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» 22/12/2015 8:35:34 AM It seems that many posters here prefer to get their opinions from learned, moderate and to.....
» 16/10/2015 6:18:38 PM Runner, Never missing a opportunity to backhand the opposition, the Hindu practice of Sat.....
» 26/09/2015 4:43:49 PM In the end it was down to bad policies badly enacted, incompetence, blatant lies and being.....
» 26/09/2015 4:34:14 PM After all the rabid foaming-at-the-mouth diatribes levelled at the ALP for doing the same .....
» 21/08/2015 5:14:51 PM Well Runner, now the ABC can explain why it chose to ignore all the evidence of the corrup.....
» 30/07/2015 8:53:29 PM Ever done any sand blasting, gyprock sanding or been around concrete being broken up or sa.....
» 30/07/2015 8:40:01 PM Luciferase, The capital cost of building a nuclear power plant is enormous - that's why t.....
» 30/07/2015 9:17:01 AM A local doctor suggested to me that the asbestos issue is way overblown. People treat as.....
» 30/07/2015 9:04:34 AM It's a bizarre argument. Fossil fuels are also used to manufacture electric cars and solar.....
» 16/07/2015 8:09:10 PM Sorry - that should have said Iran has Russian-built plants. The "French Connection&.....
» 16/07/2015 7:54:19 PM Some perspective- Iran became involved in the "nuclear industry" way back durin.....
» 7/07/2015 9:13:50 PM "Humans and animals that are alive and not asleep are all comprised of a soul and a b.....
» 29/06/2015 9:21:11 PM They'll all come scuttling back as soon as this distraction blows over because that's all .....
» 14/06/2015 1:00:59 PM What interests me is that we are alleged to have paid each crew member about $5K each to t.....
» 31/05/2015 2:47:21 PM When in comes to the alleged superiority of Church charities most overlook the overwhelmin.....
» 27/04/2015 9:19:15 PM Here we go again. Responses to Pilger's articles are as predictable as his stance. Many m.....
» 7/04/2015 7:57:59 PM I've never "celebrated" ANZAC day but always acknowledged it. To me it's always.....
» 5/04/2015 10:32:22 PM My memories of Malcolm Fraser are somewhat mixed. Ignoring the controversial way he came .....
» 2/04/2015 4:25:52 PM onthebeach, It seems you have an obsession with the previous government but are yet to ac.....
» 21/03/2015 9:06:18 AM Fraser lived and died a true Liberal and conservative but one with a concern for humanitar.....
» 18/01/2015 11:01:37 AM All that noise to try and save $1.3billion over the next few years, in typically mean and .....
» 7/01/2015 10:25:57 AM According to Matthew 6.6 (and other references) prayer is something that should be done in.....
» 7/01/2015 10:10:50 AM Bazz, I've never heard of any organisation paying a fee for the right to display a logo a.....
» 6/01/2015 10:01:27 AM The introduction of Halal certification has been done for marketing purposes by manufactur.....
» 26/11/2014 3:06:29 PM About eight months after Jewish people pause to celebrate Passover, Christians mark one of.....
» 26/11/2014 2:53:35 PM PaulMurrayCbr, Quite so but I should have said the Talmud, not the Torah. The Talmud says.....
» 25/11/2014 11:59:35 PM Does the term "Jew Hatred" also go the other way as in the Torah by referring to.....
» 20/11/2014 7:54:06 PM The amount of energy it takes to build an electric car, when you add in mining, processing.....
» 19/11/2014 9:38:01 PM There doesn't have to be "a point" - it just is. You can use the phoney argumen.....
» 15/11/2014 11:41:38 PM I think some religions don't co-exist well within themselves. I know of some devout Bapti.....
» 1/11/2014 2:36:12 PM Ollie A. I don't think hysterically reacting to postings on social media and the rantings.....
» 1/11/2014 2:16:39 PM The 80s promise of a "democracy of shareholders" has been proven to be a failure.....
» 29/10/2014 6:50:07 PM Considering we are not actually "at war" with an independent State it's a bit of.....
» 22/10/2014 7:30:30 AM Yet another collection of uniformed rants by idiots who can't tell the difference between .....
» 22/10/2014 7:24:17 AM When you are building a national system of roads you would start with interconnecting high.....
» 12/10/2014 3:47:03 PM Unlike Christianity both Islam and Judaism are "law-giving" religions that dicta.....
» 25/09/2014 12:01:13 AM "Government effectiveness is measured by opinion polls and elections but these don't .....
» 15/09/2014 9:40:59 PM Runner, I don't understand the denialist obsession with Al Gore. You make it seem that he.....
» 27/08/2014 10:14:23 AM Palmer's rant was his typical response to avoiding difficult questions about himself. The.....
» 6/08/2014 12:18:03 AM "Labor's Speaker" was a long-term Liberal Minister whose previous escapades were.....
» 6/08/2014 12:08:25 AM One of the very first things Hockey did after the election was to restore the Superannuati.....
» 28/07/2014 10:59:32 PM Funny how the Fact Checker doesn't agree with the trend in the polls. The constant pre-el.....
» 28/07/2014 10:49:04 PM Nice try but if you think it's so relevant to excuse the present by looking to the past, H.....
» 28/07/2014 10:34:19 PM Abbott waited three days before even calling Putin, launched yet another military nuanced .....
» 26/07/2014 12:25:24 AM Loudmouth, I didn't mean to imply that Putin was "innocent" but I also think it'.....
» 25/07/2014 5:18:39 PM Ignoring all the conspiratorial rants above I'm prepared to accept that some ill-trained m.....
» 3/07/2014 8:58:13 PM Individual seems to have a strange fetish for talking about the "lefty ALP" at e.....
» 3/07/2014 8:49:51 PM So many people are in a state of denial about this - looking for excuses or conspiracies. .....
» 29/06/2014 4:32:26 PM Neither option is perfect but at least an ETS can be used as a global mechanism, as long a.....
» 21/06/2014 12:10:41 AM The Carmody appointment reminds me of when Bjelke-Petersen appointed Albert Field as a Nat.....
» 20/06/2014 11:57:33 PM Since it seems to be the basis of most aspects of culture, religion should indeed be taugh.....
» 20/06/2014 11:50:20 PM There are no real "leftists" anymore. Political parties are little more than th.....
» 28/05/2014 9:58:42 PM Is Mise, All three were after territory which equals resources which strangely, equals mo.....
» 28/05/2014 3:31:55 PM After many years of distinguished service, twice decorated war hero Major General Smedley .....
» 26/05/2014 9:50:49 PM Funny how these reactionary neo-con throwbacks can dish out the bile and confected outrage.....
» 22/05/2014 11:10:40 AM This budget isn't an economic statement - it's an ideological one. It's about lowering th.....
» 15/05/2014 12:43:59 AM Best just let them stew? Abbott himself is doing a fine job of promoting his long history.....
» 14/05/2014 11:26:31 AM It is indeed a wish list - the list as published by the IPA before the election, but only .....
» 14/05/2014 11:18:45 AM It's interesting that some US Conservative politicians and evangelical Christians still be.....
» 4/05/2014 7:31:01 PM We no longer have "the real Julia" on the stage - only "Phony Tony", a.....
» 30/04/2014 8:51:51 PM Who cares if too much wealth concentrates in too few hands? I do. I care that these peopl.....
» 30/04/2014 7:44:53 PM It's always been the case that lies and spin can get you into Government but they certainl.....
» 28/04/2014 1:42:48 PM One thing I've noticed about all the Pilger critics over the years is they always seem to .....
» 17/04/2014 8:55:38 AM There is a very good reason for the government attacks on the ABC. It is to silence disse.....
» 11/04/2014 2:21:23 PM Many people seem to have forgotten that we have laws in our society and penalties against .....
» 5/04/2014 7:08:25 AM Humanitarian Award? I can hear the acceptance speech now - "I'm the best friend refug.....
» 26/03/2014 10:06:14 PM If you get knocked down and injured by somebody in a motorised wheelchair in a shopping ce.....
» 6/03/2014 10:16:54 PM Those "obscene" penalty rates are actually entitlements as negotiated and agreed.....
» 6/03/2014 10:00:18 PM "... those 'pure' scientists with just a vested interest in an ARC grant, gigantic eg.....
» 24/02/2014 8:02:32 PM rehctub, Those "economic vandals" left an economy with a AAA rating, low inflat.....
» 24/02/2014 7:50:40 PM One thing that many seem to overlook is that the great majority of despotic regimes throug.....
» 19/02/2014 6:43:09 PM We shouldn't scrap the ABC - just hand it over to Rupert Murdoch and he can appoint somebo.....
» 15/02/2014 8:24:54 AM What utter hypocrisy - Abbott accusing anybody of being negative. "Wrecking Balls&qu.....
» 15/02/2014 8:13:11 AM For what it's worth, here is something I read several years ago. There are representative.....
» 31/01/2014 3:08:03 PM I should have included references about my remark about the faiolure of the scheme. ".....
» 31/01/2014 2:50:46 PM Results of research into the scheme actually showed that it was a failure in achieving bet.....
» 31/01/2014 2:47:13 PM First we need to get handed billions of dollars per year from the US government and have s.....
» 31/01/2014 2:43:13 PM Let's end all those taxpayer subsidies to corporations so it's finally everyone for themse.....
» 31/01/2014 2:32:15 PM "Research has shown.." What research? Research among members of the IPA and the .....
» 24/01/2014 11:36:10 PM JBowyer, Clever comeback. Handing out superannuation tax breaks to the wealthy at the ex.....
» 24/01/2014 12:43:26 AM So whatever happened to the "Great Dream"? In the US it started to collapse bec.....
» 24/01/2014 12:21:09 AM Abbott is looking more and more like somebody completely out of his depth. He has display.....
» 17/01/2014 1:30:25 PM rechtub, You were born at the wrong time. I bet you would have had a great time in Europe.....
» 17/01/2014 1:22:52 PM Teaching children about religion - specifically comparative and historical aspects - can b.....
» 16/01/2014 4:22:42 PM Considering that after the prayer, the members go back to their typically hypocritical un-.....
» 7/01/2014 9:43:52 AM I agree it's probably Gorbachev for the global physical changes he instigated. As for Gan.....
» 24/12/2013 6:09:47 PM Is Jesus Santa for grown-ups or is Santa a cuddly introduction to the coming religious ind.....
» 24/12/2013 6:05:38 PM Considering that this matter was well and truly investigated some time ago and handed down.....
» 16/12/2013 2:06:25 PM Otokonoko, This thread was started as an attack against the Rudd government but the fact .....
» 15/12/2013 7:23:21 PM When it comes to blasphemy, I think God is quite capable of looking after him/her/itself. .....
» 15/12/2013 7:08:02 PM Care should be taken when making claims about politican's expenses. I still remember How.....
» 15/12/2013 6:42:19 PM Runner, So the evil unions have made our wages too high but we should stop the 457 worker.....
» 10/12/2013 12:52:56 AM Abbott is finally realising there is a difference between opposition and government. Talk .....
» 8/12/2013 10:34:11 AM People bitch and moan about their 13 cents a day for the ABC but don't realise that the so.....
» 8/12/2013 9:54:23 AM Labor isn't the party it used to be. Then again, neither are the Liberals. What used to .....
» 8/12/2013 9:45:05 AM "I was in a sandwich shop the other day ordering a sandwich. The man next to me was .....
» 4/12/2013 10:30:39 AM Racial or religious profiling is an abhorrent act and nobody deserves to be treated that w.....
» 4/12/2013 10:18:59 AM Didn't Abbott say he wouldn't "do deals with minority Parties"? Coalition or no.....
» 4/12/2013 10:12:16 AM Arrogance and ego are essential personality traits for politicians and Rudd had plenty of .....
» 20/11/2013 9:20:44 PM I'm actually finding this new government utterly hilarious to watch in action. Staggering.....
» 16/11/2013 12:25:53 AM He may be ticking some of them off early but that doesn't mean that they will go away befo.....
» 16/11/2013 12:18:21 AM Sure, lets ban the Muslims and let the child-molesting Christians get on with it in safety.....
» 16/11/2013 12:10:57 AM Howard signed a joint military exercise agreement with the USA in 2005 which included the .....
» 6/11/2013 8:10:47 PM "..valuing animals more than humans comes from the idiotic theory of evolution" .....
» 6/11/2013 8:02:58 PM imajulianutter, The only people making noise (shrieking) about that stuff were Abbott and .....
» 31/10/2013 10:05:38 PM For a democracy to work, the citizens must be well informed about all the issues. Do we re.....
» 22/10/2013 11:18:17 PM onthebeach, "It remains difficult for some to come to terms with the results of the .....
» 22/10/2013 11:15:50 PM Runner, Globally we are at about number 11 output per capita (more than the USA) and as a.....
» 22/10/2013 10:53:42 PM A 1.5% swing to the Liberal Party is hardly a "landslide" win. The total swing.....
» 11/10/2013 4:38:08 PM Ludwig, "How is it possible for politicians to just simply be paid whatever they clai.....
» 8/10/2013 7:57:21 PM Runner, What Gillard may or may not have done is irrelevant in the current situation. The .....
» 7/10/2013 8:54:30 PM Rache, That Howard hotel incident wasn't related to his UK cricket visit - it was part of.....
» 23/09/2013 7:57:36 PM The first error Rudd made when he beat Howard was not flushing out all the Howard-appointe.....
» 23/09/2013 7:50:14 PM This development is not surprising - just a return to their old form. Downer once admitte.....
» 19/09/2013 11:53:03 PM To be fair, I doubt that Abbott has much of a say in who is on his front bench. Like the .....
» 12/09/2013 11:21:53 PM I forgot to mention that Abbott promised that our power bills would immediately fall by 10.....
» 12/09/2013 11:16:29 PM In Abbott’s victory speech he said “In three years’ time, the carbon tax will be gone…”. .....
» 9/09/2013 7:57:06 PM I've got no problem with religion being taught at schools, but as a general subject and on.....
» 9/09/2013 7:44:24 PM Interesting speech. I wonder who wrote it?.....
» 9/09/2013 7:42:13 PM Arjay, Perhaps a quick look into the Iran-Syria gas Pipeline deal - http://www.theguardia.....
» 8/09/2013 11:07:00 PM Not everybody saw the Howard era through rose-tinted glasses. Many people were hurt by hi.....
» 4/09/2013 4:09:59 PM Producer We can't do much about gerrymanders but to be really fair we should also abolish.....
» 4/09/2013 4:02:46 PM Abbott's daughters - "Which goes to show that he has never looked down on them.".....
» 2/09/2013 7:46:37 PM It's a general human failing not to appreciate exponential growth, let alone a political o.....
» 2/09/2013 7:33:07 PM The subsidy (as funded by public taxation) should have been paid directly to the Public Ho.....
» 27/08/2013 8:47:15 PM Abbott a "decent member" of parliament? Abbott's a morally & intellectually ban.....
» 27/08/2013 8:34:27 PM Once you solve the "Stable Population" problem the next thing will be to stop th.....
» 27/08/2013 8:27:57 PM Manufacturing moving off-shore is mainly the result of corporate greed chasing higher prof.....
» 26/08/2013 8:20:31 PM Poirot, I'm sure that any day now, Abbott will announce that he is reinstating all that m.....
» 24/08/2013 12:12:19 AM Cutting payments to the poor to give more money to the rich? Back to the good old days. C.....
» 24/08/2013 12:02:35 AM A bit of the "real" Tony Abbott showed through too with the "shut up" .....
» 15/08/2013 8:02:06 PM Runner, It's not the "examples" - it's always been the followers. Some are vio.....
» 7/08/2013 9:25:21 PM It seems to me that many still cannot tell the difference between religion and culture. M.....
» 7/08/2013 8:04:33 PM There is a third option that will please both sides. Why not keep the current system but .....
» 5/08/2013 1:28:51 PM For a start, Brough was in receipt of stolen goods (Slipper's personal diary) and was comp.....
» 5/08/2013 1:16:59 PM There's debt and then there's debt. There's debt used to fund infrastructure and maintain .....
» 28/07/2013 10:35:01 PM We should remember that against all previous convention it was Howard who first played the.....
» 26/07/2013 9:47:22 PM Marilyn, Guess who wrote this in 2006? "Another great challenge of our age is asylum.....
» 18/07/2013 11:05:54 PM Abbott's a morally & intellectually bankrupt throwback - a desperate, hysteria-mongering, .....
» 18/07/2013 10:57:36 PM Funny how the ALP is using "the power of the free market" to provide a solution .....
» 18/07/2013 10:52:38 PM There's always the option seriously canvassed by a (now deceased) TV celebrity during the .....
» 9/07/2013 10:22:33 PM Naughty Tony. As well as the "oversight" about his Battlelines claims (which ha.....
» 9/07/2013 10:14:55 PM The CSIRO has found that, prior to the commencement of the HIP, for every 100,000 househol.....
» 17/06/2013 8:25:31 PM Most of the above gratuitous comments are a splendid example of the vile and appalling pow.....
» 17/06/2013 8:18:28 PM I really love how these champions of capitalist free enterprise expect their employees and.....
» 14/06/2013 8:50:18 AM I eagerly await Abbott having to publicly defend a rumour that his wife is a transvestite......
» 13/06/2013 2:43:30 PM Mining provides up to 10% of our export income and just over 2% of our employment and mini.....
» 6/06/2013 11:54:48 PM I suppose it would be easier for the ABC to criticise Abbott if he had the balls to appear.....
» 6/06/2013 11:48:15 PM It's an economic fact that a higher minimum wage creates a higher level of economic effici.....
» 6/06/2013 11:37:27 PM NBN was fully aware of the asbestos factor, as was the Government and steps were taken to .....
» 3/06/2013 9:53:31 PM This is a ridiculous argument. The LNP Fraudband alternative would be using the same pits.....
» 24/05/2013 9:03:01 PM SF, Your response proves my point. It's the eternal trump card trotted out to excuse ev.....
» 24/05/2013 8:51:19 PM praxidice, I'm not saying he won't get any votes. I'm saying that he will take votes aw.....
» 24/05/2013 3:29:21 PM I remember the ridiculous "Joh for PM" campaign and how it split the conservativ.....
» 24/05/2013 3:20:44 PM It's a matter of what you do, not who you are. The holocaust was a horrific and shameful .....
» 16/05/2013 8:05:39 PM One of the personal criminal allegations is that Abbott undertook this matter at taxpayers.....
» 16/05/2013 7:58:41 PM In 1998 Abbott lied to the ABC about bankrolling Terry Sharples and then lied about it the.....
» 16/05/2013 10:04:11 AM I expect that by his very own standards, Abbott will be standing down any day now while th.....
» 29/04/2013 7:21:57 PM Why on earth would anybody pay the slightest bit of attention to what Lyndon La Rouche thi.....
» 29/04/2013 7:13:23 PM I bet that not many people know that Australia is the only country in the world that pays .....
» 12/04/2013 7:38:10 PM Shadow Minister, In the 31 years before Thatcher came to office their economy grew by abo.....
» 11/04/2013 10:59:12 PM onthebeach, "What does lack principle is to deliberately misquote, making things up .....
» 10/04/2013 4:03:49 PM It's a bit hypocritical for the same people who continually slag off at Gillard to complai.....
» 10/04/2013 3:59:33 PM I suppose the pay-a-bit-less but get-a-lot-less Liberal alternative is supposed to be some.....
» 8/04/2013 2:42:52 PM I think the article missed the point. How many have actually read the entire speech rather.....
» 5/04/2013 9:55:43 PM dane, If you bother to look through Breivik's Manifesto you will see all the same argumen.....
» 4/04/2013 6:59:08 PM I'm sure Anders Breivik has more than a few fans in this country......
» 4/04/2013 6:54:35 PM Sin or not, it's a crime to sell something that doesn't belong to you. Privatisation is l.....
» 4/04/2013 6:48:52 PM "The poor, who must live on table scraps dropped by the rich can best be served by gi.....
» 4/04/2013 6:40:54 PM The concept of Halal in foodstuffs is really just a marketing issue and done by manufactur.....
» 26/03/2013 9:26:49 PM Obviously most people have no idea about the real purposes of debt and revenue in an econo.....
» 26/03/2013 9:21:55 PM The role of an opposition is not to just "oppose". In the Westminster System i.....
» 19/03/2013 7:34:01 PM What I find interesting about Pilger's critics is they generalise or make personal insults.....
» 18/03/2013 6:40:58 PM So most Labor supporters won't vote for their party if Gillard is their leader but Liberal.....
» 14/03/2013 4:59:47 PM SM, "The freedom of the press is not synonamous with the freedom to only print what .....
» 13/03/2013 10:33:32 PM Murdoch turned on Whitlam after Whitlam called him a "shonky slob" because Murdo.....
» 11/03/2013 9:46:17 PM I find it odd that many Liberal supporters don't like Abbott yet will still vote for his P.....
» 8/03/2013 11:45:35 PM rehctub, Tell me when we see the real Tony. Is it the current new warm and cuddly Downton.....
» 7/03/2013 7:18:18 PM Meanwhile on the other side, Tony moves from hard-hats and safety vests to botox, blue tie.....
» 28/02/2013 1:04:08 AM One thing that the author, Wilders and many posters (on both sides) have in common is thei.....
» 23/02/2013 2:10:38 PM So if frogs are heard near sonofgloin's window when it rains, who needs all that bothersom.....
