuclear monster before it destroys us&quo.....
» 14/02/2008 9:33:51 AM A good article and more relative to ordinary people then the series of climate change arti.....
» 13/02/2008 9:19:35 AM Passey You raise an interesting point. Hanson was not a facist - just some naieve person .....
» 12/02/2008 3:29:58 PM TINMAN I would not say that Hanson "ripped off" her electoral allowance. She go.....
» 11/02/2008 1:41:42 PM I can remember decades ago Prince Philip expressing his disgust when informed of the annua.....
» 8/02/2008 9:04:57 PM HenryV111 Cloning George Bush will not produce another George Bush. It will only produce .....
» 18/01/2008 9:03:17 AM Peter Bowden made a reference to there being no organised charity conducted by atheists. A.....
» 17/01/2008 9:42:58 AM My son is working in Hong Kong. The polution from the mainland stings his eyes. In his fir.....
» 13/01/2008 6:38:52 AM People keep referring to Obama as becoming the first black president. When slavery was abo.....
» 2/01/2008 9:24:41 AM All very true - but why is it so? [1] We were colonised by the most advanced country in t.....
» 26/12/2007 1:49:09 PM It appears that the extract from the Reagan Diaries appearing in this OLO article does not.....
» 23/12/2007 2:59:56 PM Shadow Minister The article would have been chosen to be posted as it met the criteria th.....
» 19/12/2007 9:06:51 AM David You say that you are 82. From your photo dressed in Edwardian style, you would be i.....
» 18/12/2007 9:10:38 AM I cannot see the connection beween the Aurukan incident and "gynocide". The Auru.....
» 18/12/2007 8:54:33 AM Shadow minister Tibet is not a good example. Tibet shares a common border with China and .....
» 17/12/2007 5:33:54 PM Shadow minister: • People keep referring to China as a potential enemy. China’s booming e.....
» 11/12/2007 10:12:03 AM A genuinely informative article. We need more of them......
» 5/12/2007 8:41:32 AM What would the 100,000 Australaians who died defending our right to live in dignity think .....
» 5/12/2007 8:27:02 AM The simple solution seems to be to not have a by-election. If a sitting member resigns in .....
» 14/11/2007 2:14:51 PM A committee of selected "representatives"! Good grief! Imagine the politicising .....
» 9/11/2007 10:12:00 AM Putting the religious aspect to this article to the side, the monoculture is with us and w.....
» 9/11/2007 9:33:10 AM The root cause of the author’s frustration is democracy where the vote of the thinking vot.....
» 9/11/2007 9:11:47 AM The claim is that the majority desire a republic. Then - why did the republican camp loose.....
» 5/11/2007 9:53:28 AM The claim is that universal health care as delivered by schemes such as Medicare is unsust.....
» 31/10/2007 9:33:41 AM The best observation in this article is that we must have democracy and accept its ineffic.....
» 25/10/2007 6:40:37 PM KAEP Even though there seems to be something loose in your brain, you have made a valid p.....
» 25/10/2007 10:09:47 AM Mercurious You have contradicted yourself. You say that many do business in English but s.....
» 19/10/2007 9:37:01 AM The core message of Al Gore is that our obscession with economic growth comes at a price. .....
» 19/10/2007 9:17:46 AM Thoughtful piece. However, this right-wing writer forgot to mention Henry Kissinger who al.....
» 15/10/2007 10:15:54 AM In NSW on 1/1/05, the boards were scrapped as 17 area health services were merged into 8. .....
» 15/10/2007 10:06:50 AM There is only one history that matters. It is the history of the common man. What was th.....
» 12/10/2007 11:21:52 AM After the dreadful mess in Vietnam, why is there another mess in Iraq? Does the US governm.....
» 10/10/2007 10:26:38 AM The essence of the problem is this – we have not agreed that health is the number one prio.....
» 8/10/2007 3:15:28 PM Why are victims of adverse events not quickly compensated by the state for the damage done.....
» 8/10/2007 3:01:38 PM Banjo The purpose of OLO is to set people thinking. A submission to OLO has to be under 2.....
» 4/10/2007 11:44:16 AM On 1/1/05, in NSW 17 area health services were merged into 8. The promise was a far more e.....
» 3/10/2007 9:30:59 AM Taswegian I thought that foxes in Tasmania were about to go out of all control. You say t.....
» 2/10/2007 9:08:45 AM The essence of our failure to meet the needs of the "mental health services consumer&.....
» 30/09/2007 7:56:14 AM Boundary security is another way of saying that the Australian way of life is non-negotiab.....
