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» 30/08/2013 9:56:56 AM The USA, did not intervene before the before the gassing occurred? Why is that?.....
» 16/05/2010 1:41:33 PM Andrew, You should have written "partly strangle". To strangle means to kill by .....
» 3/05/2010 10:59:46 AM The front page has "front" Kevin. That is the way to begin. To begin to write yo.....
» 30/03/2009 3:13:49 PM Gary, Your first sentence is very disturbing: "The suggestion that the Defence Depart.....
» 24/08/2006 1:41:09 PM It seems that BROCK doesn't know anything about car testing. What you need is a hilly circ.....
» 22/08/2006 11:58:59 PM Paul Williams asks the question that any voter knows the answer too well "What do we.....
» 22/08/2006 11:39:32 PM Nicholas Gruen says that things in the car industry are not good Real wages keep rising. .....
» 22/08/2006 2:14:00 PM Belief is different to reality. Reality is different to belief. Some believe that belief i.....
» 22/08/2006 11:32:35 AM If Sells can't believe in his own thinking power without referring to some forgotten quote.....
» 20/08/2006 10:33:13 PM Yes Philo, Groucho died from pneumonia on August 19, 1977 at the age of 86 . . . and where.....
» 20/08/2006 8:20:07 AM Amber, In making re-cycled water the sewage is filtered but there are stil microbes in the.....
» 20/08/2006 6:04:35 AM Ludwig, Meg1 writes in her last line: "my comments earlier give my feelings precisely.....
» 17/08/2006 9:08:28 AM amber4350, Just how are the Qld coalition going to deliver fresh water. Neither Labor nor .....
» 16/08/2006 8:34:36 PM Yes Rainier, That is exactly what Chistianity is about, pompsity, sham and elitism and my .....
» 16/08/2006 2:59:00 PM The truth is that you have to be dead to know anything about heaven. So Peter Sellick, jus.....
» 14/08/2006 4:38:22 PM Everyone is racist. At the Olympics every race wants the other race to lose because they t.....
» 14/08/2006 2:13:26 AM Ev, How many litres? Enough litres of water to increase the population another million th.....
» 13/08/2006 8:36:42 PM Hey Kipp, The only Australian is the Aborigine, ethnic......
» 13/08/2006 6:56:09 PM My mother once had a recipe for rabbit stew. The recipe was in point form and steps in num.....
» 13/08/2006 3:43:01 PM Yes an ethnic is an Australian as viewed by an American. An ethnic is a community sub-grou.....
» 12/08/2006 2:00:08 PM Malcolm writes: "We should solve our water problems together. " We could all mee.....
» 11/08/2006 12:42:34 PM This water thing, Isn't over dramatised. There is plenty of water. Just turn on the tap......
» 10/08/2006 7:00:37 PM The ABC showed the stouch between Tuckey and Beazley this afternoon. It was unedited. The .....
» 10/08/2006 10:43:42 AM Great advertisement for The Melbourne Herald-Sun. What has the ABC got to do with The Melb.....
» 9/08/2006 8:52:54 PM I wonder why all the normal people who get mistreated by Centerlink don't get publicity. I.....
» 9/08/2006 1:51:23 PM 2bob, The price is in lives lost. Wars continue because not enough people die. What we nee.....
» 9/08/2006 12:33:10 PM I agree with you Scout. We need to arm everyone up to the teeth with nuclear weapons so we.....
» 9/08/2006 8:35:40 AM Well you can't buy gold nuggets with Telstra shares. Not while you have a broad band that .....
» 8/08/2006 2:47:05 PM Ethanol is a whole lot dearer than gasoline, about 80c litre. Ehanool is mythylated spirit.....
» 8/08/2006 12:56:47 PM Mr Bean, Did you get your information from Malcolm Turnbull. The housing rate rise has bee.....
» 8/08/2006 9:37:41 AM Week after week we have people writing columns on OLO making silly statements. No wonder w.....
» 7/08/2006 1:23:40 PM ICEBERG, Why would reserves increase? Do you find more needles in a haystack just because .....
» 7/08/2006 10:59:44 AM Ludwig, You are right......
» 7/08/2006 10:38:50 AM Well we all know what time of the day Chris Harries wrote his first line: "With both .....
» 6/08/2006 7:25:37 PM Yes Kipp when we look after ourselves we look after only one person out of 20 million; the.....
» 6/08/2006 5:19:39 PM It seems Meg1 doesn't know any Queenslanders. Now the two pipes in Qld would have to be on.....
» 6/08/2006 4:51:11 AM It is amazing that private schooling can't teach people to spell......
