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» 5/11/2015 7:15:19 PM For too long we have accepted the narrative that only women suffer as victims of domestic .....
» 25/04/2015 2:36:11 PM Sarah, to be honest, if the arguments are as specious as they are, people will pay as litt.....
» 5/04/2015 6:11:28 PM Killarney, 'There is one abusive sex and one non-abusive one'. How is that not a sexist p.....
» 3/04/2015 2:24:16 PM Killarney, I'm not interested in this stupid gender war. Men do bad things. Women do bad .....
» 2/04/2015 7:51:04 PM Killarny, And another thing on feminism and equality. The original feminists had good - e.....
» 1/04/2015 8:00:27 PM The first step is for reform in Israel's enemies. Israel is merely behaving rationally. On.....
» 1/04/2015 7:07:28 PM Hey Killarney, What is your gender studies gobbley-gook's take on the woman in Albanvale .....
» 29/03/2015 1:08:50 PM Killarney, Let's get real on this thing. This battle was fought and won back in the 1970s.....
» 27/03/2015 8:18:02 PM The whole idea of an epidemic of violence against women is a absolute fabrication. If you .....
» 31/08/2014 1:13:14 PM SteeleRudux, True, Hamas was elected by Gazans in 2005 I believe. But would you call it a.....
» 29/08/2014 8:33:43 PM I agree with the right of Israelis to defend themselves. And certainly no sensible person .....
» 6/06/2014 8:08:03 PM Well done, Caitlin. Goebbels could hardly have done better! At least one third of domestic.....
» 10/12/2010 9:22:37 PM Excellennt article. Another reason why we shouldn't buckle under attempts by liars to rol.....
» 7/12/2010 8:01:51 PM Wow, thanks to this article I now know that the legislative provisions of the Family Law A.....
» 2/05/2008 7:40:49 PM The article overlooks two important facts: Firstly, as a Jesuit academic once pointed ou.....
» 28/09/2007 3:02:25 PM Definitely sounds like a film worth missing. I lived in Indonesia throughout the transiti.....
» 3/09/2007 1:37:04 PM If only world religious leaders like the Pope and the Dalai Lama would stop their messages.....
» 3/09/2007 1:22:48 PM Go-mum Once we accept the fact that no gender has a monopoly on abusive behavior then the .....
» 19/12/2006 7:35:08 PM The article refers frequently to the AWB scandal which was certainly an example of corrupt.....
» 26/11/2006 9:59:42 AM The analysis of the agreement and its weaknesses is sound, but the rest of the article is .....
» 26/11/2006 9:39:22 AM What a stupid article. I came into the workforce in the late 1980s and there was much much.....
» 16/11/2006 5:17:15 PM Leigh, You're only partly right. It's certainly true that democracy has to be fought for b.....
» 16/11/2006 4:55:25 PM There is a study by Kermyt Anderson of the University of Oaklahoma claiming that only abou.....
» 16/10/2006 9:05:05 PM Leigh, You show distain for Islam, but preach kowtowing to the Government of Indonesia whe.....
» 13/10/2006 2:04:36 PM And another thing. The people who died (mostly from Iraq and Afghanistan) were overwhelmin.....
» 13/10/2006 1:57:13 PM I think a lot of people here are missing the point. The hypothesis declared in the 6th las.....
» 9/10/2006 2:52:36 PM What year was this piece written in? The very same article could have been written in 1988.....
» 5/10/2006 9:13:59 PM Well said. And another case in point closer to home. What has the Left been saying about B.....
» 15/09/2006 10:06:04 AM How true this article is! I was at a public seminar at the ANU this week on the Aceh tsuna.....
» 7/09/2006 5:10:00 PM This is unbelievably stupid logic. Firstly, the 'sine qua non' of the Supreme Court death .....
» 22/08/2006 1:44:54 PM Sunisle and others, Leigh does make an important point about the relative threats from cer.....
» 17/08/2006 8:33:56 PM I'm wondering if this joker Des Moore is just dumb and ignorant OR is he actually trying t.....
» 16/08/2006 3:05:59 PM "The West Papuans ... have engaged in armed insurrection and outside the law." .....
» 10/08/2006 4:39:22 PM "There will always be tensions between principle and morality on the one hand and exp.....
» 25/07/2006 2:02:14 PM Jeremy, You have sounded the trumpets of Timor's economic potential, but where are you in .....
» 7/07/2006 9:52:08 AM Leftists have a worse record of supporting despots than do right-wingers in the last 30 ye.....
