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» 4/07/2008 9:02:54 AM I enjoy intellectual debate. Dialectic opposites are necessary for the advance of a health.....
» 3/07/2008 8:49:40 AM Sustainability has become the most abused word in the English dictionary. There's nothing.....
» 3/07/2008 7:53:09 AM So, Viking 13, the public is too dumb to understand climate change. And the climate scient.....
» 2/07/2008 6:50:04 PM Walking the streets of any city in Australia and you will find most people accepting the o.....
» 27/06/2008 9:02:44 AM I was interested in this curious one: "....scientists warning of climate change had e.....
» 27/06/2008 8:40:43 AM Polling, well done and with checks and balances, can be a useful democratic tool. It is us.....
» 23/06/2008 2:32:48 PM Whereas moral opinion is fairly divided on the issue of abortion, the same nexus is there .....
» 23/06/2008 10:52:22 AM Fortunately we appear to have gone past the totally amoral stance of pointing the finger a.....
» 20/06/2008 3:12:20 PM This is a genuine query, I am not being perverse. Do vegetarians excrete more greenhouse g.....
» 19/06/2008 10:58:29 AM Absolutely right, Taswegian. Nothing should be done to prevent natural increase in fuel p.....
» 17/06/2008 12:47:11 PM Miner, your comments are valid enough, but the worst thing that governments and political .....
» 17/06/2008 9:23:32 AM Thank you for a very relevant article. Individualism plays a major part in our seeming in.....
» 3/06/2008 3:20:58 PM There is no food shortage. Over 1 billion of Earth's human inhabitants suffer from obesit.....
» 3/06/2008 10:31:58 AM Hensen is no more guilty than Michelangelo for his innocent artistic portraying of nude fo.....
» 26/05/2008 2:37:17 PM Now there's a challenge Geoff. But I would have said that using real names would lead to .....
» 26/05/2008 10:48:42 AM Thank you, stevenlmeyer, for you lucid comment. In response to the Y2K threat the world i.....
» 21/05/2008 9:17:10 AM Tristan, I have no argument with your logic, but, with respect, the use of highly academi.....
» 20/05/2008 2:30:09 PM You don't run out of resources, they just become less available and vastly more expensive......
» 20/05/2008 10:17:08 AM Thanks to the author for eloquently cutting through this farcical non-debate about climate.....
» 19/05/2008 6:28:16 PM The energy crisis has created some personalities so affronted by the bad news that they ha.....
» 16/05/2008 9:30:14 AM Like most observers of the climate debate, I am not a scientist (though I do have the bene.....
» 15/05/2008 10:09:12 AM This article is not really about the ABC and science, it is yet another article attempting.....
» 14/05/2008 4:29:20 PM Bio-fuels, as with wind and solar, are looking at the energy supply versus demand problem .....
» 14/05/2008 1:16:23 PM Not quite so, Baldpaul. Problem is the sceptics can be divided into three groups. 1. Th.....
» 8/05/2008 1:54:42 PM The natural biosphere has an infinite capacity to absorb all the pollutants we put into it.....
» 8/05/2008 11:14:08 AM Your are incorrect, Mr Right Wing. Until the mid 1990s most scientists were unpersuaded, a.....
» 6/05/2008 1:24:51 PM The writer cautiously supports the market economy, albeit with some concessions to appropr.....
» 5/05/2008 12:38:20 PM In response to Mr Right Wing, Australia doesn't export food for humanitarian reasons, it e.....
» 5/05/2008 12:21:27 PM I can assure readers that the IPCC has no agenda, other than science. Why on Earth would t.....
» 30/04/2008 9:59:27 AM Okay, here are two examples from personal experience that may fit the bill. SOLAR HOT WAT.....
» 29/04/2008 9:56:35 AM I have no doubt Rosemary's research is correct. Those who engage in navel gazing or searc.....
» 29/04/2008 8:23:33 AM Ah ha, sonofeire, Coming from the horses mouth in America, which consumes something like .....
» 28/04/2008 5:02:08 PM To those who glibly say "climate change is happening whether we are here or not".....
» 27/04/2008 6:59:00 PM To those who somehow pretend that Anzac Day is not, at least in part, a glorification of w.....
» 25/04/2008 7:22:34 AM "Lest We Forget". That's what it's all about. Many people were traumatised by t.....
» 21/04/2008 2:47:07 PM And then we'll turn out "coffee coloured people by the score" - as the old hippy.....
» 21/04/2008 11:17:50 AM I first came across Helen Hughes' name when, as an academic advisor to the Howard Governme.....
» 17/04/2008 2:52:00 PM It's truly amazing how ordinary lay people, in the face of almost unanimous scientific opi.....
