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» 22/02/2011 6:20:20 PM runner, Having had Freemasons in the family and in our acquaintance, I am certain that th.....
» 22/02/2011 5:23:01 PM Formersnag & runner, David J Smith? http://newswatchmagazine.org/ Ye Gods, you honestly.....
» 22/02/2011 9:43:13 AM Yul Brynner quote, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNjunlWUJJI I would hate to see any of .....
» 21/02/2011 2:37:25 PM Taurus, "Yesterday (Sunday 20 February 2011), World Day of Social Justice went by wit.....
» 21/02/2011 2:12:16 PM Bans would be highly profitable for organised crime who could turn out lines of weed+tobac.....
» 21/02/2011 11:53:04 AM I don't smoke and I am opposed to a ban. Government is already far too involved in the pri.....
» 20/02/2011 4:35:14 PM Atheist Foundation of Australia, "You are swaying off the topic of a system of Legal .....
» 20/02/2011 11:18:52 AM Because some see euthanasia as an economic solution, while providing death with 'dignity' .....
» 20/02/2011 9:47:18 AM contd., There is no debate that seniors might eventually become victims of economic ratio.....
» 20/02/2011 9:38:29 AM From the link given by runner above, <Carlos Gomez, MD, Ph.D., wrote in his book, Regu.....
» 19/02/2011 11:48:03 AM Cherful, "I noted that there have been at least four different rape cases reported in.....
» 18/02/2011 1:58:59 PM <Sensible debate about the Disability Support Pension (DSP) can get lost in sensational.....
» 17/02/2011 8:26:46 AM <Unfortunately governments must make decisions about allocating finite resources; that’.....
» 17/02/2011 12:27:17 AM madcowness, "Called an accounting system." Recording runs under what accounting.....
» 16/02/2011 9:43:36 PM A newbie with 20 inflammatory, nonsensical posts up in six hours. Sock puppet or troll, wh.....
» 16/02/2011 10:59:09 AM diver dan, There are thousands of migrants who came from the most wretched of circumstanc.....
» 15/02/2011 10:06:50 PM The first sentence of my last para above should be, "The reason government backed o.....
» 15/02/2011 10:03:19 PM diver dan, Maybe you are overcooking the 'pompous and racist Australians' bit too. Just t.....
» 15/02/2011 12:01:06 PM briar rose, "Your inference that my blog doesn't permit opinions other than those I a.....
» 15/02/2011 11:35:29 AM The attacks on moderation happen on all sites but an open site like OLO could expect to ha.....
» 15/02/2011 11:02:29 AM briar rose and MikeyBear While accepting that OLO is the reluctant target of your remarks.....
» 14/02/2011 8:56:50 AM Shintaro, Maybe you protest too much while continuing to argue the toss on the open foru.....
» 14/02/2011 8:38:10 AM Her appearances on Q&A have been cringe-worthy and I have a lot of sympathy for the long-s.....
» 14/02/2011 2:12:11 AM My only concern with charities and this is not to imply anything negative about the one Mr.....
» 14/02/2011 1:54:11 AM It is right of Shadow Minister to direct his bolts at perceived oversights and problems in.....
» 14/02/2011 1:26:20 AM What is the point of this poster giving out his email addresses to others and opening up t.....
» 13/02/2011 9:45:58 AM Whoops, I meant this one, but he is a funny fellow so no harm done. So again in good natur.....
» 13/02/2011 9:33:26 AM Poirot, I don't agree that this thread has "jumped a divide" to be about modera.....
» 12/02/2011 9:49:04 AM J Parker, From the page you linked to on the LP site, "LP intends to make no furth.....
» 12/02/2011 8:23:15 AM I'd swap our high maintenance G-G + Joolia for QEII any day and throw in their handbag car.....
» 11/02/2011 10:01:45 AM Michael O'Neill said that the system has been taken over by regulators, contract packages .....
» 10/02/2011 6:21:49 PM Kipp, It is off-thread, enough is enough......
» 10/02/2011 6:16:55 PM Shintaro, The discussion has dealt with and progressed well past that earlier diversion. .....
» 10/02/2011 6:05:55 PM Shintaro, Crude attempt at a hijack. As if you hadn't read Poirot's comment above yours. .....
» 10/02/2011 7:20:04 AM pelican, Thank you. The Greens' policy is recent and the party is to be commended for tak.....
» 9/02/2011 6:32:31 PM Lexi, "Anything that appears even remotely controversial, I suspect will be avoided -.....
» 9/02/2011 12:09:14 AM The Soylent Green solution. Don't let them get near those nursing homes, eh Shintaro?.....
» 8/02/2011 11:29:57 PM "The key question here is whether anyone should try to choke off the funding of a web.....
» 8/02/2011 10:49:14 PM skeptic, "I disagree with those that are reticent to admit that euthanasia is reducin.....
» 7/02/2011 11:24:19 PM Donation made, too easy......
» 7/02/2011 10:42:38 PM Heh, heh, since when did a ninja value freedom of speech (or Online Opinion). Put the dis.....
» 7/02/2011 12:26:20 PM pelican, Thanks for the additional comments. Subjective judgement will always be neede.....
» 7/02/2011 1:12:23 AM Lexi, "And women as sex objects - in the 'Antz Pantz Sic Em Rex,' ad." Sex obje.....
» 7/02/2011 12:54:13 AM suzeonline, I am interested in what Pelican thought, yes. My impression was that your ke.....
» 6/02/2011 8:15:15 PM It must be good to always have someone else to blame for the poor choices one makes in lif.....
» 6/02/2011 7:17:58 PM Traditionally, a corporate policy of independence was demonstrated simply by public assura.....
» 6/02/2011 12:42:45 PM RObert, Many moons ago the federal government collected 7.5% from all workers under the P.....
» 6/02/2011 10:59:40 AM Tony Abbott visited along with 'what's his name' the Qld State opposition leader. It is un.....
» 6/02/2011 10:49:10 AM Shintaro, "I raised the topic because It's about this site" So what is your opi.....
» 5/02/2011 9:02:38 PM Shintaro, "Discuss" What is preventing you from putting forward your opinion an.....
» 5/02/2011 8:44:47 PM Maybe you are imagining that government should have a piggy bank full of money for possibl.....
» 5/02/2011 1:46:26 PM I am tolerant of any man's beliefs that will allow him to go forth in peace to his death. .....
» 4/02/2011 9:13:52 PM In all but large projects why shouldn't government be its own insurer? You see the nonsens.....
» 2/02/2011 9:54:41 PM Yabby, "I mentioned it to the administrative staff, and they responded with "Pat.....
» 31/01/2011 12:51:31 AM suzeonline, "Gee, I think I am being emotional again" I will agree if you add c.....
» 30/01/2011 7:03:50 PM Yabby, "I am surprisingly good at understanding the statistics which matter." N.....
» 30/01/2011 2:47:37 PM Yabby, Statistics is not your long suit, unlike your bluster......
» 30/01/2011 2:06:57 PM J Parker, "..should I rethink?" You should think beyond the tool, or being one,.....
» 30/01/2011 4:09:44 AM Yabby, "the evidence has been presented, of the drop in mass shootings in Australia.&.....
» 30/01/2011 12:27:13 AM Yabby, Yet you still cannot provide evidence of any reduction in gun associated crime fro.....
» 29/01/2011 5:03:31 PM The federal government should go into debt to re-build infrastructure destroyed by the flo.....
» 29/01/2011 4:53:12 PM There is no correlation whatsoever between the legal ownership of firearms and gun associa.....
» 29/01/2011 4:14:03 PM Belly, "Cornyflower (sic) my spell check did that will not bother you again." Y.....
» 29/01/2011 3:28:04 PM Option 1 should be to ensure that the environment can easily sustain the population by put.....
» 28/01/2011 4:14:39 PM It is one word, 'Cornflower', too easy for most. What I wrote is relevant to flood insura.....
» 28/01/2011 1:54:38 PM There are properties for example in Rockhampton which have alwys been known to be within f.....
» 27/01/2011 8:40:26 PM Even the catastrophe of the floods cannot encourage the intellectual gnomes who represent .....
» 27/01/2011 11:05:48 AM For many the problem seems to be the clauses that give the appearance of offering coverage.....
» 26/01/2011 5:49:29 PM The Blue Cross, You are right in that governments have been severe on individual users - .....
» 26/01/2011 4:11:10 PM Australian farms are highly mechanised for efficiency. There is no work there apart from t.....
» 25/01/2011 10:19:52 PM Heh, heh, the utter gall and hypocrisy of the Greens to be falsely blaming and scaremonger.....
» 25/01/2011 2:05:30 PM The dog in the manger responses do not represent the majority of the electorate who would .....
» 25/01/2011 1:10:02 PM The New South Wales Greens misrepresent that legal gun ownership relates to firearm abuse,.....
» 25/01/2011 7:19:31 AM Link for Don Weatherburn's article, Half as many murders, and nobody knows why Don Weathe.....
» 25/01/2011 7:14:38 AM Howard's gun buy-back and gun laws had no effect on gun crime. It was a complete waste of .....
» 24/01/2011 3:34:49 PM That was a public opinion poll. More politics in lieu of proper research into the social p.....
» 21/01/2011 1:17:04 AM Yabby, There have been multiple shootings and involving illegal guns since Howard. Exampl.....
» 20/01/2011 8:42:54 PM contd., What is known is that we know little about what motivates multiple killers and fo.....
» 20/01/2011 8:29:47 PM There is nothing to be gained from the broken record, 'We have had no mass killings since .....
» 20/01/2011 12:51:37 PM suzeonline, "I imagine there is already plenty of evidence and research from the poli.....
» 20/01/2011 12:45:00 AM Yabby, "In the 10 years leading up to Port Arthur, 112 people were killed in Australi.....
» 19/01/2011 2:06:07 PM Yabby, Entry level gun safes were never as dear as $400, but like your claim that a gun s.....
» 19/01/2011 12:35:15 AM Yabby, "there were a whole lot of people who decided that they wern't going to invest.....
» 18/01/2011 6:59:43 PM Yabby, Heh, heh, you only claim knowledge of the gun laws. Referring back to one of the .....
» 18/01/2011 4:06:16 PM Hmmm, severe storm warning for Brisbane and SEQld this afternoon. Must be some of that t.....
» 18/01/2011 1:50:57 PM V, "..most of us have no idea what is going on in Tunisia or the Ivory Coast and we c.....
» 17/01/2011 11:22:20 PM Whoops, second para, second sentence that should be "The State Premiers Howard forced.....
» 17/01/2011 11:14:34 PM You have a point there Brian, hair shirts and floggings have been ordered for all Queensla.....
» 17/01/2011 10:47:50 PM Yabby, You cast about as wildly and as unsuccessfully as anyone might for differences to .....
» 17/01/2011 6:08:46 PM Yabby, Your offence is not accepted, rather it is you would be 'spitting the dummy' as yo.....
» 17/01/2011 3:20:37 PM Yabby Horses' apples, that is not scientific 'proof' of anything, which is why policy mus.....
» 17/01/2011 2:33:41 PM ozbib, "In any case, thair 'rhetoric' is grossly irresponsible. So is making politic.....
» 17/01/2011 2:23:00 PM Lexi. Your personal attack on me as someone who will not be persuaded is most unfair and .....
» 17/01/2011 2:13:08 AM What I am proposing is simple enough, that the government needs to set a goal of reducing .....
» 17/01/2011 1:43:23 AM suzeonline, OK, you're on, which of those 'mass killings' would John Howard's gun laws ha.....
» 16/01/2011 9:18:14 PM Yabby, According to Australian Institute of Criminology, 6 in 10,000 guns used in crimes .....
» 16/01/2011 7:17:15 PM Lexi, Dr Chapman is a anti-gun advocate whose zeal surpasses his objectivity. Don Weather.....
» 16/01/2011 1:29:03 PM The Greens in Australia have recently said they will target seats in elections, what about.....
» 16/01/2011 1:09:24 PM The stories of being threatened are interesting because available law from God knows back .....
» 15/01/2011 11:46:11 PM Yabby, The research quoted was peer reviewed, then and since and confirmed. Lexi, As us.....
» 15/01/2011 4:04:11 PM Yabby, No, not a wild claim at all, supported by research, http://www.time.com/time/worl.....
» 15/01/2011 1:13:30 PM It is simply not true that if there are fewer guns around the criminals will not get them:.....
» 14/01/2011 10:58:33 PM Yabby, This thread was directed at policy in Australia, using the 'lost cause' of the US .....
» 14/01/2011 3:29:15 PM Yabby, No, you have not provided a measure for the effectiveness of gun control policies .....
» 14/01/2011 1:30:31 PM Poirot, "Mexico's high rate of gun trauma is not linked to domestic gun ownership - w.....
» 14/01/2011 12:52:57 AM Arizona shares a border with Mexico, where the private ownership of firearms is banned. Ho.....
» 13/01/2011 9:58:11 PM Regardless what pranks men and women sports people might get up to in private they are ent.....
» 13/01/2011 9:37:09 PM briar rose, "This is such an important article, once again those who are doing it tou.....
» 11/01/2011 8:39:14 PM individual,"..the coalition wasn't against a dam, it was against a dam in that partic.....
» 11/01/2011 8:26:14 PM The recent murder/suicide of a mother and her infants at Heidelberg in Victoria underlines.....
» 11/01/2011 6:59:07 PM How soon we forget the LNP's mean point scoring politics in scuttling the Traverston Dam o.....
» 10/01/2011 5:26:31 PM Belly, A more likely cause is a psychotic episode from drug use. However there are no n.....
» 10/01/2011 3:22:55 PM Poirot, That is speculative gossip. BTW, from what you have said here you are not short .....
» 10/01/2011 2:10:09 PM Poirot, Oops, I nearly forgot, here is an Australian Greens politician declaring outright.....
» 10/01/2011 1:47:22 PM Poirot, You have got to be kidding, even the Huffington Post ran out of puff trying to ma.....
» 10/01/2011 1:06:20 PM It is a bit low to try to sensationalise and make political capital out of this tragedy, .....
» 9/01/2011 9:14:38 PM Shintaro, Heh, heh, are you still hanging from the horse's tail desperate to get noticed?.....
» 9/01/2011 8:20:53 PM Go to the online 'shops' of the entrepreneurs like Gerry Harvey who are complaining and yo.....
» 9/01/2011 5:05:53 PM Being consumed by self-interest the entrepreneurs are unconcerned if the cost of administe.....
» 9/01/2011 4:30:24 PM Banjo, Agreed. It comes as no surprise that the naive and emotional appeals of the 'anim.....
» 9/01/2011 5:15:28 AM Actually, horse meat sounds like quite good nosh, so it is a pity to use it as pet food, .....
» 9/01/2011 4:59:50 AM BrettH, "As we know brumbies are not destructive in the ways of damaging assets..&quo.....
» 8/01/2011 3:33:42 PM Belly, You don't have to transport pigs to different areas, they spread widely after bein.....
» 8/01/2011 1:00:58 AM csteele, You mentioned the Taliban's 'Code of Conduct' not I and since you appeared to be.....
» 7/01/2011 6:26:58 PM Belly, Coming from the land I lean your way. However conservation hunting will keep the n.....
» 7/01/2011 3:05:00 PM For interest, what does the Taliban's 'code of conduct' say about stonings? http://www.ny.....
» 7/01/2011 2:58:13 PM It is a very great pity that the federal and state governments underrate the economic valu.....
» 6/01/2011 9:21:14 PM thinker 2, "But, it is only the Japanese, (whom have remained anti nuclear weapon sin.....
» 6/01/2011 9:02:07 PM Brett, So precisely what is your point? Would you prefer to see control through the poiso.....
» 6/01/2011 2:15:23 AM thinker 2, "P.S. wouldn't one atomic detonation have been sufficient deterrence for t.....
» 4/01/2011 2:35:02 PM Poirot, Your comment is irrelevant. My challenge to thinker 2 was to prove it was an exce.....
» 4/01/2011 12:19:05 PM thinker 2, "It is hard however you look at it, to match the record of the U.S. for mi.....
» 4/01/2011 11:54:09 AM Two things, first, there is no evidence whatsoever that either of the complainants - they .....
» 1/01/2011 3:57:51 PM Jetski? Alright for gays and lifesavers I suppose. Here is a better toy and it surfs Bars.....
» 31/12/2010 2:45:20 PM I suspect the causes are simpler, for instance that expectations are set in primary and se.....
» 30/12/2010 7:20:46 PM Joe, "So I wish those remote communities good luck with their cattle raising, but I'l.....
» 30/12/2010 1:59:32 PM Joe, With respect I reckon your criticism of the TAFE system skirted around the question .....
» 28/12/2010 4:13:34 PM Liz45, "If I was a woman whose relatives had been killed or maimed in eitther Afghani.....
» 28/12/2010 3:51:25 PM We (family) would like it to go beyond just financial reporting as 'accountability' and se.....
» 28/12/2010 1:11:29 PM The anti-Christian bile is unnecessary, people draw whatever meaning, togetherness, sense .....
» 24/12/2010 1:45:55 PM dozer, Thanks you for your explanation. It is a subject that is often mentioned on OLO, b.....
» 23/12/2010 9:35:52 PM dozer, What advice would you give to other men who are presently in the situation you fou.....
» 23/12/2010 12:15:14 PM "A few months back I saw the electricity company little LandRover 4WD pull up nose in.....
» 23/12/2010 11:36:32 AM csteele, "I find it perfectly conceivable that after learning about the alleged ".....
» 22/12/2010 2:52:03 PM Liz45, Sorry, the typo 'Miz' was accidental......
» 22/12/2010 2:48:13 PM Miz45, You are pulling your 'facts' out of the air. See here, "In a cohort of ".....
» 22/12/2010 12:56:03 PM csteele, "That women still require protection under the law is undeniable." Non.....
» 21/12/2010 11:28:55 AM The limitations of studying and dealing with violence through gender become very obvious w.....
» 20/12/2010 12:09:33 PM Street Pilot has a problem with the apostrophe and for some that is probably the closest t.....
» 20/12/2010 11:49:47 AM suzeonline, "I would be happy to see everyone celebrating Christmas joyously, no matt.....
» 19/12/2010 2:45:52 PM We love the Sunshine Coast and here is the Carols by Candlelight fare for 2010, http://www.....
» 18/12/2010 5:02:48 PM talisman, You sly dog, I was giving you full credit for a rather clever shy at Aunt Sally.....
» 18/12/2010 4:24:08 PM Maybe the radical feminists need the burqa to show they are at war with white men. Or is .....
» 18/12/2010 12:02:45 PM talisman, "If you don't want to be exposed to excesses of Christian 'happy clapping',.....
» 17/12/2010 11:45:41 AM McReal The evangelical churches are not representative of the very moderate vast majority.....
» 17/12/2010 11:24:50 AM Seamus, From the article, <I was outraged. “Bloody Christians!” I hissed, “They stick .....
» 17/12/2010 9:17:56 AM This is a case of never letting a chance go by to launch an attack on Christianity (as opp.....
» 16/12/2010 9:25:28 AM It is good to hear about university numbers however one wonders about the destination of g.....
» 14/12/2010 9:51:25 AM I also agree with Briar Rose's comment. However it is important to note that the control e.....
» 13/12/2010 10:39:54 PM Liz45 Malalai Joya has been quoted a number of times as saying that she wears the burqa b.....
» 13/12/2010 10:11:40 PM I don't know that violence and bullying are increasing. Perhaps it is all a matter of defi.....
» 10/12/2010 6:53:56 AM JamesH, "I think that if the politicans had just ignored him.." Like many senio.....
» 9/12/2010 4:20:43 PM JanF Thank you, agreed......
» 9/12/2010 3:56:24 PM JanF I don't believe that banning garb changes the wearer's attitudes or the offensive an.....
» 9/12/2010 11:13:38 AM Liz45, You were asked, "Do you believe as radical feminists and some of the socialis.....
» 9/12/2010 10:43:49 AM Eclipse Now, "Pffft. All the world's nuclear waste could be stacked in barrels 1 laye.....
» 8/12/2010 6:59:53 PM Squeers, "Hasn't the US and its allies been sporting their corrupt credentials for de.....
» 8/12/2010 7:59:22 AM Balawan It is why they so often make the slip and refer to 'freedom from information' ins.....
» 8/12/2010 7:48:28 AM Liz45, You avoided the question. Do you believe as radical feminists and some of the soci.....
» 7/12/2010 10:12:47 PM Poirot, "An open letter has been sent to Julia Gillard which has almost 200 prominent.....
» 7/12/2010 7:46:56 PM For liberation, women must demand the right to wear burqas, eh Liz45? Or at least that is .....
» 7/12/2010 7:29:50 PM Shadow Minister Thanks and we can afford to wait for the Gen4 reactors. I wasn't comment.....
» 7/12/2010 11:06:47 AM JanF, I'd go with the simple, obvious reason. Some wanted the bag to cover everything wi.....
» 7/12/2010 10:38:24 AM This from Australia's top law officer is truly disgusting, "WikiLeaks founder Julia.....
» 7/12/2010 9:59:38 AM Shadow Minister, I was not supporting Greens' policy. There are questions that must be pr.....
» 7/12/2010 8:16:55 AM 579, How is that even remotely relevant to whether the Australian government should be re.....
» 7/12/2010 8:11:39 AM It is even funnier to think that the Mufleh Mohammed of Saudi Arabia could ID his camels a.....
» 7/12/2010 7:46:14 AM 'Hero' is inappropriate. Anyhow, it is a term weakened by frequent and frivolous media ref.....
» 7/12/2010 7:21:35 AM Amicus, "it's not a bait and switch, what's the switch? you get power and you deal wi.....
» 7/12/2010 1:53:24 AM suzeonline, "Unfortunately, I really don't think we will see legal gay marriage allow.....
» 7/12/2010 1:44:37 AM What I dislike about the nuke power industry is how it is always sold on the promise of so.....
» 5/12/2010 10:20:24 PM Jewely, "who is here with you and who might be watching." How many of you are t.....
» 5/12/2010 11:10:04 AM Jewely, "And for the record, given the confusion of late in this thread, Lilith was n.....
» 5/12/2010 10:48:18 AM King Hazza, Seems to be a self-fulfilling prophesy at work in there. To apply Occam's ra.....
» 5/12/2010 5:55:58 AM Belly, You would draw the line at internet trolls surely. Here is the definition since so.....
» 4/12/2010 11:17:02 PM contd. The social experiment of creating a nation within a nation has already been tried.....
» 4/12/2010 11:16:01 PM Back in the days of Whitlam, indigenous activists and social scientists led the public and.....
» 3/12/2010 2:17:17 PM The UK's 'multicultural' bid has attracted criticism at home too. Here is the site with vi.....
» 3/12/2010 7:45:06 AM Ye Gods another gelded kangaroo and years after Gough directed public servants to never, e.....
» 3/12/2010 7:08:11 AM If the claimed levels of promiscuity of gays can be believed and such self-reporting must .....
» 2/12/2010 2:18:25 PM It is not only Muslim fundamentalists, there are societies where the women perpetuate and .....
» 2/12/2010 1:03:12 PM Liz45, "If young women in Australia are wearing the burqa(since 9/11 - I don't recall.....
» 1/12/2010 10:58:13 AM Today 1 December 2010 is World AIDS Day and although there is not much being said about HI.....
» 29/11/2010 11:52:28 PM The burqa is one of the most instantly recognised symbols of oppression in the world today.....
» 29/11/2010 8:27:25 PM Burka Blue: No Burka, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lK7CVNyBALo&feature=related.....
» 29/11/2010 10:07:44 AM Stroke would be another of the terrible outcomes of smoking. However I am wondering what .....
» 29/11/2010 9:40:46 AM contd from previous post.. Seniors would remember a time where almost anything was accept.....
