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» 5/11/2009 1:23:31 PM Come on Mr Bartlett, enough of your sophistry. Consider form ‘C’: Application for a Protec.....
» 5/11/2009 8:53:19 AM The author’s idea of sharing our refugees by placing them on various Australian islands to.....
» 8/10/2007 2:14:18 PM Make up your mind Jennifer. No One is Illegal tell us that Australia has always been multi.....
» 6/10/2007 4:59:52 PM Lyn Allison’s article has perfectly captured the zeitgeist of the 60’s and 70’s. It was a .....
» 4/10/2007 3:19:17 PM xoddam, I’m not talking about self-declared political prisoners nor am I talking about the.....
» 4/10/2007 11:59:51 AM I too am saddened at the standard of journalism these days. Do they think that we are all .....
» 4/10/2007 10:00:19 AM Maybe if we compared the number of political opponents in Cuba and the USA who have been i.....
» 28/09/2007 11:04:35 AM Is the civil society mentioned by the author allowed to make the rules? If so, why would a.....
» 28/09/2007 10:05:39 AM And there we were being told that freedom of speech is under threat......
» 26/09/2007 9:02:25 AM Fifteen state parliaments with a maximum staff of 30 each. I bet that staff figure will st.....
» 25/09/2007 5:10:46 PM Todd, it is interesting to note how Selma was unsettled by a security check. Floating arou.....
» 25/09/2007 4:59:39 PM Article 1 of the UN’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights says: All human beings are bor.....
» 24/09/2007 10:08:52 AM SBS serves no real purpose......
» 24/09/2007 10:01:11 AM Why is it that we look to our politicians to deliver a just society? Both major Australian.....
» 17/09/2007 2:38:34 PM Yes Jean, I also say thank you for the care that you give and the pressure that you take o.....
» 14/09/2007 10:58:30 AM This is what happens when amateurs are put in charge of the country. Things might change i.....
» 14/09/2007 9:23:47 AM Grovelled to Jakarta! Howard must have ripped whole chapters out of the Hawke/Keating play.....
» 11/09/2007 6:15:20 PM Muslims must emerge from the gloom of circumambient Westophobia that appears to be holding.....
» 6/09/2007 10:17:31 AM Journalists! Is that what we call them? Do we have any? Are there any journalists who are .....
» 29/08/2007 3:01:26 PM Well PP, it might be time to bell the cat. Let’s rid ourselves of one tier of government b.....
» 29/08/2007 9:17:02 AM Nicola, Mr Rudd’s health policy is inchoate. Mr Rudd is on record as saying that the state.....
» 28/08/2007 10:31:00 AM Andrew, mysteriously you fail to mention the legal costs to us, the taxpayers once the asy.....
» 21/08/2007 9:58:26 AM The arrival of the caliphate would give no reason for wild celebrations. A rather large sp.....
» 10/08/2007 8:06:58 PM It would be a change to see those media bloodhounds maintain the same dedication that they.....
» 10/08/2007 9:30:21 AM Any link between Dr Haneef and al-Qaida is tenuous indeed and it’s hard to imagine why the.....
» 9/08/2007 9:17:01 AM Muslims caught up in violence or using violence? What happened to the 'religion of peace' .....
» 3/08/2007 4:51:55 PM What became of those heady days when multiculturalism was supposed to “enrichen the tapest.....
» 1/08/2007 3:06:28 PM Taxpayers' dollars are indeed funding private education. The question must be put: is the .....
» 24/07/2007 1:44:50 PM This article by Liza Hopkins is a ‘must read’ for those who want to capture the zeitgeist .....
» 23/07/2007 6:02:19 PM Thank you OLO for inviting Marilyn to add her comments. Marilyn is the OLO resident shotfi.....
» 20/07/2007 3:51:12 PM Both sides of the debate have merely confused the issue. They have embellished their evide.....
» 18/07/2007 12:17:11 PM DEMOS, we (my nurse and myself) are locked in battle at the moment over the small matter o.....
» 18/07/2007 9:01:40 AM As if the news isn't bad enough we have to put up with those dreadful current affairs show.....
» 17/07/2007 7:23:47 PM The people who get my sympathy in this whole sordid mess are the Brits. I had no idea life.....
» 3/07/2007 9:47:29 AM Sledging is a national sport in Oz. Many of our 'elites' love to sledge us for not voting .....
» 3/07/2007 9:33:52 AM This article must be suppressed otherwise Amnesty International may get hold of it. It wou.....
» 2/07/2007 9:40:54 AM The real question should be: Will Fraser, Hawke and Keating apologise to aborigines for tu.....
» 2/07/2007 9:37:13 AM The freedom of academia to express displeasure in relation to Israel must be protected. Ho.....
» 1/07/2007 10:49:39 AM To think that one apostate has discommoded Islam and muslims so much is risible. What happ.....
» 25/06/2007 7:17:48 PM Kipp, the answer may be found in descriptions of other countries. NZ is the land of the lo.....
» 25/06/2007 10:26:40 AM In my view if we continue to allow hate literature we’ll have to do away with Harmony Day......
» 24/06/2007 11:00:34 AM Wow Frank, only one critique so far. Looks like your stalking-horse will have to be unsadd.....
» 22/06/2007 9:33:17 AM Has multiculturalism become a dirty word? Yes. In the 70's, 91% of Australians were again.....
» 20/06/2007 3:17:39 PM What was it Perkins said? It was something like 'get off your white arse' or words like th.....
» 12/06/2007 3:19:48 PM The Hawke-Keating camorra lasted for in excess of 4,300 days. I find it odd that their dia.....
» 12/06/2007 10:12:40 AM No land should be without laws and so it is with the USA. In a 1942 case known as Ex Parte.....
» 9/06/2007 10:29:07 AM I deliberately waited before I added my comments. David Flinch will be surprised to know t.....
» 9/06/2007 10:12:24 AM "There was a time when religion ruled the world. It was known as the Dark Ages"......
