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» 11/10/2016 3:02:14 PM I agree with the author, Jardine K J and others who can see the problems......
» 11/10/2016 9:09:34 AM I have gained the impression over the years that females are promoted to leadership when i.....
» 13/09/2016 4:01:50 PM Phanto: you write: -"It is an indictment on the minority sexualities community that t.....
» 30/08/2016 12:34:27 PM A.J.Phillips: "Homophobia is as bad as racism. " Indeed, it is worse than racism.....
» 30/08/2016 10:55:40 AM A plebiscite is mob rule, something representative democracy is designed to avoid. Why not.....
» 26/07/2016 9:24:12 PM There is an urgent need for the serious education of children of all ages in the rights, r.....
» 26/07/2016 8:01:36 AM I admire your resilience, Poirot, and have often wondered why you continue. Also several o.....
» 25/07/2016 2:05:18 PM While agreeing that the ABC is losing it's direction, I agree with Aka that it is probably.....
» 19/07/2016 8:21:15 AM Phanto asks: why are not women as violent as men? Women are just as aggressive as men. The.....
» 18/07/2016 4:21:50 PM A good article that tells the truth. Social disadvantage due to lack of work, homelessness.....
» 18/07/2016 4:12:45 PM An excellent summation of the lack of empathy that sustains the status quo. The mainstream.....
» 18/07/2016 12:47:37 PM Talking of genocidal maniacs, how about this list, remembering that the number of civilian.....
» 18/07/2016 12:42:26 PM Before getting carried away by Ms May's demagoguery, read this: http://www.informationcle.....
» 18/07/2016 8:31:23 AM Compulsory voting is good, but only if there is proportional representation......
» 18/07/2016 8:22:29 AM I just wish people would admit to racism. It's natural enough to be racist, but not admitt.....
» 16/07/2016 12:23:06 PM Thank you Max, I read the article and posted a response giving a few reasons why I still t.....
» 14/07/2016 5:47:40 PM Steve 101... This made me smile: I quote: "To be clear, once more: The Andrew Marr'.....
» 12/07/2016 12:57:02 PM @ BK: "Any decent history of the traumatic years of the Gillard minority government w.....
» 12/07/2016 12:46:25 PM So...you want Israel, Jordan and Egypt to carve up the pathetic rump of a state that Israe.....
» 12/07/2016 10:43:49 AM There can never be a justification for using a fuel [or a weapon] that is so toxic, so uns.....
» 12/07/2016 10:36:44 AM Sounds good to me. Let's have the same system here......
» 12/07/2016 8:57:30 AM Humans behave as they do because that is how they evolved in order to survive in a hostile.....
» 12/07/2016 8:54:50 AM I agree completely with this article and the supporting comments. Either return to the ama.....
» 5/07/2016 3:31:18 PM Very well put, Phanto. Let everyone speak their minds freely and honestly; only then will.....
» 29/02/2016 8:10:29 AM Is Mise: "Aligarh is 40% Muslim, that makes a difference " Exactly, and is perha.....
» 29/02/2016 8:06:35 AM Yes, Mr Gerrit H Schorel-Hlavka, you're a real tough guy. Everyone should be as tough as y.....
» 16/02/2016 8:21:27 AM I agree, Killarney, but with the caveat that we should either re-label the department the .....
» 15/02/2016 10:23:52 AM Some questions are tendentious, others presume the guilt of James. There should be the pos.....
» 15/02/2016 8:23:07 AM Sonofgloin, start a petition to get rid of him or cut his salary in quarter...Change.org o.....
» 27/01/2016 2:56:03 PM Ok, I exaggerated. So far I've learned that 1. You guys do not think the colonial invader.....
» 26/01/2016 5:49:52 PM Lego, Your analogy with the Romans missed slavery and their total disregard for human life.....
» 25/01/2016 4:09:29 PM Bernie Masters. No one is suggesting indigenous society was any better than it should be, .....
» 20/01/2016 7:05:53 AM Cherful, I deliberately wrote, All colonising nations. That included Indonesia in this cas.....
» 19/01/2016 4:16:16 PM It is vile what has happened and continues to happen in West Papua; as vile, cruel, callou.....
» 24/10/2015 9:13:19 PM LEGO, the status of women when the first settlers arrived was no better than that of the l.....
» 22/10/2015 4:34:12 PM Well said, Plantagenet. And the racism, paternalism, dismissal of their ideas, solutions a.....
» 20/10/2015 8:32:34 AM LEGO, your admiration for a civilisation that has pushed much life on earth to the brink o.....
» 19/10/2015 5:22:12 PM I too look back on my youth in the forties and fifties with nostalgia. I had the most wond.....
» 19/10/2015 5:08:52 PM Gosh, Hasbeen, I agree with you. I've lived in this area for thirty years and the average .....
» 19/10/2015 4:41:34 PM As 1% of humans now own 99% of the planet's wealth, redistribution of wealth would be sens.....
» 19/10/2015 8:33:56 AM An utterly brilliant essay, exposing correctly what is so desperately wrong with Australia.....
» 6/10/2015 3:24:43 PM We know that the climate is changing. Crops no longer grow where they used to. Less rain f.....
» 29/09/2015 5:18:10 PM The author reckons laws should not be made when the costs to the individual are born solel.....
» 15/09/2015 8:53:07 AM Suzeonline, Imprisonment is the worst possible ‘solution’ to all criminal activity; it usu.....
» 14/09/2015 8:54:33 PM I have yet to hear or read anyone asking the question, "Why are people becoming viole.....
» 14/09/2015 12:54:25 PM Jayyess..."All these adveturism(sic) were limited by their success and once succeeded.....
» 14/09/2015 8:22:11 AM Thank you Jay of M. "Jayess, the most honest estimate (Meyer 2002) claims that about .....
» 13/09/2015 9:50:05 AM Oh, very droll, Mr Singer. Have you stopped beating your wife? Answer me; Yes or No! I'll .....
» 12/09/2015 4:19:10 PM David Singer, So what if the Romans don't' want England, that wasn't the point. As Geoff .....
» 12/09/2015 12:09:24 PM Mr Singer Quotes Ben Gurion: "The fact that Jews were here some two thousand years ag.....
» 12/09/2015 8:35:35 AM Armchair Critic and Geoff, I salute you......
» 10/09/2015 7:46:07 AM Dear Mr Singer, When reading English, it's essential to take note of the commas. I wrote: .....
» 8/09/2015 5:47:27 PM OTB... that is a pretty disgusting clip. Reminds me of the bigoted intolerance and lies pr.....
» 8/09/2015 11:45:30 AM The author is correct. All mainstream mass media have veered sharply towards conservative,.....
» 8/09/2015 11:24:30 AM Iran has never had nuclear weapons. USA has 7,200 nukes Iran is not violating the non-prol.....
» 1/09/2015 7:51:45 AM Very interesting EJ. I didn't know this. Thanks. I agree......
» 31/08/2015 11:53:03 AM OK Steve101, power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. So, what do we do? It .....
» 31/08/2015 11:33:59 AM Women need more money than men. They buy four times as many clothes as men, and spend ten .....
» 31/08/2015 11:24:42 AM I'm so grateful to live in Australia where we are digging a new hole the size of Wales to .....
» 21/07/2015 2:43:42 PM IMF austerity programs are designed to weaken economies to the point when valuable busines.....
» 21/07/2015 8:16:13 AM It's not only the co-called religious 'charities', it is the whole religious corporation t.....
» 29/06/2015 4:05:09 PM Yuyutsu, You make marriage sound like a rather dull and serious duty, but essentially you .....
» 29/06/2015 12:58:53 PM I agree with all the arguments presented against getting married, but the important ones l.....
» 1/06/2015 12:34:37 PM Right on, Poirot, and I'm pleases to see a softening of your stance, SOL. Are young people.....
» 20/05/2015 10:17:23 AM Thank you david f... this is most interesting! I'd never realised it before......
» 19/05/2015 8:16:34 AM Dear Yuyutsu, You are correct, of course. However, Latin lends itself to clever sayings, .....