» 29/11/2010 9:39:02 AM Talisman, You were sort of right but you should be referring to the State Act under which.....
» 29/11/2010 12:51:42 AM If this thread achieves anything at all it should be the recognition of the simple fact th.....
» 28/11/2010 3:26:00 PM pelican, "You think the Ad a little too graphic for a public billboard yet you disagr.....
» 28/11/2010 10:46:40 AM I should have added that I still do not find sufficient reason for the advertisement to be.....
» 28/11/2010 10:43:25 AM It is possible to be frank and forthright about the Calvin Klein advertisement, accepting .....
» 27/11/2010 8:46:14 PM Huggins, So you haven't found any women's CK jeans to fit, dear? Don't fret, ute owner.....
» 26/11/2010 11:41:23 PM Attracting and maybe even having sex with many admirers, especially strangers, is a common.....
» 25/11/2010 11:49:24 PM I don't believe that CK is trying to push the envelope and offend. These ads recognise the.....
» 25/11/2010 8:48:54 PM The Pied Piper, "Transsexuals again?" Nonetheless you raise a very good point t.....
» 25/11/2010 6:37:48 PM "donuts....smoking tyres on the driveway" 4wds?! Get away with you, can you swe.....
» 25/11/2010 5:00:41 PM To get in the spirit of things, here is a banned (UK) Levis jeans advertisement, http://w.....
» 25/11/2010 1:29:39 PM What concerns me is that the few, in this case a moral minority, can easily force censorsh.....
» 25/11/2010 2:18:10 AM No need to call the thought police and blame it on those awful men, women can distinguish .....
» 23/11/2010 6:47:11 PM Well dane, the competitiveness that women feel for one another extends to the produce of t.....
» 23/11/2010 2:06:57 PM It isn't the case that girls are restricted to pink either, there has always been a lot of.....
» 23/11/2010 1:45:56 PM The Pied Piper, "I want five Cyberia peeps back" Are we to understand that was .....
» 23/11/2010 12:36:41 PM The research method suggests it is a send-up. Next article will be devoted to power-dress.....
» 20/11/2010 7:09:52 PM The Pied Piper, Couldn't resist, could you?.....
» 20/11/2010 5:34:16 PM Back to the theme of the article. Chatting with some friends overseas, International Men'.....
» 19/11/2010 8:34:16 PM "Also DoCS reads this stuff and talk to me about it so I want a few things cleared up.....
» 19/11/2010 8:12:39 PM Here are the objectives of the Day and it is good to keep them in mind. "Objectives.....
» 16/11/2010 6:10:06 PM Lexi, "A current photograph, religion, marital status, sexual orientation, IQ, ethnic.....
» 16/11/2010 4:36:31 PM Comments and behaviour could be improved if members were required to provide and maintain .....
» 15/11/2010 8:57:35 PM To cut to the chase, I cannot recall a public criticism of a moderator decision that wasn'.....
» 15/11/2010 4:39:01 PM TPP, "I will miss the challenge though, reasoned and well thought out conversations o.....
» 15/11/2010 4:14:29 PM This is just another thread to criticise and undermine the moderation of the site. It is .....
» 8/11/2010 4:27:52 PM Poirot, The destruction of the extended family in Australia is recent and continuing. Unf.....
» 6/11/2010 12:14:24 PM searching, Unfortunately it is not as though few people have had experience with people s.....
» 4/11/2010 3:34:50 PM Having volunteered on school councils and the like over many years what I have heard about.....
» 3/11/2010 7:07:00 PM "Since the Government wants more Australians - including more students from disadvant.....
» 31/10/2010 12:05:23 PM Have you considered that the world switches off when feminism is mentioned and your messag.....
» 30/10/2010 12:54:48 PM under one God, "it failed to mention the true cause... members..boys-club..sitting on.....
» 30/10/2010 12:39:54 PM Another thread that has disappeared down the usual worn-out and predictable path up a dry .....
» 30/10/2010 12:32:23 PM Women who set out for a lengthy career can do very well out of affirmative action policies.....
» 25/10/2010 10:25:56 PM Lumberjacks can be like that, Philo. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zey8567bcg.....
» 23/10/2010 12:58:27 PM Then again, we can't blame mum and dad for everything, http://www.spiked-online.com/inde.....
» 22/10/2010 9:53:20 AM Those who practice wedge politics would be delighted to find that their work has been so s.....
» 20/10/2010 8:19:12 AM Who votes Green? The Chaser knows, http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/08/25/greensvoters/.....
» 18/10/2010 2:07:25 PM The wife of Special Air Service Regiment (SAS) Sergeant Andrew Russell, killed when his ve.....
» 16/10/2010 10:04:22 AM It keeps the Greens in the news when all is quiet on the whale front. Recently in the WA .....
» 16/10/2010 3:59:57 AM lalaamy, Get together some questions and ring or email the Australian Indigenous Communic.....
» 15/10/2010 9:19:23 AM "My grandma is nearing the end and she may want to go her own way. Will the governmen.....
» 13/10/2010 11:00:04 AM Pericles, "But haven't you already told us that there are such research?" From .....
» 13/10/2010 10:47:48 AM Pericles, "Demonization is, I suspect, largely in the eye of the beholder." Som.....
» 13/10/2010 10:27:45 AM pelican, It is all in the too hard basket of government and health is presently in disarr.....
» 13/10/2010 7:38:02 AM Fair enough, but here is more evidence today if anyone ever doubted that economics is driv.....
» 12/10/2010 8:07:54 PM david f, "Why was the item printed?" No plot, just a tabloid filling its column.....
» 12/10/2010 6:31:21 AM It is sickening that some will always make political capital out of tragedy. This girl was.....
» 11/10/2010 11:14:56 PM Is anyone else as sick as I am of the constant appeals to the PM to adopt political positi.....
» 11/10/2010 9:35:10 PM Horus, "Systems have a way of rebalancing." In unfortunate ways too - we fear g.....
» 11/10/2010 9:09:17 PM David G The problem is that I could have changed my mind any minute up to when the obliga.....
» 11/10/2010 12:41:04 PM Pericles, "There is no evidence that supporters of euthanasia are not also supporters.....
» 10/10/2010 9:57:59 PM Now your Jack Russell has almost trained you to hunt she will never, ever, let up. Seeing.....
» 10/10/2010 9:36:19 PM searching, An excellent post, thank you. The poor understanding of the aged and the ingr.....
» 10/10/2010 6:47:08 PM Sportsmen and footballers in particular are the much-needed targets of the 'all men are vi.....
» 10/10/2010 6:28:55 PM briar rose, "It was never our intention that things should become so skewed." A.....
» 9/10/2010 4:08:30 PM pelican, "The assertion was that there was some comment from KAK about 'what do women.....
» 9/10/2010 2:46:33 PM There was a rape committed?.....
» 9/10/2010 2:23:47 PM individual, 'Don't you mean "will do anything"?' The Cougars and the Groupies p.....
» 9/10/2010 12:54:52 PM TrashcanMan, "But it is a different issue (albeit related intrinsically) to the moral.....
» 9/10/2010 12:16:02 AM More Gold! The women (one a 20yr old) have done it again, http://www.abc.net.au/news/pho.....
» 8/10/2010 8:33:52 PM Loudmouth, "I am worried about the creation of a climate of expectation, that old peo.....
» 8/10/2010 6:31:25 PM Pericles, "no-one has yet suggested involuntary euthanasia." There is the volun.....
» 8/10/2010 5:13:09 PM StG, Yes, once only the Cadets had the option, but now the availability of small bore and.....
» 8/10/2010 4:59:06 PM There should be an Australian law against speculative gossip. God knows how anyone can get.....
» 8/10/2010 4:19:08 PM Pericles, "Does anyone keep tabs on how much we actually spend, as a nation, on the p.....
» 8/10/2010 4:01:27 PM David G, "It's interesting to note the difference between putting our pets out of the.....
» 8/10/2010 9:48:12 AM It would be the one done by Newspoll on behalf of Dying with Dignity NSW, wouldn't it? The.....
» 8/10/2010 7:19:00 AM Kerri-Anne said players "put themselves in harm's way by picking up strays" and .....
» 7/10/2010 8:01:06 PM I don't know how many are aware how demanding this sport is but this is a truly spectacula.....
» 7/10/2010 5:34:57 PM StG, "Cornflower. Would you rather they just use batons and guns?." What is nee.....
» 7/10/2010 4:03:48 PM How satisfying is it for those who stand to gain from a continuation of the war between th.....
» 6/10/2010 10:10:22 PM Pelican's post was excellent and I particularly liked this section, "Australia is a .....
» 6/10/2010 9:49:15 PM With the greatest respect, it is a bit mean to complain about a little advertising that so.....
» 6/10/2010 9:30:09 PM StG, "Yeah, let's jeopardise the welfare of ALL our police officers for the actions o.....
» 6/10/2010 9:23:28 PM Half-assed is right......
» 6/10/2010 9:14:33 PM RObert, "I struggle to see any valid case for leaving sleeping children unattended in.....
» 6/10/2010 8:42:00 PM TurnRightThenLeft, "P.S. Pericles, StG the Freemasons ARE the illuminati. Duh." .....
» 6/10/2010 5:24:19 PM It is revolting. It is the new religion and the end justifies the means. This fellow got .....
» 6/10/2010 5:07:04 PM StG, "Anyone here want to tackle a 120 kilo 6 foot something angry drunk, or someone .....
» 6/10/2010 9:52:10 AM Two problems: first, through outsourcing no-one on the ground (better make that in custome.....
» 6/10/2010 9:38:28 AM "They're only human after all, and so why do we think they are on some holy mission?&.....
» 6/10/2010 7:05:41 AM rehctub, "Having never been in a 'drunken brawl', or committed a 'serious crime',resu.....
» 5/10/2010 7:56:55 AM Not to mention promotion of anti-choice feminism. The radical feminist anti-male slant w.....
» 4/10/2010 7:46:11 PM Loudmouth, "I wouldn't mind betting that there is a debate going on behind the scenes.....
» 4/10/2010 7:16:23 PM Contrary to the gasps of breath and faux self-righteous indignation at the advertisement, .....
» 4/10/2010 9:09:21 AM Pericles, It is disingenuous of you to insist there is no difference between the stateme.....
» 4/10/2010 6:29:49 AM "In most convictions for shoplifting, the perpetrators did not set out with evil in t.....
» 3/10/2010 8:29:50 PM Pericles, Just to add, as I recall the survey of National Seniors' members' views on eut.....
» 3/10/2010 8:14:00 PM Pericles, "If you are able to provide a link or a reference, this would significantly.....
» 3/10/2010 6:55:30 PM colinsett, "Cornflower, you must occupy a culture vastly different from that of mysel.....
» 3/10/2010 12:15:29 AM "If you really want to release economic rationalism on the frail aged, give them euth.....
» 2/10/2010 8:36:31 PM There are limits to diplomacy and Australia is looking very foolish and patronising. Austr.....
» 2/10/2010 8:03:59 PM Maybe some veggies, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrpqAnYEDpk A tasteful (sic) way of .....
» 2/10/2010 1:48:42 PM Shadow Minister, "As society has evolved, the world has moved from a world dominated .....
» 1/10/2010 11:29:57 PM Bali, http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/world/bali-arrest-of-australian-carrying-17kg-o.....
» 1/10/2010 10:29:20 PM In South Australia the government killed 800 'feral' deer in a cull by helicopter. More cu.....
» 1/10/2010 8:34:28 PM Fortunately I have witnessed the passing of relatively few people, but I have never seen t.....
» 1/10/2010 1:47:05 PM King Hazza, "Here Wally (can I call you Wally?)" As an internet warrior you can.....
» 30/09/2010 7:06:47 PM briar rose, "I don't dismiss the use of character references, for men or women, I sim.....
» 30/09/2010 6:48:29 PM briar rose, "But everybody in this liberal democracy has the inalienable right to be .....
» 30/09/2010 5:41:38 PM Should those who are attracted by windfall profits from drugs and are presently choosing t.....
» 30/09/2010 2:23:09 PM It is interesting that Briar Rose and others would totally dismiss the worth of character .....
» 30/09/2010 1:43:18 PM briar rose, "Some posters seem to think 'inclusion' is the same as 'compulsion.'".....
» 29/09/2010 9:24:26 PM jason84, "Galaxy opinion polling is not associated with any gay rights organisations .....
» 29/09/2010 6:34:56 PM Anna Bligh has been lobbying strongly for more women on boards. She could follow in the fo.....
» 29/09/2010 6:27:14 PM Peacesong, Your response convicts you for your obvious stereotyping and prejudice, not th.....
» 29/09/2010 4:48:24 PM I notice I said he was entitled to 'forgiveness', which is irrelevant because he was innoc.....
» 29/09/2010 4:41:09 PM I am wondering how the prosecution went ahead at all where there was apparently a lack of .....
» 29/09/2010 3:15:41 PM Briar Rose, "Insisting that a 'family' can only take the form you decide is controlli.....
» 28/09/2010 1:15:16 PM contd.. Fans and the public were fortunate to witness a draw and anyone who paid for a ti.....
» 28/09/2010 1:14:39 PM A draw has happened for the first time in AFL and we are unlikely to ever see one again in.....
» 28/09/2010 12:45:22 AM Grim, "What chance does a great (female) singer have these days, if she doesn't look .....
» 27/09/2010 8:41:28 PM Remember how Little John Howard was fond of saying that the commercials would set the stan.....
» 27/09/2010 7:59:07 PM Pat the Bogan, "It does however, irk me that aspirations seem to more favour rap musi.....
» 27/09/2010 6:46:32 PM "And is the "gay marriage" movement another activist distraction?" As.....
» 27/09/2010 6:25:29 PM The treaty is in response to particular design limitations of the weapon, isn't it? The p.....
» 26/09/2010 3:39:18 PM Mealy-mouthed feminist ideology should never be allowed to triumph over fact. The lion's .....
» 25/09/2010 7:59:52 PM It wouldn't be Bob's fault that he is not in the limelight......
» 25/09/2010 7:40:29 PM jorge, I have an interest in tourism, where the damage from the international publicity .....
» 25/09/2010 6:49:06 PM Returning to the elephant in the room - the active and widespread discrimination against t.....
» 25/09/2010 4:05:21 PM jorge, "If they want to stay and become productive members of Australian society, I s.....
» 24/09/2010 3:07:54 PM What about the new trend to set up universities in the country of origin of the consumers?.....
» 24/09/2010 2:56:21 PM Contd.. In fact, the intergenerational jealousy that is so often a distraction in debate .....
» 24/09/2010 2:48:00 PM King Hazza, "This is why I insist that the debate has long since finished; Most peopl.....
» 24/09/2010 12:41:19 PM There is no harm and a range of benefits in teaching comparative religion, not the least b.....
» 23/09/2010 9:41:54 PM Graham Y, Many thanks for the 'heads up' and the link to the Peter Sutton interview on Bu.....
» 23/09/2010 6:22:18 PM Here we go, Calvin Klein men's underwear advertisements to balance. http://www.calvinkle.....
» 23/09/2010 1:05:02 AM What Leslie said, while adding that the ACT has too many politicians anyhow. Anyhow, what .....
» 21/09/2010 3:50:34 PM Foxy, With only the media reports and lawyer posturing to go by I don't know what to thin.....
» 21/09/2010 1:46:48 PM pelican, "I have worked in the public sector and the private sector and only encounte.....
» 20/09/2010 5:38:54 PM Foxy, Mea culpa, SBS indeed, but still publicly funded and yes, the ABC was lauded as st.....
» 20/09/2010 4:16:48 PM The Insight program was arguably one of the worst ever presented. Dull as ditch water. For.....
» 20/09/2010 1:14:35 PM AbuseVictims, "You supplied one cell, we supplied one cell and our very health and li.....
» 17/09/2010 9:38:54 PM Bazz, China is in partnership with Australia to breed cane with higher energy and suitabl.....
» 17/09/2010 9:29:19 PM Hasbeen, You need to get up to speed with publications by the research people in Sustaina.....
» 17/09/2010 12:20:25 PM If the World Health Organisation can dramatically lift the health of people in underdevelo.....
» 17/09/2010 12:54:18 AM Whoosh, straight through to the keeper. So be it......
» 16/09/2010 4:21:25 PM However Germaine Greer did make blistering attacks on the nuclear family as do (say) gende.....
» 16/09/2010 2:30:10 PM Rob Oakeshott is putting his money where his mouth is because he says there should be an i.....
» 16/09/2010 2:02:26 PM Whoa there, Jockey, it is not an on-line poll. What about dismounting from that high hors.....
» 16/09/2010 1:48:53 PM Has anyone stopped to think about the environmental damage from cane farming? For many yea.....
» 15/09/2010 1:44:53 PM Not so long ago, in a fit of self-congratulatory hubris, the then PM Kevin Rudd let the ca.....
» 15/09/2010 1:25:13 PM Interference by federal Labor will result in a media circus at both federal and State leve.....
» 15/09/2010 12:37:25 PM What, more of the multicultural 'initiatives' that have put so many holes in the bucket of.....
» 14/09/2010 8:13:28 PM rehctub, It is accepted that there are many food handling premises where hygiene is very .....
» 14/09/2010 1:08:08 AM pelican, "It is too early, on the basis of one example, to accept this statistic as t.....
» 13/09/2010 6:46:05 PM Foxy, I would rule pets out until more is known. There is a growing intolerance of animal.....
» 12/09/2010 1:25:02 PM briar rose, So although you might see marriage as deeply flawed (discriminates against w.....
» 12/09/2010 11:52:02 AM briar rose, "I'm not sure why you expect feminist academics to be the ones to speak o.....
» 11/09/2010 11:07:30 PM Foxy, If his income is limited it does cut out a lot of choices. So far there haven't be.....
» 11/09/2010 4:21:50 PM What is the cost of food poisoning? Here is a listing chosen at random: "Fail to mai.....
» 11/09/2010 2:55:03 PM contd.. BR, "A Galaxy poll result showed that 60% of Australians are in favour of sa.....
» 11/09/2010 2:13:37 PM briar rose, "if the Marriage Act did mean a union between men and women only, why did.....
» 11/09/2010 2:15:35 AM Rainier, Do you claim ABC Radio as your personal 'User Webpage'? I clicked on it and got .....
» 11/09/2010 1:25:38 AM Not to mention men checking themselves for breast cancer, especially where it runs in thei.....
» 10/09/2010 10:47:16 PM contd.. Regarding the Marriage Act, it is deceitful to pretend that the Act did not apply.....
» 10/09/2010 10:37:07 PM briar rose, "when the government passes legislation that states marriage is a union o.....
» 10/09/2010 5:04:24 PM Siren sounds, Blaaaaah. Yikes, it is another MTR alert - this time featuring boobs! Worse.....
» 10/09/2010 3:13:34 PM The book burning could detract from the lasting symbolism of the World Trade Centre site, .....
» 10/09/2010 2:55:39 PM 'The Masters of Outrage' is a classic. The satire of Hungry Beast is most welcome. Heh, .....
» 10/09/2010 12:32:54 AM It is counterproductive not to give some positive recognition to Father's Day where resear.....
» 9/09/2010 9:30:21 PM I would be happy if all elected representatives could do their level best in parliament fo.....
» 9/09/2010 11:13:15 AM Shadow Minister, "My guesstimate of the strategy for the next few years is confrontat.....
» 9/09/2010 10:53:12 AM pelican, "We should (dare I say) move forward and try to look at a human perspective .....
» 8/09/2010 3:34:48 PM So TZ52HX, you'd go along with the 'joke' too? - That few men would ever be likely to read.....
» 8/09/2010 1:57:41 PM This is a timely article which should have attracted far more comment, although I don't do.....
» 8/09/2010 3:47:55 AM Fester, Accepted, I was not using the term 'addiction' in any scientific sense, ie implyi.....
» 8/09/2010 2:59:53 AM Just referring to some of the recent posts, it is difficult to understand why anyone would.....
» 7/09/2010 8:48:54 PM No, cereal manufacturers and other processed food manufacturers educate the public towards.....
» 7/09/2010 8:11:22 PM "They can always be removed with lasers." Angelina Jolie would not agree with t.....
» 7/09/2010 7:40:40 PM vanna and briar rose, ex Google, On PM: "CONOR DUFFY: At Government House today Comc.....
» 7/09/2010 4:13:46 PM Individualism - as expressed by those who rush out to get inked to ape celebrities. Bogan.....
» 6/09/2010 3:10:53 PM Like many, I am a long time subscriber to Choice magazine, which has this to say, "K.....
» 5/09/2010 5:21:29 PM Good for the much maligned women's mags. In 2010 we did see Quentin, as in G-G, for Mothe.....
» 5/09/2010 1:43:39 PM Who better on Father's Day than Rudyard Kipling? If.. If you can keep your head when all .....
» 5/09/2010 1:31:07 PM To be fair to men, if it were not for the fortnight of advertising advertising before - wh.....
» 5/09/2010 11:59:57 AM Happy Father's Day to all of the fathers out there. May this day be very happy and memorab.....
» 3/09/2010 8:54:35 PM The world wouldn't have to be ideal, what I am suggesting for youth support is perfectly e.....
» 3/09/2010 2:36:08 PM It is always a judgement call and in order to be resilient, children need to be exposed to.....
» 2/09/2010 5:52:26 PM On the other hand it is great to see youth coming forward, especially where they can expre.....
» 2/09/2010 5:27:12 PM What about encouraging people who feel as you do and many probably agree with you, to writ.....
» 2/09/2010 11:35:04 AM C J Morgan, So it wasn't your last post and you have come back for another last post to d.....
» 1/09/2010 9:57:33 PM runner, I agree with you and good for you for taking the trouble to raise a special thread.....
» 1/09/2010 9:43:53 PM C J Morgan, Heh, heh, you can't resist, can you? I didn't raise guns as a criticism of on.....
» 1/09/2010 7:22:05 PM C J Morgan, "Cornflower, would you acknowledge that, as a gun enthusiast, you're not .....
» 1/09/2010 4:11:27 PM Antiseptic, So you imagine that where a person is clinically depressed to the point of su.....
» 1/09/2010 12:36:38 PM contd.. In another thread you are horrified that NAPCAN is indirectly labelling all men a.....
» 1/09/2010 12:35:17 PM Antiseptic, As I have said in other threads and on different subjects, I don't mind gover.....
» 1/09/2010 11:53:00 AM Public reaction to this body would be counterproductive. By all means get many people writ.....
» 1/09/2010 10:59:47 AM Antiseptic, The problem with what you are saying is that there is no evidence to support .....
» 1/09/2010 3:25:20 AM suzeonline, "I haven't seen any figures on suicide by hanging having increased since .....
» 31/08/2010 1:42:03 PM C J Morgan The suicide rate overall was falling before the Howard gun laws and buy-back a.....
» 31/08/2010 11:48:47 AM suzeonline, I am not worried at all about fellows like Bob Katter MP who are a little ecc.....
» 31/08/2010 10:25:51 AM federalist, The liberals you insult with your personal attack in lieu of facts are in goo.....
» 30/08/2010 6:14:11 PM federalist, "Believe it or not, society does have other less coercive ways of empower.....
» 30/08/2010 1:21:14 PM Johnny Rotten That was a tongue in cheek article wasn't it? Here is another bit of fun by.....
» 30/08/2010 12:04:27 PM suzeonline, "While carrying on about the wonders of country life, he goes on to say t.....
» 29/08/2010 6:16:28 PM What I should have added but forgot, is my belief that the two party system will never imp.....
» 29/08/2010 6:08:51 PM Serious findings of poor administration have been made both by the Ombudsman and the Austr.....
» 29/08/2010 5:41:38 PM wobbles, "Not all Islamic countries wear them and not all Islamic countries oppress w.....
