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» 7/02/2008 9:00:23 AM The author must be amused to know that many in the U.S. consider the wikipedia to have suc.....
» 5/02/2008 6:22:43 AM Swordfish, I have a lot of sympathy for some of the voucher proposals I have seen, but to .....
» 3/02/2008 7:11:23 AM Arjay, why would I expect a monumental fight? I expect Australia to peacefully follow in t.....
» 2/02/2008 12:11:04 PM One example: http://graphics8.nytimes.com//images/blogs/freakonomics/pdf/FreakPDF4.pdf.....
» 2/02/2008 8:01:28 AM http://www.smh.com.au/news/opinion/tax-dodgers-laughing-as-the-poor-are-hounded/2007/12/14.....
» 2/02/2008 6:50:06 AM How is evolution "Perfectly beyond emperical (sic) validation?" Scientists vali.....
» 1/02/2008 7:02:45 PM "What is needed is a far stronger set of environmental laws" The scientific bas.....
» 1/02/2008 3:59:58 PM I agree that industry papers on nuclear energy are largely scientifically sound. Realistic.....
» 1/02/2008 1:28:30 PM A-G, no-one that I'm aware of is arguing that currently observed warming is "outside .....
» 1/02/2008 8:51:08 AM I don't think you can leave out the fact that because many heterosexual men (myself among .....
» 31/01/2008 3:01:44 PM TRTL, I'd like a real concrete example of why allowing public access to a commercial contr.....
» 31/01/2008 1:05:29 PM Mr Carson, instead of glib insults suggesting I need an economics lesson, if you think I a.....
» 31/01/2008 8:48:30 AM Do we have currently have any constitutional requirements whereby legislation requires bip.....
» 31/01/2008 6:16:04 AM Arjay, if that is your idea of a rational discusion over what arguments there may be for a.....
» 30/01/2008 3:55:02 PM Well, with all due respect, I think it's pretty silly to claim that employers "steal&.....
» 30/01/2008 1:10:50 PM Plerdsus, I wouldn't mind seeing your calcuations re private health care. As it is, the c.....
» 30/01/2008 12:53:27 PM Divergence, why "dangerously naive"? I'm quite familiar with Diamond's Collapse .....
» 29/01/2008 5:58:24 PM "That we are now more likely to applaud someone denigrating a smoker or carbon excess.....
» 29/01/2008 10:56:06 AM (cont. from above) I don't assume that c) means that nobody currently used to first-world.....
» 29/01/2008 10:55:39 AM But Divergence, you're assuming that our current forms of technology, which generate massi.....
» 29/01/2008 9:36:11 AM "…if you approached the problem in terms of taxing carbon dioxide, it would become to.....
» 29/01/2008 8:04:51 AM Edward, if you believe mass popularity is the best measure of quality of journalism, then .....
» 28/01/2008 5:31:12 PM "Gays have an inordinate amount of political power". Too true. Can you believe w.....
» 28/01/2008 8:49:54 AM It's a nonsense argument anyway - the reality of living in a social democracy is that we p.....
» 27/01/2008 7:12:10 PM Edward Carson, unfortunately your implication that most taxpayers would prefer not to fund.....
» 27/01/2008 6:08:31 AM runner, if you are genuinely concerned (as I am) about reducing the number of abortions in.....
» 27/01/2008 6:04:35 AM Potty, agreed, there is no logical in that. Were it up to me, weight/power restrictions w.....
» 26/01/2008 2:48:40 PM Is there anybody that thinks this was a genuinely well-written opinion piece? Whether you .....
» 26/01/2008 2:18:41 PM Potty, a 1400kg car at 80km/h will do a lot more damage to whatever it hits than a 900kg o.....
» 25/01/2008 10:54:52 AM GP, if you are claiming that one needs a creator to have meaning and purpose, then assumin.....
» 25/01/2008 10:17:32 AM I don't see conflating religion with faith and dogma as an unreasonable position, given th.....
» 25/01/2008 8:33:24 AM There's no reason that economic growth per se is at odds with environmental sustainability.....
» 25/01/2008 7:30:09 AM Would seem more sensible to have electronically-limited acceleration and top speed. In fac.....
» 25/01/2008 6:07:02 AM Belly, of course SS fraud is wrong. So is stealing a grape or two from the fruit section o.....
» 24/01/2008 11:54:57 AM Susan, going by the two examples I've seen so far, I assume by "best" you mean &.....
» 24/01/2008 9:49:06 AM How so, Leigh? The only particular commentator he attacked was Jason Koutsoukis, who might.....
» 24/01/2008 9:39:47 AM From a self-professed Greens voter this is a bit hard to understand. Like probably most ot.....
» 24/01/2008 6:46:20 AM We already know gay marriage does the institute of marriage no harm: it's existed in the N.....
» 24/01/2008 6:38:28 AM Edward, I'm not arguing that "life in prison is worse than death and therefore we sho.....
» 18/01/2008 5:52:16 AM Arjay, I'm a great respecter of the potential power of capitalism, but the attempts by var.....
» 17/01/2008 4:58:18 PM Danielle, yes, I'm aware that there are parts of the world where creationism has risen to .....
» 17/01/2008 4:33:28 PM There will always be times when we have to temporarily forgo certain aspects of our libera.....
» 17/01/2008 1:20:33 PM What "rise of creationism"? The only developed country in the world where creati.....
» 16/01/2008 7:30:11 PM BOAZ, then we should also judge the Persian figures Mithra by his works: * Being born fro.....
» 16/01/2008 3:27:48 PM Wobbles, while interesting, it's not all that meaningful just to look at the situation for.....
» 16/01/2008 3:03:29 PM Col, much simpler solution: if all drugs were treated like nicotine and alcohol, there wou.....
» 16/01/2008 2:49:55 PM Belly, what do you mean "straight from the pockets of the true poor"? I thought.....
» 16/01/2008 12:41:33 PM Kidnapping is reversable......
» 16/01/2008 9:58:54 AM I'm not sure weight-for-weight basis is all that meaningful. It's surely the calorific-nut.....
» 16/01/2008 6:13:27 AM Runner, there may be more believers than ever before, but there are also vastly more unbel.....
» 15/01/2008 4:49:49 PM Ok, but let's look at why people "plan not to work". I've never known anyone who.....
» 15/01/2008 2:28:46 PM Philo, and where's the evidence that the previous claimants were wrong? No religion lasts .....
» 15/01/2008 1:57:55 PM Ross, possessive apostrophes might be rational, but it depends what the speaker's inbuilt .....
» 15/01/2008 12:40:47 PM Hasbeen, yes I am extremely lucky - and I recognise it. Entirely through the nature of my .....
» 15/01/2008 8:30:47 AM Corri, many if not most atheists do not accept that "humanity" is the greatest e.....
» 15/01/2008 6:47:18 AM kartiya jim, it never ceases to amaze me that anyone can still be "God fearing" .....
» 15/01/2008 5:57:07 AM Belly, I'm just not convinced it's a problem worth getting upset about, given the amount b.....
» 14/01/2008 5:46:22 PM I dream of the day where nobody ever has to take a $13/hr job. It's pretty absurd that I c.....
