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» 18/05/2021 11:45:16 AM If the PNG government encourages the use of HCQ and ivermectin to treat clinical cases, th.....
» 19/05/2014 9:48:44 AM I agree with the basis premise of this article. Monogamy is best for children. As long a.....
» 25/03/2014 12:21:19 PM Agriculture is a business like any other. It would be an even better business if those peo.....
» 12/03/2014 9:09:16 AM What a great interview. The implications for Australia are substantial. If his prediction.....
» 10/03/2014 9:14:55 AM Just because you are just scraping by, Malcolm (Paddy) King, you shouldn't assume everyone.....
» 17/01/2014 9:56:37 AM As a predictor of politics, Syd will prove to be as accurate as Bob Ellis......
» 8/01/2014 9:17:47 AM Here is the nub of your article, and summarises Bernardi's point of view: "from a p.....
» 18/12/2013 8:27:31 AM You were in government until recently Andrew Leigh. This mess is mostly your creation. Lec.....
» 22/11/2013 8:45:42 AM James - your side lost. A majority of people voted against that luvvie claptrap. Get over .....
» 19/11/2013 9:34:16 AM The Sex Party and HEMP far left? What drivel. Left wing parties want to control your mon.....
» 11/11/2013 9:15:08 AM Stupid lefties can't believe individual editors do as they see fit and aren't the puppets .....
» 26/07/2013 11:37:03 AM Eat your heart out, peak oil donkeys......
» 4/07/2013 10:05:04 AM The SPP will win about as many votes as the Coke in the Bubblers Party. You'd be better .....
» 1/07/2013 9:48:26 AM Rudd's economic policies probably won't matter much. For the few weeks until he loses the .....
» 1/07/2013 9:43:04 AM This was reading well until it turned into an anti-American rant. Now the whole thing is d.....
» 28/06/2013 9:35:31 AM Sounds like you're part of the anti-vaccination network. Letting people die of preventable.....
» 28/06/2013 9:32:53 AM Small minded nonsense. People like you should get out of the way and let those with some i.....
» 27/06/2013 1:46:35 PM What's all this nonsense about not logging native forests? They've been burnt and regrown .....
» 20/06/2013 1:06:16 PM I'd take this seriously if the author was advocating nuclear power. It's the only renewabl.....
» 24/04/2013 10:57:53 AM The central premise of this argument is false. There is no US policy of pre-emptive inte.....
» 9/04/2013 10:14:41 AM What a crock. Chavez is a totalitarian who destroyed his country's economy. You blame co.....
» 8/04/2013 9:41:49 AM The Greens would lead us back to the stone age if they got the chance. All trade is good.....
» 4/04/2013 9:46:16 AM Klaas has obviously never had a close look at Lakemba if he thinks the Netherlands problem.....
» 18/03/2013 8:57:18 AM The Chairman of the IPCC concedes there has been no global warming for 17 years. All the p.....
» 21/02/2013 8:47:59 AM Whining about not getting enough of other people's money. Shameful......
» 18/02/2013 9:07:32 AM Nuclear power is clean, long term and reliable. It could provide China with pollution-free.....
» 29/01/2013 10:20:43 AM Government support = taxpayer handouts ie subsidies The best support the government can p.....
» 29/01/2013 7:53:11 AM When you can't beat the argument, play the man eh? Jim and his FoE mates are past masters.....
» 21/01/2013 11:06:55 AM I assume you'd like to see a 'final solution' to this problem with the Jews, wouldn't you .....
» 9/01/2013 4:03:25 PM Let's see if I've got this right: Intervention in Iraq was all wrong. Lack of interv.....
» 20/12/2012 8:23:42 AM It's never the fault of the people who pull the trigger is it? Always blame the inanimate .....
» 19/12/2012 9:46:33 AM A great analysis with a serious message. Gays and Marxists should be kept well away from t.....
» 12/11/2012 9:05:47 AM Your comments would be more valid but for this: "I am not defending the comments. T.....
» 8/11/2012 10:21:00 AM This article is fine as far as it goes, but I bet Kellie Tranter doesn't have the same sym.....
» 7/11/2012 9:04:56 AM In some ways the industry has brought this problem on itself by continually agreeing to ne.....
» 5/11/2012 10:20:09 AM Submarines are a vital element in Australia's defence, far more important than jets (incre.....
