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» 20/02/2012 6:57:30 PM A good healthy review by Bruce of the rosy picture being painted by the bureaucrats and po.....
» 19/02/2012 9:28:39 PM We have an economy that one day could be called as the Great Gut - a time of emptying the .....
» 5/01/2009 4:34:49 PM Oh how naively the authors argue. When the rockets are fired at Israel, they are fired lik.....
» 7/12/2008 6:41:15 PM The headlines that wont appear....... $2 BILLION FOR BITUMEN AREAS USED TO TRANSFER OWNE.....
» 6/12/2008 11:35:15 AM First apology to Jedimaster for my lose writing. My comment about "green cars" w.....
» 5/12/2008 10:48:18 AM Jedimaster is rather optimistic (and demeaning of the writer) in asserting that he is not .....
» 5/12/2008 10:26:31 AM The 'assistance' package is all the more absurd when one considers there are three manufac.....
» 11/11/2008 11:02:43 AM A delightfully easy to read review. It seems clear to me, that the Muslims, whose messiah .....
» 21/08/2008 6:45:52 AM A post script. Tariffs were introduced to kickstart industries in the nursery phase. It .....
» 20/08/2008 1:05:06 PM Behind the former Berlin Wall there are still those that pine for the good old days under .....
» 19/08/2008 9:22:05 PM PLEASE READ THIS AT http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24187806-26017,00.....
» 19/08/2008 11:12:42 AM Fozz says: “……it's about working in the national interest - loosening controls when necess.....
» 18/08/2008 8:02:06 PM And as for economists, they are the ones who will know tomorrow, what they projected for t.....
» 18/08/2008 10:46:01 AM May I suggest instead of looking at countries behind us (like Brazil) look at countries AH.....
» 17/08/2008 12:30:58 PM NO. Every time you purchase a car, be it an import (83%) or a local one, you pay the tax o.....
» 17/08/2008 12:45:53 AM Surely there is only one criterion applicable, that of the well-being of society? Surely i.....
» 16/08/2008 12:05:46 PM Can I suggest we stop obfuscating and call a spade a spade. That a "tariff" is a.....
» 16/08/2008 12:02:08 AM Am I missing something? Some 80 per cent of the vehicles sold are imported and attract a .....
» 20/06/2008 5:48:06 PM The lack of interest in this Opinion speaks for itself. Governments, especially the State .....
» 19/06/2008 12:39:51 PM No Michael, Bernie is NOT out of touch, I suggest he is part of the hip pocket nerved vote.....
» 19/06/2008 10:56:36 AM Tinkering indeed! The governments in Australia are pandering to the hip pocket nerve and i.....
» 20/05/2008 10:08:08 PM Can you imagine a business where there are six independent divisions squabbling about the .....
» 19/05/2008 7:47:26 PM I suggest that $30 billion, as quoted above by QuickResponse as being the cost that intern.....
» 19/05/2008 6:56:55 PM What emotive clap trap to talk about that it is "generally accepted" and "u.....
» 2/05/2008 4:56:13 PM Excellent analysis and no doubt in part relevant. Also relevant are the minerals and the s.....
» 17/02/2008 1:12:17 PM As Col Rouge put it so well, leave the market alone and it will fix itself. YES! What a gr.....
» 16/02/2008 12:41:22 PM It will be an interesting test of the new Labor government if they feel they can get away .....
» 14/02/2008 11:22:35 PM Let's get this into perspective. 1. We had four (4) motor vehicle plants producing for a .....
» 31/12/2007 4:49:33 PM Simply put, coal produces about 25 per cent more carbon dioxide per unit of energy produce.....
» 29/12/2007 3:23:09 PM All very well, but what about setting an example first? Why is Australia talking about an.....
» 20/12/2007 1:46:06 PM What a lot of cobblers! Dr Ken Henry with all his arrogant "should" words. White.....
» 24/11/2007 5:13:04 PM So why not acknowledge what actually works? What works is support for infrastructure; su.....
» 23/11/2007 4:40:26 PM Wizofaus makes some good points. 1. "increasing government input into economy-build.....
