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» 17/11/2019 1:49:00 PM Dear Foxy, Yes, Trump is a moron, a crook, a bully, a narcissist and so much worse, and t.....
» 17/11/2019 12:51:53 PM Belly, Not just a paper in print, but something on-line, and perhaps televised as well, s.....
» 17/11/2019 12:50:08 PM Belly, Not just a paper in print, but something on-line, and perhaps televised as well, s.....
» 16/11/2019 3:10:34 PM Belly & Big Nana, You're both right, that there are two Indigenous populations - * one,.....
» 16/11/2019 3:01:05 PM Hi Belly, There are plenty of native trees and bushes under three metre maximum, why can'.....
» 16/11/2019 1:06:34 PM OzSpen, Belly has a right to his opinion, he's not necessarily religio-phobic :) By the .....
» 16/11/2019 8:20:41 AM Belly, No, I was merely suggesting that the rock-solid belief on the part of many whitefe.....
» 15/11/2019 7:59:10 PM Foxy, For the life of me, I can't join the dots between some hotshots having input into p.....
» 15/11/2019 5:30:43 PM Hi Big Nana, I'm a bit concerned that many well-intentioned whitefellas seem to have a so.....
» 15/11/2019 4:32:20 PM Paul & Foxy, My limited understanding of the incident is that the police stopped a hundre.....
» 15/11/2019 2:42:26 PM Paul, Towards the end of the 1890s drought down this way, at a 'Royal Commission into the.....
» 15/11/2019 2:22:04 PM Let's get real about this recent case: of course there will be a trial. The truth will hop.....
» 15/11/2019 2:17:15 PM Paul, You rely on people's lack of memory. The police car had followed T. J. Hickey on hi.....
» 14/11/2019 9:49:58 PM Dear Foxy, Well, yes, and the National Indigenous Times as well: http://nit.com.au/ and.....
» 14/11/2019 5:40:40 PM Paul, Water is one thing, food is another. No Aboriginal people would have been so dopey .....
» 14/11/2019 3:55:50 PM Paul, Police only investigating police ? Of course not. I look forward to a full and inde.....
» 14/11/2019 3:52:58 PM Hi Thinkabit, You're right, it should be free to everybody who wishes to read it, as wel .....
» 14/11/2019 12:29:25 PM Straw man argument, Paul. Of course there will be a Territory-appointed investigation into.....
» 14/11/2019 12:09:26 PM There are thousands of Indigenous organisations across Australia, in communities, localiti.....
» 14/11/2019 11:25:00 AM Paul, As to your extraordinary claim that " .... the aboriginal population was extre.....
» 14/11/2019 10:03:17 AM Paul, Cores on lakes give a fairly accurate picture of vegetation and occurrence of droug.....
» 14/11/2019 9:22:54 AM Josephus, There are Gugu-Yalantji people all over Australia. Indigenous people often move.....
» 13/11/2019 11:49:57 AM Paul, You mentioned the closed circle of chicken and egg. Yes indeed, and it works in rev.....
» 13/11/2019 11:39:39 AM Bazz, As for the Viking warming period in Greenland: I have it on very good authority t.....
» 13/11/2019 10:58:30 AM Paul, Most disappointing indeed. That's how it goes. I always thought, in my naivete, t.....
» 13/11/2019 10:44:36 AM Paul, That's strange, I've always thought that you were closely associated with a "B.....
» 12/11/2019 12:24:57 PM Steele, 5 % ?! So a sort of twenty-year cycle, that's the theory ? Sounds a bit too long .....
» 12/11/2019 12:06:07 PM Belly, - and wait eagerly for the day when renewable energy infrastructure, panels and w.....
» 12/11/2019 11:59:43 AM Hi Steele, Is it true that in national parks, over the last decade or two, there have bee.....
» 12/11/2019 9:36:41 AM Dear Foxy, Is it true that national parks authorities in NSW (and maybe Qld ?) have cut b.....
» 11/11/2019 7:33:34 PM Paul, What causes me to despair is that, quite possibly, there are NO solutions to the pr.....
» 11/11/2019 2:55:07 PM Paul, And I would suggest that the high suicide rate amongst Indigenous people is . conce.....
» 10/11/2019 5:23:44 PM Dear Foxy, I wonder if Misopinionated is actually a Chinese or Russian troll ? He/she has.....
» 10/11/2019 11:53:12 AM Hi Paul, If it had a wonky centre disc, it probably was. There are grave and fundamenta.....
» 10/11/2019 8:51:18 AM Hi Paul, You write some weird things. I haven't mentioned making Aboriginal Flags for yea.....
» 9/11/2019 5:45:00 PM Hi Bazz, I'm not sure about fresh water running out into the sea - if you mean the Murray.....
» 9/11/2019 5:37:02 PM Misopinionated, Three Arts degrees - wow, you must be triply useless :) Joe.....
» 9/11/2019 5:34:26 PM Thanks, Fester. Someone asserted that renewable energy was already cheaper than coal- or .....
» 9/11/2019 5:30:49 PM Bazz, So, conflict between men and women ? Between men who claim to be women, and women ?.....
» 9/11/2019 1:18:06 PM With the greatest respect appropriate to your status, Misopinionated, I disagree with your.....
» 9/11/2019 12:50:35 PM Hi Steele, The problem is that there are so many conflicting answers to my dopey question.....
» 9/11/2019 10:57:14 AM Paul, Yes, most of us have learnt a great deal about the world since 1788. There's hope f.....
» 9/11/2019 10:48:57 AM So ..... it's not disputed that world temperatures have risen by about a degree over the l.....
» 9/11/2019 10:29:15 AM I suppose equality and the new non-dominant privilege inevitably conflict. Which is to pre.....
» 8/11/2019 3:12:00 PM Paul, You mentioned Indigenous higher education. 2018 results came out last week, with ne.....
» 8/11/2019 2:13:01 PM Paul, I'm impatiently waiting for you to get onto the Thirty Years' War - all those white.....
» 8/11/2019 9:00:59 AM Evidence would be nice. In Adelaide, we had the hottest day ever back in january, half a d.....
» 7/11/2019 4:58:13 PM Paul, If TV ownership is some sort of measure of well-offness, most Indigenous people are.....
» 7/11/2019 3:56:39 PM So, no chance of getting back to the original topic of this thread then ? Nobody's all tha.....
» 7/11/2019 12:27:30 PM Sorry, Belly, thanks :) Temperature increase in the Northern Hemisphere (i.e. much more t.....
» 7/11/2019 11:06:50 AM This paper pretty comprehensively details temperature changes around the world, mainly in .....
» 6/11/2019 8:38:35 AM Paul, Straw-man argument about the US disarming. Here's another one: imagine if scienti.....
» 5/11/2019 5:26:24 PM So, to sum up this thread, the issue of celebrating or commemorating the sighting of Austr.....
» 5/11/2019 11:27:04 AM Good on you, Foxy ! I watched a few minutes mid-way (after Yo-yo Ma's concert) and was rem.....
» 4/11/2019 1:43:36 PM 5. Dickens, Shakespeare, Virginia Woolfe, Margaret Atwood, Chekhov, Goethe, etc., etc., wr.....
» 4/11/2019 1:33:58 PM 1. Identities overlap. 2. Identities inevitably conflict with each other, at some point. .....
» 31/10/2019 9:41:43 AM Far be it for me to come to Paul's defence, but General Macarthur DID plan to drop the Big.....
» 31/10/2019 9:37:29 AM It's perhaps worth pointing out that the phrase from the New Testament would have revolved.....
» 31/10/2019 9:28:27 AM Dear Foxy, As a fellow-Remainer, I worry that a hard Irish border would mean scrapping th.....
» 30/10/2019 5:19:14 PM Belly, With the Tories on 40 % of the vote, and Labour on 24 %, I suspect that Corbyn is .....
» 30/10/2019 9:40:50 AM Hi Paul, I can't wait until you get onto the atrocities of the Thirty Years' War (1618-16.....
» 27/10/2019 11:54:12 AM Belly, Most of Europe and Singapore and Hong Kong and Japan are much more populated (per .....
» 27/10/2019 11:42:24 AM Belly, The only good thing about Milat is the manner and inevitability of his passing. .....
» 27/10/2019 9:24:43 AM Belly, Oh gawd ! I just noticed that somehow I put the wrong http up, it should have b.....
» 26/10/2019 4:14:23 PM Paul, Yes, Stalin did try out or the priesthood. I think, so did Mugabe. It's no great pr.....
» 26/10/2019 9:59:54 AM Paul, And the Soviet Union's leaders proclaimed themselves as atheists, and murdered tens.....
» 25/10/2019 4:50:01 PM 'Hordes', Runner :) I enjoy the Good Samaritan parable too - that one helps someone else .....
» 25/10/2019 8:21:18 AM Individual, A bit of compassion for thirty nine dead fellow-humans wouldn't go astray. .....
» 24/10/2019 4:05:56 PM Hi Paul, Your comment: " ..... when you only accept people because of certain criter.....
» 24/10/2019 12:58:00 PM Hi Paul, Your comment to SM: "You assume because a Western lifestyle has more of the.....
» 24/10/2019 11:49:43 AM Paul, Depending on how one assesses the Indigenous population here, currently about 11.2 .....
» 24/10/2019 11:00:07 AM 'Lickspittle', Alan, as in 'David Singer is a Trump lickspittle.' So Trump has betrayed t.....
» 24/10/2019 10:08:02 AM Paul, No, I don't know any more about Yuwali than what you have written: thank you. There.....
» 24/10/2019 10:01:12 AM Paul, Given that perhaps half of all young Indigenous people will, at sometime, enrol at .....
» 24/10/2019 9:45:08 AM Individual, Can you join the dots between thirty nine people left to die in the back of a.....
» 24/10/2019 9:37:49 AM Hi SR, You beat me to it: it's their property, they can do what they damn-well like with .....
» 23/10/2019 3:56:31 PM NNS, And Trump sells out the Kurds to the far more powerful Turks, and slanders them. Alr.....
» 23/10/2019 10:36:43 AM [continued] The article cites ludicrous figures, in the usual attempt to downplay Indigen.....
» 23/10/2019 10:31:30 AM An article in today's Australian, page 29, is proposing a separate Indigenous University. .....
» 23/10/2019 10:05:13 AM NNS, So what has that mongrel done, and what has he said, about the Kurds ? He's abandone.....
» 23/10/2019 9:51:48 AM Individual, Why isn't the UN involved in support of the abandoned Kurds ? Well, which cou.....
» 22/10/2019 5:31:13 PM Individual, As you say, " ... I have heard of quite a number of cases where people s.....
» 22/10/2019 5:05:59 PM Individual, As far as I know, ABSTUDY (if it still exists) provides much the same fortnig.....
» 22/10/2019 4:21:11 PM Dear Foxy, I live in hope :) Currently, Indigenous university graduate numbers (i.e. at t.....
» 22/10/2019 3:24:53 PM Another piece of good news in Indigenous education: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-08-03.....
» 22/10/2019 3:20:32 PM Another piece of good news in education: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-08-03/miraculous.....
» 22/10/2019 8:09:19 AM Individual, Surely it depends on how and by whom you're raised ? If your mother is Aborig.....
» 22/10/2019 7:54:24 AM Individual, Then don't go in, if you can't see it through. I've been trying to find any.....
» 21/10/2019 9:19:21 PM Is Mise, Lowitja's father was named O'Donoghue. He was a station worker up beyond Oodnada.....
» 21/10/2019 3:41:36 PM Individual, "Can Non-Aborigines then define where their Tax Dollars & wasted Good Wi.....
» 21/10/2019 3:30:16 PM Paul, You get stuck into me for putting together historical material for a web-site: www......
» 21/10/2019 1:23:01 PM Hi Individual, Your statement: 'I assume that includes those who identify as indigenous .....
» 20/10/2019 5:18:45 PM Belly, As I understand it, Trump is trying to get dirt on Joe Biden, for using his office.....
» 20/10/2019 3:54:01 PM Belly, The thing about joining OLO and having a nom de plume, is that you can write whate.....
» 20/10/2019 3:47:43 PM Hi Paul, Just to add to my claim that Indigenous people here are participating at higher .....
» 20/10/2019 12:45:13 PM Paul, That's how imperialism works. Do you think it would never have happened if the Brit.....
» 20/10/2019 11:00:01 AM Belly, Please have a good look at this: http://firstsourcesinfo.ipage.com/stats/ i.e. t.....
» 20/10/2019 10:42:46 AM Spot-on, Belly !.....
» 20/10/2019 9:49:01 AM Paul, You're still confusing political sovereignty and land tenure. If you can find them,.....
» 19/10/2019 1:43:09 PM Dear Foxy, Can we just nail this one ? All cultures in the world are equally old, but som.....
» 19/10/2019 12:50:28 PM Hi Mhaze, Best of luck, mate. See you back here soon :) Paul, In your initial post, you.....
» 19/10/2019 12:23:16 PM Belly, I fear that, as things stand, Trump will be re-elected. The left is too dopey and .....
» 18/10/2019 3:16:31 PM Ttbn, There's nothing unnatural about inter-group sex. I can highly recommend it. Wher.....
» 18/10/2019 2:11:34 PM Bazz etc., At least, perhaps we can celebrate same-sex divorces :) I hope they are writt.....
» 18/10/2019 2:07:24 PM Individual & Paul, I didn't say i liked the idea that invasion of Australia was inevitabl.....
» 18/10/2019 7:44:11 AM Henry, Yep, there are extremists of all sorts in Australia, like in any other country. Of.....
» 17/10/2019 5:17:59 PM Hi Individual, People from every group have equal rights to be stupid, or to commit crime.....
» 17/10/2019 3:56:09 PM Paul, That raises the question of whether or not invasion was inevitable. Whether we like.....
» 17/10/2019 1:14:09 PM Dan, Well, yes, it's called 'humanitarian concern'. The Trump Admiration Society could do.....
» 17/10/2019 12:46:10 PM Runner, Do you assume, in relation to the Big Bang Theory. that all bodies in the univer.....
» 17/10/2019 10:23:33 AM Henry, And if those 'cultural ways' don't break any laws ? Of course some cultural prac.....
» 17/10/2019 10:16:39 AM Ttbn, A promise to leave allies of the US in the lurch ? What an utter stinking turd Trum.....
» 17/10/2019 9:51:44 AM Foxy & Individual, I don't see any particular ethnic or religious group trying to make pe.....
» 17/10/2019 9:38:24 AM Dear Foxy, I'm honoured :) . The great thing about OLO is that sometimes we make fools .....
» 17/10/2019 9:24:04 AM Paul, I'm not Individual, in case you're confused. I don't think 'education is getting wo.....
» 17/10/2019 9:17:26 AM Hi Dan, So, that's how it works, does it ? The Yanks start something, then piss off when .....
» 16/10/2019 9:07:05 AM So what's going to happen from now on ? * ISIS will re-group and re-form its caliphate in.....
» 15/10/2019 5:30:02 PM Banjo, A bit late: once the US invaded Iraq, it put in train a vast complexity of unantic.....
» 15/10/2019 12:19:28 PM Belly, Yes, indeed. There are many on the Islamist fringes who would do as you say, with .....
» 15/10/2019 10:42:56 AM Foxy, I don't understand this throwback to the fifties. I don't see anybody trying to for.....
» 14/10/2019 7:36:05 PM Paul, The overruling purpose of Indigenous organisations is to keep the funding going. An.....
» 14/10/2019 5:46:20 PM Thanks, Foxy, for a lot of common sense and human compassion. Joe.....
» 13/10/2019 5:20:26 PM Thank you, ttbn......
» 13/10/2019 3:31:02 PM Foxy, In SA, Premier Don Dunstan set up the Aboriginal Lands Trust in the sixties, my wif.....
» 13/10/2019 2:35:30 PM Misopinionated, Was that YOU I saw hanging under the Storey Bridge ?! You looked like you.....
» 13/10/2019 2:28:56 PM Ttbn, People from all nations are here already. They have as much right - as much right -.....
» 13/10/2019 2:09:28 PM Big Nana, Not just mining royalties, but national park royalties in the NT. A news report.....
» 13/10/2019 12:58:22 PM Belly, No, I don't think the US should get out of the Middle East at all, and now that th.....
» 13/10/2019 12:48:44 PM Paul, Aboriginal society and the superstructure based on it, i.e. the culture, were funda.....
» 13/10/2019 11:34:40 AM Belly, Please have a good look at this chart: http://ourworldindata.org/grapher/historic.....
» 13/10/2019 11:14:10 AM Ttbn, What, do you mean that the US shouldn't invade Iraq again ? Completely agree, but i.....
» 13/10/2019 11:07:52 AM So 'patriotism' now means that you piss off and leave your former allies in the lurch ? .....
» 13/10/2019 8:53:10 AM Belly, There are two aspects to population growth: * . births: the annual number of birt.....
» 13/10/2019 8:39:04 AM Henry, 'The present situation' ? Unless you mean some tiny fringe elements within the Mus.....
» 13/10/2019 8:22:22 AM Oh wait ! The 'left' is about to go out on the streets to protest in huge numbers against .....
» 13/10/2019 8:19:42 AM Paul, As usual, a string of non sequiturs. Nobody much went to university in 1850, only t.....
» 12/10/2019 7:03:52 PM Belly, Try this exercise: * You believe there is over-population. Take your time to writ.....
» 12/10/2019 6:59:27 PM Paul, As usual, you completely misunderstand what I might have said: I have none of your .....
» 12/10/2019 6:47:01 PM Ttbn, And you've done ..... what ? Joe.....
» 12/10/2019 3:54:07 PM Foxy, Do you read the posts of experts, people with very long and deep experience, like B.....
» 12/10/2019 1:46:53 PM Paul, Sorry, I thought you meant current failures, ongoing failures. But isn't it fun t.....
» 12/10/2019 1:23:34 PM Foxy, They already have many, as we all do. There are Indigenous radio and TV stations, a.....
» 12/10/2019 12:24:12 PM God, here we go again. Which parts of the world are over-populated ? Coincidentally, do t.....
» 12/10/2019 11:11:58 AM Belly, So now we're getting closer to your true prejudices: it's Africa, India and China .....
» 12/10/2019 11:02:48 AM The tragedy for the US is that it has worthless turds on the right and worthless turds on .....
» 12/10/2019 9:34:28 AM Foxy, Straw man argument ? No, I don't believe that the vast majority of Muslims would .....
» 12/10/2019 9:25:25 AM Blly, So, you mean, how do we control population growth which is caused by people living .....
» 12/10/2019 9:21:10 AM Hi Individual, Yes, that's what I was trying to get at, in my clumsy way (and I'm sure Bi.....
» 12/10/2019 9:18:18 AM Paul, What 'failures' have there been in Indigenous higher education ? Well, one that I.....
» 12/10/2019 9:04:08 AM Ttbn, "The West should never have become involved in the Middle East and its barbaro.....
» 11/10/2019 7:01:10 PM Paul, Your statement that ' .... some attempt to negate with things like "so many Ab.....
» 11/10/2019 6:34:51 PM Ttbn, We are Australians. Kurdish Australians are Australians. And Kurds in the Middle Ea.....
» 11/10/2019 3:22:42 PM F oxy, You're right ! We shouldn't cut people's hands off. Or enslave people. Or behead t.....
» 11/10/2019 3:17:10 PM Hi Belly, Please have a look at this chart: http://ourworldindata.org/grapher/projected-.....
» 11/10/2019 2:49:04 PM Josephus, i recall picking apricots in the SA Riverland when the temperatures daily were .....
» 11/10/2019 2:42:31 PM Sorry, Foxy, in what way do you mean ? Joe.....
» 11/10/2019 2:08:10 PM Pau, ] I . put ten years into finding resources and transcribing them, so that other peopl.....
» 11/10/2019 2:03:06 PM The best friends we've ever had in the Middle East, now betrayed by that slime. Yes, why.....
» 11/10/2019 9:24:33 AM Nathan, As a kid, I moved from Wagga to Darwin. I didn't miss the sub-zero temperatures r.....
» 10/10/2019 3:02:19 PM Foxy, That's your assertion: prove it. As for your earlier post, suggesting that you re.....
» 10/10/2019 12:33:10 PM SR, Did Trump actually say (or tweet) " .... “They didn’t help us in the Second Worl.....
» 10/10/2019 12:26:44 PM Foxy, Can you understand that a list is not evidence on its own ? In this case, surely a .....
» 10/10/2019 8:45:43 AM Belly, " .... one planet one people ..." And which people would they be ? Your.....
» 10/10/2019 8:39:36 AM Foxy, Yes, a 'list' of supposed massacres, but no investigations, as far as I can tell. N.....
» 9/10/2019 7:13:52 PM Individual, When you suggest that multiculturalism 'doesn't work', do you mean that it ha.....
» 9/10/2019 7:04:44 PM Foxy, Then it wouldn't be all that difficult for archaeological and forsnsic-science tram.....
» 9/10/2019 12:20:47 PM Hi Paul, I certainly wouldn't want a goldfish swimming around in my bowels. Neither would.....
» 9/10/2019 10:56:50 AM Ttbn, Maybe you've got a point, that even after generations, many Australians still think.....
» 9/10/2019 10:16:25 AM Belly, Over-population ? Where ? Which parts of the world have reached the limits of the .....
» 9/10/2019 10:11:17 AM Foxy, So we're at the second stage already ? Joe.....
» 9/10/2019 10:02:20 AM Paul, I didn't realise that the Aboriginal Protectors here in South Australia were agents.....
» 8/10/2019 5:19:12 PM Foxy, Strangely, I agree wholeheartedly with you. Certainly, more efforts should be made .....
» 8/10/2019 5:13:32 PM Foxy, Do you actually know the answers to my questions, or have you ever asked them yourse.....
» 8/10/2019 5:10:49 PM Runner, So it's not deranged to leave the Kurds, surely our best allies in the Middle Ea.....
» 8/10/2019 5:08:30 PM Paul, Anything constructive to say ? Never mind, just sit in your throne, passing judgmen.....
» 8/10/2019 4:16:42 PM Belloy, Do you actually ever read other people's posts ? AC has tried to point out to you.....
» 8/10/2019 4:08:10 PM Is it true that it takes one hundred tonnes of coal (more or less) to make one tonne of st.....
» 8/10/2019 4:00:57 PM It might have escaped both 'left' and 'right' here, in your pissy 'arguments' (get a room,.....
» 8/10/2019 3:55:30 PM Hi Dan, I owe you an apology, except for your allusion to Nietzsche. Paul, What ? Do y.....
» 7/10/2019 4:10:07 PM Dan, Amidst all that postmodernist verbiage, when you write, "Removing the sense of.....
» 7/10/2019 3:44:18 PM God, Paul, you're so funny ! They must piss themselves over their kale smoothies down at t.....
» 7/10/2019 3:27:58 PM Well, Belly, you've got all eternity :) 72 virgins, all in separate houses - imagine the w.....
» 7/10/2019 2:53:34 PM But, of course, if 'day' meant eternity, and once an Islamist has re-assembled all his bod.....
» 7/10/2019 10:38:52 AM Dan, Has anyone asked the obvious question: was the wombat injured in any way BEFORE that.....
» 6/10/2019 5:51:43 PM Although 'day' would have no meaning: in heaven, there would be no need of moon or stars b.....
» 6/10/2019 3:48:11 PM Hi Runner, Rationality has nothing to do with belief in a supreme being (or a multitude o.....
» 6/10/2019 3:26:44 PM Hi Paul, Good point, but I expect that Individual qualifies as someone who has known many.....
» 6/10/2019 2:31:56 PM Yuyutsu, I would have thought that the natural condition of the universe is darkness, tha.....
» 6/10/2019 2:27:26 PM On the other hand, I was driving with an Aboriginal friend along a country road, just yarn.....
» 6/10/2019 12:03:27 PM Belly, On thursday, you wrote: "But surely we could lift the standard of living for.....
» 6/10/2019 11:50:06 AM Belly, No. I'm an internationalist or universalist in terms of human rights, not a global.....
» 6/10/2019 11:05:46 AM I don't have much time for any 'explanation' which involves genes, more like the sheer dom.....
» 6/10/2019 9:50:01 AM Belly, Oy. Birth rates are really not the main cause of population growth any more, popul.....
» 6/10/2019 9:28:10 AM Mhaze, To go back to your survey results, that "44% who think humans are the main ca.....
» 6/10/2019 9:19:55 AM Hi Paul, I think Individual is having a lend of you, he's got long experience of 'real Ab.....
» 5/10/2019 6:56:41 PM Foxy, And both are increasing. We are nowhere near reaching the finite limits of almost a.....
» 5/10/2019 5:49:00 PM Belly, i can't quite make sense of what you are trying to say. My 'side' ?! The fact IS, .....
» 5/10/2019 9:47:42 AM Belly, Please read at least the first page of this: http://ourworldindata.org/peak-child.....
» 4/10/2019 8:39:22 PM Belly, 'De-population' ? Who has to go ? What has to happen in your authoritarian scenari.....
» 4/10/2019 3:18:50 PM Individual and Belly, So population 'growth' by longer life expectancy is some sort of ev.....
» 4/10/2019 3:14:34 PM Culturally, you're supposed to giggle while you're bashing a wombat to death with a rock. .....
» 4/10/2019 9:30:56 AM Belly, There are two main parts to populations growth - births, and longer lives (i.e. lo.....
» 3/10/2019 5:40:06 PM Sorry, that should be http://ourworldindata.org/fertility-rate.....
» 3/10/2019 1:00:13 PM World population growth is an outcome of two factors: increasing births and decreasing rat.....
» 3/10/2019 12:07:18 PM Thank you, Belly: http://www.worldometers.info/world-population/ http://ourworldindata.o.....
» 3/10/2019 12:05:18 PM Belly, Population growth is slowing down rapidly and will stabilise in the next twenty ye.....
» 3/10/2019 10:19:56 AM World population growth is slowing, as it goes through the Demographic Transition: https:.....
» 2/10/2019 3:28:40 PM Foxy, So how is over-population a problem on its own, rather than government corruption a.....
» 2/10/2019 2:49:53 PM Belly, Can you contemplate the possibility that, in relation to Indonesia's population an.....
» 2/10/2019 2:44:44 PM Belly, I fully support your right to be a bigot, to have opinions which are never shaken .....
» 1/10/2019 4:56:43 PM Mhaze, My understanding is that Trump inherited $ 600 million in the mid-sixties. If he'd.....
» 1/10/2019 4:28:26 PM Belly, For gods sake, read this: https://ourworldindata.org/fertility-rate The birth ra.....
» 1/10/2019 12:19:53 PM Belly, Well, they GATHERED grass seed. That's what hunters and gatherers do. Don't believ.....
» 1/10/2019 11:17:52 AM Trump is a bully, a narcissist, a shagger-extraordinary, a braggart, perhaps a thief, an i.....
» 1/10/2019 11:11:28 AM Belly, To take an extreme example of 'over-population', in terms of people per square ki.....
» 30/09/2019 6:06:40 PM SR, Asperger's is a socially and mentally disabling condition, which in common parlance m.....
» 30/09/2019 5:51:40 PM Hi Mhaze, Thank you, that's what I was trying to get across, in my clumsy way. Improvin.....
» 30/09/2019 5:41:44 PM Bazz, My limited understanding of the farm seizure in Zimbabwe is that the farm workers w.....
» 30/09/2019 4:14:03 PM Foxy, You completely misunderstand my point, perhaps I should have spelt it out: Africans.....
» 30/09/2019 1:47:01 PM Belly, You certainly can write some unbelievable garbage. Sorry, I don't know where to st.....
» 30/09/2019 1:39:40 PM Foxy, Thankfully, China will become a developed country in the next five years, going by .....
» 29/09/2019 6:11:54 PM Thanks, Bazz, that's crossed my mind too. Too many of us on OLo have been around the block.....
» 29/09/2019 5:42:53 PM Misopinionated, "First Farmers' by Peter Bellwood, is the best introduction to the h.....
» 29/09/2019 4:45:41 PM Belly, Quite amazing. So you think that people in the developing countries have been sitt.....
» 29/09/2019 1:09:15 PM Misopinionated, Christ, this is like trying to talk to an autistic sixteen-year-old. In .....
» 29/09/2019 12:53:49 PM Misopinionated, I thankfully know foucault about Foucault. And I didn't know Marx was an.....
» 29/09/2019 11:53:42 AM Misopinionated, Here's an easy-to-read summary: https://ourworldindata.org/fertility-rat.....
» 29/09/2019 11:46:45 AM Foxy, Yes, I hope she gets more coverage. Somebody like her needs to push the limits of a.....
» 29/09/2019 11:27:21 AM Somebody mentioned food production: since 1970, world food production has doubled: https:.....
» 29/09/2019 10:35:39 AM So what's the problem ? https://ourworldindata.org/world-population-growth#when-will-the-.....
» 28/09/2019 6:20:03 PM Dear Foxy, A young lady recently described my beloved adopted state of South Australia (o.....
» 28/09/2019 6:08:08 PM Misopinionated, Hello ? Are you still there, or have you retired to your 'ivory tower', i.....
» 28/09/2019 4:05:36 PM Henry, You misunderstand - I'm certainly not saying that it's racist to aspire to reduce .....
» 28/09/2019 11:41:32 AM Henry, Not just family planning, but huge efforts (now in decline in Iran) to educate wom.....
» 28/09/2019 10:59:53 AM Before some of us wet ourselves about massively rapid population growth, let's face the st.....
» 28/09/2019 10:51:23 AM Misopinionated, BA: politics, economics and geography. BA Hons: economic geography and c.....
» 27/09/2019 6:56:43 PM Hi Paul, I was asked on a number of times by your bum-buddy Misopinionated to match his Y.....
» 27/09/2019 9:02:35 AM Misopinionated, Okay, bugger it: T. Cert; BA; BA (Hons); Dip. Bus (acc); Dip. L.G. Admin.....
» 23/09/2019 10:41:48 PM Tweedledum & Tweedledee, I'm not sure how and why this thread has moved so far away from .....
» 23/09/2019 10:37:49 PM Misopinionated, Engineers tend to work with reality, real problems in the real world. The.....
» 23/09/2019 8:44:09 AM On average, we're all living much longer than our grandparents and certainly our great-gra.....
» 23/09/2019 8:01:44 AM Paul, There is already a tax on such income, it's called income tax. I.e. a tax on total .....
» 20/09/2019 4:08:35 PM Hi SR, Yes, it's conceivable that IVF may become a homosexual monopoly. But I doubt it, o.....
» 20/09/2019 9:20:26 AM HI BP, If 3 % of Australians over 18 are either homosexual or 'other', what proportion of.....
» 19/09/2019 2:25:30 PM Hi Alan, Yes, we can't reverse history, but I can't help thinking that many Indigenous ac.....
» 19/09/2019 1:28:34 PM If homosexuals abstain from heterosexual relations, then pretty obviously their DNA will n.....
» 19/09/2019 9:35:32 AM Hi BP, " .... the dividing line between male and female is often extremely fine. In .....
» 18/09/2019 8:25:37 PM Thank you, Graham. Dear Foxy, Not so much 'shocked' as, to use your term, 'disgusted'. .....
» 18/09/2019 11:49:55 AM Thanks SR, I suppose we can't do much about the infrared radiation or natural events like.....
» 18/09/2019 9:27:41 AM Hi paul, " .... The reality is, reward for exploration, is what counts. If you have .....
» 18/09/2019 9:24:17 AM AltRave, My god, you have some repulsive ideas. I feel like giving OLO away for a while. .....
» 18/09/2019 9:19:37 AM Hi SR, So is it possible to differentiate the multiple causes of temperature rise since, .....
» 17/09/2019 5:54:06 PM Just to throw the cat amongst the pigeons, is it possible to allocate responsibility for w.....
» 17/09/2019 3:34:46 PM SR, A lot has happened to influence the climate over the past seventy years. Manufacturin.....
» 16/09/2019 6:28:45 PM SR, For successful natural selection of any genes to pass onto future generations, reprod.....
» 15/09/2019 1:42:08 PM Foxy, If there ever was a specific homosexual gene, it would be very unlikely to be passe.....
» 15/09/2019 12:05:12 PM Hi Foxy, " ..... genetics does play a part in sexual attraction." Of course i.....
» 15/09/2019 8:17:59 AM Hi Paul, A small forest of straw men there :) . Of course, everybody who reaches pensio.....
» 14/09/2019 3:16:39 PM Sorry, Steele, I'm not into religion. Except of course for any grand moral parables or pri.....
» 14/09/2019 2:29:06 PM Paul, Can you see the difference between someone who has worked all her life, paid tax, a.....
» 14/09/2019 11:55:31 AM Hi Mhaze, So the land temperature rise has been around 0.7 degrees Celsius a century for .....
» 14/09/2019 9:00:06 AM SR, * . climate change and global warming; * . the integrity of climate science. Bit of.....
» 13/09/2019 4:51:22 PM Misopinionated, What don't you understand (sorry for the big word) about: "It's unb.....
» 13/09/2019 4:14:16 PM Misopinionated, I rest my case. If you want to just troll, at least make it a bit subtle.....
» 13/09/2019 3:58:06 PM Misopinionated, And some of us have read the book too. Please don't use the phrase 'Manch.....
» 13/09/2019 1:21:42 PM Thanks SR, So a rise of two degrees Celsius in the last century ? And six to eight inches.....
» 13/09/2019 12:33:25 PM Being a complete dumb-arse on this topic, I would love someone to correct me if my figures.....
» 13/09/2019 12:25:20 PM Hi Banjo, Wish you were here ! Then you might have a more accurate idea of what the hell .....
» 13/09/2019 12:20:11 PM I suppose the international position of a refugee is that, once the cause of their fleeing.....
» 12/09/2019 3:40:35 PM Speaking of petty theft: I live in a bit of a rough area, on a corner; so I have a broad s.....
» 12/09/2019 12:02:20 PM Banjo, As I've tried to point out many times, the colonial authorities here were instruct.....
» 12/09/2019 11:38:25 AM [continued] - some practices and knowledge become irrelevant and eventually forgotten (a.....
» 12/09/2019 11:30:16 AM Banjo I can never understand the definition of 'Indigenous' if it excludes Africans who, .....
» 12/09/2019 9:22:52 AM Paul & AC, What if there was a sort of superannuation 'cushion' in relation to paying off.....
» 12/09/2019 9:13:10 AM SR, I hardly use actual money these days. I was paying a bill yesterday and the Aus Post .....
» 12/09/2019 9:06:51 AM SR, Pretty much totally, I would have thought. I don't think there is anything 'spiritual.....
» 11/09/2019 6:27:08 PM Sorry, Foxy, I was only trying to cover my own backside :) Thanks. Paul, for clearing all.....
» 11/09/2019 3:22:46 PM Foxy, As I understand his suggestions, Paul is all for coming down hard on old-age pensio.....
» 11/09/2019 3:16:23 PM Hi SR, I've answered your questions. It's up to you to understand my answers, but without.....
» 11/09/2019 12:48:56 PM SR, I'm confused, as usual: so the University Council of James Cook didn't dispute the ve.....
» 11/09/2019 12:42:13 PM Paul, When you hit seventy, let us know how you're going on your $ 2/hour compulsory work.....
» 10/09/2019 2:12:00 PM Hasbeen, Collegiality might have worked better for Galileo, it might have saved him from .....
» 10/09/2019 12:06:19 PM I yield to genius !.....
» 10/09/2019 12:05:10 PM Misopinionated, So here's a question for you, to totally crush the denialists, such as (y.....
» 10/09/2019 10:34:28 AM God, how much more of this can a koala bear ?.....
» 10/09/2019 10:26:37 AM Misopinionated, But not so many in our VET/TAFE colleges, it seems. Joe.....
» 10/09/2019 9:19:26 AM Hi SR, Sorry, my questions were not meant to be definitive statements, but only questions.....
» 9/09/2019 7:58:26 PM Hi SR, Is that it ? " ..... "half-degree warming over the past eighty years, an.....
» 9/09/2019 5:01:19 PM Misopinionated, You've tumbled ! Yes, all of us Hard Right-wingers have made secret pacts.....
» 9/09/2019 3:47:55 PM SR, In exchange for our brief lives on this planet, we are obligated to do less harm than.....
» 9/09/2019 2:00:59 PM Banjo, On the face of it, if a court finds someone guilty of an offence, then they are g.....
» 9/09/2019 9:17:58 AM Hi SR, I'll repeat: I don't think that individual humans are particularly special. It d.....
» 8/09/2019 6:59:15 PM Misiopinioniated, Then your logical course is to piss off and leave the discussion to gro.....
» 8/09/2019 12:00:08 PM Alan, Ireland has not been part of the United Kingdom for nearly 100 years. Maybe I have.....
» 8/09/2019 11:41:55 AM Misopinionated, No, I'm not a denier, I'm, if anything, a sceptic, a questioner: so I'm a.....
» 8/09/2019 8:59:26 AM Misopinionated, Do you have anything to contribute except empty insults ? As a troll, you.....
» 8/09/2019 8:53:14 AM Hi NNS, To paraphrase, "You have not presented any evidence how any gods came into .....
» 7/09/2019 5:40:55 PM Thank you, Misopinionated, I feel I'm in good company, with the grown-ups :).....
» 7/09/2019 9:52:48 AM Hi Paul, Kendall was a fascinating man. He brought the first ship-load of bibles over fro.....
» 7/09/2019 9:41:11 AM Hi Ozpen, No, I can't create tempests or leviathans, as God blustered at Job in his attem.....
» 6/09/2019 5:40:35 PM SR, I don't think that humans are 'very special', but we may be the only species which ha.....
» 6/09/2019 9:47:43 AM Hi Banjo, Pretty clearly, a presumption of innocence is a technicality of the justice sys.....
» 5/09/2019 11:13:16 AM Hi Banjo, So how do you do that ? Neither a presumption of guilt nor innocence ? Societi.....
» 5/09/2019 10:51:24 AM AC, Just on your all-immigrants-secretly-together-conspiracy theory, immigrants and refug.....
» 5/09/2019 10:41:07 AM Altrav, You do realise that the Rockefellers are dyed-in-the-wool Methodists and Episcopa.....
» 5/09/2019 10:34:40 AM Hi SR, I'm surprised that you didn't mention a fourth possible purpose to life: since we'.....
» 4/09/2019 3:32:33 PM I'm not in favour of a unlimited immigration or refugee intake policy, but it has to be po.....
» 4/09/2019 9:22:39 AM O Sung Wu, You (and the rest of us) will be happy to know that Manson died a couple of ye.....
» 3/09/2019 6:15:59 PM Dear Foxy, I think they will attack, and soon, well before October 1st., and brutally. Ap.....
» 3/09/2019 2:35:49 PM SM, Thank Christ. Joe.....
» 3/09/2019 1:23:58 PM Misopinionated, Wrong again: I do come from a humanities background: geography, economic .....
» 3/09/2019 1:13:45 PM Hi Belly, As a left-hander, I'm often appalled at the blatant conduct of right-handers, d.....
» 3/09/2019 11:11:08 AM Misopinionated, Interesting question - why do you behave like a half-wit ? If someone dis.....
» 3/09/2019 11:03:52 AM Misopinionated, Is that supposed to be clever ? An exact date ? Otherwise what, you'll th.....
» 3/09/2019 10:35:22 AM Ttbn, China will move in by 2047 ? They will move in well before October 1st, their natio.....
» 2/09/2019 9:15:28 PM Ttbn, So you lived in the US for many years ? You're completely familiar with US politics.....
» 2/09/2019 6:30:03 PM Misopinionated, An atheist. An ex-Marxist. A Darwinist. But someone interested in moral s.....
» 2/09/2019 5:12:37 PM Misopinionated, I've been an atheist all by post-infant life, since 1950 in fact, perhaps.....
» 2/09/2019 1:27:02 PM Misopinionated, Many of us make ironic references to gods without actually believing in a.....
» 1/09/2019 11:00:31 AM Foxy, Of course, thank you for that information. Is it possible that they can apply for a.....
» 1/09/2019 8:12:18 AM Australia takes in around nineteen thousand refugees each year, on the basis that life is .....
» 31/08/2019 6:09:02 PM This seems to be a dilemma that blokes choosing, on a whim, to be women, and/or (more rare.....
» 31/08/2019 5:20:33 PM Spot on, Foxy. And welcome back :) Love, Joe.....
» 31/08/2019 1:12:56 PM Belly, Trump says that China is close to making a trade deal and rather than risk it, is .....
» 30/08/2019 5:28:03 PM Misopinionated, So you've just discovered that there isn't a god ? What else are they tea.....
» 30/08/2019 4:24:58 PM Hi O Sung Wu, I'm inclined to agree with you about solitary confinement for life. But per.....
» 29/08/2019 5:34:35 PM Self-Opinionated, I don't know where you get the idea that I (and probably others who you.....
» 29/08/2019 3:35:57 PM Hasbeen, Of course he does, every politician has one in waiting. And after all, he claims.....
» 29/08/2019 1:43:58 PM Runner, Maybe a bit of both ? Narcissism and incompetence on both sides of US politics ? .....
» 29/08/2019 1:18:37 PM Mr Opinionated, But it's a weapon that China can use too. There are no winners from a tra.....
» 28/08/2019 9:28:45 PM Hi Individual, Do you really think that Trump isn't in the business of replacing 'their' .....
» 28/08/2019 6:08:00 PM Not so sure, Individual: tit-for-tat economic policy doesn't always work, especially when .....
» 28/08/2019 3:24:38 PM I had an argument with someone recently (what's new ?) about the herding of Aboriginal peo.....
» 28/08/2019 2:28:05 PM Either-or ? Is it possible that Trump is an incompetent narcissist AND the Democrat conten.....
» 27/08/2019 12:33:48 PM Hi Ttb, No, Trump will not stop whatever he is doing, he will only get more idiotic and c.....
» 27/08/2019 11:37:51 AM Hi Steele, What I'm very worried about is that the more Trump cavorts and postures and po.....
» 26/08/2019 11:00:17 PM Foxy, Why do you assume that all Indigenous people will agree with each other ? Nobody el.....
» 26/08/2019 3:47:39 PM Pul, Wouldn't have done you much good if you were associated with particular groups, sinc.....
» 25/08/2019 6:45:08 PM Mr Opinionated, It's called diplomacy. What would you have done instead, from the virtuou.....
» 25/08/2019 5:58:39 PM Foxy, We haven't quite got to the base of Mount Stupid yet :) People in communities alre.....
» 25/08/2019 1:44:40 PM Is Mise, Yes, I remember the killing of Ronald Ryan in 1967 on the grounds that he had sh.....
» 25/08/2019 11:49:15 AM Yeah, whatev. What do intelligent readers think of changing personal pronouns to non-gen.....
» 25/08/2019 11:43:50 AM Dear Foxy, There are usually many sides to an issue, so I disagree that this particular c.....
» 24/08/2019 7:54:47 PM SR, No, I don't think there is any 'communal rights' involved at all - no group or commu.....
» 24/08/2019 4:46:10 PM Dear Foxy, Yes, of course, Pell made light of the crime of pedophilia in 2012, but perhap.....
» 24/08/2019 3:48:48 PM SR, Yes, indeed, there must be thousands of cases of child abuse that have gone unpunishe.....
» 24/08/2019 1:19:28 PM Hi Is Mise, Of course witnesses who perjure themselves should be charged and fined - and .....
» 24/08/2019 10:55:52 AM Hi Is Mise, Clearly, it is maintained, the testimony of one person was enough to convict .....
» 23/08/2019 4:07:46 PM Hi paul, So there's no such group (iwi, hapu, whanau or tree) called Rangihou ? But it su.....
» 23/08/2019 4:01:25 PM So how to avoid situations allowing child abuse in the future ? Surely allowing priests to.....
» 23/08/2019 8:49:29 AM Hi Paul, Ah, those Ngapuhi ! Claiming a kingship fifty years before the institution was s.....
» 22/08/2019 11:34:28 AM You're right, Steele, the lack of evidence, apart from someone's honest belief, is pretty .....
» 21/08/2019 6:34:28 PM SR, To paraphrase Foxy, we all "... need to do more research on the suppression ord.....
» 21/08/2019 11:48:30 AM Hi AC, The sheer brilliance and beauty of stupidity is that it may never reach Peak. Lots.....
» 21/08/2019 11:40:29 AM I don't like Pell, such a smug and sanctimonious bastard, and as a non-believer, I have no.....
» 20/08/2019 11:24:13 PM Hi SR, I suppose I have an old-fashioned notion that male and female have different DNA, .....
» 20/08/2019 12:46:58 PM Runner, As a centrist, a fast-dying species, I'm happy to suggest that Jones, Jeremy Corb.....
» 20/08/2019 12:13:12 PM SM, Well, he IS made of the stuff you would wipe off your shoe, using his bully-pit to ra.....
» 20/08/2019 10:10:31 AM Hi Altrav, I have nothing against putting the eel trapping system in western Victoria on .....
» 19/08/2019 6:24:30 PM If only Bill Leak was still with us. He would have drawn a cartoon of a naked bearded blo.....
» 19/08/2019 2:34:29 PM Paul, I'm puzzled why you assert: "Not wanting to grow veg in 1972, well yes, and t.....
» 18/08/2019 6:29:25 PM Thank you, Foxy, you have a good heart :) Love, Joe.....
» 18/08/2019 3:06:11 PM Hi Paul, One problem with Pascoe's claims is that there isn't any actual, physical eviden.....
» 18/08/2019 2:47:20 PM Foxy, Yes, IF nobody else has any involvement in his/her 'decision' or in her actions. So.....
» 18/08/2019 12:11:09 PM Mr Opinionated, Such a sweet child, if a bit woolly-headed. When you 'see' Chinese, are.....
» 18/08/2019 11:19:47 AM Hi Paul, Actually, I do "believe there was a rapid quantum leap [in historical terms.....
» 18/08/2019 10:55:44 AM MHaze, "To be continued" ? Two hours I've been waiting ! I hope they haven't go.....
» 17/08/2019 1:24:08 PM Paul (& Is Mise), I'm puzzled by your use of the term 'stagnation' to describe the foragi.....
» 15/08/2019 6:00:15 PM SR, As a middle-of-the-road kind of person, I'm interested more in what people have to sa.....
» 15/08/2019 12:52:26 PM Can ideologies degenerate into religions ? i.e. something with rules that one must obey wi.....
» 15/08/2019 12:41:07 PM Altrav, When you assert, "over time I have had people challenge me, why do I need .....
» 14/08/2019 11:26:46 PM SR, Altrav, When I think about the level and means of discussion twenty years ago, i can .....
» 14/08/2019 8:02:10 PM Altrav, Yeah, I forgot about volcanic eruptions and marine fissure emissions. I don't sup.....
» 14/08/2019 2:33:44 PM Galen, Central American immigrants and refugees ? Aren't they almost all Christians, Cath.....
» 14/08/2019 12:50:54 PM Thanks, SR, but I was curious about all of the factors that might be leading to global war.....
» 14/08/2019 12:42:05 PM Hasbeen, "That name" is Jewish. Does that make any sense ?.....
» 14/08/2019 10:08:37 AM SR, "Human activity" is a pretty broad church. Has anybody separated out all (.....
» 12/08/2019 4:13:51 PM Mr Opinionated, You asked: "So you are one of those who believe religion makes sens.....
» 12/08/2019 4:05:05 PM "The second is about a waitress informing a customer that they kept Halal meat, in co.....
» 12/08/2019 4:00:14 PM The Venerable Bede (born about 674 AD) wrote in his 'Ecclesiastical History of Britain' ab.....
» 12/08/2019 2:45:48 PM There are many reasons why sea-level may not go up or down as predicted: * . the Austral.....
» 12/08/2019 2:30:30 PM Opinionated, Of course not. Please read slowly and carefully: there is a multitude of nar.....
» 12/08/2019 9:22:18 AM Mr Opinionated, Of course it does. That doesn't make it true: narratives abound which are.....
» 11/08/2019 2:37:46 PM Master Opinionated, Other people have religion, faulty beliefs, which they believe with l.....
» 10/08/2019 12:42:29 PM Hi Altrav, That's your definition, but it certainly isn't how many 'southern' Aboriginal .....
» 9/08/2019 3:40:00 PM Altrav, I have to disagree with you about Stan: I consider him a courageous thinker, stru.....
» 9/08/2019 9:32:18 AM Ttbn, I think it means "A king does not owe his crown to the people, but to God and .....
» 9/08/2019 8:47:29 AM Nick, "Rex non debet esse sub homine, sed sub Deo et sub lege, quia lex facit regem......
» 8/08/2019 5:30:50 PM Yes, I urge readers to read Helen Razer's critique of Stan Grant's 2016 article: The Austr.....
» 8/08/2019 4:47:09 PM Still chuffed, Foxy :) Of course, if you read that article, at https://www.onlineopinion.....
» 8/08/2019 3:39:02 PM Foxy, I'm happy with "not untrue" :) despite the spin you try to put on it :) .....
» 8/08/2019 1:03:52 PM And incidentally. Foxy, as you would know, Dr Foster's quote was more like: "He's rig.....
» 8/08/2019 12:25:37 PM Foxy, No, frankly, I "can't see or understand that the nation has unfinished busines.....
» 8/08/2019 12:08:35 PM Jesus, Foxy, what the hell does that MEAN ?! I'm not a complete idiot, I've knocked around.....
» 8/08/2019 11:35:36 AM Foxy, For god's sake, Australia does recognise its 'Aboriginal roots', and has done so fo.....
» 8/08/2019 10:05:53 AM For the life of me, I can't see what the purpose of yet another 'voice' would be if not to.....
» 7/08/2019 12:02:33 PM Belly, So ....... if we all gave up meat, that would include the dogs giving it up as wel.....
» 6/08/2019 5:02:20 PM The title of this thread is "THE LIBERAL PARTY AND IT'S FUTURE?", with the impli.....
» 6/08/2019 1:52:52 PM Tony Abbott is no longer in the parliament. The Labor Party lost the election and still d.....
» 3/08/2019 3:49:01 PM Individual, Yes. Obviously. But I'm enjoying this thread, with Mr Apprentice-Opinionated .....
» 3/08/2019 1:47:46 PM Individual, As far as I'm aware, the Coorong is outside the Goolwa Barrages, and it's sal.....
» 2/08/2019 6:09:48 PM Hi Rhross, No, not necessarily. I suppose I'm talking about 'culture' at the micro-level:.....
» 2/08/2019 5:45:22 PM And now it's the Aboriginal Flag and who can use it, which is upsetting many of the perpet.....
» 2/08/2019 5:10:24 PM Paul, Just to get back to your original post: 1. That there is only one, and there ever .....
» 1/08/2019 12:31:01 PM [continued] takes a lot of work to bring about and maintain. Corruption, incompetence and.....
» 1/08/2019 12:30:00 PM Hi Ttbn, That's worth repeating: "“One of the most important reasons for studying h.....
» 1/08/2019 11:01:20 AM As an antidote to the rubbish that I have been trying to ram down people's throats, reader.....
» 1/08/2019 10:05:02 AM I recently used the bus almost daily for some years to and from the city centre of Adelaid.....
» 1/08/2019 9:34:15 AM Foxy &Paul, I simply typed up what was there. I didn't make any direct comments one way o.....
» 31/07/2019 9:09:48 PM Foxy, I would never accuse you of farting. Women don't fart. And as even Alexander Pope w.....
» 31/07/2019 5:39:00 PM Foxy, Like every other poster here, you should stay and learn something. But if you want .....
» 31/07/2019 11:27:13 AM Foxy, Since 'invasion' or settlement would have been inevitable, which imperialist power .....
» 31/07/2019 11:18:20 AM Foxy, If anything, on the web-site you cite - in terms of numbers killed at Rufus River -.....
» 31/07/2019 11:11:00 AM Foxy, I'm not defending Moorhouse, simply reporting what I transcribed from his letters. .....
» 31/07/2019 11:02:47 AM Foxy, What ?! Women lying ? Do you have evidence of that, or is it simply that they dropp.....
» 31/07/2019 9:35:52 AM Thank you, Mr O. :).....
» 30/07/2019 11:49:11 PM Foxy Me, a Brit ?! Take that back ! That's an appalling thing to say. Yes, I have to admi.....
» 30/07/2019 11:40:22 PM Foxy, 'Hostile' ? 'Hostile' ? They attacked a party of overlanders from Sydney (fair enou.....
» 30/07/2019 6:25:57 PM Mr Opinionated, So that's what they're teaching in first-year uni these days ? That envir.....
» 30/07/2019 5:50:16 PM Paul, It's there, in letter after letter, [Volume 1, Nos. 14 - 17], since the entire 'mas.....
» 30/07/2019 3:46:59 PM Foxy, You have a gift for believing bullsh!t without question. You would have made a good.....
» 30/07/2019 2:27:01 PM Ttbn, What ?! isn't telephone sanitizing a university course yet ?! And with some little.....
» 30/07/2019 12:37:34 PM Oops, sorry, Tweedledumb and Tweedledumber, I got you two mixed up. It was Paul who made.....
» 30/07/2019 12:29:50 PM [continued] In fact, farming may have taken far longer to reach colder areas such as the .....
» 30/07/2019 12:23:53 PM [continued] teases out the difficulties facing the first farmers ten thousand years ago, .....
» 30/07/2019 12:21:33 PM Foxy, Grotesque how your mind works. No, they would be in the 160 (chronologically organi.....
» 29/07/2019 4:12:12 PM Paul, That really is a stupid question. The only papers in the State Archives are 'State'.....
» 29/07/2019 2:10:02 PM Foxy, I don't know whether i should admire or be appalled at your worship of authority. .....
» 29/07/2019 9:25:04 AM Paul, Nine thousand letters, or rather, carbon copies of letters, then transcribed. Do yo.....
» 28/07/2019 5:50:36 PM I tend not to believe in conspiracies, they would be too much work to maintain without fal.....
» 28/07/2019 5:36:00 PM Mr Opinionated, Ah, don't you enjoy the naivete of the very young ? JF Aus is raising a.....
» 28/07/2019 12:56:50 PM MHaze, Of course, what happened was inevitable and it was both an invasion and a program .....
» 28/07/2019 11:43:01 AM Hi Altrav, Probably 'Italian-Australian'. I'm 'Celtic-Australian' myself, with suspicions.....
» 28/07/2019 11:06:38 AM Hi Rhross, Big Nana would know far more than I do about the restrictive lives that many w.....
» 28/07/2019 10:57:22 AM AC, What do hotshots mean by "don’t use any terminology that may suggest that any .....
» 28/07/2019 10:29:36 AM Mr Opinionated, No, sorry, just reminiscing. Thanks for letting me bring up all those won.....
» 28/07/2019 10:03:09 AM Paul, Any chance that, apart from stupid threats, you can answer the questions ? Did Pasc.....
» 28/07/2019 8:25:17 AM Foxy & Paul, Apart from all that, is what that site maintains, accurate or not ? Does it .....
» 27/07/2019 7:57:00 PM Foxy, That history of legislation: So the setting up of ATSIC was nothing more than a f.....
» 27/07/2019 6:37:11 PM Hi Rhross, Well, in many parts of Australia, where societies were/are patriarchal, i.e. b.....
» 27/07/2019 6:26:44 PM Mr Opinionated, 5 % ? And, by the way, Australia has a Chinese past: they built many part.....
» 27/07/2019 6:15:10 PM Paul, What's that, 'guilt by association' ? Who would have thought that McCarthy's ghost .....
» 27/07/2019 6:12:58 PM Mr Opinionated, Strange, I've worked at universities, usually in Indigenous Student Suppo.....
» 27/07/2019 5:49:42 PM Foxy, sweet, half-wit child, Individual has worked for many years in Indigenous communiti.....
» 27/07/2019 4:51:57 PM Altrav, Many people around the world believe they have always been wherever they happen t.....
» 27/07/2019 4:36:41 PM Hi Altrav, Do you mean this link: https://www.dark-emu-exposed.org/ There's quite a bit.....
» 27/07/2019 4:31:13 PM Foxy/Lexi, You dare to write: "You will read stuff against Indigenous people." .....
» 27/07/2019 3:50:30 PM Foxy, Yes, I confess, I'm not a believer-without-question. Actually, I'm a bit of a slu.....
» 27/07/2019 2:31:57 PM This site might be useful: https://www.dark-emu-exposed.org/ Joe.....
» 27/07/2019 1:50:55 PM At last, some sanity ! Congratulations to whoever put this together: https://www.dark-emu.....
» 26/07/2019 11:52:16 PM Hi Paul, Thanks but I don't know what you're going on about. As some of us here have trie.....
» 26/07/2019 5:19:48 PM Foxy, So the scientific method is now right-wing ? Expecting evidence is right-wing ? S.....
» 26/07/2019 3:24:33 PM Hi SM, It's called 'confirmation bias' - you put forward some crackpot theory and then se.....
» 26/07/2019 3:13:17 PM Foxy, So suddenly, the impressions of white explorers and pastoralists are authoritative .....
» 26/07/2019 3:08:45 PM Foxy, Spot-on ! "Government cannot solve people's problems. To paraphrase Eleanor R.....
» 26/07/2019 9:41:59 AM Foxy, Just some advice: when you quote verbatim from web-sites, make sure their facts are.....
» 26/07/2019 9:32:58 AM Foxy, Little has changed ? Back in 1967 (and by the way, Indigenous people were not coun.....
» 26/07/2019 9:20:25 AM Foxy, Interesting phrase: " .... the originator of the fabrication theory ... ".....
» 25/07/2019 6:59:13 PM Thanks, Is Mise, right back at you :) Joe.....
» 25/07/2019 6:07:23 PM Hi Rhross, Kangaroo grass grows all over Australia, and in India and Africa too as you wo.....
» 25/07/2019 5:08:29 PM Hi Rhross, Yes, you're right there. And better TV reception in the cities :) Joe.....
» 25/07/2019 4:49:55 PM Hi Rhross, You suggest that " .... many have had to leave communities and family beh.....
» 25/07/2019 1:57:51 PM Foxy, By Margaret Simons ? The person who didn't know anything about tides and river flow.....
» 25/07/2019 1:47:33 PM Individual, At the grave risk of earning Belly's undying hostility, I suggest that if Lab.....
» 25/07/2019 1:37:38 PM [continued] The consulting anthropologist hired by the proponent women appeared to believ.....
» 25/07/2019 1:35:24 PM Hi IsMise, Yeah, my wife had relations on both sides, mainly on the side of the dissident.....
» 25/07/2019 12:04:30 PM [continued] , etc., and set the debt of $ 1 million against the farm's account. DEEWR, as.....
» 25/07/2019 12:00:33 PM Hi Big Nana, At my wife's community on the Murray Lakes, the school currently has about t.....
» 25/07/2019 10:43:42 AM Thanks, Big Nana, spot-on ! I wonder if many well-intentioned but ignorant people are so .....
» 25/07/2019 10:31:48 AM Paul, Of course the beautiful black soil of the Lockyer Valley - combined with the bounti.....
» 25/07/2019 10:28:49 AM Hi Paul, So ...... wherever there were miles and miles of daisy yams, Aboriginal people s.....
» 24/07/2019 2:25:37 PM Hi Big Nana, Please excuse the arrogance of the naive. Of course, all of the communities .....
» 24/07/2019 12:47:40 PM Hi Big Nana, Foxy's contributions and schoolmarm admonitions to you remind me of a brain .....
» 24/07/2019 10:14:39 AM Foxy, Fascinating ! So how much of yours did they take out ? Joe PS. I take exception t.....
» 24/07/2019 10:07:35 AM [continued] so I know very little about anything that might have conceivably been called .....
» 24/07/2019 10:06:20 AM Paul, Yes, I made it up :) . Are you suggesting that the mystery wonder-grain that was gr.....
» 23/07/2019 6:00:36 PM Belly, I would feel very uncomfortable about putting the words 'Trump' and 'truth' in the.....
» 23/07/2019 2:35:54 PM Foxy, "So what's to stop them now - the same thing that's stopped them for decades. .....
» 23/07/2019 2:19:19 PM Paul, Yes indeed, the great majority of convicts - the ones doing all the actual physical.....
» 23/07/2019 2:06:15 PM Hi Mhaze, It surely shouldn't have to be said that understanding starts with the truth. T.....
» 23/07/2019 11:05:50 AM OK, Foxy, Tell us one fact: what grasses were cultivated ? Please, please, don't say kan.....
» 23/07/2019 10:23:03 AM At the 2016 Census, the count was 1.2 million Chinese residents, plus around 200,000 stude.....
» 22/07/2019 8:10:35 PM Foxy, Where would we be without Google ? "The Uluru Statement offers a way to recog.....
» 22/07/2019 8:08:02 PM Hi Pul, Yes, that's right - as Marx would point out, as economies develop, they incorpora.....
» 22/07/2019 6:05:51 PM Hi Yuyutsu, Evil embryos ! How dare they develop into foetuses and then babies, and later.....
» 22/07/2019 4:15:43 PM [continued] once the ration system was introduced, perhaps within a day or so, what woman.....
» 22/07/2019 4:06:31 PM Ah, sweet Foxy, so incredibly naive . :) Some of us have been around the block in Indigen.....
» 22/07/2019 2:05:20 PM Paul. I suppose it depends how you define 'farming': define it out of all sensible recogn.....
» 21/07/2019 3:10:48 PM Foxy, Yes, I desperately hope that "fellow Australians will do the right thing by ou.....
» 21/07/2019 11:58:28 AM Foxy, Written like a good comrade ! isn't Google handy for finding great slabs of other p.....
» 21/07/2019 11:54:23 AM [continued] in all of the NT and WA combined. And more in the Brisbane area too. Most of .....
» 21/07/2019 11:53:28 AM Nearly a hundred years now, (in 1924), the notion of a Black State Movement was proposed i.....
» 21/07/2019 10:19:32 AM Keith Windschuttle has published a very relevant paper now in Quadrant: ttps://quadrant.o.....
» 20/07/2019 11:11:13 PM Hi Altrav, I'm obsessed with justice for Indigenous people, which in turn involves comple.....
» 20/07/2019 10:51:35 PM Hi Foxy, From memory (it's five years ago), Professor Foster's comment was in response to.....
» 20/07/2019 7:00:35 PM Hi Paul, I don't know how you come to those conclusions. As for my web-site: www.firsts.....
» 20/07/2019 6:17:44 PM Pal, So ...... in this particular card game, we're not allowed to see our cards, or any o.....
» 20/07/2019 5:39:06 PM Mr O, I don't think ttbn said that at all: "We are still coming out of an ice age,.....
» 20/07/2019 5:28:09 PM Hi Individual, Yes, there may be a need for everybody to get registered,c if they can: th.....
» 20/07/2019 5:19:53 PM Can we move away from the semi-fascist notions of 'collective guilt' - that if one of a gr.....
» 20/07/2019 5:13:29 PM Hi Belly, On Middle East and African wars, don't be misled by the maps - they cover about.....
» 20/07/2019 2:22:32 PM Jacinta Price has suggested the likely development of the Uluru Statement: https://www.sb.....
» 20/07/2019 2:12:46 PM [continued] C. K. Meek, in his key text on colonial land policy in Africa and elsewhere (.....
» 20/07/2019 2:08:30 PM Hi Paul, Being a slow learner and thinker, it didn't occur to me to put 2 + 2 together, a.....
» 20/07/2019 12:29:07 PM Foxy, Rather than expect us to buy books of your choosing (I would never dare ask anybody.....
» 19/07/2019 7:05:54 PM In perhaps a vain attempt to get this tit-for-tat back to the original thread, is it prope.....
» 19/07/2019 5:27:55 PM Henry Ergas has suggested a compromise position - that parliament legislates for an Indige.....
» 19/07/2019 2:47:25 PM Paul, There is quite a bit of documentation about the conflicts in the Kimberley, around .....
» 19/07/2019 9:49:38 AM A very interesting and insightful article in today's Australian, by Henry Ergas: that a le.....
» 18/07/2019 10:58:13 PM Altrav, Maybe it's not as simple as that - the Indigenous elites are probably more intere.....
» 18/07/2019 10:48:08 PM No Paul, I don't think there is much evidence of any of that. But keep sticking the boot i.....
» 18/07/2019 6:57:26 PM Foxy, Yes, I remember Bob Foster's remark that you partly quote, and what it was in relat.....
» 18/07/2019 6:52:18 PM Paul, Stolen wages, yes, across Australia. Whether Phillip conspired to bring this about,.....
» 18/07/2019 4:47:50 PM Foxy, I've looked and looked, and read and read, and still can't see how any of it will h.....
» 18/07/2019 1:28:13 PM Sorry, Foxy, it's no clearer. Why can't the multitude of voices currently available be e.....
» 18/07/2019 12:11:25 PM The story so far: * . there is a multitude of mechanisms for 'voice'; * . a case for ano.....
» 18/07/2019 10:20:40 AM Thanks, O Sung Wu, Yes, the Drive-In was just up the road but we had moved by the time it.....
» 18/07/2019 10:12:46 AM Hi Paul, Yes, slavery has many fathers, and it was vile and brutal either way. So when .....
» 17/07/2019 9:33:06 PM Okay, back again. The point missing fro this discussion is that, if farming happened in .....
» 17/07/2019 1:44:56 PM Hi Belly, Are you saying that mid-ocean pollution is causing global warming ? And that th.....
» 17/07/2019 12:14:39 PM Foxy, Hmmm ..... the old 'Well, how do you explain .....' fallacy. There were many reason.....
» 17/07/2019 11:58:10 AM Altrav, That's really beyond the pale. I suggest that you closely re-examine the sources .....
» 17/07/2019 10:16:36 AM Hi O Sung Wu, As a kid, I lived in Greenacre when it was Chullora, on Waterloo Road. Our .....
» 16/07/2019 6:27:27 PM This article pretty much encapsulates sensible discussion: https://quadrant.org.au/magazi.....
» 16/07/2019 5:34:45 PM Foxy, Not too many friends these days, I don't get around much any more :) But I do remem.....
» 16/07/2019 2:25:05 PM Ttbn, Your thread has got me thinking. Indigenous groups are trying to revive their langu.....
» 16/07/2019 2:15:57 PM Foxy, Both Canada and Australia fund their respective Assembly of First Nations. But your.....
» 16/07/2019 9:55:33 AM Hi Stele, You put your finger on a very fraught aspect of the freedom of opinion in relat.....
» 15/07/2019 10:04:27 PM No probs, Altrav :).....
» 15/07/2019 6:32:57 PM What would we do without Dr. Google ? When I was working in Indigenous Student Support at.....
» 15/07/2019 3:02:20 PM [continued] The Aboriginal groups thus were either river-bound and living in relatively s.....
» 15/07/2019 2:59:56 PM Paul, Of course, all I know is bits and pieces about Indigenous policy and culture in Sou.....
» 14/07/2019 5:50:08 PM Foxy, "The Constitution still enables parliament to take necessary Indigenous-specif.....
» 14/07/2019 2:25:44 PM Hi O Sung Wu, They already do exist: the Prime Minister has an Indigenous Advisory Commit.....
» 14/07/2019 1:07:58 PM Hi Mhaze, FYI, I don't have much time for any of the gaggle of Democrat candidates for 20.....
» 14/07/2019 12:50:26 PM Foxy, This is a discussion forum. Therefore you have to be prepared for opinions that don.....
» 14/07/2019 12:16:29 PM Foxy, You rightly say, "The First Nations of Australia have a right to take respon.....
» 14/07/2019 10:59:03 AM Ttbn, It seemed necessary to tease out the issues involved and how to balance the diffic.....
» 14/07/2019 9:48:56 AM Are there any Indigenous TV stations ? NITV, etc. ? Are there any Indigenous radio statio.....
» 13/07/2019 7:03:39 PM Hi Rhross, Yes, you're right, five or six thousand years ago, perhaps much longer, the Su.....
» 13/07/2019 1:33:57 PM "We don't really believe this administration is going to become substantially more no.....
» 13/07/2019 1:00:53 PM Steele, Yep, just like every other human group in the world. Have you ever thought, in .....
» 12/07/2019 8:35:58 PM Hi Rhross, I was being a bit facetious :) Clearly, any understanding of the heavens has.....
» 12/07/2019 8:22:59 PM Hi Paul, You might get a few pointers out of this: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/ar.....
» 12/07/2019 1:59:31 PM Yes, Aboriginal people - at least down here in SA, an insignificant state - had a name for.....
» 11/07/2019 11:36:43 PM Burning the bush is not farming. Collecting is not farming. It's also called gathering. Hu.....
» 11/07/2019 4:10:59 PM Foxy, Collecting is gathering. It is not farming. Repeat after me: Collecting is gatheri.....
» 11/07/2019 2:39:33 PM Foxy, Oy. Collecting grass seed to make into pannican/pannicum, is collecting; gathering;.....
» 11/07/2019 9:08:58 AM Narelle, >>The ABS comments "Recent archaeological evidence suggests that a po.....
» 10/07/2019 10:54:16 PM Paul, What on earth has all of this got to do with British colonisation ? I suppose one.....
» 10/07/2019 7:32:53 PM Hi Individual, Yes indeed: that's my point. Like all traditional societies, from Scotland.....
» 10/07/2019 2:26:36 PM Good one, Narelle :) Joe.....
» 10/07/2019 2:25:09 PM I don't know, David, Mother Teresa might have lost her belief in any sort of god for the.....
» 10/07/2019 2:13:53 PM Foxy, Pascoe talks of 'black seeds'. Did he mean kangaroo grass ? You've got the book, so.....
» 10/07/2019 12:33:20 PM Steele, Oy. Collecting' kangaroo grass, no matter what you want it for or do with it (and.....
» 10/07/2019 12:20:30 PM I think this is all starting to make sense to me now: so the Gunditjmara are entitled to N.....
» 10/07/2019 10:10:48 AM Foxy, For those of you who come onto this discussion with only insults to add, please don.....
» 9/07/2019 6:28:37 PM Steele, Gathering kangaroo grass is gathering. Is that what you're saying ? Of course, t.....
» 9/07/2019 5:03:23 PM Steele, I see, now you're defining people who construct fish traps and gather the fish th.....
» 9/07/2019 4:00:18 PM Hi Shadow Minister, A while ago, you cited a figure for the Australian pre-Invasion Indig.....
» 9/07/2019 3:54:56 PM Where to start ? What's the point ? Evidence means nothing. Of course people built permane.....
» 9/07/2019 1:27:14 PM Evidence, Foxy, not hearsay accounts and vague statements. Artifacts ? Dreaming stories ab.....
» 9/07/2019 10:57:37 AM Hi TTbn, I hope that Muslims will be given the complete freedom to espouse all of their d.....
» 9/07/2019 10:44:22 AM Foxy, Yes, if you go along to your nearest Museum, and look for farming implements - cult.....
» 9/07/2019 9:47:49 AM Steele, Nobody is denying that Aboriginal people built huts - of sticks, straw, seaweed, .....
» 8/07/2019 8:45:55 PM Paul, Are you suggesting that the only real nomads were those groups who followed herds o.....
» 8/07/2019 6:09:55 PM Is Mise, And could they be cultivated today ? Wouldn't it be handy to know what they were.....
» 8/07/2019 4:46:25 PM Belly, 'Yes, we're all Africans'. Europeans too. Chinese too. Everybody. That's what it me.....
» 8/07/2019 3:46:40 PM Individual, And they had to come along the coast of PNG to get to Australia, so clearly p.....
» 8/07/2019 9:28:58 AM It's called trapping, an advanced form of foraging. People have ingeniously been doing thi.....
» 7/07/2019 9:17:05 PM Hi Steele, No, in an ideal world, sport would be played with no need for corporate fundin.....
» 7/07/2019 6:24:30 PM Foxy, Are you implying that large corporations have the right to use their financial powe.....
» 7/07/2019 6:18:21 PM Rights conflict. Rights to express one's views are subordinate to the law, to the rights o.....
» 7/07/2019 10:09:20 AM Peter Ridd was "never gagged or silenced about his scientific views." "Pet.....
» 6/07/2019 5:34:23 PM Hi Rhross, Yes, of course all cultures change, or more precisely, cultural practices - so.....
» 6/07/2019 2:47:27 PM Steele, No, I don't believe that. I'm actually appalled that anybody could compare homose.....
» 6/07/2019 1:06:18 PM Foxy, " .... people are targeted, sometimes very personally." You mean, like F.....
» 6/07/2019 11:08:01 AM Amazing: more than fifty years ago, the Free Speech Movement at Berkeley https://en.wikip.....
» 6/07/2019 10:53:10 AM Paul, Yes, it must be so piss-easy to find fault wherever you choose to look by dragging .....
» 5/07/2019 6:14:53 PM Pul, Everybody in the business knows that payment for 'welcome to country' goes on, tax-f.....
» 5/07/2019 6:09:47 PM Hi Rhross, Good questions. Yes, Aboriginal people - at least in the 'south' - have been e.....
» 5/07/2019 9:46:02 AM Paul, You suggest, "If you genuinely identify as Aboriginal then your an Aboriginal,.....
» 4/07/2019 12:48:09 PM Hi Rhross, I'm not so sure about fractions etc. - if someone has been raised as Aborigina.....
» 4/07/2019 10:19:35 AM [continued] And, of course, after World War II, people left Missions and dispersed all ov.....
» 4/07/2019 10:18:22 AM Paul, Moorhouse was the third Protector, after Bromley and Dr Wyatt. A thorough account o.....
» 3/07/2019 1:48:22 PM Paul, That's a weird question: I don't think anybody gave it a thought, people were simpl.....
» 3/07/2019 10:24:11 AM Banjo, "We have no way of knowing, today, if, ..... " Well, yes we do. The anth.....
» 2/07/2019 5:53:59 PM Banjo, "That was the beginning of the end of their traditional hunter-gatherer lifes.....
» 1/07/2019 9:44:21 AM The art of the deal - so Trump backs down against China, Russia, Iran (wait and see) and N.....
» 1/07/2019 9:34:24 AM Hi Banjo, Early benefits of colonisation ? Hmmm, let me think. Of course, I can speak onl.....
» 30/06/2019 6:22:41 PM Hi Banjo, I'm not convinced either that there were successive waves of invaders coming in.....
» 30/06/2019 3:08:12 PM Foxy, Are you suggesting that the Bible, that Folau quotes from, preaches hatred ? Doesn'.....
» 30/06/2019 9:21:27 AM Hi Paul, Sovereignty is a foundation of effective government: in traditional times, clans.....
» 30/06/2019 9:07:30 AM Paul & Banjo, Given the severity of droughts across Australia since the Ice Age ended, th.....
» 29/06/2019 7:27:29 PM Paul, To the extent that the concept of sovereignty may be relevant, the unit of sovereig.....
» 29/06/2019 6:22:15 PM Given his ham-fisted bullying of Iran, it seems inconceivable that Trump could ever have s.....
» 29/06/2019 2:57:12 PM Hi Diver Dan, Yes, actually: working in Indigenous university student support, I expresse.....
» 29/06/2019 12:13:13 PM Paul, "What is important is what actually happened." And can't un-happen. That.....
» 29/06/2019 11:19:04 AM Hi Paul, A hell of a lot that has happened throughout human history is unjust. Much of it.....
» 28/06/2019 6:46:29 PM Hi Rhross, I take your point about British colonial rule - from what I've read of compara.....
» 28/06/2019 3:45:18 PM Paul, I don't think that Rhross is necessarily suggesting that British rule over Australi.....
» 28/06/2019 9:30:06 AM Banjo, It's a technicality, arising from its assertion of sovereignty, that in Australia,.....
» 27/06/2019 9:23:06 AM Thank you, Steele, that's appalling and very revealing. But Kangaroo Island was not offici.....
» 27/06/2019 9:05:59 AM Banjo, Yes, precisely, pastoral leasehold land is not owned by the lessees, it's leased. .....
» 26/06/2019 6:14:01 PM Hi Steele, I can't recall ever reading or hearing about Aboriginal women being chained up.....
» 26/06/2019 11:52:02 AM Hi Mr Opinionated, "We'll all be doomed, " said Hanrahan, "Before the year.....
» 26/06/2019 10:13:24 AM Banjo, I don't know that South Australia was all that different, but when I was transcrib.....
» 25/06/2019 6:13:15 PM Hi Paul, I'm certainly not asserting that it was just and proper, or even legal, to seize.....
» 25/06/2019 3:18:41 PM Hi Robroy, Thank you. Droughts too would have devastated numbers if they were widespread .....
» 25/06/2019 1:52:38 PM Hi Paul, As Eyre wrote, "Particular districts are considered generally as being the .....
» 25/06/2019 1:45:02 PM Hi Mikk, So 'collective guilt' is alive and well ? Joe.....
» 25/06/2019 12:35:06 PM Hi again Paul, On 'sovereignty': in your list of straw-men, kicking off this thread, your.....
» 25/06/2019 12:23:11 PM Hi paul, This is the very issue: no, the rights to use land doesn't imply ownership, and .....
» 25/06/2019 12:10:07 PM Hi Paul, But he didn't, did he ? Simply that - presumably for believing homosexuals, drun.....
» 25/06/2019 10:15:59 AM Hi Banjo, Welcome back, how was the beach ? Yes, of course, from the earliest days, * .....
» 24/06/2019 7:56:52 PM Hi Pail, Nearly fifty years ago now, I was working in Ponsonby, Auckland, and got talking.....
» 24/06/2019 5:18:34 PM Dan & Mr Opinion, I wholeheartedly agree with you: "I'm often astounded by opinion .....
» 24/06/2019 3:43:02 PM RhRoss, The thing about technology, i.e. any advances from Old Stone Age to Middle and/or.....
» 24/06/2019 2:12:36 PM Robroy & RhRoss, Yes, it's possible that different groups of people have been migrating i.....
» 24/06/2019 1:56:09 PM Steele, I'm not sure that Israel Folau hates anybody in particular, simply that he has, i.....
» 24/06/2019 9:23:44 AM But don't you understand, Sonia, that to criticise someone or their opinion, is to hate th.....
» 24/06/2019 9:17:02 AM Hi Paul, Like most of the community at large, I welcome legal immigrants and legal refuge.....
» 23/06/2019 6:23:09 PM Paul, I hope this comes out: https://webmail.internode.on.net/index.php/mail/viewmessage.....
» 23/06/2019 6:20:47 PM Hi Paul, Yes, 'probably' gives it away :) But from records and anecdotal accounts, that's.....
» 23/06/2019 4:34:44 PM Hi Rhross, It was probably Austronesian traders who brought the dingo to Australian shore.....
» 23/06/2019 3:56:08 PM Here's some food for thought: https://www.theage.com.au/national/life-was-not-a-walkabout.....
» 22/06/2019 7:29:31 PM Foxy, To compare male circumcision and female genital MUTILATION is inappropriate, to put.....
» 22/06/2019 5:51:39 PM Hi Banjo, Bon voyage, et bon retour :) Joe.....
» 22/06/2019 5:05:16 PM Henry, Yes, I agree, how the rights of Muslim women in Australia are ignored, is truly ap.....
» 22/06/2019 1:22:20 PM People on Nauru and Manus must be dreadfully, fearfully, sick, if Foxy's figure of 8.2 tri.....
» 22/06/2019 1:16:35 PM Henry, I didn't assume that Muslim women DID receive "the same protection of the law.....
» 22/06/2019 1:11:49 PM Banjo, A bit hard to know where to start, but here goes: 1. The British, at least in SA,.....
» 21/06/2019 8:55:53 PM Steele, It's interesting that, in the early days, groups used to come down into 'settled'.....
» 21/06/2019 5:27:26 PM Paul, No......
» 21/06/2019 5:24:07 PM Good on you, Foxy :).....
» 21/06/2019 3:46:25 PM Foxy, I fervently hope that Muslim women in Australia receive the same protection of the .....
» 21/06/2019 3:21:24 PM Is Iftikhar using another name now ? A woman's name ? Brilliant ! That could work......
» 21/06/2019 3:19:48 PM Australia has an annual refugee intake quota of 19,000 (is that right ?), New Zealand a qu.....
» 21/06/2019 9:47:52 AM Banjo, There may have been cases of the early SA colonial authorities, up to about 1849, .....
» 20/06/2019 6:17:54 PM Foxy, "mere hunter-gatherers" - that's going to come back to bite you . :) &qu.....
» 20/06/2019 11:23:41 AM Foxy, No, I won't bother with Pascoe's stuff. I'm not interested in fourth-hand writings,.....
» 20/06/2019 11:11:24 AM Fascinating: Bill Gammage's video starts out with a pan over his book cover, a painting of.....
» 20/06/2019 11:05:34 AM Hi Banjo, In the early days in SA, land was granted (a very misunderstood term) to pastor.....
» 19/06/2019 8:04:09 PM Hi Steele, Thanks for your irrelevant spray. On the Rabbit Fence story, I disagreed that .....
» 19/06/2019 6:33:40 PM Foxy, Bill's video: I couldn't find any evidence of farming. Setting fire to the bush, ye.....
» 19/06/2019 4:03:01 PM Foxy, All you have to do is tell us what is supposed to be there. You assert: you demonst.....
» 19/06/2019 2:05:59 PM Foxy, Please don't weasel out. You have asserted, and demanded that everybody else chase .....
» 19/06/2019 12:54:07 PM 68 million, Foxy, most of whom would be women and children - let's say 40 million women an.....
» 19/06/2019 12:41:52 PM Yes, Alan, it will be a never-ending struggle for the people of Hong Kong to resist the fo.....
» 19/06/2019 10:20:05 AM Hi SM, Yes, it seems that in the earliest days of farming, for example around South-East .....
» 19/06/2019 9:42:30 AM Foxy, Asseritur gratis, negatur gratis. Can you look that up, or do you need me to transl.....
» 19/06/2019 9:30:14 AM Banjo, Oy. Pastoralists don't own their stations, at least in civilised South Australia, .....
» 18/06/2019 2:34:17 PM Foxy, Clever ! Okay, I won't let on. Clearly, some people are having doubts that hunting .....
» 18/06/2019 12:38:41 PM Dearest Foxy, Ah ! I get it now ! God, I'm a slow learner - you and Paul and Steele are i.....
» 18/06/2019 11:49:07 AM And for those who enjoy a good laugh, here are descriptions of PC topics such as dog-parks.....
» 18/06/2019 11:43:16 AM Banjo, About farming - cultivating the soil, planting seed, ensuring water, harvesting, t.....
» 18/06/2019 11:31:38 AM Foxy, SM has a point: kangaroo grass grows all over the place, and in India and Africa, w.....
» 17/06/2019 10:06:34 PM Fixy, Thanks for your admiration. I try :) Mitchell's nine-mile expanse of grain-like gr.....
» 17/06/2019 6:21:48 PM Foxy, So I don't accept whatever absurdity that you proclaim without question ? What a to.....
» 17/06/2019 4:14:49 PM Yuyutsu, Australia has an annual refugee quota, as you rightly point out: around 18,750, .....
» 17/06/2019 3:58:07 PM Foxy, You're dodging the issues. If you assert something, you - not anybody else - is obl.....
» 17/06/2019 1:59:03 PM Foxy, As a deaf ear, I suppose I have to ask you: * . were/are Aboriginal people no-dril.....
» 17/06/2019 9:08:44 AM Hi Paul, I forget what the traditional one-sided spade is called in Maori - 'ho', says Pr.....
» 17/06/2019 8:57:22 AM Hi Banjo, Yes, a necessarily brief definition of something may indeed gloss over, or leav.....
» 16/06/2019 10:12:54 PM For Christ's sake, let's adopt the Peruvian anthem, all 28 verses, and be done with it......
» 16/06/2019 5:48:35 PM Hi paul, Back in the seventies, my sister worked at the Auckland Museum up on Mt Eden and.....
» 16/06/2019 4:26:14 PM Hi Paul, You started off this thread with, among other statements, "Aboriginal peo.....
» 16/06/2019 3:24:00 PM ALTRAV, Are you confusing immigrants with refugees ? Apart from family reunion immigrants.....
» 16/06/2019 11:18:47 AM Hi LEGO, Are you conflating immigrants (permanent and/or on temporary visas), visitors, s.....
» 16/06/2019 11:05:47 AM Hi Banjo, 'Farming' is generally defined as requiring the cultivation of the soil. I'm no.....
» 16/06/2019 9:03:48 AM Hi Paul, Yes, perhaps I know comparatively nothing about Indigenous issues anywhere outsi.....
» 15/06/2019 6:28:20 PM Alan, The much deeper problem is summed up here: "Finally in the words of the prolif.....
» 15/06/2019 5:58:43 PM Hi Paul, Where to start ? You give us the benefit of your full knowledge: "Is it no.....
» 15/06/2019 11:32:43 AM Somebody correct me, please, if I'm wrong, but it seems that any global warming (are we st.....
» 15/06/2019 10:24:30 AM [continued] In such circumstances, foraging - gathering, fishing, hunting - is clearly su.....
» 15/06/2019 10:08:11 AM Hi banjo, You write: "In any event, if Aboriginal peoples were deemed to not own th.....
» 14/06/2019 2:42:28 PM And of course, Henry Reynolds has written extensively on 'sovereignty': did he kick the wh.....
» 14/06/2019 9:43:17 AM The Italian state as we know it now was brought together in 1861. A republican anthem riva.....
» 14/06/2019 9:36:08 AM Hi Banjo, One crucial difference between Aust and NZ, from the British perspective, was t.....
» 13/06/2019 2:37:34 PM Foxy, "It seems that objections are being raised to our anthem - Ädvance Australia F.....
» 13/06/2019 9:40:59 AM [continued] So the issues overlap but deal with quite distinct areas of law. Of course,.....
» 13/06/2019 9:38:47 AM Hi Banjo, Now we may be getting somewhere. There are two (at least) concepts which keep g.....
» 12/06/2019 6:53:33 PM Steele, I agree that those girls did travel from Moore River to Jigalong. The question is.....
» 12/06/2019 3:39:20 PM Sorry, Foxy, but I don't think you understand anything about Indigenous affairs, except at.....
» 12/06/2019 11:44:15 AM Aidan, Yes, you're right, point taken. Thank you. Cheers, Joe.....
» 12/06/2019 11:24:29 AM Foxy, You quote from somewhere: "The Constitution confers upon parliament a special.....
» 12/06/2019 11:10:08 AM Hi Banjo, Thank you, that's what I was after: possibly no reference anywhere to "ter.....
» 11/06/2019 4:07:10 PM Foxy. This is the point: that what you call' facts' certainly may not be: the grounds for.....
» 11/06/2019 3:56:26 PM Hi Banjo, I've read Bourke's Proclamation now, but cannot see any mention of, or use of t.....
» 11/06/2019 11:12:16 AM Diver, Well, LEGO does write: "When faced with such stupidity, ordinary, usually apa.....
» 11/06/2019 10:49:43 AM Belly, As a Queenslander, you should be aware of what can happen with only one house of p.....
» 11/06/2019 10:46:46 AM Foxy, I wonder what you really think or believe in, rather than just quote Google materia.....
» 10/06/2019 8:47:59 PM Hi Steele, Thanks so much for striving to reach the limits of your analytical abilities. .....
» 10/06/2019 5:45:45 PM Steele, The ancestors of all of us came out of Africa at different times. The ancestors o.....
» 10/06/2019 11:52:38 AM Thanks Steele, You've spelt out the major reasons why the Maldives has little reason to w.....
» 10/06/2019 10:42:22 AM [continued] Did clans exercise the powers of governments ? Sort of family governments ? D.....
» 10/06/2019 10:40:47 AM Hi Graham, "I have always been sympathetic to the Aboriginal cause, but it can't pro.....
» 9/06/2019 6:24:44 PM Hi Individual, For 'Reconciliation' to work, we will probably all have to concede the inj.....
» 9/06/2019 3:57:35 PM But I can see your point, Foxy: if we whinge enough about history, we can reverse it......
» 9/06/2019 3:56:21 PM Thanks, Foxy, that's good for a laugh, every sentence is ..........
» 9/06/2019 2:59:40 PM Hi Individual, That raises the inescapable issues: 1. Was the invasion/settlement of Au.....
» 9/06/2019 1:38:45 PM Foxy, Yes, indeed, the truth-telling must go on, as must critical assessment of each and .....
» 9/06/2019 12:40:40 PM Hi Individual, And my bet is that anybody could find ample evidence of farming even on th.....
» 9/06/2019 11:31:26 AM Hi Paul, I've said before that what the entire Indigenous Cause desperately needs is a ne.....
» 9/06/2019 11:11:46 AM Hi Banjo, Sorry, I can't read the copy of Bourke's Proclamation. Does it actually use the.....
» 8/06/2019 6:08:43 PM Foxy, Why the reluctance to recognise that Aboriginal people did go out hunting (mainly m.....
» 8/06/2019 2:53:42 PM Hi Paul, Ash Barty, currently 23 years old, might have ben able to go off and do National.....
» 8/06/2019 12:03:42 PM Foxy, So they would have Dreaming stories about farming then ? And the earliest contacts.....
» 8/06/2019 11:28:47 AM Hi Fester, Fifty cubic metres per year ? That's barely a container-load - 2 metres high, .....
» 8/06/2019 10:53:21 AM Banjo, You're touching on a different matter - what in law is termed "res nullius&qu.....
» 7/06/2019 9:16:34 PM Paul "Is it impossible to tackle the "sovereignty" issue and the "rec.....
» 7/06/2019 5:57:34 PM Foxy, Thank you for not wasting any more of my time. Joe.....
» 7/06/2019 4:11:24 PM Hi Individual, I agree with Belly on Putin - Russia's image is huge and scary, but its ec.....
» 7/06/2019 4:05:17 PM Hi Aidan, My memory fades very quickly these days, but I do recall Nicole Flint on Q&A ta.....
» 7/06/2019 3:57:02 PM Foxy, On the Uluru Statement: as Big Nana knows far better than (with respect) you do, it.....
» 7/06/2019 3:54:36 PM Paul, In relation to SM's post: ATSIC. If you don't know anything about its level of corr.....
» 7/06/2019 3:48:26 PM Hi Paul, " .... what is your bottom line on this subject, is it do nothing, or is it.....
» 7/06/2019 3:32:16 PM Hi Bajo, Sorry, nobody has ever claimed that Australia was uninhabited. When Justice Blac.....
» 7/06/2019 3:23:51 PM Foxy, You're right, we shouldn't be using the sixty-year-old technology of Chernobyl. May.....
» 6/06/2019 8:49:28 PM Foxy, Just because you declare something, doesn't mean that it is so. Your take on 'sov.....
» 6/06/2019 6:02:00 PM Hi Paul, Of course, always. I got over my "Gee, maybe some aspects of Apartheid migh.....
» 6/06/2019 5:14:52 PM Snotty Reflux, Re Australia's car industry: Thanks for your contribution. I could be wro.....
» 6/06/2019 4:02:58 PM Sorry, Foxy, are you claiming that there SHOULD be discriminatory legislation in relation .....
» 6/06/2019 2:26:05 PM Foxy, I love these 'how else do you explain' arguments. There may be many other reasons w.....
» 6/06/2019 1:26:31 PM Foxy, Indigenous affairs were constitutionally a State matter until the 1967 Referendum: .....
» 6/06/2019 10:22:42 AM Hi Pul, I think you mean "prattle": I prattle, I don't prate. I'm no expert o.....
» 5/06/2019 7:54:10 PM Foxy, I csuppose vthat'swhat an echo hamber looks like Paulo, " //Do you believe t.....
» 5/06/2019 4:07:58 PM Foxy & Paul, If Apartheid is evil (as I 100 % believe it is/was), then separate developme.....
» 5/06/2019 3:44:46 PM Capitalism is forever seeking new opportunities to make a buck, including having to innova.....
» 5/06/2019 2:46:25 PM Foxy & Paul, My problem is that I find your comments half-baked, semi-informed, relying o.....
» 5/06/2019 12:41:13 PM Foxy, Thanks for teaching us how to suck eggs, and put on our socks. What do you think so.....
» 5/06/2019 11:23:19 AM Dear Foxy, No offence but, despite the fact that you may be beautiful and highly intellig.....
» 4/06/2019 5:47:08 PM Dear Foxy, I think about the variables all the time, it keeps me awake at night, it does .....
» 4/06/2019 2:02:51 PM Paul, Conceit has its place if there is ample reason for it. I don't think I've earnt a r.....
» 4/06/2019 1:55:48 PM Dearest Foxy, I look forward to the day when you can think for yourself instead of regurg.....
» 4/06/2019 11:19:11 AM Hi Banjo, Yes, a nation is a large group of people "speaking the same language".....
» 4/06/2019 11:10:50 AM Paul, SA history: Of course I do, all of it. Maoism & Flags: not sure I see the direct c.....
» 4/06/2019 10:55:04 AM Individual, On the topic of making manufacturing unaffordable I was a bit disgusted when .....
» 3/06/2019 1:32:31 PM Gosh, Paul, that was clever. Actually 6 - 6.2 %. There were plenty of people back then to .....
» 3/06/2019 11:59:42 AM Paul, That made me laugh. Forty years ago, i was a Maoist, and had many of the views and .....
» 2/06/2019 6:42:47 PM Thanks Steele. When you've put years into transcribing documents, as they are, no alterati.....
» 2/06/2019 3:47:01 PM This writer has a point: if someone whom we support, who is on our side, commits crimes li.....
» 2/06/2019 3:03:38 PM Just to deflate a few myths about the 1967 Referendum, to demonstrate that it wasn't some .....
» 2/06/2019 12:59:14 PM I remember when Malcolm Fraser got behind the push for a Makarrata in 1979 and sent Jim Ha.....
» 2/06/2019 12:07:15 PM Dear Foxy, About the Uluru Statement: So what shape and powers is a 'Voice' supposed to.....
» 1/06/2019 10:25:52 PM Foxy, Steele, Paul, Can you get it through your heads that Aboriginal people are as intel.....
» 1/06/2019 6:01:03 PM Is Mise, To fill out your quote: "1727 : Zeewick "At about 7:30pm the Zeewick.....
» 1/06/2019 5:41:17 PM Good on you, Steele. No, really :).....
» 1/06/2019 2:53:14 PM Steele, You're talking about legal refugees, part of an annual quota ? Or immigrants ? P.....
» 1/06/2019 2:47:51 PM Okay, Steele, so if someone scratches their arse, it's obvious that they're the most sophi.....
» 1/06/2019 12:40:59 PM Steele & Foxy, 1. No Dreaming stories about farming. 2. Aboriginal people now control a.....
» 31/05/2019 5:33:03 PM Steele, It's called hunting and gathering ..... Nowadays, out on the sea, there are many .....
» 31/05/2019 5:30:20 PM Foxy, Do you want it both ways - that all discriminatory clauses should be expunged from .....
» 31/05/2019 5:23:23 PM Foxy, 68 million around the world. Can we take them all, and show our compassion ? Maybe .....
» 31/05/2019 9:28:49 AM Paul & Foxy, Perhaps you're both right - if we complain and carp about something for long.....
» 31/05/2019 9:16:50 AM Aidan, There are some 68 million refugees across the world, mostly destitute, unable to c.....
» 30/05/2019 5:04:15 PM Foxy, Right, then let's have a referendum to get rid of those archaic clauses, especially.....
» 30/05/2019 2:40:59 PM Individual, If ZPG was universal, population would still rise because people are likely t.....
» 30/05/2019 11:28:13 AM Yes, David, the US is in a difficult situation, with a slimy turd for a President and a bu.....
» 30/05/2019 11:24:27 AM Dear Foxy, You assert that " ... our Indigenous people are asking for this step to b.....
» 29/05/2019 2:08:25 PM Dear Foxy, All societies in the world have always had continuing culture - what on earth .....
» 29/05/2019 12:30:54 PM Dear Foxy, By all means, have a referendum to get rid of those archaic and obscure (and m.....
» 29/05/2019 10:04:05 AM SM, Can you cite any sections in the Constitution which maintain racial discrimination ? .....
» 29/05/2019 9:29:17 AM Hi Individual, I was expecting governments to initiate and run such re-forestation scheme.....
» 29/05/2019 9:24:29 AM Anyway, to get back to topic, Zali Steggall and her passion for the environment: in suppor.....
» 29/05/2019 9:18:30 AM Thanks, Banjoe :).....
» 28/05/2019 2:42:53 PM Hi Aidan, Re-forestation needs a lot of water; which could be provided from rivers and de.....
» 28/05/2019 12:30:39 PM Hi Aidan, "Humans were responsible for emitting 33.1 billion tonnes of carbon dioxid.....
» 28/05/2019 11:04:14 AM Dear Foxy, Welcome back ! So there would be Dreaming stories about farming ? cultivating.....
» 28/05/2019 10:57:02 AM Did I say that ?!.....
» 28/05/2019 10:12:27 AM We're all equally intelligent. Every society on earth was a foraging one barely ten thousa.....
» 28/05/2019 9:54:27 AM Aidan & Josephus, According to Wikipedia, "The chemical composition of wood varies f.....
» 28/05/2019 9:35:15 AM NNS, " .... the woman already made her choice when she had sex." Ah, so Mary w.....
» 27/05/2019 5:02:30 PM Yuyuts, Possibly because much of the cache of emails posted by Wikileaks under Assange we.....
» 26/05/2019 6:04:15 PM Hi Cossomby, You mean change for its own sake ? Every change is good ? Nothing old is wor.....
» 26/05/2019 10:41:34 AM Runner, Do you mean 'embryo' ? Joe.....
» 26/05/2019 9:11:54 AM Hi Dan, Don't be shy: why don't you tell us what you really think :) The truth may be a .....
» 26/05/2019 9:02:56 AM Hi Dan, I don't think doctors use coat-hangers any more - of course, they might have to r.....
» 25/05/2019 4:56:49 PM Belly, My dream is for a string of small nuclear power stations (emitting almost no CO2),.....
» 25/05/2019 4:43:21 PM I look forward to the day when men can have children as well as women: perhaps some sort o.....
» 25/05/2019 11:49:15 AM Dearest Foxy, Our thoughts and love go with you :) Joe.....
» 25/05/2019 10:45:34 AM Belly, So Shorten, a Right-winger (unless the position of 'opportunist' is still availabl.....
» 25/05/2019 10:39:10 AM Belly, On "our much needed closely watched environmental restrictions", it seem.....
» 24/05/2019 10:21:55 PM Hi Steele, I wish I had buddies :( But unfortunately, I have to do my own thinking. So pl.....
» 24/05/2019 9:49:03 AM Dear Foxy, Fewer than 49 % of voters thought the same way you did. That's democracy: the .....
» 24/05/2019 9:22:03 AM As a very crude measure of weather change, Lake Eyre has filled twice this year. It has fi.....
» 24/05/2019 9:18:27 AM Hi LEGO, I wonder if teachers teach kids about the Medieval Warming Period, a few hundred.....
» 22/05/2019 5:08:40 PM Hi Alan, With his 'quick-fix' simplicity, Trump could start three wars at once: against I.....
» 22/05/2019 5:02:54 PM Dear Foxy, Declining trust in governments ? Maybe in a purely hypothetical Shorten govern.....
» 22/05/2019 5:00:09 PM Is Mise, The virtuous people of Warringah will probably use GetUP! to campaign for a wind.....
» 22/05/2019 3:58:53 PM Hi Aidan, "most of the CO2 produced in their manufacture does not currently come fro.....
» 22/05/2019 12:43:42 PM Adan, So presumably it would be cheaper to make wind towers and solar panels etc., using .....
» 21/05/2019 3:42:34 PM Sorry, Steele, I'm just going by the change from one record temperature in Adelaide (in 19.....
» 21/05/2019 3:35:34 PM Hi Runner, I must admit I'm quite conflicted, since I support Folau's right to express hi.....
» 21/05/2019 2:12:04 PM Hi Steele, I didn't mean to suggest that Marx would have supported a venture capitalist l.....
» 21/05/2019 1:22:55 PM Steele, Marx would say, always seek out the class basis for political activity. I would h.....
» 21/05/2019 12:15:48 PM Hi Hasbeen, Yes. I was on a crowded bus, squashed up next to an African woman; I suggeste.....
» 21/05/2019 12:07:48 PM Alan, You raise a crucial point: if the inner-city elites could dictate to the world, wou.....
» 21/05/2019 10:56:36 AM Congratulations, Iftikhar, Your posts are the most persuasive statements that I have read.....
» 21/05/2019 10:46:12 AM Hi Paul, Yes, you never know what millions of dollars and thousands of Labor Party 'volun.....
» 21/05/2019 10:34:51 AM Hi Dan, You mention that rainbow that the homosexual movement seems to have patented. Wou.....
» 21/05/2019 10:26:39 AM Hi Steele, Dead silence was the stern reply. So am I on the right track ? An average of .....
» 20/05/2019 4:35:01 PM Belly, It's more of a 'reality website', mate. Face up to it: Shorten's dithering on Adan.....
» 20/05/2019 1:49:10 PM Hi Steele, Please correct me, I'll deserve it: 1. Average world temperatures have risen .....
» 20/05/2019 1:41:36 PM Forwardplease's "there are plenty of EDUCATED young people who will correct the peasa.....
» 19/05/2019 1:11:23 PM Boy, did i get it wrong ?! I thought Labor might win it by six to ten seats. So I'm not as.....
» 18/05/2019 5:24:28 PM [continued] One can appear to be virtuous AND be assured of a lucrative revenue stream. .....
» 18/05/2019 5:18:25 PM Hi Paul, Is it my imagination or have the Greens backed away from penalising negative gea.....
» 18/05/2019 1:05:22 PM Hi Alan, As a non-believer, I support your stand, that Folau has the right to express his.....
» 18/05/2019 10:14:45 AM Hi Ttbn, Speaking of boats, do you recall a Left conspiracy theorist, maybe a couple of w.....
» 17/05/2019 5:59:11 PM Alan, Yeah. Of course. Yadayada. Rights should be defended. But that's not all that relev.....
» 17/05/2019 5:30:39 PM With the timely death of Bob Hawke, Labor will win this election with a clear majority of .....
» 17/05/2019 5:24:06 PM Hi Aidan, Just to pick you up on your comment: "Big Nana, When you pay taxes, you c.....
» 16/05/2019 10:19:24 AM Paul, And save paying rent for that much longer: saving for a deposit AND paying rent in .....
» 16/05/2019 10:01:54 AM Belly, " ..... kids, even if only 16, often know more than us old fogey's." Fr.....
» 15/05/2019 2:32:49 PM Hi Ponder, " ..... he had an undertaking not to speak publicly on matters which coul.....
» 15/05/2019 10:18:18 AM Hi Individual, I meant pre-contact: how did Islanders get fresh water before diesel gener.....
» 14/05/2019 1:05:10 PM Habeen, A friend of a friend reported that the sea-level around Perth had risen by four i.....
» 14/05/2019 12:59:10 PM Hi Ttbn, Earlier, you wrote that (among other forms of life) an egg (you mean woman's ovu.....
» 14/05/2019 12:01:39 PM Ttbn, Is it my imagination or has there been a shift in the jargon over the years, from '.....
» 14/05/2019 10:50:41 AM Hi Paul, Reagan a one-time communist ? I don't think so, he was a major instigator in the.....
» 13/05/2019 5:08:56 PM SM, You're forgetting the multiplier factor, that 1800 jobs in one project can create up .....
» 12/05/2019 2:57:36 PM Thanks for that, Individual, I'm born and bred an ABC child, my radio is on the ABC now, .....
» 11/05/2019 3:12:19 PM So, that's . ...... what ? From conception ? (So the morning-after pill is an abortifacent.....
» 11/05/2019 1:14:42 PM Can we please clarify this issue ? Is a fertilised ovum, a full human being ? If so, then.....
» 11/05/2019 12:58:43 PM Hi Alan, Still trying to untangle what you wrote. So you're a believer, but not a Christi.....
» 10/05/2019 12:03:59 PM Hi Galen, “In general, the more seriously Christianity is taken, the less pleasant it bec.....
» 9/05/2019 5:44:50 PM Hi Paul, My mum lived in Helen Clark's electorate, Mount Albert, and she told me that if .....
» 9/05/2019 11:20:35 AM Does that half-wit who sent his own crap to Abbott realise that his DNA can be identified .....
» 8/05/2019 11:34:30 PM Hi Alan, "Let he who is without sin cast the first stone." Well, yeah, isn't t.....
» 8/05/2019 9:05:28 PM Individual, Somehow I think this may be slightly off-topic, but in defence of my dear iri.....
» 8/05/2019 5:19:28 PM Thanks, Belly: Snowflakes to the Right of us ! Snowflakes to the Left of us ! And al.....
» 7/05/2019 9:23:55 AM Bren, So NOT reporting such a sleazy suck-up attempt would have been more ethical ? If al.....
» 6/05/2019 5:45:27 PM Hi Aidan, As an ex-Maoist, I have to agree that China will face some huge problems in the.....
» 6/05/2019 5:07:52 PM Hi Steele, I wonder if you inadvertently equate 'Palestinians' with 'Hamas', and 'Hamas' .....
» 6/05/2019 4:59:39 PM Hi Belly, China has a capitalist economy and a quasi-fascist political set-up. The residu.....
» 6/05/2019 2:56:54 PM Capitalism, so Marx wrote, is always on the look-out to commodify everything. So now it's .....
» 5/05/2019 12:54:40 PM Ttbn, Sounds about right. I hope the elephant wasn't hurt. So let's see: * . we should.....
» 5/05/2019 12:47:06 PM Hi Individual, Capitalism is endlessly inventive, there's nothing like the threat of loss.....
» 4/05/2019 6:30:44 PM Ttbn, When you mention migration, do you mean refugees ? When you mention refugees, do y.....
» 4/05/2019 6:28:02 PM Hi Hasbeen, It's notable that small children tend to think in terms of absolutes - good O.....
» 4/05/2019 2:09:32 PM Dear Foxy, We can stop it in two ways: * . never use sheep again, and let them go extinc.....
» 3/05/2019 9:37:19 AM Hi Belly, Just a suggestion: please, please, read over your posts before you send them. C.....
» 3/05/2019 9:31:26 AM Thank you so much for this, Binoy. As you conclude, crap has been concocted throughout h.....
» 2/05/2019 3:53:06 PM Dearest Foxy, To see where the 'discussion' on Indigenous issues may go, have a listen to.....
» 2/05/2019 9:35:04 AM Paul, Then there's Lizardman .........
» 30/04/2019 1:48:03 PM Steele, You're right, everyone should be free to try to close a gate on a running horse, .....
» 30/04/2019 11:53:49 AM Ttbn, I think the figure was more like 35 % disapproving of current immigration levels an.....
» 29/04/2019 10:39:43 PM Individual, What makes you think that there is a huge distance between fascism and some f.....
» 29/04/2019 4:06:16 PM Hi Runner, "Paul actually wrote that if a man was too lazy to work he should not eat.....
» 29/04/2019 4:02:40 PM Hi Steele, And a fascist arm of Islamism murdered two hundred and fifty innocent men, wom.....
» 28/04/2019 6:30:24 PM It's appalling that there is so little comment about the massacre of innocent Christian me.....
» 28/04/2019 1:40:14 PM I have to laugh when I see some of the election posters around town: they might as well sa.....
» 28/04/2019 1:33:07 PM Not every ethnic group, Individual. The Polish community here in Adelaide used to have a v.....
» 28/04/2019 1:27:23 PM Individual, Of course: after all legitimate expenses. We all do that when we prepare or t.....
» 28/04/2019 11:20:54 AM Dear Foxy, If every company ploughed all of its pre-tax profits back into its business op.....
» 27/04/2019 1:57:01 PM Is a fertilised egg a human being ? Then I suppose a morning-after pill would be out. In f.....
» 26/04/2019 3:41:23 PM Companies paying zero tax: if a company ploughs all its profits back into development, res.....
» 25/04/2019 6:12:53 PM Hasbeen, You suggest: " .... if we want trees to absorb more CO2, & I can't imagine .....
» 25/04/2019 2:22:34 PM Hi Steele, For once, I agree with you, on these issues. Jesus, now either I'm a lefty f.....
» 25/04/2019 12:14:42 PM Belly, "One world, even with the loss of some freedom, may, in 200 years after its f.....
» 25/04/2019 12:02:54 PM AC, Proddies aren't too keen on integrating with Catholics either. Hindus aren't too ke.....
» 25/04/2019 11:53:43 AM Hi Individual, I wonder if, when the Great Day comes and medical advances allow men to ge.....
» 25/04/2019 11:46:00 AM Hi CM, The key to lowering the birth-rate across Africa may be female education: educated.....
» 24/04/2019 11:57:01 AM CM, Africa is as big as four Australias. Much of it is lush, and could be highly producti.....
» 23/04/2019 6:32:13 PM Hi CM, So who has to go ? The elderly ? Since, i suspect, you're one of us/them, that's n.....
» 23/04/2019 4:32:50 PM Hi Runner, Not sure what you're referring to. No, i don't believe an embryo is a person, .....
» 23/04/2019 4:28:55 PM Sorry, Hasbeen, I'm a slow learner: which bit is a furphy ? Joe.....
» 23/04/2019 11:17:20 AM Ttbn, A drop-off in the greening of the world ? I don't think so: https://notrickszone.c.....
» 21/04/2019 6:24:44 PM Ttbn, That's it ? Like it or not, the woman has the baby and then has to care for it for .....
» 21/04/2019 2:55:15 PM Henry, I'm waiting for our feminists to pay any attention to this appalling crime. But I .....
» 21/04/2019 2:47:48 PM Ttbn & Runner, So the answer to the question: "In other words, should the prohibitio.....
» 21/04/2019 1:04:35 PM Ttbn, No, I'm simply trying to ask whether or not Runner (and Henry) believe that, in the.....
» 21/04/2019 11:58:37 AM Hi Henry, Yes, many females are quite irresponsible like that. They deserve to be lumbere.....
» 21/04/2019 10:11:41 AM Hi Runner, You've answered questions that I didn't ask. I look forward to your answering .....
» 20/04/2019 5:23:33 PM Runner, So ........ immigration caused this terrible fire ? I thought that immigration .....
» 20/04/2019 5:20:16 PM Runner, Just asking, but if abortion was illegal, and women had to have their babies, sho.....
» 20/04/2019 1:48:28 PM Ttbn & CM, Christ, now I'll be tarred as an Alt-Right for sure ! Hi SM, If Folau's citi.....
» 19/04/2019 3:01:13 PM Dear Foxy, So ....... in future, in order to gain employment, it may become standard that.....
» 16/04/2019 4:16:43 PM Dear Foxy, Do you mean that slavery expanded with imperialism ? Not necessarily - the Imp.....
» 15/04/2019 8:42:24 PM Steele, Given that pretty much all societies lived off the backs of slaves, from the Phar.....
» 15/04/2019 8:37:46 PM How come nobody's come to the defence of thieves, drunks and fornicators ?.....
» 14/04/2019 6:36:48 PM Children, calm down. Even if, as Eric Kaufmann observes, the Anglo population in the US fa.....
» 14/04/2019 3:57:43 PM Steele, You put your finger on it: sometimes, differing rights conflict. One person's rig.....
» 14/04/2019 3:01:50 PM Fester, If I could paraphrase the Left's (and possibly Trump's: go figure) response to yo.....
» 13/04/2019 11:39:44 AM I wonder if vegans are aware that, without meat in Australian diets, there would be no ani.....
» 12/04/2019 5:33:18 PM Is it possible that the US won't even bother to try to extradite what's-his-name to the US.....
» 12/04/2019 5:22:57 PM Dear Foxy, Thanks for getting back to the topic. Yes, a body of flowing water. A body of .....
» 12/04/2019 5:12:12 PM Hi AC, I wonder what a vegan would taste like ? Perhaps deficient in protein, and of cour.....
» 12/04/2019 4:59:51 PM I'm sure that, as a good Christian, Folau loves sinners but not necessarily the sin. So I .....
» 12/04/2019 9:32:34 AM Der vFoxy, I don't think that the notion that Muslims, like everybody else, should act wi.....
» 12/04/2019 9:28:38 AM I've been a non-believer since I was about seven, but I do strongly believe that everybody.....
» 11/04/2019 1:39:37 PM Hi Belly, Yes, vegans have the right to be vegans. Homosexuals have the right to be homos.....
» 11/04/2019 12:17:29 PM Dearest Foxy, Please be careful, that can be interpreted as 'hate speech', since, after a.....
» 10/04/2019 9:34:33 PM I'm puzzled about a couple of things: * . tofu - it's made from soya beans, which is grow.....
» 10/04/2019 1:58:45 PM If any evil power wanted to unite Sunni (Saudi, etc) and Shia (Iran, Iraq, etc.) in furiou.....
» 10/04/2019 1:49:31 PM AC, There are problems with the logic of all of your premises which make them ludicrously.....
» 9/04/2019 6:21:17 PM Let's clarify: * . we shouldn't eat meat, or any animal products; so much less pastoralis.....
» 9/04/2019 6:11:51 PM Belly, By "all", if you mean the Australian community, you're right. These pare.....
» 7/04/2019 6:43:52 PM Bazz, Is it possible that the big oil companies are switching to renewables for the subsi.....
» 7/04/2019 1:04:38 PM Belly, There is no danger of Australia running out of coal or gas, even if our entire ene.....
» 5/04/2019 1:52:51 PM LEGO, The Japanese population in Hawai'i before the War was probably in single percentage.....
» 4/04/2019 10:06:46 PM Bozec, So ...... what the two ON clowns were recorded as saying, doesn't count ? They did.....
» 4/04/2019 10:03:28 PM Bozec, Of course it is. All of the Baltic states, and then Finland too. Maybe then Poland.....
» 4/04/2019 11:08:25 AM Francesca, Those missiles in the Baltic are probably pointing at Russian missiles pointin.....
» 3/04/2019 1:49:41 PM Can we just clarify that pretty much all of us are, at some time or other, on some issue o.....
» 2/04/2019 1:16:14 PM Hi Steele, You suggest that " .... if I said all old white males are rapists that wo.....
» 2/04/2019 8:15:43 AM Jayb, You suggest that " .... Don't worry Pauline, the more they rant against you, t.....
» 2/04/2019 8:10:14 AM So how much more electricity will be needed to charge up all those millions of cars ? And .....
» 1/04/2019 3:27:08 PM Hi Alan, That's a bit disingenuous, to cite the Sufi version of Islam: the question is, w.....
» 31/03/2019 11:50:58 AM Dear Foxy, I have a suspicion that the right-wing/conservative/backward sections of socie.....
» 31/03/2019 9:34:38 AM LEGO, You suggest that "The moral puritans like Uncle Fester, Foxy and Aiden B. can .....
» 31/03/2019 9:29:54 AM Ttbn, Are you linking your coming downfall of Western civilisation to women's equality ? .....
» 30/03/2019 5:11:17 PM Ttbn, Are you suggesting that some of the wowsers on this site have views equivalent to t.....
» 29/03/2019 3:28:52 PM Belly & Individual, There is a brilliant article in today's Australian by Henry Ergas in .....
» 29/03/2019 3:06:00 PM Yes, Ttbn, it is. I'm even more of a fan of women's AFL than ever after seeing that beauti.....
» 27/03/2019 7:16:30 PM Individual, Frankly, I thought that both McQueen and Linda Burney were bird-brains, with .....
» 27/03/2019 3:28:00 PM Thank you, Foxy. That's beautiful. I'm in a singing group and we do gigs at old people's.....
» 27/03/2019 3:23:46 PM Robert, I have no problems with far-left viewpoints being discussed at universities. I ha.....
» 25/03/2019 8:13:25 PM Refugees, almost by definition, are very different in their aspirations, from migrants. Re.....
» 25/03/2019 5:26:32 PM Maybe I'm not too bright but I have the suspicion that the natural allies of the Greens ar.....
» 25/03/2019 5:13:11 PM Duck, Peterson would agree with you, you don't have to be a Christian to feel some admira.....
» 25/03/2019 2:57:45 PM MHaze, I don't see that as a cost at all: what are people supposed to do, stay out of the.....
» 25/03/2019 2:13:08 PM The murderer was a fan of North Korea (I didn't know about his admiration for China) so it.....
» 25/03/2019 8:42:41 AM Can we move on for mirror-image arguments on both left and right ?.....
» 24/03/2019 12:50:18 PM Is Mie, Is that why the slaving stations West Africa usually went only a hundred metres o.....
» 24/03/2019 9:32:27 AM Paul, According to the ABC, there was a swing of 3.2 % to the SFF and a swing of 1 % agai.....
» 23/03/2019 10:29:27 PM Hey, you slackers ! In my home-state, a woman has been elected as Premier in her own righ.....
» 21/03/2019 11:33:51 AM Hi Runner, Slightly off topic, but would you advocate that all fathers of embryos should.....
» 21/03/2019 10:34:04 AM Hi Calwest, It's evil, and wrong, either way: innocents should not be killed on any groun.....
» 21/03/2019 9:18:08 AM Surely in Australia, we have to champion the values of equality of men and women, of the r.....
» 21/03/2019 9:09:49 AM Dear Foxy, Are you suggesting that the British should have left the caste system and sati.....
» 20/03/2019 1:07:36 PM Hi Paul, Hmmm ...... a certain amount of projection there :). Nobody would claim that the.....
» 19/03/2019 5:20:05 PM Anyway, to get back to topic, the High Court has ordered the NT Government to pay the equi.....
» 19/03/2019 4:53:27 PM Dear Foxy, Five thousand organisations have at least five thousand voices. The Indigenous.....
» 19/03/2019 1:04:29 PM Hi Belly, Just to keep you company ;) After Daley's stupid and thoughtless remarks equat.....
» 19/03/2019 12:33:40 PM Mhaze, Or, of course, distribute any benefits on the basis of need alone. Around sixty .....
» 19/03/2019 10:32:20 AM Dear Foxy, I think it's universal that members of Indigenous community councils have to b.....
» 18/03/2019 7:08:13 PM Us Mie, So ...... you're suggesting that somehow people in the left were at least partly .....
» 18/03/2019 3:23:37 PM Dear Foxy, Australia, Indigenous people and communities have had self-determination fo ne.....
» 18/03/2019 11:43:43 AM [contiued] The right to use the land as they always had done ? That's already written int.....
» 18/03/2019 11:38:30 AM Le's be honest: for good and/or ill, colonisation was inevitable. Some imperialist power w.....
» 18/03/2019 9:43:27 AM Paul, If you won't admit evidence, even from the earliest days, because "it's not be.....
» 18/03/2019 9:34:06 AM CM, Both 'Left' and Right are very broad churches: I would regard both Foxy and myself as.....
» 17/03/2019 8:17:31 AM [continued] "A curious thing is that though an old native man will sell any or all o.....
» 17/03/2019 8:15:31 AM [continued] Polygamy is the cause of nearly every fight among natives. A man takes anothe.....
» 17/03/2019 8:13:07 AM From the WA Moseley Royal Commission into the Aborigines, 1935: part of the testimony of M.....
» 16/03/2019 5:41:06 PM Steele & Foxy, Yes, beautiful, just right ! Hi Runner, I'm sure you mean to write that,.....
» 16/03/2019 2:21:16 PM I could be wrong but I don't think there's ever been a pro-Islamist terrorist attack in Ne.....
» 16/03/2019 2:06:24 PM Hi MHaze, 34 times, across the entire Indigenous population - but in the cities, it's pro.....
» 16/03/2019 10:54:08 AM [continued] To get back to the original topic: (1). was invasion/settlement inevitable ? .....
» 16/03/2019 10:42:57 AM Paul, Can you try to understand that ALL. hunter-gatherer societies used appalling amount.....
» 15/03/2019 8:02:05 PM Paul, At the Alice Springs Hospital, Aboriginal women are something like thirty times mor.....
» 15/03/2019 2:34:40 PM So ..... groups can be paid for roads, water pipelines, sewage ponds, any government-funde.....
» 11/03/2019 12:31:07 PM Steele, Even if the 'witness' and his testimony were sworn on a stack of bibles, and he k.....
» 11/03/2019 12:19:51 PM Hi Alison Jane, Sorry, I took umbrage at Ateday's airy declaration to destroy entire huma.....
» 11/03/2019 10:09:11 AM Ateday, Once you are world dictator, how do you propose to bring about " .... a sust.....
» 11/03/2019 9:55:21 AM Binoy, What ?! " .... hoping that faith prevails over evidence" ?! Or that &quo.....
» 10/03/2019 5:41:37 PM Steele, Not just the law, but the way that children are accessed - any teacher knows neve.....
» 10/03/2019 5:30:37 PM Individual, Yeah, I remember picking apricots in the Riverland in 1980, in 40 - 43 - 43 -.....
» 7/03/2019 1:17:04 PM Dear Foxy, As an atheist of lapsed Proddy background, I'm certainly ready to believe that.....
» 7/03/2019 10:02:43 AM David, Interesting: you write about the possibility of some jurors who might be " .......
» 6/03/2019 11:54:22 AM Having been felt up by a few blokes when I was teenager, just hand up the leg stuff, (you .....
» 5/03/2019 2:57:43 PM Steele, Nok, just insufficient. Imagine some right-wing government which grabbed lefties .....
» 5/03/2019 12:20:08 PM I'm confused now. Pell is found guilty on someone's say-so. Shorten has charges dropped ag.....
» 5/03/2019 12:13:56 PM Weird. I would expect dumb-arse leftist children and/or academics (somewhat interchangeabl.....
» 5/03/2019 11:59:24 AM Dearest Foxy, I can't stand Pell. I've always been an atheist, and if anything, from a pr.....
» 3/03/2019 10:47:24 AM Is Mise, Bar anybody who had been in the SS ? Or Stasi ? Or Rumania's Securitate ? Or wor.....
» 1/03/2019 3:24:26 PM I've been an atheist all my life (my parents were Communists, the only working-class membe.....
» 26/02/2019 9:44:53 AM Maybe a 'world government' should start with bilateral agreements, even unanimity, for a c.....
» 25/02/2019 2:48:40 PM Ttbn, Yes, all universities should be teaching courses in 'The History of Socialist Socie.....
» 25/02/2019 2:18:59 PM Speaking of 'post-truth', as " .... circumstances in which objective facts are less i.....
» 25/02/2019 2:07:13 PM Paul, I think the abilities of shonks are greatly underestimated - not in any sort of pol.....
» 23/02/2019 3:43:23 PM Henry, It would put a lot of pressure on staff though, probably having to fly in and out .....
» 22/02/2019 3:28:29 PM I'm starting to think that Millenials are onto something: that pensions are perhaps not su.....
» 21/02/2019 10:56:21 AM For an excellent philosophical commentary on this subject, I highly recommend: https://qu.....
» 20/02/2019 2:33:38 PM Paul, Young people have a point, and I hope that governments over the next century slowly.....
» 19/02/2019 8:46:42 AM Dear Foxy, You suggest "The only alternative that we have is to remove the real su.....
» 18/02/2019 4:06:51 PM He forgot locusts. What about plagues of locusts ? Maybe every seven years ?.....
» 17/02/2019 1:46:16 PM Dear Foxy, I suppose I had Indonesia in mind, certainly not the dreadful regimes that the.....
» 17/02/2019 10:42:08 AM Dear Foxy, You assert that, "Therefore the obvious conclusion we are invited to draw.....
» 17/02/2019 9:47:27 AM Dear Foxy, I would love to know the numbers, from one year to another, of refugee applica.....
» 17/02/2019 9:33:15 AM Paul, Huh ! Margarine ! Some of us can only dream of margarine, we have to make do with s.....
» 17/02/2019 9:29:46 AM Dear Foxy, Hmmm ........ "It's not the religion that's at fault but people's interpr.....
» 16/02/2019 6:39:54 PM Dear Foxy, How do you mean ? For the record, I'm fully supportive of the annual refugee .....
» 16/02/2019 1:41:44 PM Dear Foxy, Is it possible that the great majority of internees on Nauru and Manus will so.....
» 16/02/2019 1:25:09 PM Hi Philip, So ......... a 'conspiracy' - i.e. plans to invoke the law to have Trump remov.....
» 16/02/2019 1:18:01 PM Hi Paul, I certainly don't begrudge people my age the pension but, as physical work becom.....
» 14/02/2019 1:12:47 PM Individual, Probably because he has a high profile, and because he has spoken out about h.....
» 14/02/2019 11:07:27 AM Belly & Individual, But isn't it possible that the Labour Party is just waiting for such .....
» 14/02/2019 10:50:26 AM Ttbn, Not sure what the 'Left' has to do with any of this: * al-Araibi has good grounds .....
» 12/02/2019 9:58:11 AM Obviously, Tim Wilson should have recused himself from any deliberations of that committee.....
» 10/02/2019 5:09:38 PM Steele, Just one more thing: has anybody (surely, yes) done studies of the heat-island ef.....
» 10/02/2019 5:04:56 PM Hi Steele, No, just recognising the 1939 hottest for what it actually measured using a di.....
» 10/02/2019 3:16:38 PM A couple of weeks ago, Adelaide experienced its hottest day ever, 46.6 degrees. In The A.....
» 9/02/2019 12:40:49 PM One world-government is not a new idea, all Utopias ( = Dystopias) yearn for it. Islam, fo.....
» 8/02/2019 3:30:29 PM Belly, Uniting both Australia and New Zealand under one government ? I suppose it could h.....
» 7/02/2019 2:10:12 PM Hi Ttbn, Perhaps, as you imply, immigrants should be barred from standard housing and sho.....
» 3/02/2019 10:35:07 PM Hi Paul, So would you support NZ's MMP system, a double-system of elected representatives.....
» 31/01/2019 5:43:48 PM So people on the 'cashless' card have 20 % of their lifelong entitlements in cash. That so.....
» 31/01/2019 5:27:19 PM Hi Toni, Gosh, I wonder if your model has ever been tried, and how it worked out. One l.....
» 31/01/2019 3:32:49 PM Hi Mhaze, Pretty much all societies have employed slavery, when they had the clout to enf.....
» 2/01/2019 2:34:57 PM Mhaze, I think it was McMahon who introduced the single mothers' benefit in 1971. Bingo -.....
» 1/01/2019 8:53:44 PM Dearest Foxy, Well, there's conservatives and what Marxists called reactionaries. As I un.....
» 1/01/2019 3:30:20 PM Hi Aidan, Yes, your Political Compass model is probably superior to Hayek's: a particular.....
» 1/01/2019 12:09:42 PM Aidan, Not just bad economic management. Venezuela is about as big as South Australia, 35.....
» 1/01/2019 11:14:29 AM Dearest Foxy, Maybe the goals which many people, especially those doing it tough, are muc.....
» 1/01/2019 9:18:24 AM I think we have to get away from the simplistic notion that political philosophies can ran.....
» 31/12/2018 4:15:41 PM Dear F foxy, As an ex myself, I have to say that Marxist socialism has, every time, gone .....
» 31/12/2018 11:08:45 AM Bazz, The 1920s. Until then, all those cities along the Aegean coast of what is now Turke.....
» 31/12/2018 8:30:21 AM Steele, you do me wrong. I wasn't saying that sea-levels generally were falling, but merel.....
» 30/12/2018 7:11:05 PM Hi Steele, Yes, sea-levels either stay the same, rise or decline. My point was that, if l.....
» 30/12/2018 11:13:21 AM Good point about the meaning of democracy, Mhaze. But I'm puzzled about your writing-off .....
» 30/12/2018 10:57:26 AM I thought that atolls were always very slowly sinking anyway (didn't Darwin write somethin.....
» 30/12/2018 10:57:17 AM Altrav, Wow, do you ever read your own posts, and ever wonder if, in some way, what you c.....
» 30/12/2018 10:53:03 AM I thought that atolls were always very slowly sinking anyway (didn't Darwin write somethin.....
» 30/12/2018 8:55:58 AM Hi Individual, Australia is a big country, with its northern rivers carrying more water i.....
» 30/12/2018 8:43:03 AM Is education over-rated in today's society ? It depends whether the author meant (a) tha.....
» 29/12/2018 5:52:22 PM Hi VoxUnius, And probably, the girls would grasp the essentials of the mechanics of fligh.....
» 29/12/2018 4:47:58 PM [continued] wheat. Nothing. Did the community council have any input into decisions abo.....
» 29/12/2018 4:38:22 PM Dear Foxy, I just saw a car here in SA with the plate "FOXY", Toyota Corolla, v.....
» 29/12/2018 9:13:45 AM Dear Foxy, The article - at last ! - notes that barely 20 % of the total Australian Indig.....
» 28/12/2018 4:37:34 PM Mhaze, Yeah, stuff the Kurds. What did they ever do for us ? Oh yeah, ISIS, but let's con.....
» 28/12/2018 1:21:34 PM CM, Just to clarify your assertions: "There are also indigenous reserves- they have.....
» 28/12/2018 7:29:39 AM There are more than thirty million Kurds, surely enough to form a state, either a single s.....
» 27/12/2018 11:51:06 AM I keep hoping that I'm wrong, that Trump is not a despicable turd, a bully, with the atten.....
» 26/12/2018 6:05:40 PM Altrav, I've written this many times before, but you don't take any notice. Never mind, h.....
» 23/12/2018 9:31:26 AM So Trump is abandoning the Kurds to Erdogan's army. The Kurds, who did so much of the figh.....
» 20/12/2018 4:29:29 PM [continued] In fact, one time, we sort of accidentally ran a career workshop with kids in.....
» 20/12/2018 4:26:20 PM Gender imbalance is consistently strong in Indigenous education: two-thirds off the fifty-.....
» 20/12/2018 9:44:06 AM Belly, A little punctuation would help readers to decipher your posts :) MHaze, Yes, su.....
» 17/12/2018 8:28:58 AM Fascinating, but not surprising. So the Soviet leaders were happy to get into bed with cla.....
» 14/12/2018 1:05:07 PM Dear Foxy, I've been an atheist all my life, but I happily sing all the carols with my si.....
» 14/12/2018 10:40:29 AM Yeah, but what about the facts that (1) migrants take our jobs, and (2) none of them w.....
» 8/12/2018 3:04:34 PM Good on you, Alan, never give up. Yes, that damned spell-check or whatever. I suppose we a.....
» 8/12/2018 2:56:12 PM For a moment, I thought this article may be about cutting people up, mincing their remains.....
» 8/12/2018 2:42:55 PM Hi Toni, In my old age, I easily get confused. You suggest that no amount of tree-plantin.....
» 8/12/2018 2:29:40 PM Hi Aidan, Thank goodness ! Now we can start slowly reducing the subsidies on renewable en.....
» 7/12/2018 5:04:57 PM Hi Aidan, Perhaps one day, wind towers and solar panels will be profitably produced using.....
» 7/12/2018 4:57:57 PM A friend has told me that his other friend in Bunbury, WA, has reported that the sea-level.....
» 7/12/2018 4:30:05 PM There is something utterly half-witted about this thread. World government ? The unity of .....
» 7/12/2018 8:41:24 AM Hi Pauol, I certainly don't support a lock-em-up-and-throw-away-the-key, one-size-fits-al.....
» 7/12/2018 8:27:16 AM Altrav, That's your best shot ? i.e. nothing ?.....
» 7/12/2018 8:25:21 AM Philip, Are the construction costs of wind towers (concrete, steel, rare earths, etc.) or.....
» 6/12/2018 5:45:21 PM Hi Philip, Yes, I've thought much the same for many years. Some idiot starts a fire (heh .....
» 6/12/2018 5:17:36 PM Philip, Scotland: 65 "low wind days" in a year would be one day in every six, o.....
» 6/12/2018 12:41:58 PM Altrav, I'm well aware of confirmation bias :) Not sure what you are going on about. You.....
» 6/12/2018 10:50:24 AM Dearest Foxy, Thanks for those inspiring stories. Yes, many Indigenous people go on to po.....
» 6/12/2018 10:23:40 AM [continued] Conversely, by demanding the extinction of some occupations such as those in .....
» 6/12/2018 10:22:35 AM Politics tends to be class-Oriented. The traditional Left claimed to champion the working .....
» 5/12/2018 8:17:28 PM Dearest Foxy, Some icing ! Yes, we keep the (mostly) positive aspects of our heritages, .....
» 5/12/2018 4:54:40 PM Dearest Foxy, Your kind words make it all worth-while :) Do you have positive feelings f.....
» 5/12/2018 1:27:44 PM Alt Rave, The only relations - or overwhelmingly so - that you know: if they are, say, Pa.....
» 5/12/2018 9:38:26 AM Hi Paul, Yes, it's facts that matter. As the revered ancient Roman law experts put it: 'A.....
» 4/12/2018 11:37:46 AM Yes, the lion will one day lie down with the lamb, and go vegan. Yes, one day, if we all s.....
» 4/12/2018 9:11:45 AM I'm not having a go at anybody with this post. Just thought that I should try to make that.....
» 3/12/2018 12:52:20 PM Thanks, Foxy, spot-on. I suspect that Alt Rave went to uni for a year and bombed out. Bu.....
» 2/12/2018 8:05:02 AM Alt Rave, There are tens of thousands of universities across the world. For any universit.....
» 2/12/2018 8:02:20 AM Individual, With respect, your comments about federal funds being siphoned off into unive.....
» 1/12/2018 12:10:43 PM Belly, Hasbeen has a point: the Greens' vote in the Victorian elections declined by arou.....
» 1/12/2018 10:08:14 AM Ttbn, You're proving my suspicions - what have international students got to do with Indi.....
» 30/11/2018 2:14:22 PM [continued] Batchelor now has either no students or single-figure students, and no gradua.....
» 30/11/2018 2:09:41 PM Hi Big Nana, Yes, I agree about mainstream study, and intensive preparation courses to as.....
» 30/11/2018 8:26:12 AM Alt Rave, There are Polynesian-Australians at universities; Italian-Australians at univer.....
» 29/11/2018 5:09:37 PM Hi Hasbeen, Last week, the last power-house chimney was blown up here in SA, at Pt August.....
» 28/11/2018 7:10:22 PM I wrote that " .... there is a way of attacking something or someone WITHOUT mentioni.....
» 28/11/2018 12:42:17 PM Ttbn, Love that definitional slide ! I wrote about your 'attacking Indigenous people seiz.....
» 28/11/2018 9:49:03 AM Ttbn, Your concentration - bordering on obsession - with a very small section of Australi.....
» 28/11/2018 8:53:24 AM Dear Foxy, Like me, you probably suspect that there is a way of attacking something or so.....
» 27/11/2018 10:46:24 AM Hi Paul, Yes indeed, 'community' can be positive and supportive, but Maori society is far.....
» 27/11/2018 10:29:20 AM Ttbn, I take offence as being called 'politically-motivated'. Never mind. Yes, there is.....
» 27/11/2018 9:00:16 AM [continued] .... contribution for the common good is not a strong point of Aboriginal 'co.....
» 27/11/2018 8:54:55 AM Hi Individual, Yes, you're mostly right, but 'communities' (writing entirely hypothetical.....
» 26/11/2018 3:35:25 PM Hi Individual & Foxy, I imagine that communities need people with all manner of skills - .....
» 26/11/2018 1:00:32 PM Dearest Foxy, In the early days, say 1973 up to the turn of the century, many courses wer.....
» 26/11/2018 12:52:37 PM Ttbn, people honestly identify as Indigenous: very often, the only relations they've ever .....
» 26/11/2018 12:50:58 PM [continued] Yet the push by staff in Indigenous-focussed courses continued, at least unti.....
» 25/11/2018 1:24:31 PM This year, around twenty thousand Indigenous people were enrolled in university courses. A.....
» 17/11/2018 12:32:18 PM Nathan, He was a big, powerful bloke, moving fast and erratically. If nobody had had a gu.....
» 14/11/2018 3:59:35 PM But don't you fools realise that electric cars have be more economical than conventional c.....
» 14/11/2018 9:24:24 AM Am I right in my faulty memory, that the Democrats gained twelve million more votes than t.....
» 12/11/2018 4:57:11 PM Boogey-man theories are fun, aren't they ? One world government ? There's Russia and Ukrai.....
» 12/11/2018 2:04:58 PM Nathan, Dumb arse. What do you think WOULD have happened if the police hadn't shot that t.....
» 10/11/2018 12:52:55 PM I wish (vain hope) that contributors here would distinguish between: *. immigrants, most .....
» 6/11/2018 12:58:30 PM Dear Foxy, It's called 'obsession'. Or maybe 'misplaced faith'. Anyhow, Indigenous higher.....
» 6/11/2018 11:02:26 AM Dear Foxy, Publicised ? Yes, indeed. Higher ed should be an eighth target for 'Closing th.....
» 6/11/2018 9:41:25 AM Thanks, Paul. Another couple of intriguing data: * In 2017, out of 426,371 domestic Aust.....
» 5/11/2018 2:19:23 PM Ttbn, // Just how interested do you think that 96% of the population should be in the uni.....
» 4/11/2018 1:15:26 PM Ttbn, I've written many times that I don't support identity politics, that it's okay to b.....
» 3/11/2018 3:47:42 PM Hi Paul, Yes, two-thirds of Indigenous students, year after year, are female. They may ge.....
» 2/11/2018 7:17:11 PM So-called Alt Rav, Across Australia, the figures for Indigenous enrolments from 1970, eac.....
» 2/11/2018 9:16:08 AM Hi Paul, Good advice ! But it's very tempting for people with some ancestry to find ways .....
» 2/11/2018 8:58:56 AM The Left is a very broad church, Calwest. It alway has been, encompassing Marxists, Anarch.....
» 1/11/2018 1:51:02 PM Barry, Paul & SR, Attrition is still a problem - in 2016-2017, as in previous years, it h.....
» 31/10/2018 10:39:41 PM Hi David, A belated happy birthday ! May you live to 120. Yes, we must keep working tow.....
» 31/10/2018 10:44:27 AM Ttbn, Indigenous people have as much right to be ratbags as you do, and I would defend yo.....
» 31/10/2018 10:34:44 AM As a universalist and equalist, I believe it's okay to be anything: any ethnicity, either .....
» 30/10/2018 12:57:27 PM Hi Barry, Yes, indeed: but there were four times as many graduates in 2017 in Architectur.....
» 30/10/2018 11:35:56 AM Ttbn, I'm not so sure that the elites have as much control over Indigenous students. Anec.....
» 30/10/2018 9:30:25 AM Hi Barry, The data is/are available on: https://www.education.gov.au/selected-higher-educ.....
» 29/10/2018 7:59:50 PM Statistics for 2017 have been released, only four months late. Award-level Indigenous comm.....
» 29/10/2018 2:22:45 PM If Australia took in the refugees on Nauru, would they be part of the annual refugee quota.....
» 29/10/2018 2:10:35 PM Okay, if climate change is occurring, if it's due to more CO2 in the atmosphere and oceans.....
» 26/10/2018 8:43:12 AM Whatev, Nick. What thing are you talking about ? Karl Popper provided a brilliant example.....
» 25/10/2018 9:29:31 AM Hi Runner, You assert: "Your promotion prospects increase DRAMATICALLY by ticking th.....
» 25/10/2018 8:50:26 AM Hi SR, Just to pick up on your comment: "And there were plenty of fierce battles ov.....
» 24/10/2018 7:35:10 PM So how much of the popular vote does ON get ? 10 % ? About as much as the Greens' ? [Wow, .....
» 23/10/2018 4:17:36 PM Hi SR, Certainly, it was not unusual, it seems, for early farmers to also be hunters and .....
» 23/10/2018 1:42:59 PM Hi SR, I like that bit: " ..... once part of it was disrupted through the invasion i.....
» 23/10/2018 12:06:13 PM Good try, Steele: no, I've never written that " .... the lack of fences prove no fiel.....
» 23/10/2018 8:47:49 AM Hi Steele, 'Every hoe' ? So those nine miles of kangaroo grass were cultivated by hand-ho.....
» 22/10/2018 2:58:13 PM Thanks, Nick, now all anybody has to do is produce one. Just one cultivating tool. Just on.....
