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» 25/03/2010 9:39:15 AM >>Without being able to say for sure, what is causing additional warming, if indeed .....
» 25/03/2010 8:47:13 AM >>And what exactly did the baby do to deserve the death penalty?<< CJ, Nothi.....
» 24/03/2010 1:43:58 PM I agree, Spindoc. There are too many labels. Tristan, There's too much philosophising in .....
» 24/03/2010 11:53:26 AM Some more facts have come out about both parties in the crash in today's Canberra Times. .....
» 24/03/2010 8:59:47 AM The bottom line for me is this. In climate science, as Geoff essentially says, there is mo.....
» 23/03/2010 10:58:44 AM >>Oh Rob, he obviously made a lasting impression on you. I'm doubtful the reverse is.....
» 22/03/2010 8:07:48 PM I remember ol' dear departed Col when he boasted that he didn't have any weaknesses. Later.....
» 22/03/2010 2:41:35 PM Here's a link for those that haven't seen it: http://www.canberratimes.com.au/news/local/.....
» 22/03/2010 2:18:46 PM >>There will be no charge this time.<< Hang on, shouldn't I be charging you?.....
» 22/03/2010 12:31:21 PM >>it's just that you're not courageous enough to actually say it overtly, even thoug.....
» 22/03/2010 11:51:35 AM >>Good post benk. You've made the rest of the posters look pretty dim.<< We a.....
» 21/03/2010 2:35:00 PM pelican, >>Not all kids from these backgrounds become bullies, what makes some bull.....
» 21/03/2010 12:46:36 PM Cornflower, I assume the stereotypical strong-arm toughs you are referring to was in resp.....
» 20/03/2010 2:22:40 PM >>To R0bert, Belly, Robp and other men who have yet to post, what do you do when you.....
» 20/03/2010 1:19:36 PM Forrest, To your comment, >>I was just a little surprised to see this topic get ap.....
» 20/03/2010 12:16:16 PM At school once I stuck up for a weaker kid who was getting bullied by a couple of "to.....
» 18/03/2010 3:26:32 PM >>What is the worst possible outcome of climate change policy failure?<< The .....
» 18/03/2010 9:31:56 AM >>Btw, my previous post about Waheed Aly's proposition - it's telling that no OLO co.....
» 18/03/2010 9:09:40 AM When Jonathon Holmes tackles Piers Ackerman he's putting his skills to good use, IMO......
» 17/03/2010 3:01:41 PM Well, Bboy, I will quote what Don Aitken said that what the CSIRO and BoM came out with is.....
» 17/03/2010 2:07:03 PM >>Whilst that's possible, it's so implausible that you'd have to be pretty deluded t.....
» 17/03/2010 1:39:54 PM >>Surely the most obvious explanation for those statements from CSIRO and BoM, despi.....
» 15/03/2010 11:50:54 AM Atheism and religion are just two competing forms of thought. One is anti-faith and the ot.....
» 14/03/2010 12:24:55 PM >>Interesting that no one seems game to comment on how we might feel if the internat.....
» 13/03/2010 2:52:26 PM >>Forget the “topic content”, this was just the example given by the ABC chairman. W.....
» 13/03/2010 2:24:57 PM >>Unlike Rupert Murdoch's media empire that can push their own agenda.<< Foxy.....
» 13/03/2010 2:03:06 PM Suze, >>Aren't these men even more stupid than her?<< It's certainly true th.....
» 12/03/2010 7:56:56 PM Pericles, I haven't got the time to go through the testimonies again to provide the quote.....
» 12/03/2010 7:41:47 PM qanda, The way I see it, if you have the Al Gores of this world you must have the Christo.....
» 12/03/2010 3:13:10 PM qanda, >>I think he misses the point though - science is not determined by debate, .....
» 12/03/2010 1:59:59 PM 100% agree with Leigh on this one. At the risk of being accused of envy, I'd go a little .....
» 12/03/2010 12:20:48 PM When is corporate welfare wrong? Where a corporation uses its knowledge to take advantage.....
» 12/03/2010 11:31:47 AM Of course the ABC is biased along with every other movement, organisation and individual. .....
» 12/03/2010 10:47:20 AM daggett, They are very interesting testimonies, to say the least. The people involved don.....
» 10/03/2010 11:07:07 AM A couple of other things that occurred to me. If explosives were detonated, I imagine that.....
» 9/03/2010 12:04:52 PM Tony's obviously in a bidding war with Kevin Rudd at the moment where he's got to fire his.....
» 8/03/2010 12:22:56 PM >>That deserves a place in the book of mixed metaphors - well done.<< Severin.....
» 7/03/2010 12:54:29 PM I've only come to this thread late. Looking at daggett's link, there are a lot of technic.....
» 7/03/2010 11:14:17 AM >>Good riddance to bad rubbish.<< I agree completely. If the reports are true.....
» 7/03/2010 10:42:13 AM cinders, If the science is unclear as you quote the Tasmanian Health Department as statin.....
» 5/03/2010 8:07:21 PM >>While the only thing they do is support the crackpot theories of activists, they a.....
» 5/03/2010 2:36:16 PM The ABC may well be biased, but if its reports challenge the entrenched biases already out.....
» 5/03/2010 10:14:42 AM >>I always wonder why people didn't laugh at John Lennon but everyone laughs at Bono.....
» 4/03/2010 1:01:10 PM She must want a new Ferrari to go with her Aston Martin or whatever it is. I've no time f.....
» 2/03/2010 8:21:35 PM >>As far as the 'sustainability' of the Greens goes, despite the bulldust spread by .....
» 2/03/2010 9:25:43 AM Poirot, There's Ronald Reagan and Arnie Schwartzenegger who reached prominence. Not so su.....
» 2/03/2010 8:59:11 AM >>A play on words my thread was meant to ask can the greens hold current policys and.....
» 1/03/2010 1:56:47 PM >>Belly, I’m not convinced of the need for a political entity such as the Greens. Li.....
» 1/03/2010 1:30:50 PM Poirot, Turnbull's got a number of positions on the left, the right and the centre. Left .....
» 1/03/2010 9:46:13 AM >>As for the Opposition - Turnbull's obviously the best but he's apparently too inte.....
» 28/02/2010 1:08:32 PM I agree with pelican, the highjacking of Australian passports is a serious issue, particul.....
» 27/02/2010 7:17:57 PM >>Garret's crime, if it was one, was not being both bureaucratically and politicall.....
» 27/02/2010 2:19:23 PM Antiseptic, Combet, of course, was the head of the ACTU for about 7 years. You say he has.....
» 26/02/2010 2:37:15 PM LRAM, If you're saying things are better for you, well, fair enough. I think I'm seeing w.....
» 26/02/2010 1:57:03 PM Re the debate on fluoridisation, the answer has to be whatever works best. I suppose there.....
» 26/02/2010 1:31:45 PM We know that many common English surnames come from the professions that the plebs have en.....
» 26/02/2010 1:10:28 PM LRAM, You don't work for a political staffer by any chance, do you? Like, what else coul.....
» 26/02/2010 11:20:37 AM Then there are the well known people in the media etc whose names aptly describe what they.....
» 26/02/2010 11:10:31 AM Not quite on topic, but a thought bubble I once had. There was an English soccer player ca.....
» 26/02/2010 10:26:17 AM Can't resist to join in here. Alison Catt Hector Pascal Peter Ness Name squared (eg Grace.....
» 26/02/2010 9:38:13 AM >>The message is, Rudd spins, he cares about his career in politics, he doesn’t care.....
» 25/02/2010 3:16:19 PM >>And finally the tax mix became more and more regressive under the Conservatives de.....
» 24/02/2010 2:29:05 PM Severin, True, it's not *all* his fault. The gist of the "argument" you quote .....
» 24/02/2010 1:53:50 PM >>The first step towards getting the public service to perform adequately is to allo.....
» 23/02/2010 8:32:53 PM (Cont) Three concerned people got together to take samples of the water. They traced the .....
» 23/02/2010 8:30:01 PM >>I'm willing to bet that the chemically contaminated environment contributes a much.....
» 22/02/2010 1:17:29 PM http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/opinion/a-modern-moses-with-beliefs-set-in-stone/stor.....
» 21/02/2010 8:28:02 PM From Ludwig's link: >>Michael Danby, chairman of the Federal Parliament's joint com.....
» 21/02/2010 2:27:31 PM The Blue Cross, >>I've been a union organiser myself... and I found that far too ma.....
» 20/02/2010 2:57:45 PM Am I watching the Winter Games? Yes, but only barely noticing rather than avidly watching.....
» 19/02/2010 3:24:13 PM >>Sadly, the government has caused this failure, and only the government has the mon.....
» 19/02/2010 10:23:50 AM Hasbeen, What you say is dead right for about half of the Public Service, IMO. There are .....
» 19/02/2010 9:01:20 AM >>I live at both ends of the scale. In my day job I manage the computer affairs for .....
» 16/02/2010 7:52:04 PM >>Barnaby , with his succinct and competent explanation of just how any decent Treas.....
» 16/02/2010 2:30:57 PM Ludwig, I'll settle for the following compromise. That the concerted progressive effort .....
» 16/02/2010 10:36:05 AM >>No doubt they were focussing on the key issue of making sure the installers didn't.....
» 15/02/2010 3:12:11 PM >>The responsibility of any works associated with buildings is the responsibility of.....
» 15/02/2010 12:52:11 PM >>So for goodness sake, let’s not worry about the extra costs that a few green jobs .....
» 13/02/2010 3:39:20 PM I was talking about Garrett with my brother and, in particular, his interview with Kerry O.....
» 13/02/2010 2:25:01 PM I don't know if it qualifies as the most beautiful I've seen, but the bit of scenery that .....
» 13/02/2010 11:54:11 AM Horus, That post's pretty high up on my wedgie meter. Well, attempted wedgie, anyway. &g.....
» 13/02/2010 11:36:13 AM Bazz, If that debt is really true, why doesn't the Coalition drive a debt truck around to.....
» 11/02/2010 9:08:15 AM >>My brother works for a Govt dept and he dislikes MS. But it sounds like the way th.....
» 10/02/2010 1:24:38 PM >>This max's out my irony meter. And it just shows the contortions a pollie will go .....
» 10/02/2010 9:19:50 AM >>Isn't it convenient that government continue to aid and abet this hegemony through.....
» 9/02/2010 12:08:37 PM >>On that note, I think Howard is a far better professional politician than Rudd.<.....
» 9/02/2010 11:38:56 AM examinator, If you mean plug in a date into a computer and work out what the date and tim.....
» 9/02/2010 11:06:37 AM davidf, True - there is no one way of measuring things. The point I was getting at is t.....
» 9/02/2010 10:28:56 AM >>Therefore, major industries should be planned, facilitated ( Fed state infrastruct.....
» 9/02/2010 9:50:54 AM I think Philo's right too - the difference between going metric on weights/distances and t.....
» 8/02/2010 1:02:54 PM Fair comment, Hanrahan. I must admit, Barnaby does have a lot of magnetism about him and .....
» 8/02/2010 11:32:37 AM Hanrahan, There's more to it than playing the man which, in my case, was only skin deep. .....
» 8/02/2010 8:42:52 AM Foxy, I agree that Governments usually need at least 2 terms to get their agendas through.....
» 7/02/2010 2:01:16 PM Getting back to Barnaby Joyce, he was pithily described on Insiders this morning as a stum.....
» 5/02/2010 11:44:01 AM Foxy, That's great in theory, but... Straight off the bat, your day would have 200,000 s.....
» 5/02/2010 9:27:45 AM Spinner, I agree. The idea of prejudice is much more useful because it opens up all the n.....
» 4/02/2010 12:30:21 PM From the article: >>When I read the 76 pages of Powering Ideas I struck by the fact.....
» 4/02/2010 9:02:21 AM >>It always amazes me that people complain interminably about Microsoft's hegemony a.....
» 2/02/2010 9:21:16 AM we are unique, I recently saw a rerun of the Australian Story episode featuring Ric Richa.....
» 1/02/2010 2:32:42 PM >>It is simply that they have no way to convert "get out of the way" into .....
» 1/02/2010 1:54:06 PM >>...why not create flora which is of benefit to many & may even improve the salinit.....
» 29/01/2010 12:00:09 PM >>Would it not be more sensible for thinking human beings to accept reality and look.....
» 28/01/2010 11:48:11 AM Pericles, >>Instead of cancelling each other out, which would be a Good Thing, they.....
» 28/01/2010 9:52:34 AM A top article. If there's one thing the hysteria, hyperbole and hypothesis of the media d.....
» 28/01/2010 9:13:19 AM After seeing a TV interview Monckton gave recently, I'm of the opinion he's no better than.....
» 27/01/2010 1:19:58 PM >>If I had my “druthers”, I’d educate everyone about basic law, and what it can and .....
» 25/01/2010 2:14:21 PM Ludwig, >>So you’ve got the type of driver that can’t help himself but to push it t.....
» 24/01/2010 1:00:40 PM Ludwig, I'm guessing you're a moderate, law-abiding citizen. I was brought up the same wa.....
» 23/01/2010 3:42:35 PM >>We can’t have a situation, which is evident with the policing of many road rules f.....