» 21/02/2013 12:15:59 PM Show me a Fairfax story with pro-ALP/Greens bias and I'll show you many more stories slant.....
» 18/02/2013 12:47:17 PM Whatever does having two daughters have to do with whether you're a misogynist or not? Did.....
» 12/02/2013 8:44:29 PM Slashing the Public Service by redundancies or by "natural attrition" is the sam.....
» 9/02/2013 8:51:45 AM Howard was popular initially because he wasn't Keating - but was deeply unpopular toward t.....
» 7/02/2013 9:49:23 PM Casting the first stone again Runner?.....
» 7/02/2013 9:44:27 PM The problem with the idea that talk-back radio is where "one tends to hear the common.....
» 5/02/2013 10:54:04 PM I have a similar anecdote but have forgotten the source. "When I was 20 I cared a gr.....
» 4/02/2013 10:34:48 PM Once again we see the old argument that morality is the product of religious belief. Is t.....
» 3/02/2013 1:50:32 PM Hasbeen, When does the media comment on what Abbott is wearing. Gillard was specifically .....
» 3/02/2013 1:38:24 PM 579, Some have forgotten but most don't even know about the fraud that Mal Brough perpetr.....
» 2/02/2013 3:47:59 PM It's funny to see Abbott throwing the switch from "aggressively negative" to &qu.....
» 1/02/2013 12:40:10 PM So the nomination of an election date was some sort of Gillard grand master plan? The Lib.....
» 31/01/2013 9:54:14 PM Constance, I think you greatly exaggerate Mr Abbott's activities, although it was nice to.....
» 30/01/2013 12:51:22 AM People treat Government Budgets as though they were household ones. They are not like hou.....
» 30/01/2013 12:36:02 AM I suppose it's better than the old knighthoods that could be "bought" if you kne.....
» 30/01/2013 12:30:39 AM Arjay, I think you're living in false hope of things fixing themselves. It's always been .....
» 29/01/2013 7:59:37 AM Arjay, It will be interesting to see how this pans out - if ever. Once you realise that o.....
» 25/01/2013 1:13:25 PM A pity there's no income clock as well or something showing the trillion dollars held in m.....
» 24/01/2013 12:52:16 AM I'm one of those who can't see the logic in creating a entire universe just for the purpos.....
» 16/01/2013 11:04:23 PM Even a decrease in the rate of rise is still an increase in level. The sea level did inde.....
» 28/12/2012 8:31:19 PM As opposed to some of the Howard "Golden Age" Miracles we've overlooked - Bigge.....
» 28/12/2012 8:13:01 PM Bazz, My comment on breaking national infrastructure into smaller parcels reflects the no.....
» 28/12/2012 7:47:08 PM I sometimes consider these two "wise sayings" - "He who hesitates is lost&.....
» 26/12/2012 1:31:42 PM It seems we have much to learn from the immensely successful US medical system which somet.....
» 26/12/2012 1:21:36 PM "The vast vast majority of copper cable in the streets are in world standard conditio.....
» 24/12/2012 11:01:52 PM Wow! Roxon and Shorten had an extramarital affair? Got any links or other sources to prov.....
» 24/12/2012 10:45:57 PM Could the private sector have offered it cheaper and faster? Cheaper? No, because the gov.....
» 18/12/2012 8:12:49 PM I think you're looking at it the wrong way. There should be MORE guns in the USA, not les.....
» 18/12/2012 7:50:43 PM Gee, it's not so nice when the shoe's on the other foot is it? History can tell us much......
» 16/12/2012 9:57:29 PM The texts were not sent to an employee - Ashby was not an employee when they were sent. T.....
» 16/12/2012 9:45:20 PM It's all too easy to predict what will happen next. 1. The media will milk it for all it'.....
» 14/12/2012 10:38:24 PM I see that Abbott is claiming "no specific knowledge of the matter" until he saw.....
» 13/12/2012 1:33:36 PM Now that their complicity in the Ashby claim is becoming more apparent, the next problem f.....
» 11/12/2012 2:30:55 PM What I find ridiculous is how the skeptics brand AGW as "a religion" and themsel.....
» 11/12/2012 2:23:03 PM It's interesting that nobody has commented on the role that the King Edward VII Hospital p.....
» 10/12/2012 2:51:13 PM Oh come on and lighten up a little. Only a couple of weeks and the so-called Mayan predic.....
» 10/12/2012 2:43:43 PM Hasbeen, "Any little area of business still surviving after her mining & carbon taxe.....
» 5/12/2012 4:59:59 PM individual, Remember when the Air Traffic Controllers were striking and the PM called in .....
» 2/12/2012 4:37:52 PM History shows that all significant social developments and all major infrastructure projec.....
» 2/12/2012 4:19:22 PM sonofgloin, I don't agree that Windsor's and Oakeshot's electorates wanted members who we.....
» 30/11/2012 9:21:44 PM Our system suggests that most people vote for candidates of a particular party than for in.....
» 29/11/2012 6:27:31 PM Raise the eligible voting age to 25 years after you raise the age of miltary service to 25.....
» 29/11/2012 6:21:56 PM At least Abbott took his minders' advice not to hide behind the cockroach today but he sti.....
» 29/11/2012 6:14:57 PM If the world switched to renewables tomorrow it wouldn't affect me. I'd just ride my flyi.....
» 25/11/2012 7:56:01 PM So few coalition scandals? Really? I recall Howard lost 8 Ministers in his first term due .....
» 19/11/2012 6:30:31 PM 579. Mining contributes 20% of GDP? Actually it's about 10%. It also provides about 240,0.....
» 17/11/2012 8:40:09 PM Atheists don't "reject" God. To reject something means you accept its existence......
» 13/11/2012 8:33:47 PM While I'm no fan of organised religion generally, I think a Commission is owed not only to.....
» 13/11/2012 8:26:27 PM Leo Lane, From your "insightful" comment I am guessing that you are one of his l.....
» 12/11/2012 6:24:25 PM Runner, " Why to you think the Labour party is so desperate to smear Abbott"? B.....
» 12/11/2012 6:19:26 PM Jones' influence is mainly restricted to the Western Suburbs of Sydney, where he can incre.....
» 12/11/2012 12:53:21 AM cohenite, You're obviously an apologist for the West and an avowed enemy of Islam but have.....
» 9/11/2012 1:21:18 AM The texts quoted in the press were sent by Slipper? Well not quite. The implication of w.....
» 8/11/2012 3:27:06 PM Is Slipper guilty of sending sexist and vile texts? No, he is guilty of responding to them.....
» 7/11/2012 1:14:46 AM Gee I must be older than I thought. I actually remember a time when women didn't have to .....
» 7/11/2012 12:57:38 AM individual, It's a bit rich to blame everything that happened in "the last twenty ye.....
» 4/11/2012 6:33:29 PM Well here we go again, For someone with the tag of "individual" you seem to let .....
» 3/11/2012 6:10:27 PM "Interestingly Abbott is a qualified economist?." And a failed journalist, a fa.....
» 1/11/2012 6:55:01 PM Curmudgeon, Point taken, but from what I can see of the avalanche of articles still being.....
» 31/10/2012 9:17:34 PM Well according to the author, it appears that moving to renewal energy sources is just too.....
» 25/10/2012 1:15:17 AM rehctub. Some people see those years through rose-coloured glasses. Sure, some people wer.....
» 24/10/2012 12:58:11 AM Well for all their public whining about new taxes , the Libs only actually opposed 8 of th.....
» 20/10/2012 1:04:06 AM Oil rich Muslim countries are not so poor? As far as GDP per capita is concerned, the IMF.....
» 19/10/2012 6:15:50 PM The country with the biggest Muslim population in the world (Indonesia) seems reasonably h.....
» 17/10/2012 2:23:35 PM sonofgloin, I used to feel the same way about a former (still-beloved-by-many) PM who was.....
» 15/10/2012 12:54:21 AM I remember then Premier Joh Bjelke-Petersen responding to claims that the reef was in trou.....
» 15/10/2012 12:42:01 AM Too much over-reaction and reading nonsense into straightforward events. It makes me want.....
» 10/10/2012 1:33:03 PM Once again perspective seems to be ignored in these posts. Gillard was doing exactly what.....
» 10/10/2012 1:23:06 PM Some can dish it out but like typical bullies, can't take it......
» 10/10/2012 1:21:15 PM "Considering the bile and invective you pile into your posts, you are no better than .....
» 4/10/2012 2:35:28 AM Shadow Minister - "There are plenty of cases of left wing journalists saying far wors.....
» 4/10/2012 2:27:03 AM Shadow Minister, Of course the Commonwealth was liable on the basis that all employers mu.....
» 4/10/2012 2:13:46 AM If gullibility and stupidity could somehow be converted to clean energy then some 2GB list.....
» 2/10/2012 10:39:41 PM Shadow Minister, It was actually the the wife of Mr Bowen who (re-)tweeted that remark an.....
» 2/10/2012 10:24:49 PM If the Government used it's own legal resources I imagine most of the $700,000 costs were .....
» 2/10/2012 11:27:15 AM Roxon's decision was a financial one and not an admission of the charges themselves. Ashb.....
» 2/10/2012 11:19:53 AM The fact that offensive remarks have been made about coalition members is still no excuse .....
» 30/09/2012 4:23:03 PM [Deleted for abuse.].....
» 29/09/2012 6:52:43 PM I think it's time God got a bit of a break. He's obviously lonely, otherwise He wouldn't .....
» 25/09/2012 1:53:13 PM Belly, From my decades as a political spectator I've made the following conclusions - Aus.....
» 24/09/2012 2:35:52 PM One one side we have the ALP which is historically influenced by Unions and has Left-Right.....
» 23/09/2012 3:17:36 PM Perhaps we should re-enact the Siev-X tragedy where it's believed the Australian Navy were.....
» 21/09/2012 2:09:10 AM "The cartoons published by moslem media are far worse than the cartoons published in .....
» 21/09/2012 2:06:22 AM Until somebody can produce an animal that understands, desires and consents to the concept.....
» 19/09/2012 11:40:14 PM Interesting that the same right-wing Dutch newspaper that published the troublesome Mohamm.....
» 19/09/2012 11:36:10 PM Sunni or Shia - Catholic or Protestant - rival Hindu groups arguing over the eating of bee.....
» 19/09/2012 11:23:53 PM Bernardi was just a right-wing extremist and was Abbott’s attack dog in the same way that .....
» 17/09/2012 2:11:40 AM Sending people "home" is definitely not an option for those born here, and proba.....
» 17/09/2012 2:01:34 AM Loudmouth, OK, if you want to stick to the issues they are - 1. FGM is a barbaric cultur.....
» 16/09/2012 1:12:13 AM "Does male circumcision have any effect on male sexual sensation ? I don't think so -.....
» 16/09/2012 12:53:24 AM The film, like those cartoons a while ago, was made with the knowledge and deliberate inte.....
» 15/09/2012 2:30:09 AM Perhaps the alternative of letting us slide into a GFC recession with unemployment hitting.....
» 15/09/2012 2:18:07 AM Technically, circumcision is also genital mutilation performed without consent. It's more .....
» 14/09/2012 2:03:23 AM It's rubbish because I am not personally liable for your mortgage payments and you are not.....
» 14/09/2012 1:48:16 AM I'd be more concerned by the fact that Optus has the contract for communications in Parlia.....
» 13/09/2012 1:00:41 AM Utter rubbish as usual. The external debt figure is total debt, the majority of which is .....
» 11/09/2012 1:13:29 AM Sonofgloin, Was that alleged but unsourced cabinet leak about the pension from before or .....
» 4/09/2012 1:11:13 AM 579, You may (or may not be) surprised to learn that the number of Public Servants grew at.....
» 29/08/2012 11:32:12 PM Lawler is in it up to his neck. Lawler and his family are consider “Liberal Royalty” and .....
» 29/08/2012 10:20:24 PM The "science" is never in. The results of a recent study have been published in.....
» 29/08/2012 10:11:02 PM How amazing that many of the things some scientists predicted decades ago - such as extrem.....
» 27/08/2012 8:08:10 PM Shadow Minister - Regarding facts, and for your info, here is a list of AIRC members when.....
» 26/08/2012 1:18:44 AM There used to be a saying in some media circles - "Is it true or did you read it in t.....
» 24/08/2012 8:46:52 AM "Mysogynists and nut jobs".Indeed......
» 24/08/2012 8:42:14 AM I suppose Labor could dredge up those charges made against Abbott years ago for damaging p.....
» 23/08/2012 2:27:27 AM The" Gillard constructed and appointed FWA" blah blah blah. Rubbish. The FWA i.....
» 21/08/2012 2:04:14 AM Runner, Are these the same thriving private schools that sometimes sexually molest their o.....
» 21/08/2012 2:00:48 AM If there are no allegations - criminal or otherwise - what is there to respond to? Unfoun.....
» 19/08/2012 12:06:01 AM Yes we should "care for our own" and "charity begins at home" and all .....
» 9/08/2012 3:59:33 PM I saw the David statue in Florence and the explanation I was given for the odd proportions.....
» 7/08/2012 6:42:04 PM david f, Some people choose to literally worship the image of a man being tortured to dea.....
» 7/08/2012 8:45:20 AM It's certainly clever and it's imaginative but I think the actual execution would be done .....
» 1/08/2012 2:00:36 AM And to think that if it was the other way around, he would have been hailed as some sort o.....
» 31/07/2012 12:27:28 PM How is this different from what every other government has ever done? How about spending .....
» 26/07/2012 1:47:32 PM I don't have a problem with Christianity or with Jesus. It's the members of His Fan Club t.....
» 26/07/2012 1:29:59 PM I think we are entitled to know the truth about those things that affect us and the basis .....
» 26/07/2012 1:17:55 PM I don't use my local Libraries, parks, swimming pools or community centres either. All I w.....
» 26/07/2012 1:08:50 PM The main reason for high birth rates in Third World countries is partly due to the high in.....
» 24/07/2012 4:19:21 PM Iran used to be a healthy open democracy. As was Iraq - and Chile - and Argentina, and ma.....
» 24/07/2012 4:06:01 PM "Guns don't kill people" Yes, but people with guns kill people......
» 23/07/2012 2:21:11 PM Small Business - aren't they the crowd who screwed over the taxpayer by rorting things lik.....
» 23/07/2012 2:16:29 PM I remember all the racial "enclaves" that existed back in the sixties and sevent.....
» 18/07/2012 6:46:38 PM If I went to 9 Doctors and each one did independent tests and all said that smoking was ca.....
» 18/07/2012 6:39:24 PM You would have to be crazy to believe Abbott's masters doesn't want to go back to a Workch.....
» 16/07/2012 11:31:25 PM Hasbeen, Big Oil are certainly one of the primary funders of the global (so-called) Thin.....
» 16/07/2012 1:23:50 PM It never ceases to amaze me that people seem to pin most of this on Al Gore - as if he &qu.....
» 13/07/2012 1:17:25 PM Far from being some sort of "miracle" the global economy has been just a huge Po.....
» 11/07/2012 10:11:58 PM Behind all the media spin about the "Greens running the country" and the constan.....
» 8/07/2012 12:17:40 PM Maybe there is indeed a religious element to this but no so much for the belief in organic.....
» 6/07/2012 6:36:27 PM Remember who it was that decided break convention in 2001 and to play this particular (rac.....
» 6/07/2012 6:29:20 PM I for one am prepared to treat her response in the way she would have if it was Gillard in.....
» 2/07/2012 1:41:48 PM No politician has ever broken a promise before Gillard came on the scene -not even a forme.....
» 2/07/2012 1:24:28 PM It's amazing how people can pass judgement on something that happened within the first 48 .....
» 1/07/2012 7:57:46 PM Maybe if some previous half-witted PM didn't have the great idea that he would save money .....
» 29/06/2012 6:07:43 PM rehctub, Governments should NOT be run just like businesses. Businesses should be run li.....
» 28/06/2012 1:20:00 PM This talk has being going on for the last 2 years, and despite Rudd's previous failed atte.....
» 22/06/2012 1:27:58 PM There would be no sex workers if there were no clients willing to pay for their services. .....
» 19/06/2012 7:28:06 PM Gillard's speech was the same one she gave with South Korea and the IMF, who agreed with t.....
» 19/06/2012 7:17:39 PM Stop all this chit-chat and get back to work! If you don't like it there's plenty more pe.....
» 18/06/2012 12:00:37 AM Funny thing - GDP. Some people seem obsessed with it as a measure of success but - Every t.....
» 15/06/2012 11:26:45 PM Morality is a symptom of it's time and changes as required. It has never been frozen in ti.....
» 14/06/2012 1:46:42 AM Yeah sure, it's all a big con. Never mind the decades of research and the mounting scient.....
» 12/06/2012 7:59:32 PM Sometime I wonder what it is that makes some people adore the image of a man being torture.....
» 12/06/2012 7:48:11 PM It's interesting to see someone like Eric Abetz now suggesting that the Libs back off from.....
» 9/06/2012 10:52:51 PM SPQR, "retired pollies should restrict their attention/activities to pottering about .....
» 9/06/2012 10:35:01 PM I fail to see the deeper relevance of that image beyond a couple of immature teens acting .....
» 7/06/2012 4:33:32 PM "What this means is that we become the place of first strike if there is a war.".....
» 5/06/2012 1:26:18 PM I've been trying to compile a list of Liz's greatest achievements over the last 60 years b.....
» 4/06/2012 1:47:41 PM For me that show about cooks (in no way real chefs) promoting eating and arguing about the.....
» 1/06/2012 11:23:40 PM The Unfair Dismissal Laws were enacted as a result of the ratification of ILO Convention 1.....
» 1/06/2012 7:54:01 PM I remember hearing a joke about employment and immigrants a while ago. It ended with ".....
» 29/05/2012 11:28:20 PM Shadow Minister, I would have quoted from Liberal or National Party Party documents if the.....
» 28/05/2012 3:45:50 PM Miners are paying comparatively less tax now than they did when Fraser opened the doors an.....
» 28/05/2012 3:19:41 PM Should this restriction on taxpayer generosity and largess be extended to those other idle.....
» 22/05/2012 8:37:47 PM Muckraking is just another name for political strategy to some people and they go to all s.....
» 22/05/2012 1:21:42 PM It seems the mysterious Mr Lawler has suddenly gone on "long leave" and is out o.....
» 21/05/2012 11:21:11 PM rehctub, Well it was actually me who said that. I'm not making excuses but there were al.....
» 21/05/2012 4:27:02 PM I don't believe that Howard/Costello would have been capable of handling the GFC response .....
» 18/05/2012 2:09:20 PM And how would you vote on the "Government's official stance on the recent incident in.....
» 16/05/2012 3:30:00 PM All this gloom and doom and "end-of-civilisation-as-we-know-it talk" seems to ha.....
» 14/05/2012 1:38:31 PM To paraphrase the wisdom of Tony Abbott - "Well she just does"......
» 14/05/2012 1:36:43 PM Runner, Regarding Hollingsworth, a yet-to-be-proven allegation is not the same as a demon.....
» 9/05/2012 7:42:57 PM Lexi, I have noticed frequently that not long after I wash my car - it rains. I realise .....
» 6/05/2012 10:29:51 PM Runner, The author never even mentioned the Scriptures, let alone professed to "hate&.....
» 30/04/2012 4:02:43 PM Austin Powerless, Slipper's cabcharge problems happened under Abbott's watch when he was .....
» 26/04/2012 11:09:35 PM Yet somehow, despite the near-hung parliament and in the face of a sustained the media att.....
» 23/04/2012 8:04:48 PM Sure, Let's have an election every time a poll indicates a possible change of government -.....
» 22/04/2012 2:17:13 AM Negative gearing does NOT increase the amount of housing being built. Most rental propert.....
» 21/04/2012 3:17:40 PM Is negative gearing middle class welfare? If it artifically increases the cost of housing.....
» 21/04/2012 3:09:57 PM I can only imagine what sort of screeching treatment Christine Kenneally and the ALP would.....
» 19/04/2012 7:09:15 PM From many of the comments above, it seems the authors believe that anybody who loses their.....
» 16/04/2012 2:57:39 PM I think Keating had Turnbull well-pegged when he said Turnbull was "very intelligent .....
» 15/04/2012 8:44:44 PM I have no idea what you mean about "hard left" or "extreme left" when .....
» 13/04/2012 9:44:32 PM Religion as a source for morality? Seriously? This brand of morality not only endorsed but.....
» 8/04/2012 11:00:38 PM Now that the election media frenzy has died down, I think it’s time for a bit of a post-el.....
» 4/04/2012 7:40:22 PM Runner, Allow me to be the first to equate Jesus with Mohammed in any and every way you l.....
» 4/04/2012 1:51:47 PM If theists are so certain and self-assured about how right their beliefs are, then why do .....
» 2/04/2012 3:46:09 PM The choice whether to have children (or not) is personal one and demands a significant deg.....
» 2/04/2012 3:35:55 PM The basis of all religion is the notion that there is life after death and countless peopl.....
» 22/03/2012 12:51:23 PM Considering all the sabre-rattling going on it seems that some sort of conflict will be in.....
» 20/03/2012 6:42:10 PM There's not much difference between funding the Arts and funding professional sports. Bot.....
» 12/03/2012 7:09:50 PM Gillard's still got a long way to go before she catches up with Maggie Thatcher's record o.....
» 9/03/2012 8:22:58 PM Talk about an overreaction to a spontaneous reactionary comment! During the immediate fal.....