» 5/11/2012 9:00:20 AM Absolute arrogance. You guys want to impose your own distorted perceptions on the rest of .....
» 24/10/2012 8:59:07 AM Great article. Very well said......
» 23/10/2012 1:03:00 PM I wonder if Lee Rhiannon would make a better Greens leader than Christine Milne. She's cer.....
» 23/10/2012 12:59:49 PM If Alan Jones can be kept on his toes by pressuring advertisers, why isn't that good enoug.....
» 22/10/2012 9:32:09 AM The only crisis I see here is in the author's head. His "solution" won't solve t.....
» 16/10/2012 2:15:53 PM If too many people are the problem, Ludwig, what's the solution. Are you offering to top y.....
» 11/10/2012 2:33:59 PM They abolished negative for a time a few years ago. It caused a huge fuss because renters .....
» 9/10/2012 9:33:13 AM There is no such thing as a social licence. It's either legal or it's not. The collapse .....
» 9/10/2012 9:25:44 AM Why must it be "publicly funded" research? There are hundreds of companies, in.....
» 5/10/2012 10:04:27 AM The ABC is a tragic waste of taxpayers money. We all pay for those appalling, ignorant big.....
» 4/10/2012 10:20:55 AM Australia is missing the boat on this. Our Green/NIMBY coalition and their Lock the Gate c.....
» 13/09/2012 10:22:14 AM We all choose our attitudes. When someone asks you that question, I suggest you choose to .....
» 13/09/2012 9:58:30 AM The west might not be able to do a lot about instability in the developing world, but it c.....
» 10/09/2012 11:19:13 AM Good article that adds to growing doubt about the whole AGW industry. The IPCC is corrupt .....
» 4/09/2012 12:09:17 PM Truth is a defence in defamation, but this wasn't a defamation case. Also free speech (a.....
» 3/09/2012 11:04:24 AM Alan is to the left of the Democrats. Hardly a creditable commentator......
» 29/08/2012 11:17:44 AM The notion that a four cell blastocyst has the same "personhood" rights as a ful.....
» 28/08/2012 11:23:17 AM I understand stamping your foot and shouting keeps enemies at bay too. Or at least joini.....
» 16/08/2012 10:12:54 AM Iran chose to thumb its nose at the civilised world, sponsoring terrorists in Lebanon, fos.....
» 15/08/2012 11:07:33 AM Japan has been facing this problem for quite a while. The answer is immigration. There are.....
» 13/08/2012 9:28:37 AM The filthy foreigners will cart our farms away on ships. And we'll all be rooned......
» 10/08/2012 10:51:06 AM This is a bit unreal. Even if R2P was reality with international law perfectly clear, it i.....
» 17/07/2012 9:48:33 AM We all have an inalienable right to other people's money. Especially me......
» 29/06/2012 9:28:43 AM This is ridiculous. You choose to make assumptions about the reasons for certain questions.....
» 28/06/2012 10:54:00 AM I am ready to dance on the political grave of the left. But I fear I will have some time.....
» 27/06/2012 9:17:43 AM Stop being pushed around. Use words as they are meant to be used, and force the PC idiots .....
» 26/06/2012 10:00:45 AM Mere speculation and anti-American bigotry. Assange is an accused sex offender and shoul.....
» 20/06/2012 11:01:23 AM This is certainly a strong case against biblical support for monogamy. But it seems to rei.....
» 19/06/2012 9:48:55 AM Great article. Let your boys be boys, and be a bit like a boy yourself as to the consequ.....
» 15/06/2012 10:52:25 AM "Hunting is incompatible with the conservation values underpinning National parks.&qu.....
» 13/06/2012 11:59:42 AM Any old excuse to have a rant against guns, those inanimate objects that just go out and k.....
» 6/06/2012 10:36:46 AM "What's happening across the Tasman is a distressing example of what happens when the.....
» 6/06/2012 10:29:12 AM I disagree with Brian. Therefore he is a baddie and should not be permitted to write piffl.....
» 1/06/2012 9:24:04 AM What a ridiculous article. Go to Haiti and see how you get on without being vaccinated f.....
» 31/05/2012 10:56:07 AM The Greens are anti-capitalists who believe they are more equal than others. The Labor Par.....
» 28/05/2012 11:36:42 AM Foreign aid is an international crime, keeping developing communities in poverty. With the.....