» 21/01/2010 11:04:50 AM Pelican, >>Governments and public servants are sometimes too focussed on the 'look'.....
» 18/01/2010 2:01:01 PM >>"true science is something that can be observed and proven" What utter .....
» 17/01/2010 3:23:40 PM examinator, Your post shows that you didn't understand a thing I said. >>Ultimatel.....
» 17/01/2010 1:34:09 PM mikk, I don't have any problem with what you've written. I agree that most scientists do .....
» 16/01/2010 1:13:08 PM Col, You've proven that you are clearly over-equipped for this site. Why don't you pract.....
» 16/01/2010 12:41:09 PM >>if men can't get attention by their admirable qualities the least they can do is b.....
» 13/01/2010 8:44:04 PM Abbott is full of contrasts - he gives the strong impression of being interested in helpin.....
» 3/01/2010 12:45:42 PM (Cont) Read my post again, I've already implied that this particular Pope is not responsi.....
» 3/01/2010 12:44:38 PM KenH, >>Several commenters since then have tried to fudge the issue, claiming that .....
» 1/01/2010 12:38:47 PM >>But despite some decades of environmentalist rhetoric and symbolic policy, some of.....
» 31/12/2009 12:24:54 PM >>RobP, I gather that the infallibility claim does not apply to the everyday life of.....
» 29/12/2009 3:09:26 PM >>Outside the Fairfax media, this forum is one of the few places where anti-Catholic.....
» 28/12/2009 1:09:50 PM >>Are you so seriously stupid, ill-informed and detached from reality that you think.....
» 27/12/2009 9:18:43 PM >>This message from the Pope is worse than nothing, because it sends the message tha.....
» 21/12/2009 2:38:25 PM >>As for the islands...what IS your argument RobP?<< My argument is that plea.....
» 18/12/2009 12:04:59 PM >>Start demanding that the Australian Government take action to REALLY help mitigate.....
» 16/12/2009 9:27:17 PM >>Archer uses the analogy of a partially blocked sink. Although the same amount of w.....
» 16/12/2009 1:43:36 PM This discussion leads to a question I've been thinking for a while. We learned at school .....
» 12/12/2009 9:03:07 AM >>Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. The.....
» 11/12/2009 12:44:06 PM Col, If you're serious, it's you who is disgusting. If you're joking, you are plain pathe.....
» 10/12/2009 1:13:44 PM >>Well with ignorant ding-bats like you I am obviously needed here… to educate.. but.....
» 9/12/2009 11:40:25 AM So the big dog has done a big piss on the carpet. Whoopee doo, Col. (Note the long drawn-o.....
» 9/12/2009 8:50:53 AM >>Err hang on there. I think that the points I am making are very realistic.<<.....
» 8/12/2009 1:56:18 PM Despite Pericles' and Col's attempts to steer the debate away from the idea that people in.....
» 8/12/2009 1:30:55 PM The old CES was only a control valve/filter to try and minimise the amount of people that .....
» 8/12/2009 9:43:35 AM It seems to me Forrest, that a fragmented and piecemeal system is to blame. The elections .....
» 8/12/2009 9:15:12 AM True, Foxy. Another thing you can add to the list is that because skeptics can be so tren.....
» 8/12/2009 8:57:45 AM >>RobP, I remind you yet once again that this is meant to be a humanitarian programm.....
» 7/12/2009 12:31:54 PM Good opening post, Pelican. >>Where have the moderates all gone? Why have we moved .....
» 7/12/2009 9:47:37 AM >>RobP, now you have me confused. For it was my understanding that we already take t.....
» 6/12/2009 1:09:16 PM >>So if we everyday people don’t get to hear about a person’s good work, then how ca.....
» 6/12/2009 12:49:17 PM >>What you are implying RobP, is that our Govt is too stupid to come up with a fair .....
» 5/12/2009 2:44:19 PM >>Neither of you have been able to justify why a humanitarian programme should not b.....
» 5/12/2009 1:43:05 PM rstuart, I am a scientist who more and more regularly writes (perl) programs and agree th.....
» 5/12/2009 12:52:52 PM >>But you are right, personalities are not actions and it is only by what politician.....
» 4/12/2009 12:45:09 PM >>There are some very worthy people in Labour including Julia Gillard and Lindsay Ta.....
» 4/12/2009 8:41:54 AM >>But to blame him for the current debâcle is simply not plausible.<< There a.....
» 1/12/2009 2:31:25 PM Malcolm's doing a Keating and going to the backbench to cool his heels for a while. Like K.....
» 1/12/2009 10:52:12 AM Tanner is on the right track. The Keating/Hawke Governments made the big macro changes and.....
» 27/11/2009 3:12:13 PM The dynamics in the Liberal party room are certainly fascinating. - Is liberalism compati.....
» 26/11/2009 8:00:06 PM >>Do they have the guts to kick trottingbull out? We'll soon know. Are there any of.....
» 26/11/2009 7:37:38 PM >>Any other migrant has to produce police evidence to prove that they don't, from co.....
» 26/11/2009 12:17:46 PM http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/11/26/2754284.htm?section=justin Does this ring a.....
» 20/11/2009 11:33:44 AM >>The most casual of research reveals poor character traits.<< The most casua.....
» 19/11/2009 11:29:17 AM There was a rumour doing the rounds that Peter Beattie anointed Anna Bligh as his successo.....
» 18/11/2009 8:32:26 PM >>For very good reasons RobP. The refugee programme is about being humanitarian, tha.....
» 18/11/2009 11:54:25 AM I think the world needs some sort of regular event like the Olympics that raises people's .....
» 18/11/2009 9:38:35 AM Yabby, >>RobP, this is where you lose the plot.<< Not so. The point I was ge.....
» 17/11/2009 3:03:43 PM >>If you think otherwise, then state your case. Demonstrate that these people are of.....
» 17/11/2009 9:35:27 AM Banjo, Nice. Find all the negatives you can and lump it on all of them. And, that was in .....
» 16/11/2009 12:57:10 PM >>You take the cake for being niave and gillible.<< Banjo, You take the cake.....
» 16/11/2009 9:09:48 AM >>Sheesh RobP, are you now suggesting that people should not be held responsible and.....
» 15/11/2009 12:08:33 PM Yabby, I thought it was obvious I was being cheeky and having a lend of you. Yes, your ar.....
» 14/11/2009 4:23:19 PM So, Yabs, why the animus? Did ya get thrown out of ya cot when a toddler or something? .....
» 12/11/2009 2:41:47 PM Shadow Minister, Going from the interview of the Ambassador last night and other reports .....
» 12/11/2009 10:50:22 AM Yabby, >>These 78 hire people smugglers, some holes are round drilled in their boat.....
» 12/11/2009 9:11:59 AM Shadow Minister, I saw the interview last night and the Ambassador looked for all money l.....
» 11/11/2009 3:29:07 PM Shadow Minister, >>Similarily, while only about 40 boats have arrived in the 2 year.....
» 11/11/2009 3:17:39 PM rpg, >>RobP - Yep, so what? The points I made are what most Australians think, whic.....
» 11/11/2009 10:14:58 AM >>Do we reward blackmail with permanent residency? Do we send another ship out, when.....
» 11/11/2009 9:59:59 AM >>It's not that we don't want to extend the hand of humanity and friendship, it's ju.....
» 11/11/2009 9:14:34 AM That should have been: "With *300,000* migrants coming here each year...", not t.....
» 11/11/2009 9:00:13 AM If people want a good overview of the asylum situation have a read of: http://www.onlineop.....
» 10/11/2009 2:11:12 PM Examinator, >>I think much of the conversation does the experience, skill of the de.....
» 8/11/2009 1:20:49 PM >>It also makes proving the true story behind any claim virtually impossible, for th.....
» 7/11/2009 2:48:56 PM Yabby, That link comes across as sober and believable analysis of the situation. >>.....
» 7/11/2009 1:03:16 PM >>Any public system, where people stand to make big gains if they rort it, will be r.....
» 6/11/2009 8:03:39 PM It's already been reported that the man was a psychiatrist who was being taunted because o.....
» 4/11/2009 8:08:04 PM Aye Horus, all ye have to do is add a few references to murrr-der, Glaasgow, the bo-oss, R.....
» 4/11/2009 8:29:51 AM Horus, >>Maybe we should also encourage DRUG PUSHES & DRUG BARRONS too, aye!<<.....
» 3/11/2009 1:06:07 PM Yabby, >>No RobP,not so. My argument is that the genuine asylum seekers that we kno.....
» 2/11/2009 3:26:03 PM That's a classic, Foxy. It just shows you that physics rules in the physical world. I see.....
» 2/11/2009 9:58:25 AM I think what I've started to realise is that the old divisions of Left vs Right, conservat.....
» 2/11/2009 9:22:49 AM Yabby, >>RobP, if you think about what I am suggesting, its far humane then the pre.....
» 31/10/2009 4:14:38 PM Yabby, A few points: >>2. The Govt got elected on the back of fear of workchoices,.....
» 31/10/2009 3:14:02 PM Bazz says: >>Rob P said; One lot pays our national carrier money and the boatloads .....
» 31/10/2009 1:54:47 PM >>Quite simple RobP. Shut the whole boat trade down, for once and for all.<< .....
» 31/10/2009 1:04:15 PM I don't believe the idea that good and evil are just arbitrary constructs of the mind as h.....
» 30/10/2009 12:19:00 PM "What is the Opposition's policy regarding the current asylum seekers controversy?&qu.....
» 29/10/2009 11:51:07 AM >>Evil is what one doesn't like. It is no more than that. << This statement a.....
» 26/10/2009 9:18:45 AM "What is the real purpose of the opposition and why don't they do it?" Good que.....
» 25/10/2009 1:57:21 PM >>Why do so many people actually believe this? That a dollar spent by government wil.....
» 23/10/2009 11:06:04 AM I'm just wondering who's the biggest terrorist - a Sri Lankan refugee or a Wilson Tuckey w.....
» 23/10/2009 10:36:19 AM Banjo, I agree there are better examples of hyprocrisy, but I thought this particular cas.....
» 22/10/2009 8:08:15 PM >>Who are professional shooters? Do you mean people who kill for food? Or something .....
» 22/10/2009 3:18:30 PM Man who shoots 4 kangaroos with a crossbow gets 12 months jail (see http://www.abc.net.au/.....
» 21/10/2009 9:21:35 AM >>Simple you can track the problem you identify that back to Hawke/Keating and the s.....
» 20/10/2009 10:13:53 AM >>All you have to do is request their extradition to Australia. We should have as mu.....
» 19/10/2009 7:53:57 PM Fractelle/Grim, Thanks for your thoughts. I'm still not sure whether Col's taking the mic.....
» 19/10/2009 8:19:42 AM Col, >>It is a shame your manners and your intellect remain in the gutter - or may.....
» 18/10/2009 4:33:30 PM Hey Col, sod off......
» 17/10/2009 4:33:01 PM When I was in about Grade 1, an Aboriginal kid in my class at school visited me at my plac.....
» 17/10/2009 3:40:03 PM >>THe alternative is that the drugs we all rely on every day are never invented.<.....
» 16/10/2009 2:28:44 PM From Ludwig's post, the Nobel Committee's citation says: >>"… through his extr.....
» 16/10/2009 1:38:24 PM To the question of the thread, "How proactive are you to reduce Australian racism?&qu.....
» 16/10/2009 8:16:46 AM >>Yes, I do not down on other people in general but when a grub demonstrates his ind.....
» 14/10/2009 2:37:12 PM I meant to say: "... should people be turned into slaves, robots or carbon units just.....
» 14/10/2009 11:07:39 AM >>RobP – you still don’t get it, do you. .... What a small, envious little grub you.....
» 13/10/2009 12:09:32 PM Rouge, You haven't told us what real work you do to earn your money. Like I asked before,.....
» 12/10/2009 7:53:57 PM Examinator, >>Perceptions aren't necessarily facts. There is no substitute for thin.....
» 12/10/2009 11:16:46 AM I second GYM-FISH's comments. I saw the Hey, Hey skit as a parody of the minstrels (the wh.....
» 12/10/2009 9:09:37 AM Steven, I should of course say that Einstein was a genius scientific thinker. The point o.....
» 12/10/2009 8:32:49 AM >>Your spin...made urban legend by constant telling. I think you'll find it harder t.....
» 11/10/2009 12:58:38 PM >>It is always the same in the PS the doers go and the number of oversighters contin.....
» 10/10/2009 3:54:36 PM Steven, It was Lise Meitner I was talking about. Not sure what you're laughing out loud a.....
» 10/10/2009 3:04:03 PM Pelican, There's nothing worse than the Public Service's 1990s obsession with mission sta.....
» 10/10/2009 2:15:08 PM OUG, >>also from link...please note who invented what...<< energy (Michael Fa.....
» 10/10/2009 1:28:44 PM Col Rouge, Well, there's not much point debating with you because you constantly move the.....
» 9/10/2009 7:47:57 PM Some others that had big influences in their fields of endeavour: Genghis Khan Sam Adams .....
» 8/10/2009 12:21:08 PM Col, >>So RobP– dispute and challenge what I said.<< I have already challeng.....