» 8/03/2012 7:08:15 PM The Libs purged all their moderate members over the last decade and are left with little e.....
» 8/03/2012 7:01:25 PM If retail has a problem it's because the consumer has had enough of several years of binge.....
» 6/03/2012 12:33:07 PM Individual, For your information, Greiner and Fahey were Premiers between 1988 and 1995. .....
» 5/03/2012 7:56:17 PM "Labor leaders leave our economies in an absolute mess" is a bit of a generalisa.....
» 29/02/2012 8:01:24 PM Arjay, It's not just Australia but I think the whole world is inevitably heading toward b.....
» 28/02/2012 7:04:15 PM I really can't understand this obsession with political populism over policy. It's just be.....
» 27/02/2012 12:22:33 PM The USA back to where they started from? Yeah sure, with US unemployment at around 3% hig.....
» 26/02/2012 9:42:30 PM Loudmouth, That's a rather selective view of the facts. That "squandered" surp.....
» 23/02/2012 7:11:17 PM Workchoices, as I recall - produced no increase in productivity either, unless you define .....
» 23/02/2012 7:07:16 PM Poirot, I agree with you about Turnbull. He once tendered his resignation but then withdr.....
» 23/02/2012 7:05:09 PM Rudd is another sufferer of Howard's disease, where he puts his own personal egocentric in.....
» 23/02/2012 7:00:33 PM If they are wrong it will mean that we reduced our reliance on limited fossil fuels and fo.....
» 23/02/2012 6:57:03 PM It would be a far different story if the Government was ahead in the polls and threatening.....
» 22/02/2012 3:08:06 PM So what else is new? It's been this way for many years. All it takes to be employed is th.....
» 19/02/2012 3:02:00 PM I respect those who have enriched themselves as a result of their efforts and feel they sh.....
» 17/02/2012 11:23:25 PM If Costello was still at the wheel he would have been heralded as a miracle worker for sav.....
» 16/02/2012 12:55:21 PM By all means, let's discuss facts - even uncomfortable ones like his pre-2004 election &qu.....
» 15/02/2012 3:16:52 PM There is an entire city (called Las Vegas) built in the desert and entirely funded on the .....
» 15/02/2012 3:11:51 PM That talk of an "iron-clad guarantee" made from Opposition got me all nostalgic......
» 14/02/2012 10:19:06 AM This rebate was allegedly introduced to "take the pressure off the Public System".....
» 11/02/2012 11:30:45 PM I feel a little disturbed at some of the utterances made by our political representatives .....
» 9/02/2012 10:21:23 PM I think it may have been Dickens who managed to get public executions to be performed in p.....
» 8/02/2012 12:33:50 PM LEGO, Isn't it outrageous when any of these overqualified commentators with unpronounceabl.....
» 6/02/2012 12:58:19 AM Shadow Minister "Firstly, does what happened years ago, justify the Thomson cover up.....
» 2/02/2012 2:29:48 PM This takes me back to 2004 when a certain Mr Abbott was facing allegations of breaching el.....
» 2/02/2012 12:21:29 PM Sure, ban Casinos and you'll just drive them back underground where they used to flourish .....
» 31/01/2012 7:06:07 PM Dane, Lots of people made up their mind about Howard a few years back - quite decisively .....
» 30/01/2012 11:22:36 PM Dane, Howard had beliefs alright. He believed the interests of his Party were more impor.....
» 26/01/2012 8:39:45 PM rehctub, $120K per household is quite a reasonable amount and the 3 kids is a lifestyle c.....
» 25/01/2012 7:08:54 PM Let's also cut out Middle Class Welfare. For example, let those who can already afford to .....
» 18/01/2012 2:20:42 PM With all this talk of "bowing" and "repentance" I can't help but feel .....
» 18/01/2012 2:07:53 PM I'm yet to see how it will be distributed at all, let alone "evenly". There have.....
» 18/01/2012 2:03:06 PM Whatever the outcome the story was always going to be either "Gillard caves in to Wil.....
» 18/01/2012 12:46:22 AM Prompete, To be fair, it's not CO2 itself that is defined as being the problem , it's the.....
» 16/01/2012 2:07:50 PM I always found it ironic that the late B.A. Santamaria - who Howard greatly respected and .....
» 16/01/2012 1:47:13 PM There are so many excuses for what is essentially a cultural practice. That crazed zealot.....
» 13/01/2012 11:43:50 AM Runner, Another year of generalising ahead? "Secularist have very little moral grou.....
» 12/01/2012 3:12:47 PM Pericles - Regarding to relationship between oil and the value of the US dollar - The US.....
» 11/01/2012 12:28:38 AM SonofGloin, I believe there were also arguments about providing electrical power when gas.....
» 10/01/2012 2:47:39 PM Alcohol is probably the most socially destructive drug available. As bad as smoking is fo.....
» 10/01/2012 2:36:55 PM Sonofgloin, Isn't it interesting that the Snowy Scheme was strongly opposed by Menzies at.....
» 4/01/2012 2:02:49 PM I know that middle class income increased more under Howard because they were given the va.....
» 4/01/2012 12:40:58 AM Some allege that living standards increased under Howard. More like middle-class welfare p.....
» 26/12/2011 6:30:02 PM If history is any indication, future generations will probably look on us as being ignoran.....
» 24/12/2011 3:49:36 PM Under one god - "or is it anyone of 20 other global warming gassses doing this warmi.....
» 19/12/2011 12:39:42 AM Shadow Minister. If there is any guilt to be laid it's against those who would seek to ma.....
» 16/12/2011 5:34:50 PM Nothing has changed. Just cross out the word "Asians" and replace it with &quo.....
» 16/12/2011 5:29:01 PM Ignoring of course the fact that it was particularly that spending on pink batts and schoo.....
» 14/12/2011 9:49:23 PM I feel that mathematics is just a way of demonstrating that the universe is constrained wi.....
» 14/12/2011 1:01:39 AM Despite all the public posturing, the LNP still allow most of those previously and publicl.....
» 13/12/2011 7:41:56 AM The constant whining about so-called “cost-benefit analysis” misses the point. The NBN is.....
» 12/12/2011 12:26:08 PM I think a special award should have gone to Liberal ex-Premier Fahey who had the wonderful.....
» 8/12/2011 2:54:54 PM I recall a comment made by an auteur on Q&A a while ago. Rather than permit gay marriage,.....
» 6/12/2011 12:26:53 PM Despite the events leading up to the riot the fact remains that the response was one not t.....
» 5/12/2011 12:49:51 PM Of the fascist regimes of Hitler , Mussolini, Franco , Suharto and several Latin American .....
» 3/12/2011 11:08:53 PM Is it better to have a process in a forum where views can be expressed and voted on public.....
» 26/11/2011 11:04:59 PM You don't need to look much past the Cochamba water situation in Bolivia back in 2000 or t.....
» 26/11/2011 10:54:54 PM rehctub The "people didn't get to decide" on whether they wanted to get involve.....
» 25/11/2011 2:14:16 PM So now the Federal Government is soley responsible for the production and distribution of .....
» 25/11/2011 1:56:34 PM It's a bit late for the No-alition to be taking the high moral ground now, considering the.....
» 23/11/2011 11:37:55 PM If it's such a blatant hoax, why is Abbott prepared to hand bags of taxpayers money to bri.....
» 23/11/2011 11:30:58 PM Garum Masala, However can you consider Gillard - leader of a hung parliament, captive to .....
» 23/11/2011 12:51:18 AM About 15 years ago, Australia was at a crossroads. Should we take the high-tech route and.....
» 23/11/2011 12:41:41 AM I think all the gloom-and-doom talk about the "terrible effects on mining" is so.....
» 20/11/2011 9:50:01 AM A nice mean-spirited summary of a media sideshow. It should be realised that all such eve.....
» 16/11/2011 10:05:20 PM rehctub, Your assumption about bank margins ignores the concept of the Fractional Reserve.....
» 16/11/2011 9:52:23 PM Atman, Sorry but the assertion that volcanoes contribute more CO2 than the burning of fos.....
» 9/11/2011 9:41:49 PM There's a difference between publishing opinion and publishing lies dressed up as facts. .....
» 9/11/2011 9:30:52 PM Digging something out of the ground at a total cost of $20 per ton and then on-selling it .....
» 5/11/2011 10:18:07 AM Poor Runner, Imposing restrictions of proof upon others but bases his own reality on some.....
» 2/11/2011 12:16:05 PM Runner, Care to enlighten us with even a single specific example of a corrupt "clima.....
» 1/11/2011 12:33:00 PM I'm amazed that so many who see the ABC as some sort of Socialist Propaganda machine are c.....
» 26/10/2011 12:14:09 PM Formersnag, If you were actually around during those days and if you were paying attentio.....
» 23/10/2011 2:21:44 PM Hasbeen, Thanks for caring but I'm not unhappy. However, having no sense of humor plus a.....
» 21/10/2011 10:59:02 PM Lexi - "Royalty to Britain is what Disneyland is to the US." I think the Disne.....
» 21/10/2011 10:53:37 PM The real reason Gaddafi was around for so long was because he was allowed to remain as lon.....
» 20/10/2011 8:05:40 PM Lexi, She doesn't play a day-to-day role in UK politics either. That's the reason she's .....
» 20/10/2011 8:02:46 PM I've worked with and for both types of leaders over the past decades. One type leads from.....
» 19/10/2011 7:59:43 PM Gillard was elevated mainly due to her media-friendly profile as an effective Parliamentar.....
» 19/10/2011 7:44:24 PM It's not entirely the fault of those wicked lesbians. Surely their heterosexual parents m.....
» 13/10/2011 4:50:58 PM Transmission cables are typically arranged in "rings" with their paths geographi.....
» 13/10/2011 4:43:32 PM Why is the alternative coalition policy far more expensive and why are they even consideri.....
» 8/10/2011 12:23:59 AM "400 Grand a year for the laundry workers on the gas rigs. 120 Grand a year for unski.....
» 7/10/2011 1:15:11 AM rectub, Meanwhile, no recession, record low unemployment plus a strong and growing econom.....
» 6/10/2011 3:07:51 PM "Bolt got some facts wrong". Correction. Bolt deliberately omitted those facts.....
» 4/10/2011 2:51:20 PM Banjo, Lexi is correct - depending on what you think "stopped the boat means". .....
» 30/09/2011 2:06:50 PM I love all the implied references to "reverse racism" or how the laws only work .....
» 29/09/2011 4:19:18 PM I saw this quote elsewhere and I think it makes a good point. "So let’s say I call A.....
» 27/09/2011 8:58:16 AM Maybe we should have "plain packaging" for pokies as proposed for cigarettes - d.....
» 23/09/2011 12:20:06 AM The Malaysian legislation is being pushed "right now" so it can be neutralised a.....
» 22/09/2011 11:51:23 PM Beyond all the ritual and other paraphenalia, the one thing that all religions share in co.....
» 20/09/2011 12:36:25 AM Belly, Menzies supporter or not I think we can both see how badly we have been served by a.....
» 18/09/2011 5:32:27 PM Belated happy returns from me too Belly. Like you I remember those heady days back in the.....
» 16/09/2011 11:53:53 PM Interesting letter I saw last week - "So who runs Australia? Is it Julia Gillard? No.....
» 7/09/2011 8:18:42 PM Despite all the in-depth analysis and inspiring tales of heroism in the face of atrocity, .....
» 7/09/2011 8:04:25 PM Fair reporting and legitimate criticism are always seen as bias from those being criticise.....
» 2/09/2011 10:57:25 AM Shadow Minister, It's not "rubbish". His admission was made on Radio National o.....
» 1/09/2011 1:35:41 PM Just for the record and according to Alexander Downers own admission on the ABC, but the N.....
» 23/08/2011 1:15:03 AM Formersnag, Are you really suggesting that no gay or bisexual people existed until 1955 wh.....
» 23/08/2011 12:54:01 AM While it's obvious that ALL unemployed youth in Britain were rioting and looting, I haven'.....
» 23/08/2011 12:44:06 AM I suspect we'll be hearing a few things about Liberal MP Peter Slipper and his indiscretio.....
» 15/08/2011 4:32:04 PM Meanwhile we continue to suffer through terribly low unemployment and no sign of the massi.....
» 15/08/2011 4:26:19 PM Depleted uranium may be less radioactive than natural uranium when in an inert state but w.....
» 26/07/2011 2:21:49 AM So how is "an alliance with the Greens" different from "an alliance with th.....
» 26/07/2011 2:05:06 AM Two words stick in my memory of what a local abbatoir worker said to me about 35 years ago.....
» 18/07/2011 2:20:54 AM "...replacing one oppressive regime, with a better organised and more oppressive regi.....
» 17/07/2011 2:29:24 AM stevenlmeyer, As I mentioned previously, it's merely symbolic of rebellion and a struggle .....
» 15/07/2011 1:32:14 PM Every time somebody rolls out the Socialist Boogey-Man word, I'm reminded that they usuall.....
» 11/07/2011 1:38:00 AM The iconic Che symbol is about a struggle against oppression and authority. It's a symbol .....
» 9/07/2011 1:47:39 AM For me that incident highlighted the fact that the Liberal Party has abolutely no moral ba.....
» 7/07/2011 1:41:31 PM I'm not "an empty vessel" and I don't need to back up the bleeding obvious. I m.....
» 7/07/2011 1:20:54 PM I wonder - if those cattle somehow managed to escape, board a boat and sail to Australia -.....
» 6/07/2011 1:48:17 AM "The comparison should be between 11 years of fiscal competence, with record growth, .....
» 6/07/2011 1:37:09 AM Maybe the only real alternative will be plain old rationing. The government sets the amou.....
» 5/07/2011 2:06:33 AM SonofGloin, You should be VERY interested in what the Opposition is saying and doing - con.....
» 28/06/2011 11:10:58 PM "China emits 50 per cent more carbon to produce similar products to the West" sh.....
» 28/06/2011 1:50:33 AM It's not just the price, it's the range of goods that are available on the global market t.....
» 27/06/2011 1:10:54 AM And I suppose all this media evasion suddenly appeared out of nowhere when Howard was boot.....
» 20/06/2011 10:44:42 PM I don't recall having a plebiscite on whether we should send troops to the Middle East or .....
» 18/06/2011 2:29:36 AM Why do some people even bother arguing against what is deemed to be an established fact? T.....
» 17/06/2011 9:00:39 AM Actually, the Indonesians have not been slaughtering Australian cattle. They've been slau.....
» 16/06/2011 2:18:16 AM It's amazing what people will make themselves believe when faced with the inevitablility a.....
» 16/06/2011 2:09:01 AM To accuse the ALP of hypocrisy on this issue is to ignore all the basic tenets of those mi.....
» 14/06/2011 10:39:15 PM The immediate problem is not so much the population numbers but the severe imbalance of wh.....
» 5/06/2011 2:21:37 AM So anybody who accepts the official version of the truth is to now be collectively called .....
» 2/06/2011 11:38:31 PM I don't understand the title of this submission. The author is speaking as if he was a sho.....
» 31/05/2011 3:57:23 PM Yes and it's not like Gerry Harvey ever had to go shopping on-line to save a few bucks or .....
» 31/05/2011 3:52:47 PM Given the amount of whining about even the remote possibility that we may eventually pay m.....
» 30/05/2011 2:17:45 PM When I consider the amount of industrial and commercial waste being dumped into the enviro.....
» 30/05/2011 1:41:49 PM divine_msn, Does this mean no more Santas should be walking the streets at Christmas time.....
» 28/05/2011 2:16:38 AM I saw an interesting, informed and intelligent debate on this matter while overseas late l.....
» 25/05/2011 1:59:31 AM I thought she came across as a bit of a crazed zealot on Q&A and didn't do her cause much .....
» 25/05/2011 1:49:04 AM I love the way that Gillard was labelled a liar when she broke an election committment but.....
» 23/05/2011 11:55:34 AM "From 313, when the Roman emperor Constantine opened the gate to an explosive expansi.....
» 20/05/2011 2:21:55 AM sbr108, "The introduction of a carbon tax has one purpose... generate the funds to r.....
» 18/05/2011 1:53:30 AM I thinks it's time for a reality check. Everybody is free to make such submissions but in.....
» 17/05/2011 1:17:41 AM I've heard the interpretation of the automatic propensity toward disease based on DNA alon.....
» 16/05/2011 1:23:29 AM Howard also made deep cuts in essential services and sold off everything that wasn't naile.....
» 6/05/2011 3:25:39 PM Well said AJ. There's no point in having a "debate" about this with anybody who.....
» 4/05/2011 1:30:05 PM It seems that most people are still unable to discriminate between religion and culture. .....
» 2/05/2011 2:21:05 AM Just another PR exercise on behalf of the British aristocracy and a bit of entertainment f.....
» 24/04/2011 2:31:00 AM That's right Runner - brutality and exclusion are the way to go - it's the Christian way a.....
» 21/04/2011 1:54:12 PM "Shopping" asylum seekers are heading for those countries because their own coun.....
» 14/04/2011 1:56:20 AM Lexi, Quite so. All these attitudes are what we are taught by society and also by our par.....
» 13/04/2011 3:57:10 PM I remember that some years ago the ABC introduced a "right wing" radio talk show.....
» 13/04/2011 3:46:57 PM The recent reappearance of Pauline Hanson reminds me that only a decade or so ago, Asians .....
» 11/04/2011 4:19:38 PM Not so long ago, there were many jobs available for those who had various physical or inte.....
» 11/04/2011 4:09:09 PM Before Mr Granville's portable domestic version, American physician George Taylor invented.....
» 9/04/2011 2:50:43 AM Well Hasbeen, As a matter of fact I do vote on principle. I'm no lover of the new Labor P.....
» 8/04/2011 2:15:04 AM Runner, firstly if you bothered to listen to the facts the so-called "ETS Money".....
» 6/04/2011 2:19:26 AM Remember that Turnbull apparently had his own Party right behind him and was prepared to p.....
» 4/04/2011 9:50:40 PM An attempt to initiate National anti-passive smoking laws in the USA failed some time ago .....
» 2/04/2011 1:18:47 AM Maybe we can't do much about Islamic Fundamentalism but we certainly can do something abou.....
» 1/04/2011 12:35:46 PM Considering that they are manufacturing most of our goods on our behalf, I wonder how much.....
» 31/03/2011 1:21:39 AM Better an even second-rate Labor Government than a first rate pack of opportunists who loo.....
» 29/03/2011 3:21:45 PM Democracy was a pre-Christian invention of the Greeks and has developed through many cultu.....
» 29/03/2011 1:05:54 AM Actually the biggest political coverup was the terms and conditions of the US Free Trade A.....
» 28/03/2011 1:20:39 AM It's fascinating to see how the hatred of "greens" has steadily increased over t.....
» 26/03/2011 10:19:32 AM Some years ago a friend who worked in State Rail told me that NSW runs more trains in Sydn.....
» 14/03/2011 3:12:18 PM Carbon of itself is not pollution. The problem is when there is TOO MUCH Carbon. Plants .....
» 10/03/2011 12:48:30 PM This will be a trial run for the new Australian Tea Party, with Jones acting as the equiva.....
» 10/03/2011 12:40:18 PM So that attention-starved celebrity racist is having another go at appearing relevant. Sh.....
» 4/03/2011 1:29:46 AM Spacing of mobile towers isn't just a function of the number of users, it's also related t.....
» 2/03/2011 12:27:07 PM The Water Main analogy is a good one to illustrate the difference between fibre and wirele.....
» 2/03/2011 1:26:34 AM With this type of negative thinking about technological advancement I'm amazed that Telstr.....
» 1/03/2011 3:10:05 PM It's interesting to recall that when most of the world had imposed sanctions on the Aparth.....
» 21/02/2011 12:25:03 PM If you're serious about banning tobacco you must also have to ban alcohol, which is far mo.....
» 13/02/2011 12:49:39 AM Once again it's a matter of treating the symptoms and not the cause of the problem......
» 12/02/2011 1:35:45 AM What do the following have in common? The effects of passive smoking. Acid rain caused by.....
» 10/02/2011 3:31:24 PM Sometimes it's hard to be sympathetic when many of the same big companies feel free to imp.....
» 9/02/2011 1:11:54 AM Peter, Fair enough. However I think that the unlikely abolition of fiat money and going b.....
» 8/02/2011 1:19:48 AM “Debt is the price of money. No it’s not. Interest is the price of money. Debt is an amoun.....
» 7/02/2011 1:08:32 AM McReal, Were those AGW activists claims made about conditions expected now in 2011, or at.....
» 4/02/2011 2:30:35 PM The concept of God is a manifestation of all that we don't understand and all that we fear.....
» 4/02/2011 1:27:11 AM I think the notion of "mateship" being something uniquely Australian is well pas.....
» 1/02/2011 1:15:30 AM AlGore - "God-given land?" Says who? The authors of a document awarding themsel.....
» 29/01/2011 1:22:10 AM Debt and taxes under the ALP? Then it must be the plundering of public assets, cronyism, .....
» 27/01/2011 12:20:50 AM sonofgloin, The Future Fund was established to fund the future superannuation committments.....
» 25/01/2011 1:22:38 AM I don't think I will get an informed and unbiassed opinion about the effects of burning fo.....
» 24/01/2011 12:01:21 PM Carbon dioxide is indeed not a pollutant but the argument is about the effects of too much.....