» 22/10/2018 2:44:52 PM Why does the hard right go bananas over this storm in a teacup ? Out of Britain's sixty mi.....
» 21/10/2018 5:45:45 PM Sorry Nick, a harvesting tool, or a hoe, i.e. a. cultivating tool ? Which is it ?.....
» 21/10/2018 5:45:04 PM And there are plenty of them around now ? Plenty in Museums ? I'd hazard a guess and sugge.....
» 21/10/2018 2:41:02 PM Give me one reason, Nick :) Did Aboriginal people put labour into cultivating the soil in.....
» 20/10/2018 10:01:11 AM Steele, I'll try again. Is there any evidence the Aboriginal people here cultivated the s.....
» 19/10/2018 5:53:14 PM SR, Well, I tried. I'm too old to waste my time on people with pre-conceived notions, and.....
» 19/10/2018 1:34:24 PM Steele, I just love the "Well, how else do you explain ..... ?!" arguments, the.....
» 18/10/2018 9:14:54 AM NNNick, Why do people think it was so easy to switch from foraging to farming ? Farming n.....
» 17/10/2018 6:00:55 PM SR, Gilligan suggests that there is " .... paucity (if not total absence) of agricul.....
» 17/10/2018 2:11:58 PM Bazz, What, do you mean thousands of years ago ? And of course goods were carried overl.....
» 16/10/2018 11:19:18 AM Hi Nick, Yes, and there is a story from up that way about an event when Australia and Ind.....
» 15/10/2018 2:59:52 PM Hi Belly, I often have trouble understanding you at the best of times, [e.g. "Why do.....
» 15/10/2018 12:42:32 PM If the options are to EITHER admit gay etc. students, OR to throw them off of tall buildin.....
» 14/10/2018 8:06:38 PM Anyway, to get back to the original thread: does the truth matter ? i.e. what really happe.....
» 14/10/2018 4:42:39 PM This will probably show my ignorance: if temperatures are rising slightly over, say, a cen.....
» 13/10/2018 6:54:16 PM Hi Steele, About the Rabbit Fence story, I was sceptical that it happened in the way that.....
» 13/10/2018 10:51:53 AM Runner, Do you mean the per capita amount spent on breast and prostrate cancer sufferers .....
» 12/10/2018 6:59:40 PM [continued] Hmmm ...... thirteen hundred Aboriginal farmers, supporting villages of, say,.....
» 12/10/2018 6:54:51 PM [continued] As for the half-witted notions of Pascoe, kangaroo-grass ? Which grows every .....
» 12/10/2018 6:46:18 PM Hi Steele, I suggest you try and find Peter Bellwood's "First Farmers". The ori.....
» 12/10/2018 4:18:09 PM Hi Steele, Strangely, I have to disagree with you: "I find it pretty difficult to g.....
» 12/10/2018 4:06:09 PM Hi Alan & Runner, I'm sure that you would both actually agree that the truth is all-impor.....
» 10/10/2018 10:59:12 AM I'm puzzled about Kavanaugh: in my limited experience, a bloke who regularly hits the grog.....
» 9/10/2018 11:59:51 AM I must be turning into a grumpy old bastard (an unpleasant truth that I must face). Perh.....
» 9/10/2018 11:58:43 AM There seem to be (at least) two brutal truths which people find difficult, even impossible.....
» 9/10/2018 9:45:24 AM The truth may be inconvenient but how can it ever be offensive ? It is what it is. Many pe.....
» 8/10/2018 7:34:27 PM Hi Steele, Yes indeed, but my point is that the women's movement didn't seem to even try .....
» 8/10/2018 2:13:51 PM I can't stand Trump, I think he is a vile bully, a liar, a philanderer, racist, and all th.....
» 4/10/2018 4:36:59 PM Phillip & Foxy, I suppose it depends simply on whether or not people have breached the co.....
» 4/10/2018 4:30:25 PM Yes, you got me there, Thinkabit - I should have written " .... such products are not.....
» 4/10/2018 11:51:24 AM My god, about bloody time. Yes, Thinkabit, if any man needs tampons, they should also be.....
» 3/10/2018 10:23:53 PM [continued] Hmmm ....... is this achievable ? Way back in the dreadfully racist nineteent.....
» 3/10/2018 10:22:51 PM Dear Foxy, Noel Pearson is right that people have to step down from the (financial) pedes.....
» 3/10/2018 2:35:59 PM Dear Foxy, 'Self-determination' means that, to a large extent, the people solve their own.....
» 3/10/2018 12:16:41 PM Der Foxy, If that's what you meant by 'infrastructure', then it's already there. Fifty-km.....
» 3/10/2018 9:21:40 AM Hi Phillip, Yes, that's a very crucial point. So, in my book, Tony Abbott's suggestion of.....
» 2/10/2018 3:24:03 PM Hi Phillip, "Aboriginal activists have complained to the Australian Human Rights Com.....
» 2/10/2018 11:31:26 AM Peter, There's another diversion tactic which gets a lot of play these days: 'the Proof .....
» 1/10/2018 11:31:14 PM Jesus, snowflakes to the left of us, snowflakes to the right of us ........ is there a cha.....
» 1/10/2018 2:29:36 PM EJ, You've heard of the diaspora ? Various compulsory diasporas, actually, since Babyloni.....
» 30/09/2018 11:22:43 AM Hi Individual, Thanks for trying to stay on-topic. Contributions to this thread amply dem.....
» 28/09/2018 4:11:15 PM CM, "As rural areas become more self sufficient it makes them more attractive to int.....
» 28/09/2018 12:02:57 PM I strongly oppose the building of Chernobyl-type nuclear plants. Just look what happened 3.....
» 28/09/2018 11:50:48 AM Suck it up, you fellas. To try vainly to get back to topic: remote 'communities' are goin.....
» 27/09/2018 4:31:31 PM Dear Foxy, I hold Windschuttle in very high esteem as a thorough historian, one who goes .....
» 27/09/2018 12:12:56 PM Dearest Foxy, Of course, there is such a thing as 'objective history' - it may be beyond .....
» 27/09/2018 11:51:34 AM So was an invasion from outside inevitable ? Could Australia, New Zealand and most of the .....
» 26/09/2018 2:14:20 PM Dearest Foxy, I can sympathise with Noel Pearson, but the harsh reality is that the Invas.....
» 26/09/2018 11:37:07 AM [continued] I think there are some gross misunderstandings about our history on both side.....
» 26/09/2018 11:21:58 AM Hi Toni, In the past, Aboriginal people were documented, up, down and bloody sideways. My.....
» 25/09/2018 11:10:55 AM Dear Foxy, Perhaps you're right: whatever documentation there might be - 8,500 letters, a.....
» 24/09/2018 8:12:56 PM Dear Foxy, Yes, probably eight thousand letters and 2,500 pages are only the tip of the i.....
» 24/09/2018 3:15:36 PM Nicknicknick, I have to laugh at how terms get re-defined. A child taken into care for ne.....
» 23/09/2018 8:09:38 PM Thank you, dear Foxy, I wish so much that I could adopt your viewpoint, without any more a.....
» 23/09/2018 4:55:23 PM Dear Foxy, [continued] I'm very uneasy about a sort of triumphalism amongst whites, now,.....
» 23/09/2018 4:52:43 PM Dear Foxy, Re Windschuttle: the truth is not a beauty contest, with the 'winner' of histo.....
» 22/09/2018 5:11:41 PM Diver Dan, I didn't understand your comment: //Joe in the dark tunnel of denial again. R.....
» 22/09/2018 5:02:30 PM Dearest Foxy, Oh, don't tease me ! As a sort of indicator of what might well happen in,.....
» 22/09/2018 4:00:57 PM Toni, As a bogan, and a Westie (Bankston, Penrith), I find your comments most hurtful. S.....
» 22/09/2018 3:32:11 PM Dearest Foxy, Those two boys were running from custody - they were not in custody. If the.....
» 21/09/2018 2:14:10 PM Philip, You're making the naive mistake of thinking that on every issue, there is 'balanc.....
» 21/09/2018 10:04:50 AM Philip, The data on child abuse and neglect in Indigenous 'communities' isn't hard to fin.....
» 20/09/2018 12:09:43 PM Hi Nicknicknick, A Hindu pilgrim sitting in a cave - an Aboriginal image in a cave - what.....
» 20/09/2018 12:01:25 PM In a democracy, everyone is entitled to express their opinions on everything, provided the.....
» 15/09/2018 3:06:23 PM Big Nana & Toni, I wanted both Serena and Naomi to win, but wasn't impressed with Serena'.....
» 13/09/2018 5:58:41 PM Don, what do you expect ? God has all manner of magic, burning bushes, stopping the sun fr.....
» 11/09/2018 12:04:30 PM My very faulty understanding of Snowy 2 is that water is to be pumped uphill when power pr.....
» 10/09/2018 2:05:12 PM Boxy, As above. There will never be a once-and-for-all perfect political system - democra.....
» 8/09/2018 2:31:01 PM Low oil prices are bad news for Iran, as well as for Russia and Venezuela. But once Assad .....
» 8/09/2018 2:20:01 PM Dearest Foxy, I'm so sorry that your grandmother endured so much, to die (I presume) much.....
» 7/09/2018 3:47:02 PM Dear Foxy, There are some composers who I really love, that I have great affection for - .....
» 5/09/2018 1:16:37 PM How come nobody ever thinks of left-handers being behind a lot of the problems of today ? .....
» 24/08/2018 10:26:46 AM Mark, Didn't Plato canvass this notion of rule by a knowledgeable elite, in his fascist U.....
» 22/08/2018 1:12:01 PM [continued] But, to be charitable, this poor kid is oblivious even of the Stakhanovites -.....
» 22/08/2018 1:04:23 PM In the real world, goods are produced and services are provided: i.e. people work to get g.....
» 21/08/2018 2:31:00 PM Alt Rave, To be honest, I don't really put much store in the excuse the men's brains are .....
» 21/08/2018 9:50:48 AM Barry & David, It takes some us a long time to realise that ALL Utopian scripts are funda.....
» 21/08/2018 9:38:02 AM Alt Rave, So ...... it's okay for a bloke to have sex with 22 women over his life, but it.....
» 17/08/2018 2:45:04 PM Diver Dan, An antiquated rancid old fart, yes, probably; Marxist, not so much these days......
» 15/08/2018 2:13:19 PM Diver Dan, Did you notice that Boris is opposed to banning the burka/nikab ? He had some .....
» 15/08/2018 11:01:09 AM Binoy, BoJo is right on both counts: * the nikab shouldn't be banned: women should be ab.....
» 13/08/2018 3:03:03 PM Alt Rave, My understanding is that Ayn Rand left Russia in the twenties and died around f.....
» 10/08/2018 3:18:09 PM Waiter. Airline steward. Police officer. Teacher. Doctor. Minister. Actor. Driver. Firefig.....
» 9/08/2018 5:53:53 PM Runner, Do you mean the ancient Hebrew-language version or the King James version of the .....
» 9/08/2018 3:31:20 PM Dear Foxy, The Greek word "historia" of course had no association with gender, .....
» 9/08/2018 2:10:28 PM Dearest Foxy, I hope you take Big Nana's advice, she's a very experienced nurse, so that .....
» 9/08/2018 1:04:32 PM Hi Butch, I suspect that newspapers have been flogging the sensational, at the expense of.....
» 7/08/2018 10:10:32 AM "Sapiosexuality" - it's amazing now far people can get up themselves. Was it Geo.....
» 31/07/2018 12:47:59 PM Space is quite big. Time is quite long. On the one hand, it's possible that there are coun.....
» 29/07/2018 1:33:46 PM Dear j_brenner, Noses (and ears too) are funny things, most of us simply don't notice the.....
» 27/07/2018 3:02:39 PM Dearest Foxy, Yes, I think there's a grotesque alliance developing between the pro-Russia.....
» 27/07/2018 12:23:17 PM Heckle (ofr is it Jeckle ?), I've never suggested, as you seem to imply, that " &quo.....
» 26/07/2018 10:45:56 PM Heckle & Jeckle, Interesting: you're obviously playing to the Right wing here in Australi.....
» 26/07/2018 10:26:31 AM Bad Cop & Bad Cop, That's the George Soros who is Jewish and was only fourteen years old .....
» 25/07/2018 9:26:26 AM Thanks, Foxy......
» 23/07/2018 3:37:08 PM Kind of begging the question, Yuyutsu :) Yes, apart from the energy across the universe, &.....
» 23/07/2018 1:41:49 PM Yuyutsu, Without a belief in a soul, there is no morality ? I don't think so at all. I do.....
» 23/07/2018 1:32:31 PM AC, Wow, RT has been busy. The Crimea was part of the Ukraine. Russia invaded it. End of.....
» 22/07/2018 7:51:29 PM Hi SM, I can never understand this idiotic and smug assertion that Indigenous culture is .....
» 22/07/2018 10:11:18 AM Hi Ttbn, Sorry, I forgot that Putin is now a good guy, a special friend and handler of Tr.....
» 22/07/2018 8:07:03 AM CM & AC, What's this, Heckle and Jeckle trolls ? Get your news from 'Russia Today', do yo.....
» 20/07/2018 4:35:22 PM Dear Foxy, I wish there was a 'like' button on OLO :) Love, Joe.....
» 20/07/2018 4:22:07 PM Hi Yuyutsu, Perhaps a sub-organism ? Something dependent on an organism ? A non-independe.....
» 19/07/2018 3:36:40 PM Hi John, Tony was, like me, a communist as a child, but we've both given it up long ago. .....
» 19/07/2018 1:46:53 PM Hi Alan, No, with the greatest respect to your grandmother, I don't put much store by ora.....
» 19/07/2018 11:36:32 AM Hi Alan, Do you have the slightest evidence of a wave of invaders 14,000 years ago ? Dogs.....
» 19/07/2018 11:18:28 AM Bad Dog, Geothermal - yes, just pump water down a hole and use the steam coming up to dri.....
» 19/07/2018 9:30:38 AM MHaze, I wonder if Trump brought this up in his in-depth discussion with Putin, on the an.....
» 18/07/2018 10:30:27 PM AC, Hmmmmm .... but where can we find a dictator who has our best interests at heart ? Ar.....
» 18/07/2018 8:00:53 PM Hasbeen & AC, Yes, democracy gets in the way of compulsory, low-wage labour. Lower wages .....
» 18/07/2018 3:33:33 PM Has been, Ah, I see - you don't want higher prices for imported goods, but lower wages fo.....
» 18/07/2018 1:22:22 PM Good on you, Toni :) 'Diversity' can take some weird forms, which can end up not really b.....
» 18/07/2018 11:18:07 AM Hi Has been, Yes, low prices for the US consumer have a dreadful impact on regional econo.....
» 17/07/2018 6:15:28 PM Bazz, Blackmail ? I suppose one man's tactics is another man's blackmail. But again, &qu.....
» 17/07/2018 3:59:47 PM Hi Has been, Yep, the 'export' of services is a great boon to certain classes and, on bal.....
» 17/07/2018 1:18:02 PM Bazz, Manufacturing goes to where the wages are cheaper: check out where Chinese firms ar.....
» 16/07/2018 2:12:33 PM Dearest Foxy, And look a bit deeper and you'll see that there isn't really much differenc.....
» 16/07/2018 9:12:51 AM CM, You think this hasn't been thought of before ? You've heard of a country called Liber.....
» 13/07/2018 4:07:51 PM Runner, I would have taken it for granted that Martin Luther King Jr would have put peopl.....
» 13/07/2018 10:06:22 AM Hi NSS, When's your birthday ? The day you were born, or the day when your mum's egg was .....
» 12/07/2018 10:08:57 AM Hi Toni, Why are we talking about here ? A man and a woman have sex and the woman gets pr.....
» 11/07/2018 10:13:58 PM Hi again David, Well, yeah, that's my point :) Cheers, Joe.....
» 11/07/2018 9:37:47 PM Hi David, A man should have an equal say in an abortion decision IF he is prepared to tak.....
» 11/07/2018 1:59:08 PM Hi SM, Good point, but according to Wikipedia, " .... the [Fixed-Term Parliament] Ac.....
» 11/07/2018 12:12:46 PM Hi Ttbn, I don't know so much, maybe the imminent election in the UK will evolve quickly .....
» 10/07/2018 9:09:45 AM If abortion was made illegal, if any woman who 'fell' pregnant was made to carry the foetu.....
» 8/07/2018 8:51:25 AM Slightly off-topic: From the 2001 Census to the 2016 Census, Indigenous university gradua.....
» 4/07/2018 1:29:37 PM Hi Zeroxcliche, Thanks for a good laugh ! Aboriginal people married, not like other peopl.....
» 3/07/2018 6:28:02 PM My favourite is the one for (against) using the Emergency Departments of SA hospitals, no .....
» 3/07/2018 8:56:18 AM Hi Yuyutsu, Gosh, I didn't know that pools were segregated. I should get out more. As f.....
» 2/07/2018 6:46:19 PM Dearest Foxy, At the risk of further involvement in an extremely minor issue, all I reall.....
» 2/07/2018 3:31:06 PM Dear Foxy, I suppose so, but I have other things to do. I really don't care. I suppose I .....
» 2/07/2018 1:46:43 PM Individual, You've set it out yourself - how people live their short lives. It's got lit.....
» 2/07/2018 8:51:33 AM Hi Cherful, We can't change our DNA on a whim. While there may well be a tiny number of p.....
» 1/07/2018 2:07:01 PM Dearest Foxy, Perhaps one could modify that statement: "I look forward to the day wh.....
» 1/07/2018 11:56:25 AM Dear Foxy, Maybe it's the residual Marxist in me but I often fall back on, "What wou.....
» 30/06/2018 3:03:00 PM Ericc, What seems to be happening in China (and will probably happen in all developed cou.....
» 29/06/2018 3:11:38 PM Mhaze, Me and SR being one and the same ? God forbid ! I'm sure he/she would be appalled .....
» 29/06/2018 2:11:40 PM Hi Mhaze, I think you have me mixed up with someone else: I've never written about Elizab.....
» 28/06/2018 4:36:31 PM Thanks, Belly. Yeah, I often enjoy how a thread goes off-topic - this one goes from the in.....
» 28/06/2018 1:35:30 PM Dear Foxy & O Sung Wu, Thank you so much for your kind words. He was 94, and if I reach t.....
» 28/06/2018 11:11:34 AM Individual, You make the common assumption that land was taken from Indigenous people her.....
» 28/06/2018 10:27:12 AM Thanks, Paul, that's fascinating - my brother has a piece of land up near Mangonui which w.....
» 27/06/2018 8:13:46 PM Hi Paul, Just came back from NZ, my dad's funeral up at Kaitaia, in the Dally cemetery th.....
» 27/06/2018 3:35:55 PM Hi Individual, For a start, investigate every outrageous claim: a massacre ? Where ? Inve.....
» 22/06/2018 6:26:54 PM Hi Toni, Yes, my favourite lesson (parable) from the Bible is about the Good Samaritan - .....
» 22/06/2018 5:52:17 PM Hi Runner, I wonder what Christ would have done ? He would probably have some compassion .....
» 22/06/2018 4:10:54 PM Ttbn, Ooooooh ! Look over there, a unicorn ! Will you blokes look at yourself, for god's.....
» 22/06/2018 2:15:24 PM Hi Ttbn, I try to believe in the good in people, 9including Fopxy. Mcock my flat fingfers.....
» 22/06/2018 10:21:58 AM Hi Ttbn, I think you're right - if you're a bastard, you have to be a complete bastard, a.....
» 22/06/2018 10:12:33 AM Dearest Fopxy, Please stay on OLO, you brighten up every day with your fundamental kindne.....
» 22/06/2018 10:06:14 AM Hi AC, I think I can follow your logic, that because you were treated badly as teenager, .....
» 21/06/2018 6:16:54 PM Dear oh dear, so many non sequiturs. The US has a population of more than 320 million. Ho.....
» 21/06/2018 12:37:38 AM Where to start. Hi Runner, Surely you would be aware that the mothers of those children .....
» 20/06/2018 11:10:07 PM Hi O Sung Wu, i.e. testing weapons and tactics. Some testing joint exercise or other ever.....
» 20/06/2018 10:25:29 PM Hi Has Been, You're probably right, that everybody should forget that Texas, New Mexico (.....
» 20/06/2018 7:23:37 PM Hi Runner, //Why would anyone in favour of abortion now be concerned about parents and ki.....
» 20/06/2018 7:15:29 PM Hi Toni, Yes, probably you're right, that by 2100, robots or non-human artefacts will be .....
» 20/06/2018 5:26:27 PM Individual, Nice try: to conflate crude population growth, year on year, with natural pop.....
» 20/06/2018 10:16:28 AM Hi Paul, Will this still be going on next Winter ? Thousands of kids sleeping on concrete.....
» 20/06/2018 10:04:08 AM Hi Toni, Yes: "The low birth rates of the West and the high levels of aid they provi.....
» 19/06/2018 10:23:30 AM Dearest Foxy, ""No, don't! Don't dig up the past! Dwell on the past and you'll .....
» 19/06/2018 9:27:27 AM There are university-based Centres for the Study of Chinese and Islamic Civilisations arou.....
» 18/06/2018 3:37:43 PM Isn't the simple fact that China is there, and always will be there, a major problem with .....
» 18/06/2018 1:48:08 PM Hi Aidan, Yeah, even Australian Indigenous birth-rates could be much, much lower than gen.....
» 17/06/2018 8:50:20 PM Dog, Just looking at the rate of population growth again: on your figures, between 2010 a.....
» 17/06/2018 5:51:05 PM Hi CDog, Yeah, che king my figures, you've got me there :) But those annual birth figures.....
» 17/06/2018 4:36:41 PM Belly, sure, but one thing, over-population, may not be the cause of the other, poverty. .....
» 17/06/2018 12:16:19 PM Anyway, back to topic. On Korea, Trump seems to have combined a "I'll roll over and .....
» 17/06/2018 7:47:14 AM Hi Dog, Sorry for writing about the size of the planet's surface in relation to its human.....
» 15/06/2018 6:10:37 PM Dog, Someone on the wireless (or the TV, I forget which) off-handedly remarked yesterday .....
» 15/06/2018 8:50:03 AM Dog, Towards the end of your last post, are you suggesting that people in densely-populat.....
» 14/06/2018 4:38:50 PM I'm beginning to suspect that Trump has a huge "Too Hard" basket. He's put the I.....
» 14/06/2018 3:18:58 PM Dog, Perhaps you don't fully understand the use in English of the negative, but I'll say .....
» 14/06/2018 1:32:58 PM Belly, According to this on Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projections_of_popu.....
» 14/06/2018 1:16:00 PM Dear Foxy, Thanks for mentioning South Korea. Does anybody else remember South Korea ? Th.....
» 14/06/2018 1:06:13 PM Runner, You put your finger on something: how could such a course involve studying the de.....
» 14/06/2018 11:01:49 AM This is ridiculous. What society doesn't provide for the study of itself, ideally warts an.....
» 13/06/2018 10:50:44 PM Individual, I love those "Well, how else do you explain ..... " arguments. They.....
» 13/06/2018 1:58:24 PM Bad Dog ! People go fishing, they dangle a bait and hope for a bite. I suspect that's wha.....
» 13/06/2018 1:28:25 PM When more recent data comes out, my bet is that it will show a slowdown in world populatio.....
» 13/06/2018 10:03:21 AM Yuyutsu, If I was just a little more half-witted than I am already, I would be very confu.....
» 11/06/2018 5:06:08 PM AC, Fifty million in, say, Uganda ? Africa is very under-populated, after all. Technolo.....
» 11/06/2018 12:14:35 PM Belly, You have to distinguish between migrants and refugees - Australia takes around 200.....
» 11/06/2018 12:06:34 PM Dear Foxy, Newton could have said that resources can neither be created nor destroyed - w.....
» 11/06/2018 11:10:57 AM Hi Belly, Half of Australia's annual population growth is from immigration and refugees: .....
» 9/06/2018 4:35:55 PM Foxy, What, are you saying now that horses don't have freedom of speech ? Outrageous ! Ha.....
» 9/06/2018 12:02:32 PM Foxy, I think most of us are not half-wits, we know the difference between free and fair .....
» 7/06/2018 12:11:44 PM Dear Foxy, "Therefore although the student was entitled to his beliefs, the school w.....
» 6/06/2018 4:08:57 PM Mhaze, To come back to Berlin's distinction between negative and positive freedom: in a '.....
» 6/06/2018 12:01:48 PM Isaiah Berlin distinguished what he termed 'negative' from 'positive' freedom: in a politi.....
» 6/06/2018 10:15:06 AM Awkward question: should a Muslim baker be allowed to refuse to bake a cake for a same-sex.....
» 6/06/2018 9:52:03 AM Dearest Foxy, So would you call "Behead All Those Who Insult The prophet" on a .....
» 6/06/2018 9:36:49 AM Hi Individual, So who would build it ? Would there be any objections from any of the mult.....
» 5/06/2018 6:33:17 PM Bit of a stretch, Foxy, and perhaps a red herring: of course, what you call 'hate speech' .....
» 5/06/2018 1:19:55 PM Every one of us is an individual, with probably unique opinions, some of which are probabl.....
» 5/06/2018 8:57:50 AM Hi SR, Like you, i support Jasmin's right to have opinions. All of us should have that ri.....
» 4/06/2018 6:37:27 PM Dearest Foxy, Why do people think that the main thrust of conscious non-Indigenous policy.....
» 4/06/2018 6:15:46 PM Ttbn & SM, If the US withdrew its troops from Syria and Iraq, Iran would have control of .....
» 4/06/2018 3:01:48 PM I've just come across this short video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Az2C-c8zC0https:.....
» 3/06/2018 7:02:55 PM Hi SM, Of course. Even if a body of 'representatives' were to be confined to a large buil.....
» 3/06/2018 3:32:55 PM Hi Yuyutsu, My grand-dad was an Anarchist, a Wobbly. Anarchists believe that some magic, .....
» 3/06/2018 11:24:35 AM Hi BP, My god, you write some rubbish. Of course 'truth' is not identical with reality, o.....
» 3/06/2018 11:14:14 AM MHaze, Why should he ? SM, A bit non sequitur :) Joe.....
» 3/06/2018 9:41:56 AM Hi Ttbn, Anyhow, back to topic :) A Truth and Justice Commission would throw up many, ma.....
» 2/06/2018 12:32:27 PM [continued] Or 'deaths in custody': do we take the current 28 % of all people in custody .....
» 2/06/2018 11:55:16 AM Hi BP, You declare, " … but truth is a subjective notion. There are as many truths a.....
» 1/06/2018 6:57:04 PM Okay, what if the upper house was party-free, that candidates had to get their own votes, .....
» 1/06/2018 2:55:44 PM Belly, Just keep your hands off Foxy. If things work out okay ...... Joe.....
» 1/06/2018 2:53:56 PM Hi SM, So the US and North Korea are the only players ? China, South Korea, Japan and Rus.....
» 1/06/2018 2:43:31 PM Hi Alan, Maybe i didn't read the article properly, but if a Makarrata is just a Truth an.....
» 1/06/2018 9:28:10 AM Hi Rodney, A Truth and Reconciliation Commission - which could be set up tomorrow - which.....
» 1/06/2018 9:18:14 AM Hi SM, Good one :) So if Kim completely denuclearises, he can maybe look forward to a fir.....
» 31/05/2018 6:35:17 PM Good on you, Belly, where you been ?.....
» 31/05/2018 6:11:05 PM Hi Ttbn, Thanks for a good laugh :) We'll see, won't we ? As for the Libyan Solution, Ca.....
» 31/05/2018 2:53:58 PM Hi SM, Perhaps your first sentence should read: "It obviously hasn't occurred to Tru.....
» 31/05/2018 2:47:50 PM Dear Foxy, I'm sure your ancestors, buried over on the other side of the world, would be .....
» 30/05/2018 3:29:05 PM Dearest Foxy, Yes, how could anybody NOT like Ernie Dingo ? One thing I learn from WDYTYA.....
» 30/05/2018 9:53:59 AM [continued] seemed, even in the earlier days, to come through all that. At least in SA, t.....
» 30/05/2018 9:51:55 AM I have to point out that I most certainly think that invasion/settlement was devastating f.....
» 29/05/2018 12:39:38 PM Yuyutsu, "They made a choice to become westerners because that's the easy choice ........
» 29/05/2018 9:46:38 AM Hi Yuyutsu, I think you may have shot yourself in the foot with your attempted rebuttal o.....
» 28/05/2018 9:56:21 PM Hi Yuyutsu, Why "sadly" ? Indigenous people have every right to access the mode.....
» 28/05/2018 1:40:31 PM [continued] But what was probably also inevitable was the positive response - ultimately,.....
» 28/05/2018 1:35:21 PM Hi Big Nana, Indigenous home ownership or purchase rates have gone up to 38 % of all Indi.....
» 27/05/2018 7:52:41 PM Dearest Foxy, I've also been dedicated to a level of self-preservation and to keeping out.....
» 27/05/2018 9:06:37 AM Hi Toni, Very likely. Of course, other countries have tried to quarantine foraging groups.....
» 26/05/2018 8:18:10 PM Dear Foxy, He's a lucky man ! I was raised in Bankstown, so I don't have much interest .....
» 26/05/2018 6:57:56 PM Well, when are you leaving your old man for greener pastures in exciting Adelaide ?.....
» 26/05/2018 4:36:56 PM My dear Foxy, Well, i didn't mean 'ordinary' Indigenous people, more their leaders. The l.....
» 26/05/2018 3:30:33 PM Dear Foxy, Fantasy only up to a point, an imagining of some hypothetical meeting of key p.....
» 26/05/2018 12:04:50 PM Dearest Foxy, What I was trying to explore was there question": could the rest of th.....
» 26/05/2018 10:16:30 AM Hi Michi, "Japan had to wean the Korean Penisula from Chinese suzerainty." So .....
» 25/05/2018 3:29:44 PM The Right To Be Left Alone For some years, I’ve agonised over a dilemma. In yet another a.....
» 25/05/2018 1:41:59 PM Hi Michi, So, you're suggesting g that Japanese armies spent many years, 1905-1945, on th.....
» 24/05/2018 1:50:42 PM John, Not sure how you arrive at that assertion. Israel exists, and has a right to exist,.....
» 24/05/2018 1:46:11 PM Hi Michi, When I wrote, "I suspect that, instead of a meeting between Trump and Kim,.....
» 24/05/2018 12:00:27 PM Hi Ttbn, I have no problems with Israel's capital being Jerusalem, which it was thousands.....
» 23/05/2018 1:11:17 PM Hi HasBeen, Not sure what planet you're on: what has Trump won so far ? He's pissing on N.....
» 23/05/2018 12:40:20 PM Hi Mac, And valuable real estate just to the West of China. And the seas just south of Ch.....
» 17/05/2018 11:31:21 PM I suspect that there are many moves yet to come, in this toing and froing and that North K.....
» 16/05/2018 10:51:31 PM Hi David, And if we all switch over to electric cars, either the fairies will all have to.....
» 16/05/2018 10:52:44 AM Steele, Most Aboriginal settlements, a.k.a. 'communities', are run by a council which is .....
» 15/05/2018 6:36:21 PM Good on you, Butch :) Regards, Joe.....
» 15/05/2018 1:33:34 PM Aboriginal housing: forty-odd years ago, I was working as a labourer on a 'community' [I t.....
» 13/05/2018 11:53:24 PM Hi AC, Yeah, of all nuclear contests that are least likely, that between Israel and Russi.....
» 13/05/2018 6:46:23 PM Ttbn & Alan, "Iran should be ostracised ..... until the mad mullahs are removed .........
» 13/05/2018 3:06:32 PM Ttbn, Whatev. So far, after only a couple of days, Mahathir has slapped a ban on Najib le.....
» 13/05/2018 9:04:03 AM Hi Alan & Ttbn, So what are the issues here ? Some bloke's age ? The colour of his socks .....
» 12/05/2018 3:18:35 PM At the 'community' above, not the one that closed its new dairy but the one which ripped o.....
» 12/05/2018 11:08:33 AM Hi SD, Yes, good point - one relies either on as much evidence as possible, positive AND .....
» 9/05/2018 6:51:41 PM Hi Alan, Did I mention the 300-acre almond block ? All dead now. How come ? Well, when th.....
» 9/05/2018 9:28:17 AM Hi Minotaur, My favourite example of how oral memory can get garbled: My late wife's gr-.....
» 8/05/2018 1:30:26 PM Hi Big Nana, Yeah, my late friend Rev. Bill Edwards, Superintendent 1958-1972 at Ernabell.....
» 8/05/2018 1:15:53 PM Hi Alan, Yes, indeed, those projects could work. Just add them to the pile of unutilised .....
» 8/05/2018 11:38:32 AM [continued] So unless CDP jobs are genuine, and perhaps coupled with TAFE study, so that .....
» 8/05/2018 11:37:02 AM Hi Alan, Most people who have ever worked in Indigenous communities have arrived all star.....
» 8/05/2018 11:18:44 AM Thanks, Is Mise - so useful !.....
» 8/05/2018 10:07:01 AM Hi Ttbn, Yes, just because international courts have declared China's build-up and milita.....
» 8/05/2018 9:59:05 AM Hi Minotaur, Yes, you're right, I tend to ignore 'personal testimony' unless it can point.....
» 8/05/2018 9:31:59 AM Hi AC, You may have a point, that China's “illegal global war of aggression and imperiali.....
» 7/05/2018 3:18:59 PM [continued] While the Chinese may be well up themselves these days, it's worth rememberin.....
» 7/05/2018 3:12:51 PM Wake up Paul ! Are you so naive that you don't realise that China's intention is to 'dome.....
» 6/05/2018 5:20:57 PM Hi Minotaur, A bit circular: flawed policies (such as ?) covered up by vague legislation .....
» 6/05/2018 11:28:35 AM Hi Minotaur, Yeah, as a hack transcriber, what would I know ? It's easier to rely on some.....
» 6/05/2018 9:56:27 AM Hi Calwest, Thank you. Yes, every person taken into care would have a file in their respe.....
» 5/05/2018 4:09:23 PM Hi Minotaur, Thanks for your usual well-informed advice. I've typed up 15,000 pages of ol.....
» 5/05/2018 9:50:16 AM Hi Has been, I agree with you. I'm not Indigenous, but plenty of people were in poverty a.....
» 4/05/2018 10:20:36 PM Hi AC, I certainly didn't mean to look like I was playing it down, as you suggest. I'm to.....
» 4/05/2018 3:48:12 PM Hi AC, Were they ? No ? Then what's your point ? Was poverty prevalent for Indigenous peo.....
» 4/05/2018 2:32:46 PM Hi C, So ..... you're saying that your great-grandmother and her kids were NOT put into c.....
» 3/05/2018 4:00:58 PM Hi Aidan, And that would be in their files, if it were the case. Bureaucrats don't usuall.....
» 3/05/2018 3:04:58 PM Mhaze, In which State was it government policy to remove Aboriginal kids just because the.....
» 3/05/2018 12:41:06 PM [continued] that he would be breaking the terms of his new lease, which specifies explici.....
» 3/05/2018 12:37:23 PM Hi Don, I've knocked around Indigenous affairs for fifty-odd years and have tried to supp.....
» 3/05/2018 12:03:21 PM Hi Bazz, I suppose the answer to your question is: keep subsidising renewable energy comp.....
» 2/05/2018 2:25:27 PM Hi Foxy, I suppose if Trump can get nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize for threatening to .....
» 2/05/2018 1:36:03 PM Dearest Foxy, Yeah, out of 350 million Americans, who on earth could stand ? 10,000 unive.....
» 2/05/2018 1:22:58 PM I have to put in a plug for Sing Australia, a wonderful organisation with 150 singing grou.....
» 2/05/2018 11:37:33 AM Thanks, Foxy, Political Theory 101 for Trump. Although a bit too late now. Love, Joe.....
» 1/05/2018 4:11:49 PM Hi Foxy, i just came across this quote from Niall Ferguson's 'The Square and the Tower', .....
» 1/05/2018 12:11:05 PM Dear Foxy, I suspect that Putin will play Trump for the vain braggart he is and support h.....
» 1/05/2018 9:58:54 AM Hi Luciferase, Do you mean subsidies to renewable energy companies like AGL? i.e. that th.....
» 26/04/2018 3:40:53 PM AJ, Rage ? No, not at all. Simply a sense of regret that some people are still pig-ignora.....
» 26/04/2018 2:11:59 PM What is it with Trump ? Why does he feel the need to brush dandruff off Macron's coat ? Im.....
» 26/04/2018 1:05:53 PM AJ, You lost me again: why is it at all necessary to refer to Folau's 'race' or ethnic ba.....
» 26/04/2018 9:23:43 AM Thanks, Toni. I suppose nuclear, either way ? One problem with going totally nuclear wou.....
» 26/04/2018 9:12:34 AM AJ, Of course, IQ tests are not meaningless. Of course they accurately measure something,.....
» 26/04/2018 8:55:22 AM Hi Toni, Thanks for that - my point about the production of CO2 in the construction of nu.....
» 25/04/2018 7:56:02 PM Paul, Well, yeah, but usually we had to suck and crawl just to get into the school ground.....
» 25/04/2018 5:45:10 PM Hi Alan, I've been interested in patron-client systems, corruption and power structures f.....
» 25/04/2018 4:20:36 PM Paul, Pencils ! Jesus, we used to dream of pencils. We had to draw with a finger in the m.....
» 25/04/2018 4:16:38 PM Given the subsidies shovelled lout to electricity 'providers' using renewables, one has to.....
» 24/04/2018 12:56:11 PM Sorry, AJ, you lost me at .... "But it’s not the fallacious kind because I didn’t say.....
» 24/04/2018 11:16:51 AM AJ, Is that what you mean by an 'ad hominem' ? Do you have evidence whatever that Polynes.....
» 24/04/2018 10:37:26 AM Right on, Ttbn. Modern nuclear power stations seem to be quite safe in France and Finland.....
» 24/04/2018 10:26:58 AM Hi Alt-Rave, Maybe our resident expert on logical fallacies, A. J. Phillips, can add No-O.....
» 24/04/2018 9:37:58 AM Hi paul, Gosh, it's fun to take any argument that one disagrees with to a ludicrous extre.....
» 24/04/2018 9:21:52 AM Rache, Of course there are better ways to involve long-term unemployed people, TAFE or un.....
» 23/04/2018 6:56:51 PM Hi Toni, God almighty, as an old person, I still can't get used to how quick you can find.....
» 23/04/2018 5:30:02 PM Thanks Runner, I was just trying to establish the boundaries of who is, and who isn't, i.....
» 23/04/2018 4:02:33 PM Hi Runner, Does it offend or upset you that some of us aren't believers ? Would you camp.....
» 23/04/2018 2:55:32 PM Sorry, Toni, I'm a bit past my use-by date :) Okay then, marijuana has similar effects t.....
» 23/04/2018 2:38:06 PM Paul, I'm an atheist, that's my right in a democratic society. Folau is a believer, and t.....
» 23/04/2018 9:09:43 AM Hi paul, Interesting logic: does it apply to domestic violence e as well ? After all, dom.....
» 22/04/2018 6:17:07 PM Dearest Foxy, Them that tell don't know, and them that know don't tell :) Love, Joe.....
» 22/04/2018 5:53:05 PM Bad news, Paul: there is no Hell. There is no Heaven. There's not even a waiting-room. So.....
» 22/04/2018 5:33:09 PM Hi Paul, Gosh, that's clever, it must have put Ttbn right back in his place. Equating pen.....
» 21/04/2018 3:09:48 PM News Flash for atheists like me - there is no hell. There isn't a heaven either. There are.....
» 21/04/2018 9:58:26 AM Probably when posters here mention the armed forces for unemployed people, they don't inte.....
» 21/04/2018 12:12:45 AM Hi Paul, As a light smoker, I'm all for the most rigorous controlling of tobacco; and of .....
» 20/04/2018 3:26:50 PM Hi Paul, That's an interesting argument, legalising marijuana even though it may - who kn.....
» 19/04/2018 12:24:44 PM Paul, So, are you suggesting that any participant in a Work for the Dole Scheme should re.....
» 19/04/2018 12:20:06 PM Hi Paul, Please accept my apology as an extreme right-winger for pointing out that Abdel-.....
» 15/04/2018 9:40:23 AM Hopefully, one day, renewable energy generation will be cheap enough to make wind towers a.....
» 15/04/2018 8:27:08 AM Paul. Oy. Are you deliberately misunderstanding what I am trying vainly to get across ? .....
» 14/04/2018 5:30:34 PM Paul, you misunderstand me - I'm not 'equating' Greens with Bolsheviks, but merely pointin.....
» 14/04/2018 1:15:05 PM Hi paul, Yes, you're half-right: Greens know how to talk the talk, how to make the most b.....
» 13/04/2018 8:20:58 PM Hi Paul, We lived on the edge of the Batman electorate fifty-odd years ago, I worked ther.....
» 9/04/2018 8:10:22 PM Dear Foxy, I loved that: "George Bernard Shaw said, "I learned long ago never w.....
» 7/04/2018 1:51:50 PM Hi Paul, Speaking of bottom-feeders: Lenin seemed to have one solution to that 'problem':.....
» 4/03/2018 1:32:43 PM Hi Banjo Paterson, Clearly nobody wants to go back to the pre-European situation in Austr.....
» 4/03/2018 9:40:08 AM Ttbn, And this proves it: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/north-pole-thaw-1.4554864 .....
» 4/03/2018 9:33:00 AM Hi Ttbn, Oh dear, irony is wasted on the young :( But how else can you explain the extre.....
» 4/03/2018 8:48:42 AM Climate nonsense ? Then how do you explain why the temperature at the North Pole is curren.....
» 4/03/2018 8:44:33 AM Alt Rave, I rest my case :) And of course people can be Australian AND Aboriginal. Abori.....
» 3/03/2018 9:12:21 PM Alt Rave, I'm not Indigenous: strictly British as far as I know, from convicts from all f.....
» 3/03/2018 2:06:42 PM Alt Rave, As to your definition of 'Aboriginal': 54,000 it is, until you're crowned Life .....
» 3/03/2018 2:03:04 PM Hi Banjo Paterson, Yes, isn't it amazing how little can be done with 'self-determination'.....
» 2/03/2018 1:29:08 PM Hi Banjo paterson, Yes, and in the First World War, Korea and Vietnam too - but I'll bet .....
» 2/03/2018 1:16:55 PM Alt Rave, Not too many Indigenous people in the 'south' are nomadic: after all, it's not .....
» 2/03/2018 7:58:45 AM Hi Alt Rave, Back in the 1920s, a movement was initiated here in Adelaide by probably-wel.....
» 1/03/2018 12:50:48 PM Hi Luciferase, Yeah, I remember forty-odd years ago on the 'community', blokes who had g.....
» 1/03/2018 10:58:13 AM Hi Alt Rave, I think that has been suggested many, many times and the number of people wh.....
» 1/03/2018 10:54:58 AM Banjo Paterson, Oops, you did mention that Aboriginal people were thirty two times more l.....
» 1/03/2018 9:52:01 AM Banjo Paterson, Jesus, where to start ? Why bother, when so much of your posts are comple.....
» 28/02/2018 12:56:53 PM Paul, If there are more applicants fo refugee status than the annual intake, then there i.....
» 27/02/2018 10:33:29 AM Hi Paul, Your impotence is noted. So you have no opinion about whether or not the annua.....
» 27/02/2018 8:58:51 AM Hi Paul, Your heart-felt sympathy for illegal immigrants is understandable, since you are.....
» 27/02/2018 8:51:27 AM [continue] This model was also common up until sixty-odd years ago in SA, freeing up pare.....
» 27/02/2018 8:49:45 AM Hi Banjo Paterson, "Magnificent" ? I'm not so sure. "Ingenious", yes......
» 26/02/2018 1:48:07 PM AC, Hillary supporter: "Hey, look over there ! A unicorn called Trump !" Trump.....
» 26/02/2018 12:28:01 PM Hi Debate, Risk ? Like in France or Finland, you mean ?.....
» 26/02/2018 8:46:23 AM Hi Banjo Paterson, You assert that: "We have to ..... mobilise the whole country tow.....
» 25/02/2018 8:40:19 AM [continued] although it may mean something very different to the people than what may hav.....
» 25/02/2018 8:33:47 AM Hi Banjo Paterson, Every society in the world has been constantly changing for a hundred .....
» 24/02/2018 12:54:36 PM Hi Banjo paterson, Autonomy yes, as long as it doesn't involve the freedom to kick your w.....
» 24/02/2018 10:02:11 AM [continued] So how many strikes should parents have ? At what point can - or should - gov.....
» 24/02/2018 10:01:11 AM Hi Phillip, So how can government - if they have any role at all in intra-family responsi.....
» 24/02/2018 9:43:28 AM Hi Op2, Not being a believer, I'm interested in the Book of Job simply because it is incl.....
» 23/02/2018 4:42:47 PM Hi Aidan, So we can soon look forward to wind towers and solar panels made exclusively us.....
» 23/02/2018 4:40:48 PM Yes ! The Betoota Advocate, as usual in the forefront of news scoops, has announced that B.....
» 23/02/2018 4:28:56 PM Hi Op2, Have a good look at the Book of Job, and what it says about Satan and God, and th.....
» 23/02/2018 1:34:24 PM Hi Big Nana, In defence of the " ..... over 50,000 aboriginal people with university.....
» 23/02/2018 1:18:56 PM Hi Jim, The cost of renewables: does one include the actual manufacture of wind towers, b.....
» 23/02/2018 1:07:03 PM Banjo Paterson, So what if handful of whites think one way ? Government policy didn't usu.....
» 23/02/2018 9:03:24 AM And, just by the way, we had a black-out in our part of Adelaide on Wednesday. Only for tw.....
» 23/02/2018 8:54:27 AM Strange logic: that because the cost of processing uranium is low, energy companies will b.....
» 23/02/2018 8:51:02 AM Big Nana & Phillip, Is it possible that many Aboriginal people - far from being oppressed.....
» 22/02/2018 1:48:41 PM Hi Toni, Yes, and just wait for the 'mitigating circumstances'. A few years ago, that blo.....
» 22/02/2018 1:31:13 PM God, so many unicorns ! A two-year-old is raped in Tennant Creek. BUT look over there ! S.....
» 22/02/2018 1:25:24 PM Hi Self-Op2, I'm not too bright, so I can't tell when someone is taking the mickey. But y.....
» 22/02/2018 10:42:31 AM Banjo Paterson, I must dispute your assertion that " .... you have to remember that .....
» 21/02/2018 7:26:05 PM Hi Bazz, On the one hand, people can call themselves whatever the hell they like. On the .....
» 21/02/2018 5:48:17 PM Hi Bazz, Perhaps fifty thousand 'full-bloods' across the Centre and North. If Indigenous.....
» 21/02/2018 1:40:04 PM Hi Jayb, " ..... all out there but without a voice." Sorry, I was being unpard.....
» 21/02/2018 12:57:14 PM Yeh. Anyway, BTT: a referendum on a separate chamber of parliament, a voice without any ve.....
» 21/02/2018 11:37:28 AM [continued] 'Communities' have had self-determination for the best part of forty or even .....
» 21/02/2018 11:30:23 AM Banjo Paterson, Funny, I've never thought about Indigenous people in terms of a lack of .....
» 20/02/2018 11:25:52 AM AC, The 'left' should be eradicated ?! A bit harsh. How would you go about doing that, on.....
» 20/02/2018 9:22:42 AM Hi Banjo Paterson, If, by 'assimilation', that Indigenous people freely and enthusiastica.....
» 19/02/2018 3:24:55 PM Op2, Obviously Hebrew, but with a lisp......
» 19/02/2018 8:39:07 AM Alt Rav, "Remember the saying, 'say nothing and be thought a fool, rather than speak.....
» 18/02/2018 5:18:02 PM Thanks, Big Nana, I'll always take your advice on these sorts of issues :) Love, Joe.....
» 18/02/2018 5:01:30 PM Dear Foxy, "We can't just ignore things can we?" God no, these are our fellow-A.....
» 18/02/2018 4:26:24 PM Wow. I thought morons like AC were very much creatures of the past. But you never know wha.....
» 18/02/2018 12:13:32 PM I love how threads meander away from their original topic, you learn so much. Anyway, BTT.....
» 17/02/2018 12:10:17 PM Hi Steele, When I was working in factories in the sixties and seventies, looking for the .....
» 17/02/2018 11:46:37 AM [continued] For example, Indigenous commencements at universities improved by 12 % in 201.....
» 17/02/2018 11:30:13 AM Banjo Paterson, " .... I am not persuaded that our “dominant Westernised culture” wi.....
» 16/02/2018 1:32:27 PM Hi Banjo, Latest news ! Indigenous people are not like sheep, they will 'assimilate' or j.....
» 16/02/2018 9:17:13 AM Ttbn, Yes, even on that subject, the 'Left' would rather save 'culture' than people: Indi.....
» 16/02/2018 9:09:54 AM Hi Nathan, I suspect that most of us atheists are sort of pantheists like Spinoza - many .....
» 16/02/2018 9:00:32 AM Hi Aidan, " .... the Voice To Parliament is not intended to be a legislative body.&q.....
» 16/02/2018 8:47:17 AM Hi Ttbn, No, no surprises: the pseudo-Left, esp. the Greens, suck up to Shari'a-supporter.....
» 15/02/2018 12:21:56 PM Hi Alan, When my kids were in primary school, and we were living in an area with a large .....
» 15/02/2018 11:18:03 AM Forgive me for suggesting, very tentatively (out of fear of being burnt at the stake, perh.....
» 15/02/2018 8:25:03 AM So what's 'working' ? Participation in higher education, for one: more than fifty thousa.....
» 14/02/2018 11:06:57 AM Hi SM, Well, her dad's no longer with us, so that should, forgive me, make it easier for .....
» 14/02/2018 9:53:24 AM Forgive me for being hopelessly naive, but couldn't Susan Lamb simply go the the Births, D.....
» 7/02/2018 9:13:51 AM As one raised in a communist family and born during the War (hence the name), I would sugg.....
» 6/02/2018 5:48:02 PM Ttbn, I'm not saying that none of the graduates or home-owners ever get sucked into the I.....
» 6/02/2018 2:10:14 PM Paul & Ttbn, I suspect that Plan A, the Recognition-'Nations'-Treaty-Separate State strat.....
» 2/02/2018 9:12:54 AM Laugh a minute. I just heard about fish-traps up on a northern NSW river, claimed by the l.....
» 1/02/2018 12:07:28 PM Hi Aidan, You pointed out earlier that " ..... concessional loans to renewable energ.....
» 30/01/2018 9:05:05 AM Technical innovation in the early days of human history was incredibly difficult to bring .....
» 29/01/2018 10:16:03 PM Hi Jayb, No exaggeration, but you may have influenced some Aboriginal groups to compose t.....
» 29/01/2018 7:31:13 PM Another possible 'mis-truth' is 'Terra Nullius': yes, we all assume that it is written, ch.....
» 29/01/2018 5:24:35 PM Ttbn, 'Fisheries' in WA in 1907 probably had a lot to do with the pearling and trepang tr.....
» 29/01/2018 12:15:34 PM Hi Ttbn, I'm not sure but she might have thought that she came under the Endangered Speci.....
» 29/01/2018 9:53:44 AM AJ, Allah ! Not bloody raisins again ! Joe.....
» 29/01/2018 9:37:06 AM Hi Ttbn, Linda Burney was head of a NSW government department for some years. Smart woman.....
» 29/01/2018 9:17:48 AM Is it possible that, in many societies, the term "virgin" simply meant a woman w.....
» 27/01/2018 11:23:08 AM Hi Benk & Foxy, Of course, keep the data where it is, but sort of wrap NAIDOC Week around.....
» 26/01/2018 7:37:48 PM [continued] : how many Indigenous people have exercised their long-term right to go back .....
» 26/01/2018 7:36:45 PM "F--- Australia, hope it burns to the ground". I've been obsessed with the Indi.....
» 26/01/2018 12:44:54 PM On another thread, Luciferase has suggested moving NAIDOC Week to the week surrounding Aus.....
» 26/01/2018 9:59:47 AM Hi Luciferase, That's a brilliant idea ! Move NAIDOC Week to the week that January 26 is .....
» 26/01/2018 9:54:27 AM Hi Steele, " .... when .... some towns controlled by powerful tribal families are p.....
» 26/01/2018 9:40:01 AM Dearest Foxy, I'm so sorry to hear of your loss. I'm sure that you and your family will b.....
» 25/01/2018 4:48:20 PM Hi Jayb, Aboriginal people who want to change the Date could try May 27th and spend the e.....
» 25/01/2018 12:57:24 PM Hi Plantagenet, That's the Captain Cook who was killed nine years or so before the First .....
» 25/01/2018 8:59:44 AM Hi Steele, Yes, indeed, suicide is a terrible scourge in remote and rural communities: I.....
» 24/01/2018 9:27:19 PM Hi Jpsephus, That quote from independentaustralia, " .... every day is a day of gen.....
» 24/01/2018 2:09:26 PM Steele, I think I'm in love :). When are you next in Adelaide ? Now that there is SSM .........
» 24/01/2018 2:05:51 PM Self-Op2, On another current thread, you remark that " .... you people expect the ab.....
» 24/01/2018 1:58:29 PM Sel-Opinionate2, I'm intrigued by your assertion that " .... you people expect the a.....
» 24/01/2018 12:48:45 PM Jayb, The IPA poll: " .... only 11 percent think it should be moved from January 26......
» 23/01/2018 4:54:06 PM Hi Aidan, The English language is notoriously fickle: when you say 'seized', do you mean .....
» 23/01/2018 4:21:51 PM Hi Josephus, Not quite accurate: Aboriginal people (including women) who had the vote at .....
» 23/01/2018 4:12:41 PM Hi Alt Rave, Why don't you tell us what you really think ? Joe.....
» 23/01/2018 7:25:07 AM Hi Steele, I apologise, yes, there was certainly that massacre at Guichen Bay in the SA s.....
» 22/01/2018 6:57:32 PM Dearest Foxy,l No, dear, that's exactly what is NOT being done: anyone can draw up any so.....
» 22/01/2018 5:58:45 PM Hi Jayb, Indigenous-controlled land now covers perhaps a third of the continent. If anybo.....
» 22/01/2018 1:49:18 PM Hi Luciferase, One problem with your is that Australia doesn't belong only to Whites, but.....
» 22/01/2018 11:35:20 AM Dearest Foxy, Thanks for this ABS document. Isn't it amazing how much more the Indigenous.....
» 22/01/2018 10:57:28 AM " .... international law recognises all territories acquired through invasion and ann.....
» 22/01/2018 8:53:26 AM Jayb, A bit racist: neither you or anybody should have the right to dictate what people c.....
» 22/01/2018 8:20:54 AM Josephus, For all that, I don't think that it could be said that Australia was invaded i.....
» 22/01/2018 7:57:01 AM Hi Ttbn, I don't know about states other than SA, but I do get a laugh out of that cold-h.....
» 21/01/2018 8:46:27 PM Hi Josephus, With the greatest respect, I think you may be mistaken. As I tried to point .....
» 21/01/2018 5:32:36 PM Hi Josephus, I'm not convinced about your last point: when the Allies invaded Nazi German.....
» 21/01/2018 3:30:50 PM [continued] and written into law in (I suspect) every colony, although clearly those righ.....
» 21/01/2018 3:29:28 PM Hi Steele, Yes, you're right: The Treaty signed at Waitingi dealt strictly with issues of.....
» 21/01/2018 11:05:12 AM Oh well, I tried......
» 20/01/2018 8:26:27 PM Hi Jayb, You suggest that " .... I doubt if it would do anything..... " I guess.....
» 20/01/2018 7:19:50 PM Hi Steele, Interesting idea: of course, a treaty is usually an agreement at the beginning.....
» 20/01/2018 5:12:27 PM Hi Jayb, So would you support the call, so loud from activists, for through forensic inve.....
» 20/01/2018 3:32:14 PM Hi Minotaur, Did Bourke use that term or is it a repeated interpretation put on his words.....
» 20/01/2018 2:19:52 PM Minotaur, I wish you could win a research scholarship to examine housing, health, educati.....
» 20/01/2018 2:01:26 PM Oooo, I should have pointed out, in that section on alcohol and Aboriginal people that, al.....
» 20/01/2018 1:05:17 PM [continued] *. And nobody in the world had cures for many of the diseases that ravaged Bl.....
» 20/01/2018 1:00:40 PM Self-Op2, As a know-nothing, I still have as much right to my il-informed opinions as you.....
» 20/01/2018 9:47:14 AM Aaaaargh ! I always have trouble with double-negatives, especially when I'm off on some fl.....
» 20/01/2018 9:22:22 AM Are Aboriginal people better off now, having been lifted out of the Early Stone Age ? i.e......
» 20/01/2018 8:59:18 AM Anyway, BTT: I'm an atheist, but I strongly support the right of anybody to hold whatever .....
» 19/01/2018 5:38:59 PM Hi Steele, No, I assume that the Emu Creek massacre may have happened - but some evidence.....
» 19/01/2018 5:31:41 PM And another useful article written in 2008 by Robert van Krieken: https://www.researchgat.....
» 19/01/2018 4:14:53 PM 350 million people, one of the most advanced education systems in the world, and the US ca.....
» 19/01/2018 4:12:40 PM Klaasvaark, It would be interesting to find out when the first use of the term "Terr.....
» 19/01/2018 3:21:55 PM Foxy & Steele, It's great to have some sort of guide to possible massacre sites,as you ha.....
» 19/01/2018 1:25:28 PM Hi John, There has never been a 'Flora and Fauna Act' in any Australian parliament, State.....
» 19/01/2018 8:26:55 AM Altrav, life's too short to argue with morons. Joe.....
» 19/01/2018 8:22:54 AM Hi Steele, The Holocaust has been documented in thousands of ways, with the easily-tested.....
» 18/01/2018 10:05:05 PM Hi Steele, If it occurred, then it shouldn't be too hard to find forensic evidence, and t.....
» 18/01/2018 5:24:48 PM Hi Steele, To show the world that such things happened, if they did. If you found out tha.....
» 18/01/2018 4:43:56 PM Hi Steele, I would fully support a thorough forensic examination of that massacre site. A.....
» 18/01/2018 2:44:55 PM Hi Steele, Being in SA, I haven't seen the photo in question. But I suppose it obviously .....
» 18/01/2018 11:57:14 AM Dear Ttbn, You perhaps misunderstand me: I'm not particularly envious of Trump's inherite.....
» 18/01/2018 10:06:35 AM Okay, Ttbn, give me half a billion to start with and we'll see :).....
» 18/01/2018 9:48:02 AM Hi Ttbn, I don't think that Trump has Alzheimer's, at least not very advanced. It's more .....
» 18/01/2018 8:55:23 AM Ttbn, A ten-minute IQ test ? Come off it :).....
» 17/01/2018 7:17:03 PM Hi Luciferase, Yeah, probably. I also don't care much either way. After all, if some othe.....
» 17/01/2018 6:06:57 PM Hi Luciferase, The Australian Citizenship Act of 1948. [Maybe it was called something els.....
» 17/01/2018 10:19:32 AM In defence of homosexual marriage, homosexuals used to say that if someone didn't like it,.....
» 17/01/2018 9:57:34 AM Dearest Foxy, Perhaps your statement needs to be slightly re-phrased". ".... In.....
» 16/01/2018 1:50:26 PM Runner, Yes ! Give it time. I think Senator Jacinta Price would certainly liven up the pl.....
» 16/01/2018 11:14:34 AM Maze, The Spaniard (and later American) George Santayana......
» 16/01/2018 10:18:59 AM Paul, You have true wisdom beyond your years :) 100 %. ! Cheers and best wishes, Kia Or.....
» 15/01/2018 8:29:26 PM Mhaze, So Trump isn't a politician. He isn't a diplomat. He isn't a statesman. Hmmmm .........
» 15/01/2018 7:02:37 PM Mhaze, Sales to Ukraine ? Do you mean these sales organised before Trump took office: ht.....
» 15/01/2018 5:42:47 PM On Trump's influence, the younger George Bush is supposed to have said that he thought Tru.....
» 15/01/2018 4:54:08 PM Ttbn, Trump the "politician" ?! Let's see: he's pissed off the Europeans, the A.....
» 15/01/2018 11:57:06 AM Ttbn, Trump. Oprah. Manning. None of the above. Surely the American people, 350 million o.....
» 15/01/2018 11:02:15 AM Alt ave, FGS. If one were to threaten to hit a woman with a lump of wood, but eventually .....
» 15/01/2018 10:21:51 AM Hi Paul, Frolicking in the surf in Gaza may have different connotations from frolicking i.....
» 15/01/2018 9:34:16 AM Hi Paul, Do you mean the journalists: "Can anyone tell me what they are doing wrong?.....
» 15/01/2018 9:17:37 AM Dearest Foxy, Yes, I thought that he was a good man, courageous and principled. 'Just a m.....
» 14/01/2018 11:14:29 PM Alt Rave, So, if I found out where you lived, and had a mind to stalk your wife or daught.....
» 14/01/2018 5:01:49 PM The US. Thousands of universities. Three hundred and fifty-odd million people. Trump. Opra.....
» 14/01/2018 4:58:37 PM Hi Steele, I would have thought that labelling a photo as 'Sydney, 2016' when the publish.....
» 14/01/2018 4:49:19 PM Alt ave, So if someone threatens a woman, that he will smash her face in with a brick if .....
» 14/01/2018 10:30:12 AM Alt Rave, Are you suggesting that rape which does not involve violence, is not actually r.....
» 10/01/2018 5:00:51 PM Putting all of these innovative ideas together: why not unmanned submarines, operated by c.....
» 10/01/2018 4:31:06 PM Hi Alt Rave, Why don't you tell us what you really think ? It's a bit harsh to call Pres.....
» 10/01/2018 11:30:55 AM Changing to a republic would require a referendum, to change the Constitution. While we'.....
» 10/01/2018 11:08:45 AM People don't realise how much President Trump has achieved, just in his first year. Clearl.....
» 10/01/2018 9:36:46 AM Yeah ! Let's demand a plebiscite on the republic issue ! As soon as possible ! And let's.....
» 9/01/2018 3:45:36 PM Hi Op2, I apologise for being " .... an apologist for false teachings, lies, and ind.....
» 8/01/2018 9:49:15 PM Hi Cherful, I agree that Trump is not mental, crazy or whatever. He may be a touch psycho.....
» 8/01/2018 5:31:33 PM Alt Raver, Back when I was a kid, a bloke in England named Evans was hanged for murders c.....
» 8/01/2018 5:24:21 PM Self-Op2, 33,000 sects in Jesus's name: all religions seem to throw up schisms and sects .....
» 8/01/2018 9:00:07 AM Hi Leo, In mid-1971, a Taperoo schoolgirl was found dead on a beach here in Adelaide. Fri.....
» 8/01/2018 8:41:52 AM Hi Cherful, Or both ? Cheers, Joe.....
» 7/01/2018 10:17:50 PM Has been, My point was, obviously overlooked, that there are always alternatives to Clint.....
» 7/01/2018 8:31:57 PM Cousin Leo, Perhaps life imprisonment should mean life. Robert Stroud, a.k.a. the Birdman.....
» 7/01/2018 8:27:40 PM Has been, Neither of the above. Both are/were crap. There's a hell of a lot of it around......
» 7/01/2018 5:40:52 PM Runner, Oy. As I tried to point out above, there are rarely just two options: A and B, A.....
» 7/01/2018 3:50:37 PM Luckily, we are now confident that Trump is a stable genius. Not too many geniuses proclai.....
» 7/01/2018 3:41:37 PM Luckily, we are now confident that Trump is a stable genius. Not too many geniuses proclai.....
» 7/01/2018 3:00:55 PM SD, The ABC (my preferred news source) reports that Russian planes in Syria have bombed t.....
» 6/01/2018 3:56:18 PM EJ, Defund religious schooling ? Yes, as an atheist who had 100% public schooling, yes. A.....
» 6/01/2018 1:21:49 PM Hi SM, "Politics isn't a popularity contest and people don't attend summits because .....
» 6/01/2018 12:43:40 PM Hi EJ, Islamist terrorism pre-dated any actions by the Yanks or the British or us, by a l.....
» 6/01/2018 11:05:20 AM SD, So let's see, what countries have been bombed the crap out of, by the US, NATO or our.....
» 5/01/2018 1:26:27 PM SD, Thanks, I hope I will always have such doubts about the limits to my knowledge. You s.....
» 5/01/2018 1:22:58 PM Special Delivery, Iraq. That's what you're talking about ? So how many Iraqis have been.....
» 5/01/2018 9:21:51 AM Let's cut to the chase: is it possible to be perfectly sane and yet to commit atrocities i.....
» 4/01/2018 4:25:21 PM Il Messaggio, You can't answer my sensible questions ? You can only come back with juveni.....
» 3/01/2018 5:29:57 PM Sorry, which country ? Are you suggesting that terrorists tend to come from any particular.....
» 3/01/2018 2:38:59 PM Hi Is Mise, On the other hand, Muslims in India have occupied - and perhaps do at the mom.....
» 3/01/2018 1:31:43 PM Whatev. In Trump*Yr2, he starts off slagging Pakistan (fair enough), Australia and the en.....
» 3/01/2018 1:19:04 PM Alt Rav & Banjo, With a plethora of convict ancestors, I have to believe that criminality.....
» 3/01/2018 1:08:40 PM Hi Bazz, Yes, very likely, IF :) Europe's future: I suspect that Muslim immigration - an.....
» 3/01/2018 8:14:23 AM Hi Cherful, Historically, many on the 'Left', especially its pro-Soviet rump (yes, there .....
» 31/12/2017 11:23:28 AM Self-Op2, Wow, you mustn't have much arse left by now. What if: almost none of us on OL.....
» 30/12/2017 6:57:59 PM Slightly off-topic, but perhaps not as much as some posts, the Swedish Lutheran Church is .....
» 30/12/2017 6:48:32 PM An 83-year-old Australian has died as a result of that mentally-ill man driving through cr.....
» 30/12/2017 5:20:03 PM Yeah, but you should have wrung out that dishcloth further out of sight >:(. It was sti.....
» 30/12/2017 4:50:24 PM O Sung Wu, Ah, that was you in the 'Thai Man Tide' a couple of weeks back who dropped the.....
» 30/12/2017 4:45:27 PM O Sung Wu, Don't worry, I suspect that Ttbn is, in fact, make-believe bullshite, that she.....
» 30/12/2017 10:53:43 AM Hi Ttbn, Trump may be totally immune, not just to the 'lunatic left'but to many other thi.....
» 30/12/2017 10:43:25 AM Hi Ttbn, There may not have been any rise in the numbers mentally-ill in Australia, but c.....
» 30/12/2017 9:50:21 AM Pretty clearly, Australia now has a problem with the mentally-ill. Their propensity for co.....
» 29/12/2017 6:24:43 PM Thanks, O Sung Wu, and Happy New Year to you and yours :) Joe.....
» 29/12/2017 8:24:26 AM Isn't it possible for victims of such crimes to seek damages in civil action in court ? Sa.....
» 27/12/2017 5:56:27 PM Dearest Foxy, Criticise the sin, not the sinner: where does contemporary terrorism get it.....
» 27/12/2017 7:35:32 AM Sorry, guys, I tried. :(.....
» 26/12/2017 8:16:42 PM Op2, I'm not sure that I should have have to take on all the sins of the Churches, being .....
» 26/12/2017 5:36:11 PM Op2, I would have thought that it wasn't necessary to believe in the details of purported.....
» 26/12/2017 11:21:57 AM Typical loudmouth, I asserted a few weeks ago: "Of course, Jerusalem should ultimate.....
» 26/12/2017 11:05:36 AM Op2, On your last post: I'm puzzled how anyone can believe that their prophet could have .....
» 26/12/2017 8:01:49 AM Op2, As you point out, as an atheist I can't particularly hate the notion of a god or his.....
» 25/12/2017 10:47:34 AM Hi Self-Op2, I wouldn't say I hate Christ or God, just that I don't think they may have e.....
» 22/12/2017 3:02:13 PM Op2, And Merry Christmas to your God of Flogging Dead Horses. Keep flogging ! Joe.....
» 22/12/2017 2:42:18 PM Hi Ttbn, "As long as immigration policy is mainly targeted to bringing people with a.....
» 22/12/2017 9:00:07 AM Currently, at least half of Australia's population growth is made up of immigrants, usuall.....
» 22/12/2017 8:52:34 AM [continued] Older Indigenous people usually have a fairly detailed knowledge of their gen.....
» 22/12/2017 8:51:21 AM Alt Rave, Yes, of course, there are non-Indigenous people who manage to claim Indigenous .....
» 21/12/2017 4:42:57 PM Alt Rave, So are you saying that Indigenous people can identify as Indigenous if they lik.....
» 21/12/2017 3:15:31 PM Alt Rave, So are you suggesting that Aboriginal people can't be both Aboriginal and Austr.....
» 21/12/2017 11:19:18 AM Alt Raver, Identity is not nationality. People can be Aboriginal and Australian. There ar.....
» 21/12/2017 8:22:30 AM Alt Rave, Identity is not nationality. People can be Aboriginal and Australian. They may .....
» 20/12/2017 12:18:45 PM Perhaps I'm alone in the world in believing that nuclear plants in the future shouldn't us.....
» 20/12/2017 12:11:43 PM Alt Rave, Aboriginal people born in Australia are Aussies. It's possible to be both, in f.....
» 20/12/2017 8:22:15 AM Alt Rave, You can find the data in the ABS Censuses, Community Profiles: http://www.abs.....
» 19/12/2017 1:42:50 PM Don't worry, we're right there with you, O Sung Wu. :) Cheers, Joe.....
» 19/12/2017 10:38:19 AM Dearest Foxy, I've watched a few of Milo's Youtube videos, but I haven't noticed anything.....
» 18/12/2017 9:46:07 AM Wolly, You miss the vital point that such involvement has to be voluntary, consensual. I .....
» 18/12/2017 9:18:20 AM Hi Cherful, The Indigenous population is, on the whole, moving from the smaller remote 'c.....
» 18/12/2017 7:40:06 AM Hi Bazz, I'm not so sure: there are ways and ways for a man to hook up with a woman, some.....
» 17/12/2017 10:47:17 AM Dearest Foxy, Far be it for me, an atheist with - if anything - a Proddy background, to .....
» 16/12/2017 5:05:14 PM The RC didn't make its findings on either Muslim institutions or government schools public.....
» 16/12/2017 1:00:46 PM SELF-Op2, So, you've learnt nothing from anybody's comments ? You still think you've achi.....
» 15/12/2017 4:25:23 PM Yes, it must be very difficult to prove sexual assault, unless extreme force has been used.....
» 15/12/2017 8:38:22 AM Self-Opinionated2, Why do you keep going on about us 'all' being believers ? Most posters.....
» 13/12/2017 6:14:51 PM On the other hand ..... Just slightly off-topic, don't you love the statements from Trump.....
» 13/12/2017 1:21:36 PM Op2, Very confusing: so you think the Bible is rubbish, except for some bits which praise.....
» 13/12/2017 9:05:41 AM Nick, No, they're nobody's property. And increasing numbers will break out of any chains .....
» 13/12/2017 8:05:36 AM Oops ! Fat fingers - when I wrote yesterday at 8:17:54 AM: "Total graduate numbers h.....
» 12/12/2017 2:26:23 PM Nick, Yes. Wanaaring, NSW, out from Bourke, towards Tibooburra ( I know an Aboriginal gra.....
» 12/12/2017 2:13:21 PM Op2, See,this is the sort of thing that completely throws us: "I'm NOT an Atheist! .....
» 12/12/2017 11:17:36 AM Nick, And it's the future that I'm focussing on. It gets brighter and brighter each year......
» 12/12/2017 10:48:01 AM Alt Rav, We might 'want to' but most of us don't. That may be the difference between a sc.....
» 12/12/2017 10:36:49 AM Christ, Op2 - WHO CARES ?! This is infantile......
» 12/12/2017 9:05:49 AM Alt Rav, If any woman passing by suddenly grabbed you by the nuts, for the amusement of a.....
» 12/12/2017 8:17:54 AM Nick, "So the next generation is comfortable with education, which is a positive. Th.....
» 12/12/2017 7:38:42 AM As an old Marxist, I enjoyed this interview with David Horowitz: https://www.youtube.com/.....
» 11/12/2017 7:01:46 PM Nick, Can you bring yourself to write, that, all in all, 54,000 university graduates for .....
» 11/12/2017 5:08:27 PM [continued] What can be done ? Who has to make the moves ? Presumably, if anything is to .....
» 11/12/2017 4:58:49 PM [continued] Nick, Where to start ? I'll repeat slowly: currently 54,000 graduates; around.....
» 11/12/2017 12:01:54 PM Hi Self-Op2, Come to think of it, this business of killing someone's first-born: have a l.....
» 11/12/2017 11:51:01 AM Give her my best wishes, Foxy :) Love, Joe.....
» 11/12/2017 11:06:49 AM Self-Op2, It as a custom in many early societies, pre-agricultural and agricultural, to s.....
» 11/12/2017 9:25:17 AM What have we learnt from Self-Opinionated2 so far ? *. the Bible is rubbish, or at least .....
» 10/12/2017 7:33:03 PM Hi Cherful, Yes, of course, better palliative care AND protection of the rights to die at.....
» 10/12/2017 7:06:17 PM At the Census last year, 48,700 Indigenous people were recorded as university graduates ac.....
» 10/12/2017 1:42:13 PM AJ, "It didn't seem, for example, that the workers were becoming ever-more immigrate.....
» 10/12/2017 12:29:26 PM Hi Alan, It must be galling for the opportunist 'Left' who have made such an art out of '.....
» 10/12/2017 7:29:23 AM Self-Op2, Most of us have probably read all those bits about killing and smiting and hang.....
» 9/12/2017 4:37:10 PM Oh Gord, not another one. Do you blokes understand what is meant by 'straw man' ?.....
» 9/12/2017 4:35:25 PM Good on you, Big Nana ! But I fervently wish that there were a few Left-wing Milos, if onl.....
» 9/12/2017 4:31:54 PM [continued] Looking back into the sixties and seventies, it seems that my view of Marxist.....
» 9/12/2017 4:26:41 PM Hi AJ, I suppose the Left (including the 'Left') is a very broad church - I still think o.....
» 9/12/2017 12:32:18 PM Reading and re-reading all of these posts, I'm still puzzled as to why Jerusalem is in any.....
» 9/12/2017 12:04:53 PM Hi AJ, No, I don't agree with most of his positions. But I do enjoy how he operates. I ju.....
» 9/12/2017 12:00:34 PM Hi Mhaze, Six months ? No, forty years. Forty years. Forty years. Or maybe more. When its.....
» 9/12/2017 10:24:40 AM Dear Foxy, Yeah, I forgot :) Love, Joe.....
» 9/12/2017 10:22:48 AM Dearest Foxy, I'm tempted to agree, but the Right can be tackled in more peaceful ways. S.....
» 9/12/2017 10:10:47 AM Self-Opinionated2, Are you a bit schizophrenic - are there two of you, a Self-Op2 (i) and.....
» 9/12/2017 9:52:07 AM Hi Foxy, Maybe you can train your Trump doll to try to grab your Hilary doll on the pussy.....
» 9/12/2017 8:55:06 AM Hi Nathan, How do you think your thread is going so far ? Is Milo really just a joke ? Or.....
» 9/12/2017 8:41:28 AM Is Mise, Stop teasing that poor kid !.....
» 9/12/2017 8:39:21 AM Ttbn, Timing, as the 'escort' said to the bishop, is everything. Joe.....
» 9/12/2017 8:09:13 AM Hi Ttbn, I'm inclined toggle with you. If anybody on the 'Left' had any regard for the fr.....
» 9/12/2017 8:00:23 AM Ttbn, Yes, one day, Jerusalem should be the capital of Israel. Now is utterly inappropria.....
» 9/12/2017 7:40:18 AM Self-Op2, Pretty much everybody on this thread, except Runner, would agree with you befor.....
» 8/12/2017 5:40:44 PM Self-Op2, You introduced this thread ( your 2nd post) by saying you were going to analyse.....
» 8/12/2017 2:14:45 PM Hi Foxy, Where can we get some ? A gift that would keep giving. Why say only five ? Joe.....
» 8/12/2017 2:12:06 PM Dearest Foxy, Of course, when I go on about tree-planting, I'm using it as a sort of surr.....
» 8/12/2017 2:00:30 PM Dearest Foxy, As always, I learn so much from your contributions, especially your positiv.....
» 8/12/2017 9:34:12 AM I could be wrong: Maybe (A). Trump has a very cunning plan, perhaps to force the issue, w.....
» 8/12/2017 9:27:32 AM Hi Binoy, You over-egg the pudding a bit: " .... The Murdoch Press, through The Aust.....
» 8/12/2017 9:17:10 AM Hi Runner, I can't tell if Self-Op2 is one of ours or one of yours :). Is his rant anti-r.....
» 8/12/2017 9:12:48 AM Hi Mha, Perhaps the Antifas could come to an arrangement with the police and purchase a b.....
» 8/12/2017 7:57:42 AM Timing is everything in this game. Of course, one day, Jerusalem will be recognised as the.....
» 7/12/2017 3:46:24 PM Of course, Jerusalem should ultimately be recognised as the capital of Israel, but timing .....
» 7/12/2017 3:31:54 PM Dearest Foxy, Yes, indeed: all those who commit or threaten violence and/or total disrupt.....
» 7/12/2017 2:38:31 PM Hi Paul, My poor darling went nine years ago, very peacefully, surrounded by what seemed .....
» 7/12/2017 2:25:20 PM Hi Toni, In the land of the fair go, maybe half of those costs could be billed to the Ant.....
» 7/12/2017 10:18:59 AM Sel-Opinionated2, I'm confused: are you saying that you believe the words of the New Test.....
» 7/12/2017 10:05:59 AM Hi AJ, On your very last point: at the end of the First World War, a young unwed mother i.....
» 7/12/2017 9:23:16 AM Hi Josephus, Yes, what I love about OLO is that nobody can punch you in the mouth for hav.....
» 6/12/2017 4:31:40 PM Democracy thrives on civilised disagreement, it's how we move our thinking forward. Brute .....
» 6/12/2017 1:11:47 PM Hi Shockadelic, Brilliant ! You make a number of very relevant points there, and I think .....
» 6/12/2017 1:04:46 PM Alt Rave, Does vegetation give off CO2 ? Yes, of course, when it's decaying. Stick your h.....
» 6/12/2017 9:24:53 AM Self-Opinionated2, I can't tell if you're an idiot, glorying in his new discovery that Sa.....
» 6/12/2017 8:12:17 AM Has anybody ever seen Sacha Baron Cohen and Milo in the same room at the same time ? Hmmmm.....
» 6/12/2017 7:30:44 AM Alt Rav, Vegetation, especially in its growing phase, soaks up CO2 and emits Oxygen. Vege.....
» 6/12/2017 7:28:41 AM Dearest Foxy, Perhaps not always :). But I certainly couldn't have put it any better myse.....
» 5/12/2017 5:29:39 PM Dear Foxy, Really ? Are we really 'killing each other in the name of different prophets e.....
» 5/12/2017 4:00:57 PM Dear Foxy, Yes, " ... we should never forget the role of the Muslim scholars of 1000.....
» 1/12/2017 3:46:37 PM Op2, Christ, you don't get it, do you ? Have you only just discovered - and are all indig.....
» 1/12/2017 2:22:50 PM Hi Ttbn, Just wait until he gets onto Kings. All that "The people of XX, they slaugh.....
» 1/12/2017 12:28:07 PM Dearest Foxy, I certainly didn't mean to trivialise the abuse of power against women acro.....
» 1/12/2017 11:18:19 AM This such a childish thread. When I was about seven, I asked my mum if there was a god. Be.....
» 30/11/2017 7:50:56 PM Dear Foxy, Or maybe 'Angels Guard Thee' as sung by Sir John McCormack, and Sir Kenneth Mc.....
» 30/11/2017 5:19:57 PM Hi Toni, I suppose the more power a bloke has in the workplace, compare to a young woman'.....
» 30/11/2017 12:25:17 PM Alt Rav, What's the difference between conspiracy crap and reality ? Evidence. Evidence w.....
» 30/11/2017 12:13:51 PM Hi Op2, Yes, I think it's important that the Left preoccupy themselves for the next fifty.....
» 28/11/2017 10:04:26 PM Hi Is Mise, But it could be extremely difficult for them, in a multitude of ways, for a l.....
» 28/11/2017 10:02:08 PM Nick, Israel is in the Middle East. That map was of Middle Eastern countries, of which Is.....
» 28/11/2017 11:53:04 AM Is that a criticism of the ABC, Nick ? Since we can't get inside your head toward out what.....
» 28/11/2017 10:57:01 AM Nick, Is that a criticism of the ABC ? Hard to tell. So ..... why couldn't they have incl.....
» 28/11/2017 10:50:15 AM Hi Runner, Not to mention the 300 killed in the Sinai on Friday. But ..... but. ........ .....
» 28/11/2017 10:24:11 AM As I understood it, the main subject of this thread was the existence or otherwise of laws.....
» 27/11/2017 3:54:16 PM Alt Rav, As Senator Brandis says, quite rightly, everybody is free to be a bigot. Who def.....
» 26/11/2017 9:42:10 PM Alt Rav, If you want to make accusations, you need to be pretty certain of your facts. So.....
» 26/11/2017 8:37:21 PM Alt Rav, According to Wikipedia, the Bank of England was " Established in 1694, it.....
» 26/11/2017 7:08:09 PM Alt Rav, England has had banks for hundreds of years, long before the Napoleonic Wars. An.....
» 26/11/2017 4:42:27 PM Altrav, So where did you get this idea ht the Rothschilds don't have to submit any financ.....
» 26/11/2017 4:20:24 PM Alt Rav, So ...... you'll believe anything ? As long as it fits your prejudices ? Joe.....
» 26/11/2017 3:18:31 PM Hi Pal, My mum would have laughed at that: me, an apologist for the Catholics. Mind you, .....
» 26/11/2017 7:10:04 AM Hi Is Mise, ReallY ? In one of those, " .... the society is matrilineal but not matr.....
» 25/11/2017 9:33:13 PM Hi Banjo, Yes, I'm surprised to realise that 'culture' is not necessary friendly to women.....
» 25/11/2017 4:41:48 PM Hi Paul, Yes, but some ideologies have what you might say faster dynamics than others, th.....
» 25/11/2017 2:53:17 PM Hi Nathan, Perhaps you could point out that those little two-year-olds are being buried u.....
» 25/11/2017 1:58:20 PM [continued] But being atheist also means a constant search, through one's own experience,.....
» 25/11/2017 1:56:48 PM Dear Foxy, You're right, not all Muslims practice their religion in the same way: with th.....
» 25/11/2017 10:07:48 AM Hi Paul, I think you're having a lend of us, with your stereotype of Catholic schools and.....
» 23/11/2017 10:51:01 PM Hi Toni. Well. yeah ..... what's your defence ? Joe.....
» 23/11/2017 12:13:52 PM Hi Alan, "Nobody has the right to annex sovereign territory .... " There were/.....
» 23/11/2017 12:08:56 PM Ttbn, It's neither right to sack a bloke for being homosexual, nor to sack one for not be.....
» 23/11/2017 8:17:14 AM [continued} How to encourage a population away from personal rent-seeking, and to appreci.....
» 23/11/2017 8:14:52 AM Hi Paul, That infantile notion, so common on the 'Left' these days, of either/or - if you.....
» 22/11/2017 9:30:10 PM Paul, You know better than that. indigenous people here and in NZ are free to set up thei.....
» 22/11/2017 4:06:58 PM G. B. Shaw was equally enthusiastic about Mussolini's fascism, Lenin's pseudo-Marxist Bols.....
» 22/11/2017 3:52:00 PM Hi I Mise, As a complete outsider (although I do barrack for the Maroons in State of Orig.....
» 22/11/2017 11:30:15 AM Hi Paul, Yes, doesn't it ? It seems that all organised religions and Utopian political sy.....
» 22/11/2017 10:15:43 AM Yuyutsu, Of course not. Paul believes in the State. Isn't that so, Paul ? None of this 'i.....
» 22/11/2017 10:06:54 AM Dearest Foxy, I think you may have proven my point: that bloke's DNA would still be a mal.....
» 22/11/2017 8:44:06 AM There is something rather infantile about the discussion on gender change: yes, surgeons c.....
» 22/11/2017 8:31:54 AM Toni, "Why are you white-knighting for D ?" Because he happens to be right: wh.....
» 21/11/2017 9:04:08 AM Toni, The map used by the ABC purported to represent the variations, by country, of laws .....
» 20/11/2017 8:00:46 PM Hi Altrav, BAM ! Jeez, that hurt. All my teeth are getting loosened up. No worries, just .....
» 20/11/2017 6:18:29 PM Hi Altrav, I enjoy your posts even if I don't agree with you on every issue: who does amo.....
» 20/11/2017 6:08:09 PM Nick, I'm one of those poor people with a fifties education who have to read everything, .....
» 20/11/2017 2:46:41 PM Thanks Panditji, I'll bear that in mind if I'm ever in Ludhiana. Speaking of 'Recognition.....
» 20/11/2017 8:58:57 AM Alan, "A six year old female has rights?" Who, yes, I'm sorry if that upsets yo.....
» 19/11/2017 5:42:04 PM Hi Nick, Yes I concede that the ABC map showed Palestine as supporting the law that a rap.....
» 19/11/2017 9:50:19 AM Speaking of Aboriginal members of parliaments and government ministers, Victoria has appoi.....
» 19/11/2017 9:47:20 AM Paul, "Since then, birth control methods have improved, single mothers' benefits hav.....
» 19/11/2017 9:28:36 AM Paul, Up to the sixties and perhaps beyond, marriage represented security for women enter.....
» 18/11/2017 9:16:38 PM Nick, Sometimes there is smart-arse, sometimes there is moron. Joe.....
» 18/11/2017 1:37:32 PM Hi David, Well, what do we know about this vile practice: * It has never been the law in.....
» 17/11/2017 5:40:48 PM Nick, Not if neither was married. Anyway, back to 2017: rape-and-marriage has never bee.....
» 17/11/2017 5:08:44 PM Nick, Exodus ? Society four thousand years ago? Yes, that's how backward that vile custom.....
» 17/11/2017 1:15:34 PM Not really, Nick. But it wouldn't have looked good for the ABC to inadvertently highlight .....
» 17/11/2017 9:28:55 AM So ..... *. Israel has never had laws which allowed a rapist to marry his victim; *. ma.....
» 16/11/2017 12:52:16 PM So what's next ? Since there is no slippery slope - that's just anti- propaganda - we won'.....
» 16/11/2017 12:47:19 PM Hi Foxy, So, no slippery slope then ? Love, Joe.....
» 15/11/2017 1:24:18 PM Dear Foxy, So, outside the affluent lo-fat kale-and-goat-cheese circles (probably in othe.....
» 14/11/2017 11:02:03 PM Hi Diver Dan, There's been only one case of 'stolen' which has been proven. Every person .....
» 14/11/2017 10:11:42 PM Hi Paul, Yeah, we didn't see Christine Forster out the back, deliberately tearing her jac.....
» 14/11/2017 8:26:52 AM AJ, Inter-racial marriages have always been legal in Australia, with qualifications in pl.....
» 13/11/2017 6:07:07 PM Hi Paul, You should put that on a T-shirt and saunter out amongst an angry march of femin.....
» 13/11/2017 3:15:18 PM Hi Leon, Perhaps that's a little unfair of you, to point out that no socialist country ha.....
» 13/11/2017 2:04:51 PM I thunk the gist of this thread, and my comments, is the neither Dastyari nor Christine Fo.....
» 13/11/2017 2:02:15 PM Hi Paul, I strongly support and commend you for criticising the beliefs of thousands of y.....
» 13/11/2017 12:30:37 PM Hi Ttbn, No, I've never said that you're a racist, from memory. And no, I was simply comp.....
» 13/11/2017 11:30:45 AM Ttbn, You don't drink alcohol ?! What, you're a Muslim ?! I think you got the drift of .....
» 13/11/2017 11:26:46 AM Hi Paul, No, simply that not even all that many Christians would give much of the Bible, .....
» 13/11/2017 10:25:27 AM Hi TTbn, I don't think it was Dastyari who used Islam - that seems to be what he was abus.....
» 13/11/2017 9:20:38 AM It was vile for thugs to abuse Senator Dastyari over his origins and to accuse him of supp.....
» 13/11/2017 8:05:24 AM Even though anybody could see that it wasn't really a goer, Aboriginal elites have been fl.....
» 13/11/2017 7:49:20 AM Hi Paul, Isn't it fun, whingeing about something written a couple of thousand years ago ?.....
» 11/11/2017 6:41:33 PM I'm told that, in a production of Gilbert & Sullivan's Mikado here in Adelaide a few years.....
» 10/11/2017 7:48:04 PM Hasbeen, What, farts ? Christ, I'm in trouble, probably with both the P=C and the anti br.....
» 10/11/2017 6:53:52 PM Dearest sweet Foxy, Those situations have been around for a very long time. I was just ch.....
» 10/11/2017 2:27:50 PM Hi Alt Rav, Why don't you'll us what you really think ? Op2, '12. Should canoes be a f.....
» 10/11/2017 9:10:02 AM One funny thing about social change is that it sort of sneaks up on planners, while they'r.....
» 9/11/2017 5:48:39 PM Hi Has been, Yes, if we've learnt anything from this citizenship fiasco, it's that almost.....
» 9/11/2017 5:23:30 PM Hi Toni, My point was, since English is the common language across Australia, the languag.....
» 9/11/2017 11:12:47 AM Hi Ttbn, That's for sure ! My hope is that, once graduates get their eye in, they will lo.....
» 9/11/2017 7:56:43 AM I love getting tail-gated by a 4WD: as an old person, I immediately start to slow down, sa.....
» 9/11/2017 7:42:28 AM Hi Leoj, "Unfortunately there is no media or political interest in the good news sto.....
» 8/11/2017 2:40:57 PM Hi Hasbeen, With respect, you're missing my point. I'm suggesting that, for an Aboriginal.....
» 8/11/2017 12:21:28 PM Hi Big Nana, Yeah, language: my wife's sister, also a brilliant teacher, was a Reading sp.....
» 8/11/2017 11:16:29 AM Hi Hasbeen, " .... aboriginals will only really prosper when they forget the words a.....
» 8/11/2017 8:18:47 AM [continued] of genuine, truth-based, Reconciliation. I don't mean hands in the sand or wa.....
» 8/11/2017 8:09:17 AM Hi Big Nana, Yes, what I am very depressed about is the rapidly-growing Gap between urban.....
» 7/11/2017 10:59:31 AM According to 2016 Census data, the number of Indigenous university graduates has risen rap.....
» 7/11/2017 9:01:48 AM How can a country intrude on, and dictate, the status of citizens of another country ? Jus.....
» 6/11/2017 6:52:39 PM Ah, Foxy, I love when you post extremely definitive articles, even books, like "Homos.....
» 6/11/2017 12:36:29 PM Dearest sweet innocent Foxy, It's amazing how your mind works. Are there bad marriages, e.....
» 6/11/2017 11:59:22 AM Hi Leoj, This is all probably getting away from the purpose of this thread, but I was jus.....
» 6/11/2017 9:58:41 AM Hi AJ, Being from Western Sydney, I've lead a relatively sheltered life, unaware of all t.....
» 5/11/2017 8:28:00 PM Sorry, Banjo, I just can't believe that lesbians engage in anal sex any more than heterose.....
» 5/11/2017 1:32:39 PM Hi Paul, "Anally fixated". Ooooooo ! That sounds painful. Isn't that what the v.....
» 5/11/2017 7:23:27 AM Hi Banjo, Toni, Insults can be such fun, especially clever, subtle ones. My favourite is .....
» 4/11/2017 1:42:16 PM Hi Big Nana, Just looking at the 2016 Census results, with the 60 % rise in Indigenous gr.....
» 4/11/2017 1:25:24 PM Mhaze, I'm sure Anna said that to you many times, in that and other contexts, but especia.....
» 4/11/2017 12:20:27 PM In the sixties, I read all I could find written by James Baldwin, a Black American (the te.....
» 4/11/2017 10:22:14 AM Is Mise, Ttbn, Are you suggesting that the Queen is dual-citizen ? Perhaps she is also a .....
» 2/11/2017 3:43:00 PM AJ, Even the British recognised Aboriginal people, not just as people, but as British sub.....
» 2/11/2017 3:26:33 PM Thanks, Mhaze, good points. I love that Orwell quote - so true ! Cheers, Joe.....
» 2/11/2017 1:01:30 PM Foxy, You touch on an interesting dilemma: if we have British Head of State, i.e. the Que.....
» 2/11/2017 12:50:17 PM Hi Mhaze, What I was touching on was the break by Gramsci with earlier and outdated Marxi.....
» 2/11/2017 10:44:11 AM Straw man, Foxy - nobody much is saying that. How one has sex, and the nature of marriage,.....
» 1/11/2017 3:08:30 PM Hi Mhaze, I suspect that, like Lenin, the Nazis also tried to interpose the fascist State.....
» 1/11/2017 10:48:50 AM Thanks Big Nana, Wow, I hadn't really thought of that, it's great ! Yes, it seems that th.....
» 31/10/2017 3:33:46 PM Sorry, that should have read: "Many of those earlier cogitators, misguided as they w.....
» 31/10/2017 3:19:38 PM AJ, There may be no gods, but there have been strong beliefs in all manner of gods and wh.....
» 31/10/2017 11:36:57 AM I was just listening on ABC-FM about how the composer Tchaikovsky had a nervous break-down.....
» 31/10/2017 9:51:16 AM 2016 Census data about university graduate numbers came out last week. So we can compare p.....
» 30/10/2017 7:48:44 PM [continued] something very different to what it means for the working population: for a p.....
» 30/10/2017 7:43:22 PM Hi Big Nana, I suspect that the goal of genuine reconciliation has been seen as too diffi.....
» 30/10/2017 12:44:08 PM Foxy, Oy. There have been representative bodies ever since the National Aboriginal Confer.....
» 30/10/2017 12:21:37 PM Bit of a long bow, Foxy, from Bain Attwood to Noel Parson. You're conflating two issues, c.....
» 30/10/2017 9:03:38 AM Foxy, I liked this quote from that book of Attwood's: "“… many Aboriginal people be.....
» 30/10/2017 8:29:03 AM Toni, Yes, I suspect that governments always liaise with the Indigenous population only t.....
» 29/10/2017 8:35:40 PM Thanks, Leoj, I liked that conclusion: "Most advocates, policymakers and social scie.....
» 29/10/2017 6:55:47 PM No, Foxy, it's not just 'opinion': it's belief versus evidence. Whoever asserts, must prov.....
» 29/10/2017 4:45:57 PM Foxy, I think you're proving my point: evidence is not just a lot of books, it's actual i.....
» 29/10/2017 4:13:48 PM Hi Ttbn, I hasten to assert that I have nowhere near the length and depth of experience, .....
» 28/10/2017 7:10:10 PM Dear Foxy, For God's sake, there are Indigenous representatives in almost all legislature.....
» 28/10/2017 3:05:34 PM Dearest Foxy, Ah, so young, so naive ;). Do you really think that a ginger group outside .....
» 23/10/2017 10:32:22 AM Just published: 2016 Census data is now out about Indigenous graduate numbers. In the 201.....
» 20/10/2017 1:52:25 PM David, IF you mean that, if someone claims some benefit ordinarily reserved for Indigenou.....
» 19/10/2017 10:36:48 AM Alt Rav, Good luck with persuading anybody about all that. Or do you have something a bit.....
» 18/10/2017 10:57:14 AM Clinton blew it. She didn't campaign in three critical states, Michigan, Minnesota and Wis.....
» 18/10/2017 10:52:46 AM David, Alt Rav, My point is simply - would you place demands like those on anybody else ?.....
» 17/10/2017 9:56:51 AM David, Alt Rav, So people are like puppets, you can document them and categorise them and.....
» 15/10/2017 1:29:14 PM Hi David, You suggest that the figure of 700,000 is too low. But it's amazing how much th.....
» 6/10/2017 11:02:46 AM Obviously, anyone can dress up any way they like. But it may not change one's DNA :( Howev.....
» 1/10/2017 10:27:34 AM Dearest Foxy, I don't think it's just a matter of either-or - both NK and US leaders are .....
» 1/10/2017 9:46:17 AM Hi Toni, I'm slow this morning, but was that an attempt at humour. Ho ho, I think. But y.....
» 28/09/2017 11:21:45 AM Toni, To take your idea of terrorist genes a bit further, if one bothered, one might try .....
» 28/09/2017 10:49:15 AM Paul, The elite were opposed to homosexuality ?! Don't you know anything about Victorian .....
» 28/09/2017 10:41:47 AM Hi Rusty, But none of that reasoning provides any necessary support for homosexual marria.....
» 27/09/2017 4:48:36 PM Hi Rusty, That sounds like it hurts :) De facto couples already raise children, perhaps .....
» 27/09/2017 4:40:36 PM Toni, Heredity ? After birth ? How's that work ? You've heard of socialisation ? Early t.....
» 26/09/2017 11:06:01 AM I'm a very slow learner, and it's just hit me that something might be legal, we can suppor.....
» 26/09/2017 9:47:27 AM Hi Ttbn, Did he mean copric embarrassment, or coprological emmbarasmment, or what ? And w.....
» 25/09/2017 2:10:10 PM Hi Phanto, Maybe a marriage is a contract between a man and a woman, overseen and celebra.....
» 25/09/2017 9:52:29 AM Christ, what a bunch of millenial snowflakes. Or maybe I've just evolved into a grumpy old.....
» 25/09/2017 8:36:43 AM Oops ! That should have read, " .... tens of thousands of acres of potentially good l.....
» 24/09/2017 3:25:24 PM Alan/Mikk, We all were hunter/gatherers until barely ten thousand years ago, nothing uniq.....
» 24/09/2017 9:06:06 AM I wonder if we've got all of this 'equality' aspect wrong: a contract may be between equal.....
» 20/09/2017 9:23:38 AM Dearest Foxy, Tickner. Yeah. I liked this bit: "If this mythical global queue did a.....
» 20/09/2017 8:38:58 AM Hi Minotaur, Well, I suppose there is a sort of hierarchy of evidence, something like thi.....
» 20/09/2017 8:17:20 AM Gosh, that's clever, Paul. I laughed so hard I wet my jocks, I might have to change them; .....
» 19/09/2017 4:38:10 PM Alan, Did CP's actions affect the careers and plans of those students in any way ? Yes. .....
» 19/09/2017 8:29:49 AM On 'Terra nullius', there is this article too: https://www.samuelgriffith.org.au/papers/h.....
» 19/09/2017 8:21:35 AM Dear Foxy, So ...... the company didn't pay out a refund on the unit already bought to th.....
» 19/09/2017 7:30:46 AM Hi EJ, Yeah, the legal system was pretty brutal until Peel's reforms in the 1820s. One of.....
» 19/09/2017 7:21:27 AM Minotaur, My god, you come out with some amazing rubbish, unsubstantiated BS. But I guess.....
» 18/09/2017 3:26:46 PM Hi Minotaur, Nobody who wasn't a Christian could swear on the bible, and so couldn't give.....
» 18/09/2017 3:00:54 PM Hi Phanto, You've got it in one: " .... a better society, one where no one has to ma.....
» 18/09/2017 2:31:08 PM EJ ! Where you been ?! 1788: the context is crucial - a century or more of the developmen.....
» 18/09/2017 12:56:14 PM Hi Leoj, Yeah, that puzzles me: unless one partner more or less stays home to mind the ki.....
» 15/09/2017 8:35:34 AM Dearest Foxy, Nobody is saying 'all'. 65,000,000 and counting. So, dear, how many each .....
» 15/09/2017 8:33:47 AM Hi Phanto, Yeah, I would have thought that the essence of BOTH legal marriage and inter-'.....
» 15/09/2017 8:18:04 AM Hi Paul, If more refugees apply each year to come to Australia than the quota, then there.....
» 14/09/2017 4:10:24 PM Hi Robert, Ad hominems ? Moi ?! Your points then: * do you really think any Australian .....
» 14/09/2017 2:30:50 PM Spot-on, Phanto, thanks ! Equality isn't just anything we declare it to be, AJ: witness m.....
» 14/09/2017 2:13:22 PM Between them, China and India are building, or planning to build, around four hundred coal.....
» 14/09/2017 1:59:51 PM AJ, Incredibly weak arguments there, and i think you know it. Any inter-racial couple, .....
» 14/09/2017 9:55:53 AM Hi Big Nana, Yeah, I just bought one of those continental cucumbers, about a foot long - .....
» 13/09/2017 4:55:23 PM Hi Yuyutsu, Yes, to get the benefits of legal recognition from a de facto relationship, y.....
» 13/09/2017 4:39:31 PM "We'll all be rooned," said Hanrahan, "Before the year is out." Isn't.....
» 13/09/2017 2:49:14 PM Hi Toni, Second time lucky. Bastard computer. I'm sure you're not an idiot ;) But the.....
» 13/09/2017 1:32:41 PM Hi Robert, I read your post and, at first, thought, "This man's an idiot." Then.....
» 13/09/2017 12:50:34 PM Hi Mememe, I'm trying to deconstruct your posts in the context of homosexual marriage. No.....
» 13/09/2017 11:36:00 AM Hi Alan, Thanks. I also just found this article by Geoffrey Partington, on the same subje.....
» 13/09/2017 10:31:53 AM Paul, Semantics. 'Queue' or 'lottery': if you haven't applied and waited, or if you haven.....
» 13/09/2017 6:54:00 AM Hi Paul, The resort to ad hominem is usually a good sign that someone has run out of argu.....
» 12/09/2017 9:22:18 PM Me me me, So fight back by voting, otherwise how does anybody know you're doing anything .....
» 12/09/2017 4:48:12 PM Sory, that URL should be: https://www.samuelgriffith.org.au/papers/html/volume16/v16chap4.....
» 12/09/2017 3:04:14 PM You're right, Cupric, all those who are inclined to vote Yes in this dodgy and futile prop.....
» 12/09/2017 12:28:54 PM Hi Leoj, I'm tempted to listen to Philip Adams, for his imminent announcement of how many.....
» 12/09/2017 12:22:34 PM I've just come across this amazing article by the historian Michael Connor, titled 'Error .....
» 12/09/2017 12:07:15 PM Toni, Of course not, it wouldn't be a 'solution', but it can't hurt to try to find ways t.....
» 12/09/2017 11:44:25 AM I've just come across this amazing article by the historian Michael Connor, titled 'Error .....
» 12/09/2017 11:05:16 AM Hi Nick, Yes, remembering history. In many, if not all, Aboriginal groups, a practice of .....
» 12/09/2017 10:52:22 AM Cupric, Well, duh ! Of course. Three times, of course, for each of your points. Why go to.....
» 12/09/2017 10:31:02 AM Hi Paul & Toni, Silence was the stern reply. As Rahm Emmanuel, mayor of Chicago, said o.....
» 12/09/2017 10:20:36 AM Hi SteeleRedux, Sixty five million refugees across the world, and counting. So, given y.....
» 12/09/2017 10:13:48 AM Hi Leslie, Yes, but I think that there was a host of ways in which populations could be c.....
» 12/09/2017 9:59:46 AM Wolly, So ........ we can't ever know anything from the past, because it may not have bee.....
» 12/09/2017 9:41:03 AM Hi Nick, Or just ask your local green-house vegetable-grower. Joe.....
» 12/09/2017 8:36:20 AM [continued] Enrolments in Indigenous-focussed courses have shrunk to a few percent, post-.....
» 12/09/2017 8:28:44 AM Absolutely brilliant ! Yes, nobody wants to go back to a strictly walk-around, bare-arsed,.....
» 12/09/2017 7:41:56 AM Hi Paul & Toni, Sorry if it's too complicated: I was asking (and of course I'm dimly awar.....
» 12/09/2017 7:25:28 AM Hi Killarney, No, such power imbalances were usual pre-colonisation and post-, even today.....
» 11/09/2017 7:38:41 AM Hi Robert, Yes, 65 million refugees around the world, plus a million Rohingya now, plus m.....
» 11/09/2017 7:28:23 AM Sorry, Embarrassment, I've read my previous post over and over and I can't see any suggest.....
» 11/09/2017 3:05:15 AM Phanto, Of course they don't, on the whole. But the odd, accidental pregnancy probably ra.....
» 11/09/2017 1:34:00 AM I'm fascinated by the way threads go off in all sorts of directions. Try to get a better i.....
» 11/09/2017 1:17:46 AM Phanto, No matter how much power women might have in western societies compared to backwa.....
» 10/09/2017 11:29:20 PM Phanto, And what would happen to those mothers if they didn't ? Look at some of the prehi.....
» 10/09/2017 11:22:51 PM All plant-life needs CO2. It always has, and always will. Without CO2, nothing grows and w.....
» 10/09/2017 11:15:03 PM Hi Nick, You might be right about Chinese history: there seem to be great gaps between 20.....
» 10/09/2017 11:27:31 AM Denier !.....
» 10/09/2017 7:26:24 AM Hi Toni, Well, that's what our family story has been: once you get across the Red Sea, tu.....
» 9/09/2017 10:26:28 AM Sorry Toni, I just learnt that it had burnt down. So no evidence, I'm afraid. But you can .....
» 9/09/2017 9:03:56 AM Well, maybe not, Phanto: but it does indicate what a colossal waste of time, effort and mo.....
» 9/09/2017 9:01:10 AM Minotaur, I don't know or really care where you live. Yes, I am probably much older than .....
» 9/09/2017 6:56:53 AM Either way, whoever were here first, and second, and third, ........ were the first people.....
» 9/09/2017 3:49:02 AM Hi Minotaur, Yes, that would be great: we're from roughly the same part of Sydney (Bankst.....
» 9/09/2017 3:30:15 AM Hi Leoj, Let's be honest - if a bloke can get it up, he's sober enough to know the differ.....
» 9/09/2017 1:49:10 AM Thanks, Killarney; thanks, Alan. The ever-present threat of being lumped, broke, with tho.....
» 8/09/2017 7:58:46 AM Hi Minotaur, Please try to get it right: the absence of any evidence MAY very well indica.....
» 8/09/2017 7:44:50 AM Hi Phanto, That happens often, does it ? 50/50 ? What, the man takes over the pregnancy.....
» 8/09/2017 4:14:42 AM I have to support Killarney on this issue: no matter how drunk a girl might get, if she ha.....
» 8/09/2017 12:16:00 AM Dear Foxy, [I'm presuming that you're still with us :) ] No, what you write is unsubstan.....
» 7/09/2017 11:24:13 PM Dearest Foxy, [Just in case you're not quite done] I like many stories, but I love evide.....
» 6/09/2017 9:19:20 PM Hi Minotaur, I'm not sure what you mean by 'condescending': I'm assuming that you are a u.....
» 6/09/2017 3:29:24 PM Hi Minotaur, Why do people insist on this fiction that the British claimed that Australia.....
» 5/09/2017 2:45:23 PM Hi again Minotaur, Nicknicknick employs very deep satire and irony, I don't think he mean.....
» 5/09/2017 2:32:44 PM Hi Minotaur, I'm in South Australia, I have only the SA records to go on, and second-hand.....
» 5/09/2017 12:21:04 PM Hi Leoj, On Reece's article, it's amazing that he wrote it thirty years ago. Brilliant. H.....
» 5/09/2017 10:54:44 AM As Rowan Callick writes in The Australian today, a military solution is out of the questio.....
» 5/09/2017 10:44:36 AM Student computer rooms at universities are usually very busy places, used around the clock.....
» 4/09/2017 1:52:59 PM Hi Foxy, I doubt my own oral memory, let alone anybody else's :) As for your conclusion.....
» 4/09/2017 1:41:47 PM [con tinued] And of course, for single women with children, there was no financial child .....
» 4/09/2017 1:33:32 PM Aboriginal people as British subjects ? Well, at least in SA, yeah: on at least a couple o.....
» 4/09/2017 12:02:27 PM Facts matter. I typed up the nine thousand letters of the South Australian Protector (1839.....
» 31/08/2017 6:48:16 PM Hi Toni, The current legal position is that marriage is an agreement between a man and a .....
» 29/08/2017 5:15:08 PM Hi Shockadelic, Well, maybe lust rather than love - not that there's anything much wrong .....
» 29/08/2017 1:16:03 PM Hi Say NoToCommonSense, We shouldn't test Year 1s ?! Of course, we should, tactfully of c.....
» 29/08/2017 11:16:21 AM Hi AJ, As an asinine but curious person (just ask anyone), can you spell out for me how '.....
» 29/08/2017 9:03:42 AM "Equality" ? Close relatives can't marry, or even have sexual relations. People .....
» 28/08/2017 10:44:20 AM Hi Cherful, OR: don't worry about the pissy words, cat, hat, run, etc., but as Sylvia Ash.....
» 28/08/2017 10:36:21 AM This may be incredibly naive, but what if anybody seeking political office did two things:.....
» 26/08/2017 2:50:29 PM "History shows same-sex marriage plebiscite unnecessary and out of step" ?! Of c.....
» 23/08/2017 6:09:18 PM This endless false dilemma: OF COURSE kids should read for meaning, for fun, for exploring.....
» 21/08/2017 10:07:34 AM Alt-Rav, You need to distinguish between British sovereignty and ownership of/relationshi.....
» 20/08/2017 12:47:12 PM Hi Leo, So ..... if someone thinks that marriage is a bourgeois institution that should b.....
» 19/08/2017 6:27:12 PM Dear Foxy, No, only to Alice Springs: not impressed. I went to high school in Darwin in t.....
» 19/08/2017 11:58:36 AM I wonder what the law is about climbing trees in many national parks ? Swimming in pools a.....
» 19/08/2017 11:52:55 AM . . . who . . . cares.....
» 7/08/2017 12:20:26 PM What, only twice then ? If you're on a good thing, stick to it. Whispering's not what I .....
» 7/08/2017 9:16:11 AM Dearest Foxy, I certainly like the first option, not to keen on the others. I knew I shou.....
» 6/08/2017 9:21:41 PM Dear Foxy, Will people ever let up on me ?! You do so much, and then, one goat and it's a.....
» 5/08/2017 1:53:42 PM [Flounces back in, Left] Hi Is Mise, Not necessarily. [Flounces back out, Right] [And.....
» 4/08/2017 10:09:52 AM Talk about a storm in a tea-cup. Obviously, if Western men have half of the sperm count of.....
» 31/07/2017 9:10:03 AM Fascinating article. But what about the many generations of Chinese in Australia before, s.....
» 25/07/2017 11:48:34 AM Sexual abuse is an act of power, not merely sexual gratification. Child abuse is manifestl.....
» 23/07/2017 11:51:28 AM I don't think we realise how complicated this can get. It seems that some governments may.....
» 23/07/2017 11:41:32 AM Hi Alt-Rave, Fools rush in, ay ? So you've dipped your toe in the waters of Indigenous is.....
» 22/07/2017 1:17:38 PM Hi Alan, With respect, you and I have Neanderthal genes (I'm assuming you have European a.....
» 21/07/2017 9:03:40 PM Slightly off-topic: from the Census results, it is clear that, for the Indigenous populati.....
» 18/07/2017 5:40:25 PM Hi Minotaur, Yes, just had a knee op. Bloody painful. Yeah, there are only three ways for.....
» 11/07/2017 5:45:00 PM Hi Minotaur, Yes, I agree with you, there's not much mileage in claiming Indigenous statu.....
» 11/07/2017 3:16:13 PM Dr Nicolas Biddle, of the Centre for Aboriginal Policy Research (CAEPR) has contributed th.....
» 11/07/2017 12:40:35 PM Whatev, Minotaur. You're right though: re-identification has been a far, far bigger cont.....
» 11/07/2017 11:24:12 AM Hi Moronitaur, As usual, you miss the point entirely. Populations can't just increase vas.....
» 11/07/2017 9:56:22 AM Why are some 'educators' so afraid of testing ? In my very short teaching career, with 49 .....
» 10/07/2017 10:07:45 AM Fools rush in, don't they ? My grandma was right, I'm not as clever as I thought: I used a.....
» 6/07/2017 1:16:46 PM To get back to topic: Could it be that the Royal Commission is not so ‘unaware’, that it.....
» 6/07/2017 9:35:01 AM Bob Katter claimed on Q & A that he was a Blackfella. Since at least the late nineties, .....
» 5/07/2017 3:39:08 PM Re-identification has disrupted analysis of Indigenous population since 1971. Let's look.....
» 5/07/2017 3:02:11 PM Yes, it's quite amazing that the Indigenous population grew since the 2011 Census by 101,0.....
» 5/07/2017 9:56:04 AM JayB, I have my own issues with Indigenous Studies, mainly that it has to rely so much on.....
» 4/07/2017 5:38:46 PM JayB, There re currently around 44,000 Indigenous university graduates across Australia. .....
» 3/07/2017 2:21:26 PM 3rd time lucky ? Computers, who needs them ? While we're on the subject, the 2016 Census s.....
» 2/07/2017 10:01:24 PM Hi Big Nana, Thank you for your valuable insights. Those problems don't occur so much in .....
» 26/06/2017 11:31:49 AM Paul 2 Mark 2, Nice try: I haven't used the term 'left-wing fascist' on this thread, from.....
» 26/06/2017 9:50:45 AM Paul2, Oops ! That clever jibe should have read: "Not every body who disagrees with.....
» 26/06/2017 9:46:01 AM Paul 2, No, I 'swallowed' the version of events that I saw on the video: it was obvious t.....
» 26/06/2017 8:29:29 AM Hi Paul 1/2, So let's assume that Bolt was attacked by 'members' of some disaffected extr.....
» 25/06/2017 8:31:09 PM Paul 2, Forgive me, I'm a bit confused: a sandwich thrown at a left-wing person is assaul.....
» 24/06/2017 10:22:30 AM Hi Paul 1/2, Yeah: if someone can benefit from some atrocity, such as Bolt because of tha.....
» 20/06/2017 11:20:32 AM Hi Paul 1, A sensible post. Well done. Of course, Trump should surrender any tapes of h.....
» 19/06/2017 6:08:11 PM Maybe everybody has got Trump all wrong. He may be easily the most uneducated President in.....
» 19/06/2017 4:42:17 PM Hi Foxy, Perhaps the point is that the judges did NOT err in their sentencing - they appl.....
» 19/06/2017 11:07:45 AM Dearest Foxy, I suspect that the taxpayers will gladly pay for their outspokenness, impro.....
» 18/06/2017 4:34:55 PM Just to be serious for once, if the issue is about courts handing down lenient parole peri.....
» 17/06/2017 4:54:39 PM Hi Paul, 1 or 2, I' not sure :) Yes, you're ight, evidence is crucial. I hope that those.....
» 16/06/2017 3:15:06 PM [continued] fifty thousand (we'll see in a couple of weeks when the Census data comes out.....
» 16/06/2017 3:13:02 PM Dearest Foxy, Continuing my last post to you, i.e. "So the questions are: could Ab.....
» 15/06/2017 10:49:28 PM Hi Jayb, On that last point: yes, that's what I'm getting at, that it would be up to each.....
» 15/06/2017 6:15:12 PM Hi Jayb, Clearly, no Indigenous person would be forced to renounce their Australian citiz.....
» 15/06/2017 6:03:06 PM Gord. Can we get over this? Right or Left, let the legal system do its work: the thugs are.....
» 15/06/2017 5:23:23 PM Hi Jayb, Curse the English language: does 'State' mean like South Australia or Victoria a.....
» 15/06/2017 1:36:44 PM Sorry Stale, Yes, I may be confused, I do differentiate, perhaps wrongly, between a kid .....
» 15/06/2017 12:22:39 PM Paul 1, Now that you mention it, the bloke in that photo does look like a National Action.....
» 15/06/2017 11:45:37 AM Dearest Foxy, I'm not suggesting that you shouldn't believe what you read but everybody s.....
» 15/06/2017 11:14:24 AM Hi Ttbn, Yes, it's at: http://www.heraldsun.com.au/blogs/andrew-bolt/one-of-the-thugs-wh.....
» 15/06/2017 10:25:37 AM Hi Paul 2, I'm not sure what my former links to communism have to do with a couple of thu.....
» 15/06/2017 10:05:57 AM Hi Stale Reflux, A kid throwing a sandwich at someone probably looks very like a kid, thr.....
» 14/06/2017 10:53:14 PM Hi Paul 2, I'm assuming that Paul 1 is off quietly reading somewhere, or watering the kal.....
» 14/06/2017 9:28:49 PM Foxy, We're probably operating on different planes of understanding. You are happy to dis.....
» 14/06/2017 6:39:09 PM Dearest Foxy, With respect, why do you keep posting the most banal, childish URLs ? For G.....
» 14/06/2017 5:50:50 PM Hi Bazz, Another myth about the Religion of Peace, used by Islamists and useful idiots, i.....
» 14/06/2017 12:16:00 PM Dorg, Fascism means a lot more than tooth-brush moustaches, or black or brown shirts too,.....
» 14/06/2017 11:57:45 AM Dearest Foxy, Thanks for that sage advice about Google. That's 'G' with a capital G, righ.....
» 14/06/2017 11:22:46 AM Hi Dorg, Who, the leaders of China ? Your narrow definition of fascism seems to fit them,.....
» 14/06/2017 10:32:05 AM At the risk of seeming paedophagous, I have to keep asking, that apart from Dorg's wish-li.....
» 14/06/2017 10:02:42 AM Hi Paul, Are there two Pauls, one fairly reasonable and polite, the other a bit of a loon.....
» 14/06/2017 9:48:35 AM Hi Dan, I've never been much of a joiner, and thereby uncritical supporter, of any party......
» 13/06/2017 11:44:10 PM Grateful, Yes, of course. The Burmese nationalist are cruelly and illegally oppressing th.....
» 13/06/2017 11:34:36 PM Hi Cheerful, Well, it depends whether someone supports 'exclusivist' multiculti, or inclu.....
» 13/06/2017 11:19:59 PM Hi Paul, In answer to your question, no. As for identifying the thugs, don't be half-wit.....
» 13/06/2017 6:03:43 PM Hi Mhaze, That's right, so any time he likes he'll release his tax returns, showing not a.....
» 13/06/2017 5:27:19 PM Hi Old Man, Yeah ! And a President should bde allowed to grab any woman by the pussy - th.....
» 13/06/2017 5:18:22 PM Hi Dan, Curse those posting rules ! Yes, probably until twenty or thirty years ago. Yes,.....
» 13/06/2017 4:21:34 PM Hi Paul, After very careful consideration, I would respectfully suggest that Shadow Minis.....
» 13/06/2017 2:38:34 PM Hi Paul, Completely off the topic but I came across this article which you might be inter.....
» 13/06/2017 2:23:47 PM Hi Geoff, Yeah ! The President is the President, he can do whatever he likes, that's what.....
» 13/06/2017 2:11:04 PM I hate to raise the issue of Australian values, they're so boring, but I hope that all of .....
» 13/06/2017 12:46:35 PM Hi Paul, Whatev. Wait and see if and when the matter goes to court. Are you suggesting th.....
» 13/06/2017 12:30:08 PM Hi Paul, Yes indeed, and the Labour Party is stuck with Corbyn for 260 of them. As you .....
» 13/06/2017 10:50:01 AM Hi Foxy, Guilty as charged. But I'm sure Deputy Dorg and Stale can take it. BTT: I here.....
» 13/06/2017 10:39:16 AM There is another implication of a migrant-refugee intake of 200,000 that I've been trying .....
» 13/06/2017 10:17:57 AM Dearest Foxy, Well, Dorg for one - see immediately above. Complaint demolished :) Dorg m.....
» 13/06/2017 10:07:35 AM Hi Paul, I fully agree: stereotyping is a vile practice. One objection I get sometimes ab.....
» 13/06/2017 9:35:09 AM Hi Paul, Well, what SM said about his auntie. I wonder if yours would have. Corbyn lost......
» 13/06/2017 9:28:42 AM Paul, Not all of us are on the unreconstructed opportunist Left, you know: some of us do .....
» 13/06/2017 9:17:31 AM Hi Cheerful, Chilly ?! Try Adelaide, every morning it's about 3, 4 or 5 degrees. So the h.....
» 12/06/2017 10:09:25 PM Hi Dan, So what's it like on your planet ? ISIS says it is at war with the entire West. I.....
» 12/06/2017 9:59:21 PM Hi Paul, Well, yes, we each live in one place, more or less, so how can anyone ever under.....
» 12/06/2017 7:11:24 PM Robert, Who is saying that ? A straw man :) But surely anybody suspected of aiding, or pla.....
» 12/06/2017 7:07:45 PM On another occasion, in about 1842, the SA Protector of Aborigines was informed that there.....
» 12/06/2017 6:54:15 PM Hi Paul, Well, I've seen the video now. Bearing in mind that shoving something in someone.....
» 12/06/2017 6:42:55 PM Good point, Runner :) Maybe every pollie and academic who speaks out in favour of treatin.....
» 12/06/2017 4:17:21 PM Hi Binoy, You getting paid by the word ? Interesting comparison: internment of innocent.....
» 12/06/2017 4:00:48 PM Dick-brain Dorg, How do you know ? Somebody chucks something on you and then something el.....
» 12/06/2017 2:47:42 PM Dependable Dorg, Right on cue ! A bloke gets assaulted, defends himself, with a third blo.....
» 12/06/2017 1:39:40 PM What does 'equal' mean, since the term is bandied about ? An equal right to get married, i.....
» 12/06/2017 1:17:47 PM [Continued] People at Pt McLeay won't read the Journals of the missionary there (1859-187.....
» 12/06/2017 12:58:54 PM Dear Foxy, Oral stories can fascinate: There are quite a few genealogies relating to Ngar.....
» 12/06/2017 11:46:12 AM Dearest Foxy, There is no law stopping two men or two women from living together. If they.....
» 12/06/2017 11:22:22 AM Brilliant garbage, Grateful ! Is this the sort of 'argument' that they teach in the madra.....
» 12/06/2017 10:29:45 AM Hi Bazz, One would surely expect that women would be in the forefront of opposition to Is.....
» 12/06/2017 9:28:42 AM In today's Australian (p. 12), a group of very courageous Muslim women in London have call.....
» 12/06/2017 7:35:43 AM Hi Paul, It's called experience. Ask Big Nana :) I don't understand your comment about b.....
» 12/06/2017 7:20:22 AM Hi Paul, Wow, that got up your nose, didn't it ? I was just asking if that was what Stale.....
» 11/06/2017 8:55:48 PM Wow ! I hadn't seen the video before: anybody with half a brain would do what Bolt did. Ho.....
» 11/06/2017 8:42:09 PM Any time, Foxy dear :) When's your husband away ?.....
» 11/06/2017 8:39:45 PM By the way, Steal, it's called 'assault'. One has the right to defend oneself reasonably, .....
» 11/06/2017 8:36:36 PM Hi Scaly Repox, So how was Bolt not to know that he wasn't being hit with acid ? Some Kor.....
» 11/06/2017 8:29:38 PM Hi Stale Reflux, I'm a bit thick, even for an old bloke, but I can't quite follow your re.....
» 11/06/2017 8:23:35 PM Hi Cheerful, Yes, a pause in Muslim immigration, for the duration of the fascist war bein.....
» 11/06/2017 7:59:27 PM Oh well, back to topic: Above, Doog touted more land for Indigenous groups. My dear wife.....
» 11/06/2017 6:17:40 PM Thanks, Foxy :).....
» 11/06/2017 2:17:08 PM Foxy, pot kettle.....
» 11/06/2017 2:12:47 PM Foxy, Surely you're not so naïve as to fall for those mealy-mouthed and carefully-worded .....
» 11/06/2017 1:45:51 PM Foxy, Robert Manne's stuff was garbage, assertions, nothing which was worth a damn. On .....
» 11/06/2017 1:33:31 PM Hi Leoj, That URL, referring to an article by Nick Cohen, should be a must-read for anybo.....
» 11/06/2017 1:06:05 PM Dearest Foxy, As some old Greek said, "Know thyself". Of course, we all should,.....
» 11/06/2017 12:50:44 PM Hi Leoj, You mention Indigenous 'research'. It's a strange beast, Indigenous 'research'. .....
» 11/06/2017 12:10:40 PM Hi Ttbn, Yes, I think you're right: "What we all should be doing, Left and Right, i.....
» 11/06/2017 10:19:06 AM Thank you to all those who have made this thread so enjoyable :) God, I laughed at some of.....
» 11/06/2017 9:26:51 AM Dearest Foxy, Well, I suppose we differ over the importance of evidence over belief. I ca.....
» 11/06/2017 9:18:14 AM Dear Foxy, Sometimes your remarks are so hurtful: I had no idea my flatulence was so well.....
» 10/06/2017 8:32:21 PM Foxy, I wasn't aware that that mongrel Breivik was Australian. You learn something every .....
» 10/06/2017 7:29:40 PM Hi Paul, There would be copious files on very single child ever taken into care anywhere .....
» 10/06/2017 7:24:41 PM Foxy, Yes, I read that 'Report' when it came out, twenty years ago. I noticed that not a .....
» 10/06/2017 7:17:23 PM Hi Foxy, Deaths from Australian white extremists in 2017: Nil. Deaths from Australians e.....
» 10/06/2017 7:06:53 PM Hi Paul, Just going back to your rant earlier today, why do you think you're not a bigot .....
» 10/06/2017 6:43:39 PM Wow, I certainly miscalculated there. But, on the other hand, both Labour and the Tories g.....
» 10/06/2017 6:37:37 PM Hi Paul, Sorry, Moseley wasn't at Rookwood in 1935, he wax in Perth, handing down his Roy.....
» 10/06/2017 6:27:38 PM Hi Ttbn, I have to say that sections of the 'Left' have always been too bereft of argumen.....
» 9/06/2017 8:32:53 PM Wow, did I get that wrong ? The Tories will still form government, they'll have the Nthn I.....
» 9/06/2017 7:30:30 PM Hi Foxy, Surely you would be aware that memory, oral recollection, is - as Leoj points ou.....
» 9/06/2017 5:33:18 PM Foxy, Surely you're not that stupid. As Leoj points out, oral memory is extremely faulty......
» 9/06/2017 5:14:41 PM Hi Pal and Chris, Insofar as your comments about pedophiles have connections to this thre.....
» 9/06/2017 10:35:25 AM Hi Paul, Love and kisses accepted, at arm's length :) I'm not sure what you are asking -.....
» 8/06/2017 7:21:39 PM Foxy, Yes, it all should be in his file. Do you know anything at all about single others .....
» 8/06/2017 6:22:20 PM Yes, Foxy, let's hope that if they are found, hiding no doubt in some basement, and then p.....
» 8/06/2017 5:18:40 PM Hi Phanto, Being still a bit paranoid, a hangover from my lefty days, I suspect that you .....
» 8/06/2017 5:15:04 PM Come off it, Foxy, how was Bolt to know that it's just shaving cream and glitter ? With th.....
» 8/06/2017 5:09:04 PM Hi Foxy, Have you read the post yourself ? That Harry Bennett could have been killed by h.....
» 8/06/2017 1:52:32 PM Perhaps someone can help me: * Australia has an annual quota for a refugee intake, I thi.....
» 8/06/2017 1:26:36 PM Hi Paul, Well, who do you support - Islamist fascists or the homosexual movement, you can.....
» 8/06/2017 1:23:18 PM It seems it needed two brave thugs to do it, an another to film it. If it were me, I hope .....
» 8/06/2017 10:51:25 AM Hi Paul, God, I love that logic: if someone could conceivably gain something from somethi.....
» 8/06/2017 10:04:23 AM Paul, Yes. Lock people up on strong suspicion, on reasonable grounds according to a magis.....
» 8/06/2017 9:53:02 AM Paul, What ?! How on earth do you come to your crazy conclusions ? Or are you just teasin.....
» 8/06/2017 9:52:30 AM Paul, What ?! How on earth do you come to your crazy conclusions ? Or are you just teasin.....
» 8/06/2017 9:34:07 AM Sorry, Yuyutsu, I can't believe that. If it's true, then I can't hold out much hope for .....
» 8/06/2017 9:29:26 AM AJ In that case, whaddawe want ? Plebiscite ! When do we wanit ? NOW ! Contradiction ? D.....
» 7/06/2017 9:08:31 PM Hi Yuyutsu, And that's how it can be with the other Arab countries, if they abandoned the.....
» 7/06/2017 9:05:57 PM AJ, Yeah, plebiscite: get this crap over with and let the people decide. End of. Hopefull.....
» 7/06/2017 7:58:00 PM Yuyutsu, If I were in Israel, I would be somewhat concerned about where some of that $ 15.....
» 7/06/2017 6:17:46 PM You're not wrong, Runner, as they say in the country :) Best wishes, Joe.....
» 7/06/2017 6:15:34 PM Hi Runner, So who defines 'bigot' ? One person's bigotry is another's reasonableness, so .....
» 7/06/2017 5:49:00 PM Hi AJ, No worries: put it to a plebiscite and let the Australian people decide. End of ke.....
» 7/06/2017 5:45:41 PM Hi Runner, Yes, perhaps a temporary holt to the immigration of Muslim refugees and migran.....
» 7/06/2017 5:33:01 PM Hi Runner, Yes, and where is the good Samaritan in the Koran ? i.e. someone who will come.....
» 7/06/2017 5:21:58 PM Yuyutsu, Israel was built also on the sheer terror of what could happen again, and the gr.....
» 7/06/2017 5:04:28 PM Hi Josephus, Don't tease him :) Hi AJ, An interesting phrase: " ..... two persons .....
» 7/06/2017 4:57:07 PM Hi Ttbn, Expanding the custodial system to capture creatures like that bloke in Brighton .....
» 7/06/2017 4:13:05 PM Grateful, No, the atrocities committed against the Rohingya by ultra-nationalist and fasc.....
» 7/06/2017 11:23:32 AM Hi AJ, You inadvertently put your finger on an interesting point: often Islamist terroris.....
» 7/06/2017 10:16:21 AM I don't know, Alon, : if hostile neighbouring countries amass armies on one's borders, t.....
» 7/06/2017 10:05:42 AM Hi Paul, As one of the tag-along bigots that you allude to, I have to defend Josephus whe.....
» 7/06/2017 9:04:32 AM Grateful, [Grateful for what ? Being allowed to say what you like in Australia ? ] When .....
» 6/06/2017 6:40:28 PM Hi Big Nana, I always learn so much from your posts :) In my very limited experience, i.....
» 6/06/2017 6:26:36 PM Anyway: What should be in our (note the all-inclusive use of 'our') Treaty ? Since it is .....
» 6/06/2017 5:23:35 PM Hi Daffy, You may get something out of this OLO URL: http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/vi.....
» 6/06/2017 1:28:31 PM Hi Doog, So back we come to Square One, not an unusual outcome in Indigenous affairs. As .....
» 6/06/2017 1:24:58 PM I guess I'm leery of a 'treaty' partly * because it would be so unnecessary in 2017, sin.....
» 6/06/2017 1:05:07 PM AJ, No you didn't use the word "only", I assumed it when you wrote "what e.....
» 6/06/2017 12:47:18 PM Hi Runner, Thanks for that. I did write: " .... some idiot might point out some of t.....
» 6/06/2017 12:36:23 PM AJ, I think the word "only" gave it away :) Hi Is Mise, No, I knew not to do .....
» 6/06/2017 12:27:49 PM I'm greatly amused that anybody takes this idiocy seriously. AJ, we might have to agree .....
» 6/06/2017 12:12:18 PM Hi Runner, I'm trying to join the dots between an unquestioning religion and an ideology .....
» 6/06/2017 11:40:33 AM Hi AJ, Perhaps you might need to concentrate your comments towards someone who gives a to.....
» 6/06/2017 11:36:35 AM Hi AJ, Ooooo, another straw man: why do you assume that any extra response to terrorism o.....
» 6/06/2017 11:17:08 AM Hi Leoj, But if identity is so fluid, any talk of 'false' or 'true' gays' is pointless - .....
» 5/06/2017 8:02:58 PM Yuyutsu, So ...... the very notion of identity is fluid, to the point of irrelevance ? We.....
» 5/06/2017 6:55:16 PM Hi Cossomby, Evidence of any of that would be nice. Any whatsoever. Seed-gathering proba.....
» 5/06/2017 5:10:50 PM Hi Doog, I read today that the annual Indigenous budget was around $ 55 billion. I can't .....
» 5/06/2017 5:03:10 PM Hi Paul, Yes,a treaty is an agreement between two distinct entities: at Waitangi, those e.....
» 5/06/2017 4:50:52 PM If gender fluidity is the norm, then - please someone help me with this - the terms 'homos.....
» 5/06/2017 10:46:43 AM Dearest Foxy, Perhaps we should tell that to the makers of wind towers and solar panels: .....
» 5/06/2017 9:51:51 AM If 'moderate' Muslims were in the vast majority, wouldn't they be using gentle persuasion .....
» 5/06/2017 9:30:10 AM Wind towers, made of steel and concrete, and solar panels, are made by using: ? Electricit.....
» 5/06/2017 9:22:03 AM Hi Paul, It was reported this morning that a quarter of Muslims in Britain don't believe .....
» 5/06/2017 8:39:56 AM Hi Cossomby, Harvesting already-grown seed is called ' gathering'. It's what hunter-gath.....
» 5/06/2017 8:28:30 AM Gosh, this is fun, isn't it AJ ? Just to get back to the original topic: I'm a bit more c.....
» 4/06/2017 10:52:45 PM Yuyutsu, If WHO wants ? Have the 'spokespeople, 'the usual suspects', asked the Indigenou.....
» 4/06/2017 8:40:56 PM Hi again Jayb, The crack-pot notion of a separate Aboriginal State is not new: back in th.....
» 4/06/2017 8:08:20 PM Hi Paul, Then why have one at all ? Sounds fine to me. What, another ten years of useless.....
» 4/06/2017 7:55:16 PM Yeah, I meant "Ten one on, Is Mise .... " And you'd still lose your money :).....
» 4/06/2017 6:58:58 PM Yuyutsu, Tell most Indigenous people they are traitors and then stand back. It's none of .....
» 4/06/2017 6:43:45 PM Hi Diver Dan, I don't think any kid is uneducatable, except perhaps for those with obviou.....
» 4/06/2017 5:18:24 PM Hi Paul, I've never, in all its manifestations, supported the notion of a treaty. Never. .....
» 4/06/2017 5:02:34 PM Hi again Cossomby, Fish-traps: that's called 'gathering'. People settled long-term in som.....
» 4/06/2017 4:50:28 PM Hi Cossomby, My, how times change. Back a hundred years ago, kids left school as young as.....
» 4/06/2017 4:18:31 PM Ten to one, Is Mise, and you'll still be paying out :) This bloke has a brilliant article.....
» 3/06/2017 4:23:14 PM Hi AJ, " ..... why do we assume that every Muslim must believe the same things about.....
» 3/06/2017 4:20:43 PM Hi Jayb, I'm getting to think (I'm a very, veeeery slow learner) that much of the Convent.....
» 3/06/2017 3:27:05 PM Thanks, AJ, apology accepted :) In English 'we' is quite ambiguous: is it meant exclusive.....
» 3/06/2017 3:03:37 PM AJ, " ..... why do we assume that every Muslim must believe the same things about Is.....
» 3/06/2017 2:59:03 PM [continued] use the land for foraging. Now, imagine if even able-bodied people had got .....
» 3/06/2017 12:36:55 PM No, sorry Big Nana :) I'm getting to think that there is usually a very high correlation .....
» 3/06/2017 11:28:19 AM Doog, Yes, kangaroo grass, notoriously low in nutrients (at least the seed is, the leaf i.....
» 3/06/2017 11:04:49 AM [continued] ago, if only because the entire landscape changed, from very lush to very rug.....
» 3/06/2017 10:52:29 AM Hi Paul, Whakawhanaungatanga: http://maoridictionary.co.nz/word/12711 (noun) process of .....
» 2/06/2017 8:59:10 PM Doog, Cultivated the land ? Where ? What sort of plants ? And did what with the crops ? H.....
» 2/06/2017 8:50:20 PM Yuyutsu, Do you ever take notice of what you write ? That last statement is precisely wha.....
» 2/06/2017 8:43:01 PM Um ...... what was the topic again ? Get a room, you blokes :).....
» 2/06/2017 6:55:40 PM Hi Bazz, Yes, live in hope :) Cheers, Joe.....
» 2/06/2017 4:07:55 PM Yuyutsu, 1. No. 2. No......
» 2/06/2017 4:02:03 PM Hi Bazz, The great historian Marc Bloch (tortured and murdered by the Nazis in 1944) desc.....
» 2/06/2017 3:54:03 PM Dearest Foxy, So ........ if someone tells a lie, but, with innocent eyes blinking in con.....
» 2/06/2017 3:10:49 PM Christ, what a stupid article. I taught in the country for a short time in the early sixt.....
» 2/06/2017 2:49:11 PM Hi Big Nana, I don't disagree - people can honestly call themselves whatever they prefer,.....
» 2/06/2017 10:44:37 AM Hi Josephus, A very good point ! Not only is it 'humanist' to ignore similarities betwee.....
» 2/06/2017 10:22:54 AM [continued] In the early days, authorities were often confused when encountering a person.....
» 2/06/2017 10:17:32 AM Yuyutsu, Ah, the bloke at the back of the stand, yelling out advice to the umpie - that's.....
» 1/06/2017 11:30:46 PM Yuyutsu, That is close to the most ignorant comment I've ever heard. Of course, it was co.....
» 1/06/2017 6:32:11 PM My god, who cares ?!.....
» 1/06/2017 5:52:49 PM Hi Cossomby, That could be a bloke's name, of course - if you set up a web-site and simp.....
» 1/06/2017 5:45:55 PM Hi Leoj, It used to be, and probably still is, the practice that anybody who waltzed up t.....
» 1/06/2017 5:36:46 PM This week so far: Islamo-fascist atrocities: * Two bombings in Bagdad; * Massive bomb i.....
» 1/06/2017 5:24:11 PM Hi Bazz, Very simply, anybody who can demonstrate a link to an Indigenous ancestor, ideal.....
» 1/06/2017 5:11:39 PM Cossomby, Oy. Then change those bits - OF COURSE ! Surely all this farting around for a d.....
» 1/06/2017 5:01:40 PM Hi Cossomby, Would $ 30 billion p.a. be enough ? So what if pretty much everybody in a g.....
» 1/06/2017 4:08:31 PM Thanks Big Nana, Doog, do you ever read what other people have posted ? Do you ever think.....
» 1/06/2017 3:40:57 PM Hi Rhross, They probably used every sort of grass seed hey could find, except maybe for k.....
» 1/06/2017 2:01:13 PM Thanks, Foxy. Sorry, which end does one suck at again ?.....
» 1/06/2017 1:57:59 PM Hi Rhross, Yes, nobody teases out the costs and benefits of the 'Invasion': costs maybe, .....
» 1/06/2017 1:32:15 PM Foxy, " .... it can't have been easy being a female and a Muslim to boot to achieve .....
» 1/06/2017 1:25:16 PM Hi Leoj, You mention " .... widespread, systemic abuses, misappropriations and sheer.....
» 1/06/2017 12:40:50 PM This company surely has the right to promote homosexual marriage in this way, it's their r.....