» 7/10/2009 12:46:27 PM >>Well that really says it. However, where does “individual effort” and “personal re.....
» 7/10/2009 12:04:01 PM Col the Troll, Sir Trollalot Not this turgid garbage again, surely? At least come up wi.....
» 6/10/2009 9:40:19 AM Correction: my earlier post should have said "imports" not "exports". .....
» 5/10/2009 1:02:10 PM There are a few things that jump out at me after reading this piece and juxtaposing it wit.....
» 4/10/2009 12:19:55 PM >>You on the otherhand, prefer to tell us how you wrote the “laws of the sea” and ho.....
» 3/10/2009 1:54:50 PM Col, I restate: "Your problem is that you have no sense of helping anyone else".....
» 1/10/2009 11:45:28 AM Col Rogue, >>Na.. I am just messing with your head, with some success.<< Par.....
» 30/09/2009 1:28:14 PM >>spending years helping "the team" build statutes<< Col, So who's.....
» 30/09/2009 11:01:57 AM Well, Col, you're just proving you're the worst type of patronising tosser. One day peop.....
» 29/09/2009 1:22:31 PM Graham/Cornflower, Spot on with your last posts. What the Polanski affair and the ensuin.....
» 29/09/2009 12:43:33 PM So I'm supposed to feel like I'm missing out on something? Hardly - you sound a lot like a.....
» 29/09/2009 9:43:01 AM "Of course, you are free to be as big or little a tic as you can aspire to (which mea.....
» 27/09/2009 1:47:36 PM "It might be there at the moment but give it a little while and it will all be lost…&.....
» 26/09/2009 1:08:45 PM I think Forrest's question is pertinent. Plagiarism only exists when one grabs someone els.....
» 26/09/2009 11:31:38 AM <<RobP… you are just a sad little tic.>> Col Rouge, You are an arrogant piec.....
» 25/09/2009 1:34:16 PM "I suggest you look at yourself first, before you try and hurl criticism at me.".....
» 25/09/2009 10:25:49 AM "When you offer some basis for debate I will challenge it with analysis, history, pre.....
» 24/09/2009 11:40:25 AM "And you need to address the debate ... about my analysis of what is really going on….....
» 23/09/2009 3:17:10 PM Your haughty indifference is still alive and well, eh Col? The problem is not with capital.....
» 22/09/2009 10:02:37 AM I've read somewhere that scientific and intellectual development seems to be associated wi.....
» 21/09/2009 8:58:29 PM Steven, My understanding - admittedly from more popularised accounts - is that the Dark A.....
» 21/09/2009 3:30:21 PM “You seemingly see nothing wrong with the Govt taking their money for an asset it sells, b.....
» 20/09/2009 8:27:23 PM Fractelle, Yes. Obviously, you didn't notice that I cut and pasted Protagoras' exact post.....
» 20/09/2009 4:56:15 PM That pathetic, Fractelle, So, what's your problem? Want credit for your comment? Or tho.....
» 20/09/2009 4:34:44 PM "Ok, lets sort this out first. As a general principle, if you were going to rent out .....
» 20/09/2009 4:00:17 PM >>Yay friends (and foes) - have you seen Grandpa's trout? http://74.125.153.132/sea.....
» 20/09/2009 3:28:47 PM I endorse the comments here that productivity in a telecommunications company is currently.....
» 20/09/2009 3:14:53 PM Yabby, “You know perfectly well that between inflation and taxation not allowing for infl.....
» 20/09/2009 3:11:53 PM Graham, Thanks for your civil response. OK, there are two different things that are hap.....
» 19/09/2009 3:33:32 PM "But Telstra involved over a million mums and dads investors, ... who rather then spl.....
» 19/09/2009 12:07:36 PM Here's a pretty down-to-earth analysis of the situation by Peter Ryan http://www.abc.net......
» 19/09/2009 11:36:16 AM Here's one my own. Two new dictionary entries: Davos n. 1. A meeting place of the high p.....
» 18/09/2009 8:26:09 PM Yabby, Here's a little bit more background from the same site. Alan Kohler's analysis of .....
» 18/09/2009 2:02:51 PM PP, "Q: How far can a dog run into the forest?" As far as it likes. or As fa.....
» 18/09/2009 10:05:13 AM PP, "Q: What does a man say when he walks into a bar?" Ouch?.....
» 18/09/2009 9:28:00 AM "So who is going to compete with the NBN, when its a fat and lazy Govt monopoly?".....
» 17/09/2009 12:05:35 PM Graham, “...You agree that it is theft, but argue it is OK because it enhances competiti.....
» 17/09/2009 11:34:16 AM Dave, My time frame was the nineties. But it's not really the people I'm talking about - .....
» 16/09/2009 2:57:07 PM "I've got news for you! There would hardly be an Australian who does not have money i.....
» 16/09/2009 2:41:37 PM Graham, From the point of view of an honest and genuine investor you're right, it is thef.....
» 16/09/2009 12:54:48 PM Graeme Samuel's take on the Telstra split http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/09/16/2.....
» 16/09/2009 11:52:42 AM I've got little sympathy for Telstra. It effectively monsters every consumer and small bus.....
» 16/09/2009 11:31:32 AM Foxy, I don't know how one could think of Parramatta Road in any other way especially on .....
» 14/09/2009 9:28:43 AM A. Russell A. Doug A. Eileen A. Pete.....
» 13/09/2009 4:07:37 PM The Bob joke reminds me of the whole family of similar jokes from about 30 years ago. Q. .....
» 13/09/2009 3:18:22 PM Col Rouge, >>Strange how all innovation, invention and development is the product o.....
» 11/09/2009 11:51:51 AM I'm naturally inclined at the opposite end of the spectrum. Dreams are one thing, but real.....
» 11/09/2009 10:09:51 AM Foxy, Like you, my parents are from Western Europe - Dad is from Latvia and Mum from Belo.....
» 8/09/2009 1:19:13 PM "There are a significant number of lawyers who do pro bono work (work for free). I've.....
» 3/09/2009 10:03:26 AM Who leaked the story? Was it Kate? This hasn't been reported as far as I recall. And what.....
» 3/09/2009 9:43:32 AM There's an old saying Col - one man's meat is another's poison. If you can't see that you .....
» 2/09/2009 3:02:07 PM Piper, Below is a quick definition of "meek" from the web. • adjective: humbl.....
» 2/09/2009 2:26:33 PM Yabby, You are basically talking about physical interactions in the world of "gross&.....
» 2/09/2009 12:32:32 PM I think the three main strands of debate on this topic are quite legitimate in their own r.....
» 2/09/2009 10:03:08 AM >>Hey could I just ask about “the meek”? Meek would be in the eye of the beholder?.....
» 1/09/2009 9:32:24 AM I'm not trying to "top" you at all. I'm simply putting my view. Every time I do .....
» 31/08/2009 9:41:10 PM Col, For a so-called libertarian, you sure have an unhealthy obsession with shutting down.....
» 31/08/2009 3:22:48 PM "ah I always find being threatened by "the meek" to be the hollowest of att.....
» 31/08/2009 12:51:09 PM Onya, redneck. Just remember this little tidbit - the meek shall inherit the earth one da.....
» 30/08/2009 1:38:38 PM Bronwyn, Normally, I'd say thanks for the helping hand, but it's truer to say thanks for .....
» 29/08/2009 12:46:44 PM "I hear all the carping between ego’s going on and cannot help thinking what a waste .....
» 29/08/2009 12:24:14 PM Col, Let me make it easy for you to understand - you are a selfish tosser of the highest .....
» 28/08/2009 3:49:03 PM CJ Morgan, Re your earlier post, "Neanderthal" is such a lovely word dripping w.....
» 28/08/2009 1:14:27 PM Col Rouge, You are a first-class intellectual tosser. Enjoy yourself. All your diatribe .....
» 28/08/2009 12:54:41 PM An interesting essay and one I overall agree with. On other concurrent threads, I have bei.....
» 28/08/2009 10:22:41 AM >>So your comment, “good doers” are a separate group to the “best doers”, is worse t.....
» 27/08/2009 1:01:47 PM "That would be the poppy that through some natural (unearned) advantage, grew just a .....
» 27/08/2009 11:54:02 AM "You're not a conservative - you're a Neanderthal as far as contemporary gender relat.....
» 27/08/2009 10:04:19 AM >>Since we cannot make the deficient and defective “better”, the only alternative wo.....
» 26/08/2009 12:02:10 PM CJ Morgan, Re equality for men and women. Men go out to work, while women do the housewo.....
» 26/08/2009 10:28:43 AM rehctub, I don't think too many people have a problem with others who take a risk and wor.....
» 24/08/2009 10:13:10 AM If we're talking about the hypocrisy of the Church, there's no better example IMV than the.....
» 20/08/2009 9:47:27 AM "Specifically, I would suggest these people made a series of bad or unfortunate decis.....
» 19/08/2009 10:30:03 PM >>RobP, I wonder if this is really true: "I guess that people in poverty take a.....
» 19/08/2009 10:08:12 PM "... corruption exists at these levels when local councilors and senior public servan.....
» 19/08/2009 10:18:48 AM "What would 100 very poor people tell us about our society? They don’t have to be ide.....
» 18/08/2009 4:19:19 PM "I said “Are you implying I have suggested ethnically cleansing anyone RobP?" C.....
» 18/08/2009 3:23:55 PM Col, I'll take your response to mean that I hit the truth right on the button......
» 18/08/2009 2:02:21 PM Col, You remind me of the hard British soldier character in the movie "Rob Roy".....
» 17/08/2009 3:40:55 PM Ludwig, Dead right about opinion polls - you have to wonder how much store to put in the .....
» 17/08/2009 12:31:47 PM I think I can agree on getting rid of state governments in favour of strengthened local or.....
» 16/08/2009 3:32:05 PM "It is still Mr Rossiter's choice. Not yours. Accept it." I absolutely accept t.....
» 15/08/2009 3:43:29 PM "Of course budgie smugglers should be banned if the merest outline and movement of a .....
» 15/08/2009 2:26:00 PM Fractelle, I said what I did based on the following extract from the webpage I posted abo.....
» 15/08/2009 2:08:43 PM "How long is a life-time?" In his case, the amount of time he is prepared to wa.....
» 15/08/2009 1:50:43 PM MaryE, I see your point - I meant it was common sense to the extent that he would no long.....
» 14/08/2009 8:31:32 PM It looks like common sense has won out http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/08/14/2656.....
» 14/08/2009 10:31:54 AM "Budgie smugglers" - what great Aussie terminology! I remember the phrase being.....
» 14/08/2009 9:58:40 AM There are two broad groups of HR. Those in the public and private sectors that generally d.....
» 12/08/2009 7:35:25 PM "Genes interacting with environment." Yabby, I'd go a little further than this.....
» 12/08/2009 3:58:22 PM Yabby, "How free is Osama bin Laden to become a good Catholic tomorrow?" Actua.....
» 11/08/2009 4:33:09 PM "(who are mysteriously appointed to lead and absolve us of individual responsibility .....
» 11/08/2009 1:58:06 PM It looks like ACMA is going to look into regulating similar matters in future according to.....
» 11/08/2009 12:54:47 PM "It is fallacious to argue that an action is justified because there is a possibility.....
» 9/08/2009 1:57:03 PM "And your comment to guard rails is fallacious rubbish." To you maybe, Col, but.....
» 8/08/2009 12:28:11 PM Col, "Rob P – yes the choices of one are foisted on the other… and I believe the o.....
» 7/08/2009 9:17:19 PM "Many a young boy or girl have had a genuine desire to die when they have broken up w.....
» 7/08/2009 3:09:08 PM I agree with some posters here. As rare as the situation presents itself for an individual.....
» 7/08/2009 1:25:10 PM "The issue isn't about conservation per se rather it was (as presented in the public .....
» 7/08/2009 11:10:04 AM To add a bit to Foxy's post, I think this thread shows that some issues are very complex a.....
» 7/08/2009 9:40:01 AM Foxy, If the program you're referring to is about the Liverpool Plains, then I did see it.....
» 6/08/2009 12:19:02 PM examinator, "Like CJ and I agree what are their objections exactly...details... all .....
» 5/08/2009 9:22:47 PM Cornflower, I agree that humiliation in all its forms should be treated the same way as S.....
» 5/08/2009 1:21:52 PM Media owner Harold Mitchell was on TV last night saying that radio audiences' tastes had c.....
» 5/08/2009 9:58:27 AM "I don’t care quite frankly, if the position is as you put it “nominally left wing le.....
» 4/08/2009 12:17:36 PM While we're on the subject of bad behaviour, what to do about Russell Crowe, Gordon Ramsay.....
» 3/08/2009 12:41:21 PM Even if Major's performance wasn't so good, she's been backed up by Noel Pearson who's mad.....
» 1/08/2009 4:14:37 PM I agree with Master's comment. examinator, what Tania Major said was that she and the peo.....
» 1/08/2009 4:10:58 PM I agree with Master's comment. examinator, what Tania Major said was that she and the peo.....
» 1/08/2009 3:51:04 PM To anyone who doesn't believe there's corruption in offialdom, they should read the follow.....
» 1/08/2009 1:32:43 PM "I would like to see each of the media you listed, nominate a presenter to represent .....