» 21/01/2011 12:22:17 AM Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, it's no accident that the new natural enemy of the &quo.....
» 20/01/2011 12:35:48 AM The media is made up of "Left-wing subversives"?. As exemplified by such well-k.....
» 18/01/2011 12:42:47 AM I for one will be amazed if building new dams ever gets past the discussion stage for many.....
» 17/01/2011 12:35:43 AM I think spindoc should refer to the definition of Denialism. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki.....
» 12/01/2011 9:30:17 PM Technically it can be argued they are all illegal immigrants until they can be prove thems.....
» 12/01/2011 3:24:51 PM Going by Joh's past record, there must have been a quid in it for him or his Party somewhe.....
» 11/01/2011 2:56:28 PM It looks to me that they don't need guns to protect themselves from foreign invaders but t.....
» 10/01/2011 12:16:56 AM Loudmouth, The conspiratorial tag seems to be more directed to those supporting the conven.....
» 10/01/2011 12:01:19 AM How to stop the boats? Simple. Just make Tony Abbott PM and magically everything will be.....
» 7/01/2011 1:08:26 AM Paying higher interest rates when you have a job is comparatively easier than paying lower.....
» 5/01/2011 1:31:10 AM Laurie Oakes won a Walkely Award last year for doing the same thing - except that Oakes ne.....
» 2/01/2011 4:39:23 PM John Reid, As a self-professed scientist who has had PhD papers published I'm surprised t.....
» 30/12/2010 4:05:28 PM Politicians will always believe whatever is personally advantageous for them - whether it'.....
» 21/12/2010 1:05:48 PM Belly, If the Libs are as hopeless in Government as they were in Opposition then we don't.....
» 21/12/2010 1:32:06 AM I find it interesting that Assange gets publically pilloried and accused of being some sor.....
» 21/12/2010 1:26:30 AM The ALP should have been out of government in NSW two terms ago. The reason they were retu.....
» 20/12/2010 3:28:30 PM Algore, Still the eternal apologist for any atrocities carried out against your perceived.....
» 18/12/2010 1:43:26 AM There is no dominant religion in the world today and by definition, only one religion can .....
» 18/12/2010 1:31:46 AM So what's new? Every leader needs to keep looking over his shoulder. Even Howard was no d.....
» 9/12/2010 7:18:16 PM Pericles, You're absolutely correct. However, the true value of gold is what is placed o.....
» 9/12/2010 10:38:05 AM The US government has confiscated private gold on two occasions - once in 1917 (because of.....
» 7/12/2010 1:23:50 AM Assange did not leak any documents. The documents were leaked by others and all he did wa.....
» 6/12/2010 1:26:50 AM I love the notion that the wearing of the burqua represents the oppression of women by the.....
» 29/11/2010 12:07:51 PM To use the views of a certifiable lunatic like Glenn Beck as the basis for any logical arg.....
» 18/11/2010 12:44:24 PM So we're sending our jobs and manufacturing industries overseas and selling off much of th.....
» 17/11/2010 12:40:11 AM Further to Canada's experience with their US Free Trade Agreement, the Canadian Post Offic.....
» 14/11/2010 12:12:06 AM Come on ALGORE, First it was about the failure of multiculturalism, now it's about the ran.....
» 12/11/2010 5:43:18 PM Only ALGOREisRich could twist this sad event into some sort of case against multiculturali.....
» 10/11/2010 12:32:08 PM The Tea Party was a creation of the FOX Network http://crooksandliars.com/john-amato/chuck.....
» 9/11/2010 9:39:09 PM For a start, some businesses can benefit by handing back their expensive On-Ramp or Custom.....
» 5/11/2010 2:12:59 PM Wireless simply will not do the job, particularly as the number of users increases. At be.....
» 28/10/2010 10:41:57 AM Yuyutsu, When it comes to Wireless, individual bandwidth is variable and depends on deman.....
» 27/10/2010 2:28:21 PM It was only a matter of years ago when people were thrilled with their 52K dial-up Modems......
» 27/10/2010 2:22:07 PM I recently returned from a few weeks in Italy, during which time I spent about a week stay.....
» 27/10/2010 2:14:48 PM It's simply not feasible to perform a standard Cost Benefit Analysis on a public infrastru.....
» 21/10/2010 2:46:31 AM It's an obvious phenomenon that all extremist right-wing parties around the world use raci.....
» 17/10/2010 10:18:23 PM Richie 10, So when Jesus said to give somebody the shirt off your back, what he meant to .....
» 15/10/2010 1:17:53 AM AlGore- "Communist Greens"? You've been peeking under your bed again haven't y.....
» 29/09/2010 4:21:47 PM It's unclear as to who may have been responsible for this event. Did it take the 000 oper.....
» 28/09/2010 10:54:10 PM The interesting thing about all of Abbott's so-called "strategies" is that what .....
» 26/09/2010 1:35:58 AM If the voters in Oakeshott's, Katter's or Windsor's electorates wanted a Liberal governmen.....
» 21/09/2010 2:22:08 AM I think the difference between our stimulus and that in the US was how it was targetted an.....
» 20/09/2010 12:54:36 AM Wasn't in the Lie-berals who actually created the terms "core" and "non-cor.....
» 15/09/2010 8:56:21 AM I recall an incident in Italy about 3 years ago when the Camora (Naples Mafia) torched an .....
» 13/09/2010 9:34:23 PM The national swing to the LNP was around 1.5%, The swing to the Greens was about 3 times a.....
» 13/09/2010 9:10:30 PM Foremer independent Ted Mack said something similar but without all the baggage. His reas.....
» 10/09/2010 6:08:39 PM Animals tend to live longer in zoos than in their natural habitat too. I suppose it comes.....
» 8/09/2010 8:59:54 AM [Deleted for abuse]......
» 7/09/2010 2:20:52 AM I remember hearing what was allegedly Keating's advice to Rudd about Turnbull. He was sup.....
» 31/08/2010 11:32:12 PM Houellebecq, I'm with you most of the way on this one. I've yet to meet a small business.....
» 31/08/2010 11:09:38 PM AlGore, "It's about time we looked at 'looks' to help determine race. If a bloke loo.....
» 30/08/2010 9:10:27 AM Cornflower, I agree - but in this country women have laws that protect them from that typ.....
» 29/08/2010 5:18:44 PM The wearing of the burqa is not - as never has been - a religious Muslim doctrine. It's a.....
» 17/08/2010 2:07:31 AM I personally find Baseball caps a bit offensive. They represent a foreign war-like cultur.....
» 17/08/2010 2:03:41 AM Amicus, "..the parents of those kids pay more tax than you could ever even imagine.......
» 10/08/2010 2:34:17 AM Minchin was the bagman for the Libs - arranging shady sponsorship deals. My favorite was .....
» 10/08/2010 2:16:54 AM Leightons - like all big corporations, let contracts for their projects and in turn push t.....
» 8/08/2010 8:45:42 PM So these two (unnamed) UK "former Islamists" are somehow the official spokespers.....
» 7/08/2010 12:54:56 AM Just a small point Algore, Corporatism grew out of Fascism - in fact Mussolini invented t.....
» 7/08/2010 12:37:54 AM I think Abbott will recind that law if he wins - just to please one of his major sponsors......
» 7/08/2010 12:35:23 AM The same report said that only about 254 of the 24,000-odd projects drew complaints. That.....
» 5/08/2010 2:43:41 AM Costello also lost a billion on currency swaps, sold off most of our gold reserve to the C.....
» 5/08/2010 2:23:23 AM It's not the cost of the fibre itself, it's the cost of hauling it through the existing pi.....
» 4/08/2010 2:39:31 AM Well I for one am waiting to see the "real Abbott" slip off his leash again. He.....
» 4/08/2010 2:25:12 AM The fibre will terminate in a certain type of hub which will have a number of outputs, dep.....
» 3/08/2010 12:42:36 AM So the decision on what party is better to govern us for the next 3 years has all come dow.....
» 1/08/2010 9:25:39 PM I think things really started to get out of hand when that 9:1 or 10:1 ratio used for the .....
» 29/07/2010 2:57:31 AM I used to think that some of the Howard -haters went a bit over the top but a lot of this .....
» 28/07/2010 1:39:08 PM Afghanistan has always been a phoney and contrived war, used to mask other US agendas such.....
» 28/07/2010 1:23:14 PM Beyond all the hysteria about Mining profits being "under serious threat" by mak.....
» 27/07/2010 1:00:18 AM Nice to hear I'm not the only one. As far as I'm concerned it's like a choice between Hit.....
» 24/07/2010 12:23:51 AM Over the last decades I've worked as an employee, as a Contractor and also as a Pty Ltd Co.....
» 23/07/2010 1:40:50 AM The media has spent the last 12 months tearing Rudd down personally and proclaiming that h.....
» 22/07/2010 1:55:16 PM "If your staff get a 5% pay rise, shouldn't you as well?" How about "if y.....
» 22/07/2010 1:48:03 PM Moving Forward, Moving Forward, Moving Forward, Moving Forward. Direct Action, Direct Act.....
» 22/07/2010 1:45:40 AM Every employer thinks he/she is keeping wages cost down in isolation but eventually they m.....
» 19/07/2010 2:15:45 AM Individual, Having private support for a political party doesn't necessarily mean that yo.....
» 18/07/2010 2:24:06 AM Stern, "The Liberals are a bit right of centre". I think they're way, way righ.....
» 18/07/2010 2:05:13 AM Individual, "Labor orientated Aust Navy Boat crew?" That's got to be one of the.....
» 18/07/2010 1:56:53 AM The Governments biggest problem was that they put too much trust in the integrity of the s.....
» 14/07/2010 3:08:01 PM It's said that Birthdays are good for you. The more you have, the longer you live. Howev.....
» 14/07/2010 3:04:35 PM We're the only nation to be officially recognised as being racist by the UN. It's a histo.....
» 10/07/2010 2:17:16 AM Progressive is the opposite of Regressive. Those who see something wrong with any sort of.....
» 7/07/2010 2:03:48 AM Politics. First you create the notion that everybody is under imminent threat by some kin.....
» 5/07/2010 8:00:02 PM Leigh, "As far as the general public knows, there is no evidence whatsoever that any.....
» 5/07/2010 7:45:59 PM Time is just a way of preventing everything from happening at once. Figure that out and t.....
» 5/07/2010 1:40:41 AM I've hear it said that the only difference between a wage slave and a slave on the cotton-.....
» 4/07/2010 2:24:21 AM AlGoreisRich "Please try to be more balanced and less prejudiced." The words &.....
» 30/06/2010 4:23:07 PM I think all recent PMs (and Opposition leaders) have had to be media performers and are al.....
» 28/06/2010 11:35:21 PM Actually Custard, we're technically not in a war. War was never formally declared on Afgha.....
» 28/06/2010 1:28:00 AM The dominant purpose underlying the "invasion" of Afghanistan was to ensure that.....
» 27/06/2010 12:46:17 AM Rudd ended up as much a victim of media spin as somebody who thought he was using it for h.....
» 24/06/2010 10:46:15 PM Custard, "OMFG, I have never seen a "Prime Minister" sob during a speech.&q.....
» 22/06/2010 10:20:43 PM Diluting British National Identity?? Wow!! Now which particular identity would that be? T.....
» 19/06/2010 1:32:28 AM "HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSIONS... are a marxist socialist overlay of discrimation and oppr.....
» 18/06/2010 2:29:10 AM I think it's reasonable to assume that any Insulation companies that were well established.....
» 17/06/2010 2:04:00 AM Foxy, The resurgence of Islamic fundamentalism started in Iran in response to the actions.....
» 15/06/2010 2:20:03 AM ALGOREisRICH, The notion that some people are "fixated by ancient texts" is bein.....
» 15/06/2010 2:02:55 AM Despite not wanting to hear about it, the fact remains that the economic stimulus package .....
» 14/06/2010 2:22:22 AM Proxy, You seem to be fixated with quoting from various ancient texts as if they are auto.....
» 14/06/2010 2:09:36 AM Individual, I think Howard certainly did lose the election very decisively, as well as his.....
» 12/06/2010 2:30:02 AM I recall a similar debate about 10 years ago where it was deemed that we were going to be .....
» 12/06/2010 2:14:51 AM I'm somewhat amused by this tendency toward the Cult of Personality, as if one person is t.....
» 7/06/2010 4:47:38 PM Philo, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dov_Weissglass That's what a siege is meant to do. I.....
» 7/06/2010 2:48:36 AM Why should anybody respect this (illegal) blockade anyway? When most other countries had .....
» 3/06/2010 12:31:49 AM A book claims it's Israels "Promised Land". A book they wrote themselves. Hmmm .....
» 2/06/2010 2:13:27 AM Well I suppose you could hide under your bed while he's here. Somebody will tell you when .....
» 2/06/2010 2:03:58 AM There are plently of reasons not to vote for the NSW ALP this time around but I can't thin.....
» 2/06/2010 1:55:42 AM Once again Israel oversteps the mark and once again portrays itself as the innocent victim.....
» 1/06/2010 1:11:52 AM Science can fly you to the moon but Religion can fly you into buildings. One is the study.....
» 1/06/2010 1:04:46 AM Yabby, Now that you mention it, remember that most of the profit from those Transnational .....
» 27/05/2010 11:42:14 PM Using the same logic of the Mining Companies (and it's only the big transnationals that se.....
» 23/05/2010 2:33:37 AM The problem is that the two words "conspiracy" and "theory" are always.....
» 21/05/2010 1:57:29 PM The difference between mental illness and stupidity in this context is that only a stupid .....
» 21/05/2010 1:31:36 PM I think a serious line has been crossed here by Channel 7. Apparently there were several .....
» 20/05/2010 1:06:53 AM I live in a relatively new residential development area and it's based on the idea that th.....
» 20/05/2010 12:58:20 AM In a representative democracy we don't vote for our local member per se - we vote for a Po.....
» 20/05/2010 12:48:10 AM Proxy, You don't think that continuing Zionist oppression or the systematic military and .....
» 19/05/2010 1:56:42 AM Proxy, Would you like me to quote some of the equally inflammatory statements from the Ta.....
» 19/05/2010 1:49:53 AM I expect that there may be some more action on the stimulus front before the next election.....
» 18/05/2010 1:45:58 AM When Howard was at the same point during his first term, people were also predicting his d.....
» 15/05/2010 10:11:15 AM Once upon a time our Newspapers had articles submitted by "Our Washington Corresponde.....
» 15/05/2010 10:04:10 AM "Adding value" locally to unprocessed raw materials is a good idea but not alway.....
» 14/05/2010 10:26:10 AM http://www.theonion.com/articles/evangelical-scientists-refute-gravity-with-new-int,1778/.....
» 6/05/2010 4:15:28 PM Flogging of a non-renewable resource just because it's there is a bit like how we sold our.....
» 24/04/2010 2:42:03 AM Wow, great idea! Take a bunch of disaffected unemployed kids off the street for a few yea.....
» 23/04/2010 4:08:39 PM It just goes to show how important environment and the herd instinct is to personal belief.....
» 17/04/2010 2:27:41 AM Shadow Minister, As far as I'm aware, being covered by Workers' Comp while travelling to-.....
» 16/04/2010 12:36:17 AM While we don't know the specifics of creating life that doesn't mean we never will. Manne.....
» 16/04/2010 12:24:23 AM Quite right,Foxy. I hope that none of our elected representatives only work standard offi.....
» 7/04/2010 2:22:50 AM To me, privatisation is like a homebuyer complaining that the mortgage is too high, then s.....
» 7/04/2010 2:06:42 AM Nothing significant happened because the political will simply wasn't there. Nothing is l.....
» 6/04/2010 2:50:42 AM It's a bit much to lay the reason for inflating house prices soley at the feet of Rudd whe.....
» 3/04/2010 1:39:55 AM Maybe if we stopped interfering in their countries they could sort out their own problems......
» 2/04/2010 6:57:58 PM "Because the labor government knows best what all the workers want." Just as th.....
» 31/03/2010 12:13:08 AM The Pentagon's reason for the presence of miltary bases in foreign countries is to secure .....
» 29/03/2010 12:32:30 AM Australia's refugees compared to the rest of the world between 1990 and 2008 - http://blo.....
» 28/03/2010 1:23:04 AM The "Religious Left?" Who would they be? "Family Second" perhaps, an.....
» 25/03/2010 10:11:38 PM There's no reason you can't claim to be a good Christian and a racist too. Take the KKK f.....
» 25/03/2010 9:58:39 PM rstuart, To be specific, the distracting parts where when there was something close to the.....
» 24/03/2010 12:35:40 AM While I haven't seen Hurt Locker yet I found Avatar to be a hell of a visual ride, but not.....
» 24/03/2010 12:16:40 AM E.Sykes, Can you really imagine the practicality of having a Minister soley in charge of .....
» 23/03/2010 12:30:01 PM Before we seriously consider getting rid of our State Governments, do you really want to g.....
» 21/03/2010 11:14:31 PM I don't know what difference there is between Aldi's "mostly imported" goods and.....
» 21/03/2010 10:57:55 PM I always felt that Windschuttle had a slight whiff of David Irving about him and is more i.....
» 19/03/2010 1:00:21 AM How does the "rape in the Congo" fit in with the 800,000 butchered in Rwanda, wh.....
» 16/03/2010 11:41:23 PM Slobodon Meshirtfront, To put the Dawkins remark about Fielding in context, it was in rela.....
» 16/03/2010 1:59:51 PM In the current series of Massey Lectures on the ABC an anthopologist stated that of all th.....
» 15/03/2010 9:52:11 PM To call atheism a religion is like calling baldness a hair colour. Science has explained .....
» 11/03/2010 12:23:31 PM Shadow Minister, Sure, heres a few references - Here's one on the Oil situation- http://.....
» 10/03/2010 11:38:45 AM Actually the collapse of the USSR had more to do with the failure of their wheat crops and.....
» 8/03/2010 11:04:58 PM The common point most people ignore in these discusssions is that our local population can.....
» 4/03/2010 12:35:40 PM Finally! Forget AGW, terrorism, religion, politics, wars, pestilence and famine - we are .....
» 3/03/2010 2:49:17 PM Morality is basically an agreed set of principles between members of a society, no matter .....
» 28/02/2010 8:47:42 PM rpg, Thursday December 3rd - Lateline (edited to stay within word count)- TONY JONES: Is .....
» 26/02/2010 10:01:50 PM Odo, Steady on! The thread is about Barnaby Joyce - not AGW. My point is that he says one.....
» 26/02/2010 12:57:12 PM Houellebecq, Isn't the snooker analogy more about the white ball going around and ethnica.....
» 26/02/2010 12:51:53 PM I remember way back in days of Bank Tellers calling out customer names, they used to call .....
» 26/02/2010 12:45:59 PM If it wasn't The Mossad, who else could it have been? That's one of the things they are t.....
» 26/02/2010 11:32:59 AM Who is Barnaby anyway? He gained instant celebrity status for being the Senator who delive.....
» 23/02/2010 8:36:58 AM Right-to-Life is really just Right-To-Birth because once they are born they are qualified .....
» 23/02/2010 8:12:13 AM Perhaps another reason is their attitude toward their contribution toward their community......
» 22/02/2010 2:58:39 PM Religion in all it's forms is just is a manifestation of a fear of death. Under all the wi.....
» 16/02/2010 12:55:13 PM Antiseptic, For the record, Telstra is no longer "highly unionised". A large pr.....
» 15/02/2010 1:40:59 AM Leigh, Regarding turning back boats - Under Howard, Navy ships were initially directed to.....
» 14/02/2010 1:35:45 AM One of those tragic deaths was caused by excessive heat, one by putting a metal staple thr.....
» 13/02/2010 1:23:55 AM Is there anything left in the world that some people won't divide into left and right / at.....
» 11/02/2010 2:28:11 PM Pericles, Ditto with you on Rome. In fact any place you can see grafitti that's older tha.....
» 9/02/2010 12:48:17 AM If it's not about the science then who will be the first international political leader to.....
» 9/02/2010 12:37:05 AM Hellfire, Do you really believe a Carbon Tax will be any cheaper to the consumer than an E.....
» 8/02/2010 1:41:30 AM Well at least I have a memory long enough to recall that even Howard was looking like a on.....
» 4/02/2010 1:09:38 AM The Adam and Eve myth is an extract from a much more detailed Jewish folk tale. Nothing i.....
» 2/02/2010 1:31:25 AM How is it even possible to even have a debate on these issues? One side argues on the bas.....
» 29/01/2010 1:42:32 AM It's true that we didn't have these taxes a hundred years ago but then again we didn't hav.....
» 23/01/2010 12:27:30 AM Amicus, If nine Doctors diagnosed your ill-health based on widespread and independent ana.....
» 22/01/2010 2:32:01 PM Where were all you wise and hardened sceptics during the CFC/Ozone layer debate a few deca.....
» 18/01/2010 1:09:53 AM Stezza, If you don't believe that International Diplomacy works in strange ways or believ.....
» 24/12/2009 12:46:37 AM Indeed, a Merry Christmas, Happy Saturnalia, Sol Invictus and Yule to all. Happy Birthda.....
» 23/12/2009 1:39:40 AM Not that the current encumbent is blameless but here's something that puts the origins of .....
» 12/12/2009 12:50:04 AM No matter how you try and spin it and despite all the current window dressing, the specifi.....
» 11/12/2009 12:56:48 AM According research undertaken by University lecturer and author Wayne Reynolds in his book.....