» 5/08/2006 1:07:50 PM No David, you do me great injustice. You distort my facts and my opinion. I advocate the d.....
» 4/08/2006 2:20:00 PM George Williams writes: "When it comes to freedom of speech we are in danger of losin.....
» 4/08/2006 10:08:40 AM There is no such thing as sustainability. It only exists in Man's imagination. To sustain .....
» 4/08/2006 6:15:12 AM Otokonoko, You amuse me. How do you teach those who don't want to learn? There is not a s.....
» 3/08/2006 9:12:23 PM It seems everyone has narrow minds. It takes abroad mind to see there is no inconsistancy .....
» 3/08/2006 9:36:50 AM Ultraviolet light hey. So what if the people who drink the water get cancer. I suppose you.....
» 3/08/2006 8:51:08 AM Ena, Get divorced, take responsibilty for yourself and then don't complain in hundreds of .....
» 2/08/2006 9:50:29 PM David, Peter Beattie has asked the public today to pray for rain. Does that not tell you s.....
» 2/08/2006 8:57:04 PM It seems no one here sees the warnings. Toowoomba has had its referendum. That decision sh.....
» 1/08/2006 10:05:31 PM Mark you ask: "Why would women encourage a situation in which they are likely to end .....
» 1/08/2006 9:48:01 PM It is how you look at the problem. So there is a water shortage? That is your own problem .....
» 1/08/2006 4:47:39 PM Rainier, Once upon a time "The government" and "the people" were the s.....
» 1/08/2006 1:35:22 PM Yes I agree. Another great post. We are all in agreement. Just like being married isn't it.....
» 1/08/2006 12:04:51 PM Ok, Everyone has voted here that Clive Berghoffer influenced the vote. So, right now, toda.....
» 31/07/2006 7:55:27 PM Thanks colinsett for telling us you understand statistics but don't understand anything e.....
» 31/07/2006 7:33:14 PM I will use the last sentence of Laurie: "But what works for the couple." And jus.....
» 31/07/2006 4:26:25 PM Jolanda, Don't you know that the Australian Women's Weekly is more scientific, the Woman's.....
» 31/07/2006 12:09:54 PM Narcissist threw a line in to pooh pooh the idea. "Do you people know what fish do in.....
» 31/07/2006 10:56:35 AM I read the whole blog or is that bog and the only pro-environmental statement I could find.....
» 30/07/2006 5:30:24 PM Hey are people going to Israel or Iraq?.....
» 30/07/2006 4:53:08 PM David, And then what we do after that? And then what we do after that when we come AGAIN t.....
» 30/07/2006 3:45:03 PM Rainier, Australian Democracy? Does it exist? The Town of Toowoomba has just had a vote .....
» 29/07/2006 2:16:49 PM Mark: So Kim Beazley said "A lot of women believe that the best thing for children is.....
» 28/07/2006 6:21:18 PM Ohhhhhh, give me strength Oh Lord!.....
» 28/07/2006 12:51:02 PM Did a Dodo write this piece. Mark Thirwell began: "Even in the aftermath of the lates.....
» 28/07/2006 11:24:07 AM Laurie, Just how do parents "encourage their children to be the best at whatever they.....
» 27/07/2006 9:51:54 PM shorbe, You know exactly what I am getting at. That is why you mentioned the middle-class .....
» 27/07/2006 5:03:11 PM plirdsuss, Oh so we have a public servant libararian who dots eyes and crosses teas and lo.....
» 27/07/2006 2:59:34 PM Ena, The blurb here says: "Jane Caro is a Sydney writer . . ." There is a quantu.....
» 27/07/2006 12:27:02 PM I like the last line: "It's about believing that the stories and experiences of peop.....
» 27/07/2006 10:44:59 AM Robert and Reason, When a couple comes together, one dominates. Pun intended. It must be .....
» 26/07/2006 9:33:47 PM Maybe ena, a word in shorbe's first comment motivated you to write the comment that you wr.....
» 26/07/2006 4:26:40 PM Leo, Yeah right......
» 26/07/2006 2:37:19 PM I love this! Ena wrote: "Whenever I write something, think something or ponder a deci.....
» 26/07/2006 9:35:11 AM Greg begins: "Israel is a society without a moral compass." What really does tha.....
» 25/07/2006 9:03:15 PM Reason, I am a sub-editor and must correct what I see is wrong with English, composition a.....
» 25/07/2006 7:21:28 PM Jane writes in the middle about a new-born human baby that smiles, breathes and "goo-.....