» 14/01/2008 5:38:36 PM Danielle, I didn't feel I was trying to present an argument "against abortion of non-.....
» 14/01/2008 5:04:39 PM I wouldn't say it was because electricity generation and distribution was 'essential' that.....
» 14/01/2008 2:15:05 PM Actually, Desipsis, it's just plain wrong to use "literally" to mean "almos.....
» 14/01/2008 1:33:50 PM BOAZ, I don't need counselling - the problem is solving itself gradually anyway. Organised.....
» 14/01/2008 1:23:38 PM Countryboy, did you even read the article? I will say agree though that at least a portio.....
» 14/01/2008 10:41:51 AM Philo, given you believe in a theistic creator, that point of view is understandable. But .....
» 14/01/2008 10:32:25 AM From my admittedly limited understanding of economic history, it all seems not too dissimi.....
» 14/01/2008 9:51:20 AM A ground-breaking article conclusively demonstrating that the English language as we know .....
» 14/01/2008 7:26:53 AM I honestly think we need religion (and superstitution in general) out of our entire societ.....
» 13/01/2008 9:12:12 PM Foxy, as a human being myself, of course I value other humans above bacteria, or flies or .....
» 13/01/2008 8:41:11 AM I would say though, if the pressure to give birth to well-above-average-ability children b.....
» 13/01/2008 7:11:21 AM I couldn't find any passages online from Stephen Jay Gould where he argues quite forcibly .....
» 13/01/2008 6:48:47 AM Foxy, there's no question that there are several areas in which human beings excel. But th.....
» 12/01/2008 4:54:29 PM Well you're never going to stop people littering. There's just way too many people using w.....
» 12/01/2008 10:59:32 AM Pretty sure it must be somebody-famous's rule that when the best that those who disagree w.....
» 12/01/2008 10:55:30 AM Bazz, since the 1940's, nicotine addiction and usage has been reduced by about a factor of.....
» 12/01/2008 7:02:22 AM Cevilia, I'm puzzled... surely damage that is done to our wildlife is very much a form of .....
» 12/01/2008 6:55:49 AM Foxy, I doubt that humans are the "most widely dispersed species on the planet"......
» 11/01/2008 2:31:47 PM Use reusable cloth or polymer bags - indeed, I avoid supermarket plastic bags because a) t.....
» 11/01/2008 1:31:18 PM I'm not sure how you can objectively qualify humans as the most "resourceful and adap.....
» 11/01/2008 11:54:34 AM Huh? If "companies have spent millions trying to reduce the degradability of plastic .....
» 11/01/2008 11:29:23 AM It's not space travel that puts us ahead, Jack, it's the ability to colonise outerspace. W.....
» 11/01/2008 11:01:27 AM They might not be worth 1c each, but the cost of the long-term damage they do might well b.....
» 11/01/2008 10:07:02 AM Fine, then Leigh I apologise for implying that you were being racist. But to say "Afr.....
» 11/01/2008 9:47:28 AM The civilised solution to this problem is to treat opium like nicotine and alcohol. Which .....
» 11/01/2008 9:47:27 AM The civilised solution to this problem is to treat opium like tobacco and grapes grown for.....
» 11/01/2008 8:20:20 AM BTW, I will offer one objective achievement of humans that other species are unlikely to e.....
» 11/01/2008 6:35:18 AM Don't really agree that they should be banned outright, just that supermarkets etc. should.....
» 11/01/2008 4:37:24 AM Arjay, I don't have an attitude...just an open mind. I've read very strongly argued cases .....
» 10/01/2008 4:25:22 PM Ok Leigh, then what is it about Africans that you believe makes them incapable of running .....
» 10/01/2008 9:58:15 AM "...it should be clear to even the biggest dunderhead that Africans are simply not ca.....
» 10/01/2008 9:43:36 AM It's about as logical as not accept penalty rates for the Queen's Birthday if you're a rep.....
» 10/01/2008 9:36:24 AM On the discussion "A ChristMyth message – an Atheist perspective", Jack the Lad .....
» 10/01/2008 9:26:42 AM Jack, not at all. Indeed I've started another thread about it......
» 10/01/2008 8:26:49 AM There does seem to be an assumption that everyone "needs" base-load power. If it.....
» 10/01/2008 6:13:04 AM Effie, nobody is talking about taking away the right to sack - just to sack unconditionall.....
» 10/01/2008 5:22:36 AM One thing I might expect to see is that those who have had enhancing technology for some c.....
» 10/01/2008 5:07:24 AM Philo, in a world with 6.5 billion people, it's inevitable that thousands of people recove.....
» 9/01/2008 3:05:52 PM palimpsest - if unfair dismissal laws are holding back employers from sacking employees fo.....
» 9/01/2008 12:13:27 PM "Some subjects are tabo[o], just not worth the effort" The whole concept of &qu.....
» 9/01/2008 12:06:14 PM Col, while demand for live classical music isn't enough to support orchestras on its own, .....
» 9/01/2008 11:39:47 AM "Whingers" is one of those terms conservatives love to use to put down progressi.....
» 9/01/2008 11:16:56 AM With all due respect, the site is run by two members of a philosophy department in NZ. Unt.....
» 9/01/2008 8:25:31 AM I don't think I saw David claim that atheists have no beliefs. Strictly speaking, it is no.....
» 9/01/2008 6:43:27 AM >>You appear to be suggesting that it is the taxpayers' "few cents" >&g.....
» 8/01/2008 9:38:33 PM Arjay, did you even read my line of reasoning? I explained exactly why unfair dismissal ca.....
» 8/01/2008 12:52:04 PM "Research shows a link between the premature sexualisation of our children and seriou.....
» 8/01/2008 11:12:04 AM Edward, by that argument you might as well argue against having safety regulations - it sh.....
» 8/01/2008 7:33:09 AM Col, if you seriously believe the world would be a better place with no orchestras, and a .....
» 8/01/2008 6:18:10 AM I assume you mean Bertrand Russell, not Bertram Russell (two different people). While a G.....
» 8/01/2008 5:32:00 AM Col, the New York Met is dependent on government funding, and recent cuts to it, and the c.....
» 8/01/2008 5:13:28 AM The other concern of course should be that if artificially boosting brain mass (and conseq.....
» 7/01/2008 4:47:54 PM Philo, as long as belief in God remains a significant facet of society, teaching children .....
» 7/01/2008 2:44:29 PM Er, if a phobia is an "unrealistic fear", then it's not justified, in my book. .....
» 7/01/2008 1:20:44 PM Belly, agreed that "Good parenting never came out of a book" - however science d.....
» 7/01/2008 12:54:31 PM What's wrong with what flies eat? It doesn't cause them any problems that I know of. If hu.....
» 7/01/2008 12:38:27 PM BOAZ_David, can I say that perhaps is the most singularly intelligent post I've ever read .....
» 7/01/2008 10:41:40 AM But how do you deal with situations where employees are fired for pointing our safety viol.....
» 7/01/2008 10:04:29 AM TRTL - reread my last post again:http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?discussion=1.....
» 7/01/2008 7:30:53 AM Actually, David, most people become atheists by being born that way. (If, not unreasonabl.....