» 1/06/2017 11:55:48 AM Hi Ttbn, I suppose the question is: do we want one inclusive, integrating society, or sho.....
» 1/06/2017 11:17:06 AM Hi Doog, It was implicit from the earliest days of the Invasion/Settlement that Indigenou.....
» 1/06/2017 10:36:04 AM Not to come to the rescue of mining companies, but is anybody actually simple enough to th.....
» 1/06/2017 10:16:44 AM Hi Paul, Thank you for teasing out some of the issues arising from the Uluru Statement. I.....
» 31/05/2017 8:03:06 PM For god's sake, don't be so childish, Foxy......
» 31/05/2017 7:50:27 PM Foxy, There's a word for all that but Graham won't let us use it. Of course Ms Magied has.....
» 31/05/2017 2:42:46 PM Hi Banjo, I would have thought that there were millions of destitute non-Muslim refugees,.....
» 31/05/2017 1:36:10 PM Hi Doog, Eleven out of twelve ain't bad. If there was a competition between Islamist, Bud.....
» 31/05/2017 11:50:27 AM Dearest Foxy, I'm sure that there are very many dedicated Indigenous people around the co.....
» 31/05/2017 11:32:28 AM It seems as if Yassmin has been forgotten on this particular thread. Gosh, what a shame. .....
» 31/05/2017 10:30:46 AM Any proposal in the Uluru Statement which affects the Constitution affects all Australians.....
» 31/05/2017 9:39:58 AM Correction: Gillard must have been appointed Chancellor of the Uni of Adelaide, because .....
» 31/05/2017 9:29:41 AM Hi Paul, Yes, more or less, since it has so many inaccuracies that it is not reliable as .....
» 31/05/2017 12:09:41 AM Thanks Foxy, At first I thought that, in advising us in little words how to suck eggs, I .....
» 30/05/2017 4:54:19 PM Clearly, not all Muslims are potential terrorists. Maybe only a minority are. Then surely,.....
» 30/05/2017 4:40:21 PM Hi Leoj, One problem with believing a very negative Conventional Narrative is that one ca.....
» 30/05/2017 4:23:14 PM Hi Rhross, Yes, our remote ancestors came out of Africa 200,000, 100,000, and/or 60,000 y.....
» 30/05/2017 1:17:11 PM Let's just cool down and clarify the situation: 11 out of 12 terrorist plots involved Mus.....
» 30/05/2017 11:50:51 AM Dear Foxy, How do you mean, that people in 'communities' don't have control ? Maybe not '.....
» 30/05/2017 11:40:23 AM Paul, Is Mise got in first: ""...Aboriginal people assuming their rightful plac.....
» 30/05/2017 11:15:56 AM Paul, Re your Tuesday, 30 May 2017 5:35:42 AM Of course, I don't disagree with the stat.....
» 29/05/2017 11:31:53 PM Hi Foxy, No, only the last ten minutes or so, I preferred to watch 'Foyle's War'. What I .....
» 29/05/2017 10:59:48 PM Hi Cherful, No, China is in a lot of trouble with its population - that its one-child pol.....
» 29/05/2017 8:47:02 PM Dearest Foxy, No offence but sometimes you really do write rubbish: if there is no such t.....
» 29/05/2017 8:31:00 PM Dear Foxy,' Surely success in one area can be an example to what might be done about othe.....
» 29/05/2017 6:56:57 PM Foxy, No, but it shows what's possible. Amazing. How do people manage to slag Indigenous .....
» 29/05/2017 4:08:04 PM Grateful, I'll respond more fully when you stop writing rubbish. Joe.....
» 29/05/2017 2:36:27 PM Hi Steele, I'm glad you've raised the Rabbit-Proof Fence story again: I got hold of the a.....
» 29/05/2017 2:23:40 PM Dearest Foxy, And Indigenous women commenced university study in 2015 at a slightly highe.....
» 29/05/2017 2:03:25 PM Hi MHaze, Gosh, almost as many as Clinton's voters. I wonder what might have happened if .....
» 29/05/2017 1:55:11 PM [continued] Free speech in a country like Australia permits, even demands, that we speak .....
» 29/05/2017 1:53:12 PM Grateful, If you think I admire Trump, you don't understand satire. But I agree with you .....
» 29/05/2017 1:30:35 PM Hi Rhross, My wife and I used to play a little game - if we saw some bloke (usually a blo.....
» 29/05/2017 1:07:39 PM Hi Leoj, The problem with explaining why some types of evidence CAN'T be found, (because .....
» 29/05/2017 10:51:23 AM As usual, I'm with Steele on this one: "Of course we shouldn't forget him arming to.....
» 29/05/2017 10:36:17 AM Butch has a point: there would have to be very strong evidence to convict without a body, .....
» 29/05/2017 10:15:00 AM G'day Paul, No, thanks, I've got kids who have to make a living. And I wasn't aware tha.....
» 28/05/2017 10:45:30 PM Grateful, By implicitly opposing free speech ? Otherwise why mention it, why link it to s.....
» 28/05/2017 8:26:27 PM Hi Cheerful, The author condemns what he calls neo-liberalism, by which I presume he mean.....
» 28/05/2017 7:00:38 PM Hi Paul, You're kidding :) Anybody in the business, or recently exiting the business, kno.....
» 28/05/2017 6:54:52 PM Hi Bazz, If a Muslim buys land, that also remains Muslim forever. Check out 'Muslim land .....
» 28/05/2017 3:11:30 PM Hi Grateful, In this pissing contest, don't forget to mention the thirty Coptic Christian.....
» 28/05/2017 1:46:36 PM [continued] that they can do this expeditiously and in a way which strengthens Indigenous.....
» 28/05/2017 1:33:24 PM The Indigenous people want a voice in Parliament. One voice, Ken Wyatt, explained that on .....
» 28/05/2017 11:17:18 AM Hi Cheerful, Yes, I'm puzzled why the US has been so hostile to Iran since the fascist re.....
» 28/05/2017 8:44:17 AM Hi Graham, Yes, what you advocate, depends on the story you tell: one could start out wit.....
» 27/05/2017 11:42:15 PM Although it is a product of its times, these comments on policy are interesting: from Mary.....
» 27/05/2017 11:36:42 PM Sorry, I should have used full stops or dashes to spread those figures for 1935-1936 out: .....
» 27/05/2017 6:51:10 PM Welcome to the Club, Hasbeen :( On another topic, I just re-discovered this: In South A.....
» 27/05/2017 6:26:39 PM Hi Grateful, No, it's more like the simple fact that Anderson is even more of a nobody th.....
» 27/05/2017 3:36:04 PM Hi Big Nana, Probably a bit of a side-track, but it's your fault: when my wife started ru.....
» 27/05/2017 2:41:58 PM Hi Big Nana, Thanks for that timely analysis. Maybe I've got a weird notion of what sel.....
» 27/05/2017 1:33:55 PM Hi Leoj, Yes, the Indigenous elites usually keep tight control of who is in, and who isn'.....
» 27/05/2017 12:36:00 PM Yes, that's pretty unanswerable, Bazz. How does one negotiate with someone else who seeks,.....
» 27/05/2017 12:33:26 PM So the Uluru Conference decided on another consultative body. That should keep everybody b.....
» 27/05/2017 12:04:46 PM Hi Rhross, Yes, I agree that benefits should be needs-based. I did a rough income study 3.....
» 26/05/2017 10:10:50 PM Hi Paul, There may have been quite a few people graduating from uni before Charles Perkin.....
» 26/05/2017 8:01:14 PM Hi Runner, I'll defer to Big Nana every time :) President Obama has just spoken about 'f.....
» 26/05/2017 3:15:31 PM Dearest Foxy, That's exactly the point: "There is certainly still much to be done .....
» 26/05/2017 10:37:24 AM Hi again Paul, I have to chip you about your opening statement: "May 27th marks f.....
» 26/05/2017 9:48:42 AM Hi Paul, Of course, the Referendum was a positive, but not in the ways people believe now.....
» 26/05/2017 9:26:40 AM Hi Cheerful, I'm not saying that Trump was wrong in the at he handled himself, just that .....
» 25/05/2017 11:58:31 PM Hi Bazz, More than that: Hitler's party was officially the German National Socialist Work.....
» 25/05/2017 11:52:52 PM Hi Has been, I'm a big boy, I can take it :) Thanks anyway. Yes, facts are dangerous thi.....
» 25/05/2017 11:32:10 PM Hi Paul, Forty-something thousand university graduates, roughly equivalent to the number .....
» 25/05/2017 4:31:50 PM For god's sake. * thorium reactors providing cheap energy; driving * multi-storey hydro.....
» 25/05/2017 12:16:02 PM Gosh, I didn't know they had ivory towers at Charles Darwin Uni. How's the view from up th.....
» 25/05/2017 12:08:27 PM Dearest Foxy, Welcome back ! Wow, that was a short trip. One of the problems with threads.....
» 25/05/2017 11:53:19 AM Don asks a very relevant question: what do we, each of us, mean by social justice ? Of cou.....
» 25/05/2017 11:15:59 AM Dearest Foxy, No such luck :) As long as Trump is in the position to do damage, this thre.....
» 24/05/2017 8:47:49 PM Hi Steele, Yes,sorry, I got my wires crossed, brain's not fully engaged: opinion polls an.....
» 24/05/2017 12:10:30 AM Hi Bazz, Yes, he's a strange man: he gives over $ 150 billion worth of armaments, so he t.....
» 23/05/2017 6:10:00 PM Hi Bazz, Yes,the early Muslim invaders may have been great at ordering the copying of anc.....
» 23/05/2017 4:09:14 PM Hi Bazz, Yes, aggression all the way from Vietnam to Tours. The Mongols sent a fleet up t.....
» 23/05/2017 3:53:54 PM Hi Steele, You mean the election poll, or the opinion polls ? Given the British first-pas.....
» 23/05/2017 1:22:23 PM Hi Bazz, Yeah, that might have been the Mongols - they were halted in what is now Germany.....
» 23/05/2017 12:48:45 PM Trump's first budget proposals have been announced, including a cut in the food stamps pro.....
» 23/05/2017 12:24:15 PM Hi Steele, Try reading it again. What does Quote [A] suggest ? That it would be courage.....
» 23/05/2017 11:27:10 AM Hi Steele, I usually enjoy your posts, you toss them off so easily, with so little though.....
» 23/05/2017 10:13:00 AM Hi Cheerful, Sorry, I can't let that go: Putin is as imperialist as Lenin and Stalin ever.....
» 23/05/2017 9:09:57 AM Hi SM, No, but it sure as hell knocks the daylights out of the chances of Trump backers g.....
» 22/05/2017 11:37:53 PM Hi Bazz, Hungary, Muslim until 1918 ? That would have surprised many Hungarians, includin.....
» 22/05/2017 8:22:07 PM Hi Ttbn, Yes, good on her, that's what a real woman, although I hesitate to call her a fe.....
» 22/05/2017 4:09:46 PM Steele & Foxy, So ...... Tim Wilson, a right-winger, broke no protocol when he was in tha.....
» 22/05/2017 3:50:49 PM EITHER Trump is playing a very clever, slow game, identifying all of the weaknesses of his.....
» 22/05/2017 11:55:58 AM Steele, Oy. Most of the rest of us are aware that in the UK, elections are different from.....
» 22/05/2017 10:53:03 AM Hi Is Mise, The problems with such sorts of prisoners, who not only have committed the mo.....
» 22/05/2017 10:13:15 AM Dearest Foxy, No, I didn't brush aside the Israeli-Palestine dilemma, I merely tried to p.....
» 22/05/2017 10:00:39 AM Hi Steele, You wrote yesterday (at 3.47 pm) that "The Tory's are of course reaping t.....
» 21/05/2017 10:48:01 PM Hi Alan, Go easy on Foxy, she's a good person at heart :) Cheers, Joe.....
» 21/05/2017 7:57:50 PM Steele, The salary and expenses go with the position. Trigs took the money as well, and f.....
» 21/05/2017 7:53:51 PM Dearest Foxy, I'm not sure how you leap from what I wrote to your claim. Of course, where.....
» 21/05/2017 7:46:52 PM Hi Steele, Dear oh dear. I'll repeat: "What I respect, and sometimes love, about rea.....
» 21/05/2017 6:00:24 PM Hi Steele, What I respect, and sometimes love, about reality is that it comes about, no m.....
» 21/05/2017 5:56:40 PM Hi Steele, Hmmm ....... yes, a right-winger. I'm trying to remember any blatantly imprope.....
» 21/05/2017 5:53:54 PM Dearest Foxy, Turkey's treatment of Kurds has been nothing short of shameful. Assad's tr.....
» 20/05/2017 7:46:16 PM Dear Foxy, Well, yeah, that's what I was getting at. On the other side, the PA and Hamas .....
» 20/05/2017 6:25:23 PM Dearest Foxy, I think it's vastly more complicated than that: every player in this story .....
» 19/05/2017 10:36:44 AM Hi Ttbn, Yes, as long as Hamas and the Palestine Authority and Wahhabism and Sunni Islam .....
» 19/05/2017 10:10:48 AM Hi Rollyczar, Yes, if people have put the effort in, they shouldn't be 'left behind'. But.....
» 19/05/2017 10:02:42 AM For god's sake, nobody mention brain surgery to Trump or let him anywhere near a hospital......
» 18/05/2017 10:49:18 PM Hi Dan, "Hasbeen...if your so well off now, maybe you should be magnanimous and retu.....
» 18/05/2017 10:47:21 PM Hi Calwest, Fascinating ! I suppose Blake would have been at least partly responsible for.....
» 18/05/2017 6:13:47 PM There seems to be some confusion between 'social justice' and 'social equality': but the f.....
» 18/05/2017 2:00:15 PM Getting back to topic: there's an article in today's Australian identifying a sheikh at a .....
» 18/05/2017 11:57:24 AM Hi SM, Yes, I think the British Labour Party will be decimated. Unless the 'moderates' ca.....
» 18/05/2017 11:44:46 AM Hi Foxy, I disagree about Shadow Minister's credibility, but even if it were so, if he/sh.....
» 17/05/2017 10:07:08 AM Hi Paul, Hmmmm ....... how long is an elastic band ? Some of your arguments seem a bit st.....
» 17/05/2017 12:03:38 AM Please, Paul, I'm not like that :( Wow, you do get a bit rabid when you have no argument......
» 16/05/2017 5:48:10 PM Sorry, I didn't mean " ..... The local hotel could run medals out to him a couple of .....
» 16/05/2017 5:13:46 PM Hi Calwest, Just out of interest, did you find much from the period when Abbott was NT Ad.....
» 16/05/2017 4:57:57 PM I would have thought that Australians like Prakash, who have done what he has done, are BO.....
» 16/05/2017 2:14:49 PM Dear Foxy, This topic has little to do with multiculturalism and immigration, it's more c.....
» 16/05/2017 1:12:44 PM The author declares: "Islam forbids interest (called riba). Muslims are not allowed.....
» 16/05/2017 1:12:31 PM The author declares: "Islam forbids interest (called riba). Muslims are not allowed.....
» 16/05/2017 12:50:44 PM When I first saw this discussion, I took for granted that Muslims would be disgusted at th.....
» 16/05/2017 12:40:52 PM Hi Paul, I suppose we all make the same mistake about that injunction: "an eye for a.....
» 16/05/2017 11:28:25 AM Dearest Foxy, From you, it would be a beautiful balm, no matter how severe. Come on, I'm .....
» 16/05/2017 11:25:00 AM Dearest, sweet, gentle, loving Foxy, Then what ? As you say " .... if you break the .....
» 16/05/2017 11:16:44 AM Hi Thinkabit, That would be al-Khwarizm - i.e. 'from Khwarizm' ? Which is up in present-d.....
» 16/05/2017 10:55:45 AM Dearest Foxy, You confess that "I did not realise that The Guardian newspaper was a .....
» 16/05/2017 10:44:06 AM Hi Paul, Well, what then ? The bottom line is that brutal criminals can not be allowed to.....
» 15/05/2017 5:26:55 PM Hi Runner, You might be onto something. Lately it's struck me that many people seem to ha.....
» 15/05/2017 5:10:14 PM Welcome back, Foxy ! When are you retiring again from this discussion ? Not yet ? [Exit.....
» 15/05/2017 5:06:45 PM Paul & Foxy, I don't understand why you obliquely support extreme-right-wing murderers an.....
» 15/05/2017 11:29:22 AM Hi Foxy, Wow ! Farewell tours can be exhausting, can't they ? Melba managed only a handfu.....
» 15/05/2017 11:12:35 AM Of course, we're deliberating over the worst sort of criminals, quite possibly with a stri.....
» 15/05/2017 10:21:27 AM Hi SM, Yes, I agree that Corbynism could obliterate the Labour party in Britain. It's int.....
» 15/05/2017 9:55:18 AM Hi Grateful, It's called 'freedom of expression', i.e. the right to express opinions with.....
» 14/05/2017 6:22:00 PM Dearest Foxy, When was it you were going to retire from this discussion ? Nellie Melba wo.....
» 14/05/2017 2:27:48 PM Hi Bazz, Yeah, the Japanese occupied Indo-China in 1940 in league with the Vichy regime i.....
» 13/05/2017 6:54:15 PM Nick, I don't know what you mean by 'case': one person is in jail and his career destroye.....
» 13/05/2017 2:34:04 PM Halfwitnick, You compared, somehow, the fortunes of Ahok, now in jail, with those of Yass.....
» 13/05/2017 12:35:16 PM Nick, No, I don't have any special powers to get that silly girl 'into trouble', or to 'q.....
» 13/05/2017 11:29:29 AM Nick, I've written a few times on OLO that that silly girl shouldn't be sacked or even di.....
» 13/05/2017 11:16:58 AM Nicknicknick, I don't think that Australians celebrate Anzac Day or Armistice Day as vict.....
» 12/05/2017 1:46:44 PM Steele, You asked me about the rights of illegal immigrants: I answered you to the best o.....
» 12/05/2017 11:16:04 AM Hi Nick, Do you mean the two-year sentence that Ahok has received for making a perfectly .....
» 12/05/2017 10:58:31 AM Hi Sgteele, "Do you also believe the refugees we are keeping in highly stressful, pu.....
» 12/05/2017 10:30:46 AM Hi Paul, Perhaps the Greeks knew about the earth orbiting the Sun a couple of thousand ye.....
» 11/05/2017 11:09:41 PM Thank you, SM, yes indeed. Hopefully we will soon have a head of the HRC who actually su.....
» 11/05/2017 6:09:47 PM Thanks JayB & Bazz, Fascinating ! We came close, didn't we ? When I was a kid, I found a .....
» 11/05/2017 10:31:01 AM Hi Ttbn, Sorry, I meant immigrants who have been working to build Australia since the War.....
» 11/05/2017 9:50:58 AM Freedom of expression is one of our treasured Australian values: any idiot can say what th.....
» 11/05/2017 9:43:16 AM Of course, a huge proportion of that 870,000 would be immigrant workers who contributed al.....
» 11/05/2017 9:25:21 AM Hi Binoy, A bit of a beat-up: Japan would not have had to actually invade Australia, that.....
» 11/05/2017 9:05:10 AM Hi Paul, This is getting well away from the topic, but I have to question whether or not .....
» 10/05/2017 10:54:22 AM Hi Paul, That was Cook Islands 'Maori'. When we lived in Auckland around 1970, I went a b.....
» 9/05/2017 6:30:00 PM Thanks, Foxy, I'll try to take your advice :) Love, Joe.....
» 9/05/2017 4:38:39 PM Steele, Well, yeah, that's what I was getting at. Thanks for picking that up. It's encour.....
» 9/05/2017 4:33:04 PM Hi Ant, That's strange, SA has had bumper grain crops for the last two years. World food.....
» 9/05/2017 12:46:02 PM There you go, Foxy !.....
» 9/05/2017 11:47:41 AM Hi Michi, And now a huge proportion of the population is Christian. The point seems to be.....
» 9/05/2017 11:39:53 AM Hi Steele, As a climate change agnostic, I recall working in 46 degrees picking apricots:.....
» 9/05/2017 11:24:47 AM Not really, Foxy. I've put my oar in, and I'm sick of going around in circles. Defend the .....
» 9/05/2017 9:38:39 AM There are a lot of benefits for Australia if there is more global warming, especially in a.....
» 9/05/2017 9:28:45 AM Dream On, So why did she 'put the spotlight' on two years too late ? Why did she delay he.....
» 8/05/2017 5:30:11 PM That's a truly appalling advert, I'm with SHY on this one. How much thought would it have .....
» 8/05/2017 11:02:01 AM Yes/no: Triggs announced the findings of an investigation into refugee children on Manus a.....
» 8/05/2017 8:49:21 AM Hi Paul, Pe'ea koe ? Meitaki ? I would have thought that even in the definition of a com.....
» 7/05/2017 4:11:14 PM Hi Alan, It's available for $ 12.69, postage free, on https://www.kobo.com/au/en/ebook/.....
» 7/05/2017 3:57:15 PM Yuyutsu, You're probably aware that the Al Aqsa mosque is not so much a next-door neighbo.....
» 6/05/2017 1:32:53 PM Anyway, to get back to topic somehow: revered natural features as 'persons'. In many tra.....
» 6/05/2017 1:12:46 PM Hi Foxy, I fully concur: "Let's resort unfashionably to the facts and the law befor.....
» 6/05/2017 12:48:53 PM Hi Alan, As you suggest, thorium reactors may be eventually the way to go, but in the mea.....
» 6/05/2017 11:43:30 AM Nicknicknick, The Russians had extended their empire by invading the Crimea around ninety.....
» 6/05/2017 11:30:46 AM Dearest Foxy, That's an interesting quote. One could say also that "It is dangerou.....
» 5/05/2017 8:06:00 PM Dearest Foxy, Yes, and she can attend every annual Festival of Very Slightly Dangerous Id.....
» 5/05/2017 8:03:43 PM Yuyutsu, But back on earth, that doesn't make a great deal of sense. So because Rama wa.....
» 5/05/2017 1:27:52 PM I support the retention of Ms Triggs and Mr Soutphommasane in their current positions, and.....
» 5/05/2017 11:47:46 AM Hi Alan, So ....... are you suggesting that we cancel any plans to live on either Venus o.....
» 5/05/2017 11:14:54 AM Hi Graham, There is a fascinating series of articles by Pedersen, Descola and Viveiros de.....
» 5/05/2017 10:44:47 AM Don't Worry, Your caps button is stuck. What I've done is to shove a match stick into the.....
» 5/05/2017 10:26:46 AM Hi Paul, That was partly my point, that Maori and Aboriginal people may respect, revere a.....
» 5/05/2017 10:19:12 AM Hi Geoff, "The US did not save us in WW2, we can thank the Russians for defeating Hi.....
» 5/05/2017 10:10:12 AM Yuyutsu, The whole of Korea, North and South together, covers less than 85,000 sq. miles,.....
» 5/05/2017 10:00:14 AM Yuyutsu, Why the hell shouldn't they have the right to re-build their former Temple ? It'.....
» 4/05/2017 5:30:16 PM Hi again Paul, This might be extremely presumptuous of me (so whenever has that stopped m.....
» 4/05/2017 5:05:22 PM Hi Yuyutsu, Do you mean the Wall of the Temple of Solomon ? And the reason that there is .....
» 4/05/2017 10:48:33 AM Thank you, Foxy, I know a little bit more now. Is that quote from 'St Joan' ? Joe.....
» 4/05/2017 10:42:04 AM Ah, but do they want to, Peter ?.....
» 4/05/2017 9:56:40 AM Hi AJ, Josephus is partly right, we are not just unprotected by any gods or djinns or fai.....
» 4/05/2017 9:49:06 AM Another excellent article from Simon Louie. Depressing certainly, but maybe spot-on. Combi.....
» 4/05/2017 9:26:17 AM Hi Paul, Improve environmental protection laws and increase funding for Departments of th.....
» 4/05/2017 9:23:11 AM Hi Foxy, I'm glad that you recognise that one of those Australian values is the recogniti.....
» 4/05/2017 9:14:14 AM Foxy, I suggest that if you don't want the 'outrage' to continue, don't stir it up. You n.....
» 3/05/2017 9:03:26 PM Clearly, since people/'persons' are entitled to vote, to be represented in parliament, and.....
» 3/05/2017 8:49:48 PM Dearest Foxy, Like Socrates, I know that I know nothing. Thank you for the comparison. W.....
» 3/05/2017 8:30:11 PM Dearest Foxy, A bit under-grad there :) Do you have values ? Of course. Do your parents ?.....
» 3/05/2017 7:08:22 PM There a lot of logic in all this. In India, clearly cows should be recognised as persons, .....
» 3/05/2017 11:54:45 AM Hi Foxy, Yes,my heart went out to Latika, in her search for a key ring with her name on i.....
» 3/05/2017 10:20:34 AM Hi Graham, This is a very interesting legal development. One wonders why it is restricted.....
» 3/05/2017 10:03:57 AM Hi Paul, Yes, it's fun to trivialise something: beer, pies, daks, yes. I suppose one coul.....
» 3/05/2017 9:49:29 AM Hi Steele, Sorry, I didn't realise that one of OLO's rules was that it is compulsory to n.....
» 2/05/2017 5:54:59 PM Hi Steele, Of course it was. The question remains, "Why Syria ?" Joe.....
» 2/05/2017 2:53:36 PM Hi Has been, Yes, there's a project that could be funded by GetUp: to pay for and deliver.....
» 2/05/2017 2:40:15 PM Hi Hasbeen, Possibly - thanks for the compliment of still being 'youthful'. Curse these s.....
» 2/05/2017 12:26:08 PM Currently, around a billion Indians are burning wood and cow dung to cook their meals. Unl.....
» 2/05/2017 12:04:41 PM There seems to be some confusion here about terms. 'Populism' doesn't necessary mean 'for .....
» 2/05/2017 11:50:14 AM Just to get back to what Ms Abdul-Magied wrote, why did she have a go at Australia for inv.....
» 2/05/2017 11:35:53 AM Hi Paul, I suppose I'm lumping refugees in with migrants: they are very different in term.....
» 1/05/2017 8:22:33 PM Hi Paul, The towns of Sydney and Melbourne, on that scale that would make Adelaide a vill.....
» 1/05/2017 2:37:48 PM Hi Yuyutsu, So many straw-mans ! What do you understand by "very broadly speaking, '.....
» 1/05/2017 2:22:54 PM Hi Benk, The problem with forensic evidence not surviving is that, if there isn't any, ho.....
» 1/05/2017 1:51:37 PM Hi Minotaur, Of course Islam, like all religions, has a myriad of sects and different int.....
» 1/05/2017 12:20:50 PM Foxy, Don't knock it 'til you've tried it :) Joe.....
» 1/05/2017 12:09:39 PM Hi Paul, I don't know about towns like Sydney or Melbourne but in large cities like Adela.....
» 1/05/2017 11:52:04 AM Hi Yuyutsu, To the extent that every country has borders and a roughly similar history wi.....
» 1/05/2017 9:47:51 AM Hi Paul, You're right, we shouldn't discriminate against migrants and genuine refugees (y.....
» 1/05/2017 9:36:48 AM Hi Paul, My limited understanding of NZ's immigration policy is that they take in barely .....
» 1/05/2017 9:18:38 AM Hi Doog, In defence of road deaths, I have to point out that far more people die each yea.....
» 1/05/2017 9:04:25 AM Hi Grateful, What you propose is interesting, but perhaps you could try this as well: &q.....
» 30/04/2017 2:57:03 PM Thank you, Foxy, that should be re-played during every Anzac Week and Remembrance Week. Bu.....
» 30/04/2017 2:24:25 PM Dearest Foxy, Perhaps you could get Yassmin to publicise such a petition on our ABC ? She.....
» 30/04/2017 1:05:51 PM Hi Leo, "I just want to understand why the hell the 'Progressives' cosy up to Islam......
» 30/04/2017 12:46:58 PM Hi David, Oooooooo ! " ..... only the Church of England was recognised in the early .....
» 30/04/2017 11:13:27 AM Dearest Foxy, Quite rightly, most of us would have ripped into Trump's spokesman, Sean Sp.....
» 30/04/2017 11:04:41 AM Thanks, AJ, that wraps it all up beautifully. Best wishes, Joe.....
» 30/04/2017 10:59:04 AM Hi Paul, Yes! Isn't he magnificent ? One time, we stopped on the road to Hokianga to go a.....
» 30/04/2017 10:35:52 AM [continued] In effect, what has happened in Australia is that an agricultural-industrial .....
» 30/04/2017 10:34:23 AM Hi Yuyutsu, 20 % of all Australian land, and " the worst and most arid" ? By no.....
» 30/04/2017 10:09:03 AM Dearest Foy, I'll repeat: "As long as we keep the memories alive of that wonderful g.....
» 29/04/2017 5:22:54 PM Dearest Foxy, Sorry, I suppose I was just trying to express my complete contempt for that.....
» 29/04/2017 5:19:46 PM To get back to topic: surely we all have some sort of values ? Not necessarily systematic,.....
» 29/04/2017 5:17:30 PM Grateful, Just because science can't 'explain' something yet, in 2017, doesn't mean that .....
» 29/04/2017 2:52:51 PM Hi Steele, It was probably what she said that got up people's noses, not whether she was.....
» 29/04/2017 2:17:38 PM Hi Leo, This one might be a good start: https://www.abccommercial.com/librarysales/progr.....
» 29/04/2017 12:04:24 PM Hi Is Mise, Many people believe so strongly that they can't imagine that the stories that.....
» 28/04/2017 6:14:47 PM Hi AC, I think we've established pretty well that nobody has the right to break your jaw,.....
» 28/04/2017 6:01:39 PM Hi David, Well, duh. If I ever go to a performance of a play by Shakespeare, I'll be sure.....
» 28/04/2017 5:48:29 PM Oops, sorry Tone, I was thinking of Thallium for some reason, not Strychnine. My point wa.....
» 28/04/2017 5:33:33 PM Hi Yuyutsu, 1. natural: * natural, and reasonably well-understood; * natural, but not.....
» 28/04/2017 1:14:32 PM Hi O Sung Wu, That raises the thorny question, the Big One: what would have happened if t.....
» 28/04/2017 12:32:32 PM The author airily writes of poisoned water holes. Again, it would be useful to have just o.....
» 28/04/2017 12:06:36 PM [continued] Then God loses it: "Canst thou draw out leviathan with a hook ? or his t.....
» 28/04/2017 12:04:48 PM Hi Josephus, Probably getting off-topic, but Job sounds pretty monotheistic in his reply .....
» 28/04/2017 11:04:38 AM Hi Benk, As far as I can tell, there has never yet been a single forensic examination of .....
» 28/04/2017 10:42:54 AM Hi David, "People in semi-civilized or tribal societies may be able to think logical.....
» 27/04/2017 11:04:59 PM Hi AC, "'Did you foolishly believe you enjoyed an invisible wall of protection and w.....
» 27/04/2017 4:17:49 PM AC, "The 'I did your mum' clause states that 'You CAN exercise your right to free sp.....
» 27/04/2017 4:14:02 PM Hi Ttbn, Or could it be an even more cunning move by Senator Gichuhi to flirt with some o.....
» 27/04/2017 3:56:35 PM Hi AC, That's probably hat I was getting at in trying to differentiate 'exclusivist' mult.....
» 27/04/2017 3:50:16 PM Hi AJ, At the risk of raising Yuyutsu's ire, I venture the suggestion that religion fills.....
» 27/04/2017 10:35:18 AM On reflection, I think that Yassmin should be praised for drawing attention to some little.....
» 27/04/2017 10:17:04 AM Hi Paul, As a Maoist for twenty-odd years, I'll forever be privately questioning whether .....
» 26/04/2017 7:58:21 PM Hi Chris, Good god, is that so ? Mr Turnbull, I was only joking about the kids :(.....
» 26/04/2017 6:58:21 PM Hi Foxy, Yes, that would be money better spent. We need 'balance'. Love, Joe.....
» 26/04/2017 6:23:08 PM Perhaps the only punishment that she should be given, if anything (apart from public deris.....
» 26/04/2017 6:11:09 PM Thanks Peter, I hadn't thought much about what might be called 'personal values', as oppo.....
» 26/04/2017 5:53:07 PM Hi David, No, certainly not: Newton was a giant who stood on the shoulders of earlier gia.....
» 26/04/2017 2:45:25 PM Dearest Foxy, I apologise and take back my remark about feminists 'in the distant future'.....
» 26/04/2017 2:43:18 PM Hi Banjo, The thing is she probably hasn't yet committed any legal offence - moral,yes, b.....
» 26/04/2017 2:33:23 PM Hi Yuyutsu, Interesting logic: Premise A: good and evil do not exist in nature; Premise.....
» 26/04/2017 1:56:16 PM Hi David, Yes, we should condemn the crimes committed in the name of religion of four hun.....
» 26/04/2017 12:34:05 PM It's probably not legal to cancel someone's citizenship on the grounds of making offensive.....
» 26/04/2017 11:58:48 AM Hi Foyle Good point about the differences between 1950s-1960s immigrants and those of tod.....
» 26/04/2017 11:23:11 AM Ttbn, 'It shouldn't be Australia's job to liberalise Muslims.' And: 'What Australians m.....
» 26/04/2017 10:09:54 AM Hi Paul, Yes, I used to puzzle over how some intellectuals around 1920-1930 (like Sorel, .....
» 26/04/2017 9:59:05 AM Hi Tone, Don't knock it, I should imagine a small child would be quite tender and tasty -.....
» 26/04/2017 9:47:36 AM Hi Rollyczar, Yes,you're onto something, but one problem is that, once a drinker/smoker/g.....
» 26/04/2017 9:27:19 AM Hi Yuyutsu, I'll repeat: making decisions about good and bad, right and wrong, is NOT a r.....
» 25/04/2017 8:58:12 PM Aidan, Seriously, that hurt ! 'On the Right' ?! No, I haven't got there yet. If we're ta.....
» 25/04/2017 6:35:49 PM Hi Yuyutsu, You're right, religion is not the monopoly of those who believe in the supern.....
» 25/04/2017 4:50:12 PM Thanks AJ, I thought there was something dodgy about that comparison, so I'm glad it's got.....
» 25/04/2017 4:31:36 PM Hi Yuyutsu, A J Phillips could easily rip into your false logic there, that * value sys.....
» 25/04/2017 4:19:54 PM Dan, To anybody with a skerrick of imagination, there would be many options to weigh up: .....
» 25/04/2017 4:14:29 PM Hi Tone, Yes, Jonathan Swift's proposal, mainly in relation to an over-supply of Irish ch.....
» 25/04/2017 11:02:17 AM Surely we all have 'values' ? One doesn't have to be a politician or a philosopher, we all.....
» 25/04/2017 10:46:17 AM Ttbn, Wow. You should put that on a T-shirt and see how many people you can piss off in o.....
» 25/04/2017 10:38:25 AM Hi Tone, We would probably have to ensure that those kids were halal: wow, there's a hug.....
» 25/04/2017 10:25:29 AM Ttbn, I don't use the term 'racist' often but I have to do so in relation to your comment.....
» 25/04/2017 9:46:08 AM Hi Dan, Be careful what you wish for: China may be the key to dampening down the threat o.....
» 24/04/2017 5:51:18 PM Hi Nathan, I can't see how Australia could have two classes of citizens - one with full r.....
» 24/04/2017 5:04:40 PM Sorry, EJ, which particular bastard are you referring to ? Joe.....
» 24/04/2017 4:46:26 PM Ttbn, Of course you can. Clearly you perceive only 'exclusivist' or group-rights-oriented.....
» 24/04/2017 4:25:48 PM Hi Sells, I suppose we can't expect something, a concept or an aspiration, to do more tha.....
» 24/04/2017 12:04:14 PM Hi Doog, Straw man. What don't you understand about "if there is work around" ?.....
» 24/04/2017 11:57:48 AM Hi Peter, As an atheist, I've always been impressed by the Good Samaritan story -that a .....
» 24/04/2017 11:43:04 AM Anyway, to get back to topic: obviously what Senator Gichuhi will find herself in the midd.....
» 24/04/2017 9:31:24 AM Hi Yuyutsu, Yes, indeed, able-bodied people shouldn't be forced to work. But neither shou.....
» 23/04/2017 6:59:19 PM Dan, Ah, so by 'the whole flock', you mean primarily Russia and the US ? That they both f.....
» 23/04/2017 4:04:40 PM Hi Ttbn, Not really: 'There are people in South Australia who were born and bred in South.....
» 23/04/2017 3:51:56 PM Dear me, why do people seem to deliberately misunderstand and over-state what Isn't the ca.....
» 23/04/2017 2:00:40 PM Mikk, From the discussion above, even an idiot would have realised that nobody expects ol.....
» 23/04/2017 11:04:38 AM Dan, As Gandolph, with extreme powers to order vast numbers of people here and there, lik.....
» 23/04/2017 10:56:57 AM Hi Yuyutsu, No, I would not support the slightest difference in rights and obligations of.....
» 22/04/2017 7:42:20 PM Dear Foxy, It surely should be automatic that migrants are given every opportunity to imp.....
» 22/04/2017 7:29:39 PM Hi Producer, No, able-bodied people need to understand that unemployment benefits are a p.....
» 22/04/2017 2:51:32 PM Dearest Foxy, To labour the point, yes most of us agree that for most people, what they h.....
» 22/04/2017 12:20:47 PM Ttbn, The funny thing about the notion of ' a fair go' in relation to democratic election.....
» 22/04/2017 12:06:50 PM Tomato, tomato......
» 21/04/2017 6:57:32 PM Hi Tone, So in what way do these practices impinge on, or alter, any aspect of the Austra.....
» 21/04/2017 6:52:38 PM Hi Producer, I agree that able-bodied people should be given the choice of working or sta.....
» 21/04/2017 4:41:54 PM preaching to the choir, sister ..........
» 21/04/2017 4:39:22 PM Hi Has Been, Senator Gichuhi has been here nearly twenty years. How long does someone hav.....
» 21/04/2017 4:24:51 PM Hi Leoj, As an ex-Marxist, I can't escape the temptation to try to analyse the class natu.....
» 21/04/2017 4:07:50 PM Hi Producer, I have to confess that I don't spend much time serving my disproportionately.....
» 21/04/2017 10:49:19 AM Ttbn, Senator Gichuhi is Australian. Get used to it. As for her accent, I have much les.....
» 21/04/2017 10:41:38 AM Hi Tone, So you're totally opposed to the introduction of any element of Shari'a law into.....
» 21/04/2017 9:46:01 AM Ttbn, Sometimes you're an idiot. Senator Gichuhi ceased being a Kenyan citizen in 1999 wh.....
» 21/04/2017 9:30:12 AM Hi Tone, 'Employ disruptors' ? What, more than you do already ? 'Honor' is an older Engl.....
» 20/04/2017 5:47:13 PM Dearest Foxy, Yes,we could all do with a bit of that :) Love, Joe.....
» 20/04/2017 5:44:31 PM Hi Aidan, Sorry, yes, you're right - I meant basically all those beneficiaries on unemplo.....
» 20/04/2017 4:53:27 PM Dearest Foxy, How about walking and chewing at the same time ? i.e. both ? Most certainly.....
» 20/04/2017 3:58:09 PM Hi Chris, What you write is a very persuasive argument in favour of a Welfare Card for AL.....
» 20/04/2017 3:49:49 PM Hi Arthur, With 1500 warring groups in Syria, with a North-South Sunni axis (Saudi Arabia.....
» 20/04/2017 12:13:00 PM Hi Tone, Maybe I'm being picky but you have to register to enrol: I didn't until I was in.....
» 20/04/2017 8:54:40 AM Toni, Maybe I'm wrong, but it's not illegal NOT to enrol, but if you do, you have to vote.....
» 19/04/2017 7:43:27 PM Presumably, halal and kosher foods need to be certified to be free of any pork or alcohol .....
» 19/04/2017 4:06:07 PM Good points, Polpak, Yes, why aren't the Indigenous hot-shots in 'leadership' positions w.....
» 19/04/2017 10:34:00 AM Hi AJ, I think the stunning is supposed to take place before the throat-slitting, not aft.....
» 19/04/2017 10:30:46 AM Also in the press today: a bloke has got off on a charge of 'marrying' a 14-year-old, with.....
» 19/04/2017 10:25:05 AM Hi JF, Yes, that region is so crowded, that any war or large-scale military action is bou.....
» 19/04/2017 10:11:14 AM Thanks AJ, As the brochure says: "A small number of abattoirs in Australia have bee.....
» 19/04/2017 9:25:11 AM Don't worry, AC, The Greens, with their love and concern for nature, and the protection o.....
» 19/04/2017 9:15:52 AM Hi EJ, Yes, you're right. We respect individuals if they meet their existential respo0nsi.....
» 18/04/2017 6:44:47 PM Hi EJ, You mean, to send a few huge cargo planes limbering over North Korean territory an.....
» 18/04/2017 6:42:26 PM Hi Bazz, You mean PDRK, not ROK ? Well, a lot can go wrong with that: unless they get u.....
» 18/04/2017 6:32:37 PM Ton Whatev.....
» 18/04/2017 6:23:08 PM [continued] Meanwhile in the cities, where Indigenous people have experienced, if anythin.....
» 18/04/2017 6:21:34 PM Hi EJ, Yes, I always thought, in my naivety, that 'self-determination' meant, first and f.....
» 18/04/2017 2:55:50 PM Hi Toni, I'm not asserting anything, I've simply been persuaded by posters here that the .....
» 18/04/2017 1:12:40 PM Hi Paul & Yuyutsu, It's so much easier with a 'perfect' religion, one with all the answer.....
» 18/04/2017 1:04:11 PM Hi Ttbn, Yep, a mad dog with the third largest army in the world, massive artillery barra.....
» 18/04/2017 9:29:30 AM Hi Killarney, Sir Robert Peel brought about a substantial reform of those execution laws .....
» 18/04/2017 9:06:09 AM Hi Toni, Sorry, I meant " ..... from the bits and pieces" of information that a.....
» 17/04/2017 5:40:18 PM Sorry, MHaze, I suppose what I meant was, what next ? What does the US fleet do once it's.....
» 17/04/2017 3:48:01 PM Hi AJ, Sorry for butting in, but your observation that "..... Christianity split off.....
» 17/04/2017 1:45:42 PM Hi MHaze, Brilliant ! Now for Phase 2......
» 17/04/2017 12:42:56 PM Hi Is Mise, Thanks for that correction. Yes, I should have known - Mother Teresa was a wo.....
» 17/04/2017 12:27:04 PM Hi Ttbn, The problem with steaming a battle fleet into a touchy region is: do you stop at.....
» 17/04/2017 12:06:02 PM Hi Toni, Well, that's why I keep asking, because I don't know for sure, and I don't want .....
» 16/04/2017 6:41:46 PM HI AJ, Coming from an atheist and communist family, I never learnt much about Catholicism.....
» 16/04/2017 5:15:30 PM As the US fleet steams towards the 38th parallel: North Korea missile launch fails The A.....
» 16/04/2017 5:07:58 PM Hi Paul, Interesting way to think: "Leoj, then are you a non practicing member of a .....
» 16/04/2017 1:04:46 PM Hi Ttbn, Bearing in mind that nearly half of all Australians were either born overseas or.....
» 16/04/2017 10:33:05 AM Hi Paul, Happy Passach! I suppose one of the costs of freedom of religion is that it does.....
» 15/04/2017 11:54:55 PM Sorry Is Mise, I wish I had that consolation, but sadly no: what you get is all there is,.....
» 15/04/2017 6:35:28 PM Hi Ttbn, Any day now, I expect a group of Buzu slaves from Mauretania being interviewed o.....
» 15/04/2017 1:42:16 PM Hi Toni, So, if I looked at everything I buy in a supermarket, if it has the 'halal' symb.....
» 14/04/2017 8:55:33 PM You think so ? " ...... the Christian US prison system is just slavery in another gu.....
» 14/04/2017 7:20:33 PM Hi AJ, Reductio ad absurdum ?.....
» 14/04/2017 6:42:37 PM Hi Paul, Well, I DID write on Wednesday, 2.09 pm, that "Of course, the great majorit.....
» 14/04/2017 3:00:25 PM Hi Toni, I've never tried sauerkraut, I don't think, and I don't intend to. Hitler probab.....
» 14/04/2017 2:33:36 PM Hi AJ, Coming from a communist household, I've been a happy atheist for nearly seventy ye.....
» 14/04/2017 1:25:25 PM As far as I can tell, there haven't been slaves in the US for 150 years. There are still m.....
» 14/04/2017 10:40:02 AM Wow, Paul, what was in that NZ water ?.....
» 14/04/2017 10:36:35 AM Hi Paul, Yes, practices of four or five thousand years ago, even mythical ones, should be.....
» 13/04/2017 5:52:19 PM While we're on the subject of Shari'a by stealth, is it true that a man can have his four .....
» 13/04/2017 10:26:07 AM Hi Polpak, Logically, simply because there are people in one place, there should be work .....
» 13/04/2017 9:50:02 AM Hi Shockaholic, The push to recognise Indigenous customary law died some time ago (I ferv.....
» 13/04/2017 9:33:40 AM Hi Steele, Libya. Reagan. As I recall, probably imperfectly, the US missile attack on one.....
» 12/04/2017 8:35:50 PM Hi Is Mise, I worked in a meat-works 45 =odd years ago, in the fellmongery, but I went up.....
» 12/04/2017 7:01:50 PM Sorry, Polpak, Are you saying that, because you were married to an Indigenous woman (lik.....
» 12/04/2017 6:58:37 PM Dearest sweet Foxy, I'm not suggesting that halal meat would taste any different from har.....
» 12/04/2017 3:13:36 PM Dearesat Foxy, Good idea. I found this: www.aph.gov.au/DocumentStore.ashx?id=932e98df.....
» 12/04/2017 2:09:15 PM Dearest Foxy, Of course, the great majority of Muslims in Australia probably just go abou.....
» 12/04/2017 12:57:34 PM The Government's 'Closing the Gap' program has seven target areas, six of which are not be.....
» 12/04/2017 12:35:26 PM Hi Foxy & Paul, Perhaps what Is Mise was getting at is that, if Shari'a is ever introduce.....
» 12/04/2017 12:23:17 PM Hi MHaze, What never ? Well, hardly ever. Take the batteries out of your clock and it wil.....
» 11/04/2017 5:25:21 PM Hi MHaze, Do you mean that, say, China will be flexible like this: http://www.mirror.co......
» 11/04/2017 2:22:14 PM Hi Polpak, Are you saying that you and your family went back to Kintore, but that you wer.....
» 11/04/2017 1:52:08 PM Ah, the consequences of consequences of actions: China has moved 150,000 troops and 'medic.....
» 11/04/2017 12:32:28 PM Dearest Foxy, Yes, after all, what ARE US interests in Syria ? None, apart from its suppo.....
» 11/04/2017 10:40:16 AM Hi Jayb, Yes, I forgot those other 1,500 other groups. I'll look for their names now for .....
» 11/04/2017 10:18:03 AM [continued] Ultimately, it may be that many young people in communities will need to take.....
» 11/04/2017 9:59:45 AM All Indigenous communities need a wide range of skilled people, with a huge range of trade.....
» 11/04/2017 9:15:05 AM Hi Steele, I agree that, at first, " ..... first and foremost this has been a resist.....
» 10/04/2017 1:00:15 PM Hi AJ, Thanks for that Appeal to Newness fallacy :) Sorry, I can't discern much fluidity .....
» 10/04/2017 12:11:17 PM Hi Steele, In societies with few traditions of democracy, but underpinned by very strong .....
» 10/04/2017 11:43:38 AM Hi A, How do your examples show that marriage is fluid ? Do you mean, the social signific.....
» 10/04/2017 11:10:44 AM Hi AJ, There are no gods, so nothing can be 'divinely-inspired'. Marriage as a fluid con.....
» 10/04/2017 11:06:26 AM Trump is a 'tactics' man, not a 'strategy' man: if he (or at least the US military) can ca.....
» 10/04/2017 10:26:14 AM Hi Paul, Sorry, I still don't see it. Strange: fifty years ago, it was seen as daring and.....
» 9/04/2017 6:27:44 PM Hi Paul, Sorry, I don't see homosexual marriage as progressive - maybe it's not conservat.....
» 9/04/2017 6:18:54 PM Hi Dan, The problem with Ice and some other drugs (maybe all of them) is that taking them.....
» 9/04/2017 5:39:10 PM Dearest Foxy, How do you define 'bigot' ? The problem is that what may seem perfectly obv.....
» 9/04/2017 5:08:33 PM Hi Paul, No, I'm certainly not equating various opportunist trends, simply that opportuni.....
» 9/04/2017 4:56:24 PM Come off it, Grateful, some of us have read the Koran: time and again, Muhammad calls down.....
» 7/04/2017 8:00:04 PM Clumsy satire aside, clearly terrorist ideologies still have enormous influence on people .....
» 7/04/2017 6:47:33 PM Yes - "IS" written in what looks like blood on the front window probably means t.....
» 7/04/2017 6:23:04 PM Hi David, Yes, it was mentioned on TV a week or so ago that Emergency Wards seldom if eve.....
» 7/04/2017 6:14:39 PM Hi Raycom, What are we talking about: 5 % or less of the population, dictating to the res.....
» 7/04/2017 2:45:31 PM Hi Alan & O Sung Wu, Frankly, I'm terrified about when Ice gets into Indigenous communiti.....
» 7/04/2017 2:32:08 PM Hi Leslie, I suppose that, in a cock-eyed way, Islamists - as well as the pseudo-Left and.....
» 7/04/2017 9:55:01 AM Hi Is Mise, Presumably when a foetus is viable, when it can survive outside the womb, wi.....
» 6/04/2017 5:29:53 PM Hi Leoj, Yeah, I wonder if there's a sort of rule that crap ideologies will sometimes wor.....
» 6/04/2017 5:15:48 PM Hi Leslie, Well, the pay might be attractive :) But since I would be told what to find, a.....
» 6/04/2017 11:51:30 AM Hi Big Nana, I certainly agree with you about the importance of education. Perhaps with-h.....
» 6/04/2017 11:30:47 AM Hi A.J., No, indeed, but it may have breached other laws against harassment, incitement t.....
» 6/04/2017 11:18:11 AM Hi SM, Maybe not:, that ".... Islamic preachers that propose discrimination against .....
» 6/04/2017 10:54:05 AM Hi Leoj & paul, I'm still puzzled why it is dreadful to offend someone by pointing out tr.....
» 6/04/2017 10:10:26 AM Hi Paul, 47 pages - I've only got through the Abstract:) I supposed he will define 'liber.....
» 6/04/2017 9:47:08 AM I'm puzzled: some puffed-up sheikh declared a month or so ago, that if Ayaan Hirsi Ali cam.....
» 5/04/2017 6:38:03 PM Hi A.J., Yes, I hope that OLO (and less significant blog-sites) can foster and develop de.....
» 5/04/2017 2:43:53 PM Hi Fache, The left hand has always been a problem for Muslims, 'haram': we all have one, .....
» 4/04/2017 2:32:23 PM Hi Ttbn, Yes, that's the Anne Aly who is a deradicalisation expert. Aren't you glad there.....
» 4/04/2017 12:24:21 PM Hi Ttbn, Yes, I think he's right. Hi Runner, It's quite ridiculous to attack the ancien.....
» 4/04/2017 10:55:59 AM Hi Runner, Yes, I agree that many half-witted lip-flappers find it easy to slag Christian.....
» 4/04/2017 10:19:06 AM Hi Paul & Is Mise, I would suggest that the proportion of Australians who are familiar wi.....
» 4/04/2017 8:36:50 AM Hi Runner, In a democracy, everyone should be able to criticise Christianity in all its a.....
» 4/04/2017 8:27:19 AM SM & Killarney, There's not much point playing the "tu quoque" game: such massa.....
» 4/04/2017 8:09:32 AM Hi Cherful, Yes, and Muslim women are having to go through much of what you condemn even .....
» 4/04/2017 8:01:19 AM Well that went better than I thought it would. But still ..... My scoring: Linda Burney .....
» 3/04/2017 2:00:51 PM Dearest Foxy, Good idea. It is really disappointing that bullying and terror tactics can .....
» 3/04/2017 1:33:58 PM Dearest Foxy, So much for freedom of speech. So Change.org has also gone over to the dark.....
» 3/04/2017 1:30:33 PM Hi Alan, I'm not sure that there can be any other current remedy but a two-state solution.....
» 3/04/2017 1:03:58 PM Hi Josephus, Christianity was one religion which I was NOT referring to: after all, the a.....
» 3/04/2017 12:55:49 PM Hi Leoj, If what Ayaan Hirsi Ali has been opposing is conservative, medieval, backward an.....
» 3/04/2017 10:05:32 AM Hi Is Mise, Don't forget that, in the doctrines of many religions, not just Islam, there .....
» 3/04/2017 9:47:28 AM Hi Killarney, Sorry, I have to disagree with you on one point: "The European slave .....
» 3/04/2017 9:14:08 AM Hi Paul, But even you would have to agree that tonight's Q & A panel is unusually balance.....
» 3/04/2017 8:57:59 AM I'll be keeping a close count of Tony Jones' interruptions tonight, and how many of them a.....
» 2/04/2017 6:58:10 PM Hi Leoj, In spite of Islam being the most feminist of all religions ever devised, what is.....
» 2/04/2017 2:07:31 PM Hi Cherful, You're right: "Societies where women have no say, don't tend to advance.....
» 2/04/2017 1:55:33 PM Thanks Foxy, for that heads-up about the wonderful feminist Ayaan Hirsi Ali, on Q & A tomo.....
» 1/04/2017 1:43:58 PM Hi Josephus, My limited understanding is that hadiths are always 'changing', being replac.....
» 1/04/2017 1:39:15 PM Good on you, Foxy :) Love, Joe.....
» 1/04/2017 10:48:59 AM Hi George & Pogi, Every ideological trend, including all the various aspects of the Enlig.....
» 1/04/2017 9:47:53 AM Dear Angel Foxy, But never as high as you :) Okay, this is getting a bit too sugary: bac.....
» 31/03/2017 7:23:21 PM Dearest Foxy, And all these years, I believed it was the 26th. How the mighty have fallen.....
» 31/03/2017 7:21:39 PM Hi Josephus, Darwin actually believed the opposite, that the mixing of people was health.....
» 31/03/2017 2:33:49 PM Hi Leoj, But then there's Wynton Marsalis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hb5MSJcBb9o .....
» 31/03/2017 2:21:45 PM Correction: I don't know what's wrong with my brain: J. S. Bach was born on March 26, 1685.....
» 31/03/2017 9:51:40 AM Hi Doog, Down this way in beautiful SA, the Ngarrindjeri still call whitefellas 'Gringkar.....
» 31/03/2017 9:02:17 AM Hi Paul, As a nature-lover, I can watch those all day. [Now I'll be in trouble with the g.....
» 30/03/2017 10:58:41 AM Hi Graham & David, I agree that group rights and individual rights are incompatible. One .....
» 30/03/2017 10:26:49 AM Hi Steele, An independent inquiry into an ABC program carried out by the ABC, that finds .....
» 29/03/2017 11:36:36 AM Hi Paul, Haere ra ! As one of the 'Usual Suspects', thank you for that subdued comment. I.....
» 28/03/2017 12:56:19 PM I usually try to identify the bloke in the Q & A audience who makes up then 38 % of Libera.....
» 28/03/2017 12:53:27 PM Of course, any new exploration and exploita6tion of new gas fields should be accompanied b.....
» 26/03/2017 8:46:07 AM Okay, I was just about to give up: Manichaeism rules, it's all either-or. We can learn not.....
» 24/03/2017 7:39:59 PM Hi JDJ, No, I didn't say it was a perfect fit. But I don't believe that the underlying et.....
» 24/03/2017 3:06:09 PM 2017, and we're still finding it difficult to separate the myths and miracles of the old b.....
» 24/03/2017 9:46:11 AM Dearest Foxy, 'Tu quoque' arguments are usually pretty fruitless: of course, churches and.....
» 24/03/2017 9:22:05 AM Hi Steele, As usual, I agree with you bout religious-based states: I'm very uneasy about .....
» 23/03/2017 12:37:52 PM How do you mean, Steve ?.....
» 23/03/2017 12:35:59 PM Of course, there is racism against Aboriginal people in Australia, but perhaps it goes muc.....
» 22/03/2017 11:54:40 AM Hi Ateday, The 'converse' ? Do you mean Israeli recognition of Palestine ? That has bee.....
» 22/03/2017 11:44:46 AM While this thread seems to have died in the arse, it's still worth teasing out its implica.....
» 22/03/2017 11:32:31 AM Hi Ttbn, Your statement that " ..... I have to say that I find it hard to believe th.....
» 18/03/2017 2:48:35 PM I think this proposal has a good deal of merit: I suggest that all public servants should .....
» 18/03/2017 2:17:51 PM Pretty disgusting, AJ. As an ex-Communist, I wasn't aware that Marx or Lenin valued polit.....
» 16/03/2017 10:21:54 AM Dearest Foxy, I don't know anybody who would have interpreted THAT cartoon as being ".....
» 15/03/2017 2:04:06 PM The role of a great cartoonist, surely, is go to the edge, to shock (hopefully in the righ.....
» 15/03/2017 11:59:41 AM No Probs, AJ, You write rather ambiguously of " ..... lack of primary sources for th.....
» 15/03/2017 11:31:20 AM Hi AJ, Sorry, computer problems. No, modem, I think. Little lights flashing ten times a s.....
» 13/03/2017 5:22:54 PM Hi Steele, I'm glad that you recognise that evidence has to be provided for any assertion.....
» 13/03/2017 1:08:12 PM Dearest Foxy, Lowitja's father's letter is in "The History of the United Aborigines .....
» 12/03/2017 7:08:05 PM Dearest Foxy, Lowitja was a good friend of my wife's, and we still sometimes meet and hug.....
» 12/03/2017 6:47:36 PM Hi Alan, This from the Daily Kos sums that move towards fascism pretty well: http://www......
» 12/03/2017 6:40:35 PM Hi AC, I think you are mixing your conspiracies there :) No, I didn't suggest that the .....
» 12/03/2017 10:59:45 AM Hi AC, So Trump, Putin and Assange are all now besties ? If Assange turned up at the US.....
» 12/03/2017 9:59:39 AM Dearest sweet Foxy, You suggest: " ..... all the information that this discussion ha.....
» 12/03/2017 8:33:23 AM [continued] There's talk of a new 'Stolen Generation'. But now, in 2017 ? Where's the hor.....
» 12/03/2017 8:31:36 AM Dearest Foxy, So ...... are you saying that there may be no evidence of something, in man.....
» 12/03/2017 8:02:00 AM Hi Cherful, The old leftie in me would have held his nose and voted for Clinton last year.....
» 11/03/2017 1:28:25 PM Dearest Foxy, Well, one bloke has. I'm not aware of any other successful cases. Please el.....
» 11/03/2017 1:02:42 PM Dearest Foxy, Then all they have to do is get hold of their files, and present them to th.....
» 11/03/2017 1:00:24 PM Hi Steele, No, I'm taking the position that there hasn't been any evidence that it happen.....
» 11/03/2017 10:47:11 AM Hi Alan, If Syria is 'complicated', then Afghanistan will be much more so, given the rang.....
» 11/03/2017 10:37:33 AM [continued] And please let's not go on about 'fabrication' because that doesn't help the .....
» 11/03/2017 10:34:12 AM Dear oh dear, This is like arguing with four-year-olds: "I'll say it again, and aga.....
» 11/03/2017 10:11:09 AM Hi Killarney, Thanks for those links. Yes, it's very complicated and pat answers are no u.....
» 10/03/2017 10:40:04 PM G'day Paul, I'll say it again, and again and and again if you like, that no, I don't thin.....
» 10/03/2017 3:20:41 PM Hi Paul, Haere mai :) Your interesting post criticised " ..... hard right , bigote.....
» 10/03/2017 3:04:31 PM Hi Bazz, No, not yet anyway. With the help of the brainless and gutless 'Left', the imams.....
» 10/03/2017 2:52:52 PM Hi Alan, Of course I forgot the Yeti of international diplomacy, Trump. He has to make up.....
» 10/03/2017 9:50:28 AM Hi Toni, The lovely Foxy posted this link on another thread, on how to suck people into a.....
» 10/03/2017 9:47:02 AM The cautious co-operation between Turkey, Russia and Iran - each with their dreams of rest.....
» 10/03/2017 9:17:24 AM Dearest Foxy, Thanks so much for this brilliant expose of Trump. Scary ! But it explains .....
» 10/03/2017 9:01:12 AM Hi Steele, So we move from the RPF to the SG ? I suppose the same rules for proof apply:.....
» 10/03/2017 8:45:23 AM Hi AC, Yes, that would be a good beginning. There's a couple of things we have to remembe.....
» 10/03/2017 8:35:45 AM Hi Killarney, With respect, the Muslim world had a thousand years of relatively undisturb.....
» 9/03/2017 4:46:57 PM Hi Dan, But that might be precisely the reason that the Australian government, and Austra.....
» 9/03/2017 4:09:09 PM Hi Steele, I don't disagree with you on most of that: once someone has checked the School.....
» 9/03/2017 3:31:42 PM Hi Steele, Ah, yes, but did they get very far past New Norcia before they were brought ba.....
» 9/03/2017 12:11:12 PM Hi Steele, " .... can you at least accept the three girls referred to in the newspap.....
» 9/03/2017 11:59:02 AM Hi Leoj, If we are going to get onto the 'Stolen Generation' story, it might help to anal.....
» 9/03/2017 11:30:23 AM Hi AC, That's a very good point: it reminds me of so much in Aboriginal policy: to wait f.....
» 9/03/2017 11:16:13 AM Hi AC, "Therefore, we can only claim the triumph of democracy if we acknowledge the .....
» 9/03/2017 11:10:16 AM Hi Killarney, You suggest that: "If the West had left Islamic countries alone, then .....
» 9/03/2017 10:48:24 AM Hi Steele, Just eliminating the possibility that another three little girls were involved.....
» 9/03/2017 9:50:09 AM [continued] * IF they were the three little girls who ran away in early August, 1931, the.....
» 9/03/2017 9:48:06 AM Hi Steele, Presumably, if Neville the Devil, the Police, the Rabbit Department and Uncle .....
» 9/03/2017 8:46:16 AM Hi Mr. Ed, That's funny, I thought the country was already being run by a bunch of adoles.....
» 9/03/2017 8:39:49 AM Hi AC, Perhaps you're right: Trump is actually masquerading as a buffoon but actually is .....
» 8/03/2017 7:53:45 PM Hi AC, Yes, various US intelligence agencies have probably been quite legitimately gather.....
» 8/03/2017 6:09:58 PM Hi Steele, Yes, of course, I may be wrong: this amazing feat may have happened. And it wo.....
» 8/03/2017 5:51:44 PM Hi MHaze, No, I didn't say he was, just head man of the FSB at the Russian Embassy in the.....
» 8/03/2017 2:53:32 PM Hi Mr. Ed, You ask, in turn: "Why should only citizens have the vote." There .....
» 8/03/2017 2:41:00 PM Hi MHaze, My point ? * if you suspect something has happened, you won't need anything a.....
» 8/03/2017 1:38:31 PM Hi Steele, No, you didn't. Some documentation would be handy. Yes, if letters could be fo.....
» 8/03/2017 1:21:08 PM Thanks MHaze, "We have some indications that those associated with Obama might have .....
» 8/03/2017 12:59:29 PM Hi Phillip, I don't have to. As Christopher Hitchens said, 'He who asserts must prove'. O.....
» 8/03/2017 12:21:18 PM Hi Steele, Yes, quite some time ago. Cheers, Joe.....
» 8/03/2017 11:47:18 AM Hi Phillip, Ah, I get it: this is so secret and underhand that there is no evidence of it.....
» 8/03/2017 11:18:18 AM Dear Foxy, Brandis ? Neither here nor there. 'Tu quoque' won't get you anywhere, dear. .....
» 8/03/2017 11:14:57 AM Hi Phillip, So are you suggesting that the CIA, FBI, NSA, the Justice Department, perhaps.....
» 8/03/2017 11:03:28 AM Dearest Foxy, I think SM is right on the button. He could have added, * the ruining of .....
» 8/03/2017 10:12:50 AM Hi Alan, So what are you ripping into, democracy or autocracy ? Surely we have to find wa.....
» 8/03/2017 10:05:34 AM Hi Steele, Or maybe it's a sign of a certain scepticism, and a desire to suspend belief u.....
» 8/03/2017 9:30:15 AM Hi AC, So, are you suggesting, in a roundabout way, that if men can't use violence agains.....
» 7/03/2017 11:06:21 PM [continued] On a slightly different track: get something straight - nobody has ever force.....
» 7/03/2017 11:04:36 PM Nick, We need to be careful to remember how words might have had different meanings in ea.....
» 7/03/2017 5:34:21 PM Dearest Foxy, Primary sources beat secondary or tertiary sources any day, if they are ava.....
» 7/03/2017 5:17:11 PM Nick, You suggest: "Once again. I said the opposite - that Indigenous academics ass.....
» 7/03/2017 12:50:21 PM Nick, There's never been a need to remove children anywhere in Australia in order for the.....
» 7/03/2017 10:14:33 AM Thanks to Trump, we may now have new rules on what constitutes 'truth': 1. If I'm fairly .....
» 7/03/2017 9:55:52 AM Hi Paul, You trying to make me jealous or what ? You've succeeded. I probably won't be ab.....
» 7/03/2017 8:56:51 AM Hi Nick, Illogical ? Not really. There has always been tension between Indigenous Studies.....
» 7/03/2017 8:36:45 AM Hi Phanto, Come off it, you know that it's a lot more complicated than that: You might sa.....
» 6/03/2017 7:19:27 PM Hi Nick, The great majority of Indigenous university students are enrolled in mainstream .....
» 6/03/2017 7:09:41 PM Hi Steele, I can just as easily turn that around, that " .... you obviously have an .....
» 6/03/2017 4:40:51 PM Hi avgain paul, I feel liked I'm constantly mopping up after you fellas :) My reference .....
» 6/03/2017 4:22:26 PM Hi Phanto, Hmmmm .... I think they call that 'projection' in psychology :) The fact is t.....
» 6/03/2017 3:39:47 PM Hi Pahnto, You ask: "As AC says men are bigger and stronger than women in general an.....
» 6/03/2017 3:26:42 PM Hi Paul, Well, hardly. In that tragic news item, the little girls had got barely twenty m.....
» 6/03/2017 3:03:24 PM Hi Nick, Yes, it's possible that very early Islam sprang from s Jewish or Judeo-Christian.....
» 6/03/2017 11:03:18 AM Hi Iftikhar, So, under Shari'a, in what fields of law do women have equal rights to men: .....
» 6/03/2017 10:58:06 AM Dearest Foxy, Ah ! You got me ! I thought your caring and forgiving nature had just gone .....
» 6/03/2017 9:30:45 AM Hi Killarney, I made the same mistake :) I didn't really look carefully at the homicide f.....
» 6/03/2017 8:16:54 AM Thank you, Killarney. Those stats put everything into perspective. As I understand it, th.....
» 5/03/2017 10:28:02 PM Dearest Foxy, With the deepest respect, that must be the weakest excuse any of us have he.....
» 5/03/2017 10:09:06 PM Hi Steele, Thanks for your request: " .... what if it could be illustrated to your s.....
» 5/03/2017 6:00:46 PM [continued] You can check all this out yourself, by checking those documents on my web-si.....
» 5/03/2017 6:00:14 PM Hi Paul, I'm not in WA, so I don't have access to files over there, so I can only go by (.....
» 5/03/2017 5:38:19 PM [continued] Statistics can be tricky too. Take the 'Deaths in Custody' Royal Commission d.....
» 5/03/2017 5:33:10 PM That's right, Nick. What's your point ? Why do so many people objet to Aboriginal kids get.....
» 5/03/2017 1:47:24 PM [continued] People are talking about a second 'stolen generation' now. What, that some go.....
» 5/03/2017 1:41:04 PM Dearest Foxy, I'm glad that at last you are beginning to do some research into some of th.....
» 5/03/2017 1:16:44 PM Hi Steele, Many times, I have written about how casual liaisons were made illegal (in SA,.....
» 4/03/2017 1:22:45 PM Thanks Big nana, That WA Royal Commission (the 'Roth' Commission) in 1905 is on my web-si.....
» 4/03/2017 11:07:00 AM [continued] After Neville retired in 1940, he helped to set up the Coolbaroo Club, for mi.....
» 4/03/2017 11:04:19 AM [continued] What really pissed me off about that scam ? When one woman started slagging o.....
» 4/03/2017 10:50:42 AM Hi Steele, A nice little Clare Valley Temperanillo, actually. Mmmmm, still a bit left. S.....
» 4/03/2017 10:14:03 AM Thank you, Killarney. Best wishes, Joe.....
» 4/03/2017 10:12:39 AM I'm puzzled why the AHRC seems to have so little interest in one key aspect, one would hav.....
» 3/03/2017 4:46:06 PM Hi Steele, The Moseley Royal Commission, yes, I transcribed it all word for word, indexed.....
» 3/03/2017 2:59:17 PM Hi Phanto, So ...... it's not right if strangers wreak violence on each other I agree), b.....
» 3/03/2017 2:28:14 PM Hi Steele again, Newspaper reports: the website Trove has photostated every article in e.....
» 3/03/2017 2:03:12 PM Steele, If you think being 'half-caste' is or was a crime, you really are an idiot. Where.....
» 3/03/2017 1:40:17 PM Hi Nick, Do you really think most Australians would do anything but shrug ? 'Well, duh,' .....
» 3/03/2017 9:38:29 AM Hi Paul, Your reflection, that: "No matter what evidence you provide ...." may .....
» 3/03/2017 8:50:30 AM Hi Ttbn, Your astute observation that "Australia is rooted" is pregnant with po.....
» 3/03/2017 8:33:33 AM Dearest Foxy, A bit of a high horse :) I honestly don't know what you mean by 'flippant':.....
» 3/03/2017 7:34:56 AM The man's an idiot. Dream on, AC :).....
» 2/03/2017 6:20:50 PM Dearest Foxy, Yes, I remember her, a lovely lady. I loved her in the last episode of &quo.....
» 2/03/2017 5:23:19 PM Hi AC, Yes, I'm happy to assert that. Is he a Russian stooge ? I don't know, yet. It loo.....
» 2/03/2017 4:43:18 PM Dearest Foxy, I'm far more modest than Bolt. I would be grateful if someone could point o.....
» 2/03/2017 1:21:59 PM Hi Leoj, Thanks, that's quite a valuable article. Leon Festinger, back in the fifties inh.....
» 2/03/2017 11:45:48 AM Deareat Foxy, You wrote: "People have their reasons for what they will or will not .....
» 2/03/2017 11:30:30 AM Hi AC, I'm sure that Russia has done all those terrible things I mentioned, BUT if the wo.....
» 2/03/2017 10:42:47 AM Hi Lucifease, I'm not suggesting that any crime was committed - perhaps for the tenth tim.....
» 2/03/2017 10:31:01 AM Hi Jayb, No, I don't think so: that part of Burma has been populated by Muslims since at .....
» 2/03/2017 10:10:01 AM Hi Shockadelic, 'Culture and religion' in relation to human rights, is what I meant. No.....
» 2/03/2017 9:55:42 AM Hi AC, You watch RT ? Gosh, what a surprise. Hi Alan, Yeah, I apologise for making my .....
» 2/03/2017 9:23:59 AM Hi AC, Q1: Yes. Q2: No. As for my position, many times over the past three or four year.....
» 2/03/2017 8:20:14 AM Hi Phanto, Women are, of course, at least as intelligent as men, but I don't put much sto.....
» 2/03/2017 7:40:58 AM Hi AC, Thanks for that pro-Assad, pro-Russian web-site. We all need to know how the enemy.....
» 2/03/2017 7:32:06 AM Hi Nick, You beat me to it :) Hi Iftikhar, So, where is 'Arabia' ? How much country di.....
» 2/03/2017 7:24:52 AM [continued] check it out, does it make sense, how could you quickly verify such a charmin.....
» 2/03/2017 7:11:58 AM Hi Steele, The problem is that there is no corroborating evidence for this amazing story,.....
» 1/03/2017 8:23:32 PM Thank you, Foxy, for these links. I've got a couple of items on Academia myself, so I didn.....
» 1/03/2017 5:34:36 PM Dearest Foxy, Contrary gto ovderwhelming opinion, I'm not really an idiot. Yes, I did rea.....
» 1/03/2017 5:18:29 PM Dearest Foxy, Thank you for that brilliant article: http://rightnow.org.au/opinion-3/the.....
» 1/03/2017 4:30:31 PM "Perhaps the women could be allowed to have opinions about their own faith. Aborigina.....
» 1/03/2017 4:12:34 PM Dearest Foxy, Exactly ! Charming stories, the best interpretations of the distant past th.....
» 1/03/2017 3:50:43 PM Okay - next step in the long process of recognition of Muslim women's rights: What might .....
» 1/03/2017 3:30:55 PM [continued] "By default, they therefore have fewer means to gain power, not in class.....
» 1/03/2017 3:25:52 PM That's so cruel, Daffy. I started up an "Original Thoughts" file last week, and.....
» 1/03/2017 10:50:51 AM Thanks, Runner. I rest my case :) Joe.....
» 1/03/2017 10:17:55 AM Hi Big Nana, I wonder how much of what even Windschuttle accepted - the camel driver, for.....
» 1/03/2017 9:56:12 AM Dearest sweet Foxy, So are you saying that you would believe anything ? I have an Opera.....
» 1/03/2017 9:16:48 AM I don't know whether to be terrified about what the ramshackle Trump circus troupe might d.....
» 1/03/2017 8:51:59 AM Hi Steele, No probs. I think both Bolt and Windschuttle were being careful and diplomatic.....
» 28/02/2017 5:02:48 PM To explore this topic a bit more, what does 'integration' mean in the context of Australia.....
» 28/02/2017 4:23:06 PM Wow. The fifties are certainly alive and well. I'm puzzled how many pig-ignorant comments .....
» 28/02/2017 4:03:23 PM Dearest Foxy, Yes, of course, most of what you write is incontestable, but really neither.....
» 28/02/2017 2:49:37 PM Hi Steele, So to you, Andrew Bolt is an authority ? And what "facts" are we tal.....
» 28/02/2017 12:20:43 PM Hi Steele, My fourth post, I think. No, I'm saying that unless there is some strong ev.....
» 28/02/2017 11:54:36 AM Dearesat Foxy, That's a strange remark: "Oral histories whether in the form of diari.....
» 28/02/2017 11:36:05 AM Hi Steele, You assert that " ..... if there were no other evidence available oral hi.....
» 28/02/2017 9:22:19 AM Hi Paul, In the interests of objectivity and truth, let's explore the RBF story a bit fur.....
» 28/02/2017 9:05:17 AM Hi Shockadelic, As to Africans and African-Americans marrying white women, yes, it certai.....
» 28/02/2017 7:38:39 AM Hi Paul, So how do we distinguish between truth (backed up by evidence) and propaganda (b.....
» 27/02/2017 6:00:01 PM Dearest Foxy, No, not many of us do, we struggle to differentiate between ideas and peopl.....
» 27/02/2017 4:15:03 PM Dearest Foxy, Can you say 'neither' ? That 'Neither is acceptable' ? 'Neither bashing chi.....
» 27/02/2017 4:04:04 PM Nicknicknick, Maybe I'm wrong but I think there was not one Japanese-American act of sabo.....
» 27/02/2017 12:15:00 PM Hi Is Mise, I think it was about the difficulties for Muslims of reforming Islam. That wa.....
» 27/02/2017 10:14:44 AM Hi Shockadelic, You might be surprised at how many Africans, or African-Americans, or Wes.....
» 27/02/2017 9:05:45 AM [continued] So, sorry, Paul, there appears to be not a skerrick of evidence supporting th.....
» 27/02/2017 9:02:37 AM Hi Paul, You put your finger on the crucial issues: the Rabbit-Proof f3nce film was very .....
» 26/02/2017 12:21:32 PM Hi Toni, I don't know, I think rats are much maligned and very under-valued. Joe.....
» 26/02/2017 9:51:26 AM Hi AC, Hmmm ...... that's perhaps a stretch: a government with a relatively high proporti.....
» 24/02/2017 9:20:40 AM Hi Edward, Thanks for that straw man :) Sorry, it's been a long time since I was a good .....
» 24/02/2017 8:36:57 AM Hi Cherful, Thanks for your kind words. But .... We shouldn't confuse phenotype with gen.....
» 23/02/2017 5:09:33 PM Hi LeoJ, No, it's not. Islam seems (to this atheist) to be the ultimate religion-as-patho.....
» 23/02/2017 1:38:40 PM The bottom line, I suppose, is that people coming to another country are obliged to do mos.....
» 23/02/2017 12:38:31 PM Hi EJ, "Stubbornly disobedient". Isn't that the usual excuse for DV anyway ? Ca.....
» 23/02/2017 12:33:05 PM Hi Leoj, This is a fascinating article on a topic which must be very, very difficult for .....
» 23/02/2017 10:31:02 AM In the early days in South Australia, an Aboriginal bloke who beat his wife to death would.....
» 23/02/2017 10:15:54 AM Hi Pat, Yes, if the only people who worked were those with some sort of pathological crav.....
» 23/02/2017 4:48:14 AM Hi Is Mise & Cherful, Yes, Darwin was all in favour of what he called 'hybrid vigour', th.....
» 23/02/2017 4:34:29 AM Dearest Foxy, On Nick's comment, that ' .... I feel like Trump does and just grab whateve.....
» 23/02/2017 4:17:57 AM So that's where you've been, Nick ? Dearest Foxy, Labas. Yes, I agree that genuine gende.....
» 22/02/2017 5:22:25 PM Hi Albie, No, I don't support ANY cultural concessions over law, none whatever. I don't b.....
» 22/02/2017 5:03:21 PM Speaking of schools, and while we are on the subject of integration, this quote from Peter.....
» 21/02/2017 6:01:22 PM Foxy, I've bookmarked that site. It's just a bit out of date for 2017 course enrolments. .....
» 21/02/2017 4:52:02 PM Dear Foxy, Please let me qualify my throw-away remark: "..... if Israel wants to b.....
» 21/02/2017 4:40:00 PM [continued] So Aboriginal people in 'settled' Australia learnt their own language, of cou.....
» 21/02/2017 4:37:49 PM Hi Cossomby, It's interesting that you make that comment: at least later, around Australi.....
» 21/02/2017 12:47:33 PM Not being too bright, it seems to me that there is Palestine and there is Israel, each in .....
» 21/02/2017 12:31:04 PM Dear Foxy, Labas. Yes, it's really not that difficult to pick up basic communicative term.....
» 21/02/2017 11:00:56 AM If I went to live in Lithuania or Poland or Vietnam, I would expect to learn Lithuanian or.....
» 21/02/2017 10:39:22 AM Dearest Foxy, One problem with recognising a state of Palestine is which Palestine do we .....
» 20/02/2017 12:24:12 PM I wonder if nicknamenicknamenick really exists, or is actually a reincarnation of Ern Mall.....
» 20/02/2017 9:36:40 AM Dearest Foxy, You could try this web-site: http://www.searchtruth.com/quran_topics_index.....
» 20/02/2017 8:59:34 AM Hi Phanto, Hmmmm ..... slight contradiction there: "Why are there so many shows on.....
» 19/02/2017 5:27:34 PM Hi AJ, I've probably lived a very sheltered life, but I do now recall a young white bloke.....
» 19/02/2017 5:10:50 PM Hi Yuyutsu, Yes, sometimes the law is an ass, but usually it's workable and necessary to .....
» 19/02/2017 5:01:29 PM Hi Yuyutsu, You're probably right about the settlements and Netanyahu's support. As for.....
» 19/02/2017 1:20:38 PM Hi Phanto, Speaking for myself, some blokes are devilishly handsome, charming and smooth .....
» 19/02/2017 12:34:58 PM Hi Yuyutsu, This is probably going even further off the track but: * when you suggest th.....
» 19/02/2017 12:20:41 PM Dearest Foxy, I support the suggestions of Yuyutsu and Toni. As for your interesting sta.....
» 19/02/2017 11:57:40 AM Hi Big Nana, I agree, it's been a long time since I've heard anybody racially abused. Alt.....
» 19/02/2017 11:46:48 AM Hi Tony, Yeah, and why do they all wear those funny two-toed socks ? Bastards. So if som.....
» 19/02/2017 10:03:53 AM Hi Cherful, 'Palestinian' is more of a geographical description than a historical one: th.....
» 18/02/2017 4:21:35 PM Hi Graham, Brilliant ! I have a very deep admiration for Mother Teresa and her devotion t.....
» 18/02/2017 3:51:05 PM [continued] - not that many Christians probably pray as much these days. I was having a.....
» 18/02/2017 3:49:40 PM Hi Phanto, Religious belief is not so much IRrational as NON-rational: most believers wou.....
» 18/02/2017 11:04:52 AM Hi Phanto, A 'fact' is basically an interpretation of a material finding, also known as '.....
» 17/02/2017 2:43:34 PM Racism operates at many different levels, some superficial like name-calling, some deeper,.....
» 17/02/2017 2:35:51 PM Dearest Foxy, No, they don't want a state of Israel. When they say they do, then the nego.....
» 17/02/2017 8:29:55 AM As long as Hamas and other reactionary Palestinian groups deny the right of Israel to exis.....
» 16/02/2017 5:28:30 PM Dan, A bit half-witted, no offence. Nobody should be thrown off buildings or beheaded for.....
» 16/02/2017 4:27:23 PM Hi Ttbn, Yes, there is always that problem. As long as (a) lying 'in a good cause', or (b.....
» 16/02/2017 3:57:18 PM Yuyutsu, Anybody who puts the 'interests' of an invented god above those of a single pers.....
» 16/02/2017 9:43:49 AM Dearest Foxy, You' re absolutely right: "I think that what Senator Lambie was tryin.....
» 16/02/2017 9:30:03 AM I wholeheartedly agree with Najla that " .... through collaborative dialogue, open .....
» 15/02/2017 10:15:49 AM Just to go back to one of Toni Lavis' comments: no, an atheist does not have to swear on t.....
» 15/02/2017 10:05:17 AM Hi EJ, " ..... mainly unemployed and underemployed people (the "precariat".....
» 14/02/2017 4:57:06 PM Hi EJ, I wonder what proportion of firms employing your slave labour in Asia etc. are Ame.....
» 12/02/2017 8:35:35 AM It seems that the birth-rate in most Western countries is not quite keeping up with the de.....
» 10/02/2017 10:01:30 PM Hi Alan, Yes, remember that the perfect is the bitter enemy of the good, and all Utopias .....
» 10/02/2017 9:55:48 PM Hi Nick, Around forty years ago, a top South Australian scientist [no, that's not an oxym.....
» 10/02/2017 8:56:32 AM Hi Chris, And until then ? Maybe mhaze is on the money. Of course, governments should be .....
» 9/02/2017 2:40:19 PM We had three black-outs in Adelaide last night, each for a couple of hours. It's amazing h.....
» 8/02/2017 9:44:01 AM This is an American post ? 'Electoral commission' and 'Supreme Court' ? But I suppose we c.....
» 6/02/2017 5:57:57 PM Hi Has been, I don't know, I think Trump will change his tune when he realises, dimly and.....
» 6/02/2017 4:51:53 PM "U.N. Official Admits Global Warming Agenda Is Really About Destroying Capitalism&quo.....
» 6/02/2017 4:37:30 PM On population growth: countries with developed economies are experiencing either no-growth.....
» 3/02/2017 9:09:05 AM [continued] Agriculture took five thousand years to spread across Europe from what is now.....
» 3/02/2017 9:06:54 AM Hi Nick, Bellwood was probably relying on the accounts and writings of a multitude of ant.....
» 2/02/2017 5:14:22 PM Hi Nick, Given the recent claim of Aboriginal people harvesting kangaroo grass seed, your.....
» 2/02/2017 3:32:34 PM Hi C, I agree, "Same choices with the same consequences" is nonsense: women get.....
» 2/02/2017 9:53:18 AM Greg Sheridan makes a point in today's Australian to keep January 26 as our national day. .....
» 2/02/2017 9:17:35 AM Hi Paul, There may be something in that. When I was living in Ponsonby, I got to know a l.....
» 2/02/2017 9:09:25 AM I wonder if there is something like 'pre-news' - stories floated in order to gauge public .....
» 1/02/2017 8:40:47 PM Hi Paul, Thanks for all that history: fascinating. I should have known about the Yanks, b.....
» 1/02/2017 10:02:56 AM Hi Paul, Thanks for that information about Hone Heke. I wasn't aware of the influence of .....
» 1/02/2017 9:47:56 AM Hi Nick, When the British declared sovereignty over eastern Australia, they thereby recog.....
» 1/02/2017 9:22:59 AM HI AC, You're right: you didn't make a good job of it. How's this for an option ? If a .....
» 31/01/2017 4:37:28 PM Sorry Nick, Sorry, who was mugged ? Who stole whose wallet ? Who gave whom $ 10 for a tra.....
» 31/01/2017 4:32:40 PM I wonder how long before there is a designated psycho-medical condition for some men who h.....
» 31/01/2017 3:07:55 PM Hi Nick, Another thing: usually across all the Australian colonies, it was illegal to sup.....
» 31/01/2017 2:57:24 PM Nick, Struggling through the molasses of your probable wit, I have to point out that, fro.....
» 31/01/2017 11:52:08 AM Dearest Foxy, Yes, can a will, who is to get what, be 'inferred' from a person's habitual.....
» 31/01/2017 11:46:48 AM I Paul, The NgaPuhi allies of the British ? Perhaps not when Hone Heke cut down the flag-.....
» 31/01/2017 10:48:28 AM [continued] Before 1971 of so, when a single mother's benefit was instituted, what could .....
» 31/01/2017 10:46:53 AM I agree with the judge's verdict in this case, on condition that the same result would hav.....
» 31/01/2017 9:33:08 AM Hi Paul, Come on, be honest: at Waitangi, the chiefs who signed were willingly putting th.....
» 29/01/2017 1:03:13 PM Thanks, Doog ! I'll pass it on :) Hi Nick, Yeah, my grand-dad was in there somewhere, in.....
» 29/01/2017 9:15:56 AM Dearest Foxy, As I understand it, Clinton didn't visit Wisconsin even once, a rust-belt s.....
» 29/01/2017 9:05:37 AM Dearest Foxy, Vietnamese New Year too ! Chuc Mung Nam Moi ! Probably Thai New Year as we.....
» 27/01/2017 8:59:59 AM Hi IsMise, You were asking: "Does this mean that FGM, bigamy, forcing women to wear .....
» 25/01/2017 5:51:27 PM Dear Foxy, I was struck by this quote from Dr Soutphommasane's speech: "Contrary to.....
» 25/01/2017 4:33:20 PM Dearest Foxy, On the contrary, it's barely begun. We do need to talk about what you might.....
» 25/01/2017 9:08:16 AM Hi Phanto, Women in the US can organise and march okay: all they have to do next election.....
» 24/01/2017 9:36:12 AM For all that, and all that, I think the author has put his finger on something: 'inclusive.....
» 23/01/2017 9:48:46 PM The share farming system has been common all over Australia. Share farmers are not necessa.....
» 21/01/2017 1:20:28 PM Hi Graham, Yes, I was bending over backwards not to attack that 'other' religion, knowing.....
» 20/01/2017 4:53:23 PM Hi Nick, Just a couple of points for the unwary: you mentioned Lake Blanche, up on the St.....
» 20/01/2017 3:16:00 PM Hi Nick, Oy. If people have to travel about in search of food, not necessarily every day .....
» 20/01/2017 12:57:23 PM Hi Mhaze, No probs. Clearly, some adherents to various backward religions (now, there's .....
» 20/01/2017 12:40:09 PM Hi Nick, So what happened after ? Did people keep building such structures, right up to t.....
» 20/01/2017 12:01:11 PM Hi Mhaze, What don't you understand about, " .... I hope we never get to the stage i.....
» 20/01/2017 11:39:52 AM Hi Nick, Three thousand in a village at Brewarrina ? A fixed village ? All going out each.....
» 20/01/2017 8:40:41 AM Hi Nick, Maybe they could be called something like, I don't know, 'watermelons' ? What do.....
» 20/01/2017 8:25:14 AM I hope we never get to the stage in the erosion of human rights in Australia when it is a .....
» 20/01/2017 8:16:46 AM Hi Nick, Turnbull is South Australian ? You may get some disagreement down this way. And .....
» 19/01/2017 5:30:30 PM Hi Nick, I'm not sure what your point is. But I suppose you hear that a lot. I'm not sur.....
» 19/01/2017 1:05:59 PM Dearest Foxy, Frankly, I'll be glad to get through this year without either Trump clumsil.....
» 19/01/2017 7:48:49 AM As I understand it, the position of adjunct lecturer, or associate professor, or professor.....
» 19/01/2017 7:18:07 AM Hi Nick, I think a fifteen-foot boat is not that small, and at any one time, in, say, 189.....
» 19/01/2017 6:00:50 AM Nick, The gift that keeps on giving. In the nineteenth century and beyond, Aboriginal pe.....
» 18/01/2017 5:30:40 PM Hi Nick, While we're at it, somebody mentioned kangaroo grass being grown by Aboriginal p.....
» 18/01/2017 5:07:28 PM Hi Nick, No, the Mission didn't sell guns as far as I can tell. People bought them in the.....
» 18/01/2017 12:55:02 PM Hi Nick, No, actually many ration depots were in towns, i.e. where there were towns, and .....
» 18/01/2017 9:14:30 AM [continued] So it is with some of the major planks of the Conventional Narrative - that A.....
» 18/01/2017 9:09:45 AM Hi Nick, Missions: at least here in South Australia, mission societies set up missions to.....
» 17/01/2017 5:52:57 PM Thanks Nick, Of course, the next step in promoting an assertion which may conflict with o.....
» 17/01/2017 5:10:49 PM Isn't it amazing what we take for granted ? It just truck me, being of fairly feeble brain.....
» 17/01/2017 11:46:04 AM Nick, Fascinating. Can you cite that research ? In any genuine academic journal ? Funny,.....
» 17/01/2017 7:39:52 AM Thanks Nick, Jut to add the obvious: a redoubt, and even more so a fort, are stationary s.....
» 16/01/2017 4:07:57 PM Hi Nick, Thank you for a direct answer, but I may have missed your point of a link betwee.....
» 16/01/2017 12:27:26 PM Hi Nick, I always approach one of your efforts like Brer Rabbit about to be thrown, tarre.....
» 16/01/2017 11:41:44 AM Incidentally, and speaking of 'land grabs', where do simpletons get the idea that everythi.....
» 16/01/2017 10:03:20 AM [continued] Occasionally groups came together, after careful negotiations, to share cerem.....
» 16/01/2017 10:01:38 AM Hi Nick, When you set up this thread, called 'land grab', I assumed it would have somethi.....
» 15/01/2017 12:36:51 PM [continued] No wonder people 'came in', as some courageous (and retired) anthropologists .....
» 15/01/2017 12:32:16 PM Ah, found it: From 1851, all pastoral leases in South Australia had to contain this clau.....
» 15/01/2017 11:34:24 AM Hi Paul, Oh, I think we 'understand' it all right, it's laid on so thick that we can almo.....
» 15/01/2017 11:07:22 AM Hi Billyd, To repeat, ".... So, no, not all Muslims, and really, only a tiny proport.....
» 15/01/2017 10:52:51 AM Hi Referundemdrivensocienty, So what did I write which was incorrect ? Even if the Ukrain.....
» 14/01/2017 5:20:35 PM Nick, In your inimitable way, (I think), and laden with so much impenetrable sarcasm as t.....
» 14/01/2017 5:00:24 PM Now, children ..... Hi Billyd, You're right when you say , " .... Muslims aren't re.....
» 13/01/2017 6:00:37 PM Hi Billyd, You make some interesting points: * that there is Islam, and there are Musli.....
» 13/01/2017 9:26:32 AM Here's a couple of minutes I'll never get back. Nick, So, what mighty leap of cause and .....
» 11/01/2017 8:46:19 AM Hi ttbn, Yeah. I might have to migrate, Alistair can look after himself......
» 10/01/2017 10:22:16 AM Hi Jim, MT said that " .... the Islamic world started math, astronomy and many civil.....
» 8/01/2017 1:47:34 PM Hi Bagsy, Or vice versa - neither is worth a hill of horse manure. We must let evidence '.....
» 7/01/2017 3:58:25 PM Dear Foxy, As far as I can make out, those French plants were temporarily shut down more .....
» 7/01/2017 1:22:28 PM Dearest Foxy, As the article points out, these shut-downs are because of "revelation.....
» 7/01/2017 1:16:43 PM Hi Nick, I don't claim to be either. I'm simply (well, for most people) proposing that an.....
» 7/01/2017 8:48:39 AM Hi Paul, No worries :) I assume that much of the improvements in nuclear energy generat.....
» 7/01/2017 8:38:30 AM Hi Nick, Well, wind power works: energy can be generated from wind towers. But financial .....
» 6/01/2017 10:44:45 PM Thanks Nick, Want don't you understand about the word 'IF' ? Joe.....
» 6/01/2017 10:42:58 PM Hi Paul. Right back at you: where did I make any derogatory comments about you ? I'm simp.....
» 6/01/2017 7:43:23 PM Hi Paul, I believe that the poorest people in the world are entitled to the same comforts.....
» 6/01/2017 7:24:55 PM Thanks Alan, I did learn to tie my own shoelaces quite some time ago, but thanks for your.....
» 6/01/2017 7:17:02 AM Hi Paul, Sorry, it appears that the world is feeding itself better than ever. And populat.....
» 6/01/2017 7:01:26 AM Hi Killarney, Well, as Don suggests, there ARE such things as facts: for instance, for th.....
» 5/01/2017 4:32:12 PM Hi Alan, Okay, I'll bite: why ? Why isn't any company, or anybody with a bit of spare cas.....
» 5/01/2017 1:21:50 PM Hi AC, There you go, the same logic: "For years people like myself have taken a lot.....
» 5/01/2017 8:06:23 AM Thanks Nick, I'm glad that at least somebody is sticking up for an independent Ukraine in.....
» 4/01/2017 7:00:56 PM Thanks Is Mise, I didn't know that the Saudis did that. I thought that would be viewed as.....
» 4/01/2017 6:53:38 PM Sorry, AC, If A is not a cat, and neither is B, C, D or E, then F is not a cat. Okay: o.....
» 4/01/2017 6:40:53 AM Hi AC, Love that logic: * that animal is not a cat; * this animal here is not a cat eit.....
» 4/01/2017 6:29:30 AM Hi BP, Same to you, bonne annee ! I hope 2017 is a good productive year for all of us OLO.....
» 3/01/2017 4:05:13 PM Thanks Bazz, I didn't think of that, not being an engineer. I'll ask one of my brothers w.....
» 3/01/2017 1:22:32 PM Dearest Foxy, Well, we'll see, won't we ? We're a long, long way from Chernobyl-type desi.....
» 3/01/2017 10:22:00 AM I'll get in first and mention Chernobyl: a reactor built in the 1950s, about to be de-comm.....
» 3/01/2017 10:06:24 AM Hi Yuyutsu, That's an interesting scenario: God promising no eternal virgins, but only th.....
» 3/01/2017 10:01:20 AM Hi Killarney, I'm terribly sorry, but when you wrote "I'm sure there are a lot of i.....
» 2/01/2017 8:10:40 PM Hi Killarney, I suspect that "These tired old excuses that 'lefties just want to bla.....
» 2/01/2017 5:46:46 PM Hi LEGO & Cherful, Arabs/Muslims as invaders: I can't get around the fact that the mitoch.....
» 2/01/2017 11:45:30 AM Thanks Cherful, Yes, my poor old grandmother gets lumbered with many unverifiable quotes......
» 2/01/2017 9:58:00 AM Thanks, Is Mise. On the weekend, I saw a 1928-1930 Ford (or maybe Studebaker or Overlander.....
» 2/01/2017 9:21:17 AM Hi Killarney, Love that logic ! "The British empire did it. The European empires di.....
» 2/01/2017 9:04:31 AM Good on you, Graham. While in my cups on Saturday night (or was it Friday ?), it struck m.....
» 2/01/2017 8:55:05 AM Hi Cherful, As you suggest, terrorists are PARTLY " .... thugs with hate in their he.....
» 2/01/2017 8:42:33 AM Hi Paiul, As you would know better than me, the Treaty of Waitangi came near the end of t.....
» 31/12/2016 3:21:23 PM Hi AC, Thanks, no worries. Happy New Year, and Happy Hanukkah ! Joe.....
» 31/12/2016 3:14:52 PM Hi Steele, Will he be able to bring back jobs from China ? I don't think so. So the legit.....
» 31/12/2016 1:35:34 PM Dear Foxy, Yes, I've circulated Craven's article: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/opinio.....
» 31/12/2016 10:48:32 AM Dear Foxy, Do you think I haven't been chewing over the issues of self-determination, tre.....
» 31/12/2016 10:29:28 AM Hi AC, When you write, " ....If you take this attitude of believing the corporate me.....
» 30/12/2016 6:08:44 PM Dearest Foxy, I'm so glad that you've come back, after abandoning this thread a couple of.....
» 30/12/2016 4:45:54 PM Hi Big Nana & Alan & HasBeen, Yes, I agree that " .... Simply put, exams must be use.....
» 30/12/2016 6:56:05 AM Hi Killarney, So, just to clarify: the White Helmets are digging people and bits of bodie.....
» 29/12/2016 12:01:37 PM Dearest Foxy, Thanks for this, but I'm a bit alarmed that Jeff McMullen, Marni Cordell, W.....
» 29/12/2016 11:06:14 AM Hi Paul, Galileo agreeing that his findings were crap - well, one might do that if one's .....
» 29/12/2016 9:23:25 AM Hi AC, Thanks for these links. From the first one: so the White Helmets are the creatures.....
» 29/12/2016 9:04:38 AM Hi Paul, Actually Copernicus was much smarter than that, I think he died on the same day .....
» 29/12/2016 8:37:39 AM Hi Aidan & Bugsy, I apologise, I am usually too lazy to look up URLs, but I'll do it more.....
» 28/12/2016 5:26:44 PM G'day Paul, Of course. To support one interpretation of reality, preferably backed by evi.....
» 28/12/2016 3:31:58 PM Hi Bugsy, So you're saying that she earned $ 24,000 plus, without telling Centrelink ? Sh.....
» 28/12/2016 9:26:49 AM Dearest Foxy, Oh, I don't think that objectivity means 'fairness to all': it means heartl.....
» 28/12/2016 8:10:50 AM Dearest Foxy, I'm still digesting that brilliant story about Aboriginal people being farm.....
» 27/12/2016 10:35:43 AM Dear Foxy, Yes, NM: I was trying to follow an article from some months back concerning an.....
» 27/12/2016 9:10:09 AM Hi AC, “The answer to bad speech is not censorship. The answer to bad speech is more spee.....
» 27/12/2016 7:18:23 AM [continued] one is struck by how every group seemed to be catered for, into the twentieth.....
» 27/12/2016 7:01:59 AM Dearest Foxy, NM ? Diverse views ? Gosh, really ? Yesterday, The Australian carried a lo.....
» 26/12/2016 5:34:34 PM [continued] So this bumbling amateur has clumsily opened up a huge can of worms: I only h.....
» 26/12/2016 5:04:23 PM G'day Paul, All the best of the season and kia ora to you and yours, too. I think there .....
» 26/12/2016 1:47:37 PM Hi Paul, Murdoch seems to have a very large menagerie - in today's Australian, there is a.....
» 26/12/2016 1:40:36 PM [continued] Certainly, it had to start off with the initial Primal Crime, the occupation,.....
» 26/12/2016 1:37:12 PM Our book has created a huge dilemma for us. I'm not a historian and I'm aware that the int.....
» 24/12/2016 11:55:21 AM [continued] * Until about 1908, Aboriginal children at schools worked successfully with t.....
» 24/12/2016 11:50:30 AM And yet, we need a Narrative - an evidence-based or -inferred, historically-rigorous base .....
» 23/12/2016 5:24:38 PM HI EJ, Re Hiroshima etc.: As you say, as ye sow, so shall ye reap. In mid-1945, it was .....
» 23/12/2016 2:07:42 PM Hi Big Nana, Half-century :) Narratives are interesting things: they usually have under.....
» 23/12/2016 9:44:08 AM Dearest Foxy, While justice may prevail eventually, so will the obligation for somebody t.....
» 22/12/2016 6:29:24 PM My dearest Foxy, Of course. I'm also familiar with the fact that only one person has ever.....
» 22/12/2016 4:50:45 PM Some of the most reliable news these days comes from sites like these: http://www.theonio.....
» 22/12/2016 1:04:41 PM [continued] The author's summary, that " .... The fact that no archaeological projec.....
» 22/12/2016 12:44:03 PM [continued] * people being herded onto missions ? No evidence whatsoever. Mission staff u.....
» 22/12/2016 7:34:57 AM [continued] I wouldn't rely on newspaper accounts for any accurate picture. Sensation sel.....
» 22/12/2016 7:32:36 AM Dearest Foxy, Thank you for that article. I was immediately struck by this sentence: &quo.....
» 21/12/2016 7:29:26 PM Dearest Foxy, A list of places with the word 'massacre' attached is not exactly evidence .....
» 21/12/2016 4:36:10 PM Hi Minotaur, Earlier you asked me why I hadn't made a study of historical conditions in T.....
» 21/12/2016 3:36:47 PM My colleague Alistair Crooks and I have published a summary of findings from the Annual Re.....
» 21/12/2016 12:40:04 PM Hi Foxy, Are any of those others anything but rumours, maybes, hearsay, family legends, w.....
» 21/12/2016 12:06:12 PM Dearest Foxy, Myall Creek, 1838, that's right, and nine white blokes were hanged for it. .....
» 21/12/2016 11:48:48 AM Thanks AC, I have been starved of crazy conspiracy talk for some time, so this lot should.....
» 21/12/2016 8:08:42 AM [continued] The combination of masses of written evidence AND no counter-evidence on the .....
» 21/12/2016 8:03:57 AM Hi Foxy, I'm not sure that the writing of history is some sort of beauty contest, where u.....
» 21/12/2016 4:39:05 AM Hi Paul, Maybe. I was raised on the Sydney Morning Herald (when the man delivered it, I u.....
» 20/12/2016 2:46:15 PM Hi Cossomby, Just because police were involved in giving out rations, doesn't on its own .....
» 19/12/2016 1:08:00 PM Hi Minotaur, Sorry, I got that wrong. Is there maybe an income test ? I'm glad that ther.....
» 19/12/2016 12:58:34 PM Hi Cossomby, Maybe I've been at this business too long :( IF there was only one employee.....
» 19/12/2016 12:30:26 PM Hi Minotaur, Be careful what you ask for: benefits ? reduced interest rates on housing lo.....
» 19/12/2016 8:56:09 AM Dearest Foxy, That card was probably for being in the Top Five Nicest People in Australia.....
» 19/12/2016 8:26:09 AM Hi T800, If you are correct, Mungo Man died not thirty-odd thousand years ago, but more t.....
» 19/12/2016 8:02:21 AM Dearest Foxy, I agree with you. I'm in a singing group (Sing Australia) and currently we .....
» 19/12/2016 7:29:46 AM Dearest Foxy, I'm certain that you are not, or ever could be, a bigot, but you do - forgi.....
» 18/12/2016 7:41:57 PM Foxy, You airily claim that "As you well know some protectors were dishonest" ......
» 18/12/2016 5:53:31 PM Of course, 'offend' and 'insult' should be removed from Section 8 (c), perhaps to be repla.....
» 18/12/2016 5:34:30 PM Dearest Foxy, I'm not sure that poetry is superior to reality. Kath Walker grew up long .....
» 18/12/2016 10:38:25 AM [continued] * Non-Aboriginal people within the Sovereign State will either be asked to pa.....
» 18/12/2016 10:32:40 AM Michael Mansell has published a book in support of a multitude of Aboriginal nations and t.....
» 17/12/2016 4:26:59 PM Of course, the Aboriginal people were, whether with simple or complex mixed ancestry, here.....
» 17/12/2016 12:48:28 PM Hi David, Given the reliance of many Indigenous 'leaders' on a spurious interpretation of.....
» 17/12/2016 12:46:10 PM Hi AC, Speaking of shills and swamp-dwellers, it's clear now that there isn't much differ.....
» 17/12/2016 12:32:03 PM Given the reliance of many Indigenous 'leaders' on a spurious interpretation of history, a.....
» 16/12/2016 10:35:05 PM Hi Cossomby, Yes, it may be understandable but also inflammatory: each side in any of tho.....
» 16/12/2016 10:20:34 PM For those who think that the world can be run as a mega-business club, let me respectfully.....
» 16/12/2016 10:13:35 PM Hi David, I don't know about that, I don't believe anybody inherits much from their ances.....
» 16/12/2016 3:02:38 PM Aw shucks, you fellas ;) Isn't freedom of expression wonderful, or at least illuminating:.....
» 16/12/2016 2:35:43 PM Hi Graham, I don't have any misgivings over this monument on the grounds of 18 (c) but on.....
» 15/12/2016 3:56:17 PM Dearest Foxy, Hmmm .... I don't think you can slip out the door quite so easily :) OF C.....
» 15/12/2016 3:24:39 PM Cossomby & is Mise, A little bit precious :) Of course, if events overseas directly affec.....
» 15/12/2016 10:54:40 AM I'm inclined to agree with Graham, that justice must be served, the opinions of all Austra.....
» 15/12/2016 10:36:02 AM Dearest Foxy, I'm not sure what you mean. 'Factology', 'post-truth', etc. are just synony.....
» 15/12/2016 9:57:57 AM [continued] It's time to say that 'No, we are all Australians, we are all entitled to the.....
» 15/12/2016 9:04:08 AM Further to what Gary has written about the role of the Protector of Aborigines in South Au.....
» 14/12/2016 9:04:31 PM Dearest Foxy, I'm unsure what you were getting at in your last post, addressed to me. Wit.....
» 13/12/2016 4:46:45 PM My dearest Foxy, Of course there is 'objective history': Japan invaded China in 1937. The.....
» 13/12/2016 3:50:46 PM Dearest Foxy, Thank you for your kind words. What we have been trying to do for some year.....
» 13/12/2016 12:04:15 PM Dearest Foxy, I hope your husband doesn't have an accident. What road is he taking ? Yes.....
» 13/12/2016 9:21:08 AM Dearest Foxy, As a denialist apologist myself, I've been totally impressed and persuaded .....
» 12/12/2016 8:55:08 PM [continued] stolen generation' ? Many didn't want to go back: one girl, finishing Year 12.....
» 12/12/2016 8:51:13 PM Fair point, Nick: there's 'enough' evidence, and there's 'overwhelming' evidence. What evi.....
» 12/12/2016 7:03:36 PM Get some evidence, Nick, not just hearsay. As far as I recall, Burke and Wills didn't ac.....
» 12/12/2016 5:26:02 PM [continued] Yes, of course, massacres occurred: in one in SA's South-East around 1850, ca.....
» 12/12/2016 5:17:55 PM Picking my way carefully through the bindi-eye patch created by the author of this thread,.....
» 12/12/2016 4:49:13 PM Can contributors please try to write coherently ? It takes me a long time to understand wh.....
» 12/12/2016 12:39:25 PM Those Options should read: . . . Option 1: No change. . . Option 2: (a) A Treaty: .....
» 12/12/2016 10:05:01 AM Is anybody else having huge problems with email ? Every day, I bound out of my cave, hopin.....
» 12/12/2016 9:33:16 AM Dearest Foxy, My heart sings when I see post from your lovely hands :) Yes, Windschuttle.....
» 11/12/2016 5:51:06 PM Dearest Foxy, As it happens, now that you mention it, my friend Alistair Crooks and I hav.....
» 11/12/2016 1:23:31 PM [continued] Yes, there were probably massacres and, out beyond official control, driving .....
» 11/12/2016 1:16:23 PM Dearest Foxy, Your husband is not just lucky, but intelligent as well. Don't tell him. .....
» 11/12/2016 11:20:59 AM Dear Foxy, Nothing could give me more pleasure than making you happy :) Love, Joe PS. .....
» 11/12/2016 9:35:18 AM Dearest Foxy, Yes, by all means, let's get rid of any clauses in the constitution which m.....
» 10/12/2016 10:58:37 PM Dearest Foxy, How wonderful to have you back with us, discussion has been quite dull with.....
» 8/12/2016 2:20:36 PM Hi Bugsy, You put your finger on it: as well as getting across a very solid grounding in .....
» 8/12/2016 11:39:27 AM Hi Toni, Yeah, we forget now that Indigenous affairs were still officially State matters .....
» 8/12/2016 11:02:46 AM Hi Bugsy, Boy, didn't I get that wrong ? But for all that, it appears that the low-SES co.....
» 7/12/2016 11:43:01 AM Hi T800, Speaking of rubbish, in today's Australian, Shirley Peasley from Kingston in SA'.....
» 7/12/2016 9:46:41 AM Hi Bugsy, Smithfield Plains. I could be wrong, my information is some years out of date. .....
» 6/12/2016 2:33:24 PM Hi Bugsy, Sorry, it's just that you have all the deep wisdom and the fervour of a kid who.....
» 6/12/2016 12:37:20 PM Hi again Bugsy, 'Mental' refers to mental arithmetic: 5 x 7, 6 x 9, 9 x 8, 7 x 9 - that s.....
» 6/12/2016 12:23:32 PM Hi Bugsy, Ah youth ! So much to learn. No, I later worked in Indigenous student support, .....
» 6/12/2016 10:31:20 AM Hi T800, Yes, you would think so, ay ? Anyway, here's the Constitution: https://www.legi.....
» 6/12/2016 9:25:10 AM Get a grip, Bugsey. Oh, you already have ? I taught for a year in the early sixties. I w.....
» 6/12/2016 8:49:45 AM Hi T800, When you find the offending sections in the Constitution, please let me know :) .....
» 5/12/2016 2:22:36 PM Hi T800, Where on earth do people get this idea about 'fauna' from ? Where is there any m.....
» 4/12/2016 10:40:11 AM On the subject of Indigenous university participation, I checked out the relationship in t.....
» 3/12/2016 3:24:09 PM [continued] But people like Maria and Stan Grant seem to be poles apart from the deluded .....
» 3/12/2016 3:19:17 PM Hi Ttbn, I've just finished Windschuttle's book on the possible proposals for a Recogniti.....
» 1/12/2016 2:17:40 PM Hi Bazz, On missions and government settlements, Aboriginal people were amply recorded, a.....
» 1/12/2016 12:45:53 PM Hi Chris, You've probably read Colin Dillon's 'Code of Silence' which has just been publi.....
» 1/12/2016 12:24:18 PM Hi Bazz, Yes, we've all got eight great-great-grandfathers (and eight gr-gr-grandmothers .....
» 30/11/2016 11:49:24 AM Hi again Bazz, Going back maybe forty years, most Aboriginal people in the 'South' would .....
» 29/11/2016 6:53:25 AM Hi Bazz, It could be that what passes for discussion about Recognise! has pushed the reac.....
» 28/11/2016 5:19:47 PM Hi Bazz, When the Black State proposal was first made back in the early twenties by Colon.....
» 28/11/2016 1:00:08 PM Hi Ttbn, I suspect that there would be a wide range of Indigenous preferences in any Refe.....
» 28/11/2016 7:33:02 AM Thank you to all contributors to this important discussion. Votes in this straw poll seem .....
» 22/11/2016 5:30:23 PM Hi Bazz, A sunset clause: perhaps that should be included in any question or questions in.....
» 22/11/2016 2:26:45 PM Hi Paul & Steele, Perhaps what Jim Bowyer is getting at is that the percentage of African.....
» 22/11/2016 10:36:04 AM Anyway, for what it's worth, this Canadian news item following the declarations by many me.....
» 22/11/2016 8:32:11 AM Oops, sorry, I'm misused the terms 'referendum' with 'plebiscite': as Toni Lavis has point.....
» 22/11/2016 7:54:29 AM Hi Paul, Yes, that's why it is likely that there would have to be a formal vote amongst I.....
» 21/11/2016 2:15:14 PM Oops, that should have read, " ..... manufacturing jobs in Australia make up only 15 .....
» 21/11/2016 10:19:08 AM Okay, thanks, that gets the ball rolling :) So far, we have votes as follows: Option 1: T.....
» 21/11/2016 8:18:28 AM Hi Toni & Paul, I apologise for not framing an actual yes/no question - I was, in a clums.....
» 20/11/2016 4:34:51 PM On this coming Sunday, we will be only six months from the fiftieth anniversary of the 196.....
» 20/11/2016 10:33:38 AM Hi Dan, Just to return to your assertion: "Mass education should be abandoned as a c.....
» 20/11/2016 7:53:47 AM Hi Killarney, Paid for by whom ? Fascist neoliberal capitalism ? Capitalism rolls on, t.....
» 20/11/2016 7:27:17 AM Not necessarily, Paul: love for one's own country can easily go with admiration for other .....
» 19/11/2016 5:57:18 PM Just reflecting on the abandonment of the case against Bill Leak: how many nurses and doct.....
» 18/11/2016 4:12:57 PM Hi David, As to "the excuse that what they have done is allowed under aboriginal tra.....
» 18/11/2016 12:34:34 PM To get back to the pitfalls of both globalisation and nationalism, both the US and the UN .....
» 18/11/2016 10:51:29 AM Hi David, Yes, you're right, the 'averaging' of data by government agencies (the ABS woul.....
» 18/11/2016 8:24:29 AM Sorry Dietrich, I didn't know bugs were a threat to Germany. When you write "The Naz.....
» 17/11/2016 2:28:54 PM Dear Rodney, The terrible dilemma is that what you suggest has been tried many times, and.....
» 17/11/2016 1:59:46 PM Hi Aidan, Yes, lawyers wanting to apply the law. And they lost. Bad news for ambulance ch.....
» 17/11/2016 9:08:27 AM Hi Tombee, A Report of the Productivity Commission in today's Australian, on a thousand I.....
» 16/11/2016 11:33:50 AM Deitrich, Yeah, well, the nazie left-Whingers went back on their racial purity and separa.....
» 16/11/2016 10:17:47 AM [continued] That may take a realisation that 'culture' may well be, not the solution, in .....
» 16/11/2016 10:11:38 AM Hi Rodney, Sorry, I've been having all sorts of trouble with my bitch computer. Fingers c.....
» 16/11/2016 9:41:54 AM Hi DreamOn, Yes, it's terribly concerning about global warming. Sorry, climate change. .....
» 16/11/2016 9:29:17 AM Hi Mayan, As you say, "It's odd that the libel law, which so many thin-skinned poli.....
» 15/11/2016 8:21:34 AM Diedrich, You're a pathetic leftist, with your impliccit support for the namby-pamby Naz.....
» 14/11/2016 10:59:52 AM [continued] Yes, many well-educated people would be striving to find work in the mainstre.....
» 14/11/2016 10:51:16 AM Hi Rodney, Thanks, but I dispute ALL of your premises. As for your comment on the soverei.....
» 13/11/2016 9:47:50 AM Hi again Rodney, Found it ! 'The Aboriginal state Movement' on the web-site, and on Googl.....
» 13/11/2016 8:38:47 AM [continued] Meanwhile, 'ordinary' Indigenous people, mainly in the cities of course, will.....
» 13/11/2016 8:36:27 AM Hi Rodney, I checked my web-site (www.firstsources.info) and couldn't find my paper on th.....
» 13/11/2016 8:02:38 AM Children, Before we descend into a yet another interminable slanging match, could I recom.....
» 13/11/2016 7:45:34 AM Hi Paul, I fear that you are right, that there isn't a real Left in America - and perhaps.....
» 12/11/2016 5:57:55 PM Hi Bazz, It was much closer than that, a couple of hundred thousand out of nearly a hundr.....
» 12/11/2016 12:34:47 PM Hi Rodney, I recall that Manne's 'discovery' errors was demolished a long time ago by Win.....
» 11/11/2016 6:02:10 PM [continued] So I would give the Indigenous Cause maybe ten years to get real. When my wif.....
» 11/11/2016 6:00:43 PM [continued] As you write, "I consider it to be totally unrealistic to imagine that.....
» 11/11/2016 5:54:15 PM Hi Rodney, As to Windschuttle's reliability as a historian, your citing of Robert Manne: .....
» 11/11/2016 3:27:25 PM Hi Hasbeen, When I was at Penrith Primary in the fifties, we learnt fractions, decimals, .....
» 11/11/2016 2:40:51 PM Hi Paul & Steele, Den pirazi. Don't worry too much, this too will pass. Áspri iméra ke y.....
» 11/11/2016 9:55:06 AM On the other hand, even Triggs has suggested that 'offend' and 'insult' be removed, to be .....
» 11/11/2016 9:09:37 AM Hi Paul, You reckon ? Where do most Yanks go shopping ? Walmart. Where does Walmart make .....
» 11/11/2016 8:48:56 AM Hi Dan, The writer has a point, for those of us who are fully literate and numerate: afte.....
» 10/11/2016 3:32:29 PM Hi Steele, I'm happy with our migration program, more or less. I also support an increase.....
» 10/11/2016 12:10:23 PM Rodney, You suggest that I: " .... have often commented on this thread, it is up to .....
» 10/11/2016 9:12:51 AM Hi Steele, I'm slowly getting over the impulse to slash my wrists, but that might come ba.....
» 10/11/2016 9:01:05 AM This URL should give you the transcript of the judgment: prior-v-queensland-university-of.....
» 9/11/2016 11:18:02 AM Rodney, God, this is like trying to turn a car around with four flat tyres. Yes, across t.....
» 8/11/2016 5:33:35 PM Hi Rodney, Oy, where to start ? Your ramble about culture is not really relevant any more.....
» 7/11/2016 11:29:58 AM Hi Misanthrope, Well, I'm from Bankstown :) Seriously, you sound as if you are fully enti.....
» 7/11/2016 9:16:40 AM Well-named :) I nearly cacked myself over your comical contribution: "To stop the wo.....
» 7/11/2016 8:57:47 AM [continued] As for your complaint about staff cut-backs, given that so many of the multit.....
» 7/11/2016 8:41:44 AM Hi Rodney, Thanks for the laugh: "You sound a bit defeatist there, Joe." Well, .....
» 6/11/2016 6:08:34 PM Hi Rodney, Re your last point: " the setting up of a foundation to provide the nec.....
» 5/11/2016 1:33:05 PM [continued] If only some of those ra-ra radicals had some demography: they would realise .....
» 5/11/2016 1:18:09 PM Hi Rodney, The Queen's likeness is also on all coins. Flora or fauna ? Yeah, right: comp.....
» 4/11/2016 4:05:42 PM Hi Steele, I'm more concerned about the actual deaths of a thousand people at sea than th.....
» 4/11/2016 12:59:37 PM [continued] , how would that be different to the current welfare-dependent situation for .....
» 4/11/2016 12:53:55 PM Rodney, God, where to start ? "the $2 coin has the image of a blackfella on it".....
» 3/11/2016 5:12:16 PM Second time lucky. Bastard server, router, language, Gates, Jobs, etc., whatever, sick of .....
» 3/11/2016 2:09:37 PM Hi Rodney, Re Marx: As a sort-of-ex-Marxist, that's what I've been trying to do for fifty.....
» 3/11/2016 1:46:44 PM Hi Luciferase, Hi SM, I thought I'd better separate out the salutations, otherwise OLO m.....
» 3/11/2016 8:20:40 AM Should someone be punished for NOT doing what ISN'T legal ? Sorry for all the negatives, t.....
» 2/11/2016 1:23:59 PM Hi Rodney, Where to start ? 1. Cook was writing nearly 250 years ago. 2. The term 'Ter.....
» 30/10/2016 4:05:10 PM Hi JayB, I'm not absolutely sure but I thought the great majority of Tamils in Sri Lanka .....
» 30/10/2016 11:26:38 AM Hi Cossomby/Ttbn, I don't know whether it is Left or Right to point out that my ancestors.....
» 30/10/2016 8:28:45 AM [continued] token, focussing on people's welfare and needs, rather than on any attempt to.....
» 30/10/2016 8:22:42 AM Hi Rodney, When I asked " .... You ask : « … should the next generation of children.....
» 30/10/2016 7:47:35 AM Welcome back SR, You may have to be a bit more specific about your claim: "Dear Has.....
» 29/10/2016 1:34:07 PM Hi Rodney, You really do need to come back for a year or two, to soak up what has been, a.....
» 28/10/2016 4:31:54 PM Perhaps the reason is that "we" are not complete mugs. "We" understand.....
» 27/10/2016 11:14:40 AM Hi Don, Vegetable growers used to call their glass-houses, green-houses. They pump CO2 in.....
» 27/10/2016 10:51:39 AM Rodney, My God, you come up with rubbish, some of it quite racist, if unintended to be so.....
» 27/10/2016 9:31:49 AM Hi Rodney, Where to start ? Thank you, though, for crystallising the current narrative be.....
» 26/10/2016 5:33:33 PM hi Craig, Yeah, you might be right. But hey, what if trees weren't just planted in order .....
» 26/10/2016 10:43:43 AM [continued] Solidarity would be fine, if anybody knew what they are supposed to be 'solid.....
» 26/10/2016 10:20:34 AM Hi Rodney, So, when I asked if « … you didn't mean to imply that foraging people were inh.....
» 25/10/2016 5:33:34 PM Hi Craig, I wouldn't know the full story, but A.T.&T., in a former, fuller life, used to .....
» 25/10/2016 2:35:33 PM Hi Craig, I feel weird saying anything vaguely supportive of Drumpf but his opposition to.....
» 25/10/2016 8:58:11 AM Hi Rodney, Some of what you write is breath-taking - the sort of ideas which might have b.....
» 25/10/2016 8:30:17 AM [continued] And since whitefellas' role is seen as doing more and more for people, there .....
» 25/10/2016 8:13:10 AM Hi Rodney, Yes, but what I wrote and what you wrote are quite compatible: I readily agree.....
» 24/10/2016 4:51:26 PM Hi Craig, My point was that, if enough trees get planted, industries can use as much coal.....
» 24/10/2016 11:57:30 AM Sorry Luciferase, I'm probably too dim to be purposefully dim :( I don't know what IMA m.....
» 24/10/2016 10:39:43 AM Hi Luciferase, Most of us would be happy with an orderly intake, so if you are in support.....
» 24/10/2016 9:32:45 AM Hi Luciferase, Sorry, where did I go wrong ? At what step in the logic ? i.e. if (1), the.....
» 24/10/2016 9:19:26 AM Here it is in Adelaide, late Spring, October 24, and I'm huddled over a bloody oil heater......
» 24/10/2016 8:52:19 AM Hi AJ, I don't think you offended me, I'm not that wussy :) I don't take much notice of L.....
» 23/10/2016 5:21:54 PM Hi Luciferase, So where are you going to go ? Yes, New Zealand, with its annual quota of.....
» 23/10/2016 12:51:10 PM [continued] There are simple and clear reasons [well, clear, ex post facto] why Indigenou.....
» 23/10/2016 10:13:11 AM Hi Rodney, 1. My friend was not suggesting for a second that whites should come and clean.....
» 22/10/2016 7:13:46 PM [continued] Thirty-odd years ago, I did an income study of a community I had lived in and.....
» 22/10/2016 7:10:38 PM Hi Rodney, You've made me think through many issues with your posts :) For example: a s.....
» 22/10/2016 11:51:38 AM Hi Rodney, Culture is not genetic. Culture is not genetic. Culture is not genetic. Cultu.....
» 21/10/2016 2:13:15 PM Hi AC, With the deepest respect possible, you're still confusing two separate issues: *.....
» 21/10/2016 10:05:46 AM Hi Rpodney, You suggest: " ..... I find it quite remarkable that so many are managin.....
» 21/10/2016 9:42:56 AM Thanks AC, I suppose if someone wrote a 'Democracy for Half-Wits', it would define it as .....
» 20/10/2016 2:16:58 PM Yes, and a rose by any other name would smell as sweet ...........
» 20/10/2016 10:24:53 AM Hi Craig, Yes, number systems are similar too, from Indonesia through the Pacific. As for.....
» 20/10/2016 9:32:48 AM Hi Craig, Yes, people can speak many languages AND use one of them as a lingua franca. In.....
» 19/10/2016 4:20:06 PM Ttbn & JohnBennetts, Ttbn, I agree with you that " .... the 'Western way' and democr.....
» 19/10/2016 1:05:20 PM I respectfully suggest that commenters to this thread re-read all comments and replace the.....
» 19/10/2016 10:26:56 AM Hi AC, To answer your question seriously, it may well be that Bill could be getting a blo.....
» 19/10/2016 10:06:01 AM [continued] Still, the question remains: what atrocities can whites be blamed for, for wh.....
» 19/10/2016 9:58:09 AM Hi AJ, I'm a little hurt by your characterisations of " .... an overly-conservative .....
» 18/10/2016 8:19:53 AM Hi AJ, LEGO & Rodney, Just to try to steer this vehicle back vaguely towards the topic, e.....
» 17/10/2016 9:00:39 AM Hi Ttbn, Traditionally, the land-holding group was the extended family, the clan, the des.....
» 17/10/2016 8:34:07 AM I've helped to raise a couple of teenagers, so I'm slowly beginning to decode Trumpf. His .....
» 17/10/2016 7:58:58 AM [continued] droughts would decimate groups: young children and old women would be left to.....
» 17/10/2016 7:50:20 AM G'day Craig, I respectfully disagree with your comment that " ..... If the Taliban h.....
» 16/10/2016 4:07:00 PM Hi Craig, Occupied, do you mean before 9/11 ? When the Taliban was sheltering Al Qa'ida ?.....
» 16/10/2016 3:50:25 PM Hi Craig, Sorry, I've been trying to decipher Steve's contribution. Nope, still don't get.....
» 16/10/2016 3:26:48 PM Hi Craig, Back to work :) You suggest: "How many Muslims have been killed by non-Mu.....
» 16/10/2016 2:35:20 PM Hi Cherful, where you been ? Yes, every Marxist-oriented movement or party or hole-in-the.....
» 15/10/2016 2:36:35 PM Hi Craig, Yes, it's possible that all murders are carried out by people who may be insane.....
» 15/10/2016 9:17:49 AM Hi Banjo, You may have unintentionally missed LEGO's point: perhaps he meant that terrori.....
» 15/10/2016 9:03:30 AM [continued] Warren Mundine has proposed the recognition of 'nations' and treaties between.....
» 15/10/2016 8:49:58 AM Hi Ttbn, Yes, you're probably right: most Indigenous working people, particularly if the.....
» 14/10/2016 6:02:34 PM Hi LEGO, To struggle against the rip to get back somewhere near the topic: compensation f.....
» 14/10/2016 9:36:05 AM Traditionally, there have been hundreds of major Aboriginal cultural groups across Austral.....
» 13/10/2016 9:13:46 AM Surely we are all aware that such pretexts as 'trigger warnings' or talk of 'hate speech' .....
» 12/10/2016 5:19:43 PM Like many people, I've been puzzled by the craven approach of the pseudo-Left to Islamist .....
» 12/10/2016 10:57:33 AM With any scientific, legal or forensic situation, you start with nothing and slowly build .....
» 12/10/2016 10:33:07 AM I suspect that both parties are coming to realise that, if their candidate is elected, the.....
» 12/10/2016 10:12:14 AM Hi Toni, I apologise for my intemperate remarks, it's just that I get a bit frustrated wh.....
» 11/10/2016 5:47:03 PM Hi TTbn, Sometimes I think that history is ALL there is. Provided, of course, there is ev.....
» 11/10/2016 5:25:13 PM Good one, Toni :) AJ's quote deserves to be repeated: “Those of you who are mystified th.....
» 10/10/2016 2:13:56 PM [continued] But if one of those, A, B, C, D etc., can be shown not to have been so, by fo.....
» 10/10/2016 2:11:15 PM Ttbn, yes, having been a Marxist for decades, I ruefully agree that Marxism provides a fra.....
» 9/10/2016 10:34:38 AM What’s a narrative ? A series, or a logical and plausible sequence of events which support.....
» 8/10/2016 12:17:15 PM Hi Toni, I deeply apologise, I should have realised that the Koran may have a multitude o.....
» 7/10/2016 5:30:20 PM Hi Jon, Yes, it's fun to cite bits from someone's books from two and three thousand years.....
» 4/10/2016 3:53:28 PM Ah, I get it, Daffy: you've just done a course in the Evils of Consumerism I ? So you ha.....
» 4/10/2016 11:24:32 AM hi Daffy, I hesitate to make any criticism of you since you are obviously a superior pers.....
» 4/10/2016 8:25:18 AM [continued] the Lutheran missionaries, learnt and taught in the local language, Diyari - .....
» 4/10/2016 8:18:47 AM Hi Babette, There are many myths about 'southern' Aboriginal people, who have generally b.....
» 3/10/2016 5:59:22 PM And it doesn't get any better: this, from a dear friend in relation to Elder care: ".....
» 30/09/2016 9:27:57 AM Thanks Craig, All is forgiven ! At least you didn't accuse me of being a sociologist :) .....
» 29/09/2016 6:18:51 PM Hi Craig, The late Helen Hughes, and Gary Johns and Stephanie Jarrett have written eloque.....
» 29/09/2016 1:36:54 PM [contd.] Back to now. The upshot is that almost all women murdered in the NT each year te.....
» 29/09/2016 1:34:56 PM Hi Craig, Out of my deep respect for you, I'll overlook that hurtful slight about being '.....
» 29/09/2016 11:35:12 AM A news item yesterday reported that the mortality rate for Indigenous kids aged between on.....
» 28/09/2016 1:28:44 PM Is identity politics a stalking horse for special-interest totalitarian groups such as tho.....
» 27/09/2016 4:03:27 PM HI AC, Yes, given that Drumpf is mainly piss and wind, all Hilary has to do is keep needl.....
» 27/09/2016 3:16:37 PM Hi Craig, God, I hope you're keeping a journal :) You could pass on some of those strange.....
» 27/09/2016 1:29:13 PM Hi Craig, What you describe may be so, but I'd suggest that what is euphemistically refer.....
» 26/09/2016 10:31:08 PM Hi O Sung Wu, I'll gladly second those remarks about Graham Young and his dedication. How.....
» 26/09/2016 7:10:14 PM No Thomas, I don't think anybody should trust their instincts, so much as seek for evidenc.....
» 26/09/2016 3:57:24 PM Hi Thomas, I'm glad to be wrong when I suggest that " .... anybody who claims that A.....
» 26/09/2016 3:44:48 PM Hi Thomas, So, when you write, "DV is not only a aboriginal problem is an Aust wide .....
» 26/09/2016 12:50:26 PM Hi Nick, Also: Coedes' 'Indianised Kingdoms of South-East Asia', and Peter Bellwood's 'Th.....
» 26/09/2016 12:42:50 PM [continued] And another thing. Alternatively, create compulsory men's 'refuges', where .....
» 26/09/2016 12:36:25 PM Hi Thomas, Sorry, I misquoted you: so, when you wrote on Saturday, 24 September 2016 6:10.....
» 26/09/2016 11:12:02 AM Hi Brock, Well, there's two to start with: * the Chinese sailed the southern seas, over .....
» 26/09/2016 10:40:49 AM Hi Paul, Thomas may be right, that DV is common across all sections of Australian society.....
» 26/09/2016 10:02:38 AM I must defend Adelaide's liveability: hemmed in by the Mt Lofty Ranges (some of whose peak.....
» 25/09/2016 3:43:55 PM [cont.] Amongst the Ngarrindjeri (and probably in many places), when someone died, the li.....
» 25/09/2016 3:27:57 PM Hi Thomas, So that's the extent of your deliberative skills ? I suggest that you sit back.....
» 25/09/2016 1:52:35 PM Hi LEGO & AJ, Aboriginal people are, and always have been, as intelligent as anybody else.....
» 23/09/2016 10:00:33 AM Hi Nick, Taplin was talking mainly about one dialect group of the Ngarrindjeri, the Jaral.....
» 22/09/2016 6:26:49 PM Hi Thomas, Your suggestion that there was one Aboriginal culture which is " .... &quo.....
» 22/09/2016 12:25:33 PM There is an interesting article in today's Australian, page 3, on a DNA study of Indigenou.....
» 21/09/2016 6:43:28 PM Hi ttbn, Yes, often even in the Bible, the word is used to mean extended families. After .....
» 21/09/2016 6:18:34 PM Hello Thomas, I suspect you're venturing into dangerous waters, I hope you can swim :) &.....
» 21/09/2016 5:21:16 PM Hi Thomas, When you assert that: " .... Aboriginal tribal nations of Australia had b.....
» 21/09/2016 11:52:24 AM Rodney really shouldn't have cited Lane, everybody knows he's a dribbling idiot, utterly u.....
» 21/09/2016 10:07:35 AM Hi ttbn, Of course multiculti CAN work, it has worked with pretty much all of the ethnic .....
» 20/09/2016 11:07:10 AM Hi Alan, Yes, you're right, these are very complex issues, and their solutions are no dou.....
» 20/09/2016 9:38:04 AM Hi AJ, Even as a consistently horrid and thoroughly vile person, I would certainly miss y.....
» 19/09/2016 10:32:37 PM Hi O Sung Wu, Yes, OLO has been much the poorer without the contributions from the three .....
» 19/09/2016 12:36:09 PM Indigenous commencements, enrolments and graduations at universities rose a very healthy e.....
» 19/09/2016 11:04:55 AM [continued] The crippling of discussion by bigots means that we can't tease out complex i.....
» 19/09/2016 11:00:17 AM [continued] Substance, not just insults, although insults can be very satisfying. Back t.....
» 19/09/2016 10:42:35 AM On the weekend over a couple of reds, I was trying to tease out what was commonly meant by.....
» 16/09/2016 10:21:15 AM [continued] Hi Minotaur, In the Protector's Letters here in SA [on my web-site: swww.fir.....
» 15/09/2016 4:23:13 PM Hi Minotaur, On your first point: in 2015, 4,789 Indigenous women, and 168,029 Non-Indige.....
» 15/09/2016 1:15:48 PM Hi Craig, No, not nervous but vigilant. People should rehearse what they might do in a hy.....
» 15/09/2016 12:59:40 PM Hi Minotaur, Now we're getting somewhere :) Which of the factors that you list are rever.....
» 15/09/2016 12:16:53 PM Hi Minotaur, I certainly don't want to waste your time, but what level of evidence do you.....
» 15/09/2016 10:05:33 AM Hi Craig, As you say, "The reason terrorism works is because people among the ".....
» 15/09/2016 9:52:05 AM Hi Minotaur, Yes, I'm sorry" " .... notably you made no mention of the over-rep.....
» 14/09/2016 1:56:21 PM Hi Minotaur, I agree: just like any body else, I should provide evidence if I assert some.....
» 14/09/2016 1:33:58 PM Hi Craig, I think you're missing the point about terrorism: it's not the statistical prob.....
» 14/09/2016 11:42:42 AM [continued] Or take health: hygiene, diet and exercise may do wonders for Indigenous heal.....
» 14/09/2016 11:35:11 AM Hi Pilgrim, Your point about " .... no workable knowledge of cause and consequence ......
» 14/09/2016 10:56:35 AM Hi AJ, Those planes weighed 200 tonnes (200 tonnes of aluminium is still 200 tonnes, Left.....
» 13/09/2016 4:20:44 PM Hi Minotaur, Thanks, but I'll stick by what I've written, since it's the only truth I kno.....
» 13/09/2016 9:04:55 AM Wow. " .... only those who feel oppressed" ? Well, don't we all at some point ? .....
» 13/09/2016 8:48:03 AM Dan, I have to point out that, at least at the multi-campus uni I worked at, all of Indig.....
» 13/09/2016 8:22:23 AM Hi Lefty, A basic law in physics is that momentum = half (mass of an object, times the sq.....
» 12/09/2016 7:01:08 PM Hi Lefty, Some people are going to keep asking about the twin towers. I vaguely recall th.....
» 12/09/2016 6:44:42 PM Hi Faustino, "Honesty, integrity, intellect and analytical rigour" ? They won't.....
» 12/09/2016 4:32:42 PM Hi Lefty, Biggest building ? Do you mean the MCG ? More than a million people watched the.....
» 12/09/2016 4:11:28 PM Hi Faustino, Wow, talk about parallel lives. I agree that people should be free to believ.....
» 12/09/2016 3:14:50 PM Hi Lefty, As a do-nothing wind bag, on the issue of furthering democracy (in its best sen.....
» 12/09/2016 10:04:26 AM Hi Lefty, As you write, "They idea that you can wipe out militarily a political/reli.....
» 12/09/2016 8:53:32 AM Hi Dan, When I was working in Indigenous student support, I certainly checked people out .....
» 11/09/2016 6:09:18 PM Hi Lefty, So we have to go back to the Romans ? Perhaps you're right - on behalf of the P.....
» 10/09/2016 3:59:59 PM Hi Lefty, "By the definition that you don’t like others and don’t want to be near th.....
» 10/09/2016 2:08:39 PM [continued] Lefty One, As for the many invasions of the Middle East by the West, pot-ket.....
» 10/09/2016 2:06:33 PM Lefty One, No, you are quite wrong: religions are not races. Ideologies are not races. Su.....
» 10/09/2016 12:08:21 PM With the greatest respect, I think some commenters here are missing the point: yes, Barry .....
» 9/09/2016 6:38:13 PM Hi Bazz, Are you suggesting that people are 'renting out' their Aboriginality, and wringi.....
» 9/09/2016 6:12:29 PM Hi Lefty One and Armchair Critic, I agree with both of you, that the people united are a .....
» 9/09/2016 10:45:54 AM Cute, Toni - create your own problem, then propose your own 'Final Solution' to it. Hi Ru.....
» 9/09/2016 9:49:41 AM As President, Drumpf will call in his generals and demand a Plan for the Middle East withi.....
» 9/09/2016 9:25:15 AM Hi runner, If I were a baker (I used to be a dough-presser), I would refuse to put Drumpf.....
» 9/09/2016 9:04:48 AM Hi Killarney, Thanks for your comments from Olympus. Yes indeed: "Nowadays, a degree.....
» 9/09/2016 8:48:38 AM Hi Steele, Long time no hear :) I guess, if someone dropped $ 260,000 in my lap, I would .....
» 8/09/2016 3:25:02 PM I can't get my head around why someone needs $ 260,000 to start up a hairdressing business.....
» 7/09/2016 5:35:03 PM Hi Alan, I would like to agree with you entirely, except that it might reach the Microsof.....
» 7/09/2016 5:23:23 PM Hi Big Nana, Sorry, I missed your comment. Yes, I agree with everything you write. As usu.....
» 7/09/2016 12:06:31 PM Thanks Dan. You've been lucky: all the CDEP programs that I've ever known have degenerated.....
» 7/09/2016 10:56:37 AM Let's go back to the beginning: the dilemma is that if, hypothetically, Christian or Musli.....
» 6/09/2016 12:15:58 PM [continued] In Indigenous organisations, such intermediate patron-client systems (i.e. be.....
» 6/09/2016 12:07:48 PM [Continued] So the head/broker, whether it is in a 'community' organisation, university o.....
» 6/09/2016 11:54:03 AM I've been ruminating about how Indigenous organisations are 'run', somewhat stretching the.....