» 29/08/2010 5:22:19 PM The government and either side is no different, hasn't encouraged miners to build mining t.....
» 29/08/2010 9:45:07 AM Tony found the pike easier in his backflip than a tuck. Got to be his silliest look yet a.....
» 29/08/2010 9:31:41 AM Methodist? Do they bounce too? Because my dear departed father once threw a Catholic prie.....
» 29/08/2010 9:01:39 AM Having witnessed the population drift from the country to the capitals and coast I cannot .....
» 29/08/2010 8:29:55 AM grateful, "If i have a view about what is good for our society, i'm entitled to it ev.....
» 28/08/2010 2:50:09 PM Heh, heh, I lost it totally: "and went and went an had a beer too." Must have b.....
» 28/08/2010 2:42:01 PM Society would be much better off if the sly, unrelenting agents of fundamentalist religion.....
» 27/08/2010 2:38:23 PM Danielle, "It is up to Muslim leaders, themselves, to bring some leadership, eruditio.....
» 27/08/2010 2:10:47 PM contd. The question remains, what was the role department's audit committee and its audit.....
» 27/08/2010 2:06:22 PM Antiseptic Can I draw your attention to the report of the government's own auditor, the A.....
» 26/08/2010 4:03:21 PM The "'boat people' thing" is a necessary diversion to avoid scrutiny of the over.....
» 26/08/2010 3:52:43 PM For a government agency those are quite serious findings, reflecting as they do, on senior.....
» 26/08/2010 3:01:12 PM Security is not achieved by a one-off identify check at the door, it is fundamentally abou.....
» 26/08/2010 12:46:23 AM Given that some have said they wouldn't vote for a 20 yr old, it is reasonable to ask what.....
» 25/08/2010 10:09:18 PM C J Morgan Heh, heh, since you are the Greens' self-appointed Number One supporter whethe.....
» 25/08/2010 7:03:08 PM C J Morgan, "There is no inner cabal of 'leaders' who dictate policy, unlike other po.....
» 25/08/2010 12:07:09 PM It is unfortunate that some parents and carers of teens do little to encourage and assist .....
» 25/08/2010 12:02:39 PM Pericles, "By the end of Saturday night, I seem to recall that the total number of vo.....
» 25/08/2010 10:45:51 AM Yuyutsu, Thank you for the explanation. I might not go as far as you, however it is agree.....
» 24/08/2010 7:51:38 PM What about Kelly Vincent, the young woman recently elected in South Australia, was that a .....
» 24/08/2010 6:46:14 PM Yuyutsu "where could one possibly run away and hide from contemporary society?" .....
» 24/08/2010 6:29:48 PM King Hazza, Refer to my earlier post: "Australia does very well with its turn-out fo.....
» 24/08/2010 12:41:44 PM A minority government offers a superb opportunity for change, especially through conscienc.....
» 24/08/2010 11:05:37 AM You are on solid ground citing Bandt. I haven't looked recently but didn't he only get 20%.....
» 24/08/2010 9:26:18 AM Some of the replies are simply astounding and hard to understand in a country with a democ.....
» 23/08/2010 2:19:00 PM "Show her face to the security guard" would become "in a booth affording pr.....
» 22/08/2010 9:46:40 PM Alexander Downer has forecast a great future for him. Hmmm, maybe I'd better leave it at .....
» 22/08/2010 9:43:16 PM grateful You are spinning wildly off the subject. I gave the example of children in schoo.....
» 22/08/2010 5:39:38 PM grateful, "I understand where you're coming from, but then the lady would be exposed .....
» 22/08/2010 5:26:52 PM Bob Brown has horned his way in to second guess the Greens' newly elected lower house MP, .....
» 22/08/2010 10:14:50 AM Celivia, "You obviously haven't taken part in enough discussion about organ donation .....
» 21/08/2010 10:38:40 AM Celivia, Nothing I have ever read would confirm your jaundiced view of the motivations of.....
» 21/08/2010 10:18:07 AM C J Morgan, "Our quarterly electricity bills are rarely more than $200 - but then aga.....
» 20/08/2010 5:10:15 AM Mickey K, If you think you have scored a rhetorical point by pretending that the drafters.....
» 19/08/2010 5:00:37 PM The major parties have been very cautious about making personal smears against opponents b.....
» 19/08/2010 4:29:42 PM Mickey K, "It seems a pretty straight forward assertion then that the Marriage Act co.....
» 19/08/2010 11:21:36 AM contd.. The author of the subject (OLO) article gives the impression that Article 26 was .....
» 19/08/2010 11:21:00 AM "The United Nations INTERNATIONAL COVENANT ON CIVIL AND POLITICAL RIGHTS Article 23 .....
» 18/08/2010 5:25:42 AM What may or may not have happened in the UK is irrelevant. The reality is that the Austral.....
» 18/08/2010 5:01:37 AM The major difference is that formerly common law 'marriage' could only be said to exist wh.....
» 17/08/2010 8:29:13 PM Paul1405, "I can never understand why Churches do not pay tax.." Taking your qu.....
» 17/08/2010 8:00:55 PM The Blue Cross, "..."setting up some private schools within the public system&qu.....
» 17/08/2010 11:01:58 AM Phil Matimein, "Your are missing the point Shadow Minister, private school shouldn't .....
» 17/08/2010 9:04:07 AM This article reminds me of a former neighbour who commented when she was saturating her ga.....
» 17/08/2010 2:22:18 AM Yes, and even when the child is 'of age' that doesn't mean she should be placed on the blo.....
» 17/08/2010 1:36:20 AM I don't imagine for a moment that teachers in the State system would have any truck with t.....
» 17/08/2010 12:53:44 AM Fester and Ludwig, Well said and I thoroughly agree. Tony Abbott needs over-population t.....
» 17/08/2010 12:23:10 AM dotto, How very broad-minded (sic) of you. However did you ever stop to consider those no.....
» 16/08/2010 2:04:43 PM Foxy, "Enjoy your own sex life (so long as it damages nobody else) and leave others t.....
» 15/08/2010 2:10:02 PM Curmudgeon, "No one is going to build nuclear reactors in the foreseeable future in A.....
» 15/08/2010 12:06:55 PM I would very much prefer to specify a quality of survival below which I do not want to be .....
» 14/08/2010 11:43:23 PM Celivia, "Paralysed people should have as much right to die peacefully as anyone else.....
» 14/08/2010 11:14:48 PM MindlessCruelty, "So invite them in and be in control of that with planning, for ther.....
» 13/08/2010 9:48:08 PM examinator, I don't mind government spending huge sums of money, however I need to see s.....
» 13/08/2010 3:04:23 PM There is a lot of hysteria in Australia. Queensland has a draft change to the Weapons Act.....
» 13/08/2010 12:42:51 PM examinator, So, having accepted that you are culturally disposed towards violence you sho.....
» 13/08/2010 10:35:55 AM It is simply not possible to provide the infrastructure that would be required for anywher.....
» 12/08/2010 11:11:45 PM When you look at the design and construction of the houses it is immediately obvious why t.....
» 12/08/2010 5:57:54 PM The first and most important thing that can be done to improve the sustainability of citie.....
» 12/08/2010 6:51:27 AM What is truly amazing is that Anna took this opportunity to get national and international.....
» 11/08/2010 9:19:04 PM The only real issue is that Premier Anna Bligh fell over her feet in her blind rush to sup.....
» 11/08/2010 5:05:59 PM Sea food?! What about the Greens' attitude to recreational fishing, which is not based on .....
» 11/08/2010 3:48:46 PM US versus Switzerland gun politics: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_politics_in_Switzerl.....
» 11/08/2010 3:23:19 PM It is common to encounter very offensive labelling of ordinary people expressing their qui.....
» 10/08/2010 5:49:46 PM King Hazza, "Cornflower- it's not that criminals will use licensed weapons, its that .....
» 10/08/2010 4:41:35 AM King Hazza, "....simple reason is I would need a lot of reassurances that if firearms.....
» 9/08/2010 7:17:31 PM What about the post-WW2 immigration boom that created the baby boom in the first place? It.....
» 8/08/2010 5:11:40 PM As per usual Gun Control Australia, a flakey outfit of a one-person human headline with a .....
» 7/08/2010 9:41:54 PM Who would write the prescription?.....
» 7/08/2010 9:36:50 PM Yes,...but FAIL through a sneaking suspicion that there are some things that men do better.....
» 7/08/2010 9:11:47 PM A woman invented the breathalyser. Just as well too because it was used recently in the US.....
» 7/08/2010 6:17:30 PM nairbe, You are right to criticise the focus on one killer seemingly to the absence of ot.....
» 7/08/2010 5:54:32 PM Candide, "They also think their attractiveness will make them an automatic target for.....
» 6/08/2010 10:20:02 PM Yabby To the contrary, wives would prefer to be with their menfolk, especially where they.....
» 6/08/2010 9:56:57 PM nairbe, "That's the beauty of argument: If you argue correctly, you're never wrong.&.....
» 6/08/2010 1:06:33 PM Thanks Justin for your article, you had something worthwhile to say and there were facts t.....
» 6/08/2010 12:24:51 PM colinsett, "Having had my say I will retire from the fray – take off the battle unifo.....
» 6/08/2010 11:58:36 AM While slightly off-thread, the mining companies also refuse to build local townships for t.....
» 6/08/2010 11:21:12 AM The LNP will be outed for any support received from tobacco, how cynical they are! To be.....
» 6/08/2010 10:47:50 AM No obviously that first sentence of my fourth para was scrambled - the benefits of multi-t.....
» 6/08/2010 10:39:02 AM We all know that the pay and conditions are so good that Graham and his 'staff', whatever .....
» 6/08/2010 1:00:57 AM I am in awe at Kevin Rudd's recovery powers and stamina though. He is 'on song' quickly to.....
» 5/08/2010 12:05:51 PM Before I forget, a panel is no better than an individual mod for making decisions and it w.....
» 5/08/2010 11:59:31 AM Generally speaking what happens is that the mods mention their need for help and persons v.....
» 4/08/2010 9:47:37 PM Foxy It is not about the leaders. The machine men and media would have it that way becaus.....
» 4/08/2010 6:19:00 PM Severin I nearly choked on that, priceless. However I am confident that Alexander Downe.....
» 4/08/2010 5:24:23 PM Exhume Joh Bjelke Peterson, NOW! It was a waste of time giving people the vote. Now the c.....
» 4/08/2010 4:46:07 PM The ghost of Little John Howard walks the vacant corridors of Abbott's mind. Next winter c.....
» 4/08/2010 4:10:42 PM examinator, "It's the system that attracts these types." Politicians are regard.....
» 4/08/2010 3:31:27 PM True, Tony Abbott would be the pick of the cartoonists and tabloids. A PM that is easily d.....
» 4/08/2010 3:08:32 PM Foxy, For all of his academic accomplishments Tony is a very small man, as evidenced by h.....
» 4/08/2010 2:27:17 AM Yes, but which Julia wanted the date? If it was the 'other woman' Julia, tell her that Mar.....
» 3/08/2010 9:39:38 PM Before everyone does a Chicken Little, where is the evidence of any wrongdoing? Contract.....
» 3/08/2010 5:47:50 PM runner, "For (some of) those who champion feminism it is impossible for Julia to do w.....
» 3/08/2010 5:14:08 PM It is an odd world we live in where on one hand where criminals who use regularly use viol.....
» 2/08/2010 5:03:13 PM thinker 2 Julia Gillard has to stand up and be counted on matters of principle and be a t.....
» 2/08/2010 4:24:44 PM Julia Gillard's stocks shot up when she made apparently decisive announcements like the re.....
» 1/08/2010 12:34:49 PM Celivia, "I did some googling yesterday to see if there was more info on this relatio.....
» 1/08/2010 11:57:35 AM Foxy So it is not a betrayal of trust to have an affair with a married man or for a marri.....
» 31/07/2010 8:54:59 PM benk, "Let's make some effort to empathise with Craig Emerson's wife and kids." .....
» 31/07/2010 7:48:12 PM Graham Y, "I'm sure that sexual indiscretions do not disqualify from being a good lea.....
» 31/07/2010 1:01:53 PM Julia Gillard demonstrated reckless unethical conduct, lack of self control, lack of disci.....
» 29/07/2010 3:47:24 PM Only equalled by the cynical 'Law & Order' campaign from the other side: http://www.news......
» 29/07/2010 2:23:51 PM Many Australians have been through the relentless cycles of faux consultation and spin, th.....
» 28/07/2010 4:59:25 PM Got to be money in it if you can manage to work the 'indigenous' label. Just need to lin.....
» 27/07/2010 7:36:27 PM The elephant in the room is the lack of supply of Australian doctors and specialists, whic.....
» 26/07/2010 6:58:50 PM Any young or not so young person thinking of putting their trust in the Greens in the Sena.....
» 26/07/2010 1:16:02 PM It is unreasonable to expect a local member to attend to everything personally, otherwise .....
» 25/07/2010 10:18:05 PM byork, "Opponents of immigration have had considerable public space for their views s.....
» 25/07/2010 9:46:18 PM ozzie, "What's more the politically correct bullies that often lurk around OLO as wel.....
» 25/07/2010 8:09:07 PM You might as well argue that because many politicians have to sacrifice home life through .....
» 25/07/2010 1:29:40 PM Even if there was an economic benefit from immigration and that is doubtful, for it is mor.....
» 24/07/2010 4:39:58 PM byork, "Cornflower is not willing to put a figure on the intake he/she thinks 'sustai.....
» 24/07/2010 3:30:48 PM byork, "Cornflower, could you actually suggest a number then?" Like the governm.....
» 24/07/2010 2:51:21 PM The earliest printed reference that is unambiguous in its use of 'politically correct' in .....
» 24/07/2010 2:28:54 PM byork, "Can you indicate what you regard as an appropriate net intake for Australia?&.....
» 24/07/2010 2:06:39 PM However it is wasteful for government to maintain a task force for something that doesn't .....
» 23/07/2010 7:07:42 PM Since when was economics the sole, or most suitable advisor, of what is best for public po.....
» 23/07/2010 5:01:05 PM I have found that Party matters much less than the intelligence, ability and general goodw.....
» 23/07/2010 2:53:42 PM Get rid of the fox task force before funding is up for review again. Get a Game Council li.....
» 22/07/2010 7:11:51 PM Good one. Wild horses: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhVLiHPUOIM.....
» 22/07/2010 4:03:18 PM From the experiences of some of my elderly relatives and their friends, the established ch.....
» 22/07/2010 3:42:37 PM Pericles, "But wild horses (whatever they are) couldn't get me to post anything on th.....
» 22/07/2010 2:32:47 PM briar rose, Is Rhiannon, the NSW MLC who herself stands accused for misusing government .....
» 22/07/2010 2:05:00 PM This article provides a convincing case for all students to have an education in civics so.....
» 21/07/2010 9:20:02 PM Cheryl, "All we need is for Hitler to take over the Reichstag." Yikes, the Naz.....
» 21/07/2010 4:38:00 PM Ludwig, "It is not Wyatt's age or inexperience that matters, it is his and his party'.....
» 21/07/2010 12:59:42 AM Of course it is a serious problem that a large percentage of eligible voters are not on th.....
» 20/07/2010 4:22:55 PM Memories on OLO must be short not to remember that the long-suffering and silent vast majo.....
» 20/07/2010 3:15:56 PM Forrest Gumpp and Poirot, Heh, heh, good ones and my keyboard needs another careful spong.....
» 19/07/2010 9:50:20 PM Maybe sexual mutilation atrocities committed against boys are not always reported in the w.....
» 19/07/2010 7:31:18 PM Q: How many narcissists does it take to change a light bulb? A1: Just one, but he has to w.....
» 19/07/2010 6:11:34 PM Whatever this article sets out to achieve it loses with its old hat undergraduate lesbian .....
» 19/07/2010 2:35:41 PM Where the federal government was wrong was that it either didn't perform am adequate risk .....
» 18/07/2010 8:34:30 PM C J Morgan What a moronic response to divert attention from your admitted prejudice again.....
» 18/07/2010 6:32:03 PM Any person who is qualified to vote should be entitled to hold office. That is non-discrim.....
» 18/07/2010 3:04:49 PM Julia Gillard has her finger firmly on the pulse by again attacking 'Big Australia' and th.....
» 18/07/2010 2:12:30 PM Aka, From the experiences of male relatives, some of whom are needlessly not with us any .....
» 18/07/2010 2:00:24 PM Severin, Ginx From the link I provided earlier: "It’s Just 'Men Behaving Badly' Wh.....
» 18/07/2010 1:25:58 PM Peter Hume, "Businesses are *totally* subject to the sovereignty of consumers, becaus.....
» 18/07/2010 1:09:32 PM Peter Hume, "You have *total* control over whether you buy a service in the private s.....
» 17/07/2010 2:32:12 PM nairbe, No, the Building Code, Australian Standards and manufacturer's installation guide.....
» 16/07/2010 9:58:46 PM nairbe, Regardless of known discrepancies with specifications and contravention of 'Stand.....
» 16/07/2010 7:47:52 PM The Liberals would give their back teeth for a 'Boss' like Julia Gillard. Well, at least t.....
» 16/07/2010 7:20:31 PM nairbe, Precisely what forces builders to comply with any of those 'Standards'? The home.....
» 16/07/2010 5:26:48 PM The short-cutting, shoddy work, poor quality control and poor communication with the clien.....
» 16/07/2010 4:38:12 PM RObert, Have you ever come across Steve Biddulph's Manhood or Michael Green's book on div.....
» 16/07/2010 4:28:54 PM C J Morgan, "Interesting that you think we should be "meeting regularly in cafes.....
» 15/07/2010 9:04:04 PM Ginx, "So you seize an opportunity to come into this current discussion to criticise .....
» 15/07/2010 8:06:36 PM vanna, Fair enough, that is your opinion and so be it, I will not argue with you. Howev.....
» 15/07/2010 7:47:35 PM The new log book system in Queensland is working rather well and praise is also due to dri.....
» 15/07/2010 7:25:31 PM There are many things to appreciate and enjoy, but there is nothing bought that I would ev.....
» 15/07/2010 5:47:29 PM Ginx, What prevents you from resolving this with moderator/s by email rather than killing.....
» 15/07/2010 4:01:23 PM C J Morgan, "she realises that the pub is "a man's church", where regular a.....
» 15/07/2010 12:06:10 AM vanna, Nil desperandum, you can be sure that whatever academics might claim, there are al.....
» 14/07/2010 8:51:48 PM There are populous nations with abominable human rights records who regularly call Austral.....
» 14/07/2010 7:49:23 PM Why does discussion of men's issues always come back to health? Sure health is important b.....
» 13/07/2010 10:23:48 PM One thing I should have added but it escaped during cropping was that although I do agree .....
» 13/07/2010 10:12:39 PM Horus, Thank you for your measured, practical posts, you hit the nail squarely on the he.....
» 13/07/2010 6:46:12 AM Ludwig, "CJ, what are these things supposed to mean that you put at the end of your p.....
» 13/07/2010 6:34:16 AM "It was niggly, it was scrappy, it was dirty, it was spiteful" and the losers ar.....
» 12/07/2010 7:44:07 PM Correction. The sentence, 'That is apparent in their, "We are all for gays and begg.....
» 12/07/2010 5:49:29 PM pelican, "Eventually same sex marriage will be legalised whether the union will be ca.....
» 10/07/2010 9:47:57 PM contd.. To conclude, Q, Does the OLO approach work on OLO? A, To an extent but there are.....
» 10/07/2010 9:31:01 PM Political correctness has been put to very effective use in Australia. The creation of the.....
» 10/07/2010 7:26:44 PM C J MJorgan, "Given that everybody else in Australia is legally entitled to marry the.....
» 10/07/2010 5:44:00 PM C J Morgan, "If two people are silly enough to want to marry each other" Given .....
» 10/07/2010 5:02:45 PM Frankly I don't see why RObert should be required to continually re-affirm his revulsion t.....
» 10/07/2010 3:47:25 PM woulfe, "Maybe now we can get back to the topic." Never you mind, huh? I guess.....
» 10/07/2010 6:41:53 AM It is no secret that women are also consumers of pornography - although women (and many me.....
» 10/07/2010 5:31:53 AM jason84. "Look we gays and lesbian couples want to be treated like heterosexual coupl.....
» 10/07/2010 5:15:28 AM It is a long way to go to see a rock. It is very easy for a tourist destination to earn .....
» 9/07/2010 3:49:23 PM The story woulfe linked to describes the collateral damage from unnecessary State interfer.....
» 9/07/2010 12:18:11 AM jason84, "Thats because most gay couples are not a clients of Centrelink, So its assu.....
» 8/07/2010 8:02:13 PM "Eighty per cent of gay and lesbian Australians believe they should have the choice t.....
» 7/07/2010 1:20:46 PM Foyle, "Maybe we need a ban on such controversial programmes six months out from an e.....
» 6/07/2010 11:35:33 AM C J (preening), "Mine is a product of exposure to writers like Ogden Nash and Hilaire.....
» 5/07/2010 6:39:34 PM Severin, "R0bert cannot see that feminists are just as diverse in their opinions as i.....
» 5/07/2010 5:42:38 PM It is all in God's Hand(s). Severin (awe struck), "Golly gosh, you mean CJ? Or am I .....
» 4/07/2010 7:13:53 PM Cheating and gamesmanship in the place of sportsmanship. Contrast that with the sportsman.....
» 4/07/2010 4:02:52 PM Severin, Heh, heh, fortunately no-one could ever accuse you of personal attacks or castin.....
» 3/07/2010 7:03:23 PM First PatTheBogun's post then mikk's, now I need a sponge to wipe the keyboard and a fresh.....
» 3/07/2010 4:18:38 PM Severin, 'Clockwork Orange' is a popular nickname for the team, hence the music. The wry .....
» 3/07/2010 3:03:50 PM Not forgetting the Clockwork Orange theme playing during the game: http://www.youtube.com/.....
» 3/07/2010 6:13:31 AM Hilarious, the Chaser really got into the spirit of the round ball game. However The Cha.....
» 3/07/2010 12:39:46 AM No scrums in AFL. Goodness, now even CJ knows!.....
» 2/07/2010 8:55:24 PM That is some humour, albeit ill-humour you have there CJ. You need to lighten up, it is .....
» 2/07/2010 8:08:12 PM Hasbeen, "I think there is more than a little chance that we will find that is the su.....
» 2/07/2010 3:18:45 PM Opinionated 2 You forgot: An offside rule that allows players to be offside and results .....
» 2/07/2010 2:00:30 PM Lonely Planet needs a special travel warning on political correctness when visiting Austra.....
» 1/07/2010 3:24:55 PM Pynchme, "I already told you that expecting feminists to sing praises of men (though .....
» 1/07/2010 2:40:20 PM pelican, "Perhaps the focus on attention to women's needs came about as a result of t.....
» 30/06/2010 5:51:48 PM Hasbeen Oh ye of little faith......
» 30/06/2010 5:25:04 PM What is being criticised as a fault is actually a strength of our system of government. Co.....
» 30/06/2010 3:26:46 PM Abbott is short on policy but he is certain of the people he wants to give a flogging to a.....
» 29/06/2010 8:53:52 PM ....and Rudd was the idiot who put his hand up as being responsible for the really dumb-as.....
» 29/06/2010 4:09:23 PM Yabby, "There was to be no negotiation about the fundamentals, simply about the intro.....
» 29/06/2010 3:33:27 PM Matthew, It is delightful to have students contributing to OLO and especially young men, .....
» 29/06/2010 1:46:10 PM "the practice of democracy in this country has lost its way" What absolute garb.....
» 28/06/2010 11:47:46 PM Leigh and pelican, Thank you for your excellent posts......