» 31/07/2009 3:23:16 PM odo, The general problem with today's conservatives is that they are so busy being right .....
» 31/07/2009 11:53:25 AM Spindoc, Nope - but maybe I see the world differently to you. 4 Corners is prepared to l.....
» 31/07/2009 10:37:10 AM I saw a grab on the news last night of Julia Gillard's address to the ALP Convention where.....
» 30/07/2009 10:18:40 AM "Where in mainstream media, can we find broad spectrum reporting, critical analysis, .....
» 29/07/2009 3:11:59 PM >>“For instance, some people might automatically put "The stupid, security-para.....
» 28/07/2009 1:53:23 PM Peter, Going off on a tangent here, I'm not so sure that Christianity means Democracy. Ch.....
» 28/07/2009 11:29:45 AM I say let's, as a society, expose corrupt, lazy or wasteful practices wherever we see them.....
» 27/07/2009 11:49:42 AM "Dual citizenship and multiculturalism is gradually creating a land of disparate trib.....
» 26/07/2009 2:58:09 PM It's an interesting question. In my view, the real reason we have class differences is fu.....
» 24/07/2009 8:37:21 PM Now there's talk of big miners like BHP raiding the fertile Liverpool Plains for open-cut .....
» 24/07/2009 2:09:55 PM On Lateline Business last night, the Chairman of the ACCC announced that legislation was b.....
» 24/07/2009 1:12:39 PM Belly and Antonios, I am sympathetic to your concerns. I live in the ACT and I have exper.....
» 23/07/2009 4:10:36 PM Spindoc, Going by those figures - ie "18 kWh per day (of renewable generation) per p.....
» 21/07/2009 10:59:00 AM Thanks for the weblink, Spindoc. I've only read a little bit of it so far, but I like the.....
» 20/07/2009 3:11:28 PM Col, Certainly one of the bad aspects of socialism is that it stifles talent and initiati.....
» 20/07/2009 10:34:05 AM "I THINK YOU MIGHT BE DESCRIBING SUSTAINABLE INDIVIDUALISM MORE THAN SOCIALISM Rob…&q.....
» 19/07/2009 2:14:37 PM Peter, "“Society” is not a thing in itself. It is an aspect of human action: people .....
» 18/07/2009 3:14:38 PM Col, The way I see "socialism" and "individualism" depends on the con.....
» 17/07/2009 4:01:48 PM I'd put my money on Al Gore and Steve Fielding both being partly right. As they say, on an.....
» 16/07/2009 9:35:08 PM Sardine, Since when do these lofty principles or whatever they are ever get put into prac.....
» 16/07/2009 3:12:21 PM I agree Pericles. Some smart young apprentice masters of the universe go to university, a.....
» 15/07/2009 3:37:17 PM Col, finally Thatcher's full quote. Now that is eminently reasonable the way it's put, al.....
» 2/07/2009 12:12:35 PM Piper, "You just discovered Cream Rob – where were you?" Good question. I've n.....
» 2/07/2009 10:24:31 AM Foxy, After thinking about this a bit more, I'd say I never found MJ particularly appeali.....
» 1/07/2009 2:01:33 PM To get back to Arjay's point, I think Michael Jackson can be summed up as being a genuinel.....
» 1/07/2009 10:57:22 AM Monday night's 4 Corners on the death of 5 people in an immigration vessel in Torres Strai.....
» 1/07/2009 9:56:29 AM I basically agree with Maximillion. After living through and enjoying music by bands like .....
» 30/06/2009 10:16:31 AM Some comments about teeth. I've always religiously brushed my teeth from a young age, mos.....
» 29/06/2009 3:42:53 PM Yabby, “RobP, yes the market sets wage rates, but we also have minimum wage protection. A.....
» 29/06/2009 9:59:49 AM Yabby, "If you see many interlinked companies and their multiple layers of executive.....
» 29/06/2009 9:29:24 AM "RobP, Are you for real? Here we are in the middle of a 'skill shortage' yet you want.....
» 28/06/2009 4:22:07 PM "All over the world, people spend endless hours doing boring jobs. In relative terms,.....
» 28/06/2009 3:37:39 PM " ...political ideology, which is distorting the facts. Its common on OLO." Yab.....
» 28/06/2009 2:28:53 PM The Pied Piper, "RobP, I didn’t think the people that sent their kids off to boardin.....
» 27/06/2009 3:57:35 PM Master, Sounds like you're doing OK out Broken Hill way. I live in Canberra and we hardly.....
» 27/06/2009 1:26:07 PM I thought CJ Morgan's explanation to Max was spot on - the Forgotten Australians are tryin.....
» 24/06/2009 9:37:11 PM Yabby, I'll agree with you to the extent that circumstances in country areas are differen.....
» 24/06/2009 2:49:51 PM "RobP, Max is simply jumping from consipiracy theory to consipiracy theory right now......
» 24/06/2009 12:49:52 PM Yabby, Max is talking about structural corruption, where a whole industry of financial pa.....
» 23/06/2009 9:01:44 PM rehctub, You are certainly right that one can still eat reasonably well and cheaply as lo.....
» 23/06/2009 1:29:01 PM "Have you watched the public pick through those boxes of veggies? Any little blemish .....
» 23/06/2009 1:13:12 PM Been to a supermarket lately, Master? Even the most basic of veggies, the humble spud, is.....
» 23/06/2009 12:14:48 PM I have heard that the reason for the quality of veggies in the C&W duopoly being so ordina.....
» 23/06/2009 10:20:10 AM A quote from rstuart's link to Paul Gilding's talk: >>How do we stop growth, How do.....
» 21/06/2009 10:06:15 PM R0bert, I agree with your view on the shades of grey that you raise. My guess is that the.....
» 21/06/2009 2:14:20 PM Amen to the above posts. I'd also add that this is what you get when Governments privatis.....
» 19/06/2009 2:08:48 PM Yabby, There you go verballing me again. Nothing exceeds like your excess. I never said a.....
» 19/06/2009 12:11:49 PM Yabby, "Wether it was hard for him or easy, simply does not matter." It does m.....
» 19/06/2009 10:39:18 AM "All the human frailties we all suffer from are present in our police, they are us, t.....
» 19/06/2009 9:39:22 AM "Costello played a huge role in parliamentary debates, if you ever bothered to watch .....
» 18/06/2009 1:53:22 PM Righto Yabby, Now let's look at what PC didn't do. He didn't take the political heat on.....
» 15/06/2009 8:49:50 PM I suspect that Peter Costello won't be remembered much at all given that he's had so much .....
» 15/06/2009 10:13:41 AM Brian, I agree with your appraisal of the honours system - it merely puts icing on the ca.....
» 14/06/2009 1:52:45 PM "Well all we know from the Chasers themselves is "we don’t think the Make a Wish.....
» 13/06/2009 2:36:06 PM Regarding racism, as my mother used to say, not all whites are guilty and not all blacks a.....
» 12/06/2009 4:05:22 PM "What part of the tradition in Australian humour seeks out a defenceless group as its.....
» 9/06/2009 9:54:39 AM Antonios, There are a lot of people who would share your plea for equal opportunity. My p.....
» 5/06/2009 1:06:51 PM "Nothing said about the POLICING of violence." I agree in a sense that this is .....
» 3/06/2009 10:41:31 AM >>I can't remember who said it but it goes something like this, "Bad things hap.....
» 2/06/2009 9:10:56 PM "I didn't know too much about Indian Student bashings until I began to scrawl the sub.....
» 30/05/2009 2:30:29 PM "If we want to sanction distastfull activities which humiliate participants and or no.....
» 29/05/2009 12:24:43 PM Sounds like a lot of complexity is involved to me. While a bit off topic, why not raise t.....
» 29/05/2009 9:58:51 AM "It took a long time and a lot of risk and effort by many people to get the wowsers o.....
» 27/05/2009 8:34:10 PM mil-observer I heard an observation/joke recently. Q. What was good about George W. Bush.....
» 26/05/2009 9:15:20 PM "What I despise about Al Gore is his dishonesty and his towering hypocrisy. Ditto Sti.....
» 26/05/2009 11:12:45 AM RObert, That's a pretty good analysis of the situation. "All of those who took part.....
» 25/05/2009 2:08:08 PM Antiseptic, I think what we have in common is a dislike for the excesses on both sides wh.....
» 25/05/2009 12:13:45 PM "The piece neatly sums up the common-sense reasoning that I and a couple of others he.....
» 23/05/2009 3:35:36 PM "Now gang bang is not rape, few amung us would defend rape, you surely know that? un.....
» 23/05/2009 1:49:35 PM "No-one has really come up with a solution - how do we deal with intolerance? Is legi.....
» 22/05/2009 10:04:17 AM The bottom line in this is that a wave of bad behaviour has steadily built up over a perio.....
» 21/05/2009 8:20:09 PM "There is however groupsex going on at all sorts of levels of society, from wild swin.....
» 21/05/2009 4:11:53 PM "*it's for those who get caught up in it and who do not want or deserve it - by the 5.....
» 21/05/2009 12:50:33 PM "RobP, if your previous post was interpreted differently to how you meant it, I was .....
» 20/05/2009 8:59:18 PM "If you think that I should become intolerant of all those things that I don't person.....
» 20/05/2009 3:12:07 PM "You and others miss the point completely, RobP. It is just your own narrow opinion a.....
» 20/05/2009 10:05:09 AM At times, the debate is polarised between two camps: those who think she asked for it and .....
» 18/05/2009 10:35:09 AM "Paternalistic much, old chap?" Antiseptic, Nope. Just the plain ol' simple tru.....
» 17/05/2009 3:30:46 PM An interesting thread – 80 posts in 3 days shows the level of interest in the issue. “Why.....
» 12/05/2009 12:24:51 PM spindoc, That's a very good explanation of the big picture. Adding a vertical dimension t.....
» 10/05/2009 2:24:03 PM My big picture is a generalisation of what others here have said. That of flattening out t.....
» 5/05/2009 11:22:29 AM The problem with progress is that it always comes with unintended consequences. Each time .....
» 5/05/2009 10:50:09 AM "This is not just an internet forum. As you have seen if you have read it for about f.....
» 4/05/2009 10:40:39 AM More than likely there have been plenty of entrepreneurs that have dipped their toe in the.....
» 1/05/2009 1:20:01 PM TRTL, I don't believe someone like Obama could, in his heart, support or condone what's g.....
» 29/04/2009 9:53:55 AM "Some posters believe they may be the spearhead of some vast invasion fleet that is g.....
» 28/04/2009 10:39:42 AM Wobbles, "Arguing over the symptoms won't eliminate the cause will it?" True. .....
» 27/04/2009 4:35:15 PM How lenient to be on asylum claims is a really vexed question. It boils down to the right .....
» 25/04/2009 6:26:26 PM Another explanation is that "trolls" deeply disagree with a common view that's p.....
» 24/04/2009 12:49:26 PM I wonder why Meredith Hellicar was chosen as the CEO of James Hardie? My guess is that it .....
» 23/04/2009 3:13:57 PM Ahma-dinner-jacket Have-ya-dinner-Dad Classics. Reminds me of One (San) Antonio Summer .....
» 23/04/2009 2:05:08 PM >>As for the rest, I'm ambivalent. There may be some who are just seeking to take ad.....
» 23/04/2009 11:22:18 AM "Because that's what we, the audience, tune in to be exposed to. It's what makes the .....
» 23/04/2009 10:52:16 AM Leigh, There is an element of truth when you say that the Afghans have to help themselves.....
» 22/04/2009 11:51:51 AM The point I see in what Bronwyn's said is why should there be a need for a "transform.....
» 22/04/2009 10:04:05 AM Pericles, It was probably a sound-bite I heard. In the fullness of things, the blast agai.....
» 21/04/2009 2:39:11 PM Leigh, I suppose the ordinary Afghans would fight the Taliban if they could. But when you.....
» 21/04/2009 9:59:22 AM Leigh, "Why do some of you think it's OK for able-bodied Afghans to come here when o.....
» 20/04/2009 8:36:05 PM **>>This basic form of Christian law says that we can do anything we like to anyone .....
» 20/04/2009 3:59:22 PM On an ABC News Radio report a couple of days ago, it was stated that the two biggest tax h.....
» 20/04/2009 2:34:02 PM >>Of the small minority of those who seek asylum in Australia who come here in leaky.....
» 20/04/2009 12:14:35 PM David, I think this is dead right - bravo. You correctly say exactly what Christianity sh.....
» 18/04/2009 3:40:25 PM Forrest, A retraction is in order - I didn't read your post closely enough the first time.....
» 18/04/2009 3:04:05 PM Forrest, Whether your interpretation of the situation is right or mine is, is dependent o.....
» 17/04/2009 12:09:27 PM >>Thus according to Keynesian theory we can increase society’s wealth by burning dow.....
» 17/04/2009 11:21:29 AM Forrest, While the only theoretical solution to keeping the Government to account is, as .....
» 15/04/2009 1:03:49 PM Fractelle, "I find exploring how we achieve the perceptions and beliefs that we have.....
» 15/04/2009 12:06:08 PM "that positive and negative reciprocity are not symmetrical." I think this is t.....