» 6/09/2016 10:11:59 AM Good point, Outrider. But I wish they would get on with it. On Mr Haigh's contribution, .....
» 5/09/2016 9:35:56 AM {continued] Values and 'culture' are not 'racial': 'race' is irrelevant in discussions ab.....
» 5/09/2016 9:24:27 AM Hi LEGO, When Boas and Benedict and Mead were defending their notion that 'all cultures a.....
» 4/09/2016 11:06:41 PM Aidan, You mean the Sanjak 'Turks' ? They may not have had much choice, as a small minori.....
» 4/09/2016 3:11:31 PM Hi LEGO, Of course, Tito wasn't Serb but Slovenian-Croat, born on the border of the two. .....
» 4/09/2016 11:43:13 AM [continued] Not even for the 'Left': come out and play, don't keep your views to yourself.....
» 4/09/2016 11:21:34 AM Hi RObert, Just to get back to your comment: " .... I support people being allowed.....
» 2/09/2016 11:32:03 AM Hi Paul, No probs: would you extend your definition of 'religious nutters' who burn women.....
» 2/09/2016 10:50:34 AM Yeah, but what have the Permians ever done for us ? Well, all right, cheaper petrol but wh.....
» 2/09/2016 9:32:41 AM Hi RObert, On 'conservative' garb: if my late mum had gone to the beach, I'm sure she wou.....
» 2/09/2016 9:15:07 AM Hi Paul, Good god ! " .... these same religious nutters believe in burning at the st.....
» 2/09/2016 9:05:30 AM Hi Aidan, Funny, I don't recall many on the 'Left' opposing the chauvinist wars of the Se.....
» 1/09/2016 3:20:02 PM [continued] It struck me as fatuous nonsense, especially after I went to work in factorie.....
» 1/09/2016 3:17:58 PM Hi ttbn, Our posts crossed :) There was a time when the Left professed support for homos.....
» 1/09/2016 11:47:48 AM Hi Interactive, This is a very interesting question. As a born-Marxist, I've puzzled over.....
» 31/08/2016 8:24:24 PM AJ, As I understand it, there was a time when the Labor Party was all for a plebiscite, w.....
» 31/08/2016 5:52:24 PM AJ, Whatev. But I've become a convert: I'm opposed to a Plebiscite now, until a very cle.....
» 31/08/2016 5:44:13 PM Hi Lefty, Yes, I fear that Cockneys may be an endangered species. On the burkini: of co.....
» 31/08/2016 5:25:55 PM Hi Toni, LEGO and I were certainly not praising tribal society and its unavoidable brutal.....
» 31/08/2016 2:16:31 PM AJ, "Homophobia is not synonymous with heterosexuality." Exactly ! Thank you. .....
» 31/08/2016 1:16:19 PM Hi Phanto, I agree but some contributors seem to think that simply labelling someone as a.....
» 31/08/2016 11:28:22 AM Hi Phanto, There may be many more mighty leaps between 'hating' homosexuality and support.....
» 31/08/2016 11:02:18 AM HI LEGO, Yes, and one could modify that to " .... stone age people have lived in une.....
» 31/08/2016 10:43:39 AM Hi Paul, We (i.e. OLO) are arguing somewhat at cross-purposes. Most of those you call far.....
» 30/08/2016 5:01:01 PM AJ, Hypothetical. How's this: compare the rights of disabled people to marry to homosexua.....
» 30/08/2016 1:03:03 PM AJ, You claim "I’ve already explained to you why the legal statuses of the two, past.....
» 30/08/2016 12:47:40 PM Hi Nick, Gosh, I didn't know about all that. I knew that the traditional rights to use th.....
» 30/08/2016 11:42:53 AM A J Phillips, Inter-racial marriage has always been legal. Homosexual marriage is not. Yo.....
» 30/08/2016 11:32:06 AM Yes, the author is right that Andrew Bolt slightly missed the real point. Of course, Indig.....
» 30/08/2016 10:35:59 AM Hi Nick, Sleeping peacefully, like the entire population of many cities. So a legitimate .....
» 30/08/2016 9:50:32 AM [continued] * run after-school programs, homework sessions, and extra-curricular activiti.....
» 30/08/2016 9:46:02 AM Hi Paul, Ah, memories. When we lived in Auckland, around 1970, we knocked around with peo.....
» 29/08/2016 11:08:39 PM Hi Paul, "Joe, the CLP can't tie their shoelaces without falling over". Couldn.....
» 29/08/2016 11:02:17 PM Hi Jayb, Yes, my bet is that, across Australia, there are thousands upon thousands of wel.....
» 29/08/2016 10:50:23 PM Michi, Yes, and to Hegel, 'human freedom' reached its highest level under the Prussian Em.....
» 29/08/2016 8:13:33 PM Hi Michi, You suggest that " .... The people of the West are Hegelians in the sense .....
» 29/08/2016 8:02:09 PM Hi Lefty, I'm obtuse enough not to know what you are on about, except that perhaps you ar.....
» 29/08/2016 7:04:08 PM Hi Rojama, The Australian article on Saturday described the work at least three psycholog.....
» 29/08/2016 3:17:41 PM Hi Lefty, You suggest that " ..... So to your post. “Woman should be allowed to wear.....
» 29/08/2016 1:55:44 PM Hi Nick, What's a 'euphemism' ? A softer, more pleasant way of expressing something: for .....
» 29/08/2016 1:51:42 PM Hi Paul, As OTB says, there may be something in what you suggest. But NT people are not t.....
» 29/08/2016 11:52:22 AM Hi Lefty, Your departure could be a bit premature :) There are always issues coming up wh.....
» 29/08/2016 11:26:29 AM With the greatest respect, you three are complete morons. Try to stick roughly on the topi.....
» 25/08/2016 2:50:20 PM Hi CIA, [An unfortunate acronym]. On party dictatorship: there is a quote from Lenin in .....
» 24/08/2016 9:28:08 PM Hi cousin, Yeah, I think that, on the one hand, freedom of speech is an absolutely corner.....
» 24/08/2016 2:17:17 PM Hi Alan B., A one-party democracy ? Do you realise - surely you do - how oxymoronic that .....
» 24/08/2016 12:47:07 PM Hi Waverley, If I were China (now, there's megalomania for you), I would be very wary of .....
» 24/08/2016 12:24:45 PM Hi Chris, My perception of the limits of political correctness is that they stop at any s.....
» 24/08/2016 10:24:10 AM Hi Lefty One, Everything is complicated. Your statement that " .... On the other s.....
» 24/08/2016 10:08:56 AM The Australian carried a fascinating article today on page 10, concerning the name of the .....
» 24/08/2016 9:55:27 AM Sorry - page 12......
» 24/08/2016 9:50:24 AM Hi Leo, There is a very comprehensive article in today's Australian (page 10) on this vit.....
» 23/08/2016 11:51:14 AM [continued] " as for land, such as the Kidman cattle and sheep stations, it's overlo.....
» 23/08/2016 11:48:21 AM Hi Paul, Getting a bit away from the topic but .... Are you suggesting that " .... .....
» 23/08/2016 10:42:49 AM [continued] Right and Left are frankly useless terms these days. Who is 'Left' in the Syr.....
» 23/08/2016 10:36:17 AM Hi Lefty One and LEGO, As an ex-Utopian, I would suggest that all Utopias quickly become .....
» 23/08/2016 9:38:43 AM Hi Paul, Indigenous people in the most remote 'communities' receive the same personal ben.....
» 22/08/2016 6:01:59 PM Hi Lefty One, Okay, we'll give you one month free of insults :) You're right, if an argum.....
» 22/08/2016 3:04:43 PM Hi Nick, Yes, you could be onto something. After all, Iceland can just as easily lay such.....
» 22/08/2016 12:14:18 PM Nick, "Inside the heritage fishing waters of China" ?! Do you realise that ever.....
» 22/08/2016 9:07:50 AM Hi Lego, You nail it. Yes, I wish that OLO and the internet had been around when I was yo.....
» 21/08/2016 8:25:28 PM Hi AJ, I'm certainly not asking you to 'care' about inter-racial marriages, simply to rec.....
» 21/08/2016 8:15:57 PM Hi DreamOn, A lot of 'ifs' there :) Your progression from child abuse, through uncaring g.....
» 21/08/2016 3:06:21 PM Hi AJ, Sorry, I was trying to stay on DreamOn's good side, but couldn't keep it up for lo.....
» 21/08/2016 2:35:16 PM Hi Michi, I think I'm getting the gist now: * war is peace; * the Nanking butchery was.....
» 21/08/2016 2:13:28 PM Let's face it, every one of us is a bigot, on some issue or other. Every one of us. I'm pr.....
» 21/08/2016 1:46:41 PM Hi DreamON, I suspect that the situation is far worse than you suggest: "I believe s.....
» 19/08/2016 4:31:01 PM Hi Pogi, The Romans said it more succinctly: Asseritur gratis, negatur gratis. Also know.....
» 19/08/2016 4:20:10 PM Hi Big Nana, Yes, spot-on. I keep track of Indigenous university numbers and very rarely .....
» 19/08/2016 1:26:28 PM Hi Cobber, So .... like almost everybody, your boundary would be child porn ? Join the cl.....
» 19/08/2016 1:04:23 PM Hi Daffy, So ...... are you inferring that one must support political correctness and the.....
» 19/08/2016 12:14:42 PM Cobber, Yes, PC has been around forever - it usually has meant the viewpoints of those in.....
» 19/08/2016 9:59:48 AM Hi Michi, Yes, until Nazi Germany invaded Poland. And again, when it invaded the Soviet U.....
» 19/08/2016 9:51:34 AM Hi LEGO, That's strange, I thought that Don was explicitly trying to get across the nuanc.....
» 19/08/2016 9:31:24 AM Hi Paul, The strange thing was that there were almost no communists around when I was gro.....
» 18/08/2016 10:43:38 AM Hi LEGO, I would unreservedly support Mikk's right to be a bigot, just like anybody else......
» 18/08/2016 10:22:01 AM Hi DreamOn, Yeah, I used to think that inter-marriage had been illegal until the early si.....
» 18/08/2016 9:36:33 AM Come on, Paul, you and I have probably been in the business long enough to know better: of.....
» 17/08/2016 7:00:02 PM Anyway, back to topic: someone wrote that what China was after wasn't the oil, but fishing.....
» 17/08/2016 4:53:51 PM AJ, "Deconstructing equality-versus-difference: Or, the uses of post-structuralist t.....
» 17/08/2016 4:30:24 PM Hi Leslie, I suppose one problem with discussing freely is that one has to know a bit of .....
» 17/08/2016 1:07:57 PM Hi Paul, Second time lucky. Bastard computer. OLO is a sort of market-place for ideas an.....
» 17/08/2016 12:46:54 PM AJ, It's not my task to find another word for homosexual unions. Why should it be ? As y.....
» 17/08/2016 11:35:18 AM Hi mikk, Oops ! I think you've already broken your own rule: " ..... it all boils do.....
» 17/08/2016 10:32:58 AM Hi Paul, Fascinating. In your exchange with OTB above, am I right in concluding that, if .....
» 17/08/2016 10:11:49 AM The author claims that ' .... the moral theory of not harming others is the underpinning f.....
» 17/08/2016 9:26:31 AM AJ, There was and is nothing anomalous in law about inter-racial marriage. I rest my cas.....
» 16/08/2016 5:58:06 PM AJ, <<What is anomalous about inter-racial marriage ?>> "Nothing, now. .....
» 16/08/2016 12:18:02 PM Nick, I didn't say they were. Islam has thrown up a multitude of bat-crazy ideologies of .....
» 16/08/2016 12:03:31 PM Hi Nick, But they did leave half-witted babies out on a mountain-side for the wolves. Tak.....
» 16/08/2016 11:02:24 AM Hi PollyFolly, Yes, I'm amazed that the Port of Darwin could have been leased to any fore.....
» 16/08/2016 10:28:54 AM Hi Michi, So Japan invaded China in July, 1937, without genuine provocation. Then it fo.....
» 16/08/2016 10:21:12 AM AJ, "So is it because same-sex marriage would be going from not-legal to legal then?.....
» 16/08/2016 10:08:03 AM Nick, Yes, I've listened or watched every internationalist Olympic Games since Helsinki, .....
» 16/08/2016 10:01:00 AM Nick, The caliphate of the Islamic State, under al-Baghdadi. At one time, when it declare.....
» 15/08/2016 7:03:37 PM DreamON, In many if not all States, inter-racial marriage has never been illegal. In SA, .....
» 15/08/2016 6:54:11 PM Spot-on, Jules !.....
» 15/08/2016 6:51:45 PM Hi Nick, So, I take it that you're just another of the anti-sport wowsers then ? Joe.....
» 15/08/2016 5:31:35 PM Hi DreamOn, Aah, just having you on :) No, I'm just surmising about homosexuals and their.....
» 15/08/2016 5:04:26 PM Hi Alan, No, it's just that I might have to use it after you, and in bare feet. Hi SM, .....
» 15/08/2016 4:49:39 PM Hi Nick, Yes, even the ancient Greeks were barely civilized, but at least their games at .....
» 15/08/2016 4:40:26 PM Hi DreamOn, A bit of heterophobia doesn't hurt, I suppose, us heteros can take it. But .....
» 15/08/2016 1:08:36 PM Hmmmm ...... I wonder if it's merely envy, that couch potatoes are antagonistic not only t.....
» 15/08/2016 12:14:56 PM Nick, Well, that's what the stipulation is for. As for poe-faced wowserism, I rest my c.....
» 15/08/2016 11:22:50 AM Hi Alan, Can you please stand a bit closer to the bowl ? Thanks. Joe.....
» 15/08/2016 10:11:27 AM Christ, what a bunch of poe-faced wowsers. Can't you enjoy and admire people putting ever.....
» 15/08/2016 10:04:44 AM SM, as Don writes, it's not really so black and white :) How to distinguish Left and Righ.....
» 15/08/2016 8:57:19 AM Hi Paul, So who would get the medals, the dogs or the rabbits ? You don't need to be so .....
» 12/08/2016 6:03:00 PM Hi Yuyutrsu, Your comment on my comment: «Some maybe, but 'most'?» "Relief, curios.....
» 12/08/2016 11:11:09 AM Hi Yuyutsu, You suggest that " .... most sexual activities are not entered into for .....
» 12/08/2016 10:49:06 AM Hi MJ1994, As you rightly suggest, " .... Australian people .... are so nice and res.....
» 12/08/2016 10:10:17 AM Peter, I'm sure that immigration officials do their job competently, but could I suggest .....
» 11/08/2016 11:45:28 PM Hi Peter, You slander some of us: I'm quite happy with increasing the refugee intake by 5.....
» 11/08/2016 6:12:20 PM Hi Interactive, I wasn't suggesting that anybody's myths actually occurred, sorry to give.....
» 11/08/2016 12:48:41 PM Hi Pilgrim, Fascinating account ! I've enjoyed everything Tim Bowden has ever done. But I.....
» 11/08/2016 10:17:54 AM I burst out laughing when I heard those Chinese references to our barbarian past, that we .....
» 11/08/2016 9:47:08 AM Hi Paiul, 'Regimental conformity" ? Absolutely not, I was suggesting that you do wha.....
» 10/08/2016 5:15:38 PM Hi OTB, Yes, I hoped that we will see many, many stories like Catherine's of persistence .....
» 10/08/2016 11:09:12 AM Hi Paul, If they only used air-rifles, or BB guns. Or paint-balls. Being a very inclusi.....
» 10/08/2016 11:01:04 AM Mr Kampmark, "Supposed global madness" ? "Supposed" ? What, all those.....
» 10/08/2016 10:36:17 AM Good luck, JayB, we'll be barracking for you :) Hi Philip, If men from a particular cult.....
» 10/08/2016 10:21:05 AM Hi Pilgrim, Here's another suggestion from an ex-Marxist, for what it's worth: if there i.....
» 9/08/2016 5:27:15 PM Hi Interactive, Why ? It's called 'complicity', a lot like the tactic of criminals induct.....
» 9/08/2016 3:47:30 PM Hi Interactive, Yes, I agree: "It becomes difficult for people such as myself to som.....
» 9/08/2016 1:35:53 PM Hi Interactive, Yes, it's not hard to find brutal, anti-'neighbour' - anti-'other' - vers.....
» 9/08/2016 11:39:33 AM Hi Alan, I think the author is mostly on the right track: Islamo-fascism, Islamo-nihilism.....
» 8/08/2016 2:18:38 PM Hi O Sung Wu & HasBeen, Yes, that's right, and maybe both parents and their children are .....
» 8/08/2016 2:06:18 PM Hi Paul, Yes, and I'm hanging out for the stats for last year and it's driving me nuts. F.....
» 8/08/2016 10:31:12 AM Hi OTB, At the risk of seeming to support Premier Andrews, I think he may be right. Perha.....
» 8/08/2016 10:18:17 AM Hi SM & Paul, The bogey-man of 'closing communities' is a red herring: nobody is, or can .....
» 8/08/2016 9:56:17 AM Here's a research topic for somebody: - poll all those inner-suburbs kale-munchers on th.....
» 8/08/2016 9:39:26 AM Hi Toni, Grass clippings - with all that cat dudu, all finely chopped ? Okay, I'll give i.....
» 7/08/2016 7:50:37 PM You're right, Toni, I've tried that with weeds and it works ! Sour sobs do well. A bit of .....
» 7/08/2016 7:45:13 PM Hi Toni, As you say, " ... Once you're dead, that's it. Enjoy it while you can.".....
» 7/08/2016 2:13:57 PM i Paul, Yes, indeed, " .... but then how do you achieve that when people are dysfunc.....
» 7/08/2016 2:01:39 PM Hi Tony, Maybe we would be all figments of each other's imaginations, IF there was an 'ot.....
» 7/08/2016 11:42:05 AM Hi Paul, You suggest: "Joe, we agree, we are not achieving the desired outcomes for .....
» 7/08/2016 10:48:35 AM [continued] .... man cannot succeed by his own labour, unless it is the will of Allah. It.....
» 7/08/2016 10:42:34 AM [continued] Now consider Islam. Under Islam, the relationship between Allah and “Man” i.....
» 7/08/2016 10:27:03 AM Hi Is Mise, The eminent South Australian philosopher Frank Pledge has differentiated Chri.....
» 7/08/2016 10:08:27 AM Hi Toni, If God is in everything, then we are all God. And if God doesn't exist, neither.....
» 7/08/2016 9:57:00 AM Hi Jayb, Yes, I don't think Crackup realises that isolationism in foreign policy, abandon.....
» 7/08/2016 9:10:24 AM Paul, No, I did NOT write that violence was ONLY a tribal thing, but that it was common i.....
» 7/08/2016 8:56:07 AM You suggest that " .... I think you forgot to mention At the request of the puppet go.....
» 6/08/2016 5:51:09 PM Hi Arjay, I guess you need a break every now and then from your secret cave. Isn't sunshi.....
» 6/08/2016 5:42:12 PM Hi Paul, Yes, I said " .... pretty much every anthropologist, including the most cap.....
» 6/08/2016 12:37:28 PM Hi Paul, Are you suggesting that domestic violence is not much higher in Otara and Panmur.....
» 5/08/2016 9:35:35 PM Hi Paul, This is probably neither here nor there, but pretty much every anthropologist, i.....
» 5/08/2016 9:29:08 PM Hi Interactive, You make some interesting and rather sweeping claims. Do you have any evi.....
» 5/08/2016 6:43:15 PM Jayb & Banjo, That's nothing, I've been kicked off Green Left Review and (I think, though.....
» 5/08/2016 5:32:14 PM Hi Banjo, Yes, the fine art of tactful satire, sarcasm and irony has been neglected recen.....
» 5/08/2016 4:05:59 PM Banjo, how did you manage that ? I've tried to get [deleted for abuse] but nobody reads my.....
» 5/08/2016 3:52:28 PM Hi Has been, You're forgetting to include (off-balance-sheet, as it were) the BEL, the Bu.....
» 5/08/2016 10:48:54 AM Hi Paul, Violence against women is common (no, I didn't say universal) in tribal societie.....
» 4/08/2016 5:17:59 PM Hi Aidan, When you write "everyone should have a right to decide their own culture.....
» 4/08/2016 5:03:34 PM Hi Aidan, Wise words. "The Left is a very broad category. Not everyone on the left .....
» 4/08/2016 1:19:38 PM Hi Paul, I'm glad you mentioned reform - please be careful, such talk can get you expelle.....
» 4/08/2016 12:05:26 PM Hi OTB, You're forgetting that, to some on the reactionary 'Left', human rights are doled.....
» 4/08/2016 10:00:44 AM As an Ideal, as the author suggests, 'The Golden Rule is most familiar in the Western wo.....
» 4/08/2016 9:33:26 AM Hi Paul, Like you and most posters on OLO, I see " ... I see good people, I see bad .....
» 3/08/2016 5:38:28 PM Hi Aidan, The late David Lange, PM of NZ, lived in a state (housing commission) house bef.....
» 3/08/2016 4:37:17 PM Don is exploring many difficult ideas here, which frankly seem to be beyond many commentat.....
» 3/08/2016 11:56:52 AM Hi Paul, Runner beat me to it :) "There are many successful Aboriginal people in ou.....
» 2/08/2016 3:18:22 PM Hi Rojama, Points taken :) It's interesting that Taiwan's President has just apologised .....
» 2/08/2016 10:48:56 AM [continued] It's possible that people honestly don't see the changes in how they are now .....
» 2/08/2016 10:44:51 AM Hi Paul, Yes, you're right: " .... whitey once more determined matters concerning hi.....
» 1/08/2016 7:57:42 PM Hi Butch, Yes, my bet is that the Royal Commission will not get out of the gates of Don D.....
» 1/08/2016 5:16:39 PM Hi Nathan, Are you suggesting a 'whole-of-community' approach ? i.e. of each 'community' .....
» 1/08/2016 12:38:16 PM Me and everybody else who gets onto OLO have, very likely, never experienced the neglect, .....
» 31/07/2016 6:58:20 PM Aboriginal 'communities' will sooner or later have to face up to enormous social problems:.....
» 31/07/2016 6:13:16 PM Since some fool mentioned Indigenous suicide rates, here is a brilliant article by my frie.....
» 31/07/2016 2:32:36 PM Hi ttbn, The RC into Indigenous Deaths in custody found very early, perhaps before it form.....
» 31/07/2016 12:43:03 PM Hi Rojama, I'm very disappointed with Vietnam's stance on all this, over-reaching only a .....
» 31/07/2016 12:22:07 PM Paul, Projection again: projecting onto others what you would do yourself, if you were in.....
» 29/07/2016 2:33:42 PM Hi SM, It's interesting to note the compassion for young multiple offenders. On another t.....
» 29/07/2016 11:18:37 AM Paul, So are you suggesting that Sir Humphrey has it right ? I'm relieved that you admit.....
» 29/07/2016 10:05:56 AM Hi Paul, No, I was suggesting that what this Royal Commission would be looking into would.....
» 29/07/2016 9:51:38 AM Hi Pogi, You do me proud :) I suppose that both secular AND religion-based regimes can b.....
» 28/07/2016 5:44:13 PM Paul, We can all put blinkers on and look only at one particular facet of a huge and comp.....
» 28/07/2016 4:51:55 PM Hi SM, Don't mind Paul: he concocts his paranoid fantasies, then imposes them on others -.....
» 27/07/2016 6:55:10 PM Dearest Foxy, I'm glad you're back, we all need your wise and compassionate leavening to .....
» 27/07/2016 4:48:23 PM Hi Steele, Yes ! "One of the bedrocks of any well developed society is the universal.....
» 27/07/2016 11:57:26 AM Hi Steele, Yes, Indigenous success is always exciting The higher education stats for 2015.....
» 27/07/2016 11:36:15 AM Hi Poirot, So hurtful. What, only 80 % ? Come on, you guys, you can give as good as you .....
» 27/07/2016 11:01:15 AM Hi David, Yes, spot-on. But as a non-believer, I don't have any qualms about schools trac.....
» 27/07/2016 10:22:33 AM Hi Pogi, Maybe it might help to use Venn diagrams: overlapping circles indicating: * rel.....
» 26/07/2016 2:11:42 PM " .... Anne Aly says many of the prisoners claim they are in there because of their r.....
» 26/07/2016 12:38:47 PM You have to be careful how you word questions. I'd prefer: "Should Shari'a or any o.....
» 26/07/2016 12:11:21 PM And people left blankets and mattresses and food out on their front lawns, in case that li.....
» 26/07/2016 11:45:20 AM There are probably no two OLO contributors who agree 100 %. That's how it is (and should b.....
» 26/07/2016 11:23:58 AM [continued] * that such institutions offer rigorous literacy, numeracy and technical educ.....
» 26/07/2016 11:22:01 AM Very distressing, but just the visible tip of the iceberg. Once inside, of course childr.....
» 25/07/2016 3:51:03 PM Hi Daffy, As a loudmouth, I'm honestly hurt when you call me (and maybe others) right-win.....
» 25/07/2016 3:20:32 PM Hi Aka, The thing about freedom of expression, and a robust democracy, is that as many pe.....
» 25/07/2016 3:03:06 PM Hi Yburp, You'll find "bigotry, racism and at times vile intolerance of so many regu.....
» 25/07/2016 1:45:15 PM Hi Nick, Oh, right. That explains it: hybrid ram missiles 85,000 years ago. Thanks. Joe.....
» 25/07/2016 12:00:08 PM Hi Nick, Yes, you're right about China's long history of no-democracy, which surely must .....
» 25/07/2016 11:17:36 AM Hi Aka, Welcome back ! Some of us have really missed you, and your thought-provoking comm.....
» 25/07/2016 10:57:30 AM Hi David, When you write " I think religious indoctrination has no place in the pub.....
» 25/07/2016 10:39:10 AM Hi Paul, George Santayana. Re Marx and the Paris Commune: I forget what thread that's on.....
» 25/07/2016 10:20:13 AM Hi Michi, All imperialisms are equal, but some are more equal than others - is that what .....
» 24/07/2016 8:59:10 PM Yeah, Poirot, but under THEM, like Toni says, it's turtles......
» 24/07/2016 8:31:45 PM Hi Toni, Well, under Burma, yeah, but around what's now Greece, it was snakes and Cosmic .....
» 24/07/2016 6:17:34 PM Hi O Sung Wu, It's been nagging at me for hours, but I must confess that I didn't write t.....
» 24/07/2016 6:10:12 PM Don't be silly, Poirot, everyone knows that God was born when a giant snake coiled itself .....
» 24/07/2016 6:00:47 PM Hi Aidan, I suppose there is a difference between nationalising some major industries (so.....
» 24/07/2016 4:29:12 PM Hi Poirot, Butch wrote: "I have no doubt Trump is a nutter! But, people are attracte.....
» 24/07/2016 11:33:33 AM Hi Poirot, Here's a really idiotic Conspiracy Theory of my own: 1. Erdogan wants to be b.....
» 24/07/2016 11:15:08 AM Hi Paul, At the risk of keeping this side-issue going any longer - and to hasten to add t.....
» 24/07/2016 9:15:57 AM Hi O Sung Wu, We need to always take into consideration a criminal's rights and feelings......
» 23/07/2016 6:52:04 PM Sorry, Aidan, I was using the term 'socialism' in the old Marxist sense of 'communism'. T.....
» 23/07/2016 4:44:53 PM Hi OTB, What utter bullsh!t. I go to a singing group each week, 80-odd people, mostly old.....
» 23/07/2016 4:36:04 PM I'm not sure what religion has to do with multi-organicity, but thanks anyway, Foxy. I als.....
» 23/07/2016 1:41:54 PM Hi David, Thank you for your analyses of that period between the Paris Commune and the Bo.....
» 23/07/2016 1:19:53 PM Dearest Foxy, They're pretty thick on the ground, are they ? We all know many, many peopl.....
» 23/07/2016 11:39:15 AM Hi Poirot, You're quite right: "Can you point me to an example when the fascist ente.....
» 23/07/2016 11:07:04 AM [continued] My paranoid suspicion is that China won't stop at the limits of the South Chi.....
» 23/07/2016 11:05:12 AM Hi Michi, It's all water under the bridge though, isn't it ? The War has been over for mo.....
» 22/07/2016 8:59:19 PM Just on the side-issue of whether Muslims are slighted or looked down upon by other Austra.....
» 22/07/2016 8:43:35 PM Hi Poirot, Yes, the Romans had a saying, "Asseritur gratis, negatur gratis", th.....
» 22/07/2016 8:22:23 PM Poirot, You know very well that the question goes to the heart of the topic, otherwise it.....
» 22/07/2016 3:14:47 PM Hi Steele, Where you been ? You propose: "Though simplistic the notion that a more .....
» 22/07/2016 2:54:11 PM Hi Poirot, Yes, there were signs up in parts of the US back a hundred years ago proclaimi.....
» 22/07/2016 2:42:21 PM Hi David F., Islam prescribes what is basically totalitarianism NOW, today, in 2016. I do.....
» 22/07/2016 10:57:47 AM Hi Poirot, Brilliant diversion ! Full marks. Back to topic: Without a doubt, Shari'a in.....
» 22/07/2016 10:45:37 AM Hi Paul, Isn't it fun to fight yesterday's wars ? If you do it often enough, maybe you ca.....
» 22/07/2016 10:21:11 AM G'day Michi, Neither China now, or Japan then, have any right, any more than any other co.....
» 22/07/2016 9:52:54 AM Dear Foxy, I'm glad you've still got your typing foot ! On that URL: the Citizenship Act.....
» 21/07/2016 6:22:55 PM Hi JayB, I don't know if Poirot would be entitled to her 200 male virgins: just after 9/1.....
» 21/07/2016 5:43:18 PM Hi CDavid F., Good one: "I looked up Roz Ward who I don't remember hearing of before.....
» 21/07/2016 5:28:32 PM Hi Poirot, Yes, only 2 %. The proportion of Muslim women of All Australians would be even.....
» 21/07/2016 5:13:49 PM Hi Phanto, Because it would be a horrific pathway between now and the oblivion that you s.....
» 21/07/2016 2:02:13 PM Dear Foxy, Yes, it does seem to be a step away from allowing children's spontaneous creat.....
» 21/07/2016 1:52:02 PM Hi runner Yes, 'end of days' apocalyticism takes many forms. Perhaps the global warming s.....
» 21/07/2016 1:34:41 PM Good point, Poirot. Nobody should be threatening anybody else's right to worship, or to l.....
» 21/07/2016 1:26:45 PM Thanks Poirot, yes, back to topic. Hi AC, I enjoy conspiracy theories, I've read most o.....
» 21/07/2016 12:51:13 PM Hi RR, Yes, 'faith' and 'belief' don't necessarily have to involve anything supernatural......
» 21/07/2016 11:26:01 AM Hi Poirot, Yes, I agree with you. Of course, Bush, Cheney et al. planned to invade Iraq i.....
» 21/07/2016 11:14:53 AM Hi Paul, Unsafe Schools program. Roz Ward. Marxist. QED. And by the way, gender fluidity.....
» 21/07/2016 10:08:40 AM Hi AC, Saddam's Iraq invaded Kuwait. That's an act of war by one country against another......
» 20/07/2016 1:45:34 PM Second time lucky. Bastard computer. Back to topic, folks :) I'm uneasy with any suggest.....
» 20/07/2016 11:51:16 AM Of course, any two people should have the same rights to be free from the threat of assaul.....
» 20/07/2016 11:14:08 AM Hi AC, The word 'Byzantine' isn't applied to the convolutions and twists and turns and be.....
» 20/07/2016 11:02:43 AM Suse, Please, will you stop trying to link Islam with 'race' and then accusing others of .....
» 20/07/2016 10:08:27 AM Hi Pau, I would have thought that any thoughts of " .... an injection of democracy w.....
» 19/07/2016 6:51:59 PM Argumentum in extremis, Poirot :) As the old cartoon had it, 'if you know of a better hol.....
» 19/07/2016 5:06:28 PM Hi Shadow Minister, Hey, that solemn ritual sounds like my kind of religion ! How do you .....
» 19/07/2016 4:59:34 PM Aidan, Wouldn't they be listed either in the Contents, or in the Index ? Not hard to find.....
» 19/07/2016 4:57:00 PM A bit gutless, Toni. And not every Christian is prepared to use any tactics to enforce a .....
» 19/07/2016 4:48:26 PM Hi Paul, You claim: "Joe, you offer an opinion that the Western democratic model is .....
» 19/07/2016 1:12:21 PM As an enthusiastic maker of cakes (I just took an Orange Tea Cake out of the oven), I can .....
» 19/07/2016 12:51:51 PM Hi Paul, You ask " .... if the majority are happy with a dictatorship or some other .....
» 19/07/2016 10:28:01 AM Yeah, Hanson was beautifully set up by Tony, like a duck in a barrel: bam ! bam ! Very cle.....
» 19/07/2016 10:01:54 AM Paul, I think that missionary impulse might have withered since the 'Arab Spring'. Unless .....
» 18/07/2016 6:32:56 PM RObert, precisely - and how many more Islamist atrocities have to occur, how many more inn.....
» 18/07/2016 2:00:22 PM Hi Poirot, As usual, I'm with you on this. Whether Erdogan provoked this attempted coup .....
» 18/07/2016 1:53:09 PM Good on you, Foxy. Is it any wonder that you are loved and admired universally on OLO ? N.....
» 18/07/2016 1:26:49 PM A bit extreme, Mikk: that so many people should be deported. It would be far simpler for .....
» 18/07/2016 12:57:12 PM Hi Poirot, Fair enough, nobody should have to put up with my blather. I'll save you (an.....
» 18/07/2016 11:16:43 AM Hi Poirot, Yet another non sequitur. What has Saddam's Iraq got to do with Shari'a in Aus.....
» 18/07/2016 10:49:20 AM Dearest Foxy, I'm very sorry to hear of your accident, and wish you a speedy recovery. We.....
» 18/07/2016 9:59:46 AM Hi Paul, I'd love to reply to you, once your meds have kicked in :) I wonder if there is.....
» 17/07/2016 6:43:05 PM Hi Paul, I suppose everybody with a web-site is interested in knowing how many hits, or v.....
» 17/07/2016 2:29:26 PM Paul, Yes, it's true: sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. Your suspicions about an " .....
» 17/07/2016 11:16:53 AM Paul, You ponder: "Your web site and the motivation behind it puzzles me. Why does a.....
» 17/07/2016 10:54:34 AM Hi Paul, Ah, projection ! What a wonderful antidote for reality. No, I've rarely used su.....
» 17/07/2016 9:19:39 AM Hi Paul, Tee-hee ! Barnaby = Barnyard. Cory Bernardi = Cory Banana [yuk yuk !] Turnbull =.....
» 17/07/2016 8:59:14 AM Hi Aidan, Any country or government could be like Greece, eventually, if it continues wit.....
» 16/07/2016 4:37:22 PM Not much argument there from me, Paul. But you do take a point to untestable extremes: &.....
» 16/07/2016 12:16:34 PM Poirot, Is Mise is being empirically quite correct when he suggests, quite logically, tha.....
» 16/07/2016 11:59:27 AM Paul, I think they call it 'projection': you project your fantasies onto others and then .....
» 15/07/2016 5:51:11 PM Hi Poirot, Pot and kettle :) Actually, I'm still a bit proud of that post. I hope Cathy M.....
» 15/07/2016 1:19:21 PM Paul, You know very well that the inspector was unarmed, he didn't even have a walking st.....
» 15/07/2016 12:57:47 PM Hi Nicknick, My bet is Marco Polo didn't get the information for those maps from coastal .....
» 15/07/2016 10:37:34 AM [continue] Imperialism never seems to die. Most dangerously, it is usually open-ended, ne.....
» 15/07/2016 10:24:58 AM Funny, I thought the pseudo-Left would have put something up in support of socialist imper.....
» 15/07/2016 9:21:11 AM Paul, You know very well that the environment officer wasn't armed, or threatening Turnbu.....
» 14/07/2016 5:28:15 PM Hi Toni, Well, he does say 'the Greens' PROPOSED law'. No need to go about shooting homel.....
» 14/07/2016 2:45:08 PM Paul & Poirot, Why persist with hypotheticals which nobody would agree with ? Hi OTB, I.....
» 14/07/2016 11:32:07 AM Hi Poirot, So that's a YES-YES, then ? No, of course, you're not bound to respond. After.....
» 14/07/2016 11:26:10 AM Hi Paul, Yes, I replied yesterday at 9.50 (see above). I could add one incident: I was d.....
» 14/07/2016 11:14:41 AM Hi Poirot, Non sequitur. With respect, you haven't answered the question: Do you think th.....
» 14/07/2016 10:17:48 AM Hi Poirot, Yes, May and the Conservatives are Right-wing all right. Are you willing to su.....
» 14/07/2016 10:08:46 AM Hi Paul, Yesterday you mentioned feminists, so this paper on the sexual slavery of Yazidi.....
» 14/07/2016 9:54:17 AM Back to topic: here's an article on the views of the new British PM, Theresa may, on Islam.....
» 13/07/2016 10:48:14 PM Yum !.....
» 13/07/2016 6:38:06 PM Hi Poirot, Okay, so if hypothetically you were attacked by someone who wanted to knife yo.....
» 13/07/2016 12:26:25 PM Paul, you don't have to be so cruel ! How do you KNOW these things about us Neanderthals ?.....
» 13/07/2016 10:37:57 AM Hi Cherful, There's a brilliant article on this theme by Paul Monk, in today's Australian.....
» 13/07/2016 10:35:06 AM Hi Poirot, I don't know how you can deny Is Mise's hypothetical, it seems perfectly logic.....
» 13/07/2016 10:04:14 AM Yburpg, Invaded ? The Israelis handed over the Sinai to Egypt, and the Gaza Strip to the .....
» 13/07/2016 9:50:16 AM Hi Paul, Do you mean Jimmy James, the tracker ? Born about 1915, died about 1990 ? I 'wor.....
» 12/07/2016 6:57:05 PM Just get BTT: On the association of Trotskyites with jihadists, Pascal Bruckner has writte.....
» 12/07/2016 12:41:01 PM Paul, Moldy old material ?! Moldy ?! How dare you,sir ! Actually, in its original conditi.....
» 11/07/2016 9:20:40 AM Hi Paul, Labor lost the election. The Greens lost a Senate seat. Suck it up. No, Julie B.....
» 10/07/2016 11:24:57 PM Hi Paul, Perhaps you should check Julie Bishop's web-site, i.e. as Foreign Affairs Minist.....
» 10/07/2016 4:22:36 PM Paul, So cruel, so cutting ! No, Paul, I assume that some of the Greens would be appalle.....
» 10/07/2016 1:36:39 PM Spot-on, SM ! In the Baghdad bombing last week, around three hundred innocent civilians w.....
» 10/07/2016 9:43:32 AM Hi Paul, In that first paragraph, you may have confused me with someone else. Sorry, I .....
» 10/07/2016 9:31:34 AM Hi Cherful, Yes, when you think about it, many ancient and backward societies presupposed.....
» 9/07/2016 10:20:34 PM Suse, Recognition of the authority of the Court, and thereby its authority as upholder of.....
» 9/07/2016 6:16:52 PM Hi Paul, Yes, you could be right, that all countries should be forever castigated for wha.....
» 9/07/2016 2:18:49 PM Hi Bazz, While there is supposed to be a separation of church and state in Australia, sur.....
» 9/07/2016 1:01:10 PM Hi Paul, Yeah ! What has Swaziland ever done for us ? Joe.....
» 9/07/2016 1:00:01 PM Hi Toni, "Just have a rule that says you swim with the public or not at all. They ca.....
» 9/07/2016 12:38:24 PM Hi Aidan, No country in the world is 'financially sovereign', not the US, China, Greece o.....
» 8/07/2016 5:45:11 PM Sorry Steele, heat of the moment :).....
» 8/07/2016 3:00:02 PM Hi Paul, Thank you for your mention of my web-site: sww.firstsources.info ... Just to blo.....
» 8/07/2016 9:38:54 AM Hi Paul, No, I'm not suggesting links, let alone 100 % support etc., just that many Green.....
» 8/07/2016 9:16:41 AM Hi ttbn, I had a very good friend, now deceased, who was at one time Moderator of the Pre.....
» 8/07/2016 8:38:50 AM Sorry, Paul, you misunderstand what I am trying to get at. Like most of us, I'm interested.....
» 7/07/2016 5:59:02 PM Hi Steele, No, I certainly don't mean you :) I'm trying to find a term for that gaggle of.....
» 7/07/2016 2:35:40 PM Hi Paul, Blaxland is my birth-electorate :) No, I don't think that young Muslims there .....
» 7/07/2016 11:13:15 AM Hi Toni, Because such limited characterisation is a bit juvenile, and gives the impressio.....
» 7/07/2016 8:51:14 AM Thanks Paul, fair enough. Toni, if A never seems to condemn B, but both have no trouble .....
» 6/07/2016 10:07:50 PM Thanks Steele, I'll try to get my head around what you suggest. But I don't even know wh.....
» 6/07/2016 6:23:08 PM We have to keep trying, ttbn, even if it seems like a lost cause: people are too precious .....
» 6/07/2016 5:30:54 PM Hi O Sung Wu, Probably that was Bazz's point, that it is in fact blindingly obvious that .....
» 6/07/2016 12:37:24 PM Hi Paul, As for my web-site: www.firstsources.info - thank for that opportunity - I've fo.....
» 6/07/2016 12:25:04 PM Gosh, Paul, I didn't think I was being nasty, just on the mark, and trying to be helpful. .....
» 6/07/2016 10:17:42 AM [continued] As for freedom of expression ? I would respectfully suggest that, on a contin.....
» 6/07/2016 9:58:44 AM Hi Toni, Like ttbn, I fully support your right to be an idiot and to express your ignoran.....
» 6/07/2016 9:24:35 AM Paul, Reductio ad absurdum - who's talking about shooting children ? Let's leave that to .....
» 5/07/2016 1:39:06 PM Hi Paul, Drunken layabouts ? Probably quite a fair percentage, especially of people on li.....
» 5/07/2016 8:50:36 AM Thank you for your kind words, OTB :) One's best friends tell you like it is - if they are.....
» 4/07/2016 12:50:59 PM Hi Paul, I had to laugh at your reference to " .... the rest of us plebs ...." .....
» 4/07/2016 12:44:34 PM Just to sort of get back to topic: * The Coalition doesn't look like gaining enough seats.....
» 1/07/2016 7:45:12 PM Hi Paul, Isn't passion fun ? I don't think that you have shown Is Mise to be a liar at al.....
» 1/07/2016 6:44:18 PM Hi O Sung Wu, 'Hate' is a word, and I don't think it ever killed anybody. Hate does, ever.....
» 1/07/2016 5:23:25 PM I don't see anything wrong with words like 'hate' or 'intolerance', since there is plenty .....
» 1/07/2016 10:38:43 AM Hmmm, one day to go and the rats are rallying. Fascinating that they go into bat for a Lab.....
» 30/06/2016 7:23:38 PM Hi Nicknick, Here's something to think about, from a Canadian Native American: Aborigina.....
» 30/06/2016 3:01:44 PM Hi Paul, Just a bit of inconvenient truth: Mussolini, before forming his Fascists, was th.....
» 30/06/2016 2:04:33 PM Then there’s Indigenous Sovereignty. What is Sovereignty ? Complete control of territory a.....
» 30/06/2016 1:51:49 PM As for a treaty – or treaties - between a sovereign government based in Canberra and perha.....
» 30/06/2016 1:45:13 PM Nations, Treaty, Sovereignty: each is unexamined, like a Black Box, but assumed to have ma.....
» 28/06/2016 12:26:15 PM Hi Paul, Although it may not fit your narrative, I think that before and during WW II, fa.....
» 28/06/2016 12:04:35 PM Less than eleven months from the proposed Referendum on ‘Recognise!’, what is to be ‘Recog.....
» 27/06/2016 6:58:02 PM Hi Nicknick, No, I don't agree with you: in Australia, women's rights, including Indigeno.....
» 27/06/2016 12:18:37 PM G'day Paul, That gave me another laugh: no, my rear wouldn't be big enough for such a slo.....
» 27/06/2016 12:06:36 PM Hi Is Mise, Yes, it's interesting - and appalling - how often ratbags and extremists reso.....
» 27/06/2016 10:43:39 AM Hi Poirot, As usual, I agree with you. I suppose it's easy to be wise after the event, bu.....
» 27/06/2016 9:59:14 AM Thanks Luciferase, I might get a bumper sticker saying "Honk if you think that the .....
» 26/06/2016 12:43:34 PM The authoritative and respected journal, The Guardian, has this: https://www.theguardian......
» 26/06/2016 11:21:48 AM Thanks, Poirot, you're right, I was using an outdated map. I should have done my homework:.....
» 26/06/2016 10:40:10 AM Thanks, Jardine - goldfish socialism, yes, that sums up 150 years of socialist history :) .....
» 26/06/2016 9:42:21 AM Maybe I can't interpret a simple map in a newspaper but it seemed to me that Cornwall vote.....
» 24/06/2016 6:29:44 PM I'd love to have a beer with Graham ..... It appears that the working-class areas voted f.....
» 24/06/2016 9:40:20 AM Hi Paul, I'm all for immigration, and an increased refugee intake. My point is that somet.....
» 23/06/2016 12:49:43 PM Hi Paul, Yes, poor diet and no exercise associated with lifelong welfare, as well as a so.....
» 23/06/2016 9:04:52 AM Hi Paul, [Second time around, rotten computer. Copy as you go] Yes indeed, high and avoi.....
» 22/06/2016 6:44:52 PM Indigenous births make up around five per cent of all births in Australia each year, at ar.....
» 22/06/2016 1:11:18 PM HI SM, Yes, very likely, although I think the recapture of Mosul will take much longer an.....
» 22/06/2016 10:03:39 AM ISIS will be defeated, probably in the next two or three years. The notion of an Islamic S.....
» 13/06/2016 8:43:06 AM Hi Abraham, Yes, surely truth trumps convenient narrative ? What on earth is to be gained.....
» 12/06/2016 6:51:58 PM Hi Bazz, He's got a page on Wikipedia, which explains his ideas almost clearly enough for.....
» 12/06/2016 6:37:51 PM Hi Bazz, Joseph Tainter, I chased him up. Very, very interesting ideas, I'm trying to app.....
» 12/06/2016 11:31:58 AM Yes, you're right George :) I made the mistake of double-counting, for inflation AND growt.....
» 12/06/2016 11:17:38 AM Hi Cherful, The power of powerlessness ? The Greens will never form government in their o.....
» 11/06/2016 6:31:47 PM Hi AJ, "He actually started with $200 million and is now worth $4.5 billion." .....
» 11/06/2016 12:46:54 PM Hi Cherful, 170 years ago, the French political commentator de Tocqueville wrote somethin.....
» 10/06/2016 10:37:26 PM Hi JBowyer, Aidan might have a point - we can always borrow more, even if at higher inter.....
» 9/06/2016 3:02:43 PM Sometimes people are unthinking, they don't think through to the consequences, or implicat.....
» 8/06/2016 10:51:15 PM Hi JBowyer, It's not either/or, you know - both you and Alan may be right. Clinton may b.....
» 8/06/2016 6:26:58 PM Sorry, Alan, I'll give up satire, irony and sarcasm from now on: I'm risking severe fines......
» 8/06/2016 2:29:21 PM Hi Alan, Is it possible that Trumpf is actually not all that bright ? Not an idiot, but w.....
» 8/06/2016 12:54:06 PM Hi Plerdsus, Of course, until recently, suicides couldn't be buried in consecrated ground.....
» 8/06/2016 11:58:45 AM Thank you, Nicholas, and good luck with your lifelong learning. You are in for many surpri.....
» 7/06/2016 6:26:08 PM Hi Yuyutsu, Somewhere I read that soldiers in the Russian Army attempting to commit suici.....
» 7/06/2016 12:11:21 PM Hi I'm a bit puzzled: you ask SM if he is okay with bullying, after he has pointed out tha.....
» 7/06/2016 10:22:03 AM Hi runner & OTB, On this point, I'll staunchly defend Poirot in her suggestion that all p.....
» 7/06/2016 10:10:13 AM Hi Suse, Presumably, if suicide is illegal, one can be prosecuted for bungling one's suic.....
» 7/06/2016 9:57:36 AM In every contract, we commit to carry out certain acts in return for other parties committ.....
» 7/06/2016 9:53:21 AM PC only has power if we let it. Freedom of expression should encourage robust discussion. .....
» 7/06/2016 9:35:47 AM Good point, Poirot. Schools exist to educate children, not to indoctrinate them, whether .....
» 5/06/2016 10:59:04 PM Hi David, Aboriginal people are entitled to receive welfare payments. One day, when we al.....
» 5/06/2016 8:53:18 PM Hi Poirot, Was that snide rhetoric, or measured argument ? Is it possible to have a calm .....
» 5/06/2016 6:08:19 PM How do you mean, ' right-wing intolerance' ? La Trobe University ? Islamists ? perhaps yes.....
» 5/06/2016 4:11:28 PM Dearest Foxy, "It now appears that it was illegal for someone to lose their job over.....
» 5/06/2016 4:01:28 PM Hi SM, I don't know, maybe Roz Ward could try to find work with the Pseudo-Socialists' ne.....
» 5/06/2016 3:35:22 PM [continued] a work ethic, and a starve-then-gorge ethic. Somebody wrote recently that hun.....
» 5/06/2016 3:29:59 PM Hi David, Yes, Nicolas Rothwell writes with deep passion and wonderful perception. His ar.....
» 5/06/2016 3:00:19 PM [ontinued] Meanwhile, statistically, somehow, the majority of young urban Indigenous peop.....
» 5/06/2016 2:58:29 PM Hi Big Nana & Luciferase, I'm sure that there are individuals in rural and remote areas w.....
» 5/06/2016 11:29:51 AM There is a brilliant article today across the middle pages of The Australian's Review, by .....
» 5/06/2016 11:02:43 AM No, Poirot, I meant every word of it. If you perceive common sense and agreement as 'sarca.....
» 5/06/2016 10:53:25 AM Hi Miacat, I got lost in your last paragraph :) As for a Treaty, two questions immediate.....
» 4/06/2016 6:13:29 PM Hi Alan, Ah yes, I remember now: I was responding to your anecdote about an outback class.....
» 4/06/2016 5:54:04 PM You're right, Poirot, people shouldn't be sacked for just being stupid and infantile. As m.....
» 3/06/2016 7:04:25 PM Hi Poirot, I'm intrigued by the phenomenon of bullying. I wonder if it ever occurred befo.....
» 3/06/2016 6:48:11 PM Hi Alan, I wrote up a lovely long reply, then my bastard computer wipe the lot. I don't h.....
» 3/06/2016 4:01:59 PM [Continued] and pissing off Indigenous students altogether. So they thought. But meanwhi.....
» 3/06/2016 3:59:04 PM Hi Alan, If I understand you right, I agree with you that sub-degree courses should never.....
» 3/06/2016 3:17:12 PM Hi Poirot, I suppose sport isn't necessarily a male thing. That would be a social constru.....
» 3/06/2016 11:09:17 AM [continued] But as a lefthander, I belonged to that last generation when some teachers th.....
» 3/06/2016 11:07:15 AM Good on you, Poirot. I used to get infatuated with the most tomboyish girls in school, one.....
» 2/06/2016 6:20:45 PM 1. Nobody, no kid in school, should be bullied. Bullies should be beaten the sh!t out of b.....
» 2/06/2016 1:55:28 PM Hi David, Will "any of this .... change after they get Reconciliation or a Treaty or.....
» 2/06/2016 11:19:45 AM [continued] Perhaps with good intentions (and maybe not), government organisations have p.....
» 2/06/2016 11:16:02 AM Hi Big Nana, I wish your granddaughter all the very best, with all my heart. I don't know.....
» 1/06/2016 5:11:43 PM Hi Big Nana, I'm sure there are exceptions, but I have little confidence in pretty much a.....
» 1/06/2016 4:55:43 PM Hi SM, I was vainly trying to impersonate a Greens supporter - I'm sorry, it won't happen .....
» 1/06/2016 12:59:43 PM Hi SM, Okay, points taken: 1. There IS an award covering au pairs, so much per hour yad.....
» 1/06/2016 12:42:01 PM Hi Aidan, Spot-on ! Au pairs don't come under any award, so employers can pay them whatev.....
» 1/06/2016 10:20:33 AM Hi Paul, You're right, Dr. di Natale's au pair probably has it really easy compared to th.....
» 1/06/2016 10:02:23 AM Hi Bazz, While welfare-oriented Aboriginal people have a genius for turning promising pro.....
» 31/05/2016 3:17:49 PM Hi Paul & SM, To put Dr di Natale's contribution to multiculturalism and employment into .....
» 31/05/2016 1:22:36 PM Hi Paul, That $ 100 per day would be tax-free ? So - with the dole - that bloke's weekly .....
» 31/05/2016 11:21:40 AM Hi SM, Of course, that $ 150/day is notional, Dr di Natale wouldn't be charging her that .....
» 30/05/2016 1:22:22 PM Dearest Foxy, You are probably right, that Dr di Natale has been subject to a witch-hunt .....
» 29/05/2016 9:16:31 AM Hi SM, Sorry, I can't write any more on this subject, I've been threatened with sarcasm f.....
» 28/05/2016 12:14:40 PM Hi SM, Okay, let's suppose you're right, that out in the Otways, accommodation for a nann.....
» 27/05/2016 7:00:14 PM Hi Aidan & 579, Yes, you're probably right, au pairs probably have it pretty easy. They m.....
» 27/05/2016 2:48:53 PM Hi Aidan, You're right, why does anybody think that au pairs work a full seven-and-a-half.....
» 27/05/2016 11:05:38 AM Hi 579, Thanks for that suggestion - to put my next au pair down in the cellar, it's been.....
» 27/05/2016 9:42:53 AM Hi Paul, Thanks for clearing all that up. Yes, the equivalent of $ 500 per week is probab.....
» 26/05/2016 3:09:10 PM Hi VK3AUU, I agree with you that, just because the Muslims pillaged most of the known wor.....
» 26/05/2016 1:56:08 PM Dearest Foxy, Yes, just what I wrote ! " .... focus on what they have to offer inste.....
» 26/05/2016 1:51:40 PM Hi 579, You're right, there are probably many other au pairs in Australia, for example go.....
» 26/05/2016 1:26:14 PM Hi Poirot, No rush :) Whenever you get back, the questions will still be there. On the o.....
» 26/05/2016 1:10:04 PM Hi SM, You suggest that Senator di Natale " .... appears quite happy to abandon his .....
» 26/05/2016 12:48:09 PM Dearest Foxy, You note: "There does not appear to be anything wrong with what Mr Di.....
» 26/05/2016 12:15:48 PM Hi SM, Paul is half-right that in countries like Saudi Arabia, servants, au pairs and the.....
» 25/05/2016 11:02:35 PM Hi Mikk, I wouldn't be so hard on him: remember also that, effectively, that au pair isn'.....
» 25/05/2016 10:54:27 PM Alas ! The swan exits Left, dying, to Spike Jones' 'Swan lake', leaving the question: Yes.....
» 25/05/2016 10:51:01 PM Hi VK3AUU, Having knocked around and believed much more Aboriginal 'narrative' than I sho.....
» 25/05/2016 6:30:29 PM Hi Paul, You may be right: di Natale is being unfairly and dreadfully persecuted. After.....
» 25/05/2016 6:06:04 PM Hi Poirot, Sorry, that sentence should have read: "The argument is about refugees c.....
» 25/05/2016 11:48:02 AM Hi Poirot, There is a migrant intake. There is a refugee intake, and presumably most of t.....
» 24/05/2016 6:14:27 PM Hi Poirot, Yes, of course, refugees who are part of our annual intake should be able to f.....
» 24/05/2016 4:59:14 PM Hi Poirot, Australia has a migrant intake, and a refugee intake. Refugees apply and may o.....
» 24/05/2016 11:51:57 AM Hi Poirot, Strangely, I use those terms of endearment because I like you, even if you are.....
» 24/05/2016 11:28:11 AM Hi Mac, I used to be a great fan of Malcolm X, Malik el-Haji el-Shabazz. At the end of Al.....
» 24/05/2016 11:14:20 AM Hi Poirot, Yep, sooner or later, the gender card. But I thought that gender was a fluid c.....
» 24/05/2016 10:36:30 AM Hi Mac, The Arabs/Muslims burst out of Arabia around 650 AD and conquered vast areas, alm.....
» 24/05/2016 10:19:19 AM Hi Poirot, 'Squealing' ? Moi ? I'm a Bankstown boy, we never squeal, we just cop it. Sque.....
» 23/05/2016 5:36:17 PM Sorry Pete, I stand corrected. I'll bet their meetings are fiery. Cheers, Joe.....
» 23/05/2016 5:31:13 PM Oh, I don't think that was Duncan's question, Poirot - more like "If anybody else get.....
» 23/05/2016 4:41:08 PM Hi Poirot, [We're both running out posts for the day :) ] Are you serious: " .... I.....
» 23/05/2016 4:23:12 PM Good one, Runner :) Perhaps Cobber could have cited some of the decisions of the UN Commit.....
» 23/05/2016 4:20:24 PM Hi Poirot, When have I ever supported your assertion: " .... coming from someone who.....
» 23/05/2016 12:45:45 PM Hi Poirot, Well, yes,: if you can't see the difference between looking after only 'one's .....
» 23/05/2016 11:38:29 AM Hi Alan, Of course, I like to think that I would defend a nun in Cairo from having her cr.....
» 23/05/2016 11:20:44 AM Not really, Poirot: that Samaritan story for example: the Samaritans were an off-beat Jewi.....
» 23/05/2016 10:39:57 AM Hi Poirot, As usual, I agree with you that Jesus could have been a leftie, given many of .....
» 23/05/2016 10:19:05 AM From memory, I recall my mum remarking that there was always a thread of anti-Semitism in .....
» 22/05/2016 10:58:42 PM I've never understood those abbreviations - do you mean 'lots of love' ? Fair enough. Lolt.....
» 22/05/2016 6:11:10 PM Or in your case, dearie, 'ad hominem'. Cop it sweet, Poirot. Your lot blew this one. Mov.....
» 22/05/2016 5:04:06 PM Hi Poirot, A fixation ? Yes, it's a bit like having doggy-poo on your shoe, embedded in t.....
» 22/05/2016 12:17:58 PM Hi Phanto, Perhaps, in Cultural Studies or something similar, they run courses in how to .....
» 22/05/2016 11:58:25 AM Hi Poirot, Sorry, I don't understand: "How is the above post for a "Fact Chec.....
» 22/05/2016 11:36:49 AM Hi Alan, Sorry, I don't know what you're on about in that first sentence. Also sorry, wh.....
» 20/05/2016 3:33:29 PM Hi Alan (and many others), I don't understand this confected issue of the tearing off of .....
» 20/05/2016 3:17:14 PM Dearest Foxy, If you or I were not to stand as a judge or magistrate entered a court, and.....
» 20/05/2016 11:06:00 AM Hi Poirot, I take some pride in what you call my "advanced snarks". If I could .....
» 19/05/2016 12:59:55 PM Hi ttbn, Aboriginal society is/was by no means unique: pretty much ALL traditional societ.....
» 19/05/2016 9:39:38 AM Hi Poirot, You point out that I " .... sit there thinking to yourself how you can da.....
» 19/05/2016 9:25:35 AM I still recall a young bloke belting the daylights out of his beloved up on the Mission. S.....
» 19/05/2016 9:04:44 AM Hi Suse, Just in case you haven't turned away from this discussion: You suggest that &qu.....
» 19/05/2016 8:45:27 AM Dearest Foxy, I fully agree with you that Duncan should get the same sort of tax cut - ca.....
» 18/05/2016 5:34:25 PM Dearest Foxy, Welcome back - I hope everything goes well. Of course, Duncan made the und.....
» 18/05/2016 1:22:00 PM Hi Paul, You're right: Duncan asked a question. And, rephrased, that was: if I don't pay .....
» 18/05/2016 10:57:35 AM Hi Poirot, My mum used to give me Milk of Magnesia for that. You have a problem to answ.....
» 17/05/2016 4:57:34 PM Thanks Poirot, I'll take that as a comment. And something of a compliment. The question .....
» 17/05/2016 2:04:05 PM Hi Suse, "I just can't believe the idiots that contribute to these 'crowd-funding' s.....
» 17/05/2016 12:15:21 PM Hi Poirot, You may wish to get your teeth into scrotal hair, but the topic of this thread.....
» 17/05/2016 11:25:55 AM Poirot, Endlessly citing 'authority' is a bit pointless. Yeah, my authority is bigger tha.....
» 16/05/2016 2:08:46 PM Hi ttbn, You do me proud :) I'm still a lefty ? I'm tickled pink. Hi Suse, Your exampl.....
» 16/05/2016 11:48:46 AM Dearest Foxy, I wish you the best of luck, I'll be barracking for you :) As for Storrar,.....
» 13/05/2016 3:34:06 PM Hi Aidan, So, are you suggesting that renewable energy technology doesn't need any more s.....
» 13/05/2016 10:24:01 AM ttbn, " Finland, barely off the Soviet teat .... ?! Tell that to a Finn and stand b.....
» 13/05/2016 10:07:05 AM Hi Aidan, When you suggest that " .... you have to leave most of the fossil fuel in .....
» 12/05/2016 2:33:28 PM Good on you, JayB. Wow, worth waiting for :).....
» 12/05/2016 12:28:43 PM Hi KAEP, Wouldn't it be great to be World King, dictating here and ordering there: Immedi.....
» 12/05/2016 9:56:27 AM Hi Jack, I've been thinking over your comment that " .... It's as if the Church miss.....
» 9/05/2016 2:30:24 PM Hi Jules, Yes, it shouldn't be necessary to point out that a criticism of Islam, or of Is.....
» 9/05/2016 9:52:21 AM Religions may focus on the other-world, but their adherents all live in this one, day to d.....
» 7/05/2016 1:43:11 PM Hi JayB & Hasbeen, On an SBS program last week, a young woman described cities - as viewe.....
» 6/05/2016 3:33:14 PM Hi Alan, Common ? Moi ?! Well, yeah: 'How you going, you old bastard ?' There was a time.....
» 6/05/2016 10:27:03 AM Hi Alan, Jeez, some of us pre-Boomers would have killed for some toe-jam. If we behaved, .....
» 6/05/2016 9:54:43 AM I guess one very rough measure of what speech should be permitted or not, is - for all of .....
» 5/05/2016 2:58:33 PM Hi Alan, No, freedom of expression DOES include the right to offend: think of PISS CHRIST.....
» 4/05/2016 10:02:36 AM Hi Butch & HasBeen, Am I right in suggesting that not only are solar and wind power gener.....
» 3/05/2016 10:37:55 AM I don't understand politics very well. Surely a double dissolution will open the doors to .....
» 3/05/2016 9:58:45 AM Hi Poirot, I'm not so sure about the speed of climate change: sea-levels have risen - wha.....
» 30/04/2016 4:02:16 PM Hi OTB, A propos to your reference to Labor and diversions, yonks ago, there was a brilli.....
» 30/04/2016 1:02:04 PM Hi Poirot, You suggest that "In 1960 the median cost of a house 1.6 x household inco.....
» 28/04/2016 9:54:20 AM Third Man, My incomplete knowledge of the Gallipoli campaign was that it was supposed to .....
» 26/04/2016 1:54:21 PM This is such a dishonest piece. Chernobyl was one of the first or second generation nuclea.....
» 26/04/2016 1:46:00 PM Hi Butch, I don't pretend to understand all the ins and outs of negative gearing, but I s.....
» 25/04/2016 4:11:03 PM This is probably the stupidest post you'll read all day but isn't the Condamine over the R.....
» 22/04/2016 4:08:04 PM Hi Bernie, Rebe Taylor wrote something similar - "Unearthed: Aboriginal Tasmanians O.....
» 22/04/2016 3:19:21 PM Hi Jules, 'Assimilation' has had a varied past. Whites have tended to use the passive ver.....
» 21/04/2016 6:33:07 PM Hi Jules, Is there a rock-solid - and racist - assumption that Aboriginal people can't do.....
» 21/04/2016 5:43:31 PM HiLuciferase, That article is "The Behavioral Ecology of Hunter-Gatherers" by B.....
» 21/04/2016 2:37:12 PM Hi Jules, I'll probably lose even more friends by suggesting that the isolation of Indige.....
» 21/04/2016 10:47:07 AM Hi again Luciferase, You noted that " .... urban aborigines, and what is done for th.....
» 21/04/2016 9:26:05 AM Hi Yuyutsu, Yes, thanks, the first compilation of competing bits and pieces to put into t.....
» 20/04/2016 1:04:56 PM Hi Luciferase, I suppose the essential requirement for healthy, permanent but remote 'com.....
» 20/04/2016 11:38:45 AM Hi AC, And how did that go ?.....
» 20/04/2016 11:20:26 AM Hi Luciferase, You're right to suggest that " .... all we are doing is providing hal.....
» 20/04/2016 10:51:03 AM Hi Don, You point out that .... if you want to know how something gets to be funded, it’s.....
» 20/04/2016 10:29:37 AM Hi Yuyutsu, I'm puzzled: to be counted as a religion, a set of beliefs cannot advocate vi.....
» 19/04/2016 3:11:34 PM Hi Bernie, New computer :( Fifth-time lucky with this post :) Moses Tjalkabota's book, t.....
» 17/04/2016 11:42:57 AM Hi Luciferase, Currently there are supposed to be thousands of 'communities' across Aust.....
» 17/04/2016 11:19:01 AM [continued] As for your slide: " you do not believe that ANYTHING can lead people cl.....
» 17/04/2016 11:07:50 AM Hi Yuyutsu, You sometimes make quite outrageous stagtements: "It all started from a.....
» 15/04/2016 6:30:39 PM H Luciferase, We have to thoroughly understand that nobody, nobody, nobody is living a tr.....
» 15/04/2016 4:29:05 PM Hi Yuyusu, Sorry, I misunderstood you, I think. You say, " .... light, energy, space.....
» 15/04/2016 3:51:57 PM Of course, when we talk so easily about 'a high-seed train', we mean many, many trains on .....
» 15/04/2016 10:24:07 AM Hi Yuyutsu, You suggest that " .... Religion is no more a construct of the human int.....
» 15/04/2016 10:05:41 AM Hi Paul, Yes, probably all true, at different times and different places. I don't think c.....
» 14/04/2016 10:28:26 AM I remember a movie cartoon from decades ago, of a rabbit or bird or maybe Roadrunner in a .....
» 14/04/2016 10:13:41 AM Hi Paul, Well, yes, light chains. And no handcuffs - that was the point of the chains. .....
» 13/04/2016 9:46:25 PM Hi Paul, If you check out the Roth Royal Commission 1904, and the Moseley Royal Commissio.....
» 13/04/2016 12:40:51 PM Hi SonofGloin, The Bernie Sanders in me says increase the corporate tax rate to whatever .....
» 13/04/2016 11:35:08 AM Hi AC, As Pete points out, it's very unlikely that HSR will ever carry freight. I don't k.....
» 13/04/2016 10:18:29 AM Hi Rhosty, 'Value capture' suggests that property near high-speed nodes will increase in .....
» 12/04/2016 5:54:11 PM Hi Paul, Just thinking about public housing in Aboriginal 'communities', it' not so much .....
» 12/04/2016 5:32:44 PM OTB, Yeah, bush turkeys, I always get the two mixed up :) My very limited understanding .....
» 12/04/2016 1:32:31 PM Hi Mikk, Not necessarily: the eight finalists in the Olympics' 100 metres, having trained.....
» 12/04/2016 10:45:19 AM I don't know, maybe he is playing a long game. Perhaps he has a very cunning plan, a bit l.....
» 12/04/2016 10:40:26 AM Bilger is fortunate in having a huge gullible audience on a small island, where people cou.....
» 12/04/2016 8:55:32 AM I'm getting to think that identity politics, rather than promoting inclusion, promotes ext.....
» 11/04/2016 10:38:25 AM Hi Robert, Very cunning - raise your own question, 'What about invading China ?' and then.....
» 11/04/2016 9:17:09 AM Yuyutsu, As you suggest, "If you see someone claiming that they are religious yet pr.....
» 10/04/2016 3:12:16 PM Hi Paul, No, of course not. But on the other hand, I recall that people on the 'Mission' .....
» 10/04/2016 12:38:08 PM Hi Rache, Death cult indeed, yes. And compared to Islam ? As an atheist, my limited under.....
» 9/04/2016 3:09:09 PM Hi Mr Opinion, You may get a kick out of these, from around 1982 I think, on Filipinos fi.....
» 9/04/2016 1:02:43 PM Hi Saltpetre, You suggest, "Why then do you dismiss global warming (or at least an.....
» 9/04/2016 12:37:50 PM Sorry, OTB, those documents were pdf and I'm buggered if I know how to make them readable .....
» 9/04/2016 12:19:58 PM Yuyutsu, For Christ's sake, religion IS ideology. And sometimes ideologies are treated as.....
» 8/04/2016 10:30:52 AM Hi Pete, But you gotta love their Gay version: ttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Saud.....
» 8/04/2016 10:24:28 AM [continued] recognition of traditional use-rights and the ration system cancelled each ot.....
» 8/04/2016 10:22:05 AM Hi Rache, I'm sure like most people, that Aboriginal people suffered in a multitude of wa.....
» 7/04/2016 2:37:50 PM OTB, You may be very interested in these two commentaries on related issues, from a highl.....
» 7/04/2016 1:04:05 PM I suppose there are always two ways to deal with a crisis: blame whoever, Uncle Tom Cobble.....
» 6/04/2016 12:49:13 PM Re this Smallbone Report: In defence of traditional society, abuse and violence are by no.....
» 6/04/2016 10:30:13 AM Lo and behold ! I was talking to a bloke last night from the Adelaide Hills and he just ca.....
» 6/04/2016 10:05:01 AM Gary Johns has a satirical article in today's Australian which reflects the self-indulgenc.....
» 6/04/2016 10:00:51 AM Hi Paul, Thanks, I think. Brisbane probably pips Sydney for Indigenous urban growth: at.....
» 5/04/2016 6:22:22 PM Hi Banjo, Any information I have is very much second-hand these days, as well as what I r.....
» 5/04/2016 8:52:42 AM MrOpinion, Again, that's what I was suggesting. Oy. How were the British to know what the.....
» 5/04/2016 8:39:22 AM Hi Suse, Of course people have stories. But not every story is accurate or true. Surely w.....
» 4/04/2016 9:51:24 PM Hi OTB, If anyone can find the slightest evidence for the Rabbit Fence story, apart from .....
» 4/04/2016 6:27:24 PM Yeah, right. Why didn't Phillip bring a few out to act as a sort of Grand Council - bastar.....
» 4/04/2016 6:23:55 PM Hi AC, I guess you might need some evidence of reported atrocities, if they occurred. It'.....
» 4/04/2016 5:29:52 PM Hi Mr Opinion, Yeah, well, that's what I was suggesting. The British didn't have immediat.....
» 4/04/2016 2:06:44 PM What does it mean to 'own' land ? You can't carry it around. You can't occupy more than pa.....
» 4/04/2016 1:40:37 PM Hi Hasbeen, Is it an Australian thing to pick self-deprecating noms de plume ? In the Pr.....
» 4/04/2016 10:35:08 AM Hi Mr Opinion, Well, no, not any more, and not in a paid capacity for around twenty years.....
» 4/04/2016 10:23:38 AM Hi Paul, I agree that "The Queensland government sitting on the report for years is .....
» 4/04/2016 10:02:06 AM Hi Mr Opinion, In order to comply with your requests, and at the risk of referring in any.....
» 3/04/2016 5:02:38 PM Hi Mr Opinion, "You convince me that you know what you're talking about." I wo.....
» 3/04/2016 2:30:56 PM Hi Mr Opinion, Apart from what you can pick up on that web-site, I'm not sure what you wa.....
» 3/04/2016 1:07:16 PM Hi Mr Opinion, No worries: check out my web-site at www.firstsources.info, you might find.....
» 3/04/2016 1:04:39 PM Hi Minotaur, Okay, I'll take your figures as authoritative. Cheers, Joe.....
» 3/04/2016 12:12:39 PM Mr Opinion, Nope. I still don't understand. Any specifics, beyond "China will refus.....
» 3/04/2016 12:08:33 PM OTB, Am I completely obtuse ? Why can't I come up with anything that might be proposed fo.....
» 3/04/2016 11:45:37 AM Hi Minotaur, The environment of Tasmania is not particularly friendly for hunting and gat.....
» 3/04/2016 11:25:32 AM Hi Mr Opinion, When you suggest that " .... I would have guessed it was coming from .....
» 3/04/2016 9:59:29 AM Hi Minotaur, Okay, you got me there - allowing squatters to move out and grab land would .....
» 3/04/2016 9:10:51 AM Hi Paul, We forget that imperialism was the rule up until very recently, everywhere and a.....
» 2/04/2016 12:42:59 PM Hi Minotaur, I typed up all the letters of the Protector here in SA [on: www.firstsources.....
» 2/04/2016 10:54:23 AM Hi Bazz, You ask, most perceptively: "Isn't it time that aborigines accepted the wo.....
» 2/04/2016 10:09:01 AM Rache, you note that: " .... although aboriginal society had no hierarchy and no sin.....
» 2/04/2016 10:03:03 AM Hi Rache, Where do people get this stuff ? ".... it wasn't long before areas were f.....
» 1/04/2016 5:38:04 PM Dearest Foxy, The Mabo case was very hard-fought, on both sides. If it had been mounted b.....
» 1/04/2016 2:11:40 PM Dearest Foxy, I could be wrong but the earliest reference to 'terra nullius' that I'm awa.....
» 1/04/2016 1:50:21 PM [continued] The wonderful thing about Silver Bullets is that you don't have to think abou.....
» 1/04/2016 1:49:23 PM I had a rather acrimonious discussion with a friend last night about a Treaty: after all, .....
» 1/04/2016 9:42:26 AM [continued] Rache, As you suggest, ".... Aboriginal society had no hierarchy and no.....
» 1/04/2016 9:40:27 AM Hi Rache, Where to start ? No, 'terra nullius' does NOT imply 'empty land'. Get it thro.....
» 31/03/2016 5:29:15 PM [continued] Obviously, in the earliest days, foraging groups - by not settling or staying.....
» 31/03/2016 5:26:43 PM I don't think that Cook ever used the expression 'terra nullius'. I've typed up several th.....
» 31/03/2016 3:23:26 PM Hi OTB, " "What strikes me is that all parties believe fervently in the One Mag.....
» 31/03/2016 10:52:07 AM [continued] Yesterday in The Australian, an article cited another Great Aboriginal Thinke.....
» 31/03/2016 10:46:35 AM Hi Cossomby, OTB & Jodelie, Another article yesterday touched on the split between those.....
» 29/03/2016 9:55:34 AM Hi Sgteele, I was so excited by your post: "That is already happening. For instance.....
» 29/03/2016 9:41:41 AM Jodelie, This article illustrates the variety of Indigenous views on 'Recognise', from a .....
» 28/03/2016 8:05:44 PM Yuyutsu, Pacifists are also protected: even if there were conscription, they may be exemp.....
» 28/03/2016 5:52:26 PM Probably, one day, the enormous advances in driverless cars will be combined with the Uber.....
» 28/03/2016 5:11:30 PM Yuyutsu, " ..... assume for example a peaceful monastery up the hill whose only wish.....
» 28/03/2016 2:14:01 PM Yuyutsu, And is it possible that states in South America need to have more, not less, wid.....
» 28/03/2016 10:34:10 AM Hi Arjay, Perhaps China isn't as flash as you think :) And it's got only ten years or so .....
» 27/03/2016 4:21:33 PM Sorry, Yuyutsu, this discussion has become just too idiotic. Joe.....
» 27/03/2016 1:36:04 PM Thanks, Mr Opinion, that 'Sentinel' site is very informative, for example, Vietnam's optio.....
» 27/03/2016 10:25:59 AM Hi Arjay, You could be right - what's the state of the Chinese economy - the real state o.....
» 27/03/2016 8:37:21 AM Hi Jodelie, I think we really should try to understand as much as possible what is involv.....
» 27/03/2016 8:22:03 AM James, Where to start ? 1. Are Ukrainian troops occupying any part of Russia ? Or the ot.....
» 27/03/2016 8:09:47 AM Yuyutsu, Oy. Can you see that your opinion that states have to "be able to obtain th.....
» 26/03/2016 3:34:12 PM Nice fanciful stuff, Arjay, good to scare the kiddies with. But I agree that ".... .....
» 26/03/2016 2:29:51 PM Hi Arjay, That's the idea. This, from another thread: So China is now threatening Mala.....
» 26/03/2016 11:13:49 AM Hi Mr Opinion, And now Malaysia: http://www.news.com.au/world/beijings-fishing-fleet-as.....
» 26/03/2016 10:14:05 AM Thanks Golem Azoom, Thanks, I'll bear all that in mind. Hi George, Yes, I agree that -.....
» 26/03/2016 9:59:28 AM Hi Aidan, Yes, many very distinct ethnic groups 'look' Chinese. I was in a photocopy room.....
» 26/03/2016 9:48:43 AM Hi Cherful, Russia may not see itself as a strictly European power, more Eurasian: e.g., .....
» 25/03/2016 6:59:16 PM Hi Steele, Yes, my son was an Aboriginal ranger down there in the early nineties. Chine.....
» 25/03/2016 6:54:47 PM McReal, I hope that you are right. Surely, after all the abuse by church personnel, there.....
» 25/03/2016 5:32:44 PM Yuyutsu, Sometimes trying to untangle your non sequiturs seems futile. Still, I'll give i.....
» 25/03/2016 12:16:27 PM Hi Yuyutsu, You're entitled to your opinion as an extreme anarchist. The state protects y.....
» 25/03/2016 11:22:22 AM McReal, I was quoting Foxy, by the way. Yes, state laws do operate in the case of child .....
» 25/03/2016 10:09:11 AM Hi James, History lesson # 1: " Crimea has been part of Russia for centuries, until .....
» 25/03/2016 9:59:44 AM Dearest Foxy, "Peter Costello tells us in his book, "The Costello Memoirs,".....
» 24/03/2016 4:34:25 PM Dear James, So, when Russia invaded Georgia and seized half its territory in 2008, are yo.....
» 24/03/2016 2:09:07 PM While we're being very civil, where is Pericles ? I certainly miss his/her/its erudite and.....
» 24/03/2016 2:05:35 PM Hi Mr Opinion, "Do you think China will be successful in annexing the 80% of the Sou.....
» 24/03/2016 1:58:13 PM Hi McReal, "The proportion of people that are fearful of or irrational about homosex.....
» 24/03/2016 1:51:36 PM McReal, Until now ? Since pedophilia was so wrong in the Catholic system (and it certainl.....
» 24/03/2016 1:48:32 PM Dearest Foxy, Yes, I have to admit I've worked under some utterly incompetent Indigenous .....
» 24/03/2016 9:51:50 AM HI Cossomby & OTB, I suspect that movements stand or fall depending on whether they have .....
» 24/03/2016 9:01:53 AM In the twenties and thirties, there were writers and journalists - even on the Left - who .....
» 24/03/2016 8:47:36 AM Hi Mikk, Marriage entails or affects divorce, widowhood, inheritance and birth, raising a.....
» 23/03/2016 11:56:02 AM Hi John. "Just more Extreme Right wing Rubbish and BS was the usual suspect." .....
» 23/03/2016 10:59:33 AM As readers may know, I don't like personal attacks, I find them so distressing and almost .....
» 23/03/2016 8:05:47 AM Yes, I miss Foxy, I hope she is okay. We need her steadying hand. As for bullying, Suse, .....
» 22/03/2016 10:58:16 PM Hi Wolly, Yes, thanks to our welfare system, and newly-learned techniques of standing ove.....
» 22/03/2016 10:45:07 PM Hi Jules, "Oppose aggression wherever it occurs." Yes, there are many trees to.....
» 22/03/2016 4:27:15 PM Hi Jules, 'Deppity Dawg' - geddit ? Again and again ? Yuk, yuk. Yes, a long time ago. Op.....
» 22/03/2016 4:12:50 PM Hi Wolly, As the Report suggested, yes, that's likely, although it's all a bit academic, .....
» 22/03/2016 11:24:04 AM Hi Wolly, Indigenous women in remote 'communities' certainly don't: "In the Norther.....
» 22/03/2016 10:58:15 AM Thanks Mr. Opinion, We all need to be concerned about this aggression. 'Aggression', Jul.....
» 22/03/2016 10:55:40 AM Hi Rhosty, What minuscule proportion of students are we talking about ? Four per cent ? S.....
» 21/03/2016 10:15:47 PM Hi Jules, No, I wasn't saying that feminists are going into bat for Islam, or Islamism, b.....
» 21/03/2016 5:32:36 PM Ar Goon, 'TO BE ELIMINATED'. Perhaps you could have chosen better words. But even better.....
» 21/03/2016 5:14:32 PM Hi Brock, "Feminism is on a collision cause with radical Islam." Yes, you woul.....
» 21/03/2016 9:03:08 AM Argoon, Wow. Isn't megalomania fun ? What you describe is uncannily like the current str.....
» 21/03/2016 8:40:01 AM Thanks Max, it just goes to show that, no matter what is happening around the world, it's .....
» 20/03/2016 3:48:53 PM Hi Cossomby & OTB, About Aboriginal people and police. In the early sixties, Aboriginal a.....
» 20/03/2016 11:41:08 AM [continued] By the way, a recent ad from the Queensland Government told of a young woman .....
» 20/03/2016 11:15:01 AM Hi Cossomby, We lived for some years in a 'community' on the Murray, and occasionally you.....
» 20/03/2016 10:31:31 AM Hi Mr Opinion, Yes, you're probably right, and it will probably be Vietnam: * it's close.....
» 19/03/2016 10:37:39 PM Hi Suse, Yes, I suppose the vast majority of perpetrators of DV are men with two legs: no.....
» 19/03/2016 3:49:45 PM Come on, you blokes, you know damn well that domestic violence is overwhelmingly an act of.....
» 18/03/2016 3:21:43 PM Hi Killarney and JDJ, I'm sure I'm not alone in not having super: we spent that a long ti.....
» 18/03/2016 2:23:10 PM The Murray estuary has always been more or less salty. When the first missionary, George T.....
» 18/03/2016 2:12:22 PM "Domestic violence does not discriminate" ?! What complete rubbish. Go into the.....
» 18/03/2016 1:43:18 PM Cossomby & OTB, I listened to Stan Grant on Margaret Throsby's program yesterday and I ha.....
» 18/03/2016 9:49:41 AM Hi Mr Opinion, You ask, "Why do you think China is doing this?" Pretty obvious.....
» 17/03/2016 4:34:44 PM Hi Mr Opinion, No, I don't know what ROTFL means either. We seem to have all agreed tha.....
» 17/03/2016 3:56:39 PM Hi Yuyutsu, Yeah, I didn't think of that. But there would be very many Indigenous people,.....
» 17/03/2016 8:13:49 AM Hi Yuyutsu, Okay, 2: 1, with the '1' in favour of almost anything which would break up St.....
» 16/03/2016 10:18:49 AM Thanks for those comments. Wow, 3:0. So 'Recognition' is seen by some as divisive ? Isn'.....
» 15/03/2016 10:57:28 AM With only fourteen months to a possible 'Recognition' referendum, on top of a plebiscite o.....
» 13/03/2016 7:24:20 PM Thanks AC, Saints, and Runner, "No you people are not normal. You are messed up in t.....
» 13/03/2016 1:56:52 PM You learn an amazing amount on OLO, that, for instance, engineers must be the most grindin.....
» 13/03/2016 1:49:04 PM Dearest Foxy, "Today's feminists are women and men of all walks of life who seek to .....
» 12/03/2016 12:49:04 PM Hi Jules, YES ! Yes, yes, yes. Precisely. Exactly. Thank you, thank you. Best wishes, .....
» 12/03/2016 12:20:38 PM Hi OTB, I should have added 'left' and 'Marxist' to the list of words which are defined v.....
» 11/03/2016 9:02:04 PM Hi Jules, Thanks for proving my point. Hi Mr Opinion, No, I'm a one-off. Hi Mikk, .....
» 11/03/2016 8:55:32 PM I OTB, I was trying to differentiate 'radical' from 'progressive' in a way that I could m.....
» 11/03/2016 2:10:19 PM Hi OTB, Well, there's 'radical', and there's 'progressive', in all social fields. I think.....
» 11/03/2016 2:00:58 PM Hi Butch, Yes, when the old age pension was introduced early last century, the average pe.....
» 11/03/2016 1:55:34 PM Hi Mikk, So the Yanks are evil personified ? They are secretly turning Mexicans into dog .....
» 11/03/2016 9:05:02 AM Jules, This article pretty much wraps up the whole debate: http://thediplomat.com/2016/0.....
» 11/03/2016 8:01:02 AM Hi Jules, So what is the US championing in that region ? International law. Isn't that th.....
» 10/03/2016 10:46:09 PM Hi Paul, And just suppose someone did some research and found that you are a distant rela.....
» 10/03/2016 6:00:11 PM Hi Jules, Well, yes but I did also write, "We'll see." Yes, on maps which disp.....
» 10/03/2016 5:14:59 PM Thirty eight years ? Says who ? I know plenty of people my age who did at least forty eigh.....
» 10/03/2016 11:33:43 AM Hi Jayb, Looking back on decades of obsession about Indigenous issues, I agree with you 1.....
» 10/03/2016 11:20:10 AM Hi WFT, There is another reason maybe, but I am fearful of offending some people. Bugge.....
» 10/03/2016 11:04:54 AM Hi Jules, About China's building on reefs and shoals, you ask: "If this is aggressi.....
» 10/03/2016 10:24:01 AM Hi Poirot, Thanks for this article, which is worth repeating: http://www.theherald.com.a.....
» 10/03/2016 10:12:53 AM Hi Cherful, How far back do you want to go ? Syria's history is pretty limitless, with a .....
» 10/03/2016 9:44:31 AM Hi Pogi, Looking back over my own family tree, thanks to that accursed and wonderful Ance.....
» 9/03/2016 5:17:29 PM WFT, You assert that "From 1856 as Australian states became self-governing voting ri.....
» 9/03/2016 4:54:24 PM Hi Mox, Thank you for that official Syrian regime position. So demonstrations across th.....
» 9/03/2016 9:21:12 AM Hi Calwest, You're right ! Nor was that pedophilia the fault of the Romans ! or the Hitti.....
» 8/03/2016 10:46:35 AM Hi Phanto, No, I don't think that sexual abuse or rape are solely or totally or 'simply' .....
» 8/03/2016 9:21:34 AM I'm still enough of a Marxist to take note of Marx's Ele3venth Thesis and to adapt it for .....
» 8/03/2016 8:58:51 AM Hi Phanto, I would respectfully disagree that there is much incidence at all of fathers s.....
» 7/03/2016 4:50:17 PM Hi Jules, Bit of a non sequitur: the Yanks yada yada, all quite true - and China improper.....
» 7/03/2016 2:15:40 PM What have Pell, Ridsdale, Shannon McCoole here in SA, Rotherham, abuse of children in orph.....
» 7/03/2016 1:44:38 PM Hi Jules, So what ? Aggression is aggression, no matter how much territory a country alre.....
» 7/03/2016 12:29:27 PM Yuyutsu, Can you see the contradiction between claiming that you are not in society, and .....
» 7/03/2016 12:22:26 PM What these people on power, protecting other people with power, have done to generations o.....
» 7/03/2016 12:15:16 PM Hi Mr Opinion, I think that Australia will support the international law of the seas, lik.....
» 7/03/2016 11:33:56 AM Hi Paul, Quite amusing really. children love that sort of thing. Yuk yuk. But back to rea.....
» 7/03/2016 11:22:45 AM Hi Mr Opinion, I agree that China may be heading for some very severe internal problems -.....
» 7/03/2016 10:09:53 AM Just found this thread. Gobsmacked. I would have thought that, if 1-2 % of kids in second.....
» 7/03/2016 9:50:53 AM Hi Paul, Why would the US nuke Hanoi ? One major point that you overlook is that the smal.....
» 6/03/2016 12:36:52 PM Hi Josephus, No, I don't think so, considering the influence teachers have on children. .....
» 6/03/2016 10:55:36 AM Yuyutsu, Of course. Now you're being precious. Yes, our lives are finite: we make choic.....
» 6/03/2016 10:34:28 AM One would have thought that one of the most evil consequences of the sexual abuse by Catho.....
» 5/03/2016 6:55:40 PM Hi Paul/Piorit, Not having ever been a Christian, I couldn't possibly comment on whether .....
» 5/03/2016 1:35:40 PM Hi Paul/Piorot, I'm sure that you have something positive to contribute to this discussio.....
» 4/03/2016 8:10:38 PM Hi Saints, The inconvenient fact for many Indigenous organisations is that they actually .....
» 4/03/2016 7:45:25 PM Sorry Yuyutsu, I don't understand why you would want to be locked away from anyone else .....
» 4/03/2016 6:13:33 PM Hi Saints, Power. Power over children. power to do what you like with nobody watching. Ca.....
» 4/03/2016 5:53:53 PM Hi Poirot, That's quite an impressive post. That post is akin to the actions of the swag.....
» 4/03/2016 4:40:17 PM So we've all probably agreed that bullying is wrong, except perhaps Poirot who enjoys it, .....
» 4/03/2016 9:36:52 AM Hi Josephus, I think we may be some way yet from a totalitarian Marxist state. But, as .....
» 4/03/2016 9:25:50 AM Hi Poirot, I think you're right - leave the toilets alone: girls use girls' toilets, boys.....
» 4/03/2016 8:45:09 AM Hi Aidan, They are already built, and standing idle. My point was that, since they are th.....
» 4/03/2016 8:41:48 AM Hi Yuyutsu, I don't know how anyone can 'not be in society' - like it or not, we're all i.....
» 3/03/2016 4:47:03 PM Hi OTB, I suppose we have to constantly fight to maintain the right - of all of us - to f.....
» 3/03/2016 3:00:04 PM Thank you voxUnius, I'm not a supporter of patriarchy, or domestic violence, but I do thi.....
» 3/03/2016 2:36:47 PM Hi Yuyutsu, You make the interesting but debateable point that " .... If one is not .....
» 3/03/2016 12:34:50 PM 'Dangers' of vaccination. Oy......
» 3/03/2016 12:30:44 PM Hi Poirot, [Brief aside: In French, 'chatot' means 'kitten', i.e. from 'chat' - 'cat. So .....
» 3/03/2016 12:16:26 PM Hi Suse, I have to say, from observing the behaviour of many blokes, that I can understan.....
» 3/03/2016 12:05:39 PM Hi Rhosty, I'm certainly not suggesting that expulsions are ever justified, in Palestine .....
» 3/03/2016 9:58:38 AM Thanks Rhosty, very informative and constructive. Cheers, Joe.....
» 3/03/2016 9:17:43 AM Thanks Aidan, Then perhaps we should ask Tim Flannery why they were built in the first pl.....
» 3/03/2016 9:13:20 AM [continued] I suspect that sections of the post-Left are still hooked on the insane notio.....
» 3/03/2016 9:10:31 AM Hi Poirot, This is probably getting off the track, but I would have thought that Marcuse .....
» 3/03/2016 8:06:32 AM Hi AC, One of the bays of the Warragamba Dam, now under water, was named after one of my .....
» 3/03/2016 7:58:01 AM Hi Suse, Intriguing. You rightly suggest, "If these adults want to use whatever th.....
» 2/03/2016 9:35:34 PM Hi Suse, Yes, you're right - why should we care, as long as it's legal ? We don't have to.....
» 2/03/2016 9:30:32 PM Hi Rhosty, Presumably, to " .... be resettled and fully integrated among their fello.....
» 2/03/2016 5:05:37 PM Hi Cherful, I tried that and it didn't work. Australia is a multicultural country in the.....
» 2/03/2016 1:00:55 PM Hi Suse, I was intrigued by your assertion that " ....The adult male penis apparentl.....
» 2/03/2016 11:08:26 AM Hi Rhosty, Perhaps I read David's article differently, but he did advocate that: " .....
» 2/03/2016 10:15:29 AM Hi David T., I don't know how you came to that conclusion from David S.'s article. I thou.....
» 2/03/2016 10:10:16 AM Hi Poirot, I'm sorry about my silly humour, I should realise that OLO is a serious web-si.....
» 2/03/2016 9:38:18 AM Hi Poirot, I didn't say any of us liked getting bullied, just that we've probably all bee.....
» 2/03/2016 8:53:47 AM Hi David, Another question: * What are the boundaries of the 'State of Palestine' and d.....
» 2/03/2016 8:43:42 AM Yuyutsu, Big Nana wrote, " .... I'm not promoting pedophilia, incest or bestiality, .....
» 2/03/2016 8:15:00 AM Hi AC, The morons who devised this idiotic initiative have forgotten that everybody, such.....
» 2/03/2016 8:03:29 AM No worries, Saints :) To get back to topic, sort of, can anybody doubt that the Child Sex.....
» 1/03/2016 5:29:44 PM Rhian and Phanto, " .... lifestyle choice. We can be pretty certain that homosexual .....
» 1/03/2016 12:46:35 PM Hi Cobber, As a sort-of-Marxist atheist, I admire Galileo for his courage in the face of .....
» 1/03/2016 11:11:47 AM Hi Peter, I suppose the bigger the lie, and the more often you tell it, the more it is li.....
» 1/03/2016 10:44:58 AM Hi Peter, So your entire case is built around the improper use of the word 'moron' ? You .....
» 1/03/2016 8:54:56 AM Hi Saints, Senator Peris is a labor Party senator, she is not a government minister. I s.....
» 29/02/2016 1:37:50 PM Hi Cossomby, NO, but you can waltz to it. I just tried marching to it around the room and.....
» 29/02/2016 1:12:50 PM Of course, all bullying is wrong, and teachers should be keeping an eye out on it in the p.....
» 29/02/2016 12:49:01 PM Hi Peter, I don't think anybody here has suggested that the morons who initiated this pro.....
» 29/02/2016 12:40:49 PM 1. My faulty knowledge is that many Chinese are here as students, i.e. temporarily. 2. I.....
» 29/02/2016 12:31:23 PM Hi Rhosty, I'm still trying to get my head around this unbelievably idiotic thought bubbl.....
» 28/02/2016 3:05:16 PM Hi Aidan, "Why do you assume Chinese Australians, unlike other migrant groups, will .....
» 28/02/2016 2:04:58 PM Saints, You do me proud, sir. I dips me lid. Cheers, Joe.....
» 26/02/2016 5:34:41 PM Hi Cossomby, Some of the convicts had a pretty cocky outlook on life. Remember Ned Kelly'.....
» 26/02/2016 4:51:11 PM Hi Suse, Are you suggesting that normal kids don't think about suicide ? This is half the.....
» 26/02/2016 3:48:20 PM Hi Suse, I don't think I linked pedophiles to homosexual men: my point was - perhaps clum.....
» 26/02/2016 1:55:47 PM Hi Rhys, No relation of that wonderful archaeologist ? A truly lovely man. Vale. What m.....
» 26/02/2016 1:14:32 PM Yeah, this should do it: convince young kids with a not-fully-developed notion of reality,.....
» 26/02/2016 9:13:29 AM Hi LEGO, Gary was probably taking for granted that the 'Stolen Generations' myth was just.....
» 26/02/2016 8:39:19 AM Toni, So now we hear that, as part of this indoctrination program, children are ENCOURAGE.....
» 25/02/2016 4:22:06 PM Hi Mox & Geoff, Isn't paranoia fun You make some quite ridiculous assertions and we are s.....
» 25/02/2016 4:12:06 PM I don't see much passing on of 'culture' in families where grog, drugs and violence are th.....
» 25/02/2016 1:15:55 PM Hi Nick, No, they're not islands (though the ABC and SBS seem to have adopted that misnom.....
» 25/02/2016 12:03:25 PM Cobber, Judges are required - given that every decision could set a precedent - to adhere.....
» 25/02/2016 11:42:50 AM Hi Gary, Yes, are children the property of parents, like dogs or cars, or are they the re.....
» 25/02/2016 9:42:32 AM Hi Nick, Yeah, and what did the Hittites ever do for us ? How far back do you want to go.....
» 25/02/2016 9:28:56 AM Hi again OTB, But I would respectfully disagree with you over the importance of the Abori.....
» 24/02/2016 10:32:06 PM Hi Toni, Commiserations. Anyway, you suggest that " ..... indoctrinating children .....
» 24/02/2016 9:02:16 PM Toni, //What pedophile dreamt this up ?// I rest my case. That plebiscite result will b.....
» 24/02/2016 3:49:34 PM Is there really more bullying these days than back in the fifties and sixties and seventie.....
» 24/02/2016 3:09:37 PM Hi Mox, Do they allow supervised visits ? If you're locked up anywhere near Adelaide, I w.....
» 24/02/2016 2:12:16 PM Hi Yuyutsu, I have a nice bit of land out beyond Oodnadatta that you might like. No neigh.....
» 24/02/2016 2:05:58 PM Yuyutsu, "The ones who force the issue of state-sponsored homosexual marriage and in.....
» 24/02/2016 9:06:49 AM In all Middle Eastern countries, and many others besides, there is a multitude of differe3.....
» 24/02/2016 8:31:30 AM [continued] And don't worry about contradictions: we can push for the break-down of Weste.....
» 24/02/2016 8:28:55 AM Hi Toni, Poor child ! To answer your bafflement, in short words, one can simply ask, what.....
» 24/02/2016 8:06:59 AM Hi Toni, I suppose time has ensured that, like it or not, I have become an old prick. But.....
» 23/02/2016 5:30:34 PM Just a word of caution. Parallel to this initiative, the Indigenous 'Recognition' push wi.....
» 23/02/2016 3:55:56 PM A propos of the fragmentary nature of tribal societies, particularly in relation to Muslim.....
» 23/02/2016 3:18:52 PM Hi Jules Imp., I couldn't put it better myself - it deserves repeating: "Islam is a.....
» 23/02/2016 12:40:20 PM Hi OTB, Yes, I'm certainly not interested in 'unity' around phony issues - that way lies .....
» 23/02/2016 11:35:29 AM Hi OTB, Some people compare the post-war immigration to Australia with what has been happ.....
» 23/02/2016 11:25:54 AM Hi Tristan, In the best of all possible worlds, you might be right. But looking at the fr.....
» 23/02/2016 11:17:20 AM Hi OTB, I'm all for whatever strengthen the cohesion and unity of Indigenous people, prov.....
» 23/02/2016 9:27:37 AM Hi Banjo, Speaking of fragmentation: Noel Pearson has understandably advocated the teachi.....
» 23/02/2016 9:13:46 AM "A couple of Pakistanis" ? No, Iftikhar, we will never forget Rotherham, which m.....
» 23/02/2016 8:44:32 AM Hi Mox, Murdoch is Jewish ? Wikipedia says, "Murdoch was born Keith Rupert Murdoch .....
» 23/02/2016 8:37:20 AM Iftikhar, Malala is a young woman who campaign for women's education and was shot in the .....
» 23/02/2016 8:27:05 AM Hi Mox, I suppose if you repeat lies often enough, someone once said, people will start t.....
» 23/02/2016 8:17:35 AM Iftikhar, This shouldn't be an issue, even in Britain where you are - everybody who inten.....
» 22/02/2016 11:10:21 PM Hi Mox, I'm not clear about what you mean by "strongly Zionist influenced Western Ma.....
» 22/02/2016 9:00:16 PM Julian Imp., Hyperbole is so much fun, isn't it ? "Endless slaughter .... " Ye.....
» 22/02/2016 5:06:29 PM Hi Banjo, On balance, I'm not so sure that Indigenous people have lost out from being bro.....
» 22/02/2016 2:16:40 PM Is this racism ? A friend was telling me that, one evening a few weeks back, after work w.....
» 22/02/2016 8:57:02 AM Hi Suse, Last Thursday, you suggested: ".... I would vote for recognition of the In.....
» 20/02/2016 2:59:11 PM Hi Suse, Anybody, or any body like the Catholic Church, is as entitled to its opinion as .....
» 20/02/2016 2:33:34 PM Hi Bugsy, Sin ? I'm all for all sorts of sin, of many pleasurable kinds, but I suppose to.....
» 20/02/2016 2:08:39 PM So, what's normal ? How do you distinguish between 'legal' and 'normal' ? How do you disti.....
» 20/02/2016 12:11:16 PM Yuyutsu, I think you're having us on; nobody could that bloody short-sighted and egocentr.....
» 20/02/2016 11:58:19 AM Hi ttbn, Yes, as an ex-Marxist and atheist, I was puzzled about that Tasmanian case - aft.....
» 20/02/2016 9:43:25 AM There are half a dozen major articles in today's Australian dealing with crucial Indigenou.....
» 20/02/2016 9:24:47 AM As Hugo Rifkind wrote a week or two ago, we can have all the fascinating different foods, .....
» 20/02/2016 9:13:30 AM Hi Toni, No, not all ratbags are commies: but in relation to Gramsci, check out Chris Uhr.....
» 19/02/2016 4:29:03 PM Shari'a law penalises women. Under Shari'a, women can inherit only half what a man can i.....
» 19/02/2016 4:16:09 PM Hi Rhosty, As an ex-Marxist, I see clear connections between this idiocy and the Gramscia.....
» 19/02/2016 4:09:23 PM Hi Yuyutsu, Okay, you got me there - states hold the land from God. We hold it, on precis.....
» 19/02/2016 2:32:17 PM Hi Yuyutsu, Any state in its right mind - including the states of Australia - exerts the .....
» 19/02/2016 8:59:18 AM Hi Yuyutsu, I want to give your proposals the attention they deserve. .... .... .... .....
» 19/02/2016 8:55:20 AM uyutsu, " .... we call something "true" when it authentically corresponds .....
» 18/02/2016 5:30:49 PM A meeting was held last week, I think in Newcastle, with four hundred Indigenous people as.....
» 18/02/2016 5:07:40 PM H Yuyutsu, "Only science has the facts, but truth is not about facts." That's .....
» 17/02/2016 8:50:54 PM Josephus, Thank you, that makes more sense. Joseph was mature-aged when he married Mary, .....
» 17/02/2016 5:28:31 PM Time is running out to hold a Referendum on Indigenous recognition by May 27 next year, fi.....
» 17/02/2016 5:22:58 PM How many rounds do you reckon there are in sheds across Australia ? That horse has bolted.....
» 17/02/2016 12:15:05 PM Hi O Sung Wu, Around three-quarters of the Indigenous population live in urban areas. Per.....
» 17/02/2016 8:47:20 AM Hi Josephus, The notion of human virgin birth, in the case of Mary/Miriam, is quite confu.....
» 17/02/2016 8:07:15 AM Hi Paul, "Even the most ardent supporters of Indigenous Australians would never seri.....
» 16/02/2016 10:02:07 PM Hi Aidan, So all people, refugees and economic migrants, have to do is fly to Port Moresb.....
» 16/02/2016 4:32:24 PM Hi David, But they might have done a lot more for China. I have vague memories of stories.....
» 16/02/2016 4:25:26 PM Hi Brock, My ancestors, as far as I can tell, are from all corners of the British Isles, .....
» 16/02/2016 4:17:45 PM Hi David, Well, what did the Manichaeans ever do for us ? Joe.....
» 16/02/2016 12:03:15 PM [continued] period. 'Leaders appointing dedicated staff' ….. ah, there's the rub: they wo.....
» 16/02/2016 10:41:07 AM Hi Suse, “And let's be honest here, how many jobs for Indigenous people are out there, ev.....
» 16/02/2016 9:48:16 AM Hi Mr Opinion, So God needs to know the time like the rest of those she has created in he.....
» 15/02/2016 10:58:12 PM Mr Opinion, Sorry God, I tried. You know best......
» 15/02/2016 4:26:28 PM Hi Pete, " .... one does one hears about joint Mossad, Israeli NSA ops to bug the co.....
» 15/02/2016 4:15:43 PM Hi Toni, "What sort of halfwit doesn't know that liquids aren't compressible and hir.....
» 15/02/2016 3:49:06 PM Hi Bugsy, Well, he did all the modelling first. But GIGO, eventually. Cheers, Joe.....
» 15/02/2016 3:46:08 PM Hi runner, Brilliant idea !! Perhaps, once in Raqqa, the Get-Up people could campaign for.....
» 15/02/2016 3:30:45 PM Hi Divergence, You may be onto something. Until now I've thought of Trump as some sort of.....
» 15/02/2016 3:00:17 PM Hi ttbn, Are you referring to the invasion of Iraq ? Yes, I agree, up to a point: al Qa'i.....
» 15/02/2016 2:39:16 PM Hi Mr Opinion, Perhaps because there wasn't one. We've had an infinite number of big bang.....
» 15/02/2016 2:11:12 PM Well, that's gravity for you, Cossomby :).....
» 15/02/2016 2:09:22 PM Aidan, Milk is mostly water. You can't compress water. You can make a living out of tryin.....
» 15/02/2016 2:05:56 PM [continued] Perhaps you are at least partly right - that must be a demoralising life. Per.....
» 15/02/2016 2:05:20 PM Hi Paul, Aboriginal people in remote areas are usually on their own land. Often, they've .....
» 15/02/2016 10:55:41 AM Hi Bernie, Yeah, I had an engineer friend (true !) who was desperately looking for employ.....
» 15/02/2016 10:49:08 AM Hi Suse, This year, around eighteen thousand Indigenous people will be enrolled at univer.....
» 15/02/2016 10:20:04 AM A gravity wave billions of years away, and 1000th of the width of a proton, may not sound .....
» 15/02/2016 9:59:13 AM Hi Big Mac, Don't you love that logic: "They act in every way exactly like the Nazi.....
» 15/02/2016 9:50:08 AM Thanks, Sara, that certainly needed to be said: that the money and jobs etc. go to those w.....
» 14/02/2016 8:58:12 AM HI SM, "There has never in history when the Arabs have not been killing or persecuti.....
» 14/02/2016 8:34:51 AM Hi Suse and Paul, Yes, it's not nice that so many people have guns. Terrible. So dangerou.....
» 13/02/2016 12:43:55 PM In these times of probable terrorist attacks anywhere in the world at any time, including .....
» 13/02/2016 12:38:43 PM For anybody interested in the ingenuity and artistry of traditional Aboriginal society, th.....
» 13/02/2016 10:25:59 AM G'day Aidan, Why stop at B ? My A to E options were not options for any government to con.....
» 12/02/2016 8:55:14 PM [continued] Meanwhile, around one hundred and twenty thousand Indigenous people have been.....
» 12/02/2016 8:52:16 PM Hi Paul, I checked out that SMH item: http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-.....
» 12/02/2016 4:11:37 PM Hi Poida, Well, I didn't want to get too detailed or accurate, and incur the wrath of the.....
» 12/02/2016 4:04:28 PM Before John Bilger writes a joint article with Waleed Aly for the ever-gullible British au.....
» 12/02/2016 3:17:17 PM Hey, what happened to all the anti-Semitics ? Waiting for instructions from the extreme ri.....
» 12/02/2016 2:33:17 PM Okay, let's go through it all again, from A to Z - pick your preferred position: A. The .....
» 12/02/2016 2:21:10 PM Hi SM, I think you're right up to a point: even if they perceived that hunter-gatherers d.....
» 12/02/2016 2:06:05 PM Hi Aidan, Fantastic ! Just wonderful ! The Colbungs have always been get-up-and-go. This .....
» 12/02/2016 1:46:19 PM Dearest Foxy, I don't want to make this discussion simply about Gay marriage, but since s.....
» 12/02/2016 9:43:32 AM Hi Rhosrty, I agree: "Stop with the endless prevarication and just do what must be d.....
» 12/02/2016 9:21:20 AM Hi Toni, Yes, prohibition may work with many people, but perhaps precisely the 'wrong' on.....
» 12/02/2016 9:14:04 AM Dearest, sweet Foxy, Ah, so innocent, so trusting. So what terrible impositions are place.....
» 12/02/2016 9:02:23 AM [continued] Surely 'self-determination' and 'empowerment' require the agency of the peopl.....
» 12/02/2016 8:56:03 AM Hi Pail, With respect, you are not saying anything new. Nobody is. And this is part of th.....
» 11/02/2016 5:42:29 PM Dearest Foxy, Well, yes, I suppose that's what being married means. My point is that, onc.....
» 11/02/2016 4:38:49 PM Hi Toni, Limit the number of arms ? Certainly, make sure that any new applicants have psy.....
» 11/02/2016 2:21:44 PM You frequent the same club rooms, Misopinion ? In the current march through the instituti.....
» 11/02/2016 9:59:03 AM Hi James, “The only viable solution that I can see is one secular state with all its resi.....
» 11/02/2016 8:55:32 AM There are more than three hundred million guns in people's hands in the US. With every mas.....
» 11/02/2016 8:46:19 AM [continued] fracture, fragment, with large sections, mainly in the cities, simply fading.....
» 11/02/2016 8:42:46 AM [continued] until much later, and not without political resistance. I suppose, legally, t.....
» 11/02/2016 8:38:42 AM Hi Paul, Thanks for some very thoughtful suggestions. Yes, the British claimed sovereig.....
» 10/02/2016 5:50:37 PM Hi Couchpotato, Israel has offered recognition to Palestine several times since 1990, on .....
» 10/02/2016 5:32:31 PM Hi James, Voltaire, you, sorry. Giraldi is not your typical Conservative either. He cite.....
» 10/02/2016 2:06:19 PM Fourth post, I think. Derarest Foxy, Even though you " .... don't want to make this.....
» 10/02/2016 1:57:47 PM Hi Phillip, I should imagine that the Queen, and the G-G, would both have teams of lawyer.....
» 10/02/2016 1:50:51 PM YUyutsu, "What, below or above the earth, gives a group of people, calling themselve.....
» 10/02/2016 1:21:05 PM Dearest Foxy, Even though you " .... don't want to make this discussion simply about.....
» 10/02/2016 1:03:02 PM Hi Toni, Although I'm not a Christian, or perhaps because I'm not one, I don't know about.....
» 10/02/2016 11:28:28 AM Hi Paul, ".... once the British got their act together in the 1840s, they recognise.....
» 10/02/2016 11:16:47 AM Dearest Foxy, Gosh, I'm glad that you " .... don't want to make this discussion simp.....
» 10/02/2016 11:07:41 AM Yuyutsu, There is no such thing as a 'natural owner'. All of your premises are faulty, so.....
» 10/02/2016 11:03:50 AM Hi CDavid, I agree that " .... Such treaties are meaningless as I suspect would be a.....
» 10/02/2016 10:28:14 AM Hi Toni, Innovative tu quoque argument, Toni. It means 'you too' or 'so are you' or 'nyah.....
» 10/02/2016 10:11:01 AM Armchair, I'm terribly sorry: Salaam then. Is that permitted ? But not 'shalom' ? [Explet.....
» 10/02/2016 9:53:02 AM Ah dearest Foxy, Pea-and-thimble trick ? Definitional slides galore ? But 'marriages' ? I.....
» 10/02/2016 9:38:12 AM [continued] Clearly, British law did not recognise that Indigenous people farmed, or cult.....
» 10/02/2016 9:34:38 AM Hi mhaze, Across most of Australia, and perhaps a major portion of the total Aboriginal p.....
» 10/02/2016 9:01:22 AM Hi Jayb, Surely Yuyutsu is not proposing that, if anybody such as Muslims, don't vote for.....
» 10/02/2016 8:26:27 AM George, A Palestinian peace activist: unless you mean someone who is prepared to recognis.....
» 10/02/2016 8:06:45 AM Governments govern, heads of state keep them in check, playing a sort of night-watchman ro.....
» 10/02/2016 7:55:19 AM Hi Paul, I love those pea-and-thimble tricks, those definitional slides: "If science.....
» 10/02/2016 7:42:56 AM H Yuyutsu, Nice try. "How can there be non-members of a democratic state? -Why, ther.....
» 9/02/2016 9:58:53 PM Hi Yuyutsu, There must be some confusion here. Within a state, at least a democratic stat.....
» 9/02/2016 2:49:53 PM Dearest Foxy, You suggest that " .... it is important therefore, that we recognise t.....
» 9/02/2016 11:32:47 AM [continued] Yes, perhaps in a Hobbesian world of power going to the most brutal, rape wou.....
» 9/02/2016 11:15:48 AM Dearest Foxy, You started off this thread writing " .... I don't want to make this d.....
» 9/02/2016 10:46:58 AM I'm surprised that nobody has started a thread about the QUT debacle. Indigenous support.....
» 9/02/2016 9:00:14 AM Hi Don, 0.8 degrees per century doesn't sound all that much. Is that what all this has be.....
» 9/02/2016 8:39:06 AM Hi again Yuyutsu, Sorry, I have a very poor attention sp You suggest that " .... in.....
» 9/02/2016 8:13:12 AM Hi Yuyutsu, Sorry, you wrote 'true purchase', my old eyes misread it. No, you still don.....
» 9/02/2016 8:05:20 AM Thanks Julian, That really clarifies the dividing line between threats, incitement, vilif.....
» 8/02/2016 4:46:42 PM Hi YEBIGA, Describing Assange as a scumbag ? If it's proven that he has improperly treate.....
» 8/02/2016 4:30:18 PM Hi Pete, Hey, what if our government re-named the Pacific the 'Great Australian Ocean' - .....
» 8/02/2016 4:15:12 PM YYT, " ..... From its inception, the state gave away in lease to those it favoured w.....
» 8/02/2016 1:44:20 PM Yuyutsu, If you don't want anything to do with the state, then don't buy or lease any of.....
» 8/02/2016 11:45:31 AM Hi JDBW, So you're assuming that Assange doesn't have any charges that he has to answer ?.....
» 8/02/2016 11:35:14 AM Hi Banjo, Yes, under Shari'a law, a woman cannot refuse her husband, ever. Yet another pr.....
» 8/02/2016 9:56:09 AM There's an enormous amount of ignorance of South-East Asian history in China's claims. Tra.....
» 8/02/2016 9:32:57 AM Hi Yuyutsu, Yep, that's how it is. 'Owning' a bit of land gives the 'owner' merely a limi.....
» 8/02/2016 9:08:44 AM Spot-on, CHERFUL ! It baffles me that, if some bunch of bikies were found to be in the ha.....
» 8/02/2016 8:55:20 AM The legal position regarding what one can do with 'one's' land has to take into account th.....
» 8/02/2016 8:27:02 AM Hi YEBIGA, Concerning your strange suggestion about " .... all the laws we need long.....
» 7/02/2016 10:40:44 PM Hi Polpak, Before Federation, Aboriginal people in every State were counted if they got r.....
» 7/02/2016 12:34:29 PM HI AJ, Thank you for your gracious response. Yes, I'm probably a bit biased, but biased b.....
» 7/02/2016 10:17:30 AM Hi YEBIGA, The US hasn't laid charges against Assange yet. So perhaps it's a bit paranoid.....
» 7/02/2016 9:24:01 AM Hi Paul, Whenever there is any suggestion in Australia for New Zealand and Australia to b.....
» 7/02/2016 9:16:34 AM YEBIGA, You might be thinking of a different person: Assange hasn't been charged yet with.....
» 7/02/2016 9:09:37 AM Hi AJ, No need to be so tactful, let it all out :) But I was quite hurt to be called righ.....
» 6/02/2016 9:54:35 PM Hi Paul, Isn't New Zealand so beautiful ? I remember driving over the hill to Hokianga an.....
» 6/02/2016 12:54:35 PM Dearest Foxy, Why Sweden's Chief Prosecutor has refused to go to London to interview Assa.....
» 6/02/2016 12:39:21 PM [continued] If anything, the Indigenous population has risen since 1971, to a large exten.....
» 6/02/2016 12:38:08 PM [continued] of the 'highest' numbers given the alternations of droughts and good times. .....
» 6/02/2016 11:35:03 AM God, I'm a slow learner. For the last few years, I've been trying to map the droughts ac.....
» 5/02/2016 10:58:33 PM Hi Paul, I hope that tomorrow is a very fulfilling and rewarding Waitangi Day ! I've been.....
» 5/02/2016 3:38:52 PM So why didn't he front up to court and point all that out ? He would have been a genuine h.....
» 5/02/2016 3:11:09 PM Hi Misanthrope, No, not the English embassy (in England ?!) - the Ecuadorian embassy. He .....
» 5/02/2016 1:47:11 PM Hi Paul, I'm puzzled .... who was detaining him in the Ecuadorian Embassy ? The Ecuadoria.....
» 5/02/2016 10:04:37 AM In Assange's defence, Why do all the rednecks keep picking on Assange ? The man's an obv.....
» 5/02/2016 9:58:33 AM AJ, "<<Homosexuals are not 'vilified'>> "Yes, they are. They’re to.....
» 5/02/2016 9:50:27 AM It's the centre, stupid. Rubio vs Booker vs Bloomberg. It's possible. Hi Pete, Why do a.....
» 4/02/2016 3:07:14 PM Hi Plerdsus, You may have hit upon a sure-fire political agenda - treble government expen.....
» 4/02/2016 11:40:38 AM Hi Paul, Earlier, you noted, " Respect plays an important part in Maori culture, r.....
» 4/02/2016 11:25:44 AM Hi Suse, Sorry, perhaps I interpreted your comments wrongly, as implying that criticism o.....
» 4/02/2016 11:15:26 AM Jayb, I'm honoured to take the credit for Voter's post. You do me proud :) In case some.....
» 4/02/2016 9:54:55 AM Perhaps not, LEGO - it could come down to a contest between Rubio and a Democrat as yet un.....
» 4/02/2016 9:42:30 AM Thanks Killarney and LEGO, I was struggling to find some way to attribute the mass assaul.....
» 4/02/2016 8:56:50 AM Hi Suse, You're as entitled as anybody else to express your opinions. I hope you always c.....
» 3/02/2016 5:47:17 PM Minotaur, I did write: "I should clarify that I do think it's very likely that a ra.....
» 3/02/2016 1:08:58 PM Hi Cobber, "Loudmouth the Christians are burning witches in Africa and other places .....
» 3/02/2016 12:55:13 PM Suse, Straw man ? " .... a liar looking for any reason to vilify all Muslims for th.....
» 3/02/2016 11:08:33 AM I thought rape was a crime of violence. At least, if the bastard is non-Muslim. And that t.....
» 3/02/2016 10:59:41 AM Suseonline, "We would be better off without organized religions at all". And am.....
» 3/02/2016 10:45:13 AM [continued] I wonder if people think, well, there HAD to be massacres, because the pastor.....
» 3/02/2016 10:38:18 AM Hi Minotaur, Greg Lehman's review of Clements, in 'Aboriginal History', Vol. 39, 2015, ma.....
» 3/02/2016 10:09:08 AM In today's Australian, Hugo Rifkind (who I always thought was on the left?) wrote along th.....
» 2/02/2016 9:42:47 PM Not really, Suse. Perhaps what appals most of us blokes on this thread is the shocking ma.....
» 2/02/2016 8:11:13 PM Minotaur, I should clarify that I do think it's very likely that a range of killings took.....
» 2/02/2016 5:07:22 PM Minotaur, Well, it's been ten years since I read Windschuttle's first volume. So just ove.....
» 2/02/2016 11:42:22 AM Hi Cobber, Yes, we should condemn philosophies that are primitive, thousands of years old.....
» 2/02/2016 11:12:44 AM Suse, I suppose we should be grateful that at least somebody who purports to be an ex-fem.....
» 2/02/2016 9:19:38 AM Surely one has to pursue the truth, no matter what ? And certainly when so many women have.....
» 2/02/2016 9:11:04 AM [continued] couple of thousand letters from the four or five superintendents between 1880.....
» 2/02/2016 9:08:33 AM Minotaur, I know you won't but you could have a look at Windschuttle's massive book on Ta.....
» 1/02/2016 10:49:58 PM Hi John Big Mac, I moved with my wife and kids over to New Zealand back in 1969 for a cou.....
» 1/02/2016 4:04:29 PM Hi Aka, You assert: " Indigenous Australians are very smart and learn quickly, and o.....
» 1/02/2016 3:33:37 PM Hi Minotaur, Welcome to your introduction to Indigenous history. [This is my third attemp.....
» 1/02/2016 2:51:22 PM [continued] That's how it was. A very ingenious people with incredibly limited technology.....
» 1/02/2016 2:48:38 PM AJ, You're asking, did any of these occur ? - anally penetrate young boys as a part of t.....
» 1/02/2016 9:52:46 AM AJ, Wow, I haven't heard or read that term 'full-blood' except in its contextualised form.....
» 31/01/2016 1:35:27 PM AJ, Perhaps you need to read more, learn more, if you want to make any thoughtful contrib.....
» 30/01/2016 10:10:09 AM [continued] The mere presence of whites, the ration system, horses, ships, clothing, toba.....
» 30/01/2016 10:07:01 AM AJ, Where to start ? is there any point ? Yes, of course, even casting pearls before swin.....
» 29/01/2016 1:51:05 PM Hi Aj, Where to start ? Here's as good as any: " .... But I’m more interested in th.....
» 29/01/2016 10:10:34 AM AJ, " .... trying to portray Indigenous Australians as hopeless.... " Why even.....
» 29/01/2016 10:01:38 AM Hi AJ, The term "cultural dispossession." has been around for a very long time,.....
» 29/01/2016 9:23:06 AM Hi AJ. If you read Radcliffe-Brown's exposition on the Aboriginal population, you may und.....
» 28/01/2016 3:05:05 PM Hi again Cossomby, Yes, whether we've ever been in business or not, we probably don't rea.....
» 28/01/2016 2:51:19 PM Hi Runner, As you suggest, some people .... feed the aboriginals the usual (whites stole .....
» 28/01/2016 2:39:12 PM Hi Drab, Jeez, I thought I had a self-effacing pen-name: I'm sure you're not ! In SA and.....
» 28/01/2016 12:23:21 PM Hi Paul, Indigenous people are as intelligent as anybody else. Keep that in mind. By av.....
» 28/01/2016 10:04:26 AM Thirty billion gets spent each year on Indigenous welfare. Tell me about disadvantage. Ye.....
» 28/01/2016 9:47:59 AM Hi Paul, Sorry, what's your point ? People commit offences, they face the consequences. S.....
» 28/01/2016 9:34:22 AM Hi AJ, Yes, he is cited in that Kinfu article, page 2, about two-thirds of the way down: .....
» 28/01/2016 9:14:53 AM Hi paul, Two months, three months, whatever. What's the incubation period for smallpox ? .....
» 27/01/2016 10:21:19 PM Sorry, Cossomby, I meant Mr Opinionated. Cheers, Joe.....
» 27/01/2016 10:15:12 PM Hi AJ, One of your sources suggests " .... The estimates varied from a minimum figur.....
» 27/01/2016 8:33:07 PM Cossomby, you wouldhave no idea; sorry. prigyb, You declaim about " .... the peopl.....
» 27/01/2016 8:23:20 PM Hi AJ, Those figures are quite ludicrous. Even Butlin didn't float off into the ether wit.....
» 27/01/2016 7:00:09 PM Misopinion, 'Hidden' ? If you check out my web-site, www.fitstsourcves.info, you'll find .....
» 27/01/2016 6:57:49 PM pribyg, 1. No. 2. No. 3. Yes, pretty much, all things considered. 4-7. A bit of a sid.....
» 27/01/2016 4:25:45 PM Good onya, Pete :).....
» 27/01/2016 12:42:49 PM Jayb, "Don't clean their yards or house of rubbish." Don't you realise that it.....
» 27/01/2016 11:33:15 AM Actually, Paul, that's an interesting point: there don't appear to have been ANY other out.....
» 27/01/2016 11:24:37 AM Paul, The First Fleet left England on 13 May 1787. It arrived in Australia 18 January 178.....
» 27/01/2016 11:13:54 AM Henry Ergas put it succinctly last weekend about Trump: he quoted the philosopher Groucho .....
» 27/01/2016 11:09:42 AM Misopinion, "The whites have stolen their land, raped their women, murdered their me.....
» 27/01/2016 9:14:29 AM Yprgb, Isn't hyperbole fun ? "New diseases killed hundreds of thousands, greedy squa.....
» 27/01/2016 8:52:13 AM HI Jayb, Give Gooda time, he'll come up with something really substantial. Nah, just ki.....
» 27/01/2016 8:33:05 AM Hi Paul, A series of long bows ? 1. Did any passengers or crew or convicts pick up small.....
» 26/01/2016 5:46:07 PM Hi Arjay, Perhaps you're right, we're soooooo powerful, but sooooooo bad, we can push peo.....
» 26/01/2016 5:32:39 PM In relation to the US - this might be a terribly cynical thing to say - but people get the.....
» 26/01/2016 4:08:53 PM Hi Is Mise, Down here in SA, there seemed to be a common pattern: * groups would come d.....
» 26/01/2016 1:24:58 PM Hi Pete, Yeah, I can top that: [curse you, Ancestry.com ! ] I had a gr-gr-gr-grandfather,.....
» 26/01/2016 1:00:48 PM OTB, Aidan, That reference to a smallpox outbreak in 1789: smallpox has a definite incuba.....
» 25/01/2016 7:27:01 PM Hi Foxy, Four thousand years ago, the ancient Hebrews, along with the ancient Babylonians.....
» 25/01/2016 4:11:35 PM Hi Rhosty, Maybe we should be working towards genuine recognition and reconciliation: *.....
» 25/01/2016 12:12:14 PM [continued] I think that traditionally, young children were not exactly highly valued - t.....
» 25/01/2016 12:01:57 PM Hi Bernie, A review of that book by the 'Blind Moses', Tjalkabota (1927), is available on.....
» 25/01/2016 10:59:04 AM Thanks, George, I'll have to use that - 'maximum-generation Australians.' But so many I.....
» 25/01/2016 10:05:14 AM Hi David, I was just looking at the NT Census figures going back to 1971, and trying to a.....
» 25/01/2016 8:51:43 AM Hi David, I don't know what you mean by 'the dumb ones' - working people don't need - and.....
» 24/01/2016 12:11:27 PM Hi SoG, I haven't said anything about massacres, yet. Of course, they probably occurred, .....
» 24/01/2016 10:38:56 AM [continued] Then you write, " .... the elders would not submit and were murdered ind.....
» 24/01/2016 10:37:35 AM Hi SoG, I would strongly dispute much of what you write. Where to start ? First off, let.....
» 24/01/2016 10:11:00 AM [continued] Altogether, the total Indigenous population may not have risen, on average, m.....
» 24/01/2016 10:08:35 AM Looking at those adjusted figures, what struck me first was the likelihood that there were.....
» 24/01/2016 8:15:20 AM Dearest Foxy, Aboriginal women had the vote in South Australia from 1894, before women ha.....
» 23/01/2016 5:51:19 PM Hi Steve, When you write " .... Surely their are many ideas worth debating, worth su.....
» 23/01/2016 5:31:02 PM [continued] kids at a mission were from different groups and, although they spoke English.....
» 23/01/2016 5:27:01 PM Hi SoG, One day, we'll all have to debate in real depth about the benefits and losses for.....
» 23/01/2016 12:42:47 PM Jayb, What, King Arthur is just an allegory ?! But what about the sword in the lake stuff.....
» 23/01/2016 10:58:42 AM Dearest Foxy, Oy. Myths and legends and fairy tales are not necessarily true. They are 'e.....
» 23/01/2016 10:36:42 AM Hi Foxy, "We need to face up to our history, to embrace the past in all its aspects,.....
» 23/01/2016 8:49:31 AM Dear Foxy, A bit disappointing: " .... You believe what you believe - I heard too ma.....
» 22/01/2016 5:48:33 PM In their fascinating book, 'The Invention of Tradition', Terence Ranger and Eric Hobsbawm .....
» 22/01/2016 5:30:06 PM Jeez, Is Mise, Now you've got me salivating, achin' for bacon ! And Polish sausage ! And .....
» 22/01/2016 3:40:29 PM Foxy, "Just take the time to do the research." Thank you, Foxy. What do you .....
» 22/01/2016 2:17:38 PM Question from a real dumb-arse: * if none of us ate pork or beef or chicken or lamb, who.....
» 22/01/2016 2:07:57 PM Dearest Foxy, As you say, " .... we should not deride the evidence .... " But .....
» 22/01/2016 10:25:45 AM Dearest Foxy, I most respectfully disagree: " .... the question is no longer what we.....
» 22/01/2016 9:34:26 AM Hi Nick, You airily suggest: "Clergy didn't organise killing parties , it was police.....
» 22/01/2016 8:44:42 AM Hi Nick, Where to start ? Austronesian traders were taking goods from PNG and - probably.....
» 22/01/2016 8:21:40 AM Hi Suse, I wouldn't worry if I were you, it's all a circus, and there are obviously plent.....
» 21/01/2016 10:42:43 AM Hi Divergence, Still trying to untangle that one :) Are you saying that you would vote f.....
» 21/01/2016 10:10:43 AM Hi SM, No, of course not, and I don't think it will happen like that. It's possible that .....
» 21/01/2016 9:53:52 AM Hi Divergence, Trump may seem like a fool to say such rude things about Blacks, Hispanic.....
» 21/01/2016 8:29:39 AM Hi Robert, Being a bit partial to conspiracy theories, I wouldn't mind betting that Hilla.....
» 20/01/2016 2:14:12 PM Lamb .... mmmmmmm Or maybe bacon ........mmmmmmmm Or pork chops ........ mmmmmmmm Chi.....
» 20/01/2016 1:25:08 PM Hi Foxy, One case ? Eight years ago ? Gosh. How many kids have been pulled up for carryin.....
» 20/01/2016 12:57:35 PM Dearest Foxy, You suggest that ' .... in school where other children who have no concept .....
» 20/01/2016 12:25:41 PM Dearest Foxy, Almost all the Indigenous people I know couldn't give a toss about Australi.....
» 20/01/2016 12:17:53 PM Dearest Foxy, Until Sikhs start stabbing old women and young pregnant women in the back w.....
» 20/01/2016 12:08:33 PM Hi David, Pastoralists have needed, and used, Aboriginal labour from the beginning. This .....
» 20/01/2016 10:52:49 AM Suse, As you say, "Is it the Indigenous people's fault if some Caucasian people pass.....
» 20/01/2016 9:27:41 AM In the more remote areas, there is very little inter-marriage between Indigenous and non-I.....
» 20/01/2016 9:03:33 AM Paul, You wrote: "Mother Teresa was greatly admired, no doubt about that, but hardly.....
» 20/01/2016 8:58:20 AM Paul and Suse, I could be wrong but my understanding is that there were nine or ten times.....
» 19/01/2016 5:21:15 PM G'day Jayb, Good point. But I was watching an SBS program last night about a group in Eth.....
» 19/01/2016 4:31:33 PM Thanks O Sung Wu, That was an amazing generation, wasn't it ? Maybe born before or during.....
» 19/01/2016 4:16:53 PM Hi Jayb, I've never been called 'Shady lane'; an PE teacher at Wagga called me Melody, an.....
» 19/01/2016 3:53:06 PM Hi Toni, Yes, of course, that was my point. I'm all for the children of illegal immigrant.....
» 19/01/2016 1:43:10 PM Role-models: there really are so many. Norman Borlaug came along after massive improvemen.....
» 19/01/2016 12:53:19 PM Hi Paul, I think I've seen TV footage of kids in hijabs waiting for the school bus in Nau.....
» 19/01/2016 11:07:32 AM [continued] one-man 'Department', the 'Aborigines' Department' here in SA, i.e. the Prote.....
» 19/01/2016 11:04:11 AM Hi David, I'm a bit sceptical about oral accounts of people being stopped from speaking t.....
» 19/01/2016 8:56:56 AM Hi Dvid, If you want to find out whether or not missionaries tried to destroy traditional.....
» 19/01/2016 8:43:55 AM Hi Paul, Isn't it fun to find a stick to shove up the government ? It depends how you de.....
» 18/01/2016 6:40:56 PM Thanks David, Israeli Arabs could serve in the armed forces if they wished to ? But not i.....
» 18/01/2016 5:21:10 PM Hi Foxy and Banjo, Overstayers tend to be tourists and/or backpackers. Short-termers. [Do.....
» 18/01/2016 4:14:26 PM Hi Nick, God, you learn so much on OLO, you really do. I blame Wikipedia. In all of thos.....
» 18/01/2016 10:47:55 AM Toni, Well, it sounds a lot less rude than "effable". Like "ept", &qu.....
» 18/01/2016 10:36:06 AM Hi David F., So ....... all Israel has to do is NOT call itself a democracy and everythin.....
» 18/01/2016 8:55:53 AM Just found this thread - I've been distracted by reading about the quarter of a million de.....
» 17/01/2016 7:01:30 PM Hi Yuyutsu, As an atheist, I was very taken with your description: "For others, ho.....
» 17/01/2016 5:21:29 PM Hi Cherful, Urban Indigenous people have an inter-marriage rate of more than 90 %. Among.....
» 17/01/2016 1:08:30 PM Hi Nick, Maybe the term 'fascist' is a bit out of time, anachronistic ? But you put your .....
» 17/01/2016 11:21:56 AM Hi Nick, I'm puzzled over your depiction of "Hindu SE Asian fascist religious system.....
» 16/01/2016 5:45:54 PM Hi Cherful, What you say is right up to a point. But in the modern world, given that ther.....
» 16/01/2016 3:57:42 PM Hi Steele, I enthusiastically agree with your suggestion that "there is a case for .....
» 16/01/2016 3:22:57 PM Thank you, you blokes, this has been a real education. Is it time for a shake-up of the en.....
» 16/01/2016 3:14:50 PM Hi David F., I would dearly love to agree with you: " Ethnic nationalism is a conse.....
» 15/01/2016 7:12:45 PM Hi Duck, You make the comment that: " .... Interesting start to the essay in its c.....
» 15/01/2016 1:21:13 PM Thanks Pogi, I'm quite impressed about what is being taught in high school these days :) .....
» 15/01/2016 8:45:23 AM Hi Cobber, Mortgage. It's true what you say but a bit irrelevant. Currently, in many,.....
» 14/01/2016 1:38:40 PM Hi Cobber, You suggest rightly that " .... we still get religious (particularly on t.....
» 14/01/2016 7:18:23 AM Hi Paul, There are no gods. Gods don't create ethical systems, societies do, and then san.....
» 13/01/2016 8:20:22 PM Hi Paul, You may be onto something - because of Jim Jones and the Branch [branch of what?.....
» 13/01/2016 7:02:20 PM Dearest Foxy, Somebody got in before me, to point out that, so far, no SDA or JW has blow.....
» 13/01/2016 2:07:21 PM Hi Geoff, I always suspect that people who go on about the evils of religion, as if that .....
» 13/01/2016 1:47:00 PM Hi Cobber, Well, I did mention "Judaic-Greek-Roman influences," and "early.....
» 13/01/2016 9:50:16 AM Hi Rhosty, Those who won't learn from history may not be doomed to repeat it, but neither.....
» 13/01/2016 8:54:38 AM Hi Nigel, Religions involve some belief in supernatural figures and mythical actions, AND.....
» 12/01/2016 2:06:16 PM It seems that there is a word for what those men do - if you can remember that American re.....
» 11/01/2016 7:15:55 PM Hi Bazz, Yes, I think you are on the mark. One of the problems with rentier economies, i......
» 11/01/2016 3:35:51 PM Hi Bazz, Which is probably why Obama has been trying to maintain a balancing act since th.....
» 11/01/2016 11:03:52 AM Dearest Foxy, I agree, but so is, and does, your MP. Of course, if a plebiscite is not .....
» 11/01/2016 9:02:41 AM Hi Rhosty, Plebiscites are very rare in Australia, and I think that, since they are not b.....
» 11/01/2016 8:52:36 AM Hi Rhosty, The brilliant Henry Ergas has a great article in today's Australian, putting m.....
» 10/01/2016 1:24:56 PM Hi Kactuz, Yes, fascinating: Der Spiegel even tries to spread the blame: "But this .....
» 10/01/2016 11:29:21 AM Hi Jayb, Christ, that sounds painful. Take it easy and the best of luck, I hope it all go.....
» 9/01/2016 2:41:09 PM Hi 579, What a pity - you started out okay, and then lurched to ridiculous hyperbole: &q.....
» 9/01/2016 12:15:40 PM Hi 579, From Wikipedia, 'Australia defines 'referendum' as a vote to change the constit.....
» 9/01/2016 9:25:58 AM Interesting point, Runner. Down the track, if - hypothetically - our politicians agree o.....
» 8/01/2016 7:36:21 PM On the other hand, I'm confident that the feminists on this thread will be outraged by the.....
» 8/01/2016 7:30:36 PM Hi Pete, I think he is Ahmaddiya Muslim, one of the persecuted groups in Indonesia and Pa.....
» 8/01/2016 4:03:44 PM Hi Pete, A 'pogrom' usually involves many people being killed indiscriminately because of.....
» 8/01/2016 9:06:56 AM [continued] So of course, they flee: the numbers won't slow down. So where can those poor.....
» 8/01/2016 9:01:09 AM Hi Jay, That second reference is to an article of more than eight years ago, but is amazi.....
» 8/01/2016 8:31:15 AM [continued] BUT that does put the onus on those innocent believers not to find excuses fo.....
» 8/01/2016 8:28:40 AM Hi Aqeel, "We don't expect every Christian to condemn the so-called "Christian&.....
» 7/01/2016 5:59:36 PM Hi Toni, Ah ! I get it now. The game is 'diversion': so if anybody criticises Islam for i.....
» 7/01/2016 8:10:30 AM Thanks Toni, As an atheist, that's one of my favourite Christian lessons. Given that Isl.....
» 6/01/2016 7:15:32 PM Hi Toni, You concluded that 'Maybe an Australian JB Hi-Fi isn't the best place to go prow.....
» 6/01/2016 4:29:52 PM Hi Toni, Well, he did put it in inverted commas: //The German sex attacks were by 'modera.....
» 6/01/2016 12:56:42 PM Dear Foxy, So people shouldn't be fleeing Syria ? They should stay and wait for an opport.....
» 6/01/2016 10:44:53 AM Dear Foxy, A delightful straw man ! Who says that Muslims commit ALL violent offences ? A.....
» 5/01/2016 10:55:06 AM Dearest Foxy, I have to disagree with you: "I hesitate about condemning other cultu.....
» 5/01/2016 9:02:39 AM Dearest Foxy, Child marriages should be illegal, no matter where: hick US, Muslim countri.....
» 5/01/2016 8:37:15 AM 579, Possessive: <Treasury's>, not treasuries. <Its>, not it's. Plural: <.....
» 4/01/2016 5:58:40 PM Hi runner, Are you referring to the practice, hopefully not in Australia, of overnight 'm.....
» 4/01/2016 9:55:37 AM Hi Jayb, "I hope that any verses in the Koran which denigrate women or diminish thei.....
» 4/01/2016 8:44:53 AM Dearest Foxy, I think that the 'demonization of Islam' is a bit over-stated. On the one h.....
» 4/01/2016 8:08:43 AM Dearest Foxy, As you suggest, everybody cherry-picks: there are passages in the Old Testa.....
» 3/01/2016 8:50:47 AM Hi Is Mise, And it didn't stop there: at one time in the NT, most of the non-Indigenous p.....
» 2/01/2016 2:07:52 PM [continued] you might say, I was completely sane, and therefore unable to commit a terror.....
» 2/01/2016 1:59:41 PM Hi Suse, "Terrorists who kill in the name of their God are criminally insane....no m.....