» 7/06/2007 10:11:59 AM Notwithstanding Peter Crawford’s considered approach to our water woes, his plan is doomed.....
» 4/06/2007 10:50:16 AM Didn’t we just road test that word ‘tolerance’ when we played host to muslim revert Yvonne.....
» 31/05/2007 9:28:51 AM Here's a question for you Mr Merritt: Did your team figure in the finals of the RL competi.....
» 29/05/2007 10:52:16 AM Those delicate flowers who make up the distaff side of politics are a paradox. When one of.....
» 21/05/2007 4:18:05 PM jocelynne, may I say that I'm impressed by your staying power. How on earth did you sit th.....
» 21/05/2007 4:05:32 PM ‘But Australians have in-built bull-dust detectors’ says Mr Swan. I agree wholeheartedly. .....
» 15/05/2007 12:20:40 PM Radio station talk-back hosts will always possess a psittacine willingness to present thei.....
» 10/05/2007 9:33:09 AM Every parliament has members capable of pointless and sophomoric Bulletin blurts. However,.....
» 7/05/2007 10:57:46 AM Welcome to the dysfunctional world known as the Australian legal club. It is a club that a.....
» 5/05/2007 4:12:15 PM As if to underscore the inimicitious nature of muslim migration to Australia the author te.....
» 4/05/2007 5:35:24 PM How ironic that the turbidity of Islamic thought is only capable of achieving transcendent.....
» 2/05/2007 2:47:34 PM TRTL yes by all means let's encourage dissent and let's hear other views. However, flying .....
» 2/05/2007 1:59:43 PM I hope this course wasn't developed by the West Coast Eagles......
» 2/05/2007 1:56:31 PM The world according to the BBC; now that's an unrebukable source if ever there was one......
» 2/05/2007 1:50:15 PM Andrew, I've shown your picture around the terminal ward at the Westmead Children's Hospit.....
» 2/05/2007 1:44:42 PM When the GST was being talked about it was Big Joe who fluffed his lines. He was asked the.....
» 26/04/2007 2:09:39 PM Middle Eastern muslim males are not Milquetoasts; try and steal a bit of their footpath an.....
» 25/04/2007 2:10:50 PM Sorry Pegasus I was making a burlesque of the topic of religion. Just to prove that I can .....
» 24/04/2007 9:29:07 AM Just as long as Australians learn to hide any hate, ill will, misogyny and other pathologi.....
» 20/04/2007 4:07:19 PM Netab, just a small correction to your post. Muslims aren’t a race. They are a religion. W.....
» 19/04/2007 12:02:34 PM Yes, let’s all applaud the rehabilitation of drug dealer and user Michael Coutts-Trotter. .....
» 10/04/2007 10:40:51 AM There was a push to have Muhammad Dawood returned to Australia so that he could be tried u.....
» 3/04/2007 9:48:55 AM Lost opportunities says Peter. The Hawke-Keating locust years saw one glaring lost opportu.....
» 30/03/2007 12:55:05 PM People should exercise extreme caution when positing that Australia has always been multic.....
» 30/03/2007 12:16:58 PM Multiculturalism; are they still trying to sell this pup? Can anyone recall mass protests .....
» 27/03/2007 1:04:19 PM The fight against illegal drugs is one-sided. We've been fighting with one hand tied behin.....
» 27/03/2007 12:59:54 PM It's time (thanks Gough) to dump state governments. One federal government is more than en.....
» 16/03/2007 9:28:02 AM Congratulations Gecko. It’s hard to know just yet if Rudd will lead the ALP to victory bu.....
» 14/03/2007 9:36:04 AM Surely you're joking. If it is cruel to export live animals to the ME why on earth aren't .....
» 13/03/2007 10:47:24 AM Just how generous are we? A very good question. The answer is 'most generous'. What other .....
» 13/03/2007 10:30:11 AM Wouldn't India be the first port of call for genuine refugees from Sri Lanka? If they have.....
» 12/03/2007 10:04:27 AM Keating finding fault in others; now that's pure gold. To expect our politicians to clean.....
» 12/03/2007 9:53:55 AM The real mystery is why would muslims who are famous as freedom loving, human rights prote.....
» 10/03/2007 10:59:38 AM Seeing that we're in request mode Susan how 'bout a few more articles on Islam and muslims.....
» 9/03/2007 1:59:04 PM Yes Keiran, Tony Abbott did set up the Australians for Honest Politics. How sad that it so.....
» 5/03/2007 9:59:01 AM Wouldn't genuine asylum seekers from Sri Lanka head straight for India, Myanmar, Thailand .....
» 5/03/2007 9:54:10 AM Dr Jocelynne A. Scutt, a most successful barrister deigns to talk about morality. Wasn’t i.....
» 28/02/2007 1:11:56 PM Apparently Tanya has been elected to beseech the ‘McMansion’ dwellers and chasers who were.....
» 27/02/2007 6:31:02 PM Kirby should have been removed in accordance with s72 (ii) of OUR Constitution one day aft.....
» 27/02/2007 10:51:42 AM Justice Kirby, moral priorities, ethical discourse, ethical theories, moral discourse……….w.....
» 23/02/2007 2:43:23 PM Irfan, I’d like to defend Professor Israeli using a very popular defence. Mr Israeli was m.....
» 22/02/2007 11:31:41 AM Tristan’s treatise in which he pushes the line of ‘take this ALP pill and all problems wil.....
» 19/02/2007 12:34:41 PM Should we continue to depopulate struggling countries by taking their best and brightest b.....
» 16/02/2007 9:10:18 AM Our good friend Andrew Bartlett has the answer to this problem. It might even be termed th.....
» 14/02/2007 11:17:10 AM Enjoying the protection of the ALP redoubt, the ALP has spent the last 6 – 7 years firing .....
» 12/02/2007 1:55:48 PM Academics and church worthies – what a strange combination. That’s like mentioning 'custom.....
