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» 18/05/2010 2:11:47 PM Some exscellent points. It seems to me that we need a new national compact on Federal Stat.....
» 7/09/2009 3:13:35 PM This sounds like the guff Blair was spouting in the 90s, and Latham tried to resurrect in .....
» 28/07/2009 6:45:22 PM I see a new Oz musical.. Rent Seeking. A young author writes a book that noone wants to r.....
» 27/07/2009 5:17:18 PM Most people won't read the essay but rather (like me!) rely on the glossy positive spin ac.....
» 22/07/2009 3:11:06 PM Let me say I am not now, nor have I ever been an economist. That may be evident by what I.....
» 20/07/2009 5:04:33 PM Who will save us from our pitiful selves ? I take great comfort from the fact that most A.....
» 13/07/2009 6:45:14 PM I confess that I find education speak baffling so I can easily miss the point. If we comp.....
» 10/07/2009 12:04:41 PM A small aside in his article but I think the key issue is working with Aboriginal people, .....
» 7/07/2008 6:46:09 PM First , if you have different sources of generation you can buy electricity from them, the.....
» 3/07/2008 1:50:03 PM The only assumption I have made is that the ETU are opposed to Labor / State Government po.....
» 2/07/2008 4:07:52 PM I didn't realise the number of assumptions I was making! I agree that the distribution of.....
» 1/07/2008 4:13:19 PM I would think that the Queensland Government may have as its priority ensuring the public .....
» 26/06/2008 4:48:25 PM I agree with the general thrust of what is being proposed as nurses and allied health will.....
» 24/04/2008 6:08:14 PM Why not just vote to remove reference to the Monarch in the Constitution ? Wouldn't that m.....
» 9/04/2008 4:42:07 PM It does seem to me that the intervention is very much of the doing something is better tha.....
» 11/02/2008 6:01:09 PM Apparently we can say sorry to the Vietnam vets for being done wrong by past governments b.....
» 11/02/2008 5:55:08 PM One of the strengths of Marxism was an occasionally well reasoned analysis of power and th.....
» 5/02/2008 3:06:43 PM Stalker alert! I am sure Cuban life expectancy is not really the same as the US, it just .....
» 20/12/2007 2:03:55 PM I think we should lose the messiah complex or prepare to be disappointed. It seems to me .....
» 13/12/2007 12:38:28 PM Two more or less unrelated thoughts: 1. I wonder if extra services as in allied health, p.....
» 26/11/2007 1:19:08 PM I think Latham did it! Latham wrong footed Howard in 2004 and panicked him into running a.....
» 14/11/2007 12:21:43 PM I have satellite tv so I can choose whether I am bored to death by David Speers and co or .....
» 6/11/2007 5:14:24 PM I still say that Howard has moved too far to the right of where people want to be and that.....
» 5/11/2007 3:52:30 PM No great dissent here either, I wonder if it is important in a marginal that you have a pu.....
» 17/10/2007 3:04:25 PM This is the sort of tedious, worn out drivel that I have come to expect from the cool brit.....
» 17/10/2007 1:55:04 PM All fine stuff but the practicalities get in the way. The hard line view would be that pu.....
» 16/10/2007 1:34:49 PM I love healthcare...Post op I see my specialist, after having seen my GP, my specialist sa.....
» 11/10/2007 6:19:59 PM This has been a fascinating read, thank you all! Could we agree from the views expressed .....
» 9/10/2007 1:31:13 PM The unfortunate message our politicians get from this is that not only should hospitals be.....
» 5/10/2007 6:11:33 PM I received a copy of part of the test via email. These were some of the questions on CUS.....
» 5/10/2007 12:25:53 PM Makes you think that instead of boards full of the great, the good and the self interested.....
» 4/10/2007 2:56:27 PM I muse that the left and wringing wet centre would rather be noble in opposition than achi.....
» 4/10/2007 2:46:59 PM I agree with healthwatcher, one of the worst features in health is the restructuring of se.....
» 3/10/2007 2:46:29 PM Unions are political organisations, always have been , always will be. That's why John How.....
» 25/09/2007 2:07:01 PM I am being lazy by not looking up who, but I recall that there were prominent right wing e.....
» 24/09/2007 4:17:22 PM If I recall foreign debt in 1996 was about $200 billion, it is now more than double that. .....
» 24/09/2007 2:06:46 PM If we had those brilliant lefty policies we could be really advanced like Cuba or Venezuel.....
» 24/09/2007 1:55:07 PM Governments listening to scientists is a bit like an individual listening to their GP - we.....
» 17/09/2007 3:03:04 PM Isn't it time that the Liberal National Coalition became a Party rather than a coalition ?.....
» 17/09/2007 2:58:30 PM At least they are not wasting paper...Kevin07!.....
» 14/09/2007 4:42:37 PM I think I need a holiday, I am in broad agreement with David Flint! My concern is that w.....
» 13/09/2007 3:57:06 PM The 3rd way is just well meaning small "l" liberal gibberish. It is to political.....