» 2/01/2016 10:14:55 AM The caravan moves on, but the dogs keep barking......
» 31/12/2015 10:10:16 AM Hi Toni, There is a total fire ban in SA today, so I'll have to store your straw men for .....
» 31/12/2015 8:04:50 AM To get back to topic, I would suggest that, like adherents to other religions, the great m.....
» 30/12/2015 8:48:01 PM Hi Toni, That's 'culture' for you: the sanctioning of power structures, which historicall.....
» 30/12/2015 7:16:33 PM Dear Foxy, And Genesis was written, what ? 2,500 years ago ? And what proportion of Jewis.....
» 29/12/2015 9:02:12 PM Dearest Foxy, I agree with you. I hope that in 2016, no poor breast-feeding woman is muti.....
» 29/12/2015 9:54:55 AM Hi Toni, I'm intrigued by your suggestion: "So when various anti-Semites over the c.....
» 29/12/2015 9:46:48 AM Hi Cherful, Maybe my memory is faulty, but I seem to recall that, although Italians were .....
» 28/12/2015 6:07:56 PM Hi Suse, No, I think you are on the wrong track. And I don't recall all Catholics being s.....
» 28/12/2015 4:30:34 PM Hi Suse, Sorry, that's not racism: if Muslims can be of any 'race' whatever, and if - as .....
» 28/12/2015 8:16:48 AM Hi KIllarney, Fascinating ! Your comment that " .... this is a reverse projection .....
» 26/12/2015 2:29:23 PM Dearest Foxy, I couldn't say it any better than O Sung Wu. Hi O Sung Wu, Stick in ther.....
» 26/12/2015 2:18:19 PM Hi David, I don't disagree necessarily with anything you have written here, except that y.....
» 26/12/2015 8:32:25 AM AJ & LEGO, Who gives a toss ? Get a room. Joe.....
» 25/12/2015 4:00:11 PM Hi O Sung Wu, Right back at you, brother. Joe.....
» 25/12/2015 11:42:13 AM Dearest Foxy, Well, that brought tears to my eyes. Thank you, dear. You won't be alone to.....
» 25/12/2015 11:39:17 AM Hi Tony, I hope AGW helps to make it warmer for you there :) What tragedies would ensue i.....
» 25/12/2015 10:58:28 AM Dearest Foxy, There is something beautifully adolescent about revolutions - flash ! and i.....
» 25/12/2015 9:36:25 AM Dearest Foxy, There is a fascinating article in the Guardian about Adela Pankhurst: http.....
» 25/12/2015 8:42:42 AM Dearest Foxy, I'm still chewing over your suggestion ' to hear from contributors to this .....
» 25/12/2015 8:28:57 AM Hi Tony, I'm glad to hear about Apple. But my point was, can renewable energy be produced.....
» 25/12/2015 8:23:16 AM Hi Killarney, Why do you have to over-do it ? Anything the West has done in the general r.....
» 24/12/2015 3:24:16 PM Hi Tony, When you say 'cheaper', do you include all the construction costs - were all the.....
» 24/12/2015 3:17:56 PM Just to somehow get this thread back on track (although I think it's heading off towards T.....
» 24/12/2015 10:36:29 AM Dearest Foxy, I had no idea that you had had an accident ! I'm sure that there are many o.....
» 23/12/2015 6:02:05 PM G'day Runner, Thank you, stick to your principles - they seem to be in short supply these.....
» 23/12/2015 12:05:04 PM Dream On, Interesting: you write that "The assumption that the Koran is about imag.....
» 23/12/2015 8:29:03 AM Hi Killarney, I guess you now feel really truly superior for writing all that - that you .....
» 22/12/2015 7:59:15 PM Hi Suse, The powers that be create 'God' in their own image, Suse :) - and not just how h.....
» 22/12/2015 11:21:02 AM Hi Runner, You suggest that I'm too smart to be an atheist. You over-estimate me, I AM an.....
» 22/12/2015 10:06:11 AM Hi Eillidh, I should imagine that what the desperately poor dream of is money and what it.....
» 22/12/2015 8:37:20 AM [continued] Of course, there is one idiot strategy that I suspect some are still attached.....
» 22/12/2015 8:27:50 AM Hi David, Thanks for your valuable insights. I have to admit to thinking when I was a kid.....
» 21/12/2015 4:37:50 PM Hi Eillidh, Your dream is already partly achieved - there are now millions of people in a.....
» 21/12/2015 4:29:17 PM Hi runner, Perhaps you could be partially right, but I'm sure there are atheists like me .....
» 21/12/2015 2:26:02 PM I Misangthrope, All gods are illusions, invented by people. We live on this earth for one.....
» 21/12/2015 1:50:08 PM Hi Ateday, Sorry to tell you, but the End is not Nigh. Birth-rates around the world have .....
» 21/12/2015 10:16:01 AM Hi Suse, Of course most sensible people believe that there never have been any gods. Bu.....
» 21/12/2015 8:36:33 AM Hi Peter, From an atheist's point of view, of course the depiction of a god by Christians.....
» 20/12/2015 8:01:16 PM Hi Geoff, Probably most of us on this thread are atheists, who would partly agree with yo.....
» 20/12/2015 1:25:44 PM Perhaps, after an ordinary common-or-garden atrocity, purportedly in the name of Allah, we.....
» 20/12/2015 11:56:51 AM [continued] Perhaps the European foundation on Roman law, with its focus on the rights of.....
» 20/12/2015 11:45:37 AM To get back to topic [Christ, I'd hate to go fishing with some of you fellas, we'd end up .....
» 19/12/2015 4:27:12 PM Hi Suse, You're right, Saudi Arabia - on aggregate - is one of the richest countries on e.....
» 19/12/2015 1:16:12 PM [continued] Not to mention that 'a dictatorship of the proletariat' does seem to have tot.....
» 19/12/2015 1:12:10 PM Thanks David, I think we are probably now on the same page. It's characteristic that writ.....
» 18/12/2015 7:37:29 PM Hi Jonathan, Perhaps you're right, if this is anything to go by - a 400-page exposition o.....
» 18/12/2015 7:22:47 PM Hi Nnn, I think the royal families of France and Britain were quite separate - for one th.....
» 18/12/2015 4:18:05 PM Hi nnn, I think I get it: are you suggesting a sort of historical counter-factual - what .....
» 18/12/2015 1:40:20 PM People commit offences in gaol. I suppose that people gaoled for terrorism offences would .....
» 18/12/2015 11:17:14 AM Just for reference, here is the Koran on-line: http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/k/koran/kora.....
» 18/12/2015 8:05:02 AM Hi Killarney, Fascinating. There's an article in today's Australian on Fukuyama's 'end of.....
» 17/12/2015 4:48:08 PM Thanks David, I guess you know where I'm coming from. My grandad was a Wobbly: he distrus.....
» 16/12/2015 9:04:46 PM For God's sake, Suse, that was more than three thousand years ago ! Is that the best (wors.....
» 16/12/2015 3:22:18 PM David f, Spain was a colony of the Moors for nearly eight hundred years. Since the Ottoma.....
» 16/12/2015 1:07:56 PM Hi Suse, If we were having this conversation twenty years ago, we would be quite justifia.....
» 16/12/2015 7:35:36 AM Hi Suse, Murder, rape and slavery in the name of ANY religion is evil - in fact, in the n.....
» 15/12/2015 5:39:59 PM Hi Paul, News: Abbott is no longer prime minister. Nor is Howard. But if it helps, we c.....
» 15/12/2015 2:51:55 PM I think the author gilds the Islamic lily somewhat: many 'rescuers' of old Greek and Roan .....
» 15/12/2015 8:16:09 AM Hi Bazz, You're partly right about solar panels (and by extension, wind towers): ".....
» 14/12/2015 4:26:24 PM Hi Bazz, I'm not sure if your two sentences go together: "when the price of oil & c.....
» 14/12/2015 3:06:07 PM Hi Jonathan, In that case, I'll read it twice. Joe.....
» 14/12/2015 10:47:58 AM Hi Grateful, In the book rumoured to have been handed down to Muhamed from Allah, this in.....
» 14/12/2015 10:28:04 AM [continued] Not to mention that the surahs are completely un-chronological. So are parts .....
» 14/12/2015 10:15:11 AM Hi Grateful, Today's verses, an entire surah actually, it's quite short: The Dawn In th.....
» 14/12/2015 9:08:38 AM Hi Divergence, Still sore :) You rightly note that: "Anyone who thinks that either .....
» 14/12/2015 7:11:36 AM In calling for the murder of Salman Rushdie in 1989, the Ayatollah Khomeini wrote: ".....
» 13/12/2015 10:53:04 PM Hi Jonathan, Yes, I've used that term myself a few times and it is used in this fascinati.....
» 13/12/2015 3:16:43 PM Hi Divergence, I wouldn't worry if I were you - technology will be developed, by hungry c.....
» 13/12/2015 3:03:15 PM I've just come across this fascinating e-book: http://www.conflicts.rem33.com/images/book.....
» 13/12/2015 8:11:21 AM [continued] [5.38] And (as for) the man who steals and the woman who steals, cut off thei.....
» 13/12/2015 8:06:47 AM Hi Grateful, While we're waiting, I thought I'd put up the 'Verse of Peace' along with ne.....
» 12/12/2015 3:44:12 PM Hi Ateday, Thanks for that unnecessary attempted kick in the nuts. Do you mean 'a populat.....
» 12/12/2015 10:12:13 AM Hi Ateday, Don't confuse decline in population (which obviously isn't happening yet) with.....
» 11/12/2015 1:45:11 PM Hi Bazz, Well, yes, I suppose it's not new, but there has been a resurgence of that oppos.....
» 11/12/2015 1:29:47 PM Hi Divergence, Good luck then at the next elections. If the Labor party fields a candidat.....
» 11/12/2015 8:41:26 AM Who ? Mr 3% ? Who really won the North Sydney by-election ? With 3% ? In your dreams :) .....
» 11/12/2015 8:35:13 AM Hi Grateful, We really are talking past each other. As a kafir, I don't really care much .....
» 11/12/2015 8:22:22 AM Hi Bazz, Yes, I agree that we, the West, Australia, whatever, is facing forces which woul.....
» 10/12/2015 5:50:05 PM Sorry, Grateful, I don't understand what you are asking me to do. Are you asking me to fin.....
» 10/12/2015 4:29:32 PM Hi Grateful, It is probably futile to argue rationally against faith, since its logic is .....
» 10/12/2015 10:00:25 AM Hi AC, Maybe ISIS is not strictly a Saudi tool, it's going its own way: yes, way back, th.....
» 10/12/2015 8:56:18 AM Hi Grateful, Sorry, your 'authorities' mean nothing to me, no more than the 'authority' o.....
» 10/12/2015 8:30:54 AM Of course, some cultural practices are vastly superior to others. After all, that's how an.....
» 10/12/2015 8:02:58 AM Hi icallmyselfacentristmoderatenoseriously, Always good for a laugh :) "Loudmouth, .....
» 9/12/2015 3:58:40 PM Hi Alice, Actually Bahasa Indonesia is a beautiful language, and not too hard to learn, f.....
» 9/12/2015 3:33:39 PM Hi Alice and Divergence, It's not all doom and gloom, you know. As standards of living ri.....
» 8/12/2015 5:11:27 PM Hi Bazz, In many early pastoral and agricultural societies, land was held by the entire c.....
» 8/12/2015 5:02:47 PM [continued] I think that is courage. Not some scumbags machine-gunning a theatre crowd or.....
» 8/12/2015 4:02:38 PM Hi AC, How on earth do you join those dots ? Of all current trouble spots, I think Yemen .....
» 8/12/2015 10:41:02 AM [continued] Here's a simple question: would you believe in a god (or goddess) if there wa.....
» 8/12/2015 9:13:09 AM Hi Grateful, One of the problems with an 'appeal to authority' is that it means nothing t.....
» 8/12/2015 7:48:41 AM [continued] There is a sort of deep racism in Australia, 'institutional racism', if you l.....
» 8/12/2015 7:42:52 AM Hi LEGO, You assert that 'Any person who has any trace of aboriginal descent gets a free .....
» 7/12/2015 9:58:02 PM Yeah, sorry, mhaze, I meant 'Areas .... are still slowly rising, sort of on the rebound. H.....
» 7/12/2015 9:53:54 PM Hi Jules, Even if the Yanks were pure evil incarnate, I don't recall that they overthrew .....
» 7/12/2015 1:07:42 PM Hi Bazz, That's wonderful news ! Indonesian women are often so beautiful - for some reaso.....
» 7/12/2015 12:13:58 PM Hi Jayb, Well, yes, as an infidel, I often feel quite anxious that, if they knew, many Mu.....
» 7/12/2015 11:55:13 AM So, what is happening within the Indigenous population ? On the one hand, we read report.....
» 7/12/2015 10:56:29 AM In what universe are Islamo-fascists anything but extreme Right-wing, if we insist on usin.....
» 7/12/2015 10:46:11 AM Hi AC, Measuring the shoreline is a very complicated business. For example, take the effe.....
» 7/12/2015 10:29:28 AM [continued] And the contradictions almost explode off the page here: 'Western liberals in.....
» 7/12/2015 10:25:38 AM [continued] And what utopian governments? 'Western civil society must urgently recognize .....
» 7/12/2015 10:18:20 AM This is a very interesting paper, if I read it right. I've read it through two or three ti.....
» 7/12/2015 8:37:57 AM Hi Geoff, Optimistic ? That's your interpretation ? Yes, I suppose it could be so, but my.....
» 6/12/2015 5:18:49 PM [continued] One thing that's bugged me, more about Christian church services really: if p.....
» 6/12/2015 5:15:15 PM Hi Grateful, Yes those verses were chosen at random, actually with my eyes closed. No, .....
» 6/12/2015 3:18:55 PM Sorry, some of you Henny Pennys, for piddling in your punch bowl but here's a prediction w.....
» 6/12/2015 12:14:42 PM Hi 579, It's 6 December 2015. Any change in those numbers after the last eighteen months .....
» 6/12/2015 11:12:32 AM As I understand it, at the time of the last election, there were two thousand refugee chil.....
» 6/12/2015 9:40:30 AM Hi McCackie, Rather bitter and twisted, as Charlie Sheen would say ? Having led a shelter.....
» 6/12/2015 9:20:09 AM Hi AC, Maybe one problem with any plan in connection with Syria which might upset the Sau.....
» 5/12/2015 7:09:01 PM AC, No, I don't have a conclusive answer to your question: the US has been pretty desulto.....
» 5/12/2015 6:52:07 PM Hi Mac, Yes, I think it's time to clarify who is Right, and who is supporting the extreme.....
» 5/12/2015 11:52:26 AM McCackie, Oh, I think that women are worth it, all right. Ultimately, what else is there .....
» 5/12/2015 11:35:52 AM Hi mac, Yes, by this time next year, 1.5 million refugees will have flooded into Europe f.....
» 5/12/2015 11:17:50 AM Hi AC, I suppose I should go slow. Children can be so temperamental. You suggest that &q.....
» 5/12/2015 9:50:27 AM [ontinued] low-wage, large-families, the temptations of the grog, mothers dying in childb.....
» 5/12/2015 9:49:13 AM Hi Lego, I don't know where people get this idea that 'full-blood' children were ever tak.....
» 4/12/2015 11:16:12 PM Hi AC, Ra ra. What a pity the world is so complicated. So irritating. So would you care.....
» 4/12/2015 11:09:15 PM AC, Yes, later I did. So: * oil is being sent from some Kurdish areas to Turkish ports.....
» 4/12/2015 8:09:07 PM AC, If you re-read my post, or get someone to read it to you, slowly, you would learn tha.....
» 4/12/2015 2:11:19 PM Simone, You have to get the foreplay right. I used to go straight to sleep, but wake up .....
» 4/12/2015 1:59:14 PM AC, Why do you keep thinking hat people in the Middle East are all puppets, to be manipul.....
» 4/12/2015 10:04:48 AM G'day Sara, You got in ahead of me: "Unemployed Indigenous people are 20 times more .....
» 4/12/2015 9:26:50 AM Armchair Critic, Yes, it's possible that people are slipping over the border from Syria i.....
» 4/12/2015 9:18:55 AM Hi Elcalebo, I guess the bigger crime is that the employer covered up for the offences th.....
» 3/12/2015 9:51:49 AM Hi Suse, I can't recall any questions on previous Census forms which were too intrusive -.....
» 3/12/2015 9:27:02 AM G'day Elcalebo, I agree with you, that of course child abuse is not confined to any one c.....
» 3/12/2015 8:57:45 AM Amazing, although I would expect as much from Arjay: The US gave some support for Afghan.....
» 3/12/2015 8:42:45 AM [continued] the Church (etc.) must have the freedom whether or not to recognise what they.....
» 3/12/2015 8:41:37 AM Hi Elcalebo, You're right, in very different types of societies - hunter-gatherers, subsi.....
» 1/12/2015 11:54:29 AM Hi McReal, Then why not call I just that - a 'union' - end of story ? Why involve EITHER .....
» 1/12/2015 10:22:44 AM Hi Imustbeatotalwanker, You make the outrageous claim that "Aboriginal Australians w.....
» 1/12/2015 9:58:26 AM Imacentristmoderatenoreally, But those Christians didn't murder innocent people in the na.....
» 1/12/2015 8:30:31 AM AC, As Bazz says, the US would have known about the 2006-2010 drought - probably every Au.....
» 1/12/2015 8:19:57 AM Aesclepius, Are you fair dinkum ? That if these mass-murderers 'had been soldiers, police.....
» 1/12/2015 8:11:42 AM Hi Yuyutsu, Yes, and because they happen to use publicly-funded roads, water supplies and.....
» 30/11/2015 7:17:26 PM Thank you Grateful, So are you suggesting that all those verses in the Koran about the ki.....
» 30/11/2015 12:14:28 PM Hi Runner, I haven't believed in the One Big Bang Theory for a while - rather, that there.....
» 30/11/2015 11:31:09 AM Hi Runner, I must apologise to you for my cheap shot above. it's been nagging at me for .....
» 29/11/2015 5:48:22 PM Thank you Grateful, I have to admit that I was thinking about the Yazidi women of Sinjar,.....
» 29/11/2015 12:46:58 PM Hi Geoff of Perth, If the earth was round, and went around the sun which stood still, [wh.....
» 29/11/2015 11:27:13 AM Hi David F., Yes, the Enlightenment process is like a path with side-tracks at every ste.....
» 28/11/2015 1:10:36 PM Hi David F., Apart from all the appeals to authority, and the winkling out of the odd quo.....
» 27/11/2015 4:49:53 PM G'day Runner, Many of us have not the slightest problem in believing that we come from th.....
» 27/11/2015 3:37:39 PM Thank you David F for your response, Can you cite any religion that does that ? Which 'co.....
» 27/11/2015 1:45:39 PM Hi David f, Isn't it fun to flog the past ? Perhaps we should dig up Henry VIII and kick .....
» 27/11/2015 9:22:05 AM Pretty much all of us have faith in something, but not necessarily some magical or superna.....
» 26/11/2015 10:58:56 PM Hi Is Mise, No, I don't have any dislike for Catholics, I admire much of their practices .....
» 26/11/2015 2:09:05 PM Hi Imacentristmoderate, Perhaps you're right, but I'm an optimist - I'm confident that ma.....
» 26/11/2015 9:44:51 AM Thank you, Shadow Minister: "As an atheist and someone that supports marriage equali.....
» 25/11/2015 6:04:48 PM Hi imacentristmoderate, Yes, of course, I've pointed that out myself on several occasions.....
» 25/11/2015 4:45:07 PM Hi Imamoderatecentrist, No, I deliberately, explicitly and consciously meant that "W.....
» 25/11/2015 3:07:40 PM Wow. Schadenfreude takes so many forms. There's Geoff jumping for joy from his Perth rooft.....
» 25/11/2015 9:48:38 AM Hi Joseph, You're right, we should be feeling as much in our hearts for the victims of th.....
» 25/11/2015 9:33:55 AM Hi Bazz, Today's random verses, from 'The Rock': [15.87] And certainly We have given you.....
» 24/11/2015 5:48:46 PM I don't know, Bazz, maybe if a person is a wise and deep scholar, they can easily explain .....
» 24/11/2015 4:56:58 PM Hi Bazz, Do you mean by "this only for thee, and not for the Believers (at large);.....
» 24/11/2015 1:08:41 PM Random verses from the Koran for today (from 'The Clans'): [33.26] And He drove down thos.....
» 24/11/2015 9:49:06 AM Sorry, UNE Trahison des Clercs. I always had trouble with the gender of French nouns. I .....
» 24/11/2015 7:53:43 AM On the other hand, Pericles, Jeremy Corbyn is calling for negotiations with ISIS. A willin.....
» 23/11/2015 6:03:05 PM Hi Mikk, 'I didn't know the Kurds were a religious group. I thought they were an ethnic g.....
» 23/11/2015 1:54:58 PM Hi mikk, Suppose that the Kurds expand their hold on territory in northern Syria/Iraq and.....
» 22/11/2015 8:39:51 AM Hi Grteful, Today's random verses, from 'The Cleaving': 82.13] Most surely the righteou.....
» 22/11/2015 7:59:02 AM Hi Steele, I'm certainly not 'mitigating' anything the US has done, simply trying to get .....
» 21/11/2015 12:59:53 PM Hi ttbn & SM, There are around a million Arabs in Israel, I think, who can vote, stand fo.....
» 21/11/2015 9:31:24 AM Hi Luciferase. It's interesting how some Muslims argue, isn't it ? They take your words, .....
» 20/11/2015 8:01:59 PM Hi Arjay, Sometimes I don't know whether or not to defer to a far better satirist. Okay.....
» 20/11/2015 4:46:29 PM Hi ttbn, Mikk and John Ryan may actually be onto something, the hiding of evidence. After.....
» 20/11/2015 4:27:09 PM Hi Grateful, I'm sorry but I don't understand your response. You claimed, "As for ro.....
» 20/11/2015 1:55:41 PM Hi Steele, On that article of Ben Kiernan's: http://www.historyplace.com/pointsofview/kie.....
» 20/11/2015 1:11:03 PM Hi JOhn, It's been a most revelatory week - yesterday Arjay informed us that the US had b.....
» 20/11/2015 1:04:29 PM Hi Grateful, I can appreciate the dilemma that you face, that a vile group like ISIS is a.....
» 20/11/2015 9:14:37 AM The predatory principle, that whatever country one's forces invades, forever remains one's.....
» 20/11/2015 8:15:41 AM Hi SM, I suspect that, once IS is destroyed in Syria and Iraq, other versions will spring.....
» 19/11/2015 11:32:08 PM Hi Steele, Okay, you mean AFTER they were overthrown by the Vietnamese - that's when the .....
» 19/11/2015 4:58:54 PM Thanks Arjay, you're always good for a laugh after a long day. "Pol Pot was financed .....
» 19/11/2015 4:50:17 PM Good grief, I forgot the Egyptians ! They've been irrigating - does anybody remember the s.....
» 19/11/2015 4:25:54 PM Hi Grateful, I don't think that Democritus or Hippocrates or Galen were Muslim ? In short.....
» 19/11/2015 3:54:05 PM Thanks, Tony, for trying to teach me how to suck eggs. "Most things get larger as t.....
» 19/11/2015 12:49:20 PM If it's any help, I always watch the women's Grand Final, at Wimbledon, Paris, Flushing Me.....
» 19/11/2015 11:23:48 AM Thank you, Grateful. When you write, "These are Muslims standing for the same values.....
» 19/11/2015 9:07:39 AM Hi JF Aus, It hit forty degrees yesterday in Adelaide. I'm sure that many people would ha.....
» 19/11/2015 8:34:25 AM In the cause of Islamo-deconstruction, or Islamocritica, I've been puzzling about Muhammad.....
» 19/11/2015 8:07:43 AM Hi Yuyutsu, I think I can see where you're coming from. The problem would be how to extri.....
» 18/11/2015 4:51:39 PM Hi Steele, You're missing the point: Stick-Up-The-Arse political commentary like Bilger's.....
» 18/11/2015 4:30:26 PM Hi ttbn, mhaze, So it's a bit like the position of the Bible in, say, 1450, before the in.....
» 18/11/2015 1:11:34 PM In the book of the religion of peace, many verses are 'abrogated' - that is, a later verse.....
» 18/11/2015 12:01:57 PM "From Pol Pot to ISIS: the blood never dried." Yes, indeed, Bilger is right for.....
» 18/11/2015 11:41:09 AM Thank you Yuyutsu, In a democracy, we vote for our local members, and State representativ.....
» 18/11/2015 9:40:12 AM Toni, [continued] In the meantime, a 'true' Muslim would contend, Shari'a law must be im.....
» 18/11/2015 9:34:23 AM Thanks Toni, I suspect that defeating ISIS militarily will be just Round One in a very lo.....
» 17/11/2015 1:26:26 PM Now that the democratic Kurdish forces have driven the fascists out of Sinjar, they are di.....
» 17/11/2015 6:48:36 AM "Islamocritica" is perhaps a better description of the position of many of us on.....
» 16/11/2015 3:10:31 PM Hi Grateful, I appreciate that you have an enormous task in front of you, should you choo.....
» 16/11/2015 6:52:56 AM FellowBogan, I put this up earlier on another thread: "In the light of the atrociti.....
» 15/11/2015 7:18:14 PM Hi Mhaze, Not really: it depends how you define war: if you declare that "all wars (.....
» 15/11/2015 5:34:07 PM Hi Mhaze, Hmmmm .... I think you snookered yourself :) All cats have four legs (as do mo.....
» 15/11/2015 4:33:17 PM Multiculturalism can take (at least) two forms: one focussing on diversity, and another fo.....
» 14/11/2015 2:42:01 PM In the light of the atrocities in the Sinai, Beirut and now Paris, we must support our fel.....
» 14/11/2015 9:52:58 AM Hi SAINTS, As it happens, the incidence of unrelievable pain was made clear to me yesterd.....
» 13/11/2015 7:59:29 AM Hi Suse, I apologise, I'll take your expertise on-board. But, as you say, if there are 'a.....
» 12/11/2015 11:44:53 AM Hi ttbn, I always wait for someone, in these interminable (excuse the pun) discussions ab.....
» 11/11/2015 8:03:14 AM Hi Max, Yes, I think that was one of Lomborg's points, that we have to find ways of makin.....
» 10/11/2015 8:52:12 AM Hi JF, I was horrified to read about "shore erosion under tree roots". No ! How.....
» 10/11/2015 8:06:14 AM Hi JF Aus, Yes, Saddam murdered thousands of Kurdish women and children using poison gas,.....
» 10/11/2015 7:08:14 AM Hi Imanoldpervlikeloudmouth, Gender may be slightly influenced by social factors, and may.....
» 10/11/2015 6:48:20 AM Hi Aidan, Thank you, but I was intrigued by your explanation: " A much more credibl.....
» 9/11/2015 4:27:09 PM Hi Yuyutsu, I don't think a single whinge of yours is actually true, and you might need t.....
» 9/11/2015 1:05:06 PM Hi Yuyutsi, Yes, I'll take what you say "What if their retarded culture, or anythi.....
» 9/11/2015 11:49:32 AM Thanks Aidan, I hadn't heard that one before: that the hiatus in global warming may have b.....
» 9/11/2015 9:17:57 AM Wilders has said, "Islam is not a religion, it's an ideology, the ideology of a reta.....
» 9/11/2015 6:56:39 AM [continued] I haven't had red wine or red meat since then: one must make sacrifices until.....
» 9/11/2015 6:55:25 AM Hi Iamanoldfrrt, You may be on to something. If discussions such as this slide towards me.....
» 8/11/2015 5:40:57 PM Hi Jules, I don't know, I think Phanto has been parodying ME, that he's been having a len.....
» 8/11/2015 4:00:29 PM Dan, Oy. Try to understand that Aboriginal people do whatever the hell they like, within .....
» 8/11/2015 2:57:21 PM Hi Dan, 'Special privileges' ? Aboriginal Study Grant has always been the same as the sta.....
» 8/11/2015 2:42:36 PM Hi Phanto, Yeah, it's so bloody unfair that women can predict the future, even years ahea.....
» 8/11/2015 1:58:09 PM [continued] We Muslims need to stop blaming our problems on others or on the Israeli/Pale.....
» 8/11/2015 1:55:19 PM [continued] I have been into [Christian] churches and [Jewish] synagogues where they were.....
» 8/11/2015 1:54:17 PM This timely and hearr-felt message should be spread around: From The Heart of an Honest M.....
» 8/11/2015 12:35:35 PM Hi Warmair, I wish you the best of luck. If you do go - I don't know whether this is good.....
» 8/11/2015 12:25:45 PM Phanto, Yeah ! Why can't women look ahead ? Why do they go open-eyed into future-abusive .....
» 8/11/2015 9:51:05 AM Hi Dan, So ..... Indigenous people watch universities' business models closely, and dance.....
» 7/11/2015 6:53:57 PM Hi Jules, "All praise to the good work being done to help people work at their domes.....
» 7/11/2015 12:09:10 PM Hi JUles, Yes, you're right, I have no solution to severe problems, BUT surely it makes s.....
» 7/11/2015 12:04:18 PM Hi Dan, "Mass tertiary education", rather than elite tertiary education, is var.....
» 7/11/2015 10:20:21 AM Hi Dan, I'm not so sure that universities, for all their faults, are elitist these days. .....
» 6/11/2015 8:53:48 PM Hi Julian, I wasn't thinking of marriage counselling as some sort of remedial activity, b.....
» 5/11/2015 7:20:29 PM Hi Paul, You put your finger on a crucial issue, that should be stressed on any person, m.....
» 5/11/2015 4:00:54 PM Okay, perhaps we can all agree that domestic violence is multi-faceted, with multiple cons.....
» 5/11/2015 11:52:41 AM I was a mature-aged student in the late seventies, and loosely associated with one or two .....
» 5/11/2015 11:42:36 AM Hi Yuyutsu, I suppose it depends on how you define 'slavery': the usual definition includ.....
» 5/11/2015 8:57:08 AM Sometimes, I'm inclined to start putting together 'An Idiot's Guide to Useful Idiots'. I.....
» 5/11/2015 8:48:47 AM Hi Paul Duffil, You may need to add a clause to your statement: "There is however o.....
» 3/11/2015 1:36:39 PM Hi Grateful, If you can't wait to find that article, it goes on: "The distinction b.....
» 3/11/2015 1:21:59 PM Hi again Grateful, If you're really keen to find out about Muslim slavery, look up 'Googl.....
» 3/11/2015 9:08:20 AM Hi Grateful, There are none so blind ...... Try these from the Koran, for a start: http.....
» 1/11/2015 7:50:00 AM Living a sheltered life and being a bit naïve, I have assumed, when there are reports of t.....
» 31/10/2015 2:41:34 PM If medical science advances to the point where, God knows why, it can transplant a fox's t.....
» 31/10/2015 9:14:09 AM Thanks LEGO, you do me proud. Sure. Maybe what I'm trying to get at in my clumsy way is t.....
» 30/10/2015 8:12:00 AM [continued] Here's another notion: am I totally wrong that people embedded in religion do.....
» 30/10/2015 8:10:37 AM Hi Kactuz, Spot-on. I'm working through a book on Colonial Land Law, written seventy year.....
» 29/10/2015 10:14:11 AM Hi JoM, You suggest that "The biggest crime against the Muslim world perpetrated by .....
» 29/10/2015 8:31:07 AM JoM, you observe that: "Apologist pundits talk about the need for an Islamic reforma.....
» 26/10/2015 5:39:13 PM Hi Robert, I don't know what you mean by this: "Joe I'm still astounded that you, d.....
» 26/10/2015 3:40:57 PM Hi Poirot, Good on you - I suppose it CAN be true, that whatever doesn't kill you will ma.....
» 26/10/2015 3:25:12 PM Hi lasxpirate, Karl Popper says that we all have faith, or belief, in something, even if .....
» 26/10/2015 10:34:49 AM Hi JF Aus, Having lost my wife to cancer seven years ago, yes, I can understand what it i.....
» 26/10/2015 10:21:27 AM "Those opposed to practical support for male victims of DV ..." I enjoy those f.....
» 26/10/2015 8:40:47 AM JF Aus, You ask: 'Loudmouth are you in favour of women running off with another man and.....
» 26/10/2015 8:30:06 AM Hi WmTrevor, Actually, Islamic belief holds that yes, the universe is a theocracy, and th.....
» 26/10/2015 8:22:00 AM Roskop, Nicely off-topic but anyway .... Actually, it's likely that without the initiat.....
» 26/10/2015 7:17:12 AM OTB, Oh dear, that slide away from topic: ' ... more Australian males (8.7%) will experi.....
» 25/10/2015 10:16:25 PM Suse, Poirot, I have to apologise for the Neanderthals on this thread. You may find it ha.....
» 25/10/2015 1:16:10 PM David, Who the f cares ? Joe.....
» 25/10/2015 11:52:54 AM David, one swallow does not make a summer, and if you have to rely on the Vatican, which i.....
» 25/10/2015 9:38:11 AM Hi David, The Vatican ? That's it ? No other Christian theocracies, in the sense that Ira.....
» 24/10/2015 10:45:43 PM Butch, So ..... are you suggesting that any women who are beaten up twice, three times, f.....
» 24/10/2015 1:49:28 PM Isn't it interesting how discussions slide from one topic to something quite different. .....
» 24/10/2015 11:18:50 AM David, The Constitution probably, for all I know, mentions The Crown as well, but that do.....
» 24/10/2015 8:37:20 AM Hi Butch, So are you suggesting that men don't have ways of mentally harassing women in a.....
» 24/10/2015 8:29:36 AM HI IAACM, As you say, '.... rights & freedom don't extend to allowing people to commit tr.....
» 23/10/2015 4:14:03 PM IACM, You suggest that '... as an agnostic cultural Christian you could always be in the .....
» 23/10/2015 4:00:22 PM Hi Toni, Perhaps you're right: 23% vs. 77 %, there's not that much difference. Tell you.....
» 23/10/2015 11:30:46 AM Hi Robert, I would suggest that, in cases of families and relationships which in no way i.....
» 23/10/2015 9:01:11 AM Some moron mentioned suicide as a major consequence of suicide, AS IF there were somehow m.....
» 23/10/2015 8:42:30 AM Hi Imacentrist moderate, Yes, of course, surahs in the Koran have been abrogated almost f.....
» 23/10/2015 8:20:07 AM Hi Imanidiot, I've been an atheist all my life and never, as far as I can recall, have I .....
» 22/10/2015 9:54:17 PM JF, Do you have any figures for male suicides, and for female suicides, suicides as conse.....
» 22/10/2015 5:35:10 PM Yes, we have to feel dreadfully sorry about the two men killed each week by their violent .....
» 22/10/2015 12:58:32 PM LesP, Everybody should have the right to express her or his opinion provided it does not .....
» 22/10/2015 9:04:53 AM Hi Yuyutsu, That was my point - that 'freedom of religion', if taken to its logical exten.....
» 22/10/2015 8:19:15 AM Hi Meg, Surely, when the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was first agreed to, the s.....
» 22/10/2015 8:00:24 AM Thank you, LEGO. In the uncritical view of Muslims, the Koran was handed down - never to .....
» 22/10/2015 7:31:31 AM Hi Iamacentristmoderatewanker, Democracy 'set in stone' ? I'm not sure what you mean. Whe.....
» 20/10/2015 1:08:52 PM Hi Peter, Welcome back to the eighteenth century :) or to the world of present-day dictat.....
» 20/10/2015 11:59:34 AM Hi Paul, A bit off-topic [i.e., union corruption], but when you mention Jones, you may ne.....
» 20/10/2015 11:43:00 AM Hi Peter, I was quoting Huntington, and certainly don't believe that all of those ideolog.....
» 20/10/2015 8:48:51 AM G'day Peter, Here's a brilliant suggestion from Huntington for all of us to think about: .....
» 20/10/2015 8:17:12 AM Hi Paul, Coming from a strong Union family, all I wanted was a union whose on-site reps w.....
» 19/10/2015 10:20:30 PM Fascinating ! So the unions have their useful idiots as well, Paul, Doog, mikk ? I first .....
» 19/10/2015 11:28:36 AM Hi Peter, Nobody here has yet advocated 'secularism', however that might be taught (altho.....
» 19/10/2015 8:42:57 AM Most certainly, in a country like Australia with many different religious influences and f.....
» 19/10/2015 8:16:20 AM Hi Steele, Yeah, when there aren't many 'progressives' around, all the worst reactionary .....
» 18/10/2015 8:04:41 PM Thank you Steele, That's an interesting point: if one believes in an afterlife (and would.....
» 18/10/2015 7:52:38 PM Thanks Steele, Sorry, I misunderstood you - it pays to read other people's posts fully be.....
» 18/10/2015 5:59:57 PM Cherful, Perhaps you're having a lend of us :) Where to start ? 1. This is not a strugg.....
» 18/10/2015 10:51:04 AM Hi Poirot, " .... anyone who is so hypocritical that the god they claim is all power.....
» 18/10/2015 9:57:44 AM H Sgteele, I'm grying to follow your logic here: "Australian aircraft are even now.....
» 17/10/2015 5:32:19 PM [continued] I don't know that Nazis were particularly Christian (more like Gothic-Nordic-.....
» 17/10/2015 5:30:28 PM Hi Armchair Critic, Yes, I think there was a sort of annual levy on Christian communities.....
» 17/10/2015 4:45:47 PM Hi Steele, 7th-Day Adventists, Jehovah's Witnesses and Mormons would call themselves Chri.....
» 17/10/2015 3:13:32 PM Hi Bazz, At the time of the Arab invasions of what is now Iraq and Syria, most people wer.....
» 17/10/2015 2:57:50 PM Okay, it seems we've all agreed that the issue of Islamist terrorism, of blowing the heads.....
» 17/10/2015 9:25:21 AM Hi mhaze, Here are a few verses, some before and some after, the one that kactuz referred.....
» 16/10/2015 2:37:41 PM Hi poirot, I suppose the point is that some of us TRY to know, a never-ending quest. Karl.....
» 16/10/2015 1:51:10 PM Hi Poirot, You ask, quite rightly: ' ..... where did "God" come from?' The obv.....
» 16/10/2015 1:41:40 PM Thanks Jayb :) Hi A. J. Phillips, Here's a thought, perhaps irrelevant: people whose tho.....
» 16/10/2015 10:07:33 AM Hi Poirot, So many red herrings ! My fridge is full of the bloody things. Maybe I'll have.....
» 16/10/2015 8:34:55 AM Hi ttbn, At first I thought you meant the Australian Federal Police, and I was about to g.....
» 15/10/2015 2:30:33 PM Hi Steele, Yes, fine, add those Christians if you wish. Now is there any chance that you .....
» 15/10/2015 1:18:11 PM Hi A.J., As a lefty, I've never really thought of Jesus as being a left-winger, but I am .....
» 15/10/2015 1:07:01 PM Hi David F., I know it's probably invidious but if it were possible to put what is going .....
» 15/10/2015 12:16:17 PM You're right, Steele, such vile and backward injunctions and practices should be condemned.....
» 15/10/2015 8:33:10 AM Surely terrorism - any terrorism - is, on a hypothetical scale of Left to Right - on the e.....
» 14/10/2015 8:00:08 PM Hi Tooni, Just slipping in the extra 'o' in case of typos in future :) No, I don't think.....
» 14/10/2015 5:42:35 PM Hi ttbn, As an ex-Communist, I would have to agree with you, about all 'Utopian' philosop.....
» 14/10/2015 10:01:14 AM Hi Tni, ' .... arguing that all Muslims adhere to these far-right beliefs ....' A bit of.....
» 13/10/2015 5:26:16 PM Hi Bazz, Yes, I worked forty five years or so ago in a meat-works in NZ. I watched the sl.....
» 13/10/2015 3:39:17 PM Hi Josephus, Some Muslims are Semitic, and most Jews are Semitic. Islam msyhave gtaken i.....
» 13/10/2015 2:32:50 PM Thanks Bazz, The useful idiots are quiet today :) Of course, one could pick over the Kor.....
» 13/10/2015 8:50:45 AM Good point, Bazz: so any attack on Jews is, in a sort of convoluted way, perhaps and maybe.....
» 12/10/2015 4:17:14 PM Hi James, Back in 1967, was Syria about to launch an attack on Israel from the Golan Heig.....
» 12/10/2015 4:01:21 PM [continued] Nope, I can't think of the last time anybody in Australia murdered anybody at.....
» 12/10/2015 3:59:21 PM Jay, Funny, I didn't know the world danced to a Trotskyite tune, that others may have di.....
» 12/10/2015 9:22:52 AM Please, can we agree to bury this lie that Islam is a race ? Can we stop dragging that sti.....
» 11/10/2015 3:03:38 PM Hi JF, Yes, possibly all those Syrians crossing the sea to Europe are just on their annua.....
» 11/10/2015 7:20:03 AM So let's see now: * ISIS is a creation of the US; or of Israel; or both, of course; * IS.....
» 10/10/2015 7:54:00 PM Thanks Arjay for injecting some humour into this serious discussion. Loved that non sequit.....
» 10/10/2015 4:54:10 PM I suppose we all need the balm of idiocy in the midst of such complexity. So: out there .....
» 10/10/2015 12:04:10 PM Hi Poida & Nickanick, I must be getting old and thicker, but what the hell are you talkin.....
» 1/10/2015 9:44:07 AM And it's already clear that the Russians, in their support of Assad, will NOT get stuck in.....
» 30/09/2015 10:59:30 AM Thanks Bob, that's a fascinating article about Chinese involvement in the Middle East. Wit.....
» 30/09/2015 9:40:39 AM Hi Bob, Saudi involvement, etc.: good luck with that. it would be great to actually see t.....
» 29/09/2015 2:28:24 PM Bob & David, No, I'm suggesting only that the US thought it could capitalise on any movem.....
» 29/09/2015 9:51:29 AM Hi Bob, Much of what you assert has some credibility, but it may not be all that relevant.....
» 28/09/2015 6:15:57 PM Hi Bob, Well, no, Islamist fundamentalism has raged ever since the death of Muhamed and h.....
» 28/09/2015 12:19:35 PM Hi Nick, I suppose that's clever, in its own way. What are you talking about ? Do you und.....
» 28/09/2015 10:32:14 AM Hi Nick, I don't really agree with that first statement: Apartheid implies not just 'sepa.....
» 27/09/2015 6:39:43 PM Hi David, As an ex-comm, no, I can't see it. I don't think I'm a half-wit, and I've been .....
» 27/09/2015 3:07:58 PM Hi David, Yeah, probably all nations that aspire to be Great Powers always go along that .....
» 27/09/2015 2:48:33 PM Hi David, As you say, 'Intelligent people hate war and those who promote it!' BUT, when .....
» 27/09/2015 9:24:24 AM Hi Aidan, It has varied from one Census to another, that's been one of the problems. Th.....
» 26/09/2015 9:19:58 PM Perhaps if we could avoid the personal attacks, we may be able to seriously deal with this.....
» 25/09/2015 10:04:57 AM Hi Bob, I think you may have missed the point of the article: there are two positions on .....
» 24/09/2015 5:08:35 PM Sorry Bob/Arjay, I'm not clear about shat you are complaining of. Russians living in eas.....
» 24/09/2015 3:48:11 PM Hi Toni, Well no, I don't think so - and my reasons might make David's head spin even fas.....
» 24/09/2015 11:48:17 AM Yes, Pete, you may criticise, but I would contribute a few dollars to David's going amongs.....
» 24/09/2015 10:27:27 AM Hi Pete, Perhaps David is right - all he needs to do is tell all those people carrying ou.....
» 24/09/2015 9:31:16 AM [continued] On that last point: those 38,804 in 2011 were the median age-group enrolled a.....
» 24/09/2015 9:24:20 AM Hi OTB, Anthony appears often on The Drum, and gives a very good account of himself. He's.....
» 22/09/2015 11:53:54 PM Hi David, It's a pity that you can't see the difference between a war of aggression such .....
» 22/09/2015 5:46:25 PM Hi David, So, when ISIS bursts out of Syria and seizes territory, captures tens of thousa.....
» 22/09/2015 2:55:17 PM Dearest Foxy, "ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANS ARE descendents of the first people to leave A.....
» 21/09/2015 8:06:27 PM Hi Nick, Good luck with that. Pete, yes, the two issues - how to defeat ISIS; and more .....
» 21/09/2015 1:51:28 PM Dearest Foxy, And with high cheek-bones as well ? Are you using 'our' generally, or speci.....
» 21/09/2015 12:23:25 PM Thanks Pete, I suppose the bottom line is that Syria (and perhaps Iraq too) won't be the .....
» 21/09/2015 11:18:02 AM Yes, is it possible that the West and Russia can collaborate effectively to destroy ISIS ?.....
» 21/09/2015 10:54:16 AM Hi Nick, This is fascinating. In the lower Murray, the giant cod that Ngurunderi chased i.....
» 20/09/2015 4:12:04 PM Hi JF Aus, Obviously one question is why Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States are not taking .....
» 20/09/2015 3:14:25 PM Dear Foxy, Yes, imagine what might be in your genome ! Invasions by the Teutonic Brotherh.....
» 20/09/2015 11:08:20 AM Hi Nick, That's right, so now there are 'Australian natives' of Vietnamese, Greek, Sudane.....
» 19/09/2015 12:28:59 PM A couple of prominent Australians have recently discovered that an ancestor was described .....
» 19/09/2015 12:03:52 PM Malthusista, Just to elaborate on Bazz's comment: Question - has ISIS launched attacks .....
» 16/09/2015 11:09:42 AM Methusalista, Oh, and the chatter on those back-channels probably involves making it clea.....
» 16/09/2015 11:08:06 AM Hi Methylista, A sympathetic interview with Assad on Putin's RT ? Of course. Of course, .....
» 16/09/2015 10:38:26 AM Hi Country Girl, I've just finished typing up and indexing three Reports (1857-1861) on t.....
» 16/09/2015 9:27:38 AM Thanks, David, there are some beautiful articles on that site. Regards, Joe.....
» 15/09/2015 6:33:30 PM Hi again Fellow-Agnostic, About your declaration that CO2 ".... causes average globa.....
» 15/09/2015 6:02:29 PM Fellow-Agnostic, I still think you misinterpret Lomborg: as the Arch-Devil Incarnate, he'.....
» 15/09/2015 2:48:36 PM Hi Estelles, You never know, that might come about :) There would be many obstacles for b.....
» 15/09/2015 11:15:54 AM Fellow-Agnostic, Why do you think they call it 'greenhouse gas' ? Because growers pump CO.....
» 15/09/2015 11:07:13 AM Thanks for that good news, Is Mise :) I've never voted Liberal but looking at Shorten and .....
» 15/09/2015 9:27:31 AM HI OTB, You lightly assert that "Turnbull is as egocentric, slippery and populist as.....
» 14/09/2015 4:27:29 PM Hi Agnostic, You correctly assert that "nothing will resist the advances being made .....
» 13/09/2015 11:47:22 PM Cherful, That really is a disgraceful thing to write, in so many ways. There have been Je.....
» 13/09/2015 6:03:19 PM Hi Thinkabit, And much of that presumes that the world's technology etc. will stay pretty.....
» 13/09/2015 3:10:43 PM Thanks, Agnostic of Mittagong. 2-3 metres ? Ten foot ? An inch a year or so ? Forgive me.....
» 13/09/2015 12:32:59 PM Perhaps you're right, Tristan, in the old Soviet Union, there was a highly stratified 'par.....
» 13/09/2015 12:02:56 PM Hi Tristan, This might be a bit a cheap shot, but would you suggest that, in the old Sovi.....
» 13/09/2015 11:35:16 AM Hi Cobber, So there hasn't been a hiatus, or even a slow-down, in the rise in temperature.....
» 13/09/2015 9:31:03 AM Hi Agnostic, As an agnostic on sea-level rise, I have to point out that (a) the entire .....
» 12/09/2015 2:52:31 PM Agnostic, You assert: " For your argument to be valid all land masses with a coastli.....
» 11/09/2015 6:30:16 PM Hi Methusalista, So .... you're saying that a member of the Reagan administration is slag.....
» 11/09/2015 1:10:47 PM Hi Methusalista, Thanks for another one: (a) The US is all-powerful and all-evil; (b) T.....
» 11/09/2015 12:59:22 PM Hi Mildly Concerned of Mittagong, Let's go through it again, slowly. Atolls sink (hence.....
» 11/09/2015 11:54:50 AM Hi Jardine, Who said irony wasn't wasted on the young ? There are three examples of frau.....
» 11/09/2015 10:43:52 AM Hi Calwest, Thanks, I hadn't thought about 'food scarcity'. As I understand it, Pacific.....
» 11/09/2015 10:22:35 AM Jardine, You don't understand that at the current rate of sea-level rise, in barely a tho.....
» 11/09/2015 8:39:32 AM Hi Toni, Thanks, there's another one: (a) " .... you open the door to people who ar.....
» 11/09/2015 12:32:17 AM Hi Malthusia, Probably because I wasn't rebutting anyone specifically, only trying vainly.....
» 10/09/2015 5:25:10 PM Well, thank you, Toni :).....
» 10/09/2015 4:19:57 PM Hi Toni, Thanks for that: I hadn't thought about it but on the subject of a Rooster-based.....
» 10/09/2015 12:18:35 PM Hi Foxy, Hmmm ....... we could build a sort of Bible around that story - Chanticleer as a.....
» 10/09/2015 10:45:28 AM Dear Foxy. Well, if I do start up a religion, the offer still stands :) I can't imagine a.....
» 10/09/2015 9:14:06 AM Funder et al., I have boundless admiration for your courage - in the face of an imminent.....
» 10/09/2015 9:06:49 AM Hi Toni, If I had the energy, I would love to set up a religion based on the worship of r.....
» 9/09/2015 10:23:01 PM Hi Toni, Exactly ! There are roosters all around the world - thank God! - who crow just b.....
» 9/09/2015 6:41:00 PM Toni, But ...... after the rooster crows each morning, isn't it obvious that the sun then.....
» 9/09/2015 6:34:36 PM Hi Is Mise, I have a lot of faith in drones :) A few mini-drones flying above every main .....
» 9/09/2015 4:48:04 PM Binoy, Clearly, Australia should take some of these desperate people, to relieve the burd.....
» 9/09/2015 11:05:18 AM Hi OTB, From that news report: "Lawyer for Teamo Alastair McDougall said outside c.....
» 8/09/2015 3:42:11 PM Hi Tristan and Rhian, Rhian, you got in first :) I was wondering about the inconsistency .....
» 7/09/2015 10:46:57 AM Hi Tristan, " .... waging a campaign of personal destruction .... " - do you me.....
» 7/09/2015 10:37:56 AM OLO is so entertaining ! We should condemn ISIS for its utter savagery. We shouldn't bomb.....
» 7/09/2015 10:21:40 AM The self-censoring of the opportunist pseudo-left - now, there's an oxymoron. I anticipa.....
» 7/09/2015 10:09:31 AM "By Killarney's lakes and fells, Emerald Isles and winding bays, Mountain paths and.....
» 6/09/2015 11:50:51 PM Hi Pericles, Like that pretty Chinese girl just above your post ? And, for some reason, a.....
» 6/09/2015 5:31:54 PM Dear Foxy, Just to stick my oar in: are you suggesting that there is some connection betw.....
» 6/09/2015 2:01:50 PM Why do I keep getting those infernal ads in the side-bar for beautiful young women ? And c.....
» 6/09/2015 1:41:00 PM Suse, On that sensitive topic of identifying: many Aboriginal people may be as pale as wh.....
» 6/09/2015 12:31:12 PM Hi Suse, Sounds like that bloke didn't even like his wife much either :) I worked on th.....
» 6/09/2015 11:58:55 AM Hi Suse, I've been fascinated with family history for some time, but one thing I think I'.....
» 6/09/2015 11:43:26 AM Hi OTB, Yes, perhaps what is needed is some sort of elementary political guide-book for c.....
» 6/09/2015 10:45:28 AM Hi Shockadelic, Australia is the driest continent: we probably have no idea really what w.....
» 6/09/2015 10:10:34 AM I Paul, You suggest that "Shooting is the only "sport" that if you don't l.....
» 5/09/2015 3:24:50 PM Hi Toni, I'm certainly not saying that people are lazy, just that many people may honestl.....
» 5/09/2015 2:02:04 PM OTB, In German, the word 'gift' can also mean po'ison'. Toni, You suggest, quite reaso.....
» 5/09/2015 1:50:57 PM Hi Toni, Are you suggesting that casinos should be allowed to operate on (presumably) som.....
» 4/09/2015 12:07:46 PM Hi Toni, Alcohol far more harmful than ice ? Per gram ? Per person ? Or do you mean in to.....
» 4/09/2015 10:43:22 AM Hi Rob, Maybe we all tend to have strong feelings about whatever country or landscapes w.....
» 4/09/2015 10:06:16 AM Hi Dan, 'Ice' and 'respectability' - I'm not sure how the two words can appear together i.....
» 3/09/2015 3:17:24 PM [continued] It's appropriate to think of Communist Parties as Mafia organisations, simila.....
» 3/09/2015 3:15:22 PM Are we running out of resources ? 1. A massive field of natural gas, thirty trillion cubi.....
» 3/09/2015 2:35:59 PM Hi Dan, You ask: "But what aspect of drug use and abuse should the community most co.....
» 3/09/2015 11:47:27 AM Hi Pete, I've always enjoyed yodelling, especially with someone who plays the flute, they.....
» 3/09/2015 11:13:58 AM Hi Pericles, Watching 'Utopia' last night, it struck me that what is desperately needed .....
» 3/09/2015 10:17:58 AM Even though I'm not a statistician, I can appreciate the value of self-reporting: it's a r.....
» 3/09/2015 9:53:00 AM Hi Leslie, A year or so ago, I had another look at Marx's 'Socialism: Utopian and Scienti.....
» 3/09/2015 9:29:36 AM Hi Poirot, Yes, hyperbowl sure is fun. You claim that Abbott is behind all these fascist.....
» 2/09/2015 7:57:39 PM Hi Toni, Unless you're a healthy-looking thirty-year-old, no thanks :) Joe.....
» 2/09/2015 7:05:39 PM Hi Runner, You assert that " .... its attractive to those sold into slavery to have .....
» 2/09/2015 2:18:53 PM Dream On, But you don't have to carry papers with you. And as Toni points out in the post.....
» 2/09/2015 1:17:11 PM Hi Is Mise, Hypothetically, perhaps Mr Andrews' state police might ping you for offensive.....
» 2/09/2015 12:42:06 PM Hi Paul, Well, you did answer your own leading question in the affirmative: 'Many think .....
» 2/09/2015 10:24:50 AM Hi Paul, I'm very surprised at how many people on this thread seem to think that this ide.....
» 2/09/2015 10:04:55 AM There is a lot that can be said in support of this issue. Too much energy is expended for .....
» 1/09/2015 11:33:25 PM No, Killarney, I'm trying to get through to you that the path to The Bright Future is not .....
» 1/09/2015 6:14:50 PM Hi Suse, Yes, these poor people are not the perpetrators, they're the victims, of the wa.....
» 1/09/2015 12:00:06 PM Hi Josephus, Perhaps not just economic disadvantage but legal disadvantage as well: am I.....
» 1/09/2015 10:24:18 AM Hi Killarney, Isn't hyperbole fun ? - "We have an out-of-control global financial c.....
» 31/08/2015 10:53:17 AM Has been, You might be missing the point: anybody in the business would realise immediate.....
» 31/08/2015 9:39:30 AM Hi Suse, I can't believe that anybody could be so stupid as to try this ridiculous visa-c.....
» 31/08/2015 9:16:04 AM Just wondering ...... if homosexual marriage is legalised, will this mean that any homosex.....
» 30/08/2015 9:15:03 AM Hi Rhian, Discussions such as you raise are precisely why there should be some sort of Ce.....
» 29/08/2015 6:34:12 PM DreamOn, Alcohol as well ? Christ, you're a kill-joy ! Well, at least I've still got at l.....
» 29/08/2015 3:56:21 PM Hi Peter, Fascinating. On the notion of State versus individual, I don't have a very go.....
» 29/08/2015 12:45:35 PM Dear Foxy, Yeah, that should be the national motto of Lithuania :) By comparison, Austra.....
» 29/08/2015 12:38:41 PM Hi Nathan, Eventually ban it ? Good luck with that. Imagine the black market possibilitie.....
» 29/08/2015 12:24:49 PM Doog, Aidan, My understanding, limited as I may be, is that the AWU did a one-on-one deal.....
» 29/08/2015 10:41:13 AM Hi Jodelie, You have to keep in mind that there are nowadays two fairly distinct Indigeno.....
» 29/08/2015 10:20:16 AM Hi Jodelie, With respect, you're forgetting that many settlements look like rubbish tips .....
» 28/08/2015 8:58:55 PM Hi Runner, That may be fine for heavy smokers who are also devout believers, they're goin.....
» 28/08/2015 6:30:38 PM Hi Aidan, Here's a really naïve idea: what if a university set up a joint Lomborg-Flanner.....
» 28/08/2015 3:07:05 PM Hi OTB, But you're forgetting that tobacco and alcohol are white inventions - any disease.....
» 28/08/2015 2:12:29 PM Dear Foxy, She certainly was: the eldest of ten kids, she left school at fifteen to take .....
» 28/08/2015 2:03:39 PM Hi Suse, I was sort of 60: 40 on this issue really, but I think you've persuaded me. Than.....
» 28/08/2015 11:03:05 AM Hi Runner, About all those dams running dry, as Professor Flannery predicted, is it still.....
» 28/08/2015 10:50:06 AM Dear Foxy, My dear wife was luckier in some ways: she'd had both babies before she was tw.....
» 28/08/2015 9:56:21 AM Hi Peter, Surely a university is supposed to be a forum for 'dangerous ideas' ? In this c.....
» 28/08/2015 9:38:25 AM Dear Foxy, It's women who have to take time out to raise children. So the relatively smoo.....
» 28/08/2015 9:21:13 AM Hi Aidan, Thanks for all that. As an old person, and an old socialist, I certainly suppor.....
» 27/08/2015 3:28:35 PM Hi Runner, But it makes you wonder why God invented alcohol, or tobacco, or all manner of.....
» 27/08/2015 3:23:02 PM Dear Foxy, I've been around, I've been just trying to be a pain in the arse on other thre.....
» 27/08/2015 1:19:24 PM Hi Doog, You ask: "Have you wondered why the company concerned or workers concerne.....
» 27/08/2015 12:23:23 PM Hi Aidan, Perhaps the Greek model could be emulated: a nationalised railways system, the .....
» 27/08/2015 12:11:47 PM Good one, Foxy :) Doog, 15 kg ? That's 33 lbs in real weight. Back in the late sixties, .....
» 27/08/2015 11:57:19 AM Hi Nathan, As a three-fags-a-day criminal, I realise how similar my behaviour is to the h.....
» 26/08/2015 11:56:42 PM Why, Jayb, because the higher they go, the fewer. So one of the Coles Books maintained. .....
» 26/08/2015 5:25:08 PM Aidan, sweet boy :) Ah, so innocent ! Shorten's AWU negotiated with ONE company, Cleane.....
» 26/08/2015 5:17:30 PM Sorry, Killarney, I'm a bit thick - what's the difference between a 'Swing' and a 'vote re.....
» 26/08/2015 4:29:43 PM Hi Aidan, You suggest: "Australian experience has shown that for bargaining a single.....
» 26/08/2015 4:21:19 PM Jayb, By the way, why are bees painted blue ?.....
» 26/08/2015 2:12:46 PM Hi Jayb, Perhaps because, when you crave 'The Good Society', and you think you have a blu.....
» 26/08/2015 9:17:46 AM Hi Killarney, Love your maths ! The Lib Dems must have lost far more than 15 % of their v.....
» 26/08/2015 9:01:34 AM Hi Killarney, Sorry, can you please explain in little words what you were trying to say ?.....
» 25/08/2015 10:53:01 PM No, Killarney, we got your point before you finished your first sentence: the world is ful.....
» 25/08/2015 11:18:13 AM Thanks Jayb, Killarney's assertion that: "As for your dystopian scenario of a worl.....
» 25/08/2015 10:03:13 AM Hi Killarney, In your crack at Jayb, you assert that: "As for your dystopian scenar.....
» 23/08/2015 10:14:47 AM [continued] Sorry, Killarney, this has been a mixed bag: yes, schooling can - for indiffe.....
» 23/08/2015 10:13:04 AM [continued] So there was sifting going on, but not as blatantly as in Britain. Getting th.....
» 23/08/2015 10:10:22 AM [continued] * contest systems, (again just an ideal model): each year of schooling was a.....
» 23/08/2015 10:08:26 AM Hi Killarney, But schooling is not the only way we learn. I take it for granted that peop.....
» 22/08/2015 9:24:38 AM Hi Killarney, I know nothing about Mondo dolls, and care slightly less. As for your advoc.....
» 21/08/2015 6:20:35 PM Hi Poyd, Interesting, your comment about the Madonna - I was just yarning to a friend abo.....
» 21/08/2015 2:38:29 PM Hi Poyda, You forgot the Kardashians. Why are they so important in historical terms ? Jo.....
» 21/08/2015 8:29:02 AM Hi Killarney, You suggest that "If history is boring to young people, then this is p.....
» 20/08/2015 2:02:58 PM Hi Jayb, Yes, weren't those Richards' Topical Encyclopedias fantastic ? Volume 15 was the.....
» 19/08/2015 11:12:26 AM Hi David G, A certain amount of hyperbole is okay, but I would respectfully suggest that .....
» 19/08/2015 9:43:38 AM Hi David G., As you say, "Extremists should be destroyed and strictly controlled whe.....
» 18/08/2015 5:47:58 PM Runner, Many of the Goat Cheese Circle and the Opportunist Left would read your claim tha.....
» 18/08/2015 5:33:03 PM Hi Rhosty, When you say "Palestine needs to keep stating its position as an internat.....
» 12/08/2015 4:22:34 PM BTT. Another bail-out deal for Greece has been announced, $ 86 billion. Fascinating. So .....
» 12/08/2015 3:20:11 PM Forty-odd years ago, I lived with my family in a community up on the Murray. Some years la.....
» 11/08/2015 6:23:54 PM Positivist AND constructivist ? i.e. an objective reality, never completely comprehended, .....
» 10/08/2015 6:42:04 PM Hi Tom, I hope that could work somehow. But remote settlements have comparatively enormou.....
» 10/08/2015 6:05:17 PM Hi Yuyutsu, "The very concept of "nation" is the root of evil." Perh.....
» 10/08/2015 11:40:34 AM Hi Tom, If you check out: https://education.gov.au/student-data and scroll down the left-.....
» 10/08/2015 9:07:32 AM The 1933 Montevideo Conference set out the preconditions for a 'state': 1.a permanent pop.....
» 9/08/2015 2:32:26 PM Hi Outrider, And trade their what with whom ? Joe.....
» 9/08/2015 11:50:47 AM Hi Rhosty, Yes, a downward adjustment of everybody's wage and salary, to match a compensa.....
» 7/08/2015 6:25:41 PM Hi Jonathan, A few months back, Tsipras tried sucking up to Putin for, presumably, a mass.....
» 7/08/2015 10:51:49 AM Hi Cobber, "Religion is a personal insanity to be practiced privately." Yes, i.....
» 6/08/2015 3:36:59 PM In the seventies, I lived at an Aboriginal community in the Riverland of SA. On Saturdays,.....
» 5/08/2015 10:21:15 AM On the other hand ........ Jetta's celebration dance was surely more joyful, something th.....
» 5/08/2015 10:14:02 AM "Yeah, why don't the agencies of the fascist state get of Julian's back ? Great men a.....
» 5/08/2015 10:05:39 AM Hi Rhian, Let's remember two factors: * the median age of Indigenous graduates is aroun.....
» 4/08/2015 4:14:54 PM Hi Foxy, About 1.7 % of all Australian female students last year were indigenous: parity .....
» 3/08/2015 6:46:47 PM 10 % rise in Commencement and Enrolments, 9 % in Graduations – what are the implications f.....
» 29/07/2015 3:08:38 PM Note to DreamOn: They've stopped coming. The government has been paying crews to take b.....
» 28/07/2015 7:33:19 AM Thanks, Aidan, So we should accept any desperate people who arrive in our waters in quite.....
» 27/07/2015 10:05:10 PM SM, I'm only a standard, weak, heterosexual male ;).....
» 27/07/2015 6:50:15 PM SM, You just destroyed one of my fantasies >:( Suse, So what is it that engages your.....
» 26/07/2015 10:22:40 AM Just to add to that first posting: There are sixty million refugees around the world, al.....
» 25/07/2015 8:24:30 AM HI Andras, Dr Johns has also been passionately committed to Indigenous well-being for dec.....
» 24/07/2015 8:47:48 AM Okay, let's run through it again. There are sixty million refugees around the world, and.....
» 23/07/2015 4:42:59 PM Thanks Marko, I didn't know this: Noam Chomsky, another noted anarchist activist, observ.....
» 22/07/2015 10:04:32 AM [continued] * either get to know everything about benefits, and trap yourself in that lif.....
» 22/07/2015 9:56:37 AM In your dreams, Killarney :) Clearly Gary is not saying that there should be no supports .....
» 19/07/2015 10:15:27 AM AC, Step 1: the various Palestinian authorities recognise the right of Israel to exist, a.....
» 18/07/2015 12:38:06 PM Well, there you go, Jules - most Muslims would have nothing to do with gambling, so to the.....
» 18/07/2015 10:14:34 AM Hi Paul, My faulty memory has dug up a multi-million donation to the Greens from some hi-.....
» 18/07/2015 10:11:39 AM Hi Toni, Yes 'Misanthrope' has a gift for parody and caricature. But surely not even Musl.....
» 17/07/2015 8:32:33 PM Hi Toni, Yeah, I agree - nobody could be that backward. Misanthrope, whoever she is, got .....
» 17/07/2015 5:25:18 PM Misanthrope, Rude ? It's called 'freedom of speech', and you and I are equally entitled t.....
» 17/07/2015 2:18:25 PM Misanthrope, Is this the sort of thing your 'sacred book' teaches you ? http://www.thegu.....
» 16/07/2015 11:43:48 PM Misanthrope, You espouse a vile philosophy, one which is totally out of step with the mod.....
» 16/07/2015 6:27:59 PM It's not much fun being in power - Tsipras has buckled, his ministers are resigning, his M.....
» 16/07/2015 4:47:48 PM Misanthrope, Are you having us on ? That's the most appallingly ignorant contribution I'v.....
» 16/07/2015 4:40:47 PM As a completely unbiased observer of this thread, I would say that most contributors are -.....
» 16/07/2015 2:07:34 PM Hi Rehctub, I'm inclined to agree with you, not just in connection with domestic violence.....
» 15/07/2015 2:41:38 PM Hi Otb, That last bit - it makes me think that offering people dual citizenship is not su.....
» 15/07/2015 8:59:07 AM Dear oh dear, it's so easy to slip off-topic, and so entertaining, isn't it ? Meanwhile t.....
» 15/07/2015 8:55:07 AM Hi Jules, " .... the streets would become a buyers’ market which would in turn cut s.....
» 13/07/2015 6:17:21 PM Hi Rhian, I'm not sure of your figures - the US takes in something like 300,000 refugees .....
» 13/07/2015 2:23:32 PM Hi Jules, Your suggestions - "Overcrowding in gaols? End it by ending the war on d.....
» 13/07/2015 11:57:25 AM Hi Foxy and Rhian, I hate to ask the obvious questions but, darn it, I must: 1. Would th.....
» 13/07/2015 10:30:50 AM Hi Paul, Yes, I'm sure there are some very good people out there, going into bat for work.....
» 12/07/2015 1:39:27 PM Hi Paul, Thank you, and yes, why aren't unions trying to encourage those workers to join .....
» 12/07/2015 11:34:29 AM Hi Foxy, No, I'm certainly not anti-union in principle, it's just that I've rarely been i.....
» 11/07/2015 10:22:34 PM Hi Foxy, Yes, you may be right about " .... sectarian attitudes and greed serve the .....
» 11/07/2015 6:55:33 PM [Continued] I was in a fairly good union once, out of half a dozen. I was a dough-presser.....
» 11/07/2015 6:50:04 PM Hi Foxy, Forty thousand is small change. Look more closely at the Cleanevent scam: some.....
» 11/07/2015 4:27:23 PM Hi Paul, Yes, I've been torn between whether, in this situation, to be a capitalist or a .....
» 11/07/2015 1:55:11 PM I've been trying to put this debacle into some sort of hypothetical perspective. Here goes.....
» 11/07/2015 12:28:51 AM Hi Suse, You blithely suggest: " .... If the smugglers were paid to take their refug.....
» 10/07/2015 6:42:03 PM Hi Rhoian, Sixty million, at last count. Four million now from Syria alone. What might .....
» 10/07/2015 3:52:44 PM Hi Suse, Yes, you may be right, in the absence of any evidence one way or the other: boat.....
» 10/07/2015 8:31:30 AM Hi Rhian, Hasn't it occurred to you yet that the policy of paying off boat crews may have.....
» 9/07/2015 5:48:12 PM Rhian, An economist would suggest, from the point of view of consumer satisfaction, that .....
» 9/07/2015 5:37:28 PM Thanks, Rhian, well-laid-out too. So what might happen ? The EU probably holds all the ca.....
» 9/07/2015 10:08:16 AM It's worth remembering that "homo-" is derived from the Greek. While we are on .....
» 9/07/2015 9:59:13 AM Interesting point, Paul: So what ARE the different rates of domestic violence and killing.....
» 8/07/2015 6:44:48 PM Hi Foxy, " .... over 90 percent of boat people who asked for asylum - did turn out t.....
» 8/07/2015 6:24:37 PM Hi Rhian, I think the point is: that the Government may have already stopped the boats: p.....
» 8/07/2015 4:50:42 PM Hi Rhian, So, IF (1) the government was able to stop the flow of boats dead in the wate.....
» 8/07/2015 2:21:16 PM Hi Rhian, I'l take it even more slowly then. You don't approve of either 'stopping the .....
» 8/07/2015 1:41:44 PM Okay, let's take it slowly, step by step: * suppose whoever arrives by boat is 'treated h.....
» 8/07/2015 12:07:47 PM Hi Foxy, Good point: apply pressure on governments where we feel it is needed. So, when i.....
» 8/07/2015 10:04:49 AM Hi Paul, You rightly suggest that " .... I am sure an aboriginal woman living in Red.....
» 8/07/2015 9:33:58 AM Hi Suse, Yes, that might make a difference. The Aboriginal woman just beaten to death i.....
» 8/07/2015 8:48:49 AM Hi Paul, Yes, two women are the fatal victims of domestic violence each week. And I'll b.....
» 7/07/2015 4:38:59 PM Hi Foxy, I don't think anybody has said that those who effectively want open borders are .....
» 7/07/2015 12:17:12 PM OK, let's take the logic of 'accepting boat-people' to its semi-conclusion, without overdo.....
» 6/07/2015 7:51:30 PM Hi Foxy, If you are suggesting that all boat-people should be welcomed and re-settled in .....
» 6/07/2015 12:25:17 PM Hi Paul, Then you would support an increased quotas of genuine, destitute, desperate refu.....
» 6/07/2015 11:57:16 AM Hi Poirot, "Yes, indeedy - still no ranting about those who come by air? Even though.....
» 6/07/2015 11:35:08 AM Hi Paul, Oy. My point about Greece was that, quite understandably, many, many Greeks - es.....
» 6/07/2015 10:57:11 AM Hi Poirot, With sixty million refugees now around the world, I was trying to put forward .....
» 6/07/2015 9:18:49 AM Hi Paul, Well, yeah, that's the point: with an 'open borders' policy, the price would be .....
» 5/07/2015 12:42:59 PM Hi Poirot, 'I don't think you can accuse me of not posting on topic for the vast majority.....
» 5/07/2015 11:55:47 AM As you wish, Foxy. That article is nine weeks old: a lot has happened in those nine weeks.....
» 5/07/2015 10:59:16 AM Hi Poirot, I look forward to the day when you get BTT. If I may be permitted to go off-t.....
» 5/07/2015 10:07:26 AM Hi Paul, Thanks for getting back to topic. It's probably cheaper to pay off crews to ta.....
» 4/07/2015 9:40:50 PM Dearest Foxy, Take courage ! Change horses - now the way is more clear to campaign for an.....
» 4/07/2015 5:20:24 PM Hi Paul, I suppose we need a Boarder Force for calcitrant boarders who won't pay their re.....
» 4/07/2015 10:43:21 AM Hi Poirot, I'm a bit behind the times here when you claim that the government is jailing .....
» 4/07/2015 8:24:29 AM Hi Paul, Yes, indeed, let's push for an increased quota of genuinely destitute refugees w.....
» 3/07/2015 9:44:35 PM Hi Poirot, I don't think so, I checked it out on Google but I still don't get it. 'Nause.....
» 3/07/2015 8:11:17 PM Dearest Foxy, Sorry, I don't speak Twitterese. What does WFYB men in English ? Or in any .....
» 3/07/2015 6:42:51 PM Dearest Foxy, Yes, and if we could get back to topic, one way to avoid those tragedies th.....
» 2/07/2015 9:23:08 AM This is a really interesting idea: giant fresh-water lakes in deserts. We could build the .....
» 1/07/2015 9:49:05 AM This area is barely two hundred kilometres off the coast of Palawan, but well over a thous.....
» 30/06/2015 1:55:51 PM Somebody above mentioned the two-state solution. My faulty understanding is that: * the I.....
» 29/06/2015 6:50:35 PM Hi David, I look forward to the day when I can buy Israeli goods in any store. And Palest.....
» 29/06/2015 12:12:58 PM Dearest Foxy, Okay, so gay marriage. Then the right to adopt. Then what ? Then what.....
» 29/06/2015 12:09:28 PM Dear Foxy, There are times when we just have to cop it: moral/legal/political or not, pay.....
» 28/06/2015 7:02:45 PM Dear Foxy, Ah ! The 'wag the dog' theory: that if it's possible to benefit more from an a.....
» 28/06/2015 5:03:30 PM David mentioned the ".... occupation and colonization of all Arab lands .... " .....
» 27/06/2015 3:23:37 PM Dear Foxy, As a heterosexual, I really don't give much of a toss about issues relating to.....
» 26/06/2015 6:44:47 PM SM, I think Tony Burke's characterisation of the Greens' policy on boat-people, as 'line-.....
» 24/06/2015 6:57:32 PM I'm really not interested in championing the rights of Palestinians until they recognise t.....
» 23/06/2015 4:31:05 PM Hi Suse, You might be onto something: anal sex, heavy smoking or drinking are not illegal.....
» 23/06/2015 11:37:37 AM Fascinating. So far, comments have been running about four to one, four little cracked f.....
» 22/06/2015 6:15:13 PM Hi Toni, Interesting point: is it in any way detrimental to children to be raised in a si.....
» 22/06/2015 2:47:50 PM I suspect, Ponde, that some of the posters here are atheists like me :) Is that your only .....
» 22/06/2015 12:46:12 PM Dearest Foxy, My understanding is that major problems with nuclear energy plants occurred.....
» 22/06/2015 10:32:55 AM Just to add some bits: I'm not suggesting that, if any CO2 whatever is produced in the lif.....
» 22/06/2015 8:46:24 AM Dear Foxy, Presumably, many female homosexual couples can avoid the need for adopting or .....
» 22/06/2015 8:37:42 AM A fool can ask questions that a wise person finds hard to answer. For example on another .....
» 21/06/2015 12:17:54 PM Somebody above asserted that the Abbott government was actually aiding people-smugglers by.....
» 20/06/2015 2:26:51 PM Governments pay rewards for information leading to the apprehension of alleged criminals. .....
» 20/06/2015 9:09:59 AM Perhaps this thread should be headed, "Is Bill Shorten the employers' friend or foe ?.....
» 19/06/2015 9:00:20 AM Hi Paul, I agree with you: call it like it is, clean out the rubbish and move on. How can.....
» 18/06/2015 4:08:58 PM Dear Foxy, There are currently fifty million genuine refugees around the world, in hell-h.....
» 16/06/2015 11:53:01 PM Mechanical rabbit ?! Christ, we used to dream of mechanical rabbit. Or dog, for that matte.....
» 16/06/2015 4:13:28 PM Hi Suse, And if it works, will the Labour-lovers trumpet that it was their idea in the fi.....
» 16/06/2015 11:56:36 AM Yes, Poirot, paying ships' crews to take people back to Indonesia is likely to encourage a.....
» 16/06/2015 10:05:38 AM Eye Fillet ?! God, we used to dream of eye fillet. Sometimes the butcher used to let us lo.....
» 16/06/2015 12:02:51 AM Hi JDJ, Yes, I'll pay them as they arise. Presumably refugees get some funds to pay for f.....
» 15/06/2015 11:56:09 PM Dearest darling Foxy, What you talking about ? Boats are contracted to bring refugees and.....
» 15/06/2015 11:41:18 PM Yep. Or Burma, where they have lived and worked for a hell of a lot longer that you and I .....
» 15/06/2015 11:12:31 PM Hiya Paul, You suggest, in one of your paranoid episodes, "No concern at all for t.....
» 15/06/2015 10:59:09 PM Hi Jonathan, Are you suggesting that 'good foods' should be subsidised heavily and 'crap .....
» 15/06/2015 7:35:57 PM Hi JDJ, It's always been a complicated world. Sorry. Various kingdoms have ruled, back a.....
» 15/06/2015 7:11:31 PM Hi Philip, Yep, maybe once more, then ........... We'll see, won't we ?.....
» 15/06/2015 3:34:03 PM I just did my week's shopping, and I was struck how cheap vegetables were, considering you.....
» 15/06/2015 3:15:13 PM Hi Paul, Back to topic (although it's fun sinking the boot into all our demons, isn't it?.....
» 14/06/2015 9:53:18 PM In terms of stopping the boats, I think this is a brilliant idea. If every boat's crew, o.....
» 14/06/2015 5:50:47 PM Hi JDJ, A bit pig-ignorant, with the greatest respect. Let me know when the first Rohingy.....
» 13/06/2015 1:53:11 PM Hi Has been, Certainly taking refugees is a stop-gap measure, of course - until the probl.....
» 13/06/2015 12:38:34 PM What you talking about, Rhosty ?! Honestly ! I couldn't follow your logic ! Are you sugg.....
» 12/06/2015 9:14:00 PM Hi JDJ, Yes, I would. I have a spare room, two at a pinch. After a relatively comfortable.....
» 12/06/2015 9:07:55 PM Toni, So this has been just a ploy to draw us nerds out ?! You're probably on the local p.....
» 12/06/2015 7:00:11 PM Rhosty & JDJ, The Rohingya have been in that part of Burma for, variously, 200, 400 or 60.....
» 12/06/2015 9:19:14 AM Hi Obnbklcnblu, As an atheist, I've never been sure what religion has to do with euthanas.....
» 12/06/2015 9:09:13 AM Hi Toni, You might not get many bites since very few of us on OLO are non-nerds :( Joe.....
» 11/06/2015 6:42:35 PM Why not simply legalise suicide ? That's an act of genuine self-determination, after all ?.....
» 11/06/2015 6:25:55 PM Hi OTB, Life-member, yeah, although I think I'm on indefinite leave at the moment :) Hi .....
» 11/06/2015 4:07:16 PM Here's a thought which might explain China's urgency about establishing itself as a world .....
» 11/06/2015 4:03:43 PM Hi OTB, I know where you're coming from. As a life-member of the left, however, I have to.....
» 10/06/2015 8:07:20 PM Dearest Foxy, Statutes !? There were never any. It was never lawful, in any State (althou.....
» 10/06/2015 7:15:19 PM Hi Foxy, Seriously, you need to take such works with a huge grain of salt. How many cases.....
» 10/06/2015 11:34:47 AM Dearest Foxy, Getting to know me better ? If you play your cards right ...... Much love.....
» 10/06/2015 11:17:18 AM [continued] So no, I don't believe in a 'stolen generation'. Were kids put into care by s.....
» 10/06/2015 11:15:32 AM Dearest Foxy, 'Stolen Generation': it rolls off the tongue so easily, and whites are such.....
» 10/06/2015 10:52:28 AM Hi David, 6.5 hours per day, seven days a week, - perhaps 60 hours per week for women, tw.....
» 9/06/2015 6:15:15 PM Hi David, Perhaps there is more food always available in millions of square miles of rain.....
» 9/06/2015 2:30:29 PM Dearest Foxy, Stereotyping can seem positive, as well (of course) as negative: to believe.....
» 9/06/2015 11:53:05 AM Hi OTB, Surely you're not suggesting that the Rabbit-Proof Fence story was made up ? A fa.....
» 9/06/2015 11:15:03 AM Hi David, But what about a treaty then ? Pre-contact, the land-holding groups were the cl.....
» 9/06/2015 10:02:31 AM Hi Paul, I love the way OLO threads meander all over the place, touching on so many exper.....
» 8/06/2015 6:55:50 PM Dearest Foxy, I'll say it a hundred times if you like: organisations which are getting ab.....
» 8/06/2015 4:43:53 PM Dearest Foxy, What does it mean, " .... a community with few opportunities" ? I.....
» 8/06/2015 2:51:50 PM Hi Paul, Spot on: ".... society would be better served trying to keep people from of.....
» 8/06/2015 9:31:58 AM Hi Paul, Yes, I suppose that figure of thirty billion includes all forms of payments to I.....
» 7/06/2015 10:32:55 PM Dear Foxy, No, simply arrest anybody coming back from Syria or Iraq if they are suspected.....
» 7/06/2015 11:43:21 AM Dearest Foxy, Well, there have been perhaps hundreds of such programs over the years. If .....
» 7/06/2015 9:43:23 AM OTB, Those 174 remote 'communities' in WA contain, officially at least and perhaps far fe.....
» 7/06/2015 9:23:43 AM We know that know, Poirot. Maybe not back then. So, BTT. Clearly, whether suspected terro.....
» 6/06/2015 7:50:51 PM Paul, OTB, get a room. So what would you say yes to, if anything ? Paul, OTB, Jay, Foxy, .....
» 6/06/2015 5:25:24 PM So what should be the question that we are all so eager to say 'yes' to ? Or is this goin.....
» 4/06/2015 5:57:47 PM I suppose I'm as puzzled as anybody about what we are supposed to be supporting in this 'R.....
» 4/06/2015 4:52:43 PM Hi O, Thanks for that, no, I didn't mean that anybody was an out-an-out racist, just that.....
» 3/06/2015 9:59:11 PM Hi Poirot, I don't know about waxing lyrical about how good people had it, I'm still work.....
» 3/06/2015 6:46:18 PM Poirot, Yes. If you check out the transcript of the 1904 Roth Royal Commission in WA, and.....
» 3/06/2015 6:19:13 PM O Sung Wu & Foxy, Yes, 'we' are so powerful, so all-controlling, that 'we' do this, 'we' .....
» 3/06/2015 12:58:07 PM Hi David, Why do you assume that Aboriginal people are, and have been, sheep, to be moved.....
» 3/06/2015 12:04:35 PM Dear sweet Foxy, I suggest that OTB is pretty accurate in his assessments. Thirty billion.....
» 3/06/2015 9:26:11 AM Hi Paul, You put your finger on the key issue: "Like these people our indigenous ar.....
» 2/06/2015 6:05:05 PM Perhaps you're right, Pete, we should just let it go. After all, we don't want to make mis.....
» 2/06/2015 6:01:40 PM Suse., Yes, thank you, thank you, I was going to raise that issue of segregated employmen.....
» 2/06/2015 5:10:08 PM Dear Foxy, No, life's too short to watch Bilger's rubbish and lies. The people at Utopi.....
» 2/06/2015 5:04:14 PM Hi BobJelly. "Clauses 39 and 40 of the Magna Carta state: “No free man shall be seiz.....
» 2/06/2015 4:51:21 PM I've been typing up old documents in relation to Aboriginal policy and I'm working through.....
» 2/06/2015 10:21:11 AM We might be jumping the gun a bit, on a number of grounds: If an Australian citizen has j.....
» 1/06/2015 10:55:06 AM Hi Craig, Well, like Edison and his attempts at a workable light bulb filament, I'm sort .....
» 31/05/2015 5:24:55 PM Hi Cfraig, "Do you have any reason to believe that there will be a net carbon reduct.....
» 31/05/2015 4:00:31 PM Hi Craig, I don't have any figures for anything, that's why I'm asking :) My question is:.....
» 31/05/2015 2:46:19 PM Hi Poirot, I can appreciate your wanting to give everybody equal opportunity to demonstra.....
» 31/05/2015 1:51:44 PM Hi Craig, Yes, the total CO2 outputs from all of the factors of production in the manufac.....
» 29/05/2015 9:42:07 PM Hi Poirot, Yes, put people on trial who are suspected of aiding terrorists, no probs. Bu.....
» 29/05/2015 4:28:05 PM Dearest Foxy, As you say, "Our Attorney-General and our Prime Minister have made i.....
» 29/05/2015 9:03:02 AM Is it agreed that there is a de facto war going on in the Middle East ? Australia supports.....
» 27/05/2015 3:37:58 PM Hi Craig, thanks, but that wasn't the question: I assume that solar panels etc. can be con.....
» 27/05/2015 2:37:16 PM Just a dumb question from an ignoramus: All the bits a pieces that go into solar power p.....
» 25/05/2015 3:38:26 PM Hi Leslie, If even Marx was disillusioned with 'Marxists', then I suppose I'm in good com.....
» 25/05/2015 12:08:28 PM Hi Tristan, In our continuing obituary for Marxism - Mouffe and Laclau's 'post-Marxism' i.....
» 25/05/2015 11:34:58 AM QED. We would be aware of how serious the current situation is in the Middle East, with m.....
» 25/05/2015 8:37:29 AM Hi Craig, Before you go off to school, is there any chance that you may attend to the iss.....
» 24/05/2015 7:22:30 PM Hi Craig, Is it me or do you always come across as smug and fatuous, in your Olympian pro.....
» 24/05/2015 11:28:25 AM Hi Obbaj, I think LEGO is on the button - why do simple-minded people try to make silly j.....
» 24/05/2015 10:57:42 AM If the logic of any mythology or religion is that what is written, cannot ever be changed,.....
» 23/05/2015 6:01:48 PM Obnaj, What is striking about the current situation in the unnamed part of the world in q.....
» 23/05/2015 2:49:09 PM Sorry, Onjab, I should have been more explicit, i.e. "We come back to it: What valu.....
» 23/05/2015 11:21:18 AM Forgive me for suggesting that most commentators here are making the same error that Marx .....
» 22/05/2015 9:27:40 AM Hi Suse, "We need to denounce violence in whatever, and in whomever, form it takes.&.....
» 21/05/2015 6:35:56 PM IFF, there has been a 'pause' in global warming for nineteen years, then all those of us u.....
» 21/05/2015 6:00:31 PM And it's a rapidly moving situation: now that the reactionaries have captured Ramadi and b.....
» 21/05/2015 5:00:53 PM Hi Rhian, If we must talk about Islamism, then how's this for an outrageous idea : That .....
» 21/05/2015 4:43:28 PM So, aside from using a religious pretext, what are the values, the principles, that the te.....
» 21/05/2015 8:45:23 AM Not before time, if it's actually the case. What are the values which support terrorist a.....
» 20/05/2015 2:09:09 PM Just to be paranoid for a minute, if you were in charge of a large company involved in the.....
» 19/05/2015 9:43:17 AM [continued] Then along come the Greens, to swipe the Labor Party's professional and afflu.....
» 19/05/2015 9:41:35 AM Although I disagree with some of what Dr Beljac has written, I do think that this article .....
» 18/05/2015 11:36:06 PM Hi Jules, My limited understanding is that Chernobyl was one of the first generation reac.....
» 17/05/2015 6:10:45 PM PaulWalter, I could be wrong but that's a hell of a long bow you've drawn there. There a.....
» 16/05/2015 11:43:45 AM [continued] I'm not suggesting that the Rabbit-Proof Fence Story didn't necessarily happe.....
» 16/05/2015 11:41:39 AM [continued] For example, my colleague and I have just finished typing up the 1935 Moseley.....
» 16/05/2015 11:23:41 AM Fascinating. Jut in the last couple of weeks, I've been groping towards something similar,.....
» 11/05/2015 7:54:28 AM Hi Pail, So what are the actual issues ? Yes, there is a problem, too many people are hom.....
» 10/05/2015 6:57:41 PM Hi Nathan, Yes, this must be one of the stupidest and most heartless ideas I've heard of .....
» 4/05/2015 9:15:14 AM Hi Jules, Yes, you're right: everybody should read the Koran, or at least dip into it at .....
» 3/05/2015 4:49:00 PM Hi SILLER, Yes, I suppose lechers like this bloke are hoping that Allah will be merciful .....
» 2/05/2015 7:45:47 PM Hi Wobbles, You're a bit quiet, are you okay ? Just to help you along: let's look at a .....
» 1/05/2015 5:28:05 PM Hi David, No, I don't think it was right that Abbott's daughter got a $ 68,000 scholarshi.....
» 1/05/2015 3:56:21 PM Hi CDavid, You may not be as wrong as you think you are: People may 'have been identifie.....
» 30/04/2015 6:28:16 PM Hi OTB, Neville Shute, yeah, a great writer. Yes, it's sometimes amazing how nepotism r.....
» 30/04/2015 5:58:43 PM Hi Bazz, where you been ?! But on the other hand, in a hundred years, perhaps ten per cen.....
» 30/04/2015 4:40:01 PM Dearest Foxy, Many of us really did miss you, you know :) Yes, I've been trying to provi.....
» 30/04/2015 8:59:44 AM Hot yet, Foxy I just found this thread - thanks. Some people make assertions, as if they.....
» 30/04/2015 8:10:28 AM Hi Pete, Still waiting for Wobbles :) Three days now. Do you think he's forgotten us :( .....
» 29/04/2015 7:23:45 PM Dearest Foxy, I'll have to come back to your comments about Aboriginal history :) I miss.....
» 29/04/2015 10:17:22 AM Hi Arjay, China has maybe five to ten years before its demography and no-interest loan po.....
» 28/04/2015 11:51:41 PM Dear Foxy, I'm not sure what you're getting at - that we can rank atrocities ? and that c.....
» 28/04/2015 6:52:19 PM Hi David, It was well-known by the 1860s that what were called 'half-castes' could inter-.....
» 28/04/2015 4:14:37 PM Hi Wobbles, If you could just name one of Bilger's 'truths', I'm sure many of us would be.....
» 28/04/2015 12:40:42 PM Sorry, David, I didn't notice the 'before' Darwin. 'After' as well :) Still, I'm not so .....
» 28/04/2015 11:36:56 AM Hi David, No, Darwin didn't: check out his "Descent of Man" where he praises in.....
» 28/04/2015 9:13:39 AM Hi Suse, Do you mean missionaries like Livingstone who helped to stop the thousand-years'.....
» 28/04/2015 7:55:15 AM Hi Banjo, Thanks for that interesting article. Of course, people have never been pawns of.....
» 27/04/2015 9:31:35 PM Hi Banjo, ca va ? Your question, 'how much Aboriginal blood you have to have in Australia.....
» 27/04/2015 6:45:58 PM Brilliant, Pete ! Be very careful :) As a former Marxist (if such is possible), I'm mindf.....
» 27/04/2015 5:25:22 PM Hi Cody, I'm inclined to agree with you about a 'stolen' generation: children taken into .....
» 27/04/2015 10:51:41 AM Yep, it's up. A huge job, 339,000 words. Enjoy ! I suppose when you are sitting somewhere.....
» 27/04/2015 9:59:54 AM If there is a word for someone who refuses to change his prejudices, no matter what eviden.....
» 26/04/2015 6:00:46 PM Hi OTB, No, I don't think groups shared much - ideas, technology, common words, perhaps n.....
» 26/04/2015 2:27:37 PM Hi onthebeach, To follow on from your last point, here are a couple of completely unrelat.....
» 26/04/2015 9:19:03 AM [continued] About higher education since 2005: ironically, support programs at universiti.....
» 26/04/2015 9:14:10 AM Hi Banjo, Ah, I love those self-evident 'how-else' questions: 'How else could they have .....
» 25/04/2015 1:23:45 PM Thank goodness ! It's been a bit dreary without your contributions. Welcome back, dear Fox.....
» 25/04/2015 11:56:03 AM To get back towards the topic, with a slight detour to comment on firing practices: the no.....
» 24/04/2015 11:56:35 PM Hi Banjo, Not really, I'm not a historian, I wish I was, but I'm too old to start now. I'.....
» 24/04/2015 9:02:55 AM [continued] Hi Banjo, I'm not suggesting that life was all sweetness on settlements: dur.....
» 24/04/2015 7:58:01 AM Dear Banjo, Thank you. Actually, by the way, my grandfather served under your namesake du.....
» 23/04/2015 9:10:41 PM Dear Banjo, As a short-cut, if you check out my web-site (www.firstsources.info) look up .....
» 23/04/2015 7:11:50 PM Hi Yuyutsu, You're right, so what aren't the Government kill-joys planting more money tre.....
» 23/04/2015 7:08:38 PM Hi Roscop, Yes, 'welcome to country' ceremonies must be close to thirty years old now. Ti.....
» 23/04/2015 9:10:37 AM Sure - you go first, Poirot :).....
» 23/04/2015 8:48:35 AM Since the topic of this thread is Abbott, how would you rate the following on a scale of 1.....
» 23/04/2015 8:30:00 AM Hi Banjo, I think you've answered your own query. Put the time in, my boy, and you may le.....
» 22/04/2015 3:30:01 PM Hi ttbn, Nobody is going to be evicted from 'communities'. No 'communities' will be 'clos.....
» 22/04/2015 2:02:27 PM Hi Rhosty, About land-holding, or land ownership: it's a bit more complicated than merely.....
» 22/04/2015 1:52:15 PM Hi SM, And, once she released her report, did Triggs say anything about the dramatic redu.....
» 22/04/2015 12:54:23 PM Hi Gary, 'The following formulation was contained in the Gillard government Aboriginal an.....
» 22/04/2015 11:57:35 AM Hi Banjo, My sources ? Check out my website: www.firstsources.info - you will find about .....
» 21/04/2015 1:18:36 PM Hi Banjo, Some slight exaggerations there, but I suppose hyperbole is easier than evidenc.....
» 20/04/2015 9:06:29 AM My limited understanding of WA 'communities' is that the smallest 173 officially contain a.....
» 17/04/2015 4:28:30 PM Yuyutsu, I don't think hate has anything much to do with this subject. It's basically a s.....
» 17/04/2015 4:17:18 PM Hi Steve, You don't need to be anywhere near so passive about learning - it doesn't have .....
» 17/04/2015 4:11:32 PM Hi Poirot, Well, traffic is what we make it. An especially provocative article is bound t.....
» 17/04/2015 9:13:38 AM You're confusing quantity with quality, Poirot :) Cheers, Joe.....
» 17/04/2015 8:22:37 AM Yes, many of us miss you, Foxy, and your never-failing good nature. I hope everything is o.....
» 16/04/2015 7:57:22 AM I'm trying to get my head around some of Triggs' decisions: * a bloke murders his wife a.....
» 9/04/2015 6:58:03 PM Pete, yeah, that might get them into an even deeper hole - how much did the Olympics cost .....
» 9/04/2015 5:08:44 PM Hi Pete, By dodging taxes, Greeks have, I hate to say, brought much of this on themselves.....
» 9/04/2015 4:13:54 PM No, AC, I don't think the entire Muslim world are gullible puppets on the end of a string .....
» 9/04/2015 7:33:14 AM AC You suggest, quite correctly that 'Not all Muslims support ISIS or are religious extr.....
» 7/04/2015 4:41:05 PM Hi Bazz, I know what you mean, but I'm beginning to suspect that the fascists are using I.....
» 6/04/2015 10:38:20 AM Spot-on, LEGO. "Islamic State is a cancer of capitalism", claims James O'Neill......
» 5/04/2015 6:24:16 PM CH, The zero ? An Indian invention, predating the Muslim and Christian use by eight hundr.....
» 5/04/2015 1:46:34 PM Hi CH, I keep trying that URL but it doesn't work. But as you suggest, why does anybody t.....
» 5/04/2015 12:05:33 PM Sorry, James, that URL didn't come up: 'page not found'. Perhaps you can briefly tell me i.....
» 5/04/2015 9:13:31 AM Hi LEGO, Spot-on. I suppose we can take comfort from the fact that fascists and totalitar.....
» 4/04/2015 11:05:37 AM Hi Yebiga, Do you have any evidence that ISIS commanders have ever been goat-herders ? Or.....
» 4/04/2015 9:01:21 AM Hi Yebiga, Do you have any evidence that ISIS is ' a fiction created and funded by the US.....
» 3/04/2015 6:00:27 PM I James, Any evidence of complicity with ISIS ? As a child (or at least, young adult) of .....
» 3/04/2015 5:01:03 PM CH, I reckon that even a bloke who is a repeat offender, with many break-and-enter and tr.....
» 3/04/2015 4:14:53 PM Hi James, I'll ask again, what evidence is there that the US is currently supporting ISIS.....
» 3/04/2015 10:49:37 AM Hi Yebiga, What does 'yebiga' mean in Russian, I wonder ? A fictional war on terror ? Pe.....
» 3/04/2015 7:56:29 AM Hi James, Wouldn't it be nice if we could put all the bad people in one group and all the.....
» 2/04/2015 3:19:02 PM Hi Yebiga, In what ways is the US helping ISIS in Syria ? By not bombing it ? Clearly, th.....
» 1/04/2015 5:22:54 PM Hi Steve, I'm sorry you have gained so little from your education so far. Those of us who.....
» 1/04/2015 10:54:14 AM Hi Runner, I don't think we should minimise the crime of punching a wall, or leaning aggr.....
» 1/04/2015 8:38:36 AM Hi Nathan, Yes, it must be tough for ex-petty-crims to find work. In this case, perhaps h.....
» 24/03/2015 3:28:11 PM Sorry, hermit, I meant 'hermit'......
» 24/03/2015 3:27:09 PM Sorry, Killarney, it's an old joke: "Give a bloke a fair trial, then shot him." .....
» 24/03/2015 3:23:42 PM [Deleted for abuse.].....
» 22/03/2015 1:32:36 PM Slightly more on-topic, I would suggest, after the murder of more than a hundred people at.....
» 21/03/2015 8:06:05 AM Hi Killarney, What's wrong with this sentence ? 'It's just the same old story of men usi.....
» 20/03/2015 9:37:17 PM Yebiga, Killarney, So, because the narcissist has exposed the machinations of world capit.....
» 20/03/2015 3:08:31 PM Foxy, In return, you may wish to read this article from The Guardian, my favourite journa.....
» 20/03/2015 3:00:13 PM Thanks, Foxy, I'll take it on board. Love, Joe.....
» 19/03/2015 10:00:35 PM Hi Jonathan, I don't think anybody on this thread has made much of this naecissist's Wiki.....
» 19/03/2015 6:03:40 PM Dear Foxy, I always enjoy reading your posts, even if I disagree with so many of them ;) .....
» 19/03/2015 3:28:46 PM Killarney, My bet is that this will play out as follows: * Assange will be questioned by.....
» 19/03/2015 3:23:29 PM Constance, The Rockefellers were Baptists, at least J.D.'s mother was. His father was, fo.....
» 18/03/2015 7:04:41 PM Hi markjohnconley, No, not necessarily, BUT there can be a huge overlap: we only have to .....
» 18/03/2015 6:01:40 PM Hi James, Most of us were expecting you, sooner or later :) How does this sound ? 'Noth.....
» 18/03/2015 2:52:32 PM The two things I'm reasonably sure of about renewable energy technologies are: * that the.....
» 18/03/2015 10:04:13 AM Hi Pete, I'm pretty slow today, but I suspect that you're having a lend of us. 'The great.....
» 18/03/2015 8:39:13 AM Now we'll see: whether the accusations of Assange's former Wikileaks colleagues that he ef.....
» 18/03/2015 7:17:31 AM Yonks go, when I was well and truly on the far-Left, and Hans Eysenck was due to give a ta.....
» 17/03/2015 10:01:42 PM Thanks for that link, Foxy. I thought it was quite a perceptive article. I'm especially re.....
» 17/03/2015 7:54:19 AM Barnett is planning to withdraw some services from the smallest 174 'communities'. They co.....
» 16/03/2015 6:18:22 AM Hi George, Yes, the politics of the Black Sea are probably far more complex than those of.....
» 13/03/2015 4:01:14 PM NC, 'For those who have had no courses ... ' ? Sounds like child marriage to me. You are .....
» 13/03/2015 7:34:19 AM NC, Yes, 65:4. As for your question: “Do you consider an Islamophobe to be an extremis.....
» 12/03/2015 3:23:02 PM NC, Dear oh dear. Too clever by half: I wrote: <<I did NOT state that the Koran wa.....
» 12/03/2015 3:10:11 PM Hi George, The Gulf of Mexico is, for most of its extent, more or less American. The Blac.....
» 11/03/2015 2:28:24 PM Something has puzzled me lately - I'm a slow learner - around the discussion about forms o.....
» 11/03/2015 12:55:11 PM Dearest Foxy, It might help to think of Russia as a State Mafia, with senior oligarchs jo.....
» 11/03/2015 10:02:34 AM I suppose one touchstone about climate change is whether or not there has been a 'pause' i.....
» 11/03/2015 9:02:43 AM Jayb, Equality means, broadly, more or less, that whatever rights men have, women have. S.....
» 10/03/2015 10:16:00 PM NC, In answer to your questions: 1 (1) Yes. 1 (2) Yes. 2. Because you haven't answered.....
» 10/03/2015 10:06:20 PM Dream On, You mentioned 'murder, steal, rape and pillage.' In South Australia, the last .....
» 10/03/2015 4:56:14 PM NC, In answer, I may have to repeat myself, perhaps three times: 1. 'To your question: &.....
» 10/03/2015 3:32:57 PM Just found this thread. Fascinating ! Why is everybody so polite and civil ? Where is the .....
» 10/03/2015 2:55:48 PM Hi NC, I certainly hope that you are right when you say: "The infuriated Muslim mass.....
» 9/03/2015 6:06:11 PM Igor, most fools know enough when to stay silent. NC, What readers might make of my ques.....
» 9/03/2015 12:37:10 PM NC, I don't think there is such a thing as an 'outrageous question', simply because you c.....
» 9/03/2015 9:37:08 AM NC, Again and again, I have to point out that I was asking a question, not making a decla.....
» 9/03/2015 9:24:01 AM You're onto something, David :) To combine the above with the topic: On the whole, urban .....
» 9/03/2015 8:09:02 AM MAdam, Can you tell the difference between a question and a declaration ? I was simply as.....
» 8/03/2015 4:38:29 PM McAdam, No, I don't assume there are only two 'opinions' on the subject of child marriage.....
» 8/03/2015 1:29:14 PM [continued] Often being Aboriginal can be a trap: once employers know it, one can be grad.....
» 8/03/2015 12:00:49 PM NC, Your irrelevant question back then ? About the US invasion of Iraq ? Yes, I marched a.....
» 8/03/2015 9:14:25 AM Reductio ad absurdum, Igor. Who ever said that all Muslims are paedophiles ? Is that how y.....
» 8/03/2015 9:02:07 AM [continued] On the latest figures, something like ninety per cent of Aboriginal people (h.....
» 8/03/2015 8:35:16 AM Hi David, "Joe, your figures may be technically correct, but the above comments also.....
» 8/03/2015 7:04:23 AM Hardly hypothetical, McAdam - the topic relates directly to the nature of democracy and at.....
» 7/03/2015 3:49:55 PM Hi Jayb, You suggest: 'I suppose that jailing that moslem guy for marrying & having sex w.....
» 7/03/2015 1:04:06 PM [continued] Yes, the One Big Crime was committed - settlement - and it's a bit late to un.....
» 7/03/2015 1:02:36 PM Hi Growly, I suggest that the position is vastly more complicated than that. After all, n.....
» 6/03/2015 4:46:20 PM Hi Onjab, No, I certainly don't expect all that many readers of OLO to agree with me on a.....
» 6/03/2015 4:14:30 PM Maybe we're not communicating effectively on this thread because some of us are using diff.....
» 6/03/2015 7:57:46 AM I'm glad Mr Hyckman mentioned Indigenous education: in the first-half-year figures for 201.....
» 3/03/2015 4:28:17 PM Igor, do you have anything to offer but vapid inanities ? Robert, I can appreciate that.....
» 3/03/2015 3:39:35 PM Runner, Australia is an amazingly tolerant country: just looking at that slogan "Beh.....
» 3/03/2015 8:22:17 AM Oh, Igor, what a witty response........
» 2/03/2015 8:39:40 PM NC, No. You do NOT dictate to me. So: 'ISIS are terrorists and NO, they are NOT AT ALL .....
» 2/03/2015 5:25:11 PM NC, Found them: * what world do you live in? Australia, 2015. * More importantly, what.....
» 2/03/2015 8:42:45 AM NC, So what was your question again ? Hypocrite, So, when someone questions something.....
» 1/03/2015 7:51:06 PM Hi Craiog, What has racism got to do with whether or not the Koran sanctions the deeds of.....
» 1/03/2015 7:28:21 PM Hi NC, A lot of words there. How about a simple 'yes' or 'no' to my simple question ? Jo.....
» 1/03/2015 5:08:05 PM Hi Craig, Burning someone to death in a cage. Throwing individuals off tall buildings. .....
» 1/03/2015 10:55:18 AM Hi OTB, I'll stick by what I wrote: "We all have to get along within a single legal .....
» 1/03/2015 8:25:15 AM Hi Banjo, Yes, I agree that the laws are often not enforced, or enforced enough: maintain.....
» 1/03/2015 8:13:34 AM Thanks, LEGO. The simple question is still hanging in the air: are ISIS terrorists acting.....
» 28/02/2015 2:35:20 PM Hi Foxy, I totally support your statement that "In this country we have the rule of.....
» 27/02/2015 9:45:41 PM NC, I don't avoid, I ignore, your irrelevant questions. So you obfuscate ? That's a 'ye.....
» 27/02/2015 5:46:54 PM Yuyutsu, "The problem is when you attempt to enforce your society's internal agreeme.....
» 27/02/2015 4:30:02 PM Hi Crai, Yeah, those elderly b@stards ! Working all their lives, and then having the gall.....
» 27/02/2015 4:23:18 PM Hi Jayb, Yeah, I remember when I was at Penrith State Primary School, there was a bully i.....
» 27/02/2015 3:33:28 PM Hi Foxy, Spot on ! All Australians should, and do actually, come under one set of laws, w.....
» 27/02/2015 3:14:19 PM Hypocrite, heal thyself. NC, Simple question: Can what ISIS is doing be justified by refe.....
» 26/02/2015 9:06:22 PM NC, I've put forward some questions which I think are crucial. Whether you have the coura.....
» 26/02/2015 3:52:21 PM Craig, So what did I write that offends basic logic - or am I offending your left-opportu.....
» 26/02/2015 3:13:22 PM Wolly B, Yes indeed, that's perfectly true, but that doesn't negate the fact that there a.....
» 26/02/2015 2:56:48 PM NC, I think that, if ISIS does not represent Islam BUT it does represent the 'faith' of m.....
» 26/02/2015 7:52:15 AM ISIS claims that everything it does is in accordance with the Koran and subsequent hadiths.....
» 24/02/2015 1:47:37 PM O Sung Wu, It's strange how history is remembered. As an anti-War protester from about 19.....
» 23/02/2015 6:55:20 PM Hi Craig, Yes, my sitting bits are my best friend, sometimes they allow me to talk for th.....
» 23/02/2015 5:07:27 PM Hi Craig, I asked the bit I'm sitting on and it told me nothing new, but suggested I migh.....
» 23/02/2015 4:34:13 PM Hi Craig, Your last post ? I didn't think so. Then you suggest that "Evidence-base.....
» 23/02/2015 3:18:55 PM The British legal system, so much of which the Americans inherited, is a very conservative.....
» 23/02/2015 7:42:33 AM Poirot, Yeah, probably, but how many times on OLO threads does one have to point out that.....
» 22/02/2015 10:54:15 PM Poirot/Foxy, He got off on a technicality, and you know it. He intended to work with terr.....
» 22/02/2015 7:36:42 PM Whatev, Po BTT. Foxy, come off it, you know very well that Hicks was in Afghanistan befo.....
» 22/02/2015 6:01:00 PM My dear Poirot, How does this make you feel ? Any chance of sticking to topic ? Love, .....
» 22/02/2015 5:52:11 PM Dearest Foxy, Well, we know he might have fired more than one shot at Indian troops in Ka.....
» 22/02/2015 3:43:15 PM Dear Foxy, Well, of course there's due process and then there's what Hicks was actually t.....
» 22/02/2015 12:08:41 PM Dear Foxy, You could be right: Hicks, after working for NATO in Albania and Bosnia, left .....
» 21/02/2015 5:54:43 PM Sorry, Yerguga, I'm not all that bright, what on earth do you mean by that cryptic message.....
» 21/02/2015 4:12:37 PM Dear Foxy, Yes, innocent until proven guilty unless someone can get off on the technicali.....
» 21/02/2015 4:08:06 PM Hi Yebiga, So truth and reality mean nothing to you ? Crap Ideology = problem. Joe.....
» 21/02/2015 10:53:56 AM [continued] Obviously, it's far more complicated than that: there are major time-lags in.....
» 21/02/2015 10:46:23 AM Hi Jayb, Sorry, I'm not into trying to herd cats :) Go for it. As for IQ measurements, .....
» 20/02/2015 4:47:06 PM Hi Foxy, Not really - after the first bombing of the World Trade Centre in 1993, and the .....
» 20/02/2015 4:14:37 PM Yes, Yerbiga, we're all mind-readers out here, we know what you are on about. Typical four.....
» 20/02/2015 8:23:57 AM Yeah, get off his back ! He was wrongly captured while on holiday in Afghanistan, guarding.....
» 20/02/2015 8:19:07 AM Hi Yerbuga, Yeah ! Why can't anybody tell you the reasons for the decline of the Middle E.....
» 19/02/2015 7:20:39 AM Dream On, Do you have any evidence of the terrible crimes you are claiming ? If you ass.....
» 18/02/2015 7:07:08 PM YERBUGA, Among other things, I would very much dispute your claim that Aboriginal people .....
» 18/02/2015 1:09:22 PM Jayb, Ayatollah Khomeini in Western Australia ? Yeah, I might have picked grapes with hi.....
» 18/02/2015 8:13:25 AM 'Chump', Yebiga. Dream On, Don't get too far up yourself. My wife and I made some of the.....
» 16/02/2015 8:32:01 AM Hi Craig, Pericles' response: >>...there is no justification for Christianity's no.....
» 15/02/2015 1:13:44 PM Hi Poirot, Love that slide ! So clever ! Retchtub suggested that 'we have many great Mus.....
» 15/02/2015 12:04:17 PM JKJ, To give him the benefit of the doubt, perhaps NC/McAdam would concede that yes, Muha.....
» 15/02/2015 10:55:28 AM Hi Constance, Sorry, I must have missed your questions. Okay: Your suggestions about som.....
» 15/02/2015 8:37:09 AM Dream On, I should have added something crucial: often, especially in relation to Aborigi.....
» 15/02/2015 7:09:41 AM [continued] Nobody was 'herded' onto Missions in SA. I don't think there were any childr.....
» 15/02/2015 7:07:45 AM DreamOn, Do you have evidence for your assertions ? Or just a comfortable, proof-less, Pa.....
» 14/02/2015 3:46:27 PM Hi Constance, With respect, can you please tell us what you really think ? God, I love c.....
» 14/02/2015 1:05:45 PM Hi Rhosty, That's right, it's a large and complicated package of factors. I taught for a .....
» 13/02/2015 3:13:03 PM Maybe the bottom line is that there are many variables, and few givens: teachers, schools,.....
» 12/02/2015 5:38:23 PM [continued] So what should count as evidence, sufficient for us to believe something ? Wh.....
» 12/02/2015 5:33:44 PM Case in point. My poor old mum died on Saturday and at one of the wakes, a friend was talk.....
» 12/02/2015 3:04:36 PM McAdam, That was a shocking thing to do: three innocent people gone, and gone forever, an.....
» 8/02/2015 1:37:12 PM My dear Poirot, Never let it be said that I discriminate against anybody :) Love, Joe.....
» 8/02/2015 1:30:10 PM Oops ! That website should read: www.firstsources.info Fat fingers and bung eyes, not a g.....
» 8/02/2015 10:41:31 AM Foxy, My understanding is that the vote for the Greens went up by a bit more than one per.....
» 8/02/2015 8:59:00 AM [continued] Of course, 'facts' can be fabricated, but not all of them. And that fabricati.....
» 8/02/2015 8:55:54 AM [continued] The Protector provided up to a hundred boats on most waterways, 14-15-ft 'can.....
» 8/02/2015 8:54:57 AM Hi Don, To get back to topic: the truth doesn't have to rely on what is said or asserted,.....
» 8/02/2015 7:54:35 AM Wow, Constance, And I thought Arjay was off the planet :) So many long bows here ! Next.....
» 8/02/2015 7:44:22 AM Hi Paul, Yes, the Greens' vote was around 10 %, much higher in more affluent and middle-c.....
» 8/02/2015 7:33:38 AM Foxy, Yes, they have a huge job in front of them, an ideological revolution. I wish them .....
» 7/02/2015 8:55:27 PM Foxy, Well, I suppose we'll see, won't we ? Love, Joe.....
» 7/02/2015 7:56:33 PM Hi Foxy, So, you're implying that if someone shows love, everybody else will also show lo.....
» 6/02/2015 3:12:29 PM Constance, I have a horrible feeling that you may be close to the mark. If there isn't .....
» 6/02/2015 3:01:30 PM Hi Constance, No, I've never said I'm not interested in history, quite the reverse, to th.....
» 5/02/2015 5:42:10 PM Hi Constance, Sorry, connect what dots ? 'The Irish and the Russians are both Christians,.....
» 4/02/2015 8:13:03 PM dan, I think you're having a lend of us :) Okay, you've sucked me in: if income from expo.....
» 4/02/2015 6:43:09 PM Yeah, whatever. Back to topic: How does IS square burning someone to death in a cage, and.....
» 4/02/2015 4:22:38 PM As a bloke, I love a good cat-fight, but can you girls try to get back to the topic ? [Re.....
» 4/02/2015 4:19:26 PM I suspect that the great majority of Jewish people don't take much notice of the Talmud, C.....
» 4/02/2015 12:27:46 PM Jay, When, in 1941 ? Before or after the Nazis invaded Russia and Russian-controlled Pola.....
» 3/02/2015 8:45:43 AM Hi JKJ, In 'traditional' societies, - tribal, pre-civilized, primitive, whatever term one.....
» 2/02/2015 9:00:05 PM Poirot, What's your point ? Commodity prices have fallen, tax revenue falls. But spending.....
» 2/02/2015 6:59:58 PM Hi Poirot, No probs: commodity prices have fallen dramatically in 18 months. Hence less t.....
» 2/02/2015 5:45:45 PM Hi Poirot, Can you get into uni without the points ? Good luck. Well, as for austerity,.....
» 2/02/2015 4:50:40 PM NC, You honour me :) Are you maintaining that, whatever may have been the practice man.....
» 2/02/2015 3:31:54 PM Poirot, Obviously any government after the GFC. Any Treasurer would have known, keeping t.....
» 2/02/2015 8:20:42 AM McAdam, Rebecca and Isaac, okay, so the practice of child marriage in early Islam was onl.....
» 1/02/2015 8:43:03 PM Paul/Poirot, The Howard government was tossed out in 2007, leaving a multi-billion dollar.....
» 1/02/2015 7:19:46 PM Hi Poirot, ".... productive infrastructure", yeah, that might do it. What we ne.....
» 1/02/2015 6:02:05 PM Ah, the wounded goose ...... I'm don't think there is much to chortle about, Lib or Lab. .....
» 1/02/2015 5:35:02 PM Hi Paul, It must be pleasant to live in your either/or world. Many of us would be happy w.....
» 1/02/2015 12:51:38 PM NC, Pretty obviously, what might have been tolerated a couple of thousand years ago canno.....
» 1/02/2015 12:12:19 PM LEGO, The developer of the birth control pill, Carl Djerassi, has just died at 91. I'm su.....
» 1/02/2015 12:06:05 PM Hi LEGO, So ..... neither Jews nor Muslims, as you lump them both, want multiculturalism .....
» 30/01/2015 7:08:29 PM Hi Rhian, Of course, JoM's position raises issues of freedom of expression. I unreservedl.....
» 30/01/2015 5:26:39 PM JoM, Your assertion, that " ..... if something cannot be challenged it's usually dog.....
» 30/01/2015 7:00:05 AM Hi Foxy, Whatever floats your boat, although they don't do it for me :) Love, Joe PS. .....
» 29/01/2015 5:53:08 PM Why not: Dame Faith Bandler, New South wales Sir Wally Lewis, Queensland Sir Noel Pearso.....
» 29/01/2015 7:52:48 AM Hi Constance, When you suggest that " .... Islam, is the ideology – it is not a reli.....
» 28/01/2015 11:37:17 AM Hi Foxy & Constance, Surely if one person is allowed to wear religious-oriented clothing .....
» 28/01/2015 9:40:08 AM Hal mentioned last week, " the abuse of the privilege of free speech." Isn't .....
» 21/01/2015 7:14:55 AM SR, Kony = Boko Haram ? So two wrongs make a right, yet again ? Can we move on from this .....
» 20/01/2015 5:06:31 PM Thank you, NC, that fills out the picture :) So Bilal was an African slave, brought to Mec.....
» 20/01/2015 4:20:02 PM Thank you, Trisha, We need to constantly remind ourselves of what freedoms have been foug.....
» 20/01/2015 3:29:11 PM Hi McAdam, Governor Jindal said: "Some countries have allowed Muslims to establish .....
» 20/01/2015 12:50:25 PM Hi NC, Yes, according to Fernand Braudel, Bilal became the first Muezzin, presumably afte.....
» 20/01/2015 12:38:17 PM 'Violent Islam' - although of a Shi'ite variety - [maybe Islamism is an equal-opportunity .....
» 20/01/2015 11:44:55 AM You do me proud, Foxy :).....
» 20/01/2015 9:54:19 AM Hi Foxy, Of course, you're right, as usual, but only up to a point, literally: on the spe.....
» 20/01/2015 8:03:43 AM Thank you, McAdam, that clarifies the situation. SPQR, On the Atlantic slave-trade: of .....
» 20/01/2015 7:50:41 AM [continued] Killarney, I enjoyed your assertion of "a Nato-campaign to break up th.....
» 20/01/2015 7:43:02 AM Hi Killarney, Your interesting point, about "Those who dutifully parrot the 'viole.....
» 19/01/2015 9:24:44 PM Hi Poriot, Sorry, sooky-babe, what's your point ? Back to topic: it's surely important f.....
» 19/01/2015 4:19:39 PM Hi SR, I don't think the author indicated in any way that all Muslims were responsible fo.....
» 19/01/2015 4:00:21 PM Dame Margot, Flap-flap - anything but the topic. Look ! something else over there ! My .....
» 19/01/2015 3:47:51 PM Hi McAdam, I'm glad that you condemn the dreadful brutalities of IS - does this mean that.....
» 19/01/2015 3:31:44 PM Hi Constance, Stick at it, you've nailed one of the problems. The topic is "It is .....
» 19/01/2015 8:25:48 AM Thanks Chris, You've shown that we need such morons on a Monday, just to give us a laugh a.....
» 19/01/2015 8:12:11 AM Hi McAdam, North Korea, Eisenhower, Nixon ..... So are you saying that precautionary poli.....
» 18/01/2015 5:35:01 PM Craig, In Australia, this might go some way to answering your question: http://www.austl.....
» 18/01/2015 2:21:55 PM Well, she does have you pegged, Poirot :) How else would you describe your constant atte.....
» 18/01/2015 2:14:51 PM "There are people who sincerely view themselves as Muslims who have committed horribl.....
» 18/01/2015 1:58:26 PM As Constance rightly implies, invariably, both secular dictatorships (Nasser, Kassem, Assa.....
» 18/01/2015 11:54:25 AM Port, kettle, Poirot :).....
» 18/01/2015 11:11:51 AM Hi SPQR, Looking at those statistics, of "24,866 Islamic Terror attacks between 9/11.....
» 18/01/2015 10:50:57 AM On The Beach, There used to be 'OZ' and various scurrilous university student journals (a.....
» 18/01/2015 8:16:13 AM Good heavens, SPQR, are you suggesting that someone can be (I dare not write it) bigoted, .....
» 17/01/2015 7:43:41 PM Hi Foxy, [My fourth post in 24 hrs, I think]. I would have thought that a bigot is one .....
» 17/01/2015 7:29:24 PM Hi Foxy, Freedom of expression suggests the freedom to criticise, even offend or insult w.....
» 17/01/2015 7:08:03 PM Hi Foxy, I suppose it depends how you define 'bigot', and who decides who is and who isn'.....
» 17/01/2015 4:39:54 PM Here's an answer already to my question (I didn't expect it for days!): http://www.thegua.....
» 17/01/2015 4:36:04 PM Hi Foxy, I guess it's a bit like the right to get divorced, you don't have to exercise it.....
» 17/01/2015 4:25:58 PM Jardine/Minns, Two scenarios: One in France: * seventeen people murdered, ten because t.....
» 17/01/2015 2:54:18 PM Hi Aidan, Not sure what the connection is. Still, okay, I'll give it a go. * A flat baby.....
» 17/01/2015 2:37:07 PM Hi Foxy, Yes, it's uncovering a lot of misconceptions, isn't it ? 'Offence' and 'verbal .....
» 17/01/2015 12:02:48 PM Yes, George, you are repeating yourself because, with respect, you still don't get it - th.....
» 17/01/2015 11:25:47 AM Not since I was a kid, Foxy :) Even so, my brain has probably turned to mush with all that.....
» 17/01/2015 10:27:25 AM Yes indeed, Poirot, and those limits thankfully go well beyond what one might see in the W.....
» 17/01/2015 10:25:06 AM Hi Luciferase, Not an oxymoron - 'secular democracy' is a tautology, although of course, .....
» 17/01/2015 10:10:03 AM Hi George, Fascinating. Do you see a slight contradiction here: " ..... is it worth.....
» 16/01/2015 3:59:22 PM So, what if the baby bonus was doubled, and also treated as a sort of 'paid leave scheme',.....
» 16/01/2015 8:03:39 AM Hi George, Punching someone in the face (or beheading them etc.) because you disagree wit.....
» 16/01/2015 7:26:40 AM Hal, Yes, that was my point: that there are already laws against incitement to violence, .....
» 15/01/2015 5:17:15 PM Hal, Can you understand the difference between: * the right to offend and insult, * in.....
» 15/01/2015 4:51:54 PM McAdam/NC, Yes, as you say, "May we retain the ability to see the truth and live b.....
» 15/01/2015 7:31:11 AM Like most atheists, I'm sure, I've struggled consciously all my life to live by, and to en.....
» 15/01/2015 7:05:10 AM Please, enough of the playground morality: 'Well, you did too !' Well, so did you !' 'nyah.....
» 14/01/2015 12:25:42 PM Hi Kactuz, "Good thing I'm a goy boy." Don't kid yourself :) I think the Islam.....
» 12/01/2015 9:38:05 PM Steele Redux, "Learn from our mistakes, know that unchecked it will cause death and .....
» 12/01/2015 7:48:26 PM So Steele Redux and Daffy the Duck, Are you saying that two wrongs make a right ? Is that.....
» 12/01/2015 5:46:48 PM [Deleted for abuse.].....
» 12/01/2015 5:35:18 PM Hi Rhian, Perhaps you're right - current Islamism is roughly on a par with early Christia.....
» 12/01/2015 10:03:43 AM Divergence, So what DO you mean ? Planned parenthood ? Very gradual population stabilisat.....
» 12/01/2015 9:54:48 AM Hi SPQR, Clearly there is no such thing as a principled Left any more. Killarney, as I .....
» 11/01/2015 7:51:46 PM Nathan, You brought up Martin Bryant as a sort of comparison to Islamist terrorists. Why .....
» 11/01/2015 6:00:05 PM Hi SPQR, But it's interesting that, for comparisons to Islamist terrorists, Nathan has to.....
» 11/01/2015 5:15:43 PM Hi Nathan, So, Martin Bryant was acting in the name of Anglo-Saxonism, or Christianity ? .....
» 11/01/2015 8:41:21 AM Hi Craig, Fascinating ! You certainly could be onto something, that explains so much. No.....
» 10/01/2015 8:03:03 PM NC, Is that the limit of your stunted sense of morality ? ".... Kactuz and Loudmou.....
» 10/01/2015 5:36:56 PM [continued] And if not for Muhammad's fabled flying to Jerusalem, then how on earth can I.....
» 10/01/2015 5:12:00 PM McAdam, You dare to write: ".... frankly, I have no clue about the Boko Haram; who .....
» 10/01/2015 11:57:03 AM LEGO, "They probably can't understand why we are not doing to them in Australia, wha.....
» 10/01/2015 9:48:27 AM Arjay, This probably won't make the slightest difference for you: "French media rep.....
» 10/01/2015 6:29:51 AM McAdam/NC, Boko Haram has just butchered two thousand peole in north-east Nigeria. So whe.....
» 9/01/2015 7:06:35 PM NC/McAdam, "Even an occasional reader of Quran knows that Quran does not consider it.....
» 9/01/2015 3:57:30 PM [continued] As long as believers in any particular god, or block of wood, or fish, or ele.....
» 9/01/2015 3:43:13 PM Hi McAdam/NC, Computer problems. So much to respond to, so few posts. As to your self-p.....
» 8/01/2015 3:10:23 PM McAdam/NC, Do they teach mis-quoting in madrassas ? I suggested that " .... the Ko.....
» 8/01/2015 7:50:24 AM Hi McAdam, I owe you a sort of apology for my incomplete summation of the Koran: I should.....
» 7/01/2015 4:53:08 PM Hi NC/McAdam, as you suggest, "<<I support the strongest action by our author.....
» 7/01/2015 1:14:34 PM Hi Cobber, 57.9 asserted something, I knocked it back. I didn't say anything more, certai.....
» 7/01/2015 12:44:11 PM Hi Divergence, " .... the number of migrants arriving in Australia since the beginni.....
» 7/01/2015 10:48:44 AM 579, Hint: if you want to present a credible argument, don't over-egg it - slightly under.....
» 7/01/2015 9:46:07 AM Hi Constance, On force and violence: your quote, "There’s no doubt that later Musl.....
» 6/01/2015 7:43:04 PM NC, When you write, “Try your references in a session of scholars; your references will .....
» 6/01/2015 3:47:12 PM " .... Ukrainians want no more to be controlled by Russia or Russian controlled dicta.....
» 6/01/2015 2:22:19 PM Hi Matthew, Where to start ? I have a feeling you can't get to Dublin from here. But let'.....
» 6/01/2015 12:28:41 PM Hi McAdamNC, "Is it not odd that the hostage taker, who is cramped for space, what h.....
» 6/01/2015 12:18:14 PM Hi Aidan, That raises the question of why a woman who is out of work would want to get pr.....
» 6/01/2015 7:48:06 AM Matthew, Re your last post: don't confuse 'culture' with 'people', that slide from one to.....
» 6/01/2015 7:38:32 AM McAdam/NC, As you write, " ... from the mouth of that teen ager called Boston Bomber.....
» 5/01/2015 8:38:14 PM Jenny H, Would you, really ? Is that how your mind works ? Matthew, Nihilism is such f.....
» 5/01/2015 1:18:12 PM NC, Yes, it's a pity it was just a story, it didn't actually happen. Never mind. It's the.....
» 5/01/2015 10:29:07 AM Hi Yuyutsu, Sorry, I wasn't aware that this thread was focussing on the world, not just A.....
» 5/01/2015 7:30:15 AM Hi Yuyutsu, Thank you for elaborating on what you meant earlier. But you're still barking.....
» 4/01/2015 6:49:55 PM Hi NC, Those two verses go oddly together: "5:32 For that cause We decreed for the .....
» 4/01/2015 3:36:50 PM Sorry Squeers, I won't be following your example: "you should start punishing anyone .....
» 4/01/2015 3:26:24 PM Daffy Duck, I'm not sure what on earth your post had to do with anything. Daffy by name ......
» 4/01/2015 1:27:27 PM McAdam, " .... There is a big difference between 1.6 billion followers of Islam and .....
» 4/01/2015 12:35:55 PM Squerrs/Craig Minns, Sorry, I meant 'Mount Olympus', not the town of Olympia. Retchtub,.....
» 4/01/2015 9:22:54 AM Squeers/Craig Minns, It must be wonderful up there on Olympia. Yuyutsu, Surely any mov.....
» 4/01/2015 9:12:00 AM McAdam/NC, Pretty obviously, to question any beliefs is not at all necessarily to sit som.....
» 3/01/2015 3:17:32 PM McAdam/NC, You wrote: "And what is your right of questioning other people's beliefs.....
» 3/01/2015 11:01:48 AM Quite a few interesting comments, with the usual off the-mark and ad hominem contributions.....
» 2/01/2015 7:23:44 PM NC, Yes, honour killings take place in India as well as Muslim countries. In fact, it's p.....
» 2/01/2015 1:23:56 PM Ah Poirot, a littlec learning ..... You write, perhaps in too much of a hurry: "I d.....
» 2/01/2015 8:20:32 AM Wrong thread, Craig. And back-to-topic girls :) Gary has raised what would be called a 'w.....
» 2/01/2015 7:58:22 AM Hi NC/McAdam, Thank you for clarifying that point - that honour killings are completely a.....
» 1/01/2015 10:14:16 PM Thanks Poirot, No, you're right, he was a terrorist, a murderer, a rapist, and in his own.....
» 1/01/2015 9:05:50 PM Craig, " .... The only black clouds I want to see are the ones coming in from the We.....
» 1/01/2015 6:58:31 PM NC/McAdam, So you are suggesting that Islamic State is acting totally against the teachin.....
» 31/12/2014 2:48:19 PM Craig, [I'm losing a post over this, I hope it's worth it] Wow, you really are up yourse.....
» 31/12/2014 12:31:25 PM Craig, You're still making the mistake of thinking that Muslims are sheep, either getting.....
» 31/12/2014 10:13:51 AM Hi Craig, It might come as an unpleasant surprise to you but I don't really give a toss a.....
» 31/12/2014 7:48:48 AM NC/McAdam/Craig Minns, So: Islamic State has declared that Monis was a martyr, a hero, th.....
» 31/12/2014 7:42:42 AM Hi Killarney, So you are suggesting that the US caused the increase in refugee numbers fr.....
» 30/12/2014 2:31:02 PM Hi Craig, Perhaps you could give us some examples of your claims: "My comments her.....
» 30/12/2014 2:21:25 PM Hi Kactuz, I'm all for tolerance - within the bounds of the rule of law, the same rules o.....
» 30/12/2014 9:02:04 AM Thanks Craig, I asked, "Does the Islamic State act entirely according to the instruc.....
» 30/12/2014 7:52:54 AM Hi Ponder, I'm all for diversity as long as everybody lives by the same rules of law, and.....
» 29/12/2014 9:15:29 PM NC/McAdam/Minns, Simple question: Does the Islamic State act entirely according to the i.....
» 29/12/2014 1:36:44 PM NC, And where would Rosa Parks sit on a Saudi bus ? Anywhere ? or up the back, behind a b.....
» 29/12/2014 1:30:30 PM Hi Craig, Most of us on this thread are trying to get at the truth, in the light of innum.....
» 29/12/2014 7:45:51 AM NC/McAdam, Just one simple question: Is Islamic State acting in accordance with the Kor.....
» 28/12/2014 4:42:33 PM McAdam/NC, So the morals of the Koran are equivalent to biblical tales of four thousand y.....
» 28/12/2014 10:10:56 AM Hi NC/McAdam, Thank you for that: but that raises yet other questions - not statements or.....
» 27/12/2014 2:58:54 PM McAdam/NC, You may be misunderstanding SPQR. The question is: In your view, is Islamic .....
» 27/12/2014 1:50:23 PM NC/McAdam, So, since you don't agree that IS and all the other thug-terrorist groups acro.....
» 27/12/2014 9:49:33 AM NC/McAdam, So, the answer to Jardine's question, " Are you saying that no part of .....
» 26/12/2014 12:53:22 PM McAdam/NC, Thank you for writing, in answer to Jardine's quite legitimate question: “Do.....
» 26/12/2014 10:10:44 AM Good try, my dear wounded swan, Abuse is not 'on-topic'. It's not all about you. But I .....
» 26/12/2014 9:45:09 AM Hi Poirot, Ah, the 'Left' rides to the rescue of the extreme-Right ! Jardine asked a per.....
» 26/12/2014 8:12:44 AM NC/McAdam, A bit selective there: Jardine asked, as an 'if-then'-type question: "Do.....
» 25/12/2014 9:43:48 AM Onjab, Monis claimed allegiance to ISIS and held up a shop-full of hostages. In itself, w.....
» 24/12/2014 3:14:06 PM Hi McAdam/NC, I don't recall ever saying that the "Muslim mentality is totally one-s.....
» 24/12/2014 8:35:03 AM Hi Constance, Don't worry, I don't think I'm being fooled. Although, if there is such a c.....
» 24/12/2014 7:22:41 AM Hi McAdam/NC, I fully agree with you, when you denounce the Taliban [and all other Salafi.....
» 23/12/2014 4:46:01 PM Onjab, I'm sure most of us on this thread would condemn any American action forty years a.....
» 23/12/2014 11:09:58 AM Hal, Imagine the screams of 'compassion' from Hanson-Young if he had been returned to Ira.....
» 23/12/2014 8:08:44 AM McAdam/NC, Nobody is demonising Muslims. Nobody has to - in their name (are you prepared .....
» 23/12/2014 7:54:09 AM McAdam, If the US has been guilty of committing crimes, then they should be brought to bo.....
» 22/12/2014 2:54:35 PM McAdam, Check out 5: 116: "5:116 And when Allah saith: O Jesus, son of Mary! Didst.....
» 22/12/2014 8:13:42 AM Thanks Jay, I've got to use that: " ....'to let fact checking define the narrative w.....
» 22/12/2014 7:59:54 AM McAdam, You're right: "HATE destroys. And it's first victim is the beholder; it dest.....
» 21/12/2014 5:41:11 PM McAdam, That's called a 'straw man' or 'Aunt Sally' argument: nobody has said that violen.....
» 21/12/2014 10:49:09 AM NC, Appeals to 'authority' don't count for much - anybody could drag bits and pieces out .....
» 20/12/2014 7:10:06 PM ConservativeHippie, Yeah, but how do you know he wasn't a atheist pretending to be a Musl.....
» 20/12/2014 1:18:11 PM Hi Tom, Yeah, that was my point: oodles of 'research', some even by Indigenous 'researche.....
» 20/12/2014 1:02:59 PM While we're on the subject of how to respond to Islamo-fascism, I must commend the letmeri.....
» 20/12/2014 12:38:52 PM Moron Camo, " .... linking this guy to every other follower of islam is vastly idiot.....
» 19/12/2014 10:35:23 PM Camo, He acted in the name of Islam, whether Muslims like it or not: that was his rationa.....
» 19/12/2014 2:59:39 PM Camo, Proof: * He proclaimed that he was a Muslim, of the pro-IS variety: * he swore a.....
» 19/12/2014 7:14:10 AM Hi Camo, So perhaps he should have tattooed "terrorist" across his forehead ? W.....
» 18/12/2014 3:20:22 PM NC, He stuck an Islamic flag in the window. He called himself a sheikh. He had recently p.....
» 18/12/2014 7:37:36 AM Anyway, it wasn't an ISIS flag that that terrorist forced people to hold up: it was an al .....
» 18/12/2014 7:27:53 AM David, To be strictly comparable, wouldn't all previous annual records also have to be ad.....
» 17/12/2014 12:30:21 PM Hi Tom, I'm certainly not saying that there is no research or commentaries on Indigenous .....
» 17/12/2014 7:30:56 AM 130 kids killed in Pakistan by the adherents of the religion of peace. I suppose anybody w.....
» 17/12/2014 6:29:02 AM Killarney, It must be nice to be better than other people, not to be taken in by media, e.....
» 17/12/2014 6:16:15 AM Then we wait a few weeks :).....
» 16/12/2014 10:46:27 PM Hermit, I'll take that as a comment. In another month or so, Q & A will be back on, with .....
» 16/12/2014 10:34:50 PM David, Why bother ? Why not, for convenience and standardisation, compare years which go .....
» 16/12/2014 4:56:57 PM I don't think so, Hal :) Although his economy depends so much on oil and coal, as you have.....
» 16/12/2014 4:05:11 PM Thanks Hermit, Bilger writes: "The information age is actually a media age. We have .....
» 16/12/2014 3:51:17 PM David, That's almost the stupidest thing I've heard in a long while. Any day of the year,.....
» 16/12/2014 3:15:44 PM Hi Tom, Yes, there have been some inspirational professors and lecturers at universities .....
» 16/12/2014 7:15:47 AM Hi Dom, My wife's nephew :) My father-in-law and Lester's grandfather were brothers. Do.....
» 15/12/2014 7:38:34 PM Slightly off-topic, but that bloke holding up Lindt's and 30 hostages (he must have his ha.....
» 15/12/2014 8:11:39 AM What counts as research ? Research about 'research' ? Does someone from the Faculty of Her.....
» 14/12/2014 9:45:52 PM Thank you, Julian, I apologise, I have got you all wrong, I think. Yes indeed, the world.....
» 14/12/2014 12:32:36 PM [continued] That may be the dilemma of this century - how can a reactionary set of belief.....
» 14/12/2014 12:29:58 PM Hi Constance, What was the comparative state of Islamist thought and notions of human rig.....
» 14/12/2014 9:41:10 AM What, a US troop build-up in the Caucasus and eastern Europe ? How many ? In the hundreds .....
» 14/12/2014 9:20:55 AM James, Military build-up in the Caucasus ? How many troops ? How many planes ? How many m.....
» 11/12/2014 3:39:03 PM Item on that anti-ISIS capitalist lap-dog rag, The Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/.....
» 11/12/2014 3:28:57 PM Yes, let's wallow in regrets. The pyramids shouldn't have been built. Greek temples etc......
» 11/12/2014 2:57:07 PM So, just out of interest, where does Bilger stand on ISIS ? Silence was the stern reply :.....
» 11/12/2014 8:29:08 AM World War I ? Well, I'm glad that's over. If only Bilger didn't over-egg his puddings so.....
» 10/12/2014 8:15:04 AM Hl, Interesting combination of countries there: all doing relatively well (no US, UK NZ o.....
» 9/12/2014 10:36:22 PM Where does one start ? First off, this is 2014, not 1100 BC. Secondly, to get back to th.....
» 9/12/2014 3:16:33 PM Killarney, This post from Pickering: http://pickeringpost.com/story/the-saudis-well-oiled.....
» 9/12/2014 7:01:52 AM No, Killarney, the US-NATO coalition is not fighting with ISIS anywhere, don't twist my wo.....
» 8/12/2014 10:17:28 PM Killarney, In what conceivable way is the democratic coalition fighting WITH ISIS in Syri.....
» 8/12/2014 7:24:00 AM Hi LEGO, My limited understanding is that, at the time of the mythical Muhammad, most cit.....