» 15/04/2009 10:58:42 AM Antiseptic, Good questions. "My questions for OLOers sre these: does the small numb.....
» 14/04/2009 12:23:58 PM The real problem underlying everything is the imbalances that exist in life. When you chan.....
» 8/04/2009 1:49:53 PM (Cont.) On top of that, there are other connections made during the baby's development. T.....
» 8/04/2009 1:45:43 PM Dear Foxy, "At the root of this controversy is a basic value judgement about the hum.....
» 7/04/2009 2:18:49 PM Dear Foxy, All the legislation you refer to does is solve the Government's political and .....
» 6/04/2009 2:28:07 PM Ultimately abortion is a private matter - if a woman wants to do it badly enough she will,.....
» 5/04/2009 5:40:47 PM "How can Darwin or Lincoln improve themselves now that they are dead?" It wasn'.....
» 5/04/2009 3:05:37 PM "Perhaps instead of judging figures like Lincoln and Darwin by today's standards, we .....
» 4/04/2009 2:49:26 PM Democritus, "Hiram Caton is a liar. Darwin opposed slavery, expressed that eugenics.....
» 1/04/2009 6:38:35 PM "As for getting themselves out of Gaza, well, they all knew where the attacks would c.....
» 1/04/2009 6:19:42 PM "What's really interesting about this is that he would have got away with this if not.....
» 29/03/2009 12:57:22 PM "Since Justice Einfeld was given no free choice to elect to pay a fine or go to jail,.....
» 28/03/2009 1:05:32 PM Foxy, I'd say he should get the service if and when he needs it as opposed to him just wa.....
» 28/03/2009 11:54:57 AM It was reported in the news last night that as soon as he got into prison, Einfeld asked f.....
» 27/03/2009 9:30:15 AM "What I am asking is why is the attack pack so virulent?" Probably simply becau.....
» 26/03/2009 1:58:22 PM After the World Trade Center attack in New York, Anthony Mundine got pilloried in the Aust.....
» 26/03/2009 11:19:37 AM StG, What you say is true when there are two protagonists fighting over the same thing, w.....
» 26/03/2009 10:04:10 AM I'd have thought the use of the term "cowardly attack" is a way of turning publi.....
» 25/03/2009 1:49:11 PM "...but, $3,000 won't buy us another car..." and "It needs work how abou.....
» 25/03/2009 12:56:10 PM "The typical polytheist religions tended ( if my understanding is correct ) not to ha.....
» 25/03/2009 11:26:45 AM "The purpose and result of Abrahamic thinking is the removal of personal responsibili.....
» 25/03/2009 9:20:08 AM A lot of good points in there. An organisation is an ecosystem that builds up and evolves .....
» 25/03/2009 8:23:53 AM "You are right also to point out, Belly, that the biggest insult to the rest of us, t.....
» 24/03/2009 1:33:54 PM To the question of whether we can totally win a war against criminality I think the answer.....
» 23/03/2009 11:26:12 AM A good and realistic article. "In contrast to the self-declared social democrats who.....
» 22/03/2009 4:11:53 PM This discussion strikes a chord with me. When at high school, I remember a (male) friend s.....
» 22/03/2009 2:15:07 PM Lawrence Springborg didn't bring home the bacon because he didn't have the X-factor. Anoth.....
» 20/03/2009 11:12:05 AM "I agree with CJ if the dissillusionment of the major parties can bring in some good .....
» 20/03/2009 8:46:09 AM "All of the crap about plastic bags and light globes is just another government ruse .....
» 18/03/2009 9:10:03 AM "All your reasoning still relies on a non esoteric notion that Capitalism is self rig.....
» 17/03/2009 9:35:36 AM "There will come a time when third world workers will be demanding first world condit.....
» 16/03/2009 8:46:22 AM "So are you claiming that pilfering skilled people from developing countries is reall.....
» 15/03/2009 2:23:53 PM "She pilfers them from such parts of the world. So through immigration, Australia may.....
» 14/03/2009 2:27:19 PM Geoff, I think it’s great that you’re challenging the pseudo-science and the narrow ways t.....
» 12/03/2009 12:52:59 PM examinator, I agree with the gist of what you're saying about equity vs equality. Equali.....
» 12/03/2009 8:19:06 AM The key point in this debate is that if Australia goes down the water recycling path, it m.....
» 11/03/2009 8:48:40 PM Pericles, "Sloganism. Not particularly illuminating, but it does save your having to.....
» 11/03/2009 8:29:39 AM Pericles, "screw-the-rich" is an interesting choice of term you use, particular.....
» 10/03/2009 3:03:48 PM Pericles, "But I suggest that your defence of RobP's screw-the-rich approach to life.....
» 10/03/2009 1:10:00 PM “RobP in relation to the crux of your argument, one way that workers at the coalface (shou.....
» 10/03/2009 8:58:51 AM Why should I have to advance a reason for why Sarah and co should pay her fees back? Isn't.....
» 9/03/2009 2:28:50 PM Yabby, I know exactly how the world works. Thanks for your free character assessment and .....
» 9/03/2009 2:04:40 PM What's it do for anyone, other than to entertain them. He's effectively getting very rich .....
» 9/03/2009 1:48:48 PM The thread shows that recycling sewage is a very complex topic. A few ideas/comments that.....
» 9/03/2009 12:32:11 PM "Nobody objects to a smart man earning money from his natural gifts." Society s.....
» 8/03/2009 3:34:46 PM "If scepticism is caused by over stimulation of our “reptilian brain”, why does it on.....
» 8/03/2009 1:16:34 PM It was announced about 3 weeks ago that the company that makes Bonds clothing would be clo.....
» 7/03/2009 1:17:40 PM examinator, When it comes to open government, I'm definitely not the best candidate. But,.....
» 7/03/2009 12:36:27 PM "How different would the Liberal Party be under Costello?" We would start to se.....
» 5/03/2009 1:26:44 PM To the question of what one would do if one was PM, is that with the prospect of actually .....
» 5/03/2009 9:56:37 AM "It is my experience that most interventions have had the consequence of prolonging a.....
» 4/03/2009 3:25:29 PM kulu and Bronwyn, Fair arguments, both. There is definitely a trade-off in everything pe.....
» 4/03/2009 8:58:39 AM Romany, How about these as a set of truths: In the modern world, the human side, in all .....
» 3/03/2009 8:32:22 PM Bronwyn "I agree, no-one wants to go backwards, but in the long run that's exactly w.....
» 3/03/2009 2:22:18 PM kulu, I think restoring trade barriers is definitely the wrong way to go. I noticed an ar.....
» 1/03/2009 2:25:42 PM Good try, Fractelle. I've already got my own ideas, thanks, that I write to MPs about. I e.....
» 1/03/2009 1:55:29 PM Fractelle, What you and Bronwyn say about laziness vs greed is correct when looking in th.....
» 28/02/2009 3:03:34 PM Bronwyn, As a general comment, I was talking about the individual laziness that leads to .....
» 28/02/2009 1:31:22 PM Cuphandle, I take it that you are one of the so-called frugal generation? If so, I unders.....
» 28/02/2009 12:32:45 PM Fractelle, I agree that a balance is what is required to overcome a lot of the problems a.....
» 27/02/2009 2:03:27 PM Fractelle, "Question is how do we change the culture of hierarchy to a more lateral .....
» 27/02/2009 12:50:27 PM examinator, You raise good points - this particular issue is fertile ground for any human.....
» 27/02/2009 12:02:32 PM examinator, The way I see it, when you're talking about a LIFO scheme you're talking abou.....
» 27/02/2009 9:16:37 AM Belly, Everything that works as a hierarchy in this world is some form Ponzi scheme, incl.....
» 26/02/2009 9:47:34 AM Trav, “This is simply incorrect. Do research on charities- it will challenge your view on.....
» 25/02/2009 1:26:04 PM >>In the meantime the Opposition, rather unsettled after its bad week, was trying to.....
» 25/02/2009 11:43:09 AM neilium, I don't miss your point at all. But have a look at what you're saying. It's comp.....
» 25/02/2009 9:41:42 AM Trav, I agree with the overall notion of richer nations giving support to those with less.....
» 23/02/2009 8:42:46 PM Arjay, I agree with you that Costello is intelligent. But, I think that's the only thing .....
» 23/02/2009 3:07:19 PM TZ52HX, Latham had a lot of baggage of one type or another, which was why he lost the ele.....
» 22/02/2009 3:06:20 PM Here's the article in all its glory: http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/you-missed-your-chance-.....
» 22/02/2009 2:00:11 PM JBowyer, "Lets blame! Lets have a Witch Hunt! the perpetrators of all this nonsense .....
» 22/02/2009 1:21:55 PM JBowyer, "The Media just keep repeating the cliches they have used frequently over t.....
» 21/02/2009 1:08:29 PM "I remember listening to Fred Chaney (Lib WA) in Senate way back and thinking how obj.....
» 20/02/2009 11:51:38 AM Victoria had John Cain, the dour plodder, followed by Joan Kirner, the incompetent tail-en.....
» 17/02/2009 11:03:40 AM Some people's experiences here show up management's three wise monkeys defence when they'r.....
» 15/02/2009 1:14:48 PM "Surely we should be aiming to reduce disparity." Pelican hits the nail on the .....
» 15/02/2009 12:47:31 PM Is Mise, point taken. On another issue, I said earlier that a fire bunker should have a m.....
» 14/02/2009 3:28:13 PM Bronwyn, That's an overreaction. "The GST is a regressive and inherently unfair tax.....
» 14/02/2009 2:12:54 PM examinator, At the very least, I hope the best minds will get together, sort through the .....
» 13/02/2009 12:00:16 PM To the central question "Is “Decision Making” based upon Data, Information or Knowled.....
» 13/02/2009 10:53:20 AM "One cautionary note fire asphyxiated animals were found in a 10 meter concrete drain.....
» 13/02/2009 9:48:10 AM "Did people see that survivor last night? the one who hide in his bunker? That his ho.....
» 13/02/2009 8:52:06 AM If anyone's interested in the breakup of State and Federal taxes, here it is (as at 2006) .....
» 12/02/2009 8:58:28 AM Col, "A government cannot and should not decree how much a private company or even a.....
» 11/02/2009 12:39:55 PM rstuart, That sounds like a more scientific explanation. "Air filled with smoke and.....
» 11/02/2009 11:08:01 AM rstuart, I definitely would not recommend a wooden door of any kind on a fire bunker. Eve.....
» 11/02/2009 8:57:46 AM "Because its the Libs that want to give tax cuts from which only the rich will benefi.....
» 10/02/2009 12:11:10 PM "Common sense prevails. If its a wooden house, in the middle of a bunch of trees, you.....
» 9/02/2009 9:07:02 PM It might be worthwhile examining what actually worked to save people. On the News tonight.....
» 9/02/2009 2:16:56 PM In very dry and hot conditions, bushfires create their own wind which propels them incredi.....
» 7/02/2009 3:06:29 PM Dear Foxy, I wouldn't call you a cynic for having that view. There are lots of other peop.....
» 7/02/2009 1:41:28 PM "Malcolm Turnbull and his party are not fully supporting the bail out package of our .....
» 6/02/2009 12:39:37 PM "Doing the best we can with what we have is a healthier goal." david f, I agre.....
» 6/02/2009 12:07:54 PM Examinator, Acknowledging this is off topic, I would say that keeping up with the traffic.....
» 6/02/2009 9:41:35 AM "I tried in comments on this article (maybe unsuccessfully) to bring in notion of cha.....
» 5/02/2009 8:16:25 PM Examinator, IMO, yours is a very PC answer. "Stealing property back is simply false.....
» 5/02/2009 3:13:36 PM I think the only time that stealing is justified is when someone has first done it to you......
» 5/02/2009 11:13:37 AM Turnbull is probably voting against the bill for a number of reasons. 1. He wants to keep.....
» 4/02/2009 2:28:36 PM "The human race is in a mess because we make wild guesses and claim them to be true: .....
» 4/02/2009 9:54:21 AM A correction: My last comment should have read "on Lateline" not "on the .....
» 4/02/2009 9:02:38 AM mil-observer refers to an interesting comment regarding global cooling. I attended a semi.....
» 3/02/2009 8:05:38 PM David, I didn't originally read your article, but now that I have, I have a couple of que.....
» 3/02/2009 2:42:37 PM It seemed that Paul Keating hit on a good idea last night on the 7.30 Report re fixing up .....
» 3/02/2009 12:53:56 PM "The UN is “unhelpful” anywhere in the world." Mr. Right, I assume you are tal.....
» 2/02/2009 2:28:40 PM "Once a complaint has been received, the organisation can no longer ignore matters. T.....
» 1/02/2009 12:30:12 PM Daviy, I read James Gleick's book, Chaos, some years ago and was fascinated by it. I also.....
» 31/01/2009 11:35:52 AM "Are you saying in your posts that modelling is useless for chaotic systems (I hope t.....
» 30/01/2009 8:31:04 PM The truth is that one cannot accurately model a system as complicated as the weather or th.....
» 30/01/2009 9:08:37 AM Col, A wise rightie also knows that we work to live, not live to work. Unless you actuall.....
» 29/01/2009 12:36:33 PM "I hear what you're saying, but equally, especially in the light of a largely complac.....