» 18/05/2015 5:13:39 PM Peter, In an effort to twist Descartes maxim to conform to your religious views, you've ti.....
» 5/05/2015 11:14:26 AM SOL...labelling dissent as a conspiracy theory is a mark of desperation, as is deliberatel.....
» 5/05/2015 8:07:32 AM The trouble with testing blood pressure is that lots of healthy people don't conform to th.....
» 27/04/2015 8:18:43 AM Dear Leo. Whether you are right or wrong, the Climate is changing. Quibbling over the caus.....
» 24/04/2015 9:08:31 PM Leo Lane. Are you suggesting that the increasingly polluted planet that is making many peo.....
» 22/04/2015 3:49:20 PM Well written Max, but don't get depressed...they're just being human. As Dresden James wr.....
» 22/04/2015 3:36:38 PM Wise words - as always Yuyutsu. Globalisation has improved the bank balances of the one pe.....
» 7/04/2015 8:45:59 PM Yes, Rache, he was a truly vile man. To finally learn the truth about both world wars, tha.....
» 7/04/2015 10:22:17 AM Britain attacked Turkey for no other reason than to weaken resistance, so they could attac.....
» 23/03/2015 12:31:05 PM "the classical liberal approach should be to dislodge the rite of marriage altogether.....
» 17/03/2015 12:09:44 PM Here's an idea. Tax the billions of dollars of currently tax-free corporate profits made b.....
» 17/03/2015 11:55:07 AM I can't see why [public] speech should be exempt from the same sort of rules that govern o.....
» 26/02/2015 12:55:38 PM Platypus 1900: "90% of his goods in the shop are now from china and he makes 2 trips .....
» 24/02/2015 7:58:10 PM Thanks JK.J I apologise for irritating you. My point, Plantagenet, was that because of th.....
» 24/02/2015 7:23:51 AM Plantagenet, I realise you are writing about the present situation, and it is irritating t.....
» 23/02/2015 8:44:47 PM Plantagenet, They would not have needed such aid if their islands hadn't been all but dest.....
» 23/02/2015 12:38:06 PM J K J. The U.S.A has been at war with the world for over a century, and Australia has aide.....
» 23/02/2015 10:35:19 AM Thank you for this interesting and informative post. You are completely correct, Australia.....
» 23/02/2015 10:12:50 AM SteeleRedux, A J Phillips and david f, Excellent justification of the status quo, Thanks. .....
» 23/02/2015 8:27:16 AM Good luck with the Butcher shop, R. I hope there's no supermarket nearby. As for the impor.....
» 23/02/2015 8:19:48 AM Don't forget the billions of dollars of untaxed profits made by religious corporations, an.....
» 16/02/2015 8:15:41 PM I find all this weeping and wailing about the two men sickeningly hypocritical. Where's th.....
» 12/01/2015 2:28:33 PM I'd have thought that the 'free speech' the pro Charlie supporters were rallying over woul.....
» 22/12/2014 11:43:38 AM The link wasn't a link so I copied and pasted on a google search and got: PolAustralia :: .....
» 17/12/2014 2:06:12 PM Ah Squeers. That post is perfect. Beautifully constructed, succinct, to the point, and mak.....
» 17/12/2014 6:18:43 AM George:<<Christianity, building on Judaism and Hellenism, gave rise to what we call .....
» 16/12/2014 11:23:45 AM Squeers is corect. If religious belief had any positive benefit at all then the USA, where.....
» 16/12/2014 6:42:56 AM 116 years ago Frederick Douglass wrote this: "As a people, Americans are remarkably f.....
» 16/12/2014 6:41:05 AM Armchair Critic "Am I the only one who sees the danger in what really might be going .....
» 15/12/2014 7:00:47 AM The internet contains very many well written and researched articles and essays by men who.....
» 10/12/2014 6:11:19 AM Most interesting, Peter V. Are there any legal channels to rectify this so we have the 'c.....
» 9/12/2014 6:31:13 AM An excellent summation of the incident and its ramifications, thank you. It is good to kno.....
» 9/12/2014 6:21:04 AM Surely it was simply a beat up by the corporate owned presstitude to distract from the gov.....
» 5/12/2014 7:02:04 AM Dear Conservativehippie.[Hippies were the opposite of conservative when I was one...what c.....
» 4/12/2014 11:44:42 AM Continued... If you doubt my take on Iraq, you might be interested in what General Smedley.....
» 4/12/2014 11:41:59 AM Cherful, There’s no such thing as “being loyal to the people of Australia as a whole.” we .....
» 2/12/2014 6:59:56 AM Don't be so silly, Cherful. Sensible peoples' loyalty lies with kindness, generosity, cons.....
» 2/12/2014 6:47:03 AM Rusty wrote: "The mistake that many writers may have made including my favourites is.....
» 1/12/2014 12:33:26 PM My experience with Sci-fi has been similar, however I don't agree that "the changes .....
» 1/12/2014 12:10:33 PM What a delight to read a well constructed and written essay. Thanks. Yuyutsu's suggestion .....
» 1/12/2014 11:54:35 AM Gosh! Isn't this exciting. I can't wait to see what they're going to do with the ginormous.....
» 1/12/2014 10:01:59 AM The people debunking this article are, like everyone else, the victims of their own countr.....
» 1/12/2014 9:34:53 AM There's a Service station in Gympie that sells locally produced tomatoes...pineapples and .....
» 25/11/2014 2:39:00 PM The thing I don't buy is the suggestion that the people who are benefitting mostly from &q.....
» 25/11/2014 12:29:31 PM Poirot: "Okay...and then addressing the substance of the "suggested direction&qu.....
» 25/11/2014 9:46:18 AM Poirot, suggesting a direction for the proposed documentary is not side-tracking. you wri.....
» 25/11/2014 7:08:09 AM This thread has been sidetracked, Jogoma wants to make a documentary about Ebola. Arjay an.....
» 24/11/2014 8:40:18 PM Cossomby, People who tell the truth about the machinations of the world's 'rulers' are alw.....
» 24/11/2014 11:05:04 AM Perhaps those police officers have died from shame because deaths in custody are on the in.....
» 24/11/2014 9:31:42 AM It's clear now that Ebola is an escape from USA Bio warfare labs. see: http://www.informa.....
» 12/11/2014 7:11:39 AM A worthwhile article. Of particular value is the well researched fact, known for many year.....
» 28/10/2014 6:43:35 AM I do enjoy your posts, Poirot. Thanks......
» 21/10/2014 7:30:21 AM Dear Yuyutsu, <<As you care for our planet's air, water, soil and species and want p.....
» 20/10/2014 4:43:37 PM What is the purpose of this essay? Why are some people so desperate to deny what a majorit.....
» 19/10/2014 7:28:53 AM Divergence, Thanks for your post, but I can't help feeling you're in the wrong site if you.....
» 14/10/2014 9:53:31 AM Well said, David G.....
» 13/10/2014 2:48:18 PM Humans are not observably different from all other life forms in anything except clever to.....
» 7/07/2014 8:39:29 PM Eric G. You are wasting your time. Every time someone on The forum suggests that same-sex-.....
» 7/07/2014 5:42:40 PM What do you think the wars that Australia and the U.S.A. have been conducting for decades .....
» 7/07/2014 5:40:25 PM You’re right, david f Be careful crossing streets, don’t eat meats, cut out sweets, yo.....
» 15/05/2014 3:40:18 PM A thoughtful piece, thanks. I think, with the benefit of seventy years of hindsight, it i.....
» 3/03/2014 12:05:25 PM An excellent wish-list, aussieboy. I'll sign the petition too......
» 3/03/2014 12:03:34 PM Ludwig says all that needs to be said on the topic... "We aren’t separate from Nature.....
» 7/01/2014 11:21:23 AM Jon J... you're a bit behind in your reading. The planet is warming steadily, but not ever.....
» 7/01/2014 11:09:28 AM I reckon it's a grand idea, Klaus. Although I'd also like to see the abolition and outlawi.....