» 28/06/2010 8:35:39 PM Otokonoko, "Certainly, it bears traces of one of the most intelligent things I have h.....
» 28/06/2010 5:43:33 PM Dumping 'Big Australia' and putting sustainability first is a significant change in policy.....
» 28/06/2010 12:28:10 AM The Guardian newspaper (uk) carried an article that was quite positive about the ruthlessn.....
» 27/06/2010 2:18:11 PM Severin, Dear, there is no sense in sitting there with you puss as long as a Lurgan spad.....
» 27/06/2010 12:58:09 PM Ptweeet, penalty! Round ball players have now added yet another excuse for a penalty - it .....
» 26/06/2010 3:52:07 PM There is a lot that is not politically correct to report. For example, the very young age .....
» 25/06/2010 9:29:28 PM Celivia, "Perhaps they would get better injuries and qualify for non-pretending medic.....
» 25/06/2010 9:07:26 PM While it is true that the PM is not elected, the presidential style of campaigning, the tr.....
» 25/06/2010 2:43:53 PM The Sage, "We'd better get used to the idea of a long period of Labor rule." Ju.....
» 25/06/2010 2:22:25 PM Foxy, Contractors who have done some consultancy work with the public bureaucracies would.....
» 25/06/2010 12:29:41 PM Ludwig, "Secondly, and much more significantly, Rudd greatly boosted our immigration .....
» 24/06/2010 4:09:39 PM Foxy, Julia earned a position as a partner in a law firm, which is no small feat and she .....
» 24/06/2010 3:17:47 PM C J Morgan Once again you protest too much......
» 24/06/2010 2:49:15 PM C J Morgan, "I rather think that Gillard is just Rudd in a frock " Why stoop to.....
» 22/06/2010 10:03:44 PM What is there to say that installation prior to or after the government's initiative was/i.....
» 22/06/2010 9:03:55 PM The grey divorce trend is interesting. I don't think there is any use blaming one gender o.....
» 22/06/2010 4:44:14 PM Otokonoko Have A look here to see what the usual diet of peasants was in Shakespeare's ti.....
» 22/06/2010 2:28:06 PM Although I support legalisation of euthanasia, some of these replies remind me why our fam.....
» 21/06/2010 11:36:03 PM nairbe, "The building industry is well regulated in this country." Superficiall.....
» 21/06/2010 9:40:55 PM Joe (Loudmouth) Thank you for taking the time to reply in full, it is appreciated......
» 21/06/2010 1:42:25 AM C J Morgan, You are stirring as usual. I put the questions out of genuine interest and w.....
» 20/06/2010 9:18:20 PM Loudmouth, "But for all that, some 70,000 Indigenous people have now been to, or are .....
» 20/06/2010 5:14:26 PM Robert Thank you. What I am not clear on at this stage is why initiatives like Men's She.....
» 20/06/2010 5:02:45 PM True, Labor were left standing when the music stopped, but the shonks and cowboys were alr.....
» 20/06/2010 4:24:37 PM Fester, There, I've fixed it for you: "If people risk their lives sailing across t.....
» 20/06/2010 3:55:51 PM No citizen should have to put up with the circumstance we have now where there is no one s.....
» 19/06/2010 8:41:28 PM Take the obvious meaning which is that a witch is an evil creature who in her spare time w.....
» 19/06/2010 8:14:36 PM Heh, heh, said the needy C J, always desperate for some recognition in the form of a 'Hi y.....
» 19/06/2010 7:33:33 PM david f, "I have absolutely no argument with the fact that Muslims can have four wive.....
» 19/06/2010 6:44:51 PM University of Adelaide study: "It is commonly held that men delay help seeking becau.....
» 19/06/2010 6:32:27 PM No-one is suggesting a conspiracy, those were doctors commenting on men's health and the a.....
» 19/06/2010 5:51:49 PM The mortality of children under five has to do with Third World hygiene contributing to di.....
» 19/06/2010 5:28:00 PM There was no need to lighten the bikes I had access to, they revved hard and quickly too. .....
» 19/06/2010 5:12:54 PM Serverin, True, I thought it was funny in an odd sort of way that you could comment on so.....
» 19/06/2010 3:56:52 PM RObert, It would be a shame if the excellent points raised in this thread couldn't be con.....
» 19/06/2010 3:41:37 PM Severin We had a Bonnie and a Norton on the farm. These bikes had been restored after spe.....
» 19/06/2010 2:59:03 PM Severin, "I haven't watched any of it." Then you are unaware that the only show.....
» 19/06/2010 2:22:09 PM Grim, "I'm curious to know who the drug company intends to market this product to; wo.....
» 19/06/2010 1:06:07 PM C J Morgan That is a narrow interpretation of my meaning. However if you can find a bette.....
» 19/06/2010 1:14:51 AM Worth thinking about: "Abstract - The lack of an evidence base for formulating men’.....
» 19/06/2010 1:06:37 AM Hasbeen, I am very sorry to hear of your loss. It must be absolutely devastating to final.....
» 19/06/2010 12:29:46 AM So what if some take their religion to the game. Some very obviously say prayers to Mecca .....
» 18/06/2010 11:57:33 PM Be that as it may, nothing prevents all of us from taking the personal initiative of treat.....
» 18/06/2010 3:24:27 AM wobbles, "...assume that any Insulation companies that were well established before t.....
» 18/06/2010 1:09:21 AM suzeonline, Thank you. It's all in the upbringing and socialisation. We take the capacit.....
» 17/06/2010 11:43:21 PM What makes anyone think that the insulation risks only came into being at the time of the .....
» 17/06/2010 8:58:20 PM RObert I have mentioned and linked to Mens Sheds before. A great idea I reckon and one th.....
» 17/06/2010 5:40:02 PM Celivia That tackle on You Tube was all looks. The scuffle after was pushing and shoving......
» 17/06/2010 3:38:42 PM "A pregnant friend of mine was recently reprimanded by a male colleague when she orde.....
» 17/06/2010 1:07:00 PM Granted the cry of pain is helpful but what about some text of suggested cries of agony to.....
» 17/06/2010 11:24:26 AM Tahu was grist for the mill for a media and sections of the public who crave sensationalis.....
» 16/06/2010 6:10:52 PM david f Who would use the New Dictionary of Theology? Maybe that suits your purpose and t.....
» 16/06/2010 3:46:05 PM Will they be able to play the piano no hands after dropping a couple of tabs? Or offer th.....
» 16/06/2010 3:16:57 PM At 127 decibels those bad boys are an OH&S problem and should be banned from the grounds. .....
» 16/06/2010 1:59:13 PM Fundamentalism? For most Australians that would mean resisting any move by another religi.....
» 16/06/2010 1:49:14 PM A lesson in racism maybe, but it is yet another example of a man who is probably suffering.....
» 16/06/2010 1:24:32 PM contd, The author is right to wonder why men who have spilled blood together can't share .....
» 16/06/2010 1:16:07 PM This has been done to death for days. In League there is no evidence whatsoever of any rac.....
» 16/06/2010 12:38:24 AM Religious background to the trumpet: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8458829.stm We wa.....
» 16/06/2010 12:19:55 AM grateful Richard Dawkins has used the term fundamentalism to describe religious advocates.....
» 15/06/2010 5:17:27 PM Celivia, "Oh I lurv my vase with ORANGE cornflowers" That is the problem with d.....
» 15/06/2010 2:48:50 PM 'Fess up, you've been drinking the orange hooch again, admit it. Damned alcopops! No-one,.....
» 15/06/2010 2:28:49 PM From the opening page to that site: "Islam - the Modern Religion" From an artic.....
» 14/06/2010 5:34:44 PM Ludwig, Good idea, more points might reduce supporter violence too. No goalie. Also: -.....
» 14/06/2010 4:45:20 PM I believe that Andrew Johns directed the derogatory remark at Queensland centre Greg Ingli.....
» 14/06/2010 3:27:33 PM Yabby, "Cornflour, targets are set by boards and they are answerable to shareholders......
» 14/06/2010 2:30:57 PM C J Morgan, "thoughtlessly used a racist term of abuse because it has been normal to .....
» 14/06/2010 1:49:02 PM Hold on, 4-0 is nothing like 2-0, it is a solid drubbing, an embarrassment. That is why t.....
» 13/06/2010 6:33:35 PM Bit suss, but not unusual for teams to get jelly belly OT. Note to manager, provide own ca.....
» 13/06/2010 3:37:47 PM What about the pressure to meet short term financial goals and the focus of CEOs and senio.....
» 13/06/2010 1:52:27 PM Come on Opinionated2, you'll have someone going down to suck a penalty for that. What is .....
» 13/06/2010 1:28:31 PM Nonsense, it has descended as usual into a slanging, name-calling contest between androcen.....
» 13/06/2010 5:47:25 AM Foxy, "Football is a great melting pot in which a common goal unites the players and .....
» 13/06/2010 1:50:32 AM Foxy, "Sabrina Houssami is not the norm in anybody's terms" To the contrary it .....
» 12/06/2010 5:40:19 PM Foxy, "It may be of interest to know that Miss Australia 2006, (she represented Austr.....
» 12/06/2010 4:33:58 PM mikk, "Not to mention the regular occurrence and appalling theatrics of the players '.....
» 12/06/2010 3:18:33 PM Severin What does your department's policy say about obtaining proof of identity? Is th.....
» 12/06/2010 1:56:51 PM It is completely misleading to focus on racism as the 'problem' in places like Townsville,.....
» 11/06/2010 10:14:35 PM Custard, Johnathan Thurston? Bollocks it was because he was black and didn't fit in with .....
» 11/06/2010 9:55:48 PM Otokonoko, "As a veteran, do you believe that you fought for freedom of speech? I don.....
» 11/06/2010 1:03:31 PM The central theme of the article that Australia should be a tourist mecca for multicultura.....
» 10/06/2010 9:21:48 PM pelican Nicely put. A glass of wine or a brew of aromatic tea at sunset seems to iron ou.....
» 10/06/2010 1:04:15 PM Severin, "Can't wait to read what the B&T brigade make of this - the ones who, appare.....
» 10/06/2010 11:34:57 AM Loudmouth Many thanks for the link to the article A Tale of Two Standards in The Australi.....
» 9/06/2010 6:31:19 PM What always intrigues me about these suggestions is that it always falls on someone else t.....
» 8/06/2010 7:47:52 PM C J Morgan, You do protest too much. No, I have never been a member of a political party.....
» 8/06/2010 5:28:07 PM C J Morgan, "Additionally, it's about time we had a woman for PM :)" Well, 'Hiy.....
» 7/06/2010 7:36:50 PM It is no wonder that voters are showing frustration with government. Taxes are regularly r.....
» 7/06/2010 4:46:04 PM Shadow Minister, "MTR's penchant for taking isolated anecdotal situations and expandi.....
» 6/06/2010 3:38:29 PM suzeonline, Regardless of your personal anecdotes and I don't doubt your honesty, the med.....
» 5/06/2010 8:13:56 PM suzeonline, "The fact their menfolk aren't also wearing full body clothing in hot wea.....
» 5/06/2010 3:14:56 AM Australia could do with a charity regulator and that would provide transparency. Exemptio.....
» 4/06/2010 9:33:30 PM The CSIRO says that Australia is getting hotter, with a probable record hottest year to be.....
» 4/06/2010 1:06:32 PM If it is 'war on women' it is being waged by women as well because there are very few wome.....
» 3/06/2010 5:04:14 PM How many of these shock and awe reports are thinly disguised sales brochures for hardware .....
» 3/06/2010 4:38:27 PM Extramarital sex is legal too but that hasn't stopped the denunciation of politicians and .....
» 3/06/2010 1:58:40 PM Pynchme Yours were two of the very best posts on Hanson I have ever had the pleasure to r.....
» 3/06/2010 1:21:29 PM StevieC, "The truth is that condoms are closer to 99.5% effective. ......... It is e.....
» 3/06/2010 1:02:38 PM What is there to dissect? The story was based on scuttlebutt and no decent, self-respecti.....
» 2/06/2010 4:54:40 AM It was Rudd's 'Big Australia' and diversity for the sake of it that really got him complet.....
» 2/06/2010 12:46:53 AM " it is just groups of violent men using violence because they get off on it." .....
» 1/06/2010 9:48:17 PM Just comparing one wrong with another. Can anyone list the number of conflicts that Aust.....
» 1/06/2010 9:34:52 PM Loxton, "At any moment, close to 1 million Australians are living overseas." Th.....
» 1/06/2010 4:32:44 PM Socioeconomic status and rates of breastfeeding in Australia: evidence from three recent n.....
» 1/06/2010 1:36:53 PM This country is still dragging itself up by the bootlaces from a global financial crisis t.....
» 1/06/2010 12:51:04 PM dotto, "Despite being told that it was my fault that my baby had colic, was wakeful a.....
» 1/06/2010 1:52:12 AM Norway " Mothers breast-feed when and where they want: buses, parks, cafes, stores. .....
» 1/06/2010 1:28:07 AM C J Morgan, It was a simple question which you yourself demanded another poster to answer.....
» 31/05/2010 9:08:39 PM C J Morgan, I asked the question quite seriously and it is a reasonable one since you alw.....
» 31/05/2010 8:55:58 PM There may not have been FGM ten years ago but authorities have always turned a blind eye t.....
» 31/05/2010 8:11:39 PM CJ Granted, you are unique, a legend on OLO for your ability to detect racists, xenophob.....
» 31/05/2010 7:06:42 PM C J Morgan, "You're quite right, Cornflower. To characterise all Australians as racis.....
» 31/05/2010 6:42:02 PM woulfe If the report is saying what you think it is saying they have stopped to pee on a .....
» 31/05/2010 3:56:14 PM C J Morgan, "My main consolation is that I almost never encounter such hatred in real.....
» 31/05/2010 2:31:38 PM Lower socioeconomic status of mother = shorter duration of breastfeeding = bigger profits .....
» 31/05/2010 2:10:15 PM Same source as Aker no doubt. Tabloids make the news. Still, if it floats your boat, go f.....
» 30/05/2010 8:28:31 PM It is common to read reports of old people saying they are being treated so abominably the.....
» 30/05/2010 8:04:29 PM 'Mr Richardson described Mr Rudd as "the unluckiest prime minister ever elected. Ther.....
» 30/05/2010 7:49:12 PM What happens though to the first public transport operator who asks to see the person dema.....
» 30/05/2010 4:58:31 PM Severin, "Do you support ban on burqas, but not a separation between the state and re.....
» 30/05/2010 4:14:20 PM What this article is about is piggy-backing the euthanasia debate to push some very strang.....
» 30/05/2010 4:49:40 AM Celivia, "I'm sure that all the child molesting priests had bare faces too. It's othe.....
» 28/05/2010 10:03:50 PM "Doctors consider 'less severe' female circumcision By Timothy McDonald The body re.....
» 28/05/2010 5:46:32 PM stevenlmeyer It is political correctness and a lack of political will to address the know.....
» 28/05/2010 4:33:25 PM I am wondering what argument could be put forward to save the premature baby with the very.....
» 28/05/2010 3:08:31 PM Rima's achievement has been to make her religion serve her not the other way around. Now s.....
» 28/05/2010 2:38:37 PM individual, "... near naked sheilas tattooed from you know where to breakfast & a fag.....
» 28/05/2010 2:07:08 PM Contd.. As for the accelerating costs of supporting the aged, is everyone really so sure .....
» 28/05/2010 1:42:51 PM There is a certain obscenity in sitting around discussing the uselessness and burden of ol.....
» 28/05/2010 12:00:47 AM Celivia, "I’d be much more concerned about chaplains hanging around the school than a.....
» 27/05/2010 2:16:12 PM Queensland has done a lot of work on planning and on sustainability and it is there to see.....
» 27/05/2010 11:40:44 AM DHempill, Maybe you don't follow football. It is not so long ago that Jason Akermanis dev.....
» 27/05/2010 9:41:43 AM "But almost in all societies today the problem is rooted in our tendency to lock peop.....
» 27/05/2010 3:51:53 AM Celivia, "In comparison, I don’t think it would cause much inconvenience for teachers.....
» 27/05/2010 2:31:12 AM Aka You have taken personal offence where none was intended. I think we will have to ag.....
» 27/05/2010 2:20:27 AM Foxy No, this is what I am referring to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_rule.....
» 26/05/2010 5:52:59 PM Aka, There is formaldehyde in all houses. It is common. Open the windows. Claustrophobic.....
» 26/05/2010 5:19:22 PM PM Rudd's government has done well to handle the global financial crisis. It is a pity tha.....
» 26/05/2010 4:28:10 PM Severin, "Yes, Rudd is a complete fool to believe in a big population, however the al.....
» 26/05/2010 3:53:59 PM Like all drugs it needs to come with a warning and there is nothing to stop individuals se.....
» 26/05/2010 3:08:24 PM Celivia, "We invited emigrants to come here and promised them that they could maintai.....
» 26/05/2010 2:44:33 PM I wonder if one of the spin-offs from the controversy that has been beaten up in the media.....
» 26/05/2010 3:49:15 AM Aka The shipping containers are cleaned before being fitted out. However I am interested .....
» 25/05/2010 7:20:55 PM [Deleted for abuse].....
» 25/05/2010 6:48:16 PM Aka, I take it from the misspelling of Cornflower that you disagree with something I wrot.....
» 25/05/2010 6:20:15 PM proudmary, "You don't believe? in other words you just don't know." In fairness.....
» 25/05/2010 6:09:41 PM C J Morgan Good, you have 'discovered' something that you couldn't find before. Now keep.....
» 25/05/2010 5:01:41 PM One of the problems I see with high density infill near transport nodes is that provision .....
» 25/05/2010 4:36:26 PM pelican, "I don't understand why this topic is such a hot potato - the point is if so.....
» 25/05/2010 3:54:01 PM proudmary, I don't believe that the women who wear the Burqa in the West are forced to do.....
» 25/05/2010 3:27:15 PM contd.. It will not be long before government decides that the public park near you is 't.....
» 25/05/2010 2:53:55 PM For those who are interested, here is an article with a picture showing the proposed devel.....
» 24/05/2010 6:54:39 PM Need to lighten up, here is Burka Blue, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_Y-sw89qTY.....
» 24/05/2010 5:51:49 PM pelican, I am OK by that. I am sure we are not heading for entirely different goals altho.....
» 24/05/2010 5:43:18 PM thinker 2, Where the research seems to have inconsistencies and conflict it is possible i.....
» 24/05/2010 5:28:57 PM pelican, Good question. Politicians generally see limits on any limitations of their beha.....
» 24/05/2010 3:50:50 PM pelican, "However it would also be foolish to pretend that there does not exist a fo.....
» 24/05/2010 3:01:29 PM I enjoy alcohol for socialising but rarely drink because it really doesn't go with our lif.....
» 24/05/2010 2:09:57 PM Pelican, Yours is a fair assessment and I agree with it. However the sting in the tail ab.....
» 24/05/2010 3:28:41 AM Whistler, Granted the traditional housing of bark and branches you allude to is cheap and.....
» 24/05/2010 3:08:06 AM Foxy, Jason Akermanis is married to Megan Legge who has given him two beautiful daughters.....
» 23/05/2010 7:01:01 PM sonofgloin Of course, sorry, carry on......
» 23/05/2010 5:11:37 PM There was a joke in that link: An old Italian lived alone in New Jersey . He wanted to pl.....
» 23/05/2010 4:42:41 PM whistler OK let's have it. What about looking at the designs and telling everyone precise.....
» 23/05/2010 4:20:14 PM I must pick up a comment made earlier by a poster to the effect that because Australia has.....
» 23/05/2010 12:36:48 PM whistler, "essentially Aborigines recognise a women's jurisdiction" Having seen.....
» 22/05/2010 11:34:10 PM stevenlmeyer, "It shows what good quality immigrants we are getting." Not neces.....
» 22/05/2010 11:08:09 PM Nonetheless it remains Jason's view that players would not like to share their usually uni.....
» 22/05/2010 4:19:18 PM He was a government minister and concealed a secret that embarrassed him and could have le.....
» 22/05/2010 4:03:11 PM Used shipping containers remain structurally strong, some are insulated (not always necess.....
» 22/05/2010 2:48:12 PM I am wondering why this whole discussion isn't turning around how moderate and progressive.....
» 22/05/2010 12:48:18 PM There is no reason why shipping containers should not be recycled for housing and an addit.....
» 21/05/2010 7:38:24 PM I think it is more a case of drug testing companies trying to develop a market than anythi.....
» 21/05/2010 12:15:13 PM "At a recent conference in Brussels organised by the British Council and a European t.....
» 20/05/2010 1:32:33 PM The funeral director is a private entrepreneur who is there to make money out of supplying.....
» 19/05/2010 10:40:37 PM Foxy Vivienne Ulman was on Life Matters and I was surprised to learn that her father star.....
» 19/05/2010 12:27:20 PM Forkes and pelican are both right, no government has a mandate for a 'Big Australia' with .....
» 18/05/2010 3:40:34 PM Foxy, I started the book reluctantly, but enjoyed it. My book club ended up reconvening fo.....
» 18/05/2010 1:13:57 PM Wretched lack of a modify option, that should be Plath......
» 18/05/2010 12:51:12 PM Foxy Just digressing for a moment, have you read Fatty? Here is a taste: http://women.time.....
» 17/05/2010 5:22:19 PM I will avoid the copy and paste: What are the 78 differences between women and men? http:.....
» 17/05/2010 4:16:00 PM pelican Thanks. I have no interest in defending anyone and I reckon we can run as we plea.....
» 17/05/2010 3:11:21 PM pelican, "It is indicative of group think mentality, no critical analysis or review o.....
» 17/05/2010 1:33:58 PM It is a reasonable question and there is a need to work through the issue to get as many p.....
» 17/05/2010 12:35:43 PM There are two ways this thread could go. It could be taken as an opportunity to openly dis.....
» 16/05/2010 8:28:24 PM Reading some of the replies here reminded me of a program on ageism on Radio National's Al.....
» 16/05/2010 7:10:04 PM Hasbeen, "I was criticising those who were trying to have her stopped. Those calling .....
» 15/05/2010 9:04:46 PM Fine and I was saying just how foolish it is to believe that it is exclusively the men who.....
» 15/05/2010 9:01:21 PM Hasbeen Big seas and winds at the end, as if she needed any reminder of how tough solo ca.....
» 15/05/2010 8:08:35 PM The Institute of Criminology reports are regularly quoted by the media where the use of pe.....
» 15/05/2010 7:25:17 PM A billboard that medicalises a common condition for men is close to the Brisbane Boys Coll.....
» 15/05/2010 3:09:48 PM My last post was directed to pelican. Name omitted, sorry......
» 15/05/2010 3:05:56 PM What is it to be then, are many or most Muslim women wearing the burqa in the West through.....
» 15/05/2010 10:51:01 AM The voluntary wearing of the burqa in the West demonstrates just how foolish it is to beli.....
» 14/05/2010 10:24:36 PM Abbott would need to be recycled as well having again wilted before his shadow cabinet ove.....
» 14/05/2010 5:37:08 PM Thanks Foxy. I reckon that many people have lost sight of the fact that Abbott was a seni.....
» 14/05/2010 3:57:40 PM Peter Hume, "Just ban everything." So true......
» 14/05/2010 3:46:22 PM What would Abbott have done differently and better? What about Howard? Emerging OK from t.....
» 14/05/2010 11:59:32 AM Anne Bayefsky: 'On April 28, 2010, the U.N. elected Iran a member of its main women’s rig.....
» 13/05/2010 11:14:58 PM Seventeen pages and not one shred of evidence at all of any benefit from John Howard's buy.....
» 13/05/2010 5:52:47 PM CJ Morgan, "IanVE4ME - it's good to see that there's some Christians who are actively.....
