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» 28/08/2014 2:52:54 PM Good article. The terrible standard of maths/science education in Queensland up to about 2.....
» 12/08/2014 3:38:14 PM If there were to be a commission or whatever to examine the issue(s) it would of necessity.....
» 10/02/2014 3:07:12 PM As is so often the case, the GBR is used as an example of THE BAD THINGS that happen due t.....
» 24/01/2014 4:27:50 PM A couple of years ago, as a rather silly amusement, I made up my list of the 12 books that.....
» 6/01/2014 2:21:35 PM Happy New Year Daffy, Four suggestions for you: (1)Please state your scientific reasons,.....
» 16/07/2013 2:50:19 PM Another smart, clever, but unintelligent article from this recidivist author. If she reall.....
» 18/06/2013 5:25:17 PM Greetings Curmudgeon. I think that the Foyle reference to an incident in Taiwan is from p.....
» 30/04/2013 10:25:08 AM I do not think that there has been any intentional anti-male agenda by QSA, education facu.....
» 26/04/2013 2:13:46 PM Godo, A kindly meant suggestion. Near the start of the article the author refers the read.....
» 28/02/2013 3:04:00 PM Thankyou for an interesting but worrying article. It is yet another illustration of the th.....
» 22/01/2013 10:42:02 AM John Ridd here. An interesting article but, I think, over pessimistic. The assumption seem.....
» 4/11/2012 2:49:15 PM Australian society as a whole is pathetically and illogically frightened of all things nuc.....
» 3/10/2012 4:34:31 PM Good thoughtful article. Thankyou. For me the key ideas of my sort of society are free spe.....
» 15/09/2012 6:09:52 PM It is a pity that the article's main assumption: that it would be possible to grow vast am.....
» 29/06/2012 4:19:59 PM So far this thread has been in general an adulation of Pilger. I do not share that hero wo.....
» 22/06/2012 11:15:26 AM It is remarkable that an article about food shortage made no comment about population and .....
» 14/05/2012 11:05:15 AM Just come back after the weekend. Whistler. Do you really think/imagine,fanticise that Th.....
» 12/05/2012 4:55:25 PM A poor article. Has the author never heard of Margaret Thatcher and Golda Meir? Either the.....
» 2/04/2012 11:41:17 AM Ludwig. I agree with you on most things, in particular on the population issue (I put a le.....
» 2/04/2012 10:38:50 AM The electoral system here in Queensland is almost what the ALP wanted. We used to have pre.....
» 31/03/2012 3:23:10 PM Ben. I 'look around' as you suggest and I do not see just Germany, I also see the UK. Ther.....
» 31/03/2012 10:05:11 AM cornonacob. You seem to be a bit excited. I asked for numbers and the only numbers in your.....
» 29/03/2012 5:02:08 PM Ben. You see nuclear power as 'a fantasy'. How ridiculous. Would you kindly give your reas.....
» 8/03/2012 11:33:12 AM Roses1. Were you a regular contributor to Pravda a few decades ago? Your attitude terrifie.....
» 3/01/2012 10:39:11 AM I live very near the South Johnstone research place mentioned in the article. There they h.....
» 31/12/2011 5:18:55 PM 579, The so called 'lead pencils' contain no lead at all and never have. Do not accept my.....
» 29/12/2011 5:09:45 PM Good article and much needed. I am more than old enough to remember polio, smallpox, whoop.....
» 28/12/2011 3:06:48 PM Poirot. Please, pretty please, give some evidence, real evidence, as to the financial supp.....
» 29/11/2011 2:25:13 PM 579. I assume, and hope, that your comment was strictly tongue in cheek. Please say it was.....
» 29/11/2011 10:17:47 AM Trevetts articles are arrogant - she knows everything; scientifically ignorant - mention w.....
» 21/11/2011 11:01:05 AM Excellent article. There is no doubt that what should happen is that all the inhabitants o.....
» 14/11/2011 10:52:57 AM It is fascinating to watch the different reactions to Fukushima in UK and Germany. Never d.....