» 7/01/2014 6:16:33 AM Thank you Jay of Melbourne... innocentocide is a good term. Davig G. I concur with your se.....
» 17/12/2013 8:23:53 PM An excellent essay. "Australia does not need a Multicultural Act. Australia already h.....
» 2/12/2013 11:53:35 AM An excellent article. I'd love to travel to Brisbane by train, I adore train travel, but n.....
» 2/12/2013 11:53:34 AM An excellent article. I'd love to travel to Brisbane by train, I adore train travel, but n.....
» 18/11/2013 11:57:10 AM Surely the changing climate is not a 'social issue' in the same way as immigration and mar.....
» 30/09/2013 10:36:18 AM An excellent article. I sincerely hope the New Zealanders embrace the Fijian model in its .....
» 29/07/2013 7:02:20 PM Thanks for the warning, Arjay. Bazz, it isn't surprising that it's been ignored by the mai.....
» 1/07/2013 6:05:22 PM Good posts, RÛbert and Antiseptic......
» 1/07/2013 12:28:32 PM Oops, what I meant to say was I have never seen Vanish used in that way. Is it common? I k.....
» 1/07/2013 12:23:53 PM Poirot, I didn't know 'vanish' was a verb. I'd like to vanish my neighbour's dog. Any sugg.....
» 22/06/2013 11:33:31 AM Thanks, Individual......
» 22/06/2013 8:22:26 AM Suseonline: <If you are a straight woman living with a gay man, then he must be her 'ro.....
» 21/06/2013 4:02:42 PM I was amused by the reaction to the non-Australian football coach who, when asked a diffic.....
» 21/06/2013 3:51:57 PM I sign a lot of petitions calling for transparency, accountability and so on from our gove.....
» 18/06/2013 10:39:31 AM To all those in favour of nuclear power generation, what are you going to do with the high.....
» 18/06/2013 8:17:43 AM Thank you for this, Noel Wauchope; it is an excellent, well researched and timely argument.....
» 9/06/2013 9:52:41 AM Onthebeach, A good question, the answer to which is, there is no good reason. But then th.....
» 9/06/2013 9:43:53 AM Yes, Praxidice, I understand that, however blanket assertions that are obviously silly und.....
» 8/06/2013 11:03:50 AM Alan Austin..."One big advantage of the alternative online media is that we can refer.....
» 8/06/2013 10:46:35 AM RObet, Antiseptic, Individual, Belly... you say it well. Lexi, your response to Antiseptic.....
» 8/06/2013 10:30:03 AM Thank you [I think[ Praxidice, Hasbeen and individual... I am enlightened and depressed at.....
» 7/06/2013 10:49:02 AM "ybgirp, Please explain where there's no fact in my post." individual, I was re.....
» 7/06/2013 10:24:02 AM I think you're correct, Belly. There's little hope of men fulfilling their primordial role.....
» 7/06/2013 8:45:35 AM Praxidice... what wondrous prose - unfortunately, like the flowers in Grey's Elegy, they'r.....
» 7/06/2013 8:05:52 AM Raw Mustard, you have a delightful turn of phrase. I guess I agree with you as well... as .....
» 6/06/2013 6:28:36 PM Divine_msm " every school would have a kitchen, hired cook and weekly rations deliver.....
» 6/06/2013 1:02:56 PM Cohenite... "cruel, violent, intolerant"... Surely the group of countries that b.....
» 6/06/2013 12:33:06 PM James O'Neil says it true, as does Alan Austin. The ABC exhibits no independence, it is a .....
» 6/06/2013 11:40:14 AM Indeed David F - Hooray for Valerie. Also well said Rhosty. Ian D, you have been conned........
» 6/06/2013 11:25:49 AM Joe Loudmouth, I agree. I was sticking to topic, referring only to the problems in remote .....
» 5/06/2013 9:21:07 PM Gemma, I agree; children in remote communities should be taught by people who have grown u.....
» 4/06/2013 7:34:30 PM Australian infrastructure is failing because during the Howard years, instead of using the.....
» 1/06/2013 3:42:35 PM I chopped the head off a large toad a few years ago and buried it about 10 cm deep. In the.....
» 1/06/2013 1:54:54 PM Toads don't spit, but if seriously vexed they stretch their shoulder muscles and squirt ve.....
» 30/05/2013 9:04:10 PM Ha... the thought of local youths racing through the countryside taking pot shots at feral.....
» 30/05/2013 8:51:26 PM Any organisation that can be labelled a religion is automatically considered a charitable .....
» 30/05/2013 8:24:20 PM That's been tried, Individual, with the result that people were breeding the pests such as.....
» 29/05/2013 12:49:07 PM Agreed, Ludwig and Poirot, however it is also true that feral cats and dogs are eliminatin.....
» 29/05/2013 11:45:48 AM Ahhh, praxidice, Your delicious turns of phrase delight me. Well put!.....
» 27/05/2013 11:12:08 AM Suseonline, the Americans appear to deliberately use the worst possible forms of execution.....
» 27/05/2013 7:52:24 AM Suseonline, Your delight in making wrongdoers suffer does you no credit because it makes t.....
» 26/05/2013 9:33:11 PM I agree with Jon J, [the first post] The sole objection I can see to permanently removing .....
» 20/05/2013 9:45:04 PM Thanks, Alan. An excellent analysis - much appreciated, as are the comments from Lexi and .....
» 20/05/2013 5:19:41 PM No, Chris Lewis, clearly I was saying no such thing. The world does not need one country t.....
» 20/05/2013 11:08:14 AM It's about time Australian thinkers and commentators took heed of the excellent criticism .....
» 12/03/2013 5:36:20 PM Earth has only been inhabitable by humans for about 500,000 years. It took all the precedi.....
» 12/03/2013 10:37:20 AM I've tried, but I still don't understand derivatives. Can anyone suggest a good definition.....
» 8/03/2013 7:46:10 AM Pericles, I like your grandmother and am in complete accord. As for "rights", t.....
» 7/03/2013 7:33:56 AM Dear Banjo, You write:<< They would like to have us believe that they are invested i.....
» 5/03/2013 7:56:05 AM Greetings, Grim. I fear you are correct. The grim truth is that, as someone wrote a few po.....
» 4/03/2013 12:33:32 PM Spindoc and Leo L... Do you think that the murder of children, reporters, civilians and re.....
» 2/03/2013 10:56:37 AM That's most interesting, Banjo, thanks. You are no doubt correct regarding Bangladesh, whe.....
» 1/03/2013 11:10:33 AM david f: you wrote:<< I would like it to be that way, but that is not the way it is......
» 28/02/2013 1:02:56 PM I heard the other day on ABC National that the first Commonwealth Parliament wanted to int.....
» 28/02/2013 12:04:49 PM Hasbeen, as you're demanding examples, why don't you lead the way by providing examples of.....
» 26/02/2013 10:49:39 AM Producer... Very well reasoned and put. Thanks......
» 26/02/2013 10:45:30 AM Hasbeen, you're either clinically insane, or the brainwashing you've been subjected to has.....
» 25/02/2013 8:06:33 PM As David F writes, habitat destruction causes most deaths. Surely, though, it is time ever.....
» 25/02/2013 7:46:49 PM Our liberties are indeed fragile, and have been fought for, often painfully. Especially th.....
» 25/02/2013 6:21:12 PM How depressing, The only group of people who espouse the values all Australians purport to.....
» 19/02/2013 7:30:04 AM Pelican makes the most sense in this senseless thread, when she defines 'truth' as answers.....
» 18/02/2013 8:51:31 AM 'What is truth?' said Pilate and didn't stay for an answer. Why did he not waste time disc.....
» 15/02/2013 5:06:52 PM Poirot, I was born in 1941, and have lived in New Zealand, Europe and Australia. Photos fr.....
» 15/02/2013 10:07:51 AM An excellent article, refreshingly logical, rational, succinct and relevant to today. One .....
» 29/01/2013 11:08:48 AM I fear it's a fuse, Saltpetre. Excellent metaphor, by the way......