» 9/12/2009 12:29:02 PM Shadow Minister, "modern mobiles emit a fraction of a watt, most of which radiates a.....
» 9/12/2009 12:10:04 PM Col, "They" being those who are the subject of the film - not as somebody oppos.....
» 8/12/2009 3:21:10 PM He recently said that he indeed obtained funding for the film from Capitalist investors. .....
» 7/12/2009 11:26:10 PM Agronomist, It was indeed real research and despite your assertions (not mine) that it's .....
» 7/12/2009 11:00:04 PM "Socialism by stealth" Col Rouge? As practiced by such well-know lefty climate-.....
» 7/12/2009 1:37:38 PM phoenix94, The term "Carbon" is a generic one that includes methane, ozone and .....
» 7/12/2009 1:07:42 PM Back in the early days of GSM (late 80's) there was research done that proved that the RF .....
» 7/12/2009 12:32:53 PM I'd love to see some of the emails from the denialists leaked into the public domain......
» 2/12/2009 12:31:42 PM So far all that Abbott has demonstrated that the only thing of importance is returning the.....
» 1/12/2009 8:17:50 PM HermanYutic, "Are you talking about the Christian fundamentalists who behead Muslims.....
» 1/12/2009 12:47:28 PM StG, You should note that from all the responses so far that there is as much intolerance,.....
» 1/12/2009 1:33:35 AM All Islamic countries ban Christian churches? Not true. Visual depictions are banned in S.....
» 30/11/2009 11:51:31 AM I think what's wrong with it is that nobody really understands it in any detail. There ha.....
» 26/11/2009 10:49:37 PM At the risk of sounding nostalgic, when we bought our first home way back in the late 20th.....
» 25/11/2009 8:02:26 PM under one god, Are you seriously claiming that every one of us drones will be taxed on al.....
» 24/11/2009 10:09:44 PM Will one of you enlightened prophets please explain how and why this is a global scam, who.....
» 24/11/2009 10:00:09 PM Let's also not forget that the term "Corporatism" was actually invented by a cer.....
» 23/11/2009 12:27:40 PM If it was China building on top of a Tibetan cemetary or North Korea building on a South K.....
» 21/11/2009 1:22:40 AM This concept has changed from being one of pre-election consesus to a opportunistic politi.....
» 19/11/2009 12:41:34 AM Sure, let the taxpayer fund it but make it more like a HECS scheme. If they are serious a.....
» 16/11/2009 12:51:50 PM Are you saying that it's suddenly Rudd's fault but also stating that "it's always bee.....
» 14/11/2009 1:09:07 AM Business is about profit and loss. Government should be about people and society and how .....
» 10/11/2009 1:14:37 AM Refugees are topical because it sells newspapers and promotes fear in the community. Fear.....
» 10/11/2009 12:53:52 AM Approximately 25% of China's Power Stations are used to manufacture goods for us so as wel.....
» 9/11/2009 1:23:40 AM rehctub, Real wages DID fall under Howard's Workchoices, the voters agreed and the followi.....
» 7/11/2009 7:38:39 PM rehctub, Actually Telstra was sold to continue finance Commonwealth Pensions (ie Those of.....
» 7/11/2009 1:37:53 AM Rudd's certainly been busy. He created the Global Financial Crisis. He invented Global Wa.....
» 5/11/2009 12:50:05 AM The examples I was referring to were the ridiculous day-to-day ones that many seem to acce.....
» 2/11/2009 7:33:59 PM All this "politically correct" stuff is just manufactured and misguided nonsense.....
» 2/11/2009 12:20:39 AM "Reith did not perpetuate a lie?" Are we talking about the "didn't know an.....
» 23/10/2009 12:51:43 AM Runner, In almost every post you refer to "the left". Who precisely are "t.....
» 20/10/2009 10:35:07 PM All Refugees are Illegal Immigrants in the same way that all people in receipt of Newstart.....
» 16/10/2009 11:10:24 PM Beneath the opening satire, there are some often overlooked facts here - http://www.safeco.....
» 16/10/2009 12:47:26 AM I love the way this subject divides people so passionately into hardline groups - argument.....
» 12/10/2009 12:37:37 AM Many self-proclaimed "pro-life" advocates are actually only "pro-birth".....
» 8/10/2009 12:22:51 AM The Intelligent Design concept inevitably leads to the next step - the professed Biblical .....
» 6/10/2009 11:16:42 PM There can't be too many people left who still swallow the official story about the reason .....
» 6/10/2009 12:56:46 AM As I recall it, Howard was pretty much electorally on the nose at this point in his first .....
» 6/10/2009 12:47:50 AM Why single out the ABC for every single accusation of bias? There's no other media outlet.....
» 30/09/2009 1:26:17 PM How things have changed. It was the Americans that pushed Iran into adopting a nuclear pow.....
» 24/09/2009 2:22:13 AM Leo, The part of the Children Overboard debacle that you have conveniently left out is tha.....
» 23/09/2009 1:51:35 AM There seems to be an aversion to giving credit where it's due mainly on the basis on the p.....
» 22/09/2009 1:58:09 AM Methinks there's a bit of revisionist history happening here. The Dark ages preceded the .....
» 20/09/2009 1:05:49 AM Yabby, "owners can instruct the management". When was the last time that shareho.....
» 19/09/2009 1:56:50 AM The Public Service Fat Cat description is way out of date with Telstra. Telstra has been .....
» 16/09/2009 2:17:22 AM The reason that Unions were created in the first place has not changed. Despite all the .....
» 16/09/2009 1:58:27 AM "Judaism and Christianity emphasise God as Presence, the God of Islam is more a dista.....
» 10/09/2009 11:34:18 PM Casuals get a loading (typically 20%. I think the 225% is a significant exception) over fu.....
» 10/09/2009 2:34:52 AM rehctub, Our country "boomed" because of a surge in international demand for ou.....
» 7/09/2009 2:10:15 AM Times seem to have changed. Many openly and comfortably criticise that former regime now.....
» 5/09/2009 12:47:03 AM Who really cares anyway? Somebody went after him and succeeded but he has no-one to blame .....
» 2/09/2009 2:03:37 AM So now the Catholic Schools are short of a quid? Need a bigger tax break perhaps? What ev.....
» 28/08/2009 1:39:40 AM Odo, Not that it matters but I don't believe that the Nazis had any "written policy&.....
» 25/08/2009 2:24:04 AM "The reality is that ANY totalitarian ideology contains the seeds of genocide. That a.....
» 22/08/2009 11:57:42 PM Loudmouth/Joe, Of course you are correct. What I was clumsily trying to say was that abo.....
» 22/08/2009 2:18:26 AM Ozzie, Aborigines lived here for tens of thousands of years and if left alone, there's no .....
» 17/08/2009 2:19:34 AM Mark Twain said that "Faith is believing what you know ain't so". Science flies.....
» 17/08/2009 2:05:58 AM Get a grip. Politics at best is just entertainment. It's the illusion that they are trying.....
» 11/08/2009 2:53:59 PM Preicles, In addition to Gilbert and Sullivan, I think that Rogers and Hammerstein's &quo.....
» 11/08/2009 2:39:25 PM What I find most entertaining about reactions to Pilger's work is that despite the frequen.....
» 7/08/2009 3:57:02 PM The real purpose of the stimulus package is to put the local economy on some sort of ".....
» 7/08/2009 3:46:38 PM "In our dreams, people yield themselves with perfect docility to our molding hands. T.....
» 4/08/2009 2:48:08 PM Now there's somebody still in deep mourning for the previous Government but they're as dea.....
» 29/07/2009 11:48:07 AM There have been plenty of wars fought because of, or in spite of religious beliefs. Anybo.....
» 28/07/2009 12:59:20 AM I love statements like - "..morality comes from the conscience and values of the comm.....
» 28/07/2009 12:40:47 AM This is outrageous! Better for him to tell us nothing and take us nowhere and leave this .....
» 24/07/2009 2:26:55 AM Oops, I should have checked first. Individuals can contribute a maximum amount per calen.....
» 24/07/2009 2:20:51 AM I've heard that in Canada, all political parties are funded from the Public purse and priv.....
» 24/07/2009 2:15:36 AM Privatisation (and Public Private Partnerships) was first made popular by Margaret Thatche.....
» 19/07/2009 2:40:09 AM Under One God - please explain - If this is all simply about raising new taxes then why a.....
» 19/07/2009 2:18:48 AM Why not just ask "what level of intolerance is permissible within a society that clai.....
» 14/07/2009 1:48:16 AM One of our biggest problems is that most people fail to grasp the consequences of exponent.....
» 12/07/2009 11:13:07 PM Pollution from military bases is a world-wide phenomenon. "The U.S. Department of De.....
» 7/07/2009 12:06:03 AM Britain paid off it’s WW2 debt (plus interest) to the USA in 2006. In most cases, the rem.....
» 3/07/2009 3:41:12 PM I'm more interested in the contrived performance of Senator Abetz, who feigned ignorance d.....
» 2/07/2009 2:12:32 AM Seems like Indonesia is fishing for a bigger handout from the Australian taxpayer. You ca.....
» 2/07/2009 2:01:39 AM I think that generally, people are reluctant to speak ill of the dead for superstitious re.....
» 29/06/2009 2:19:51 PM The reasons that Nazis introduced the Gas Ovens during WW2 as a method of killing was to s.....
» 26/06/2009 2:26:37 PM Despite being born here, I’m was child of post-WW2 European immigrants and so I grew up as.....
» 26/06/2009 1:53:43 PM Before anybody gets too carried away with notions of a rising cultural change in Western s.....
» 22/06/2009 4:05:08 PM Shadow Minister, My memory is not so selective as you may think. The Snowy Hydro wasn’t .....
» 22/06/2009 9:23:35 AM I think this just demonstrates how a dirty tricks campaign kicks in when desperation is hi.....
» 22/06/2009 2:15:19 AM Despite all those years when it was "raining gold bars", he never built a single.....
» 19/06/2009 2:05:10 AM The debate isn't about climate change. It's about the extent that it is being made worse b.....
» 15/06/2009 2:25:32 AM We should be very worried at the prospect that many of our foreign students may go to over.....
» 14/06/2009 10:24:33 AM Another irrelevant phenonemenon brought to us by the same people who brought us the totall.....
» 12/06/2009 3:57:38 PM Foxy, at the risk of wandering too far off-topic here is an extract from the latest suicid.....
» 12/06/2009 3:28:57 PM I'm more offended by those celebrities that use sick kids as props to advertise their own .....
» 12/06/2009 1:28:45 AM Regarding high taxes in Scandinavian countries - in Finland (actually a Nordic country) ev.....
» 10/06/2009 2:25:39 AM The media is mainly concerned with tapping into emotions - primarily anger and disgust bec.....
» 10/06/2009 2:08:45 AM It's been said that Capitalism is the unequal distribution of wealth and Socialism is the .....
» 9/06/2009 12:39:56 AM I think you'll find that the overwhelming majority of current party political candidates w.....
» 4/06/2009 2:14:19 AM Immigration is needed primarily for economic reasons and not just for business profits but.....
» 3/06/2009 1:15:35 PM Some interesting observations - http://business.smh.com.au/business/debt-and-politicians-.....
» 1/06/2009 11:58:23 PM Islam doesn’t have a monopoly on religious intolerance against non-believers - Kill those.....
» 29/05/2009 3:13:46 PM Glorfindel, I'm not looking for an excuse but wasn't that Bible incident preceded by pris.....
» 28/05/2009 2:49:49 AM Some people still don't appreciate the ramifications of the Fractional Banking system. Sa.....
» 27/05/2009 9:04:36 AM From last year's Immigration Report to June 2008- Total arrivals/departures = 25,700,000 .....
» 25/05/2009 2:04:14 AM For all those that believe you can find some sort of secret prophesy in iron-age texts - .....
» 22/05/2009 12:14:24 AM Actually Pericles (if you're still there), you didn't borrow money, you created debt. Wha.....
» 21/05/2009 4:19:28 PM It's just a club - a rorted system where Party A and Party B take turns in implementing si.....
» 21/05/2009 8:43:56 AM Rache, Truly inevitable, especially when you consider that the USA is bailing out it's eco.....
» 19/05/2009 8:22:52 PM When Lincoln was seeking to raise money to fund the Civil War he was offered a high intere.....
» 19/05/2009 2:37:46 AM America is still in Afghanistan for the same reason it decided to invade well before the e.....
» 14/05/2009 8:59:23 PM Ozandy is correct when he says that they did not need to drop the nukes to end the war. T.....
» 14/05/2009 2:04:11 AM It's interesting how the collective mind works. More people are killed by cars (and donkey.....
» 12/05/2009 12:49:58 AM Because smokers tend to die earlier than non-smokers so they are probably less of a drain .....
» 12/05/2009 12:41:47 AM I'm getting a bit tired of the old "I paid taxes all my life.." mantra. Well I'.....
» 8/05/2009 11:51:18 PM Shadow Minister, As far as I'm aware, DIMIA (now IMMI) do not publish these statistics dir.....
» 7/05/2009 2:21:11 AM Shadow Minister, I stand corrected on the final Tampa stats but not the 84% Department of.....
» 4/05/2009 10:41:53 PM Wattle, While Costello & Co didn't single-handledly cause the GFC, their actions certainly.....
» 30/04/2009 1:08:21 AM Shadow Minister, The figure from the Department of Immigration and Citizenship is that 84.....
» 28/04/2009 4:59:05 PM Let's consider the situation since Rudd was elected because Howard apparently solved this .....
» 28/04/2009 1:20:57 AM Actually what it really "boils down to" is everybody's need to attribute blame t.....
» 23/04/2009 8:26:15 PM On the other hand - "The United States of America is in no sense founded in the Chri.....
» 22/04/2009 10:48:56 PM KMB, Regarding pigs and apes - I think you'll find that the context was that Allah/God ear.....
» 22/04/2009 2:44:51 AM The first "safe haven" depends on whether the country is in fact a signatory to .....
» 22/04/2009 2:29:27 AM The world is inevitably heading toward a global police state or a collection of police sta.....
» 22/04/2009 2:20:47 AM Would this be the same Thomas Jefferson who had about 7 children to his slave mistress and.....
» 19/04/2009 1:33:58 AM I see a problem here. Some people stll refuse to comply with the tried-and-true method of.....
» 17/04/2009 6:34:15 PM I very much doubt that this is intended as a trigger for a Double Dissolution. It simply .....
» 17/04/2009 2:15:05 AM Behind all the feel-good rhetoric, I can imagine a drift toward a fundamentalist state wit.....
» 14/04/2009 2:09:16 PM Statistically, standing with one foot on hot coals and the other in a bucket of ice makes .....
» 14/04/2009 1:54:12 PM Fractelle, I believe that is the actual proposal - fibre to the home in metropolitan area.....
» 13/04/2009 2:05:47 PM Sancho, Thursday's no good for me as I have made other arrangements and still need to get.....
» 13/04/2009 1:57:47 PM Ludwig, "...if it this absolutely massive projection in growth wasn’t part of the pla.....
» 13/04/2009 1:26:20 AM Why do so many people have a problem grasping the meaning of the word "average"?.....
» 13/04/2009 1:21:11 AM Under one God, The "Theory of Natural Selection" is indeed a theory - hence it'.....
» 13/04/2009 1:14:20 AM Let's look at this another way. Do we REALLY need to spend more money on a National Highwa.....
» 11/04/2009 2:22:41 AM Misleading. http://www.countercurrents.org/burbeck100108.htm The recent fracturing of t.....
» 11/04/2009 2:04:16 AM The typing monkey hypothesis is flawed and misleading. If you keep only those bits that a.....
» 9/04/2009 4:12:59 PM Another beat-up story designed to maintain some sort of indignant rage among the community.....
» 7/04/2009 1:06:31 AM Maybe the government should just ignore it and just do nothing. It seems that it's too fa.....
» 4/04/2009 1:03:55 AM In defence of Ozandy, maybe it's reasonable to keep reminding people of where they have ju.....
» 2/04/2009 12:43:40 AM I for one am willing to wait until we have another Jake Kovco-type fiasco and then we'll s.....
» 24/03/2009 12:28:02 PM I don't think it's becoming "more common", perhaps just more obvious. With the .....
» 24/03/2009 12:26:01 AM Once again, most people continue to confuse religion with culture. The biggest Muslim nat.....
» 16/03/2009 12:04:47 AM davidf, "Tribal societies have been on earth as long as we have and have developed c.....
» 14/03/2009 11:48:20 PM One definition I've heard is - "Capitalism is the unequal distribution of wealth. Com.....
» 10/03/2009 12:24:18 PM There's already been a period in human history where the Church and State were one. Relig.....
» 10/03/2009 1:18:20 AM Ask Robert Mugabe. New printed dollars get their value from the dollars that already exist.....
» 9/03/2009 9:05:57 AM Not many people are aware that the King James Bible was actually a political document inte.....
» 8/03/2009 10:46:51 PM What's with the sudden interest in what one specific company is doing. What they have don.....
» 4/03/2009 12:54:17 PM It still comes down to the cost of the additional exotic raw materials - such as nickel an.....
» 4/03/2009 12:02:32 AM Runner, If "killing the unborn" in our country is wrong, is killing people in o.....
» 3/03/2009 11:58:59 PM I thought God admitted to Noah that causing the flood was a mistake and that He also regre.....
» 3/03/2009 11:42:29 PM Despite the philosophical arguments, it still takes more energy to actually build a Toyota.....
» 2/03/2009 12:14:48 PM How about those circumstances where our lifestyle is subsidised by the existence of child .....
» 27/02/2009 11:20:46 PM "Capitalism is the unequal distribution of wealth. Communism is the equal distributio.....
» 27/02/2009 11:12:57 PM The real problem of religion is not so much the religion itself but the intolerance that i.....
» 24/02/2009 7:21:28 PM It's a fairly generalised concept. I agree that it depends on what service you're talking.....
» 23/02/2009 11:34:05 AM So should she now send a cheque for the full amount paid and then surrender herself to be .....
» 23/02/2009 11:22:51 AM The saddest thing about Costello is that he also believes the same drivel that his support.....
» 20/02/2009 12:50:50 PM Now that the dust has settled and that very important Israeli election is over, let’s look.....
» 20/02/2009 12:46:48 AM Runner, Religion is a fairy tale for adults. Evolution is a theory based on physical evide.....
» 18/02/2009 2:05:53 PM "The world and Obama should keep their snouts out of Israel. The Israelis have electe.....
» 17/02/2009 3:20:51 PM Forget about tagging jeans and everyday items, it's people that should worry about being t.....
» 11/02/2009 11:50:36 PM Saddam was indeed an agent of US and British interests when they actively sponsored his ri.....
» 10/02/2009 3:02:39 PM It's not specifically what Guevera did but what he represents to some people that has made.....
» 10/02/2009 12:38:59 AM What's the difference between the taxpayer funding a Catholic School, a Lutheran School, a.....
» 10/02/2009 12:20:16 AM I considered the bunker idea as well long ago, until a fireman told me that many people di.....
» 5/02/2009 11:43:18 PM Although the foundations were laid sometime earlier, the real crash was brought on by the .....
» 4/02/2009 11:03:27 PM In 1935, in a book called "It can't happen here", the author Sinclair Lewis said.....
» 3/02/2009 1:49:21 PM The author completely ignores the following points – Islam and Judaism are law-based rel.....
» 30/01/2009 10:46:29 PM (Continued) I’ve got no hatred against Jews. 14% of Israel is not even Jewish and you may.....
» 30/01/2009 10:32:21 PM Boazy, resorting to personal attacks now? OK let’s get it on. In the first case, words a.....
» 29/01/2009 3:01:10 PM Not everyone in the world sees Israel in the same innocent victim way. Despite initial me.....
» 28/01/2009 12:47:49 AM The definition of a War Crime includes such items as - directing attacks against civilia.....
» 26/01/2009 1:40:27 PM Use of White Phophorus? - http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article5.....
» 25/01/2009 8:53:14 PM Mark Latham once accused GWB as being "incompetent and dangerous" and was immedi.....
» 25/01/2009 8:38:27 PM Boazy, Would you be willing to open the history books and consider War Crime accusations .....
» 21/01/2009 1:21:28 AM Many will simply ignore this but in October 2007 an Israeli correspondent suggested that t.....
» 20/01/2009 6:22:17 PM The majority of these prisoners were kidnapped from friendly countries, transported across.....
» 20/01/2009 12:37:37 PM They just had to kill all those kids. They may have grown up to be anti-Semites. Maybe th.....
» 20/01/2009 12:20:03 PM Many of the same companies (eg Sony CBS) that complain about piracy actually manufacture t.....
» 19/01/2009 2:42:19 PM Gibo, Equating the historical mistreatment of aborigines with current political criticism .....
» 19/01/2009 12:34:08 PM I think voting is motivated by both factors, however it is ultimately self-interest that i.....
» 19/01/2009 1:04:52 AM Binge drinking - like other self destructives excesses - is not really the problem. It's .....
» 16/01/2009 12:54:30 AM Since when has the right to a decorated birthday cake become a "human right?" A.....
» 14/01/2009 6:57:17 PM Wow, Here I was thinking that evil is determined by what people do and how they think and.....
» 14/01/2009 6:42:42 PM Arjay, When the US Government wants money, it issues Bonds to the Fed which uses these to .....