» 16/04/2008 9:42:25 AM Spot on. High-tech medicine is sexy and attracts megabucks for research and development a.....
» 15/04/2008 4:03:14 PM Thanks Romany, for the opportunity. For estimated numbers of Tibetans killed by Chinese i.....
» 15/04/2008 1:01:58 PM If sport is a way for we humans to entertain our natural aggression, it is better to do it.....
» 15/04/2008 11:43:56 AM As the holder of an Australian passport (and not a Labor supporter, by the way) I used to .....
» 14/04/2008 10:57:33 AM The title suggests that there is something new about forest politics in Tasmania. What I .....
» 11/03/2008 11:27:36 AM Can't oppose any of those good ideas. However, the education debate is always couched in .....
» 8/03/2008 3:06:28 PM Hey guys and gals, don't get too serious about all this. Whilst we may anguish over split.....
» 8/03/2008 2:45:42 PM This debate generally revolves around women on one side versus men on the other. What conc.....
» 7/03/2008 11:30:02 AM Witnessing abuse of the Queen's English has caused me some anguish over the years, I'll ha.....
» 6/03/2008 1:30:15 PM Those who argue that legitimate democracy should hinge on a choice between 2 parties are o.....
» 6/03/2008 8:57:52 AM Thank you Kevin, There is sense in the argument, there are markets and markets and yours.....
» 6/03/2008 6:59:44 AM What is going on here? All planning entails a balance of risks. What we do know, from our.....
» 6/03/2008 6:40:43 AM The writer Caroline should be congratulated. She is absolutely correct. A parallel proble.....
» 23/11/2007 10:37:04 AM Timely article and I am surprised how much education has taken place about this issue. A y.....
» 30/07/2007 4:50:11 PM Excellent news about impending higher oil prices. The sooner the better. Staving off price.....
» 15/07/2007 3:18:45 PM ARJAY may be correct about living standards, but if that is her genuine concern she should.....
» 9/07/2007 3:15:21 PM Interesting logic in the article....except he didn't account very well for why the Coaliti.....
» 9/07/2007 2:54:32 PM Biggest difference between Vietnam and Iraq is oil. America can't pull out of Iraq, like .....
» 6/07/2007 2:42:01 PM I have long been absorbed by, and abhorred by, the wholesale grief and bloodshed and bigot.....
» 6/07/2007 2:18:26 PM Forgive the pun, but its hard to be totally black and white on this issue. The 'apology' .....
» 3/07/2007 6:17:54 PM Amazes me how some folk are happy to refute the findings of the IPCC - with is almost unan.....
» 7/12/2006 3:19:24 PM Look, guys and gals, the US is in really dire straits. They have a genuine problem. Its e.....
» 6/12/2006 10:09:47 AM Thank you Fiona. Yes, a complete overhaul of economics is required. Its no good bemoaning.....
» 6/12/2006 9:41:37 AM Climate change has become a blame game. Australia points the finger at China. China says.....
» 23/11/2006 9:18:29 AM I rarely agree with Dvid Flint, one of Australia's most persistent arch-conservatives. (H.....
» 23/11/2006 7:15:47 AM Bozzie, that's okay if you can live with the misery and human carnage that will ensue. New.....
» 23/11/2006 7:04:51 AM Boaz_David, I regard myself as a secular moralist. My values come from lifelong thinking a.....
» 22/11/2006 9:42:32 AM Politics will always have overtones and undertones of religion behind it. Sometimes overt......
» 22/11/2006 9:20:04 AM As former chariman of Shell Peroleum, Lord Oxburgh shows how far the fossil fuel industry .....
» 21/11/2006 1:36:09 PM There is nothing new about climate change being complex. Nothing new at all. Climate scie.....
» 21/11/2006 1:17:47 PM Firstly, the author is correct only insofar as we have a real problem of interface between.....
» 20/11/2006 11:44:50 AM It's only by living in a poor country for an extended period that you come to realize how .....
» 15/11/2006 3:11:25 PM All three posts above are correct in their views. Yes, the IPA is a right wing think tank.....
» 15/11/2006 10:06:10 AM Great article. But multiculturalism has always been under threat. That is, the Australian.....
» 12/11/2006 3:32:14 PM One has to feel sympathy for the American people, even it you resent their country’s glutt.....
» 9/11/2006 7:32:30 AM I thoroughly enjoy public debate. I absolutely support democratic exchange. So let the deb.....
» 8/11/2006 12:10:49 PM What Kerry said was insensitive to the troops. But otherwise dead right. FACT: The bulk o.....
» 8/11/2006 11:59:40 AM Correction. There is plenty of space for sober assessment of the facts. The IPCC is such a.....