» 25/07/2006 4:13:11 PM The opening line of: "We live in a world where, according to Jeffrey Sachs in Time Ma.....
» 25/07/2006 1:38:40 PM Speaking of the "Rule of Thumb" Billie, Ena did not mention THE great women's ex.....
» 24/07/2006 5:35:22 PM Ena, I could answer you with clever quips about posts, horses and sulkies, and different p.....
» 24/07/2006 1:15:10 PM From Banjo Patterson's 'Clancy of the Overlow" And he sees the vision splendid of th.....
» 24/07/2006 12:20:36 PM Reason, You know nothing of families and single parents. Do you really think it is wise to.....
» 23/07/2006 3:35:31 PM Narcissist, What do you call the process where minority views are ignored. Maybe everyone .....
» 23/07/2006 2:16:22 PM Mmmmm, A teaching and learning director at Harvard University does not realise a teacher i.....
» 23/07/2006 1:49:52 PM What is quality teaching? The answer is obvious, it is whatever the teacher says it is. Ma.....
» 23/07/2006 12:36:40 PM Reason, Ena has not hit the nail on the head. You have not had a family so you don't know .....
» 23/07/2006 10:44:49 AM Ena, Your sentence: "We will not become fully human until we value the female experie.....
» 22/07/2006 12:44:30 PM Irfan, Your long bow is out and stretched beyond the limit. "A year after the London .....
» 22/07/2006 8:43:06 AM billie, We can forgive pdev for not reading the Bible of 1Timothy 6:10 as a prospective d.....
» 21/07/2006 11:25:52 AM Yes suicide has been committed in "Suicide: an act of asymetric warfare" Off wit.....
» 19/07/2006 8:51:58 PM No matter how many options you are given there is only two choices: One or the other......
» 19/07/2006 2:03:02 PM Ena, Why did you not answer billie or RObert. You answered Mark Richardson because that is.....
» 19/07/2006 11:44:12 AM Maybe Beazley would not have a difficult time if the first line was put in the positive in.....
» 18/07/2006 8:53:16 PM Ena, You say: "Isn't our shared humanity our most imp. characteristic?" Maybe th.....
» 18/07/2006 1:18:47 PM ena, What similarities? What similarities? If you can find any similarity between men and .....
» 17/07/2006 2:01:31 PM Cairns is already connected to Brisbane by water. It is called the Pacific Ocean......
» 17/07/2006 1:50:16 PM "The irony . . ." Pierre Tristam begins with "The Irony . . ."? Who ca.....
» 17/07/2006 12:49:41 PM Renee, What are you saying? Communication means to get a message from your mind into the m.....
» 16/07/2006 8:31:17 PM The blurb reads: Jane Caro is a Sydney writer with particular interests in women, families.....
» 16/07/2006 1:46:29 AM Celivia, Merlot is better than swallowing biodiesel. Just where are you slipping sipping i.....
» 15/07/2006 8:18:34 PM Let's pretend that the writer is not north of the US border but Mexican and wrote this in .....
» 13/07/2006 11:44:44 PM An Australian Bill of Rights would make no difference to Australian life. Do you think any.....
» 13/07/2006 10:49:45 PM So what did we learn about Jane? That in her childhood up to the age of seven she was brou.....
» 13/07/2006 10:36:46 PM What are we really scared of? I thought that was already decided back in 1948 when "1.....
» 13/07/2006 10:25:21 PM Now let's see . . . The Mexican was blonde, the waitress was brunette and the food was co.....
» 13/07/2006 9:37:13 PM It took the third paragraph to come to: "They were just like every other family in th.....
» 7/07/2006 7:22:00 PM My dear Tim Brunero, You are correct and I am correct. We both are correct. When you attr.....
» 7/07/2006 12:28:30 PM Gemma, You are female and you as female are about the only one who has it right. The males.....
» 11/06/2006 6:47:21 PM Black is indeed white. Neil James begins: "First, was he a combatant in an armed conf.....
» 23/05/2006 5:30:40 PM What a myoptic view Peter Spearritt has. He criticises NSW from the top of Q1 and yet the .....
» 22/05/2006 11:57:47 PM Alison Wolf says three things are being detroyed as women advance: 1. The death of sisterh.....
» 1/05/2006 10:49:14 PM Since the Year Dot 'School" has always been about conformity. That is what "scho.....
» 23/04/2006 2:51:01 PM Not worth commenting on. One woman is jeolous of Madonna. Gee there must be millions of w.....
» 22/04/2006 4:53:43 PM brown_eyed_girl, And you are a very loyal, loving and honest person. Thank you......