» 14/01/2009 3:12:51 PM Foxy, The presence of military bases is one thing but the testing of Depleted Uranium wea.....
» 14/01/2009 3:00:10 PM Dagget, I'm on your side. My remark about the debate being over meant that it's too late f.....
» 14/01/2009 12:54:46 AM Frankly, I'm more concerned about the US military testing their depleted uranium weapons i.....
» 14/01/2009 12:43:22 AM As someone who has worked in the telecommunication industry for over thirty years (from th.....
» 12/01/2009 3:10:16 PM Polycarp, Another solution would be if Israel simply renounced it's policy of relentless o.....
» 11/01/2009 8:32:17 PM People also paid little notice to the ongoing sanctions against Gaza or the kidnapping of .....
» 11/01/2009 8:22:46 PM Somehow I don't think that the overseas owners of most of Australia will be quietly sittin.....
» 11/01/2009 8:07:09 PM Arjay, I'm aware of the powerful influence the Federal Reserve has on US policy and the W.....
» 11/01/2009 1:29:00 AM Johntas, White Phosphorus is a particularly horrific WMD. Despite initial denials it was.....
» 7/01/2009 1:37:19 AM Paul L, I'm talking about driving the Israelis out of Palestine you clown! The Jewish his.....
» 6/01/2009 10:13:05 PM " the land promised by God ..." So God's been handing out Real Estate? If I and.....
» 5/01/2009 12:29:27 PM It's ironic to see the Jews are fed up with Hamas and are now embarking of their own ".....
» 5/01/2009 12:21:50 PM What's worse? 1. Acting on the premise that there is a humanity-induced factor in climat.....
» 3/01/2009 12:10:59 AM Col, We are free to see what we want to see and believe what we want to believe but as Jo.....
» 1/01/2009 8:59:32 PM Lots of opinions here but no comment on the significance of the ongoing Gaza sanctions as .....
» 1/01/2009 5:23:03 PM From some of the comments above, I suspect 2009 will be just another 12 months of opportun.....
» 18/12/2008 11:18:23 PM Col, Our childrens' future was already sold out from under them by the privatisation of pu.....
» 17/12/2008 12:59:03 PM Howard's legacy is a nation now largely owned by overseas corporations and with massive pe.....
» 15/12/2008 3:11:10 PM Froggie, I'd like to know where you got that 5% figure for militant Muslims from. If you'r.....
» 7/12/2008 10:12:48 AM Col, I don't think the aftermath of Thatcherism can be hailed as a brilliant success. Wh.....
» 5/12/2008 8:31:15 AM TRTL, December 25th is the time of the Solstice and has been celebrated in some way by man.....
» 5/12/2008 8:23:14 AM I think there are some large capitalist corporations, such as car manufacturers, Banks and.....
» 5/12/2008 8:15:19 AM The Workers are to blame? They must be the same Workers who were convinced by the politici.....
» 4/12/2008 9:47:19 AM Despite overwhelming evidence from the FBI that torture produces no real nett gain in inte.....
» 3/12/2008 12:19:01 PM Here we go again. Every time somebody criticises Capitalism, somebody else drags out the o.....
» 2/12/2008 3:34:23 PM Feminism pluses - More financial independence for women as well as (partial) recognition o.....
» 28/11/2008 9:33:51 PM Runner, "Secularist who kill the unborn are the only ones I know who commit more viol.....
» 25/11/2008 1:58:19 PM david f, My comments were actually directed at the major religions because they seem to be.....
» 24/11/2008 11:15:16 AM If Capitalism is so gloriously successful, why do we keep socialising it's losses? If the .....
» 24/11/2008 11:04:51 AM Religions don't embrace sustainability because at their heart they are essentially selfish.....
» 21/11/2008 9:55:52 PM Bazz, It's a hard concept to get across but the cash you hold in your hand is actually the.....
» 21/11/2008 3:15:56 PM Bazz, The money didn't go anywhere because it never really existed in the first place. B.....
» 20/11/2008 11:32:31 AM I look forward to somebody producing definitive evidence proving creationism, but please -.....
» 20/11/2008 11:16:45 AM I guess the author is right in much of what he says - if he considers Sweden in isolation .....
» 18/11/2008 10:18:31 PM Spikey, I hope you realise I was only making a sarcastic point about the ex-government's p.....
» 18/11/2008 12:41:01 PM If this is meant to be some sort of back-handed attack on the notion of evolution, it shou.....
» 18/11/2008 12:22:28 PM If only they had changed their name and got rid of that accursed "Union" tag and.....
» 17/11/2008 10:12:01 AM Most mainstream religions are becoming rather "New-Ageish". When you start to p.....
» 11/11/2008 12:50:42 AM The Talmud says, among other things, that Gentiles are lesser people than Jews and that it.....
» 10/11/2008 2:09:00 AM Historically, Christians were NOT fed to the lions in the Colosseum. That was a Hollywood.....
» 10/11/2008 1:50:50 AM Over the last fifteen years, I have worked with several Muslims, a few Hindus, a Sihk and .....
» 9/11/2008 1:40:28 AM " ... worldwide Muslim community about their hatred and violence against nonMuslims&q.....
» 4/11/2008 1:44:44 PM Polycarp, It's just a technicality, but a "Revelation" is something that can on.....
» 4/11/2008 12:16:41 AM Before Kennedy - when Abraham Lincoln needed funds for the Civil War, the traditional Euro.....
» 3/11/2008 11:53:42 PM The main difference between a religious person and an atheist is that an atheist believes .....
» 3/11/2008 11:49:27 PM As I recall it, my local bus company that was contracted to transport kids to school - was.....
» 31/10/2008 12:46:06 AM one under god, That's the whole point of this debate - science versus faith. Show me the .....
» 30/10/2008 7:57:59 PM Prayer? If God has a Divine Plan, is He going to change it just because you want Him to? .....
» 30/10/2008 11:12:23 AM Using the same logic as many of the posters above, is there any "proof" that any.....
» 29/10/2008 1:10:21 PM I think this sums up the argument rather nicely. http://shoutwire.com/fullpicture/faithsc.....
» 29/10/2008 1:03:52 PM The term "anti-American" is an example of propaganda that tries to stereotype al.....
» 27/10/2008 12:43:05 PM Why not a simple animal sacrifice as an offering to appease whatever Gods may be overseein.....
» 21/10/2008 1:09:11 PM Runner, The divinity of Christ was first established by the Church after the 4th century a.....
» 20/10/2008 3:07:31 PM Rache. Packer Company Tax. 10% in 1992 http://www.theage.com.au/news/opinion/the-taxing-.....
» 20/10/2008 2:01:09 PM Let's see, Flogging off most our National Gold Reserves as well as almost all significant .....
» 14/10/2008 2:37:39 PM Money actually represents debt because that’s how money is created in the modern monetary .....
» 13/10/2008 10:31:47 AM david f, Regarding the association of Nazis with the Church - http://nobeliefs.com/memen.....
» 9/10/2008 11:37:47 AM If not from the ABC - the most constantly and criticially scrutinised media organisation i.....
» 9/10/2008 11:29:45 AM By all means, disagree with Pilger's assessments, but please provide some facts to show us.....
» 7/10/2008 7:32:02 AM Celivia, You can laugh at it now but if you want to live forever, you need to telepathica.....
» 3/10/2008 1:51:05 AM Although capitalism appears to increase the wealth of each individual, there are other cos.....
» 2/10/2008 3:57:00 PM Will we ever reach a point in society where crime falls to a point where we can finally di.....
» 2/10/2008 3:10:20 PM For anybody wanting to know how the world financial system – especially banks - evolved in.....
» 30/09/2008 4:33:06 PM Paul.L. I thought we automatically entered both WW1 and WW2 because of our colonial obliga.....
» 30/09/2008 2:12:54 AM Paul.L. I think you'll find that the true basis for most wars has been over the simple des.....
» 29/09/2008 4:12:20 PM Oops, I should have named DAVID Summers. My apologies to all those named Paul Summers ou.....
» 29/09/2008 3:59:31 PM Is that the same "Exposure" magazine that concerns itself with finding Lost Arks.....
» 24/09/2008 11:49:36 PM It's an interesting question but one that I think, can't be answered. Perhaps it's a matt.....
» 22/09/2008 2:07:44 PM Here I was thinking that I was taking a neutral position and looking at some things from b.....
» 21/09/2008 2:18:39 AM If that boat was say a ferry, filled with Australians travelling for any reason whatsoever.....
» 20/09/2008 1:50:07 AM Bronwyn, For some, Compassion is something that's reserved for Members Only and Truth is w.....
» 18/09/2008 2:21:17 PM Paul L. – “there are very few real socialists left”?. There may be a few billion Chinese,.....
» 17/09/2008 4:15:53 PM I suspect that the Libs are having a sort of "Latham moment" following bad polli.....
» 17/09/2008 2:43:04 AM Despite all the hysterical and sinister connotations associated with the word "social.....
» 15/09/2008 4:25:38 PM What a reaction over an overfriendly labrador! Eleven pages! Imagine the fallout if it ha.....
» 11/09/2008 1:36:31 PM I just posted this on another thread but it may have been better suited to this one. Seem.....
» 11/09/2008 1:27:27 PM Seems to me that she's a sort of circuit breaker only meant to change the the direction of.....
» 8/09/2008 1:46:14 PM How times have changed. I remember a time when the word "bloody" was too hot fo.....
» 3/09/2008 4:34:19 PM It matters most significantly that “most Muslims are moderate”, just as most Christians, B.....
» 3/09/2008 2:06:25 AM Once more Polycarp, Regarding apostasy, have you ever heard of something in Mormonism cal.....
» 2/09/2008 4:07:19 PM I can't name a single media organisation in this country that's as persistently and critic.....
» 2/09/2008 1:42:15 PM Polycarp, " actually thought he might be "Wobbles" or one of our other con.....
» 1/09/2008 11:12:08 AM I suspect that religion is no more than misunderstood mythology - a personification of hum.....
» 28/08/2008 1:49:24 AM By definition a conspiracy is an illegal act. What’s happening with the current US adminis.....
» 26/08/2008 10:56:40 AM Haganah Bet, There's a subtle but significant difference between opportunists making mone.....
» 25/08/2008 1:52:53 AM Randall Scheunemann - among other things he was associated with PNAC, an advisor to Rumsfe.....
» 17/08/2008 9:31:55 PM daggett, I for one have read Klein's book and her views on the concept of "Disaster C.....
» 14/08/2008 8:13:27 PM Leslie, I agree with your comment on the part Russia played in the Japanese surrender. The.....
» 14/08/2008 7:56:35 PM "We're not interested in regime change. We don't want to get rid of Saddam - we just .....
» 12/08/2008 4:25:24 PM Funny how things change. Once upon a time - Iran’s current nuclear industry was created .....
» 7/08/2008 1:51:13 PM I think you'll find that the US government desperately wanted to enter WW2 but public opin.....
» 6/08/2008 2:09:36 PM I think the reason for such arrangements between the Vatican and Nation States is based on.....
» 30/07/2008 10:29:37 AM Logic, Thanks for the comments and I must admit that I tend to agree. My efforts were ma.....
» 29/07/2008 12:12:53 PM I’m not one of those with a rosy view of Howard’s economic performance. Remember the sale.....
» 29/07/2008 11:59:06 AM Youngsteve, I’m neither a “self-hating Jew” nor a “fuming anti-Semite”. Funny how people .....
» 28/07/2008 9:48:08 AM Here’s some of interesting quotes for those with short attention spans - “If I was an Ara.....
» 28/07/2008 9:42:36 AM Bushbred, The US was actually helping both sides during the Iran-Iraq war, supplying Iraq .....
» 26/07/2008 2:21:49 AM Logic, "A problem is that the fundamentalists in the surrounding states believe with.....
» 25/07/2008 11:16:27 AM Should we be thinking more of getting rid of Hamas and Hezbollah or the perceived NEED for.....
» 23/07/2008 3:12:18 PM mjpb, Some more historical perspective - In Biblical times many wives and concubines wer.....
» 23/07/2008 2:03:16 AM Celibacy for the clergy is much like Popes taking new names when appointed and the wearing.....
» 15/07/2008 3:47:47 PM So it's all just a big conspiratorial scam to raise more taxes? Considering that it's the.....
» 10/07/2008 2:56:06 PM I suspect that there may be a paedophile or two feeling relieved that Ferguson is drawing .....
» 8/07/2008 1:45:50 PM Religions have their own versions of ethics. Consider the following topics – Abortion, .....
» 8/07/2008 11:26:36 AM The story of Getrude Bell gives an insight into the situation at the beginning of Iraq’s f.....
» 7/07/2008 1:18:51 AM When it comes to hybrid vehicles, consider this - http://clubs.ccsu.edu/recorder/editoria.....
» 1/07/2008 12:13:52 PM An $1,100 fine if you publically expose yourself in front of an attendee but $5,500 if you.....
» 30/06/2008 9:24:10 PM So it's all some sort of elaborate evil political conspiracy after all? How fortunate tha.....
» 30/06/2008 1:40:23 AM I think our reasons for going into those "wars" was not simply for the sake of o.....
» 18/06/2008 11:09:40 PM It seems that some believe that it was entirely the victims' own fault and they just got w.....
» 17/06/2008 1:19:49 PM "..capitalizing on sentimentality for base political motives"? What motives? The.....
» 13/06/2008 2:12:40 PM I think there's a degree of commonality in the reaction to both events. Both are the resu.....
» 12/06/2008 2:05:57 AM Foxy, I for one have read Pilger's book and you're right about the information it contain.....
» 11/06/2008 3:47:19 PM The Muslims I know are too busy making a living to feed their families and getting on with.....
» 6/06/2008 3:23:32 PM I would be interested to learn if any of Henson's offending photos turn up in the material.....
» 2/06/2008 1:59:21 PM I thought governments were like little dominos that would fall over, one-by-one, until we .....
» 30/05/2008 3:26:13 PM The differences are that – In secular terms, there is enough room to officially challeng.....
» 29/05/2008 10:19:05 AM Oops, I meant Talmud, not Torah......
» 29/05/2008 10:05:26 AM And I thought the planning rejection was entirely on the basis of traffic congestion but i.....
» 26/05/2008 2:42:49 PM CJ and Pericles - Bravo......
» 26/05/2008 1:41:33 AM Anne Geddes had better watch out now. All her cute calendars and greeting cards may have t.....
» 21/05/2008 4:16:10 PM I don't think it was a matter of Communism/Socialism "failing" as much as being .....
» 21/05/2008 3:38:57 PM There's nothing new about ethnic hatred and I don't see why Jews feel they are something s.....
» 15/05/2008 2:04:49 AM Earthquakes (and volcanoes) are a natural geological event. If you prefer to believe in a .....
» 14/05/2008 9:58:39 AM What's the big deal with political sloganeering? Everybody does it. I remember "fami.....
» 12/05/2008 4:22:11 PM I guess that when you're so far to the Right, EVERYBODY becomes a lefty and the degree to .....
» 9/05/2008 2:15:57 PM Ahh, privatisation - leads to "Private Affluence and Public Squalor". I think i.....
» 6/05/2008 9:11:59 AM Gee, thanks for dragging me into this thread but I feel that, when it comes down to it, pe.....
» 2/05/2008 1:47:38 PM Genetically targetted disease warfare is entirely possible. I recall hearing a CIA whistl.....
» 2/05/2008 2:08:31 AM ".. the same lefties who actually supported the communists?" I wonder who finan.....
» 1/05/2008 1:36:36 AM Boaz, By all means debate the comparative evils of ALL religions. Philosophising about in.....
» 30/04/2008 1:56:33 AM I heard this clown interviewed on radio last week and his sunspot arguments systematically.....
» 24/04/2008 1:55:12 AM Here something relatively recent - http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/04/0804171124.....
» 23/04/2008 1:19:26 PM Froggie, I agree totally that Saddam was a homicidal maniac, but he was the homicidal mani.....
» 20/04/2008 12:00:57 AM PaulL, "I'll say it again slowly" but I already said that there was not a specif.....
» 18/04/2008 9:01:18 AM PaulL, call me thick and intellectually vacuous too but I think Rache is essentially corre.....
» 11/04/2008 3:22:35 AM Good article. Reminds me of the way the Jews were being seen between the Wars as an examp.....
» 9/04/2008 9:59:59 AM I always take news of large illicit drug shipment siezures with a bit of unease. What the.....
» 8/04/2008 10:10:54 AM Even Hitler knew what the real value of the Olympics was. It's become just another venue .....
» 2/04/2008 1:07:45 AM A new low - even for BOAZy. An ongoing "nudge-nudge-wink-wink" suggestion that .....
» 31/03/2008 12:56:12 AM When there were only Seven Deadly Sins, I was having much trouble deciding which one was m.....
» 29/03/2008 12:50:57 AM PaulL "The Viet Minh were armed by China and the USSR. Initially the Americans were .....
» 28/03/2008 1:18:02 AM PaulL, Using one group of bad guys to fight another group of bad guys on your behalf might.....
» 27/03/2008 2:14:56 PM Rache, all your allegations of US complicity in the establishment and development of the T.....
» 24/03/2008 1:09:24 AM I think Costello and Co will gradually end up wearing the blame for much of what is yet to.....
» 18/03/2008 1:23:19 AM This all seems a lot like the anti-Asian sentiment that was rife pre-2001. Only then it .....
» 12/03/2008 9:54:56 AM BOAZ, Historically, before Marcion published the first truly Christian Bible (AD 116), Ch.....
» 10/03/2008 10:58:37 AM (Cont) A source of information about Paul is a group called the Ebionites, whose writings.....
» 10/03/2008 10:40:21 AM Danielle/Boaz, Still-off thread but for the record, there were in fact three main early c.....
» 6/03/2008 10:21:46 AM CJ Morgan, I agree that Keating's speech was better and also with your other observations.....
» 6/03/2008 10:04:01 AM As much as I strongly disagree with the notion of selling public assets, I am yet to hear .....
» 3/03/2008 8:21:47 AM Foxy, So sad to hear of the circumstances of your departure. Thanks for your patience and.....
» 28/02/2008 2:45:32 PM George, Apologies if you think I over-reacted. I don’t know if it was the facts I present.....
» 27/02/2008 2:56:17 PM Forget to include this trivia - Communism describes an economic and social belief system,.....
» 27/02/2008 1:40:14 PM Sorry George, but the Nazis and the Churches had a close relationship. Both German state .....
» 25/02/2008 2:11:47 PM This argument has being going on for years but there is still no definitive result. &quo.....
» 22/02/2008 8:16:14 AM Many of the same people who claim that the concept of evolution is somehow flawed and unsc.....
» 18/02/2008 12:55:38 PM BOAZ, Thomas Jefferson also said – “A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where f.....
» 16/02/2008 1:38:26 AM I think the Jackie Kelly incident showed us that there are other ways of influencing voter.....
» 16/02/2008 1:25:56 AM BOAZ, CLAIM. "If.. muslims are allowed to dominate any industry or area, they WILL w.....
» 13/02/2008 10:29:56 PM If aborigines get such a better deal than "whitey" I wonder if we should hand ov.....
» 13/02/2008 12:50:48 PM Romany, This off-shoot about religion reminds me of a statement that was attributed to a.....
» 13/02/2008 12:34:34 PM "Swamped by immigrants" would be xenophobic - "swamped by Asians" is d.....
» 13/02/2008 1:16:38 AM The Pope is supposed to be the leader and spokesman of the entire Catholic faith. When he.....
» 13/02/2008 1:06:39 AM If there were no men, who would do all the heavy lifting and who would kill the spiders?.....
» 13/02/2008 1:01:20 AM How can Hanson NOT be called a rascist when she based her whole reason for entering parlia.....
» 10/02/2008 7:02:08 PM From some of the comments above, an apology from some of the posters here would not be wor.....
» 3/02/2008 1:19:49 AM Dr BOAZ, "But if people in both groups are under the Kingdom of God.." As I re.....
» 3/02/2008 1:01:17 AM Runner, Sorry to disappoint you but not all Jews and Arabs consider themselves enemies - n.....
» 1/02/2008 12:59:53 PM Two of the interesting things I have learned about the history of feminism (in the West) o.....
» 30/01/2008 8:59:24 AM The US economy largely depends on international conflict. They are the world’s largest int.....
» 29/01/2008 12:37:07 AM As Foxy said, there is more to that Danish cartoon controversy than was reported in the ma.....
» 25/01/2008 12:45:01 AM Anybody following the recent stories about Hospital inadequacies could get the impression .....
» 24/01/2008 8:50:38 AM An interesting article. The Public Service had indeed become heavily politicised and it's.....
» 23/01/2008 12:00:18 AM Bindi Irwin......
» 20/01/2008 10:37:39 PM Historically, a major reason for the Federation of this country was not just a “feel-good .....
» 16/01/2008 1:25:39 PM First of all, what rationality can there be in faith? The same people who scoff about the.....
» 16/01/2008 12:44:35 PM Runner and Wizofaus, An interesting article for you both - with some actual statistics - .....
» 16/01/2008 10:16:11 AM My father was a post-WW2 European refugee and I recall one occasion many years ago where t.....
» 9/01/2008 7:44:19 AM I for one am prepared to wait until I hear a direct statement from Hicks himself. The gag.....
» 7/01/2008 7:46:16 AM I never really appreciated these lyrics for many years but... You Have To Be Carefully Ta.....