» 8/11/2006 8:53:53 AM I thought the essay was quite well crafted, reflective and intelligent. Like Numbat, it r.....
» 7/11/2006 7:25:40 AM John Howard held out as long as he could. So did Ian Macfarlane. Even they can no longer i.....
» 3/11/2006 7:21:28 AM During its long incumbency the Howard government has done much to consolidate its ideology.....
» 3/11/2006 7:01:22 AM This article was ostensibly about Tasmanian politics but is actually a comment on politics.....
» 31/10/2006 9:41:53 AM Precision about exactly how many civilian Iraqis have been killed (are being killed) is al.....
» 31/10/2006 7:30:57 AM Thanks for reminding why I have refused to own a mobile phone - every now and then I do wo.....
» 26/10/2006 12:00:19 PM Well, reading through the article I said to myself "I wonder who is funding this writ.....
» 25/10/2006 2:46:18 PM This recent focus demanding one language in this country is rather wierd. Nearly every co.....
» 25/10/2006 10:40:20 AM We shouldn't just tolerate diversity, we should embrace it. Anybody who has studied biolo.....
» 5/10/2006 1:49:37 PM I don't think the the angry posts to this opinion site are representative of the average A.....
» 4/10/2006 4:56:04 PM All I can say to those who maintain that nothing is wrong with global climate and no actio.....
» 4/10/2006 1:54:36 PM The best thing about Gore's film is that it will help Australia work through denial and ge.....
» 3/10/2006 9:07:43 AM An excellent, insightful essay, Dr West. I have always maintained that the worst mistake .....
» 21/09/2006 9:09:22 PM Cathy, Please be prepared to repeat all that to the many thousands of people who are now .....
» 21/09/2006 6:51:29 PM Based on history, it generally takes around 40 years for a new scientific proven idea to f.....
» 1/09/2006 11:06:21 AM Good on you Warren. Your thoughts reflect that of many thousands of thinking Australians......
» 28/08/2006 6:30:44 PM You are right, Tony Kevin, the Greens have their sights set on the correct targets, but I .....
» 27/08/2006 4:29:59 PM Dr. McMahon's article is excellent. Not new, but more timely than ever. It is now some 3.....
» 24/08/2006 2:57:00 PM In answer to your question, Jim, yes the nuclear issue could be driven by a miltitary agen.....
» 24/08/2006 2:35:00 PM BOAZ_David, With respect to you, thanks for the invitation to re-join Christianity, but s.....
» 24/08/2006 9:57:58 AM Well, Bill Your comment: "While most religions are based on faith, some, notably Chr.....
» 23/08/2006 11:43:23 AM Some interesting posts here. Whilst finger-pointing Islam, Christians should not forget t.....
» 23/08/2006 9:44:37 AM Full marks for trying, but I can't find the logic behind this essay. All religious wars a.....
» 22/08/2006 10:59:28 AM Yes, fine, but I think it is time to move onto the next war. Australia's next military eng.....
» 21/08/2006 5:53:56 PM Great article. The green movement argued for over 20 years that fossil fuels usage would .....
» 20/08/2006 9:57:04 AM Joy, from a few posts ago, Thanks for your very incisive comments. Now that I think of i.....
» 18/08/2006 11:07:23 AM Some interesting posts here. Let's not forget too, folks, that it was less than 100 years.....
» 17/08/2006 4:22:11 PM Leigh, such unchristian views. I am sorry for you. Only this week my son came back from s.....
» 16/08/2006 9:59:32 AM One can hardly argue against such sound principles. As for accountability slipping, I see.....
» 16/08/2006 9:47:35 AM It doesn't matter if heaven is real or not, does it? And we will never know about such thi.....
» 16/08/2006 9:35:38 AM There are a few fervent technological devotees out there and I wish you well. Science can.....
» 15/08/2006 8:27:38 PM Deary me, Anti-Green, I do believe you have spun yourself into a web. If you were truly.....
» 14/08/2006 6:17:40 PM Well, Gusi, Yes there are conflicting opinions on the facts. But don't forget that vested.....
» 14/08/2006 3:24:02 PM I have no doubt some of the commentators who support the nuclear industry are genuine, thi.....
» 8/08/2006 4:52:37 PM The writer is correct insofar as the Iraq debacle has resulted in a temporal loss, rather .....
» 8/08/2006 4:34:42 PM Seeing TV images of Israeli soldiers praying to their God before going into battle in Leba.....
» 3/08/2006 9:36:38 AM Those interested in this topic should read the timely piece by Henry David Thoreau: ".....
» 31/07/2006 2:27:46 PM There is a silver lining to the NO vote, as regressive and small-minded as that vote may h.....