» 17/10/2011 4:15:48 PM I am more pessimistic than Peter Ridd. He wants a critical scientific analysis of the curr.....
» 14/10/2011 4:13:47 PM Information on some research from 2008 re water qaulity to the GBR: The work was called th.....
» 16/09/2011 10:53:20 AM It is, I think, important to set this episode in it's historical background. For generatio.....
» 27/08/2011 4:27:50 PM I have the greatest trouble with both the article and most of the comments. I worked for y.....
» 7/07/2011 4:34:01 PM A useful article that is somewhat spoilt by a rather paranoid attitude. I am very much on .....
» 8/06/2011 2:03:49 PM There were some people that took part in the protests that were really interested in democ.....
» 2/06/2011 11:22:46 AM I am trying to get my ancient brain around this whole business. A Japanese area was hit by.....
» 1/06/2011 9:46:53 AM It is good that these important issues have been raised. I put forward the following point.....
» 19/04/2011 4:34:26 PM The 'Productivity and Prosperity' expert panel, one of three for the government's Issues p.....
» 19/04/2011 3:54:51 PM It is sad to see some of the comments on this thread sinking to cheap abuse. Xenophobe, ha.....
» 17/04/2011 2:59:48 PM Earlier colinsett suggested that people would do well to get on to www.environment.gov.au/.....
» 13/04/2011 11:05:52 AM Peter Hume. This sort of clever logic chopping and smarty pants asking for definitions rea.....
» 10/04/2011 8:05:48 AM Poirot. I am pleased to read that you support two girls, one in Africa and one in S Americ.....
» 7/04/2011 11:14:47 AM Wade Allison is a nuclear and medical physicist. That is why I find this article so powerf.....
» 7/04/2011 9:34:15 AM Poirot makes no attempt to amswer my earlier question which was whether he thinks that wom.....
» 5/04/2011 5:10:38 PM I have some sympathy with Poirot in that I do not regard a mother who stays home to bring .....
» 5/04/2011 10:17:14 AM Arjay. You let yourself down with this sort of rant which seems to me to have no relation .....
» 31/03/2011 2:20:17 PM I think that this is an important article in that it highlights the silliness of attemptin.....
» 21/02/2011 2:48:31 PM I tend to agree with the 2 comments so far - this is rather a foolish article. The cyclone.....
» 10/02/2011 3:03:00 PM Hasbeen appears to be attacking JCU. What the motive for that attack is I do not know. Of .....
» 10/02/2011 10:41:16 AM There is no evidence that the recent cyclone was anything out of the ordinary. There is ev.....
» 20/01/2011 4:28:40 PM Good, Pericles. I work on a more East End approach. If I start muttering obscenities then.....
» 15/01/2011 7:57:39 AM Pericles. An interesting approach that, in my opinion, should be pushed further. I have sa.....
» 14/01/2011 2:59:40 PM If one assumes, as I do, that the group owning Nature is doing this to make a profit and t.....
» 13/01/2011 6:10:20 PM Jedimaster, We, and obviously (I think) Ridd agree that 'ongoing discourse on improving th.....
» 13/01/2011 4:51:47 PM Jedimaster I agree that the word broken was not really suitable and that in fact it does n.....
» 13/01/2011 10:47:56 AM A few points: The evidence that when push comes to shove wind and solar cannot perform is,.....
» 11/01/2011 2:43:49 PM Right on cue Cheryl gets more and more excited. I am distressed, mortified, to learn that .....
» 11/01/2011 10:22:24 AM According to Cheryl, who seems to be having a very bad and excited day, I am an anti-pop. .....
» 10/01/2011 3:17:10 PM It is a sad fact that anything associated, in whole or even in part, with AGW can be relie.....
» 31/12/2010 3:20:55 PM The dodging of Parliamentary scrutiny is a case of dirty pool played by a grubby governmen.....
» 18/12/2010 9:55:23 AM This article raises a number of issues that I think are most important. Firstly it brings.....
» 27/10/2010 2:28:28 PM I find it hard to decide which I find more unpleasant: the AEU who blame all difficulties .....