» 23/04/2012 10:07:09 AM I think a large serving of cat food is needed here. I know plenty of working women who s.....
» 18/04/2012 9:27:49 AM A good article, rational and logical. Unlike Andrew's work on firearms laws, which start f.....
» 17/04/2012 9:31:25 AM What nonsense. Live a long and miserable life of suffering if you wish, but stop imposing .....
» 11/04/2012 2:30:25 PM Ah Comrade, if only they'd re-erect the Berlin Wall. That'd keep out the capitalist dogs......
» 20/03/2012 9:33:15 AM A global seed bank has merit, but with friends like this who needs enemies? It's got not.....
» 1/03/2012 12:32:02 PM It's true that low taxes and a very light regulatory touch are good for the economy, prosp.....
» 16/02/2012 1:18:14 PM Alan, if you think Australian journalism is poor quality why don't you set a good example?.....
» 13/02/2012 8:37:43 AM There's a good chance this is still a Chicken Little issue. An article in a journal does n.....
» 10/02/2012 9:44:51 AM Well off, smug and opinionated, telling the rest of us how to live. Spend your money how.....
» 6/02/2012 2:10:36 PM It's all predictable - Poland will grow wealthy and Bulgaria will stay poor. Fortune favou.....
» 6/02/2012 2:05:08 PM What romantic nonsense. Peter Garrett hasn't made a decision since he got elected and wo.....
» 3/02/2012 9:10:30 AM Pilger's support for the "preservation of basic freedoms in western democracies".....
» 20/01/2012 8:32:23 AM There are repeated threats by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to wipe Israel off the map. Ir.....
» 12/01/2012 8:49:21 AM Environmentalism is an activity for well-intentioned middle classes who don't think too de.....
» 12/01/2012 8:42:30 AM The Club of Rome lives on! And has acquired no greater intelligence or insight with adva.....
» 9/01/2012 8:37:18 AM Very good article. Nice to see someone offering an alternative to the stultifying nanny st.....
» 5/01/2012 9:21:01 AM New Zealand can't blame the Christchurch earthquake for its poor performance, or even the .....
» 30/12/2011 7:28:48 AM Excellent article. The planning Nazis are ruining the country. It's time they got to kno.....
» 21/12/2011 10:14:03 AM Interesting points. I'm not sure where the author is taking this, but if he is saying: 1.....
» 20/12/2011 9:54:06 AM Well said Mick......
» 14/12/2011 10:27:34 AM Please, encourage all your like-minded colleagues to drink hemlock. And set a good example.....
» 12/12/2011 8:28:18 AM As soon as you invoke the Nazi analogy, you've lost. If you don't have better arguments th.....
» 8/12/2011 10:15:38 AM If fossil fuels are contributing to long term environmental damage (and that's a big if cu.....
» 8/12/2011 9:56:29 AM Peter Hume is right - Keynes has no credibility since the GFC and the failure of "sti.....
» 30/11/2011 9:45:50 AM I won't take people like Stephen seriously until they apply their criticisms of the US to .....
» 30/11/2011 9:36:47 AM This horse is dead. It's time to quit flogging it......
» 28/11/2011 9:31:18 AM [Deleted for abuse.].....
» 23/11/2011 9:24:22 AM Kids are kids. They need clear rules that are enforced. Tell them they shouldn't make be d.....
» 23/11/2011 9:17:33 AM How loudly did you protest at Australia's termination of the live export cattle trade to I.....
» 23/11/2011 9:11:38 AM Yet another whine from a rusted on leftie about how they would spend other people's money .....
» 21/11/2011 9:40:35 AM Simplistic drivel......
» 16/11/2011 8:29:41 AM Governments shouldn't be trying to "shape" anything. If they got out of the way .....
» 15/11/2011 10:07:00 AM If you're so convinced the sea is going to rise by 2m (which not even the IPCC says will h.....
» 9/11/2011 8:48:58 AM I don't agree with much of what the Occupy people are on about (especially their socialist.....
» 4/11/2011 10:17:58 AM What a load of garbage. Back to the retirement vegie patch for you, Mr Holden......
» 3/11/2011 9:25:02 AM I definitely think Paul Russell shouldn't receive any assistance to end his own life, no m.....
» 1/11/2011 9:55:04 AM Clever quips are no substitute for understanding what you are talking about. Clearly you h.....