» 22/11/2007 11:18:12 PM Well, we can all point to the past and the follies. And yes ideally investments are made w.....
» 21/11/2007 9:51:49 PM Ok, we have talked about problems. We have seen the ineptness and expediency of government.....
» 21/11/2007 1:27:55 PM Professor Dong-Ke Zhang and Faustino. The paradigm for investment remains tied up in a cos.....
» 20/11/2007 6:06:54 PM A clear objective statement on AMC and value adding, Faustino. It is time someone brought .....
» 20/11/2007 12:19:13 PM Lots of "should" words and vague idealism. Our wages are high, construction cost.....
» 12/08/2007 10:34:22 PM "A time before words"? Yes Hellen Keller did. It was when she discovered separat.....
» 10/08/2007 2:20:53 PM My fellow men, you were not born in sin - that's a lie. When you were born, you were beaut.....
» 9/08/2007 10:59:59 AM What is ‘god’? God to me is omniscient so as the Jews also acknowledge, using the name of .....
» 8/08/2007 5:14:59 PM To Mick and George and other Christians. We, who do not call ourselves anything and we are.....
» 7/08/2007 8:37:32 PM Peter Sellick talks of noone taking him on about the "practice of Christianity"......
» 7/08/2007 12:57:05 PM George says ..."One of the more ominous signs of the spiritual impoverishment of our .....
» 5/08/2007 11:39:42 PM Heck, I may have promoted "Burn the Bible" but that does not mean the Bible does.....
» 5/08/2007 1:23:17 PM Mick V (and in a sense others) pick up on my burning of the bible and the conflagration it.....
» 4/08/2007 2:27:55 PM We are getting totally lost in personal details and off the topic. BeeTee, I do not value .....
» 3/08/2007 3:48:03 PM How utterly inane this debate has become. BORING indeed. Does a religion really rely on t.....
» 2/08/2007 11:57:26 PM Imagine, if we all accepted Jesus was a mystic (and whatever miracles and associations you.....
» 2/08/2007 1:10:03 PM To Bee Tee (and AnthonyMarinac). How on earth can you make a connection with the bible and.....
» 1/08/2007 10:50:30 PM How about this? Religion is an ego-based way of being. It imposes protocols to sustain a s.....
» 31/07/2007 11:07:31 PM Most people agree there is something greater than all of us - be it Yahweh, Allah, God or .....
» 31/07/2007 10:15:43 PM Christians may scoff at Muslims for their source of authority (writings made in a cave tha.....
» 2/05/2007 11:55:15 PM No question the Labor Party is in cahoots with the unions and prostituting itself for its .....
» 7/12/2006 9:58:00 AM TO BOAZ-David You said "How beautiful it would be, if we had no sense of ‘ethnic divi.....
» 5/12/2006 10:28:27 PM So COMPULSORY citizenship after say two years passing basic English and knowledge about th.....
» 5/12/2006 6:31:53 PM Is itn't time that we said to aspirant resident of Australia, you are welcome, BUT... We .....
» 1/12/2006 1:49:47 PM Why dont you guys stop talking about "government" as if it is the saviour? Can a.....
» 30/11/2006 2:29:24 PM Most everything in society is allocated by one thing, PRICE! The exceptions are where the .....
» 30/11/2006 12:41:15 PM For goodness sake you rednecks opposed to the pricing of water. Think of the pricing of wa.....
» 2/11/2006 12:02:25 PM Clearly therefore, drought assistance is free insurance. It is capitalised in their super.....
» 1/11/2006 12:12:27 PM You rural people are right, I do NOT get it. Why with all the duress, deprivations, ineq.....
» 1/11/2006 2:04:36 AM How amazingly altruistic of Yabby if you feel you cannot sell your land because it is goin.....
» 31/10/2006 11:40:58 AM How amazingly self centred and self righteous: Yabby says ..."My preferred solution i.....
» 30/10/2006 9:39:46 PM I recollect the days when industry went to government and successfully obtained government.....
» 30/10/2006 11:09:21 AM How amazingly self centred are those that can lay claim to public money to practice their .....