» 13/05/2010 3:08:34 PM CJ Morgan I am suggesting that once again you have dropped back into your familiar rut an.....
» 13/05/2010 2:40:59 PM CJ is forever bagging Christianity, but other religions oppose suicide and euthanasia. For.....
» 12/05/2010 11:48:36 AM tapp If you were concerned about the good of the voters in your electorate and all Austra.....
» 9/05/2010 3:44:08 PM What makes anyone think that the insulation risks only came into being at the time of the .....
» 8/05/2010 7:02:57 PM Gelfer "The public is stupid and wrong” is a statement that has not held true on man.....
» 8/05/2010 4:00:55 PM elfer, "dictating what is and what is not worthy of investigation is another strategy.....
» 8/05/2010 2:09:36 PM For those who ever had any suspicions that some of the humanities studies areas in univers.....
» 7/05/2010 11:39:36 AM pelican, "On the subject at hand, now that Iran is a member, maybe the women and girl.....
» 7/05/2010 10:53:37 AM C J Morgan To my knowledge there haven't been any panthers discovered in the Blue Mountai.....
» 6/05/2010 1:48:04 PM C J Morgan, Heh, heh, your prejudice is showing. Otherwise why would you so pointedly di.....
» 6/05/2010 11:35:19 AM Pynchme, "You seem to be itching for an argument - take it up with your mate Antisept.....
» 5/05/2010 7:42:17 PM David G All I can say is that if you can get those returns consistently go for it. My e.....
» 5/05/2010 3:08:03 PM Pynchme, "Which leads me to note that it isn't feminists who are objecting here is it.....
» 5/05/2010 1:30:51 PM Gun deaths have traditionally been very low in Australia. The numbers were trending down b.....
» 5/05/2010 12:58:10 PM David G, "If they restricted or got rid of negative-gearing, the housing problem (soa.....
» 4/05/2010 10:31:28 PM It is a pity you can't bring yourself to regard licensed firearms owners as the normal eve.....
» 4/05/2010 2:34:47 PM C J Morgan, "I think that gun owners should have them at least annually - possibly mo.....
» 3/05/2010 9:00:11 PM Bugsy Correct, my error. Thank you......
» 3/05/2010 7:56:57 PM C J Morgan & severin It is abundantly clear that you are both manifestly ignorant of the .....
» 3/05/2010 7:04:25 PM Pericles Well you won! You were streets ahead of anyone else in going for the ad hominem .....
» 3/05/2010 3:29:02 PM I can't see the logic that there is anything good in this for women. Would putting a bandi.....
» 3/05/2010 2:09:37 PM Helen Ridout, Chief Executive of the Australian Industry Group: "Australia is 18th i.....
» 3/05/2010 12:55:31 PM contd.. In Canada, NZ and Australia the relative number of gun deaths has been very low a.....
» 3/05/2010 12:45:52 PM Severin OK, you're on, precisely where did I support the relaxation or otherwise of gun l.....
» 2/05/2010 9:44:48 PM ChrisPer, A national meeting of police commissioners, with the Attorney-General's Dept do.....
» 2/05/2010 9:19:21 PM suzeonline, You have made CJ's day, there he is hiding behind your billowing skirts after.....
» 2/05/2010 12:42:23 PM That is so pathetic, profanity as well. You might as well be holding your hands over your .....
» 2/05/2010 12:11:26 AM You just can't resist, can you?.....
» 1/05/2010 8:36:13 PM C J Morgan It is all bluster and name calling with you isn't it? I knew you were clueless.....
» 1/05/2010 6:30:46 PM Severin This is a democracy and it matters to me that thousands of known and certified (t.....
» 1/05/2010 3:12:27 PM suzeonline, Your practical experiences tally with what I have observed. You are not alon.....
» 1/05/2010 11:37:58 AM Severin So if you spent a billion $ of other people's money and failed to achieve a reduc.....
» 30/04/2010 9:52:27 PM Peter Hume, "especially when we consider the difference of interests as between male .....
» 30/04/2010 9:29:40 PM contd.. Years later it is abundantly clear that Howard's gun buy-back and gun laws were n.....
» 30/04/2010 9:21:06 PM C J Morgan, "I don't need to refer to any statistics for that to be true - he was kil.....
» 30/04/2010 4:10:25 PM It is ignorance of the Howard gun laws and their operation that causes the public to swall.....
» 30/04/2010 1:05:04 PM C J Morgan, "the current regulations certainly prevent crimes such as the one that ra.....
» 29/04/2010 4:35:22 PM ABC's Q&A program ran a special on last ANZAC Day and it was one of the best programs I ha.....
» 29/04/2010 2:14:39 PM Hasbeen What government does instead is tell you to lock up your dogs and then they drop .....
» 29/04/2010 12:56:06 PM While on the subject of PMs and governments throwing large sums of money around to promote.....
» 29/04/2010 12:49:20 AM It is theoretically possible that a person who satisfied all of the conditions to become l.....
» 28/04/2010 8:56:33 PM contd.. For the police in the weapons branches and the white elephant gun registries, 'Ho.....
» 28/04/2010 8:50:51 PM Heh, heh, ban everything eh suzeonline? Think of the children, if only one child is saved .....
» 28/04/2010 11:51:54 AM Just to say from the outset that I don't mind government taking taxes from me and spending.....
» 27/04/2010 1:15:34 PM Pynchme, "I wonder if a bloke's social worth, especially as a politician, was judged .....
» 21/04/2010 11:49:36 PM pelican, "I omitted it because it has nothing to do with the subject at hand. Anythin.....
» 21/04/2010 5:26:32 PM pelican I don't think you have raised anything that hasn't been discussed at length alrea.....
» 21/04/2010 11:25:28 AM pelican, "How does this photoshoot supposedly assit with promoting young women's self.....
» 21/04/2010 10:47:59 AM benk, Very droll, but you really don't need to twist my rejection of the ideological fan.....
» 21/04/2010 2:52:13 AM Consent is required from next-of-kin, that is a problem at present and for 'opt out', even.....
» 20/04/2010 7:15:10 PM Houellebecq You are right, there are ethical questions and scenarios to be gone into. I w.....
» 20/04/2010 7:00:23 PM "Most women actually resent being told what to do, or how to act, whether by men, or .....
» 19/04/2010 12:37:48 PM Maybe there is a lot of petty and jealous sniping at at successful women like Kate Ellis t.....
» 19/04/2010 9:47:59 AM In the Land of Oz, doubtless Mr Rudd's new publicly funded Minister for Overpopulation Pro.....
» 19/04/2010 8:32:39 AM "Pynchme pointed out just how far some men will go to ensure that these dress codes a.....
» 19/04/2010 12:36:30 AM suzeonline, "How many psych patients have you known?" That is the sort of number.....
» 18/04/2010 8:08:38 PM suzeonline, "If the deceased person did not opt to keep their organs previously, then.....
» 18/04/2010 7:51:00 PM Pynchme, "Cornflower I don't know why you're presenting that link as it refers to a w.....
» 18/04/2010 1:58:15 PM Foxy, "He is an honest and expert insider, an analist." Heh, heh, that is a goo.....
» 18/04/2010 12:07:31 PM suzeonline, "I have used cold flannels in the past, but never cold spoons!" Pro.....
» 18/04/2010 11:48:58 AM suzeonline, "My brother-in-law was a psych nurse in Ireland, and confirmed my finding.....
» 18/04/2010 5:09:40 AM Too right Pynchme and while the going is good benk might as well blamed for these burqa cl.....
» 17/04/2010 10:32:02 PM Severin I quoted you word for word. 'Shadow'? What was that all about? Please don't play g.....
» 17/04/2010 10:22:11 PM The first sentence of my last para says "Winning 'opt in' as a policy...", where.....
» 17/04/2010 10:13:30 PM StG Please don't take what I said personally because it certainly wasn't intended that wa.....
» 17/04/2010 2:07:12 PM professor-au, I am sure that many politicians are just as concerned as you are and simila.....
» 17/04/2010 1:07:08 PM All that story about Capt John Campbell, the fictitious marine and his 'letter' saying Dar.....
» 17/04/2010 12:42:11 PM Severin, "I am commenting on the resounding silence of the majority of mainstream Cat.....
» 17/04/2010 12:24:23 PM contd.. I support 'opt out' and can easily make ethical arguments supporting it. However .....
» 17/04/2010 12:10:20 PM I read somewhere that most organs are taken from road accident victims and speed of obtain.....
» 16/04/2010 2:49:55 PM Great news, all that needs to happen is for those poorer overpopulated countries to overpo.....
» 16/04/2010 10:27:58 AM Both sides of politics ensured that the appointment and promotion policies of state and fe.....
» 16/04/2010 9:17:34 AM "Yet ASCA receives no ongoing government funding." I don't see any advantage in.....
» 15/04/2010 7:49:08 PM isabelberners, "it is not enough to do your job well as a woman, but that there is an.....
» 15/04/2010 7:10:36 PM Pericles, "Switzerland" +1 For cities, our very own Canberra in the winter wou.....
» 15/04/2010 7:01:32 PM Belly, Unions are opposed to tipping because it means that employers can get away with pa.....
» 15/04/2010 5:18:34 PM JamesH, "I saw the photo and it looked more like mutton dressed up as lamb." Ch.....
» 15/04/2010 2:27:05 PM Sylvie Jade, "I wonder if Grazia would have approached Kate Ellis for a body image sh.....
» 15/04/2010 11:19:45 AM Tips for cabbies, isn't that opposed by the union movement keen to ensure that workers are.....
» 15/04/2010 11:06:07 AM It is foolish, unconvincing and plain old-fashioned wrong to pretend that Kate Ellis' fash.....
» 14/04/2010 8:32:54 PM Full marks to Tony Abbott for keeping himself fit, however I hope he isn't like some leade.....
» 14/04/2010 3:37:21 PM Hasbeen Too much information, but women would be scoffing not laughing now that Go Girl h.....
» 14/04/2010 3:04:04 PM CJ Morgan, "Ha Severin! We put the lid down in our house too, for the same reason. No.....
» 14/04/2010 1:59:50 PM Severin, Thank you for the link, that was an excellent interview......
» 13/04/2010 10:44:12 PM pelican, Where did I state that action and integrity were mutually exclusive? I would say.....
» 12/04/2010 3:53:18 PM "..the Greens locally are not as shrill or dogmatic and manipulative as Tasmania’s Fe.....
» 12/04/2010 9:26:26 AM How responsible should authorities, in this case the US military, be for journalists who l.....
» 12/04/2010 9:01:40 AM One has to ask why successive Popes have not been as opposed to paedophiles as they have b.....
» 11/04/2010 10:52:04 AM That 'bubble' has been around for such a long time that prospective home buyers must be wo.....
» 9/04/2010 8:24:45 PM Peter Hume Jan's example is not as simple as first supposed, but should be discussed alon.....
» 9/04/2010 7:45:22 PM Yabby You referred to a newspaper article that 'proved' there are windfalls from investin.....
» 9/04/2010 9:13:28 AM Yabby, "All those who bought houses more then 10 years ago, would not be owning much .....
» 9/04/2010 8:55:38 AM Yabby. "The little old lady who bought a house 40 years ago for a song, can sell it f.....
» 8/04/2010 11:48:12 AM What is the definition of child pornography in the subject jurisdiction? Would it include .....
» 5/04/2010 2:38:24 PM csteele, "To put it crudely they have been prepared to shelve part of their natural m.....
» 5/04/2010 2:02:49 PM Fractelle/Severin, "Offenders may or may not be armed, dangerous or even more threate.....
» 5/04/2010 9:58:41 AM pelican, "Aren't most feminists Third Wave? The days of the radical man-haters are lo.....
» 5/04/2010 3:04:17 AM Supervised day contact. According to a report in The Age today, in some cases separated pa.....
» 5/04/2010 2:42:24 AM That would make Jesus a Third Wave feminist wouldn't it, he would say that gender equality.....
» 5/04/2010 12:43:35 AM StG A police officer is only permitted to use his service pistol in restricted circumstan.....
» 4/04/2010 5:21:30 PM Always convenient to cherry-pick a quote or two. Here is the dotty Greer in full flight an.....
» 3/04/2010 4:44:29 PM phanto, "Christian values generally include a 'fear of the Lord' which is very often .....
» 3/04/2010 2:16:06 PM odo, "To be honest, we probably should let someone else manage our water supply, we'v.....
» 3/04/2010 1:01:11 PM Five pages of inane remarks and personal baiting from C J Morgan. Like others before me I.....
» 3/04/2010 10:57:27 AM C J Morgan, "you obviously haven't got a clue about the Greens' electoral strategies......
» 2/04/2010 10:18:51 AM C J Morgan More proof you only read the headline of that link you posted earlier and didn.....
» 2/04/2010 9:57:55 AM Hi ya C J, high fives to that balloon of ego you've got going there. Maybe tying a string.....
» 2/04/2010 9:45:54 AM C J Morgan Greens supporters should listen to Bob Brown's 'vision' on population and sust.....
» 2/04/2010 8:23:53 AM C J Morgan So what, just another repetitious link to the Greens site where there are just.....
» 2/04/2010 7:46:17 AM Heh, heh, C J is forever building up his image. Doesn't matter what the story is C J has o.....
» 1/04/2010 5:58:35 PM Got to be an April Fools Day prank, no government could be so so out of touch and arrogant.....
» 1/04/2010 2:09:02 PM Quick response and Leigh Well said, thank you. Quick response, I would like to think the.....
» 1/04/2010 1:19:33 PM A J Phillips So according to you the moderate mainstream of Christianity should find anot.....
» 1/04/2010 12:46:35 PM C J Morgan 'Corny'? You are on the back foot again. Apart from mentioning sustainability.....
» 1/04/2010 12:26:29 PM A J Phillips, "But it is not my responsibility or anyone else’s to continually add ex.....
» 1/04/2010 7:46:10 AM Responding to the few but very noisy letter writing 'environmentalists' and to their own a.....
» 1/04/2010 6:28:51 AM "So - how is it that people relate to Dexter ?" Do people relate to Dexter? Mos.....
» 1/04/2010 5:41:22 AM The Dawkins interview of the Bishop of Oxford is interesting. Here is the first part of th.....
» 31/03/2010 8:03:12 PM Semi-autonomous governmental bodies such as anti-discrimination and equal opportunity comm.....
» 31/03/2010 6:39:54 PM Belly Sounds like NSW forestry might have needed a bit of a shake up. Sad but ineffective.....
» 31/03/2010 6:12:52 PM odo, Shadow Minister So you reckon there is no money in it and the entrepreneurs are not .....
» 31/03/2010 11:58:26 AM The elephant in the room as far as the Liberals are concerned would be the tight little gr.....
» 30/03/2010 11:01:43 AM There are so many 'international days' that it is hard to keep track of them. Was Internat.....
» 29/03/2010 8:41:40 AM Belly, "cornflower hot threads are good threads surely." It was 'hot buttons' n.....
» 28/03/2010 10:27:29 PM Religion is a hot button on OLO and it is best not to provoke another very tedious diatrib.....
» 28/03/2010 7:59:45 AM Foxy, Ever heard Eric Clapton's Tears in Heaven, which he wrote in memory his son Conor wh.....
» 27/03/2010 9:51:56 PM Revisit the stages of life and what are the main concerns of each particular stage. Your c.....
» 27/03/2010 9:34:01 PM Dear Foxy A high pulse and the fight for oxygen that goes with it is a frightening experi.....
» 27/03/2010 8:30:39 PM JKJ, “Oh they’re just from the guy in Ward Seven to thank you for his new set of ears.&quo.....
» 27/03/2010 12:50:27 PM pelican To test what is being put forward by way of controls, what would you do with Tric.....
» 27/03/2010 8:54:00 AM As a parent I have always been uncomfortable that the stereotype of the child abuser as ma.....
» 26/03/2010 6:45:37 PM I don't think that anyone could deal with the subject of women's vanity and plastic surger.....
» 26/03/2010 8:08:09 AM Death through starvation is a normal cyclical event in nature. For example, thousands of w.....
» 25/03/2010 8:15:16 AM Short-changing by taxi drivers is rife, especially of young people returning home after a .....
» 25/03/2010 6:36:53 AM CeeJ is firing off the usual personal insults as a diversion while refusing to answer the .....
» 24/03/2010 3:42:11 AM C J Making it personal doesn't alter the fact that the Greens have had years to come up w.....
» 23/03/2010 6:11:06 PM C J CeeJ on the back foot always lets fly with the nasturtiums. Good one CeeJ. It was yo.....
» 23/03/2010 10:36:37 AM That was the headline, but this is the telling section of that report: 'This was also a t.....
» 23/03/2010 9:08:08 AM The rude colloquial saying is that sh*te rolls down from the top. An unpleasant image bu.....
» 23/03/2010 7:53:00 AM contd.. Bullying, as opposed to the ethical use of legitimate power and persuasion, is co.....
» 23/03/2010 7:52:07 AM I don't believe that there is any similarity with yin and yang, or that people are forever.....
» 22/03/2010 9:59:13 AM Guidelines are useless where the correct tone is not set from the top and could even make .....
» 21/03/2010 11:20:23 PM Belly, I was challenging the popular stereotype of the male bully, or bullying male in so.....
» 21/03/2010 11:45:13 AM Severin, Maybe you often leap to confusion, too. It is valid for me to contribute the ex.....
» 21/03/2010 11:07:43 AM 'they're the ones who can argue well.' Yes, no harm in 'unfair' solutions or being a bit .....
» 20/03/2010 11:05:36 PM It is how differences are resolved that is important for the long term. Anyone who think.....
» 20/03/2010 10:47:45 PM Interesting that the stereotype of the physically powerful (and probably stupid) male jock.....
» 17/03/2010 11:46:15 PM rehctub, "Don't talk to me about poor farmers, esspecially when they take our hand ou.....
» 17/03/2010 11:52:17 AM Belly I wouldn't rely too much on trying to read the body language of others. The clean,.....
» 17/03/2010 11:35:55 AM A succinct, respectful letter to the editor is far more effective. Others are diplomats fi.....
» 15/03/2010 1:24:55 PM The previous Howard government was notorious for wedge politics. This is just more of the .....
» 14/03/2010 11:05:36 AM Severin Suffice it to say that Aboriginals who have made the transition by education to t.....
» 14/03/2010 3:50:29 AM whistler, You say in your site that, "Women are first-class citizens in the Aborigin.....
» 10/03/2010 5:50:29 PM The incubation period for BSE is four years. It could be much longer than that before case.....
» 10/03/2010 2:31:37 PM Shadow Minister, "...99% of men who have had the procedure are perfectly happy" .....
» 10/03/2010 4:10:26 AM In one swift move Tony Abbott was able to take the heat off the immigration debate. Pity.....
» 9/03/2010 5:35:39 PM If it is always against the interests of the child to spend half of his/her time with eith.....
» 9/03/2010 12:48:52 AM mjpb The RACP is in very good company when it advises against the routine circumcision of.....
» 8/03/2010 10:41:47 PM pelican, "Should any party advocate for the changes you posted above, I would suspect.....
» 8/03/2010 4:42:22 AM suzeonline, "It may not always be logical of course, but I am always worried that iss.....
» 6/03/2010 8:49:17 PM Foxy I reckon that the meat industry could be playing with fire if consumers really get o.....
» 6/03/2010 5:20:42 PM Foxy, Meat pie: Pastry or packaging - Oz Everything else - O'seas. Food Standards Austra.....
» 6/03/2010 2:36:10 PM Hasbeen Maybe you are right in some cases, however from my experience on school councils .....
» 6/03/2010 2:46:30 AM Here is the story of Hazel, the 88 year old grandmother who has been the Mayor of Mississa.....
» 5/03/2010 6:03:01 PM Now that really does deserve the Nobel Peace Prize. Or maybe several peace prizes seeing.....
» 5/03/2010 5:51:07 PM I am always rushing and my editing often fails. Apologies. That last sentence should have .....
» 5/03/2010 5:44:23 PM Sara J Russell, a favourite poet of mine wrote an article, The Culture of Spite, where she.....
» 5/03/2010 5:20:12 PM juliepm, "Abortion: An intensely personal decision made by a politician and her colle.....
» 5/03/2010 3:43:00 PM Shadow Minister, "BOth Celivia and Cornflower have failed to provide anything to show.....
» 5/03/2010 12:57:27 AM Celivia Fair enough, thanks......
» 4/03/2010 6:05:35 PM Tested? How? The USDA has never experienced any quirks of conscience for insisting on req.....
» 4/03/2010 5:40:31 PM "We risk trade barriers" There always were trade barriers and there always will.....
» 4/03/2010 5:18:46 PM rstuart What I was endeavouring to prove and it hasn't been refuted so far is that other .....
» 4/03/2010 5:10:33 PM Celivia, "And yes the best point you made is WHERE ARE THE FATHERS? Perhaps Cornflowe.....
» 4/03/2010 4:32:27 PM Shadow Minister You failed to mention the indirect subsidies available to primary produce.....
» 4/03/2010 4:12:49 PM The Royal Australian College of Physicians: "After extensive review of the literatur.....
» 4/03/2010 2:45:18 PM I would be more concerned about a small group that is forever trying to enforce its world .....
» 4/03/2010 4:47:39 AM It will not be cheap meat in the supermarkets and products using it will not be cheaper. .....
» 4/03/2010 12:37:53 AM You would stake your reputation on that eh, Pynchme? You wouldn't like your blunt weapon .....
» 4/03/2010 12:03:07 AM rehctub, I posted twice on this issue in the thread on Australian Industry, but maybe you.....
» 3/03/2010 11:25:01 PM Poirot, "I haven't been posting here long but have always found his manner to be meas.....
» 3/03/2010 11:18:32 PM Why shouldn't anyone who makes the sort of statement that C J did not be questioned? From .....
» 3/03/2010 6:38:04 PM C J Morgan, The quote was exact and this is what you said: "I am mostly polite and .....
» 3/03/2010 6:18:28 PM Just to underline that point, I find few people as worrying as the man who stews away at a.....
» 3/03/2010 5:44:42 PM c J Morgan, "My approach to conversations here is similar to that which I employ at d.....
» 3/03/2010 4:42:32 PM Belly Sorry if I unintentionally offended you. The reference was to the few who toe the l.....
» 2/03/2010 11:14:11 PM pelican, "Anti might carry his own demons and dishes out the poop sometimes but he co.....
» 2/03/2010 7:45:18 PM Recently, I wryly called this classic post by Pynchme 'forum rage': "Suzie, I wouldn.....
» 2/03/2010 12:03:57 PM Someone lights a match, then another throws on some sticks, yet another rolls on some logs.....
» 1/03/2010 2:51:19 PM Houellebecq That is where Pynchme and her Eighties rad fems fail, they cannot distinguish.....
» 1/03/2010 2:26:03 PM contd.. Likewise, Pynchme is blind to the diversity of pornography. It is all awful, repr.....
» 1/03/2010 1:59:25 PM CJ Morgan, "The lifting of censorship of so-called 'obscene' literature and images le.....
» 1/03/2010 3:43:30 AM Heh, heh, that must be Forum Rage. I forgive you Possum and so would your long suffering.....
» 28/02/2010 8:17:40 PM RObert, It was kind of you to reply. I asked the question because I do not know how asp.....
» 28/02/2010 7:43:14 PM Foxy, 'Today, "frigidity" has all but disappeared; instead, the same problem is .....
» 28/02/2010 5:04:49 PM suzeonline, Since you appear to have lost your memory, the background was that you though.....
» 28/02/2010 4:13:45 PM suzeonline, There is no doubt those nicks are chosen with malice aforethought, to humilia.....
» 28/02/2010 4:02:07 PM Then again, women might represent the new customer base. However that might have more to d.....
» 28/02/2010 3:34:16 PM Pynchme, Again you misquote, I said that the Sixties Sexual Revolution challenged repress.....