» 27/01/2013 3:37:54 PM This has little to do with the preceding comments, but does fit the title - The greatest h.....
» 25/01/2013 8:57:54 PM Interesting link, Candide - Voltaire would be laughing at the Panglossian response of gove.....
» 25/01/2013 11:16:18 AM Thank you again Bazz - this comment of yours, "I realise that the journalists would n.....
» 24/01/2013 5:09:27 PM Thank you Bazz for sort of satisfying my curiosity. I find it all too east to suspect the .....
» 23/01/2013 9:41:17 AM OK Bazz, if the Google sites are useless, and you know so much - including that there's no.....
» 22/01/2013 12:56:42 PM I like you, David G, and a few others too.... very few......
» 21/01/2013 4:49:05 PM I think individual learning through well-balanced and constructed internet programmes is c.....
» 21/01/2013 3:35:04 PM A fine contribution, Julian Cribb, followed by the usual predictable crap responses from t.....
» 18/01/2013 3:35:18 PM @ Arjay "My detractors just don't want to get because their secure vision of the worl.....
» 17/01/2013 8:50:41 PM This is sort of apropos your last post, Arjay. I'm only an occasional visitor to this foru.....
» 15/01/2013 6:41:12 AM An excellent summation, Bazz. "I am looking some time into the future, but certainly .....
» 14/01/2013 3:23:06 PM I'm with Pericles. A jolly good stunt. It's time to rethink our priorities and decide what.....
» 14/01/2013 2:55:57 PM I gatther you didn't like it much. It seems his concern about surveillance is both relevan.....
» 14/01/2013 9:40:16 AM I'm with you, Arjay. And Belly, your first post makes sense too...:).....
» 8/01/2013 7:05:34 AM Ah, Pericles, your faith in technology borders on religious fanaticism. We can't even disp.....
» 7/01/2013 12:40:45 PM Pericles, I’m not wringing my hands and complaining, merely pointing out the cost of expec.....
» 7/01/2013 8:01:51 AM I agree one hundred percent, Clem Gprman. This is one of the most sensible posts I've read.....
» 7/01/2013 7:48:08 AM Social welfare, Belly, is a sensible form of insurance. It's purpose is to make the needy .....
» 1/01/2013 12:28:16 PM Excellent article - thanks. I agree with the posters who understand that murder is murder,.....
» 2/12/2012 8:04:01 PM Poirot, you wrote: .....I don't understand men. Apparently I never have and never will.........
» 1/12/2012 3:14:22 PM Actually, Poirot, women have always been gross consumers, no different from today. It was .....
» 30/11/2012 9:02:51 PM Thank you Poirot. Confused is a good word, and applies to women as well as men. Both seem .....
» 30/11/2012 2:55:24 PM Poirot, you seem to be suggesting that today men have become more or less useless [compare.....
» 29/11/2012 8:56:53 PM Jay, you misunderstand my post. I deplore violence - all violence, however, it is stupid t.....
» 28/11/2012 7:15:27 AM Fungus, I'm with you 100%. Thanks for all the links. Now, how to convince our USrael a..se.....
» 26/11/2012 9:19:15 PM The point of Pilger's article is that the BBC is not even handed in its selection of News .....
» 26/11/2012 8:54:07 PM Foyle is correct. An elected President/Emperor/king whatever you call it, is the worst pos.....
» 26/11/2012 4:59:38 PM This is ine of the most important posts I've read for ages. It is interesting that most of.....
» 26/11/2012 4:27:56 PM AVV, the USA, like Australia, spent many millions of taxpayer dollars on bribing other cou.....
» 21/11/2012 12:33:58 PM It is strange how everyone assumes that doctors and nurses will be involved in assisting t.....
» 20/11/2012 8:40:46 PM Exactly right, Yuyutsu! Assisted suicide will not become a requirement, but an option for.....
» 12/11/2012 11:01:22 AM Excellently argued, Max. The original intention of asking for tax exemptions for the AFA w.....
» 5/11/2012 11:52:51 AM An excellent and thought provoking essay. As Confucius via Geoff of Perth suggests, the pr.....
» 5/11/2012 7:40:12 AM Yes indeed, David G - International Clearing House is a welcome, if alarming antidote to t.....
» 29/10/2012 10:02:18 AM You shot yourself in the foot in this overly long, tendentious post., when you wrote: &quo.....
» 29/10/2012 9:49:23 AM So, peasants lived shorter lives after 1740. That's because their lives were increasingly .....
» 29/10/2012 7:33:54 AM Indeed, Bazz - and don't forget the impending water wars that have already begun - albeit .....
» 27/10/2012 8:17:33 PM Excellent, Rhrosty... therefore it will not happen. Governments need the country to be in .....
» 24/10/2012 9:21:05 AM Mollydukes, Very well put. I admire clear and rational thinking......
» 23/10/2012 8:00:34 PM A man can be a misogynist yet not sexist. Hating women, yet accepting they have the right .....
» 22/10/2012 9:15:10 PM A very well-intentioned piece that deserves better than the cheap shots fires on the first.....
» 22/10/2012 8:51:41 PM For Paul Russel to equate a sad teenager in the prime of life with an eighty year-old in t.....
» 20/10/2012 7:20:29 AM The story of Finland's success contained in the link http://bit.ly/steoRz would deal with .....
» 15/10/2012 9:56:50 AM A timely essay. There's no mention of the aims of the education offered by schools... What.....
» 15/10/2012 9:10:28 AM Iran has not made war on another country since the 1700s. [They had to defend themselves a.....
» 9/10/2012 8:51:28 AM Yuyutsu... that's brilliant!.....
» 9/10/2012 7:33:38 AM A good piece, Brian. I agree totally that we should be allowed to have the means to take .....
» 24/09/2012 4:53:38 PM A good essay, positing some optimistic solutions to the catastrophe that is on our heels. .....
» 17/09/2012 11:48:54 AM Producer you are correct, but the future you are fearing is the way humans have always org.....
» 14/09/2012 4:46:08 PM Ha! csteele, you made my day..."And is mass-debating Cox(s) something one should be d.....
» 12/09/2012 9:30:30 AM The problem for the medical profession is they don't want to be seen as doctors prescribin.....
» 10/09/2012 9:41:38 PM Wether the planet is warming dangerously or not is irrelevant, surely we want to decrease .....
» 27/08/2012 8:17:57 AM David, You are so right! It depresses me that there's currently an investigation and huge.....
» 26/08/2012 7:22:14 AM rechtub, I don't support anyone having children! Seven thousand million and rising is prov.....
» 23/08/2012 12:45:38 PM rehctub you write:...'I don't approve of what they do, but I don't hate them, nor do I int.....
» 21/08/2012 10:34:56 AM Argh! Thank you, Poirot... I think. Do you subscribe ICH [Information Clearing House] wher.....
» 21/08/2012 9:01:50 AM Mmmm... I love this, Poirot: '...little wagonettes on the hegemonic bandwagon.'.....
» 21/08/2012 8:18:17 AM Yes, Poirot, it was Manning himself, Assange has never dobbed anyone in. Joe, You quote R.....
» 20/08/2012 9:19:33 PM Dear CedarJ, We're discussing laws dealing with human/human relationships, not human/dog [.....
» 20/08/2012 9:03:06 PM Rhrosty, Assange has committed no crime in either Australia or the USA. Nor has he been ch.....
» 20/08/2012 8:32:34 PM An excellent opinion piece, Amanda and Danielle, thanks. The facts are clear, if the peopl.....
» 6/08/2012 10:59:49 AM It suggests the decision owes more to politics than justice. Were the Australian governmen.....
» 25/07/2012 5:17:01 PM A useful addition to the debate, however, as we live in a democracy, it is futile to expec.....
» 17/07/2012 8:00:25 AM imajulianutter:- your assertion that the reasonable changes proposed by the groups you men.....
» 16/07/2012 4:52:11 PM rehctub, there is no such thing as 'mainstream'. We are all individuals. You are not the s.....