» 8/12/2014 7:15:35 AM Killarney, You've got 350. So, you're saying that, because the Yanks, twenty five and th.....
» 7/12/2014 1:57:00 PM AC, As you say, race has nothing to do with it. I never said it did. Like Palestine or .....
» 7/12/2014 11:14:28 AM Armchair Critic, Indeed. One child throws a rock ...... and Hamas fires a couple of thous.....
» 6/12/2014 1:37:39 PM Killarney, "Possibly, after many post-occupation decades, the Taliban might evolve t.....
» 5/12/2014 8:19:29 AM Jardine, As you say, " .... a man in Australia, a man in Afghanistan, a man anywhere.....
» 5/12/2014 8:12:15 AM Hi Suse, I agree with your first two paragraphs. But they do seem to be contradicted some.....
» 4/12/2014 3:50:25 PM Ah Suse, The next step in the 'slippery slope' is to argue the case for someone who is no.....
» 4/12/2014 3:16:52 PM Jardine, Women everywhere should have the same rights before the law as men. Get over it......
» 4/12/2014 3:05:14 PM Are we talking about suicide or the killing of another person ? If suicide, then with a bi.....
» 3/12/2014 6:02:42 PM Hi Constance, Those Enlightenment values have been attacked from Day One, and before - mo.....
» 3/12/2014 8:40:39 AM Is it possible that, over the past three or four years, more Palestinians have been killed.....
» 2/12/2014 5:40:53 PM Hi Constance, Yeah, as an old Marxist, I'm intrigued in the links between classes and ide.....
» 1/12/2014 2:20:07 PM [continued] So is Islamism, Salafism, ISIS, the ideology of sections of the eternally-fru.....
» 1/12/2014 2:14:03 PM Hi Constance, Another day, another bombing. Three, I think, all in the name of a fictitio.....
» 1/12/2014 8:39:45 AM [continued] My wife Maria worked in Indigenous student support programs for more than twe.....
» 1/12/2014 8:32:51 AM Aboriginal 'leaders'. Yeah, right. If 'leading' signifies in any way, coming up with new i.....
» 30/11/2014 5:59:58 PM Hi Constance, That telephone interview with Father Samir has so many insights, especially.....
» 30/11/2014 3:26:53 PM Thank you, Jules, I couldn't have said it better :) Regards, Joe.....
» 30/11/2014 8:56:26 AM Hi Grateful, You suggest that " .... When the terrorists kill Muslims you show no co.....
» 29/11/2014 11:54:12 AM Hi Jules, In the past day or so, the Taliban have killed six random people in one attack;.....
» 29/11/2014 11:10:34 AM PB, One problem about living as cave-dwellers is how incredibly inefficient such a life-s.....
» 28/11/2014 7:17:49 AM Hi Grateful, You suggest " .... I suppose another point to make about your list of c.....
» 27/11/2014 3:13:59 PM So this past week: * a couple of suicide bombers in northern Nigeria, killing eighty rand.....
» 27/11/2014 7:26:03 AM Hi Aussieboy, An article in today's paper talks about a proposal to grant TPVs to refugee.....
» 26/11/2014 7:12:01 PM Hi Aussieboy, In your response to Spindoc, you raise an interesting issue. Since this thr.....
» 26/11/2014 8:43:24 AM There is a very interesting article in today's Australian, on the last page of the Higher .....
» 25/11/2014 10:02:39 PM Hi Pesky Boy, Perhaps in that 100,000 years, our descendants will work out 'what's the po.....
» 25/11/2014 5:14:29 PM Floundering Swan, So, nothing of your own then ? No idea about one of the crucial issues .....
» 25/11/2014 8:39:14 AM Hi Poirot, Yes, I think you've been called out on this one too. Do you have anything wh.....
» 24/11/2014 3:05:41 PM Hi ALCAM, Those statistics on Indigenous higher education participation are raw figures, .....
» 23/11/2014 1:45:21 PM Hi Jay, I'll stick my neck out and suggest that, up until the seventies, the 'lower class.....
» 23/11/2014 9:01:06 AM Hi Jay, In the early days, once the first generation of Australian-born whites reached a .....
» 22/11/2014 3:31:44 PM OSW, As usual, I agree with Poirot on this topic: the transient beauty of a flower, the j.....
» 22/11/2014 3:15:28 PM Hi Big Nana, You touch on a very, very sensitive subject, but one that will have to be co.....
» 22/11/2014 9:27:03 AM Hi Big Nana, Yes, there are such huge differences between the conditions of life for peop.....
» 20/11/2014 4:47:50 PM No worries, CH :) Has Been, Perhaps that feuding between Aborigines and Islanders - and .....
» 20/11/2014 2:54:03 PM Hi Conservative Hippie, I wasn't aware that I had an anti-immigration stance. And with my.....
» 19/11/2014 10:30:59 PM Sorry, Bruce, I can't go along with what you write: "I'm staunchly ANTI-immigration,.....
» 19/11/2014 8:45:48 PM Hi Banjo, Like anybody else who breaks any law: they pay the penalty. As for those who .....
» 19/11/2014 12:12:29 PM Spot on, Bruce ! Otb & Foxy, I suppose we have to be aware that the 40 % of Liberal vote.....
» 18/11/2014 7:52:58 AM Straw man, Nathan - who's attacking ALL Muslims ? Today another car bomb in Afghanistan, .....
» 16/11/2014 1:44:02 PM Bazz, I'm sure there are French and English who still consider all parts of their previou.....
» 16/11/2014 10:58:38 AM Hi Nathan, Any chance that you could back-date your statement that "The number kille.....
» 16/11/2014 7:41:17 AM Sorry, Killarney, The topic is "Playing the victims". I raised the issue of Ind.....
» 15/11/2014 8:26:09 PM Dearest Foxy, From my own limited experience of near-daily bus travel, and what I hear an.....
» 15/11/2014 2:56:31 PM Interesting logic, Nathan. A bit psychotic, but there you go. Let's just run through a fe.....
» 15/11/2014 11:43:09 AM Msnsjunior, selamat siang, The murder of three girls, merely on the grounds that they are.....
» 14/11/2014 7:56:13 PM Hi Squeers, Welcome back. Who's Andee ? Do you mean imho ? Perhaps you have the wrong thr.....
» 14/11/2014 7:18:23 PM Dearest Foxy, I'm not sure what that demonstrated. Perhaps there are no cases in Australi.....
» 14/11/2014 5:16:20 PM It's easily forgotten that the Muslims in Spain promoted multiculturalism - they were happ.....
» 14/11/2014 4:31:13 PM The Melbourne-based demographer Bob Birrell, in a 2000 article on Inter-marriage in Austra.....
» 14/11/2014 4:20:14 PM enable them to more efficiently utilise their resources, by switching from a hunter-techno.....
» 14/11/2014 8:26:04 AM Hi Mikk, Psychologists would suggest that there are 'open thinkers' and 'closed thinkers'.....
» 14/11/2014 7:11:18 AM Hi Killarney, Thanks for that complete rubbish, and quite irrelevant rubbish at that. But.....
» 13/11/2014 10:17:16 PM Hi Killarney, I don't think I'm distorting anything: the stats are there, once you've che.....
» 13/11/2014 11:34:07 AM [Continued] Killarney, Another unsettling fact for you: even back in 1996, according to.....
» 13/11/2014 11:23:44 AM Killarney, Here's another feature of Indigenous higher education achievement that you mig.....
» 12/11/2014 4:58:31 PM Jesus, you fellas, get a room......
» 12/11/2014 7:44:49 AM Killarney, You write of: " .... flawed data-gathering methods that tend to distort i.....
» 11/11/2014 3:30:02 PM Hi Wounded Swan, Off-topic and ad hominem as usual :) You know very well that Squeers f.....
» 11/11/2014 8:41:09 AM IMBO, Indigenous students commence study at universities, like anybody else, at all ages:.....
» 11/11/2014 7:39:56 AM Killarney, Indigenous people would find your comment quite racist and ignorant. But I sup.....
» 10/11/2014 6:31:52 PM Imho, Not really: I quoted your quote, and in the same spirit. A bit if a diversion fro.....
» 10/11/2014 3:27:33 PM Hi Barry, Yes, you got me, I was a born-and-bred pro-Soviet Communist until I was about 1.....
» 10/11/2014 3:08:10 PM Hi Imhho, " victims (of structural cuts to education, health, and employment, etc) a.....
» 10/11/2014 8:18:57 AM Hi Barry, I've just found this thread. I was fascinated by your quote: "Censorship .....
» 10/11/2014 8:10:25 AM Hi Squeers, What makes you think those attitudes haven't been felt much keenly by Indigen.....
» 9/11/2014 6:58:19 PM Thanks Has Been, You could be right, but I'm mindful of the simple fact that the proporti.....
» 9/11/2014 3:57:03 PM Hi Squeers, I've always loved Abraham Maslow's work. His sister Ruth married Oscar Lewis .....
» 8/11/2014 10:34:28 PM imho, If you thought about it for a bit, a five-year age-range, 20-24, is not at all narr.....
» 8/11/2014 8:13:18 PM imho, I get my figures from the Commonwealth Education Department, whatever it's called t.....
» 8/11/2014 3:25:58 PM [continued] Half of the Northern Territory is now under Aboriginal control, and 84 % of i.....
» 8/11/2014 3:24:20 PM As it happens, I've been thinking over the past few months about the damage that has been .....
» 3/11/2014 7:41:47 AM Yuyutsu/A.J.Phillips, " ..... religion as being a striving to eliminate the ego and .....
» 2/11/2014 6:51:02 PM Jay, I don't think Assad is the last of Middle Eastern fascist dictators by any means, th.....
» 2/11/2014 4:14:18 PM But here's a dreadfully depressing thought: sooner or later, there may be a major response.....
» 2/11/2014 10:12:26 AM Hi Barry, The problem is that Utopian theories may well be incompatible with liberty. Lib.....
» 29/10/2014 5:11:43 PM Intriguing how this thread has gone. Maybe there are two sorts of 'Left', or ex-'Left': .....
» 29/10/2014 7:54:17 AM For anybody interested in the topic of this thread, here's an interesting verse, probably .....
» 27/10/2014 2:53:12 PM JDJ Can I please elaborate on your last question: "At what stage short of actually .....
» 27/10/2014 10:19:35 AM There seem to be many major differences between ISIS' attack on Kobane and the German atta.....
» 27/10/2014 8:31:47 AM Kobane is a city, not just a town. It has - or had - a population of a quarter of a millio.....
» 27/10/2014 8:17:34 AM Voluntary socialism, I'd like to see that. In the Ukrainian elections yesterday, the Com.....
» 26/10/2014 8:14:51 PM For all those posters wandering aimlessly and searching for life's meaning, I highly recom.....
» 26/10/2014 1:54:13 PM Some of the Koran is sort of interesting. Here is a late verse (they are arranged by lengt.....
» 24/10/2014 4:21:57 PM Hi Aidan, Not a package deal ? Then how would you propose applying it piece-meal ? Yes,.....
» 24/10/2014 3:30:44 PM Aidan et al., I'm not sure what planet you're on, but it ain't Earth. How much experience.....
» 23/10/2014 6:35:01 PM Sorry to be so off-topic, but there you go. Further in relation to a 'stolen generation':.....
» 23/10/2014 9:36:54 AM Does life have a purpose, pre-given, ready-made ? No. Should life have a purpose ? Of co.....
» 22/10/2014 8:23:35 AM Hi Squeers, I've been almost as surprised as you to find out what was in all those old do.....
» 21/10/2014 5:16:14 PM [continued] Outcast status ? Since 1990, around 120,000 Indigenous people have been enro.....
» 21/10/2014 5:05:31 PM Ah Wounded Swan, If you had read more closely, that case was covered by the standard miss.....
» 21/10/2014 8:05:40 AM Wounded Swan, Dr Raines put up an OLO thread some years ago. When challenged, he couldn't.....
» 20/10/2014 8:46:39 PM David, Gee the blowflies are out early this year. On-topic: has there, or hasn't there.....
» 19/10/2014 8:31:03 PM [continued] But I'm trying to avoid putting any 'gloss' on anything – that's up to anyone.....
» 19/10/2014 6:42:00 PM [continued] Squeers, Your repulsive conclusion: “If you are correct, then we can only co.....
» 19/10/2014 3:37:05 PM Christ, this is like talking to a Jehovah's Witness about the non-existence of Heaven and .....
» 19/10/2014 3:32:07 PM Hi OTB, So, hypothetically, if each bloke got three months for each rape - longer if ther.....
» 19/10/2014 12:53:59 PM Hi Yuyutsu, "As opposed to the violence of materialistic socialism [and capitalism],.....
» 19/10/2014 11:47:05 AM Hi David, 'Killing Frenzy' ? Compared to ISIS ? 'Imperial Ambitions' ? Compared to ISIS.....
» 19/10/2014 11:17:58 AM [continued] either taking children away, or driving people off their lands (pastoralists .....
» 19/10/2014 11:13:30 AM Floundering Swan, Well, you started it. Hi Squeers, To take you up on your observatio.....
» 18/10/2014 8:13:17 PM Hi Wounded Swan, I have this picture of you and Squeers, like dame Margo and Nureeff on p.....
» 18/10/2014 5:58:18 PM Wounded swan, Still not clear what you are on about. A few months forty years ago gives y.....
» 18/10/2014 5:37:15 PM Hi JKJ, Both. Socialist theory, even Marx's, had obvious flaws (and possibly reactionary .....
» 18/10/2014 10:01:33 AM Yeah, LEGO, who said that us reactionaries and Islamophobes don't have a sense of humour ?.....
» 18/10/2014 9:53:18 AM [continued] BTT: so the warming pause has, according to the British Met Office, gone on f.....
» 18/10/2014 9:28:59 AM Whatev, Poi. I must be a bit hung-over this morning because I don't get your point: that.....
» 18/10/2014 9:09:21 AM Spot-on, LEGO & kactuz, One of the pillars of Islam is that one must believe in an after-.....
» 18/10/2014 8:55:50 AM Hi Jardine Jardine, I agree with almost every word. But I don't think I wrote that ".....
» 17/10/2014 8:35:06 PM Children, Socialism had its chance and blew it. it's bankrupt. It's not ever going to hap.....
» 17/10/2014 5:08:53 PM Thank you John, for a most incisive article. I can't believe that ISIS and Hizb-ut-Tahri.....
» 17/10/2014 4:15:51 PM [continued] The ration system was, to our eyes in 2014, pretty miserly: a pound of flour .....
» 17/10/2014 4:00:04 PM Dying Swan, Off topic but OK; in answer to your question, yes, in some cases, very likely.....
» 17/10/2014 8:02:34 AM [continued] A related surprise: on missions during the nineteenth century, the population.....
» 17/10/2014 7:56:20 AM I apologise to readers fro going off-topic but I have to respond to Squeers. Evidence ? Y.....
» 16/10/2014 4:08:54 PM Hi Barry, Capitalism needs overthrowing to be replaced with what ? Social fascism, dresse.....
» 16/10/2014 3:28:45 PM [continued] So, no, I don't have evidence of a 'stolen generation'. Or of people being he.....
» 16/10/2014 3:24:28 PM Hi Squeers, Thanks for you uninformed opinion, that's what OLO is for :) Perhaps you kno.....
» 15/10/2014 9:14:24 PM Yes, I wonder endlessly how many angels can stand on the point of a pin ? Socialism has .....
» 15/10/2014 2:53:34 PM No, I'm interested to know if it is true that there has been no world-wide temperature ris.....
» 15/10/2014 10:49:14 AM So that's a "dunno" then ?.....
» 15/10/2014 10:32:34 AM Hi Bernie, No, that's NEXT year. As usual, Poirot, your post is totally without content.....
» 15/10/2014 9:00:06 AM Like many people, I'm trying to understand the issues relating to climate change, and tend.....
» 15/10/2014 8:33:56 AM Hi LEGO, You're welcome to join us ex-Left bottom-feeders any time, there's plenty of us .....
» 14/10/2014 10:31:47 PM Hi David, I'm 72 next week. My wife and I made some of the first Aboriginal flags back in.....
» 14/10/2014 6:03:41 PM Hi David, No, you didn't. You'll learn that, you've still got time :) Perhaps we could b.....
» 14/10/2014 5:06:56 PM Hi Rhosty, The poverty line is defined as 60 % of the median weekly wage: an income below.....
» 14/10/2014 4:50:48 PM Hi David, You can join in, if you ever have anything to say :) I suppose some of us who.....
» 13/10/2014 4:15:06 PM Hi Rhosty, My grand-dad was a Wobbly, and my parents in the old CPA. So all that was lite.....
» 13/10/2014 3:31:12 PM Hi JFAus, Barrel bombs. Poison gas. Bombing raids on his own people. Five million refugee.....
» 13/10/2014 8:17:47 AM Hi Barry, Wow, that takes me back :) Yeah, Marx and Engels are still in my mind, not gods.....
» 12/10/2014 3:26:14 PM Hi JF, It's hard to keep up with opportunists :) So YOUR bestie is Assad ? He has never .....
» 12/10/2014 2:17:43 PM Hi David, No, don't know that one: nice to see you know it off by heart. Who said primary.....
» 12/10/2014 10:40:23 AM Hi David, Gosh, that will go down well amongst the other kids at West Footscray High tomo.....
» 12/10/2014 8:31:14 AM Tag-team, So ISIS is a fascist movement, but you don't mind it ? Is that it ? Still beats.....
» 11/10/2014 2:42:51 PM Tag-team, So, you can't bring yourself to say "ISIS is a fascist movement" ? O.....
» 11/10/2014 11:34:00 AM David, 'Strange views' ? I read that Hornberger article, as you suggested, and I found it.....
» 11/10/2014 9:59:35 AM Flappedy Flap, The rockets stop, the Israeli retaliation stops. End of. " .... the .....
» 10/10/2014 4:31:05 PM Hi Has been, Yeah, as a Scottish friend pointed out, what a calamity it would be if Scotl.....
» 10/10/2014 3:26:11 PM Wounded Goose, I suppose we should thank you for writing a post on 'The Great Burqa Debat.....
» 10/10/2014 3:18:24 PM Flappy Goose, You mean the terrorists firing rockets at random into Israel ? provoking re.....
» 10/10/2014 8:18:10 AM Hi David, So ....... the US is beheading children ? Raping and enslaving women ? Butcheri.....
» 8/10/2014 2:41:38 PM Hi Robert, Point of no return ? With an 18-year pause ? With unstinting technological dev.....
» 8/10/2014 12:43:20 PM Hi Spindoc, Dead parrot ? No, it's just resting. For eighteen years so far. IF that paus.....
» 8/10/2014 9:59:11 AM So I guess you would commend Prime Minister Abbott for slapping it down, as much as was wi.....
» 8/10/2014 9:52:13 AM David, Brainless. Do you think that Turkey and the Saudis will stand by and let ISIS be d.....
» 8/10/2014 9:37:01 AM Wounded Goose, I strongly recommend Janet Albrechtsen's article in today's Australian: I'.....
» 7/10/2014 8:20:38 AM Good one, CH. In today's Australian, my friend Gary Johns has a brilliant article about t.....
» 7/10/2014 8:18:14 AM Hi Onjab, Probably. I'm sorry, I didn't realise that you had any work experience, your vi.....
» 6/10/2014 5:56:29 PM David and Onbaj, My last paying job, at 61, was milking. 280 beautiful Friesians at a bra.....
» 6/10/2014 4:16:06 PM O Sung Wu, Yeah, I think it was a TV series called "The Flying Nun", around 197.....
» 6/10/2014 4:11:25 PM Onjab, That's a terribly sad story. Begging for food, no showers, dirty clothes. Have y.....
» 6/10/2014 12:36:26 PM I think this is my fourth post in 24 hours - but what a sacrifice ! Gloriously off-topic .....
» 6/10/2014 11:49:09 AM Hi Wounded Goose, So, like Tony Abbott, you find the nikab confronting ? But it's still l.....
» 6/10/2014 9:34:08 AM Bazz, Yes, they might, there's probably something in the Koran which commands it. As long.....
» 6/10/2014 9:18:16 AM Wounded Goose, Flap ! Flap ! Good one. Your posts on this thread have exhibited a genius.....
» 6/10/2014 7:20:45 AM The Twin Towers were brought down by explosives planted by the CIA. There is no such group.....
» 6/10/2014 7:11:19 AM Paul, My point was that you might be hard put to find two OLO contributors who agree with.....
» 5/10/2014 11:00:49 PM Paul, Don't get too far up yourself - most people on OLO think for themselves, and exhibi.....
» 5/10/2014 9:30:17 PM Paul, Somewhat hysterical and idiotic, but I suppose you are asking for some sort of rebu.....
» 5/10/2014 5:20:35 PM Perhaps some clarification may be needed here: what some people might find 'confronting', .....
» 5/10/2014 1:03:46 PM No Probs, Suse :) So: everybody does have the right to wear whatever they like in public .....
» 5/10/2014 9:55:44 AM Hi Wounded Goose, Still, it's a deviation from the topic, which is, I thought, about the .....
» 5/10/2014 8:54:40 AM Hi Wounded Goose, Nice deviation :) From memory, I did in fact, many times, deplore the .....
» 5/10/2014 7:59:47 AM Wounded Goose, I think you may have misunderstood: I was simply picking up on something J.....
» 4/10/2014 8:36:57 PM Jayb, "Just think of the unnecessary grief that would cause to Australian families, .....
» 4/10/2014 8:20:25 PM Wounded Goose, "I've never seen any woman in a burka, in the flesh, so to speak. Nik.....
» 4/10/2014 6:42:43 PM Hi Is Mise, Yeah, that was me. My limited understanding of the supposedly miraculous was .....
» 4/10/2014 2:13:55 PM "There's none so blind as them that cannot see." When I read the Wounded Goose'.....
» 4/10/2014 10:25:18 AM I've never seen any woman in a burka, in the flesh, so to speak. Nikabs, yes, every day. W.....
» 3/10/2014 4:28:24 PM Hi May May, No. What's your point ? I support the right of Muslim women to wear what the.....
» 3/10/2014 3:58:57 PM Hi Pual, Gosh, quite clever freally. Just a heads-up - the government hasn't banned the b.....
» 3/10/2014 8:42:24 AM Just to clarify: * the ban, now lifted, was in relation to the Senate. Abbott is not in t.....
» 2/10/2014 6:22:09 PM Hi Pete, Yeah, I think I wrote something along those lines early in the year: 'hold your .....
» 2/10/2014 5:42:48 PM Hi Poirot, Sorry, I misunderstood - I assumed that anybody wanting to enter any part of P.....
» 2/10/2014 4:00:31 PM Hi Runner, OR male members (no pun intended) could be allowed to wear women's clothes alo.....
» 2/10/2014 3:31:57 PM Poirot, I haven't seen the guidelines, but do such restriction apply ONLY to Muslim women.....
» 2/10/2014 3:15:08 PM Hey May May, " Muslims ... they are not ALL like that." I'm certainly not sayi.....
» 2/10/2014 2:23:22 PM Hey May May, No, not really. Most of us on this thread so far have been supportive. On .....
» 2/10/2014 2:14:59 PM Has Been, No, a nikab, you could still see her lovely eyes - and of course, with only tha.....
» 2/10/2014 12:57:20 PM Hi Pete, Yep, for all that. But no, I don't think Australia will get involved in Syria, o.....
» 2/10/2014 12:15:32 PM Thanks Pete, And yet, and yet - sooner or later, they will be used to defend Iraq against.....
» 2/10/2014 12:11:06 PM Yes, Paul, it's all so complicated. It's easier to fiddle than to put out the flames, as N.....
» 2/10/2014 11:40:44 AM Hi Pete, For all that and all that, I'm glad that Australian (and other) fighters and bom.....
» 2/10/2014 11:35:10 AM David, 'Community - the spray-On Solution' by Lois Foster. I remember now :) My head is.....
» 2/10/2014 10:46:49 AM Wounded Goose, Thanks so much for that - if Killarney reads it properly, then it saves me.....
» 2/10/2014 10:33:57 AM Has been, That really is a silly thing to write. One thing that has struck me on the bus,.....
» 2/10/2014 10:22:28 AM [continued] But even in connection with the Second World War, it got complicated: the USS.....
» 2/10/2014 10:20:26 AM Hi David, Yes, I agree - sometimes it is hard to tell who is the aggressor and who the de.....
» 2/10/2014 10:00:37 AM Killarney, Are you still paying attention ? Good, let's continue. They are all fighting .....
» 2/10/2014 9:59:18 AM Hi Wounded Goose, I guess, if you don't want to boost hysteria about the government's pol.....
» 2/10/2014 8:27:00 AM It's 'nikab', not 'burka'. The nikab allows the eyes to be uncovered, the burka covers the.....
» 2/10/2014 8:11:11 AM Thanks David, Slightly missing the point: can you distinguish between an 'unjust war', a .....
» 1/10/2014 9:59:39 PM Can anyone answer this question ? It's been bugging me reading this thread. Was the Koran.....
» 1/10/2014 4:31:32 PM Killarney, Oh dear. Okay. How to start ? In faraway countries, some countries have what .....
» 1/10/2014 4:12:16 PM Wounded Goose, Thanks for that Orwellian twist to my words and intentions. I suppose they.....
» 1/10/2014 9:33:16 AM Wounded Goose, Shades of Orwell ! So insouciance is now hysteria ? What's 'comfortable'.....
» 1/10/2014 8:04:42 AM Wounded Goose, Some of us on OLO don't have the faith in fascism that you do, dearie :) .....
» 1/10/2014 7:59:44 AM Killarney, My God, you really are an idiot ! Do you understand anything at all about the .....
» 30/09/2014 10:55:11 PM Killarney, You're an idiot: what do you think Iran and the Saudis will do if all those ob.....
» 30/09/2014 5:49:11 PM Wounded Goose, Not really, I'm confident that our government has got a handle on any terr.....
» 30/09/2014 5:26:33 PM OTB, Don't worry too much about it, when people get paranoid, this is how their minds wor.....
» 30/09/2014 12:48:20 AM Poirot, Most of us would say, yes, of course, that's a dreadful thing to do, what's your .....
» 30/09/2014 12:35:48 AM Hi David, How do you mean, the peanut gallery ? What I wrote was in total seriousness, an.....
» 30/09/2014 12:28:16 AM David, Thirty years ago, 1982 to be exact, although of course, living in an Aboriginal co.....
» 29/09/2014 5:18:21 PM That's right, Pete, Of course Israel would prefer that Assad stay in power rather than be.....
» 29/09/2014 5:10:37 PM Nathan, & O Sung Wu, People start wars. Such wars are manifestly unjust, aggressive, unpr.....
» 29/09/2014 4:56:31 PM David, I've heard 'community' defined as 'those who feel united by a common mistaken beli.....
» 29/09/2014 3:46:38 PM The tragedy of the Middle East is that nationalism - the aspiration to bring together all .....
» 28/09/2014 6:06:32 PM Hi O Sung Wu, Yes, I agree: but like every holy book, perhaps the Koran contains contradi.....
» 28/09/2014 5:27:21 PM Oh, I don't know, David, yours was not the last word: it hasn't ended yet. Topic: does st.....
» 28/09/2014 5:20:56 PM Foxy my darling, Good to hear from you ! Forgive me, but if ISIL goes into 'battle' (i.e.....
» 28/09/2014 12:43:23 PM A bit ad hominem, Pete :) I'm hoping that Australia will become MORE involved in fighting.....
» 28/09/2014 12:20:10 PM Hi Wounded Goose, Just trying to give David some advice on how to conduct himself on OLO......
» 28/09/2014 12:16:05 PM Hi Nathan, Thanks for this thread. In response to your wise reflections, here is a plea f.....
» 28/09/2014 12:00:50 PM Hi David, " ..... a more balanced view of America. I see it as the enemy of the fre.....
» 28/09/2014 11:49:11 AM Hi David, So you have nothing but ad hominem ? Invective ? Insults ? Nothing to back up y.....
» 27/09/2014 9:14:24 PM Pericles, I worked for a time in the sixties in a mental hospital, at Ballarat. Since the.....
» 27/09/2014 7:31:23 PM Jay of M, Wow. I think you have displaced Arjay in the Conspiracy Stakes. That post was a.....
» 27/09/2014 3:54:32 PM Hi David, ISIL. "Only primitive barbarians applaud and condone violence and killing.....
» 27/09/2014 2:41:26 PM Hi Onjab, So, are you suggesting that the royal family is behind ISIL ? That they want to.....
» 27/09/2014 12:21:12 PM OTB, I must be getting old. I can't easily tell the difference between gutless-Left and e.....
» 27/09/2014 12:10:26 PM Dream on, Oh dear, sometimes I feel sorry for Johnnie-come-latelies and their mouths. My.....
» 27/09/2014 8:30:15 AM Paul, Yes. What's your point ? Because an aggressor loses more troops, that therefore th.....
» 27/09/2014 8:24:03 AM David/Nathan, Mealy-mouthed bullsh!t. What sort of fascist apologist would ever suggest .....
» 26/09/2014 10:33:36 PM Nathan/David, This is all avoiding the issue. Are there or are there not 'just wars' ? Wa.....
» 26/09/2014 6:28:16 PM Onjab, What a despicable thing to say. Do you have the slightest idea of the complication.....
» 26/09/2014 5:00:00 PM Poirot, ISIS has just, among many other things, tortured and murdered a civil rights lawy.....
» 26/09/2014 4:51:33 PM Your best shot, Dream On ? In answer to your question: all of it. Aboriginal people were.....
» 26/09/2014 9:43:14 AM JF, Want 'good' people ? What are you on ? Joe.....
» 26/09/2014 8:34:38 AM Hi Poirot, Yes, you're right - ISIS can be compared to the Nazis and to Pol Pot's regime......
» 25/09/2014 11:54:49 PM Dream on, What a pile of complete rubbish. Almost nothing you have written can be backed .....
» 25/09/2014 6:53:20 PM Back to topic: Obama has a huge dilemma here: he must keep the Sunni and Shia heartlands .....
» 25/09/2014 6:47:46 PM CHERFUL, I strongly object to your calling ISIS 'revolutionaries' - they are reactionarie.....
» 25/09/2014 5:07:41 PM Hi Nathan, It's very brave of you, to come back onto OLO once you've stirred up such a ho.....
» 25/09/2014 4:14:27 PM Hi Arjay, Nice to see you have a friend on OLO: the coming together of the dumb-dumb Left.....
» 25/09/2014 8:17:12 AM Thanks Arjay, we need a bit of a diversion every now and then. So, to paraphrase Mr Prest.....
» 25/09/2014 8:13:06 AM Hi Nathan, Another day, another beheading. But it couldn't have been done by Muslims beca.....
» 24/09/2014 8:24:31 PM Hi Is Mise, 47. Don't you hate that ? That was partly my point: * that for many people.....
» 24/09/2014 7:13:33 PM Hi Hasbeen, When I was typing up all of the Protector's letters, at least those from 1840.....
» 24/09/2014 6:57:35 PM Hi Onjab, Yes, I apologise: I wasn't sure how far back in history, even into pre-history,.....
» 24/09/2014 3:46:25 PM Hi Foxy, For all that, I've got some regrets. I've met quite a few Vietnamese refugees si.....
» 24/09/2014 1:26:52 PM Hi Pete, You're right, we've had only about one incident each week for the last three wee.....
» 24/09/2014 1:18:53 PM On the other hand - to get back to topic - why not go the whole hog of symbolic fripperies.....
» 24/09/2014 12:57:20 PM HI OTB, I've always thought that self-determination meant a lot of work and responsibilit.....
» 24/09/2014 12:44:10 PM Hi David, Yeah, Marlene Dietrich went to the US and built a huge movie career. Hitler off.....
» 24/09/2014 12:37:56 PM Hi Pete, As an atheist, I don't have that luxury :( Police Commissioner Lay in Victoria .....
» 24/09/2014 12:00:42 PM Hi Onthebeach, You've just initiated a whole new stream of professionals - 'hygiene offic.....
» 24/09/2014 11:49:41 AM Hi Nathan, Yes, why can't people just get along - I rend my hanky and tear my hair every .....
» 24/09/2014 11:07:52 AM A quite understandable assumption, David :) Poirot, I'll risk my integrity by supporting.....
» 24/09/2014 10:59:22 AM Hi Albie, Yeah, I recall an Aboriginal academic friend whose many brothers and sisters we.....
» 24/09/2014 9:44:22 AM Any chance of sticking to the topic, Poirot, instead of these silly nyah-nyah remarks ? is.....
» 24/09/2014 8:58:03 AM Poirot, I think you picked the wrong morning to defend the 'religion of peace'. Two coppe.....
» 24/09/2014 8:51:37 AM G'day Bruce, You're onto something there. Perhaps, before they begin their starry-eyed wo.....
» 24/09/2014 8:23:18 AM Poirot, For all that and all that, ISIS has just sent 130,000 Kurds fleeing over the Turk.....
» 23/09/2014 11:42:10 PM Ojnab, Yes, and nine whites were properly hanged for it. In two hundred years, can you .....
» 23/09/2014 6:43:51 PM Pete, $ 100 says that Abbott will not listen to the majority and will NOT introduce the d.....
» 23/09/2014 6:07:49 PM [continued] How is anybody supposed to believe any Muslim who claims to follow the Koran .....
» 23/09/2014 6:05:32 PM Hi Ojnavb, " ..... the beheadings but let us not forget the beheadings, shooting and.....
» 23/09/2014 9:01:04 AM LEGO, Individual & JayB, Sit back and watch how the pseudo-left will now duck and dive, a.....
» 23/09/2014 8:55:26 AM Hi LEGO, Yes, the war against ISIS terrorists has to be fought on (at least) three fronts.....
» 22/09/2014 5:51:00 PM Thanks JF Aus, Yes, you're right, I might have jumped the gun a bit. The attraction of fu.....
» 22/09/2014 4:39:49 PM Hi JF Aus, You might be onto something. Perhaps the Greens et al. could send a Peace Cont.....
» 22/09/2014 9:02:18 AM Hi David, Is that the best you can do by way of analysis ? Research the issues, don't re.....
» 21/09/2014 8:06:15 PM So sixty thousand Syrian Kurds are now trying to flee over the Turkish border, but copping.....
» 21/09/2014 3:00:20 PM Thanks, Individual :) Spot-on. Cheers, Joe.....
» 21/09/2014 10:44:28 AM David, I hope that ISIS gives people in Iraq - the kafirs - that moment with their child .....
» 21/09/2014 9:53:52 AM Thanks Yuyutsu, I really learn so much on OLO. Thanks god for differences of opinion. Ok.....
» 20/09/2014 6:59:32 PM Hi David G, Nobody is suggesting that the US is perfect, although one could question who .....
» 20/09/2014 4:53:18 PM Halduell/Arjay/Waleed, " .... a couple of beheadings" ? Is that all you can go .....
» 20/09/2014 4:03:26 PM Hi ConservativeHippie, Simple test for the little kiddies' Green-tea-party: 1. Would you.....
» 20/09/2014 2:27:15 PM David G., Accusing Rhosty, "You eulogize war, see goodies and baddies everywhere.&.....
» 20/09/2014 12:05:13 PM Being born on the extreme left (and named after one of its gods, well, its only god at the.....
» 19/09/2014 10:33:59 PM Thanks, Plantagenet, "Instead of Invasion of Iraq then Syria how about: - Making su.....
» 19/09/2014 8:27:40 PM James, From your arguments, you appear to oppose any resistance to the most reactionary f.....
» 19/09/2014 4:32:39 PM Hi James, I'll get in first :) " .... as long as only Muslims are tortured ..... &q.....
» 19/09/2014 9:22:10 AM From another point of view, perhaps we should put the recent events into proper perspectiv.....
» 18/09/2014 4:29:01 PM Hi Onjab, Do you mean, in response to the invasion by the most reactionary forces in the .....
» 17/09/2014 10:13:35 PM Ateday, On population explosion, you may like to read this: http://www.slate.com/articl.....
» 17/09/2014 10:44:06 AM Yes, sorry, Grim, I read too much into what seemed a too-ready declaration of massive popu.....
» 17/09/2014 10:26:30 AM Hi James, Just working my way through your article: WHY AUSTRALIA’S PRESENCE IN AFGHANIS.....
» 17/09/2014 10:11:23 AM Thanks, Don, that's a brilliant article on future demography ! But sometimes, in my more .....
» 17/09/2014 9:42:00 AM Hi Grim, "Japan currently anticipates a 50% reduction in population by the end of th.....
» 16/09/2014 11:01:19 PM Onjab, Yes, you're talking about suicide. Yes. You're not talking about 'assisted' suicid.....
» 16/09/2014 5:47:25 PM Hi James, You're partly right, the US has to work with some ver4y unsavoury regi9mes, in .....
» 16/09/2014 4:28:14 PM Bonejob, Gosh, so clever. David, when the Yanks start beheading children and enslaving w.....
» 16/09/2014 4:23:26 PM Hi Onjab, 80 % ? Isn't it fun to pluck figures out of thin air ? Murder is not legal ye.....
» 16/09/2014 4:20:08 PM Hi Poirot, Not sure if what you say is on-topic, but I guess it's your best shot :) Glob.....
» 16/09/2014 9:08:16 AM Hi Poirot, Gosh that's clever ! I'm sure you can't wait to tell your besties in Year 8, t.....
» 16/09/2014 9:03:14 AM Hi Yuyutsu, As far as I can tell, I'm an atheist, pure and simple. I don't think there is.....
» 15/09/2014 9:55:32 PM Hi Ojnab, Somewhere, the UZS may be beheading children and enslaving women, perhaps you'r.....
» 15/09/2014 6:41:35 PM Hi Bonejab, Well, he was elected, and it's within his powers as PM. If he brought it befo.....
» 15/09/2014 4:29:21 PM David and James, Ah, would that the world was simple ! I'm sure Abbott has taken all of t.....
» 15/09/2014 9:10:50 AM Hi Poirot, Yes, and for all that, ISIS can't be allowed to invade more cities and territo.....
» 15/09/2014 9:02:36 AM Hi Yuyutsu, As an atheist, I don't have a concept of 'sin' - good and bad, right and wron.....
» 14/09/2014 3:29:20 PM Hi Pete, And if Abbott, like yourself, a 'good man' 'did nothing' ? Would that discourage.....
» 14/09/2014 2:12:45 PM Thank Christ for that. What's your alternative, Pete ? Apart from being 'a good man doing.....
» 14/09/2014 8:57:37 AM Kiddies, can we get back to topic ? The fascist Islamic State [how else would you describ.....
» 13/09/2014 8:43:58 PM Hi Hal, The Azov Platoon ? Piss ants. Vlasov ? A division. Mind you, I feel great sympath.....
» 13/09/2014 2:08:34 PM Hi Halduell, Nazis ? Zhirinovsky. Vlasov. The Ribentropp-Molotov Pact. Look them up on Wi.....
» 12/09/2014 8:09:48 PM Hi Yuyutsu, Okay, now I'm confused: if killing oneself is a sin, then surely killing some.....
» 12/09/2014 7:50:45 PM I'm not one to look a gift horse in the mouth so thank you, Grim :).....
» 12/09/2014 4:26:15 PM Hi Poirot, Well, your last comment seemed to have drained the shallow pool of pseudo-Left.....
» 12/09/2014 4:13:24 PM Wow, the usefuls are out in force today. Can I respectfully augment Rhosty's quote, that.....
» 12/09/2014 4:06:16 PM Sorry, Yuyutsu & Najbo, Are you talking about suicide, or 'assisted' suicide here ? Nob.....
» 12/09/2014 8:21:33 AM Onjab, Yes, I've written many times that suicide should be decriminalised. I'm not sure h.....
» 11/09/2014 7:23:26 PM Hi Yuyutsu, I hadn't thought about deflowering every beautiful woman on earth, but if tha.....
» 11/09/2014 4:27:38 PM That's how it is, Yuyutsu - the State is obligated to protect everybody in it, even from t.....
» 11/09/2014 9:26:13 AM Yuyutsu, Such an 'agreement' is implicit when we vote: imagine all the possible exception.....
» 10/09/2014 9:50:07 PM CH, So many assumptions ! First, that you and your friends - Green or White-supremacist.....
» 10/09/2014 4:35:14 PM Hi Grim, So how do you propose going about reducing the population ? Slowly and carefully.....
» 9/09/2014 10:58:41 PM Crap, Yuyutsu: if you killed someone in a duel, you would be up for murder. The state ha.....
» 9/09/2014 1:35:25 PM Ateday, You may be right, we've reached the limits of innovation in all things: maybe bet.....
» 9/09/2014 1:07:06 PM False dilemma, Ateday :) Interesting that that's the only way you can see the issue. OF.....
» 9/09/2014 12:14:53 PM Hi again Ateday, I guess you and your friends have already discussed the preliminaries of.....
» 9/09/2014 11:21:24 AM Hi Ateday, There's certainly more than one of him :) Over your soy-lite Latte and quino.....
» 9/09/2014 10:31:39 AM Hi Robert, No, what I meant was that it's not easy to differentiate suicide from murder, .....
» 9/09/2014 12:08:13 AM Hi Yuyutsu, Perhaps what may seem to be a 'moral act' to one person, assisting a dear fri.....
» 8/09/2014 10:08:40 PM Robert, Neither. False dilemma. I can appreciate that in a situation where someone is dyi.....
» 8/09/2014 8:20:07 PM God almighty. The slide from: * suicide to * 'assisted' suicide to * 'assisted' suicid.....
» 8/09/2014 9:32:27 AM Dear oh dear, Yet again that slide from suicide - which I fully support the decriminalisa.....
» 6/09/2014 2:23:25 PM Hi SR, There's another well-established principle that seems to have been forgotten: that.....
» 3/09/2014 3:16:36 PM Hi Rhosty, So ..... there are many, incompatible versions of the Koran ? So which is the .....
» 3/09/2014 9:42:34 AM Dan, Any evidence of any of that ? He who asserts must prove, or at least provide some ev.....
» 2/09/2014 2:50:29 PM Hi Jules, Here's another hypothetical: that Israel will make common cause with Iran, alth.....
» 1/09/2014 10:38:00 PM Hi Julian, So ...... five million people are supposed to pack up and disperse to God know.....
» 1/09/2014 7:51:15 PM Hi Nutter, Thank for the spray. Actually, you extend my point about Christian compassion .....
» 31/08/2014 8:00:29 PM Hi Nutter, I think LEGO was trying to get through to you that Palestinians cheered Saddam.....
» 31/08/2014 1:01:06 PM Hi Nutter, Not really - fire rockets at random into another country and you cop the conse.....
» 31/08/2014 10:59:09 AM Hi Nutter, Still waiting :) And just to remind you, an appeal to authority without eviden.....
» 30/08/2014 10:24:59 PM Nutter, No. Maybe if you could find, in nearly a hundred years now, a picture of an Israe.....
» 29/08/2014 4:12:55 PM Hi Nutter, Your appeal to the authority of a couple of conservatives can be dismissed, us.....
» 29/08/2014 8:31:19 AM Hi SPQR, There is STILL slavery in Muslim countries: in Mauretania, there are still tens .....
» 28/08/2014 5:06:42 PM Hi Nutter, You lost me there - are you saying that the Jews in Germany were firing rocket.....
» 28/08/2014 5:01:41 PM Hi Nutter, It was Lenin actually. As for genuine mercy etc., look in the Koran for any .....
» 27/08/2014 11:17:33 PM Nutter, I hope that it doesn't happen, but if it does, it will hit all of us, one way or .....
» 27/08/2014 4:50:40 PM Hi Wolly B, "What's the point of punishing some one after they have committed an off.....
» 27/08/2014 4:39:15 PM Nutter, "Palestinians, Iranians, Jordanians, Egyptian, Lebanon, Hamas and Hezbollah .....
» 27/08/2014 12:01:28 PM Nutter, Thanks for that tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.....
» 27/08/2014 11:07:58 AM Hi Phanto, Perhaps an answer to your questions is: that many women like men, and vice ver.....
» 26/08/2014 6:52:53 PM Wow, you blokes seem to have trouble getting on with women :) Question, otb, although I s.....
» 26/08/2014 4:21:12 PM Rhosty, Yeah, who said Allah didn't have a wicked sense of humour ? Question: would jiha.....
» 26/08/2014 9:22:08 AM Thanks Dane, that's fascoinating: "Susie, you might have worked in hospitals but hav.....
» 25/08/2014 4:32:02 PM Phanto, How do you know I'm not a sheila ? I apologised for hurting your feelings, not f.....
» 25/08/2014 2:25:07 PM Hi Phanto, I didn't intentionally suggest that you were a real man :) I apologise for hu.....
» 25/08/2014 11:35:33 AM Thanks Phanto, I've been sceptical about the very notion of misogynism - how could men no.....
» 25/08/2014 8:13:48 AM As I read this article, it seems there is no intention to name and shame anybody who has a.....
» 24/08/2014 1:34:28 PM Nutter, SOPQR has a point - in the name of Allah, Arabs invaded right across north Africa.....
» 23/08/2014 6:34:43 PM Hi Numbul " I possess 30+ years of working experience initially at project officer, .....
» 23/08/2014 11:19:07 AM Numbul, "I never met Peter Sutton or Marcia Langton but I often think that if indeed.....
» 20/08/2014 5:51:50 PM Steele, That really is a silly comparison - are Israeli nightclubs full of active service.....
» 18/08/2014 10:06:32 PM Hi Steele, Not really the right questions: does Israel have the right to exist ? Yes ? No.....
» 17/08/2014 2:13:07 PM Nutter, You mean Siegfried Sassoon ?.....
» 17/08/2014 10:19:17 AM Nyah ! nyah ! Told you so: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/15/russia-fledgling-.....
» 16/08/2014 4:39:06 PM Dane, Can you understand that one thing has nothing to do with another, UNLESS you wish t.....
» 16/08/2014 12:53:20 PM Nutter, " ....not one of us". "Us" ? Please count me as " ........
» 16/08/2014 11:14:57 AM Dane, When I started primary school in Bankstown, I was a bit careful near the 'big kids'.....
» 15/08/2014 8:23:59 AM And Leonard Cohen, of course :).....
» 15/08/2014 8:23:08 AM Nutter, Heine. Sassoon. Pasternak. Philo. Mandelstam. Ginsberg. I'm not into poetry, bu.....
» 15/08/2014 8:14:57 AM Dane, Do you realise how despicable that sounds ? That Jewish kids can be terrorised in S.....
» 14/08/2014 6:14:18 PM Simple, Poirot - stop the rockets and recognise the right of Israel to exist. Perhaps all .....
» 14/08/2014 4:33:40 PM No, Arjay, it was a school bus, it picked up any school kids along its route. But perhaps.....
» 14/08/2014 4:23:32 PM Phanto, "If racial or religious abuse is not put into a proper context then one can .....
» 13/08/2014 9:09:54 AM Does Israel have a right to exist ? Yes, alongside the multitude of other ethnic and relig.....
» 12/08/2014 5:43:07 PM The anonymous Vision for Australia wrote of "a nation within a nation. Sovereign to a.....
» 12/08/2014 5:24:28 PM Hark, The Middle East and indeed the entire region from north-west Africa right across to.....
» 12/08/2014 4:18:05 PM Hi Duck, Nor would Jewish people claim to have one single collective identity, there are .....
» 12/08/2014 2:09:49 PM Does Israel have a right to exist ? Of course, as much as a nation of Copts or Yazidis or .....
» 12/08/2014 9:44:56 AM Hi Wm Trevor, If you mean 'equal to' something with superfluous hair in all the wrong pla.....
» 12/08/2014 9:39:25 AM There seems to be a sort of hierarchy of 'offense' from mild disagreement to outright murd.....
» 12/08/2014 9:20:49 AM Hi Killarney, Whether "Referring to women as God's 'perfect creations' and revelling.....
» 12/08/2014 9:16:53 AM Hi David, Maybe there is some sort of informational misunderstanding going on ? As a very.....
» 11/08/2014 8:06:23 PM Hi David, Maybe you're right. If any sort of 'work for the dole' program was re-introduce.....
» 11/08/2014 7:54:02 PM Bit of a long bow, Killarney :) So ....... to be attracted to women, to enjoy being in th.....
» 11/08/2014 6:15:39 PM Killarney, Interesting slant, that philanderers hate women. As a wishful-thinking philand.....
» 11/08/2014 1:13:09 PM The notion of one Aboriginal nation is not new - a bunch of conservative whites, under a r.....
» 11/08/2014 12:57:59 PM "Indigenous 'nation' " ?! There would have been tens of thousands of land-hold.....
» 11/08/2014 8:32:32 AM Hi Big Nana, Most communities have running water - on Google Earth, you can see sewage po.....
» 10/08/2014 8:30:58 AM Hi Big Nana, I have to go tree-planting this morning down next to Kuitpo Forest, it's abo.....
» 9/08/2014 6:06:44 PM OTB, The recent review of Indigenous higher education used data no later than 2005, when .....
» 9/08/2014 2:37:08 PM Hi Big Nana, Fantastic ! I certainly wish them well. Charles Darwin Uni has tripled its e.....
» 9/08/2014 9:23:08 AM Thanks Individual, Whatever name people use or used, the gist is that there traditionally.....
» 8/08/2014 7:58:46 PM Individual, I suppose every 'culture' is rich and diverse, but some may be based on the i.....
» 8/08/2014 8:52:13 AM Hi Individual and Big nana, I wish it wasn't so, but it is, and has been. I wonder, if th.....
» 7/08/2014 6:45:28 PM Hi Individual, And probably a high proportion of those supernumeraries were not actually .....
» 7/08/2014 9:26:31 AM [continued] Is it possible that many people privately believe that the Gap can't/shouldn'.....
» 6/08/2014 6:51:39 PM Hi Individual, I'd reverse that proportion of dodgy figures: maybe six thousand out of 36.....
» 6/08/2014 3:10:51 PM Siberia wanting to break away from Russia ? Who would have thought that the shoe could hav.....
» 6/08/2014 2:55:17 PM [continued] instances of outright fraud, of non-Indigenous people enrolling as Indigenous.....
» 6/08/2014 2:39:17 PM Hi Bren, Thanks for your opinion about that period of 'stagnation'. A few facts: Until .....
» 5/08/2014 5:23:08 PM [continued] As well, we all know of people who are employed not really to do anything, ju.....
» 5/08/2014 5:19:59 PM Hi Individual, Yes, that may be happening in some cases, no names, but surely not in 36,0.....
» 5/08/2014 1:58:31 PM TBC. Oy. To get back to higher ed: in the cities, certainly Indigenous people with a non-.....
» 5/08/2014 1:56:40 PM Thanks Rhosty & Individual, I'm uneasy about racialising this issue - if people have Indi.....
» 3/08/2014 2:07:00 PM The entire Middle East is a tapestry of many, many ethnic and religious groups, with histo.....
» 2/08/2014 2:20:05 PM [continued] So yes, both problems exist. How much, who can say, perhaps a quarter in tota.....
» 2/08/2014 2:03:52 PM Individual, I've been pondering some of the same issues for forty years or more. A very g.....
» 31/07/2014 11:48:01 PM Individual, I'm not so sure that the financial incentives are any greater now for Indigeno.....
» 31/07/2014 3:47:19 PM [continued] Continuations by Institution [Table 10]: This key variable, continuation numb.....
» 31/07/2014 3:43:28 PM Big Nanna and Individual, I mostly agree with both of you but I don't think it's all that.....
» 31/07/2014 8:48:29 AM Thanks, Big nanna and Individual, I'm simply citing the figures. There is no means of gau.....
» 30/07/2014 11:04:35 PM Thank you Rhosty and SPQR, that makes it all worthwhile :) Individual, Try to find one s.....
» 30/07/2014 1:43:27 PM Hi Mikk., 'Fight war, not wars !" Gosh, how noble, how lofty. So how to stop the .....
» 30/07/2014 1:32:54 PM Hi Mikk, Then stop firing off the rockets in the general direction of Israel (mostly). En.....
» 30/07/2014 10:38:31 AM Hi Yuyutsu, I guess I'm thinking of those limited situations in which: * people are not .....
» 30/07/2014 9:37:25 AM Hi Yuyutsu, "Once someone successfully opts out, killing them is no longer a crimina.....
» 29/07/2014 10:59:08 PM I thought the topic had something to do with euthanasia, above and beyond any religious op.....
» 29/07/2014 3:41:12 PM Hi Steele, I hope that if Israel announced a cease-fire, that would be it - Hamas would s.....
» 29/07/2014 3:08:07 PM If the Israelis announced a midnight truce, every night, how soon do you think Hamas rocke.....
» 29/07/2014 2:42:09 PM So how do some of you with a Bible fixation explain the opposition to euthanasia from athe.....
» 28/07/2014 3:29:53 PM Hi Helga, Yes, there's overlap, but I'm an atheist and I oppose assisted death. Suicide y.....
» 28/07/2014 2:33:21 PM Hi Helga, It's got bugger-all to do with religion - there are plenty of atheists out here.....
» 28/07/2014 11:04:10 AM Maqc, I'm suggesting that suicide shouldn't be either a crime OR a 'sin', but that its de.....
» 28/07/2014 9:29:34 AM Why is this issue so distorted by some of the above writers ? Suicide is one thing. Assi.....
» 26/07/2014 9:00:32 PM Hi Arjay, Thanks again, I needed a bit of a lift. So ....... all the passengers on both.....
» 26/07/2014 6:54:10 PM Thank you, Arjay, that's my laugh for the day :).....
» 26/07/2014 3:28:12 PM RIR, I think they thought about that many decades ago, but someone told them that the Rus.....
» 25/07/2014 9:43:00 PM Wobbles, Assuming that firing off a surface-to-air missile requires a bit more line-of-co.....
» 25/07/2014 8:18:09 AM SOG, It's irrelevant, and if anything, Russian aggressions are counter-productive: ask yo.....
» 24/07/2014 4:36:10 PM Agronomist, Why stop there ? We're just coming up to the sixth anniversary of the Russian.....
» 24/07/2014 3:45:43 PM Or maybe it's all about power: as shown in the last paragraphs of this article from the Gu.....
» 24/07/2014 9:12:18 AM This, from the respected Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/23/mh17-ukra.....
» 24/07/2014 9:08:44 AM Sorry, kids, back to topic :) IF IF Russia has supplied surface-to-air missiles to its h.....
» 23/07/2014 6:26:47 PM Then about all you can conclude from your logic, SOG, is that the Russian hooligans in Ukr.....
» 22/07/2014 11:01:11 PM But of course it was an accident, so no blame should be placed on the 'rebels', they thoug.....
» 22/07/2014 10:55:21 PM Brilliant ! Russia sends in thugs and old KGB officers to stir up trouble in Ukraine, cap.....
» 22/07/2014 6:32:33 PM Agronomist, The point is that it is probable that Russia shipped surface-to-air missile s.....
» 22/07/2014 11:09:49 AM Hi Individual, I'm certainly not saying that Putin got on the phone to some drunk in Done.....
» 22/07/2014 9:56:27 AM Chain of command, ConservativeHippy: Who authorised 'pressing the button' ? Which KGB o.....
» 18/07/2014 3:45:20 PM What the hell, most of us will still love him, he's always going to be a champion. What he.....
» 18/07/2014 9:10:49 AM Tax all religious organisations - no problems, but why and how would any government tax at.....
» 13/07/2014 1:53:42 PM Even if such a waste dump could be kept safe for hundreds of years, the people there would.....
» 12/07/2014 3:08:47 PM Hi Leo, On sea-level rise, I'm a bit concerned about that SBS advert, in which waves are .....
» 10/07/2014 3:51:45 PM One thing: was/were one or both ships on the high seas ? If so, yes, there may be a case.....
» 9/07/2014 6:26:24 PM Thanks, Bazz - sometimes being a confused old fart has its drawbacks :) Joe.....
» 9/07/2014 5:50:56 PM Perhaps I've misunderstood, but my take on this appalling episode is that a boat-load (or .....
» 8/07/2014 5:15:04 PM Warmair, So Noah's Flood occurred in Winter, 1656 AM ? Perhaps late Winter, to give repti.....
» 8/07/2014 4:46:33 PM Pretty scary, OUG :) But aren't ice shelves actually sitting on the sea ? If they break a.....
» 3/07/2014 4:06:10 PM A bit deranged, OUG :) This is 2014 AD, not BC. Please join us. Joe.....
» 3/07/2014 8:33:02 AM To assert a caliphate at the beginning of Ramadan, with 45-48 degree heat in Iraq, when Mu.....
» 2/07/2014 9:00:44 PM OUG, Netanyahu is certainly not the only one to believe that letting the Sunnis and Shi'i.....
» 2/07/2014 5:08:38 PM OUG, Where on earth do you get this notion that Israel has been training ISIS thugs ? Do .....
» 1/07/2014 9:26:16 AM Kat, Being a fairly obnoxious person, and one not too bright, I probably disagree with wh.....
» 30/06/2014 10:11:27 AM Sorry, Kat, I need some help in understanding your post. What's 'collative' mean ? What's .....
» 29/06/2014 8:51:12 PM Dear Foxy, But it's still not a bird. Or a bat. Or a blowfly. Love, Joe.....
» 29/06/2014 5:45:16 PM Hi OUG, Thanks for demonstrating my point, that to slag 100%, one line of thought, doesn'.....
» 29/06/2014 4:58:20 PM Homosexuals have as much right to live their lives as they wish, as alcoholics, or bigots......
» 29/06/2014 2:34:18 PM Yes, OUG, capitalism is pretty crap. But history has not been kind to the notion of 'shari.....
» 29/06/2014 10:27:53 AM [continued] 579, So what then ? Democratic systems with both capital and bureaucracy re.....
» 29/06/2014 10:25:41 AM It's fascinating to see how people argue over a topic. I went back to re-read Marx and En.....
» 28/06/2014 6:37:25 PM OUG, So Israel is supporting ISIS ? Do you have the slightest shred of evidence, or is th.....
» 28/06/2014 5:25:30 PM Hi Pete, I was thinking in terms of the evangelical-exterminatory ideologies of ISIS and .....
» 28/06/2014 5:08:35 PM Hi Eric, You miss my point, and probably LEGO's as well. I have no objection to unions of.....
» 28/06/2014 2:12:41 PM Hi Foxy, I think LEGO's point was precisely that, that a flying fish is not a bird. Duc.....
» 28/06/2014 10:41:23 AM Yes, Is Mise, but it's a pity that it was irrelevant to the discussion here. However, it.....
» 26/06/2014 7:04:52 PM Hi Pete, I've never voted Liberal in my life and most likely never will, but I'd like to .....
» 26/06/2014 4:00:51 PM Hi Pete, I don't think Alan Tudge has ever hidden his links to the PM, or Noel Pearson, o.....
» 25/06/2014 2:01:54 PM Thanks, Plantagenet, Being of little brain and vision, I hadn't thought about the Pakista.....
» 25/06/2014 10:35:24 AM Hi Individual, Yes, an ISIS takeover of Baghdad itself is not out of the question. All th.....
» 24/06/2014 9:53:25 AM There is a brilliant article in today's Australian by Professor ben Saul, exploring the di.....
» 23/06/2014 8:40:05 PM Sort of tongue in cheek, Pete :) I don't know how a former jihadi could prove that they H.....
» 23/06/2014 4:02:01 PM Hi Is Mise, Well, yes, of course, but surely there are arrangements between governments w.....
» 23/06/2014 10:43:32 AM Hi Pete, Yes, certainly, in the short- to medium-term, all military options should be use.....
» 22/06/2014 8:51:50 PM Sometimes situations don't develop the way we might expect. We might assume that if a, th.....
» 20/06/2014 3:54:32 PM James, As a lawyer of fifty years' experience, you would know that the so-called White Au.....
» 20/06/2014 3:42:23 PM Hi Poirot, "... I'm sure she [Malala Yusufzai] could also teach some faux feminists .....
» 20/06/2014 9:41:06 AM Hi Poirot, Thank you for elaborating on the zeal with which faux feminists have gone into.....
» 19/06/2014 6:50:21 PM Hi Poirot, Sorry, I've checked out that URL and it seems a very balanced summary. My only.....
» 18/06/2014 7:00:01 PM SM, I was raised on the Sydney Morning Herald, so I'm proud that it has finally come out .....
» 17/06/2014 11:53:21 PM arjay: "Anyone of us can be gaoled indefinitely without legal representation if our.....
» 17/06/2014 5:53:17 PM James O'Neill & Arjay, Why do you think everybody is a puppet, all controlled by the Yank.....
» 17/06/2014 1:35:16 PM Hi James, I think you are confusing two events, the removal of the old pro-Nazi Shah: [f.....
» 16/06/2014 8:55:34 PM Hi Hal, Yes ? No ? Should one use extreme measures against such brutal terrorists or not .....
» 16/06/2014 7:10:53 PM Hi James, Why do you think that the only dynamic is Sykes-Picot, from which all subsequen.....
» 16/06/2014 2:10:27 PM Pete, I don't think this is a game - terrorists who line up and kill 1700 people in one g.....
» 16/06/2014 12:55:08 PM As Pete says, the atrocities committed by these terrorists (how come that term is being av.....
» 12/06/2014 4:24:13 PM Jardine, So being forced to marry at puberty is 'consent' ? What an appallingly conservat.....
» 11/06/2014 4:22:52 PM Yuyutsu, An intriguing, if somewhat psychotic, approach. So if someone is blown up in a.....
» 10/06/2014 6:30:11 PM So, Poirot, what's the main thrust of this topic ? Doesn't it have something to do with at.....
» 10/06/2014 5:39:20 PM Sorry Jay, I don't think you know what you are talking about. Rhosty, Yes, the suicide r.....
» 10/06/2014 2:23:27 PM Hi Poirot, Again I apologise, but I did think the two topics were in some way related. My.....
» 10/06/2014 1:11:55 PM Hi Poirot, Okay, I apologise, never again. But as you quote me, http://forum.onlineopi.....
» 10/06/2014 1:06:30 PM Hi Hasbeen, Good point, about a scandal far too common. Tiny 'communities' are strange pl.....
» 10/06/2014 12:22:16 PM It's called 'culture', Suse :) Amazing, I fully expected the usual Left suspects to charg.....
» 10/06/2014 12:12:56 PM Hi Paul, Usually, when I make comment on an OLO thread, I do so in the faint hope that so.....
» 9/06/2014 5:06:56 PM Hi Pirrot, Thank you for that information. I'm not sure if an accusation of a plum stuck .....
» 9/06/2014 12:54:26 PM Meanwhile, the 'left''s new bestie, Uncle Clive (after all, he's not a Liberal [ no, indee.....
» 8/06/2014 8:09:59 PM Hi Paul, If you have another look at your last posting, you may notice that you have not .....
» 8/06/2014 2:36:30 PM Paul, Well, yes, any expenditure committed (perhaps by a former government) into the futu.....
» 7/06/2014 2:53:09 PM Thank you, Paul, yes, I assume that many of the SA camp-followers are young and naïve, but.....
» 7/06/2014 11:54:30 AM Hi Paul, I haven't really considered refugees to Australia as being Muslims, except in th.....
» 6/06/2014 10:46:37 PM Hi Paul, Thank you for bringing the discussion back to the mistreatment of women, you may.....
» 6/06/2014 4:24:51 PM Parrot, I apologise for raising issues to do with the oppression of women in other countr.....
» 6/06/2014 4:22:48 PM Producer, You forgot the heat and snakes. I remember apricot-picking in 46 degrees, all o.....
» 6/06/2014 9:09:25 AM BTT ?.....
» 4/06/2014 10:09:27 PM Runner, Wow. I never thought I would ever agree with you, but I think you may be right. B.....
» 4/06/2014 6:22:57 PM Jotiki, Jobs have been disappearing ever since the copper, then bronze, then steel axe re.....
» 4/06/2014 5:55:15 PM I don't think there is anything particularly wrong with criticising any politician for doi.....
» 4/06/2014 4:29:05 PM Dear Foy, From memory, Mal Brough did not know about that stupid menu, which wasn't even .....
» 4/06/2014 1:42:49 PM Dear Foxy, Thank you, you carry the weight of many of the left on your shoulders ;) But p.....
» 4/06/2014 10:06:08 AM Hi Mikk & 579, So that's established then, that it's sexist to wink, look at your watch, .....
» 3/06/2014 2:24:50 PM Jayb, The great majority of people in South Sudan are Christians. They fought a fifty-yea.....
» 2/06/2014 11:50:25 AM SPQR, Combine this shocking story with the ghastly tragedy of that poor women beaten to d.....
» 2/06/2014 10:00:44 AM When are we going to get over the notion that all culture, i.e. cultural practice, is good.....
» 27/05/2014 3:44:53 PM Hi Hal, Of course people shouldn't be bigots. But how do you define one, and somehow make.....
» 27/05/2014 9:51:07 AM Who defines what is a bigoted statement and what is a perfectly correct statement ? One pe.....
» 15/05/2014 6:09:42 PM Thanks, Cohenite, for some sanity. Dick, of course, we all know that a 'war against ter.....
» 12/05/2014 10:58:56 PM Hi Pete, I always try to check out The Guardian (as well as The Australian), I'm working .....
» 12/05/2014 7:57:52 PM Hi Pete, I guess the bottom line for pseudo-Left is that Tsarist Russia is not the US - e.....
» 12/05/2014 5:07:19 PM Wm Trevor, I'll bet it was an ugly little bugger, too :) Joe.....
» 12/05/2014 4:57:29 PM Hi Pete, But on the Maoist - faintly fascist - principle that power grows out of the barr.....
» 11/05/2014 4:13:15 PM Dick, I tend to take my views from the Guardian. My example of Syria (and including you.....
» 11/05/2014 1:13:27 PM Hal (and Dick), The dilemma for the Yanks vis-à-vis Syria is that they absolutely don't w.....
» 11/05/2014 9:34:25 AM Hi Dick, That says it all: "I have a simple rule of thumb...if America says it's goo.....
» 10/05/2014 1:22:53 PM Hi Arjay, A somewhat selective appeal to authority, mate, not to mention being a bit irre.....
» 10/05/2014 12:15:55 PM Hi Arjay, I've never figured out whether you write from the extreme paranoid Left or from.....
» 9/05/2014 4:56:16 PM I don't see why any Ukrainian government should feel inclined to set up a weak-centre/stro.....
» 8/05/2014 9:22:24 AM Yes, wouldn't it be nice if people listened ? But of course, they don't have to. And after.....
» 8/05/2014 9:19:28 AM Yes, wouldn't it be nice if people listened ? But of course, they don't have to. And after.....
» 7/05/2014 4:10:01 PM I don't necessarily agree with everything that Helen says, but I'll defend whatever she sa.....
» 7/05/2014 10:11:15 AM Kat, If your intention was to insult or offend, it fell a bit flat. But most of us would .....
» 5/05/2014 10:57:31 AM Perhaps a better term for such unions than 'marriage' - or even 'civil union' - could be '.....
» 3/05/2014 1:33:06 PM Hi Agrominist, "the rate of warming over the past 15 years (1998–2012; 0.05 [–0.05 t.....
» 3/05/2014 11:49:31 AM Hi Agronomist, A cat can look at a king, they used to say. So Lawson can point out that P.....
» 2/05/2014 4:18:32 PM UOG, Stick a toothpick under the Caps Lock, it works for me. And now, the Commonwealth .....
» 1/05/2014 5:05:25 PM Hi James, Well, April is over, and the Crimea has been invaded and incorporated into Old .....
» 1/05/2014 4:35:15 PM Yes, Agromonist, Or about 0.8 of a degree in the next century, from all causes of global .....
» 1/05/2014 4:27:12 PM nohJ, Possibly rehcteB meant that he has 'donated' in excess of half a million dollars in.....
» 30/04/2014 8:45:03 PM 0.08 degrees in sixteen years. Gosh......
» 30/04/2014 9:46:08 AM Hi Agronomist, The main thing currently that bugs me about climate change is whether or n.....
» 29/04/2014 11:00:23 PM nohJ, It must be wonderful to be amongst the elite who are forever immune to brainwashing.....
» 29/04/2014 4:10:24 PM Hi nohj, Do you have anything to actually say, besides derision ? Why are you fixated on .....
» 29/04/2014 12:01:57 PM Right on, JBSH, that's Don's point - but I hope that you weren't suggesting, from that cli.....
» 28/04/2014 4:23:15 PM Nohj, There are more than forty million genuine refugees in the world. Perhaps hundreds o.....
» 28/04/2014 3:34:56 PM Arjay, Thanks for your entertaining contributions. I wonder what international bankers .....
» 27/04/2014 1:03:51 PM [continued] It's a bit rich, though, for Putin to level a charge of Right-wing influence .....
» 27/04/2014 1:02:26 PM Hi Foxy, Yes, that TV braggart was hardly typifying a nation being harassed or put upon b.....
» 27/04/2014 11:45:58 AM Thank you, Foxy, I don't think there is remotely anything 'Left' about Putin, I suspect .....
» 27/04/2014 10:06:44 AM Hi Foxy, " .... the old adage about patriotism being the refuge of scoundrels. Or th.....
» 26/04/2014 12:54:17 PM David G., The dreadful nefariousness of the world's bankers is neither here nor there in.....
» 26/04/2014 10:35:03 AM Hal, To continue: Would it be legitimate for Ukraine to send planes to intrude into Rus.....
» 25/04/2014 3:29:58 PM Hal, There may be many more devils in the world worse that the US, which presents all of .....
» 24/04/2014 5:45:07 PM 579, dear, sweet boy, Previous government commitments, like the BER, the NBN, the NDIS, h.....
» 24/04/2014 4:36:27 PM Let's see: The US is sending 600 troops to Poland, a sovereign country. Russia has 140,00.....
» 23/04/2014 6:13:07 PM I was just checking to see which countries voted with Tsarist Russia over Crimea: lo and b.....
» 23/04/2014 2:47:18 PM From any government's point of view, the question is not how much to increase the old-age .....
» 22/04/2014 10:40:10 PM Hi Ludwig, You pose a very exciting situation, in which the number of relatively young pe.....
» 22/04/2014 5:35:00 PM Hi 579, So what's wrong, from ANY government's point of view, with pegging the old age pe.....
» 22/04/2014 4:58:21 PM Back when old-age pensions (are we still allowed to use that term?) were introduced in ind.....
» 22/04/2014 8:54:00 AM Still a week to go, James :) I wonder how the left will explain all this away: http://b.....
» 16/04/2014 11:01:30 PM [continued] The one-man Aborigines department would have been well aware of the populatio.....
» 16/04/2014 11:00:14 PM Pilger says that taking children away was genocide ? I guess he's lucky that British audie.....
» 7/04/2014 2:41:10 PM Thanks, divine Ms N., Understandably, it's usually too painful for people to have to admi.....
» 7/04/2014 11:01:34 AM [continued] Most of the kids at Colebrook moved down to Quorn, a couple of miles out of t.....
» 7/04/2014 10:59:14 AM Hi Big Nana, Great to hear from you ! On the matter of half-caste children: very roughly,.....
» 6/04/2014 4:17:49 PM Rhosty, rom Wikipedia: "Gorbachev was born on 2 March 1931 in Stavropol, Russian S.....
» 6/04/2014 4:14:04 PM Hi Rhosty, You may be right about Gorbachev. I think that Putin is riding a tiger - now.....
» 5/04/2014 7:39:50 PM Hi Phillip, Isn't paranoia fun ? i.e. from the flimsiest evidence, you can predict that .....
» 5/04/2014 4:00:17 PM A guilty thanks, Plantagenet :) Joe.....
» 5/04/2014 3:19:32 PM Hi Rhosty, I think Gorbachov was born in Rostov, just outside Ukraine. You might be think.....
» 5/04/2014 11:35:29 AM Hi again James, Perhaps you're right, since Putin hasn't invaded Ukraine yet. So maybe I'.....
» 3/04/2014 3:31:07 PM An alliance between Russia and China ? What have some of you been smoking ? There was a t.....
» 31/03/2014 4:19:33 PM Hi James, Yes, you can send your first $ 100 to the Hamlyn Fistula relief Fund. I'll matc.....
» 31/03/2014 3:24:29 PM Hi James, I don't think Putin will invade through eastern Ukraine. His blitzkrieg will be.....
» 30/03/2014 1:24:35 PM Hi Leslie, Thank you for that. One reality is that many Aboriginal children were taken in.....
» 30/03/2014 8:51:17 AM Hi Diver Dan, On your assertion that "..I am positive in my thinking that Aboriginal.....
» 30/03/2014 8:33:06 AM Hi Paul, I don't think Brandis was advocating bigotry, just pointing out that it wasn't i.....
» 29/03/2014 1:31:21 PM Perhaps Mr Pilger could name ONE person who was illegally removed, and the circumstances o.....
» 29/03/2014 1:05:08 PM Hi Foxy, No incitement to violence - well, that's precisely what Brandis is suggesting, n.....
» 29/03/2014 10:05:08 AM Hi Foxy, 'Afghan' was a term for all traders and cameleers from what is now Pakistan and .....
» 28/03/2014 6:56:02 PM There seems to be some confusion between race and ethnicity and culture and an unspoken Ot.....
» 26/03/2014 3:06:12 PM James, Your second question ? Irrelevant - two wrongs don't make a right. And are the Ya.....
» 26/03/2014 8:07:19 AM Thanks James, As for a timetable for when Putin invades those nations on the receiving en.....
» 25/03/2014 3:43:48 PM I think I got it wrong, suggesting that Putin needs an 'Incident' to invade Ukraine. No,.....
» 25/03/2014 3:27:17 PM Hi Paul, Divergence got in first :) Defamation and libel laws are already in place. As we.....
» 25/03/2014 8:02:14 AM Hi Paul, It should not be illegal to be a drunkard, or a perv, or to let one's rented pre.....
» 24/03/2014 12:48:30 PM YEBIGA, You're half-right, that there are, as you call them, media medias, with their par.....
» 22/03/2014 5:14:06 PM How does one differentiate vilifying, from humiliating, from insulting, from offending ? .....
» 20/03/2014 11:14:17 PM Thanks, Is Mise. Many, many times on the Mission, I remember blokes arguing and soon enou.....
» 20/03/2014 3:02:25 PM Foxy, From memory. Bolt's 'mistakes' were rather trivial and in fact, some of his stateme.....
» 20/03/2014 8:22:23 AM Hi Foxy, Most Indigenous people would have known just what Andrew Bolt was getting at, th.....
» 18/03/2014 7:59:40 AM Hi Retchub, Muslims don't wear turbans. If you see a bloke with a turban, he's more likel.....
» 17/03/2014 5:56:03 PM Hi Is Mise, Apres toi, le deluge ! An Irishman enters a doctor's waiting room with banda.....
» 17/03/2014 2:27:37 PM Mikk, Equality of men and women, and observance of the rule of law, for starters. Not a.....
» 17/03/2014 9:08:33 AM We already have laws in relation to defamation, slander, libel and incitement to violence......
» 14/03/2014 5:34:11 PM Hi Nathan What, twelve hours ? Straight ? Wow. Phenomenal. Awesome. Cool. Maybe there's h.....
» 14/03/2014 8:02:10 AM So now they're disappearing people ? Throwing people off rooves, firing over crowds, disqu.....
» 12/03/2014 3:34:32 PM Hi Leslie, The people of Ukraine 'engineered' the coup, and what has Putin done since ? W.....
» 9/03/2014 2:37:58 PM Hi Hasbeen, Not being a Crimean Tartar, I wouldn't know what that felt like. But what's t.....
» 9/03/2014 12:48:17 PM Wow, the old SPA is alive and well. Here's a suggestion: if it's so right for KGB Colonel.....
» 3/03/2014 9:30:00 PM Tristan, Bullsh!t. Pre-capitalist societies could hardly be said to be hives of fun, inge.....
» 2/03/2014 6:49:57 PM Thanks, Tristan, I'm broadly in agreement with you ...... except that I can't differentiat.....
» 2/03/2014 3:59:04 PM Hi Tristan, Of course, the complication here is Russia's licence to use the port faciliti.....
» 2/03/2014 12:55:18 PM Brilliant non sequiturs, David. Tristan, So many wrongs make a right ? Ukraine is (at th.....
» 26/02/2014 3:51:51 PM Tristan, As I understand it [cf. Hugh Thomas' 'Spanish civil war'] POUM was constantly at.....
» 24/02/2014 8:50:00 PM Wobbles, We had an election last September. Now we have a different government. Hi Foxy,.....
» 21/02/2014 7:22:05 AM Belly, Sorry, what 'insults' ? OTB seems to be raising legitimate questions, and doing so.....
» 18/02/2014 2:44:42 PM Hi Belly, If the Labor party is ever to take office again, it has to remember that it has.....
» 15/02/2014 6:38:28 PM Hi Foxy, Can I please complete that sentence: "It appears obviously that the drugs .....
» 15/02/2014 9:03:41 AM Welcome back, Foxy ! I hope everything is okay :) So what's the bet that Corby is back be.....
» 12/02/2014 5:57:38 PM Hi Steele Ruddex, Well, it certainly is persuasive: I had a singing gig today and standin.....
» 12/02/2014 3:36:37 PM Steele Redux, Well, there you go, we've just had the thirteenth day this summer over 40 d.....
» 12/02/2014 7:35:17 AM Hi Foxy, Like many other contributors, I've missed you over the past couple of weeks :( I.....
» 11/02/2014 3:13:39 PM Hi Steele Redux, Yeah, it's just on 42 at the moment. Tomorrow maybe more, and Thursday i.....
» 11/02/2014 9:25:39 AM Sorry, OG, I can't understand what you are trying not to say. Hi SteeleRuddex, You might.....
» 10/02/2014 1:36:16 PM Hi OG, Pride of place in my lounge is a brilliant painting by Jake Stengel of Ngurunderi .....
» 10/02/2014 8:48:04 AM I occasionally do some voluntary work in town, and if I take a book to read on the bus, I .....
» 10/02/2014 7:16:34 AM Dan, Hospital records. Eye-witness accounts of nurses, mid-wives, your mother, various bu.....
» 7/02/2014 10:23:34 PM Jennifer, Stories don't have to be consistent or logical, and heroes had all sorts of mag.....
» 7/02/2014 9:08:12 PM Jennifer, Thanks for a fascinating article. I'm certainly no expert on Ngarrindjeri place.....
» 7/02/2014 8:42:48 PM So you're Dutch AND Aboriginal, OUG ? When one looks on Google Maps at the region around .....
» 7/02/2014 3:35:24 PM OUG, I've got the papers to a bridge across Sydney Harbor if you want to buy it - cheap !.....
» 3/02/2014 8:18:12 PM Shockadelic, "A bit difficult to canoodle with someone on the other side of the plan.....
» 3/02/2014 8:12:09 PM Okeydoke: Page 5 (not page 3: ah, the memory, it's shot after thirty): headline: "Ci.....
» 3/02/2014 2:54:45 PM In today's Australian, page 3, it was reported that Adelaide had just had a heat-wave of t.....
» 3/02/2014 11:39:51 AM Thank you SteeleRuddex, I'm honoured to be placed in the company of Foxy :) Cheers, Joe.....
» 3/02/2014 9:36:05 AM I don't know what you've got against 'tactless honesty' Shockadelic. I try to make it a ru.....
» 3/02/2014 8:35:13 AM I didn't mean to suggest that it was all sweetness and light for all migrants coming to Au.....
» 2/02/2014 8:18:51 AM About the battle in Townsville, there is a [barely] fictionalised account of it in a novel.....
» 31/01/2014 5:18:02 PM Thanks Foxy, that's a brilliant article ! Love, Joe.....
» 30/01/2014 6:18:51 PM Oops, I meant the '1890s'. Sorry :(.....
» 30/01/2014 5:38:27 PM [continued] With a ration system, those days were gone. Not only that, but during drought.....
» 30/01/2014 5:37:51 PM Hi Fran, To repeat, "It has always been legal - even now - for Aboriginal people to.....
» 30/01/2014 3:05:36 PM Thanks Foxy, right back atya :) Someone correct me if I'm wrong but there was an element .....
» 30/01/2014 8:09:47 AM Just to give some numbers to the broad statements in this article, in South Australia, a t.....
» 28/01/2014 5:45:03 PM Thanks Foxy, you always represent the spirit of generosity and forbearance that I think we.....
» 28/01/2014 4:28:33 PM In my clumsy way, what I was trying to explore was how do people see themselves in relatio.....
» 27/01/2014 1:29:31 PM [continued] The people on that evening had been quintessential Aussie battlers: the photo.....
» 27/01/2014 11:40:00 AM Hi 579, Perhaps you're right, we should always obey whoever is in authority :) But maybe.....
» 27/01/2014 11:33:53 AM I don't know about lesser states but here in SA, a driver can be pinged for driving in the.....
» 27/01/2014 11:24:23 AM Foxy, Mu understanding is that people inherited their totems, either from their father or.....
» 27/01/2014 9:45:12 AM Hi Individual, You note that Aboriginal people couldn't have had a concept of 'Australia'.....
» 27/01/2014 9:24:37 AM What does it mean to be Australian, to feel Australian, to take it for granted that this i.....
» 25/01/2014 8:33:14 PM Arjay, Sometimes I suspect that, for a laugh, Pericles takes on a paranoid persona and ca.....
» 25/01/2014 10:41:52 AM With our infinitely superior knowledge. we should remember that not only do we stand on th.....
» 24/01/2014 9:22:45 PM Hi Rhian, I agree with you, HECS is not some sort of conspiracy to bankrupt younger gener.....
» 22/01/2014 5:38:54 PM Hi Rhian, In relation to Indigenous enrolments, I have to point out that they have risen .....
» 18/01/2014 5:28:02 PM It just goes to show that reality must prevail over ideology: a valid ideology, in other w.....
» 16/01/2014 10:02:35 PM What is meant by progressive feminism ? Just fill in these spaces: A. B. C. D. What i.....
» 16/01/2014 8:22:50 PM I wonder what Irigaray would make of F = ma ? Probably another book......
» 16/01/2014 3:11:25 PM Bazz, But surely all the bits have to slow down eventually, bumping into all that dark ma.....
» 16/01/2014 7:17:00 AM Hi Jodelie, Creationism in schools is not gonna happen. Let's look at more relevant issue.....
» 15/01/2014 6:53:03 PM Runner, I'm certainly no Physicist but I do believe in gravity. I can't understand the no.....
» 15/01/2014 6:50:43 PM Back to topic, PJack. Don't get too far up yourself. The school curriculum, state by stat.....
» 15/01/2014 4:57:44 PM Runner, 'Before the "Big Bang" there was no time.' And if you stub your toe on.....
» 15/01/2014 9:06:01 AM Hi David, SPQR does have a point - perhaps all of us tend towards that dogmatic, 'I'm-rig.....
» 14/01/2014 6:46:30 PM OG, The nub of your spurious argument is: 'GOD IS THE GRAND/SUM TOTAL...of all E'. Prov.....
» 14/01/2014 5:38:25 PM Hi Pete, Just to modify your statement: ' ... The universe and what came before the last.....
» 14/01/2014 8:16:37 AM David, I would respectfully suggest that, over the years here on OLO, Pericles has made i.....
» 13/01/2014 3:11:00 PM Chris, A bit off-topic but your assertion that " .... White man killed the black man.....
» 13/01/2014 8:44:17 AM Hi Arjay, "I suspect Assange and Snowden of being double agents to lead us off the s.....
» 13/01/2014 8:26:09 AM As an old lefty, I have no trouble with considering Marx to be a product of the Enlightenm.....
» 10/01/2014 8:24:16 AM There is a brilliant article by Anthony Dillon in today's Australian: http://www.theaustr.....
» 9/01/2014 3:05:10 PM Hi minotaur, Until the fifties, compulsory schooling lasted only until a child was fourte.....
» 8/01/2014 8:21:40 PM " .... taking children from their families ...." Danielle, Well, yes, I do dis.....
» 8/01/2014 8:54:22 AM In 2012, 5812 Indigenous students commenced university study in Australia (see: http://d.....
» 20/12/2013 10:41:31 PM Hi Foxy/Lexi, Culture is one thing, people and their ability to learn from their circumst.....
» 20/12/2013 7:04:16 PM No way, SPQR, I'm just a bitter old fart, Foxy/Lexi, Like any other Australians, I can .....
» 20/12/2013 5:56:47 PM In 2012, 5,824 Indigenous people are recorded as commencing university study. Data is coll.....
» 17/12/2013 3:17:52 PM Hi UOG, 'SLAVE..[where did that word.,come from?' People in the Slav countries were reg.....
» 16/12/2013 3:09:46 PM So there are two David G.s, one (hidden beneath all the rhetoric) peace-loving, the other .....
» 16/12/2013 8:36:40 AM OUG, BS......
» 16/12/2013 7:45:58 AM Hi David, Not that it's relevant to this topic, but just to bring you up to speed: * Ge.....
» 15/12/2013 10:12:42 AM Thanks for your support, OG :) Joe.....
» 15/12/2013 8:33:26 AM [continued] In all of that, Palestine is a side-show. It's certainly a conflict which sho.....
» 15/12/2013 8:32:30 AM Thanks, James, no, I'm not suggesting any links between al-Qa'ida and any Palestinian grou.....
» 15/12/2013 8:05:33 AM Hi David, So ...... because the US has done wrong, therefore others can too ? Is that y.....
» 14/12/2013 7:51:44 PM Yes, David, you are completely correct: before the War there were powers, who felt aggriev.....
» 13/12/2013 9:36:38 PM Hi again David, Nice to see you're back. I suppose if a country doesn't want to start a.....
» 13/12/2013 7:03:27 AM Common sense 1, David 0 :).....
» 12/12/2013 5:47:59 PM David, Thank you for mentioning human rights and freedoms. It's not really the issue her.....
» 12/12/2013 7:49:43 AM David, Isn't abuse fun ?! So what are the issues here ? Which country is pushing the en.....
» 11/12/2013 6:54:15 PM David, And the issues are, in this case ? Which country has made the moves ? Which cou.....
» 11/12/2013 3:02:32 PM Says Mr Herman. And how many in the name of socialism, David ? In the Soviet gulags ? Th.....
» 10/12/2013 9:52:04 PM Is it doing so in this situation, David ? Who is throwing their weight around in this situ.....
» 10/12/2013 5:16:27 PM David, the easiest way not to have a war is not to start one. China has to pull back, not .....
» 10/12/2013 3:03:59 PM Wow, that's such a high horse, David :) I'm suggesting that all parties pull back and see.....
» 9/12/2013 5:25:09 PM Perhaps I did too, David - when are you going to get there ? Joe.....
» 9/12/2013 9:25:21 AM David, For the sake of this thread, i.e. Chinese aggression against its neighbours, the U.....
» 8/12/2013 7:33:21 AM A touch of ad hominem there, David :) What are the issues ? Yes, the US yada yada, but in.....
» 7/12/2013 6:07:54 PM [continued] Oral history, like Chinese whispers, can be totally unreliable, and just occa.....
» 7/12/2013 6:06:25 PM Why do we believe rumours ? Because we want to, if they bolster the way we already think. .....
» 7/12/2013 4:01:29 PM David, Well, it's not 'the Chinese zone' yet. But China's provocative actions have made t.....
» 7/12/2013 1:59:46 PM Hi David, Thanks for all your non sequiturs and tu quoque arguments. There are disputes.....
» 7/12/2013 7:33:46 AM David, And meanwhile al-Qa'ida blows up a hospital in Yemen, killing more than fifty doct.....
» 7/12/2013 7:31:40 AM Cloud Cuckoo-land people ! Shockaholic, FROM WHERE ?! Where does this bucket of money co.....
» 6/12/2013 3:14:59 PM Hi Yuyutsu, i don't work for money, but doing just what I like doing, and what I think is.....
» 5/12/2013 10:59:31 PM Shockadelic, What don't you understand about 'able-bodied ' ? I'll tell you one thing: .....
» 5/12/2013 5:08:52 PM Sorry, Yuyutsu, you lost me: who deserves compensation, and for what ? For just existing ?.....
» 5/12/2013 2:58:38 PM Hi Yuyutsu, Let's go back to first principles: Why should anyone get anything if they ar.....
» 4/12/2013 6:05:21 PM [continued] Quite tragic, really: she had had two or three kids before she had married th.....
» 4/12/2013 6:04:02 PM Hi LEGO, I'm not so sure that there were many 'half-caste' children taken from tribal or .....
» 4/12/2013 4:28:48 PM Hi Yuyutsu, I'm in a singing group and this being the interminable Xmas season, we do gig.....
» 4/12/2013 10:58:55 AM Wobbles and Yuyutsu, Spot-on ! Thank you for some sense in this barren argument. Cheers,.....
» 4/12/2013 9:38:32 AM Hi Yuyutsu, I'm certainly not suggesting that anybody should be forced to do anything, no.....
» 4/12/2013 8:11:27 AM Hi LEGO, You missed out a word: " .... have your western supporters always scream a.....
» 4/12/2013 7:11:09 AM Sorry, OG, did I say child porn ? I was wondering when we might get around to Jews as Ch.....
» 4/12/2013 7:02:44 AM Killarney, Your interesting point, that " .... the greater mass of the population wa.....
» 3/12/2013 9:56:51 PM Yes ! And somebody, who was actually working, could be planting acres and acres of money t.....
» 1/12/2013 6:45:18 PM OG, Jews are the kings of pornography ?! Good God, you've almost convinced me to become a.....
» 1/12/2013 2:18:01 PM OG, While we're off-topic, I suspect that the whole US-Iran wheeler-dealer thing is vastl.....
» 30/11/2013 12:19:27 PM Hi Individual & Jay of M., Symbolic gestures like the apology and reconciliation, and in .....
» 29/11/2013 7:49:10 AM Thanks, JBowyer, you're far too kind. I don't know, Individual, how do you look up someth.....
» 28/11/2013 5:14:34 PM Thanks Eyeinthesky, The problem with such reports is that there is no way to verify them:.....
» 28/11/2013 3:19:05 PM [continued] Of course, the focus was om female children - male children, even orphans (if.....
» 28/11/2013 3:18:03 PM Thanks, Individual, I fully agree with you. Hi LEGO, When you write "The removal .....
» 27/11/2013 12:04:31 PM Individual, I'm not so sure - precisely because Idriess was NOT an academic, a historian,.....
» 26/11/2013 3:03:01 PM Thanks, Dan. Hi Individual, I suppose I would, but I'm not an academic :) I'm retired, a.....
» 25/11/2013 8:29:33 PM Suse, Exactly ! If something 'happened', then there should be actual evidence of it: evid.....
» 25/11/2013 3:05:21 PM Hi drgal1, I'm not the 'author' of all this, merely the recorder, the transcriber of abou.....
» 23/11/2013 6:15:40 PM Poirot, Maybe what browns a lot of people off is the suspicion that Australia, with 23 mi.....
» 22/11/2013 12:30:48 PM OG, If 'a..zionist..dont need be a jew' then presumably a Jew is not necessarily a Zionis.....
» 22/11/2013 11:07:56 AM OG, So, are you suggesting that Jews don't just control the world banking system but the .....
» 22/11/2013 9:15:43 AM You're onto something there, Poirot - WHY did Abbott authorise bugging back in 2009 ? Wa.....
» 17/11/2013 12:47:04 PM No Mac, I'm trying to point out that not all Jews, perhaps not even a majority, are Zionis.....
» 17/11/2013 11:43:13 AM Hi Jules, I wouldn't have interpreted Singer's equation that way: many Jewish people, esp.....
» 16/11/2013 4:25:49 PM So 'collective guilt' then, David G. ? Joe Lane [real name].....
» 16/11/2013 4:24:03 PM It's called 'irony', even 'sarcasm', Julian. And going by how far some of these comments h.....
» 14/11/2013 7:28:57 AM Spot on, Belly. For the life of me, I don't understand this antipathy to trees. Trees suc.....
» 11/11/2013 3:17:36 PM And surely it should go without saying that trees suck CO2 out of the atmosphere ? Why thi.....
» 11/11/2013 3:09:07 PM Imperial, You're sailing very close to the wind with those comments. Bader-Meinhoff !? Di.....
» 10/11/2013 9:38:40 PM Suse & Lexi, How much coal is burnt in producing the steel for the framework of a house ?.....
» 10/11/2013 4:21:27 PM Suse, 1. Not much of Australia is subject to cyclones. 2. There are vast areas in our No.....
» 10/11/2013 4:18:42 PM Ozzie, One shouldn't put much store in hearsay. Anybody who gives out a blanket opinion o.....
» 10/11/2013 1:38:54 PM rehctub, Of course most housing should be made from Australian timber, and if we got goin.....
» 8/11/2013 2:19:06 PM [continued] Sooner or later, the region will have to move slowly and painfully towards a .....
» 8/11/2013 2:18:17 PM Mac, I take exception to you calling me a 'poseur' - pretentious, yes, but not a poseur. .....
» 7/11/2013 6:21:54 PM * Some writers here are anti-Zionist. * Not all anti-Zionists are anti-Jewish. * Therefo.....
» 6/11/2013 7:19:44 AM Flo, With respect, I think you missed what I said too. Of course, ultimately, children n.....
» 4/11/2013 9:17:00 PM Hi Flo, It 'ought to be', but many children are not aware, not brought up to be aware, wh.....
» 29/10/2013 5:22:39 PM Hi Shockadelic, Actually, I can look up Wikipedia too, it's amazing what you find there. .....
» 28/10/2013 8:23:59 AM Edward, I think I'm a priority-change sceptic. Surely you're not a priority-change-scepti.....
» 28/10/2013 8:17:40 AM Hi Shockadelic, Forgive me, I misunderstood your position, I thought you were opposed to .....
» 27/10/2013 9:50:38 AM Hi Shockadelic, Ah, I get it now, you're not anti-world-population-growth, just against t.....
» 26/10/2013 4:30:02 PM Divergence, I agree with you that, as populations live longer, and healthier age-for-age,.....
» 26/10/2013 7:43:28 AM Pop & shockadelic, How then ? How do you propose that world population can be reduced - n.....
» 24/10/2013 3:18:29 PM Hi Divergence, Yes indeed, the world's population will keep rising, until those social an.....
» 24/10/2013 8:24:00 AM Hi Chockaholic, Pot & kettle, my friend :) So you don't rely on a sheaf of dubious 'ifs' .....
» 23/10/2013 5:41:22 PM Divergence, You mention India. Yes, indeed, with half of the villages not even connected .....
» 22/10/2013 3:32:10 PM Hi Divergence, Not sure where to start. We're not living in the early nineteenth century,.....
» 21/10/2013 8:13:08 AM [continued] Yes, it may take a century, in which time the population of Africa may triple.....
» 21/10/2013 8:11:15 AM God, this discussion is so infantile. As Malcolm points out, birth rates in developed co.....
» 12/10/2013 5:13:44 PM Jayb, Indonesian people are as intelligent and well-disposed as anybody else. So I can't .....
» 10/10/2013 3:14:37 PM People make choices. Some people, in terrible situations, struggle to find any solution ot.....
» 9/10/2013 3:24:56 PM SM, you said "small words" ! Some of the words you used had four and even more s.....
» 9/10/2013 8:54:00 AM Quit while you're behind, Poirot. Cheers :) Joe.....
» 8/10/2013 4:17:20 PM Hi Curmudgeon, Yes, you're on the button, I'm not so sure about the uncertainty of land t.....
» 8/10/2013 3:47:30 PM Hi LEGO, "The reason why successive State and Federal Labor and Liberal governments .....
» 8/10/2013 7:52:20 AM Correction: purchase of the leases of land, not the freehold title to land, as this articl.....
» 7/10/2013 9:48:53 PM Hi friend Poirot, Whatever, the doctor seemed to assume that the patients she was dealing.....
» 7/10/2013 9:05:22 PM Hi Poirot, "The doctor is perfectly qualified to assess her patients' health. ".....
» 7/10/2013 6:40:28 PM [contd.] Details of the medical requests emerged as Mr Morrison said the government was n.....
» 7/10/2013 6:39:56 PM [cont.] Julia Gillard's former communications director John McTernan labelled them ".....
» 7/10/2013 6:39:03 PM Paul, The article in full: "ASYLUM-SEEKERS have asked doctors for breast enlargemen.....
» 7/10/2013 4:12:27 PM How's this for a crazy idea ? 1. Raise the annual intake to 30,000. Strictly of people wh.....
» 7/10/2013 3:56:32 PM <<If mining meant these things, then the Aboriginal communities of the Pilbara would.....
» 7/10/2013 1:35:58 PM Hi Yuyutsu, Thankfully, none of us is an Emperor and few people are dictators. On the i.....
» 7/10/2013 11:35:43 AM Poirot, If Diogenes with his lantern could find one Coalition MP who HASN'T rorted his en.....
» 7/10/2013 10:50:19 AM Hi Poirot, At least, this might be a start: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-aff.....
» 7/10/2013 10:34:04 AM Tiny, little straw man there, boys ! Uranium mining is a minuscule part of the mining sect.....
» 6/10/2013 5:18:03 PM Hi Steven, I fully agree. Complete agreement between all parties may not come next week, .....
» 6/10/2013 3:22:19 PM Hi Steven, Yes, it's unthinkable and abhorrent, but on the opportunist, but sensible, pri.....
» 6/10/2013 1:05:55 PM Hi Rhosty, "Some of who would nor look too out of place, I believe, in brown shirts,.....
» 5/10/2013 12:59:15 PM Hi Individual, Yes, there have been one-hundred-year wars and thirty-year wars, and real.....
» 4/10/2013 9:04:40 AM Halduell, Yep, for years I've pushed the idea on OLO of a single-state, secular, democrat.....
» 3/10/2013 5:31:34 PM Good one, Poirot ! I support wind-farms, I think they are beautiful, but I don't pretend .....
» 3/10/2013 4:41:21 PM Hi Poirot, Oy. I'll repeat it slowly: "Let's have wind-farms and solar arrays too......
» 3/10/2013 9:14:55 AM "The moment someone highlights incredible technology, he's the first to shower it wit.....
» 3/10/2013 8:28:17 AM Currently in Syria, a multi-sided war is going on. Which side is Israel's least-worst enem.....
» 3/10/2013 8:17:13 AM Luciferase, Your 'solution', what to do with the revenue from a carbon tax, is frankly ap.....
» 2/10/2013 8:29:18 PM Rhank you, Luciferase, Of course we switch from coal to gas or thorium-based nuclear powe.....
» 2/10/2013 4:51:03 PM Thanks Luciferase, So across most of the world, the predicted sea-level rise is somewhere.....
» 2/10/2013 9:10:27 AM Point taken about log scales &c., but what does such a shift in pH mean ? Can organisms co.....
» 1/10/2013 4:20:53 PM Hi Grim, A shift in pH from 8.25 to 8.14 'since the beginning of the Industrial Revolutio.....
» 1/10/2013 8:52:33 AM Hi Grim, "Between 1751 and 1994 surface ocean pH is estimated to have decreased from.....
» 30/09/2013 8:38:39 PM Hi Luciferase, So although global temperatures haven't risen in 15-16 years, it's all goi.....
» 30/09/2013 4:18:25 PM Luciferase, It's now agreed that there hasn't been significant global warming in 15-16 ye.....
» 29/09/2013 9:11:12 PM Hi David, When you write: "You love control don't you Jardine? You also love certai.....
» 29/09/2013 2:58:43 PM Sorry - fat fingers, Parrot. And failing eyesight. But if you think that mis-xspelling n.....
» 29/09/2013 1:33:16 PM Hi Luciferade, I'm certainly not relying only on re-forestation, simply that it could pla.....
» 29/09/2013 12:22:18 PM Luciferade, You suggest: "Personally, I remain convinced that a 3-4 degree rise wou.....
» 29/09/2013 12:12:01 PM Hi Poirot :) When SM writes, "He's representing planetary "life" as somet.....
» 29/09/2013 11:59:54 AM Hi Rhosty, You're spot-on with your comment: " .... The entire food chain relies in.....
» 29/09/2013 11:06:30 AM Poirot, Luciferade, From Wikipedia, our mutual friend: "In the Ordovician period, .....
» 28/09/2013 4:42:09 PM Hi Lexi, " .... it would have to plant the equivalent of the Amazon forest every ten.....
» 28/09/2013 10:47:25 AM Hi Grim, The question is what do we do about it all ? I still favour, among other remedi.....
» 28/09/2013 10:11:38 AM Luciferade, Don't we all ? Joe.....
» 28/09/2013 10:10:07 AM [continued] Things happen that we can't explain and which conflict fundamentally with our.....
» 28/09/2013 10:08:46 AM Hi Spindoc, Yes, your point about Motive Questioning: I've been working for some time o.....
» 28/09/2013 9:49:29 AM Hi Poirot & Luciferade, My point about de-forestation was not just the act of destroying .....
» 28/09/2013 9:02:04 AM Of course global warming is taking place, but can human activity mitigate the effects of i.....
» 27/09/2013 9:17:16 PM Lucerifade, Cap and trade, if i knew what it was: I don't trust any of those schemes to d.....
» 27/09/2013 8:05:02 PM Thank you, Grim. I'm a bit sceptical about that seven-inch sea-level rise the IPCC talks a.....
» 27/09/2013 7:51:43 PM Neither do your answers, sweetie :) Joe.....
» 27/09/2013 5:08:45 PM Hi Poirot, sweetie, Yes/ no ? After all, they do make all the difference between BS and w.....
» 27/09/2013 4:06:00 PM Frosty, D. Duck, Yes/no: Have world temperatures risen by barely a degree in the last ce.....
» 27/09/2013 3:52:48 PM Poirot, Oy. NO, I know bugger-all about climate science (my main field was economic geogr.....
» 27/09/2013 9:23:51 AM Issues, Poirot - otherwise just stay in the sand-pit with the other kiddies. Cheers :) J.....
» 26/09/2013 6:02:00 PM Oops. I meant to write: " .... to a steady-state level. Is that possible ?" Run.....
» 26/09/2013 4:33:52 PM Hi Grim, Why does everybody miss the second part of the discussion, " .... that tr.....
» 26/09/2013 9:30:49 AM Hi Poirot, "You know next to nothing about this complex subject." Yup, you got.....
» 25/09/2013 8:52:22 AM Hi Grim, So you're prepared to agree that temperatures have risen barely an inch in a cen.....
» 24/09/2013 4:11:45 PM First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they attack you, then they admit you a.....
» 24/09/2013 8:51:27 AM Hi Paul, So, let's see: World temperatures have risen by barely one degree in 120 years......
» 22/09/2013 7:03:41 PM The ACT is the only mainland jurisdiction with a Labor government. It is also, by definiti.....
» 22/09/2013 9:10:51 AM Individual & Paul, I certainly hope that the Abbott government, in tandem with Warren Mun.....
» 21/09/2013 7:22:01 PM Somebody mentioned deforestation. Just out of curiosity, if the world rate of deforestatio.....
» 21/09/2013 9:36:49 AM Paul, My point was that to confuse pollution with global warming opens the debate to cons.....
» 20/09/2013 9:58:04 PM Warmair, Probably because you are confusing pollution with global warming :) Yes, there i.....
» 20/09/2013 5:47:26 PM OUG, The story so far: * a rise in world temperatures (at least up to 1997), of a bit ov.....
» 20/09/2013 4:04:05 PM Hi Grim, 'Nuthin' ' ? I don't think so. Maybe I heard wrong, but I think I recall a recen.....
» 18/09/2013 9:43:44 AM Hi Grim, True or false ? Even if no government does anything in the next hundred years t.....
» 17/09/2013 4:10:19 PM Grim, So, what you are suggesting is that, given current models, and IF NO GOVERNMENT IMP.....
» 16/09/2013 4:44:56 PM Market gardeners pump CO2 into their green-houses/glass-houses in order to promote growth .....
» 16/09/2013 4:31:52 PM Rhrosty: "As some might say, my enemy's enemies are also my friends!" No. In a .....
» 16/09/2013 9:06:10 AM Yes, you're right, David, Islamism lacks many of the outward signs of traditional fascism .....
» 15/09/2013 11:42:30 PM David F., What ?! Obama is not a crazed war-monger ? US is not out for world domination, .....
» 15/09/2013 8:59:40 PM LEGO, After a lifetime as a socialist, I'm coming to the very uncomfortable conclusion th.....
» 13/09/2013 9:19:28 PM Empty vessels ? But Arjay, on the internet, no-one can hear you scream :).....
» 13/09/2013 6:27:44 PM Thank you Suse and David F., It's an incredibly complicated world, but there are far, far.....
» 12/09/2013 5:10:32 PM Hasbeen, Somebody, SOMEBODY, used poison gas, to kill hundreds of innocent people, women .....
» 12/09/2013 9:21:57 AM Al Qa'ida as an ally of the US ? I think Pilger has finally gone around the bend. We'll se.....
» 10/09/2013 9:23:15 AM Shockadelic, Yes, that's one reason I'm very worried about changing the Constitution to r.....
» 9/09/2013 8:59:07 PM [congtinued] One crime that I think was committed against Aboriginal people was, from abo.....
» 9/09/2013 8:55:07 PM Hi Chris, The older I get, the less I understand what people are trying to say. So I don'.....
» 9/09/2013 6:41:02 PM Thank you, Marth, But with respect, what you write sounds like it's looking down at Aust.....
» 9/09/2013 5:45:12 PM I'm afraid the brilliance of some of these last comments is lost on me :( Now, to get bac.....
» 9/09/2013 4:01:57 PM No problem, Jules: Let me re-phrase that: The first time Assad [or WHOEVER] is SHOWN to .....
» 8/09/2013 8:04:48 PM Not sure what you're on about Jules. I suggest though, that the original intention was to .....
» 8/09/2013 12:45:22 PM Hi David, I look forward to the day when you declare that using poison gas against one's .....
» 7/09/2013 10:23:59 AM Hi Pete, Unless we all walk away from worrying about regimes gassing their own people, as.....
» 6/09/2013 6:54:19 PM [continued] A roadmap has already been put in motion for a Syrian peace process in Geneva.....
» 6/09/2013 6:53:08 PM Hi again Jules, I can't say it better than this: Syria is the most brutal war of our gen.....
» 6/09/2013 6:15:55 PM Sorry Jules, it's late in the week and I'm already into the red wine, but I can't quite fo.....
» 6/09/2013 9:37:58 AM Jules, I suppose it's a consolation that some on the pseudo-left are not in bed with al-Q.....
» 4/09/2013 4:55:32 PM Poirot, As usual, I agree with you. This one in Syria is particularly brutal and insolubl.....
» 4/09/2013 1:58:34 PM David G, The problem is, and maybe always has been. that there are never just two 'groups.....
» 3/09/2013 9:01:54 AM David, NOBODY should be allowed to use weapons of mass destruction, certainly not poison .....
» 3/09/2013 12:38:15 AM Whenever, in the past, the Yanks used poison gas against civilians, it was evil. Can we a.....
» 1/09/2013 12:22:06 PM What is Syria to us ? It's a small country, a long way away, and of little interest to Aus.....
» 31/08/2013 8:11:04 PM The bottom line is that more than a thousand people have died through the use of chemical .....
» 31/08/2013 5:04:18 PM God, I hope you're right, Pete :) OR: 1. Dictatorships should be able to use chemical w.....
» 30/08/2013 8:28:40 AM Sorry, Arjay, it's so hard to tell the difference these days. I like your fruit-cake argu.....
» 29/08/2013 11:39:47 PM Hi Arjay, I don't know, you left-wingers are so transparent ! You reveal so much of you.....
» 29/08/2013 6:47:34 PM Hi David, From your last sentence, I'm assuming that you think that Iran will use nuclear.....
» 29/08/2013 4:48:43 PM On topics like this one, I'm never sure whether Fruitcake International is extreme right-w.....
» 29/08/2013 4:28:35 PM Spot on, Poirot :) I'll bet you never expected me to say that :) Love, Joe.....
» 28/08/2013 7:46:50 PM But some of us junkies will feel a lot better on the Morning of the 8th of September :).....
» 28/08/2013 6:01:04 PM Hi Pelican, I would have thought that "Vote this Mob Out" WAS an opinion, it's .....
» 28/08/2013 3:56:42 PM On the importance of offending, and sucking it up, Richard King has a new book out, from w.....
» 27/08/2013 4:00:24 PM Perhaps Assad's lick-spittles could find a reason why - if if were the terrorists who used.....
» 25/08/2013 6:43:38 PM Dear Lexi, One does not preclude the other ;) Love, Joe.....
» 25/08/2013 4:43:03 PM Hi Hasbwen, Indonesia is made up of thousands of islands, and tens of millions of people .....
» 25/08/2013 4:06:42 PM Poirot, I'll supply the lump of wood, if you can tell me what's wrong with simply flying .....
» 23/08/2013 9:01:14 PM Bazz, 'Ugly' ? I don't think so, not that it matters really. Mind you, if I was a sheila,.....
» 23/08/2013 7:26:17 PM Good on you, Bec :) Joe.....
» 23/08/2013 6:33:06 PM Yes, in fifteen days' time, I'll vote for my local member and his Party's policies, and fo.....
» 23/08/2013 4:14:18 PM Hi Suse, I'll leave the feminine gaze at the curve of the budgie-smugglers to you :) SoG.....
» 23/08/2013 9:27:54 AM Snakes in suits have done some dreadful damage to so many people's careers. The one good .....
» 22/08/2013 4:03:07 PM Chris, And don't you think that many people would want to get the hell away from those co.....
» 22/08/2013 9:17:25 AM Peace and quiet on a remote 'community' ? I'm sure a lot of women and kids out there would.....
» 22/08/2013 12:24:55 AM Thank you Bec, for restoring some perspective to this rather arid discussion. Let's move o.....
» 22/08/2013 12:17:15 AM Thank you Bec, I don't think that Government policy makes all that much difference to thi.....
» 21/08/2013 10:48:46 PM Chris, Around 60 or 70 % of Indigenous people have moved to the cities and are in mainstr.....
» 21/08/2013 8:57:14 AM I'm so sorry to hear that, about both of the Conrads. They were so beautiful to watch swim.....
» 20/08/2013 11:08:29 PM Chris, i was in love with Ilse Conrads, like most of the boys in my school, I'm sure. God.....
» 20/08/2013 11:04:43 PM Hi Banjo, If you think of any population as differentiated by class and by aspirations, t.....
» 20/08/2013 6:45:20 PM Hi Chris, Any Australian who goes to university is funded, to one extent or another, by t.....
» 20/08/2013 4:29:11 PM Thank you, Lexi, OUG is spot-on ;) Yeah, I remember, when I was a kid and our mum was try.....
» 20/08/2013 9:35:30 AM Hi Bec, yes, we all have those :) Banjo, I don't carry any torch for 'culture', which see.....
» 20/08/2013 9:22:21 AM Rhosty, With a bit of luck and divine forethought, one of those martyrs might be allowed .....
» 19/08/2013 11:53:29 PM Hi Bec, Yes, you're right, that "It is a person's actions that make them good or bad.....
» 19/08/2013 9:23:18 PM Dearest Lexi, You have such a good heart, I wish there were more Australians like you. I.....
» 19/08/2013 9:56:17 AM Hi Spindoc, Thanks for some sense. But why don't outside powers try this option ? Durin.....
» 18/08/2013 4:06:16 PM [continued] Ten years ago, my wife and I stayed at the community where she was born, tryi.....
» 18/08/2013 4:04:01 PM JayoM, Difference doesn't necessarily mean inequality. The feminists went through this fa.....
» 18/08/2013 11:28:16 AM Where to start ...... Poverty: we lived in an Aboriginal community across the mid-seventi.....
» 14/08/2013 5:18:15 PM Hi Poirot, Yeah, but she wasn't bad, you have to admit. If I was up that way, I'd like to.....
» 14/08/2013 5:08:41 PM Hi Platypus, As long as kids have strong and persistent messages about what is right and .....
» 14/08/2013 4:33:27 PM 2-year-olds ? Caning 2-year-olds ? Hmmmmm, let me think about it. Probably not. 1-year-o.....
» 14/08/2013 4:17:53 PM Hi Poirot, Perhaps you'll make an exception in my case. I would have been caned at the la.....
» 10/08/2013 6:58:44 PM David F, Thank you for that, it is most inspiring. Yes, religions seem to demand obedie.....
» 10/08/2013 9:59:58 AM Yes, Poirot, me too ;) Cheers, KJoe.....
» 9/08/2013 7:36:08 PM Yes, you may be right, Poirot. So will you condemn the [alleged] conduct of Obeid and McDo.....
» 9/08/2013 6:36:45 PM Hi Poirot, Relevance ? This thread is about corruption at the highest levels in the NSW L.....
» 9/08/2013 6:08:50 PM Good point, Poirot. So how would you rate, in order of awfulness and hypocrisy, [alphabet.....
» 9/08/2013 4:21:06 PM Auntipeptic, Actually, that would be the first time I've used that term for many years. B.....
» 9/08/2013 4:13:46 PM Hi Poirot, Yeah, sorry about getting my threads mixed u, but I'm an old person and am ent.....
» 9/08/2013 8:55:55 AM You're right, David F., down with ALL archaic mumbo-jumbos ! Joe.....
» 9/08/2013 12:12:01 AM Hi Poirot, I'll defend to the death your right to post wherever and whenever you please, .....
» 8/08/2013 4:45:33 PM Davis F, That was partly the point of the thread http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.....
» 8/08/2013 9:49:03 AM You're right, Poirot, it IS fun :) So that's a promise ? You won't post any more ? If you.....
» 8/08/2013 9:09:59 AM Topic, Poirot. After all, diversion + insult may = 'trolling'. On a scale of 1 to 10 (a.....
» 7/08/2013 5:13:46 PM Hi Poirot, My understanding of the meaning of 'troll' is someone who tries to divert disc.....
» 7/08/2013 4:22:07 PM Hi Poirot, While you're getting so much mileage out of Ashby and the Pervert, when you ta.....
» 7/08/2013 9:16:31 AM Poirot, So .... Abbott's $ 9,400. Thomson's half a mill, or so. Obeid and McDonald's .....
» 7/08/2013 9:14:32 AM David F., Thanks for that up-date - but the Mongols did convert to Islam ? Weren't the Mo.....
» 6/08/2013 11:10:26 PM Poirot, "So is it a choice between a hippie lifestyle at one end of the spectrum, an.....
» 6/08/2013 11:03:46 PM Poirot, And his point was ? Are you going to respond or get all huffy and flounce off ? T.....
» 6/08/2013 6:33:17 PM Hi Poirot, 1 being not very corrupt, and 10 being extremely corrupt. No hurry :) Cheer.....
» 6/08/2013 6:31:39 PM Antipeptic, Strictly speaking, the various Egyptian and the Roman Empires each lasted for.....
» 6/08/2013 4:26:55 PM David F, Gaul was already Christian long before Charlemagne - in the south, the areas hel.....
» 6/08/2013 4:08:13 PM ICAC has made recommendations in regard to alleged corruption on a massive scale, perhaps .....
» 5/08/2013 9:40:03 PM Yes, you're right, Poirot - we need sophisticated forms of sustainable industrialisation, .....
» 5/08/2013 8:27:13 PM Hi CHERFUL, If women are able to be educated, wherever this has happened, the birth-rate .....
» 4/08/2013 8:52:32 PM On the Beach, I defer to your prescience: " ... Rudd must rush to an election, but .....
» 4/08/2013 4:48:35 PM As usual, I'm partly with Poirot on this - PNG is not the solution. Neither would Singleto.....
» 4/08/2013 4:29:15 PM September 7 election - well, I certainly got that wrong, I thought he would hang on until .....
» 31/07/2013 11:45:40 PM Hi CHERFUL, you're half-right - the point about a refugee-settlement scheme is that people.....
» 31/07/2013 4:51:31 PM You might be right, Doog - I'd keep an eye on Irish stew futures if I was you, I think the.....
» 30/07/2013 11:21:53 PM CHERFUL & On-the-beach, Yes, and I've heard that some refugees come from cultures which b.....
» 30/07/2013 3:49:40 PM Hi Lexi, " ..... a fixed ideological viewfinder". God, I wish sometimes that I.....
» 29/07/2013 9:52:04 PM Hi Poirot, Down here in sleepy Adelaide, there used to be an orang-utan at our Zoo named .....
» 29/07/2013 5:49:46 PM So you're saying nothing in particular, Poirot ? Nothing that one could not garner from a .....
» 29/07/2013 4:13:00 PM Divergence, In today's paper, an article in the Business section pointed out that the pho.....
» 29/07/2013 4:11:07 PM Hi Poirot, "So, what I "bother" to say has nothing whatsoever to do with y.....
» 29/07/2013 12:26:08 AM Hi wobbles, So what's YOUR limit ? 20,000 ? 30,000 ? 40,000 ? 100,000 ? No limit at all ?.....
» 28/07/2013 8:37:04 PM Lexi, 40,000 - thank you. Poirot, So you don't the courage to put up a figure ? Yet you.....
» 28/07/2013 4:36:18 PM There are something like 46 million refugees and displaced persons in the world at the mom.....
» 28/07/2013 8:17:10 AM Cherful, World food production went up by 7 % last year. World population rose probably 1.....
» 27/07/2013 1:12:06 PM And so the conspiracy theories of Pilger and Arjay meet. Fascinating. Or - horrors ! - is.....
» 27/07/2013 11:37:24 AM Okay, someone (Poirot maybe) please take me around the back of the shed and knock me on th.....
» 26/07/2013 5:12:54 PM Hi Marilyn, Nobody is fleeing Afghanistan or Pakistan and coming directly by boat to Aust.....
» 26/07/2013 4:26:33 PM Maybe I'm as thick as two planks, or maybe I've missed something on the news, but I am puz.....
» 25/07/2013 6:20:08 PM Poirot and Lexi, So which one of the tag-team is in the ring now ? Orca or pussy-cat ? J.....
» 25/07/2013 6:17:25 PM Lexi, And fish-net stockings, with a tight little black dress ? A devilishly cunning way.....
» 25/07/2013 5:50:29 PM And Poirot as an Orca, just waiting for this floppy, over-weight, aged bear as it vainly t.....
» 25/07/2013 4:37:40 PM Shadow Minister: "The subject is "carbon tax" " Thanks, mate, I was j.....
» 25/07/2013 4:30:22 PM Hi Paul 4205 (somewhere up there), Getting a bit OT, but what the hell. Support for total.....
» 25/07/2013 9:25:32 AM Hi SPGR, Yes, a good friend calls it one aspect of 'a Gramscian march through the institu.....
» 24/07/2013 7:06:50 PM Sorry, C.Steele, yes, I did miss that point - sanitary conditions were a constant problem .....
» 24/07/2013 4:25:11 PM Poirot, Can you understand that the flow of boat-people will not subside by increasing th.....
» 24/07/2013 2:11:03 PM Hi Poirot & Luciferase, The point about 'stopping the boats' is that pretty quickly, if i.....
» 24/07/2013 11:50:03 AM Hi Poirot, Increase the intake: well, that's problem #1 solved. But "The fact is t.....
» 24/07/2013 10:06:25 AM Hi Poirot, But you're still getting back into the ring, right ? As it happens, I agree .....
» 23/07/2013 11:12:44 PM Hi Chris, Do you have evidence of how sneaky you say people were (surely they couldn't ha.....
» 23/07/2013 11:08:32 PM Hi Poirot, There are some 20 million refugees in the world and another 26 million displac.....
» 23/07/2013 7:07:00 PM Hi C. Steele, I'm quite willing to condemn any injustices against anybody, including Abor.....
» 23/07/2013 4:32:45 PM Brilliant, Cossomby Sounds like something called 'life'. My dear Lexi, Really there are .....
» 23/07/2013 4:17:35 PM Hi C. Steele, No, you misunderstand me - I'm certainly not saying that a high mortality r.....
» 22/07/2013 8:43:05 PM So what is this topic about again ?.....
» 22/07/2013 8:35:20 PM Dearest Lexi, That story, of a legal migrant, is testimony to the hardships and anguish o.....
» 22/07/2013 5:36:50 PM [continued] One can see that in some of the Aboriginal genealogies - either people having.....
» 22/07/2013 5:35:41 PM Hi CSteele, 'Phthisis' was another name for consumption, or tuberculosis. Regardless of .....
» 21/07/2013 8:38:04 PM Thanks for that ABC link, Lexi - as it notes: "Queensland Premier Campbell Newman, m.....
» 21/07/2013 7:31:30 PM Hi Jayb, I'm sure a small plane could bring you from Cape York to Townsville or Mackay in.....
» 21/07/2013 6:47:35 PM Dear Lexi, That's just a bit dishonest of you, with love and respect - as the article poi.....
» 21/07/2013 6:30:26 PM Yeah. Goom. I've heard of shop-keepers having it in their fridges. It could make you blind.....
» 21/07/2013 2:38:46 PM Hi CSteele, That's interesting, I thought Ramahyuck had been closed for forty years or so.....
» 21/07/2013 12:01:45 PM Hi Chris, If what you say is correct, the people might not have done too badly out of it .....
» 21/07/2013 9:18:06 AM Dear Lexi, Sorry to seem to getting stuck into you, but I think the current figure is 14,.....
» 21/07/2013 9:05:56 AM Thank you CSteele, I'll check out Wordpress ASAP. Yeah, there are a lot of surprises in.....
» 20/07/2013 6:56:26 PM Thank you, CSteele, I'm working through some mob called iPage, and until I learn better, .....
» 20/07/2013 5:50:14 PM Still trying to work this website thing ! Currently, I can put only three files on at a ti.....
» 20/07/2013 4:13:50 PM Hi Lexi, Yes, that's true, but not the point - how many refugees should we be taking each.....
» 20/07/2013 1:27:25 PM Dearest Lexi, But over a year, or five years, or ten years, people ARE numbers - as well .....
» 19/07/2013 11:30:36 PM Dear Lexi, So that would be around about your tipping point, an annual intake of 100,000 .....
» 19/07/2013 10:33:22 PM Hi Poirot, Perhaps you're right - out of the 26 million refugees and displaced persons ar.....
» 19/07/2013 4:21:31 PM Cossomby, There may be some complications with ceding Christmas Island to Indonesia, alth.....
» 17/07/2013 4:58:40 PM Maybe I'm wrong but isn't it illegal to leave a country without notifying the authorities .....
» 16/07/2013 4:17:35 PM Thanks SoG, Belly, Individual, I'll have to get back to you. Thanks Lexi, Yes, that sor.....
» 15/07/2013 9:47:48 PM Hi Lexi, Thanks so much for your comment. I have a horrible suspicion that people in rura.....
» 15/07/2013 7:13:09 PM I should have pointed out that these figures for Indigenous Australians are quite comparab.....
» 15/07/2013 4:50:43 PM [continued] It is very likely that, by 2020, there will be fifty thousand Indigenous univ.....
» 15/07/2013 4:27:15 PM Higher education data for 2012 have been released. Once again, they show that Indigenous c.....
» 15/07/2013 3:32:13 PM Hi Rhian, Thanks for your comment. But for all that, even refugees from Syria would have .....
» 14/07/2013 6:58:39 PM Poirot, Public hangings in 1910 ? In Australia ? Slavery - what, in Australia ? - aroun.....
» 14/07/2013 3:29:32 PM Lexi, Please don't abandon us, we need your leavening comments. Otherwise, we're all just.....
» 14/07/2013 11:20:00 AM Dear Lexi, I have to say that, in my view, Jayb's last few posts have been quite reasonab.....
» 13/07/2013 7:29:17 PM Hi Poirot, Yep, you got me there :) It's so easy to go off-topic, isn't it ? Now, what .....
» 13/07/2013 1:09:42 PM Hi Poirot, You may gain some inspiration from a real hero, not just your friend: http://.....
» 13/07/2013 10:24:16 AM Rhian, SPQR, I would have thought that it's up to people to demonstrate that they are gen.....
» 12/07/2013 9:11:30 AM Sorry, Poirot, I'll leave your friend Slipper alone from now on ;) Cheers, Joe.....
» 11/07/2013 7:08:33 PM Hi SoG, Do you mean the half-mill or so that her boyfriend scammed out of various buildin.....
» 11/07/2013 4:40:39 PM Hi Marilyn, We've had this chat before :) Is there, or is there not, an annual quota of .....
» 10/07/2013 5:55:13 PM Hi Marilyn, "There is no quota for asylum seekers, that is the lie they spin." .....
» 10/07/2013 4:06:43 PM Marilyn, The government has set an annual refugee quota of around twenty thousand. Ques.....
» 9/07/2013 10:50:33 PM A brilliant diversion, Poirot ! You the man ! Any chance of BTT ? Joe.....
» 9/07/2013 4:06:19 PM Yes, Lexi & Poirot, Labor may retain almost all its seats, except a few which are up for .....
» 8/07/2013 4:41:26 PM Individual, my friend, Can we just clarify - the vast majority of Muslims coming to Austr.....
» 8/07/2013 4:32:03 PM Lexi, Perhaps the point about harsh conditions on Manus and Nauru, is precisely that - th.....
» 7/07/2013 1:38:04 PM Onthebeach, And all of the allocated refugee intake, twice over. No room this year for th.....
» 7/07/2013 1:15:05 PM BTT.....
» 7/07/2013 11:17:25 AM Thank you, Poirot, for your valuable contributions. Now BTT. Cheers :) Joe.....
» 7/07/2013 10:54:06 AM All good fun, girls, but BTT: * This government has increased the annual refugee intake f.....
» 7/07/2013 1:01:54 AM Let's step back a bit. Genuine refugees are not working together secretly to plot and plan.....
» 6/07/2013 6:40:02 PM Yeah, I think I'll stick to the Laurel approach rather than the Hardy line......
» 6/07/2013 2:13:52 PM Thank you, Poirot, what you say is quite appropriate. Paul, We have a special arrangemen.....
» 6/07/2013 10:52:01 AM # 21 and bingo ! Nothing on-topic. Nada. Niente. Dipote. Niemals. Rien. Want to try for # .....
» 5/07/2013 10:10:53 PM Hi Poirot, Sorry, that's NINETEEN posts now - and it is ! it is ! all about you ! And s.....
» 5/07/2013 8:59:16 PM Interesting. Undergraduate students of 'logic and values', 'discussion techniques', falla.....
» 4/07/2013 3:58:28 PM I suspect that the torrent of words from Mr Rudd over these past few days has been buildin.....
» 2/07/2013 9:06:52 AM In your dreams, Poirot :) A record number of women in the Ministry ? 81 Coalition to 63 .....
» 1/07/2013 8:57:08 PM I remember that edition ! Wasn't Uncle Scrooge involved somehow, searching for gold, somet.....
» 1/07/2013 5:58:19 PM Hi Poirot, I moved that little red pointer thing to give Labor a 2.5 % swing and clearly .....
» 1/07/2013 5:53:14 PM Kim Carr and Joel Fitzgibbon are back ? 83 to 61......
» 1/07/2013 4:34:54 PM Simon Crean's going ? 85 to 59......
» 1/07/2013 1:52:47 PM [continued] Chris, Yes, indeed, some terrible things were still being done right up to t.....
» 1/07/2013 1:51:33 PM Thank you, Cossomby, reality is often much stranger than the stereotype, isn't it ? Yes,.....
» 1/07/2013 11:25:48 AM [continued] And at any time, there would have been around fifty Aboriginal people with le.....
» 1/07/2013 11:24:38 AM Hi Cossomby, In SA, the Protector put together Annual Reports more or less every year fro.....
» 30/06/2013 7:58:51 PM If the new polls are declaring that Labor and the Coalition are neck-and-neck, I would sug.....
» 30/06/2013 1:36:39 PM Oops, of course flour and tea as well. Nicolas Rothwell has a wonderful article in this .....
» 30/06/2013 11:16:15 AM [continued] * provision of a wide range of items as rations including: Sugar Axes R.....
» 30/06/2013 11:11:48 AM Hi Jayb, Belly, SPQR, I've been trying to get a web-site up with all of these information.....
» 29/06/2013 7:50:36 PM Hi Poirot, Yes, of course, that battle is well known. 1829, i think ? Whether it was some.....
» 29/06/2013 7:37:28 PM [continued] Paradoxically, counter-intuitively, is it possible that Aboriginal groups – a.....
» 29/06/2013 9:22:15 AM The reductionists have a number of ways to contemplate population reduction: * slow down .....
» 29/06/2013 9:06:59 AM Hi PJack, Well, no, I don't think this has been the case for a long time - 'communities' .....
» 28/06/2013 9:31:50 AM I've been typing up the correspondence of the Protector of Aborigines here in South Austra.....
» 27/06/2013 9:54:09 AM Go early or go late ? A sane person, a realist, would say to himself, go early before the.....
» 26/06/2013 10:10:08 PM What's the bet that this will lift Labor by no more than 4 % in the polls ? 34 % primary v.....
» 26/06/2013 8:19:40 PM Hi Antieptic, So I suppose a September 14 election is off. The question now is - will Rud.....
» 26/06/2013 4:54:40 PM Maybe gthere's a lesson here: That a government can'tsurvie if: * it overthrows one lead.....
» 26/06/2013 4:23:22 PM Hi Poirot, Interesting hypothesis: if it came to pass, would the Independents back him ? .....
» 26/06/2013 4:08:32 PM It rolls off the tongue so easily, doesn't it - "keep Coal in the Ground !" Nice.....
» 25/06/2013 6:15:40 PM Let's see, the story so far, on AGW and population: * world temperatures have gone up 2 d.....
» 25/06/2013 10:32:43 AM Hi Individual, I found this fantastic article right on that topic, last year: http://www.....
» 24/06/2013 9:52:56 PM Hasbeen, Yeah, if Rudd was involved in the tiniest way in, say, flood relief, he would 'c.....
» 24/06/2013 8:32:33 PM Can I say it first, please ? please ? There may well be a need for Benson Carpet Cleaning.....
» 24/06/2013 4:09:28 PM Belly, Maybe the economic and social changes over the past fifty years or more have inevi.....
» 24/06/2013 3:53:36 PM Dear Poirot, I apologise for whatever dreadful odium I have poured on you, it was all in .....
» 24/06/2013 3:31:50 PM Spot on, Belly, you're the Henry Lawson of 2013 ! Although I hope you stay off the grog ;.....
» 24/06/2013 12:36:12 PM He was a really nice bloke, actually, once he'd given it all up. Well, almost: he ODd a .....
» 24/06/2013 12:07:55 PM Yuyutsu, A bit late for that now, I'm afraid :(.....
» 24/06/2013 12:02:20 PM This is ridiculous. Expel both from the party and start again, ASAP......
» 24/06/2013 11:30:09 AM Hi Indiviual, Very interesting discussions here. Surely it is better for somebody to be .....
» 24/06/2013 10:45:05 AM Admit it, Patrica - you've got a Time Machine in your garage ! Brilliant ! Joe.....
» 24/06/2013 10:40:46 AM Hi Antiseptic, Thank you for that analysis - I have suspected that Rudd was a psychopath,.....
» 24/06/2013 12:00:08 AM Thanks to you, O Sung Wu, what you write is so comforting, even if it brings some tears. .....
» 23/06/2013 7:35:42 PM Lexi, my darling, my desires are not to be spoken of ;) Love, Joe.....
» 23/06/2013 7:33:00 PM [continued] I used to work at a Sunday market, selling Vietnamese coffee. This old bloke .....
» 23/06/2013 7:31:59 PM O Sung Wu, Thank you for your kind words. On that other matter: my darling wife passed .....
» 23/06/2013 6:37:05 PM Careful, Antipeptic, you may have to migrate and live under a witness protection program :.....
» 23/06/2013 12:57:53 PM Poirot, Ah ! So it IS all about you ? I stand corrected :) Joe PS. Curses ! I've waste.....
» 23/06/2013 12:55:10 PM Thanks, Hasbeen, Yeah, the future is going to be very difficult for young people, Indige.....
» 23/06/2013 12:41:30 PM [continued] It's very likely, since social processes are working so rapidly, that those d.....
» 23/06/2013 12:34:10 PM Hi Poirot, Do you ever actually read what people write, or do you just look to make smart.....
» 23/06/2013 12:02:27 PM Belly, You had me laughing - "Gillard has not got the skill to run a market stall, .....
» 23/06/2013 11:52:57 AM [continued] I know that a meeting was held during this past week of highly qualified Abor.....
» 23/06/2013 11:51:31 AM [continued] From about 2002-2005, suppot programs were woundcdown, destroyed and their fu.....
» 23/06/2013 11:49:45 AM Thanks for those kicks up the @rse, Poirot :) A little learning is a dangerous thing, dea.....
» 23/06/2013 11:16:51 AM Hi Belly & Butch, Labor can't lose a single seat and still retain government. Can Labor .....
» 22/06/2013 5:59:32 PM It's a bit late in the day but what might have been the effect of the Prime Minister tryin.....
» 22/06/2013 5:11:44 PM Hi Individual, That's amazing ! You mean that an Indigenous academic had some integrity ?.....
» 22/06/2013 12:43:43 PM Thank you, Poirot, we both agree that problems in traditional societies are extremely comp.....
» 22/06/2013 12:22:13 PM A few months ago, on an earlier thread, I suggested that both Rudd and Gillard should be e.....
» 22/06/2013 12:13:49 PM Hi again Poirot, As a 'prat', I am entitled to make stupid, sweeping statements, I'm sure.....
» 22/06/2013 12:09:09 PM Navdanya is certainly a worthy cause, no doubt about it. Poirot, your Unleashed article o.....
» 21/06/2013 6:26:28 PM Poirot, Thank you for your pools of wisdom, shallow and stagnant though they may be. Now.....
» 21/06/2013 5:04:47 PM Thank you, Poirot, for the tiny, but precious, pearls of your wisdom. Experience ? Well, .....
» 21/06/2013 4:53:10 PM Hi Poirot :) Up until the time of the end of the various Marxist governments from the lat.....
» 21/06/2013 4:23:45 PM Hi Poirot, Referring to an earlier post: Perhaps urbanisation and women's rights are loo.....
» 21/06/2013 4:14:38 PM Hi Poirot, I can't do better than Maryam Namazie here: Siding with the Oppressor: The Pr.....
» 21/06/2013 4:01:51 PM Hi David, Yes, provided the people are actually doing the work themselves, and not 'leasi.....
» 21/06/2013 9:06:02 AM Would you add that any water rights granted shouldn't include the right to lease out part .....
» 21/06/2013 12:44:40 AM Yes indeed ! Give that old dog a good kick in the guts ! Joe P.S. No animals were harmed.....
» 21/06/2013 12:43:00 AM Hi Poirot, The problem - which many people on both sides, I suspect - have exploited, is .....
» 20/06/2013 6:38:48 PM Hi Poirot, To the extent that what you write is relevant, and given the circumstances of .....
» 20/06/2013 6:29:18 PM O Sung Wu, You will be missed for your level-headedness and integrity. All the best, get .....
» 20/06/2013 5:43:27 PM Sorry, Poirot, you've lost me - what is this thread about again ? Women's rights on Afghan.....
» 20/06/2013 4:19:37 PM [contd] I guess I was bitten once too often by the Hindmarsh Island 'secret women's busin.....
» 20/06/2013 4:11:47 PM Poirot, My point in all this is that if there is no evidence for something which is suppo.....
» 20/06/2013 3:46:48 PM But I live in hope, Antipeptic, that progress is, sooner or later, inevitable. Joe.....
» 20/06/2013 3:45:00 PM Jayb, I think that that pipeline had about thirty miles to go through Georgia to the nort.....
» 20/06/2013 11:03:03 AM Poirot, Sorry, WHAT was happening ? I don't get your next point, that "... why do t.....
» 20/06/2013 10:52:45 AM Steps on the road, Poirot. Would those urban populations prefer to go back to the villages.....
» 20/06/2013 10:24:36 AM Leslie, That may be true, it probably is, but there are so many other issues besides oil .....
» 20/06/2013 10:18:40 AM Perhaps a bit of both, Jay, facts and values, and a bit of passion as well. But the appre.....
» 20/06/2013 10:00:32 AM I agree with you on that last point, Antipeptic, that social change has to come from withi.....
» 19/06/2013 4:57:05 PM Hi Poirot, Thank you for your observations. Maybe I'm not as bright as you think, but I.....
» 19/06/2013 4:05:06 PM [contd] So I don't really believe any more that, at least in SA, people were 'driven off .....
» 19/06/2013 3:57:12 PM Poirot, Henry Reynolds had a finer take on land-use in: http://heinonline.org/HOL/Landin.....
» 19/06/2013 11:59:41 AM [continued] By the way, pastoral lessees were often happy to act as issuers of Aborigines.....
» 19/06/2013 11:51:56 AM David, The point about letters and journals is that they are not 'revised' long after the.....
» 19/06/2013 11:22:02 AM Robert, How can a society evolve quickly to bring about equal rights for men and women, w.....
» 19/06/2013 9:51:42 AM [contd] In the early days, up to 1845 or so, there are references to 'outrages' on both s.....
» 19/06/2013 9:49:42 AM [contd] I've been typing up the correspondence of the Protector of Aborigines here in Sou.....
» 19/06/2013 9:46:21 AM [contd] For example, the Rabbit-Proof fence story: IF it were true, that three little gir.....
» 18/06/2013 11:46:38 PM Jayb, I have to say that I object to your semi-racist comments. But that aside, your poi.....
» 18/06/2013 11:32:04 PM Actually, that 'definition' sounds somewhat psychotic, certainly unnecessarily juxtaposing.....
» 18/06/2013 4:11:56 PM Listening to Robert Manne on Q & A last night, it seems that there are different sorts of .....
» 18/06/2013 3:15:53 PM Shadow Minister, I think you meant "With a vast population majority in Syria, the Su.....
» 18/06/2013 2:44:17 PM Hi Belly, She lost me last year when she defended Slipper for his vile comments, and had .....
» 18/06/2013 9:34:23 AM Antipeptic, You asked me for my view, I gave it. So sue me. When you write, " .........
» 17/06/2013 6:55:17 PM Antiseptic, * extension of human rights, specially to women; * protection of people's ri.....
» 17/06/2013 2:19:45 PM You're right, Chris, and each was an abridgement of the powers of the sovereign in favour,.....
» 17/06/2013 11:25:22 AM Yes, Poirot, we did indeed. And all of those gains since the 17th century have been so pre.....
» 16/06/2013 7:14:51 PM Lexi, my darling, Nobody in their right minds would suggest that "the Magna Carta gu.....
» 16/06/2013 6:18:14 PM [contd] In a political system emanating from a king or sultan or emperor, whoever has the.....
» 15/06/2013 11:30:36 PM Today - June 15 - has been Magna Carta Day, 798 years since King John was forced to sign a.....
» 15/06/2013 9:07:43 PM Richards is a mate of Bill Ludwig's ? Wow, that changes the game. So let's see - Brough .....
» 15/06/2013 7:38:59 PM I'm with you, Poirot. Move on, people, nothing to see here. Now let's get back to the is.....
» 15/06/2013 4:46:53 PM [contd] So - what to do in this case ? Step 1: find ways to pass responsibility for peo.....
» 15/06/2013 4:44:43 PM G'day Belly, I'm so glad really that so many people are concerned enough to contribute to.....
» 15/06/2013 4:17:32 PM Jayb, I LOVED Chicken Man in the sixties ! Benton Harbor, I think his name was. Which, I .....
» 15/06/2013 12:54:05 PM That's right, Poirot - perhaps you would agree with me when I called it "The cumber.....
» 15/06/2013 11:51:41 AM [contd.] Women in such societies are as human and as entitled to a good life as you and m.....
» 15/06/2013 11:50:33 AM G'day Antiseptic, Your appalling statement, that " .... the main difference is tha.....