» 29/06/2006 2:10:36 PM The fall of Soeharto brought two dominant trends in Indonesian politics. Expectedly, it br.....
» 26/06/2006 1:55:10 PM East Timor is not a failed state, but it is in danger of becoming one. Whether the Timores.....
» 20/06/2006 8:20:49 PM People to people ties already exist and have for some time. Tell the Corby family about th.....
» 16/06/2006 3:24:32 PM I don't agree with the thrust of the article. Australia's interest first and foremost is t.....
» 14/06/2006 8:39:48 AM I don't agree with the way Indonesia governed East Timor and the way its military like Pra.....
» 9/06/2006 9:14:55 PM Part 2 Maracas said: "The people doing the burning and looting are anti- government e.....
» 9/06/2006 9:06:39 PM PeterMilk, I agree completely. Morris' article is trash. You can't whitewash the Indonesia.....
» 8/06/2006 1:31:13 PM Maracas, You gave an overview of East Timorese history, but what you don't say is most rel.....
» 7/06/2006 8:29:45 PM This an incredibly stupid article about a serious topic. There were never any refugee camp.....
» 26/05/2006 8:50:31 PM The article is a very welcome reminder that a anti-democratic state like China can never b.....
» 19/05/2006 1:45:44 PM Nigtyas, Australians don't necessarily want to break off relations with Indonesia. Paradox.....
» 18/05/2006 2:01:20 PM Right now, probably a majority of native Papuans would support independence if they had th.....
» 13/05/2006 3:23:47 PM Ludwig / Ningtyas, Isn't it interesting how the Indonesians always shoot themselves in the.....
» 12/05/2006 9:03:40 PM Thanks PTBI for making history. You're the first Indonesian to admit that Indonesia's plan.....
» 12/05/2006 8:39:03 PM Excellent article. One of the best I've read for a while. Thanks for informing me and your.....
» 11/05/2006 9:10:56 AM PTBI, But when push came to shove in September 1999, the US lined up against Indonesia and.....
» 10/05/2006 6:30:28 PM Ningtyas, But Indonesia did impinge on East Timor (actually Portuguese)sovereignty in 1975.....
» 9/05/2006 2:00:13 PM Ningtyas, It's not true that people in ASEAN countries never supported the human rights st.....
» 8/05/2006 3:14:59 PM The thing about the Jakarta Lobby is that it doesn't matter who is in government in Jakart.....
» 5/05/2006 2:04:00 PM Gary Brown, Tony Kevin and Perseus, I am in total agreement. I lived in Indonesia nine ye.....
» 28/04/2006 1:47:06 PM Perseus, The nature of the Indonesian bureacracy means that it is almost impossible to tra.....
» 27/04/2006 2:05:28 PM Perseus, It's 2006 - not 1956. Do you think it's still the Cold War times or the gun-boat .....
» 27/04/2006 1:50:24 PM Perseus, You are wrong is saying that so many of the people massacred in 1965-66 were Chin.....
» 26/04/2006 1:02:19 PM This "Javanese empire" idea is a myth from decades ago and just plays right into.....
» 26/04/2006 12:47:06 PM Dalma, Under the agreement Australia signed with Indonesia in 1989, Timor Gap oil in the .....
» 24/04/2006 1:44:39 PM In 1998-99, there was a notable discourse in Indonesian politics on the issue of federalis.....
» 24/04/2006 1:29:39 PM PTBI, You said in your post that the population of East Timor was 1.5 million in 2000, bu.....
» 24/04/2006 8:13:11 AM Perseus, I spent two weeks in West Papua in 2000 and, yes, I can tell you for a fact that .....
» 23/04/2006 4:44:43 PM PTBI, The population of East Timor has never exceeded 1 million. Leigh, Dick Woolcott lea.....
» 21/04/2006 9:43:19 PM Perseus, You misunderstood me. I didn't mean to dismiss fundamental human rights without .....
» 21/04/2006 5:43:04 PM Leigh, The acceptance of the asylum-seekers claim was a rare and beautiful thing in Canbe.....
» 21/04/2006 2:04:30 PM Leigh, DIMA found that the asylum-seekers had reasonable grounds for fearing persecution. .....
» 20/04/2006 6:03:55 PM Colgradoff, You obviously listen too much to the Dick Woolcott Jakarta lapdogs on the one.....
» 20/04/2006 2:01:47 PM Perseus, Now I'm a big ememy of the Jakarta lobby and I agree 100% with the article. But .....
» 20/04/2006 1:44:43 PM Dee, Well said. I recall last year, in response to the (it turns out false) claim that Co.....