» 12/02/2007 1:06:15 PM It's a bit late to be moaning about respect for the law......
» 12/02/2007 12:53:24 PM It's a bit early to put money on the winner of the next federal election. The public are j.....
» 8/02/2007 10:39:58 AM Everyone knows our system is corrupt. The real art of an Australian alleged politician is .....
» 5/02/2007 10:14:41 AM It's hard to know if large numbers of voters are ready to jump ship. Johnboy has a bulging.....
» 4/02/2007 9:33:45 AM Admiral, a more pertinent question to put to the surfeit of Jack McCoys that this article .....
» 24/01/2007 9:09:47 AM Surely the time to review muslim immigration is now. The promised seemless arrival of musl.....
» 23/01/2007 12:54:59 PM Maybe our venture into Iraq is a 1991 redux. In 1991, we followed Uncle Sam into Iraq desp.....
» 23/01/2007 12:45:36 PM Kiwis will only be acceptable when they learn to play cricket......
» 22/01/2007 10:10:42 AM If Oprah gives Barak Obama her imprimatur that's good enough for me......
» 19/01/2007 9:55:01 AM Mr Corbett's business CV was no doubt written by himself. I can distinctly remember Mr Cor.....
» 18/01/2007 2:29:25 PM Gee, Steve Bracks has a lovely smile. The bad news is that a nice smile is no substitute f.....
» 17/01/2007 12:01:21 PM Don’t be alarmed at bizarre law-making George. We have witnessed a piece of retrospective .....
» 16/01/2007 10:37:04 AM Yes, I think Mr Rudd might be hidebound and when needing to seek advice he relies on his o.....
» 16/01/2007 10:28:59 AM Rainier, I'll take the liberty of amending your post slightly. I'd like to add that Mr Rud.....
» 15/01/2007 3:21:56 PM Hands up all those who remember a time in the life of the ALP - the party of enlightenment.....
» 15/01/2007 3:13:24 PM Wouldn't it be interesting to see Professor Fraser enjoy the right to free speech. We all .....
» 8/01/2007 4:18:54 PM What water crisis? The number of new arrivals is well over 100,000 so the federal governme.....
» 8/01/2007 4:13:54 PM Andrew, in your travels have you ever been to the terminal ward at Westmead Children's Hos.....
» 8/01/2007 3:55:41 PM I shudder to think what may have happened had Mr Hussein been found not guilty. We would h.....
» 5/01/2007 4:34:37 PM Professor John Langmore, speaking ex-cathedra, views Kofi Annan’s stewardship of the UN as.....
» 2/01/2007 1:35:24 PM Tom, this is another incondite article dealing with fire management. By suggesting that bu.....
» 31/12/2006 3:40:04 PM Thank you to Frank for presenting us with Mr Williams’ CV. What an impressive legal pedigr.....
» 31/12/2006 3:09:59 PM I do hope the author of this article about Darfur took note of the Kofi Annan “concern” me.....
» 22/12/2006 8:49:36 AM C'mon up to NSW Danny boy. There is no limit to the profligacy of our state government. We.....
» 20/12/2006 1:26:22 PM Katrina Sharman is the Corporate Counsel for Voiceless, Clueless or Gormless; which one is.....
» 20/12/2006 12:27:33 PM You’re not beguiled by that lovely Steve Bracks smile? Surely you’re not expecting substan.....
» 15/12/2006 7:09:43 PM Yes Paul I did confuse my S's. Where I have mentioned Switzerland please insert Sweden......
» 15/12/2006 4:24:43 PM Mr Nystrom might end up on the mean streets of Switzerland without having any language ski.....
» 13/12/2006 12:06:06 PM And what a delight those private industries are. We held street parties to celebrate the o.....
» 13/12/2006 11:53:21 AM Why not get someone from the ALP to impregnate women. The burden of giving birth, child ra.....
» 13/12/2006 11:39:49 AM The only thing to do is to open up a government endorsed 'ice' ingesting centre. It should.....
» 11/12/2006 8:54:20 AM I can remember not so long ago that the word 'wedge' used in connection with politics was .....
» 9/12/2006 9:45:28 AM Hezbollah is now seen as a Middle Eastern lodestone. Really. Even before the current hosti.....
» 6/12/2006 12:03:25 PM Yes Shonga I know. Did Mr Rudd tell you he can speak Mandarin? Both Rudd and Gillard are h.....
» 6/12/2006 11:22:35 AM I wish Mr Rudd well. I hope Ms Gillard continues her English language lessons so that even.....
» 5/12/2006 9:41:25 AM ‘…citizenship is being thrown around “like confetti”. The implications here are that peopl.....
» 2/12/2006 11:44:22 AM bennie, the ALP is dedicated to a narcissistic version of iconocentrism. Therefore, when m.....
» 1/12/2006 9:24:04 AM Beazley does seem to be steering the ALP ship towards the rocks but who in his hand picked.....
» 30/11/2006 9:12:50 AM We are on dangerous ground if we insist on ethics in politics. Anyone contemplating a care.....
» 30/11/2006 9:02:15 AM I don't agree. We elect politicians to provide the infrastructure to cope with an increasi.....
» 18/11/2006 12:11:40 PM Shonga, what say we over-fly some of the African countries and bombard them with the pill......
» 17/11/2006 1:58:38 PM Andrew, I have posted this information before but here it is again: between 1950 and 1985 .....
» 16/11/2006 12:15:08 PM Don’t get all excited by the notion that the states are some sort of sentinel protecting w.....
» 15/11/2006 12:46:50 PM Unfortunately Professor you are at the interface where public opinion collides with the fi.....
» 14/11/2006 11:01:41 AM We welcome and encourage dissenting views because it gives us reason to pause and check ou.....
» 9/11/2006 9:18:28 AM Drought, pockets of poverty, a need to put in place a water delivery infrastructure, a run.....
» 8/11/2006 10:48:49 AM We urge different cultures to bring parts of that culture with them when they come here. S.....