» 7/01/2008 5:00:28 AM The "free will" explanation for evil doesn't cut in anyway, because it imples th.....
» 6/01/2008 1:50:29 PM David - you're getting a bit precious there. "Steep ascendancy" to me implies th.....
» 6/01/2008 10:50:41 AM Col, how is it twisting words? It's just the practical outcome of your unprovable and subj.....
» 6/01/2008 9:34:52 AM I'm not sure I'd got as far as claiming atheism is in "steep ascendancy". The tr.....
» 6/01/2008 6:15:21 AM I'm not even sure why we're bringing other species into it. Let's just stick to Homo Sapi.....
» 6/01/2008 6:00:49 AM Pericles - who said anything about lectures? The best musical education starts at home: ea.....
» 5/01/2008 10:41:57 PM Jack, because the church is the only institution I know of capable of convincing anyone th.....
» 5/01/2008 2:11:34 PM Foxy, were all believers like you, there probably wouldn't even be a word for "atheis.....
» 5/01/2008 1:16:12 PM Jack, it has to be said, while you've made the most important step away from religious ind.....
» 4/01/2008 5:18:11 PM I meant to add, just as I know there is no Santa Claus or Tooth Fairy. Further, I do know.....
» 4/01/2008 4:04:53 PM EasyTimes, you say "If the atheist can explain how something like the universe came i.....
» 4/01/2008 12:33:58 PM Australia is not communist Russia, and in no immediate danger of becoming so. I don't see .....
» 4/01/2008 9:45:45 AM Col, not that there is much point trying to convince someone of your political persuasion .....
» 4/01/2008 7:37:10 AM Arjay you won't get any argument from me that most military spending is a waste of money (.....
» 3/01/2008 4:08:26 PM "Most of the atheists I know personaly use their atheism to live without conscience&q.....
» 3/01/2008 4:01:53 PM Col, not even economists agree on what inflation is. But I fail to see how that's relevant.....
» 3/01/2008 3:06:16 PM Arjay, where do you get those numbers from? I'd like to see a budget breakdown from 1951 .....
» 3/01/2008 1:59:56 PM Col, CO2 levels have their own "hockey stick"-like graph: http://www.global-war.....
» 3/01/2008 1:32:56 PM Steven, on your last point - exactly! I never suggest it was purely about the "rich&q.....
» 3/01/2008 12:56:55 PM Brain size is at least partly correleated with "intelligence" (which I don't acc.....
» 3/01/2008 10:46:24 AM Q&A - oddly, I *am* partly looking forward to it. It's pretty obvious that there are big c.....
» 3/01/2008 9:37:09 AM Most people do tend to stick with what they know, in most areas of life. I suspect this is.....
» 3/01/2008 7:31:15 AM Frank, what's really needed is compulsory education in critical thinking skills and common.....
» 3/01/2008 6:28:06 AM My general attitude is that once the knowledge how to do something is obtained, someone so.....
» 3/01/2008 5:55:23 AM TRTL, maybe it's just partisan bias, but I very rarely come across statements such as &quo.....
» 2/01/2008 2:34:47 PM lia, Jennifer meant "Liberal" values, which have very little to do with "li.....
» 2/01/2008 2:26:36 PM Snake, well I for one am perfectly happy with higher taxation - that's partly why I voted .....
» 2/01/2008 1:54:07 PM palimpsest, I agree Keating was divisive, but he was almost never *deliberately* divisive .....
» 2/01/2008 12:57:06 PM Frank 1. I should have clarified that I was really talking about primarily about taking r.....
» 2/01/2008 10:00:32 AM Col, atmospheric CO2 has increased by 35% since the beginning of the industrial age. Radio.....
» 2/01/2008 10:00:12 AM Col, atmospheric CO2 has increased by 35% since the beginning of the industrial age. Radio.....
» 2/01/2008 8:11:37 AM What makes you so sure that it's "a symptom of modern culture that most people are ha.....
» 2/01/2008 6:48:25 AM Does the RBA has any regulatory control over finance operators? I thought its only role wa.....
» 1/01/2008 2:05:51 PM 1. But those weren't "her own actions". 3. Temporarily yes, but the point is tha.....
» 1/01/2008 1:44:53 PM Col, I agree that, providing the US doesn't self-implode, it still remains the world's pow.....
» 1/01/2008 12:58:33 PM BTW, one further point re the capacity of market forces for innovation/wealth-creation: it.....
» 1/01/2008 12:07:21 PM I'm well aware that demand for new electricity is still growing, and faster than the rate .....
» 1/01/2008 12:00:20 PM BOAZ, re moral issues - my position here is pretty simple: governments attempting to contr.....
» 1/01/2008 11:44:55 AM Frank: 1. "Life does not always amount to all that we are capable of or want".......
» 31/12/2007 12:18:10 PM The hypothesis that manmade greenhouse gases are contributing towards planetary warming wa.....
» 31/12/2007 11:27:21 AM FrankGol, 1. Not sure what your point is here? Though agreed I should have added "ho.....
» 31/12/2007 10:50:23 AM By the way, one controversial point I'll throw in to the debate - the more I read, the mor.....
» 31/12/2007 8:02:30 AM CJ, I'm interested in how you feel about the other points. I've already clarified my views.....
» 31/12/2007 7:25:43 AM Well I wouldn't have any problem if a private operator with minimal government assistance .....
» 31/12/2007 6:42:08 AM Apart from DEMOS whom I'm not entirely sure about, I would classify all the posters who ha.....
» 30/12/2007 5:20:03 PM Actually, BN, I've never held the same job for more than 3 years, and quite possibly never.....
» 30/12/2007 3:40:09 PM Yabby, I've already explained that saving deposits is simply not the problem for many firs.....
» 30/12/2007 3:18:00 PM Col: "The likes of wizofaus invariably work from the premise of “what should be”, ign.....
» 30/12/2007 9:02:51 AM BN, there have been many studies done that show the negative effectives of an unhealthy wo.....
» 30/12/2007 7:39:52 AM Those on the political Right often seem to have curious opinions about what the "Left.....
» 29/12/2007 6:58:33 PM Foxy, I don't think too many atheists would claim it's not "alright to believe",.....
» 29/12/2007 4:23:36 PM Col, it's interesting that you compare capitalism and democracy in such a way, however it .....
» 29/12/2007 10:37:47 AM Country Gal, where do you get the idea I believe that "more intensive housing" i.....
» 29/12/2007 9:54:07 AM And BN, if you could find a way to grant that liberty to the relatively few people that ge.....
» 28/12/2007 2:39:34 PM I'd just like to know what a free-market shop like the IPA is doing praising the Internet,.....
» 28/12/2007 12:19:42 PM Well, there is one big problem - there is no example yet of an entire national electricity.....
» 28/12/2007 11:08:28 AM Daggett, I don't see how you can argue "unearned profits earned by property speculato.....
» 28/12/2007 9:14:54 AM Country Gal - the point is that my parents 25-30 years ago, on a single income, were able .....
» 28/12/2007 8:17:31 AM Except for most employees, to trade annual leave for pay is almost certainly a bad idea - .....
» 27/12/2007 1:50:35 PM "...conservative ideology of just reward for effort, of enterprise and hard work, of .....