» 28/02/2010 3:08:33 PM Pynchme, "Cornflower, It's true that I have a primary interest in masculine and femin.....
» 28/02/2010 2:46:49 PM phanto, If you could wave your magic wand, what would you have instead?.....
» 28/02/2010 1:59:40 PM Fractelle/Severin, "Suzeonline, Until Cornflower has sprayed you with her venom, you .....
» 28/02/2010 1:23:55 PM pynchme, "As Cornflower points out, some earlier playboy pics seem almost quaint - th.....
» 28/02/2010 4:04:06 AM I don't know why you would mention pornography and not obscenity because both called for b.....
» 27/02/2010 7:13:58 PM Gender shouldn't matter. Bear in mind though that most women and men, especially young wo.....
» 27/02/2010 6:19:36 PM It is an idea that is long on idealism but short on practicality. It is a question of res.....
» 27/02/2010 2:53:35 PM suzeonline You should thank me for drawing your attention to your exposed posterior. Ther.....
» 27/02/2010 2:18:46 PM Have you taken up the option or are you recommending it for the long-suffering school chil.....
» 27/02/2010 1:54:59 PM mikk Make that two votes. Good deaths Hollywood style being very rare indeed......
» 27/02/2010 1:39:10 PM No, it has been closed. Are you the cleaner?.....
» 27/02/2010 11:51:40 AM Well there you go, the flummoxed, ill-mannered Fractelle/Severin has declared the thread d.....
» 27/02/2010 12:40:06 AM Six of one, half dozen of the other. How is 'HTFU' any worse than calling a person 'sept.....
» 26/02/2010 9:31:55 PM Circumcision came from a weird religious ritual where cutting off the foreskin was equated.....
» 26/02/2010 4:40:00 PM mjpb, "You say that no national medical organisation in the world recommends the proc.....
» 26/02/2010 3:03:28 PM Fractelle/Severin, "I do also agree with Cornflower's proposal that the pill be more .....
» 25/02/2010 6:30:11 PM Pericles Your absent keyboard warnings could do with a little work too. Oh well, I was g.....
» 25/02/2010 3:46:31 PM Fractelle/severin Goodness, another mental oldie who is a product of her times and gets h.....
» 25/02/2010 1:02:13 PM Nothing dark about my 'agenda' as you ominously put it, as anyone can see from posts. Here.....
» 25/02/2010 9:38:22 AM TBC Heh, heh, U R too good for me. Make that a weasel thread, all part of the family, bad.....
» 25/02/2010 9:18:54 AM Malcolm's dislike for the Man of Steel resonates with a few......
» 25/02/2010 9:14:08 AM The story so far.... From the window of his airconditioned aircraft and the map provided .....
» 25/02/2010 3:08:34 AM suzeonline We are not different in the end goal, that the sexual revolution is extended t.....
» 25/02/2010 2:48:32 AM Pericles, OK, so the Emperor Pericles has no clothes......
» 25/02/2010 12:21:37 AM suzeonline Few drugs would ever have been subjected to such exhaustive study and for such.....
» 24/02/2010 10:10:39 PM There are far too many pussy-whipped barrows at large and it is good to see the occasional.....
» 24/02/2010 8:17:28 PM Pericles All of that needless rationalisation and not one dam. You have not managed to d.....
» 24/02/2010 7:10:26 PM benk Heh, heh, I agree that the main reason for failure of the Pill is the stupidity of t.....
» 24/02/2010 6:23:14 PM Foxy Wit is a scarce but much appreciated commodity in a world of political correctness w.....
» 24/02/2010 1:57:33 PM Foxy Why quote a journalist who was trying to be entertaining and controversial when ther.....
» 24/02/2010 1:04:57 PM Fractelle All medications have some risks and the risk of stroke in your case was low eve.....
» 24/02/2010 8:01:40 AM suzeonline, "the contraceptive pill will never be available freely because there ARE .....
» 24/02/2010 7:42:29 AM Sonya You might be aware of the proposed changes to liquor licensing laws that will close.....
» 24/02/2010 3:21:08 AM Once again the tarps are pulled over to conceal the wretched state of Australia's construc.....
» 24/02/2010 2:58:00 AM suzeonline, "A human being under the age of 16 is a CHILD no matter what they look li.....
» 23/02/2010 10:26:29 PM Back to the sexual revolution and the wondrous little pill that liberated women. What in.....
» 23/02/2010 8:23:50 PM Pericles I quoted political leaders from local and state government and from both major p.....
» 23/02/2010 11:41:04 AM mjpb Circumcision is a good idea? What absolute bollocks, 'No national medical organiza.....
» 23/02/2010 10:44:05 AM Jolly good, the discussion have been well and truly diverted onto nit-picking examples and.....
» 23/02/2010 10:20:07 AM Houellebecq, It is most unfair of you not to tug your forelock and go along with the dem.....
» 22/02/2010 8:49:06 PM I wonder, as a rich man who was born with a platinum spoon in his mouth and having enjoyed.....
» 22/02/2010 6:17:48 PM Mal mellowed as he aged, but what convinces you he would act differently if he held the re.....
» 22/02/2010 9:49:34 AM In Brisbane a beautiful old dance hall in a scenic position was knocked down with the full.....
» 21/02/2010 5:31:43 PM More laws, controls and experts are not needed, this is an industry trying to prop itself .....
» 21/02/2010 8:12:41 AM 'It is all worth it If just one child is saved....' I notice that seniors are in the gun .....
» 20/02/2010 10:08:22 PM Popular music, films, magazines and the like can give youth the impression that sex is com.....
» 18/02/2010 5:06:49 PM "Women are either sexually receptive or not - most men these days are capable of spot.....
» 18/02/2010 2:13:03 AM Of course! Foolish me, anything and everything is a trigger for you. Your game (for lif.....
» 18/02/2010 1:05:32 AM In my second paragraph above, the second sentence should have read, "Risk-taking cann.....
» 17/02/2010 7:06:44 PM Mr Rudd was likely defending his 'Big Australia' policy to nearly double the population wi.....
» 17/02/2010 4:21:35 PM Foxy Agreed and well put. Youthful exuberance and risk taking are to be expected, condon.....
» 17/02/2010 2:26:07 PM suzeonline Collateral damage - you were too quick on the trigger. If you go back to the H.....
» 16/02/2010 11:28:41 PM Hanrahan Maybe this article by Bel Mooney published today in Mail Online expresses what y.....
» 16/02/2010 7:54:56 PM Houellebecq, "Just hang around a large bunch of drunk chicks trying to out-do each ot.....
» 16/02/2010 6:21:33 PM C J Morgan Yes, that neatly encapsulates my concerns. Foxy Hi, The Ombudsman would have.....
» 16/02/2010 8:42:23 AM The Missus Heh. heh, how naughty of you to say let the market rule. The demand is for t.....
» 16/02/2010 7:25:38 AM For nigh on forty years Gloria Steinem has managed to live off her three weeks experience .....
» 16/02/2010 6:09:53 AM I was astonished by a news story in the SMH today Feb 16, 2010 that ATO staff can break in.....
» 15/02/2010 8:06:42 PM Foxy You are right to demand comparison with the previous Howard government. Your archi.....
» 15/02/2010 5:58:11 PM Coles and Woolworths will be able to buy meat cheap in countries where there are governmen.....
» 15/02/2010 12:13:22 PM As I tried to communicate in another thread on the subject [Rudd and Garretts Incompetence.....
» 14/02/2010 10:57:23 PM pelican, What would really gall the people affected by meatworks closures is the federal .....
» 13/02/2010 7:06:06 PM Garrett should take responsibility and resign because he was advised of problems yet did n.....
» 13/02/2010 4:12:45 PM "How about the media go after the REAL people responsible...?" It is a bit more.....
» 12/02/2010 8:52:03 PM Foxy, Good post......
» 12/02/2010 8:44:35 PM I totally reject falsification of records as ever being necessary or defensible. It should.....
» 12/02/2010 8:33:51 PM C J Morgan, "it's one of Cornflower's standard rhetorical ploys to try and steer disc.....
» 12/02/2010 7:04:52 PM nelle I agree with you, the child is most affected yet his/her needs and rights are ruthl.....
» 11/02/2010 4:44:25 PM David Jennings, "I think that Cornflower's comments reflect the fundamental weakness .....
» 11/02/2010 12:25:34 PM Cheryl, (commenting on the Tampa) "I was in Malaysia when the Howard Government kept .....
» 11/02/2010 11:39:23 AM There is also a funny side to it: "Ambassador calls for divorce after veil-wearing M.....
» 11/02/2010 3:07:49 AM Maybe the 'racial' targeting is all in the framing by the media and by the Indian governme.....
» 9/02/2010 4:57:00 PM C J Morgan I query your original assertion and that is changing the subject? Good one. C.....
» 8/02/2010 8:22:48 PM DreamOn, "It is the age old question of how to divide the turkey is it not?" No.....
» 8/02/2010 7:28:33 PM "Why are governments doing so much to stop these businesses from being viable?" .....
» 8/02/2010 5:22:28 PM CJMorgan So Labor and LNP are fair game for you but not your Greens? Good one! You cann.....
» 8/02/2010 11:34:55 AM C J Morgan, "the ALP government is no more profligate nor hypocritical than a LNP gov.....
» 6/02/2010 10:01:20 PM Supertooth Thank you for the reply and it is now possible to see where you are coming fro.....
» 6/02/2010 2:40:16 PM Foxy Have you read Noel Pearson's address to the Writers' festival? This blog has the lin.....
» 6/02/2010 1:27:32 PM Jardine K. Jardine, "It is irrational and superstitious to reason "because probl.....
» 5/02/2010 3:48:26 AM stan_nesta You intemperate response proves something does it not?.....
» 4/02/2010 11:41:10 AM 'sblood, things are even worse than imagined! Not since the replacement of high slippery s.....
» 4/02/2010 2:33:59 AM contd., TRTJ, "I consider myself a libertarian. By and large, I think people should .....
» 4/02/2010 1:07:24 AM TRTL, "you also misrepresent the debate about the Australian flag." No I did no.....
» 4/02/2010 12:02:36 AM Jule, After that excellent mentoring by George all I can add is be sure to follow his adv.....
» 3/02/2010 7:22:37 PM Foxy, "Abbott once described himself as the "political love-child" of John .....
» 3/02/2010 3:10:51 PM I wonder what advice Ms Gillard or Ms Haussegger might have given their children if they h.....
» 2/02/2010 10:58:49 PM we are unique, You silly little sausage, your attention span and comprehension are woeful.....
» 2/02/2010 6:52:15 PM ponde, "Australia's population has almost doubled in the past 10 years." Infras.....
» 2/02/2010 5:47:53 PM Some good examples, however most have their own blind spots through irrational fears and c.....
» 2/02/2010 6:35:15 AM Nanny State legislation does not come out of thin air, it is the legislative response dema.....
» 2/02/2010 12:17:32 AM Supertooth, I take it that you are not a dentist, because if you were you would be empha.....
» 1/02/2010 11:53:00 AM Aboriginal people will not be fooled for a minute by the mob who always claim to be be wor.....
» 31/01/2010 9:10:44 PM Severin Onion beat-up a salacious story to give its adolescent voyeurs some jollies and t.....
» 31/01/2010 8:09:07 PM stan_nesta, "It is entirely up to the girls to decide where, when, how, etc., they ha.....
» 31/01/2010 7:25:33 PM SS, Time to invoke Godwin's Law. BYW, Abbott lives in an all-female household with three.....
» 31/01/2010 12:49:54 PM Those political nongs are driven by 'progressive' idealists who foolishly believe that the.....
» 30/01/2010 7:30:50 PM examinator Tongue in cheek, especially the first paragraph. I have this image of men eat.....
» 30/01/2010 5:56:07 PM Not being aware that it was mentioned here, I penned a discussion topic about Barnaby's la.....
» 30/01/2010 5:39:55 PM Foxy, Steady with the nasturtiums, it is only a debate. You still haven't answered the.....
» 30/01/2010 4:12:37 PM While the self-righteous indignation is running high in certain quarters and frivolous sub.....
» 30/01/2010 2:54:44 PM Foxy No, you haven't proved your assertion that, "They (migrants) were ...invariably.....
» 30/01/2010 4:38:24 AM Foxy, "Named the "Whingeing Pom Egg," they feature a frowning face the oppo.....
» 29/01/2010 9:40:21 PM Foxy Again, where does any of that support your assertion that, "They (migrants) wer.....
» 29/01/2010 8:26:53 PM What mother wouldn't also advise her adolescents and teens to be cautious about those who .....
» 28/01/2010 9:31:00 PM Foxy Where does it support your assertion that, "They (migrants) were ...invariably .....
» 28/01/2010 2:42:52 PM Foxy Why cherry-pick and generalise to disgrace a whole population, just to savage a long.....
» 28/01/2010 12:10:44 AM Foxy, "if we looked back historically to the 1950s ..... we'd have - only white faces.....
» 27/01/2010 2:30:51 PM david f Next you will be asking people to think for themselves and to take some responsib.....
» 27/01/2010 1:45:29 PM examinator, The national or sporting colours of many countries are different to their fla.....
» 26/01/2010 10:04:01 PM There is strong support everywhere for the Australian flag. Australians know that like Haw.....
» 26/01/2010 4:30:59 PM I wonder what the Minister for Respect is going to do about the waiting queues at hospital.....
» 26/01/2010 4:16:23 PM Foxy, "Australia Day - and it is an appropriate time to discuss the issue of this cou.....
» 26/01/2010 3:36:53 PM Pynchme, "most men think (or at least say) that they would LOVE to be somebody's sex .....
» 25/01/2010 11:31:42 PM They need a Minister for Silly Walks. Just thinking though, will the Minister for Respect.....
» 25/01/2010 11:03:04 PM In Australia, publicity seekers and the odd try-hard know they can get away with dumping o.....
» 24/01/2010 2:17:08 PM Foxy, Is violence really accelerating or do political parties find it easier to manage us.....
» 23/01/2010 9:28:23 PM Arjay, You are right of course, a lot of Australians feel more comfortable with Big Broth.....
» 22/01/2010 8:07:59 PM Belly, The GG, Ms Quentin Bryce AC is the Queen's representative in Australia. Australia.....
» 22/01/2010 7:42:44 PM benk, "many young men don't want to be too nice to their current girlfriend, because .....
» 22/01/2010 2:36:58 PM henyak, Not all women are like that - it was and is, your choice......
» 21/01/2010 6:20:12 PM TheMissus, "Whoever wrote it was not from the tropics." Nor had s/he seen the l.....
» 21/01/2010 6:02:14 PM phoenix94 Political system stays the same. We have our own elected head of state in the p.....
» 21/01/2010 5:41:24 PM benk The stuff you are talking about, regardless of whether it is written by feminists or.....
» 21/01/2010 3:24:02 PM There is a need to separate the man from the spin of the aristocratic Norman-French family.....
» 19/01/2010 6:29:11 PM Discrimination in employment? The elephant in the room would have to be old people, where .....
» 19/01/2010 5:15:52 PM suzeonline, I was not talking about the method of self-defence. That is another matter en.....
» 19/01/2010 2:06:41 AM With respect, this is an egg-beat of an egg-beat. This is from the newspaper concerned: &.....
» 16/01/2010 1:47:04 AM benk, "The parents of the 'soft targets' should hang their heads in shame. They have .....
» 16/01/2010 1:02:57 AM benk, "Who would have thought that playing lots of golf could increase a man's sex ap.....
» 15/01/2010 6:41:04 PM Beth, Too right, how dare these yobbos objectify women when the Catholic Church has had a.....
» 14/01/2010 5:47:34 PM What we could do immediately is discourage the planting of species like eucalyptus in buil.....
» 13/01/2010 4:53:25 PM Then again there are many women celebrities who have cut a respectable (maybe that was a p.....
» 13/01/2010 4:17:15 PM Surely the criticism should directed at those schools who do not take advantage of the gov.....
» 13/01/2010 3:53:21 PM CJ More insults but still no answer......
» 13/01/2010 1:55:48 PM It is nonsense that farmers are not conservationists. The keyboard greens in cities ought .....
» 12/01/2010 11:54:30 PM CJ, You keep avoiding the question and of course when your back is to the wall you alway.....
» 12/01/2010 2:05:21 PM CJ So now you are disputing your own definition? No doubt about it you take any and every.....
» 11/01/2010 10:02:59 PM In Brisbane Sophia Tun and a friend used their stiletto heeled shoes to viciously beat Can.....
» 29/12/2009 8:54:05 PM individual For info: http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=32556&Cr=diarrhoea&Cr1.....
» 29/12/2009 2:01:24 PM It is not the handshake that is the problem, it is the lack of soap and water after perfor.....
» 21/12/2009 11:43:04 PM Once again the government is blaming the public for the government's own lack of planning......
» 21/12/2009 5:09:54 PM If the electorate was more mature, Kevin Andrews would get credit and encouragement for ha.....
» 18/12/2009 5:41:37 PM What about the forgotten option of cutting the outrageously high migrant program. It is no.....
» 18/12/2009 12:30:08 PM Nuclear promoters have always talked up the technology that is 'just around the corner' fo.....
» 17/12/2009 3:58:36 PM Ludwig, "..the best way to do this is to embrace real sustainability and population s.....
» 17/12/2009 2:39:47 AM Hmmm, there could be some good come out of it. Maybe it could herald the start of a new tr.....
» 16/12/2009 4:11:41 PM There is nothing wrong with the present (State) leader of the LNP. His more measured, quie.....
» 15/12/2009 7:23:24 PM I have no problem honouring the profession or the position, but of course the person conce.....
» 15/12/2009 6:55:08 PM Nothing the mildly incompetent and uninspiring Anna Bligh has done could ever compare with.....
» 13/12/2009 4:25:20 PM Ah Poirot, but did your dear Mama also suffer from 'testosterone poisoning' as well as mou.....
» 12/12/2009 9:37:54 PM Goodness gracious FG you are right and it was all in the innocuous small print. Has Keati.....
» 12/12/2009 8:11:10 PM Poirot, Enjoy, http://www.cultureandrecreation.gov.au.....
» 12/12/2009 8:03:18 PM "Researchers found a single dose of testosterone delivered to women caused a substant.....
» 9/12/2009 11:01:39 PM pelican, "Most men are scrubbers - out for as much sex they can get - aren't they? Or.....
» 8/12/2009 7:05:25 PM pelican, "It is interesting that MPs superannuation is not linked to CPI.." Tha.....
» 7/12/2009 10:14:06 PM "And very good luck to him. Shame about the missus." Jolly good and what if he .....
» 7/12/2009 7:46:17 PM Just because you are the world's best golfer it doesn't mean you cannot be beaten by your .....
» 7/12/2009 4:24:04 PM Make that some men and some women: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/591383.stm This is.....
» 5/12/2009 3:35:03 PM pelican, "The trouble is always in evidence and proving the risk of returning childre.....
» 5/12/2009 2:32:57 PM CJ! Is that really you peeping around Pynch's thunderous thighs? Why you sly old faker, yo.....
» 5/12/2009 1:34:55 PM CJ has gone ominously quiet. Say, you haven't got him pynched (sic) so tight between your.....
» 5/12/2009 1:11:59 AM Pynchme showing her origins and knee deep in muck as usual no doubt. Good to know that yo.....
» 4/12/2009 9:03:33 PM CJ, the keyboard farmer, has had to construct an elaborate story about neighbours and rabb.....
» 4/12/2009 12:55:05 AM Ludwig, "A ceej of ducks (rebellious ducks that have decided that they’ve had enough .....
» 3/12/2009 2:56:42 PM CJ Morgan "Being 182cm and over 100kg, I'm neither little nor afraid of men." A.....
» 2/12/2009 12:40:52 PM Condemning violence is one thing but condemning men and boys for violence against women is.....
» 2/12/2009 12:13:46 PM Doesn't government have any measures to test learning? New South Wales Greens MP John Kaye.....
» 2/12/2009 11:48:50 AM CJ Heh, heh, I have been taking you for someone who lives on an acre or few on the fringe.....
» 2/12/2009 2:36:03 AM CJ All ostracising suspected offenders does is makes things worse (the suspected offender.....
» 1/12/2009 10:40:48 PM Pynchme, "peer behaviour is in fact a recognized (sic) factor in encouraging or disco.....
» 1/12/2009 10:18:46 PM CJ To be serious for a moment, would you ever consider starting a Men's Shed in your area.....
» 1/12/2009 9:27:41 PM suzeonline, "Big strong unfaithful Tiger is well able to look after himself and doesn.....
» 1/12/2009 5:42:31 PM CJ, "There's also something kind of primally satisfying about catching, killing and p.....
» 1/12/2009 5:17:48 PM Pynchme, "As CJ said, the first important thing about WRD is that it's men stating th.....
» 1/12/2009 2:12:25 PM I wonder if animal liberationists might apply the same standards to human foetuses destroy.....
» 30/11/2009 5:20:47 PM Child abuse and neglect has been called Australia's greatest social problem bar none and i.....
» 28/11/2009 3:08:11 AM suzeonline, "I see it as a way to alert all of us to the often hidden domestic violen.....
» 27/11/2009 10:38:37 PM CJ, "I'm a man myself, and most of my mates are men. We do blokey things like go fish.....
» 27/11/2009 12:04:18 PM CJ You are an absolute fraud and your silly story about how you handle your assumed DV of.....
» 27/11/2009 1:00:42 AM CJ 'Look at me, look at me, look at me'. From your oft-told stories of your failed marria.....
» 26/11/2009 9:03:13 PM Foxy What a pleasure it has been to read your posts in this thread. The political event .....
» 25/11/2009 4:14:54 PM In Queensland the combination of rental regulations and water commission directives make t.....
» 25/11/2009 2:54:25 PM I only got through half of this rant before giving up, quite convinced that the authors ha.....
» 24/11/2009 3:44:40 AM Maybe sometimes we all need a reminder that things are not always as they seem to be. The .....
» 23/11/2009 3:11:58 PM Foxy, "Let the country vote on the matter." Agree totally, you have gone straig.....
» 23/11/2009 2:51:51 AM suzieonline It is not my mind you have to change, try electorate instead and add votes. B.....
» 21/11/2009 4:49:27 PM Foxy, "The number one reason heterosexuals marry is not to establish legal status, al.....
» 21/11/2009 2:17:45 PM The Marriage Act continues to reflect the values and priorities of Australians otherwise t.....
» 20/11/2009 7:03:35 PM Bumper sticker on a car in Australia: Save the Marriage Act: If It Isn't Broken, Don't F.....
» 19/11/2009 11:52:44 AM Foxy Thank you for the reply. It is important that people engage with one another on sub.....
» 18/11/2009 10:40:34 PM Examinator Sport does show up the ugliness in some parents and schools but it is trivial .....
» 18/11/2009 10:00:43 PM Foxy, So the gist of what you are saying is that you are upset and it is my fault. But y.....
» 18/11/2009 4:10:06 PM http://www.smh.com.au/national/freddo-frog-meltdown-police-chief-wants-charge-with-drawn-a.....
» 18/11/2009 3:25:56 PM It is the reporting by the Oz (so, so Oz) media that is wrong with the Olympics. If I neve.....
» 18/11/2009 3:04:42 PM Foxy Your opening post invited opinion. If you did it solely to advocate a position and o.....
» 17/11/2009 8:51:03 PM CJM You are back to name calling, but maybe you never stopped. Your back is to the ropes,.....
» 17/11/2009 2:45:27 PM CJM So as per usual the Greens social policies are piecemeal and are being made up on the.....
» 17/11/2009 1:10:05 PM While reading this nonsense I had the image of two monkeys hurling their excreta randomly .....