» 15/06/2013 11:32:15 AM Yes, Poirot, it was not a matter of either-or - either put up with de fact slavery in the .....
» 15/06/2013 10:24:45 AM Thank you, Antiseptic. When you write, " .... all you have to do is show me why I.....
» 15/06/2013 12:19:19 AM Hi Antiseptic, Perhaps you're right, that the notions of equality of men and women and th.....
» 14/06/2013 5:01:42 PM Sorry, Antiseptic, I was waiting for you to write something sensible. Fat chance, I suppos.....
» 13/06/2013 4:29:57 PM Son of Gloin, There's no such thing as a 'Stone Age mind', not one that anybody's born wi.....
» 13/06/2013 12:23:15 AM Thank you, David, it's good to know what sort of racist crap people are feeding on these d.....
» 12/06/2013 11:58:02 PM Thank you, Son of Gloin, You have to break down those figures - you always have to, in al.....
» 12/06/2013 5:34:54 PM On the beach, I spent four years at an Aboriginal settlement across the mid-70s as a labo.....
» 12/06/2013 4:50:55 PM Poirot, Iraq. Afghanistan. Saudi Arabia. Different countries, different situations. But n.....
» 12/06/2013 4:35:35 PM [continued] It's called cultural change: we all grab what's most effective. What did you .....
» 12/06/2013 4:33:46 PM Hi Son of Gloin, Your recent post-but-one - remember that only around 10 % of Indigenous .....
» 12/06/2013 3:06:17 PM Hi Paul, Interesting that you raise that issue, because my answer would be "Yes, to .....
» 12/06/2013 2:46:44 PM Iraq. Afghanistan. Oh I see, the Wolfowitz Defence. Well, I suppose, Poirot, the easy.....
» 11/06/2013 11:59:19 PM Antiseptic, At the risk of breaking Poirot's sarcasmeter, no matter what I say, in respon.....
» 11/06/2013 6:24:35 PM Lexi, And some people think it means 'a hatred of women', even some men. Love, Joe.....
» 11/06/2013 5:51:32 PM Hi Banjo, Perhaps a rule should be: if money has been poured into a 'brilliant' initiativ.....
» 11/06/2013 5:45:25 PM Thank you, Jay - this is an eye-opener. And yet there are smug idiots who oppose inter-g.....
» 11/06/2013 3:48:11 PM Antiseptic, But ... isn't that part of the American culture ? Don't we have to let them '.....
» 11/06/2013 12:06:28 AM Thank you, Runner. C. Steele, you write about rehabilitation. Rehabilitation ?! For Chri.....
» 10/06/2013 10:07:33 PM I was very touched by this article in Quadrant, the only journal which seems to be publish.....
» 10/06/2013 9:49:55 PM Jay, Can you locate that Age article ? I'm amazed that the Age would run something like t.....
» 10/06/2013 9:29:58 PM Hi Antiseptic, Now we're getting somewhere :) By the way, you think of yourself as, gener.....
» 10/06/2013 6:44:27 PM Yes, Antiseptic - Afghanistan is a small country, a long way away, with which we have litt.....
» 10/06/2013 5:59:01 PM So it's just a metaphor, an analogy, Antiseptic ? Quite an interesting observation, real.....
» 10/06/2013 5:50:16 PM No, Antiseptic, they most definitely are NOT isolating themselves from the rest of Austral.....
» 10/06/2013 5:38:52 PM Good point, Runner. You may enjoy a recent publication by Stephanie Jarrett - 'Liberating .....
» 10/06/2013 3:33:47 PM Hi Pelican, And in an imperfect world, perhaps "War and intervention by the West&quo.....
» 10/06/2013 3:28:03 PM Hi Poirot, You might be onto something there. Life was extremely harsh across the country.....
» 10/06/2013 3:12:01 PM Hi Poirot, Well, none of us feel that we live in the 'far away' or that we are embedded i.....
» 10/06/2013 2:30:05 PM Antiseptic, 'Anything' ? Do you mean apart from regular life-long welfare payments, minin.....
» 9/06/2013 9:14:41 PM Hi Jayb, So, next time, those terrorists will fly here, with all their papers in order. .....
» 9/06/2013 8:05:07 PM Antiseptic, Fascinating. While out in the real world, in Afghanistan, young girls are da.....
» 9/06/2013 6:37:07 PM Hi Lexi, Last I heard, the US was financing the schooling of hundreds of thousands of gir.....
» 9/06/2013 6:27:14 PM Hi Poirot, As usual, I agree with you fully on Iraq - since there was no connection betwe.....
» 9/06/2013 5:17:38 PM Politics and history too, that wouldn't go amiss, Antiseptic :) Hi Pelican, "Islam .....
» 9/06/2013 2:30:32 PM [contd.] Somebody commented above on poor school attendance - but ask yourself, if everyb.....
» 9/06/2013 2:25:40 PM Hi LEGO, I partly apologise for my remark earlier - I read the first sentence in one of y.....
» 9/06/2013 2:03:09 PM Hi Antiseptic, I suspect that you are aware of the limitations of your metaphor - stretch.....
» 9/06/2013 12:10:34 PM Antiseptic, Well no - metaphors have limits when you are trying to compare something with.....
» 9/06/2013 10:57:27 AM Thanks, Phillip, that's the sort of thing I was getting at. Banjo, No, now that the US a.....
» 8/06/2013 6:04:38 PM Hi Banjo, Thank you for putting up this thread, it's very timely. As to your question: &.....
» 8/06/2013 2:01:33 PM Oy. Poirot, I suppose we'll have to re-hash all the myths about 9/11 now :( The Taliba.....
» 8/06/2013 12:21:10 AM Hi Praxidice, As a lifelong (but unpaid) member of the Sheeple's Party of Australia (SPA).....
» 7/06/2013 6:14:35 PM Hi Praxidice, We'll see at the next election, won't we ? My money is on Slipper either no.....
» 7/06/2013 6:10:22 PM Pelican, "That's the way change works." Well, that's the way change OUGHT to w.....
» 6/06/2013 4:21:11 PM Lego, you're an idiot and your views would be repugnant to decent Australians. Aborigina.....
» 6/06/2013 12:05:22 AM Ybirp, Yes, you're right that Indigenous people - all people - are equally intelligent, t.....
» 5/06/2013 8:53:32 PM [continued] So the fragmentation of the professional Indigenous population - and the popu.....
» 5/06/2013 8:50:03 PM So much bullsh!t, so little time :) Where to start ? Well, for a start, there are now mor.....
» 4/06/2013 11:31:47 PM Killarney, Forgive me, in my posting above (the one that goes from A to E), the points D .....
» 4/06/2013 11:00:24 PM Killarney, I think you are trying to manufacture an Enemy, what the great Italian writer .....
» 4/06/2013 4:36:51 PM Killarney, I'm not sure how on earth you come to that tortured conclusion. Here's another.....
» 3/06/2013 4:25:20 PM Hi Bigmal, So, since the Koran as delivered to Muhammad is supposed to be an exact copy o.....
» 1/06/2013 6:20:10 PM C. Steele, Lexi, Pelican, Poirot, I have to admit the case of this girl is right on the e.....
» 1/06/2013 1:36:27 PM Hi Pelican, I didn't realise that white people are explicitly recognised in our Constitut.....
» 1/06/2013 11:32:06 AM I respectfully urge all readers to have a good look at an article by Nicolas Rothwell in t.....
» 31/05/2013 9:15:42 PM Thank you, Divine Ms M., I agree with you 101 % ! What is best for the child ? Yes, with.....
» 31/05/2013 4:22:17 PM Wrong door: two threads down the hall, Ms Divine :) About inter-group fostering and adopt.....
» 31/05/2013 9:33:20 AM Hi Divine Ms and Suse, I have to say I don't believe in a stolen generation. I've done a .....
» 30/05/2013 5:12:37 PM It would have been refreshing to read something about prevention, but I guess there wouldn.....
» 30/05/2013 10:01:50 AM Well, yes, Monsieur, that was my point :) An article in The Australian last week by Anth.....
» 29/05/2013 11:43:35 PM Hasbeen, Indigenous people make up 28 % of people in custody. 22 % of deaths in custody.....
» 29/05/2013 4:32:20 PM Hi Poirot ;) So you've been thinking about me, sweetie ? And you haven't been far from .....
» 28/05/2013 11:50:04 PM Saussie, From memory, I think that 'Jambo' may be Swahili for 'hello', at least with tour.....
» 28/05/2013 4:18:33 PM Spot-on, C. Steele, thank you. Cheers, joe.....
» 28/05/2013 12:02:37 AM O Sung Wu, Yes, I remember The Lone Avenger. And I completely agree with you on all your.....
» 27/05/2013 10:05:18 PM Hi SoG, Well, no actually. Indian sugar workers in Fiji have never owned the land, only l.....
» 27/05/2013 8:49:45 PM Individual, It's not really a pissing contest, you know :) But you have a point. On the.....
» 26/05/2013 11:01:13 PM Jansey, I'm with C. Steele on this. It's one thing to try to humiliate someone by a look .....
» 26/05/2013 7:00:13 PM Hi Praxidice, In some jurisdictions, sentencing of such people is somewhat 'flexible', at.....
» 26/05/2013 2:29:23 PM Well, Paul, did write: " ... a very long, IDEOLOGICAL struggle involving billions o.....
» 26/05/2013 12:27:33 PM Hi Antiseptic, Did you mean this sort of thing ? from: http://au.news.yahoo.com/latest/a.....
» 26/05/2013 12:12:46 PM Hi Antiseptic, " ... there is considerable anti-Muslim agitation in Britain, where a.....
» 26/05/2013 9:35:28 AM Hi Banjo, Yes, it's very tempting, I'm wrestling with the pros and cons, and it's a sort .....
» 25/05/2013 8:04:44 PM Hi Saltpetre, Wow, you really are worked up, aren't you ? No of course I'm not saying tha.....
» 25/05/2013 7:56:30 PM Hi Antiseptic, No, I'm certainly not saying he was some sort of hero, just that - by comp.....
» 25/05/2013 6:14:16 PM Thanks Misanthrope, No, on very difficult reflection, I don't support the death penalty, .....
» 25/05/2013 4:40:05 PM Individual, I'm told in one 'community near Adelaide, nobody ever goes to town shopping 3.....
» 25/05/2013 3:43:21 PM Given the events of this week in Paris and London, Mr Moore's actions provide a rather str.....
» 23/05/2013 6:06:02 PM Thank you, Yuyutsu, for your kind wishes, but we all have to come to an end sooner or late.....
» 23/05/2013 12:01:49 AM David, You - and all of the rest of us - each have only one life. One incredibly brief sp.....
» 21/05/2013 9:32:36 AM Mr Bowyer, Are you having a lend of us ? A Pommy advocating that we should whinge about e.....
» 13/05/2013 5:23:35 PM Hi SoG, I just came across this on an Indigenous site: "The difficulty in many reg.....
» 10/05/2013 9:05:53 PM Hi Lexi, I had you pinged for a Nissan Micra, gorgeous cars to drive. I drove my dad's ar.....
» 10/05/2013 3:32:24 PM 1954 Skoda sedan, 4-cylinder, rolled it within a week. Never got to use the back seat. Jo.....
» 10/05/2013 9:28:44 AM Hi Poirot, So you've never, ever contemplated a hypothetical, a 'what if' sort of questio.....
» 10/05/2013 12:15:20 AM Hi Poirot, So that's a 'yes' then ? You would hypothetically support somebody's right not.....
» 10/05/2013 12:08:21 AM So that's a 'no' then, Poirot ?.....
» 9/05/2013 7:05:01 PM Beautifully diverted, my sweet goose ! Love, Joe.....
» 9/05/2013 6:44:45 PM Hi Poirot, Thanks for the insults, I can take them :) So, hypothetically, in case anythi.....
» 9/05/2013 5:01:03 PM Thank you, Poirot, So if the story WERE true, you would condemn the practice ? You would .....
» 9/05/2013 4:26:09 PM Lexi, Just ever so slightly ducking the qiuestion, dear ....... in the story that started.....
» 9/05/2013 3:51:17 PM Yes, indeed, Lexi. Here's a good question then: * should somebody be allowed to be invo.....
» 8/05/2013 11:02:09 PM Hi Producer, Yes, I take for granted that people like Clive Palmer and Gina Rinehart are.....
» 8/05/2013 10:44:19 PM Flappety flappety flap - oh, look, is that a wounded goose ? No, two wounded gooses ! Poor.....
» 8/05/2013 3:39:36 PM Tiny little straw man there, Lexi :) Love, Joe.....
» 7/05/2013 11:10:32 PM Lexi, Yes, it's PART of the picture, but it IS part of the whole picture. People do get s.....
» 7/05/2013 11:03:17 PM Hi Constance, Just to put that early Middle eastern history into perspective - we forget .....
» 7/05/2013 6:36:34 PM Cohenite, How to explain this weird coming-together of extreme Catholics, Islamists and s.....
» 7/05/2013 6:06:22 PM Yes, "Stone Age" was a bit extreme, SOG - after all, Islam was spread by the ste.....
» 7/05/2013 9:22:56 AM Hi Producer, Sorry, I'm still trying to understand what you mean by your core statement: .....
» 6/05/2013 11:44:54 AM Thank you, Lexi, yes, it mentions numbers of candidates but also lists the names of the ni.....
» 6/05/2013 9:40:30 AM But not now, with the Muslim Brotherhood in power ? When the MB engineers a crisis suffi.....
» 5/05/2013 8:21:15 PM Yes, a high proportion of them, I'm sure - some of them are doctors actually. It's not 'ku.....
» 5/05/2013 7:17:52 PM Thank you, Lexi, I don't know where you got your figures from. This article suggests that.....
» 5/05/2013 2:24:52 PM On the subject of a female Prime Minister or President, if we think about it, there haven'.....
» 5/05/2013 11:38:48 AM [C] So any criticism of Christianity or Islam or any other body of ideology on those grou.....
» 5/05/2013 11:35:13 AM It's frustrating that there seems to be so much confusion, and misplaced 'argument', over .....
» 3/05/2013 6:36:54 PM Hi Poirot, Thank you for your observations. It is actually true that people in many cultu.....
» 3/05/2013 5:57:39 PM Thank you, SonofGloin and Poirot, Clearly, we have established that it would be abhorrent.....
» 3/05/2013 5:28:22 PM Thank you, Pericles, for some hard-headed sanity at last. Joe.....
» 3/05/2013 9:10:02 AM Belly, you're spot-on ! : http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/indigenous/toug.....
» 2/05/2013 4:58:37 PM As usual, I'm with you on this, Poirot. When the PM challenges Abbott to a finger-wrestl.....
» 1/05/2013 4:51:37 PM Thank you, Robert, You note - "And what about THE DEBT? Another analogy: Your house.....
» 30/04/2013 6:06:31 PM Hi Belly, Maybe, like any population, there is a lot of self-selection and movement from .....
» 29/04/2013 9:29:29 AM Hi Belly, thanks for your thoughtful words. Yes, there certainly does seem to be two incr.....
» 28/04/2013 5:58:42 PM [cnt.] Another point: given that a young person is usually counted, and count themselves,.....
» 28/04/2013 5:56:22 PM Thanks Belly, Granny has some interesting stories, e.g.: http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-.....
» 27/04/2013 5:32:46 PM 'Eternal' sit-down money, of course. Noel Pearson has a great article in today's paper: .....
» 26/04/2013 8:14:49 PM Hi producer, No rush, take your time. This may prompt some suggestions against weternal '.....
» 25/04/2013 5:30:02 PM [continued] And of course, great numbers of people with Nursing skills of all sorts - and.....
» 25/04/2013 5:07:37 PM Thank you, Belly, you do me proud :) Producer, So where are at in the debate ? Do we agr.....
» 24/04/2013 9:12:11 PM Hi Producer, Debate ? Feel free :) Joe.....
» 24/04/2013 4:19:50 PM Hi Belly, I guess I'm pissed off at the misuse of CDEP, of what could have been a fantast.....
» 23/04/2013 11:00:52 PM Hi producer, I'm certainly not saying that CDEP was better than anything around now - CDE.....
» 23/04/2013 6:12:39 PM Hi Producer, That was supposed to be the purpose of the Community Development Employment .....
» 22/04/2013 11:02:54 AM Hi Producer, More work horses, fewer show-ponies :) I'm not sure what you mean by ".....
» 21/04/2013 10:57:30 PM [contd.] Maybe the tragedy these days is that there aren't enough lousy, dirty, boring, h.....
» 21/04/2013 10:56:49 PM Welfare is vital for anybody caught out for a short time. But past a certain time, maybe t.....
» 21/04/2013 6:32:32 PM Hasbeen, Yeah, but that's the whole point - your parents EXPECTED you to try and to do ok.....
» 21/04/2013 5:26:23 PM Hi Poirot, As usual, I agree with you completely on this point. So that's the problem: .....
» 21/04/2013 10:57:12 AM Hi Banjo, Yes, if only Aboriginal people in remote and rural communities really wanted se.....
» 20/04/2013 8:00:39 PM On the other hand, there's this sort of story: http://www.news.com.au/national-news/abori.....
» 20/04/2013 5:11:32 PM Hi Lexi, Yes, you're right, but I've always perceived (perhaps mis-perceived) self-determ.....
» 20/04/2013 4:25:47 PM I wonder if it would be useful if teaching students were taught - taught themselves - to t.....
» 19/04/2013 6:51:58 PM Dear Lexi, The short answer is 'yes'. Go back a few years and have a look at the plant a.....
» 19/04/2013 4:46:10 PM Dear Lexi, Out of my deep respect for you and your tendency to always see the good side i.....
» 19/04/2013 4:19:55 PM I was struck by the authors' comment that "the point is, that if you are born into .....
» 19/04/2013 4:11:27 PM Hi Danielle, A sense of hopelessness ? Maybe, but at least as much, a sort of arrogance -.....
» 19/04/2013 4:03:34 PM Hi Belly, Maybe what is needed is a bit more of 'blaming the victim' - that the people th.....
» 19/04/2013 10:26:19 AM Belly, Poverty ? No. Squalor ? Yes. We lived in a 'community' during the seventies and I .....
» 18/04/2013 11:59:29 PM Hi Lexi, I think that may have been written by the legendary Frank Hardy, when he was up .....
» 18/04/2013 8:54:04 AM MO and Paul, A little learning is a dangerous thing ; Drink deep, or taste not the Pieria.....
» 17/04/2013 7:48:02 PM MO, Henry Reynolds is a historian, not a lawyer. And if you read the article, you most ce.....
» 17/04/2013 6:59:59 PM Mr Opinion, You may wish to check out this article by Henry Reynolds and Jamie Dalziel, o.....
» 17/04/2013 10:58:07 AM I went to an AGM of the Council and CDEP program of an Aboriginal 'community', back in 200.....
» 16/04/2013 4:27:21 PM Hal, One man's 'immodesty' is another woman's 'submission to male domination'. So laws wh.....
» 15/04/2013 3:20:37 PM Paul, If it came down to it, would you ban mining ? Would you ban manufacuring ? (So muc.....
» 15/04/2013 10:16:06 AM The Kimberley is as big as Victoria - surely there is space in that quarter of a million s.....
» 15/04/2013 9:51:56 AM Halduell, Like so much of its maths, I think you will find that the Muslim world borrowed.....
» 13/04/2013 7:12:52 PM And now the government has all but guaranteed that Adam Bandt will retain his seat, by kic.....
» 10/04/2013 5:57:45 PM Hi Jayb, It's relevant to the notion of Madrasas in Australia - so-called 'cultural privi.....
» 9/04/2013 6:48:15 PM Hi Poirot, Warm autumns ? I recall that at the beginning of April, 1986 here in Adelaide,.....
» 9/04/2013 6:42:52 PM Thanks Jayb, but I certainly don't think that's the last we will hear of 'special rights f.....
» 6/04/2013 9:44:03 PM Hi Poirot, Thank you for responding. I don't quite know what you are trying to say - that.....
» 5/04/2013 11:56:37 PM Hi Poirot, Sorry, what was you point ? Sometimes it's a bit time-consuming to go through .....
» 5/04/2013 5:43:42 PM Thanks, Poirot, but I think you are still missing the point which is understandable, after.....
» 5/04/2013 8:21:43 AM Thank you, Poirot, Yes, of course, we should take notice of what important people say, bu.....
» 4/04/2013 11:28:15 PM Hi Poirot, The paper you cited in your last post seems to assert that we are heading for .....
» 4/04/2013 3:12:43 PM Hi Reason, Yes indeed, children should be introduced early to concepts of right and wrong.....
» 4/04/2013 8:23:05 AM Hi Iftikhar, Perhaps we could modify what you say - " ..... society and Establishme.....
» 3/04/2013 9:54:38 PM I think you're right, Poirot - I'm beginning to think that the concept of equality - no mo.....
» 3/04/2013 4:47:47 PM Hi Poirot, Forgive me for clumsy expression - I meant to say "But whether any parti.....
» 3/04/2013 8:01:55 AM Poirot, I'll say it again: all children should learn a language other than their own moth.....
» 2/04/2013 9:54:41 PM Hi Poirot, I'll say it again: all children should learn a language other than their own m.....
» 2/04/2013 5:01:28 PM Hi Poirot, With respect, you do seem to go into bat for some strange, and reactionary, ca.....
» 1/04/2013 10:15:48 PM Hi Jayb, Yes, and I think we would also have the Enlightenment, and the victories of the .....
» 1/04/2013 4:19:21 PM Hi Poirot, Thank you for focussing on issues. Classical Arabic (Quranic Arabic) would b.....
» 1/04/2013 2:04:09 PM You're right, Lexi, very wise advice. Better still, stick to the issues :) Cheers, Joe.....
» 1/04/2013 11:00:58 AM Good diversions, Poirot - you the man ! As for this: " .... you are tarring everyon.....
» 1/04/2013 9:45:09 AM Yes, I apologise for mixing my threads. Thank you for pointing that out, Poirot. Now back.....
» 1/04/2013 9:33:14 AM Thanks for that, Poirot: "Summary and FAQ’s related to the study by Marcott et al. (.....
» 1/04/2013 9:14:48 AM Good try, Poirot :) Okay, back to topic - should religious rubbish be taught in state-fun.....
» 31/03/2013 11:04:54 PM Hi CSteele, I think you might have found a new form of 'red herring', or 'straw-man' - I'.....
» 31/03/2013 10:19:06 PM Jayb, I think "Silence was the stern reply." But wait for it ! One or other w.....
» 31/03/2013 8:40:17 PM Jayb, As an atheist with a Marxist upbringing, not only do I not support the teaching of .....
» 31/03/2013 11:51:27 AM Mr Opinion, I have to take exception to your attack on Poirot, when you claim: "I'm.....
» 31/03/2013 12:11:07 AM Back to the issues please, Poirot: : should multicultural education encompass - in the n.....
» 30/03/2013 6:59:59 PM Lexi, So who is 'attacking' Poirot ? Is asking someone to return to the issues 'attacking.....
» 30/03/2013 11:58:55 AM Thanks, Jayb - the issues. Poirot, you can flounce east, you can flounce west, but the is.....
» 30/03/2013 10:35:48 AM Jayb, thanks, sweetie, for that further evidence of how far we ALL have to go, together, a.....
» 30/03/2013 9:49:49 AM Poirot, You can ignore the real issues all you wish, because attention to them is just so.....
» 29/03/2013 10:39:07 PM Poirot, Yes, it does all get a bit sordid, doesn't it ? And so easy to mock. But this - .....
» 29/03/2013 8:07:57 PM No, sorry, Jayb, I don't like my goats pre-contaminated. Now chickens ........ that's an.....
» 29/03/2013 3:58:03 PM Thanks for those clarifications, Jayb. I'm still a bit puzzled about geckos, though. I wa.....
» 29/03/2013 12:55:14 PM Jayb, Yes, we've heard about the Islamic 'principle' of tukkiah, the right to lie to and .....
» 29/03/2013 9:34:00 AM Messrs Jardine & Steele, Thank you for a most enlightening teasing-out of the preliminary.....
» 28/03/2013 3:54:54 PM Those were the times, that was the mind-set. This is now, this is OUR mind-set. Until ab.....
» 26/03/2013 9:05:58 AM This article from Open Democracy sums up the issues and problems pretty well: http://www......
» 24/03/2013 5:59:37 PM Yeah, won't we all ?.....
» 24/03/2013 4:16:10 PM Hi Belly, I suspect that one thing is sure: that neither Rudd or Gillard will ever lead a.....
» 23/03/2013 4:52:23 PM Just to up-date some of the atrocities committed in the name of the 'religion of peace', o.....
» 22/03/2013 8:16:26 AM Perhaps you're right, Mr opinion, but I don't think there is room in the Labor Party for t.....
» 21/03/2013 4:45:58 PM So we now have a government with a majority of one, and a ruling paty which is bitterly sp.....
» 20/03/2013 12:04:09 PM Speaking of assaults on our freedoms, let's up-date those 1800 jihadist/terrorist attacks .....
» 18/03/2013 9:32:08 PM Having just done $ 10, I'm forced to face reality and propose that, in order for the divid.....
» 18/03/2013 2:23:28 PM Bazz, Boy ! Who thought that would ever happen ? Joe.....
» 17/03/2013 9:24:14 PM Dan, To the extent that I can understand what you are trying to say, no, I don't 'equate'.....
» 17/03/2013 4:30:32 PM Hi DDan, 'Multiculturalism' is certainly not free of problems, but like 'democracy' or 'e.....
» 17/03/2013 11:47:26 AM No, Dane and Jay, the difficulties have nothing to do with race (or shouldn't) and not muc.....
» 16/03/2013 10:31:21 PM Suse, I'm not looking forward to a Liberal-Coalition government, but I do think you have .....
» 16/03/2013 6:47:41 PM Hi Dan, David J., et al., At this weekend's Conference in Melbourne, it would be wonderfu.....
» 15/03/2013 10:26:36 PM Hi Dan, Are you suggesting that one should never be intolerant towards repugnant and back.....
» 15/03/2013 8:20:33 PM Hi Dan, I don't think Cohenite has demonstrated any intolerance whatsoever, except agains.....
» 14/03/2013 4:39:26 PM Planet No. 3, With respect, you do write some rubbish. If I had the wherewithall, and fif.....
» 13/03/2013 9:12:04 PM Hasbeen, Lexi for PM ? In an ideal world, maybe. But she may be too good for a real world.....
» 13/03/2013 9:17:58 AM Paul Kelly touches delicately and indirectly on a possible solution to the dilemma that th.....
» 12/03/2013 10:30:21 PM Hi Candida, I apologise for my rudeness and bile, and hope to be more civil in future. .....
» 12/03/2013 4:26:20 PM Yes Belly, if any Liberals committed the offences similar to those that Obeid and McDonald.....
» 12/03/2013 4:14:43 PM Hi Candida, So, AGW causes both warmer conditions AND heavier snowfalls ? Shrinkage of th.....
» 11/03/2013 7:28:45 PM 187 days is a long time in politics. So what are the odds on a spill in the next couple .....
» 11/03/2013 6:57:41 PM Hi James, Drawing parallels is one thing, connecting the dots is another thing entirely. .....
» 11/03/2013 1:39:06 PM Relax, folks ! Only another 187 days !.....
» 11/03/2013 1:32:14 PM Hi Candide, Well, what would you expect, either way ? Do you suppose that polar ice-sheet.....
» 10/03/2013 10:18:48 PM Hi James, Perhaps it's a case of whether the glass is half-full or half-empty. Yes, Isl.....
» 10/03/2013 8:12:50 PM Actually I'm 5ft 9in, about average height. But you've got the rest right. Am I allowed t.....
» 10/03/2013 6:28:19 PM I mentioned 1800 attacks by fundamentalist Islamists/Salafists/al Qaida etc. since 2001. .....
» 10/03/2013 9:53:23 AM Governments trying to scare us with false stories about foreign terrorists ........ Gover.....
» 9/03/2013 6:03:31 PM Details, Poirot :) Back to topic: If (a) al Qaida doesn't actually exist, or (b) al Q.....
» 9/03/2013 4:43:47 PM Belgian ?.....
» 9/03/2013 12:42:40 PM Hi Geoff of Perth, It's interesting how any disagreement can earn the term 'denier' and h.....
» 8/03/2013 9:42:51 PM Hi Geoff, No, it's not a matter of hating Muslims, that's just a red herring - after all,.....
» 8/03/2013 5:18:03 PM Gosh, so much manufactured panic :) Seriously, I reckon that I have been much concerned a.....
» 6/03/2013 8:44:33 PM Geoff, Christ, more fruit-cakes than a local CWA table. Twin towers: I do recall when th.....
» 6/03/2013 7:24:19 PM Hi MSS, Yes, that's the point, even the purpose, of terrorism - to make us distrust every.....
» 6/03/2013 6:08:41 PM So 'wag the dog' ? Ex post hoc, ergo propter hoc ? Certainly the Yanks used the attack on.....
» 6/03/2013 1:00:42 PM And now for our next performer - a big hand for - ARJAY !.....
» 4/03/2013 3:32:29 PM Hi Ludwig, Yes, having to defend the right not to tolerate what we may regard as abhorren.....
» 1/03/2013 3:58:14 PM Hi Cdan, I apologise yet again for seeming to offend you: I lay awake at nights trying to.....
» 26/02/2013 5:50:33 PM Hi Sam, You mentioned the partition of India. Correct me if I'm wrong but I thought that .....
» 26/02/2013 4:26:22 PM Sam, Issues. Ideologies. It's all too easy to pretend that it's to do with racism, imperi.....
» 26/02/2013 4:08:44 PM Hi Ludwig, I don't agree with Wilders on a number of issues - that migrants should be rep.....
» 26/02/2013 7:55:34 AM How do we tolerate the views of somebody who isn't prepared to tolerate intolerant and rep.....
» 25/02/2013 8:36:43 AM Hi Dan, I apologise if you feel I have insulted you. Wait for the new Roxon laws and then.....
» 24/02/2013 8:42:46 PM Hi Dan, So ...... it's fruit-loop then ? Are you suggesting that the West is responsibl.....
» 24/02/2013 7:42:45 PM Hi Dan, Just a bit of up-date: Bush hasn't been president for more than four years. Can.....
» 23/02/2013 9:08:54 AM Gays, Jews, apostates, adulterers, atheists, women who want an education - it really is a .....
» 22/02/2013 7:22:35 PM SF, You may not fully comprehend that Islam, as a religion of peace, spread its religion.....
» 22/02/2013 3:17:31 PM Hi Steven, Yes, and if there are any women amongst those useful idiots (there never seems.....
» 22/02/2013 11:59:58 AM Right on, Aristocrat. Wilders is trying to keep the debate on IDEOLOGY, NOT Race, as pseu.....
» 21/02/2013 11:05:16 PM Prediction: in a month, the polls will have Labor on 28 % and the Greens on 8 %. In two .....
» 21/02/2013 10:54:15 PM Wow, Lexi, one tough lady !.....
» 19/02/2013 9:58:02 PM Bazz, In Lexi's defence, people can raise the issues of possible corruption involving Cra.....
» 18/02/2013 7:15:12 PM Hi Lexi, Labor 30 %, Coalition 47 %. More than 50 % more support for the Coalition than f.....
» 17/02/2013 10:24:06 PM Is there any chance of getting back to topic ? Gillard: tough or incredibly head-strong ?.....
» 15/02/2013 5:54:09 PM Individual, Year after year, in the NT, the TAFE figures declared that something like 20 .....
» 14/02/2013 3:58:55 PM Of course, people should be able to do whatever course they like. But ..... * If they wa.....
» 11/02/2013 7:16:36 PM Individual, You're forgetting how even-handed our PM is, that she can defend one man, and.....
» 11/02/2013 2:35:46 PM Hi Winton, Thanks for that. As it happens, I hold my nose and support Wilders coming to A.....
» 11/02/2013 10:47:33 AM Hi Poirot, The fascist generals in Argentina povoked the war in the Falklands by invading.....
» 11/02/2013 8:21:40 AM Hi Paul, There's nothing particularly American about four-year terms, or fixed terms. We .....
» 10/02/2013 8:32:47 PM Good point, Robert. Would the Party Whip (I think that's currently Albanese) have to be in.....
» 10/02/2013 6:54:14 PM Yes, you're right Suze. What would OLO be like if only blokes could contribute, like in so.....
» 10/02/2013 12:34:07 PM Pelican, The Grameen Bank, initiated in Bangla Desh. I think they won a Nobel Peace Prize.....
» 10/02/2013 12:03:59 PM Hi Lexi and Poirot, I sincerely apologise for any offense, and if you thought my remarks .....
» 9/02/2013 8:34:53 PM Ad hominem a fortiori, Poirot. It's not always just about you, dear. Now can we get back.....
» 9/02/2013 6:56:30 PM Ad hominem, Poirot - can we get back to the issues ? Actually, I do feel that way towards.....
» 9/02/2013 4:44:38 PM Dear, sweet, innocent, good-hearted Lexi, 1) Thompson is never going to NOT vote for the .....
» 9/02/2013 3:22:51 PM You're right, Poirot, and in the same vein, one could say that Gillard's dependence on Tho.....
» 9/02/2013 3:06:11 PM Thank you, Pericles, and Spindoc, Consent ? When I was a kid, I had a couple of friends .....
» 7/02/2013 3:48:46 PM Hi Jay, On my planet, during colonial times, subject people not only didn't have any spec.....
» 6/02/2013 4:09:49 PM Thank you, Aristocrat. It's difficult for the Left to understand to what degree Salafist v.....
» 2/02/2013 7:25:24 AM Don't worry, Hasbeen, it's only Day Three ;).....
» 1/02/2013 8:55:28 PM [cont.] The Protector, A. O. Neville, had an enormous thorn in his side in the person of .....
» 1/02/2013 8:54:36 PM You're busy tonight, Prompete :) Now that you mention the Rabbit-Proof Fence story, it ra.....
» 1/02/2013 8:33:34 PM Seriously, Prompete, I would have thought that 'incitement to argue' was a sort of corner-.....
» 1/02/2013 4:35:30 PM Ooh, you're so hurtful, Poirot ! Come on, sweetie, you can do better ;).....
» 1/02/2013 3:56:40 PM That's strange, I really thought that my friend Poirot would seize the opportunity to sink.....
» 1/02/2013 3:49:33 PM [continued] But children stolen from their parents ? Find examples and get back to me. Lo.....
» 1/02/2013 3:46:07 PM Hi Rhosty, I admire your ability to think and write only in cliches, it's certainly econo.....
» 1/02/2013 7:38:08 AM Hi Shockadelic, Your cookie-cutter definition of 'culture' is a bit old-hat - people, ind.....
» 31/01/2013 10:29:16 PM Thank you, Prompete, I was going to respond in kind, but I think Graham may start to take .....
» 31/01/2013 5:34:12 PM Prompete, This touches on another aspect of this issue - yes, of course, the right to fre.....
» 31/01/2013 4:09:45 PM Ludwig, Two points: * when pastoralists took up their leases out in the dry country (at .....
» 28/01/2013 3:31:46 PM Prompete, I was thinking much the same myself, that in the inevitable droughts, the Abori.....
» 23/01/2013 5:55:27 PM As Mao wrote, to die for one's own interests is as light as a feather, but to die for the .....
» 22/01/2013 3:51:15 PM Hi Aka, With respect, you do write some rubbish sometimes. And the point of the article h.....
» 21/01/2013 7:38:39 PM Hi, Aka, it's great to hear from you again. i miss our 'discussions' ;) I think the autho.....
» 21/01/2013 1:52:24 PM Yes, mhaze, I wonder how soon we will get to the point where truth is an offense ? As I w.....
» 21/01/2013 9:29:19 AM This is a fascinating and timely article, the gist of which ought to be self-evident - tha.....
» 22/12/2012 10:31:07 AM Arjay, A typically half-witted comment, but you are half-right - sections of the West may.....
» 18/12/2012 4:56:27 PM Oops, I'm sorry, Poirot - that last paragraph - about capitalist exploitation of opportuni.....
» 16/12/2012 10:00:20 AM Hi Poirot, In comparison to the long-term trend, since 1850. That video was very persuas.....
» 16/12/2012 8:07:15 AM Hi Poirot, No, I'm not an enthusiastic supporter of the no-warming brigade, I'm simply a .....
» 15/12/2012 8:02:51 PM Poirot, Surely you're not suggesting that anything fraudulent should ever be covered up ?.....
» 15/12/2012 6:56:06 PM OK, thanks Poirot, I'll just wait for the UK Met Office to confirm or deny that graph, one.....
» 15/12/2012 3:19:32 PM Hi Poirot, Here's another pin for your balloon: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/12/14/an.....
» 15/12/2012 2:43:41 PM On the other hand, Poirot: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/12/14/the-real-ipcc-ar5-draft-.....
» 12/12/2012 10:38:22 PM Hi Poirot, If I was in WA, I wouldn't be complaining, all that lovely rain - bring it on .....
» 11/12/2012 4:34:44 PM Perhaps we could get back to the topic :) There are more than forty million refugees acro.....
» 11/12/2012 4:07:53 PM Poirot, Why do you insist I'm trying to be sarcastic, and that I really think that AGW is.....
» 11/12/2012 8:13:28 AM Thank you, Poirot - at last ! I 'cherry-picked' this sentence: "The global mean tem.....
» 10/12/2012 10:57:39 PM Hi Poirot, I'm not sure what you are on about but all I'm suggesting is that it would be .....
» 10/12/2012 9:20:34 PM Yeah, Schadenfreude demands that I look forward to petrol at $8 and $12 a litre :) Then t.....
» 10/12/2012 4:41:42 PM Hi Poirot, Okay, " .... emissions now sitting at 58 per cent above 1990 levels".....
» 10/12/2012 3:20:32 PM Hi Belly, Thanks for this thread. There was a news report on the pedal wireless this morn.....
» 10/12/2012 11:24:35 AM Paul, About your comment on black and white: * there are more than forty million frefuge.....
» 10/12/2012 11:07:35 AM I can understand why people pick on drivers of 4 x 4s - I saw one of them a few months ago.....
» 7/12/2012 11:23:11 PM Hi Poirot, It's late on a Friday night, but from the data you produced eventually, it app.....
» 7/12/2012 5:41:05 PM Alan, If a paralegal from Slater & Gordon handled the sale of the house that was purchase.....
» 7/12/2012 5:24:55 PM Hi Poirot, Jeez, ride your push-bike up the street and all the dogs bark at you. Includin.....
» 7/12/2012 1:16:35 PM 579, Yes, and probably cap some of their wells too, they're not stupid: make the stuff la.....
» 7/12/2012 9:41:08 AM Poirot, So no answers then ? Just deprecation ? I suppose it's easier when you don't have.....
» 7/12/2012 8:24:15 AM Poirot, qanda, So ..... you are suggesting that it is true that there hasn't been any sig.....
» 7/12/2012 8:12:32 AM And did that 'paralegal' need to refer to any file, any documents, in relation to the purc.....
» 6/12/2012 6:06:51 PM 'Non-rebuttal', Poirot. Nice try. So you're saying that average world temperatures rose b.....
» 6/12/2012 5:12:58 PM Thanks Poirot, I looked at that graph you URLd, and for all the hype about temperature ri.....
» 6/12/2012 4:12:38 PM Hi Alan, I don't quite know what you mean by "any flaw in the documentation". O.....
» 6/12/2012 3:42:24 PM Hi Poiro, Well, maybe I'm not as smart as you think. But as you intimate, I can't get pas.....
» 6/12/2012 8:05:39 AM Confused not so much over which is which, qanda, but the effects of signal vs the effects .....
» 6/12/2012 7:58:11 AM Alan, A lawyer is an officer of the court, sworn to uphold the law, let's not forget that.....
» 5/12/2012 9:10:55 PM Poirot, I try not to take any notice of anything coming from the Daily Telegraph, but if i.....
» 5/12/2012 5:24:18 PM Taswegian, You don't take into account that there is non-Indigenous CO2 (bad) and Indigen.....
» 5/12/2012 5:06:47 PM Poirot, Neo-liberals such as yourself might think this is just a big joke, but to some of.....
» 5/12/2012 4:27:12 PM Ah, thank you, qanda - take note of the signal, not the noise. Thank you. But .... which .....
» 5/12/2012 4:19:31 PM Which one of these is true, from the viewpoint of Julia Gillard, partner in Slater & Gordo.....
» 5/12/2012 8:45:47 AM Poirot, Yes, at a decreasing rate, that's the puzzle. I'm not trying to be funny or score.....
» 4/12/2012 5:08:42 PM Yes, Poirot, world temperatures rose between 1973 and 1998 or so, but not much, or at all,.....
» 4/12/2012 5:00:06 PM Ms Gillard attended the auction at which a property was purchased with funds from the AWU .....
» 4/12/2012 4:25:41 PM Hi Belly, Thanks for starting this thread. The story so far: * sea-levels around the wo.....
» 19/11/2012 9:20:32 AM Hi Alan, Why is Don Aitken home free, you ask ? Well, most likely because he didn't say a.....
» 15/11/2012 8:25:08 AM Perhaps part of the problem is that telling the truth can get you into so much trouble. It.....
» 14/11/2012 4:49:55 PM Hi Julian, Price Waterhouse Coopers is an underwriting firm, isn't that right ? They unde.....
» 13/11/2012 8:19:10 AM Hi Robert, Correct me if I'm wrong please, but isn't Australia's natural fertility rate b.....
» 12/11/2012 8:40:46 AM Wonderful news ! One step on the painful road to that defective and amazing institution, d.....
» 10/11/2012 7:56:37 PM Poirot, I don't think I've called you a nitwit yet. But let's face it, you do not say anyt.....
» 10/11/2012 2:34:12 PM Just to recap: * world temperatures have risen by 0.7 degree in a century, and not really.....
» 9/11/2012 8:10:42 AM Well, Poirot, as Paul Keating said, the dogs keep barking but the caravan moves on. The i.....
» 8/11/2012 11:11:25 PM Sorry, Poirot, sometimes it's impossible to tell the difference between a nitwit and a blo.....
» 8/11/2012 5:33:24 PM Cohenite, What you say about modern advances is borne out by this brilliant little articl.....
» 7/11/2012 6:30:28 PM OBAMA ! OBAMA ! OBAMA ! I had been thinking about emigrating, then I realised, Christ, .....
» 5/11/2012 9:11:56 PM Well Rhys, until men start carrying foetuses - and I don't think that is all that improbab.....
» 5/11/2012 4:30:46 PM Thanks Cohenite, 0.7 degrees in 100 years. And that 0.7-degree rise has been responsible .....
» 5/11/2012 12:13:48 PM Sorry, I'm so scatter-brained in my old age, I forgot to mention the rapidly growing effec.....
» 5/11/2012 12:06:50 PM Just to clarify: * temperatures have risen by about 1.8-2 degrees in the last century. Is.....
» 4/11/2012 10:25:55 PM I suppose that there are two options: A. Women are recognised as having the right to make.....
» 31/10/2012 9:39:57 AM The ABS has just published data on non-school qualifications at the 2011 Census. It counte.....
» 29/10/2012 10:33:32 PM Well, Sweden in 1800, not 1900, for one thing, Agrominist. That's the problem with logarit.....
» 29/10/2012 7:04:52 PM Well, no, Agromonist, it's just that relatively low life expectancy is, for very different.....
» 29/10/2012 5:03:51 PM [continued] The policy implications are surely to target health policy at a particular se.....
» 29/10/2012 5:01:02 PM Hi Agronomist, Quite an ironic name - I tried on a couple of Aboriginal communities to ge.....
» 29/10/2012 11:07:27 AM Feel free, ygripbp, there's plenty of open country out there, where you can put into pract.....
» 29/10/2012 11:02:28 AM Arjay, if you wish to assert, you must prove. What evidence do you have that the various a.....
» 29/10/2012 8:29:59 AM Arjay, With bombing attacks somewhere every day, from Mali and Nigeria to Indonesia and t.....
» 28/10/2012 9:49:11 PM Sorry, spelling error - I meant to type " .... the cowardly acts of the reactionaries.....
» 28/10/2012 6:00:22 PM I’ve just come across this fascinating article http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2012/10.....
» 28/10/2012 12:41:02 PM Don't worry, Rhosty, the extremely progressive Mr Pilger is probably writing a brilliant a.....
» 17/10/2012 10:16:23 PM Hi Belly, Yes, and I'm thrilled to point out that President Obama is one of us, a leftie .....
» 17/10/2012 8:23:44 AM Sticks and stones, Poirot: what are the issues here ? A student of logic and argument cou.....
» 16/10/2012 10:15:09 PM I'm sorry, Poirot, sucked into what ? Do you mean controversial issues ? What might they b.....
» 16/10/2012 6:03:09 PM Hi Bonmot, Gosh, I didn't know the organ-grinder had so many monkeys, to trot one out to .....
» 16/10/2012 5:56:16 PM OUG and Belly, Isn't that amazing I'm left-handed too, but was made to change in (I think.....
» 15/10/2012 4:14:42 PM Well, OUG, I keep trying to get across the notion that in the real, nasty world, conflicts.....
» 15/10/2012 1:09:54 PM Poirot, So that's a 'no' ?.....
» 15/10/2012 12:16:00 PM Belly, In spite of the sordid business last week, I'm kind of proud of our Prime Minister.....
» 15/10/2012 12:12:34 PM Poirot, I'm sorry, I may have misunderstood you - I thought you were talking about 'commo.....
» 14/10/2012 10:05:24 PM Hi Poirot, I'm talking rubbish ? How do you mean ? Help me by giving an example. Otherw.....
» 14/10/2012 6:58:38 PM Got me, Poirot ! :) But aside from courts of law, what do you reckon, in your heart (apol.....
» 14/10/2012 6:02:21 PM Hi Poirot, Taking sides, I see :) And how did I guess which side you would take ? Thoms.....
» 14/10/2012 5:52:53 PM Poirot, Common grounds ? Do you mean going half-way ? Perhaps you could give us some exa.....
» 14/10/2012 5:38:25 PM Christ almighty, 579, did you read what you just wrote ? And compared it to what others ha.....
» 14/10/2012 10:04:42 AM That's right, Poirot: Yes, there are 'sides': reactionaries on one side, and [relatively .....
» 14/10/2012 9:56:26 AM I think I missed something. Admittedly, I'm not particularly bright, but that 'debate' los.....
» 14/10/2012 9:41:11 AM Hi Poirot, At last: "In no way was I defending the despicable actions associated wi.....
» 12/10/2012 12:35:38 PM Hi Jayb, For a brief misanthropic moment, I was thinking "Yeah, behead all those who.....
» 10/10/2012 5:02:58 PM Hi C. Steele, Sorry, I'm confused - are you saying that a Republican blowhard shot this w.....
» 9/10/2012 5:54:45 PM Poirot, You rubbish the Enlightenment. What would you propose as a better foundation than.....
» 8/10/2012 11:58:18 AM Ooh, that was so hurtful, Poirot. But I'm glad that you can come off the fence and have a.....
» 7/10/2012 8:17:19 PM Poirot, Speaking of straw-men, "Or is it okay for whole peoples to walk five paces .....
» 7/10/2012 1:07:36 PM Hi Poirot, Glad to see you taking sides on an issue :) As it happens, I would agree wit.....
» 7/10/2012 1:00:05 PM Didn't say it was perfect, Poirot, simply better than whatever came a distant second. And .....
» 7/10/2012 9:55:55 AM "Where did I state that "...it's all much the same one side or the other...".....
» 7/10/2012 8:36:06 AM Hi Poirot, At last ! A stance ! Well, sort of: "First of all, my premise on this thr.....
» 6/10/2012 10:13:21 PM Yes, C. Steele, Moshe Gutnick's case was internal to a Jewish organisation, nothing very u.....
» 6/10/2012 6:58:20 PM [continued] This amazingly brave woman continues: "We must be patient. America need.....
» 6/10/2012 6:54:46 PM Thank you, Belly: as Ayaan Hirsi Ali's article concludes: "As the latest wave of ind.....
» 6/10/2012 4:40:05 PM In 1969, as I recall, I was working in a bakery for $ 1- $1.10 p.h. With overtime, and on .....
» 6/10/2012 2:52:01 PM Hi Bonmot, Sorry, I'm a slow reader. No, I didn't take offense when you called me an @rse.....
» 6/10/2012 11:49:51 AM Hi Poirot, Yeah, at least I still get a laugh out of it. I wonder if one can catch const.....
» 5/10/2012 6:06:06 PM To someone who is not in NSW, Jones comes across as nothing more than a blowhard in a slea.....
» 5/10/2012 6:00:21 PM Hi Poirot, Nice to see you've got over your huff. You write, " .... many of those .....
» 3/10/2012 6:53:38 PM Hi C. Steele, You make an interesting comment which has already garnered some comment: &.....
» 2/10/2012 5:00:12 PM Not being in Sydney, and not listening to crap commercial radio anyway, I don't fall under.....
» 2/10/2012 2:41:31 PM Jay, Hell yeah, and proud of it. 'Biased' ? Not really, just aware of the beauties of the.....
» 2/10/2012 12:12:21 PM I was chatting to the wife of a friend last week - she came from South Australia's Riverla.....
» 2/10/2012 9:44:51 AM Jay, 1. Nazism WAS evil. 2. In an open and free society, the smaller a group, the more .....
» 1/10/2012 11:28:29 PM Jay, A few realities: * as far as Australian Indigenous people are concerned, in the cit.....
» 1/10/2012 9:37:47 PM You do write some rubbish, Jay. All human groups can inter-marry, to use a tactful term, .....
» 1/10/2012 8:43:28 PM Oops, I meant to include this site, effectively the encyclopedia of genetic research: htt.....
» 1/10/2012 8:37:00 PM Actually, recent genetic studies have shown that, just like everyone else pretty much, Jap.....
» 1/10/2012 6:19:56 PM Thanks, Belly - that's Christians, Hindus, Buddhisits, Muslims of other secs 0, the pure a.....
» 1/10/2012 6:01:00 PM Yes, Wm, I'm trying to work out if Islam is 500 years, 1000 years, or 1300 years, behind t.....
» 30/09/2012 10:24:40 AM You're right, Poirot - what about we stick to more or less contemporaneous actions and wor.....
» 30/09/2012 10:00:18 AM OUG, We need to be careful which rock we pick up to beat the modern world around the hea.....
» 29/09/2012 11:47:13 AM Sorry, Poirot, it's just that you're so good at it :) And I apologise for not realising t.....
» 28/09/2012 6:40:15 PM Interesting tactic, Poirot: when you can't come up with anything to cover the nakedness of.....
» 26/09/2012 6:31:50 PM Hi Belly, I fully agree. Slightly off-topic, somebody sent me a list of Nobel Prize win.....
» 26/09/2012 6:08:32 PM Oh, Poirot. You haven't said anything about Muslim hate ? No indeed. I think most of us ha.....
» 26/09/2012 1:47:40 PM Danielle, Thank you for your breath of fresh air. i wonder if Feminist Studies, and femi.....
» 26/09/2012 10:31:36 AM Individual, OR just watch some of 'our' own films and videos, poking fun at outmoded Chri.....
» 26/09/2012 10:07:18 AM I wish people would get off Romney's back. He's doing the best he can. Like his father, he.....
» 26/09/2012 12:13:39 AM back to topic, C. Steele :) There is always somebody worse. You don't 'disprove' one thin.....
» 25/09/2012 5:13:06 PM I think you need another tin whistle, Poirot, all this plays is "Tu Quoque!" and.....
» 25/09/2012 4:51:01 PM Yes, you're right, Rhosty, All religions make a virtue out of ignorance ('wonder', 'awe'.....
» 24/09/2012 9:43:39 PM Hi CSteele, 'Belligerent' approach ? Did anybody call for Poirot to be beheaded ? Or did .....
» 24/09/2012 1:20:15 PM [continued] But as has been noted over and over, and as Salman Rushdie has pointed out, t.....
» 24/09/2012 1:17:06 PM Hi Rhosty, From the little I know, Muhamed started his preaching after about 610 AD and g.....
» 23/09/2012 10:06:53 PM Hi Belly, A belated happy birthday too, young fella :) I'll be ten in dog years, in a mo.....
» 23/09/2012 4:05:04 PM Wow, Rhosty ! So many 'inaccuracies' ! The Eastern and Western Roman Empires were differ.....
» 23/09/2012 11:51:47 AM Hi Rhosty, Thank you for responding. I was intrigued by your comment about "the trul.....
» 23/09/2012 10:11:30 AM Hi Belly, I certainly don't think that we will HAVE to go to war, but we all will need to.....
» 22/09/2012 11:14:06 PM Xin chao, JayB, Core Islam has always, always been an evangelical ideology, with the aim .....
» 22/09/2012 8:36:37 PM Sorry you're so offended, Poirot. Now back to topic: Eight or nine hundred years ago, su.....
» 22/09/2012 6:54:48 PM Hi Rhosty, Your write that ".... the prophet was forced to correct his 2IC, when r.....
» 22/09/2012 3:46:11 PM Diamond Pete, This news report may be encouraging, along the lines that you are talking a.....
» 22/09/2012 1:49:48 PM Another nice try, Poirot :) Now back to topic: How to resolve the dilemma of people bein.....
» 22/09/2012 9:57:27 AM Nice try, Poirot :) Now back to topic. Steven, I fully agree with you, that the right to.....
» 21/09/2012 11:14:16 PM Hi Poirot, I have a warped admiration for your ability to divert discussion away from the.....
» 21/09/2012 8:27:57 PM [cont.] So the separation of 'church' and state, which is so vital in any modern society,.....
» 21/09/2012 8:23:34 PM Chloe, Not "excluded from" but "above" the political process, beyond .....
» 18/09/2012 4:57:45 PM Hi C. Steele, And there I was, violently worshipping Richard II all my life, and now you'.....
» 17/09/2012 3:17:18 PM Hi Lexi, Thank you for your post, it sort of sums up ... I don't know .... a certain pers.....
» 16/09/2012 2:38:27 PM Hi Poirot, I thought you had retired from the discussion - welcome back :) But on your l.....
» 16/09/2012 12:14:54 PM Sorry, Lexi, Loudmouth by name, Loudmouth by nature, I suppose. It's just that I sort of.....
» 15/09/2012 7:23:05 PM Poirot, There was nothing sarcastic in my comments, or snide - I meant every word, out in.....
» 15/09/2012 5:52:02 PM Hi Poirot, I was waiting for someone from the faux-Left to come out with some mealy-mouth.....
» 10/09/2012 8:58:25 PM Well, Agronomist, what's a doughnut without the hole ? So ....... the effects of CO2 are .....
» 10/09/2012 2:22:26 PM Thank you, Bonmot. Hansen's Curve is still puzzling: of course, the dip in the last few ye.....
» 10/09/2012 10:49:29 AM Hi Agronomist, Thank you for clarifying a few points. But are you saying that the current.....
» 10/09/2012 12:03:19 AM That's entirely up to you, Poirot. Joe.....
» 9/09/2012 6:46:55 PM To continue (curse this 4 posts in 24 hrs rule!): So: Arctic melting and erosion are very.....
» 9/09/2012 12:51:34 PM Thank you, Bonmot, that's a very interesting and convincing curve. It's a pity that Poirot.....
» 8/09/2012 8:51:37 PM When you're ready, Poirot :).....
» 8/09/2012 7:58:41 PM Thank you, Poirot, but there are, after all, lies, damned lies, statistics and statistical.....
» 8/09/2012 5:33:30 PM Hi Belly, All of the parties are running jokes at the moment. Maybe it's the times. I g.....
» 8/09/2012 5:24:53 PM Look again, Robert, it dips over the last few years. Since about 1998. Thanks, Tony, that.....
» 8/09/2012 11:35:05 AM Thank you, Pericles. I was hoping that your sanity might divert this thread into something.....
» 7/09/2012 11:20:27 PM Thank you, Poirot, for James Hansen's article, in which he maintains his earlier reputatio.....
» 7/09/2012 4:50:06 PM Hi Agronomist, Thank you for your advice. I checked out that graph you referred to and al.....
» 7/09/2012 3:07:19 PM Yes, sorry, Agronomist, I have trouble giving blind obedience to authority, I know that is.....
» 7/09/2012 12:04:13 AM Hi Agronomist, That's an interesting argument: "When you ask them, 97% agree that hu.....
» 6/09/2012 7:03:05 PM Perhaps readers may recall the predictions of the IPCC Chair, a renowned transport enginee.....
» 30/08/2012 4:00:40 PM My dear Lexi, I'm sorry to say, but you're proving my point. I don't care about Abbott .....
» 30/08/2012 12:34:09 PM Hi Lexi, Wouldn't it be wonderful if contributors stuck to the topic instead of thinking .....
» 29/08/2012 11:09:26 PM [LOUDMOUTH enters Left, refreshed].....
» 27/08/2012 8:44:23 PM ...............................................................................................
» 27/08/2012 7:47:53 PM Sorry, Poirot, I don't get your drift. Are you suggesting that the 'ladies', as you call t.....
» 27/08/2012 2:47:27 PM Hi David G, Nothing like getting in first, i suppose, with reductiones ad absurdum. And t.....
» 27/08/2012 2:29:14 PM Hi Poirot, Yes, allegation only, for which he must answer in accordance with Swedish proc.....
» 27/08/2012 9:44:28 AM Hi Poirot, Sorry to hear about your laryngitis. The brave and principled President of Ec.....
» 26/08/2012 1:51:01 PM Perhaps the Tag-Team could look beyond piddly misunderstandings about whether or not Abbot.....
» 26/08/2012 11:36:34 AM Hi Poirot, Yes, you're right, it's hard to be humble when one is correct in one's assessm.....
» 26/08/2012 10:45:38 AM Hi Poirot, So that's a 'yes' ? Are you agreeing that yes, currently there are no US cha.....
» 25/08/2012 11:18:56 PM Hi Poirot, An interesting take on 'principle': "So far there are no charges, there .....
» 25/08/2012 3:56:25 PM Poirot, Who said irony wasn't wasted on the pseudo-Left ? To get back to principles, and.....
» 25/08/2012 9:58:40 AM Hi Poirot, Yes, maybe I deserve a good head-kicking. But maybe we should play the ball, .....
» 24/08/2012 11:04:39 PM Thank you Poirot, but the world doesn't dance to the music of Assange - the other option i.....
» 24/08/2012 5:42:12 PM G'day Poirot, No, it is possible to have contempt for a scumbag show-pony like Assange wi.....
» 23/08/2012 7:20:05 PM Hi David, So those women are nothing much more than vegetables, is that it ? No, I don't.....
» 23/08/2012 6:39:47 PM Hi Poirot, Wikileaks volunteers. People on our side, yours and mine, Poirot, women doing .....
» 23/08/2012 4:19:54 PM Hi Poirot, Yeah, you might be right, a certain envy creeps in. How does he DO it ? But m.....
» 22/08/2012 5:45:37 PM How might this work, David ? Suppose the Ecuadorian government offers our Julian citizen.....
» 22/08/2012 4:42:27 PM [continued] 6. A miracle happens, and our Julian arrives in Ecuador, to begin life as a p.....
» 22/08/2012 4:31:15 PM Hi Noelreg, " .... Australia, should offer Assange asylum." Yeah, maybe you're.....
» 21/08/2012 8:26:27 AM Poirot S.M., Your Honor, perhaps you could give us some explanation for your acquittal of.....
» 20/08/2012 9:44:17 PM Hi prigby, I'm glad you mentioned Bradley Manning - he seems to be copping far more that .....
» 20/08/2012 6:30:55 PM Hi Marilyn, Hmmm .... three million, when our annual intake is twenty thousand, suggests .....
» 20/08/2012 4:22:54 PM Hi David, Well, he hasn't actually got there yet :) Mind you, if I were the British govt.....
» 20/08/2012 3:16:13 PM For Christ sake, Kerry, of course there's a queue - not a simple, straightforward, put you.....
» 20/08/2012 3:02:36 PM All those pro-American stooges, neo-liberals all of them, can go on about "....the jo.....
» 15/08/2012 10:30:38 PM Thank you, Bonmot, I hope your friend is recovering well. Remember the good times, they ar.....
» 15/08/2012 5:48:26 PM Thank you, Poirot, for raising the art of hurling ad hominems to a more genteel level. B.....
» 14/08/2012 5:27:00 PM This 24-hours thing is annoyng, isn't it ? Bonmot, thanks for a good laugh ! At last, som.....
» 13/08/2012 6:31:23 PM Hi Poirot, I certainly don't dismiss what someone writes - witness my responses to your c.....
» 13/08/2012 1:58:12 PM Bonmot [continued] I guess what gets up the noses of many people though, Bonmot, is this.....
» 13/08/2012 1:53:23 PM Thank you, Bonmot, 1. 0.9 degrees, on average. As you write, some regions have experience.....
» 13/08/2012 10:13:27 AM Hi Poirot, Your quote of Charles Darwin's raises a question: "So "those who kn.....
» 11/08/2012 8:02:13 PM Hi Poirot, Well no, it's just that disparagement is no barrier to a request for answers: .....
» 11/08/2012 6:57:38 PM Thank you, Poirot - yes, let's wait for Bonmot to answer those simple questions: Yes? No .....
» 11/08/2012 5:52:05 PM Bonmot, At last, somebody who might give a straight answer ! Here are some simple questi.....
» 11/08/2012 1:24:25 PM Dear Poirot, Although I find some of your comments irrelevant, side-tracking and offensiv.....
» 10/08/2012 11:26:48 AM Here are some simple questions, Poirot: * average world temperature has risen by 0.9 degr.....
» 9/08/2012 6:43:00 PM Here are some simple questions, Poirot: * average world temperature has risen by 0.9 degr.....
» 8/08/2012 9:39:12 PM Poirot, Oy. I look forward to the time when the majority of people are university graduat.....
» 8/08/2012 6:01:50 PM Hi Poirot, The story so far: * 0.9 degree average world temperature rise in a century; .....
» 6/08/2012 1:18:25 PM I was thinking the other week, Poirot, that conspiracy theories are the last resort of foo.....
» 6/08/2012 9:17:52 AM Hi Poirot, It's fascinating how you play poker - show me your cards, but I won't show you.....
» 5/08/2012 10:49:16 PM Hi Poirot, "It's nice that you're in favour of vaccination. I presume, therefore, th.....
» 5/08/2012 7:51:02 PM Thanks Lexi, I agree fully. No dissent there :) Poirot, I'm intrigued about the construct.....
» 5/08/2012 4:05:39 PM Hi Poirot, Sometimes I think what silences dissent is sheer exhaustion, going around in c.....
» 30/07/2012 8:52:19 PM Hi Poirot, Yes we can, if they deign to share their knowledge with us. Nobody has experti.....
» 30/07/2012 6:59:28 PM Thank you, Bonmot. "Humanity should try and limit temperature rise to 2 degrees C&qu.....
» 30/07/2012 6:25:36 PM Thanks Bonmot, So a median rise of 0.92-1.00 degree in a hundred years ? Tasmanians will .....
» 30/07/2012 5:42:00 PM For all that and all that, Bonmot, has the temperature rise been as little as 0.8 degrees .....
» 30/07/2012 11:30:52 AM At last ! Thank you, Cohenite. So, 0.5-0.8 degrees in a century, and what - all of it attr.....
» 30/07/2012 11:22:25 AM Okay :).....
» 30/07/2012 10:00:16 AM Hi Poirot, No, I don't like what morons like Hadley and Jones say, but - short of incitem.....
» 29/07/2012 10:24:05 PM Bon soir Poirot, Permit me, but description is not destiny: "Yobbos aren't usually .....
» 29/07/2012 7:58:01 PM Ooh, that's precious, Poirot :) I'm not writing about what actually is the case in a capi.....
» 29/07/2012 6:45:46 PM And is that how it should be, Poirot ?.....
» 29/07/2012 6:05:34 PM Is it possible to get a straight answer (okay, an exponentially curved answer) on AGW ? *.....
» 29/07/2012 5:52:50 PM Dear Lexi, I'm in broad agreement with your last three posts, especially your Last Post, .....
» 28/07/2012 11:14:47 PM Hi Poirot, I guess so. But if we wish to hurl quotes at each other, try this, from one of.....
» 28/07/2012 10:21:29 PM Dearest Lexi, You ".... fully agree that a healthy, vital society is not one in wh.....
» 28/07/2012 7:37:40 PM Hi Bonmot, I don't know anything about nuclear power, the different generations of techno.....
» 28/07/2012 3:09:36 PM Dear Lexi, You make the observation that "What amuses me is that Shadow Minister sa.....
» 28/07/2012 10:29:58 AM I don't know, Bonmot, there seems to be a great deal of 'churn' at the moment, people movi.....
» 28/07/2012 10:19:42 AM Or Belgian either :( But "patronising" !? Moi ?! No, I just adore creations of .....
» 27/07/2012 6:42:26 PM (sweetie) ? Mmmmmmm ....... And is Murdoch getting away with it ? Doesn't look like it. I.....
» 27/07/2012 6:30:15 PM You might be onto something, Bonmot: "There will be no carbon tax in any government .....
» 27/07/2012 5:04:55 PM Cousin Leo, Of course there has been global warming and sea-level rise - about one degree.....
» 26/07/2012 7:10:08 PM Poirot, You'reright, I'll try to re-phrase that: An idiot has as much right to express h.....
» 26/07/2012 4:03:44 PM Well, Poirot, the point about democracy and the freedom of speech is that even idiots like.....
» 25/07/2012 5:31:20 PM Well, Bonmot, thank god for democracy, people such as yourself AND Anthony can express the.....
» 24/07/2012 5:04:43 PM Butcher, Not all people kill people. Not all guns are used to kill people. But many peopl.....
» 24/07/2012 4:56:05 PM Hi Roses, Are you serious about " ....an oversight panel of judiciary [which] may pre.....
» 23/07/2012 6:00:36 PM Poirot, don't you ever get tired of that stupid 'tu quoque' argument ? Which invariably de.....
» 22/07/2012 1:30:57 AM Hi Cherful, But maybe that's the point, that Americanisms creep into our everyday languag.....
» 21/07/2012 1:43:38 PM Cherful, I'll get in first: "Sidewalks" !? And as a former Sydney-sider, I do.....
» 19/07/2012 5:07:38 PM Hi Jay, Of course Indigenous students have to pay HECS or whatever it may be called today.....
» 16/07/2012 11:30:58 PM Hi Cohenite, Yes, you may be right: "It is well known that members of oppressed grou.....
» 16/07/2012 2:47:30 PM Perhaps we can get back to the topic :) Jon J.'s comments, right at the beginning, that &.....
» 15/07/2012 11:09:11 PM Hi Lexi and Individual, Do you think that, since the Good News, the government hasn't pul.....
» 15/07/2012 12:09:29 PM A Higgs boson goes into a bar.....
» 13/07/2012 4:13:58 PM It's not either/or, Tony , it's ALL wrong - the shooting of women in the back and throwing.....
» 13/07/2012 11:03:18 AM Of course there is a lot of truth in what Dr Scutt writes. And since the position and trea.....
» 10/07/2012 5:08:31 PM Mine's gone already. I think. And I never knew it was even there. Since (I'm presuming he.....
» 2/07/2012 1:50:18 PM Hi Leg, Yeah, just throw them in with the frog, they'll cook soon enough ...........
» 2/07/2012 11:48:32 AM Runner, AnthonyVe, As one frog said to the other, "It's quite cosy in here, I don't .....
» 1/07/2012 5:16:43 PM Give it a month or two, Belly, and you'll be paying a dollar more :) Anthony, This is a .....
» 1/07/2012 1:22:39 PM Luciferase, There is a host of uncertainties about what might happen if Strategy A or Str.....
» 1/07/2012 11:05:22 AM Luciferase, Yes, you're right - yes, we should kick up the refugee intake, and no, no gov.....
» 1/07/2012 9:36:16 AM Hi Luciferase, There are two inescapable realities: (1) Life as a refugee anywhere must .....
» 30/06/2012 1:24:13 PM Hi Marilyn, There are more than forty million refugees across the world. Do you propose t.....
» 27/06/2012 3:48:35 PM IF off-shore processing, then why not Nauru ? Nauru has signed the necessary human right.....
» 26/06/2012 10:18:22 AM Hi KAEP, Well, I AM old, pushing seventy, so I don't know what you are going on about. Do.....
» 25/06/2012 6:18:24 PM [contd.] Okay, what people may mean is a 1 % p.a. reduction in the birth-rate, not in the.....
» 25/06/2012 6:15:23 PM Hi Banjo, Lo and behold ! On the news today, they mentioned developing a new strain of sa.....
» 22/06/2012 6:19:24 PM Hi Dan, No, I don't think Pete was saying that - only that, if the Yanks ever wanted to g.....
» 22/06/2012 4:59:39 PM So Popnperish & Lady Jane, how do you propose to bring about this New Utopia ? How fast ar.....
» 22/06/2012 2:46:31 PM [contd] The upshot, Popnperish, is that population reduction may on the one hand * requ.....
» 22/06/2012 2:39:42 PM Hi Cheryl, I hardly think so ! Hi Popnperish, As you write, "Much better all round.....
» 22/06/2012 1:36:38 PM Hi Popnperish, You may be onto something very fundamental. And it is almost self-evident .....
» 22/06/2012 11:40:22 AM Hi Dan, Yes, I'm sorry, we shouldn't stereotype, Mr/Ms Wei may be Australian, he/she coul.....
» 20/06/2012 11:01:19 AM Hi David, Well, when the US shoots the messenger, I'll take some notice. So far, what ? .....
» 19/06/2012 5:51:29 PM Hi David, I might have missed some of the news today, but has Assange been charged by eit.....
» 16/06/2012 12:03:29 PM Thanks Butch, point taken :).....
» 15/06/2012 12:29:48 PM The Hon. Shadow Minister, Really, if (a) AGW was a genuine danger, and (b) the Carbon.....
» 15/06/2012 9:22:51 AM Hi Anthony, Don't let them put you off, keep at it: we know the politics of AGW, and most.....
» 14/06/2012 11:33:18 AM Hi C. Steele, It's not a matter or either/or - either manufacturing OR mining. Growth in .....
» 13/06/2012 4:29:24 PM Yuyutsu, I might be wrong but it is possible that if Assange is taken to Sweden, charged .....
» 13/06/2012 11:02:38 AM Hi o, Perhaps I should have kept that bet down to: "$ 50 says he will not be extradi.....
» 13/06/2012 12:41:26 AM Yuyutsu, If Assange is extradited to Sweden and charged with rape, and found guilty, then.....
» 12/06/2012 6:35:38 PM Let's clarify this situation. Julian Assange has been accused of raping two women, i.e. h.....
» 12/06/2012 9:51:38 AM Dear Mr Wei, Of course, Filipinos are entitled to consider a shoal or reef or island bare.....
» 7/06/2012 1:52:21 PM [contd.] So, should Aboriginal people be discouraged from coming to the cities, as they w.....
» 7/06/2012 1:49:08 PM Hi Zorka, You raise some very important issues, in relation to 'Closing the Gap': for exa.....
» 6/06/2012 10:12:46 AM Hi Plant, Nothing is certain - that's probably the most important lesson to learn from th.....
» 5/06/2012 11:44:34 AM Hi Plant, As a sort-of-Marxist, I have confidence in the genius of seven billion people, .....
» 5/06/2012 10:34:10 AM Ludwig, I would be quite happy to pay an extra 10 % on my electricity bill IF it all went.....
» 4/06/2012 11:46:32 AM Rhosty, So who's waiting ? General Electric, with its wind farms ? Power stations switchi.....
» 2/06/2012 5:42:21 PM Belly, Shirley McLaine, and Dame Edith Evans, respectively. Cheers, Joe.....
» 1/06/2012 2:51:10 PM Hi Jayb, I think the worry is that Tasmanian winters might be four degrees warmer in a hu.....
» 1/06/2012 2:01:30 PM Hi Plant, Thank you for confirming my assertion above :) Belly, Applying my crude 'max-.....
» 31/05/2012 10:44:37 AM Hi David, Gosh, there was I thinking that a person is completely innocent of any offense .....
» 31/05/2012 9:25:49 AM Well, Shadow Minister, criminals are people too and are entitled to vote and be represente.....
» 30/05/2012 8:52:59 PM To get back to topic, Tony Abbott running for the door when Thomson voted with the Opposi.....
» 29/05/2012 2:26:34 PM Hi Dave, When you write that " .... much of this maritime territory was once part of.....
» 28/05/2012 10:12:04 PM Paul, But you're forgetting that poor Craig Thomson is completely innocent, until proven .....
» 28/05/2012 12:47:25 PM [contd] Clearly, some may suspect that China wants the entire South China Sea, to control.....
» 28/05/2012 12:37:21 PM Mr Wei correctly points out that "Filipinos' resentment against the Americans (their .....
» 24/05/2012 6:24:33 PM This Sunday marks the 45th anniversary of the Referendum. One had to be 21 to vote back th.....
» 24/05/2012 6:23:12 PM Just to go back to the very first posting on this thread, that " .... Freedom to marr.....
» 24/05/2012 11:59:25 AM I'm a bit confused about the extent and scope of what constitutes 'marriage': are de facto.....
» 24/05/2012 11:45:29 AM Hi Mollydukes, I'm probably not the right person to ask about that. After being pretty de.....
» 23/05/2012 10:44:41 PM Hi C. Steele and Plant, But that is a major part of the problem - with respect, you look .....
» 23/05/2012 9:50:40 PM You're right, Lexi, we should await the court's expeditious verdict on each of the charges.....
» 23/05/2012 6:42:36 PM Hi Dane, I would hazard a guess and suggest that Dan would agree with your first paragrap.....
» 23/05/2012 4:50:51 PM Chris C, In addition to Pilger's getting it wrong on voting rights, he also has it wrong .....
» 23/05/2012 12:11:58 PM Thank you, Lexi, The comments and excuses on New Matilda should be closely studied by fir.....
» 23/05/2012 11:46:18 AM Hi Dan, Sara consistently writes well and with a very acute understanding of the situatio.....
» 22/05/2012 11:07:52 PM Hi C. Steele, It's not just the rate so much as the gap between the rate of increase and .....
» 22/05/2012 6:28:05 PM Yes, C. Steele, as I wrote, " .... I'm not comfortable about any sea-level or tempera.....
» 21/05/2012 2:44:48 PM Thank you, C.Steele - at last some data ! 18 cm sea-level rise in 100 years (seven inches).....
» 21/05/2012 12:24:10 PM Hi C.Steele, Three times ? No, not really: I asked about a two-inch rise in sixty years, .....
» 21/05/2012 12:13:56 PM Hi Poirot, Well, not every Indigenous graduate will become an academic, I hope, judging b.....
» 21/05/2012 11:25:32 AM Hi Belly, One 'lowest minimum' in today's paper, Perth in 2011, but no 'highest maximums'.....
» 20/05/2012 6:16:58 PM Hi CSteele, Yes, there certainly is some sort of global warming, probably caused by exces.....
» 19/05/2012 5:03:57 PM Dear Lexi, You could say the most terrible things and you'll never piss me off ;) In any.....
» 19/05/2012 3:40:53 PM Point taken, Lexi :) Still, once bitten, twice shy. Love and best wishes, Joe.....
» 19/05/2012 12:19:30 PM Hi Belly, Two 'highest maximums' today, and no 'lowest minimums', for the past twelve yea.....
» 19/05/2012 12:12:28 PM Yes, Nicola, it's all Abbott's fault. FP2D2 You might be onto something here: "Th.....
» 18/05/2012 6:56:22 PM Hi Belly, Sorry, no 'highest maximums' today across the eight capital cities for the past.....
» 18/05/2012 10:37:39 AM Hi Pinn, You make very interesting points about education and Indigenous women: at the la.....
» 17/05/2012 5:20:59 PM That should have read: "So what is the truth ? Another two inches sea-level rise by .....
» 17/05/2012 5:16:46 PM SPQR, Between you and me, i wonder if you can ever get a straight answer from an alarmist.....
» 17/05/2012 10:12:54 AM Csteele, Models are great, aren't they ? But out in the real world, if I can drag you ba.....
» 16/05/2012 6:48:36 PM Wm Trevor, I don't think stupid people should be disenfranchised, or discouraged from put.....
» 16/05/2012 11:14:32 AM Hi Bully, In the weather section in today's newspaper, there is one 'highest maximum' ove.....
» 15/05/2012 6:28:22 PM Whistler, If it's any use at all, we could start the laborious process of asking the gove.....
» 15/05/2012 5:01:02 PM Hi Whistler, The head of state of Australia is a woman. Her representative in Australia i.....
» 15/05/2012 10:27:49 AM Hi Bully, Sorry to hear that you'll have to move further up the hill a few metres every 1.....
» 14/05/2012 5:01:05 PM In that voting process leading up to Federation, Aboriginal women in South Australia (and .....
» 14/05/2012 4:36:42 PM [cont] Or would a men's and a women's legislature deliberate over different issues ? Men'.....
» 14/05/2012 4:32:27 PM Whistler, You honor me by suggesting I am a protege of Pericles :) I would be happy to al.....
» 14/05/2012 12:16:45 PM SPQR, yeah, that brought back memories of embarrassingly idiotic illusions of my young adu.....
» 13/05/2012 6:59:03 PM Belly, 5 metres ? May you live so long, old fellow :) After all, at 10 cm every fifty yea.....
» 13/05/2012 6:48:37 PM Hi again Whiastler, I'll get in before anyone else: that was then, this is now. What is.....
» 13/05/2012 4:40:00 PM Hi Whistler, Thank you, you're always good for some light relief: "Constitutional r.....
» 12/05/2012 5:51:28 PM Hasbeen, Now that you mention images of dastardly power station chimneys emitting steam,.....
» 12/05/2012 5:39:37 PM What does the State term such unions - 'civil unions' or 'marriage' or both ? Or is it tha.....
» 11/05/2012 4:16:02 PM Hi Belly, One 'maximum maximum' today as well, Perth again in 2005. Today and yesterday, .....
» 10/05/2012 9:33:32 AM Hi Belly, One 'highest maximum during the past decade' today, Perth in 2005. Yes, globa.....
» 9/05/2012 12:34:33 PM Belly, No 'highest maximums' over the past decade at all in today's weather details, in n.....
» 8/05/2012 11:04:04 PM Hi Csteele, So I'm a denier now, because I raise some questions ? Oh well, if the cap fit.....
» 8/05/2012 4:30:46 PM Pacific islands, and that it is all capitalism's fault. I want to believe that we will all.....
» 8/05/2012 4:29:14 PM Hi Belly, Earlier you wrote: "Every month we see the wettest/hottest dryest day for .....
» 8/05/2012 10:29:48 AM Hi Runner, " ..... a very convenient way for those who choose to remain willfully ig.....
» 6/05/2012 3:29:39 PM ..... State-sanctioned unions of homosexuals, but any such unions sanctioned by churches i.....
» 6/05/2012 3:20:40 PM This thread has raised many intriguing issues. Since in law, marriage has to be accompanie.....
» 4/05/2012 4:15:05 PM Hi Hasbeen, Yeah, tell me about it - how do they KNOW ?! Dearest Lexi, If circumcised b.....
» 1/05/2012 9:19:00 AM That's right, Aka, there may well be discrimination in many places - the question is: SHO.....
» 28/04/2012 6:54:34 PM Since 1990, during the brutal reign of the various Islamist and fundamentalist groups and .....
» 27/04/2012 4:57:09 PM Hi Lexi, Yes, you're possibly right, this government is doing fine and it's a mystery to .....
» 26/04/2012 11:59:51 AM Hi Akam Anthony's got a point. You can put up a contribution on OLO's 'General Discussion.....
» 26/04/2012 11:44:12 AM People are entitled to call themselves whatever they like. When they put their hand out fo.....
» 25/04/2012 1:14:18 PM Hi again 579, I'm slow today. Your comment, that - " .... If the prostitute was fo.....
» 25/04/2012 1:04:31 PM Hi 579, Yes, Thomson is innocent until proven guilty. In any case, it's not always a crim.....
» 25/04/2012 12:32:39 PM Hi Poirot, Iraq ? A little unworthy of you, a cheap shot. Of course the US has aggressed .....
» 24/04/2012 12:49:07 PM Thank you, Poirot, you've provided an answer to your own question: Q. Why haven't the US.....
» 24/04/2012 11:27:21 AM Hi Saurian, All that may be true but what has it to do with human rights, especially thos.....
» 23/04/2012 6:23:57 PM Hi James, Yes, I would applaud the efforts to bring about social equality by the Tariki g.....
» 23/04/2012 4:03:15 PM NellsBells, I defer to a far superior satirist :) Cheers, Joe.....
» 23/04/2012 3:50:33 PM Runner, You raise a very interesting question. Clearly you are not on the Left. Your ques.....
» 23/04/2012 12:36:16 PM Dearest Lexi, Yes, we can see Abbott's hands all over this - the Labor Party is as pure a.....
» 23/04/2012 11:52:34 AM Arjay, the word is spelt "heroin". Unless you are referring to the millions of A.....
» 21/04/2012 6:12:38 PM Hi Dan, Aren't some of us having fun ?! Plate tectonics, continental drift - it all soun.....
» 21/04/2012 1:35:36 PM Thanks Dan ..... So God didn't raise the water level, he just dropped the land level ? W.....
» 20/04/2012 8:23:55 PM Dearest Lexi, Wait and see :) Love, Joe.....
» 20/04/2012 7:02:09 PM Dearest Lexi, As usual, I agree with Runner in his last comment. Surely you must be aware.....
» 19/04/2012 11:30:27 AM Belly, I'm a bit surprised at you >:( If a woman objects to sex without a condom and a.....
» 18/04/2012 4:34:33 PM Dear Lexi, Perhaps we should wait and see the details. But even if he were a British rat.....
» 17/04/2012 6:17:17 PM Aka, The upshot of all this attack and counter-attack is that there are major problems in.....
» 17/04/2012 11:28:45 AM [contd.] Otherwise, we will be having this anguished discussion again, about another Inte.....
» 17/04/2012 11:26:30 AM Hi Banjo, I don't know much more about the current progress of the Intervention in the NT.....
» 16/04/2012 8:48:49 PM [contd.] * each year now, about 12,000 Indigenous people turn twenty. The equivalent of n.....
» 16/04/2012 8:45:26 PM Not to worry, Belly - every year that goes by, Indigenous people are more successful in te.....
» 14/04/2012 6:48:08 PM Hi Tony, Yes, and all that water came from .... well, not from the oceans, otherwise they.....
» 13/04/2012 9:52:12 AM Hi Dan, " .... we are right to question evolution .... as that has not been observed.....
» 12/04/2012 3:10:07 PM Hi Luciferase, I'm not sure that there is much point for one side to argue with the other.....
» 11/04/2012 6:50:20 PM Hi Whistler, I'm still trying to make sense of "While it's sad to see the perpetato.....
» 11/04/2012 4:48:04 PM Hi again Whistler, You conclude: "While it's sad to see the perpetators of male pri.....
» 11/04/2012 4:24:15 PM Whistler, I think we've been down this road before ...... Actually, as a left-hander, I'.....
» 11/04/2012 3:10:11 PM Emma, "ANTaR's A Better Way: Success Stories in Aboriginal community-control in the .....
» 10/04/2012 6:21:53 PM Hi Rainier, Wow, it really gets up your nose that Anthony has doctoral qualifications, do.....
» 10/04/2012 10:44:00 AM ".... the people affected by the problems are Australian citizens, and therefore enti.....
» 9/04/2012 11:37:45 AM Hi Luciferase, Yes, the racist notion of 'Indigenous learning styles' has been especially.....
» 9/04/2012 11:34:55 AM Thanks Belly, Maria and I were focussed on community self-determination (particularly eco.....
» 9/04/2012 11:05:11 AM Hi Poirot, As an atheist, I don't consider anything ultimately 'unknowable', if it exists.....
» 9/04/2012 10:23:38 AM Hi Poirot, Yes, you have touched on something fundamental in this discussion: the incomme.....
» 8/04/2012 3:50:42 PM [contd.] This provokes a simple question: at what schools do Indigenous students do well .....
» 8/04/2012 9:31:17 AM You're right, 579, As long as there hasn't been a trial, Thomson can't be said to be guil.....
» 7/04/2012 6:36:35 PM Arjay, You noted that "This is all about a communist world Govt instigated by the U.....
» 7/04/2012 6:26:22 PM After four years’ in-depth research, Helen and Mark Hughes have just released their analys.....
» 7/04/2012 1:02:49 PM Hi 579, You might be onto something here: "I can not see anyone claim innocence for.....
» 7/04/2012 11:21:00 AM Dearest Lexi, Let's turn this around. Imagine: * a NSW National Party senator is accused.....
» 6/04/2012 3:05:36 PM Hi Yabby, Well, I hope that Dawkins gets beyond this infantile point-by-point demolition .....
» 6/04/2012 2:53:30 PM Dear Aka, When you write: " .... the issue in contention is not about whether it is.....
» 6/04/2012 2:33:22 PM Hi Squeers, I'm with you on this one. 2012 and we are still f@rting around about science,.....
» 5/04/2012 11:59:48 PM Hi Aka, Forgive me for bringing it up - it could be embarrassing for someone who goes onl.....
» 5/04/2012 11:55:38 PM Hi Josephus, If I went to church on Easter Sunday, it would be for the music as well as t.....
» 5/04/2012 7:17:17 PM Lexi my darling, Then the quicker Gillard can get this matter expedited, ther better for .....
» 5/04/2012 5:19:07 PM Hi 579, As you write, "Because someone has your credit card, and drivers license fo.....
» 5/04/2012 4:24:46 PM Hi 579, Don't you think you are pre-judging the Noalition somewhat ? And the noun deriv.....
» 5/04/2012 3:22:47 PM Dearest Lexi, In that case, thank god for the media. Seriously, where would we be without.....
» 5/04/2012 1:39:43 PM As usual, I'm with Runner on this. Following due process, and presumption of innocence - .....
» 5/04/2012 1:32:10 PM Hi Runner, Let's run through this again: Wednesday was the first day. Thursday was the.....
» 5/04/2012 12:13:47 PM Pericles, Yes, I wonder why there has to be this false organising of 'us vs. them' at thi.....
» 5/04/2012 10:32:24 AM Hi Runner, So if he died on the Thursday afternoon - Wednesday in the Jewish schema that .....
» 4/04/2012 4:55:22 PM Hi JP, On your interpretation of what I was writing: " .... it does nothing to answ.....
» 4/04/2012 10:57:42 AM On the subject of societal collapse and resilience, I'm surprised nobody has mentioned the.....
» 4/04/2012 10:46:01 AM JP, " .... the problem for the atheist is that they have no means for establishing w.....
» 3/04/2012 6:22:32 PM Hi JP, When you write " .... if atheism is true then everyone is absolutely free to .....
» 3/04/2012 1:47:02 PM Maracas, Galloway got just over 50 % of the vote in his by-election ? Aung San Suu Kyi .....
» 3/04/2012 12:53:48 PM Hi James, A hell of a lot of us opposed the war in Iraq, without wanting to get into bed .....
» 3/04/2012 12:30:27 PM Hi Dan, "What to be then, the terror of the left; or the tyranny of the right?".....
» 3/04/2012 10:52:03 AM Galloway a voice for peace ? Unless you mean 'at any price'. you must be joking. There us.....
» 3/04/2012 12:04:54 AM Hi Aka, I was wondering how you would turn Anthony's praise for Indigenous people who res.....
» 2/04/2012 1:53:45 PM [contd] Meanwhile, the population at XXXX moved off once the CDEP program had been closed.....
» 2/04/2012 1:45:53 PM [contd] I saw one white fella driving in as I was driving out. He probably does the cemet.....
» 2/04/2012 1:41:28 PM I just spent a weekend of singing with my Sing Australia group up in country SA, and went .....
» 30/03/2012 10:07:31 AM Producer, New Zealand has a single house of parliament. So in a way, the double system, w.....
» 30/03/2012 9:45:11 AM Hi Josephus, You questioned my impartiality the other day: "Loudmouth immagines he .....
» 29/03/2012 3:44:39 PM Hi Tony, OF COURSE, believers can be tolerant. Of course, some of them may be indifferent.....
» 29/03/2012 12:19:42 PM Hi Josephus, All religious people are entitled to believe in whatever rubbish they like, .....
» 29/03/2012 11:49:10 AM Pericles, With the greatest respect, wait and see. In my more paranoid moments, I somet.....
» 29/03/2012 11:25:45 AM Ybgirp, Too clever ! Your slide from a very debatable 'Humanists make the unprovable me.....
» 29/03/2012 11:04:47 AM Well, Dan, Rainier and I and our mutual slagging match go back some years, so I am used to.....
» 29/03/2012 10:40:26 AM G'day Banjo, Yeah, don't worry, we all read more than we respond to on OLO, and often, I'.....
» 28/03/2012 9:49:12 PM Hi Banjo, Well, there's 'culture' and there's human rights. I guess we are lucky to live .....
» 28/03/2012 4:52:33 PM You are a very wise man, Belly, thank you. Banjo, Perhaps the Turks may have some reason.....
» 28/03/2012 4:39:28 PM Yuyutsu, When you write " .... humanism believes that existence is real .... where.....
» 28/03/2012 11:58:48 AM Dearest Lexi, Yes, you're right, I apologise for causing a frown on that beautiful face, .....
» 28/03/2012 11:29:42 AM Hi Dan, Thank you for attempting to defend the indefensible, but I'll stick to what I wro.....
» 28/03/2012 11:03:43 AM Dear Lexi, Perhaps you could modify what you wrote, to: ' .... the truth of the matter i.....
» 28/03/2012 9:27:48 AM Aka, You know very well how hurtful and vicious some of Rainier's comments may have been,.....
» 27/03/2012 10:51:30 AM Rainier, I've gone over all of the contributions to this thread from Dr Dillon and I have.....
» 27/03/2012 10:29:14 AM Thank you, Pericles......
» 26/03/2012 3:45:13 PM OUG, Graham most likely won't let me express what I think of your feckwit comment but you.....
» 26/03/2012 1:00:35 PM As an atheist, I don't have any trouble with schools teaching about superstition, magic, r.....
» 26/03/2012 12:27:33 PM Prialprang, Compared to ........ ? This is all fine, as long as certain factions within .....
» 26/03/2012 10:59:32 AM Correction: "Some eighty thousand African troops died during the Second World War fi.....
» 26/03/2012 10:54:32 AM Hi Lexi, Yes, there were Indians and Africans amongst the crews of the ships of the First.....
» 26/03/2012 10:46:42 AM Hi Danny de Meringue, Thank you, I think in your last paragraph you have paraphrased prec.....
» 25/03/2012 10:36:09 PM Hi Arjay, Apocalypse not quite yet: this item from al Jazeera - http://www.aljazeera.com.....
» 25/03/2012 7:31:46 PM Rainier, Deaths in custody: At the time of the royal commission, 23 % of prisoners were .....
» 25/03/2012 2:27:45 PM [contd.] would never have been told anything about 'secret business', even if it were tru.....
» 25/03/2012 11:01:34 AM Hi Rainier, You whinge that: "Note: (We are the only people in Australia that must .....
» 24/03/2012 9:14:10 PM Rainier, It's quite unfair of you to accuse Dr Dillon of not writing about something whic.....
» 24/03/2012 5:05:25 PM One Under god, You're forgetting the Golden Rule of Conspiracies - the complex and totall.....
» 24/03/2012 2:08:39 PM Rainier, My wife Maria would have had, I suppose, Italian and Chinese ancestry, as well a.....
» 24/03/2012 1:50:54 PM Hi Rainier, I agree with almost everything you write, but my points were: * should peopl.....
» 24/03/2012 10:04:05 AM In the Australian's Weekend Magazine section this week, is a very interesting article on A.....
» 23/03/2012 3:53:54 PM Thanks, Rainier, I'll take on-board everything you write about royalties and their abuse.....
» 23/03/2012 10:45:53 AM [contd.] .... and all the ins and outs of all the laws pertaining to mining, mining tax, .....
» 23/03/2012 10:39:19 AM Hi Rainier, Still waiting for your email :) I'm not sure that we are disagreeing - if th.....
» 22/03/2012 11:03:24 PM G'day Aka, nice to hear from you, I'm not sure where this discussion is going. Mining roy.....
» 22/03/2012 5:00:34 PM Arjay, You do open yourself up to criticism: Obama running a police state ? The US headin.....
» 21/03/2012 10:33:31 PM Hi Arjay, Seems like I'm the first to get in line :) So you're banking on the Yanks stag.....
» 21/03/2012 2:36:43 PM If anybody is serious about combatting racism, they could learn a lot from this Paper by m.....
» 21/03/2012 1:20:47 PM Hi Polpak, Well, that's another thing which has bugged me for a while - I'm not saying it.....
» 21/03/2012 10:35:04 AM Arjay, An alliance of Iran and Pakistan ? Do you have any evidence of this ? If anythin.....
» 21/03/2012 9:44:52 AM Hi Rainier, On Saturday, you wrote: "Loudmouth / missionary bean counter: "G.....
» 21/03/2012 12:49:27 AM Thanks Individual, If I were a Queenslander, I would be despairing about who to vote for .....
» 20/03/2012 12:42:50 PM Thanks Producer, This might sound really naive :) Here's a much cheaper alternative for .....
» 19/03/2012 10:56:35 PM Lexi, 'Fields of Gold' sung by Sting - heard it today in a shop ! Magic ! Nobody's ment.....
» 19/03/2012 1:01:01 PM For the life of me, I can't understand why housing blocks can't be leased out by Aborigina.....
» 19/03/2012 10:23:05 AM Hi Rainier, On Saturday, you wrote: "Loudmouth / missionary bean counter: "G.....
» 18/03/2012 9:24:09 PM CSteele ! Oh ye, of little faith ! Obama will win the election, regardless of whatever oa.....
» 18/03/2012 8:46:33 PM Hi Rainier, Wow. So much vicious slagging. No, I worked for my money: I was a labourer .....
» 18/03/2012 2:55:23 PM Rainier, In relation to your discussion of 'self-determination' and 'self-management' and.....
» 18/03/2012 12:35:43 PM Steven, I apologise for diverting this thread by implying that Colin Powell might have fi.....
» 18/03/2012 12:05:02 PM [contd.] Rainier, OR stop pretending that they don't in any way live in, and depend on,.....
» 17/03/2012 7:21:39 PM [contd.] Sorry, lost it. Rainier, When you write, " .... Self determination was n.....
» 17/03/2012 4:44:00 PM Here's one for all you Scots out there: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGDFZfgNYlo That .....
» 17/03/2012 3:11:07 PM Thanks, RObert, In relation to the fields of study of Indigenous university students: at .....
» 17/03/2012 12:47:18 PM Individual, Good questions, but don't forget the luxuries of powerlessness - the self-def.....
» 17/03/2012 11:13:37 AM Spot-on, Arjay ! You'd expect some right-winger like Steven to support a neo-con like Sant.....
» 17/03/2012 10:30:06 AM Tony, [to continue] I'm only a one-trick pony, Tony, focussing on the contributions that.....
» 16/03/2012 9:08:16 PM Could be you're right, Ludwig. I'm just listening to Mahler's 9th on ABC-FM which is proba.....
» 16/03/2012 8:04:02 PM Yes, what is it about music that so many of us have got on-line at the mere title of this .....
» 16/03/2012 5:28:28 PM Half-right, Tony :) Most Indigenous people live in urban areas, and can be expected to sp.....
» 16/03/2012 2:50:25 PM Hi Rainier, Thanks for spelling out your case so civilly. But with respect, I must disput.....
» 16/03/2012 2:34:30 PM [contd.] 5, There is no end. There is no completion, closing of the circle, or becoming .....
» 16/03/2012 2:21:35 PM Hi 579, (Can I say Hi 5, for short ?) You write: " .... carbon dioxide accounts for.....
» 16/03/2012 12:45:56 AM Straw man, Aka. I'll repeat: some eighty thousand Indigenous people have been enrolled at.....
» 15/03/2012 11:29:11 PM Thanks Individual, I always defer to your obvious commitment and richer experience in Indi.....
» 15/03/2012 3:51:30 PM No, Rainier, Dr Dillon has not denied that racism exists, in its many forms, but he has .....
» 15/03/2012 1:58:46 PM Farfromtheland, There are similar schools in other states, perhaps in all states and terr.....
» 15/03/2012 1:40:04 PM Hi Dan, On mutations: I did a smart-@rse check on Wikipedia and found this: "Loogva.....
» 15/03/2012 9:57:19 AM Hi Squeers, My point is that if democracy is, in your view, failing, or defective, or not.....
» 15/03/2012 9:32:29 AM Hi Dan de Meringue, Missing links between what and what ? To my unsophisticated mind, the.....
» 14/03/2012 10:18:22 PM Puppydog68, When you have finished the washing-up, go into Google and type in "Googl.....
» 14/03/2012 10:14:10 PM Thank you, Poirot, I have to read this a couple of times, but it does seem that Streeck i.....
» 14/03/2012 4:01:34 PM Hi Squeers, "Hegemony" ? Gosh, what a big word. Perhaps I should bend the knee .....
» 14/03/2012 2:12:26 PM Hi Aka, When you write, " .... I have been told by parents (even though I find this .....
» 14/03/2012 11:50:54 AM Hi Aka, I don't think I'm misquoting you (forgive me if you think I have): " .... r.....
» 13/03/2012 10:48:53 PM Poirot & Squeers, With respect, your perceptions of ordinary people and their ability to .....
» 13/03/2012 10:27:00 PM As you write, Aka, in many cases, " .... by year 2 an Indigenous child internalises .....
» 13/03/2012 5:22:19 PM Hi Squeers, Being sanctimonious, or unctuous, self-righteous, or pompous can be great fun.....
» 13/03/2012 4:06:14 PM Hi Squeers, I guess that's a consequence of living in a democracy, where people are free .....
» 13/03/2012 3:03:33 PM Hi Squeers, I was interested in your juxtaposition of Finkelstein's recommendations and &.....
» 13/03/2012 2:52:38 PM The twin tragedies for most Australians are that we have come from a monolingual set of is.....
» 13/03/2012 2:33:50 PM A bit of a non sequitur, Jay. There are so many other factors involved in differential i.....
» 13/03/2012 11:59:54 AM [contd] But there it is: one lot comes to one conclusion about human evolution from its b.....
» 13/03/2012 11:55:23 AM Hi Dan, This is getting away somewhat from the original purpose of the thread, but never .....
» 13/03/2012 11:13:34 AM Hi Poirot, Yes, as William Thomas wrote back in the twenties, something may not be real b.....
» 12/03/2012 9:43:05 PM And then there is the racism which really does penalise Aboriginal people, such as the exp.....
» 12/03/2012 9:37:50 PM Hi Anthony, Of course, there is one major form of racism that has not been talked about -.....
» 11/03/2012 9:59:55 PM Thank you Dane, Not just fossils. As I noted earlier, " .... not just by using the.....
» 11/03/2012 11:22:22 AM But it's not a cookie-cutter world - 'you do your thing there, I do my thing here and neve.....
» 11/03/2012 11:09:42 AM 'Backward society' does NOT mean 'backward people'. Nobody is born Stone Age, or modern - .....
» 11/03/2012 11:03:19 AM Hi Aka, I think we are using the word 'culture' in very different ways. I'm referring to .....
» 10/03/2012 12:28:32 PM Jay, I don't think anybody is saying that all humans have the same experiences, or histor.....
» 10/03/2012 11:26:06 AM Hi Alan, Welcome to Australia ! Ho hum. I thought this issue had been buried, but you.....
» 9/03/2012 6:18:19 PM Rainier, 1. Look a bit more closely. 2. What ? So you're just too busy to actually spell.....
» 9/03/2012 5:58:01 PM Hi Dan, Bottom left-hand corner of page 11. Fascinating !.....
» 9/03/2012 5:00:08 PM Close to the mark, RObert. The author has hopefully initiated a vital discussion that too .....
» 9/03/2012 10:18:20 AM Hi Dan, There is an interesting article in today's Australian, detailing the biological c.....
» 8/03/2012 3:37:12 PM 579, Or 5 for short ? More friendly :) The rumour, as I understand it, was - along with .....
» 7/03/2012 9:47:54 PM Hi Bonmot, Comfortable ? Not really. I want to believe her, or at least be able to rest.....
» 7/03/2012 8:52:21 PM Hi Alan, 'Completely' is a pretty totalising word, it does not allow for the slightest sl.....
» 7/03/2012 1:28:05 PM Hi Alan, How's this for a hypothetical: "GUTTER PRESS: 'Is there any truth in the c.....
» 7/03/2012 12:34:28 PM Mr Austin, Is it true that Prime Minister Gillard has offered the position of Foreign Min.....
» 3/03/2012 3:42:51 PM Poirot, I agree with you, and I think the Labor Party will regret not appointing Warren M.....
» 1/03/2012 1:29:39 PM Hi Dan de Meringue, So, everything either: * works pretty satisfactorily, and therefore .....
» 1/03/2012 12:58:34 PM Wow, Butch, that one died in the harris. 71: 31 - on your calculations, Gillard won the v.....
» 29/02/2012 10:25:01 PM Dearest Lexi, Abbott was re-elected unopposed (i.e. 100 % to 0 %) after the last election.....
» 29/02/2012 10:10:05 PM Individual, You're not playing the game :( You know very well that 'self-determination' m.....
» 29/02/2012 8:57:12 PM Thank you, Poirot, no, mine is an ordinary mind, nothing great about it, but I'm happy to.....
» 29/02/2012 2:02:04 PM That's right, Belly ! Devilishly clever ! Don't rush into his arms, just play a bit of har.....
» 29/02/2012 1:51:34 PM Hi Jimoctec, But isn't paternalism just what so many people seem to want ? To be looked a.....
» 29/02/2012 11:42:21 AM There was a pretty strong earthquake in Japan a couple of weeks back. And where was Tony .....
» 29/02/2012 11:35:45 AM Spindoc, About the 'new Labor party': as Louise probably asked Thelma as they hurtled ove.....
» 27/02/2012 11:53:29 AM JayB and RObert, How can Rudd have any official diplomatic role if he is not employed by .....
» 27/02/2012 11:18:50 AM 579, Butch has a very valid point: if the US share market has improved by around 100 %, w.....
» 27/02/2012 10:13:57 AM Paul, you're such a tease - you know that floating that idea of a three-man ruling group, .....
» 26/02/2012 10:13:12 PM Hi Paul, I assume you are not serious about three people deciding everything every thirty.....
» 26/02/2012 8:54:39 PM Paul, " .... conservatives when not in government seem to think they have some god g.....
» 26/02/2012 5:40:52 PM Jayb, You've caught me at an embarrassing moment - here I am, trying to sweet-talk Lexi i.....
» 26/02/2012 5:22:54 PM Hi Killarney, You might be right, but so what ? Where does that get the people of Syria ?.....
» 26/02/2012 3:16:17 PM Dearest Lexi, At the risk of mucking up my chances at that barbed-wire fence, and as an u.....
» 26/02/2012 2:52:23 PM Dearest Lexi, Don't worry about what Jayb writes, with his bile against women, he's proba.....
» 26/02/2012 1:40:34 PM Dearest Lexi, Well, credit where it's due - as a prospective member of MFC (Marxists For .....
» 25/02/2012 11:17:35 PM Arjay, Yes, but although hindsight is a great teacher, by junking Jenkins (Labor), puttin.....
» 25/02/2012 10:00:25 PM Atman, You may be right, but it is also possible that Albanese, a decent sort of bloke, k.....
» 25/02/2012 9:50:34 PM Lexi, You're not just a pretty face, a good heart and a dazzling personality, you are ver.....
» 25/02/2012 5:10:51 PM Thanks Danielle, Actually I think that not only are there worse forces at work that the .....
» 25/02/2012 4:08:02 PM Danielle, You are completely missing the point. In Arjay-World, here is a Rock of Evil......
» 24/02/2012 11:43:06 PM There are 103 people in the Labor caucus. If Rud gets the support of, say, thirty of those.....
» 22/02/2012 10:45:35 PM Well, i didn't suggest that either Gillard or Rudd or x woud win the next election for Lab.....
» 22/02/2012 9:59:50 PM Rainier and Runner, Here's an outside bet: * Somebody other than EITHER Gillard OR Rudd .....
» 22/02/2012 5:54:52 PM Hardly think so, Rainier. Rudd is now free to roam around the edges, causing all sorts of .....
» 21/02/2012 2:28:10 PM Hi Yabby, I have no problem with suicide, or with Exit Switzerland, as long as people are.....
» 21/02/2012 9:03:12 AM Yabby, As I've written many times before on earlier threads, I'm in favour of legalising .....
» 21/02/2012 8:54:23 AM Steven, Yes and that's exactly what the Swedes WANT us all to think .............
» 20/02/2012 2:22:01 PM I don't know, Pelican, sometimes I wouldn't mind a bit of great wealth. I wonder if you ca.....
» 20/02/2012 2:14:32 PM I'm trying to see this from my atheist point of view, that we each have one - incredibly v.....
» 20/02/2012 1:33:33 PM Pericles, Do you think that major changes in the economy and class structure may have had.....
» 20/02/2012 1:19:05 PM Steven, Yes, and they've been doing this since the end of the War. Why do you think those.....
» 20/02/2012 10:55:08 AM [contd] So what if, simultaneously, all countries switched over to a coin-based currency,.....
» 20/02/2012 10:45:38 AM Arjay, Are you suggesting that coins should be the only currency, and that they should be.....
» 20/02/2012 12:01:41 AM Brilliant, Rainier ! And your first three-quarters was close to the mark, Arjay :) You w.....
» 19/02/2012 9:27:01 PM Rainier and Ludwig, Either way, we are in for an election in the next couple of months. I.....
» 19/02/2012 7:11:23 PM Killarney, Perhaps you're right - pseudo-socialist regimes seem to inevitably turn fascis.....
» 19/02/2012 6:14:13 PM Yes, OUG, whatever. Life's too short. And Arjay, if people had to walk around with anothe.....
» 19/02/2012 5:10:11 PM And what I am trying to say, Arjay, in my clumsy way, is that the government mint has to p.....
» 19/02/2012 4:43:31 PM Arjay, To paraphrase you, 'Even if we increase our coin usuage by $20 per week per work.....
» 19/02/2012 2:24:10 PM You're right Steven, and what will Hamas do, support Iran and Assad, or support their fell.....
» 19/02/2012 2:09:39 PM Thanks OUG, As a sort of residual Marxist, I would respectfully suggest that when you get.....
» 19/02/2012 11:42:49 AM Hi Individual, I swore to myself that I would try like buggery to keep away from negative.....
» 19/02/2012 10:51:11 AM Individual, Yes, it's puzzled me why, so often, initiatives which actually could have imm.....
» 19/02/2012 10:30:12 AM Arjay, This sort of discussion has probably been going on ever since the invention of pap.....
» 19/02/2012 10:02:37 AM " .... going on, ON the ground .... " of course......
» 19/02/2012 10:01:10 AM Thanks Arjay, your facility for over-simplification is always entertaining. Perhaps none .....
» 19/02/2012 8:28:43 AM Hi Nothankyou, Of course, you are right that the gender of DV offenders should be recorde.....
» 18/02/2012 12:01:34 PM That's not fair, Poirot, you know that most of the blokes here would gladly get tangled up.....
» 18/02/2012 11:44:08 AM Hi Individual, You're maybe half-right, there could still be non-Indigenous people claimi.....
» 17/02/2012 7:52:22 PM Sorry for hogging this post :) But Rainier, you are right when you say: " ..... The .....
» 17/02/2012 7:41:25 PM Sorry to burst your bubble, Rainier - since 2006, there has been a 40 % RISE in degree-lev.....
» 17/02/2012 6:19:32 PM [cont.] Paradoxically, Indigenous units at universities seem to have abandoned Indigenous.....
» 17/02/2012 6:17:55 PM [continued] [Incidentally, in 2000, when Indigenous-focussed sub-degree commencements dro.....
» 17/02/2012 3:44:55 PM This burning question needs explanation. The eighties and early nineties were the heyday f.....
» 12/02/2012 5:02:36 PM Yuyutsu, You suggest: " .... no government, how much more so a secular government, .....
» 12/02/2012 9:25:31 AM Hi Amanda, Thank you for raising these crucial issues and teasing out some of their compo.....
» 11/02/2012 5:21:00 PM Hi, "Progressive" Pat, You've got me thinking :) I have to admit that I would n.....
» 11/02/2012 5:00:18 PM Arjay, You might have a point there about bartering systems. The main problem is how to c.....
» 11/02/2012 10:35:55 AM Thank you for that quadripedalian effort, OUG. In a nutshell, what are you actually saying.....
» 11/02/2012 9:16:19 AM Thank you, Pericles and Individual. "Progressive" Pat, You write: "You st.....
» 10/02/2012 11:41:39 PM Poirot and Runner, There is merit in what both of you write [I'll bet you won't see that .....
» 10/02/2012 10:08:49 PM With respect, Poirot, I do think that you need to return to the topic and respond to the g.....
» 10/02/2012 12:51:05 PM I'm with RObert on this: an obvious danger would be if such an 'Office' degenerated into a.....
» 10/02/2012 12:18:11 PM From a loudmouth to a has-been :) : on the other hand, Indigenous women are participating.....
» 10/02/2012 10:29:44 AM Hi CSteele, Yes, I fully agree with you, that catastrophes and disasters originating in t.....
» 10/02/2012 8:04:49 AM Hi CSteele, Far be it for me as an atheist and a Marxist to come to the defence of Runner.....
» 8/02/2012 10:41:20 AM Hi One Under God, As they point out on The Big Bang theory, there is an infinite number o.....
» 7/02/2012 10:26:10 PM Divine_Msn, Yes, I agree, especially in the case of the suicide of young women and girls .....
» 7/02/2012 11:32:45 AM That's right, Poirot, it's possible. Aboriginal people don't have to act like thugs. It do.....
» 7/02/2012 8:59:31 AM Amanda, Your focus on suicide prevention is most welcome and timely: in some remote commu.....
» 4/02/2012 7:13:17 PM Arjay, WTF does Israel have to do with this ? Webby, I don't know, I don't think that S.....
» 4/02/2012 4:36:55 PM Hi Webby, Storm in a teacup ? Assange may well be extradited to Sweden for statutory rape.....
» 4/02/2012 4:27:43 PM Hi Thinker?2, No, I think that what you write, that " .... Indigenous people have ev.....
» 4/02/2012 3:41:29 PM Arjay, I wonder, of Pilger and Paul, who is the useful idiot for whom ? But as you infe.....
» 3/02/2012 8:27:45 PM SM, I'm coming to think that if Abbott said 'G'day' to someone, many people would be enra.....
» 3/02/2012 5:59:49 PM What the neo-liberals conveniently and callously forget is that, if one is fighting the sy.....
» 3/02/2012 1:32:06 PM Dearest Lexi, Yes indeed, there are at least three ways of dealing with the truth, in &qu.....
» 3/02/2012 10:58:22 AM Dearest Lexi, Thank you for your concern. I've just found this Debunker's Handbook, on Th.....
» 3/02/2012 10:29:41 AM Hi CSteele, Well, I hope nobody ever burns the Aboriginal Flag: I think that would deserv.....
» 3/02/2012 10:09:48 AM [contd.] Including housing leases: clearly, if community tenants could lease the land tha.....
» 3/02/2012 10:06:20 AM Hi Saltpetre, Individual's right, he's been working in Indigenous communities for years, .....
» 1/02/2012 6:48:40 PM Diver Dan, I'm wondering under what conditions farmers "on their ... land ..., [can].....
» 1/02/2012 12:02:23 PM Sorry, Poirot, I got too carried away with singing Abba and 'Shelter' and 'Let there be p.....
» 1/02/2012 11:56:46 AM Don't worry about it, Individual, ad hominem attacks are a sure sign of how p1ss-weak some.....
» 31/01/2012 2:52:54 PM Ca va, Poirot, :) But seriously, why not try to change the world instead of just sitting.....
» 31/01/2012 1:09:40 PM Perhaps you're right, Poirot, our task is to interpret the world, not to change it :) Joe.....
» 31/01/2012 1:07:02 PM Sweet Lexi, You and I inhabit more or less the same universe, out there on the left somew.....
» 31/01/2012 12:37:56 PM Poirot, Lexi, It could be that men have more time on their hands, and are more arrogant a.....
» 30/01/2012 9:12:55 PM [Cont.] Many people in the world are fluently bilingual, they mix easily in more than one.....
» 30/01/2012 9:01:57 PM Thinker?2, This wilful blindness is what I was trying to have a go at. Yes, there certain.....
» 30/01/2012 5:23:09 PM For all that, Lexi, Individual has a point: ".... nothing more can be done to advanc.....
» 30/01/2012 12:35:42 PM Thanks, Diver Dan, yes you might have got that right. After all, what does self-determin.....
» 29/01/2012 4:13:30 PM Diver Dan, As you write, " ...The end-game for the “Nuevo-Aboriginal Rights” movem.....
» 29/01/2012 2:47:13 PM SPQR, Opportunity ? On current figures, about 35 % of every young Indigenous age-group wi.....
» 29/01/2012 11:36:11 AM Dear, sweet lexi, Come on, surely we've both been on enough demos to realise that a bit o.....
» 28/01/2012 11:47:30 PM Lexi, you're spot-on: " ... believe whatever you want - it's your own affair. And th.....
» 28/01/2012 9:13:28 PM Lexi, In one page ? I don't think so. Robert Manne ? I don't think so. Usually rebuttal .....
» 28/01/2012 4:59:43 PM Bonmot, My limited understanding is that in Tasmania, roughly as many Indigenous people a.....
» 28/01/2012 4:36:12 PM Otokonoko, Yes, well, I'm getting sceptical even about forcible 'dispossession'. I suppos.....
» 28/01/2012 3:55:28 PM Otokonoko & SPQR, As we know from watching so many crime shows on TV, it is very difficul.....
» 28/01/2012 2:50:15 PM Ancestors raped and murdered ? Who ? When ? What are the details ? Or is just easier to .....
» 28/01/2012 12:37:34 PM You're right, OUG, we are all Africans. Australian Indigenous people are also Indians and .....
» 28/01/2012 12:25:25 PM OUG, It could be that you are onto something: 'that we return to aborigonal time not ne.....
» 28/01/2012 11:40:49 AM [contd.] I will never, never put up with lies or scams, ever again, if I can help it. Lif.....
» 28/01/2012 11:32:48 AM 'Thinker2' (yeah, right), I've knocked around Indigenous affairs for nearly fifty years. .....
» 27/01/2012 3:51:14 PM Stezza, All a bit moot after the riot, one would think. And this afternoon's march and fl.....
» 25/01/2012 8:52:13 PM RObert, I can't bear it any more ! Please ! No apostrophes with plurals ! 'views', 'posts.....
» 25/01/2012 10:16:33 AM Yabby, It used to be the case in Europe (perhaps it still is in some countries) that some.....
» 22/01/2012 3:16:41 PM Lexi, I certainly don't hate PM Gillard, but I do think she could have more clearly passe.....
» 22/01/2012 10:51:38 AM Lexi, I'm not sure what clever game Gillard is playing but it sure isn't compromise. I'.....
» 21/01/2012 11:20:28 PM Thank you, Pericles, for some necessary common sense. Libertarianism in the current GFC - .....
» 16/01/2012 9:05:00 PM Arjay, I think I have an inkling of what you are on about: that elites, wherever and whoe.....
» 16/01/2012 4:30:22 PM Jay, Okay, the Gothic Banker Conspiracy (GBC) then. But you'll notice that the Swedes a.....
» 15/01/2012 5:05:02 PM Hi Arjay, You write: "They [the US] also risk Russia and China entering the fray an.....
» 6/01/2012 2:17:20 PM Halduell, I guess the first step would be to legalise suicide, and see what the complicat.....
» 22/12/2011 9:57:05 AM David, This is really a silly position to take - everybody is an invented people, every n.....
» 20/12/2011 3:55:47 PM Anthony, Do you have anything better than this glorified ad hominem ? Why do you think .....
» 17/12/2011 3:11:36 PM Yes, it's a very sad day, we have lost a provocative thinker and 'opinionator'. And I've.....
» 15/12/2011 5:11:48 PM [contd.] ..... there were probably only a couple of thousand, and in the remotest deserts.....
» 15/12/2011 5:09:05 PM Skeptic, There is a certain arrogance in how you phrase your comment, about the all-power.....
» 15/12/2011 4:01:45 PM Aboriginal people in remote areas are often very mobile, moving from community to town or .....
» 15/12/2011 1:28:10 PM Sorry, Bonmot, this article is much more recent: http://www.ajol.info/index.php/ejesm/art.....
» 15/12/2011 12:53:26 PM Thanks Helen, it's a relief to hear from someone who knows what she is talking about. It.....
» 14/12/2011 6:04:45 PM Hi Bonmot, I don't know how fast the bloc is moving, or tilting, (as well as butting up a.....
» 14/12/2011 11:45:53 AM In the seventies, in my undergraduate geography class, we learnt that Bangladesh sits on a.....
» 12/12/2011 7:01:08 PM Arjay, ....... um ........ how can I put this ? The banks do not control the Mint. They do.....
» 12/12/2011 9:22:35 AM So ...... it's all the banks fault, Arjay ? Particularly the German banks ? They lend huge.....
» 9/12/2011 8:41:18 PM Thinker 2, Try this, an ABC interview with Mordechai Vanunu back in 2004: http://www.abc.....
» 8/12/2011 10:40:18 AM Well, that IS a problem, Arjay - when the people whose statements you rely on (rather than.....
» 7/12/2011 3:40:43 PM I agree with most posters - my point is that women, Indigenous people and working-class pe.....
» 6/12/2011 10:43:26 AM Thank you, Poirot, but as a partial defence, I suggest that you misunderstand my words. If.....
» 5/12/2011 11:38:00 PM Thinker 2, Perhaps Australia will be selling uranium to India (and soon maybe to Pakistan.....
» 5/12/2011 10:54:17 PM Madame Poirot, I'll stick by my statement, that: " .... let's try to support the r.....
» 5/12/2011 2:59:01 PM Poiro and Pelican, Thank you for your responses but, with respect, they could be interpre.....
» 5/12/2011 12:10:43 PM Pelican, Please be careful how you phrase propositions: "Much rather there be a stra.....
» 3/12/2011 12:31:56 PM I certainly support 579's call for more attention to the trades. I am also very supporti.....
» 25/11/2011 3:59:59 PM Hi Jay, Multiculturalism, in one form of another, has been around for a very long time. I.....
» 24/11/2011 2:24:11 PM Jay, On your reflections, that " ... the fact that Multiculturalism in Australia is .....
» 24/11/2011 11:46:34 AM Paul1405, There may be two issues here: the right of somebody like Sandilands to insult s.....
» 24/11/2011 10:06:06 AM Sandilands, Deveny: what's sauce for the goose ...... One can't differentiate between 't.....
» 24/11/2011 9:50:07 AM To get this discussion back on track - after all, the subject is not going to go away - I .....
» 23/11/2011 9:59:49 PM Thanks Dan, No, for what it's worth, I don't support differential application of the law .....
» 23/11/2011 4:22:36 PM Dan, People from many countries co-exist fairly comfortably in Australia, on the basis of.....
» 23/11/2011 1:32:34 PM Sorry Michael, I was misled by your comment about "a massive poor population breeding.....
» 23/11/2011 11:00:45 AM Michael, You wrote, quite correctly: "The industrial world is only "wealthy&quo.....
» 22/11/2011 3:57:57 PM Well, David, my point was that "any major movement amongst any migrant community to i.....
» 22/11/2011 2:58:23 PM I'm glad you mentioned 'moderate multiculturalism', David :) Most of us here would agree.....
» 19/11/2011 5:30:44 PM [contd.] Multiculturalism can be constructive and innovative, as long as it does not in a.....
» 19/11/2011 5:20:54 PM Formersnag, You are half-right: "Between 1945 & 1965 Aboriginal children finishing s.....
» 16/11/2011 8:00:35 PM Thank you, Imajulianutter. To get back to topic, but now that you mentioned Bangladesh, I .....
» 16/11/2011 12:55:03 PM Imajulianutter, Well, no, actually Bangla is an Indo-Iranian language, i.e. related to Hi.....
» 15/11/2011 2:20:19 PM Thank you, Fiandra, beautifully put. All the best, Joe.....
» 15/11/2011 2:03:33 PM Somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but haven't sea levels risen by a massive two inches* ov.....
» 15/11/2011 9:15:31 AM Diver Dan, I completely disagree - multiculturalism CAN be a beautiful and exciting thing.....
» 15/11/2011 8:10:23 AM Squeers, I more or less agree with you that " .... in the current dispensation Aus.....
» 14/11/2011 11:03:57 PM Squeers, One can oppose reactionary ideological beliefs, such as: * female mutilation, t.....
» 11/11/2011 7:51:00 AM Spot-on, Suse. There are different forms of multiculturalism and I'm quite comfortable wit.....
» 11/11/2011 7:41:25 AM Bully, you asked: "Joe, are you saying that you “can” identify 100, “Not” employed be.....
» 10/11/2011 5:42:36 PM David, I have looked at all the comments on this thread fairly carefully but I can't find.....
» 10/11/2011 3:36:45 PM [contd.] And of course, a major task in some units seems to be to keep university senior .....
» 10/11/2011 3:35:13 PM Not necessarily, Bully. There are plenty of Indigenous graduates - in fields which are not.....
» 10/11/2011 2:44:12 PM Hi again Jay, You write: "Multiculturalism has clearly defined who White Australians.....
» 10/11/2011 2:33:33 PM Jay, not everything has always been that way - not too long ago, Irish were considered by .....
» 10/11/2011 10:59:26 AM RObert, You're onto something. Not all 'cultures', or sets of cultural practices, are equ.....
» 10/11/2011 9:54:53 AM Hi Bully, No, I'm no authority on anything, I just have a warped point of view and a bit .....
» 9/11/2011 4:41:12 PM Lexi, Yes, I was as amazed and shocked by Robert Manne's reported proposal as you are. .....
» 9/11/2011 2:29:09 PM Robert Manne has suggested that any controversial article, presumably published in The Aus.....
» 8/11/2011 6:20:54 PM Hi Suqeers, Thank you for replying so civilly :) What you say in your first paragraphs is.....
» 8/11/2011 3:49:34 PM Saltpeter, It depends how you define 'culture', as something which is lived, or something.....
» 8/11/2011 3:27:11 PM Hasbeen, you're quite wrong: "Why not research how much time the average academic sp.....
» 8/11/2011 9:26:47 AM That's a fascinating thought-experiment, Squeers: sitting back in your office, cogitating .....
» 7/11/2011 1:08:09 PM You're onto something, Amicus - is it to be yet more gesture and symbol, or genuine improv.....
» 3/11/2011 10:55:43 PM Well, David, Indigenous people can walk and chew gum at the same time, like anybody else. .....
» 3/11/2011 3:47:58 PM VK3AUU, I wonder how many non-Indigenous Australians think like you, that "One wond.....
» 3/11/2011 12:24:02 PM So, Jim, let's get it straight: * you oppose equal wages for Indigenous people, at least .....
» 2/11/2011 2:13:21 PM Hi Jim, People can live where they like, and live with the consequences. I'm not so sure .....
» 2/11/2011 11:18:32 AM Well, we're getting the ball rolling, Curmudgeon :) Better efficiencies in water use, imp.....
» 2/11/2011 10:06:16 AM Reproduction is only one aspect of population growth, and not necessarily the major one th.....
» 2/11/2011 8:36:21 AM Thank you, Jim, I think you reveal a great deal of where the conservative Left stands in r.....
» 1/11/2011 10:28:42 PM Jim, Thanks for your questions, although they are mostly quite inappropriate. Answers: a.....
» 1/11/2011 11:11:20 AM Individual, You make a very good point about self-exclusion - ten years ago, a high propo.....
» 31/10/2011 3:33:45 PM KAEP, I believe that a range of contraceptive techniques have been introduced since Malth.....
» 31/10/2011 2:52:56 PM But, Jim, they don't have to stop up there. As it happens, my wife was raised in a tin hut.....
» 31/10/2011 2:12:55 PM Jim, You're right - the great majority of the twenty six thousand Indigenous university g.....
» 28/10/2011 6:52:30 PM You know, Belly, if the birth-rate everywhere could be reduced to bare replacement rate to.....
» 28/10/2011 1:21:29 PM Hi Belly, You ask: "Is personal freedom a reason to over ride common sense ?" .....
» 28/10/2011 10:08:34 AM Hi Lexi, Surely you're too young to have ever travelled in a horse and carriage :) In ou.....
» 27/10/2011 2:15:09 PM 579, Here's a crazy idea: * Nauru * First eight hundred to arrive by boat go to Nauru, .....
» 27/10/2011 12:32:25 PM Dan, Just to get in first, I haven't read the Telegraph since I was a kid in the fifties......
» 27/10/2011 12:19:31 PM 579, If Malaysia, then why not Nauru ? Its government has signed the necessary convention.....
» 25/10/2011 5:39:09 PM Yeah ! End poverty NOW ! End evil NOW ! End wars NOW ! End corporate greed NOW ! End .....
» 24/10/2011 12:48:32 PM My God, I hope this isn't true. Women are so beautiful, soft and round, that surely there .....
» 18/10/2011 10:03:49 PM Belly, Now that you have started something, here is a brilliant article, well worth readi.....
» 18/10/2011 5:58:28 PM Thanks for your praise, Runner. I'm really done for now with my Left friends. Poirot, Th.....
» 18/10/2011 5:50:14 PM Hi Zelig, I'm a bit worried that some people seem as if they would be quite happy if Abor.....
» 18/10/2011 5:18:50 PM Thank you, Skeptic, Perhaps you could answer those questions ? Perhaps you could explain .....
» 18/10/2011 9:17:36 AM Poverty ? Really ? Don't people in remote communities receive standard welfare payments, .....
» 17/10/2011 1:07:43 PM Thanks OUG, my reference to hierarchy was a bit ironic, suggesting that the young and the .....
» 17/10/2011 10:19:59 AM Bazz, With respect, you may not know what you are talking about. Hunter-gatherer societie.....
» 16/10/2011 9:02:16 PM No, Peter, neither capitalism nor socialism, as I tried to point out in my clumsy way. Nei.....
» 16/10/2011 5:58:47 PM Peter, There are some people who hate dogs AND cats. It's not either/or. Squeers, You a.....
» 14/10/2011 5:51:25 PM Bazz, Wow, Utopian dreaming takes many forms, doesn't it ? One world government on the on.....
» 14/10/2011 2:57:44 PM As usual, I agree with Pericles and Poirot. An utterly inane idea. What makes anyone think.....
» 14/10/2011 12:45:37 PM Rizla, As a bear of little brain, I'm not sure of your point. We pay taxes to support a l.....
» 13/10/2011 1:18:29 PM Rizla, Hunters may have spent less time hunting, but I'll bet women, the gatherers, spent.....
» 12/10/2011 8:04:33 PM One consequence of sitting around all day, not ever working, nothing to work towards, noth.....
» 12/10/2011 6:41:41 PM Hi Skeptic, You write, "Aborigines .... had thought of many devices, some far more d.....
» 12/10/2011 1:48:42 PM As usual, I agree with King Hazza. In fact, as a long-time Socialist, I always thought tha.....
» 12/10/2011 10:39:33 AM Alfred, I think Mr Holden is having a lend of us. If by socialism you mean that people w.....
» 10/10/2011 9:05:15 PM David, you're right, Indigenous affairs is not much different from any other sphere, in th.....
» 10/10/2011 5:44:10 PM Thanks David, yes, there are, or have been, some wonderful people working in Indigenous st.....
» 10/10/2011 10:59:31 AM To get back to the issue of identification: Maria and I often used to talk idly about a so.....
» 10/10/2011 10:37:49 AM I respectfully disagree with both Dane and Hasbeen, to a small extent, in that there are m.....
» 9/10/2011 4:21:19 PM David, Wow, so many non sequiturs. When you refer to urban Australia, are you lumping al.....
» 7/10/2011 3:59:23 PM Thank you for putting it in a nutshell, Dane. Best wishes, Joe.....
» 6/10/2011 2:45:04 PM Interesting points, Gypsy. This is a very thoughtful and valuable article. But I get worr.....
» 6/10/2011 12:10:55 PM Ammonite, Short answer: yes. Longer answer: I would seek to defend myself from lies and.....
» 6/10/2011 11:47:57 AM Ammonite, If I were to make claims from which I could gain materially, then I couldn't re.....
» 6/10/2011 11:35:08 AM Own goal, Jay, Breivik, the murderer of nearly eighty people, manifestly 'Anti-Racists', .....
» 6/10/2011 9:57:03 AM Sorry Lexi, I didn't think that this was about Bolt, either, but about the limits of freed.....
» 6/10/2011 9:44:15 AM Jay, "Calling someone a Nazi is in effect calling for them to be killed, because tha.....
» 5/10/2011 10:12:58 PM HJay, In connection with your claims of White genocide, I'm still waiting for a definitio.....
» 5/10/2011 7:16:10 AM Antiseptic, In my experience, it's far more likely to be done by Aboriginal men, but eith.....
» 5/10/2011 7:04:11 AM Jay, None of that is genocide: voluntary mixing, inter-marriage, friendships, multiple id.....
» 4/10/2011 10:28:24 PM Well, Jay, I've disagreed with many Aboriginal people about an impossibly broad definition.....
» 4/10/2011 9:58:26 PM Thanks Belly, Yes, you're right. And one thing about many of the phonies is that they h.....
» 4/10/2011 9:47:36 PM Jay, i've heard about the evils of assimilation for close on fifty years, but I think it'.....
» 4/10/2011 5:49:21 PM Lexi, Yes, I'd agree that some of Bolt's targets were very unfairly treated, particularly.....
» 4/10/2011 5:28:02 PM Hi Amanda, Bruce Ruxton: is that the much-decorated World War II veteran ? Definitions a.....
» 4/10/2011 5:12:14 PM Hi Lexi, Yes, whether and for how long and in what ways people identify, and how people g.....
» 4/10/2011 11:46:55 AM Antiseptic, I'm sure that there are plenty of lawyers latching onto the finer points in t.....
» 4/10/2011 10:05:51 AM [contd.] So the question does come down to whether or not people who may have had a simil.....
» 4/10/2011 10:04:04 AM Individual, Spot-on in your comments :) Hi Antiseptic, Sorry, I've been working out of .....
» 30/09/2011 10:53:46 AM Antiseptic, Thanks for your query asking " .... if there were benefits to NOT having.....
» 30/09/2011 10:41:18 AM My thoughts exactly, pericles. Antiseptic, I have no trouble at all with Geoff Clark and .....
» 29/09/2011 4:44:08 PM Oh, I think you'd be surprised, Poirot ;).....
» 29/09/2011 3:56:25 PM Exactly, Poirot ! We are all individuals, no matter how much we may have common with other.....
» 29/09/2011 1:15:42 PM Belly, What you say about phony Blackfellas is depressingly true - people without any Abo.....
» 29/09/2011 12:53:31 PM Well Poirot, it's horses for courses: it depends who you are with, and who brung you. If I.....
» 29/09/2011 11:44:34 AM Poirot, Well, people are many-sided - yes, they can form close bonds with other people, m.....
» 29/09/2011 10:26:43 AM Hi Graham, You raise a very disturbing point. But surely OLO is not responsible for the v.....
» 29/09/2011 10:18:14 AM Hi Anthony, Yes, what Bolt wrote was offensive, as freedom of speech allows. And yes, he .....
» 29/09/2011 9:53:08 AM Hi Poirot, Spot-on ! Yes, individuality is difficult to maintain in any society, impossib.....
» 28/09/2011 7:13:40 PM [contd.] My point is that, pace Marx, civil society is better than no civil society. If i.....
» 28/09/2011 7:10:38 PM Squeers, Obscene, yes - and with respect, you provide examples of this callousness toward.....
» 28/09/2011 4:13:58 PM [contd.] I have no problem at all with benefits and concessions, such as easier access to.....
» 28/09/2011 4:07:59 PM Graham, This is, with respect to the learned judges, a ridiculous decision and I'm sure t.....
» 28/09/2011 11:08:41 AM Thank you, Squeers, but can you stand back a bit and examine what you have written ? What .....
» 27/09/2011 2:42:15 PM [contd] But his denigration of the 'homme' in favour of the 'citoyen' does seem to disall.....
» 27/09/2011 2:27:22 PM Hi Suqeers, A bit pedantic perhaps ? I don't know how to reference page numbers etc. for .....
» 26/09/2011 9:14:24 PM contd.} Not much there about people [men], free and equal individuals, coming together vo.....
» 26/09/2011 9:07:02 PM Hi again Squeers, These comments of Marx seem to wrap up his attitudes to both individual.....
» 26/09/2011 8:59:50 PM [contd.] Marx continues: "And security? "Article 8 ([French Republican] Const.....
» 26/09/2011 8:46:32 PM Squeers, Thank you, but this train of logic in Marx's paper is instructive: " ... w.....
» 26/09/2011 1:38:38 PM Poirot & Squeers, So, concerning the peasant at her spinning wheel ........ the Enlighten.....
» 23/09/2011 12:47:18 PM [contd.] So what do we do now ? Marx has been dead nearly 130 years, and capitalism has.....
» 23/09/2011 12:43:07 PM But Poirot, that's precisely the point about the dangers of trying to construct - even if .....
» 22/09/2011 6:33:30 PM And on the subject of the withering-away of the working class, there is a very interesting.....
» 22/09/2011 6:02:18 PM Squeers and Poirot, I was watching a bulldozer tear down an old house the other day and d.....
» 22/09/2011 3:44:23 PM Mollydukes, Sorry, that should have read: 'the modern situation of freely available knowl.....
» 22/09/2011 3:34:53 PM Hi Mollydukes, Thanks for the serve. My wife was Aboriginal, we lived and worked at a cou.....
» 22/09/2011 11:28:33 AM Squeers, Well, I didn't say it would be easy :).....
» 22/09/2011 10:34:21 AM [contd.] Squeers, Yes, capitalism can be evil and heartless, and should be reformed or r.....
» 22/09/2011 10:29:54 AM Mollydukes, Ah ! the luxuries and comforts of the middle-class ! Do you have the slightes.....
» 21/09/2011 11:09:59 PM Poirot, Just to go back to the original story, that 'at some point capitalism can destroy.....
» 21/09/2011 5:52:22 PM I agree partly with almost everyone who has contributed to this thread, even Runner. I was.....
» 19/09/2011 1:19:06 AM [cont.] BJ98, You will come across some wonderful people if you go on to university and .....
» 19/09/2011 1:15:28 AM Hi BJ98, Thank you for your heartfelt message to us all. Yes, there is still plenty of di.....
» 14/09/2011 5:10:11 PM In that context, Divine Ms_n, you're right - 'culture' is often so second-hand, more likel.....
» 14/09/2011 3:52:30 PM But remember, Ms Bird, that the entire Aboriginal population in the North - outside of the.....
» 14/09/2011 11:42:25 AM Thank you, Donkey God. It's an imperfect, multi-dynamic, world, isn't it ? Joe.....
» 13/09/2011 11:00:17 PM Exactly, David ! As I wrote: "People take advantage when and where they can, Black or.....
» 13/09/2011 6:23:19 PM Thanks Skeptic, you ask: "Where from came the condition of dependency?" One par.....
» 13/09/2011 6:08:08 PM [contd] The world is inevitably imperfect, unfinished, uncertain, but full of surprises a.....
» 13/09/2011 6:06:14 PM You might be close to the mark, Formersnag: "All left wing politics on day one was a .....
» 13/09/2011 4:39:35 PM Formersnag, Let's be honest - there aren't really any 'metrosexual softies', we are all r.....
» 13/09/2011 4:18:04 PM Yes sorry, David, it should be remembered that there ARE enterprises operating successfull.....
» 13/09/2011 12:50:22 PM Amanda, Yes, health clinincs but also dietitians and recreation officers - if self-determ.....
» 12/09/2011 5:12:09 PM And why, Deadly, was he in 'the wrong place at the wrong time' ? Was he kidnapped, flown s.....
» 12/09/2011 3:39:38 PM John, please correct me if I'm wrong but my understanding is that Hicks was in Pakistan on.....
» 9/09/2011 11:08:18 AM Good points, David f. In the early twentieth century, in some western US mining towns, t.....
» 6/09/2011 1:22:25 PM Maybe you're right, Pericles, but there might be a lot of convicted criminals who claim 'I.....
» 6/09/2011 12:42:03 PM But he pleaded guilty. Twist and turn all you like, he admitted to committing an offence. .....
» 5/09/2011 2:42:40 PM Thanks, Mollydukes, but you lost me there. Are you comparing me to a pig [fair enough], or.....
» 4/09/2011 7:45:04 PM Mortal dilemma ? Of course, on-shore processing of boat arrivals is more humane and equi.....
» 4/09/2011 1:34:00 PM [contd.] I must thank you sincerely, Mollydukes, for putting your prejudices in writing, .....
» 4/09/2011 1:20:11 PM Thanks Mollydukes, I don't know about other cities but here in Adelaide, Aboriginal peopl.....
» 3/09/2011 2:14:56 PM Thanks, Mollydukes for having the courage to talk through your hat. Are you actually in Au.....
» 3/09/2011 1:02:31 PM Dan, forgive me but you write the most outrageous rubbish, as if it's all out of books, al.....
» 3/09/2011 11:12:45 AM Oh dear, fools rush in, don't they ? I made an elementary adding mistake - commencements i.....
» 2/09/2011 5:22:46 PM University statistics for 2010 enrolments have just been published today by DEEWR, 2 Sept .....
» 2/09/2011 8:52:49 AM [contd] Suze, .... I was doing research into the development of self-determination at a.....
» 2/09/2011 8:42:24 AM Hi Suze, Yes, you're right: effort, some do it, some don't. I suspect - as a total cynic .....
» 1/09/2011 6:07:34 PM Thanks Suze, that clears that up. 'Church homes' rather than 'mission houses ? It was co.....
» 31/08/2011 11:33:28 AM [contd.] Suze, Yes, education is one of the major keys - I'm very circumspect about nami.....
» 31/08/2011 11:30:06 AM Thanks, Suze, I apologise for my abruptness: I was trying to squeeze my comments into 350 .....
» 31/08/2011 11:01:02 AM [contd.] The Indigenous birth-rate rose rapidly after 1985, 50 % by the mid-nineties, fro.....
» 31/08/2011 10:55:07 AM Thanks Brian for a very incisive article. But let's remember that only a tiny minority -.....
» 30/08/2011 6:46:32 PM Suzeonline, Thanks. I was a bit taken aback by many aspects of your statement that: 'Ma.....
» 29/08/2011 6:16:48 PM [contd] That might be the best than anyone can expect, if people have minimal skills, if .....
» 29/08/2011 6:00:56 PM It is very worrying that Indigenous affairs 'flashes into the headlines' all too briefly, .....
» 26/08/2011 10:31:28 PM David, Yes, I do look forward to the day. Divine Ms_n, Sorry, I wonder who Jennifer is t.....
» 26/08/2011 6:06:56 PM Dear Divine Ms_n, Ah, sorry, I read 'political correctness' and went off. Yes, you are .....
» 26/08/2011 5:47:53 PM Thanks, Jennifer. I'm not so sure that it's a matter of political correctness, insidious a.....
» 26/08/2011 10:18:00 AM Thank you Divine Ms_n, I agree with pretty much everything you write in your last post. Y.....
» 25/08/2011 9:56:41 AM Divine Ms_n, I'm concerned that you, and probably many others, find it difficult to conce.....