» 16/07/2012 4:32:55 PM Ah, Robert. What a pity. You’ve attracted the loony fringe instead of rationality. It is i.....
» 20/06/2012 7:37:56 AM I like your opinions and suggestions on this topic Marilyn Shepherd.... But I don't much c.....
» 18/06/2012 4:50:21 PM An excellent, thoughtful and well-written piece. "Who watches the watchers? The AFP.....
» 11/06/2012 4:39:10 PM Very well put, Marilyn Shepherd, and several others of similar ilk. Australia is not, unfo.....
» 4/06/2012 5:56:52 PM I like JohnBennet's idea best......
» 22/05/2012 7:44:24 AM I agree. I also agree with Thompson's statements regarding the presumption of innocence an.....
» 22/05/2012 7:35:06 AM @cseteele:- Why is this so matter of fact? Surely this sort of behavior should be condemne.....
» 16/05/2012 7:59:43 AM Few religious charities spend their corporation’s money, they are funded from the public p.....
» 15/05/2012 5:25:06 PM Don't you think, csteele, that google is at least as valuable to us all as the Roman Catho.....
» 7/05/2012 11:48:11 AM How depressing! As always we have those opposed to change arguing from either personal pre.....
» 7/05/2012 10:57:38 AM Banjo>>"I find it perculiar [sic] that population reduction was not discussed a.....
» 20/04/2012 3:17:54 PM I wasn't referring to the Greens, specifically, merely to the antagonism directed at anyon.....
» 20/04/2012 11:31:43 AM I'm always a little astonished at the antagonism shown to people who want to improve the l.....
» 19/04/2012 7:45:30 AM Ah, Pericles <<If you can even hint at a way in which your world of innocence and ab.....
» 18/04/2012 10:12:49 AM Prelapsarian! Pericles what a wondrous word evoking innocent men and women living in perfe.....
» 18/04/2012 7:22:54 AM When we said to our sarcastic High School English teacher, ‘sarcasm is the lowest form of .....
» 15/04/2012 9:46:03 AM I'm sure your post is terribly clever, one under god, [BTW which god?] but I didn't really.....
» 15/04/2012 7:42:17 AM Planet 3: "So when the planet is contaminated (like its not already), what are you go.....
» 13/04/2012 7:25:14 AM Arjay:- "Bush and Blair late last year were found guilty of war crimes in Kuala Lumpu.....
» 12/04/2012 7:27:48 AM This is quite the best, most readable, concise and well researched essay on this topic I h.....
» 11/04/2012 12:50:26 PM Ah, Lexi, How nice, we agree. Your description of our next leader is worrying indeed......
» 11/04/2012 8:31:47 AM A Poll on Q&A disclosed that seventy-six percent of Australians think religion is not a fo.....
» 11/04/2012 7:49:44 AM Amusement and despair assail me in equal proportions. The point of a debate and discussion.....
» 8/04/2012 7:21:01 AM Runner>>'Just happens that far more people are heaps better off than then.' And mul.....
» 7/04/2012 7:30:35 AM I think I'm repeating myself. Producer, your most recent post is bang on target. Excellent.....
» 6/04/2012 7:51:50 AM David F, your uncritical belief in the right of 51% of the people to rule over the remaini.....
» 4/04/2012 8:01:48 AM Dear Producer, What an excellent summation. Thanks.....
» 3/04/2012 8:30:46 AM An excellent post, although I object to this ' if a lot of votes are wasted to minor parti.....
» 2/04/2012 10:54:01 AM An excellent article, and an excellent response by 'individual'. If the millions spent on .....
» 29/03/2012 10:47:39 AM Pericles questions yuyutsu:- "And the "unprovable metaphysical assertion" u.....
» 27/03/2012 6:39:40 AM Mmmm, What a delightful comment, Jon J An interesting notion, Yuyutsu, humanists thinking.....
» 26/03/2012 8:58:11 PM Excellent response, Squeers, Pericles and others expressing similar positions. Roger, I th.....
» 18/03/2012 5:16:00 PM An excellent summary of problems that have beset humanity's efforts at fair and just gover.....
» 17/03/2012 1:04:49 PM I agree Belly, about this government. As always, the only elected representatives who seem.....
» 13/03/2012 4:28:20 PM Ah, Ludwig, I hope you are correct. I share your concerns but wish he looked less like a c.....
» 12/03/2012 9:24:28 PM Dear Poirot, How embarrassing. You are correct. I do shoot myself in the foot rather. All .....
» 12/03/2012 8:36:14 AM bonmot... "Perhaps I read you wrong, but I would have thought our 'life experience' p.....
» 11/03/2012 4:13:07 PM Poirot: "...he was outcast from the natural affinities of the humanity around him - c.....
» 11/03/2012 3:40:49 PM Poirot: As a metaphor for ‘outcasts’, it seems a shame to choose someone so degraded. Most.....
» 10/03/2012 6:01:41 PM Like a strident Christian, eh? Fundies are so sure they’re right they badger others in ord.....
» 10/03/2012 5:58:13 PM Dear csteele, Is OLO the place for this sort of exchange of ideas? Would you prefer a di.....
» 10/03/2012 8:26:49 AM Esteemed csteele, there lies the rub with written communication, one has to be concise yet.....
» 9/03/2012 7:37:10 AM csteele, Blue penises sound rather fetching… An interesting tale about prejudice and sexua.....
» 7/03/2012 10:21:29 AM Delightful joke, Lexi Ah, so much of interest and food for thought. csteele: "I wonde.....
» 6/03/2012 11:05:50 AM Ah, yes, Poirot. Body language. Face to face I never make enemies. On line in fora such as.....
» 6/03/2012 8:50:51 AM This is so embarrassing. I've been cursed with the ability to see at least three sides of .....
» 5/03/2012 1:06:39 PM Illich’s quote is good, Poirot, although life in small communities was bound by rigid conv.....
» 5/03/2012 1:02:50 PM Csteele, every proposition can sustain at least two possible ‘truths’. Our apparent differ.....
» 4/03/2012 12:17:08 PM Dear bonmot, Hercule Poirot, said some useful things, but I fail to see the relevance of r.....
» 4/03/2012 11:23:05 AM And now the circle is complete, dear Poirot. I find myself in complete agreement with you......
» 4/03/2012 9:54:13 AM Well argued, csteele and Poirot. However, the words base and baser when applied to instinc.....
» 4/03/2012 9:22:49 AM Wise words, bren122. .The decline in the manufacturing sectors of all 'developed' countrie.....
» 3/03/2012 1:02:45 PM Dear csteele, thanks. You have explained it beautifully. I don’t really have an issue with.....
» 3/03/2012 8:08:09 AM From Lexi: "The smell of the young women is the distilled essence of desire (in exces.....
» 28/02/2012 9:31:12 PM Lexi, you and anyone else interested in perfumes and how our sense of smell works, would e.....
» 28/02/2012 12:20:41 PM Bonmot. I write from experience, but am not stupid enough to provide 'evidence'. The laws .....
» 28/02/2012 12:04:09 PM I completely agree, Ludwig. Unfortunately, our type of democracy, the political system tha.....
» 28/02/2012 10:48:32 AM I saw only the film. Very well directed but I disliked it intensely. The ultimate smell of.....
» 28/02/2012 8:28:04 AM A well argued position. Certainly, the present system is merely leading us from crisis to .....
» 27/02/2012 11:00:18 AM An excellent and timely article. There is another barrier to the free publication of scien.....
» 27/02/2012 9:55:22 AM The reason for male intolerance of female public expression is clear. The Christian bible .....
» 27/02/2012 8:38:36 AM Yes, all animals have their smells, but apparently we have the Christians to thank for the.....
» 26/02/2012 3:22:56 PM Marilyn Shepherd, You are absolutely correct. It always seems a shame that respondents on .....
» 26/02/2012 7:56:33 AM A good review, thanks. I find it interesting that while Christians are prepared to accept .....
» 26/02/2012 7:42:08 AM I distrust all generalisations about specific populations. You write: " And this seem.....