» 22/04/2006 3:49:13 PM brown_eyed_girl, A private school reputation is no better than a public school reputation......
» 18/04/2006 1:38:37 PM Realist, Strength is not independence or dependence. Strength is neither but is the combi.....
» 17/04/2006 9:58:12 PM And who in Australia is not a politically-correct control freak? That is what society has .....
» 17/04/2006 5:30:29 PM "Peter Costello is fond of speaking about Christian values. It has puzzled me." .....
» 17/04/2006 12:30:53 PM The Alchemist is correct. I was married to a schoolteacher for 25 years. Teachers don’t ev.....
» 13/04/2006 10:58:58 PM And why did Johnj write? To sit around and try and outdo us. You see John you can't write .....
» 13/04/2006 10:34:19 PM Very well said Jane but why say it in twice the number of words that are needed. The way t.....
» 2/04/2006 8:08:13 PM If Bob's puffery of the greatness of being an employee had some credibility why isn't Bob .....
» 28/03/2006 10:16:11 PM Graham, You can't make your Explanation point until you learn to write. Is this a sentenc.....
» 22/03/2006 11:09:43 PM So what have we got here? All I can see is that a member of Federal Labor is too afraid to.....
» 4/02/2006 1:33:15 PM And I thought the rot started when the Naked Ape came down from the trees. Or do I Protest.....
» 4/02/2006 1:29:27 PM Which God are we talking about here? Some will say what God? There is Ra the Sun God. No B.....
» 4/02/2006 1:24:25 PM Just how are things going from bad to worse for John Howard? The Cole Inquiry is not touch.....
» 4/02/2006 1:08:11 PM Shared parenting baloney. Shared parenting is what occured before the divorce when the par.....
» 4/02/2006 12:45:23 PM I find the opening line amazing. Just amazing. "On January 7, 1990, Australia’s only .....
» 5/01/2006 9:14:13 PM Kalweb, You should have given them their feed back if they can't eat the right gramma......
» 5/01/2006 12:43:53 PM Coyote, Please start on weazel words. Put them up on the easel......
» 3/01/2006 2:28:07 PM Yes let's talk about this organism called "Happiness and sex". The trouble is s.....
» 28/12/2005 3:27:23 PM As we are now regarded as part of Asia, Australia could adopt the Chinese Bill of Rights, .....
» 28/12/2005 12:11:38 PM Sage, What you say is free speech. We don't have free speech in Australia......
» 28/12/2005 11:19:12 AM Vivienne, Why would people want to travel for if they experienced fear, discomfort, ill-he.....
» 28/12/2005 11:02:06 AM Christopher, Your writing is stilted. It is hard to understand. Self-sensorship does that.....
» 28/12/2005 10:41:04 AM Jason begins: "On Sunday, December 11, the fabric of the Australian ideal was torn.&q.....
» 24/12/2005 10:09:24 PM Arjay, What good has religion done? If it has done some good it means it has just fixed up.....
» 24/12/2005 5:48:32 PM So . . . I read Laurie Oakes. It's the usual Laurie sitting on the fence, not saying much......
» 24/12/2005 5:54:02 AM Right, now we got that cleared up and out of the way. Who's left?.....
» 24/12/2005 5:50:25 AM I agree with your Mathew S, you are right, oh so right, very right, right, just right, 100.....
» 22/12/2005 12:19:15 PM Greg Begins: "Australia is a backwater, a racist and inward-looking country that turn.....
» 22/12/2005 11:51:55 AM Wowee, We get the most horrible or horriblist headings that can give galloping consumpion .....
» 22/12/2005 10:07:10 AM Just what we want are two academics in theory who do not practice with scalpal, knife, blo.....
» 22/12/2005 2:00:32 AM I thought that the very existance of the website "Democracy 4 sale" and that mon.....
» 21/12/2005 10:35:26 AM The question is posed: "Could riots occur in Melbourne?' The answer is obvious. No!, .....
» 20/12/2005 6:21:19 PM Rafa, This is your opening sentence: "I am proud to be an Australian." That is t.....
» 19/12/2005 12:55:57 PM I think young Daniel should look up some antonyms. There are two opposites: "Young&qu.....
» 19/12/2005 12:19:08 PM The man who gives a world to anyone is a person's father. Without fathers there is no worl.....
» 19/12/2005 11:51:00 AM James, What a very sad story about your mother's son. She could have given you a father be.....
» 18/12/2005 5:56:45 PM Peter West seems to think only one gender exists. This world is a wholistic world and neit.....