» 27/10/2006 2:03:32 PM To Yabby let me take your points as you made them as they apply to this debate and those l.....
» 26/10/2006 6:44:30 PM To Yabby in particular, you are not correct and this is important to those supporting assi.....
» 26/10/2006 1:41:20 PM The claim for one in a hundred years special circumstance assistance does not justify taxp.....
» 25/10/2006 5:02:07 PM Yabby, like Perseus, is clearly supporting the "inches of rain" mob when talking.....
» 25/10/2006 1:07:14 PM Perseus says "but only a fool would assume that this is the full extent of the value .....
» 7/08/2006 7:07:36 PM Imagine if Mexico had a band of militia armed to the teeth funded and armed by say Italy/V.....
» 31/07/2006 1:58:54 PM It a competition of mythologies - who's myth is superior to the other; tied up with powerp.....
» 28/07/2006 1:18:59 AM To Strewth and those blind to the fact that behind it all are the mullahs and clerics unde.....
» 27/07/2006 1:12:44 PM What a well written expose - a pity some like Strewth comes forward with hollow recycled r.....
» 29/05/2006 7:39:27 PM To Saintletcher et al and those frustrated and expending energy on Perseus, see http://for.....
» 23/05/2006 12:53:10 AM It is a one eyed view of the changes.... since no-one that I know remembers any of the phy.....
» 21/05/2006 8:14:39 PM But I suspect my proposal was lost to Perseus, who I suspect would eg. fight tooth and nai.....
» 21/05/2006 3:27:06 PM To David Latimer. What one layer of government for just 1.5 million people cf eg NZ with 4.....
» 21/05/2006 12:23:25 AM Thank you Perseus. I guess you too learned that the tools of the consultants and the nou.....
» 19/05/2006 8:40:01 PM Ah we agree at last Perseus. Politics entrenched. Politics obfuscating. Politics hiding.....
» 19/05/2006 4:58:19 PM Hey, who is going to promote salination, when it debases the value of the water? Who is g.....
» 18/05/2006 8:00:08 PM Or should we reduce the significance of the states? States such as 10 per cent of the popu.....
» 18/05/2006 6:35:21 PM So Jennifer Marohasy, to sum it up. Get the bureacracies out of the Murray. No more money.....
» 18/05/2006 11:36:26 AM Better yet Perseus, instead of shaping the 'bimbocracy' (ie. the States) to the river, exc.....
» 17/05/2006 4:29:26 PM It is a fact that millions have been spent on the Murray River and it is a fact that the g.....
» 17/05/2006 8:23:59 AM Another words, isn't it time we reduced governance in Australia, to take more charge of ou.....
» 16/05/2006 11:05:38 PM Saintfletcher, I am pointing out that the Greens are highlighting problems; the farmers fe.....
» 16/05/2006 9:48:37 PM "Urban myth"? Perseus just search Google, see the range of government reports by.....
» 16/05/2006 7:24:13 PM THIRTEEN layers of government for 20 million people, that's 1.5 million per layer compared.....
» 16/05/2006 8:40:14 AM Saintfletcher: What a fearful world you live in; pretty frightening with your promoted cha.....
» 15/05/2006 1:42:17 PM A little clearer re my linking the greens to the nuisance spammers. Without the spammers, .....
» 14/05/2006 2:09:58 PM So much of this debate is hinged on a rural/urban divide that is fanned by politicians see.....
» 14/05/2006 1:56:32 PM Perseus, yes I have commented on you in generalities as there is no point in debating poin.....
» 12/05/2006 1:04:52 PM Perseus: I leave you to your self taught and demonstrable falacious self-righteousness. I .....
» 12/05/2006 7:44:27 AM Jamo: Nicely put. Yes I agree the current crop of Greens are reactionary, without vision b.....
» 11/05/2006 7:39:25 PM Perseus, the Onlineopinion’s assumed Man of la Mancha: “multipliers” are NOT “price earnin.....
» 10/05/2006 7:36:44 PM Perseus championing the "bags per acre" or "miles per gallon" brigade .....