» 24/02/2012 10:57:41 AM I think most of the responses are a little hysterical. It is a fact that most humans feel .....
» 23/02/2012 12:06:53 PM While I applaud the sentiments of the writer, I have a problem with multiculturalism in th.....
» 23/02/2012 11:30:11 AM @ stevenlmeyer, [Put the Electorates up for sale on e-bay to the highest bidder, and he/sh.....
» 23/02/2012 11:23:03 AM My reactions to the U.S.A. are different from yours. I was horrified by the squalor, decay.....
» 23/02/2012 10:52:14 AM nteresting. I made the same voyage exactly ten years earlier, but with different intention.....
» 4/01/2008 12:54:45 PM Pericles asks whether it is necessary to educate in order to appreciate art. Of course it .....
» 3/01/2008 9:48:16 PM Back to the beginning. Yes, there should be musical education and appreciation of universa.....
» 3/01/2008 9:30:49 PM Oh Philo... if you follow Pericles advice, please take BOAZ with you.... Pleeeeeeze!.....
» 1/01/2008 12:23:54 PM Hear, hear! Wizofaus. Strngth to your bow!.....
» 1/01/2008 12:07:15 PM Palimpsest, you are confirming Shakespeare's dictum about the ages of man... start off as .....
» 31/12/2007 5:37:38 PM A nice summation, West. Well, I've read all the posts and there’s a definite trend. 1. C.....
» 31/12/2007 4:04:37 PM The terms ‘left’ and ‘right’ have no universally understood meaning regarding political sy.....
» 31/12/2007 12:20:10 PM I have long bemoaned the fact that the only music schools present, in public at least, is .....
» 31/12/2007 11:58:21 AM Excellent argument. The more identities we maintain, the better......
» 31/12/2007 11:51:04 AM This is tragic. When I first heard of Summerhill as a child I read all I could about it an.....
» 30/12/2007 7:03:59 PM I'll take a guess... you want to educate your children at home? I am well aware of the pow.....
» 28/12/2007 10:41:46 AM Why indeed, Guy V... the reason is one word I haven't read [I think] so far in this thread.....
» 27/12/2007 9:55:42 PM It is certainly high time families were discouraged from having more than two children. In.....
» 27/12/2007 7:32:30 AM Derek@Booroobin, your explanation would benefit from examples of anti-human rights legisla.....
» 26/12/2007 10:35:49 AM Ah, yes indeed, Doc holiday.... very wise words... if only! Derek@Booroobin, you too make .....
» 25/12/2007 6:22:10 AM Yes Demos... sounds great... just as communism sounds great - until you start to practice .....
» 24/12/2007 9:34:23 PM Surely, thecat, it depends entirely on what you know and don't know, and don't know you do.....
» 24/12/2007 9:21:00 PM Yes indeed. We do need our rights enshrined in law. And as the writer states: This recogni.....
» 17/12/2007 4:43:42 PM Johnny Rotten asks why nothing is being done about overpopulation -- the answer, as always.....
» 17/12/2007 4:09:58 PM I agree with the others... thanks. Excellent article and tips that I will take on board......
» 11/12/2007 10:12:52 AM What are you all saying? That we should go on as we have been since the industrial revolut.....
» 10/12/2007 3:48:09 PM This is an interesting idea... does it work in reverse? If a government decides a group is.....
» 10/12/2007 12:25:55 PM I can't help wondering if skeptics aren't missing the point. look at all recent photograph.....
» 8/12/2007 8:37:38 AM An excellent article, Brian - as usual. But the euphoria only lasted until I remembered th.....
» 3/12/2007 11:09:16 AM Yes, FrankGol.... that's a universal rule of nature -- at least I'm sure it would be would.....
» 3/12/2007 9:57:52 AM I dont know anything about sporting activities, but I agree with the first posted list... .....
» 20/11/2007 6:14:39 PM Yabby's right... the best aid is boatloads of condoms and info about the desirability of s.....
» 19/11/2007 8:42:23 PM I think Rache is correct. Australia is going to be one of the worst affected countries and.....
» 14/11/2007 5:29:46 PM Billie and others... you have good ideas.... so does just about everyone who thinks and ca.....
» 14/11/2007 11:06:03 AM Inchoerrant... [with the emphasis on errant, I imagine?] You're touting for nihilism, a ne.....
» 13/11/2007 4:04:27 PM Hey Demos! well put. There are many undemocratic things about our system of government; t.....
» 12/11/2007 9:49:55 AM The problem with multiculturalism is that cultures are, for the most part, grounded in rel.....
» 12/11/2007 9:32:11 AM An excellent essay, stating the case succinctly while repeating the hundreds of warnings o.....
» 5/11/2007 10:53:48 AM An excellent article, Michael... thanks. I was having difficulty sleeping anyway. So... th.....
» 19/09/2007 5:09:13 PM Is Mise, Learn Latin, you suggest – what a puerile put-down... most remote indigenous peop.....
» 18/09/2007 12:52:47 PM I agree, BN, however, you misunderstand OLO... it isn't a discussion forum it's a place to.....
» 18/09/2007 12:38:30 PM Is Mise wrote: Indeginous [sic] reps in Parliament is a regressive step which would only d.....
» 17/09/2007 6:20:12 PM Australian tax on cigarettes aud$269.05 per kilo. Sounds like a lot of money those smoker.....
» 17/09/2007 12:10:36 PM Is Mise, you are a rabid racist but don't realise it. Not only do you appear to have no kn.....
» 17/09/2007 11:39:30 AM Goodness, so much emotion. It is a fact that obesity costs many billions of dollars in hea.....
» 12/09/2007 11:34:41 AM Well said/written, Kieran! But of course quite beyond those infected with the faith virus......
» 11/09/2007 10:29:32 AM RObert...<<I've heard athiesm described in terms of certainty that there is not and .....
» 10/09/2007 8:56:29 PM R0bert, presumably, you are also agnostic about the existence of fairies, goblins, the too.....
» 10/09/2007 8:44:41 PM The paternalism of successive white australian governments is and has been a crime against.....
» 10/09/2007 8:33:00 PM Compulsory preferences are undemocratic. In House of Reps. elections the way they are allo.....
» 4/09/2007 3:33:57 PM In a Constitution or Bill of Rights, every ‘right’ automatically creates a ‘duty’ or ‘resp.....
» 4/09/2007 12:27:10 PM Amber asks: - Could the very first question about athiesm [sic] be better put thus "d.....
» 3/09/2007 3:40:50 PM Paul L and geoffreykelley, What about nuclear waste? Yes, I realise it is small in quantit.....
» 3/09/2007 12:11:51 PM It's sweet of you R0bert, and Pericles to attempt to reason with irrationality. Unfortunat.....
» 3/09/2007 11:40:48 AM TREC is inspiring. It's reasonable to imagine an Australia-wide network of Solar and wind .....
» 3/09/2007 9:59:08 AM The interview was brief -- possibly edited, and the point he was attempting to make was th.....
» 2/09/2007 11:50:52 AM If unbelief in gods is a faith, then logically, unbelief in the tooth fairy is a faith. di.....
» 1/09/2007 11:49:17 AM Well put R0bert, I can attest to the harm done by religion in this regard, having known ma.....
» 1/09/2007 11:08:15 AM Waterboy, I do not advocate censorship, I merely ask what possible use a book of ancient S.....
» 30/08/2007 9:51:35 AM Mick V – how can the translation of a book full of lies and half truths, violence, genocid.....
» 28/08/2007 3:42:08 PM And you, Celivia, are 7. Is that for the seven who went to heaven?.....
» 28/08/2007 11:27:16 AM Sowat, what does ‘get a life’ mean? I’ve had a brilliant life – richer and happier by far .....
» 27/08/2007 11:18:58 AM I had hoped this sort of nonsense had gone the way of flat earth and a six thousand year-o.....
» 5/08/2007 4:27:56 PM This is an excellent and timely essay. It should be on the front page of every newspaper. .....
» 23/07/2007 2:38:21 PM Australia is not a democracy. We haven’t even the right not to vote. And the preferential .....