» 8/11/2006 9:48:13 AM Attempts to mollify sheik al-Hilali by telling him that ultimately, when he is civilised, .....
» 7/11/2006 2:55:32 PM Why not go all the way and install teachers at all schools. Something is wrong if a studen.....
» 7/11/2006 2:48:29 PM A letter written to one of our newspapers suggested that men might not succumb to life’s c.....
» 6/11/2006 1:05:22 PM Did you mention big picture Shonga?.....
» 6/11/2006 1:02:58 PM Andrew, if the government wanted to alleviate the present problem and provide a permanent .....
» 6/11/2006 12:12:19 PM Pete, if I were you I'd concentrate on understanding the complex issue of how to vote. Fa.....
» 3/11/2006 5:29:17 PM The author is correct when he refers to that famous quote…..’patriotism is the last refuge.....
» 3/11/2006 11:50:54 AM If ever an act was inimical to social cohesion it must be muslim immigration to the West. .....
» 3/11/2006 10:17:10 AM I wonder if the proposed chaplaincy program is a form of surrogate parenting. Was it wise .....
» 2/11/2006 10:19:58 AM A group that has as one of its components representatives who believe that a man of about .....
» 2/11/2006 10:13:08 AM We expect sleaze in politics and are overcome by shock if it doesn't exist. Just to demons.....
» 2/11/2006 10:04:36 AM I think the author’s credentials must be questioned following his statement about Alan Jon.....
» 1/11/2006 9:35:07 AM Barry Jones has identified one of the ALP’s problems and that is the disappearing rank and.....
» 30/10/2006 10:25:13 AM Rayann, one thing you and your fellow train passengers share in common is your ignorance o.....
» 27/10/2006 9:58:49 AM It’s only natural for leaders in a male-dominated religion that women should be blamed for.....
» 26/10/2006 9:40:29 AM Perhaps we could work out a compromise. Why not re-work the module which aims to teach tol.....
» 25/10/2006 7:58:53 PM Mr Khan, in the interests of exactness the word is 'notwithstanding' (no spaces). And if .....
» 25/10/2006 10:32:18 AM James, it's a bit early to be declaring the winner of the next federal election. The vicis.....
» 25/10/2006 10:21:14 AM We do celebrate our diversity; we do it on Harmony Day and money to promote and celebrate .....
» 24/10/2006 9:32:57 AM People find their cars much safer than public transport. You are less likely to get mugged.....
» 24/10/2006 9:25:34 AM I often wonder about our own complicity in the forced extinction of animals. Not only do w.....
» 24/10/2006 9:17:23 AM Nice puff piece Andrew. How 'bout you take your morning dose of truth syrup......
» 23/10/2006 12:45:09 PM Craig, how 'bout you pen a book titled "Repairing the Damage Done to Australia Over t.....
» 19/10/2006 9:09:16 AM Our aid to our neighbours should have seen those countries build up thier own industries. .....
» 17/10/2006 2:39:48 PM Andrew, I think the doctor is paging you......
» 17/10/2006 2:35:58 PM You're right Lyn, the Democrats have landed some telling blows over the last few years. If.....
» 16/10/2006 11:24:40 AM Sorry Sells I was a bit rushed this morning; I was waiting on a printing job to arrive. I .....
» 16/10/2006 9:36:41 AM People cling to religion in order to harness harmful atavisms. These cultists seem unable .....
» 13/10/2006 6:51:02 PM Maher Arar, unlike David Hicks, protested his innocence at every stage of his treatment by.....
» 12/10/2006 9:32:33 AM Welcome aboard Commodore Kevin; or is it Admiral. I think you said it all when you offered.....
» 11/10/2006 9:43:30 AM I would like to see random drug tests conducted on our politicians. I'm sure they all take.....
» 9/10/2006 12:04:18 PM GW Bush has not made a good fist of things and that’s for sure. The shock of 9/11 revealed.....
» 6/10/2006 12:08:08 PM Doc, we don’t expect any better from our pollies. We expect them to be grubby individuals .....
» 6/10/2006 10:57:40 AM How do we turn the impoverished and disenchanted away from terrorism? If it’s money that w.....
» 5/10/2006 11:14:47 AM Xenophobic. Having accepted about 140 different cultures into our country I would have tho.....
» 3/10/2006 1:47:52 PM Fair go Romany. A bomb goes off in the London underground and you want info; who are you g.....
» 2/10/2006 4:42:50 PM Chris, I can’t keep up with you. First you tell us that uncle Phil has your residence unde.....
» 29/09/2006 1:14:55 PM The author laments the fact that we’re somehow wedded to inferior values and an inferior i.....
» 28/09/2006 10:55:48 AM Universities are still a hotbed of student activism; of that there can be no doubt. You ne.....
» 27/09/2006 6:05:24 PM Yes it is sad isn’t it Tristan when we turn a topic into a good old polly bashing exercise.....
» 27/09/2006 10:55:03 AM ‘What are our values’ asks someone who identifies with the ALP. Let’s take a look at the ‘.....
» 26/09/2006 10:56:36 AM "having full protection and assistance of Australia’s law" The full protection .....
» 26/09/2006 10:46:32 AM Indian muslims turning to violence. It will never happen. Islam is a religion of peace......
» 24/09/2006 6:45:57 PM I hope people aren't suggesting that those with a surname like Smith, Watson, Brown or oth.....
» 22/09/2006 4:21:19 PM Paul Keating might make a good patron but the question is can we afford the travel allowan.....
» 22/09/2006 3:14:48 PM Andrew, shouldn't you be rounding up stray cats on Manus Island?.....
» 22/09/2006 3:11:36 PM As Leigh has pointed out, after 40 years of multiculturalism we’re still being told how go.....
» 22/09/2006 2:33:37 PM How 'bout we apply the English test to CityRail train guards? Surely they should be made t.....