» 17/11/2009 11:43:10 AM There has not been any convincing argument so far as to why government should involve itse.....
» 16/11/2009 11:18:37 AM C J Morgan The point is that you are prone to vanity and boasting. Your false dilemmas m.....
» 16/11/2009 10:39:02 AM C J Morgan In your breathless haste to convince readers of your cleverness in thinking of.....
» 14/11/2009 7:12:38 PM Foxy A rant by a no-name green left justifying fraud is no answer. No responsibility, no .....
» 14/11/2009 5:52:09 PM RObert, "If it's about an objection to the idea that people can find themselves in a .....
» 14/11/2009 11:36:16 AM RObert The above was replying to Foxy - I often leave a window open while attending to bu.....
» 14/11/2009 11:03:59 AM If as you seem to think, gays and lesbians really want what goes on in their their bedroom.....
» 13/11/2009 8:19:29 PM Make the houses out of shipping containers. Quick and cheap to transport and the locals ca.....
» 12/11/2009 1:09:24 PM It will be enough for Joe to qualify for the extra benefits of being an ex-opposition lead.....
» 11/11/2009 6:04:00 PM I did have a lend of C J Morgan who had already replied in jest to the thread topic. Maybe.....
» 10/11/2009 10:34:39 PM Responding to huffnpuff's informed comments, I am wondering why, where the definition of r.....
» 10/11/2009 8:48:00 PM C J Morgan Of course it is relevant, you continually make it known that you are are a car.....
» 10/11/2009 4:36:16 PM A few months ago, another teacher was being lauded by the media for implementing a policy .....
» 10/11/2009 3:59:26 PM Here are relevant links: http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/12/07/1070732071968.html .....
» 10/11/2009 3:44:49 PM C J Morgan If Hockey frightens you what do you think of Bob Brown nominating recycled ex-.....
» 10/11/2009 12:30:35 PM Establishing his brand and a sneaky sniper's shot from cover in the leadership tussle with.....
» 10/11/2009 12:22:10 AM TheMissus Thanks for that link it was most interesting reading......
» 9/11/2009 8:07:29 PM Just to clarify something from the outset, isn't rape, rape, regardless of the gender of t.....
» 9/11/2009 4:42:45 PM C J Morgan You are as predictable as any schoolyard bully with your broken record taunts .....
» 9/11/2009 4:10:49 PM C J Morgan As I have made it abundantly clear the democratically elected government of Au.....
» 9/11/2009 3:39:15 PM http://www.canadiancrc.com/Female_Sex_Offenders-Female_Sexual_Predators_awareness.aspx.....
» 9/11/2009 1:30:10 PM There are reports that Whooping Cough is flaring up again in Australia. This is a serious .....
» 9/11/2009 1:13:30 PM All legislation discriminates and any of it could and often is, challenged over individual.....
» 8/11/2009 11:44:55 PM Foxy It doesn't do to apply negative labels to people or imply they are out of touch simp.....
» 7/11/2009 7:41:24 PM stevenlmeyer My quote came from the article you hyperlinked. Interesting that Australia .....
» 7/11/2009 6:45:34 PM Examinator Your history lesson is irrelevant. The federal parliament recently confirmed w.....
» 7/11/2009 6:19:18 PM C J Morgan A person who voices an alternative opinion is by your reckoning a homophobe? W.....
» 7/11/2009 4:33:12 PM Indignant about the usual misleading sensationalism of the media maybe. What a beat-up. T.....
» 7/11/2009 4:08:10 PM Foxy ALL legislation discriminates if you would like to view it that way. What piece of l.....
» 7/11/2009 2:04:13 PM You can get away with calling them Liberal and Christian and not suffer a torrent of abuse.....
» 7/11/2009 1:42:29 PM C J Morgan Of course anyone who disagrees with you is guilty of convoluted reasoning or m.....
» 7/11/2009 2:25:38 AM C J Morgan, "It's quite interesting to me that the idea that people should know what .....
» 6/11/2009 10:18:18 PM I agree with the general thrust of C J's concluding remark. However I don't think that th.....
» 6/11/2009 9:18:30 PM Robp Yours is one spin that could be put on it. Another could be that the US army's man .....
» 6/11/2009 8:24:22 PM J S Mill, "I would be interested to know the source of your belief that it is immigra.....
» 6/11/2009 7:18:29 PM "The gunman was eventually shot by a female civilian officer, herself injured. Hasan.....
» 6/11/2009 3:55:08 PM It is easy to say treat all people the same but who is going to pay for it? That is a Carg.....
» 6/11/2009 3:38:07 PM J S Mill You quoted the average price which was useful for your argument. There are many .....
» 6/11/2009 2:30:17 PM Houellebecq, ".. the point I'm making is why don't we let people decide to 'commit' o.....
» 6/11/2009 1:56:44 PM Foxy, "Why are straight marriages any better than gay marriages?" Why is homose.....
» 6/11/2009 12:28:39 PM It is common for two people and more to share living arrangements and support one another .....
» 5/11/2009 10:58:40 PM I find C J Morgan's assertion that "there are many adults who are pig-ignorant about .....
» 4/11/2009 2:49:04 PM Wiltshire is right to say, "ALWAYS beware of governments that try to tinker with the .....
» 3/11/2009 1:57:17 PM C J Morgan Your behaviour is always predictable - insults and personal abuse then like th.....
» 2/11/2009 10:19:52 PM C J Morgan More insults from the master! Good one, C.J. A policy is more than vague, und.....
» 2/11/2009 10:33:51 AM Bronwyn Contrary to what you might believe, Australian women are already facing considera.....
» 2/11/2009 10:09:38 AM The author mentioned the Norwegian vessel the Tampa and how 'unfair' it was for Australian.....
» 1/11/2009 6:18:24 PM Chickens are very well cared for in intensive raising conditions. That is the whole point,.....
» 1/11/2009 1:42:25 PM Shadow Minister There is absolutely nothing to be gained from rushing into it and buying .....
» 31/10/2009 7:29:35 PM Shadow Minister, "however, while I respect the right of women never to seek outside e.....
» 30/10/2009 12:11:06 PM C J Morgan What 'proof' is that? It just more of the trademark personal insults you have.....
» 29/10/2009 10:33:53 PM C J Morgan Well yes as a matter of fact I did look at the Greens site prior. Now what a.....
» 29/10/2009 10:23:25 PM robby22, "females can really bring something innovative and fresh to the fore of poli.....
» 29/10/2009 6:26:38 PM Ming always looked and sounded so dismayed to be back in Australia. It was a great pity fo.....
» 29/10/2009 6:05:16 PM I had a laugh at the triteness and frivolousness of this article. Is that enough?.....
» 29/10/2009 6:01:10 PM strayan, "Yes it's true, immigration policy has evolved in nearly complete disregard .....
» 29/10/2009 4:14:10 PM Why diminish the sterling (not!) efforts of the Hon Julie Bishop and others? However it i.....
» 29/10/2009 3:38:46 PM Australia could have been very different if women had been able to retain the jobs they ha.....
» 29/10/2009 11:23:12 AM Ludwig, "Bob Brown is getting a fair bit of media about his opposition to Rudd's mani.....
» 29/10/2009 11:16:47 AM Bronwyn You might read the new OLO article by Joseph Chamie, former former director of th.....
» 27/10/2009 1:12:15 AM Why stop at age and sex, what about place of birth, education, religion, body shape, hair .....
» 27/10/2009 12:56:48 AM Shadow Minister I have given an alternative to control burgeoning energy demand - roll ba.....
» 26/10/2009 4:44:13 PM JL Deland I am very sorry to hear about your cat. I hope you get another that will similar.....
» 26/10/2009 10:16:51 AM "When He stated recently on the 7.30 report that; “I make no apology. I actually thin.....
» 26/10/2009 10:04:53 AM As I understand it, if you die from a chronic condition known to your doctor and he attend.....
» 25/10/2009 1:46:27 PM Those are strong reasons to support the initiative taken by the NSW government in establis.....
» 25/10/2009 1:31:35 PM snake, "Australia could make a lot of money by processing spent fuel and burying it i.....
» 24/10/2009 7:57:58 PM "In recent comments there has been a suggestion that Opposition parties aren't there .....
» 24/10/2009 7:41:28 PM Got to agree with TheMissus, many women worked from the Fifties through to the Eighties. T.....
» 24/10/2009 11:54:54 AM Why not ban TV remotes, or the internet or the other 'necessary' diversions that cause adu.....
» 24/10/2009 11:31:31 AM divine_msn I don't see why any hunter should feel awful because a second shot was necessa.....
» 23/10/2009 9:25:38 PM Etham Don't fret, meat is grown on the bubblewrap plant by Coles and Woolies and no cuddl.....
» 23/10/2009 7:53:35 PM The obvious solution is that we don't need to overburden our environment by consistently b.....
» 23/10/2009 7:31:34 PM examinator Perhaps you are catastrophysing. This is maple flavoured syrup and a different.....
» 23/10/2009 1:04:33 PM The complaint arises out of the alleged incorrect menu at the local Bowls Club for goodnes.....
» 23/10/2009 12:41:32 PM Where was the 'sadistic torture' in this case? As far as the reports go, he was hunting a .....
» 23/10/2009 12:05:33 PM We need nuclear power stations so those who want to make mega fortunes using Australia as .....
» 23/10/2009 11:51:05 AM The Missus I am shattered that you find Australia 'very sexist', would you care to list t.....
» 23/10/2009 11:23:12 AM Punishment by way of community service should have been awarded instead of a long custodia.....
» 22/10/2009 12:06:30 PM Australia is not off-loading its responsibilities to Indonesia. Like all other countries a.....
» 22/10/2009 11:53:06 AM Who gives a hoot about her dumb-ass playing of the sexist card in an attempt to muddy the .....
» 22/10/2009 11:35:52 AM E.Sykes That foolish, offensive statement destroys your credibility in one go. You malign.....
» 21/10/2009 11:33:39 PM It is ridiculous to suggest that this tragedy could have been averted if neighbours had mo.....
» 21/10/2009 11:32:45 AM Maybe there could be a convention for zealots of all descriptions on a island somewhere fa.....
» 21/10/2009 11:02:13 AM No problem with gay marriage, however the wording of the Marriage Act should continue to r.....
» 21/10/2009 10:56:43 AM The worst is naming and re-naming :( places after politicians and other public officials w.....
» 21/10/2009 10:41:28 AM Use baking soda and salt as toothpaste and you will be gumming your Thanksgiving turkey in.....
» 20/10/2009 5:23:20 PM Goodness and I thought that the hype about 'sustainability' and 'water reform' was all abo.....
» 20/10/2009 11:01:37 AM Nothing protects the stupid and lazy from themselves. What is to stop an unattended pram b.....
» 19/10/2009 7:34:14 PM City pavements also slope towards the gutter for drainage. There is a risk that errant pra.....
» 17/10/2009 11:37:48 AM The problem a lot of parents face is that they have no-one easily available to take over w.....
» 11/10/2009 9:44:54 AM Plain English?! How will consultants ever survive? As for mission statements etc being g.....
» 11/10/2009 8:57:03 AM That same 'racist' Australia continues to accept record numbers of migrants. Isn't it tim.....
» 3/10/2009 9:09:39 AM Grim, "Yes we are overpopulated, and yes we need to do something about it, but the an.....
» 30/09/2009 6:46:57 PM Who can forget the feminist attack aimed at muzzling and kneecapping Michael Leunig over h.....
» 30/09/2009 1:16:55 PM Bronwyn Yet Greer has also maintained she is the best judge of when a youth is mature eno.....
» 30/09/2009 12:37:38 PM "Conservation does not just mean trying to preserve species. It means conserving what.....
» 30/09/2009 9:38:07 AM What of Germaine Greer's The Boy? By Bronwyn's definition Greer would be streets ahead of .....
» 29/09/2009 10:46:40 AM GY Spot on. There is also the other problem that there could well be other sexual crimes.....
» 29/09/2009 10:22:35 AM In Australia both sides of government have been responsible for continued record levels of.....
» 29/09/2009 9:53:40 AM TPP Not taking issue with the necessary discretion of judges however I am not convinced t.....
» 29/09/2009 9:30:27 AM Polanski admitted the offence and tried to plea bargain to a lower penalty. His lawyers cl.....
» 28/09/2009 10:42:16 PM TPP, "I want foster homes checked, I want the kids in them to get regular visits from.....
» 28/09/2009 10:25:14 PM Polanski had the wit, money and contacts to escape and evade capture for decades. He has b.....
» 28/09/2009 7:31:59 AM TPP Why don't you want them to have their own children but it is OK to parent (does that .....
» 27/09/2009 9:06:58 AM I am sure that both major parties are like mice on a wheel as far as immigration policy an.....
» 27/09/2009 8:20:27 AM TPP, "I want them both to embrace what gender they are and appreciate what innate qua.....
» 26/09/2009 8:45:33 AM suzeonline, yes you were wrong and there is where you erred: "there are far more em.....
» 26/09/2009 8:22:45 AM The Left and the Right are all for high immigration and for different reasons. Cross out r.....
» 26/09/2009 7:54:43 AM As expected, the skills of a mid-teen who has never even done a longer solo voyage are not.....
» 25/09/2009 8:15:20 AM suzeonline, "One thing is for sure, having worked in the health industry for many yea.....
» 24/09/2009 9:34:58 PM Maybe the US federal Reserve could now do what Greenspan didn't do, however speaking of Au.....
» 24/09/2009 8:34:28 AM So it is OK to raunch but peer to peer sexual propositions could be sexual abuse and possi.....
» 24/09/2009 7:36:46 AM It would be a stretch to claim that low interest rates caused the previous melt down when .....
» 23/09/2009 8:43:34 PM Vacuum packing excludes air to control harmful bacteria. You can keep the vacuum packed f.....
» 21/09/2009 10:03:53 PM Fractelle If the cattle were specially conditioned the meat would be dearer. The cheap me.....
» 21/09/2009 7:53:13 AM But what if any savings will there be in head office? When federal departments devolved w.....
» 21/09/2009 7:32:39 AM Buy the cheap vacuum packed whole rump or sirloin. Store in the fridge for a month unopene.....
» 20/09/2009 9:46:29 AM Where the government or agents on its behalf are supplying services or making other paymen.....
» 18/09/2009 8:29:16 AM Like Howard, Anna Bligh's Achilles Heel is her hubris. Unlike John Howard she has very lit.....
» 18/09/2009 8:10:39 AM True, there were the churlish few who despite Father's Day could not resist another opport.....
» 17/09/2009 11:09:59 PM Not worth contributing to the problem. Just move left and let the offending vehicle pass. .....
» 17/09/2009 8:43:38 AM Some posters keep mentioning menz (sic) groups that hate women, yet I know that such group.....
» 16/09/2009 10:02:24 PM TPP It is the responsibility of the parents not the regulator. It is a judgement call by.....
» 16/09/2009 8:29:27 AM Bronwyn, "The fact remains that many people, experienced sailors amongst them, consid.....
» 15/09/2009 8:36:14 AM Because drivers who tailgate will do the same regardless of the lane involved, the speed l.....
» 15/09/2009 8:18:50 AM It is amusing that some who imagine that this sixteen year old is competent enough to unde.....
» 13/09/2009 10:07:16 AM Times have changed and the career of a prostitute is probably longer than that of many wor.....
» 13/09/2009 9:11:14 AM Who can forget Sallyanne Atkinson, the ex-Liberal Lord Mayor of Brisbane, who chaired the .....
» 12/09/2009 10:38:48 AM Third post sorry but just to pick up a misunderstanding by some that you can actually have.....
» 12/09/2009 9:44:58 AM 2/..(contd) Let youth have challenges but we are not fulfilling our duty as adults if we .....
» 12/09/2009 9:43:04 AM We have been boaties forever and my extended family could support a ships chandlery. We ha.....
» 9/09/2009 11:05:03 PM Whether politicians resign or not if their past conduct warrants it they will usually suff.....
» 9/09/2009 10:00:04 PM suzeonline, "It should be on merit alone." Did you say that with your tongue fi.....
» 9/09/2009 9:22:12 PM suzeonline, "domestic violence is defined under Australian law as being violence comm.....
» 8/09/2009 3:10:55 AM Ludwig There is no doubt that drivers slow down in the vicinity of radar units. How many .....
» 7/09/2009 9:09:28 PM TPP, "Neglect beats Abuse hands down in the permanent damage game. And it is the hard.....
» 7/09/2009 8:05:14 PM Fractelle, "And you place a link to a piece of saccharine USA pap? You are a constant.....
» 7/09/2009 2:49:23 AM Tailgating cameras? What a clever way to raise more tax revenue. Doubtless other 'essentia.....
» 6/09/2009 12:52:18 PM Oops, that should be 'renowned'. Enjoy yourselves and thanks......
» 6/09/2009 12:44:12 PM In our extended family we rejoice in the homely, commercial humbug-free nature of Father's.....
» 1/09/2009 6:35:02 PM rubyappeal, Tom Calma is aboriginal too you know and a lot of indigenous advocates suppor.....
» 30/08/2009 5:53:49 PM A. Dobrowich posted this link in a thread on aboriginal housing and i hope will not mind m.....
» 30/08/2009 4:37:17 PM SJF Those links should have made it easier for you to apply your own 'take' of feminism t.....
» 30/08/2009 3:52:36 AM SJF Irrelevant as ever, but at least you are consistent in that. You mentioned horses an.....
» 28/08/2009 10:40:52 PM Greer, The Boy: http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/07/09/1057430278896.html http://www......
» 28/08/2009 1:42:57 PM Fractelle, "To reiterate, we have on OLO a group of middle-aged men who equate flirti.....
» 28/08/2009 12:53:53 PM The CEO of the Victorian Equal Opportunity Commission supporting the legalising of discrim.....
» 28/08/2009 12:16:59 AM Just adding to what Dougthebear said, 'consent' and 'ethical' are emotionally loaded terms.....
» 27/08/2009 2:53:14 PM ninaf, "gender segregation existed in pubs until the 1970's." Public bars enabl.....
» 26/08/2009 8:13:09 PM Squeers Never fear, that photo of the starkers and very hirsute Germaine Greer is still o.....
» 26/08/2009 12:49:30 PM It's not just the religions who are forever agitating for access to schools to reprogram y.....
» 25/08/2009 12:44:54 AM Elka That must be feigned horror or you haven't spoken with many other women or read abou.....
» 23/08/2009 12:52:11 AM TPP, "I think some of these communities go bad because they end up being huge extende.....
» 21/08/2009 11:43:31 PM Banjo There is a mountain of well-researched reports and the authors are available if the.....
» 20/08/2009 10:27:12 PM Banjo Maybe I should have been plainer in what I said. It would be unreasonable and divis.....
» 20/08/2009 3:59:54 PM //contd.. This might come to you as a surprise, but from what we have seen and others hav.....
» 20/08/2009 3:52:37 PM Banjo The answer is regrettably that all things are relative and the 'good' communities, .....
» 19/08/2009 10:49:45 AM How can an accused person get a fair hearing in court when they have already been pillorie.....
» 19/08/2009 1:58:10 AM Fractelle Thank you. What is rewarding is to see groups of women stepping forward to repr.....
» 18/08/2009 8:22:46 PM examinator Thank you for taking the time to reply. I firmly believe that there are lesso.....
» 18/08/2009 4:27:16 PM Well it looks as though examinator is not going to answer my questions so here they are ag.....
» 18/08/2009 2:50:52 PM Memo to the federal Attorney General, you can get rid of all of that old fashioned court'n.....
» 18/08/2009 12:35:00 AM examinator Why are some self-managing communities safe and healthy places for women and c.....
» 17/08/2009 1:09:38 PM TPP, "would prefer a more non gender specific approach to any advertising campaign.&q.....
» 15/08/2009 3:33:41 PM I'd like to see less intrusion of the State into our private lives not more. There are m.....
» 14/08/2009 6:43:46 PM Tpp, "Are we worried about the boy?" First, 'anti' didn't answer you, I did. N.....
» 14/08/2009 6:09:08 PM Of course budgie smugglers should be banned if the merest outline and movement of a penis .....
» 14/08/2009 4:03:10 PM TPP, "But flip it over Anti – we have a 14 year old rapist floating about, what happe.....
» 13/08/2009 4:21:21 PM 'Fact is, abuse a cop and s/he is duty bound to arrest you' bushbasher, "no" S.....
» 13/08/2009 2:13:22 AM What does anyone think might happen in Australia if there is a complaint of a possible bre.....
» 11/08/2009 12:59:40 PM That should be 'wowserism' and 'morals'......
» 11/08/2009 12:56:03 PM I don't agree with the wowerism or political correctness that would see Kyle and Jackie of.....
» 11/08/2009 11:52:48 AM rehctub, "If the 60 minutes program can just make one child speak out to their parent.....
» 11/08/2009 1:09:10 AM Just returning to the thread topic for a moment, Kyle and Jackie were slammed and rightly .....
» 9/08/2009 12:48:08 PM TPP, "Cornflower has been known to lend him a hand" No, that misrepresents my p.....
» 8/08/2009 5:46:39 PM Whoops, the 'mush' is served with (and for) snags at the local. Barra and salad at the clu.....
» 8/08/2009 5:43:25 PM Your promised complete listing of dirty rotten scoundrels of footballers from the year dot.....
» 8/08/2009 4:11:41 PM Fractelle, "Where is our 'thank you'?" That's the way conditioning works, you d.....
» 8/08/2009 3:25:14 PM Regrettably, many of the television shows and magazine articles (no-one has mentioned them.....
» 7/08/2009 11:02:14 PM Presumably an 'enlightened', 'reasonable' person is one who applies offensive labels to op.....
» 6/08/2009 4:10:44 PM HarryC could be hitting a sore spot there when he talks about what industry wants and what.....
» 6/08/2009 2:48:52 PM Who cares which chef, many Australian children would be eating out of cardboard while watc.....
» 6/08/2009 2:20:37 PM Pericles, "On the whole, this is far more fun." Yet another callous, insensitiv.....
» 6/08/2009 2:00:26 PM If one ever takes the late bus after work there are three professions that are well repres.....
» 5/08/2009 10:31:29 PM I can't see any worth in pointing a finger at 'racist' violence. It's all gang violence, t.....
» 5/08/2009 9:14:32 PM TPP You mean, "And slutty AFL players… shocker. Where is C J Morgan?" That lis.....
» 5/08/2009 4:02:34 PM RobP Sorry, my previous post went outside of what you said (which I agreed with) and it sh.....
» 5/08/2009 3:55:37 PM RobP I read similar comments, that family-oriented reality shows are cheap and topical an.....
» 5/08/2009 2:26:02 PM Houellebecq, Sarcastic beast! The Master will deal with you later when she has completed.....
» 4/08/2009 9:23:21 PM Ssssh, Master's still under from too many tipples of 'mother's friend'. Happens when she l.....
» 4/08/2009 2:34:30 PM C J Morgan. "My personal theory is that Cornflower is Antiwomen's mother," That.....
» 4/08/2009 3:55:20 AM Master, "Girls in modern times ONLY are involved in scouting. Girls have traditionall.....
» 3/08/2009 9:06:45 PM Master, "Thanks CJ for informing me that Cornflower is female. That explains why she .....
» 3/08/2009 2:27:01 PM C J Morgan All your list of football incidents shows is your own confirmation (bias) erro.....
» 2/08/2009 6:38:43 PM Master or whoever you are You were outed for telling outrageous, grandiose porkies to bui.....
» 2/08/2009 5:44:38 PM one under God So sorry if it appeared otherwise (not that you would have taken it that wa.....
» 2/08/2009 5:30:31 PM Alternatively, you could have a few roos loose in your top paddock :).....
» 2/08/2009 4:37:38 PM Master, "I will from here on in this topic ignore Cornflower, who is here as a TROLL .....