» 21/09/2007 9:31:37 AM "Society has not found the solution to drug use". There is a solution. Before t.....
» 21/09/2007 9:18:35 AM A new expression has entered our vocabulary - “sit down money”. I like it! Making a respo.....
» 21/09/2007 9:00:42 AM What an important article. OLO should have a special place on its address bar at the top o.....
» 6/09/2007 10:00:25 AM Wont work! A bureaucracy is needed to restructure bureaucracy. Bureaucracy only expands......
» 4/09/2007 9:46:52 AM We could wind back the federal government so that its only reponsibilties were foreign aff.....
» 4/09/2007 9:25:56 AM Just bringing to your notice that APEC is costing us $300 million. Don't the heads of gove.....
» 31/08/2007 10:04:47 AM The minister will conclude that there will be no environmental impact and the mill will be.....
» 31/08/2007 9:49:20 AM What drives the cover-up? Fewer and fewer are entering the clergy. Many churches are not .....
» 29/08/2007 9:01:26 AM If you were to edit the Wikipedia page for, say, Submarine - then your editing will likely.....
» 24/08/2007 1:34:04 PM Kathryn You should think about becoming a writer......
» 21/08/2007 10:19:16 AM I would recommend that this article be printed out so that it can be re-read from time to .....
» 20/08/2007 11:01:53 AM This is the bigger picture. The male brain is different to the female brain and the law h.....
» 13/08/2007 3:50:35 PM Shonga. The aborigines are a race. The “we” in your post is not. Outside of aborigines, t.....
» 13/08/2007 3:14:05 PM I would like to see an article on OLO justifying the existence of the states. I have no id.....
» 13/08/2007 1:42:15 PM Sorry. Wrong reference given above. See http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=.....
» 13/08/2007 1:38:01 PM A good article. The conclusion we come to as to when human life begins depends on the be.....
» 9/08/2007 10:15:49 AM I worked for 28 years in laboratories mainly analysing blood. The image of profesionalism .....
» 9/08/2007 9:54:51 AM Appealing for unselfish behaviour by governments is wishful thinking. We would not have ar.....
» 8/08/2007 8:47:46 AM I find that the ABC's focus on aboriginal affairs way, way over the top. Nevertheless, the.....
» 7/08/2007 10:47:47 AM John Menadue, a former chair of Qantas, was commissioned by the NSW government in 2000 to .....
» 6/08/2007 9:14:13 AM I know we must not lie down to be run over by circumstances - but, look at every graph, th.....
» 3/08/2007 9:05:46 AM We make so little money out of exporting timber and there are relatively so few jobs in th.....
» 26/07/2007 9:59:34 AM Who is Ian Plimer? He is the man who took legal action against an “authority” who provide.....
» 19/07/2007 9:15:05 AM It takes all types to make a world. I retired in 1988 and what followed was the best time .....
» 18/07/2007 2:08:08 PM I have been on bushwalking trips which separated me from civilisation for up to 2 months. .....
» 11/07/2007 6:48:56 PM It should be plain that the author is not a racist. He is just one more citizen who recogn.....
» 11/07/2007 2:03:08 PM The comments have gone off on a number of tangents. The article's core issue is that Chris.....
» 11/07/2007 10:25:01 AM The Wilderness Society is not a business. It is an activist group that needs $12 million t.....
» 6/07/2007 8:41:21 AM This article needed to more strongly convey the message that the scarcity of meat was a ma.....
» 29/06/2007 10:54:19 AM I would like to know from somebody how many taxpayers’ dollars have been consumed by Abori.....
» 29/06/2007 10:52:13 AM Does anybody know how many taxpayers’ dollars have been consumed by Aboriginal Affairs ove.....
» 29/06/2007 10:48:47 AM Can anybody out there tell us all how many taxpayers’ dollars have been consumed by Aborig.....
» 28/06/2007 10:16:06 AM All this makes me wonder if the president of the USA has too much power. That country migh.....
» 27/06/2007 9:25:34 AM A sobering reminder that it is not the body count which measures the faulre of the invasio.....
» 26/06/2007 12:25:35 PM For the victim of bullying who would like to hit back, an excellent source of material can.....
» 25/06/2007 10:52:20 AM The importance of this article is that it alerts us to a reality. Things are improving in .....
» 22/06/2007 10:41:05 AM Ross Thanks for a good read. There are, of course, two sides to every argument. My son is.....
» 21/06/2007 11:15:27 AM michael_in_adelaide A good comment. However, throughout the history of biology, those who.....