» 27/12/2007 6:45:30 AM 80% of Cubans live in shacks? Where do you get that from? I gathered it was largely apartm.....
» 26/12/2007 5:52:16 PM "The negatives of religion outweigh the benefits to the point of being a danger to th.....
» 25/12/2007 5:48:01 AM The argument against killing whales is surely more to do with the cruel manner in which it.....
» 23/12/2007 4:39:04 PM A rise in median house price from 260k to 327k in 5 years, combined with a 2% interest rat.....
» 23/12/2007 1:51:08 PM Well, there are a large number of current risks to the global and domestic economy over th.....
» 23/12/2007 6:22:49 AM Yabby, I'll accept that in some suburbs, the house price can be attributed to the 'rich yu.....
» 22/12/2007 2:31:36 PM Yabby/Country Gal, I don't doubt that if my sisters were happy to live in the countryside .....
» 22/12/2007 7:04:02 AM This a response from glaciologist Elisabeth Isaksson: "Very good that you are intere.....
» 21/12/2007 1:26:20 PM Nick, I've been arguing with global warming deniers for over a year, and learned long ago .....
» 21/12/2007 11:18:34 AM Faustino, I guess my question to economists such as yourself is what do you see as the pro.....
» 21/12/2007 11:02:59 AM Actually, Yabby, I do accept that from an investor’s perspective, rental rates for houses .....
» 21/12/2007 6:46:10 AM Yabby I haven't stated anywhere what I believe the correct adjustments to current governme.....
» 20/12/2007 6:38:20 PM Bob Carter is a known contrarian, a geologist, and his writings to that world-renowned pee.....
» 20/12/2007 1:01:13 PM Further, DavidJS, the examples of the Nordic economies prove that capitalism is capable of.....
» 20/12/2007 11:12:25 AM BN, then the question becomes - how much has really changed since 100 years ago, when empl.....
» 20/12/2007 10:42:55 AM Who said anything about a "big stick" approach? All I've suggested is to reduce .....
» 19/12/2007 2:25:12 PM Yabby, your last paragraph essentially sums up what I've been saying all along - that gove.....
» 18/12/2007 7:58:43 PM Actually, the Earth is certainly not a closed system - and while there certainly are limit.....
» 18/12/2007 6:07:57 PM Graham, I don't pretend to be a climate scientist, but I don't think it would be unreasona.....
» 18/12/2007 2:07:25 PM Divergence, where did I imply that "technology alone" will solve all our problem.....
» 18/12/2007 2:07:14 PM Col, that additional account was removed the day before you complained about it. Yabby, I.....
» 18/12/2007 1:43:31 PM "As there has been no global warming for a decade,..." Graham, from any other p.....
» 17/12/2007 2:03:24 PM What on earth is the contradiction between accepting that as a species we should put ourse.....
» 17/12/2007 1:17:17 PM "If population does not grow over 55 years, then we are a dying breed" Poppycoc.....
» 17/12/2007 11:35:48 AM The most surprising thing about that article is that it appeared in a highly conservative .....
» 17/12/2007 10:40:56 AM The baby bonus was moderately justified when first introduced, given how low the fertility.....
» 17/12/2007 9:36:24 AM Yabby, I don't disagree with your point, but I'm not sure that article is the best evidenc.....
» 15/12/2007 4:51:04 PM "Remember Kyoto / Bali seek to impose a restriction on nations" Col, yes, becau.....
» 15/12/2007 11:07:04 AM Pericles, I would dispute that your claim that 'Australia does not have a "Muslim pro.....
» 15/12/2007 10:39:26 AM Actually Philo, that seems to have been an underestimate, this article says 1 million (and.....
» 15/12/2007 10:22:34 AM Yabby, I have to confess I wasn't entirely sober when I wrote that post, so apologies for .....
» 14/12/2007 8:09:53 PM TRTL, an even better example is Finland, who have regularly been rated as one of the most .....
» 14/12/2007 7:48:15 PM Sorry to say it, but you guys really have no idea. 6 years ago, as a young couple with two.....
» 14/12/2007 2:10:48 PM Philo, do you think I should be able to choose the "most socially ideal environment&q.....
» 14/12/2007 1:54:23 PM I'm not "blithely claiming that all we need to do is cut consumption". I just ha.....
» 14/12/2007 12:26:38 PM BTW, I would suggest that before criticising Simon, you actually go and read what he had t.....
» 14/12/2007 5:47:57 AM Yabby, Cranbourne is barely even part of Melbourne - as little as 10 years ago it was quit.....
» 13/12/2007 5:05:40 PM mjbp, I didn't mean to imply that article was a summary of the thoughts of the most ".....
» 13/12/2007 3:08:19 PM Nobody is claiming that CO2 itself is "harmful", merely it happens to be a green.....
» 13/12/2007 2:46:38 PM Well I'm certainly not blaming baby boomers for investing in housing - my mother is one of.....
» 13/12/2007 1:02:07 PM Jack, you go argue with some of the most intelligent minds on the planet who work in the f.....
» 13/12/2007 11:50:15 AM Faustino, now I'm actually interested - because there's no question that the "economi.....
» 13/12/2007 10:33:50 AM Philo, obviously what chimpanzees do has little if any relevance to what should be conside.....
» 13/12/2007 6:15:11 AM mjpb, it's spelled "p-i-l-l-o-w" actually......
» 12/12/2007 11:35:12 AM Actually at least some of the third world will be the least affected by peak oil - i.e. th.....
» 12/12/2007 10:23:48 AM Actually you're right Leigh - the IPCC is all a big conspiracy organised by the major gove.....
» 12/12/2007 9:05:50 AM jpw, that's a completely unfair and unjustified attack on chimpanzees, who are generally v.....
» 12/12/2007 8:40:35 AM BTW, it also has to be said, after watching Cutting Edge on SBS last night (Frontline's &q.....
» 11/12/2007 6:10:56 PM "why are we having problems with immigrants?" Because they're people. You might.....
» 11/12/2007 4:50:41 PM As someone who feels that probably, on balance, the pulp mill as the plans currently stand.....
» 11/12/2007 8:16:13 AM Before worrying about whether Jihad is some bloodthirsty war that might happen in the futu.....
» 11/12/2007 7:27:42 AM Romany, try reading http://www.foreignaffairs.org/20070901faessay86503/elizabeth-c-economy.....
» 11/12/2007 7:18:46 AM Liberty, it's not up to you to define what my individual liberty is, or what liberties I v.....
» 10/12/2007 9:32:16 PM To claim that only 12,000 voters decided to "dump the Coalition" assumes that th.....
» 10/12/2007 1:52:03 PM Col, and what on earth makes you believe that under anarcho-capitalism the chance of being.....
» 10/12/2007 12:07:26 PM "I believe in a society where the individual is paramount" Um...then it's not a.....
» 10/12/2007 8:29:23 AM My prediction: by the time this thread has finally dies, same sex couples will already be .....
» 10/12/2007 7:08:08 AM Liberty, here's my idea of individual liberty: The liberty not to suffer unduly from hung.....
» 10/12/2007 5:41:30 AM Yabby, I wasn't seriously suggesting that owning second existing properties should be ille.....