» 10/05/2006 7:31:45 PM Oh no, the Man of la Mancha again, Perseus championing the "bags per acre" or &q.....
» 10/05/2006 3:39:22 PM First to dispel the ubiquitous headbutting Man of la Mancha, Perseus, ‘multipliers’ is wha.....
» 10/05/2006 9:30:20 AM What the likes of Jamo and other anti-conservationists miss, is that land and water are no.....
» 9/05/2006 3:31:13 PM As Ludwig so succinctly put it - many will say "I am not a greenie but....." The.....
» 8/05/2006 6:16:34 PM Trees, Perseus, is what you can not see for the forest when you refer to regional politics.....
» 5/05/2006 6:37:30 PM PERSEUS. Can you ever stop ranting about the rural sector which is under attack from the i.....
» 4/05/2006 6:48:20 PM Onlineopinion really is degrading. Where is a moderator when even petty and irrelevant jok.....
» 4/05/2006 4:04:26 PM The great opportunity for Australia, and hence for the Greens to pick up, is that being &q.....
» 18/04/2006 8:17:20 PM Free Thinker: There is little doubt that Jesus existed and was a mystic. The rest is conje.....
» 18/04/2006 4:02:13 PM We can continue to exchange words about "sacrifice", "emptiness" and &.....
» 17/04/2006 7:32:03 PM Ah Boaz David says it perfectly.... "Yes, we Bible thumpers woffle... we rant.. we r.....
» 17/04/2006 12:55:12 PM Faustino says it perfectly: "Their detachment from ego, from ignorance and delusion, .....
» 15/04/2006 2:28:27 PM Words, words words. All this is a war of words based on a book written thousands of years .....
» 13/04/2006 8:00:38 PM So let me get it right. Put on a straight jacket, ie. reduce one's joy of living by adopti.....
» 13/04/2006 12:30:45 PM What an important topic - how poorly presented. Yes religion is about dogma, about depri.....
» 10/04/2006 10:11:49 PM Perhaps this is the last great fight against homogenisation - differentiation by mutilatio.....
» 30/03/2006 7:07:28 AM King Canute, this is about an indigenous lady. I would urge you to not to use this forum t.....
» 29/03/2006 12:28:45 PM To "Proud to be Indonesian". So you, an individual stands above Wikipedia which.....
» 29/03/2006 11:24:32 AM The legality of Indonesian occupation is best summed up in the Wikipedia as follows..... .....
» 28/03/2006 2:59:02 PM Even the "taliban" of christianity (King Canute) have to offer an explanation ba.....
» 27/03/2006 7:47:27 PM Hey let's get back on track. The previous post wants to go back to 1992 and use this to pu.....
» 25/03/2006 1:57:44 PM Hall's Creek was defended See http://www.kimberleyecho.com/archive/2006/20060316/story01.....
» 24/03/2006 11:27:26 AM "Metrononymous"? no, it is 'metronymous' Perseus. It's a hazard to use big words.....
» 23/03/2006 9:01:32 PM The indigenous culture is at its deepest core different and eschews the accumulative and d.....
» 16/03/2006 8:12:14 PM The support for some athletes reminds me of support for some arts, notably opera which tha.....
» 15/03/2006 11:47:52 PM I dont have the statistics of income that athletes make but some do rather well, the Olymp.....
» 15/03/2006 7:56:44 PM As a minimum why not a HECS (Higher Education Contribution Scheme) type arrangement where .....
» 9/03/2006 5:30:12 PM And if the term "rotten" is a bit emotive or over the top Mr Costello, consider .....
» 9/03/2006 3:34:55 PM Mr Costello, when will you create the conditions for some real investment in Australia? Ye.....
» 7/03/2006 9:55:08 PM Absolutely spot on. Australia has a "removalist"-based industry shoveling out Au.....
» 22/02/2006 6:09:48 PM May be it aint a number's game. There are 40 virgins waiting for the next belt explosive m.....
» 22/02/2006 1:04:57 PM BOAZ_David. One can make valued judgements about the merit of one religion over another. I.....
» 21/02/2006 5:12:57 PM Francis, I acknowledge that Martin Luther had his imperfections and incited attacks on the.....