» 29/01/2009 10:33:20 AM "We tend to get too tied up in left and right politics or Keynesian versus Monetarist.....
» 28/01/2009 8:07:32 PM BOAZ, All I can say about Arab/Jew relations over the past few thousand years is that it .....
» 28/01/2009 1:58:49 PM "That Israel are a more healthy country isn't a crime to their neighbors... that they.....
» 28/01/2009 1:48:45 PM "Our innate tendency is to differentiate and to discriminate. Peaceful coexistence is.....
» 28/01/2009 9:34:36 AM There is another reason why a war crimes tribunal is a pipedream in the current Israel/Ham.....
» 27/01/2009 1:01:25 PM One can see this trend starting at primary school where everyone in class knows everyone e.....
» 27/01/2009 12:10:24 PM BOAZ, I'll say one thing - you are certainly on top of your subject. Ever thought about g.....
» 27/01/2009 11:05:10 AM What this article really does is to spell out the demise of stale ideology. What's interes.....
» 27/01/2009 10:53:06 AM I agree completely with the sentiment expressed in the article. In particular, "More.....
» 27/01/2009 10:10:55 AM Trav, "Do you affirm then, the resurrection in a spiritual sense?" Yes. ".....
» 27/01/2009 8:35:50 AM "ROB P... regarding the squashing of a grove of trees.... I suggest you examine what .....
» 26/01/2009 1:59:01 PM An example of claims made against Israeli soldiers: http://www.canberratimes.com.au/news/.....
» 25/01/2009 2:00:16 PM Ludwig, I understand your passion about sustainability. However, I think it's too much to.....
» 24/01/2009 4:13:52 PM Ludwig, The point you made earlier about forgetting about multimillion dollar overpasses .....
» 24/01/2009 3:40:09 PM BOAZ, "WAR CRIMES.. just let me know when you will mention ALL .. incLUDing those co.....
» 24/01/2009 2:17:23 PM Trav, "Rob, if you don't even see it as a remote possibility, then you shouldn't rea.....
» 23/01/2009 3:41:37 PM A war crimes tribunal is a good idea if it gets to the truth and acts to stop innocent peo.....
» 22/01/2009 1:20:35 PM Trav "I'd argue that Jesus rising from the dead is the most reasonable explanation f.....
» 22/01/2009 9:24:09 AM The article, like most that seek to influence, implies that "if only we did this and .....
» 21/01/2009 1:58:13 PM "Binge drinking - like other self destructives excesses - is not really the problem. .....
» 21/01/2009 8:44:43 AM >>Isn't it amazing that Israel with the best US weapons technology and military grad.....
» 18/01/2009 7:44:42 PM "It may well be that nuclear-armed Israel has only two choices. It can die quietly. O.....
» 18/01/2009 2:39:33 PM "Hamas is not concerned with the welfare of Palestinians. Hamas' goal is to kill Jews.....
» 16/01/2009 7:59:13 PM "Not only did Israel not 'step over' any line....they have not gone anywhere near far.....
» 12/01/2009 9:05:59 PM Foxy, I think the US would be most interested in taking the path of least resistance what.....
» 12/01/2009 7:39:55 PM A bit of a diversion. The Independent recently reported that the marine territory of Somal.....
» 10/01/2009 7:49:41 PM Rumble strips are a good idea, except that they don't necessarily force drivers to drive s.....
» 10/01/2009 11:50:57 AM The truth is that one form of bias begets another opposing form of bias. As Israel has use.....
» 9/01/2009 6:06:19 PM "Nah - Kramer's nice as well as funny" Didn't Kramer get into big trouble about.....
» 7/01/2009 7:21:51 PM The problems in this part of the Middle East are diabolical. The Palestinians have to carr.....
» 4/01/2009 8:41:40 PM I guess advertising for everyday consumer products is bearable because you can just ignore.....
» 3/01/2009 12:21:24 PM >>*That is, it's best for society in an upward-striving sense that the strongest sho.....
» 2/01/2009 2:09:59 PM Examinator, I'll have a go at defining a bogan. A gruff and/or angry individual often f.....
» 2/01/2009 1:06:47 PM "From why women are paid less, to why mainly young single men in their late teens, ea.....
» 31/12/2008 2:31:57 PM Well, Paul, the bottom line is, if my views are not decisive in this case, then neither ar.....
» 29/12/2008 1:34:21 PM Paul.L, If it helps you understand where I'm coming from, I'm actually more of a moderate.....
» 29/12/2008 12:35:38 PM Paul.L, "You weren't there..." Neither were you. "and therefore you have.....
» 27/12/2008 1:18:21 PM This article could have been titled: "Capitalism, like anything else, has a limit.&qu.....
» 22/12/2008 7:35:39 PM Paul.L, I'll give you a hint. Take everything you've said about me then look in the mirro.....
» 22/12/2008 9:46:48 AM TRTL/Belly, I think it's true that poorer people have stronger social bonds. In this coun.....
» 21/12/2008 2:19:28 PM I agree with the proposition that we are leading more introverted and sedentary lives toda.....
» 20/12/2008 12:18:54 PM Thanks kartya jim. I think the mesh would be well worth a try for standoffs and domestic .....
» 19/12/2008 7:30:13 PM >>There is a statute in most criminal codes and also exists in the common law called.....
» 19/12/2008 7:26:46 PM Paul.L, There’s so much high octane rhetoric in there it’s hard to know where to start an.....
» 18/12/2008 3:34:47 PM Paul.L, "This kid calculatedly committed suicide by cop." How would you know? .....
» 18/12/2008 11:54:35 AM Yeah right Paul.L. You tell me how YOU are so sure, you know all. Speaking of armchair ge.....
» 18/12/2008 10:51:29 AM Paul.L, 10 shots, 3 shooters. That equals 3 volleys from 3 concurrently-fired pistols, pl.....
» 18/12/2008 10:34:26 AM The best idea I've heard in relation to solving this problem was in the Canberra Times Let.....
» 17/12/2008 11:40:47 AM Ludwig, What you say makes sense and I suspect it will happen. It also accords with what .....
» 17/12/2008 9:19:59 AM "1 bullet or 10, the police shoot until the offender is no longer in a position to th.....
» 15/12/2008 2:06:01 PM Here's Andrew Robb's argument in The Australian for carefully implementing industrial chan.....
» 13/12/2008 9:14:35 PM Ludwig, What you've said is completely reasonable to me. When I said things should be wor.....
» 13/12/2008 7:47:39 PM The 10 bullets into the body is telling me that the cops have a pack mentality. Surely if.....
» 13/12/2008 2:53:54 PM Ludwig, If the reasons you give are so overwhelming, I think it's useful to consider why .....
» 12/12/2008 1:50:59 PM "RobP, rstuart, OK so there might be problems with renewable energy development in OZ.....
» 12/12/2008 1:11:33 PM While new and creative ideas are good and necessary, they are insufficient to make a diffe.....
» 11/12/2008 12:52:09 PM "There are massive numbers of jobs to be had in this sector. Why not place Australia .....
» 4/12/2008 1:25:21 PM "Human nature has it that is all about POWER everything else flows from that. One cou.....
» 3/12/2008 12:37:30 PM Well, I think the names of the activities say it all. Socialisism and Capitalism are bot.....
» 2/12/2008 11:05:46 AM "... The surest sign of this is the use of specialised language, which allows the pro.....
» 1/12/2008 2:01:05 PM Examinator, see http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=8229#128741.....
» 1/12/2008 11:23:16 AM Gillard as a political performer is at least the equal of Peter Costello (and probably eve.....
» 1/12/2008 11:05:23 AM I couldn't agree more with the author - there is a whole industry out there that trots out.....
» 28/11/2008 8:48:23 AM One thing I could never understand is how Rolf Harris, along with other figures like Paul .....
» 24/11/2008 8:37:52 AM Bruce, I agree with what you say. I think it was Keating some time ago who called Rudd &q.....
» 23/11/2008 2:06:21 PM "Gird your loins, we are in for a tough few years but as a nation we will come out of.....
» 20/11/2008 9:23:04 AM Jolanda, The only hope you have in actually beating the Government is in taking them by s.....
» 19/11/2008 1:47:20 PM To get back to the title of this thread, I'm quite sure that Government Departments use FO.....
» 19/11/2008 9:33:07 AM Jolanda, You are exactly right in what you say - the government has absolutely no interes.....
» 14/11/2008 11:04:53 AM Shadow Minister, "The accounts are audited, and as a public organisation you have ac.....
» 13/11/2008 3:18:25 PM Jamie Siddons, Dean Jones, Darren Lehmann, Matthew Elliot, Tom Moody, Martin Love, Stuart .....
» 13/11/2008 10:19:03 AM Sounds reasonable, Pericles. As always, the devil is there in the detail. The headline fi.....
» 12/11/2008 1:11:08 PM Oxfam: Revenue $63.4m Disbursements $36.1m (57%) Management Costs $21.2m (33,4%) World Vis.....
» 4/11/2008 2:52:55 PM "The governing boards of large companies are made up with representatives of the shar.....
» 3/11/2008 8:31:03 AM Shadow Minister, "You assumptions on Costello's work ethic based on how he looks on .....
» 2/11/2008 3:01:43 PM In my experience smug self-assuredness in people is inversely proportional to their work e.....
» 21/10/2008 11:22:02 AM Passy, Interesting rumour about Jon Stanhope taking Bob McMullan's spot in Federal Parlia.....
» 9/10/2008 10:58:04 AM Passy, To the ordinary working person who is not particularly au fait with or proficient .....
» 7/10/2008 12:18:13 PM Another reason for the Government's aversion to debt is as a counterweight to the past ide.....
» 6/10/2008 12:46:17 PM As a former union member in a public sector union, this is a summary of what I experienced.....
» 4/10/2008 2:32:19 PM The interaction between unions, employers and staff is a very complex one and none has a m.....
» 26/09/2008 8:27:50 PM "It doesn't matter RobP how much 'income' World vision receives.. it's all donations .....
» 26/09/2008 4:32:17 PM Well sleuthed, Pericles. "Income - all sources: $356m" - cripes, that's a lot! .....
» 26/09/2008 12:07:46 PM I agree with you Pericles. It is patently unfair that the rest of society should have to s.....
» 25/09/2008 3:51:15 PM I agree with most of the contributions here. The republic is not a necessity, but more of .....
» 25/09/2008 2:01:01 PM "The total hypocrisy of Malcolm Turnbull, regarding pension increases, in CLEAR FOR A.....
» 22/09/2008 10:29:14 AM "Malcolm Turnbull is impressive and a natural leader. I am surprised, however, that h.....
» 19/09/2008 10:17:38 AM "Fanny May and Freddy Mac have lost 5 times our annual GDP.This is one third of the U.....
» 17/09/2008 9:46:35 AM Turnbull comes across as strong and self-assured and this has to be a big plus in his ambi.....
» 12/09/2008 11:21:27 AM GrahamY, It seems like there are problems no matter whichever way we turn. If we mandate .....
» 12/09/2008 10:02:05 AM The ANU in Canberra is experimenting with the idea of converting old shipping containers t.....
» 10/09/2008 2:08:38 PM It was good at least to see that Rees was up front about the problems and what broadly nee.....
» 9/09/2008 11:45:01 AM Foxy, As I understand it, if and when we move to a Republic we replace the G-G with a Pre.....
» 8/09/2008 10:03:03 AM >>"...we embrace change as a natural and necessary consequence of our evolution.....
» 29/08/2008 11:46:23 AM To state the obvious: The fact that men do the hard, physical things to the detriment of .....
» 23/08/2008 4:31:34 PM stevenlmeyer, I suppose the biggest example of stealing the community's money and getting.....
» 23/08/2008 3:56:13 PM I put on a lot of weight when I was working on a field crew in the bush for three years. T.....
» 23/08/2008 3:18:06 PM Foxy, Here's another analogy. A bird with only one wing flies around in tight little circ.....
» 23/08/2008 2:35:59 PM I occasionally start off with set-piece hyperbole/diatribes to find out where we are at in.....
» 22/08/2008 9:38:49 AM CJ Morgan, I agree that Greer is a brilliant person and is probably trying to make a real.....
» 21/08/2008 12:26:02 PM "First, we are all racists. If we are not, there is something lacking in our psyche.&.....
» 18/08/2008 3:09:14 PM Spikey, OK, If you're prepared to be serious. First let me correct a howler. What I mean.....
» 17/08/2008 5:21:43 PM Spikey, Very smart. There is no pure standard as you well know. Your argument is simply a.....
» 17/08/2008 2:42:00 PM Spikey, Racist was never my word. You first implied it here: http://forum.onlineopinion......
» 16/08/2008 3:46:39 PM Spikey, I am getting a bit sick of your implied and predictable "you are a racist&qu.....
» 16/08/2008 2:35:49 PM "I can’t see why we OLOers shouldn’t have access to all the facilities available in W.....
» 16/08/2008 2:12:19 PM socratease, I'm in about 50:50 agreement with what you say. As for Africans and fitting .....
» 15/08/2008 3:42:35 PM I noticed in a general thread just started at http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.a.....
» 15/08/2008 10:17:29 AM Rob513264, Like TRTL, I think your post is a case of a good argument looking for the righ.....