» 15/07/2007 4:29:51 PM Well written Yvonne: The Head teachers of all state schools are legally obliged to inform .....
» 13/07/2007 12:52:48 PM Ah…. We have another creationist in Mick V; someone else who can't imagine life without an.....
» 11/07/2007 4:38:12 PM Apis, it is not possible for a mind that believes in supernatural, omniscient, omnipresent.....
» 10/07/2007 5:43:00 PM For parents to be 'good'... surely they have to stay together? Yet statistics that appeare.....
» 9/07/2007 3:36:12 PM Right on C J Morgan! Realitycheck, The trouble with your idea is that reputable studies sh.....
» 9/07/2007 11:39:56 AM Peter, Lev, Hughie, Maricas…. What a great start to this discussion… The original article.....
» 27/06/2007 11:06:28 AM Like daysab, I too am bemused at the notion that solar power is not an inexhaustible sourc.....
» 26/06/2007 11:13:26 AM It is good to know there are South Australians with a social conscience. Aboriginal Austra.....
» 26/06/2007 10:44:39 AM What or who is a Christian? Anyone who assumes the appellation. The word ‘Christian’ no lo.....
» 25/06/2007 10:59:44 AM GRLCowan, the site you recommended, refers to the use of very low level radiation for heal.....
» 22/06/2007 11:21:28 AM Troublemaker, The sun is an inexhaustible source of energy. nuclear fuel is not.You are de.....
» 19/06/2007 12:38:30 PM Michael k's comments were about as comprehensible as all the other posts supporting the di.....
» 18/06/2007 3:34:57 PM It is depressing indeed to read arguments in favour of outdated and lethal ‘solutions’ to .....
» 18/06/2007 12:04:14 PM You know perfectly well, Saintfletcher that Australia is still as Patrick White described .....
» 16/04/2007 8:05:24 AM Nice one Kieran... however, there should be a box called "I don't like any of the ca.....
» 15/04/2007 12:14:06 PM Ludwig, I wish I shared your sanguine certainties that Australia will be able to deal with.....
» 14/04/2007 4:59:19 PM This is an extraordinary column. only one person, in my quick scan of all posts, approache.....
» 14/04/2007 4:19:59 PM An excellent and damning piece, Pericles. Very much to the point. In 10 or 15 years when a.....
» 11/04/2007 5:34:40 PM Bravo, Bronwyn! That's my experience too......
» 8/04/2007 11:44:44 AM saintfletcher, you are becoming increasing nasty and vituperative... go see a shrink. Shor.....
» 6/04/2007 11:02:29 AM Nice one, Shorbe. Is there any way I can get off the Voting Register now I'm on it -- apar.....
» 6/04/2007 10:49:46 AM It is fallacious to equate "Green" philosophies with Religious dogma. The politi.....
» 5/04/2007 1:25:03 PM Shorbe, religion and democracy are two sides of the coin of power, because the aim of both.....
» 4/04/2007 6:09:16 PM Bang on! Banjo. Australia is not a democracy. Proportional representation is the only way.....
» 4/04/2007 5:52:17 PM It is demonstrable that the greater the religiosity of a society, the less democratic that.....
» 29/03/2007 5:03:03 PM Very good questions in both previous posts. Here's another. Why are there no howls of cont.....
» 26/03/2007 12:52:55 PM An excellen, timely and important review. Thank you. It is depressing indeed, to read post.....
» 19/03/2007 5:12:00 PM spendocrat, all religions contain the seeds of fundamentalism, because they require unques.....
» 18/03/2007 12:13:05 PM Snappy Tom.. thanks for that, very well put. As for Australian standards, I guess they can.....
» 16/03/2007 10:36:59 AM Celivia, I know that most Australian schools from infants to university are hotbeds of hom.....
» 15/03/2007 5:14:57 PM I think it is OK to 'accuse' someone of holding religious beliefs. I accuse every person w.....
» 14/03/2007 5:13:25 PM TRTL, I should have said it is time to subject the claims of religion to scrutiny in all p.....
» 14/03/2007 11:57:37 AM All this article does is reinforce the historical fact that religion is one of the primary.....
» 10/03/2007 11:25:25 AM jpw2040, You are obviously a concerned and thoughtful person, and I understand your disapp.....
» 9/03/2007 7:50:45 AM Is Mise Absolutely correct! Gays have shot themselves in the foot by demanding marriage. .....
» 8/03/2007 10:27:51 AM The problem is not merely economic. If I were to marry today, fall sick and die tomorrow, .....
» 6/03/2007 5:46:56 PM I don’t know Noddy and Big-Ears, or Bill and Ben the Flower Pot Men. I also don’t underst.....
» 5/03/2007 5:12:55 PM You write: It has nothing to do with being gay... This has everything to do with mannerism.....
» 5/03/2007 2:40:42 PM In the Grammar School in which I taught for years, the most popular and most dedicated tea.....
» 4/03/2007 4:51:10 PM Rex suggests we check out what happens in countries which use a successful "opt out&q.....
» 27/02/2007 7:25:01 AM Celivia writes: I’m not sure that Rex likes these subtopics being discussed on his thread......
» 26/02/2007 1:25:51 PM Yes, Celivia... it should......
» 26/02/2007 12:37:26 PM TRTL All I’ve done is point out that human activity has consequences, and it is dangerous .....
» 24/02/2007 12:20:06 PM T R T L, Your selective misrepresentation of my post and refusal to address the point I ma.....
» 22/02/2007 10:02:41 PM Rex… people should opt in. No one has the right to assume agreement. I’m surprised at the.....
» 20/02/2007 12:28:53 PM I'm a similar age... What does the expression "outside the wire" mean?.....
» 20/02/2007 11:38:10 AM It’s depressing that everyone thinks it’s a good idea to keep people alive by transplantin.....
» 19/02/2007 11:16:16 AM It is distressing to read posts such as Faustino's that assume doing nothing will maintain.....
» 16/02/2007 11:20:23 AM Boaz.... please don't agree with me. it gives me a sense of failure. Turn right then left .....
» 15/02/2007 6:27:44 PM Turnrightthenleft and then do a back flip.... I wonder how much contact you have with the.....
» 13/02/2007 6:56:13 PM You're correct, Ludwig -- which is why I stipulated 'far from centres of population.' Than.....
» 13/02/2007 12:54:38 PM Bravo, Bravo, West & RhysProbert. May the force be with you......
» 12/02/2007 3:27:20 PM I keep wondering whch, of the twenty thousand or so gods humans have worshipped over the l.....
» 11/02/2007 11:29:38 AM Historically, humans have always only responded to catastrophe – and always too late. The .....
» 6/02/2007 11:25:49 AM Ludwig... I am wordless with admiration - seriously. What beats me is how you sustain your.....
» 5/02/2007 6:15:56 PM You ask what Ludwig is doing apart from blogging. What can anyone do? I refused the pleadi.....
» 5/02/2007 11:43:13 AM Proverbs, All your 'quotes' are hearsay, written from one to two hundred years after the p.....
» 5/02/2007 11:38:00 AM Well said, Bushbred. A 'free' market is an ideal, like democracy. Democracy lasts until th.....
» 4/02/2007 12:15:09 PM Look at the state of the world, Proverbs... overpopulation, global warming, and the destru.....
» 3/02/2007 10:05:12 AM To understand humans, it is necessary to look at animals in similar circumstances – the mo.....
» 3/02/2007 9:46:18 AM Oh, come on, Proverbs... If I insisted there was a little old invisible woman living under.....
» 2/02/2007 10:01:54 AM Bennie, what you write is correct. Humans have invented more than 20,000 different religio.....
» 31/01/2007 6:52:40 AM You are a wise person, W, and I have taken heed of your advice regarding religious nutters.....
» 30/01/2007 6:48:36 PM Celivia, and anyone else worried about the increasing religiosity of Australian politics, .....
» 30/01/2007 6:39:46 PM Celivier; Australia will never follow enlightened countries such as those of Europe, New Z.....