» 5/01/2008 10:34:53 PM (Continued) Also despite his alleged “conversion” to a particular Christian sect, Constan.....
» 5/01/2008 10:20:22 PM Philo, I didn’t say that there were NO persecutions, only that there were not as many as .....
» 5/01/2008 12:56:27 AM Santa is a personification of God for children - all knowing, miraculous and one who rewar.....
» 4/01/2008 1:09:26 AM From these sorts of articles, one would get the impression that the notion of climate chan.....
» 2/01/2008 3:26:46 PM I don’t think Keating comes anywhere near Howard on the issue of divisiveness. The Conser.....
» 30/12/2007 7:17:51 PM The King is dead, long live the King. It took a few flushes but the rodent and his lackey.....
» 30/12/2007 12:19:07 AM "...first, it’s claimed that torture doesn’t elicit reliable information. This is fac.....
» 29/12/2007 9:24:07 PM The celebrations that happen at this time of year have been going on for centuries and in .....
» 22/12/2007 12:38:34 AM Is the author really trying to suggest that atheism is some sort of religion? As I sugges.....
» 19/12/2007 7:58:24 AM I'm afraid I don't know......
» 19/12/2007 7:54:40 AM Some say it's better for a thousand innocent people to go to prison than for a single guil.....
» 17/12/2007 12:50:41 AM No matter how much BOAZ tries to sugar coat it, Christianity has just a brutal a history a.....
» 4/12/2007 2:00:46 PM Another not-so-veiled religious assault under the guise of social commentary from the inde.....
» 3/12/2007 3:19:48 PM I object to my taxes being diverted to subsidise parents who have CHOSEN to educate their .....
» 3/12/2007 3:10:07 PM I love the way that groups of employers can band together into organisations and lobby Gov.....
» 1/12/2007 9:50:08 PM Feeding the world is more a matter of supply than of distribution and I doubt that increas.....
» 30/11/2007 8:18:40 AM Bugsy and Agronomist, Fair enough. I’m simply not qualified to argue the merits or otherw.....
» 29/11/2007 1:20:32 PM Bugsy, Here’s an article with several cross-references. http://www.seedsofdeception.com/.....
» 28/11/2007 9:55:17 AM "..because farmers are always genetically modifiying seeds and livestock to improve t.....
» 27/11/2007 10:35:13 AM Well said CJ Morgan, I think that the previous idea that there are 1.2 billion people out.....
» 23/11/2007 1:11:55 AM Please define what you mean by "the Left". Surely you can't mean the Labor Part.....
» 23/11/2007 1:00:52 AM Arjay, Decades of racism at Cronulla? Really? How many decades - two, three, four, five,.....
» 22/11/2007 2:59:20 PM A prank? It would only be a prank if it was intended to be discovered for what it was. I.....
» 22/11/2007 2:49:59 PM Off course they will be sent back. Maybe before we send them back, they could work-off th.....
» 19/11/2007 12:01:22 AM Pauline Hanson is an excellent example of the power of the media. She - a political and s.....
» 18/11/2007 1:30:53 AM The funny thing about the words "conspiracy" and "theory" is that they.....
» 18/11/2007 1:20:17 AM The flaw in this "debate" is the ridiculous assumption that by disproving one ar.....
» 10/11/2007 12:08:32 AM Rache - some fairly obvious points are - Stranger comes down to Earth. Peacefully walks a.....
» 9/11/2007 3:14:27 PM There have been plenty of films with similar themes of homicidal religious fanatacism (Kev.....
» 9/11/2007 2:12:29 PM Actually Nationalism by definition, as well as being "a love for one's country" .....
» 8/11/2007 7:23:56 PM The fact remains that the taxpayer contributes more dollars for each individual private sc.....
» 8/11/2007 12:54:48 PM Yindin, I'm with you on this one. When I bought my first house my wife stayed at home to .....
» 8/11/2007 12:33:40 PM I for one, object to my taxes being diverted to subsidise parents who have chosen to educa.....
» 7/11/2007 8:12:31 AM I thought that every tax dollar I have been paying over the years has been put into a litt.....
» 7/11/2007 8:01:24 AM Australia has a very good legal system - inherited from our forefathers and originally des.....
» 7/11/2007 7:51:27 AM The term "fundamentalist" was originally coined to refer to certain Christians o.....
» 2/11/2007 11:04:37 AM This reminds me of those refugees from the Kosovo crisis we reluctantly gave safe haven re.....
» 1/11/2007 3:32:56 PM Neither. How about "The Star Spangled Banner"? (but only if that's OK with GWB).....
» 31/10/2007 7:50:06 AM What makes the GST different from the previous system is that it catches up with everybody.....
» 31/10/2007 12:19:43 AM So all gangs in this country come from immigrants and non-anglo racial groups? Imagine tha.....
» 30/10/2007 3:40:12 PM Here’s a declassified reference to 320 substantiated incidents alone, (including 7 massacr.....
» 30/10/2007 12:35:20 AM Correction - The people who carried out the atrocities at Abhu Ghraib were punished. The.....
» 29/10/2007 12:47:13 PM I suppose referring to some of our Pacific neighbours as "busted-arse countries".....
» 29/10/2007 7:57:59 AM stevenlmeyer, I agree that most of us are victims of circumstance and fate and that these .....
» 25/10/2007 3:49:38 PM In the end it's the voters who have to live with the decision they make every thousand day.....
» 25/10/2007 8:49:01 AM Workers Compensation, OH & S, employer sponsored superannuation, paid annual leave, matern.....
» 23/10/2007 4:11:31 PM Why stop at those Satanic Muppet demons? There's plenty of sources of evil in the movie w.....
» 22/10/2007 7:50:52 PM I think it's too late for an apology from Howard to have any value. Let the next PM do it .....
» 19/10/2007 2:17:31 PM No matter how you look at it, Pratt effectively stole money, albeit in a round-about way. .....
» 18/10/2007 12:07:50 PM Opinionated2, Well put. For your info, here's an indication of the number of clergy char.....
» 18/10/2007 1:16:23 AM I couldn't help but notice that Runner's last post used the capitalised "He" whe.....
» 18/10/2007 1:05:36 AM I saw Howard on TV tonight complaining about the use of the term "Party drugs" w.....
» 18/10/2007 12:56:15 AM The problem with pure capitalism is that it's as much doomed to failure as most other poli.....
» 16/10/2007 8:09:17 PM It's an interesting conundrum, but the bottom line is that either you oppose or you endors.....
» 15/10/2007 7:46:12 PM I don't know what logic determines that Rudd would have gone into Iraq just like Howard di.....
» 15/10/2007 8:55:10 AM "When the Europeans arrived, we had the land and they had the Bible. We closed our ey.....
» 12/10/2007 1:49:03 AM It's true that not many know the complete history of Che and most probably don't even care.....
» 10/10/2007 4:24:30 PM Maybe if "they" are growing stronger and stronger each year and if you really be.....
» 9/10/2007 3:53:47 PM That's right - keep shooting the messenger. Avoid discussing the points raised and it wil.....
» 9/10/2007 3:31:40 PM There is a bit of a myth surrounding the history of the establishment of the state of Isra.....
» 5/10/2007 2:13:35 AM I think most people would be amazed at the frequent and extremely generous financial hando.....
» 5/10/2007 1:59:36 AM Are we only talking only about Trade Unions or should we include the other numerous self-i.....
» 2/10/2007 4:33:27 PM dax222, Back in 1997, Costello sneakily sold off 167 tonnes of our Gold reserves over a 6 .....
» 2/10/2007 10:57:49 AM It's interesting that when people disagree with commentators such as Pilger, they spend mo.....
» 20/09/2007 3:31:46 PM mjpb, Actually I was raised as an Orthodox Christian so (for what it's worth) I guess my r.....
» 19/09/2007 11:38:08 AM If it seems that my “cute quotes” earlier were “scoffing” then they probably were because .....
» 17/09/2007 3:02:09 PM Wicca is just part of the once-trendy overall New-Age phenomenon. I'm more annoyed by Aus.....
» 17/09/2007 2:53:14 PM (Continued) Other 911 report issues related to this thread include several reports statin.....
» 17/09/2007 2:41:39 PM Ditch, Polls http://www.angus-reid.com/polls/view/13469 http://www.zogby.com/search/ReadNe.....
» 17/09/2007 11:52:45 AM Some quotes by famous people from between 250BC to modern times. "I believe in God, .....
» 16/09/2007 1:45:07 AM Ditch, In case you hadn't noticed, there are already a lot of facts out there that support.....
» 15/09/2007 1:01:03 AM Ditch, My comment about global warming was entirely relevant because there are people on b.....
» 14/09/2007 9:26:21 AM Paul L 8 miles is a long way for wreckage to blow in the wind at ground level in any dir.....
» 12/09/2007 4:51:50 PM Paul L, I'm afraid that the Popular Mechanics debunking has problems of it's own in severa.....
» 12/09/2007 4:00:50 PM I guess it's time we started stoning people who blatantly refuse to observe the Sabbath. .....
» 12/09/2007 3:50:56 PM Chris C, It's interesting that you mention Malcolm Fraser in comparison with Howard's situ.....
» 12/09/2007 10:52:21 AM BOAZ, I never suggested that these people were not killed. The common suspicion is that t.....
» 12/09/2007 1:29:36 AM BOAZ, A few of your FACTS are suspect. Mobile phone technology in 2001? http://physics911.....
» 10/09/2007 4:45:03 PM I heartily recommend the documentary series currently being repeated on SBS (Sunday nights.....
» 10/09/2007 4:39:32 PM Howard Haters? There musn't be many Howard Huggers left......
» 9/09/2007 1:24:53 AM The version I heard was that the Chaser team were alarmed that they got so close and had t.....
» 9/09/2007 1:11:32 AM Don't forget that these "tricky" Chinese have all but taken our local manufactur.....
» 5/09/2007 1:56:11 PM This can't be serious. What does this union-bashing founder member of the HR Nicholls Soci.....
» 3/09/2007 1:37:34 PM Boaz, I think you had better clarify that you are speaking of "free-range" terro.....
» 3/09/2007 1:30:39 PM In this (so-called) egalitarian society, we already have a two-tiered Health System, a two.....
» 29/08/2007 1:15:30 AM Winston Churchill called on the British Armed forces to take on the mightiest military for.....
» 27/08/2007 10:46:00 PM Unless you are already several years into a mortgage or already have a secure job under th.....
» 27/08/2007 10:31:35 PM Rache - As I recall it the founders of ancient Rome - Romulus and Remus - took a boat ride.....
» 24/08/2007 11:57:44 AM People Against Live Exports & Intensive Farming, I may not agree with you on everything y.....
» 24/08/2007 11:49:34 AM Saintfletcher, I’m also familiar with the Jesus/Horus similarities but there are many more.....
» 24/08/2007 1:16:55 AM Belly, I suppose that the Unions thought they could control Bob Hawke too when he was PM. .....
» 24/08/2007 1:07:51 AM People Against Live Exports & Intensive Farming, The accusations were in relation to some.....
» 23/08/2007 9:54:42 AM Much has been made of the Trade Union presence in the Rudd Shadow Ministry. The current H.....
» 23/08/2007 9:42:16 AM What I find interesting is that if members of this group are not permitted to vote, then w.....
» 22/08/2007 1:26:52 PM The Unions will control Rudd in the same way that the Airline Pilots' Union controlled Haw.....
» 22/08/2007 1:22:44 PM Some people have short memories. I recall when the last Federal Election campaign was in .....
» 20/08/2007 9:28:12 PM Philip Tang, And this is what the "civilised and peace-loving" West is doing in.....
» 20/08/2007 12:35:07 AM BOAZ, Sorry about the delay but here's the link you asked about. http://video.google.com/.....
» 17/08/2007 10:55:40 AM BOAZ, beyond my previous flippant remarks I reluctantly have to confess I actually share y.....
» 16/08/2007 11:50:05 PM Wait a minute, doesn't this book also refer to talking donkeys, unicorns and the earth bei.....
» 15/08/2007 1:55:29 AM What's with all this paranoia about so-called "culture" anyway? How are we so s.....
» 13/08/2007 12:46:40 AM Pericles, Reminds me of the Vietnam days - "I had to kill him Sarge, he woulda grown .....
» 12/08/2007 1:06:34 AM Divergence, I’m aware of the breaking of the Japanese codes during the war and this is the.....
» 10/08/2007 8:38:07 PM Hiroshima was a minor strategic target and the bomb was dropped pretty far from the milita.....
» 10/08/2007 1:47:48 AM It's been long known that there was a frantic race to drop the bombs on Japan before the w.....
» 9/08/2007 1:55:15 PM I recall one of GW Bush's supporters once saying that "the only sure way to get rid o.....
» 8/08/2007 11:47:50 AM Another example of shooting the messenger. This piece is so full of half-truths and biases.....
» 6/08/2007 2:06:37 AM The author Arundhati Roy make a good point in saying that "our economy thrives on ins.....
» 1/08/2007 8:42:23 AM If you can accept that all of humanity has something inherently bad inside them because a .....
» 30/07/2007 11:33:19 PM Punter57, Sorry about the delay but the direct SMH original link to my reference seems to .....
» 26/07/2007 10:02:54 AM The Bible is NOT a historical document and contains no eyewitness accounts. Even the Gosp.....
» 25/07/2007 11:59:24 PM I'd like to add my best wishes to you both. There may be hope for us all yet. Cheers!.....
» 25/07/2007 11:26:26 PM dee, As I recall, the Bali bombing was in retaliation for the attack on Afghanistan. It's.....
» 25/07/2007 11:26:18 AM It seems that Rudd failed to take the bait on this one, which was probably the real intent.....
» 25/07/2007 11:10:17 AM Terrorism is indeed a political tool and is the physical response to a perceived political.....
» 24/07/2007 10:23:53 PM Coach, All the things I said are freely accessible and are in the public domain. Check th.....
» 24/07/2007 4:11:29 PM Thanks Real, It's these sort of comments that are eating away at the credibility of this .....
» 24/07/2007 11:57:19 AM Whenever I see examples of this endless going-nowhere debate I tend to recall all the medi.....
» 24/07/2007 1:24:19 AM Labour doesn't have the depth of talent to run the country? How many of the current minist.....
» 21/07/2007 5:00:50 PM Perspective is important. People forget that when interest rates were high, they were hig.....
» 18/07/2007 4:14:34 PM "Current Affairs" programmes were perfectly represented by that long-gone satire.....
» 18/07/2007 2:10:42 AM The reasoning behind GM foods is simple greed and nothing else. The corporation pushing t.....
» 18/07/2007 2:04:14 AM Unfortunately, the reasons that unions were formed in the first place still exists, in one.....
» 14/07/2007 2:32:39 AM I think a lot of people have missed the point of that programme. It was not a debate about.....
» 11/07/2007 4:46:29 PM The story of Jesus has more to do with the personification of sun worship, astrological sy.....
» 9/07/2007 4:17:19 PM Anybody else noticed how the increase in the number of Indian mynah birds corresponds with.....
» 3/07/2007 2:02:53 PM Belly, Well said! If it was good news they'd be shouting it from the rooftops and taking .....
» 2/07/2007 4:27:45 PM Belly, I'm actually not from the Muslim community and I am in no way defending evil. All I.....
» 2/07/2007 11:45:26 AM The peaceful Christian alternative has been to make continual false promises to their gove.....
» 28/06/2007 4:25:47 PM Some of the hypocrisy in this thread is truly breathtaking, reaching new heights (or depth.....
» 28/06/2007 9:08:34 AM Water plays a significant role in Middle East conflicts - probably more than oil. For exa.....
» 28/06/2007 1:55:34 AM Arjay, Out of that $42 a private Contractor has to pay his own insurances (which must incl.....
» 27/06/2007 11:26:39 AM Thanks for an interesting and stimulating article. I too was horrified about events in Rw.....
» 26/06/2007 9:11:19 AM To me, the interesting thing about this whole debate is that it isn't likely to be a vote-.....
» 25/06/2007 8:58:59 AM One of the Opel partners - Optus - went from being "majority Australian owned" t.....
» 21/06/2007 11:20:29 PM Politics - "Poly" meaning "many" and "Ticks" meaning ".....
» 21/06/2007 2:09:55 AM Funny thing about conspiracy "theories". Over time, many are found to actually.....
» 19/06/2007 3:20:33 PM Damn clever to sell off public assets under the guise of paying off foreign debt and savin.....
» 19/06/2007 12:54:21 AM So inbreeding is a likely cause of behavioural problems? I guess that explains a lot abou.....
» 15/06/2007 4:17:32 PM Perhaps there have been no demonstrations against the Dalai Lama because, despite his coun.....
» 15/06/2007 1:22:54 AM Then again, it is reasonable to believe that everything you are told in the media or by po.....
» 13/06/2007 2:16:18 AM Monsanto - the same company that assured us that DDT was safe and was the only way to save.....
» 13/06/2007 2:11:59 AM Is saying "sorry to hear that your mother died" an expression of empathy or does.....
» 12/06/2007 1:46:09 PM Ah yes, Alan Jones. The man with the best opinions that money can buy......
» 7/06/2007 3:43:34 PM The problem with the internet as far as governments are concerned is that it can't be cont.....
» 6/06/2007 8:52:09 AM Rojo, Actually the Snowy sale was sunk because - despite his early advice, Howard could no.....
» 4/06/2007 2:03:04 PM I travelled overseas recently too and have witnessed the "ugly American" tourist.....
» 1/06/2007 10:56:41 AM To be in business you have to match or undercut the conditions of your competitors. If s.....
» 1/06/2007 2:16:56 AM BC2, Thanks but no thanks. I'm reminded that the word "politics" may come from .....
» 31/05/2007 9:13:26 AM How hard is it to pay off Government debt by selling off public assets? The Commonwealth .....
» 29/05/2007 1:55:27 AM Perhaps you're right. We don't need to let any fundamentalist extremists into the country......
» 23/05/2007 3:55:32 PM BD, You either still don't get it or you're just trying to side-step the issue. The point .....
» 23/05/2007 1:40:03 AM BD, The statements I made were not taken from the Protocols of Zion and have been argued o.....
» 22/05/2007 3:50:36 PM BD, still on your never-ending personal crusade to warn us all about the evils of Islam. .....
» 22/05/2007 3:34:23 PM I didn't see what Piers (Rupert's Dancing Bear) Ackerman said but I'm sure it was typicall.....
» 22/05/2007 3:27:33 PM The problem with defining employers from the "bad old days" or being "well .....
» 20/05/2007 10:51:35 PM The only real obsession the media has is to sell advertising space. Hicks is just a way to.....
» 18/05/2007 2:48:49 PM The troublesome thing about many pro-lifers is that their involvement begins and ends with.....
» 15/05/2007 4:39:26 PM A once-in-a-generation windfall from a resources boom provided enough capital to invest in.....
» 15/05/2007 4:24:41 PM Bravo Hedgehog, I'm always amazed how some people (who are so far to the right that every.....
» 11/05/2007 12:26:48 PM The interpretation of ancient texts, no matter how they are twisted or distorted from thei.....
» 4/05/2007 2:01:14 AM Chainsmoker, When in comes to productivity in making toasters it means producing the same.....
» 10/04/2007 1:30:08 AM I'm currently writing from Rome and have seen the huge pilgrimage of devotees at the Vatic.....
» 30/03/2007 11:18:25 PM While it's true that Mandela was not convicted for a specific act of terrorism (only plann.....
» 30/03/2007 1:38:36 PM So Castro twice as rich as the Queen?($900 million vs $400 Million). Malcolm Forbes, who .....
» 30/03/2007 9:29:18 AM People should be reminded that this case is still not over and may not be as clear cut as .....
» 28/03/2007 12:02:59 PM Country Gal, Thanks, point taken about the NFF. I heard it really stands for "No Fa.....
» 28/03/2007 1:40:49 AM Of course the Liberals don't have any political masters who call the shots for them at all.....
» 27/03/2007 10:55:59 AM Debnam's problem was that despite his incessant whining, he offered no real positive alter.....
» 26/03/2007 2:58:27 PM Isn’t it strange that in our society, women are free to use their bodies to sell cars, mag.....
» 18/03/2007 11:01:29 PM Cubano - the Northwoods Document is certainly not "agitprop". It's an official G.....
» 18/03/2007 12:23:04 AM The USA had embargos against Hitler during WW2 too, but that didn't stop them selling thei.....
» 15/03/2007 2:15:18 PM I also remember Batista and the corruption and crime that flourished under his regime. I a.....
» 14/03/2007 12:53:48 PM BD, Just for starters- Women - If captured in war, can be taken as wives but if they do.....
» 12/03/2007 7:38:01 PM Terrorism is a political act - not a religious one. Studies have shown that suicide bombe.....
» 6/03/2007 10:25:11 AM I think it's when you willingly and knowingly discriminate against all people of a particu.....
» 4/03/2007 8:55:19 PM This is nothing more than a beat-up. Play the man - avoid any debate on policies. Most vo.....
» 2/03/2007 12:56:25 PM Spider, I remember a certain politician who one said that the sight of Asian faces on the .....
» 1/03/2007 1:20:37 PM There are probably more than a few choirboys around with a different attitude to the moral.....
» 28/02/2007 8:06:10 AM Rob513264 I downloaded a Podcast of the radio programme but it’s since been removed from .....
» 26/02/2007 3:25:13 PM A couple of points. 1. The Americans didn't actually "save us" from the Japanes.....