» 26/07/2006 1:50:31 PM Not long ago wealthy folk used to answer Noel’s question via the ‘trickle down’ theory. Na.....
» 21/07/2006 8:16:12 PM Kevin may be a tad harsh (nearly all pubic school teachers that I know are so committed an.....
» 18/07/2006 5:32:02 PM Liz, Having read your persuasive piece, and on the recommendation of many of the unthused.....
» 14/07/2006 11:17:19 AM Well...yes and no, John Matthews. Certainly bio-fuels is a better option, both financial.....
» 13/07/2006 9:43:49 AM Some interesting observations here. Interesting especially that we are now crossing a new.....
» 11/07/2006 6:35:39 PM Professor Lowe, you are dead right, if a little too optimistic. On both fronts – climate c.....
» 15/03/2006 10:06:11 AM This thesis is more than timely, it is almost too late to turn around the health policy ma.....
» 8/03/2006 11:21:30 AM If we want to be pedantic, the Christian Bible is filled with incredible violence, not lea.....
» 8/03/2006 8:48:26 AM Good on ya, Salam! If I see a brown spotty dog, it would be ridiculous for me to conclude.....
» 8/03/2006 8:13:09 AM More women in parliament ? Yes, for better balance. Both genders have much to offer. Prese.....
» 6/03/2006 8:22:35 PM Dear BOAZ-DAVID, Of course there are justice issues in places such as Northern Ireland, t.....
» 6/03/2006 8:01:01 AM Thanks Kay (Kalweb), and welcome to the fray! As a computer literate you will find yourse.....
» 5/03/2006 4:24:26 PM I don’t altogether agree or disagree with the essay in question, he makes a point of view .....
» 2/03/2006 8:56:52 AM Excuse me folks, If the death penalty is a deterrent against crime, then how does it appl.....
» 1/03/2006 11:50:53 AM Yes, yes and yes, Dr Marinac. But I fear that politics will allow only limited scope for .....
» 1/03/2006 8:27:31 AM Perhaps exchange the academic words ‘punitive obsession’ with ‘revenge’ - sometimes also c.....
» 28/02/2006 1:50:24 PM Gosh! Why does every essay end up being debated in terms of race / ethnicity. The orignin.....
» 28/02/2006 12:28:36 PM Excellent piece! Intervention is one thing, but the situation has much wider ramification.....
» 28/02/2006 10:39:13 AM I agree with other commentators - this article was not well written. But reading between .....
» 26/02/2006 7:23:42 PM It took time for some skeptics to accept that the world was indeed round. Others still ar.....
» 25/02/2006 5:38:52 PM Interesting that so many folk still feel so threatened by the prospect of global warming t.....
» 20/02/2006 1:33:14 PM I guess I will get used to it. But the right hand side of the home page is all blank on .....
» 20/02/2006 8:49:52 AM Thanks for your well thought out treatise on aid. I thought about these issues at length .....
» 20/02/2006 7:48:29 AM To the extent that religion has enriched the total human experience, providing diverse cus.....
» 19/02/2006 10:02:22 AM I agree solidly with Froggie's post. But then, as a Gecko, I would! Now... the immense da.....
» 16/02/2006 6:46:38 AM One of the most disputable assertions made amongst these (generally constructive) comments.....
» 15/02/2006 10:07:37 AM I am not an auditor, but if a social auditor were to weigh up all the benefits and scourge.....
» 9/02/2006 3:37:17 PM Slightly off the subject of abortion, it is perplexing that so many Catholics loyally adhe.....
» 8/02/2006 3:15:46 PM I have tried to listen to the abortion debate dispationately, knowing that each side sees .....
» 6/02/2006 7:34:16 PM Reading some of the angry responses to Salam's soft article, I wonder if these opinion col.....
» 6/02/2006 7:16:42 PM Sharon Beder is dead right about government being stupid if they really believe big busine.....
» 31/01/2006 5:27:09 PM Patrick, your article is very rational. May I add another suggestion. A key reason why m.....
» 30/01/2006 2:00:43 PM Salam, I liked your article, spot on. A decade ago I was naive in thinking Australia as .....
» 30/01/2006 1:45:49 PM Regardless of any deliberations by the Productivity Commission, the most telling issue abo.....
» 20/01/2006 2:44:22 PM Peter West makes a salient point that its okay, even funny, for media to ridicule and even.....
» 14/12/2005 1:18:22 PM If the race riots were depressing, I am much more depressed by some of the dispiriting rep.....
» 8/12/2005 9:48:38 AM Thanks to David Worth for his summary, oil prices are already hurting some sectors and thi.....
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