» 9/12/2007 7:23:06 AM "Wiz, I think Country Gal is correct, some Australians seem to have lost their pionee.....
» 8/12/2007 8:09:02 PM Um, I wouldn't mind being like Nelson Mandela, but I can't...does that mean I'm supposed t.....
» 8/12/2007 2:28:02 PM Yabby, I've spent quite enough time in and around Brisbane and Sydney (not to mention citi.....
» 7/12/2007 7:31:42 PM Yabby you claim: "People put up with dumps in outer suburbs, or they lived frugally f.....
» 7/12/2007 7:02:13 PM Themistocles, so your personal opinion rates more highly than those of every one the ~200 .....
» 7/12/2007 2:42:03 PM bjp: One of the most common objections to legalising euthanasia is that doing so is likel.....
» 7/12/2007 1:07:41 PM SCOTTY, that's amazing - all the polls you refer to show that 140% of Australians want onl.....
» 7/12/2007 12:10:32 PM "Problem is now that first home buyers arent prepared to drop their standards" .....
» 5/12/2007 5:48:09 PM Lev, re your good capitalist vs bad landlord example, you're really just comparing wealth .....
» 5/12/2007 12:26:04 PM Except Arjay, most small businesses aren't particularly concerned about them: http://www.t.....
» 5/12/2007 11:28:33 AM Country Gal, do you make some good points. However, ultimately, the goal is to encourage i.....
» 1/12/2007 5:05:57 PM Yabby, have you actually spent any time in modern outer suburbia of Melbourne and Sydney? .....
» 1/12/2007 11:03:50 AM Anyone claiming that the Greens, Family First and Nick Xenophon will support WorkChoices i.....
» 29/11/2007 7:29:15 PM I never said anything about the efficiency of the government sector. But the fact remains .....
» 29/11/2007 7:13:20 PM Funny you say that Liberty, I'm sure those who wish to impose communism upon us could say .....
» 29/11/2007 6:50:50 PM Er, plerdsus, Fielding voted against WorkChoices, so I don't see how their preference deal.....
» 29/11/2007 5:43:31 PM Actually, runner, there are in the order of 10000 homeless people in Sweden, out of popula.....
» 29/11/2007 1:40:03 PM I can fully understand why it's a topic many would feel uncomfortable reading about and di.....
» 29/11/2007 11:49:47 AM Jack, who on this thread do you believe qualifies as a homosexual activist? I personally f.....
» 29/11/2007 9:24:12 AM BTW, after checking out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_same-sex_marriage#1970 I .....
» 29/11/2007 9:20:05 AM Katie, where do you get your information that homosexual marriages in Netherlands last ~1......
» 29/11/2007 8:47:46 AM Yabby, actually the government most certainly could stop people borrowing recklessly, if i.....
» 27/11/2007 7:31:13 PM Col, you really think anybody still believes the absurd dichotomy between "socialist&.....
» 27/11/2007 2:43:17 PM CJ - sure, for birds it's probably entirely innate and not learned/cultural, but that does.....
» 27/11/2007 12:46:01 PM Morgan and Newspoll got it so wrong? How so? Morgan was by far the most accurate, and News.....
» 27/11/2007 12:40:03 PM Yes, it's ignorant to talk about a carbon-free economy. Who has said such a thing? The ter.....
» 27/11/2007 12:28:39 PM Not just Howard: http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/dump-work-choices/2007/11/26/11960368.....
» 27/11/2007 12:07:56 PM CJ - actually, many birds have very intricate "marriage" ceremonies. Albatrosses.....
» 27/11/2007 11:36:51 AM Actually Philo all the available evidence points to humans being naturally serial monogami.....
» 27/11/2007 11:27:24 AM I think the best that could be said of Costello's economic management is "competent, .....
» 27/11/2007 10:53:27 AM Mixed marriages (between blacks and whites) used to be illegal for the same sorts of reaso.....
» 23/11/2007 5:27:36 PM I've said before that "picking winners" is a bit of a meaningless term: e.g. to .....
» 23/11/2007 4:51:29 PM Leith, I understood it...the point is that I would accept the "lazy, doesn't save, ir.....
» 23/11/2007 3:07:02 PM Leith, my perspective is almost the opposite - I'm quite well aware that my wife and I are.....
» 23/11/2007 6:15:58 AM Rstuart, the fact that there is room for reducing regulatory red tape and unhelpful govern.....
» 22/11/2007 8:06:54 PM Danielle, to be fair to Dr Nitschke, the "circus" only exists because the curren.....
» 22/11/2007 7:46:50 PM Themi, give me vacuous rhetoric over divisiveness, deceit and dereliction of duties (on ma.....
» 22/11/2007 12:41:34 PM I'm not hugely impressed the computer policy the way it is either, but it's a little unfai.....
» 21/11/2007 10:12:14 AM It should be pointed out that the balance of power could easily be jointly held by the Gre.....
» 21/11/2007 10:07:16 AM Nitchke did admit that he had changed his views on 18yos, and allowed that "life expe.....
» 21/11/2007 8:39:47 AM Yabby, I had anticipated your point about Australia being somewhat easier to reach than NZ.....
» 21/11/2007 7:48:23 AM Graham, if you are correct that funding for private schools has not come at the expense of.....
» 20/11/2007 4:11:47 PM I'm curious Faustino - what do you think was the driving force behind state & federal gove.....
» 20/11/2007 3:44:20 PM Europe is not comparable to Australia, as refugees mostly reach European nations by land. .....
» 20/11/2007 2:00:27 PM Balancing humanitarian needs with ecological sustainability is arguably going to be the to.....
» 20/11/2007 1:18:37 PM I agree not even allowing nuclear as an option is a bit silly, but the reality is that Aus.....
» 20/11/2007 11:10:22 AM Sigh. I swear there are some people that would happily sit there in front of a thermometer.....
» 20/11/2007 6:26:39 AM True, Graham, however the States can only spend what money they have, for which they are r.....
» 19/11/2007 6:46:21 PM "The only indicator of the veracity of school choice is DEMAND" I might as well.....
» 18/11/2007 6:50:56 PM keith, you must be loving the recent betting odds for the Coalition then - that have blown.....
» 17/11/2007 6:05:47 AM Funny, History Buff, I'll be voting for the ALP because whoever takes over from Costello a.....
» 16/11/2007 2:04:22 PM Further, the number of voters in each electorate varies quite a lot (from Solomon with ~91.....
» 15/11/2007 3:04:19 PM Christy (and to a lesser extent Pielke Sr) are about the only two consensus-objectors who .....
» 15/11/2007 11:35:21 AM Frank, there was at least one poster who suggested Felicity "let's privatise the ABC&.....
» 15/11/2007 10:22:01 AM Fully agree we should avoid wall-to-wall Labor governments - let's get some genuinely prog.....
» 15/11/2007 8:03:48 AM BOAZ, our "worrisome" desires such as to steal, cheat etc., are clearly ethicall.....
» 15/11/2007 6:16:38 AM And you are full of ideas about what I apparently think, very few of which are close to th.....
» 14/11/2007 9:09:39 AM Boaz, please tell, why do you think it is that some people struggle with their sexual orie.....