» 27/10/2011 9:00:45 AM There is definitely a right to peaceful protest and the police in Melbourne were wrong to .....
» 26/10/2011 9:22:57 AM This is a question of values and nothing to do with benefiting animals. Nicholas wants to .....
» 25/10/2011 10:52:22 AM New Zealand has become uncompetitive. Rules, welfare and the nanny state do not create job.....
» 19/10/2011 9:14:11 AM This is more like a religious treatise than a rational analysis. There are no solutions of.....
» 11/10/2011 8:31:32 AM Great to see some vision for the north. The North Australian Task Force report was a depre.....
» 22/09/2011 9:57:10 AM Ah yes, Animals Australia. The extremist vegetarian organisation that thought stopping the.....
» 22/09/2011 9:51:55 AM So you want taxpayer handouts to fund your research. And you don't want companies invest.....
» 21/09/2011 2:11:48 PM Garbage. The Australian horticulture industry is hiding behind protectionist barriers beca.....
» 20/09/2011 9:26:16 AM If it looks like socialism and smells like socialism, it must be socialism. Protectionis.....
» 20/09/2011 9:23:50 AM Of course media owners have every right to express their bias. But what about the ABC? W.....
» 16/09/2011 9:47:59 AM What a stupid comment Chris Lewis. Why don't you try to understand what you are trying to .....
» 15/09/2011 9:26:22 AM You've got to get over this Keynesian "stimulus" nonsense Saul. It hasn't worked.....
» 14/09/2011 4:20:13 PM I stopped agreeing when it got to the point where it claimed mental illness was caused by .....
» 19/08/2011 9:12:43 AM Ah, nothing like a good old-fashioned corporate bashing. Let's close down Orica. I'm sur.....
» 18/08/2011 9:36:32 AM Interesting post and I certainly agree with the comments about the media. A more self-serv.....
» 2/08/2011 1:25:31 PM Very valid comments Judith. We shouldn't spend a billion dollars on something that other.....
» 29/07/2011 9:54:27 AM Why do you think any of this is your business, John Murphy? Marriage is a private matter.....
» 29/07/2011 9:51:58 AM Yet another rationalisation for stealing from the productive sector to distribute to the n.....
» 29/07/2011 9:49:36 AM Shale gas is known as coal seam gas in Australia. If the anti-mining lobby gets its way,.....
» 7/07/2011 11:37:47 AM So you've worked for the ABC and World Vision? Let me guess - that probably makes you a bl.....
» 23/06/2011 10:19:23 AM Last time I looked, becoming a lawyer and where you work as a lawyer were still voluntary......
» 23/06/2011 10:06:36 AM This contributes nothing to the subject. It's yet another harangue, not well written, and .....
» 7/06/2011 11:02:09 AM FIFA is a corrupt, nepotistic organisation with zero credibility. It's no surprise it prom.....
» 1/06/2011 1:47:58 PM <i>If tobacco had been discovered in 2011, it’s unlikely that most developed countri.....
» 20/05/2011 11:03:17 AM We export over 60% of the food we produce. Are you suggesting we stop these exports? The.....
» 19/05/2011 1:47:10 PM Opponents of assisted suicide are inhumane. For whatever reason, they are condemning human.....
» 9/05/2011 9:34:06 AM At last a dose or reality and common sense. Unless the Chicken Littles manage to strangl.....
» 6/05/2011 9:31:41 AM No, I don't think that's it. The lesson is that social democratic parties should not pla.....
» 6/05/2011 9:24:49 AM This is mostly empty words. Specifically, how do you stop Councils rejecting development.....
» 5/05/2011 9:56:13 AM An excellent article. I knew some of these details but this puts it all in context. The b.....
» 18/04/2011 10:57:28 AM Abolishing Part 3A will inevitably cause a massive development logjam due to NIMBY objecti.....
» 14/04/2011 10:53:52 AM What a lightweight article. No definition of "extreme libertarian", no examples .....
» 4/04/2011 10:42:09 AM I understand why Andrew Leigh says: "In my view, this does not reflect any crisis of .....
» 4/04/2011 10:27:24 AM Well said. The government can warn us of the dangers, but ultimately it is our choice whet.....
» 17/02/2011 8:31:42 AM The word euthanasia is not ideal. It's the right to end your own life and to receive assis.....

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