» 22/09/2006 2:26:04 PM Barbara, don’t be too disappointed about the lack of interest shown by the judiciary. The .....
» 20/09/2006 3:18:28 PM Australian values have been smothered by multiculturalism. Those eleutheromaniacs who set .....
» 20/09/2006 2:19:18 PM It's a funny world. The pope hits Islam with a bit of truth and the twisted acidulent face.....
» 19/09/2006 8:19:13 PM What ever happened to the word 'tolerance'. I think the author of the article should exerc.....
» 18/09/2006 11:40:20 AM I think that Hezollah should check the map. Israel is still there......
» 18/09/2006 11:34:07 AM I have no problem with euthanasia. It should be applied to all our alleged politicians bot.....
» 15/09/2006 12:34:40 PM Pete’s right because at one time we did celebrate democracy, mateship and country. Where.....
» 12/09/2006 11:28:12 PM No government can deliver everything its one-eyed fans want. Politicians have little trou.....
» 11/09/2006 11:49:55 AM The rumble of big black limos disturbing the arcadian tranquility of downtown Carisbrook. .....
» 10/09/2006 9:05:19 PM Hey CC from C what do you mean we have been lied to over the last few years. I just heard .....
» 9/09/2006 6:07:52 PM I think Israel sent a message to H/O, via Hezbollah. That message was that Iran can't affo.....
» 9/09/2006 6:00:07 PM Thank you Father Kevin for a wonderful sermon. When will your new book be out? Are you sti.....
» 7/09/2006 12:20:12 PM Nayeefa Chowdhury is the founding director of an Internet-based Islamic information servic.....
» 7/09/2006 10:57:54 AM Even James McConvill, when describing the Bali Nine, can’t bring himself to use the words .....
» 6/09/2006 10:31:26 AM Politicians should not be responsible for appointing judges. I’m sure we’re sick of seeing.....
» 5/09/2006 5:22:57 PM What an office Steve had. That must've made it easy to get out of bed and go to work. He w.....
» 4/09/2006 11:22:34 AM “What is it that offends us when the Australian flag is burnt?” Let’s find out shall we. W.....
» 2/09/2006 12:34:54 PM Banjo, I think the quote was uttered by none other than living treasure and demigod, RJL H.....
» 1/09/2006 11:26:31 AM Bashir, Islamists may do all those vile and nasty things you say but in Australia they are.....
» 31/08/2006 2:53:26 PM Surely the ‘chocolate wheel’ system of justice is in need of review. Every other instituti.....
» 31/08/2006 2:28:53 PM The once pround political party the Australian Democrats saw a burlesque made of its high .....
» 25/08/2006 2:50:27 PM In a bygone time winning something was dictated by a charity run ‘chocolate wheel’. The ch.....
» 25/08/2006 10:06:45 AM How chuffed we all must be to know that Susan Ryan will be granted a leave of absence from.....
» 23/08/2006 11:53:58 AM Vale Len Evans. As for wine....well I liken it to art. Wine and art generate nothing but .....
» 23/08/2006 11:43:54 AM Hamas and Hezbollah can’t advertise themselves as secular if they exclude jews. Our conc.....
» 22/08/2006 9:10:04 AM Let’s retain the system we have. Political candidates should be trained in devious and ima.....
» 22/08/2006 8:49:04 AM Let's go further. Why not cast about in China or India and see if there is a group willing.....
» 16/08/2006 6:18:02 PM Shouldn't Mr Hussein have the right to a trial before he is found guilty?.....
» 16/08/2006 8:59:58 AM Let’s go a little further and remove offending passages from the various holy books. For i.....
» 16/08/2006 8:48:02 AM Those who are in our region and find themselves in distress may have grounds to seek refug.....
» 11/08/2006 12:32:17 PM Maybe Israel should adopt the Hezbollah tactic which the world finds more palatable. Israe.....
» 10/08/2006 9:58:25 AM My religion asks me to believe that a man of about 100kg could walk on water. Can anyone t.....
» 10/08/2006 9:55:18 AM I can't understand why grog is still allowed to be advertised in the media. We correctly r.....
» 9/08/2006 11:01:08 AM There might be a number of reasons for Israel’s slow progress on the ground as it attempts.....
» 4/08/2006 3:33:08 PM “…why this haste to encourage schoolchildren to be proud of that which is not of their mak.....
» 1/08/2006 10:22:47 AM Where have you and other members of the sisterhood been hiding Liz? Good to see you have f.....
» 27/07/2006 11:12:41 AM spooble, any shells going the other way PRIOR to the current hostilities? Just who enjoys.....
» 26/07/2006 1:57:51 PM Steve, any chance wages have gone up in 10 years (in proportion to rises in house and land.....
» 26/07/2006 9:04:05 AM Today's news about the touring ACTU theatre production "I Lost Me Job" might def.....
» 25/07/2006 11:03:17 PM Marilyn's post seemed a little empty without reference to refugees and asylum shoppers. D.....
» 12/07/2006 1:55:02 PM Harry should have been made to run up the stairs of Blues Point Tower. Once at the top he .....
» 12/07/2006 1:45:58 PM Should judges govern us? A resounding ‘NO’ to that one. Given the reconditeness attached t.....
» 12/07/2006 1:14:50 PM Colin, I think you've spent too much time training people. Time to get out and about. And.....
» 11/07/2006 9:59:52 AM The appearance of the anxious parent is a manifestation of failures higher up. Judges seem.....
» 11/07/2006 9:40:43 AM Chris, there was a time when a certain PM thought so little about the House of Reps that h.....
» 7/07/2006 9:01:26 AM Our politicians should be the last people to sermonise on morality and standards of behavi.....
» 6/07/2006 10:10:11 AM Bill, my 'off' switch is working just fine. Are some people that lazy that they can't walk.....
» 5/07/2006 3:57:48 PM If there is a cease fire in operation how on earth can a soldier be captured, especially f.....
» 5/07/2006 3:43:46 PM When the NSW ALP government, with a stroke of the pen, closed the Orange Grove retail dist.....