» 14/11/2007 6:05:25 AM Well, I can't speak for the original authors, but I certainly do not support the "sup.....
» 13/11/2007 3:42:12 PM EasyTimes, but you're assuming that if some research is done that categorically shows that.....
» 13/11/2007 12:07:22 PM Arjay you claim "Q&A,if Labor had been in power for the last 11 yrs,there would have .....
» 13/11/2007 8:30:50 AM Measuring something with one's own eyes and ears, and nothing else, is decidedly *not* obj.....
» 12/11/2007 4:25:32 PM If there are only 10,000 genuine dole-bludgers in the whole of Australia, and the number i.....
» 12/11/2007 11:17:42 AM Arjay, have you looked at where incomes are growing the most? I'd wager that much of that .....
» 11/11/2007 9:08:45 PM Faustino, it sounds like we're largely arguing about terminology then. Clearly, lots of th.....
» 11/11/2007 6:54:31 PM Rhian, I would argue a lot of the reason we ended up with WorkChoices was because of this .....
» 11/11/2007 6:52:25 AM I never said welfare fraud was a "minor problem", but I don't believe it's the m.....
» 10/11/2007 7:12:43 PM Mr Smith, re your "do not expect anyone to believe humanity has spent its entire hist.....
» 9/11/2007 9:11:46 PM Faustino, I think you have a significant point. During the 1980's and early 90's much of t.....
» 9/11/2007 9:07:11 AM Redneck, might it occur to you that your experience growing up has given you an unrealisti.....
» 2/11/2007 3:10:47 PM Leigh, I'm not even going to bother responding to that in words. Burmese living condition.....
» 2/11/2007 2:21:52 PM Except TRTL, from a policy point of view, both the Dems and the Greens are virtually ident.....
» 2/11/2007 1:39:02 PM mickijp, depending on whose figures you believe, we bring in somewhere between 150000 and .....
» 2/11/2007 12:08:33 PM You seem to be implying that the ALP goverments in power now, and the one that is likely t.....
» 2/11/2007 11:58:35 AM Yabby, cutting welfare to those earning less than $14000 (including nothing) is not to mak.....
» 2/11/2007 7:01:51 AM How is "who make use of their talents" the same as "intelligence"? Suc.....
» 1/11/2007 10:04:03 AM A "left of center goverment under Rudd"?! Even the so-called current "conse.....
» 1/11/2007 9:44:34 AM I've never been terribly convinced about the issue of humans creating entropy by burning f.....
» 1/11/2007 9:25:37 AM You really think the average guy on the street has the time or expertise to sit around wor.....
» 1/11/2007 6:59:52 AM Where on earth did I admit that “intelligence levels largely determine social position”? (.....
» 31/10/2007 7:02:16 PM Frank, good point re the historical trend, but Putman has been quite specific in admitting.....
» 31/10/2007 9:11:03 AM Hmm, my last post went missing...can't be bothered rewriting the whole thing, but my essen.....
» 31/10/2007 6:51:26 AM BTW, I'm happy to accept that those who are unfortunate enough to be lacking in any form o.....
» 31/10/2007 6:47:50 AM I regard it as obvious that the social mobility of people who make use of their talents is.....
» 30/10/2007 6:12:18 PM Actually grn, I don't think I've meant anyone who explicitly "wants" multicultur.....
» 30/10/2007 4:48:42 PM Grn, as a non-Sydneysider I can only take your word for it regarding the situation there, .....
» 30/10/2007 1:02:21 PM Pericles, very much depends on who you talk to. Generally, the extreme pro-free-market typ.....
» 30/10/2007 12:41:09 PM TRTL, that's simple: it's the difference between "You're a stupid idiot", and &q.....
» 30/10/2007 8:33:27 AM Pericles, the idea that unions aren't concerned about businesses staying afloat sounds a l.....
» 30/10/2007 7:28:04 AM Just to clarify though, Keating was criticising the unions for not doing their job well........
» 30/10/2007 6:40:45 AM Graham, surely it would be at least worth trialling a 4-post a day limit for the Articles .....
» 29/10/2007 3:19:23 PM Pericles, you say: "Rules and regulations are simply a standard part of doing busines.....
» 29/10/2007 2:11:12 PM A bit laden down with high-flown acamedic rhetoric, but still makes some good points, not .....
» 29/10/2007 12:38:07 PM Pericles, so which is it...unions are unnecessary because "normal market forces..allo.....
» 28/10/2007 8:36:10 PM Yabby, on what possible basis can you demonstrate that businesses have done well *despite*.....
» 28/10/2007 5:08:19 PM Arguing about the ideology of individualism vs socialism is never going to prove anything......
» 28/10/2007 4:47:34 PM Browyn, you posted to the "privileged whites" thread - nearly half that thread i.....
» 28/10/2007 1:15:52 PM Yabby, it's not a question of the Govt *telling* the industry what it should and shouldn't.....
» 28/10/2007 9:57:21 AM Oh and redneck, your comment "The concept of equal rights can only apply if everybody.....
» 27/10/2007 1:50:34 PM Why on earth should "high IQ" be necessary for social function? As I pointed out.....
» 27/10/2007 7:05:08 AM No, redneck, I'm not contradicting myself. Yes, I accept that intelligence - AS MEASURED B.....
» 26/10/2007 1:25:41 PM Perhaps some of us are "Labor leaning" *because* we don't believe the economy ha.....
» 26/10/2007 12:03:35 PM One thing that should be said - the strongest way to send a message to the ALP that you be.....
» 26/10/2007 9:30:37 AM This has been done: http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?discussion=1154.....
» 26/10/2007 6:02:55 AM Yabby, it also has to be said that Nokia got its start as a shareholder in a government-co.....
» 26/10/2007 5:36:38 AM No, redneck, a racist is someone that assumes that between a black and a white man, the bl.....
» 25/10/2007 3:21:10 PM Certainly has my vote, but I've already emailed Mr Young on the matter and he doesn't seem.....
» 25/10/2007 11:12:24 AM Intriguing Banjo, because there are still literally hundreds of Goverment web pages promot.....
» 24/10/2007 8:38:40 PM Shadow Minister the fact that you "know first hand" ports are choked with heavy .....
» 24/10/2007 7:18:25 PM Banjo, I'm sorry but I'm not aware of any government policy to drop "multiculturalism.....
» 24/10/2007 5:14:53 PM (...making no apologies for skirting suffocating posting limits!) Yabby, if for some reas.....
» 22/10/2007 11:09:30 AM No, genuinely scarce oil doesn't automatically mean disaster, but it would today, if sudde.....
» 22/10/2007 10:55:40 AM I'd argue that we don't pull out all stops to move forward on space colonisation soon, hum.....
» 22/10/2007 9:14:51 AM Felt I had to revive this thread...very interesting article in The Oz today: research from.....
» 22/10/2007 9:01:26 AM Ozzie, I quite categorically accepted in my previous post that self-identified "black.....
» 22/10/2007 7:06:54 AM Knopfler, part of the problem is that "intelligence" isn't a single factor. Pers.....
» 20/10/2007 6:03:21 AM Divergence, I was using the exact words Daggett used: "strongly opposed to immigratio.....