» 21/06/2007 9:19:12 AM Right to the point and of great relevance. I hope many visitors to OLO read it......
» 13/06/2007 10:06:34 AM A great source of information for empoloyees in a bad situation can be obtained through ht.....
» 12/06/2007 9:06:19 AM Chris You gristley old philosopher - good stuff!.....
» 9/06/2007 10:25:46 AM Irfan I know you are reading these comments. So - I would like to congratulate you on a v.....
» 31/05/2007 9:28:12 AM I am introducing a bit of lateral thinking here. When I was a teenager I noticed that ev.....
» 24/05/2007 9:56:46 AM A good article Selwyn. I hope you get Leichhardt......
» 22/05/2007 3:46:53 PM One possible assistance is to reduce the need to travel. For example: It should be illega.....
» 21/05/2007 9:13:04 AM Aborigines with villages? This is new to me. Readers had better look more deeply into this.....
» 17/05/2007 9:37:46 AM Thankyou Opinion Online for this story. These are real stories to digest and from which we.....
» 16/05/2007 9:57:10 AM What a tragedy. I recommend a book titled "God Is Not Great - How Religion Poisons Ev.....
» 16/05/2007 9:45:18 AM I set up a small group of volunteers to promote a free support service for public health e.....
» 15/05/2007 10:47:55 AM The first two comments are from anti-US ravers looking for any opportunity to have an anti.....
» 15/05/2007 10:33:48 AM The vast majority of the population of this country gets all its news from TV. These peopl.....
» 15/05/2007 9:01:06 AM If you witness that a road accident was purely due to the negligence of one of the parties.....
» 14/05/2007 9:02:41 PM About 20 years ago my son was an Australian working in communist Vietnam. He often used ca.....
» 14/05/2007 10:05:57 AM They say that the one thing predictable about the future is that we have no idea what lies.....
» 14/05/2007 9:50:13 AM Malcolm Turnbull was right when he said Heffernan's comment was appalling. Why is a person.....
» 14/05/2007 9:43:29 AM After listening to the annoying rhetoric of Rudd, Gillard etc., there has to be somewhere .....
» 12/05/2007 7:49:27 AM Those who use the “slippery slope” tactic are attempting to hide their religious agenda. T.....
» 10/05/2007 11:11:52 AM It is claimed that 80% of the population support voluntary euthanasia. How about you reade.....
» 10/05/2007 10:45:33 AM I am dismayed that weekend newspapers are increasing in sales. They are so big that one ca.....
» 10/05/2007 10:20:39 AM It is good that high profile people who have suffered mental illness are coming out of the.....
» 10/05/2007 10:05:13 AM This raises in my mind a much larger issue. Too many students “brave the long trek” to stu.....
» 10/05/2007 9:22:43 AM Wherever there is passion there is exaggeration – or at least biased opinion. I am turning.....
» 7/05/2007 12:40:35 PM Generally, there is little comprehension of science by politicians who mostly are educated.....
» 4/05/2007 9:14:53 AM This article calls for more dollars to be put into road building to combat Sydney’s increa.....
» 3/05/2007 10:12:41 AM What happened to all those market gardens on Sydney’s fringe I remember in the 1950s - and.....
» 3/05/2007 10:01:35 AM For many years now I have been astonished about our series of federal treasurers’ focus on.....
» 2/05/2007 9:25:43 AM It’s human nature to be hostile and it’s human nature to be friendly. Which face shows dep.....
» 1/05/2007 9:36:29 AM i have my suspicions about people who get emotional about the scientific use of embryos. H.....
» 27/04/2007 10:11:02 AM Addressing the social and economic factors influencing overweight is a big ask. In fact it.....
» 27/04/2007 9:55:20 AM Yesterday I was looking at a large imported rug hanging in a shop window. The detail was a.....
» 26/04/2007 12:35:46 PM Cricket is a great strategic as well as physical game. It would be good to see it develop .....
» 24/04/2007 10:08:38 AM There is something in this article which needs re-stating: “If the truth about events so .....
» 24/04/2007 9:18:37 AM It is sad to see so much public discussion about Muslims. It really is time for the medi.....
» 23/04/2007 8:59:03 AM That, I'm afraid is the way it is. Over 40 years ago the Readers Digest published a surve.....
» 23/04/2007 7:36:17 AM The prime minister urges us to pray for rain. Let us hope that he is our last scientifical.....
» 22/04/2007 3:59:10 PM Ted Complex life emerged on Earth about 500 million years ago. Can you comprehend that nu.....

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