» 13/09/2007 1:40:36 PM Kevin 07.....
» 13/09/2007 1:38:56 PM This sort of article makes me think of "Denny Crane", for those who haven't seem.....
» 23/08/2007 6:45:35 PM The public think public hospitals are wonderful but the taxpayers don't want to pay for th.....
» 22/08/2007 1:31:54 PM My apologies I missed a "not", I meant to say local government is not in the con.....
» 21/08/2007 2:58:29 PM Local government is for the most part inept, riddled with corruption, and run by self impo.....
» 17/08/2007 4:27:55 PM What did those damn socialists do ? Well they deregulated banking...and reduced tariffs..o.....
» 15/08/2007 4:24:04 PM Is the Mersey the stalking horse for all other public hospitals ? The Medicare agreement .....
» 10/08/2007 5:08:49 PM Looking at the chart of interest rates since the 1980s you could conclude that Labor cause.....
» 1/08/2007 5:55:07 PM I would be surprised if civil libertarians criticised private citizens, I would think by d.....
» 30/07/2007 6:39:40 PM I am glad we are free to post comments , including the comments of the ill informed and bi.....
» 26/07/2007 2:44:07 PM The Liberal line of the moment ? This nonsense echoes Abbott's whining on about why the pe.....
» 26/06/2007 4:14:14 PM BN : You are thinking that politics is a business transaction it is not. You can manage ch.....
» 26/06/2007 2:56:58 PM "Something must be done" we need to "stop talking and start acting". I.....
» 26/06/2007 11:27:46 AM I would love to see the Liberal Party's election manual - I bet it says some interesting t.....
» 19/06/2007 1:22:46 PM Good times as long as you don't look too closely at the downward trend pressure on real wa.....
» 7/06/2007 3:31:04 PM Across the West people vote conservatively, that is, they choose governments who they beli.....
» 6/06/2007 1:32:56 PM Gets the thinking juices flowing! I often wonder if we need to shift our focus to talking.....
» 30/05/2007 2:41:47 PM In a liberal democracy we will change governments from time to time - get over it. At som.....
» 29/05/2007 3:08:26 PM On the Rein Rudd issue. The author argues that ".. if the ALP wants to be accepted as.....
» 28/05/2007 1:30:26 PM Usual doom and gloom scenario from the pious souls of the Stoic Left. No doubt it is their.....
» 23/05/2007 2:48:34 PM I think there is a logical link between falling union membership and increasing collective.....
» 3/05/2007 2:54:45 PM This sort of assumes that we sit back and do nothing, or can do nothing about our energy u.....
» 1/05/2007 2:37:05 PM I am fascinated by this Fukuyama style "end of progressive liberalism" or ".....
» 30/04/2007 5:55:18 PM Crisis, what crisis ? Lowest unemployment rate in a generation, high and growing wages , .....
» 23/04/2007 2:51:46 PM Teachers do not have control over the education of students that is in the hands of the po.....
» 16/04/2007 2:41:07 PM The punters tend to vote for the Party and rarely for the person. They also regularly puni.....
» 11/04/2007 2:36:48 PM Let's not scare the voters in an election year with new ways to tax them. The progressiv.....
» 3/04/2007 11:18:08 AM I think the chink in the armour for Rudd may well be Rudd himself. Rudd is fine on stuff h.....
» 2/04/2007 2:41:04 PM I love post modernism. It is an excuse to blather on at length about not very much and avo.....
» 27/03/2007 1:18:36 PM Is the Constitution the play thing of our business elites ? Our American cousins seem to h.....
» 27/03/2007 1:12:03 PM "Socialists" ? The NSW ALP ?? Pull the other one, it sings Hugo Chavez tunes......
» 21/03/2007 2:04:14 PM Is questioning multiculturalism wrong ? Why shouldn't we have a population debate, what is.....
» 21/03/2007 1:49:38 PM Shorbe: Let's not talk about the exceptions, the demographic of parents at elite schools i.....
» 20/03/2007 4:09:07 PM That doesn't make sense. I am not suggesting you cut the funding to the local fee paying s.....
» 20/03/2007 12:39:19 PM Bishop is positioning for a fight over linking education funding to the forced offering of.....
» 19/03/2007 2:48:43 PM Politically let's not pretend that this has much to do with teacher performance. It is ab.....
» 16/03/2007 2:06:22 PM Sounds good but let's toughen it up with a well resourced anti corruption commission with .....
» 16/03/2007 2:01:13 PM As much as I am excited about the new Big Kev I would have to dispute that off-loading Bur.....
» 13/03/2007 12:10:09 PM Our moral failure has been in supporting regimes which squander their natural assets and o.....
» 12/03/2007 1:49:32 PM I don't think people should conflate the resignations of various Ministers in other States.....
» 1/03/2007 12:31:15 PM David, I think the States are history. John Howard has now made it politically acceptable .....