» 19/10/2007 4:47:52 PM Pericles, I entirely agree that *if* the price gradient is smooth and gradual, and we star.....
» 19/10/2007 4:26:48 PM Technically demand can only exceed supply as long as there are existing stocks to be exhau.....
» 19/10/2007 3:48:41 PM Daggett, you say "immigration has always been strongly opposed by the majority of Aus.....
» 19/10/2007 1:35:28 AM Divergence, no, what I said was that it has only ever been a noisy minority clamouring for.....
» 18/10/2007 1:10:10 PM "The best way to ensure that hostile cultures do not take root in this county, Wizofa.....
» 18/10/2007 9:19:59 AM http://www.masscann.org/PDF/case_for_legal.pdf Most thorough, well-researched and well-ar.....
» 17/10/2007 3:57:20 PM AJFA - "pure capitalism is hardly desirable"? So deep down you're a pinko commie.....
» 17/10/2007 1:34:08 PM Actually SCOTTY, polls indicate support in Switzerland for the SVP (the party pushing for .....
» 17/10/2007 1:07:41 PM Even if you accept that "values which promote innovation, productivity and genius&quo.....
» 17/10/2007 6:53:06 AM redneck, obviously any link between crime, poverty and ethnicity is never going to be prov.....
» 16/10/2007 4:17:22 PM Dozer, I assume you mean Proverbs 17:28 "Even a fool is thought wise if he keeps sil.....
» 16/10/2007 8:37:21 AM Oops, hadn't finished writing that last (dnicholson) post...meant to say that the second t.....
» 15/10/2007 6:36:57 PM Mark, re your comment "This adds something very positive to our identity; to our sens.....
» 15/10/2007 3:53:35 PM Unemployment was even lower in the 70s, when there was very extensive labour market regula.....
» 15/10/2007 11:18:46 AM Before trying to determine causes, what are the actual statistics backing up any claim tha.....
» 15/10/2007 8:01:17 AM Redneck, that the 20th century saw two world wars, the Holocaust, European and Latin Ameri.....
» 14/10/2007 1:21:25 PM Redneck, yes, wizofaus = dnicholson, and yes I'm blatantly cheating the posting limits. I .....
» 13/10/2007 1:42:52 PM Sancho, I agree that is easy to look at sub-Saharan Africa and conclude that there might b.....
» 13/10/2007 12:33:29 PM Redneck, so you accept then that 1500 years ago, when the “white” people of Europe were li.....
» 13/10/2007 5:52:54 AM "In Perth the prisons are full of Africans" "We all know the statistics ar.....
» 12/10/2007 12:03:29 PM "If businesses pay their workers a bit more, they find that their customers have a bi.....
» 12/10/2007 11:02:27 AM Daggett, you really are out on a limb here. What "huge problems for the...social cohe.....
» 12/10/2007 9:59:38 AM SCOTTY, there are certainly Caribbean nations that are largely ruled by "dark-skinned.....
» 12/10/2007 7:59:23 AM Communicat, if that is the best you can do, then I'm not the least bit concerned about the.....
» 12/10/2007 7:32:12 AM Alright, EasyTimes... "the police dont use statistics to vilify a particular race or.....
» 11/10/2007 3:36:20 PM "The problem with the Sudanese is that they are far too primitive and tribal to be ab.....
» 11/10/2007 1:23:54 PM Sounds suspiciously like Mr Saunders of the CIS is admitting that market failures do exist.....
» 11/10/2007 10:55:43 AM Actually, that's not a bad idea...let's allow the neoliberal laissez-fair worshippers to h.....
» 11/10/2007 9:43:48 AM Well CJ, if the Vidal quote is correct, which is hard to confirm, it's pretty indefensible.....
» 10/10/2007 5:17:58 PM Col, you say "Anyone applying to Australia and being accepted for migration should be.....
» 10/10/2007 3:42:42 PM Actually Communicat, I'm not even sure it's possible to phrase a open-ended question witho.....
» 10/10/2007 10:45:29 AM So SCOTTY you're admitting that Howard isn't man enough to stand up to the UN's demands th.....
» 10/10/2007 6:27:20 AM Scotty, I'm curious - can you give me an example of a piece of legislation introduced by a.....
» 9/10/2007 10:18:33 PM BOAZ, I'm not sure under what circumstances Sheik Mousselmani was granted citizenship, but.....
» 9/10/2007 7:46:59 PM D.Funkt, you ask "why do conservatives generally want to maintain the homogenity of a.....
» 9/10/2007 7:33:16 PM The most obvious course of action is to NOT to continue encouraging lifestyle choices that.....
» 9/10/2007 5:48:04 PM It's hardly fair to say they "stumbled" by communicating their beliefs elsewhere.....
» 9/10/2007 5:01:05 PM Col, now I'm confused...you said you were Libertarian...so why are you concerned over tryi.....
» 9/10/2007 4:58:11 PM BTW, just came across one of the best examples I've come across of a real-life "priso.....
» 9/10/2007 2:38:46 PM Col, then I can only suggest you and these "plenty" of individuals with impeccab.....
» 9/10/2007 9:02:15 AM The only interesting claim you make above is "3) There are very apparent problems wi.....
» 8/10/2007 8:13:03 PM Arjay, no-one is advocating handing out citizenship certificates to known terrorists or fu.....
» 8/10/2007 7:40:28 PM Heh...being a Mexican, I had to look up Vaucluse, didn't sound much like a bogan term. Act.....
» 8/10/2007 5:57:40 PM All assuming, of course, that road-based transport remains viable for much longer (which b.....
» 8/10/2007 5:03:19 PM Freediver, I guess I must be one of those few "lay" economists who would general.....
» 8/10/2007 3:16:58 PM Some things never change. 150 years ago it was the Irish that were forming gangs and ghett.....
» 8/10/2007 9:59:50 AM Ah, what the hell, let's humour you a little more SCOTTY...alright, in my street, I reckon.....
» 8/10/2007 7:19:53 AM Nah we need Bolty to remind us that die-hard far-right conservatives are pretty much livin.....
» 7/10/2007 8:42:30 PM If it weren't for the fact that he's posting the same sort of twaddle since January, I'd a.....
» 7/10/2007 7:19:44 PM Trust me I know all about Ian Plimer...I used to be a big supporter of his when he took up.....
» 7/10/2007 5:34:37 PM Well I guess Andrews at least has your vote, Scotty. Only...he's not representing you. He'.....
» 7/10/2007 4:02:34 PM Who said anything about a guilt trip? I personally can't control what goes on in Indonesia.....
» 7/10/2007 6:53:24 AM Well Zimbabwe is a rather special case, and a classic example of why you should never give.....
» 7/10/2007 6:36:33 AM Well I see the U.S. as having headed far more down the deregulate-privatize-reduce taxatio.....
» 6/10/2007 5:40:27 PM I don't see how it's less naive than your hope! I don't know of one successful "eco-f.....
» 6/10/2007 3:01:25 PM James, are you aware of the original socialist experiment "New Harmony"? That wa.....
» 6/10/2007 2:24:56 PM Yabby, how is the simple economic reality that a large prosperous middle class is the best.....