» 14/08/2008 12:30:57 PM TurnRightThenLeft, I'm sure that's 100% right - it sounds just like real life. The only .....
» 14/08/2008 9:41:31 AM JF Aus, Unfortunately, I've got my limitations and am not - and would probably never be -.....
» 13/08/2008 3:33:44 PM Another great article from Paul Sheehan: http://www.smh.com.au/news/opinion/grocery-repor.....
» 12/08/2008 10:40:20 AM "For example we get 160000 plus migrants per year so where would we house that many u.....
» 12/08/2008 10:06:16 AM A hard post number is also useful in that you can remember the number of posts the last ti.....
» 11/08/2008 1:28:37 PM Banjo, I was referring to a real-life story I saw on a current affairs show on the ABC ab.....
» 10/08/2008 5:11:43 PM Pelican, My point was that recycling pharameuticals would be one good way of spreading th.....
» 10/08/2008 2:53:13 PM "The only way around this sort of exploitation is via government regulation or legisl.....
» 9/08/2008 3:57:29 PM The comment about finite resources requiring hard decisions to be made is, in reality, dea.....
» 9/08/2008 2:12:32 PM It would be a good thing for authors to be able to distinguish certain words by emphasing .....
» 7/08/2008 5:21:43 PM Spikey, My argument goes something like this. I am putting the human side first. In deten.....
» 7/08/2008 1:50:04 PM I agree with the humanitarian tone of the article and Spikey's post. However, it should a.....
» 6/08/2008 9:46:38 PM Foxy, One thing you can say about Costello for sure is that he's the master of taking the.....
» 6/08/2008 11:36:01 AM I agree with Usual Suspect. What's important is the message, not who says it. That is what.....
» 4/08/2008 8:59:42 PM Potential Liberal leaders in rough pecking order on the hero to zero scale (realistically .....
» 4/08/2008 1:10:20 PM Banjo links to another good article by Sheehan that puts things into perspective very clea.....
» 3/08/2008 2:26:25 PM Pelican, >>That is a broad assumption you are making Robp. Do you really believe th.....
» 3/08/2008 1:53:47 PM A great thing about OLO is that it gives a good opportunity to anybody to raise issues of .....
» 2/08/2008 2:37:51 PM philips, Oops, I mistook one sort of football (soccer) for the other sort (AFL). That'll.....
» 2/08/2008 1:21:55 PM Yvonne, From a humanitarian point of view, I agree with what you say. It's hard to say wh.....
» 31/07/2008 4:10:40 PM mjpb, Not that it's important, but there is no bad blood within the family at all, just a.....
» 31/07/2008 2:21:05 PM "Rob, that’s an excellent article by Paul Sheehan." Yes, he usually nails his t.....
» 31/07/2008 1:36:08 PM "That gives them the appearance of not having much material possessions to show for t.....
» 31/07/2008 11:06:10 AM The other thing I forgot to say about the migration program is that it does its checks on .....
» 31/07/2008 10:46:04 AM Ludwig, Sorry about that, try http://www.smh.com.au/news/opinion/a-reality-check-on-rudds.....
» 31/07/2008 10:28:48 AM mjpb, You sound just like a politician. And you have about as much grasp of the problem a.....
» 31/07/2008 9:18:23 AM I agree philips, you can't beat a free-flowing and skilful game of AFL as a spectator spor.....
» 30/07/2008 2:49:40 PM Ludwig, There are lots of inconsistencies in the whole migration debate. As Paul Sheehan .....
» 30/07/2008 9:56:41 AM mjpb and George, "...only changing the past would fix the problem" I think thi.....
» 30/07/2008 9:22:45 AM Foxy, I take your (implied) point that whatever punishment is necessary be part of a proc.....
» 29/07/2008 3:30:46 PM Dear Foxy, I think there is an element of truth when you say that we, as a society, have .....
» 28/07/2008 12:17:49 PM mjpb, We could go on and on, but let me say this. 1. If Pell really has put in place som.....
» 28/07/2008 10:46:05 AM What is it about footballers, NRL players in particular, that make them think that they ar.....
» 28/07/2008 9:45:56 AM George, My whole argument hinges on leadership in fixing the problem. There are people wh.....
» 27/07/2008 2:19:06 PM After distilling the debate as well as noting the response of the Church to date, I think .....
» 25/07/2008 1:43:04 PM >>The entire tenor of this article appears to be "don't try suing the church, t.....
» 25/07/2008 10:30:54 AM "Father Chris Riley went so far as to label it “a joke”, with the perpetrators being .....
» 24/07/2008 1:45:53 PM From my point of view, the bottom line on this is that the senior clergy of the Church are.....
» 24/07/2008 1:07:12 PM "The Federal and State governments must immediately announce and work towards stabili.....
» 24/07/2008 12:17:28 PM For those interested in what the company has got to say, see http://www.geodynamics.com.au.....
» 24/07/2008 9:46:10 AM George, "Well, last Sunday there were about 400 000 mostly young people gathered at .....
» 23/07/2008 2:50:40 PM Make that, "... posting TO threads at 25/06/2008 6:01:17 AM".....
» 23/07/2008 2:41:02 PM Robert, A certain polycarp started posting threads at 25/06/2008 6:01:17 AM......
» 23/07/2008 11:00:05 AM "These ‘hot rocks’ are part of the natural environment. I wonder if anyone has looked.....
» 23/07/2008 9:35:50 AM George, The point is that the senior clergy of the Church are no different to the Public .....
» 22/07/2008 4:08:54 PM runner, "Really funny how those who hate the catholic church so much want to tell th.....
» 22/07/2008 12:04:53 PM If I may, Spikey. 1. Why would the Church hierarchy think they were best placed to identi.....
» 21/07/2008 3:22:38 PM Foxy, I was interested to hear that priests were able to marry prior to the 13th century,.....
» 20/07/2008 3:56:52 PM Philips, I think your post is right on the money. All the way through human history, the .....
» 20/07/2008 3:12:19 PM I always got the feeling that, under his mask of chief kicker of Labor heads in Parliament.....
» 19/07/2008 3:13:48 PM The Pope's apology: "...Here I would like to pause to acknowledge the shame which we.....
» 19/07/2008 2:26:03 PM "RobP, regardless of the nature of the IT glitch that is causing truncated thread tit.....
» 18/07/2008 3:52:01 PM rstuart, Yes. Collectively, we are like diligent little bacteria - mopping all the messe.....
» 18/07/2008 3:34:27 PM Ludwig, While some IT errors may at first appear weird, there is always a rule behind it......
» 18/07/2008 12:59:43 PM Are there people at OLO who manually enter the titles of new threads? Everything else seem.....
» 18/07/2008 12:04:20 PM An interesting topic. While I think there is an immutable and straightforward principle o.....
» 18/07/2008 10:03:55 AM George, >>How do you know "what they ever do", especially if you accept, .....
» 17/07/2008 9:44:57 AM "I do not understand what is wrong with asking your layers' advise and help, when you.....
» 16/07/2008 2:14:39 PM Foxy, I saw the interview last night and got the immediate impression that Anthony Foster.....
» 16/07/2008 1:25:15 PM The latest from the Catholic Church... "But I would have to say ... the cardinal has.....
» 14/07/2008 9:43:20 PM "Not one of the religious organisations has a leadership which has made an effective .....
» 13/07/2008 3:16:47 PM On the subject of anomalies in law enforcement, over a 3 month period I reported to the po.....
» 13/07/2008 2:04:03 PM savestarfish, The same could apply to all sorts of Non-Government Organisations (NGOs) as.....
» 12/07/2008 1:45:59 PM "Lots of us think that if Cardinal Pell won't take any notice and won't respond then .....
» 11/07/2008 9:46:01 AM Just finishing off on this thread, I think the GG should have his/her expenses paid for an.....
» 11/07/2008 9:12:22 AM Oliver, " - Should we pull Pells' passports pending police investigations? - Should .....
» 10/07/2008 11:06:26 AM mjpb, Overall, a pretty decent post. But I still have a bit of a problem with "...In.....
» 10/07/2008 9:30:50 AM Belly, Nicely and succinctly put......
» 9/07/2008 1:13:32 PM mjpb, No, I'm not a jounalist. I assumed the incident pertaining to the man in question w.....
» 8/07/2008 1:08:38 PM On Lateline last night, it came to light that Cardinal Pell dismissed the claims of a paed.....
» 8/07/2008 12:00:55 PM Good points all. And then there's Microsoft, the behemoth that got big by always having d.....
» 8/07/2008 9:36:16 AM savestarfish, You are quite right about the political aspect of the public service. Despi.....
» 7/07/2008 1:55:58 PM Is it just me, or don't manufactured goods last as long as they used to? Being a regular .....
» 27/06/2008 1:29:43 PM "There also is a looming global water crisis for food production, an emerging shortag.....
» 27/06/2008 1:05:49 PM dovif1, You completely miss the point. The Government can certainly reduce the price of p.....
» 27/06/2008 10:41:00 AM I agree - a lighthearted and lightweight program where the shriller the voice the more you.....
» 26/06/2008 12:48:29 PM dovif1, I think you've fallen into a trap for young players. Yes, the Government can aff.....
» 26/06/2008 10:16:52 AM "Politicians need to tell the truth about their respective policy options rather than.....
» 25/06/2008 12:36:44 PM Polycarp, If the UN Charters are to have meaning, they must, at their core, protect the r.....
» 24/06/2008 3:31:46 PM The “Iguana-gate” affair shows what many people have known for a long time: that people in.....
» 24/06/2008 11:01:08 AM "I have seen malignant trolls like you throw your weight around web sites in the pas.....
» 23/06/2008 9:51:52 PM Well Col, I can't see any point in arguing. We couldn't be any more different if we tried......
» 23/06/2008 10:01:25 AM "Your argument fails because it is based on sentimentality, lacks natural justice (th.....
» 22/06/2008 2:50:37 PM "I have no problem with refugees who follow due process and act responsibly." C.....
» 21/06/2008 3:07:55 PM I noticed in the media this week that the new Governor-General, Quentin Bryce, is to be pa.....
» 20/06/2008 2:43:55 PM "Ah Rob, but who are we to conclude that some poor person from Afghanistan who wants .....
» 20/06/2008 1:23:31 PM We tend to get two diametrically opposed views on this topic. The fact is that in any gro.....
» 17/06/2008 11:51:13 AM A good article that makes lots of sense. Once social innovation and entrepreneurship can.....
» 14/06/2008 4:20:22 PM Pelican, When it comes to whistleblowing, everything you say can be boiled down to one is.....
» 13/06/2008 10:26:45 AM "There are some really importat issues surfacing at the moment in various jurisdictio.....
» 11/06/2008 10:52:40 AM "Despite the projections of angst by some, nobody is actually harmed in ANY way in th.....
» 10/06/2008 1:43:30 PM Elizabeth, Fair point. The lack of contraception issue you raise is allied to, and nested.....
» 10/06/2008 12:25:08 PM "Developing countries obviously recognise they have a population problem. Why aren’t .....
» 9/06/2008 3:29:00 PM As I'm not Hetty Johnson I don't exatly know what her motivation was, but IMO the only thi.....
» 6/06/2008 3:01:03 PM Intent to do some bad act goes to the doer's guilt, whereas the effect of the action goes .....
» 5/06/2008 12:31:11 PM I agree with most of what has been posted. It's all very well to talk idealistically about.....
» 23/05/2008 10:55:31 AM Col, I understand what you are saying and I have no problem with your line of logic. It’.....
» 22/05/2008 12:07:25 PM Chade, Something like that. In order to prove global warming, you need to have the map co.....
» 22/05/2008 9:50:06 AM Col puts the term "global warming" in quotes, I assume questioning whether the p.....
» 20/05/2008 12:59:55 PM As a scientist but a novice in this field, there are a number of questions that I would li.....
» 13/05/2008 11:53:54 AM There's nothing wrong with the "Working Families" banner so long as the ALP intr.....
» 6/05/2008 12:48:09 PM There is plenty to think about here. IMO, the essential overall theme when talking about a.....
» 6/05/2008 11:08:43 AM Ludwig, Fair enough. With leaders like John Brumby and Kevin Rudd, you've got the best ch.....
» 4/05/2008 3:08:38 PM "Verbal abuse never ever really hurts anyone. It can be quite offensive and humiliati.....
» 28/04/2008 2:48:39 PM I should have said earlier that the scarcity of oil, OR high prices for it, would be the t.....
» 25/04/2008 8:53:30 PM Ludwig, A comment on peak oil: It is a big issue, but I'd suggest too big even for Gover.....
» 24/04/2008 9:48:37 AM Marilyn, What you call a crime is a matter of definition. In fact, most of the problem is.....
» 23/04/2008 11:31:58 AM Bruce mentions that Immigration does not have a top notch Minister. So, when the ALP won G.....
» 23/04/2008 11:18:01 AM I agree with the sentiment of the article, but like BN says, why would you come back here .....
» 22/04/2008 11:29:08 AM Passy, You missed one thing in your ambit log of claims. How about we all fly to the moon.....
» 29/02/2008 1:38:48 PM It's not just the PS selection criteria that needs a good kicking, but the whole culture. .....