» 28/01/2007 9:46:11 AM Coach, surely you know that Judaism was the source of both Christianity and Islam? That al.....
» 26/01/2007 5:34:59 PM Yuyutsu, what you describe is philosophy. All religions contain some philosophical element.....
» 26/01/2007 11:47:39 AM Fellow_Human, That is all very well... you may not support his political ambitions, but do.....
» 26/01/2007 7:17:49 AM Good one Strayan. Yuyutsu, Religion is a ‘faith’. Faith is believing something even if the.....
» 26/01/2007 6:43:19 AM Philo, You are either stupid or deliberately offensive -- my guess is both. You are oppose.....
» 25/01/2007 11:30:54 AM Yuyutsu, I did not claim that religions kill, I pointed out that religions are responsible.....
» 25/01/2007 11:24:52 AM RObert, France has been pretty successful in stopping faith interfering in politics. They .....
» 24/01/2007 5:01:58 PM So, everyone in this forum accepts without question that faith and politics have the right.....
» 24/01/2007 4:40:53 PM Multiculturalism is a very bad idea, because all cultures are based primarily on religious.....
» 24/01/2007 4:10:38 PM The bad, sad part of this is that of all the so-called Western Democracies, only the Austr.....
» 23/01/2007 12:05:16 PM Celivia, you write [As a female, I desire to resist this information.] And so you should......
» 20/01/2007 6:50:34 AM There are two topics that always bring out the same bunch of bigoted fools – homosexuality.....
» 4/01/2007 4:46:34 PM It has been both interesting and depressing to read the intemperate replies berating Bob E.....
» 3/01/2007 6:13:14 AM Thank you, Freethinker. Our tax-funded politicians and their rabid supporters should conte.....
» 2/01/2007 10:51:53 AM The following edited excerpt from Bob Ellis' essay in SMH asks why our leaders' criminal b.....
» 25/12/2006 7:16:37 AM Leigh, Education should be universal and free. What’s important is the curriculum, and cri.....
» 23/12/2006 12:53:11 PM Leigh; It is widely accepted that even university graduates now have a poor command of Eng.....
» 22/12/2006 11:22:05 AM The problem is, unfortunately, Australia is a country of poorly educated, poorly informed .....
» 20/12/2006 6:14:05 PM The international economic system is based on constant growth in production – and that req.....
» 14/12/2006 6:29:54 AM West... I love you I hope you belong to the Atheist foundation of Australia? Such intellig.....
» 11/12/2006 5:29:53 PM So true, West. So sadly true. As for equality.... who are the only people demanding homose.....
» 8/12/2006 10:51:00 AM I meant to ask, Philo, which of the 20,000 or so gods that humans have worshipped over the.....
» 7/12/2006 6:17:49 AM Yeah, right on Philo, thousands dead in Afghanistan and Iraq, David hicks locked up withou.....
» 5/12/2006 6:10:36 PM Really, Philo, atheism is neither a philosophy nor a religion, it is merely an intellectua.....
» 4/12/2006 11:30:17 AM An excellent article, timely and correct. Australia's indigenous people have demonstrated .....
» 4/12/2006 10:47:18 AM Whatever Boaz's reasons.... and I am a suspicious soul, this is an excellent idea. If I li.....
» 27/11/2006 3:35:48 PM Ho Hum, Israel's constitution is designed to produce a monocultural state. The reason reli.....
» 20/11/2006 10:37:42 AM Handofgod, I imagine you are starting a new religion so you can take advantage of the gene.....
» 12/11/2006 12:05:34 PM An elegant summary, however I wonder if Australia should engage with Russia? I think not, .....
» 11/11/2006 11:15:33 AM GZTan, One doesn’t prove, or test things by first making assumptions that will guarantee t.....
» 10/11/2006 10:13:54 AM This is a logical extension of the aggregation of all media ownership into the hands of a .....
» 8/11/2006 4:55:58 PM As someone suggested... tell the PM where to shove his support for religion.. do it now. h.....
» 7/11/2006 11:51:34 AM Pastor Len, Your faith is far too rational for me. I prefer something far more pie in the .....
» 6/11/2006 12:39:47 PM It's all about votes. Christians have been taught to believe and have faith, not to reason.....
» 5/11/2006 4:42:01 PM Subedootwo, Religion, especially Roman Catholicism and the fundamentalists are the major c.....
» 4/11/2006 10:51:51 AM Well written, Alan Matheson! Australia is becoming a theocracy, and that means persecution.....
» 3/11/2006 12:22:22 PM I wouldn't mind voting if we had a democracy, but we don't. In a democracy, if twenty perc.....
» 3/11/2006 12:08:48 PM Logic... A "culture" is a set of behaviour patterns that force conformity on ind.....
» 2/11/2006 6:26:47 PM Fellow Human, I cannot agree with your assessment of fellow poster, Logic... the alternat.....
» 2/11/2006 4:31:43 PM Children are human. They have the same urges to be useful, think, create, solve problems, .....
» 2/11/2006 9:01:22 AM Arjay, do you lack all sensibility? there are fine people living on Groote Island, it is n.....
» 1/11/2006 11:51:32 AM There is, of course, an alternative to all this religious warmongering, persecution and di.....
» 1/11/2006 11:16:03 AM Too late, she cried and waved her wooden leg... The writing was on the wall back in the 19.....
» 30/10/2006 5:02:32 PM As official lick-spittle to the U.S.A., it is Australia’s duty to bring religion to the fo.....
» 30/10/2006 11:12:19 AM It is extremely depressing to see the return of religion as a political force. Unsurprisin.....
» 26/10/2006 12:37:05 PM Absolutely correct, Ludwig. Humans only respond to crises. Until then we will continue as .....
» 26/09/2006 10:59:24 AM No one is suggesting that individual christians are evil or bad. What religious adherents .....
» 21/09/2006 3:30:04 PM Watch it, AJD... the christians will issue a fatwah on you. But i love you and hope to vie.....
» 19/09/2006 11:11:47 AM Tell me, mjpb... who hears the confessions of convent girls?.....
» 18/09/2006 11:43:22 AM Leigh, You are not reading well. The use of the word 'Stolen' in this context was made per.....
» 17/09/2006 5:55:27 PM Dont be so stupid, Boaz. The true statement; all paedophiles are christian, does not in an.....
» 15/09/2006 2:49:00 PM A behavoural scientist on SBS's Insight.. made the assertion that there is a gene for beli.....
» 14/09/2006 5:53:17 PM Hear, Hear, Alchemist and AJD. MJPB, you have a genetic deficiency -- it's been proven. Th.....
» 11/09/2006 5:21:20 PM Oh dear, mjpb, you are clutching at straws. why is equality for same-sex-oriented people n.....
» 9/09/2006 12:20:30 PM It is unfortunate that Christians have hijacked morality, in the same way as they’ve hijac.....
» 8/09/2006 5:44:28 PM Rhys is correct in demanding an end to our representatives offering up supplications to a .....
» 8/09/2006 12:35:03 PM Unfortunately, mjpb, a study reported in a recent issue of the Journal of Religion and Soc.....
» 8/09/2006 12:12:59 PM What is your point? Is it that gods are like darkness and cold... they cannot be studied b.....
» 6/09/2006 4:00:14 PM Childhood indoctrination, during which children are taught to switch off rational thinking.....
» 6/09/2006 11:22:42 AM If I told you there was a little man sitting under Sydney Harbour bridge who was invisible.....
» 6/09/2006 10:34:30 AM Published on Saturday, October 1, 2005 by the Los Angeles Times The Dark Side of Faith .....
» 5/09/2006 11:53:48 AM it is unhelpful to start with the assumption that it is necessary to have spiritual teachi.....
» 4/09/2006 4:51:41 PM It is not possible to have a democracy if you have political parties, and a government tha.....
» 4/09/2006 4:31:50 PM A good essay. It is essential to remember that the desire for legal recognition of same-s.....
» 4/09/2006 4:19:11 PM Does anyone remember plane and train hijacking? IRA atrocities? Why weren’t they “Terroris.....
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