» 6/10/2007 2:07:32 PM Daggett, I might as well ask for examples where having the government take control of ever.....
» 6/10/2007 2:03:57 PM "In Africa its faster, easier and simpler, to just shoot the wildlife to eat and chop.....
» 6/10/2007 6:34:38 AM "At the moment we are simply stealing more and more resources from other species".....
» 5/10/2007 5:06:23 PM I have mixed views on overpopulation. Perhaps naively, I believe that each of us individua.....
» 5/10/2007 4:14:57 PM Rhian, no major disagreements, but Thatcher was most definitely motivated by ideology - I'.....
» 5/10/2007 11:11:35 AM No disagreement that many of the ills of outer suburbia today are due to poor government p.....
» 5/10/2007 10:38:08 AM Rhian, if you examine social and economic trends of the 20st century, especially in Britai.....
» 5/10/2007 9:45:28 AM Well I’m not sure I’d wanting to be looking to the US for solutions to housing affordabili.....
» 4/10/2007 6:07:28 PM Regarding the desirability of restraining the numbers of refugees/immigrants with cultures.....
» 4/10/2007 5:11:41 PM OTOH, very few people want to live in pokey units or huge apartment buildings - my prefere.....
» 4/10/2007 4:49:07 PM If we truly didn't have enough housing stock, compared to, say 30 years ago, then either t.....
» 4/10/2007 2:02:41 PM Dagget, I'm 100% with you on "market economies policies intended to extend prosperity.....
» 4/10/2007 12:38:37 PM More evidence that Kevin Andrews is completely out of touch - the idea that the people who.....
» 4/10/2007 10:08:27 AM My only point was that I doubt Cuba's homeless rates are better than Australia's. And if h.....
» 4/10/2007 9:33:31 AM The last issue I wanted to address was government picking winners. This to me depends a lo.....
» 4/10/2007 9:08:20 AM There's no doubt that important lessons have been learned from experiments in what we woul.....
» 3/10/2007 6:14:54 PM It's a bit hard to swallow the idea that political leaders in developed nations are delibe.....
» 3/10/2007 5:37:48 PM While some of the current crop of unions might risk ending up as museum pieces, the proven.....
» 3/10/2007 3:25:55 PM My understanding of at least some of the subsidies given to European agriculture is that t.....
» 3/10/2007 11:58:09 AM While only a small minority of free-market economists have seriously proposed flat taxatio.....
» 3/10/2007 10:15:29 AM 80% of Cubans "owning their own home" doesn't sound very socialist to me...I tho.....
» 3/10/2007 7:22:26 AM Well as far as competing with China goes, again, no reason Australia shouldn't be able to .....
» 2/10/2007 8:24:20 PM I never made a "proposal" that there should be an effort to create a consumer go.....
» 2/10/2007 6:59:25 PM Daggett, actually I never used the word "fanatical" wrt Castro, although it woul.....
» 2/10/2007 9:23:33 AM Well Dagget, I would certainly argue that Castro's "pet theory" that capitalism .....
» 2/10/2007 8:08:14 AM Yabby again, your posts are largely addressing points somewhat tangential to mine. I would.....
» 1/10/2007 8:10:10 PM I understand the questions are supposed to be multiple choice, so how about... Q: Our nat.....
» 1/10/2007 8:00:14 PM Nearly 100 years ago Henry Ford made the observation that by giving his employees reasonab.....
» 1/10/2007 6:24:20 PM Yabby, you're not really posting a lot that I disagree with - especially when you sensibly.....
» 1/10/2007 5:52:24 PM Yabby, while I don't strongly disagree with your assessment of Castro, many of us would ar.....
» 1/10/2007 7:17:33 AM Ok, you say "Govt regulation and taxation are both costs which have to be passed on t.....
» 1/10/2007 6:57:40 AM I already accept that, where it makes sense, competition should be expected to produce bet.....
» 30/09/2007 4:59:35 PM Unless there really are no significant improvements in the ability to provide reliable ren.....
» 30/09/2007 4:32:03 PM Aside from various (and understandable) ethical concerns about having corporations whose p.....
» 30/09/2007 4:05:29 PM Ok, for a start I don't think there's much useful debate to be had arguing between "M.....
» 30/09/2007 6:47:08 AM Yabby - I'm not sure our positions are too far apart, but it concerns me that the last few.....
» 29/09/2007 5:42:29 PM Yabby, you say "Wealth creation comes from innovation, creativity and entrepreneurial.....
» 28/09/2007 8:08:45 PM Rhian, I am largely with you regarding the opportunities for finding "market based&qu.....
» 28/09/2007 4:36:39 PM A big problem with trying to attract people into the country - it's cities that are vital .....
» 28/09/2007 11:29:47 AM Yabby, I agree that there is no reason for Australia to end up like either the US or Swede.....
» 27/09/2007 5:32:10 PM Except Yabby you're yet to prove that the poster's ideas will bankrupt Australia. The fact.....
» 27/09/2007 11:05:58 AM Col Rouge, can you honestly say you know a single adult that has never lied, cheated, stol.....
» 26/09/2007 5:51:20 PM Meelamay, I'm equally uncomfortable with the idea of so many 3+ month old foetuses being a.....
» 26/09/2007 4:00:30 PM Col Rouge, libertarian "ideals" are all fine and good (and appeal to me philosop.....
» 26/09/2007 10:02:16 AM Any party that is governed by ideology is going to bad for society in the long run. Ideolo.....
» 25/09/2007 4:39:36 PM The global oil supply/demand situation, on top of likely carbon pricing, would certainly p.....
» 25/09/2007 4:22:13 PM BTW, for what it's worth, the countries in the world with the lowest abortion rates are ge.....
» 8/09/2007 2:22:30 PM You're never going to change the fact that a substantial portion of voters vote in their &.....
» 7/09/2007 3:47:42 PM For those who lie awake at night, worried about how civilisation is doomed to collapse as .....
» 4/09/2007 1:12:05 PM aqvarivs, explain to me exactly how having Andrews cancel Haneef's visa has strenghtened o.....
» 3/09/2007 11:38:43 AM The basis of WorkChoices - ensuring that employers make sound decisions regarding who they.....
» 3/09/2007 11:30:55 AM The 'centrist' Christian political influence seems fairly weak in the federal Liberal part.....
» 3/09/2007 11:20:35 AM aqvarivs, I agree that the "civil liberties" side of the argument regarding the .....
» 2/09/2007 2:42:48 PM Kevin Andrews is either completely incompetent (by letting a suspected terrorist associate.....
» 29/08/2007 3:12:43 PM http://www.andrewsmustresign.com/.....
» 24/08/2007 4:09:37 PM Multiculturalism in this country is dead as long as Kevin Andrews is immigration minister......
» 24/08/2007 4:07:45 PM http://www.andrewsmustresign.com/.....
» 7/08/2007 1:30:35 PM There is a difference between the CO2 produced by burning ethanol and that produced by bur.....
» 2/05/2007 10:46:14 AM (continued...) It seems to me that the most likely future will be a) a certain and incre.....
» 2/05/2007 10:44:30 AM It's difficult to dispute the work that has gone into to demonstrating that over the next .....

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