» 21/02/2006 12:48:52 PM It just goes to show that the Muslim faith is underpinned by the clerics and mullahs - the.....
» 16/02/2006 12:39:34 PM Why do (the minority of) farmers want to hold on in the course of so much suffering, sacri.....
» 13/02/2006 11:23:42 AM And I again put the case re who's complaining and why? On comparison to 60 year old Isra.....
» 10/02/2006 11:36:54 AM On Line Opinion is a valuable forum for exchanging ideas and some really deeply considered.....
» 9/02/2006 2:14:32 PM What saddens me is like the religious and cultural divisions and turmoils evident around t.....
» 8/02/2006 2:20:12 PM So you have hardships. Dont martyr yourselves and your children for the sake of cheap prod.....
» 8/02/2006 1:35:46 PM So you feel that other people owe it to the rural community? So others need to act as ins.....
» 8/02/2006 11:43:25 AM The attack by the Muslim world on the cartoons is like the pot calling the kettle black. S.....
» 7/02/2006 3:45:32 PM Perhaps in the end, it is all about control? The Muslim world is tightly regulated and p.....
» 7/02/2006 11:36:56 AM Well it's one thing to have freedom of the press, but it's another to publish just for the.....
» 7/02/2006 11:17:50 AM It's about fairness. Fairness to chose where one lives and work and assume the risks (and .....
» 7/02/2006 12:13:32 AM Let's get back on track. The fact remains that some still think this country rides on the .....
» 2/02/2006 8:07:37 PM To DFXK and Perseus and other supporters of the victim mentality MINORITY in the rural com.....
» 2/02/2006 12:13:46 PM Perseus, you sound like some of those religious minorities that need to carve out a niche .....
» 1/02/2006 6:43:59 PM Isn't time we acknowledge the issue about religions is really about power plays with the d.....
» 1/02/2006 11:56:26 AM The bucket story should be emailed to all the politicians bent on preserving 'wooden bucke.....
» 31/01/2006 8:38:37 PM How refreshing what the Alchemist said! Yes, it is not about what has been, that glorious.....
» 30/01/2006 11:58:21 PM 1. There is no one walking off the land and leaving it fallow. In other words, there is NO.....
» 30/01/2006 7:53:33 PM Perseus: Yes please, go and succeed - to the Tanami Desert or somewhere else where you can.....
» 27/01/2006 4:52:53 PM War on farmers? The simple fact remains, we farm too much land in this country and much of.....
» 24/01/2006 6:13:35 PM Why werent other countries like Rwanda Congo and a host of other countries invaded? Simp.....
» 24/01/2006 2:01:41 PM What shallow rhetoric! What would Anthony Loewenstein be saying about American participati.....
» 23/01/2006 6:18:57 PM Congratulations to Leanne for an objective statement on this country. It is all too easy t.....
» 13/01/2006 5:22:12 PM Brazuca puts the nail on the head, religion. Until such time religion is disassociated fro.....
» 13/01/2006 2:23:34 PM Whatever the technology issues, it makes a lot more sense than producing alcohol from envi.....
» 13/01/2006 11:25:10 AM I was in Iran last year and was struck by not only the friendliness of the people, but in .....
» 10/01/2006 5:12:52 PM Perhaps in the end, when we mature a bit more, when we look beyond the colour of skin, the.....
» 9/01/2006 5:28:55 PM Australian citizenship a prerequisite. As an immigrant myself I would suggest this talk o.....
» 5/01/2006 5:38:57 PM These discussions (apart from the inappropriate personal diatribes of Pericles and Realist.....
» 4/01/2006 9:05:00 PM So then because a tiny percent (yes it is tiny) of the 37 per cent of national income mana.....
» 4/01/2006 4:21:03 PM What dribble to say "So but like a true Aussie, he looks after many and stood by his .....
» 30/12/2005 3:20:27 PM The obvious, but for some emotionally unacceptable alternative is of course to go nuclear .....
» 29/12/2005 7:39:56 PM Mike Clarke has produced a credible statement for an alternative fuel source by any measur.....
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