» 27/02/2007 1:56:18 PM Howard dodges the question of how long Australian forces will be kept in Iraq. Will this b.....
» 13/02/2007 3:25:16 PM I like the quotes! The Americans (or the Bushes?) falling out with Saddam is something the.....
» 12/02/2007 12:46:15 PM It would be awesome if the USA fell apart because then we could ally ourselves with China,.....
» 9/02/2007 2:00:35 PM Politically, I wonder if this boils down to do we go nuclear or not ? This seems to me th.....
» 9/02/2007 1:49:01 PM I think the author is assuming that it is the amount of money a political party has which .....
» 6/02/2007 1:12:23 PM The utilitarian view of things is alive and well in Australia, I think more so than in any.....
» 19/12/2006 4:00:09 PM I couldn't resist this - I wonder if the neo liberals ever stop and smell the "social.....
» 18/12/2006 11:41:38 AM I think the BCA should be honest and just say "democracy stinks" and that capita.....
» 14/12/2006 1:45:41 PM I agree there is a need for an alternative news source. I suspect that where this has fal.....
» 11/12/2006 12:27:00 PM I agree that PPPs stink. However, I would be loathe to think that politicians would be dip.....
» 11/12/2006 12:15:47 PM Harsh comments for the season of goodwill, comrades! There appears to be a lot of bile bu.....
» 8/12/2006 4:20:58 PM A bit of light relief - I speculated that maybe the ACTU and some fellow travellers could .....
» 8/12/2006 12:59:56 PM I think the smart move by Rudd was to run a team campaign. There is far too much emphasis .....
» 5/12/2006 2:07:24 PM Why bother ? We can just wait for a Labor / Green Alliance Government at some point in th.....
» 1/12/2006 3:06:23 PM Governments lose elections, Oppositions don't win them. What is interesting about global .....
» 30/11/2006 4:27:53 PM What I find interesting is how almost uniform the living conditions etc etc are in English.....
» 23/11/2006 4:59:15 PM You can only achieve change in Government not sitting on your moral high horse in the poli.....
» 23/11/2006 3:07:42 PM Could Kim's slogan be : Let's have a tax on everything! ? I am sure that would resonate wi.....
» 17/11/2006 3:25:24 PM Kim Beazley has been quoted about WorkChoices as follows: "Nothing with this Bill wi.....
» 13/11/2006 2:37:57 PM Green elitism on show again ? Who will lead us to the promised green land ? Let's have an .....
» 9/11/2006 2:18:10 PM As he mentioned WorkChoices- There have been 4 referenda on the issue of referring State .....
» 1/11/2006 5:59:36 PM "Fasionable"!Tristan, you have made an old man happy! I was short handing a bit.....
» 1/11/2006 3:10:16 PM I stopped being engaged with ALP politics when at a public meeting a Senator (who is still.....
» 4/10/2006 6:30:15 PM Thank you David Latimer. Not to be contrary but wouldn't our system function exactly as i.....
» 3/10/2006 6:31:39 PM I am hoping some of the learned souls who read this may be able to help. Whay can't we ju.....
» 27/09/2006 4:56:26 PM I don't mind our pollies having hobbies but, Lindsay, I would have preferred an article ab.....
» 26/09/2006 12:31:28 PM It strikes me that if you cut wage minima, or remove them altogether, that would also adve.....
» 8/09/2006 6:55:33 PM I will get this out of the way I support stem cell research and I oppose the Iraq war. I .....
» 6/09/2006 3:38:18 PM I have to wonder how much of Howard's "good economic management" is simply dumb .....
» 1/09/2006 3:01:49 PM I can't help but think that the use of a term like "Christian culture that underpins .....
» 11/08/2006 4:52:44 PM I have to confess to not having much knowledge about the alternatives and their impacts. .....
» 8/08/2006 1:16:42 PM I think it is worth noting that even independant statutory agencies are not immune from po.....
» 3/08/2006 7:04:41 PM The last time I looked at this issue the cogent point raised (which Fred addresses) is tha.....
» 6/06/2006 5:08:13 PM I am reluctant to accept the view that there are real benefits from PPPs. I can accept th.....
» 16/05/2006 6:49:48 PM On a related issue, one of the concerning features of the High Court case is that the refe.....
» 21/04/2006 11:05:08 AM I think the politics are against a fully rounded ALP IR policy until the High Court reache.....
» 31/03/2006 4:11:29 PM I am a health consumer and I consume blood pressure medicine. If I do not have it I will p.....
» 31/03/2006 12:16:38 PM Bob offers no analysis of the growth in contracting, only political motherhood statements......
» 28/03/2006 2:58:26 PM Why would you pay this guy for advice ? Seems all he would say is "pay everyone a fla.....
» 21/03/2006 4:20:31 PM Seeing we are all being civilized and declaring our positions - I am an ALP member and for.....
» 17/03/2006 6:01:56 PM In many ways I think Tony Blair is the UK version of the "drover's dog". He prom.....
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