» 26/02/2007 9:07:11 AM Actually - to be fair - I recall a programme on ABC Radio National's "Big Ideas".....
» 23/02/2007 12:22:15 PM Plantagenet, You're typically correct about the war with the Japanese but my info suggest.....
» 22/02/2007 10:28:44 PM Some people think that things just happen by themselves, others feel that some things are .....
» 22/02/2007 3:31:29 PM Almost a year ago, Hicks was reputed to be the most dangerous man in Guantanamo Bay and wa.....
» 14/02/2007 2:57:33 PM Country Gal, Actually I was playing Devil's Advocate and I agree with you completely. No.....
» 14/02/2007 1:15:09 AM Too late - it's gone - so this discussion is purely academic. As a citizen and taxpayer I.....
» 13/02/2007 6:36:48 PM This is all about marketing - nothing more and nothing less. Somebody is targetting somebo.....
» 9/02/2007 3:13:53 PM Leigh, Despite your ” total ignorance..my poor uneducated friend...how dare you...ridicul.....
» 8/02/2007 9:24:50 PM This has been attributed to several people but it's as relevant today as it ever was - &q.....
» 8/02/2007 9:05:22 PM Leigh, Japanese Multiculturalism. Despite their homogenity, there are at least two minor.....
» 7/02/2007 5:18:10 PM Leigh, Japan is monocultural? I looks very Westernised to me but with a few remnants of .....
» 5/02/2007 12:29:19 PM Prosperity is relative, and has not been fairly distributed by this Government. Behind th.....
» 3/02/2007 8:00:32 PM I look forward to a day when Hicks is able to face an independent media. As well as the o.....
» 3/02/2007 7:47:49 PM I imagine that when there is a bushfire bearing down on your property, you don't really ca.....
» 1/02/2007 12:23:21 AM I think it really is a deck of cards and that we have sold out our long-term economic futu.....
» 30/01/2007 6:17:21 PM Howard is just trying to outsource responsibility for the long-term employed and get someb.....
» 30/01/2007 1:55:00 PM I think the 3 posts above are perfect examples of the author's allegation of marginalisati.....
» 25/01/2007 3:08:42 PM A few years ago all the excitement was about the Asian Triads. I wonder what ever happened.....
» 22/01/2007 8:40:35 PM At the last Big Day Out, someone was moving through the crowd with an Australian flag and .....
» 22/01/2007 3:35:54 PM Interesting also that the two biggest Muslim countries in the world (Indonesia and Pakista.....
» 19/01/2007 9:47:51 PM I think that the word "multicultural" is very generalised and can be given all s.....
» 16/01/2007 12:28:52 AM The privatisation of water is a growing global phenomenon that is being actively promoted .....
» 15/01/2007 12:44:36 AM I used to think some of this was amusing but now I feel it's really very sad......
» 12/01/2007 12:51:20 AM Well Easy Times, considering that Hussein was actually put into power with the assistance .....
» 10/01/2007 8:00:49 AM Casting doubt on one theory doesn’t automatically prove another one is correct. Intellige.....
» 5/01/2007 8:29:45 PM Right or wrong, there is a bit of a cloud hanging over Mr Annan in some hidden quarters. .....
» 5/01/2007 2:19:33 PM The Government needs to introduce secret ballots in Parliament like they introduced for Un.....
» 4/01/2007 1:24:08 PM Actually pragma, I think the real cause of the problems we are having today is the tendenc.....
» 4/01/2007 1:18:38 AM It's interesting that most of the responses have little to do with what Ellis actually sai.....
» 28/12/2006 3:25:54 PM I've always wondered what will become of the more rabid anti-smoking crusaders after the s.....
» 22/12/2006 11:02:56 AM Despite all the above criticism about the UN, I am yet to hear a viable alternative except.....
» 16/12/2006 1:30:57 AM So the USA has now decided that it wants to support the spread of democracy? It's a shame.....
» 14/12/2006 1:10:33 AM The reaction to my previous post suggests that when it comes to the Bible, it's always abo.....
» 13/12/2006 10:28:50 AM Doctor Bulldog, Here's a couple from the Bible. In Luke 19:27, Jesus orders anyone who r.....
» 11/12/2006 12:51:15 AM "ONE NATION, ONE RACE, ONE CULTURE?". This well-worn mantra has always reminde.....
» 5/12/2006 12:52:39 PM Well said sneekeepete,. I think the common attitude is that citizenship is more like memb.....
» 5/12/2006 7:45:54 AM I believe that Howard's stance on the nuclear option is just political posturing. He's as.....
» 4/12/2006 1:02:20 PM This just goes to show the influence of polling on the political landscape. When there is.....
» 4/12/2006 12:47:35 PM This just seems like a bit of a stunt to me. On one hand it's obviously about the infamou.....
» 30/11/2006 11:01:28 PM I suppose it'e feasible that nobody in the Government knew about AWB paying bribes. As I .....
» 30/11/2006 2:01:57 PM Narcissist, The same thing happened in Newcastle during the restrictions years ago. If wa.....
» 22/11/2006 1:38:13 PM (continued) There are many more quotes along this theme. How are they different from the .....
» 22/11/2006 7:21:47 AM BD, The basis for most of your arguments is quotes by radicals as a basis for everybody’s.....
» 21/11/2006 12:29:40 PM And if only the fanatics would devote half the energy to investigating the facts as they d.....
» 20/11/2006 12:39:32 AM Heres an interesting fact. How many developed nations have been condemned by the United N.....
» 19/11/2006 12:43:44 AM dozer, There's a bit of a summary about the history of New World Order at this link - ht.....
» 14/11/2006 1:47:53 PM Sorry, Faulty link. Try this one. http://www.unitedforpeace.org/article.php?id=1948.....
» 14/11/2006 1:45:47 PM I think this link will show how globalisation is more likely to start wars than prevent th.....
» 13/11/2006 1:09:46 PM I can’t recall a single country that went to war on the basis of anger alone. It’s usually.....
» 12/11/2006 10:28:13 PM BD, I don’t think it matters WHO owns the US Federal Reserve Bank, the problem is that it’.....
» 10/11/2006 3:10:02 PM (Cont) Other quotes you could have used were – "The real truth of the matter is, as .....
» 10/11/2006 3:08:45 PM An excellent article Chris but there is much more that could have been said. Oil Politics .....
» 8/11/2006 1:40:09 PM The fact the Siberian permafrost is melting for the first time in 11,000 years and releasi.....
» 2/11/2006 10:02:29 PM I remember a segment from the "Frontline" TV series that explained how Current A.....
» 1/11/2006 12:57:01 AM Yes, Saddam was a bad man - one of many in the world, but he was the USA's man - they help.....
» 28/10/2006 1:38:03 AM Tennyson's_one_far-off_divine_event, I mentioned racism because the negative publicity s.....
» 27/10/2006 1:53:29 PM Who wins when you fight sexism with racism? I think it'll be a draw......
» 27/10/2006 1:51:17 PM Maybe we should be grateful that some religions advertise their members by the way they dr.....
» 25/10/2006 4:40:07 PM I think it will mainly come down who has to the support of the media, in conjunction with .....
» 19/10/2006 2:24:47 AM Spider, The information I used came from one of the papers presented during a "Remem.....
» 18/10/2006 4:31:28 PM Perhaps "homophobia" in this context is actually a secret fear of possessing lat.....
» 18/10/2006 2:16:27 AM Arjay, Darwin was bombed because the air base was the most likely place from where to to l.....
» 17/10/2006 1:45:11 PM Strike 1 - the IR "allowable matters" Strike 2 - The GST Strike 3 - the sale of .....
» 17/10/2006 1:38:18 PM Religion and politics don't mix and shouldn't be mixed. Politics relies on compromise to .....
» 16/10/2006 12:14:10 PM Sharkfin, This assessment is one of a few that were made by from Dr Pete Stanley, Princi.....
» 16/10/2006 1:34:38 AM Arjay, Just for the record, Japan never had plans to invade Australia. The Allies knew t.....
» 14/10/2006 7:03:43 PM I think the argument can be illustrated in this way - 1. I smoke cigarettes 2. I suspect .....
» 14/10/2006 6:53:18 PM Interesting article but maybe it shoukd have included reference to the "framework agr.....
» 13/10/2006 3:04:44 PM I think the issue with the provision of equitable country services is that, perhaps they S.....
» 12/10/2006 11:15:27 PM Well said CJ. What saddens me about some of these statements is that they imply that comp.....
» 12/10/2006 1:37:19 PM Call me crazy but if there is a firm suspicion that this boat sunk because of deliberate s.....
» 12/10/2006 10:43:11 AM An interesting article Betty but sadly typical. Originally part of the PMG Department, Te.....
» 11/10/2006 7:43:59 PM Kevin, My opinion that economic growth will eventually turn downward is based on the fact.....
» 11/10/2006 3:10:46 PM True, no mass sackings but remember, while we are supposed to be riding on the crest of an.....
» 11/10/2006 2:56:50 PM I wonder how many people are aware that Clinton made a promise to North Korea back in 1994.....
» 9/10/2006 1:36:46 AM Chris, Come on now, be reasonable. Remember that after those massive fireballs and unde.....
» 2/10/2006 8:18:52 PM I heard somewhere that the only cannibalism going on here is that between rival TV Network.....
» 2/10/2006 8:16:09 PM Boaz, Regarding selective quotes from the Koran. It's all about context. For example, in .....
» 24/09/2006 1:18:30 AM I can't see what the problem is with multiculuralism except that it's success is too depen.....
» 24/09/2006 1:03:46 AM This reminds me about the mobile phone debate. There is constant and continuing research .....
» 19/09/2006 12:58:10 PM The White Australia Policy was mentioned but neatly side-stepped. It was the fear and hat.....
» 18/09/2006 3:34:03 PM Well said Ghassan, A healthy society is created when we accept and affirm our similaritie.....
» 14/09/2006 4:42:41 PM That’s right Marilyn, we really are in a privileged minority – "If we could reduce t.....
» 13/09/2006 4:58:17 PM I think there is a subtle difference between how we would like ourselves to be seen and ho.....
» 6/09/2006 1:40:48 AM Come on BOAZ, Those cartoons were as deliberately offensive to some people as burning the.....
» 5/09/2006 1:39:52 PM For a guy who lived his life at full speed and with unrestrained passion, it's unusual the.....
» 5/09/2006 1:33:28 PM It's better to wrap yourself in the Constitution and burn the flag than to wrap yourself i.....
» 1/09/2006 11:25:41 AM The politics of fear is not a recent phenomenon. It’s now a part of everyday life and a ha.....
» 31/08/2006 2:39:02 PM I'm also familiar with Robert Pape's assertions and, given the depth and range of his rese.....
» 31/08/2006 2:02:47 PM Well said David. Thanks for a fair and generous assessment of a decent and principled man......
» 24/08/2006 1:22:51 AM Shorbe, The pipelines I was referring to are the ones coming from the Caspian sea area th.....
» 23/08/2006 9:59:44 AM Shorbe, Russia and China are actually very relevant to what is happening in the Middle Eas.....
» 16/08/2006 3:44:07 PM Sganot, My belief in the nature of dual citizenship of some US Senators is based on inform.....
» 15/08/2006 3:19:30 PM I like the way the Israelis used their superior weapons technology in targetting terrorist.....
» 15/08/2006 1:23:36 AM The Japanese were already beaten, even reduced to extracting alcohol from tree-roots to fu.....
» 12/08/2006 1:46:34 AM Rache - In 1941 the ship "Struma" left Romania for Palestine carrying 769 Jews b.....
» 10/08/2006 2:45:26 PM (Cont) Later, huge reserves were tapped in Chechnya but required an overland pipeline acr.....
» 10/08/2006 2:32:35 PM 2bob, WW1 – The British held oil reserves in Basra but needed more oil for its navy. Turk.....
» 8/08/2006 4:41:20 PM The USA is soley intent on spreading democracy throughout the Middle East? I believe that.....
» 4/08/2006 11:14:03 PM Perseus, To be classified as "employed" in Australia, you only need to do one ho.....
» 1/08/2006 10:59:06 AM Disneyland makes a profit from tourism too but I don't think that Mickey Mouse should be m.....
» 31/07/2006 9:57:52 AM Aka, It’s ALWAYS been about oil and pipelines. There are vast reserves in Central Asia tha.....
» 29/07/2006 2:13:32 AM There's obviously a lot more to this conflict than what's being reported in the Western me.....
» 26/07/2006 4:07:42 PM Steve, I think you mean that AVERAGE wages have gone up. These include the stratospheric .....
» 24/07/2006 4:15:13 PM Interesting links but I wonder how much in them is actually true. It makes me wonder who .....
» 20/07/2006 4:08:52 PM Carl, Sorry to tell you this but despite the romanticized history to the contrary, the US.....
» 19/07/2006 11:30:02 PM I assume the opinions above about not helping citizens travelling overseas would include t.....
» 19/07/2006 1:28:00 PM Well said Scout, Some may not agree with every single thing Marilyn says but we should re.....
» 18/07/2006 4:02:39 PM BIC, I'm also a skilled worker on an AWA but my conditions are still inferior to those I .....
» 18/07/2006 10:40:37 AM BoAZ, You’re right - up to a point. However it was the West that created “Saddam and his .....
» 15/07/2006 11:09:49 PM Hey Arjay - what's the problem with Mike Carlton? He's the one who uses the innate hypocri.....
» 10/07/2006 4:48:17 PM I recall Neville Wran refusing to talk to the ABC due to an accusation of bias. I also rec.....
» 7/07/2006 8:50:38 AM Good employers or bad employers? What many fail to acknowledge is that the standards of wo.....
» 5/07/2006 2:04:15 PM Finally, the Tories have created a poisoned chalice for themselves and the fallout from th.....
» 5/07/2006 12:49:36 AM That's the trouble with faith-based conflicts - the first thing that goes out the window i.....
» 29/06/2006 3:44:00 PM BOAZ, I'm afraid that "famous" video of Bin Laden taking reponsibility for 911 h.....
» 24/06/2006 2:38:24 AM With regard to bias, commercial broadcasters aren't subject to any scrutiny. Maybe this i.....
» 23/06/2006 2:04:14 AM Well said Steve, But the next thing to watch out for will be when many Contractors, who ar.....
» 20/06/2006 2:21:28 AM The REALLY sad thing about politics is that when you vote a party out, you don't necessari.....
» 18/06/2006 8:40:40 PM Dee, It DOES sound familiar. Who would have thought it possible? A violent Holy book. Th.....
» 15/06/2006 8:51:13 AM Wendy seems more concerned about the fate of a ship full of sheep than a fellow citizen wh.....
» 13/06/2006 9:43:41 AM Kaep, You mentioned post-privatisation foreign ownership limits. As I recall, OPTUS were .....
» 12/06/2006 11:51:46 PM Capitalism, socialism and corporatism - all self-serving and inherently flawed. The only .....
» 12/06/2006 11:16:11 PM Funny how when a group of Christians were arrested in Afghanistan just before the war for .....
» 9/06/2006 4:16:36 PM There's a significant absence of the word "alleged" in this article - much like .....
» 7/06/2006 10:47:34 AM BOAZ_David, The CIA helped plan the overthrow of President Kassim in 1963 by Saddam and .....
» 1/06/2006 4:43:47 PM I wonder how many people who refuse to say "sorry", soley on the basis that they.....
» 31/05/2006 1:23:17 PM I have heard that if all the existing coal-fired power stations in the world were replaced.....
» 31/05/2006 1:15:22 PM Seconded........
» 25/05/2006 2:02:04 PM The Magic of Statistics - If I stood with one foot on hot coals and the other in a bucket.....
» 25/05/2006 9:48:11 AM It seems that most people confuse religion with a combination of culture and fundamentalis.....
» 24/05/2006 1:35:05 PM I agree whole-heartedly with all the above posts. The Rodent should be using this (tempor.....
» 24/05/2006 1:20:27 PM Oh dear, another tirade against the Koran from Numbat when the topic goes far deeper. I'm.....
» 24/05/2006 2:08:31 AM Historic Factors Leading to the Rise of Fascist States: 1) Massive public investment in .....
» 19/05/2006 2:07:44 PM Unfortunately, disproving one thing does not automatically prove another thing is correct,.....
» 18/05/2006 2:49:31 PM Every newspaper needs to have a fatuous reactionary redneck and cheerleader for conservati.....
» 15/05/2006 3:01:08 PM Pericles, I remember back in the seventies when the press tag "from our Washington C.....
» 11/05/2006 4:04:41 PM I look forward to the day when The Rodent takes on the two most influential Unions left in.....
» 11/05/2006 3:41:21 PM Marilyn, I think the reaction to most issues (including this one) is based on the historic.....
» 11/05/2006 8:53:01 AM BOAZ, If 1.Detention is extended due to disputed findings and 2.the majority of applican.....
» 28/04/2006 3:01:52 PM Arjay , the Bible ( which has a statistically higher number of violent passages than the K.....
» 26/04/2006 2:16:03 AM The unfortunate thing is that Arjay can't see that the hatred against Muslims is just as i.....
» 25/04/2006 11:49:03 PM Stephen, I just saw your encounter on Lateline and was disappointed by the emotional spin .....
» 22/04/2006 12:11:25 AM Divergence, The meetings held in 2001 were to clarify and detail Article 31 interpretation.....
» 20/04/2006 9:22:34 AM Sage, That may be the case, but if we're not willing to comply with International Convent.....
» 19/04/2006 8:08:31 PM Divergence, According to the Expert Roundtable organized by the United Nations High Commi.....
» 18/04/2006 11:19:39 PM Divergence, It is my understanding that it is not the case that a refugee must seek asylum.....
» 17/04/2006 11:09:06 AM BOAZ_David, Thanks for your well expressed and well considered opinion. You've given me.....
» 16/04/2006 11:42:52 PM BOAZ_David, As I mentioned above, history has shown that going to the Embassy in Indonesia.....
» 15/04/2006 4:19:15 PM Philo, "Australia has not taken a single refugee from the UNHCR in Jakarta – from the.....
» 15/04/2006 2:54:50 AM Philo, Asylum seekers coming via Indonesia cannot apply for refugee status in that count.....
» 11/04/2006 11:49:08 PM Ok Arjay, How much of this international poverty is the result of actions by the West - d.....
» 11/04/2006 7:51:02 PM Nice try Marilyn but you're wasting your time. Compassion and fair play in this country a.....
» 9/04/2006 2:45:42 AM Maximus, I agree with most of what you say, except for the Hanson part. Hanson was always.....
» 5/04/2006 1:52:44 PM MikeM, You make some excellent points. I get the feeling that we have both had similar exp.....
» 3/04/2006 12:27:29 PM MikeM, I didn’t intend to credit Keating as the author of that quote but he’s just the fir.....
» 2/04/2006 9:50:02 PM Hadz, I agree. I've seen the Wonderful World of Contracting from both sides. My background.....
» 2/04/2006 9:31:10 PM Mr.P.Pig, Despite my later retraction, yes I do know a bit about mathematics. The interes.....
» 2/04/2006 12:51:18 AM Aziliz, I concede that much of what I said was rushed and poorly researched. While many .....
» 30/03/2006 11:06:54 PM Here are a few quotes - "I had to kill him Sarge, he would have grown up to be a Com.....
» 30/03/2006 11:05:11 PM Here are a few quotes - "I had to kill him Sarge, he would have grown up to be a Com.....
» 30/03/2006 10:52:33 PM Ok Numbat, Some of the everyday inventions attributed to Muslims are - The three-course me.....
» 30/03/2006 12:14:42 AM Numbat, If you open your eyes and care to look you would find that Muslims have made great.....
» 28/03/2006 10:26:27 AM Pericles, I stand both humbled and corrected. Thanks for the clarification and my apologie.....
» 27/03/2006 6:57:19 PM I was made redundant from full-time work after 30 years. I then spent 2 years "forced.....
» 26/03/2006 1:07:35 AM Numbat, I'm not as thick you you seem to think. I'm just sick of the "holier-than-tho.....
» 23/03/2006 10:16:43 PM Numbat, I think you have a problem with the word "pagan". A pagan is someone who.....
» 21/03/2006 12:59:11 PM Sorry Gitmo Guy, I don't agree. It's not a religious war - it's a political and economic.....
» 21/03/2006 12:42:02 PM Spot-on EV. When it all comes down to it, no matter how you dress it up, all this is fuss.....
» 20/03/2006 1:32:09 PM It seems to be better for a hundred innocent people to suffer than to let one guilty perso.....
» 20/03/2006 11:05:49 AM David Hicks is now reputed to be the most dangerous man in Guantanamo Bay and the only tok.....
» 16/03/2006 2:27:30 PM Redneck, "Creatures" like me are delighted to hear you say that the Asian proble.....
» 15/03/2006 6:42:44 PM Actually, Tim Priest is a bit of a self-promoter who took a well-publicised stance on Cabr.....
» 15/03/2006 8:21:51 AM Labor's biggest mistake was it's attempt to hold the centre ground and this pushed the Lib.....
» 14/03/2006 12:06:37 AM Redneck, As for what people wear, a swastika is more a confronting political statement tha.....
» 8/03/2006 9:50:21 PM Hey Redneck - opinions are one thing but facts are another. I think it was Spain, not Fran.....
» 8/03/2006 1:18:21 PM Am I the only person who is getting fed-up with the "holier-than-thou" self-righ.....

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