» 18/12/2005 12:17:00 PM Robin, I loved your last line: "Finally, it is often pointed out that religious scie.....
» 18/12/2005 6:43:52 AM Keith, So you are in the pub moist of the time. It used to be only fathers but now it is t.....
» 17/12/2005 12:26:46 PM SHONGA, What planet are you from? The real world is about drugs, legal and illegal, and ge.....
» 16/12/2005 11:15:20 AM Jennifer, For years there have been two types of eggs, "Farm fresh eggs" and &qu.....
» 16/12/2005 10:56:41 AM Jane, I found the article too fluffy, too frivilous, too airy fairy something like a grow.....
» 15/12/2005 12:16:46 PM We could have had The Australian Press Council down there at Cronulla and then there would.....
» 12/12/2005 2:18:05 PM I like the introductory line: "Nothing protects democracy more than free speech.".....
» 10/12/2005 9:36:58 AM D2, You must get out more among the Americans. Before he died you have never seen a Sammy .....
» 10/12/2005 3:38:52 AM Terje, To answer your question: "Which countries do you think are less racist than Au.....
» 9/12/2005 9:02:58 PM Leslie Cannold argues that RU486 should be available to Australlians. i would presume that.....
» 9/12/2005 8:42:27 PM Con, Your name is right. White Australia has been trying get the black Aborigine to cast o.....
» 9/12/2005 8:16:08 PM Ro, What do you do? Ask you son what he wants his life to be. Tell him to reject everythin.....
» 8/12/2005 10:27:25 PM Terje' I am with you. Increase taxes and people will be better off. Let's not be superfici.....
» 7/12/2005 6:10:33 PM DW, Isn't there anyone is this world yonger than 20. 20 is old to some younger than 20, DW.....
» 7/12/2005 3:39:05 PM It is interesting to read that nothing moves in politics but three things. Surely there is.....
» 7/12/2005 1:05:49 PM Graham, Most of the views here are favourable to your article. What can I compute from tha.....
» 7/12/2005 11:45:55 AM Judith you must come down from the past of your Robert Menzies era of 50 years ago and com.....
» 7/12/2005 9:12:37 AM Who are the winners and losers? Pru Goward's long monologue could have been editored down .....
» 6/12/2005 1:48:05 PM Leigh, if we don't listen to the greenies in a few generations hence humans will be back t.....
» 6/12/2005 11:57:13 AM Pru, you drop yourself down a well in your first sentence: "I represent the Human Rig.....
» 5/12/2005 4:08:13 PM HarryC to reduce the population it is better if the baby dies. Our greatest asset are adul.....
» 5/12/2005 1:45:41 PM What wake up call? Nguyen Tuong Van is not going to wake up. What we need to wake up to is.....
» 5/12/2005 12:41:08 PM Michelle must be the only well-adjusted, healthy Australian around. Everyone else lies......
» 5/12/2005 11:58:13 AM Look at history and it says that there are things wrong with the opening line: "It is.....
» 5/12/2005 11:26:35 AM I am sorry but anyone's greatest asset is their home, real estate. Assets have nothing to .....
» 30/11/2005 12:49:45 PM Peter, If the title is not original how could the text be original? To pick a flippant tit.....
» 21/11/2005 12:49:58 PM I like the way you begin Jim: "John Howard’s WorkChoices Bill reflects an authoritari.....
» 21/11/2005 12:15:36 PM I am sorry Richard you are leading everyone up the garden path. Political intent and polit.....
» 16/11/2005 1:15:17 PM Chris, when you break open a donut you will find a lot of little holes. So there is not on.....
» 14/11/2005 12:53:24 PM Sniggid, you are sitting on the picket fence 50/50 because nothing is that equal. It is im.....
» 12/11/2005 6:51:49 AM Goldbrick, you chose a very suitable name and what you wrote is very thick with words and .....
» 11/11/2005 4:26:06 PM It seems the writer does not have any regard for public opinion. She says public opinion s.....
» 10/11/2005 3:25:38 PM It seems that someone does not believe what employers do. Don't you believe in truth. Do y.....
» 10/11/2005 2:33:55 PM I agree maternity leave should be a God-given right. Employers would then not employ wome.....
» 9/11/2005 1:41:58 PM John Howard says the minimum wage won't fall but he guarantees that prices will rise when .....
» 9/11/2005 1:30:22 PM So we have a Fundamentalist Christian who believes that everything in the Bible actually h.....
» 9/11/2005 1:01:31 PM What you have shown is that there are serious problems at home. You discuss serious proble.....

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