» 30/06/2006 2:56:36 PM The major barrier to fighting AIDS in Africa is a cultural one. African men still insist o.....
» 30/06/2006 2:42:57 PM Reduce immigration! Eric, I expect to see your limp body hanging from a tree very soon. I.....
» 27/06/2006 10:11:00 AM Trapped by your own 'all cultures are equal' mantra. What a shame. We have had to welcome .....
» 21/06/2006 1:46:34 PM NOW you're interested in the smothering of our free speech and the public's right to know......
» 19/06/2006 5:17:03 PM I wanted to read The Latham Diaries too but my local bookstore doesn’t have a ‘fiction and.....
» 19/06/2006 2:07:08 PM Chris, are you saying that those who missed the daily Ashmore Reef ferry service and were .....
» 16/06/2006 3:40:33 PM Figures do not support the perception that Australians are overtly racist. In their book H.....
» 16/06/2006 3:17:19 PM Before Australia’s polypragmonic behaviour is portrayed as dynamic imperialism, closer scr.....
» 15/06/2006 12:00:20 PM Doctor, in NSW the government does not know how to respond to any transportation needs tha.....
» 10/06/2006 9:23:50 PM I think you’re on the money in the first part of your post, bushbred. I’d say Hicks jnr sp.....
» 8/06/2006 10:42:10 AM Mark, while ever the media dahhhling remains telegenic he’ll have possession of the keys t.....
» 8/06/2006 7:44:38 AM The issue of polygamy is an interesting one. About 12 months ago I phoned CentreLink to se.....
» 5/06/2006 4:30:48 PM Oliver, do you think that China will become an economic giant before the oil runs out? Wha.....
» 5/06/2006 1:12:39 PM George, it is easy to see why you’re the Anthony Mason Professor of the UNSW. Divest yours.....
» 31/05/2006 11:14:23 AM What a marriage this will be. Those in the church will be sharply divided. On one side wil.....
» 31/05/2006 10:35:50 AM The author says that Aboriginal violence must be sorted out by Aboriginal people. I take i.....
» 25/05/2006 11:28:05 AM The article mentions the appointment of Susan Crennan to the high court. We are left to wo.....
» 24/05/2006 7:15:30 AM And I might add Mickijo, there is no 400-page report from Amnesty International on the dis.....
» 23/05/2006 8:18:27 AM For your information Marilyn and DLC I’ll have you know I’m a salamander. Turn up the heat.....
» 22/05/2006 10:34:49 AM Adam, I must pick you up on your statement: ‘…they (refugees and asylum shoppers) have no .....
» 21/05/2006 9:40:05 AM One of the problems that will need attention is the fact that the Iranian president thinks.....
» 16/05/2006 9:59:20 AM Professor Rubinstein, the tocsin was sounded a few years ago with regard to our parlous un.....
» 11/05/2006 7:59:46 PM Savage Pencil, you say that in Arab culture dogs are considered unclean. How 'bout we find.....
» 11/05/2006 2:10:18 PM Another piece of canting from Howard Glenn, Executive Director of Rights Australia Inc. L.....
» 11/05/2006 8:08:32 AM I see it is the turn of the omniscient Father Holdcroft of the Jesuit Refugee Service who .....
» 6/05/2006 5:33:53 PM C'mon Pete, you're not a ministerial staffer, you're an ALP ministerial staffer. It's not .....
» 6/05/2006 9:24:06 AM Our current relationship with Indonesia is based on the Hawke/Keating model. Both of those.....
» 4/05/2006 10:31:35 AM It is interesting that our politicians can on the one hand say that they can read the mood.....
» 30/04/2006 7:58:10 PM Sorry BD, I thought you had access to Google. Do you show as much reluctance to reach for.....
» 30/04/2006 11:45:50 AM JJ, I'd be interested in long-term cash flows too. I'd also want to know why a once insign.....
» 29/04/2006 9:02:02 PM JJ, I have no doubt that Osterfeld's politics make him a player for Team Right. He is a pr.....
» 29/04/2006 8:44:44 PM Ted, in the name of consistency I hope Mr Ahmadinajad has a nuclear weapon aimed at China......
» 28/04/2006 11:33:48 AM Some sobering words from David Osterfeld, Associate Professor of Political Science at St. .....
» 27/04/2006 12:17:48 PM Lyn, by installing the federal government in the role of parent you are removing a vital p.....
» 22/04/2006 10:01:43 AM First it was the Roman Catholics and the Jesuits stirring up trouble in E Timor and now it.....
» 21/04/2006 4:52:14 PM Natascha, you say that you were a little disappointed about donor countries and their will.....
» 20/04/2006 7:31:10 AM w, our expert panel, our High Court, holds a different point of view than the one held by .....
» 19/04/2006 3:37:19 PM katie, they are asylum shoppers, not asylum seekers. Please use the correct terms in futur.....
» 13/04/2006 9:55:56 AM Absence from Australia might have deprived some people of the chance to witness the burles.....
» 13/04/2006 9:54:17 AM The Canberra camorra has been getting away with incompetence and canting for years. If we .....
» 12/04/2006 2:25:59 PM Tonight I will be sitting down to a humble meal of Bombay patatoes, rice and pappadums. I .....
» 11/04/2006 7:28:22 PM Nicholas, I would tend to go the other way. It's time to rid Australia of the dinosaurs kn.....
» 11/04/2006 11:00:03 AM Natasha, what part of our culture informed Mr Seidler when he designed that horrible mess .....
» 11/04/2006 10:04:32 AM A brief timeline shows that Roqia Bakhtiyari arrived in Australia on New Years Day 2001. S.....
» 10/04/2006 2:50:30 PM Marilyn's article pushes all the right buttons and leaves the reader an emotional wreck. .....
» 7/04/2006 6:57:17 AM Is Mr Kevin planning another book with which to bash Australia over the head? Surely it's .....