» 25/08/2011 9:43:28 AM Dear Divine Ms_n, Thank you. You are missing the point: regardless of how dark or pale so.....
» 24/08/2011 10:31:24 PM Thank you, Divine Ms_n, but I don't understand what you are getting at (or perhaps I don't.....
» 24/08/2011 5:13:15 PM With respect, divine Ms_n, you don't know what you are talking about. Perhaps it is the ca.....
» 23/08/2011 6:27:16 PM You are right, Arjay, and the Murdochracy papers are conducting an unremitting campaign to.....
» 23/08/2011 5:41:52 PM Thanks for your comment VK3AUU, When my wife and I got married, her being classed as 'Abo.....
» 23/08/2011 5:20:01 PM What's the matter with you coalition supporters ? Isn't it possible that some bloke, who h.....
» 23/08/2011 3:00:26 PM Well, what about that Coalition minister, back in the seventies or eighties, who tried to .....
» 23/08/2011 11:22:20 AM Thank you, Sara, what you write is long overdue and I hope your article provokes thorough .....
» 18/08/2011 7:08:15 PM It is probably inappropriate to write that Alexander was Greek, given that that descriptio.....
» 18/08/2011 5:05:11 PM I don't know, Ojnab: I was working once at an Aboriginal community which had 40 hectares o.....
» 18/08/2011 11:09:25 AM So who benefits from maintaining a long-term welfare-dependent population in the style to .....
» 18/08/2011 10:51:52 AM It's a bit worrying that a difference of opinion, the exercise of one's freedom of speech,.....
» 13/08/2011 9:54:48 AM Thanks for that, Hasbeen, you're spot-on. Roll on, the 22nd century. In a sort of defence.....
» 11/08/2011 1:47:39 PM Where did socialist revolutions go wrong ? (Let me count the ways!) But one common factor .....
» 10/08/2011 4:08:00 PM You make an incisive point, Formersnag, but I do make a mealy-mouthed distinction between .....
» 10/08/2011 1:07:48 PM Hi Pericles, I commend you for your amazing ability to bite your tongue. I'll say it for .....
» 10/08/2011 10:55:28 AM Thanks, Lexi, but I think you might be missing my point. What you write is of course true,.....
» 9/08/2011 1:24:35 PM Hi Lexi, That NM article and the attached comments go only so far - it and most of the co.....
» 9/08/2011 11:08:32 AM Hope springs eternal for those of us on the Left, idiotically 'eternal', it seems. After 4.....
» 8/08/2011 8:28:23 PM Arjay, Fascism and totalitarianism are very broad churches, and like churches in the past.....
» 8/08/2011 8:21:24 PM "I also detest CO2 doubters in connection to AGW been called deniers as if they are h.....
» 8/08/2011 6:27:56 PM Yeah, right, Arjay. So it was all the fault of Jewish bankers then ?.....
» 8/08/2011 6:20:21 PM It's worth remembering that Breivik, on the one hand, and al Qaida, on the other, are both.....
» 29/07/2011 8:08:31 PM Yeah, Lexi, you're right. Where would we be without comedy ? What a bl00dy poe-faced world.....
» 29/07/2011 4:59:28 PM Come on, admit it - we all enjoyed the odd episode of Two and a Half Men :).....
» 28/07/2011 5:46:00 PM Hi Col, Honestly, I don't think you owe younger generations anything - what you have work.....
» 27/07/2011 5:17:10 PM In my naive survey of highest maximums and lowest minimums, out of the readings for the ei.....
» 26/07/2011 5:03:53 PM Individual, Sorry for the delay, I've been away working. I first earned money working bac.....
» 23/07/2011 1:55:27 PM Problem is, OUG, as far as I am concerned, there is no god, so there is no god to either h.....
» 22/07/2011 4:54:55 PM Col, Notice the quotation marks ? Sorry, I've just been stirring the possum :) Surely th.....
» 22/07/2011 1:16:53 PM Col, To which a young person may reply: 'Well, how much room does an old person need ? C.....
» 22/07/2011 1:09:00 PM Well, it might sound a bit pompous OUG, but I am more interesting in helping other people .....
» 22/07/2011 11:26:23 AM [contd.] 'Clearly, once you get in conversation with young people, they are much more in .....
» 22/07/2011 11:23:37 AM 'Oldies don't seem to get it. They have had their time. They are, on the whole, far wealth.....
» 22/07/2011 10:58:56 AM Hi OUG, So every base is covered ? Every doubt removed ? I'm sorry but I feel uneasy abou.....
» 21/07/2011 5:18:28 PM Hi OUG, As you write, " .... for those who cant bear the thought of you free think.....
» 19/07/2011 5:40:05 PM Thanks, OUG, you might have some valid points. But it's all hypothetical, isn't it ? Mean.....
» 19/07/2011 12:10:49 PM Hi Lexi, Yeah, we'll probably have many (infinite ?) furious arguments - great fun ! And .....
» 18/07/2011 6:39:52 PM Brilliant ! Then I know where I'm going, Lexi. Will you be up there with the angels instea.....
» 18/07/2011 5:17:09 PM Bugsy, I should have written "I want to fervently believe in the existence and dange.....
» 18/07/2011 3:05:33 PM Thanks Bonmot, is that a yes or a no ? So ....... la Nina and 'underlying trends' mask ac.....
» 18/07/2011 2:06:14 PM Spot on, Ammonite !.....
» 18/07/2011 1:42:59 PM Thanks Bonmot and Ammonite, Of course, one swallow doesn't make a summer, and a few readi.....
» 18/07/2011 10:01:12 AM Bonmot, In my daily scrutiny of the paper for highest maximums and lowest minimums over t.....
» 18/07/2011 9:52:56 AM How to tell the difference between mere insurgency and national liberation - that's a hard.....
» 17/07/2011 9:08:34 PM Bonmot, Christ, I hope so, otherwise ....... is that all there is ?.....
» 17/07/2011 7:55:23 PM I fervently want to believe in global warming, that capitalism has heartlessly done terrib.....
» 17/07/2011 6:58:14 PM Hi Arthur, Good to hear from you :) I'll stick by my statement that up to 80 % of Indigen.....
» 15/07/2011 9:05:52 AM Lexi, Yeah ! Jesus was in my party branch. I didn't know about Moses though, what branch .....
» 15/07/2011 9:00:48 AM Hi Pericles, More than that: around eighty percent of Indigenous people have non-Indigeno.....
» 12/07/2011 6:29:22 PM Ammonite, Well, it better get a move on then. My @rse is freezing......
» 12/07/2011 1:04:51 PM On global warming: every day, I carry out a very crude little test. I check the eight capi.....
» 12/07/2011 10:05:41 AM [contd.] So 'country' was quite specific, specifically owned by specific groups or extend.....
» 12/07/2011 9:52:48 AM Thanks Jim, yes, I think it certainly was, pretty much everywhere: the land-holding group .....
» 11/07/2011 9:59:28 PM [contd.] So 'welcome to country' should actually be, and could be, far more nuanced than .....
» 11/07/2011 9:55:20 PM Thanks Ammonite, the feeling's mutual. By the way, is an ammonite some form of marine life.....
» 8/07/2011 10:09:54 AM Thanks Lexi. I think JoM is trying to manufacture something which doesn't exist. His comme.....
» 7/07/2011 5:01:22 PM Jay, I think the horse has well and truly bolted against your last comment, and that's fi.....
» 7/07/2011 9:08:21 AM Jay, "White Chinese" ? My limited understanding of early Chinese history is tha.....
» 6/07/2011 9:39:09 AM Good on you, Lexi. Yes, there are so many crucial issues in Indigenous health, employment,.....
» 5/07/2011 2:58:23 PM A minority of Indigenous people still face enormous problems generated mainly by the faile.....
» 3/07/2011 7:37:26 PM [cont.] The disgraceful reality is that Indigenous people - especially those who are unem.....
» 3/07/2011 7:36:12 PM Hi Amicus, I don't disageree with your comments, except to say that I have some trust tha.....
» 1/07/2011 9:55:10 AM I certainly don't agree with LEGO on this one, but Skeptic's comments are just plain silly.....
» 26/06/2011 10:48:23 PM Gregary/Boylsey/Uncle Tom Cobbley, I don't think I've ever earned your disfavour as you s.....
» 24/06/2011 6:16:18 PM Thanks Poirot, I'd completely overlooked that gender discrepancy. It makes my point about .....
» 24/06/2011 5:35:48 PM Oy. And do you think that the well-heeled would not be prepared to pay for an antidote to .....
» 24/06/2011 4:31:53 PM Let's be clear - there are two fairly distinct Indigenous populations, one existing on lif.....
» 24/06/2011 4:11:40 PM Sorry, I'm inclined to support LEGO on this one. Maybe I'm damned forever now. Joe Lane.....
» 24/06/2011 4:02:56 PM So Squeers ...... our role is to describe the world, not to change it ? My boringly repea.....
» 24/06/2011 11:57:13 AM To get back to the topic: On a global scale, there are two ways that population increases.....
» 17/06/2011 10:58:20 AM Thank you, Bob, for a brilliant summary of the current state of play. No doubt vainly, I h.....
» 16/06/2011 7:10:39 PM Non sequitur, Mick......
» 16/06/2011 6:12:32 PM How does a country's population decrease, apart from immigration and emigration ? Through .....
» 16/06/2011 10:45:26 AM Alternatively, GregaryB, all of us in western countries (which are using by far the lion's.....
» 15/06/2011 9:55:28 PM Yabby, you're welcome to your view that we in the West may be entitled to the bounties of .....
» 15/06/2011 4:57:38 PM Yeah, I'm slowly beginning to see things your way, Houellebecq. [continued] Fester, I'm .....
» 15/06/2011 1:58:37 PM When I was very young and naive, I used to assume that one difference between the Right an.....
» 15/06/2011 10:25:13 AM What Pericles said......
» 15/06/2011 10:21:23 AM Thanks Divergence, Tuesday, 14 June 2011 11:05:59 PM All I'm trying to get at is that the.....
» 14/06/2011 5:17:47 PM Thanks for your reasonable critique, Divergence. My main point is that any population red.....
» 14/06/2011 3:22:44 PM Taking this topic of population reduction seriously, if hypothetically, a decline in the n.....
» 14/06/2011 12:26:10 PM Good one, Cheryl. A one-child policy ? Just watch how that turns out in China over the ne.....
» 3/06/2011 5:47:22 PM Hi Jim, Yes, the legal position was muddied by breaches of the law, which would have incl.....
» 3/06/2011 1:29:20 PM You're talking through your hat, Whistler. What would have constituted a full recognition .....
» 3/06/2011 12:14:56 PM Henry Reynolds and Jamie Dalziel have pretty thoroughly covered the literature and legisla.....
» 3/06/2011 10:26:08 AM Thanks Whistler, So - at least in South Australia, but probably in other states, if not i.....
» 2/06/2011 8:49:08 AM Thanks Jim, For the life of me, I don't understand why lawyers and law professors haven't.....
» 1/06/2011 10:57:21 PM Hazza, You're on the button - Hicks committed offences against India and (by working hand.....
» 1/06/2011 10:43:11 PM [Contd.] [Paragraph Title] "Rights Now Safeguarded" "When the Northern Au.....
» 1/06/2011 10:35:40 PM [Contd.] "[Paragraph Title] Reservation Omitted. " I desire to refer to your l.....
» 1/06/2011 10:33:08 PM Hi Jim, I didn't get any of the references of the web, but from primary documents, Pastor.....
» 1/06/2011 6:37:45 PM David Hicks certainly should not have been mistreated or tortured or hurt in any way. As a.....
» 30/05/2011 5:30:10 PM Amazing. In a month in which Osama bin Laden has been neutralised, perhaps Mullah Omar has.....
» 29/05/2011 10:56:06 PM For decades, many of us believed that all Aboriginal rights in land had been denied, taken.....
» 29/05/2011 9:40:34 PM Thanks Cherful, you're right: it certainly hasn't been easy for Indigenous people, in term.....
» 26/05/2011 11:44:54 PM Arjay, Obama's birth certificate COULD HAVE BEEN photoshopped. Therefore it was. Love the.....
» 26/05/2011 1:43:39 PM So saying 'sorry' is no longer enough ? So those of us who were saying this three years ag.....
» 26/05/2011 11:32:26 AM Just in connection with that last post, I remembered that the South Australian government .....
» 26/05/2011 10:37:08 AM Perhaps if every time such a symbolic ceremony was performed, a more substantial gesture c.....
» 26/05/2011 12:49:30 AM Well, Cherful, pastoral leases run only for forty two years, with an option for another fo.....
» 25/05/2011 8:43:16 PM We all have our unique stories, Squeers - I was raised in Bankstown in an extreme left-win.....
» 25/05/2011 8:24:19 PM Hi Jewely, You're 'nearly finished raising children' ? You poor deluded girl :( And the .....
» 24/05/2011 11:16:46 PM Jewely, That's my mate Individual. But didn't we all do something absolutely stupid when.....
» 24/05/2011 6:04:30 PM Thanks Whistler, I couldn't put it much better myself. Squeers, that's all a bit non seq.....
» 24/05/2011 2:59:06 PM Hi Snowy River, Ah ! The passive voice ! How useful it can be to put someone down. I sh.....
» 24/05/2011 10:36:45 AM [contd.] Meanwhile, out in pastoral country, the rights of Aboriginal people were set out.....
» 24/05/2011 10:29:40 AM Hi Cherful, I was surprised to learn some years ago that a 'land grant' didn't mean that .....
» 22/05/2011 7:58:48 PM Csteele, If one can unscramble what you are aiming your ad hominems at, are you suggestin.....
» 22/05/2011 5:51:30 PM I don't know, Whistler, I don't spend my time reading 100-year-old copies of The Lancet :).....
» 22/05/2011 12:49:29 PM Hi Whistler, Have you begun to learn something ? Your comment, "Australians have ov.....
» 22/05/2011 10:39:43 AM You might be right, SPQR, Steven might be having a lend of us :) Australia has a legal sy.....
» 22/05/2011 10:29:31 AM [contd.] the risk of failure. The prison of pre-Enlightenment thinking, religious thinkin.....
» 22/05/2011 10:25:33 AM [contd.] turns - into rapacious early capitalist cities and states, which in turn evolved.....
» 21/05/2011 11:12:05 PM Steven, Yes, I agree with you, it would not be at all easy for such a woman to exercise t.....
» 21/05/2011 7:37:19 PM Steven, As long as any 'accommodation' is completely in accord with the principles of a d.....
» 21/05/2011 6:22:06 PM Hi Steven, Yes, I'm in two minds about that: of course, women should be allowed to wear t.....
» 21/05/2011 5:45:23 PM Steven, Just as Christians and Jews and others have been able to dove-tail their practice.....
» 21/05/2011 5:02:00 PM [contd.] [you'll have to take your turn, Whistler] Squeers, So can we come to an agre.....
» 21/05/2011 10:42:26 AM Pericles, I'm surprised by your reference to 'traditional' Aboriginal punishments, as if .....
» 21/05/2011 10:21:39 AM Hi Squeers, I'm sure you would agree that dialogue is preferable to shunning the opinions.....
» 21/05/2011 9:29:52 AM [contd.] [So many lies to rebut, so little time ! ] ....... Or should only a Precious Fe.....
» 21/05/2011 9:20:05 AM [contd.] Poirot, when you write something sensible and stop twisting what I say, then I'l.....
» 21/05/2011 9:05:33 AM Hi Yuyutsu, Well, I'm very glad that the bitter struggles in ideology and politics over t.....
» 20/05/2011 2:55:12 PM [contd.] Hi Squeers, And: "They should see Western culture for what it is and rejec.....
» 20/05/2011 8:51:01 AM Hi Squeers, This 350-word 4-comments-in-24-hours can be inconvenient: in response to your.....
» 19/05/2011 11:48:50 PM Squeers, [contd.] Yes, you are right on the button: how to motivate some of the men to t.....
» 19/05/2011 7:15:58 PM [cont.] Squeers, you ask: " .... my implicit question above was, and still is, “wh.....
» 19/05/2011 11:52:55 AM Thank you, Squeers, your comments are vastly more honest and thoughtful than Pilger's, who.....
» 18/05/2011 7:02:59 PM [contd] Meanwhile, more than 26,000 Indigenous people have graduated from universities, 9.....
» 18/05/2011 6:47:42 PM [cont] if they didn't work, the family was destitute pretty quickly. Didn't this happen w.....
» 18/05/2011 6:44:33 PM I guess, Bully, nothing will satisfy the sort of self-righteous, ignorant people who belie.....
» 17/05/2011 6:56:25 PM Hi Whistler, still banging away on the same drum ? Good luck. I didn't express any negati.....
» 17/05/2011 2:46:51 PM Hi Yuyutsu, " .... a questionable body of written work put together long ago by peop.....
» 17/05/2011 1:53:36 PM Raptor, You are unjustly maligning the genuine left when you suggest that Pilger is part .....
» 17/05/2011 12:48:38 PM Ih Nohj, Yes, you're right, in many ways, at least in relation to the five-sixths of Aust.....
» 17/05/2011 10:56:15 AM Where does one start ? This article is full of so many lies that it seems pointless to try.....
» 17/05/2011 10:23:01 AM Hi Yuyutsu, Thanks for demonstrating my observation that one can embroider, re-fashion, u.....
» 16/05/2011 6:25:06 PM Well, Squeers, all of the Books have, after all, been written by humans, and presumably pr.....
» 16/05/2011 5:43:14 PM Not yet, but he's coming close :).....
» 16/05/2011 10:50:27 AM Yuyutsu, When you write, "I would personally find life dull, meaningless and distre.....
» 13/05/2011 5:35:09 PM Okapy, Poirot, When you write, " .... The acrimony and sabre-rattling that regular.....
» 13/05/2011 4:03:50 PM I do indeed, Poirot :) Just because something happens, doesn't mean it HAD to happen: it .....
» 13/05/2011 11:42:41 AM Poirot, Was it absolutely certain that a theocracy would follow the overthrow of the Shah.....
» 13/05/2011 10:51:37 AM Hi Poirot, So ..... whatever consequences follow from an action by the US to overthrow a .....
» 12/05/2011 11:32:40 PM Poirot, The US overthrew the democratically-elected government of Mossadegh, and re-insta.....
» 12/05/2011 5:57:29 PM Hi Poirot, You were asking, " ... How many people has the U.S. slaughtered in the co.....
» 12/05/2011 4:05:24 PM Grim, Perhaps you're right - after 9/11, if the US had passed on the message to bin Laden.....
» 11/05/2011 10:03:09 PM Sorry, OUG, sorry - I didn't read your post to the very end, one of my many failings :) Th.....
» 11/05/2011 6:11:32 PM Poirot, Sometimes, maybe usually, we can't see what we are in the midst of. We take what'.....
» 11/05/2011 2:42:45 PM No, Yuyutzu, I find the very notion of gods repugnant. People are what matter, their one-a.....
» 11/05/2011 1:37:34 PM Yuyutsu, As an atheist/secularist, I'm appalled by your dismissal of human beings as 'jus.....
» 11/05/2011 11:38:09 AM With respect, OUG, you're still equivocating :) Joe.....
» 11/05/2011 11:07:47 AM With respect, OUG, you're equivocating :) Which side ? Joe.....
» 11/05/2011 11:05:22 AM Hi Pelican, You put your finger right on it: "The thought of a nurturing loving Mot.....
» 11/05/2011 10:53:54 AM Arjay, Has it ever occurred to you that the class structure, the abuse of the rule of law.....
» 10/05/2011 11:01:18 PM Yes, OUG, ordinarily we shouldn't have to accept either pot OR kettle, but there are times.....
» 10/05/2011 9:59:58 AM Hi Arjay, Whenever I read your posts, I have this picture of how your mind works - that, .....
» 9/05/2011 11:45:05 PM Oooo, Suze, you're in dangerous territory ! Are you suggesting that there are more than tw.....
» 9/05/2011 10:38:53 PM Hi Suze, Maybe you're onto something - maybe there are only two ways of viewing anything,.....
» 9/05/2011 10:00:34 PM Exactly, QL ! The knowledge of the world belongs to everyone. The exclusiveness of most re.....
» 9/05/2011 9:05:48 PM I don't think some people on this thread understand the significance of the Earth Mother. .....
» 9/05/2011 6:15:00 PM [contd] and * Salafism, extreme forms of a pre-medieval philosophy and economic system .....
» 9/05/2011 6:12:29 PM Hi Poirot, Yes, you're right, but a lot of that is neither here nor there. US capitalists.....
» 9/05/2011 9:59:21 AM Thanks, OUG, you're sort of proving my assertion. I forgot a couple of other theories: *.....
» 9/05/2011 8:37:50 AM That's right, OUG, CTs can somehow believe all of those theories simultaneously, it's quit.....
» 8/05/2011 6:04:56 PM OUG, I'm a left-hander and I do some things with my right hand occasionally. No, not that.....
» 5/05/2011 11:42:05 AM Kalalli, And who benefits from what the government does with that land ? Let me put it .....
» 4/05/2011 11:21:55 AM Jewely, What rules ? The rules of evidence. You can't just assert and expect it to be bel.....
» 3/05/2011 6:33:23 PM As ye sow ...........
» 3/05/2011 1:18:37 PM Hi Aka, Are you referring to Cooke amd Neville's attempt to assist what were called 'quar.....
» 2/05/2011 10:02:12 PM Jewely, Yes, there were marriages between Aboriginal men and white women, going back - at.....
» 2/05/2011 8:38:37 PM Thanks Jewely, Assert, therefore prove. Sorry, I don't make the rules. Yes, the mistreat.....
» 2/05/2011 3:20:52 PM They may have been homesick, Poirot: you need to make further investigations :) Jewely, .....
» 2/05/2011 1:50:50 PM Yes, you're right, Peter, especially since the beginning of the agricultural revolution, t.....
» 2/05/2011 11:58:27 AM Hi Jewely, You, know, there are a host of reasons why children might be taken into care. .....
» 1/05/2011 9:19:59 PM Peter, So ...... because Eratosthenes and Aristarchus could come up with some brilliant i.....
» 1/05/2011 8:14:26 PM Lego - re your last posting, I was trying to find something there to disagree with, but p.....
» 1/05/2011 8:05:44 PM [contd.] Lego [above], So, no, people certainly faced dreadful discrimination and destit.....
» 1/05/2011 1:00:39 PM [contd.] But to be shut out - as people seem to be in remote communities - is to be force.....
» 1/05/2011 12:52:13 PM Hi Individual, Thanks for responding. I guess it depends what you mean by education. Of c.....
» 1/05/2011 10:21:49 AM [contd.] At one community, for example, from the birth, death, marriage, and school recor.....
» 1/05/2011 10:15:01 AM LEGO, I'm not arguing. Why can't people understand that life for Aboriginal people earlie.....
» 30/04/2011 7:40:53 PM [cont.] Lego, The cases that you cite are examples of situations where obviously some go.....
» 30/04/2011 7:28:17 PM LEGO, I'm certainly not saying that Aboriginal kids have not ever been taken into care, o.....
» 30/04/2011 2:20:50 PM [contd.] Can people be assisted to give themselves a make-over ? Can they be enabled to r.....
» 30/04/2011 2:15:36 PM God almighty, what sort of school can you build for $33 million ? Maybe what communities.....
» 29/04/2011 10:34:27 PM Yes......
» 29/04/2011 8:14:43 PM [contd.] Do you envisage kids being able to go on to genuine secondary education, and fro.....
» 29/04/2011 8:12:56 PM Hi Arthur, You were asking, " ... But, many Aboriginal men at settlements ? You've .....
» 29/04/2011 7:24:09 PM Sorry, Jewely, your comment that many Aboriginal people are pale " .... because they .....
» 29/04/2011 1:23:00 PM It doesn't make a scrap of difference whether Aboriginal people still live in Tasmania (of.....
» 29/04/2011 1:05:41 PM [cont.] Bess Price has said that she wants for her children what the Larissa Behrendts (a.....
» 29/04/2011 1:01:42 PM Hi Individual, I'd defer to your knowledge and experience any day, so when you ask ".....
» 27/04/2011 8:58:27 PM Correction: above I lazily wrote that ' ... the equivalent of two young adult age-groups a.....
» 27/04/2011 8:49:04 PM [contd.] The upshot of this is that Behrendt, as head of a Review of Indigenous higher ed.....
» 27/04/2011 8:45:59 PM [Cont.] In fact, if we put these two aspects of the Indigenous condition together - that .....
» 27/04/2011 8:41:03 PM Spot on, Runner. I'm not so sure that Behrendt's vicious attack on Bess Price was a sign .....
» 25/04/2011 3:54:02 PM Hermit, Yeah, they're called thimbles......
» 23/04/2011 1:01:04 AM Sorry, Arjay, I'm a bit thick, especially on a Friday night ~) Are you saying that the t.....
» 22/04/2011 5:28:58 PM Arjay, Those demolition 'experts' must have been pretty stupid, dropping those buildings .....
» 20/04/2011 6:33:59 PM Lexi, I'm glad you have such fond memories of Mexican donkeys......
» 20/04/2011 3:47:36 PM "I've seen some big ones in Mexico." G'day, Lexi ;).....
» 18/04/2011 10:43:44 PM When are we going to learn that presidents and prime ministers should have their time limi.....
» 18/04/2011 8:32:59 PM Arjay, Not a very long list :( I would add: Greece (late forties), Guatemala (1954), Cuba.....
» 18/04/2011 7:33:38 PM Spot on, Pericles, as usual. Arjay, Notice how quiet the Swedes are ? Hmmmmm ? Devilishl.....
» 12/04/2011 4:49:26 PM Of course there should be strong laws against racial vilification. But any healthy democra.....
» 12/04/2011 2:25:47 PM Hi Lexi, Thank you, dear. I always get a buzz out of yours too, there is so much goodness.....
» 12/04/2011 1:41:34 PM Yes, Lexi, you're right - I'm just worried that Aboriginal kids might still be taken out o.....
» 12/04/2011 12:52:08 PM Dear sweet Lexi, You have such a good heart, but my point was that the culture of Aborigi.....
» 11/04/2011 9:30:03 PM Hi Lexi, What is somebody's 'culture' ? Their heritage, the way their ancestors used to l.....
» 11/04/2011 2:04:11 PM Belly, Seriously, if there was a double dissolution, how many Senate seats would the Gree.....
» 11/04/2011 11:52:29 AM Hi Lexi, You're mostly right, about overcoming racism etc. But I would argue that Indigen.....
» 11/04/2011 9:41:06 AM Is it possible that the Prime Minister has a crafty plan ? With new Green Senators taking .....
» 10/04/2011 11:08:28 PM [cont.] QL, People aren't necessarily ground down by 'fate' or destiny, or even history.....
» 10/04/2011 11:03:01 PM QL, you know nothing. Please try to learn something. In the 'south', Aboriginal people h.....
» 10/04/2011 6:57:00 PM Lexi, Thank you, dear. Kath Walker's original was about 'pouring a bottle of wine in the.....
» 10/04/2011 5:44:12 PM Yes, a beautiful work of art. I wonder what Kath Walker would think of the situation tod.....
» 10/04/2011 2:29:27 PM Hey, that's a coincidence ! Yours are sometimes very beautiful, very 'inclusive', from the.....
» 10/04/2011 2:20:46 PM QL, With respect, that's a very defeatist attitude. You have to differentiate between dif.....
» 8/04/2011 4:08:05 PM Hi Cossomby, I'm not sure that what you finally conclude from your correct description of.....
» 7/04/2011 3:20:35 PM Well, QL, I don't think class size makes much difference, up to a point: after the salt mi.....
» 7/04/2011 10:54:41 AM QL, Try a minuet, they're great for anger management :) Yes, of course, there is corrupt.....
» 6/04/2011 8:00:45 PM LEAP, Well, going down into the salt-mines at four didn't do me any harm :).....
» 6/04/2011 10:40:38 AM Yes, everybody should be entitled to go on to UB for a time if they can't find work. But f.....
» 5/04/2011 4:39:07 PM OUG, yeah, As an ex-smoker, I fondly remember when a packet of fags cost only 3/4, i.e. 3.....
» 5/04/2011 11:08:06 AM Sorry, OUG, I've got a very short attention-span, about two seconds (very handy for an ex-.....
» 4/04/2011 10:19:33 PM Thinker 2, With the proviso that 'if you do the crime, you do the time', I couldn't agree.....
» 4/04/2011 7:17:57 PM Thinker 2, 'Learn and earn': pathways must be found and promoted to take people from wher.....
» 4/04/2011 4:48:17 PM OUG, What's the collective noun for stereotypes ? You've certainly provoked a search for .....
» 1/04/2011 5:55:29 PM Well, Suze, I'm not sure that LTU is good for anybody, Aboriginal people, the mentally imp.....
» 1/04/2011 12:30:40 PM [contd.] But there actually is some urgency: life on permanent UB is frighteningly deaden.....
» 1/04/2011 12:27:45 PM Suze, No, IMHO, it would be better to require people who do the crime, to do the time, an.....
» 1/04/2011 10:23:02 AM Thniker 2, Yes ! As you write, "those without actual opportunity through lack of sk.....
» 31/03/2011 10:31:54 AM Hi Hasbeen, "So how I feel about people is entirely up to them. Do your share, & pay.....
» 30/03/2011 6:55:58 PM Leap, "Karma has a way of rewarding all those for their deeds." God, I wish th.....
» 30/03/2011 5:49:59 PM Didn't say it would be easy, mate :) But ask yourself: why should some able-bodied peopl.....
» 30/03/2011 4:57:10 PM Well, Suze, every year it seems that fruit-growers are screaming out for labour when the p.....
» 30/03/2011 11:15:30 AM Well I don't know, Quantumleap, the last paid work I did at 61 was working in a beautiful .....
» 30/03/2011 10:14:57 AM There's pensions. And there's welfare. Seniors: If anybody reaches 65, and meets the ass.....
» 27/03/2011 7:03:25 PM Hi Lexi, Digby Wolfe - I haven't heard his name for nearly fifty years. Yes, we are all.....
» 27/03/2011 5:08:59 PM Lexi, On those three stages of Schopenhauer's: as Freud said, sometimes a cigar is just a.....
» 13/03/2011 1:26:11 PM Poirot, Your Toffler quote is not as off-topic as it might seem: " .... Within a si.....
» 10/03/2011 11:12:31 PM Jennifer, The Falklands War was very clearly started by the generals' junta in Argentina,.....
» 10/03/2011 12:42:14 PM I think I read about this revolution in The Australian, in more detail than I could find o.....
» 9/03/2011 11:05:05 AM Oops, got that URL of Umberto Eco's description of Ur-Fascism wrong, should have been: ht.....
» 8/03/2011 10:17:42 PM Formersnag, "Closet Communist Corporate Paedophiles .... " Utterly incoherent.....
» 8/03/2011 10:14:58 PM Miacat, Yes, you're right - there is a strong sense of elitism in some Indigenous organis.....
» 8/03/2011 5:30:42 PM A refreshingly hard-hitting and compassionate article. I would certainly endorse Sara's ob.....
» 8/03/2011 2:21:14 PM You're right, Phil. Pilger is a prolific writer, so I'm sure we can expect to read his ta.....
» 8/03/2011 12:59:41 PM Poirot, Yes, the struggle for equal rights is in EVERYBODY's interests. Liberte, Egalit.....
» 8/03/2011 12:21:01 PM Happy International Women's Day, everybody ...........
» 8/03/2011 12:17:25 PM I don't accept your characterisation of multiculturalism, LEGO, but that's for another tim.....
» 7/03/2011 7:48:33 PM Sorry folks, that reference to Vassili Grossman (1905-1964): he was the Soviet Union's chi.....
» 7/03/2011 7:35:34 PM LEGO, Interesting that you should note what Sajer said - I'm reading Vassili Grossman's '.....
» 7/03/2011 12:20:05 PM Thanks, David, it could be very timely :) I wish the Left would read books like that, if .....
» 7/03/2011 9:41:06 AM LEGO, The Left is an extremely broad church, and I still think of myself as being part of.....
» 7/03/2011 9:17:21 AM Interesting logic, Arjay: 1. If not-A [i.e. al Qaida involvement in 9/11], then B [i.e. U.....
» 6/03/2011 6:27:07 PM Oneundergod, No, democracy is not all it's cracked up to be, but it sure beats whatever c.....
» 6/03/2011 4:22:17 PM Davidf, If every criminal who didn't think he was doing anything particularly wrong, or t.....
» 6/03/2011 2:28:18 PM Davidf, Yes, you're right, torture is immoral and unnecessary. But to expand on your stat.....
» 6/03/2011 10:01:08 AM Vanna ! Will you listen to yourself, slightly re-arranged: ...... (A) women are oppresse.....
» 6/03/2011 9:45:04 AM LEGO, You may have a point. But what is overlooked in Hicks' case is that the organisatio.....
» 5/03/2011 4:17:47 PM Briar Rose, Just slightly off-topic, there is a brilliant little book by Amy Wax - Rights.....
» 5/03/2011 2:35:03 PM Lexi, You're right, Hicks should not have been mistreated - he should have been given pro.....
» 5/03/2011 12:55:00 PM Hi Pelican, You didn't finish your last sentence: "The Hicks story is .... about th.....
» 5/03/2011 9:48:26 AM Davidf, When you write, "David Hicks was neither a traitor nor a terrorist. He owe.....
» 4/03/2011 11:46:19 PM Arjay, Why do you keep asserting that the iron 'melted' ? Says who ? I'm no engineer but .....
» 4/03/2011 2:24:58 PM Pelican, Your comment, which I fully agree with, that ".... a passed out person or.....
» 4/03/2011 12:35:43 PM To add to what you are saying, Pericles, the bringing-down of the third building seems to .....
» 4/03/2011 11:07:50 AM As I understand it, Hicks was not an innocent picked up off the streets in Morphett Vale b.....
» 1/03/2011 10:38:27 PM What a weird mechanical world you live in, Arjay, where everybody (except you, of course) .....
» 1/03/2011 4:17:52 PM That's right, Jim, human beings, with equal human rights, and genuine equal opportunities......
» 1/03/2011 12:52:48 PM Hi again Jim, Inside Story has another useful article: http://inside.org.au/big-problems.....
» 1/03/2011 12:34:48 PM Jim, You might find this NT government media release interesting: NT Indigenous Expendi.....
» 27/02/2011 8:26:14 PM Arjay, Get some sense, when the Libyan people set up a new government, do you think they .....
» 27/02/2011 6:28:49 PM Thanks for your cryptic comments, Skeptic :) Another word that Pilger dare not speak is '.....
» 27/02/2011 9:59:08 AM Not necessarily, Jenny, I think that she has made a very accurate assessment. When Pilger.....
» 26/02/2011 6:47:00 PM Hazza, It's probably stretching reality a bit to call Ghaddafi an ally of the US - of Ven.....
» 26/02/2011 5:58:28 PM Jim, Mal Brough has an interesting proposal today: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/natio.....
» 26/02/2011 5:34:08 PM Skeptic, With respect, that last one-liner is another easy way out: the problem is what t.....
» 26/02/2011 4:33:23 PM I agree, Hazza, but this might be the easy way out: what if the people WANT intervention, .....
» 25/02/2011 7:28:19 PM Yes, Hazza, A good kick in the nuts if they intervene, and another good kick up the @rse .....
» 25/02/2011 1:10:22 PM Vk3AUU, Madiba Mandela also was friendly with Ghaddafi, but I'm certainly not going to ho.....
» 25/02/2011 11:14:27 AM David, And its bombing of its own unarmed population ? Machine-gunning its own unarmed po.....
» 25/02/2011 11:07:11 AM Hi Jim, Amicus speaks for himself, and I speak for myself. Frankly, I'm not as intereste.....
» 25/02/2011 9:25:36 AM This is a bit rich, John Pilger getting all indignant about tyrannies. The word 'fascism' .....
» 25/02/2011 9:03:01 AM Otokonoko, Thank you. Right on the button :).....
» 24/02/2011 10:40:30 PM "Just as when local governments spend most of their time deciding whether property ow.....
» 24/02/2011 11:59:14 AM Haz, Probably the nearest thing we currently have to direct democracy would be at the loc.....
» 23/02/2011 4:44:53 PM Hi Jim, Over the past few years on threads like this, I've put forward my own ideas about.....
» 23/02/2011 2:13:28 PM [cont.] People have to be actively involved in their own liberation, in their own self-de.....
» 23/02/2011 1:59:50 PM There's a brilliant little book out by Amy Wax, law professor somewhere in the US: "R.....
» 22/02/2011 12:34:06 PM Jim, Try to read what people write before you pre-judge what you think they might have wr.....
» 22/02/2011 10:25:29 AM Jim, I don't think you can keep using the Theft of Land or Terra Nullius excuses for the .....
» 22/02/2011 10:08:12 AM Bonmot, I think you are having a lend of me:) Individual and Suze and some other contribu.....
» 21/02/2011 8:52:59 PM 579, Barely ten per cent of Indigenous people live in rural and remote communities. As th.....
» 21/02/2011 7:12:26 PM Actually, Hazza, Aboriginal people, and all adults born in Australia, were recognised as c.....
» 21/02/2011 3:57:07 PM Hazza, Your # 4: the 1967 Referendum was not a vote on land rights, but on transferring p.....
» 21/02/2011 2:35:48 PM Hazza, Democracy also means that, given a free and fair election, one person-one vote, th.....
» 21/02/2011 12:58:05 PM Hazza, As I understand it, some cantons in Switzerland have only just recognised the righ.....
» 20/02/2011 8:24:55 PM Peter, Yes, I'm inclined to agree with the definition of socialism, as it has been applie.....
» 20/02/2011 6:59:55 PM One under god, If your desired position is B, and the current position is A, then the pro.....
» 20/02/2011 3:25:11 PM Sorry, Suze, but I have heard and read of so many people saying that they should have the .....
» 20/02/2011 1:21:25 PM Peter, i take your point about Hobbes but I did try to stress the people's involvement, p.....
» 20/02/2011 12:08:11 PM Peter, Turn that state/individual dichotomy around: ideally, the state has, with the supp.....
» 20/02/2011 11:25:05 AM If we are trying to find ways to improve on democracy, in an imperfect world, limited term.....
» 20/02/2011 10:38:02 AM David, Gomez' position is just one, clouded as it may be by religious dogma. Yours is an.....
» 20/02/2011 9:48:33 AM Peter, You might have to elaborate a bit on this: "There is no reason why everyone .....
» 20/02/2011 9:30:42 AM A J Philips, As I understand it, Buddhism has no gods and yet is regarded as a religion. .....
» 19/02/2011 8:05:41 PM David, "Are you saying I should not give an opinion? Pell does, the Pope does, Jense.....
» 19/02/2011 3:15:44 PM StG, Probably the same advice as we should give ourselves - work hard at it and never res.....
» 19/02/2011 3:06:45 PM These two brilliant articles should provide serious starting points for encouraging genuin.....
» 19/02/2011 11:26:20 AM Rusty, Yes, how on earth can you hate what doesn't exist ? Joe.....
» 19/02/2011 11:23:07 AM AFA Inc., So when you use that organisational title, that's not an appeal to authority ?.....
» 19/02/2011 9:29:18 AM Hi Belly, When you write: "WHY do we teach evolution then chant mindlessly about the.....
» 18/02/2011 10:16:08 PM Forgive me, Atheist Foundation of Australia Inc., but I would have thought that using the .....
» 18/02/2011 5:59:48 PM Vanna, I think that academics nowadays would certainly get brownie points from their univ.....
» 18/02/2011 5:51:36 PM Sorry to detain you further, Atheist Foundation of Australia Inc., [continued] I'm puzzl.....
» 18/02/2011 5:46:11 PM Dear Atheist Foundation of Australia Inc., Wow, that's some appeal to authority. How coul.....
» 18/02/2011 10:53:07 AM Briar Rose, Thank you for your valuable metaphor: 'the bum of progress'. Its association .....
» 18/02/2011 10:19:04 AM Hi 579, I partly agree with you: [Translated into standard English] "Loudmouth, You.....
» 18/02/2011 9:56:05 AM Dear Atheist Foundation of Australia Inc., Sorry, I was trying to be a smart-@rse - you d.....
» 17/02/2011 4:58:04 PM Runner, You say 'You are right however to define a fundie secularist as pigheaded and dog.....
» 17/02/2011 4:05:47 PM Hi Atheist Foundation of Australia Inc., I suppose a bit of ad hominem never hurt anybody.....
» 17/02/2011 3:12:08 PM Hi Atheist Foundation of Australia Inc., No, not everybody who has misgivings about eutha.....
» 17/02/2011 1:29:37 PM No, Runner, I'm quite sure in my own mind that there are no gods, never have been, never w.....
» 17/02/2011 12:48:47 PM Hi a597, In your statement that "Multicultural to me means the mixing of races, Thes.....
» 17/02/2011 12:37:23 PM Runner, Forgive me for disagreeing with almost every aspect of your definition of 'fundam.....
» 17/02/2011 11:55:20 AM Hi Hazza, [Sorry for following you around :) ] 'As I hear it Loudmouth, "euthanasia.....
» 17/02/2011 11:46:27 AM Hi Hazza, You know for sure, do you that 'Sweden [is] trying to frame someone for made-up.....
» 17/02/2011 8:47:53 AM DavidL, There seems to be some confusion between: * suicide - the right of a person to t.....
» 17/02/2011 7:38:51 AM Dear Runner, Could you please define what you mean by 'fundie secularist' and explain how.....
» 16/02/2011 9:42:17 PM Hi Grim, As an atheist, I don't have a problem with people holding religious views. The p.....
» 16/02/2011 6:35:13 PM Pericles, I am honoured by your praise. But I really did mean everyone, left and right, f.....
» 16/02/2011 6:09:14 PM Hazza, Yes, but above and beyond all that, what well may be looming as more serious is a .....
» 16/02/2011 2:38:21 PM Cherful, I sympathise with the dilemma that you describe but when you write 'If other men.....
» 16/02/2011 2:22:59 PM 579. 'Migrate' and 'immigrate' are intransitive verbs: one migrates to or from somewhere,.....
» 16/02/2011 8:45:48 AM Individual, As Steven says, there is probably no such thing as a perfect democracy and ne.....
» 16/02/2011 7:54:20 AM Bronwyn, As long as we remember that 'culture', anthropologically speaking, is the pretti.....
» 15/02/2011 10:24:04 PM And as I understand it, Hazza, not just Saudi Arabia but other Arab (mainly Sunni) countri.....
» 15/02/2011 12:34:31 PM I'm with Poirot: Salman Rushdie said: "What is freedom of expression? Without the fr.....
» 15/02/2011 12:22:19 PM Austin, Is it possible that we are witnessing a struggle between a secular Right, a secul.....
» 15/02/2011 12:11:25 PM Philip, Perhaps not Islam, per se, but the aggressive form of it which seeks to obliterat.....
» 15/02/2011 11:56:13 AM Good points, Hazza. As an old socialist, I've come to believe that genuine socialism will.....
» 15/02/2011 10:12:02 AM Pelican, Yes but remember that Assange hasn't been charged at all yet with anything assoc.....
» 14/02/2011 8:54:45 PM Hazza, On your support for all leakers: I wonder if the leaking of all of China's (or Rus.....
» 13/02/2011 8:07:34 PM Spot-on, Individual, I fully agree. People, Black and White, earn their tertiary education.....
» 13/02/2011 6:59:05 PM Squeers, "Why is our way of life the default moral position, which need never test i.....
» 13/02/2011 6:54:30 PM Sorry Jedimaster, I was stupidly trying to be facetious and shallow. I'll read all of the .....
» 13/02/2011 3:31:14 PM Hazz, Why do you think it isn't all the Swedes' doing ? Notice they are so far coming out.....
» 13/02/2011 3:14:12 PM Individual, For everyone, yes: perhaps for the year after they finish secondary school, a.....
» 13/02/2011 11:30:43 AM Here's something to think about: On May 27, it will be 44 years since the historic refere.....
» 13/02/2011 11:08:08 AM Probably because this thread has degenerated into an argumentum ad nauseam......
» 1/02/2011 3:43:43 PM Suze, Comments about " .... any other usually private information about their life ......
» 1/02/2011 11:16:24 AM Jedimaster, Actually, I enjoy a good ad hominem - it's a sure sign that the 'ad hominer' .....
» 31/01/2011 2:23:30 PM Hi Rollo, Aboriginal people, wherever they are, are Australian citizens. They are as enti.....
» 30/01/2011 6:59:11 PM Aka, There are NO panaceas ! Not even education. Such things help, rather than hinder, bu.....
» 30/01/2011 4:36:49 PM Hi Aka, You amply demonstrate my claim that " .... people make the easy assumption t.....
» 30/01/2011 4:24:49 PM Hi Maracas1, Our paths have probably crossed in those fifty years :) In the south (east .....
» 30/01/2011 11:47:07 AM Cornonacob, You're spot-on, people have far more opportunities than they are often led to.....
» 30/01/2011 10:25:34 AM Ghumi, Second time lucky. Try 'The Aboriginal Child at School', 1984, and early ninetie.....
» 30/01/2011 10:04:40 AM Thanks Aka,good to hear from you: I'm not so sure that 'assimilation', even as you define.....
» 29/01/2011 7:39:23 PM Hi Ghumi, You're right, and I've written a couple of articles for OLO, and had a couple p.....
» 29/01/2011 11:15:05 AM Zelig, Re your reference to assimilation in the 50s and 60s: is it coincidental that what.....
» 28/01/2011 5:11:41 PM You could be right, Zelig, that government policy's " ... second prong is simply to, .....
» 28/01/2011 2:49:21 PM This timely article really makes me wonder what people on the ground think is covered by t.....
» 28/01/2011 10:17:26 AM Hi Ghumi, An interesting comment: how am I attacking Aboriginal rights ? Or lurking to at.....
» 26/01/2011 1:04:21 PM Hi Thermoman, So are you suggesting that, if " .... America took in countless mill.....
» 26/01/2011 12:53:26 PM Thank you, Cherful, for your concern about my knees, not that they're much use at my age. .....
» 25/01/2011 11:29:01 PM Thank you, Grateful - but I hope that 'Yvonne Ridley' is not a pseudonym for a spokesperso.....
» 25/01/2011 11:54:48 AM On the subject of the three-way struggle between conservatives (bourgeoisie, landowners, p.....
» 24/01/2011 9:16:38 PM Yeah, sorry Grateful, that was pretty childish :( No offense intended. Back to topic .... .....
» 24/01/2011 3:50:15 PM Yes, exactly, Grapefruit, not all Muslims are fundamentalists, any more than adherents to .....
» 24/01/2011 1:18:48 PM Sam, You know, you've got me thinking: " .... we are set to witness the slow dying .....
» 24/01/2011 11:50:12 AM Thanks for the serve, Sam: " ... the people who do apparently hold to the view that .....
» 23/01/2011 8:40:48 PM SPQR, Point taken, but given that there would be a very broad spectrum of opinion, belief.....
» 23/01/2011 8:13:27 PM Hi Arjay, The word is 'fascist'. And of course, not all Muslims are fascist, far from it......
» 23/01/2011 7:41:13 PM SPQR, But weren't those guys Sunni ? Wahhabism and support for a world-wide Caliphate, by.....
» 23/01/2011 6:50:36 PM Hi again Al, Yeah, it's been an absolute tragedy in Algeria ever since, and perhaps even .....
» 23/01/2011 6:36:46 PM Al, With respect, I think the Hazaras are descended from the Mongol invaders from the nor.....
» 23/01/2011 4:46:44 PM Thank you, Grateful, that Fisk article is brilliant, as one would expect from him. AGiR,.....
» 23/01/2011 11:17:05 AM Hi Cherful, Before you break my knee-caps and I plead guilty, in my defence I did say: &.....
» 22/01/2011 7:55:18 PM Hi Divergence, I don't know if you intended it as such but your second and third paragrap.....
» 22/01/2011 6:17:56 PM Thanks Lexi, yes, she certainly was. I was incredibly lucky......
» 22/01/2011 2:42:27 PM A very interesting article, which can be related to what might be going on in Egypt and Sy.....
» 22/01/2011 7:32:33 AM So Arjay ...... are you trying to make a new case for another Immigration Restriction Act .....
» 21/01/2011 8:02:52 PM AGiR, As a born-socialist, I have become painfully aware late in life of the definition, .....
» 21/01/2011 7:48:02 PM Yes Lexi, that first quote is right on the button: my wife's career was destroyed by a psy.....
» 21/01/2011 3:40:07 PM Pelican and Banjo, Yes, is culture sometimes (often ? always?) an imaginative way to just.....
» 21/01/2011 3:18:48 PM Perhaps as David concludes, on the one hand there are nice people in the world (who suppor.....
» 21/01/2011 11:28:05 AM Re that quote, “There is no opinion, however absurd, which men will not readily embrace .....
» 20/01/2011 11:25:57 PM Hi Lexi, I don't think you have to worry about population over-shoot, as long as women ar.....
» 20/01/2011 4:14:47 PM Thanks, Lexi. Coming from a lifetime on the left, I am well aware that authoritarians can .....
» 20/01/2011 3:00:53 PM Thanks, Lexi, it's very timely that you bring up what Adorno wrote about. I'm very intrigu.....
» 20/01/2011 9:12:22 AM I rest my case, DB, thank you :) Now, is there any chance that we can get back to the iss.....
» 19/01/2011 9:25:56 PM Thank you for a fascinating discussion. From one side: alarmists, from the other: denialis.....
» 18/01/2011 10:09:41 PM Hi Skeptic, One in every nine Indigenous adults is a university graduate, almost all sinc.....
» 18/01/2011 1:38:32 PM You're right, Stezza, it's a matter of location rather than race or culture. In fact, I .....
» 18/01/2011 9:57:08 AM Mr Tomlinson rightly asks: "How was it, then, that the Hawke, Keating and Howard gov.....
» 17/01/2011 10:10:09 AM I don't know, Leo, do surveyors talk about 'reloading' ?.....
» 17/01/2011 10:01:20 AM That's okay, Landrights, not many issues are simply either/or, there are usually too many .....
» 16/01/2011 3:47:40 PM Thanks, Bonmot, points taken......
» 15/01/2011 10:12:42 AM You could be onto something, Aleister, about drastic population decline: how many of those.....
» 15/01/2011 10:06:17 AM So, let's get this straight: * years of drought - AGW * most of eastern Australia under .....
» 15/01/2011 9:45:59 AM Hi Yabby, It's not either-or: either one-child or open slather. China could have tried a .....
» 14/01/2011 2:37:06 PM [contd.] Perhaps by 2050-2060, the Chinese population will start to decline, eighty years.....
» 14/01/2011 2:32:47 PM [cont.] Many of the young people born between now and 2040, G2, will still have aged grea.....
» 13/01/2011 1:35:27 PM Hi Pericles, China has gone down the path that Sandra Kanck has suggested as an ideal. Ov.....
» 12/01/2011 11:06:41 PM So Yabby, let me see if I've got this right ..... The people of Africa, South America and .....
» 12/01/2011 8:29:09 PM Hi again Bonmot, Just checking your http://tinyurl.com/SAlineartrend - I can see where .....
» 12/01/2011 8:18:39 PM Bonmot, Just checking those URLs you kindly provided: http://tinyurl.com/SAtrendmap, for .....
» 12/01/2011 8:11:13 PM Sorry, Bonmot, Mt Crawford Forests was the first monitoring site which I picked which was .....
» 12/01/2011 8:04:01 PM Hiya Yabby, You were saying, "there was silly old me, thinking that those vast rainf.....
» 12/01/2011 4:13:55 PM Someone should point out that Europe is far more over-populated than, say, Africa, or Sout.....
» 12/01/2011 11:18:53 AM Isn't it fun to accuse other people of the most extreme positions ? So, in this 'discussio.....
» 11/01/2011 11:38:40 PM Hi Bonmot, I'm glad you're enjoying yourself. Not being a scientist, I'm not really sure .....
» 11/01/2011 5:04:06 PM Spot on, Pericles, as usual. Even many of those anti-pops would concede that they have som.....
» 11/01/2011 9:20:33 AM Not either/or, Grim, but all: we have to combat all forms of pollution, as well as AGW, sp.....
» 10/01/2011 10:38:27 PM Bonmot, Indeed we do ..... Okay, I'll try to check out whether what he claims is valid......
» 10/01/2011 8:19:43 PM Well, there is a hell of a lot more, Grim, contributing to pollution than 'just' coal. By .....
» 10/01/2011 2:28:11 PM Grim, Your comment, that "I keep finding myself arguing on the side of the so called.....
» 9/01/2011 5:37:04 PM Bonmot, No, not cynical - sceptical. Cynicism is utterly useless, but scepticism is absol.....
» 9/01/2011 12:29:24 PM You're right, Bonmot, there are evil people in the world, as well as stooges, dupes, fools.....
» 9/01/2011 10:35:58 AM Thanks for the serve, Bonmot, you confirm my argument :) Yes, of course, there is eviden.....
» 9/01/2011 10:22:40 AM [continued] In the real world, Quayle, any sort of service provision has a sort of thresh.....
» 9/01/2011 10:18:07 AM Quayle, [continued] Your take on remote-community child abuse: how do you want it, that .....
» 9/01/2011 10:14:13 AM Hi Quayle, You're right that "you have to be versed in Indigenous issues to have a c.....
» 9/01/2011 8:24:07 AM Rache, I guess ad hominem arguments can take many forms, from the crudest insults to the .....
» 4/01/2011 9:30:08 PM Hi Yabby, "Its always about the poor female and the evil male. Ha!" Well yes, .....
» 4/01/2011 4:01:47 PM Alice (and Michael), Yes, I hope that your analogy does not extend to witch-burning ! So .....
» 3/01/2011 9:42:57 PM Csteele, Don't take much notice of Yabby, you would certainly be not only within your righ.....
» 1/01/2011 1:41:00 PM Thanks, OUG, for that revealing article: http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpol.....
» 31/12/2010 5:18:36 PM Cornflower, Either way, uni or TAFE, professional or trades skills, that's the way to go......
» 31/12/2010 5:08:26 PM Rex, What you say about the evil US may be true AND Assange could still be found guilty o.....
» 31/12/2010 2:59:14 PM Why, why, why Delilah ?! Is what you describe your notion of what you might become withou.....
» 31/12/2010 12:04:48 PM [contd] I also suspect that TAFE - i.e. at its lowest levels - is seen by many in the Ind.....
» 31/12/2010 11:56:59 AM Hi Cornflower, 24 hours are up :) You were asking: "What many would most likely wa.....
» 30/12/2010 4:24:35 PM We shape our purposes, Runner, we 'create' them, not that anything ever runs perfectly to .....
» 30/12/2010 4:01:21 PM I'll get in first, Runner. What I wish you had written was: "There is no ..... God e.....
» 30/12/2010 1:59:51 PM Thanks, David, but how does that square with your comment that: "I have just come ba.....
» 30/12/2010 1:41:24 PM Ah PeterA, I love a bloke who has firm convictions, who can wrap up an argument, no ifs or.....
» 30/12/2010 11:32:18 AM [cont.] Well into the nineties, most Aboriginal people enrolling at university came from .....
» 30/12/2010 11:27:31 AM David, Thanks for your comment. 'Different opportunitis' ? No, I don't think so: all peop.....
» 30/12/2010 7:52:56 AM Thanks Rainier, yes, she's always on my shoulder :).....
» 25/12/2010 10:50:57 AM Spot-on, Pericles. Merry Christmas :).....
» 23/12/2010 11:52:25 AM On top of that, Individual, given that funding for BS organisations is being wound dowm, t.....
» 23/12/2010 10:46:08 AM Thank you for those comments, I will try to respond to those worth responding to. Thank y.....
» 22/12/2010 4:02:46 PM Last I heard, Murdoch had one vote, just like the rest of us. [How naive !] The point is:.....
» 22/12/2010 12:50:46 PM So Whistler, .......... are you channelling Pericles ? What's your point ? When you have .....
» 22/12/2010 12:46:25 PM Welcome back, Aka ! Rent per head ? What, about $ 20 per head per week ? If it was up to .....
» 22/12/2010 7:39:50 AM The US accused Bolivian President Morales of acting like a four-year-old ? Good God ! How .....
» 22/12/2010 6:37:20 AM Still on-topic :) There's a brilliant little book just published by Doubleday: 'Disintegr.....
» 21/12/2010 8:33:38 PM We'll never know, Proxy :).....
» 21/12/2010 7:24:12 PM Yes mudpuppy, the Swedes - and who is behind them (or so they want you to think) ? Exactly.....
» 21/12/2010 3:09:50 PM [cont.] Part of the problem for small communities is that, even if everyone was skilled i.....
» 21/12/2010 3:01:04 PM Hi Mog, The problem is that that jumble of proposals has been substantially in place for .....
» 21/12/2010 12:12:53 PM Mog, ' .... deficit beliefs about Aboriginal people ... ' ? I hardly trhink so. What Suze.....
» 20/12/2010 11:53:16 AM It baffles me why people like Mr Nicholson, perhaps unwittingly, protect not just the corr.....
» 19/12/2010 2:32:28 PM Whistler, At the risk of providing you with more oxygen, your comment: "Do you agre.....
» 18/12/2010 12:24:08 PM Sorry, Liz, I certainly didn't mean you, only those who go on about banning the almost non.....
» 18/12/2010 11:27:15 AM So Liz, 1. Give Afghanistan back to the Taliban to exploit as an Islamist haven ? 2. Put.....
» 18/12/2010 9:55:30 AM Thank you, Proxy: it must be difficult for such reactionary societies - they need women, b.....
» 18/12/2010 8:55:44 AM And why isn't Briah Howes out on bail ? Is he a flight risk ? Did he have 'no fixed addres.....
» 17/12/2010 11:02:07 PM Thank you, TurnRightThenLeft, I think you nailed it :) While Liu Xiao Bo languishes (ther.....
» 17/12/2010 3:59:01 PM Sorry, Graham. Both Assange and Liu Xiao Bo deserve fair trials, they should be an integr.....
» 17/12/2010 1:48:50 PM Yebiga, So we pull out of Afghanistan and leave it to the Islamists ? Is there another wa.....
» 17/12/2010 11:53:32 AM Yebiga, He's out. He's able to walk the streets. Get used to it. Damn, there goes a pote.....
» 17/12/2010 11:42:43 AM "I just feel sorry for the ugly ones." Thank you, Jewely, it's about time we go.....
» 16/12/2010 10:59:59 PM Hi Proxy, Yeah, even in Adelaide, we don't see too many boogey-men either. I thought I sa.....
» 16/12/2010 5:50:50 PM Yes, Poirot: 'A FAIR TRIAL FOR ASSANGE ! A FAIR TRIAL FOR LIU XIAO BO !' That would fit .....
» 16/12/2010 5:48:41 PM Good points, Liz. I don't think I've ever seen a woman in a burqa, but then I live a ver.....
» 16/12/2010 5:13:59 PM Yes indeed, Poirot, and since we are assuming that governments' -particularly the US gover.....
» 16/12/2010 4:02:26 PM Yes Poirot, nasty governments ! Bad governments ! After all, the options in, say, Afghani.....
» 16/12/2010 2:24:11 PM Yes indeed Liz, " .... we're far from being entitled to take the high moral ground! .....
» 14/12/2010 10:52:44 PM Proxy, I really do think it is time to scrap these thoroughly out-dated notions of Left a.....
» 14/12/2010 10:38:14 PM G'day Alison, Yes, there are many white people who hop in and claim to be Indigenous. I w.....
» 14/12/2010 11:29:28 AM Hi Whistler, Please help me if you can: I am still aghast at my incomprehension to unders.....
» 13/12/2010 5:19:59 PM Ah Liz, would that there were alternatives: * 'them' * 'us' * a vacuum, but it is not .....
» 13/12/2010 1:56:58 PM James, Thanks for those insights: Stalin's trials all staged yada yada, ergo ..... All tr.....
» 13/12/2010 11:30:29 AM 579, Well ..... yes ..... it's called 'consent' ..... without consent, it can be called '.....
» 13/12/2010 10:28:16 AM Well, Poirot, there are always at least two ways we can go: * take what we hear at face v.....
» 13/12/2010 9:02:34 AM James, And what if the shoe is on the other foot ? Isn't that up to a court to decide ? N.....
» 12/12/2010 10:40:15 PM Liz, So we give it all over to the Taliban ? No ? Your other option is ..... ? It's a d.....
» 12/12/2010 4:32:33 PM So Liz ..... Are you suggesting that the position of women in Afghanistan would be better.....
» 12/12/2010 3:48:21 PM [cont.] Is it possible then, that in some societies, women are not seen as attractive and.....
» 12/12/2010 3:44:29 PM Thank you, Graham: hopefully some sense of adult maturity can be restored. Re the positio.....
» 12/12/2010 2:28:00 PM Whistler, Yes, you are right, I have great difficulty comprehending your oversufficiency .....
» 12/12/2010 12:29:42 PM Thank you Forrest, that's very intriguing: before the 1967 Referendum, the states retained.....
» 11/12/2010 12:54:45 PM Jay, With the greatest respect, I don't think you understand anything much at all. In th.....
» 11/12/2010 10:42:48 AM Anti-green, Andrew Bolt wants to be careful, he could get himself sued for making such of.....
» 11/12/2010 8:32:07 AM 'Trickle = flood' 'Inter-marriage = limiting births = genocide' 'Inter-marriage = loweri.....
» 10/12/2010 6:03:26 PM Deep-Blue, Sorry, I lost this thread somehow. No, I would be happy if the Wikileaks wer.....
» 10/12/2010 2:10:29 PM It certainly does, Arminius: (a) : nope, not happening [at least, not because of volunta.....
» 10/12/2010 1:45:29 PM My medication has been mucking my eyesight up for days and addling my brain, but as far as.....
» 10/12/2010 11:29:34 AM AGiR/Arjay, I just love all of your spoofs on conspiracy theories - keep them coming ! .....
» 10/12/2010 10:08:14 AM Hi Arminius, No, I have never said that genocide is inevitable: point me to a quote :) Fo.....
» 9/12/2010 11:09:21 PM Whistler, You wrote: "There are easily sufficient members of Australia's parliamen.....
» 9/12/2010 5:34:24 PM Hi Jay, First, nobody is 'flooding' Australia with anybody, except Poms and Kiwis, as far.....
» 9/12/2010 11:02:48 AM And for some, it's (at least) a four-sided world - us, the Yanks, Islamist terrorists, and.....
» 9/12/2010 7:20:40 AM James, Yes, you are right, all human rights issues are important. But some of those issue.....
» 8/12/2010 11:02:39 PM It's a very imperfect world , Arjay: here we are, with the US on one side and medieval rea.....
» 8/12/2010 9:37:19 PM As I understand it, secular systems, states - e.g., our state and federal systems - recogn.....
» 8/12/2010 7:06:28 PM Jay, Without the slightest hesitation, I support inter-marriage - marriage between willin.....
» 8/12/2010 5:19:33 PM But, Bonmot, notice that the writer of that paper sounds Swedish. What might that tell you.....
» 8/12/2010 4:21:12 PM Jay, Nobody is saying that, as each beautiful, coffee-coloured baby is born, some pasty W.....
» 8/12/2010 4:09:33 PM [cont.] As for our grandkids being coffee-coloured, I'm not engineering it - it's happeni.....
» 8/12/2010 10:05:12 AM And this insight: " .... all women in all fifteen legislatures which govern Australi.....
» 8/12/2010 9:51:24 AM Whistler, You wrote: "It can .... be a criminal offence to incite the provision of e.....
» 7/12/2010 10:31:02 PM It's interesting where an ideology of separatism leads, isn't it ? Hazza, Sorry for misr.....
» 7/12/2010 3:53:08 PM Hi Jay, No, with respect, I don't think we agree on very much at all. For example, I do.....
» 7/12/2010 11:29:23 AM Jay: "When Joe talks about the "Beutiful Polyglot" Scotland he's justifyin.....
» 7/12/2010 11:03:23 AM Interesting company you keep, Hazza. Jay, you wrote: "The dilution with non Indigen.....
» 6/12/2010 8:44:12 PM Hazza, Just to add to what Spindoc wrote, Scotland is probably not unique in being the pr.....
» 6/12/2010 3:10:57 PM Hazza, I think spindoc's point was that ALL adults who live in the REGION called Scotland.....
» 5/12/2010 5:03:15 PM Wouldn't it be fascinating if Wikileaks could hack into Chinese or Russian government emai.....
» 5/12/2010 4:34:32 PM Hazza, In connection with your remarks about integration in the cities: * around ninety .....
» 5/12/2010 2:56:02 PM [continued] And what is implied by that last clause: '... in such manner as they would ha.....
» 5/12/2010 11:27:18 AM Mr Gump, In relation to your mention of this myth of 'terra nullius': A few years back, .....
» 4/12/2010 3:43:12 PM Thanks, Hazza, for supporting my interpretation of Scotland's (and, by extension, any Abor.....
» 4/12/2010 1:42:07 PM [cont.] I shouldn't be too hard on Mansell [I live in hope that he has one of those slap-.....
» 4/12/2010 1:35:41 PM 24-hours are up :) Thanks Lexi, I'm not all that lovely, really. Don't let internal appe.....
» 3/12/2010 7:55:11 PM Sarnian, The US has bases all over the world ? Sure, it has plenty, but none in Africa so.....
» 3/12/2010 4:26:39 PM Blue Cross, I thought the only thing Donald Horne would be 'up-dating' would be the daisi.....
» 3/12/2010 2:10:51 PM Sorry, Hazza, I still don't know what you are on about. Who are you whingeing about now ? .....
» 3/12/2010 1:40:51 PM Hasbeen, No, not at all ! The great majority of Indigenous graduates are in the mainstrea.....
» 3/12/2010 12:59:17 PM Arjay, And what is one of the countries with abundant supplies of hydric acid ? Sweden ! .....
» 3/12/2010 12:43:19 PM Lexi, Actually something IS working, and the Indigenous people are doing it themselves, w.....
» 3/12/2010 12:28:58 PM Hazza, [Sorry, mate, I'm a republican]: you wrote: "I think we should make a speci.....
» 2/12/2010 3:04:20 PM Taswegian, According to Wikipedia, "Death Valley, a desert with large expanses bel.....
» 30/11/2010 12:33:08 PM How long is a 'trend' ? If memory serves me correctly, last year's northern winter was o.....
» 28/11/2010 9:26:08 PM Arjay, " ... cave dwellers in Afghanistan could not possibly do 911 ... " Who .....
» 28/11/2010 4:07:30 PM Arjay, No, JFK did not refer to the military-industrial complex, but to communism, and pe.....
» 28/11/2010 12:47:24 PM Arjay, Once and for all, it was not JFK who referred to the military-industrial complex, .....
» 27/11/2010 2:13:04 PM Arjay, Your analysis is interesting: do you have any proof for any of your statements ab.....
» 25/11/2010 2:04:26 PM I think, Huggins, that you are trying to have a lend of us :) OUG's contributions border o.....
» 18/11/2010 5:34:44 PM Extropian, "a China, deeply enculturated to the rule of emperors, asserting its righ.....
» 17/11/2010 5:24:37 PM Thanks, Arjay, a dose of conspiracy is sometimes refreshing: "Follow this logic. The.....
» 16/11/2010 4:55:28 PM 579, you're right, especially if you mean affluent, middle-class customers, but how many s.....
» 16/11/2010 11:52:21 AM Whistler, I checked out that thread and still couldn't make any sense out of the idea of .....
» 16/11/2010 9:16:46 AM So Grok, are you suggesting that, if capitalism and its stooges have killed as many people.....
» 14/11/2010 1:18:40 PM Amanda, I know nothing of forensic science, but if the exact site (or sites) of the Conis.....
» 14/11/2010 10:04:44 AM No, CJ, I'm saying that private land business undertaken by women in patriarchal/patriline.....
» 13/11/2010 6:05:37 PM CJ, No, of course not, there must have been many massacres across the country, it's a mat.....
» 13/11/2010 11:50:44 AM Whistler, Is it possible for you to write anything but rubbish ? Women's business indeed......
» 12/11/2010 5:23:30 PM [contd.] By definition, massacres are secret. But this does not necessarily mean that the.....
» 12/11/2010 5:17:48 PM Whistler, Would a men's and a women's legislature each deliberate over the same issues, o.....
» 12/11/2010 12:32:34 PM Whistler, are you suggesting that separate men's and women's legislative bodies might have.....
» 12/11/2010 11:17:03 AM Pelican, "Terrorists are often fragmented groups, one arm not fully cognisant of wha.....
» 11/11/2010 10:57:18 AM Bitey, Thirty five-odd years ago, I was living in a community here in southern SA. Funera.....
» 9/11/2010 11:12:46 PM Of course I meant 'emu-EGG carvers' - emus never stand still long enough to let you carve .....
» 9/11/2010 11:10:17 PM Aka, "Loudmouth, I know of many "sit-down, hand-out" whitefellas. Some of .....
» 9/11/2010 10:41:14 AM By the end of this year, there will be around twenty six and a half thousand Indigenous un.....
» 5/11/2010 6:04:36 PM G'day, Aka, you took your time :) I fully agree with you, that 'Australia's first peoples.....
» 5/11/2010 7:51:40 AM Ho Hum, Hi, Yes, interesting times in the US as the children take over the asylum: now we.....
» 4/11/2010 4:55:15 PM Hi Ho Hum, Shoe-throwers, mouth-frothers - what's the difference ? Inarticulateness is no.....
» 4/11/2010 11:05:58 AM Ozzie, When you write, 'this author has no idea what he's talking about. He is arrogant, .....
» 4/11/2010 10:43:07 AM Yes, Riz, isn't it weird that the arena in which one can express one's views most fully, L.....
» 3/11/2010 7:53:41 PM On the other hand, rpg, here's a more positive thesis: * since 1990, of the 300,000 Indig.....
» 3/11/2010 8:43:10 AM David, Yes, that move in 'settled' Australia tended to take place after the War and up to.....
» 2/11/2010 4:51:36 PM Right on, Gypsy: "What many of us forget WE ARE ALL AUSTRALIAN PEOPLE NOW. We all ha.....
» 2/11/2010 4:40:21 PM Grok, Marx could not, any more than anyone else, predict what might 'emerge' out of the d.....
» 1/11/2010 1:47:08 PM It would be an interesting exercise to 'manufacture' human groups as if they are distinct .....
» 1/11/2010 12:07:55 PM [cont.] When I worked in Indigenous student support at the Uni of SA (Kerry's old uni), i.....
» 1/11/2010 12:05:22 PM My understanding is that the government has given $ 26 million over five years, something .....
» 31/10/2010 3:01:33 PM Grok. It's not an either/or world, black vs. white, all-bad vs. all-good. Many of us part.....
» 28/10/2010 3:34:02 PM AGiR, You might be onto something. We're not talking about just miners who spend forty ye.....
» 28/10/2010 9:30:13 AM Dear little Grok, Oh, for the days of 1848, ay ? Oh, for the heroism of the barricades, t.....
» 27/10/2010 12:24:08 PM Grok, I've put my life into this. All I'm asking is: is it possible ? And all the eviden.....
» 27/10/2010 9:54:21 AM There have surely been hundreds, if not thousands, of attempts to implement some form of s.....
» 21/10/2010 10:59:21 AM Yeahyougotapointthere[A]micus...... I t ' s all a bit hard on us_old_buggers_who have_to_.....
» 19/10/2010 5:25:29 PM Spot on, Pete.....
» 19/10/2010 3:05:20 PM OUGI must ... [say] that ... my [eyes] go crossed when I read blank verse how to make any .....
» 19/10/2010 2:57:35 PM Thanks vanna, <<Where does al-Qaida get its arms supplies?>> Wouldn't have a .....
» 19/10/2010 12:12:17 PM OUG: Do you mean that a contributor gets PAID 5 points each contribution, while commente.....
» 18/10/2010 4:33:56 PM Vanna, Thanks for the serve. Why does China fear al-Qaida ? 1. Its western colony, Xinj.....
» 18/10/2010 3:52:52 PM [Deleted. Off-topic.].....
» 18/10/2010 3:35:10 PM Arjay, Containing China ?! Check this out: http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2009-10/08/.....
» 18/10/2010 10:21:58 AM [cont.] There is nothing inevitable about the thesis - antithesis - synthesis process [an.....
» 18/10/2010 10:20:46 AM As Davidf wrote: <<Capitalism is not natural law. Any of its aspects can be challen.....
» 16/10/2010 1:52:17 PM Hi Grok, Thanks for the empty ad hominems: they indicate the bankruptcy of your defenses .....
» 16/10/2010 12:12:49 PM Grok, Can we try to get beyond talking about stalinism, as if that form of totalitarianis.....
» 16/10/2010 8:35:47 AM Why don't we call it what it is - suicide ? Yes, legalise it, and put far more into counse.....
» 15/10/2010 1:09:24 PM Grok and Squeers, If that's the best you can offer, I don't see any reason to change what.....
» 15/10/2010 11:51:45 AM Thank you, Squeers, Yeah, my own exploration for options dates from about 1961-62. Still.....
» 15/10/2010 10:52:36 AM Thank you, Squeers - I thought that what I wrote was a devastating attack precisely on bin.....
» 15/10/2010 9:40:35 AM Grok and Squeers, I see. So there is only (a) capitalism, and (b) violent revolution ? T.....
» 14/10/2010 10:45:01 PM Hi rpg, I second your support and enjoyment of the cut and thrust of vigorous debate. A.....
» 14/10/2010 1:03:17 PM Thank you, grok, but there WAS the Red Terror, then the famine, which between them killed .....
» 13/10/2010 8:09:33 PM Bushbred, Well, there you go ! OLO is a sort of antidote to the careful, colorless, bland.....
» 13/10/2010 7:37:07 PM Grok, Thanks for your question: Lenin's butchery was much like other butcheries, a = b =.....
» 12/10/2010 10:52:20 PM Ah, Poirot, Grok has been talking about the EARLY Marx - you and Fromm are talking about t.....
» 12/10/2010 5:32:13 PM " .... the first time ....... as tragedy.".....
» 12/10/2010 5:31:10 PM Yes, as Marx noted, history often happens twice, * the first time (Belgium 1830, Europe .....
» 12/10/2010 4:55:30 PM Thank you, Grok, for reiterating my points. Cacophonous pie-hole - that's a fair descripti.....
» 12/10/2010 11:43:37 AM Yes, pushing the wrong political line, even inadvertently, can destroy careers. Back in th.....
» 12/10/2010 11:00:16 AM I've enjoyed the comments from both Diver Dan and Aka - whatever genuinely makes you think.....
» 12/10/2010 9:57:07 AM Thank you for clarifying the pro-euthanasia position, David. So, from what you write, the.....
» 11/10/2010 5:14:55 PM What did we do before OLO came along ? Graham and Susan, thank you for your dedication and.....
» 11/10/2010 8:01:04 AM Thank you, Pericles, but in my defence, I did write: " ... better palliative care, pa.....
» 10/10/2010 11:06:31 PM Spot-on with everything you write, Cornflower. Thank you. Joe.....
» 10/10/2010 12:41:42 PM A devastating riposte, David :( Please let me clarify: I would support the decriminalisat.....
» 10/10/2010 10:08:53 AM Really, McReal ? David G wrote on Friday: "We don't have to fill in forms to prove t.....
» 9/10/2010 6:12:06 PM Gilbert,m My crude understanding of Marx's reference to the dialectic is that dynamically.....
» 8/10/2010 7:13:46 PM Thank you, Pericles, I'm certainly not suggesting that INvoluntary euthanasia will, hopefu.....
» 8/10/2010 4:21:42 PM Grok, Your arrogance is just breath-taking ! You are either some sixteen-year-old twit wh.....
» 8/10/2010 4:09:31 PM Your majesty, So we will never see the words 'dementia' and 'euthanasia' in the same sent.....
» 8/10/2010 3:59:29 PM Yes, Ozandy and the same goes for those of us who do NOT want to get topped. As a 67-year-.....
» 8/10/2010 12:14:18 PM Grok, [cont] So given that there must be something better than capitalism, and that soci.....
» 8/10/2010 12:04:36 PM Yes, Poirot, a pox on capitalism. I'm sure many of us on this thread would agree wholehear.....
» 8/10/2010 11:37:02 AM HFR, As a foundation member of Atheists Against Euthanasia, I have to point out that it i.....
» 7/10/2010 12:02:30 PM Sorry, Oug, I haven't been reading your posts - in that blank-verse style, like with a lot.....
» 7/10/2010 12:02:55 AM Hi Arjay, <<The war in Afghanistan is a lie,just like Iraq.I can prove it.>> .....
» 5/10/2010 5:02:33 PM You've nailed it, HFR: as Richard Dawkins wrote just after 9/11, one of the most dangerous.....
» 5/10/2010 2:23:29 PM Straw man, David. While I believe that you (and you alone) should have the right to bring .....
» 5/10/2010 8:39:33 AM Your Majesty, Forgive me but I do think that in your option (1), if a person is capable o.....
» 5/10/2010 8:21:02 AM Grok, So let's get this straight: as we approach Marx's bicentenary, there haven't yet be.....
» 4/10/2010 9:11:37 PM King Hazza, Okay, with the proviso that if the person was not capable of carrying out the.....
» 4/10/2010 3:41:14 PM Oops - at 3 and 4, I should have specified the other way around - that people who did NOT .....
» 4/10/2010 1:17:43 PM Okay, can we start at the other end and agree on what is NOT permissible ? This is my pref.....
» 3/10/2010 4:56:27 PM I must be a bit of a b@stard because, even though I'm heading there myself pretty soon, I .....
» 3/10/2010 2:06:01 PM Individual, <<In my opinion it is the ultimate selfishness to ask someone to look a.....
» 3/10/2010 12:33:15 PM Individual, The point is, for Christ's sake, what the hell do you MEAN by euthanasia ? Su.....
» 2/10/2010 11:01:21 PM Your majesty, Re your response to Merv, we can all play that logic-game: are YOU suggesti.....
» 1/10/2010 11:04:44 PM Oh dear, Arjay, <<While China,Russia,or Middle Eastern countries have totaliarian r.....
» 1/10/2010 9:08:40 PM Non sequitur, Arjay. In fact, I'm trying to understand what you are referring to. But le.....
» 1/10/2010 7:33:20 PM Here's a suggestion: why not start off legislating for suicide - self-inflicted, self-admi.....
» 1/10/2010 10:36:45 AM David G, <<the idea that, if euthanasia is legalized, people everywhere will go abo.....
» 1/10/2010 9:16:24 AM God morning Arjay, <<Iraq was a lie,like Vietnam.It is all about war for profit and.....
» 1/10/2010 9:07:47 AM JonJ, What are the ISSUES ? I don't give a toss what Wallace's politics and religious aff.....
» 30/09/2010 11:06:21 AM Yes, Arjay, America bad, everybody else good. Every US involvement overseas = oil. Prett.....
» 29/09/2010 6:52:42 PM Hi Grok, One problem with reality is that there is potentially a multitude of 'antitheses.....
» 29/09/2010 2:44:40 PM Kellie, Yes, when it's all boiled down, why should we be concerned about those Afghan wom.....
» 29/09/2010 2:06:46 PM Hi Grojk, Being named after Stalin, I've always been a bit prickly about him, even after .....
» 29/09/2010 12:01:28 AM Sorry, Arjay, which particular lunatics do you have in mind - Ahmedinejad, Kim Jong Il, Os.....
» 27/09/2010 10:15:52 PM Arjay, <<there is no way that the towers could have come down in 11 sec at almost f.....
» 27/09/2010 9:21:26 PM Thank you, Pericles, yours is always a refreshing and provocative voice, on any OLO thread.....
» 27/09/2010 12:32:15 AM Hi Otokonoko, Good questions: let's suppose that the underlying purpose was to discredit .....
» 27/09/2010 12:02:04 AM Thank you, Nicola, You have a good heart. Joe.....
» 26/09/2010 7:26:21 PM Sorry I struck a nerve, Arjay :) Joe Lane.....
» 26/09/2010 6:32:36 PM Thank you, Nicola. Death is so final, so irreversible - none of us is just an atomised ind.....
» 26/09/2010 4:22:45 PM WAU, (1) I have no objection to self-administered pain relief, like a morphine pump, even.....
» 26/09/2010 1:41:08 PM Arjay, [continued] <<How do buildings collapse in such a synchronised fashion and.....
» 26/09/2010 1:39:51 PM Hi Arjay, I don't have to 'prove' anything, I'm happy with the standard 9/11 story, if on.....
» 25/09/2010 10:25:19 PM Cornflower, <<Seniors are entitled to ask why euthanasia is urgent, but fixing the .....
» 25/09/2010 9:07:11 PM Arjay, You're kidding, right ? Explosives just in the lift shafts ? A handful of guys, 'l.....
» 25/09/2010 4:05:23 PM Foxy, So just to clarify: when you write <<I look upon "mercy killing," .....
» 25/09/2010 2:03:27 PM TTM, Then I hope we won't hear any more references to Alzheimer's and any more sanctimoni.....
» 25/09/2010 1:28:10 PM Foxy, Thank you. So 'euthanasia' means, in the first instance, suicide ? Well, that's a s.....
» 25/09/2010 10:48:44 AM Okay, Arjay, spell out the evidence: * how did the Jews or CIA or Swedes drive truckload.....
» 24/09/2010 8:55:57 PM Foxy, Let me try to be a bit more specific: what are the limits of euthanasia ? What are .....
» 24/09/2010 1:44:17 PM Foxy, The whole point is: what the hell do you mean by 'euthanasia' ?! If you mean 'suici.....
» 24/09/2010 9:04:50 AM TTM, I'll get back to you when you have something sensible to say :) Meanwhile, thanks f.....
» 24/09/2010 9:00:14 AM Rexw, So it was the Jews ? Mossad ? The same mob that couldn't knock off some has-been Ha.....
» 24/09/2010 12:41:28 AM Thanks, TTM, you've made my mind up for me - I'm totally opposed now to VE, since it is ob.....
» 24/09/2010 12:35:15 AM Arjay, <<Robert Baer Ex CIA: There is that possibility.>> Not exactly proof .....
» 23/09/2010 1:47:06 PM Hi Ozandy, I agree with you on Iraq: Saddam and the Baath Party had nothing to do with al.....
» 23/09/2010 11:40:53 AM On both sides, Rexw: a pox on all reactionary-theocratic and -nationalistic ideologies. Le.....
» 22/09/2010 6:28:02 PM I would have thought that this example was a fly in YOUR ointment, TTM, where voluntary eu.....
» 22/09/2010 6:07:35 PM Yeah, David, what's Hebrew for 'Caliphate' ? Supporters of Eretz Israel, and either a Sun.....
» 22/09/2010 2:39:12 PM Jay, you're kidding, right ? Yes, a pox on Israel for its enforcement of Apartheid for Pa.....
» 22/09/2010 11:15:12 AM King Hazza and Foxy, As an atheist and a socialist, I do think we must be very circumspec.....
» 22/09/2010 11:06:42 AM King Hazza, MY point was that, at the simplest level, suicide should be legal, it should .....
» 21/09/2010 11:33:55 PM Thanks, King Hazza, I'm working through the ramifications of what you wrote. But I don't t.....
» 21/09/2010 7:56:47 AM TTM, You haven't got a clue, have you ? It's all just a word-game to you. Not a bl00dy cl.....
» 20/09/2010 11:39:11 PM Hi TTM, Ah ! sweet quality of life, at last I've found thee, Ah ! At last I know the reas.....
» 20/09/2010 10:19:55 PM Thanks for your reply, Jockey, No, I'm certainly not blaming people for the situation th.....
» 20/09/2010 10:07:43 PM Ah, your Majesty, would that all the world had your purity of heart. I suppose there is s.....
» 20/09/2010 7:28:02 PM Jockey, Why do you slag Suze and me as "people who think they can impose solutions f.....
» 20/09/2010 4:31:21 PM Thanks, Runner (you won't see that very often !) - how does that work in the Netherlands ?.....
» 20/09/2010 4:12:08 PM Mindless Cruelty, You suggest that "how the average American .... have been led like.....
» 19/09/2010 7:05:22 PM Tranksi, I am intrigued by your statement, that, if standard child care rules were applie.....
» 19/09/2010 5:25:45 PM Transki, Well, in Suze's defence, you did write: "All my comments on this thread ref.....
» 19/09/2010 5:18:35 PM Mindless Cruelty, Thanks, I don't disagree with anything much you have written, it reinfo.....
» 19/09/2010 9:45:42 AM Transki, The inconvenient truth is that the Aboriginal groups which have had the least in.....
» 19/09/2010 9:32:45 AM [cont] Of course, once they had done that, other processes were set in train, the partial.....
» 19/09/2010 9:30:29 AM Hi MC, I'm from Adelaide. I presume you mean Afghanistan ? I guess this is why so much tu.....
» 18/09/2010 2:18:48 PM Thanks, Mindless Cruelty, Presumably the thermite would have been blowing all over New Yo.....
» 18/09/2010 12:12:20 PM Arjay, I love a good conspiracy theory as much as the next bloke but <Who could possi.....
» 17/09/2010 5:23:41 PM Cornflour, There are already around five thousand Indigenous organisations in Australia, .....
» 14/09/2010 5:46:45 PM Pelican, That's a very useful question: how does one define 'progressive' ? I used to mak.....
» 14/09/2010 12:56:09 PM Individual, You're on to something here: In Saturday's Australian, Tim Soutphommasane wro.....
» 14/09/2010 10:57:57 AM [cont] Alan, Perhaps we are looking at different aspects of the same elephant, and writ.....
» 14/09/2010 10:47:48 AM Hi Alan, Back in the mid-nineties, I ran career aspirations workshops for Aboriginal kids.....
» 13/09/2010 10:37:57 PM Alan, <if one in 10 has a degree, then nine out of ten don't> Forgive me but I fi.....
» 13/09/2010 6:48:25 PM But, Alan and Individual, Indigenous people ARE determining their own futures, but as indi.....
» 13/09/2010 6:28:37 PM Individual, Thank you for moving this discussion along. What is someone of mixed race ? B.....
» 13/09/2010 2:35:00 PM Well, Individual, firstly the graduates that I know who have tried to go back to either th.....
» 13/09/2010 10:40:28 AM Individual, I can appreciate that you are despondent about progress, and I get the idea th.....
» 13/09/2010 10:32:25 AM Thanks, Individual, but I disagree with you, that <whatever we have done to-date hasn't.....
» 12/09/2010 5:58:54 PM You are just being provocative, Individual :) If your post had anything to do with mine, t.....
» 11/09/2010 2:35:42 PM Hi Ho Hum, (always wanted to write that) You wrote: <Those on the left generally try .....
» 11/09/2010 1:34:41 PM Not sure if there were all that many Toyotas around 1250 years ago, Aka/Individual ;) Apar.....
» 10/09/2010 9:05:08 PM [Cont.] Of course, people are trying to recover, or revive, or resurrect, traditional cul.....
» 10/09/2010 8:56:13 PM I certainly don't think that it is as black and white, as either/or, as you do, Alan, with.....
» 10/09/2010 6:16:14 PM Aka, I'm amazed that you can write: <I am curious about why Indigenous Australians a.....
» 10/09/2010 12:06:21 AM Hi Alan, You wrote that: <Joe and I have been discussing replacing the current state a.....
» 9/09/2010 6:43:02 PM For what it's worth, Bunbadgee, I have thought of myself as being on the Left from birth, .....
» 9/09/2010 2:57:18 PM Thanks for the serve, Bunbadgee :) You're right, people can do what they like with their r.....
» 9/09/2010 11:01:31 AM Thanks for your input, Alan, I don't have any crystal ball, but I did say <How do issu.....
» 8/09/2010 10:28:01 PM Thanks for your question, Alan, How do issues get articulated, and promoted ? People feel.....
» 8/09/2010 11:45:53 AM Alan, Another 'representative body' ? Was the last one a major driver of innovation and o.....
» 8/09/2010 11:29:12 AM Alan, thanks for your questions; I'll try to offer answers to each of them: <How many .....
» 7/09/2010 11:00:31 PM Nairbe, The thing is that Indigenous people, particularly in the cities, are doing it for.....
» 7/09/2010 6:10:25 PM So ...... In Australia, anybody can wear whatever they like, within decent limits. Unles.....
» 7/09/2010 1:52:36 PM When every other option fails, try the impossible: a secular, single state. Crazy, eh ? I'.....
» 7/09/2010 1:29:59 PM Thanks for taking the time, CJ - Wild Rivers legislation, the Intervention, substance over.....
» 7/09/2010 10:41:28 AM Wesley Aird has an interesting article in today's Australian - for those who would never r.....
» 5/09/2010 9:21:05 AM S H Tan, I'm with Briar Rose on this one: of course gay and lesbian couples can love each .....
» 1/09/2010 12:10:17 AM Son of Gloin, Don't get me started on the secret links between the Swedes and the Greens .....
» 31/08/2010 10:32:56 AM CJ, I take strong exception to your unfair characterisation of 9/11 'truthers': clearly th.....
» 30/08/2010 3:08:50 PM Pericles, you've got my vote. Arcan, it's not all about you: you may be the centre of yo.....
» 26/08/2010 12:05:32 PM As an Australian, I treasure my right not to have to talk to every Tom, Dick or Harry if I.....
» 24/08/2010 6:27:41 PM "The generous spirit of the likes of Rhys Jones is misplaced.The burqa is an explicit.....
» 24/08/2010 6:20:18 PM How's this ? * Julia Gillard is prime minister until there is a vote of no confidence in.....
» 11/08/2010 6:24:15 PM Either way, Steven, Lincoln did the right thing and Chamberlain dithered, I'm sure you wou.....
» 11/08/2010 4:13:22 PM Steven, What you write is fair enough, as far as it goes, but the world insists on imposi.....
» 10/08/2010 11:22:37 PM Hi Steven, Afghanistan is a pretty unique case, at least for the time being. For the Yank.....
» 10/08/2010 4:25:29 PM Perhaps you're right, Steven, we should just think about ourselves, even if it means selli.....
» 10/08/2010 3:30:31 PM [continued] Do, or should, these groups have the right to determine their own future, ove.....
» 10/08/2010 3:29:27 PM Steven, Well, Bashir does say 'The basis of any nationalist struggle is PRIMARILY ethnici.....
» 27/07/2010 6:59:33 PM Skeptic, You put your finger on it ! Yes, whether it's the Catholic church or al-Qaida or.....
» 27/07/2010 2:20:11 PM Thanks Houellebecq: that's an interesting new term, 'alteration' - the forces of death are.....
» 27/07/2010 11:28:02 AM Hi Runner, Sorry, I wasn't suggesting that you were intolerant, simply that we all live a.....
» 27/07/2010 11:18:31 AM No offence, Houellebecq (you're entitled to hold your death-favouring views), but surely w.....
» 27/07/2010 9:47:27 AM This is appalling. Are there two Colin Tatzes, one compassionate and courageous and a life.....
» 26/07/2010 10:04:36 PM But the point, your Majesty, is who do you give your second preferences to ? Tweedledee, T.....
» 26/07/2010 3:50:10 PM I'm with Squeers on this one - as a Marxist from birth (however that may be defined these .....
» 26/07/2010 10:43:07 AM Son of Gloin, and Your Majesty, Somebody has to win the election. And once somebody has g.....
» 24/07/2010 5:13:51 PM Sonya, Well, I did say 'hypothetically': I'll stick by what I wrote. But if Australia nee.....
» 24/07/2010 1:44:16 PM Surely sustainability is hypothetically possible, no matter what the population: there is .....
» 24/07/2010 1:27:47 PM Leigh, You ask: "Since when did 150 unknown people speak for the rest of us?" .....
» 22/07/2010 5:38:06 PM So Artsgrad and Jennifer, Are you proposing a tricameral parliament - a House of Reps for.....
» 21/07/2010 9:36:49 PM So Artsgrad, are you suggesting that two (really three, counting for the senate) elections.....
» 19/07/2010 9:19:11 AM [Deleted].....
» 18/07/2010 6:58:05 PM Peter, Oh I see now, a society of machine-gunners - well, put me up against that wall :( .....
» 18/07/2010 4:15:40 PM Peter, For a society of what ? If you are serious, you have some real problems. Joe.....
» 16/07/2010 5:40:29 PM Yabby, 'Cushy life style' ? What immigrant group has ever slipped quickly into a 'cushy l.....
» 16/07/2010 5:30:36 PM [cont.] * 'power' and the Caliphate: true believers, of whatever idiocy, believe that the.....
» 16/07/2010 5:28:19 PM There are between 20 and 33 million Afghanis, of a multitude of different ethnic backgroun.....
» 15/07/2010 5:37:58 PM Maybe I've got it wrong, but I thought I read somewhere that there are currently more than.....
» 13/07/2010 3:45:43 PM Runner, it might have protected Hagar from the patriarch's advances, too ...... then again.....
» 12/07/2010 3:10:24 PM Guy, There are two ways to increase population - (a) have more babies, and (b) live longe.....
» 7/07/2010 1:01:21 PM What do they put in the water up in Queensland ?! More to the point in Toowoomba, what are.....
» 6/07/2010 11:41:14 PM Hi Fester, Well, many 'communities' used to be missions, where by necessity (i.e. insuffi.....
» 6/07/2010 10:29:56 AM [continued] If this is correct, then we can't say we don't know the reasons for the gap. .....
» 6/07/2010 10:17:39 AM Steven, There isn't just one 'gap': in the cities, Indigenous people who are employed, ca.....
» 5/07/2010 7:25:41 PM TTM and Shadow Minister, I can never understand what people mean when they say that Abori.....
» 5/07/2010 4:05:39 PM Ozandy, As CJ notes, Uluru has been recognised as the exclusive property of the people of.....
» 5/07/2010 2:43:45 PM Ozandy, That's an interesting concept, that every bit of Australia is fair game for every.....
» 5/07/2010 12:56:34 PM Shadyoasis, Use of the comparative: "Bill is taller than Tom and Tom is taller than .....
» 1/07/2010 9:49:33 AM Socratease, Why do you think it is so slow ? Half of the unemployed population in remote .....
» 28/06/2010 4:44:34 PM Hazza, Why not both - a Living Will specifying when, AND an affidavit when not, to remove.....
» 28/06/2010 4:32:38 PM Yes, Dickybird, you're spot-on - EARLY in the onset of Alzheimer's, not (as I tried ineffe.....
» 28/06/2010 10:59:05 AM Severin, Then in the absence of a living will, I hope that we never see the phrases 'adva.....
» 28/06/2010 10:42:10 AM Dickybird, Rama, Then I hope that the issue of advanced Alzheimer's will not come up on t.....
» 27/06/2010 11:24:28 PM To get back to the topic: You know, if we stood back and looked at what Mr/Ms Williams is.....
» 27/06/2010 11:15:33 PM Hi Celivia, Sorry, it's been a busy day. You asked for a scenario of a situation some way.....
» 27/06/2010 10:20:30 AM Cossomby, The forms of human political organisation are almost infinite - I was writing a.....
» 26/06/2010 5:07:53 PM Hi dane, Thanks for the serve, it spices up my day: condescending - moi ? Your last poin.....
» 26/06/2010 4:38:12 PM JOSHHHHH, Those roads that you write about - were they developed and are they being maint.....
» 25/06/2010 8:27:30 PM Celivia, and Your Majesty, Provided there is explicit, preferably written, assent by a p.....
» 25/06/2010 2:02:44 PM Wachyu talkin' about, Protagoras ?.....
» 25/06/2010 12:44:25 PM Hi Snag, Well, the Communist church is an incredibly broad and fractious one: at every cr.....
» 25/06/2010 12:28:59 PM Your majesty, <<Euthanasia- I've clearly wasted my time going into so many reasons .....
» 25/06/2010 12:11:34 PM [continued] For example, amongst the Ngarrindjeri, at the mouth of the Murray: on very ri.....
» 25/06/2010 11:57:17 AM dane, I think you missed my point. In the seventeenth century, nations, as we know then .....
» 24/06/2010 12:16:27 AM qanda, Thank you (I'll bet you don't see that too often): 2 inches' sea-level rise in fif.....
» 24/06/2010 12:07:48 AM Yes, J L Deland, 'People want a say in what happens to them at the end of their lives and .....
» 23/06/2010 8:37:26 PM Quite a poat, Protagoras, not alliterate at all. So: how much ? How many degrees, really.....
» 23/06/2010 8:31:36 PM Yeah, people are like pets, aren't they, really ? Lose one, get another one. Or writing of.....
» 23/06/2010 5:17:59 PM Thanks, CJ: Blue Mink - I'm happy to stand corrected :) Yeah, don't you wish you could co.....
» 23/06/2010 5:15:10 PM Shadow Minister, <<The obvious and frequent scenario where the victim is so incapac.....
» 23/06/2010 3:20:57 PM At the risk of being called one of 'the hand maidens of duplicitous alliterates' by Protag.....
» 23/06/2010 1:28:40 PM [continued] So why is life in the cities so much better for Aboriginal people ? How come .....
» 23/06/2010 1:24:07 PM In the eighteenth century, writers like Rousseau and Voltaire used the term 'nation' very .....
» 23/06/2010 12:19:34 PM Gimli, Hot Chocolate, yeah ! Right on ! Won't our grandkids and great-grandkids be beauti.....
» 22/06/2010 11:52:03 PM Yes, Divine Ms N, more than 80 % of Aboriginal people are now inter-marrying - which means.....
» 22/06/2010 11:41:14 PM What are you girls complaining about ? BP changed its name from something like 'British Pe.....
» 22/06/2010 3:47:43 PM Celivia, So we're talking about suicide, not euthanasia ? Surely this is the point - how .....
» 22/06/2010 2:51:54 PM Cornflower, thanks - let's hope that there aren't similarly 'sincere' and brow-wrinkling d.....
» 22/06/2010 1:55:38 PM Thanks, Protagoras, I've suspected for some time that the pro-euthanasia argument could ea.....
» 22/06/2010 10:33:14 AM SonofGloin, Where is Gloin ? It sounds Irish :) What do you mean by 'cultural assimilati.....
» 22/06/2010 10:29:56 AM SonofGloin, Further on the subject of 'assimilation' (one day, there has to be a discussi.....
» 22/06/2010 10:12:10 AM That's right Steven, taking YOUR life should be entirely YOUR choice. No-one else's. Joe.....
» 21/06/2010 10:05:18 PM Sorry, SonofGloin, I wasn't referring to you as a racist - my use of the term related to t.....
» 21/06/2010 9:55:25 AM Cornflour, To conclude: The Indigenous population is 75 % urban, and becoming more so. J.....
» 21/06/2010 9:52:55 AM Cornflour, The Indigenous future does not seem to involve some quiet, patient, move up th.....
» 21/06/2010 9:41:36 AM Thanks, CJ. Cornflour, you work late :) You aks: <<Any break-ups available on the .....
» 20/06/2010 9:03:26 PM Sonofgloin, 'I do not believe that a hunter gatherer society could assimilate physically .....
» 19/06/2010 11:54:08 AM Quayle, How many cases of forcible removal have gone to court and been found to have been.....
» 18/06/2010 1:40:05 PM [continued] But it does not have to be that way. We can embrace the realities of a multi-.....
» 18/06/2010 1:37:39 PM Individual, Thank god, a constructive comment. Yes, why don't we try reaching out to each.....
» 18/06/2010 1:11:31 PM Jim, 'We just don't like the answers to our excesses and the sooner we live simpler lives.....
» 18/06/2010 12:54:58 PM I use an extremely crude test of whether or not global warming is happening: I look at the.....
» 18/06/2010 9:04:58 AM Right on, Ms Divine. Myths reflect SOCIAL reality, the power of some, usually the older me.....
» 17/06/2010 10:45:48 AM Jim, 'Divine _ msn and Loudmouth , the Big difference between you and Aboriginal People i.....
» 16/06/2010 7:52:55 PM Kartiya Jim, I'll stick by what I wrote: are you suggesting that it was common belief 15,.....
» 16/06/2010 7:35:31 PM Formersnag, you don't have the slightest clue what you are talking about: being knocked b.....
» 16/06/2010 12:59:34 PM Bigos, Good trick: when an issue is raised, find something vaguely to do with it which su.....
» 16/06/2010 12:43:49 PM 'Sticks and stones' ? When Lloyd Warner wrote his book 'Black Civilization', he was shocke.....
» 16/06/2010 11:45:10 AM Meanwhile, 25,000 Indigenous people have graduated from universities: 50,000 graduates is .....
» 15/06/2010 5:58:42 PM Bigos, 'Pinnacle' ? 'Abyss', more likely. And surely the Second World War put a dent in t.....
» 15/06/2010 5:53:09 PM Hi Jennie, What's the weather like on your planet ? Joe.....
» 14/06/2010 10:05:44 PM Al Gore, are you into cricket ? Your attack on CJ comes from 'silly point': a racist is so.....
» 14/06/2010 6:41:29 PM Right on, CJ. The fiction of 'race' was demolished long ago. Bigos, Don't confuse differ.....
» 13/06/2010 7:43:31 PM Custard, you're completely free to be whatever you like - if you want to call it 'redneck'.....
» 13/06/2010 6:33:18 PM Nobody's forcing you, Custard, and that is what being multicultural means - in the sociolo.....
» 13/06/2010 10:31:33 AM Quayle: "Indigenous Austalians do not have a right to self determination other than t.....
» 11/06/2010 1:45:38 PM Hi Divine Ns_n, There are a hell of a lot of cultural practices widely available across A.....
» 11/06/2010 12:11:24 AM Divine Ms_n, "Recommended viewing for all those who believe we must respect and upho.....
» 10/06/2010 10:01:36 AM Thanks Divine Ms_n, I would have thought that wearing the veil (60%), the nikab (1%) or e.....
» 10/06/2010 9:32:22 AM Proxy, There are currently around 25,000 Indigenous university graduates, a thousand of w.....
» 9/06/2010 3:37:06 PM (e) As above, the great majority of Aboriginal people now live in urban areas. Nobody forc.....
» 9/06/2010 3:23:43 PM (b) the great majority - perhaps 80 % - of the Aboriginal population live in urban areas. .....
» 9/06/2010 3:13:15 PM Dr Walter is perhaps more right than even she thinks about the need for a change in thinki.....
» 9/06/2010 1:56:48 PM Divine Ms_n, in late nineteenth century America, Blacks by any name were indeed threatened.....
» 9/06/2010 10:06:50 AM Peterson, And the guys as well ? That would probably rule you and me out. For those who .....
» 8/06/2010 11:31:35 PM Divine_Msn, As long as we remember that the KKK was set up specifically as an anti-Black A.....
» 8/06/2010 3:03:45 PM In relation to this storm in an egg-cup, I wonder what proportion of Muslim women wear the.....
» 8/06/2010 12:45:31 PM Hi Blairbar, I certainly don't suggest that "these girls'/womens' moving about in th.....
» 7/06/2010 4:29:36 PM Bush Bunny, Well, of course, interaction has to be done sensibly - if I lived in a small .....
» 7/06/2010 2:53:44 PM Thanks Blairbar, Yes, I seriously think that by getting out, no matter how they might be .....
» 7/06/2010 1:44:40 PM Proxy, As far as I know, Jordan is close to 100 % Muslim, and presumably, like in any oth.....
» 7/06/2010 11:43:25 AM Custard, "The Shoplifting gangs are gonna love this, moslem or not, twenty odd women.....
» 6/06/2010 3:27:02 PM Formersnag, you forgot Marxism. As a born Marxist, I must admit that it (or rather, most o.....
» 6/06/2010 2:06:00 PM Thanks, Formersnag, I enjoy a bit of ad hominem myself, and thank you also for confirming .....
» 6/06/2010 10:56:31 AM Horus, 'to dress as they wish, or currently feel they have to' - point already taken. The.....
» 6/06/2010 9:35:58 AM Horus, So are you saying that Muslim women have been collectively responsible for genocid.....
» 5/06/2010 11:41:10 AM Hon. Shadow Minister, You are missing the point entirely: nobody is saying that the burqa.....
» 5/06/2010 10:58:16 AM Thanks, weareunique and suze. Yes, I have to admit that often Muslim women have the most b.....
» 4/06/2010 10:40:26 AM I'm a bit puzzled by the manufacture of a 'problem'. Can we please differentiate between: .....
» 30/05/2010 2:08:28 PM Clownfish, I'm sure that none of those unsavoury thoughts have ever entered anybody's hea.....
» 30/05/2010 10:26:20 AM C'est moi, Yes ! That is called suicide, the right to take one's own life, and of course .....
» 30/05/2010 8:24:56 AM In all this mealy-mouthed discussion about getting rid of the unfit, is it possible to cla.....
» 28/05/2010 8:36:15 PM Yes, people are a bit like cars really, aren't they ? So when they get to rust-bucket stag.....
» 26/05/2010 1:31:36 PM Containers can be bought for what ? $ 10,000 for 20ft ones, $ 20,000 for 40ft ones ? Rust-.....
» 25/05/2010 10:06:19 AM Why is private home ownership in remote communities so difficult to contemplate ? Surely c.....
» 24/05/2010 10:54:18 AM Whistler, Meanwhile, Aboriginal people are getting on with business in the urban areas: t.....
» 24/05/2010 9:20:14 AM Whistler, Oh, dear. Presuming that your proposed Senate and your proposed House of Reps (.....
» 23/05/2010 3:59:50 PM Whislter, '... in tandem ... ' So your mens' and women's legislatures would deliberate ab.....
» 23/05/2010 10:46:12 AM Whistler, So what do you mean by 'women's jurisdiction' - and presumably, men's jurisdict.....
» 22/05/2010 3:01:36 PM Just out of curiosity, where else in the world do governments build houses on land which i.....
» 22/05/2010 2:44:24 PM What about replacing the Union Jack with the Aboriginal Flag ? It would be instantly recog.....
» 25/04/2010 5:04:13 PM Bugsy, Yes, from memory Prof. Jones cited a figure of 0.07 degrees C, at the 95 % confide.....
» 25/04/2010 3:57:35 PM Qanda, 'How to address this ignorance is a problem, but it can be overcome with reasoned .....
» 25/04/2010 1:45:46 PM Sorry, Whistler, obviously I meant 'legislatures'. You're right, separation does not equ.....
» 25/04/2010 10:35:10 AM Whistler: 'A person with a mere rudimentary knowledge of social analysis, or of the englis.....
» 25/04/2010 10:31:09 AM Proxy, But amongst the cultural beliefs of some groups, particularly those which don't hol.....
» 24/04/2010 9:25:04 PM Qanda, So it's two degrees in fifty years ? Two inches in fifty years ? That's it ? But.....
» 24/04/2010 9:17:20 PM There is just a grain of truth in what Proxy says: "This is not to say that we shoul.....
» 24/04/2010 1:37:02 PM "People will believe what they want to believe, regardless of the truth." You g.....
» 24/04/2010 12:55:49 PM Hi Whistler, Wit hrespect, you do seem to be a one-trick pony. When are you going to real.....
» 23/04/2010 10:22:25 AM CJ, Leigh, etc., I hope that OLO keeps getting infested by all manner of ratbags, racists.....
» 21/04/2010 7:21:27 PM Jay of Melbourne etc., White genocide ? Not really - nobody is forcing you to marry outsi.....
» 21/04/2010 2:13:12 PM Perhaps we should all climb down from our ergonomic chairs, our ivory towers, our caves an.....
» 21/04/2010 12:22:38 PM Ozandy, I think they call yours a 'tu quoque' ['you, too'] fallacy - in order to divert di.....
» 21/04/2010 11:03:19 AM Miacat, Spot-on ! I looked up all the schools that I ever went to, primary and secondary,.....
» 21/04/2010 10:47:30 AM Ozandy, examinator, So it's not true what Phil Jones is supposed to have said ? It's all .....
» 21/04/2010 8:36:38 AM The CRU has rigorously investigated itself and found that there has been “absolutely no ev.....
» 15/04/2010 11:45:54 AM Hi Cherful, you make some interesting points, but perhaps read too much into them. Yes, th.....
» 15/04/2010 11:15:51 AM Just to correct some very dangerous stereotypes - * at least in South Australia (which u.....
» 14/04/2010 5:25:09 PM I don't know, Jay, I wouldn't call Anglos low IQ, low status peasants. But feel free. Try.....
» 14/04/2010 9:28:40 AM Thanks, Jay, for the sum-total of your wisdom - I love OLO: even someone with an IQ of 80 .....
» 13/04/2010 11:33:48 AM I'm not sure that the mere existence of people from many different societies is an indicat.....
» 9/04/2010 10:06:35 AM Minor nit-pick: ' ... fresh water from Greenland’s shrinking ice cap dilutes the surround.....
» 7/04/2010 9:02:30 PM Thank you, Mr/Ms Squeers, I could say the same about yours too (oh, I get it, your real na.....
» 7/04/2010 4:40:21 PM Given the state of play in the Catholic Church these days, Baygon, one might ask what has .....
» 6/04/2010 11:09:03 PM Baygon, No, I agree with you, not all interpretations of reality are equal, or equally va.....
» 6/04/2010 7:03:48 PM Squeers, 'The "doctrine" that if you can't subject the thing to scientific meth.....
» 6/04/2010 6:20:48 PM Baygon, Of course knowledge is a social construct, a painfully slow, trial-and-error, soc.....
» 6/04/2010 12:41:33 PM Spot-on, TBC, more or less. Sells, You write: 'The problem with the attitude that only s.....
» 6/04/2010 11:11:04 AM Hi ShazBaz, The north is supposed to be getting more rain, due to AGW. So why not solve t.....
» 4/04/2010 5:28:43 PM Thank you Mr Goth, for a most inspiring article - if the people of Somaliland can pick the.....
» 1/04/2010 11:05:11 PM [continued] In taking such children from camps and stations, South and Neville after him .....
» 1/04/2010 5:56:45 PM CJ, May I suggest you use your Sand Bucket - it's barely half-full and doesn't look like.....
» 1/04/2010 4:39:06 PM Perhaps it's a bit late to bring back the British Mandate. Many people in Israel want all.....
» 1/04/2010 6:55:21 AM Hi CJ, Isn't it fun to sink the boot in ? 'Grudgingly' ? No. The important thing is tha.....
» 31/03/2010 8:46:23 PM Sorry, in three years' time, not next year :).....
» 31/03/2010 8:45:38 PM Dr Raynes, There's just a couple of things (maybe many things ?) I don't understand about.....
» 31/03/2010 5:30:24 PM Thank you, Dr Raynes - talk about the Owl of Minerva :) So there WERE Aboriginal children.....
» 30/03/2010 10:22:20 PM Aka, You always know when someone does not have a case to argue, or a feather to fly wit.....
» 30/03/2010 3:04:39 PM Drats ! Aka has unmasked me, so peeved at not getting a Ph.D. ! That explains everything !.....
» 30/03/2010 2:38:55 PM A terrible story, Cameron, a terrible way to treat a child. But was he stolen ? By whom, f.....
» 29/03/2010 10:11:11 PM 'Loudmouth - Dr Raynes has already answered your hectoring demands, but it seems that on t.....
» 29/03/2010 8:17:03 PM Rainier and Akam I get it now ! I'm using the word 'academic' to refer to Indigenous staf.....
» 29/03/2010 2:14:26 PM The myth of a stolen generation is not the only example of gut feelings (and prejudice), s.....
» 29/03/2010 12:25:09 PM Indeed, Paul. Sarcasm too. It's understandable that many people have 'gut feelings' that .....
» 29/03/2010 9:54:32 AM I must apologise, Cameron, it seems that you really are a Dr: I would be very interested i.....
» 28/03/2010 9:06:33 PM Well, motivation for scepticism, CJ, not denial: actually, I'm amazed that there have not .....
» 28/03/2010 1:56:28 PM Cameron, Is it true your book is only eighty pages long ?! Good grief, Windshuttle's 1500.....
» 28/03/2010 11:59:26 AM CJ, That did hurt :( I can't help being an old non-Indigenous man, but I take comfort in t.....
» 28/03/2010 8:51:27 AM Aka, I hope you're not trying to suggest that inter-marriage is some sort of plot, a devi.....
» 27/03/2010 7:15:55 PM Hi Aka, My understanding, from talking to women who went out from missions into service i.....
» 27/03/2010 11:44:03 AM Aka, "Joe, if you were really interested in learning you might have read some of the.....
» 27/03/2010 10:27:30 AM Hi Aka, Thanks for your ad hominems - where would we be without a bit of invective and pa.....
» 27/03/2010 9:47:11 AM Noel Pearson has an absolutely brilliant article in today's Australian: http://www.theaus.....
» 27/03/2010 9:38:29 AM Rainier, [continued] In connection with tertiary students, yes, there have been some wo.....
» 27/03/2010 9:35:23 AM Rainer, Continuing my search for the purely symbolic: [continued] When I was typing up.....
» 27/03/2010 9:24:51 AM Rainer, Thanks for your contribution. [God, I wish it would get a bit 'rainer' down here .....
» 26/03/2010 2:28:55 PM [continued] * The American philosopher Charles Sanders Pierce comes to the villains' res.....
» 26/03/2010 2:26:56 PM The story so far: * Mr Windshuttle has written a 600-page book suggesting that there were.....
» 26/03/2010 9:05:00 AM Hi Cameron, Thank you for your best shot. Can we put the sequence of events into some sor.....
» 25/03/2010 4:39:27 PM My point is that, since Indigenous issues are so much in the public arena, we have to be b.....
» 25/03/2010 4:22:13 PM [continued] Further on this subject of the veracity of oral history, e.g. the Rabbit-Pro.....
» 25/03/2010 11:38:20 AM I'm not sure what 'cultural safety' means, but I totally support Salman Rushdie's comment .....
» 25/03/2010 11:17:54 AM Thank you, Spindoc and Amicus, the feeling's mutual. 'What works' - well, clearly tertiar.....
» 25/03/2010 10:34:32 AM Dr Ariel ? BHO's far left agenda ?!? Perhaps you're right: he does not seem so willing to .....
» 25/03/2010 10:12:55 AM To inspire people to realise that closing the gap is very possible, I must point out that .....
» 25/03/2010 9:13:02 AM Dr BBoy, In the first posting on this thread, you suggested that Windshuttle's research wa.....
» 25/03/2010 6:50:45 AM Cameron, No, of course, you're not at anybody's beck and call, I can wait :) Did you get .....
» 25/03/2010 6:35:44 AM Aka, [continued] What if instead, we see unjust, racist and discriminatory societies as, g.....
» 24/03/2010 3:06:47 PM Aka, Your thoughtful comments about Aboriginal conditions of life - it's exactly what I h.....
» 23/03/2010 10:25:05 PM Thanks, Ngarmada, for showing us all (including your friends Dr Raynes and CJ) the infinit.....
» 23/03/2010 10:24:26 PM [continued] Cath, point taken, but such a tiny proportion of kids taken into care at Rauk.....
» 23/03/2010 10:11:22 PM Hi Dr Raynes, Of course SA legislation is not part of GRG 52/1, why do you think otherwis.....
» 23/03/2010 6:49:39 AM Ngarmada, I think I remember you now - you were the weird guy who wanted us to buy in pae.....
» 22/03/2010 10:18:35 PM Don't worry, Blairbar, this fool hasn't got a clue - I wouldn't be surprised if he's never.....
» 22/03/2010 8:41:19 PM Amazing. Obama comes in with the economy in dire straits, and promptly takes steps to sav.....
» 22/03/2010 8:23:27 PM CJ, No, I've been an atheist since about 1950 or 1951, since I asked my mum. I was born on.....
» 22/03/2010 8:00:57 PM I must pay tribute to the late Chicka Dixon, a genuine worker and fighter for sixty years......
» 21/03/2010 6:36:27 PM [continued] Dr Raynes, on that last point: the SCC was merged in with the Public Relief B.....
» 21/03/2010 6:32:23 PM [continued] As for the removal of non-Indigenous children, yes, it certainly occurred, .....
» 21/03/2010 6:27:57 PM [continued] Thanks also, Paul, for the radio link - I urge all readers to listen to it, b.....
» 21/03/2010 6:25:57 PM Thank you, Dr Raynes, if it's okay with the people you mentioned, I guess we can start - a.....
» 20/03/2010 5:55:33 PM Forgive me, Foxy, I read your first sentence and assumed you were going off into a postmod.....
» 20/03/2010 4:45:10 PM [continued] ..... So, Dr Raynes, Please name just one: this is a much more modest reques.....
» 20/03/2010 4:39:13 PM [continued] ..... And if the aim of some nefarious policy was to turn Aboriginal kids int.....
» 20/03/2010 4:37:08 PM Dr Raynes, No, I haven't changed my criteria to include restitution - in view of the fact.....
» 19/03/2010 1:01:46 PM Perhaps not just a continuum from left to right, but a vertical continuum from past- to fu.....
» 19/03/2010 12:34:06 PM Thanks, I'll check it out in your book, if I can find a copy. A & R, Dymocks, Borders ? Wh.....
» 19/03/2010 11:29:04 AM Tom, I did not, and hopefully never will, make any ad hominem attacks on anyone, BUT I wil.....
» 19/03/2010 10:11:22 AM No problem, Dr Raynes: my name is Joe Lane, I live in Henley Beach. Do you want my email a.....
» 19/03/2010 9:11:20 AM BBoy, Perhaps you could cite one error in Windshuttle's 600-page work ? Just one. As hea.....
» 17/03/2010 5:18:17 PM Oh yes, and Professor Jones has suggested that world temperatures have not risen for fifte.....
» 17/03/2010 5:13:29 PM Someone please correct me if I've got it wrong: * the CSIRO/BOM says that temperatures ha.....
» 7/03/2010 2:37:23 PM Spelling mistake ? Misplacement of the odd digit ? My point is, who - out of the thousands.....
» 7/03/2010 11:26:42 AM Qanka, About glaciers and fraud: correct me if I'm wrong, but I learnt that adiabatic tem.....
» 14/02/2010 10:06:53 PM But it's not just the burqa that is banned in public places in France, but the hijab as we.....
» 14/02/2010 5:42:14 PM Children, behave yourselves ! Let's get back to the topic. Keith has actually asked a ve.....
» 11/02/2010 1:03:28 PM David, Racism doesn't exist in the workplace ?! Perhaps not the cruder forms of it, but c.....
» 11/02/2010 11:47:23 AM Sometimes it seems that there are layers and layers and layers of racism in this country, .....
» 11/02/2010 8:21:42 AM You're right Ozbib, but the concept is made 'real' by a host of social factors, power ineq.....
» 8/02/2010 8:56:08 PM As I wrote, Missus, 'of course some kids were happy and cared for ... ' and of course some.....
» 8/02/2010 4:52:15 PM Sorry, Missus, you and I inhabit different planets. When we lived in an Aboriginal commu.....
» 7/02/2010 9:02:55 AM Lucy, Around 12 % of the population are left-handers, so one would expect that 12 % of cr.....
» 31/01/2010 4:56:24 PM Vanna, I wonder to what extent children's performance correlates with their socio-economi.....
» 30/01/2010 11:10:43 AM Thanks, Blairbar......
» 30/01/2010 11:04:34 AM That's odd, Grim, I equate both sorts of believers, in tin gods and in AGW, and oppose the.....
» 28/01/2010 5:41:13 PM Hi Divergence, I agree with you, there is a very long road from Haiti to Hong Kong, but m.....
» 26/01/2010 3:25:00 PM Hi Yabby, I'm sure that you would appreciate my reluctance to go into details about my re.....
» 26/01/2010 3:08:39 PM Mitchell, The Aboriginal Flag is officially an Australian flag, under the Flags Act 1953,.....
» 25/01/2010 4:03:14 PM Colinsett, Thanks but you have misunderstood what I wrote completely: please read it agai.....
» 25/01/2010 11:26:04 AM Yabby, I suppose I could make a comment about the futility of your mum popping you out, a.....
» 24/01/2010 5:32:53 PM Yes I agree, Wybong, I'm all for the Precautionary Principle: switch to renewables, recycl.....
» 24/01/2010 9:31:07 AM ptP, It's not how much land, but what you do with it. Look at Singapore and Hong Kong, wi.....
» 23/01/2010 9:40:56 PM Wybong, You might be onto something, probably all the deniers are being paid by Big Oil a.....
» 21/01/2010 2:08:55 PM Thanks Bugsy and Ozandy, I stand instructed. It appears (http://www.wunderground.com/clima.....
» 20/01/2010 12:08:30 PM 'In the 20th century, sea level rise was primarily due to thermal expansion of ocean water.....
» 20/01/2010 11:16:49 AM The dire threat of sea-level rise is truly shocking ! If we do nothing for the next two th.....
» 19/01/2010 11:04:53 AM Funny thing about equal rights, you're freer to make choices and do what you damn-well lik.....
» 18/01/2010 11:05:56 PM Protagoras, Most of us 'deniers' and sceptics would broadly agree with you on (a) to (e),.....
» 18/01/2010 8:36:22 PM Protagoras, 'Those who would assert, must prove.' Those who claim to be genuine scienti.....
» 14/01/2010 9:38:09 AM Belts of fire-retardant trees, preferably natives, around houses and urban areas, yes - an.....
» 3/01/2010 4:52:41 PM Shazbaz001, I'm probably even more fossilised than you are, but I recall that acid rain w.....
» 1/01/2010 3:23:06 PM Yes, Mr Squeers, the trouble with democracy - as with genuine science - is that it does no.....
» 1/01/2010 11:51:03 AM Cornonacob, Most sceptics, I'm sure, would have no trouble supporting your option D: &qu.....
» 29/12/2009 11:01:12 AM My rudimentary and poorly-remembered knowledge of physics suggests that if the entire Nort.....
» 29/12/2009 10:55:25 AM Next and Andy1, As a conditional believer (there's another category of devil-worshipper t.....
» 27/12/2009 9:48:47 PM Dear Miacat, If there is any sea level rise at all - and that is doubtful, except at a ra.....
» 18/12/2009 10:45:41 AM Hi Blairbar, In the latest data, that for 2008, more than ninety per cent of Indigenous g.....
» 15/12/2009 11:04:26 AM "Lots of people believe in UFOs. It doesn’t make them right. Lots of people don’t bel.....
» 13/12/2009 10:48:01 PM Hi Herman, No, I don't think I'm smug at all. AuStudy is available to Australian domestic.....
» 13/12/2009 8:40:53 AM Hi Herman, Thanks for your entertaining comments. No, Indigenous students are not exemp.....
» 12/12/2009 3:01:17 PM Thank you for your comments but, as a grumpy old man, I have to disagree: Keith: * cult.....
» 5/12/2009 6:37:18 PM Individual, In Peter Bellwood's magnificent book, 'First Farmers: ... ', he notes that th.....
» 5/12/2009 4:21:05 PM Desmond, Why on earth do you think that all that many ofthe 25,000 Indigenous university.....
» 26/11/2009 10:06:12 AM Actually Indigenous people have seized many opportunities in the past twenty five years: b.....
» 25/11/2009 9:47:49 AM Thank you, Divine Ms, you're obviously an intelligent, beautiful and good-hearted person. .....
» 25/11/2009 8:18:32 AM Next, Are you suggesting that what we need are less democratic systems ? Like you and me,.....
» 24/11/2009 11:08:59 AM Well, yes, we can curse the darkness, Dave, Baxter (it can be very satisfying) or we can l.....
» 24/11/2009 9:18:03 AM Andrew, It amazes me that jails aren't used as educational pathways, that they are not se.....
» 21/11/2009 5:57:13 PM My dear Examinator, The thing about an on-line site like this is that you can't stand ove.....
» 21/11/2009 4:45:34 PM Next, Ah, now we're getting somewhere - disagreeing with AGW is denialist, like Irving de.....
» 18/11/2009 1:17:30 PM Jonjay, Well, I checked out your graphs (highly recommended for all readers) and it appea.....
» 18/11/2009 9:12:21 AM Lo and behold ! One of our own philosopher-kings has just had a story on Crikey about clim.....
» 17/11/2009 7:03:20 AM Hi Grim, No, I take the threats of Platonic guardianship and channelling of free expressi.....
» 16/11/2009 7:21:19 AM Thank you, Grim, but my point was that you and I and everybody else have the right to spou.....
» 15/11/2009 5:00:10 PM Hi Grim, I think that, with respect, you may be missing the point. In a democratic and op.....
» 14/11/2009 2:55:21 PM To the Missus, Who's this 'we' and 'them', 'we give', etc. ? What's with this 'allowing '.....
» 14/11/2009 12:17:24 PM Perceptive and heartfelt article, Sara, Is there anywhere in the world where a public hou.....
» 14/11/2009 12:02:39 PM Hi Peter, I was just reading that geneticists have mapped the genome of the potato and dis.....
» 13/11/2009 10:21:12 AM As a relatively ignorant observer over fifty years, it seems to me that a single state - a.....
» 12/11/2009 10:15:03 AM Hi Rainier, 1. Anybody enrolling in a university course, Black or White, incurs a HECS de.....
» 11/11/2009 9:57:42 AM Perhaps the supporters of a Charter of Rights could specify that only registered public in.....
» 3/11/2009 12:25:56 PM C J Morgan, I take great exception to your comment that 'I've noticed that those who regu.....
» 2/11/2009 11:48:30 AM Thanks David, fair enough......
» 1/11/2009 10:39:44 AM But surely the sticking point still is: what is euthanasia and when is a death NOT murder,.....
» 30/10/2009 11:35:22 PM Can we get back to the topic of euthanasia and move away from the notion that anybody oppo.....
» 28/10/2009 9:34:18 PM Hi Stephen, You mentioned the myth of terra nullius and it may have been more of a myth t.....
» 26/10/2009 11:03:15 PM With respect, King Hazza, there are many ifs and buts: most importantly, how do you distin.....
» 26/10/2009 12:28:47 PM Maracas, "Exemption from payment of HECS debt" ?? I don't think this is the cas.....
» 26/10/2009 12:26:51 PM Hi Maracas, I'm sure that that would be up to them :) Joe.....
» 26/10/2009 12:24:46 PM Sinner, I'm not sure that religion has much to do with it: I've always been an atheist and.....
» 25/10/2009 9:42:09 AM Maracas, The vast majority of urban Indigenous people were not stolen. Period. The vast m.....
» 24/10/2009 10:53:34 AM Maracas, It's probably late in the day but I have to comment on your throwaway line: &quo.....
» 12/10/2009 11:29:54 PM Thank you, Jolyon - as a fellow atheist who has recently lost my dear wife, my dearest com.....
» 25/09/2009 8:49:16 PM Vanna, What proportion of time spent looking after children in a one-parent context is pr.....
» 11/09/2009 5:17:49 PM Gerrit, I agree with you: as Peter Sutton wrote recently, after forty years of dedicated .....
» 1/09/2009 10:48:25 AM So, on some distant planet, Indigenous people now do not have the national vote but they d.....
» 1/09/2009 10:39:41 AM Great article, Stephen, spot-on. Purely advisory, yes, whatever form it takes. Back in 19.....
» 30/08/2009 9:00:32 AM Otokonoko, There is a university campus barely thirty miles from Palm Island and, I'm sur.....
» 27/08/2009 2:48:53 PM Gerrit, I defer to your expertise, but I'm still puzzled why you think that Indigenous pe.....
» 26/08/2009 2:20:37 PM 'Aboriginals who had State franchise upon federation did vote in the first federal electio.....
» 25/08/2009 3:22:36 PM Mr Schorel-Hlavka, You may have interpreted the 1967 Referendum proposals inaccurately: .....
» 23/08/2009 1:31:29 AM Sorry, Wobbles, I think I see where you are coming from. I don't think it's a matter of ab.....
» 22/08/2009 11:37:47 AM Wobbles, I'm not sure where to start. To begin with, there are now close twenty four thou.....
» 20/08/2009 6:31:40 PM VK3AUU, Yes.....
» 19/08/2009 1:42:49 PM Hi Dave, I agree with you that neither Indigenous nor non-Indigenous people people have a.....
» 18/08/2009 1:26:34 PM VK3AUU, About 30 % actually, even if most graduates are not from remote settlements. But .....
» 18/08/2009 12:40:23 PM I would support Mr Pope's analysis. In fact, I have been worried for years that the Indige.....
» 15/08/2009 11:41:51 AM Sorry Blairbar, it's not all about you - how people with Indigenous ancestry define themse.....
» 14/08/2009 11:32:17 AM Hi Mattofact, You have a point: yes, occasionally there are non-Indigenous people who tr.....
» 13/08/2009 10:25:48 AM Stezza - of course you have a point. But Indigenous student support attempts to redress lo.....
» 13/08/2009 10:07:05 AM Thank you for all of these comments: it's fascinating where discussion goes on a topic lik.....
» 2/07/2009 5:41:01 PM I suspect that often, social inclusion is manipulated to justify its logical opposite, soc.....
» 20/06/2009 9:40:19 AM Hi Banjo, I'm not sure that academics have anything positive to do with Indigenous tertia.....
» 20/06/2009 9:28:27 AM My late wife Maria was Indigenous, Ngarrindjeri from the lower Murray and Lakes, a real ba.....
» 18/06/2009 11:49:40 PM Racism takes many forms. For example, how do you react to the news that twenty four thousa.....
» 18/06/2009 4:50:47 PM Perhaps neither fantasy of the science fiction variety nor of the religious variety is rea.....
» 17/06/2009 2:20:20 PM Thanks, Pericles, I loved the William books - when I was twelve, I got paid to promote the.....
» 6/06/2009 5:41:58 PM Kali spera, Protagoras, Why do doomist drama-queens so easily go off the topic ? No, I do.....
» 5/06/2009 4:50:19 PM Good one, Cheryl :).....
» 5/06/2009 11:47:02 AM Thank you Protagoras, it's always valuable to know what are the extremes of an argument, t.....
» 4/06/2009 9:52:09 AM Hi Rick, I guess the problem with Utopias is that they all turn fascist: they all propose.....
» 4/06/2009 12:09:01 AM Considering all the doomists who contribute to these sites, there seems to be a coming tog.....
» 3/06/2009 12:09:35 PM Thanks to all the doomists who contribute to these sites, there seems to be a coming toget.....
» 31/05/2009 1:08:58 PM There may be something in what you say, Wing, although I still cherish some remnants of af.....
» 31/05/2009 12:30:01 PM Hi Whistler, long time no hear, Yeah, and as well as men's and women's legislatures, why n.....
» 31/05/2009 10:38:14 AM By the end of last year, nearly 24,000 Indigenous people had graduated from universities a.....
» 10/04/2009 4:54:42 PM Thanks Yabby, but even female mutilation may be more a function of power within and betwee.....
» 10/04/2009 12:04:05 PM Hi Yabby, I'm sure that both Marie Stopes and I would agree with you, but the problem is .....
» 9/04/2009 3:44:32 PM Hi Yabby, Marie Stopes has a point, just like her predecessor did eighty years ago. But w.....
» 9/04/2009 11:49:41 AM Yabby, Yes, I presumed that readers would understand the indirect connection between high.....
» 8/04/2009 1:39:20 PM Sorry, at # 2 in the previous post, I should have said 'The education of women is correlat.....
» 8/04/2009 11:51:31 AM Darwin made reference in his Descent of Man to the efficacy of what he called hybridism, t.....
» 8/04/2009 11:31:02 AM 1. Many years ago, John Caldwell showed clearly that fertility rates in Western Europe had.....
» 7/04/2009 6:28:48 PM Mr Hagan makes some very valid points here. Fortunately, Indigenous people across Australi.....
» 28/03/2009 11:24:05 PM Thank you, Spikey, I think we are in full agreement. Here are some other data: * Indige.....
» 27/03/2009 12:43:36 PM Thank you Spikey, Concerning your comment about a possible under-count in the Census data.....
» 26/03/2009 10:48:50 PM There's something I don't understand: presumably On Line Opinion is open to all twenty mil.....
» 24/03/2009 7:08:58 PM Hi Spikey, The majority of Indigenous tertiary students do not come straight from seconda.....
» 23/03/2009 4:08:15 PM Sorry Spikey, I meant to also include data on the number of Indigenous people who had turn.....
» 23/03/2009 3:53:39 PM Sorry Spikey, I'm not sure what your point is: the Indigenous commencement figures are rea.....
» 22/03/2009 3:34:56 PM Hi Spikey and Blairbar, Low SES are only one-third as likely to participate at uni as hig.....
» 19/03/2009 10:11:09 PM Sorry, Inner-Sydney based transsexual, indigent outcast progeny of merchant family, you've.....
» 19/03/2009 5:21:37 PM Since 1990, some sixty thousand Indigenous people have enrolled at universities across Aus.....
» 10/03/2009 1:06:12 PM For God's sake, Whistler, don't you understand that anything which divides the people is e.....
» 10/03/2009 10:51:30 AM Blairbar, Yes, it's similar to a reactionary theory of Arendt Lijphart called 'consociati.....
» 7/03/2009 3:42:50 PM Something must be working because, especially in the cities, the vast majority of indigeno.....
» 5/03/2009 1:27:19 PM We have to get away from the doom-and-gloom mind-set, even though it has served many peopl.....
» 16/09/2008 8:40:03 AM David, Palin has been Governor of Alaska since January last year. For damning evidence of.....
» 4/09/2008 4:29:12 PM Further to what I wrote a couple of days ago, about the 30, 40, 50-year gap: I'm sure tha.....
» 2/09/2008 9:16:27 PM In fact, if the 'Gap' between Indigenous and non-Indigenous life expectancy is seventeen y.....
» 2/09/2008 9:15:18 PM Hard-thought and hard-fought victories - more than twenty thousand indigenous people have .....
» 31/08/2008 11:54:32 PM This discussion is so full of hypocrisy, so mealy-mouthed: * there is suicide, where a p.....
» 20/08/2008 7:46:45 PM Snow Flake, At the last Census, more than nineteen thousand Indigenous people counted the.....
» 9/08/2008 12:35:57 PM I'm with Steven on this. In fact, I must point out that more than 80% of Indigenous people.....
» 19/07/2008 12:16:13 PM Hi Banjo, Those figures can easily be checked on DEEWR's website, and the ABS Census data.....
» 19/07/2008 11:58:17 AM Aka, I've read a lot of bullshut over the past fifty years but your totally unsupported c.....
» 16/07/2008 2:33:12 PM Just to correct the impression that CDEP has made Aboriginal people a bunch of layabouts a.....
» 14/07/2008 1:16:35 PM From my experience, Sara is right on the button. In one community where I did some volunta.....
» 31/05/2008 3:02:43 PM Oliver, You're lucky that this is only on-line, otherwise, with your racist comment about.....
» 27/05/2008 3:40:05 PM It's a pity we can't breathalyse would-be contributors, otherwise Oliver and One Under God.....
» 19/05/2008 9:03:48 PM Robert, I really don't know what planet you are on. In the Australian today (or you don't.....
» 18/05/2008 1:09:05 PM OK, Robert, what ARE the figures ? And yes, there is some vague relationship between the p.....
» 16/05/2008 7:51:18 PM Unbelievable. What are the DV stats on the numbers of men and women hospitalised per year.....
» 15/05/2008 10:18:04 AM In Australia, English is the language of communication, of textbooks, of the media, of pow.....
» 12/05/2008 2:11:15 PM Brian raises many complex issues: for one, even though general communication in Australia,.....
» 11/04/2008 3:57:13 PM Hi Nathan, Yes. But would they ? My wife is Indigenous, and over forty years, I have not .....
» 11/04/2008 11:32:34 AM As the writer admits, China has been building its empire for thousands of years, and its p.....
» 9/04/2008 4:54:58 PM One problem with being a minister, as distinct from being a journalist, is that you have t.....
» 2/04/2008 5:42:34 PM More than twenty thousand Indigenous people have graduated from university across Australi.....
» 27/03/2008 6:15:44 PM Graham writes about 'the policies advocated by those on the left.' As Gandhi is reported t.....
» 15/03/2008 9:30:53 AM For the life of me, I can't understand why able-bodied people of roughly normal intelligen.....
» 7/03/2008 6:19:18 PM No, the author got it wrong, trying to wing it: a small minority, about a fifth, of the In.....
» 7/03/2008 6:05:03 PM For thirty five years, a range of experimental policies have been tested against Aborigina.....
» 27/02/2008 9:41:29 PM Can we please differentiate: * children who would have been put into care regardless of t.....
» 22/02/2008 2:41:38 PM This is a bloody childish argument: you try all the methods that you can, and even with a .....
» 21/02/2008 12:11:06 PM Yes, when is the white middle class going to ever admit that there are no hunter-gatherers.....
» 21/02/2008 11:47:20 AM Perhaps a social democratic revolution rather than a socialist one ? Once the fiction of a.....
» 20/02/2008 8:47:40 AM 'Cargo, Patronage Systems and Denial' - perhaps that should be the title of the second edi.....
» 19/02/2008 8:18:18 PM Some of you do go on a bit. Responding to what someone said very early in this thread, t.....
» 18/02/2008 4:42:33 PM Not at all, it was clear from the 'Royal Commission into the Aborigines' in 1899 in SA tha.....
» 17/02/2008 9:09:54 PM RobP, This is my point: rights to use land WERE recognised in law, if not in fact. The cl.....
» 16/02/2008 3:41:11 PM Just on that last point, about hunter-gatherers not being allowed etc., no, the law in mos.....
» 16/02/2008 3:41:10 PM Just on that last point, about hunter-gatherers not being allowed etc., no, the law in mos.....
» 15/02/2008 3:53:31 PM Yes, Boaz, Yindin, keep religion and State completely separate. Williams is a complete idi.....
» 13/02/2008 3:38:04 PM Any chance of getting back to the topic and reasonable, civil discussion ? There is more a.....
» 13/02/2008 9:42:04 AM Just to correct misconceptions which might arise from what Mr Watt writes about Indigenous.....
» 12/02/2008 8:01:11 AM Keith, Do you understand how racist such an institution could be, how easily it could fit.....
» 11/02/2008 9:24:59 PM Keith, I think you make some ridiculous statements above. No, there is not one tertiary i.....
» 10/02/2008 5:48:03 PM Passy, Just because a similar argument is used, doesn't mean that it is not valid in a p.....
» 10/02/2008 2:01:52 PM Passy, Are you suggesting that the children being taken these days should not be taken at.....
» 7/02/2008 8:44:47 AM Yindin, 1. There are thirty million Kurds, and half a million Australian Indigenous peopl.....
» 3/02/2008 5:27:49 PM Kartiya Jim, Of course it does, if you can afford it. You are certainly not barred from e.....
» 1/02/2008 3:20:25 PM Irene, perhaps you are using the word 'backyard' metaphorically but there is no evidence t.....
» 29/01/2008 7:55:39 AM 2. So, this raises a few questions: of course, outsiders should not be able to enter priva.....
» 29/01/2008 7:52:18 AM On permits: clearly, nobody opposing permits is suggesting that outsiders or visitors shou.....
» 26/01/2008 1:22:42 PM I would even respectfully suggest that, even if God has the best tunes, atheists have the .....
» 26/01/2008 1:19:54 PM But religion is not just, or even mainly, about believing or faith, it is about (1) hopi.....
» 25/01/2008 10:28:53 AM 2. In reference to my earlier post: But of course, none of these cases are particularly r.....
» 25/01/2008 10:26:56 AM 1. Yes, the world is open, uncertain, unfinished, and unfinishable. But so many people cra.....
» 17/01/2008 4:54:58 PM There are some weird and even horrifying comments to this article. Some people seem to hav.....
» 22/11/2007 4:48:03 PM Just to add to that last posting, about the rights of Aboriginal people to make use of lan.....
» 22/11/2007 2:09:43 PM Thanks, Stephen. But just on your mention of 'terra nullius', I'm not so sure that it was .....

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