» 18/02/2008 12:46:19 PM Loudmouth, Fair enough. In a way, though, it could have been better that Aboriginals in t.....
» 18/02/2008 11:29:18 AM rehctub, A few points: 1. If 2% of the population receive $400 million, then 100% should.....
» 17/02/2008 1:09:07 PM Loudmouth, The totality of Aboriginal experience between about 1770 and 2007 was what I w.....
» 16/02/2008 3:04:46 PM "A minority section of a society which demands the public apology of the majority of .....
» 14/02/2008 11:24:02 AM "RobP you might think there is something special in “leveling”, you might even think .....
» 13/02/2008 10:06:15 AM On subjects such as this, the debate is far too polarised for any meaningful progress to m.....
» 11/02/2008 8:43:33 AM "I believe that extending to aboriginal people special rights to land, special rights.....
» 8/02/2008 9:23:37 AM "The interests of workers and bosses are fundamentally opposed. It is time for an alt.....
» 18/01/2008 9:14:50 AM "That would be their choice - and choice being a cornerstone of Howardian ideology, I.....
» 15/01/2008 9:31:51 AM FrankGol, You are a master at putting words in other's mouths and twisting what they say .....
» 14/01/2008 2:59:37 PM "there's a case for levying non-unionists for access to the benefits gained by unions.....
» 6/01/2008 8:13:15 PM Hey Rainier, Everyone's entitled to an opinion, mate. Even the ones that don't match your.....
» 25/12/2007 4:07:36 PM The argument boils down to whether or not the police use force in proportion to either the.....
» 16/12/2007 1:21:08 PM Arjay, Can't disagree with any of that: you're right, there's a lot of waste happening in.....
» 15/12/2007 1:14:53 PM "The $34 billion in tax cuts is a hoax and all of you would know that if you bothered.....
» 14/12/2007 12:47:21 PM "If, on the other hand, instead of giving tax cuts worth $34 billion, which are sure .....
» 11/12/2007 3:05:14 PM There was an interesting program on Landline last weekend where a white husband and wife c.....
» 7/12/2007 9:24:06 AM Yvonne, the problems you point out all boil down to human laziness. Businesses put all the.....
» 6/12/2007 2:33:29 PM The author says, "I truly hope that positive idealism in Australian politics has not .....
» 5/12/2007 10:13:29 AM "My husband and I have had several very successful businesses, we've had our employee.....
» 3/12/2007 11:02:42 AM A couple of areas unions could progress to and still add value in the modern workplace are.....
» 28/11/2007 11:52:45 AM So Rudd didn't give such an impassioned speech - big deal. All that happens when you have.....
» 28/11/2007 9:13:34 AM Lots of good posts. Another reason for the Ruddslide is generally well hidden from view. P.....
» 26/11/2007 12:24:00 PM FrankGol has just incisively said absolutely nothing as usual. The caterpillar analogy was.....
» 23/11/2007 2:52:00 PM FrankGol, You've just said what Liberty said, but used baby language instead. Why bother?.....
» 20/11/2007 8:34:55 PM Redneck, I think you'd make more progress if you use the term "cultural compatibilit.....
» 16/11/2007 8:36:21 PM Knopfler/ozzie, Actually, if you were to tell the truth, you'd say that the real cause of.....
» 16/11/2007 12:43:34 PM Liberty, Ultimately, the whole debate can be boiled down to two fundamental truths as you.....
» 16/11/2007 9:27:36 AM "If people actually stopped voting (or spoiled their ballots), then this would send a.....
» 14/11/2007 11:47:24 AM "No votes for anyone. See what the boofheads make of that." Leigh, I understand.....
» 10/11/2007 1:28:43 PM Liberty puts it well and I agree with most of what was said. However, I have a slight quib.....
» 5/11/2007 11:36:41 AM It seems that what is lacking from Saunders' side of the argument is exactly how his ideas.....
» 4/11/2007 7:16:10 PM David, I couldn’t agree more that institutes of technology have a more hands-on emphasis .....
» 4/11/2007 11:38:43 AM David draws the distinction between the practical and the theoretical viz-a-viz University.....
» 3/11/2007 3:57:58 PM It looks as though the problems in unis have changed. When I went, I found that while the .....
» 2/11/2007 1:43:40 PM To the claim that multiculturalism "destroys the fabric of society", I reckon it.....
» 26/10/2007 9:03:31 AM Paul.L, I live in Canberra and I can assure you that Indigenous employees don't do nearly.....
» 24/10/2007 9:26:38 PM Col, "However, if someone choose to live in a desert, well away from populated and s.....
» 24/10/2007 1:03:43 PM To those people who lash out and say that others who do not support the reconciliation age.....
» 22/10/2007 3:03:58 PM lizz, Fair points. It's true that you can often "lead a horse to water but not make .....
» 22/10/2007 10:52:04 AM lizz-the-yank, "Aboriginals and mainstream Australians are not equals. You are liter.....
» 19/10/2007 9:26:08 AM Why not just get straight to the point and say that the real problem in the "reconcil.....
» 17/10/2007 1:28:09 PM BOAZ_David, You're right in the sense that the article is pure idealism. I think it's wro.....
» 16/10/2007 1:00:37 PM Good article - a veritable catalogue of the best ideas to date in health as well as an exp.....
» 15/10/2007 10:18:55 AM BN, In the case of the health system, for example, the idea of nurse practitioners has po.....
» 15/10/2007 9:56:16 AM "The boss-bastards are in the unions, don't you get it? The unions protect the boss-b.....
» 13/10/2007 3:47:09 PM Col, Regarding your comment on government being a referee, I imply that when I say that g.....
» 7/10/2007 11:45:51 AM Belly, I'm not taking sides in the debate between you and DWTM. It seems you are making t.....
» 6/10/2007 7:52:21 PM I can understand where DWTM is coming from. It's a classic excuse from "Yes, Minister.....
» 5/10/2007 12:27:07 PM A very enlightened article that shows people how to really solve the problem of ill health.....
» 3/10/2007 1:01:39 PM Yep, the unions became the bad guys, or probably more correctly "superfluous to requi.....
» 3/10/2007 11:10:52 AM The article well sums up the long-term trends that have impacted on unionism. I doubt if i.....
» 29/09/2007 7:48:46 PM ColRouge, You said, >>RobP "make our economic systems work for the benefit of .....
» 26/09/2007 4:19:19 PM Kanga, I meant that I fully agreed that people should get a better deal than they do. How.....
» 26/09/2007 12:16:30 PM Kanga, I fully agree with your sentiments, but when you say the quality-of-life people ne.....
» 25/09/2007 1:02:09 PM "A just society" is too hard to define as everyone is so different. However, I.....
» 24/09/2007 9:30:47 PM Maracas, Why does the left have such a problem with the GST? It seems to me that the issu.....
» 24/09/2007 11:08:20 AM Once the ethical high-jump bar is lying in the grass (where even the snakes can slither ov.....
» 22/09/2007 5:47:11 PM There's another leg to this debate. As Australians get fatter and they demand their rightf.....
» 17/09/2007 2:56:04 PM Mirko's statement " ...in an opulent society in Australia where we have virtually inf.....
» 10/09/2007 1:10:59 PM FrankGol, So what's the problem with having a GST? In the end the Government is going to .....
» 31/08/2007 9:49:13 PM David, You're right when you say that exploitation and physical abuse are not just Church.....
» 16/07/2007 10:15:09 AM Rainier, The world is full of people who've dedicated themselves to causes. As far as I'm.....
» 15/07/2007 2:14:02 PM Rainier, Maybe I'm wrong, but I detect some haughtiness in your post. While having an i.....
» 14/07/2007 5:27:18 PM I would add to Rainier's point that just because people are not intellectual or "well.....
» 11/07/2007 3:00:31 PM Cornflower, I suspect you're right. A lot of the motivation is to get compo of some kind......
» 11/07/2007 12:59:27 PM While obviously well-meaning, the underlying problem with this article is that it's a clas.....
» 7/07/2007 3:28:18 PM I liked Dealing with the Mob's ideas that get back to the basics. I also noted the truth t.....
» 2/07/2007 6:26:37 PM Rainier, I was concentrating on what would be needed to fix the problem from this point o.....
» 1/07/2007 3:35:32 PM Rainier, You kind of miss a bigger point and that is that there is so much of a cultural .....
» 30/06/2007 4:05:54 PM The author effectively, in his rather one-sided and simplistic piece, blames Howard for ev.....
» 16/06/2007 9:43:45 PM Fickle Pickle, I think you've hit the nail on the head. There's nothing like a target to.....
» 14/06/2007 3:32:03 PM Tristan, I agree that infrastructure spending is necessary. For example, beefing up our b.....
» 14/06/2007 12:00:09 PM I think this is a good article. If the Government is serious about reform, it doesn't just.....
» 13/06/2007 9:35:09 AM Tristan, you ought to be a comedy writer. If you lived in Victoria in the 1980s, you'd hav.....
» 8/06/2007 10:11:49 AM Tristan, Your sentiments are well meaning, but this is all just idealistic intellectualis.....
» 7/06/2007 4:07:25 PM DEMOS, Forget the Citizen Initiated Referendums to solve the problem. There's something ev.....
» 26/05/2007 5:44:19 PM Good article, Malcolm – the HR industry, like a lot of consultants, is like a fungus growi.....
» 11/05/2007 10:52:53 AM “The current offshoring regime is destroying Australia’s knowledge base.” This is a glas.....
» 9/05/2007 1:58:56 PM TRTL – I agree. I address about half the key points, if you’re talking about the full deba.....
» 9/05/2007 12:39:26 PM Hedgehog, You show what you get when you combine a comprehension problem with blind ideol.....
» 8/05/2007 1:30:38 PM Billie says: "... the only workers on very good pay belong to militant unions with st.....
» 3/05/2007 1:29:24 PM I think there's a lot of merit in the diverse positions in the IR debate. From the point.....
» 26/03/2007 4:00:04 PM Of course footballers have a much bigger public profile than doctors, judges, plumbers and.....
» 25/03/2007 3:39:28 PM "Creativity is a mantra used by people who can't define creativity and can't explain .....
» 28/01/2007 4:01:37 PM A useful thing to remember is that anything tagged with "ism" on the end of it i.....
» 3/12/2006 2:19:35 PM I generally agree with the comments above. To really be in the race, Labor needs to get ne.....
» 25/11/2006 3:45:58 PM Tristan says: "Some in the ALP are talking about investing Future Fund proceeds into .....
» 24/11/2006 8:17:56 PM Call me a realist, but the problem I see with Tristan's ideas is that they're too idealist.....
» 29/06/2006 2:50:53 PM It seems to me that Aboriginals need to start small if they're going to achieve anything a.....
» 13/06/2006 2:05:28 PM The following is a synthesis of some of what's already been put forward which, I think, su.....
» 17/05/2006 12:54:23 PM "I think tht people are kidding themselves, if they think that by raising the GST to .....
» 11/05/2006 11:50:40 AM Tristan, As I mentioned, you could compensate the losers from raising the GST rate by usi.....
» 10/05/2006 11:26:47 AM I agree with Robert's point about the undervaluing of individual effort. There are plenty .....
» 9/05/2006 3:17:18 PM Tristan, A couple of points, one specific and one general. 1. You say that flat taxes ar.....
» 3/03/2006 11:37:45 AM I think Gerard Henderson made an insightful comment recently when he said: look at what Jo.....
» 2/03/2006 12:58:40 PM The article is essentially another left-wing whinge in lieu of doing anything positive. Su.....
» 16/02/2006 11:46:30 AM Billie, “RobP how presumptious of you to assume that people who want the TGA to regulate .....
» 16/02/2006 8:15:16 AM Col Rouge, your following paragraphs betray where you’re really coming from: “I think the.....
» 15/02/2006 8:01:39 AM It's also sad how, in its desire to not offend anyone, society is content to just allow ev.....
» 14/02/2006 3:34:01 PM Col Rouge, I reckon your arguments are getting spuriouser and spuriouser. (Apologies to A.....
» 9/02/2006 3:08:22 PM Maracas, the debate is about whatever people want to make the debate about not what you de.....
» 21/12/2005 12:40:24 PM I agree with Waleed that there's less likely to be a problem in Melbourne with gang warfar.....
» 20/12/2005 12:21:24 PM Let's call a spade a spade. The plain reason why the aggressors keep on getting away with .....
» 15/12/2005 1:36:01 PM The general problem is that the (mainly) Lebanese groups either can't or don't want to int.....
» 1/12/2005 3:05:49 PM Good point, Denk. That's about the best you'll get out of Tanya Plibersek. She's such a .....
» 23/11/2005 9:54:43 AM I think this is a good article. The system's in decline, and the old top-down models of ma.....
» 11/11/2005 3:21:35 PM Maracas. Absolutely true. Unions have exploited this fact in the past to raise wages. Howe.....
» 11/11/2005 11:29:47 AM One thing many people fail to take into account in their analysis of reward for effort in .....
» 10/11/2005 3:03:51 PM I reckon Turnbull's the man because he's hungry and the ALP don't look like breaking throu.....
» 8/11/2005 1:10:14 PM My guess is McCain, Brown and .... Turnbull......
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