» 3/04/2006 8:47:20 PM No doubt the abstrusity of some rulings has catalysed a call for judges to be subjected to.....
» 28/03/2006 3:51:53 PM Yes the ALP does need to cast its net far and wide. While on the drive for new blood why n.....
» 15/03/2006 9:27:24 AM Lyn, some of us have grown up. Sadly, you are not included in that group. When told of the.....
» 7/03/2006 12:30:58 PM Salam asks: "What is the Australian way of life?" Not so long ago Australians d.....
» 6/03/2006 10:21:09 AM We have heard much about contempt of court and its implications. When will judges and magi.....
» 2/03/2006 10:19:02 AM Part II... * I believe any legal system that says men may marry outside the faith, but wo.....
» 2/03/2006 10:17:31 AM Wizbang said it best: * I believe any legal system that permits a man to complete a divor.....
» 28/02/2006 11:07:29 AM Dr Ken Macnab's 'Time Machine' made the obligatory visit to December 2005 but ran out of p.....
» 16/02/2006 4:11:58 PM Taya Fabijanic is a freelance journalist. She recently completed a Masters paper on the me.....
» 9/02/2006 10:08:53 PM Christian, a lot of us remember the Hawke-Keating locust years. The only thing Keating ref.....
» 9/02/2006 9:47:57 PM Graham, you are to be congratulated for your controversial and brave decision not to publi.....
» 7/02/2006 6:35:36 PM Salam, like a couple of others here at OLO I am surprised you call yourself a journalist. .....
» 6/02/2006 4:43:14 PM I think Tim Blair got it about right when he said: >"Odd that this concern over m.....
» 4/02/2006 3:37:03 PM 'owing to a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationali.....
» 1/02/2006 9:11:00 PM Some of these articles at OLO are aperient so I say 'thank you'. This article suggests th.....
» 30/01/2006 10:48:54 AM Keith Kennelly gives us another topic about the policy of multiculturalism and adds his im.....
» 29/01/2006 11:03:11 PM Just for the record young Andrew seems to be a little entheomania prone. Those at OLO who .....
» 27/01/2006 11:13:06 PM Mr Bartlett, what must we do to rid ourselves of this immigration policy tarbaby known as .....
» 25/01/2006 2:25:20 PM Salam, I think multiculturalism can be likened to a used car. It looks pretty from across .....
» 23/01/2006 3:15:46 PM If a state government presided over the needless deaths of 87 of my fellow human beings an.....
» 23/01/2006 11:05:18 AM Andrew, what is poverty and how do we measure it? If we surveyed an African living in Byu.....
» 22/01/2006 9:45:18 PM I was under the impression that universities encouraged a wide range of views. Further, I .....
» 22/01/2006 9:10:26 PM Mr Kevin, for a person who left Cambodia under 'strained' circumstances I'd suggest you sl.....
» 21/01/2006 9:36:09 AM Friedrich, throw Stepan Kerkyasharian into that bouillabaisse of multicultural players. Mr.....
» 19/01/2006 4:57:55 PM I risk being accused of suffering from poikiloderma of Civatte but here goes. I thought st.....
» 16/01/2006 8:44:37 PM Student unions reflect democracy in parvo. That being said, why is voluntary union members.....
» 16/01/2006 4:56:59 PM Abe, you suggest that a new Australian identity will one day emerge. That day has arrived......
» 13/01/2006 9:23:58 AM Remy, a young Malaysian-Australian. That says it all. Remy, don't worry about not having .....
» 12/01/2006 11:55:15 AM Rob suggests that a nuclear-armed Iran would augur fear. Rob might reflect on the fact tha.....
» 11/01/2006 11:56:34 AM A very Argus-eyed Leigh was quick to spot the chimera in Salam's piece. Muslims are not a .....
» 10/01/2006 10:38:39 PM Don't tell me that the word 'racist'is no longer in the lexicon of the elites. What will b.....
» 5/01/2006 9:06:25 PM Taimor, why is it that some people of Middle Eastern appearance have their own policy of r.....
» 31/12/2005 9:13:26 AM Australian aid to the Philippines has totalled AUD$300 million in the last five years. Whi.....
» 29/12/2005 11:31:34 AM Peter Singer as an ethicist? Surely we are now approaching a special time when "The L.....
» 28/12/2005 11:51:20 AM I wonder if I could print a paper and name it 'The Taxpayer'. What if I advised my readers.....
» 22/12/2005 11:47:57 AM Yes Greg, Australia is a backwater full of racists unwilling to do better. And yes it was .....
» 21/12/2005 8:21:19 PM Worldoflight you're right about the Japanese. A relative of mine was in downtown Tokyo whe.....
» 20/12/2005 5:42:23 PM Joseph tells us that Lebanese fled the horrors of war seeking peace and freedom in Austral.....
» 19/12/2005 4:14:57 PM Peter Kell says: That concept has disappeared temporarily in the wave of violence on Cronu.....
» 16/12/2005 4:06:49 PM Yes indeed, Leigh and jimoctec have identified our hamartias. We are a nation of xenophobe.....
» 8/12/2005 10:47:49 AM We are getting mixed messages about AIDS in Africa. Speaking at an African Union meeting i.....
» 7/12/2005 11:32:59 PM What Judy Cannon must realise is that as society changes so to will its institutions. With.....
» 6/12/2005 12:56:33 PM We must not question the assumptions of Sir Ninian Stephen because judges exist in an ethe.....
» 2/12/2005 9:40:24 AM I enjoy the passion which goes into the comments. Reading the comments it's hard to believ.....
» 1/12/2005 12:43:27 PM Chris Evans, wasn't it Saint Paul who branded the senate as housing 'unrepresentative swil.....
» 30/11/2005 7:09:45 AM With regard to the death penalty, in 2001 China executed 2,468 prisoners. Australia is cur.....
» 29/11/2005 8:10:48 PM A last minute bid may be mounted to spare Mr Van that terrible trip to the gallows. This a.....