» 18/04/2006 2:15:33 PM Redneck, Your point is that you think capital punishment is a good thing for drug dealers......
» 18/04/2006 1:53:56 PM Indonesians complain about Australia's role in East Timor becoming independent, but what w.....
» 18/04/2006 10:00:22 AM Thanks PTBI for so clearly backing the Papuan-asylum-seekers claim. You always refer to th.....
» 14/04/2006 8:15:26 AM When it comes to Australian foreign policy, there is only one certainty - Canberra's kowto.....
» 13/04/2006 8:30:16 PM The point is that there is a culture in DFAT and in the Australian Government that allowed.....
» 13/04/2006 2:51:43 PM The point I am making is that there is a culture in DFAT and in the Australian Government .....
» 13/04/2006 2:32:20 PM All you rednecks consider this. You obviously want us to execute drug-dealers, but do you .....
» 12/04/2006 9:14:00 PM Hey Mr Soeharto Man PTBI, did you see what your own journalists said about the Papua asylu.....
» 12/04/2006 8:47:57 PM On this one, I tend to agree with PTBI. The US and Britain are respected in Indonesia beca.....
» 12/04/2006 8:24:38 PM Unfortunately, the Indonesian justice system isn't one of the best features of that countr.....
» 10/04/2006 1:55:59 PM If things are so rosy in Papua, why are so most diplomats and journalists banned from ente.....
» 9/04/2006 9:14:02 PM I spent two weeks in West Papua in August 2000 (Biak, Jayapura, Wamena) and almost everyon.....
» 9/04/2006 8:32:46 PM Proud to be Indonesian, you usually do better posts than the last one. The OPM has used vi.....
» 9/04/2006 5:35:45 PM Proud to be Indonesian, you are an excellent advocate for the West Papuan separatists' cau.....
» 7/04/2006 3:22:39 PM For all of Howard's faults, Beazley is far worse. Did you see his comments criticising Aus.....
» 7/04/2006 10:03:03 AM Reality check please. Firstly, "Rakyat Merdeka" is a nationalist-orientated news.....
» 25/03/2006 8:35:20 PM "Proud to be Indonesian", I am proud of you because in your last post you are fi.....
» 24/03/2006 8:50:34 AM You are right in saying that many of the conflicts were caused by the power vacuum left in.....
» 23/03/2006 7:52:06 PM "Proud to be Indonesian", you obviously know very little about your own country'.....
» 16/01/2006 7:39:06 PM The circumstances of David Hicks and Schapelle Corby are different, but what they have in .....
» 15/01/2006 1:04:25 PM Never mind the Lyons Forum, what about the Jakarta Lobby that controls DFAT, Department of.....
» 14/01/2006 3:30:26 PM Lindsay Tanner's article completely misses the point delivering a spectacularly stupid and.....
» 11/10/2005 1:30:59 PM Fellow Human, All these things are good and true. Most Muslims are good people and much of.....
» 11/10/2005 12:39:09 PM Sage is absolutely right. Let me give an example. What was the biggest issue dominating ta.....
» 5/10/2005 5:30:17 PM If it were an attack on Indonesian sufist-style Islam, why didn't they just blow up an NU .....
» 5/10/2005 9:44:04 AM The Australian government wouldn't dream of doing something so radical as to ask for Austr.....
» 4/10/2005 9:29:11 AM Col Rouge, You seem rather harsh. I worked in Indonesia for 9 years and studied their just.....
» 30/09/2005 1:30:06 PM To Lisamaree, It is possible that there is a market for high quality Australian marijuana .....
» 30/09/2005 1:19:09 PM Planetagent, I suspect that (unlike me) you have never lived in a dictatorship. You are be.....
» 29/09/2005 4:33:55 PM To Kalweb and Col Rouge Now it seems to me that you guys both completely missed my point. .....
» 28/09/2005 5:41:19 PM MichaelK, Suggest you learn English first before you post your opinions. Your opinions ma.....
» 28/09/2005 2:10:45 PM To Finbar, Yes, Schapelle Corby is innocent. No, she will not be released because the Indo.....
» 27/09/2005 1:40:53 PM Ross Terrill's most valuable point here is that there are two Chinas - as he puts it, ther.....
» 26/09/2005 2:59:28 PM Leigh (and some others), you miss an important point. It is not just about overly harsh pe.....
» 26/09/2005 1:46:53 PM I am an Australian-trained lawyer who lived in Indonesia for 9 years. I think that if any .....

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