» 11/10/2010 4:24:02 PM The loss of Susan Prior is much to be regretted both for OLO itself and for Susan personal.....
» 11/09/2010 11:17:40 AM Arjay, I had a look at the 'evidence' you put forward in support of your conviction that .....
» 10/09/2010 3:14:45 PM A truly astonishing and terrifying article. The author states 'A society must abandon bas.....
» 27/07/2010 5:49:57 AM Arjay, Are you OK? eyejaw.....
» 26/07/2010 12:17:02 PM A poor article that manages to combine illogicality with spiteful nastiness. Like the auth.....
» 21/05/2010 5:36:12 PM I am partially deaf and use 2 hearing aids. Even so I am highly dependent on being able to.....
» 6/04/2010 3:39:16 PM In Queensland the problem is wider than just a confusing of Science with Chritianity. In s.....
» 18/02/2010 3:06:00 PM An interesting article that raises some important issues. I comprehend the old idea that '.....
» 27/01/2010 8:12:45 AM Bushbasher refers to the 'american bill of rights' as having been good for the US and he p.....
» 25/01/2010 4:42:01 PM I am unable to see any possible advantage that would result from a Bill of Rights. I can s.....
» 19/01/2010 4:34:35 PM Now Pericles, don't get cross because some people disagree with you. You start well and lo.....
» 19/01/2010 2:54:25 PM Yesterday, in a comment on an article about the plight of the Copts in Egypt, I commended .....
» 18/01/2010 4:28:43 PM This is a most important article, far more important than the constant AGW bellowing. The .....
» 18/01/2010 3:56:28 PM I'm afraid that this article comes into the category of 'a nice idea'. However for a numbe.....
» 12/01/2010 2:56:30 PM When I have had articles on OLO I have been called all sorts of things. No I do not enjoy .....
» 29/12/2009 4:19:47 PM Four questions to the writer and one suggestion to everybody (a)Tanveer, your wife was a C.....
» 28/12/2009 10:25:53 AM Re emissions from coal fired power stations I thought that as Uranium is very widely distr.....
» 23/12/2009 4:17:05 PM Thankyou to both the author and Taswegian. It was so nice to read something by somebody wh.....
» 11/12/2009 4:54:28 PM Now,now everybody. Let us not be too nasty to poor Malcolm. I'm sure that he is a jolly ni.....
» 8/12/2009 4:15:48 PM I do not accept the idea of AGW because I think that there are far too many holes in the s.....
» 4/12/2009 4:11:55 PM The article seems to me to be carefully thought out, well structured, raises some signific.....
» 2/12/2009 2:35:23 PM Ludwig is totally right. Unless and until our third world population growth is recognised .....
» 8/08/2009 7:02:33 AM I support a Senate in Queensland. My reason is that because political party members are s.....
» 12/05/2009 1:50:11 PM Whilst I can see that non school issues may affect literacy the same cannot conceivably be.....
» 17/03/2009 1:51:06 PM Education is by far the biggest budget item in Queensland. There is no doubt that educatio.....
» 9/03/2009 10:36:39 AM I agree, we should withdraw from the conference because it will by, its virulent anti Isra.....
» 2/02/2009 2:48:55 PM Poor chap. So ignorant and arrogant. He claims that Gen Y are the best educated mob ever, .....
» 29/01/2009 5:25:56 PM Dr Prosser has writen a number of articles for OLO and in general I have found them to be .....
» 9/12/2008 2:43:00 PM This is an excellent article that has been written by a brave and wise man. He is correct .....
» 30/07/2008 2:09:41 PM Rugby Union was always the upper crust game. Played in the 'public' schools in England it .....
» 17/07/2008 7:20:31 AM Unlike Ho Hum I thought this was an interesting and considered article. As I read it I tho.....
» 10/07/2008 2:18:45 PM I make what I consider to be a reasonable statement - that the basis of a 'smart' state/co.....
» 2/07/2008 3:45:11 PM 'Billie' suggests that OLO readers think that if they voted Liberal water would become ple.....
» 30/06/2008 1:56:24 PM I have a measure of distrust of politicians of every stripe. However there is always the k.....