» 28/11/2005 2:53:25 PM I think it unworthy for people to adopt an attitude of ivory-towerism when dealing with th.....
» 22/11/2005 7:35:50 PM coach, my post was a crude attempt at making a burlesque of all the Islamcentric posts sta.....
» 21/11/2005 9:32:52 PM Rather than see OLO clogged up with encomiums aimed at Islam could we see a few topics exp.....
» 20/11/2005 10:43:36 PM Mr Schorel-Hlavka, are you trying to deceive by making apodictic claims about the intentio.....
» 13/11/2005 7:45:11 AM SHONGA, your charientism is appreciated but fails to move me. You should welcome diverse c.....
» 12/11/2005 1:23:32 PM redneck says: During the Tampa showdown, a friend of mine was holidaying in Italy and he s.....
» 10/11/2005 12:04:57 PM Be careful what you say about boat people settling this country Meg. That suggests a wide .....
» 7/11/2005 6:06:07 PM CR, if I did get into politics I'd probably scare all those sitting in federal parliament......
» 6/11/2005 9:50:05 AM Amen to that Rainier. Howard is emblematic of what's rotten about Australian politics. No.....
» 4/11/2005 7:12:41 PM Given the recent prison term served by the redhead in the sunshine state it may not be wis.....
» 4/11/2005 7:00:42 PM Tiziana says that some on the Left are concerned about poverty. What exactly is poverty? I.....
» 4/11/2005 6:45:14 PM The man airbrushed in James McConvill's pangyric is that former resident of Philistia, P J.....
» 26/10/2005 10:42:26 AM Is there a computer out there somewhere programmed to churn out hijab, burqa, and mantou (.....
» 25/10/2005 7:31:00 PM All MSK and his siblings have to do is to have their case heard in Megan Latham's court. T.....
» 25/10/2005 6:47:04 PM I am heartily sick and tired of journos putting their spin on stories. It is obvious that .....
» 21/10/2005 1:13:47 PM As Gerard Henderson articulates, for our leadership to have policies, thoughts and ideas t.....
» 20/10/2005 2:47:49 PM I feel very confident that as soon as the federal ALP develops a policy we'll be the first.....
» 20/10/2005 2:42:45 PM Go get 'em Lee. While you're in this 'public disclosure' mood may we gaze at the contract .....
» 19/10/2005 7:28:07 PM C'mon Laurie, don't be silly. May we assume that the windy conditions that forced you to w.....
» 19/10/2005 9:57:29 AM DLC, use your powers of ratiocination. Any free trade we have is not with a muslim country.....
» 17/10/2005 10:42:27 AM Bill, there's no need for all this. Your place on the front bench of the federal ALP is gu.....
» 11/10/2005 10:44:01 AM You don't have to be a maven to realise that the ALP's problems are deep-seated. The ALP's.....
» 11/10/2005 8:29:45 AM I feel for the vets and their families. A few people will criticise me but I want to juxta.....
» 10/10/2005 10:47:10 AM I don't know if you need any qualifications but I do know one thing. Upon entering parliam.....
» 7/10/2005 4:55:44 PM Arjay, Button is just as bad as the rest. While Button was beavering away in his office, 2.....
» 6/10/2005 11:11:32 PM I don't claim to be prescient but I knew this was coming. Philip Adams has used his column.....
» 5/10/2005 8:54:41 PM Howard, we are about to enter another summer. I haven't seen as many as others. But for al.....
» 3/10/2005 9:06:12 PM This Bill will force the likes of Marion Le and Mr Burnside QC to pony up the money or fin.....
» 29/09/2005 4:00:20 PM Jane, thanks to the dismantling of the female prison known as the kitchen we have women li.....
» 29/09/2005 3:25:32 PM Andrew! Andrew! Andrew! Your imperium statement which seeks to subject multiculturalism to.....
» 22/09/2005 12:46:28 PM Kathe, anyone who chips away at the edifice of multiculturalism must be a racist and xenop.....
» 21/09/2005 12:06:04 PM Too late Alex. In the early 80's and into the 90's, sons of migrants whose ranks are swoll.....
» 20/09/2005 7:23:47 PM Dr Nick, I think that David Osterfeld, Associate Professor of Political Science at St. Jos.....
» 14/09/2005 10:26:46 AM Nick, Broggers may well be a swell guy but once he puts on his politician's hat he becomes.....
» 13/09/2005 5:10:04 PM Red Pete told us a few years back that if you voted ALP in Queensland he would make One Na.....
» 13/09/2005 10:46:41 AM I disagree with the article. I don't think a wave of paranoia is sweeping our country but .....
» 10/09/2005 11:13:02 AM Tony Smith might find it confronting that we live in a democracy. At one time it used to b.....
» 10/09/2005 11:00:26 AM Mr Gerrit H Schorel-Hlavka, in Chu Keng Lim and Others v Minister for Immigration, Local G.....
» 8/09/2005 2:51:18 PM Mr Gerrit H Schorel-Hlavka, the power to accept or exclude people is found in our Constitu.....
» 8/09/2005 12:15:20 PM Sentences according to the crime; what a novel idea. Just where may we see this in operati.....
» 6/09/2005 9:42:07 PM Mr Yusuf, you say that no one tells us what to wear and when to wear it. Have you ever bee.....
» 5/09/2005 10:51:56 PM There is one way to legally arrive in Australia. Anyone who circumvents that must be an il.....
» 5/09/2005 9:29:27 PM Actually the joke might be that the virgins are male. Rounding up 72 male virgins might be.....
» 4/09/2005 11:15:40 AM Waleed, I must question the wisdom of selecting migrants from countries who don't have any.....
» 4/09/2005 10:55:21 AM Increased traffic, loss of air quality, crowded suburbs, loss of water quality; these thin.....
» 4/09/2005 10:45:04 AM There mustn't be too many dumb Australians here on the mainland because it looks like they.....
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