» 20/05/2008 11:13:39 AM A most interesting and informative article about a country that I know all too little abou.....
» 14/05/2008 1:53:23 PM There is an obvious commonality of thinking in this article and the recent article by Pete.....
» 12/05/2008 11:10:52 AM There seems to be an upper/lower case problem with the article. It is clear from the artic.....
» 5/02/2008 1:53:53 PM Dr Prosser should be congratulated on this article. Excellent stuff. It has been evident f.....
» 4/02/2008 5:05:12 PM Oh dear me! Surely people by now have grasped the idea that actually knowing Physics or Ma.....
» 31/01/2008 1:56:24 PM A useful article that has flushed out one excuse comment for what has been happening. Ther.....
» 10/12/2007 3:15:50 PM A good article. Worthy of consideration, preferably after reading it. The infamous 'hockey.....
» 8/11/2007 11:29:36 AM A few comments on both the article and some of the previous comments. It is entirely wrong.....
» 27/09/2007 2:27:04 PM I am unsurprised at the virulence of some of the comments so far. In essence the comments .....
» 2/08/2007 10:23:59 AM This is a most important article that is, in major part, dealing with the crushing problem.....
» 21/07/2007 5:03:49 PM Peter Ridd knows much more about the physical conditions of the Reef than I do so I accept.....
» 3/04/2007 6:13:48 PM This article and the various responses gladden my heart. The crunch is, surely, not whethe.....
» 15/03/2007 7:24:23 PM As things are at present parents in Oz are choosing achools for their children in a knowle.....
» 12/03/2007 2:45:22 PM I suppose this comment will make me a 'bigot'. So be it. Do I want my wife, daughter, daug.....
» 28/02/2007 2:34:24 PM As a long time resident of Johnstone Shire,I comment as follows. I shall not comment on co.....
» 28/11/2006 5:19:16 PM I'm usually on here re education issues, but the plight of ordinary Southern Nigerians is .....
» 28/11/2006 11:21:01 AM From 1961 to 1963 I worked and lived in Okrika, a Rivers (Delta) place in Nigeria. At that.....
» 21/11/2006 11:14:28 AM A thoughtful and valuable article. Climate/weather is a staggeringly complex issue. The i.....
» 24/10/2006 8:12:31 PM According to Tillet poor old Mercurius is some sort of looney toon right winger who is fri.....
» 23/10/2006 10:48:25 AM Mercurius is correct in that he sees the importance of comparing what we do in Australia w.....
» 11/10/2006 2:50:12 PM OK, cool it. The discussion about public v private is nothing to do with John Ridds articl.....
» 7/09/2006 11:04:07 AM All very true Jennifer. The environment simply has vanished as an issue. Everything is bei.....
» 27/06/2006 4:37:54 PM Oh, I see. When I use abusive language that is abuse, when Goldstein does it is a 'rhetori.....
» 26/06/2006 8:16:59 AM Thin skinned Goldstein does not like personal abuse. I agree that my comment was abusive. .....
» 25/06/2006 3:54:02 PM Well said GrahamY! It is clear that, as opposed to Goldstein, you actually know something .....
» 11/04/2006 1:41:21 PM We in Queensland need an Upper House. The crude nature of democracy in this State has been.....
» 20/02/2006 1:33:27 PM I agree with Perseus. Needs a nice simple one click way to see a list of the last four wee.....
» 16/02/2006 10:30:31 AM BruceRaveRant still holds to the 'idea' that all knowledge is culturally based, that there.....
» 16/11/2005 3:50:20 PM Faustino. Getting someones nom de plume, (or should that be nom de finger?)is a small beer.....
» 15/11/2005 1:46:28 PM Kevin Donnelly points out that the recent UK White Paper emphasises the importance of pare.....
» 27/10/2005 2:19:28 PM The problems identified by Dr Ahmed, i.e. a lack of perceived high financial rewards for s.....
» 5/09/2005 2:15:29 PM The Thieving Magpies comments are most important. They show clearly the pathetic condition.....
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