» 2/08/2009 4:16:44 PM Master (or whoever you are) What a strange farmer oops, "pastoralist" ;) you ar.....
» 2/08/2009 3:10:52 PM Master (or whoever you are today), By now you should be wondering about your continual pa.....
» 2/08/2009 1:53:18 PM Master/philips/JW/SallyG/TZ52HX/....+whatever other sock puppet aliases you have, "Fu.....
» 2/08/2009 12:48:28 AM What about moving the States and territories completely out of education? There is no reas.....
» 31/07/2009 4:38:47 PM Dang, it is with great consternation that I realise I forgot to throw some meat to the res.....
» 31/07/2009 3:38:24 PM Strange how the wheel turns. The Sixties human rights movement saw men being able to dro.....
» 30/07/2009 10:55:24 PM If you are addressing da Master it would be an imaginary banjo. http://www.youtube.com/wa.....
» 30/07/2009 3:05:58 PM Master You are a pathetic clown who is forever desperately seeking attention. Even your .....
» 30/07/2009 2:43:40 PM Master, "(my adding the 's' to Scout was a typo by the way)" That's the one! Ch.....
» 30/07/2009 1:03:20 AM Pynchme Confess, I bet you found the usual title was one word, not two when you trawled a.....
» 29/07/2009 10:26:52 PM Pynchme Heh, heh, Master is in need of rescue isn't he? However, there is no problem cal.....
» 29/07/2009 3:40:09 PM Sure, teachers are asking for more money but what most really want is to be able to do the.....
» 29/07/2009 2:37:27 PM Master What absolute rot, the words Scout and master were never separated, when used it w.....
» 29/07/2009 1:48:46 PM Master No such thing as a 'Scouts Master'. Where and when was this? Which reminds me, yo.....
» 28/07/2009 5:22:15 PM TPP There is no similarity at all between gangs and sporting teams, they are at either en.....
» 27/07/2009 8:13:27 PM Master, "Rugby League does NOT equip these certain juvenile men (they're a minority w.....
» 27/07/2009 1:54:33 PM whistler, "i vote we drag everybody here over the line and design a Republic of Austr.....
» 25/07/2009 5:01:23 PM Yabby You must move to a country transport node where the tourist buses overnight. Take a.....
» 25/07/2009 1:04:12 PM Belly, "few seem to want to talk about helping refugees live a full life in their own.....
» 25/07/2009 12:48:12 PM Yabby If only you were a bad boy you would have none of those problems, her husband would.....
» 25/07/2009 12:20:00 PM 2/ What about the intergenerational jealousy and blaming that has gone on about older peo.....
» 25/07/2009 12:17:38 PM Why not extend the argument a little and penalise women who abort children thus contributi.....
» 24/07/2009 5:47:47 PM whistler Good catch. They are both children of Ron Giteau. He is a famous rugby league p.....
» 24/07/2009 3:42:40 PM Individuals and government needlessly waste health resources because their decisions are n.....
» 23/07/2009 8:23:21 PM Wear the Ku Klux Klan outfit in public if you wish but if you cannot prove you are on the .....
» 23/07/2009 5:33:32 PM Fractelle I should have addressed your other point. From looking at different threads th.....
» 23/07/2009 5:08:01 PM Fractelle Did you miss my post where I suggested that Dr Hakim's findings are of equal us.....
» 23/07/2009 4:10:06 PM C J You are wasted here, that tragic exit while still casting nasturtiums is a classic. .....
» 23/07/2009 3:39:42 PM In Queensland a cabbie was fined $100 for the wrong socks. http://www.news.com.au/courier.....
» 22/07/2009 10:04:36 PM Fractelle, Heh, heh, you can include me out of the blood feud being waged in this thread .....
» 22/07/2009 5:13:29 PM Fractelle Travelling OS I was told by Muslim students that the well-off wear quite lovely.....
» 22/07/2009 3:19:29 PM Laughing My @rse Off. TPP, I have this funny image of Antiseptic humming the Beach Boys'.....
» 22/07/2009 1:44:01 PM I am unconvinced that those who don the burqua in Australia are doing it through any compu.....
» 22/07/2009 1:12:14 AM Keyboard warning next time please......
» 21/07/2009 3:05:49 PM Fractelle, Tuesday, 21 July 2009 11:56:53 AM Lighten up, smell the roses and let them fig.....
» 21/07/2009 3:14:57 AM C J Morgan More of your spin and you will be saying that 'twat' is a form of endearment. .....
» 20/07/2009 6:25:34 PM C J Morgan So you admit that the first meaning of 'twat' and certainly its common usage .....
» 20/07/2009 4:49:33 PM C J Morgan, "twats put the boot in" Wikipedia: 'The word twat has various funct.....
» 20/07/2009 3:11:36 PM TPP, "Do you think this is really happening now and because of refugees? No that is .....
» 20/07/2009 2:35:17 PM The article is remarkable for what it studiously avoids, which is discussion of conservati.....
» 20/07/2009 12:52:49 AM whistler, "since women and men value work differently". Isn't that the truth! .....
» 20/07/2009 12:05:24 AM TPP, "If they want kids they can lend a hand and bloody foster them or adopt one from.....
» 19/07/2009 10:56:14 PM While wearing our hearts on our sleeves and looking forward to admitting as many people as.....
» 19/07/2009 10:26:06 PM Pynchme, "Interesting commentary on women in science" Ben Barnes (formerly Barb.....
» 19/07/2009 4:32:51 PM Forgetting numbers war for a moment, scrutiny of enrolment by courses by sex proves that w.....
» 19/07/2009 5:11:43 AM Master So you were at university in the Fifties? You completed what and where? You are r.....
» 17/07/2009 11:52:42 PM Master AFL comment - It comes from the need to be positioned in the right area and in fro.....
» 17/07/2009 9:24:00 PM C J Morgan, 'I actually had that conversation with some NRL tragics at the pub last night .....
» 17/07/2009 7:58:16 PM whistler Her Excellency Ms Quentin Bryce AC is feeling no pain and nor would be Queen Eli.....
» 17/07/2009 1:41:47 AM Whistler The Premier of Queensland Anna Bligh is under male supervision? Don't think so. .....
» 16/07/2009 11:18:46 PM CJ, 'I was particularly struck by comments from the Qld coach prior to the game that they'.....
» 15/07/2009 10:59:32 PM C J Morgan The newspaper reports are current, relevant and were posted for general intere.....
» 15/07/2009 11:39:46 AM Interesting report in the media quoting Dr Khalid Koser from the Geneva Centre for Securit.....
» 14/07/2009 3:17:25 PM Sancho, "Just to confirm, Rusty, you're divorced, yes?" C J Morgan's pick-up li.....
» 14/07/2009 2:43:58 PM Master, "If you don't like rulings that have been made against you, then your beef is.....
» 14/07/2009 1:27:50 PM E(ric) Sykes I trust? You have been funnier: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ilsw_rRN4GM .....
» 14/07/2009 12:15:59 PM It is supposed to be in poor taste. Of course Bruno fires broadsides at political correctn.....
» 14/07/2009 1:09:39 AM C J Morgan, "Rusty, you didn't happen to play football when you were a young fella, p.....
» 13/07/2009 3:06:39 PM C J Morgan The report we were discussing refers to illegal immigrants: 'European Union re.....
» 13/07/2009 2:26:15 PM Master You should take your own advice, preferably after familiarising yourself with OLO .....
» 13/07/2009 2:08:31 PM CJ Morgan There is no reason to suggest that illegal immigrants act differently in Europe.....
» 13/07/2009 1:21:00 PM 2/ Referring to the list given by Antiseptic (there is no harm in calling respondents by .....
» 13/07/2009 1:17:28 PM whistler, "the Commonwealth of Australia is a men's organisation in receipt of govern.....
» 13/07/2009 12:31:56 PM Antonios Symeonakis, "We, the world citizens, the innocent, fair, sensitive people, h.....
» 13/07/2009 11:42:44 AM phanto, "If there are practical disadvantages then the solution does not lie in being.....
» 12/07/2009 11:04:54 AM C J Morgan It is interesting that the one report you quoted supports your view yet there .....
» 11/07/2009 8:47:54 PM Shadow Minister That is no justification for trashing the Marriage Act. Draft and enact.....
» 10/07/2009 9:23:22 PM Going back to post number 1, there is little doubt that the originator was being facetious.....
» 10/07/2009 3:28:38 PM Fractelle, "Go Saints" They are going well aren't they? The Geelong game was he.....
» 10/07/2009 1:37:04 PM Coming from the land I am greatly impressed by the view that Australia can support a great.....
» 10/07/2009 10:12:48 AM Master I had a grin when you mentioned an incident from the Sixties when a rugby league p.....
» 9/07/2009 4:04:53 PM Sancho Hi there. CJM is referring to rugby league not rugby union (rugby). You are right.....
» 9/07/2009 3:36:38 PM 2/ What is also not being recognised is that the ladettes from the lower socioeconomic 'b.....
» 9/07/2009 2:55:18 PM C J Morgan, "There are clearly cultural problems that are specific to Rugby League in.....
» 9/07/2009 6:52:08 AM Having filled honorary positions with both State and private schools I believe that the ma.....
» 9/07/2009 5:02:32 AM Thousands of young men and women play football at school and for clubs. Out of these a few.....
» 8/07/2009 9:42:59 PM It is good that students have not forgotten how to get a rise out of the pompous crankypan.....
» 7/07/2009 10:02:02 PM TPP Fair enough, thumbs up and thanks for the reply. Good to be able to chat frankly des.....
» 7/07/2009 3:27:24 PM CJM Thanks for your views, maybe a discussion on another thread one day when the static c.....
» 7/07/2009 1:21:58 AM C J Morgan To cut directly to the chase, you would welcome all boats and immediately inte.....
» 6/07/2009 8:35:14 PM TPP, AS Did the same AS write this in 2008? http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp.....
» 6/07/2009 6:51:27 PM DIPLOMAN It is a horrifying thought, isn't it? From my reading of the first post there w.....
» 6/07/2009 6:20:49 PM The Marriage Act refers to one man and one woman. It also has other restrictions, for exam.....
» 6/07/2009 2:14:17 PM The Greens think they have the solution: stop Australians 'breeding' and take in all comer.....
» 5/07/2009 10:09:44 PM Belly referring to ASymeonakis, "Tell me mate, I have asked before, why the vast diff.....
» 5/07/2009 12:41:00 PM However it is not really about the burqua is it? It is not about 'men' either. What we are.....
» 5/07/2009 10:30:11 AM It is believed that many boat people smugglers are based in Indonesia. The Indonesian gove.....
» 4/07/2009 2:05:36 AM TPP, "My son feels the power a young white male has in society.." Has he said t.....
» 2/07/2009 9:08:49 AM Young men and young women share the same dietary and boozing habits - food on the run and .....
» 2/07/2009 9:05:33 AM Young men and young women share the same dietary and boozing habits - food on the run and .....
» 29/06/2009 9:51:00 PM BS it is just the men. Fundamentalist Muslims are women too and in their households women .....
» 29/06/2009 8:25:44 PM The sign of a flagging career. A cage outside KFC is next? Still, she has done a fine ser.....
» 28/06/2009 3:39:39 PM Shadow Minister I agree with you. You might find Dr Catherine Hakim's book more to your.....
» 28/06/2009 3:06:48 PM It depends on the content and who is providing the education. For example, Catholic educat.....
» 28/06/2009 9:43:40 AM It is frivolous to ban the burqa without banning or at the very least, challenging Sharia .....
» 27/06/2009 9:29:45 AM C J Morgan That is a reasonable approach. The limits you mention are sufficient 'discoura.....
» 27/06/2009 4:41:35 AM Carrying on from where Banjo left off, I am a firm believer in the role of regular indepen.....
» 27/06/2009 3:53:49 AM I feel for them in the heat of Sydney and Brisbane. Women the world over want to feel att.....
» 26/06/2009 7:46:08 AM Surprising that a Greens senator would front up with a child, aren't they supposed to abor.....
» 26/06/2009 2:59:59 AM SJF, "I did not say that men’s rights groups are wealthy and well-connected. I said t.....
» 25/06/2009 2:15:32 PM The sting in the tail of Monica's article is that women who have preferences other than th.....
» 23/06/2009 1:05:53 PM C J Morgan Lets face it, if your really believed in a fair go and equality you wouldn't b.....
» 23/06/2009 4:26:32 AM Fractelle, "Watch the impotent hegemony of A-septic, C-Flower, Vanna/HRS twist any co.....
» 21/06/2009 3:39:12 AM C J Morgan You are tricky with your fudging, baiting and diversions, but you can't concea.....
» 20/06/2009 4:01:32 PM C J Morgan, "Cornflower's absolutely correct. I apologise unreservedly to all gay men.....
» 20/06/2009 12:05:13 AM C J Morgan, "Both vannakins and Antiwomen seem to be particularly miserable as blokey.....
» 18/06/2009 10:34:38 PM CJ Morgan, "Lastly, I think that Antiwomen and HRS/Timkins/vanna should find a way to.....
» 18/06/2009 9:51:31 PM beefyboy There was so much going on in country towns in the Seventies that even a chess p.....
» 17/06/2009 4:50:56 AM Another thread hijacked so the few can amuse themselves with negative parlour games. What .....
» 17/06/2009 3:52:45 AM 'The Chaser" hasn't been muzzled and the sky isn't falling in. It is unusual for a se.....
» 15/06/2009 6:35:14 PM The author didn't visit country towns and remote areas to see how successful AFL has been .....
» 15/06/2009 5:55:42 AM Pynchme, "Cornflower: Sounds like a good idea. Hope one of you takes it up" Tha.....
» 14/06/2009 10:14:28 PM JamesH Thank you for that link to Lying About Domestic Violence. It was most informative......
» 13/06/2009 8:41:27 PM Fractelle, "Women are outnumbered on OLO - like every institution excepting nunneries.....
» 12/06/2009 10:12:36 AM It doesn't take much for Pynchme to drop back into the familiar groove of her Seventies st.....
» 11/06/2009 7:11:59 PM Yabby Well said. Smart, independent women would also ask, "Who are these present da.....
» 9/06/2009 2:27:43 PM It says a lot about the egos of a few self-proclaimed 'feminists' that they think their vi.....
» 9/06/2009 1:36:52 PM Sarah Ferguson and her Four Corners team put forward half a story. That was sloppy researc.....
» 7/06/2009 5:32:45 PM The discussion is about using any excuse to flog a tired old feminist world view to shore .....
» 5/06/2009 3:42:09 AM sharkfin, "But they need to demonstrate the strength and power as something that has .....
» 4/06/2009 5:50:53 PM No surprise I guess that the poorly researched Sarah Ferguson 4Corners report would spawn .....
» 31/05/2009 3:35:50 PM You forget that men get raped too and from all accounts in not inconsequential numbers. Si.....
» 31/05/2009 2:15:44 PM Loudmouth I was for self-determination as most young tertiary educated people were - it w.....
» 30/05/2009 7:26:30 PM Group sex has always been represented in erotic art and literature so perhaps the politica.....
» 30/05/2009 2:42:36 PM ShazBaz001 That was an entertaining read and you have the gift of the gab. Noel Pearson i.....
» 30/05/2009 12:42:12 AM Turn Yabby into Hugh Jackman and he will have thousands of groupies of all ages at his doo.....
» 29/05/2009 1:34:28 PM JamesH Nothing in the 'Women embrace group sex: survey' should surprise anyone. Your li.....
» 29/05/2009 12:11:31 PM I would very much like the author to visit communities and compare and contrast the challe.....
» 29/05/2009 11:45:15 AM Strangely, the author thinks that the dirty, dangerous and horribly degrading conditions i.....
» 28/05/2009 5:52:53 PM Grim So you put out the decoys in the hope of some incoming geese to shoot? You might as .....
» 27/05/2009 8:34:12 PM Generation Y should not be snagged by the tired old victim industry, nor by the other tire.....
» 27/05/2009 2:04:51 PM I would give the intergenerational jealousy a rest, because that is just playing into the .....
» 26/05/2009 4:19:38 PM When I read some of the OLO posts I really wonder how many of the respondents actually get.....
» 25/05/2009 3:04:53 PM There always were vamps who preyed upon anything in trousers and with a frivolous disregar.....
» 23/05/2009 2:08:17 PM Ginx There is a way to help, see this by ABC's Landline in 2006 (featured Sheffield, Tas).....
» 21/05/2009 10:44:35 AM Periclea, Very well said......
» 18/05/2009 8:41:26 PM Recent research done by McPhedran and Baker, University of Sydney has dispelled the common.....
» 14/05/2009 2:49:00 PM Bronwyn It comes down to the games people play to get strokes. If you role play the needy.....
» 12/05/2009 7:00:30 PM hi RObert Thank you, well seen. Hi Ginx Whoops, many apologies. I was a little too quic.....
» 11/05/2009 9:19:18 PM Hi Ginx, Goodness, you would be pulling a very long bow to find discrimination against wo.....
» 11/05/2009 2:12:08 PM For some strange reason this whole thread reminds me of the RAAF stewardess who got upset .....
» 11/05/2009 12:56:03 PM Goodness Billie, you did rather well to cram your rather leftie world view with so many wi.....
» 7/05/2009 12:07:44 PM By the time a person is able to take care of herself the eating tradition is already well .....
» 4/05/2009 3:46:07 PM KMB It is very naughty of you to give that example when you know full well how feminists .....
» 1/05/2009 12:19:54 PM Romany, If you have to offer an old example from another country then things cannot be to.....
» 30/04/2009 2:55:10 PM SJF, "{What I love about ‘I didn’t raise my son to be a soldier’ is that it boldly st.....
» 26/04/2009 5:29:03 PM Fractelle, "If I am not making myself clear please read link below: http://www.econo.....
» 17/04/2009 8:39:55 AM - and yet, every day the news is replete with stories (hardly exhaustive) of women neglect.....
» 4/04/2009 3:34:01 AM CJ Morgan No I didn't and it was never put forward as a quote. It is a common enough sta.....
» 3/04/2009 6:18:53 AM RObert A feminist quote? Which one of the dozens of unproven universal generalisations of.....
» 2/04/2009 10:38:38 PM RObert JamesH was correct and no, it wasn't specific to this thread. I think it is a gene.....
» 1/04/2009 6:57:53 PM Long, convoluted and tiresome storytelling to find a problem for a pre-determined feminist.....
» 1/04/2009 12:28:51 PM Asserting that all men are inherent abusers of women is a joke. However it is a vicious jo.....
» 31/03/2009 3:12:31 PM Miranda Suzanne. "I live in a world where it is taken for granted that I will exercis.....
» 30/03/2009 1:56:08 PM Miranda Suzanne So does the film He's Just Not That Into You raise your ire or threaten y.....
» 29/03/2009 9:56:52 PM SJF "The men in the anecdote in question were deliberately planning their meetings in.....
» 28/03/2009 10:55:53 PM SJF In your feminist world it might well be one of the pinnacles of feminist attainment t.....
» 26/03/2009 8:07:30 PM SJF No, there is no diabolical trickery or plot against (your brand of) feminism. Do real.....
» 26/03/2009 2:25:28 PM "A doormat for allowing Hasbeen to browbeat her into complying with his wishes.".....
» 22/03/2009 9:19:40 PM woulfe In my business I select solely according to merit. Selection criteria and job desc.....
» 22/03/2009 2:34:58 AM C J Morgan What I wrote made sense enough. You distract yourself not others by playing th.....
» 21/03/2009 6:16:12 PM "Quite simply, there are no compelling arguments why any organisation, religious or o.....
» 21/03/2009 5:28:55 PM "I often suspect that it’s this socially enforced male ignorance of the emotional, ro.....
» 20/03/2009 7:06:06 PM The lesson for both State and federal governments is that spin cannot cover up poor perfor.....
» 17/03/2009 6:58:21 PM C J Morgan. .."thus forcing whoever forms Government (and their Opposition) to engage.....
» 17/03/2009 3:18:02 PM If Labor loses the election it will have precious little to do with the election campaign .....
» 1/03/2009 9:22:48 PM "But it puzzles me? How does she deal with feminist research that is intellectually d.....
» 25/02/2009 12:27:50 PM SJF So like an ostrich you stick your head in the sand, preferring that your bigotry agai.....
» 24/02/2009 3:21:59 PM Hewson was right, Costello is nothing without the Treasury mandarins behind him to tell hi.....
» 24/02/2009 12:48:40 PM SJF, "..the principal responsibility for their care and emotional nurturing has been .....
» 24/02/2009 11:03:34 AM I have no sympathy at all for people who abduct children and take them overseas. It result.....
» 23/02/2009 4:21:24 PM Well it is a blonde article and that explains a lot......
» 19/02/2009 2:01:10 PM "Colonising Australians have never felt entirely at home in the country’s unforgiving.....
» 18/02/2009 4:46:40 PM RexMundi, "The boomers need to take _some_ responsibility as they are the dominant ag.....
» 18/02/2009 8:09:58 AM Bankers and their trained attack dogs in politics know they are onto a winner when they ca.....
» 16/02/2009 4:58:57 AM It is not only in times of fire that large trees present a problem. There are homeowners i.....
» 13/02/2009 3:39:05 PM Brumby is doing what Sir Humphrey Appleby would have recommended, put off any nasty findin.....
» 13/02/2009 10:06:43 AM SJF Jack the Ripper?! Ka-Ching! That is close enough to Godwin's Law for points to be pai.....
» 13/02/2009 7:24:29 AM jdmh, "As for the issue about native vegetation management in Victoria, I agree with .....
» 12/02/2009 3:40:46 PM SJF Sure, either report can provide fodder for speculative gossip, but I am not intereste.....
» 12/02/2009 12:22:18 PM Phil Matimein I don't disagree with you, there are many problems with outsourcing - one b.....
» 12/02/2009 11:33:22 AM What a load of old cobblers this article is, trying to pin the bush fires on climate chang.....
» 12/02/2009 7:05:46 AM Doc Holliday The tone of any organisation is set from the top. That is your answer. Two .....
» 11/02/2009 5:58:59 AM In the Courier Mail today February 11, 2009 is the sad story of a mother who tried to kill.....
» 10/02/2009 12:50:56 AM Investigation of complaints against lawyers is a closed loop because investigations are do.....
» 9/02/2009 3:15:00 PM Cheryl, "The babyboomers - god love them. They will leave this world a little warmer .....
» 8/02/2009 8:54:51 AM On the basis of the ample evidence that has come forth over the years I agree with blairba.....
» 8/02/2009 2:58:41 AM The article reminds me of the true story of a senior manager (and 'almost a partner') of o.....
» 7/02/2009 1:23:32 PM While it is attractive for them to do so, lawyers will remain complicit in extending actio.....
» 6/02/2009 11:38:59 PM ozbib, You were lucky that your employer did not heed the external consultant's advice to.....
» 3/02/2009 5:21:55 PM John Howard's longest lasting 'gift' to Australia would undoubtedly be the divisions he cr.....
» 2/02/2009 11:54:59 AM jacinta Very well said, especially regarding the continual, unfair criticism of hospitals.....
» 1/02/2009 12:27:58 AM RObert Much of what is proposed deals with symptoms, not causes. I suggest that a much mo.....
» 22/01/2009 6:54:01 AM Well, there you go, I would have though men would have picked this up and run with it, men.....
» 15/01/2009 4:35:55 PM Houellebecq "Actually the only note I would make is that I see a patronising tone whe.....
» 14/01/2009 9:24:10 PM Houellebecq Ha, ha, great idea, put everyone into a Hyundai Getz so you don't feel inadeq.....
» 14/01/2009 12:18:40 AM Good gracious Mr West, you had to work hard to get that bitch swipe in against four wheel .....
» 11/01/2009 2:34:49 PM Its depiction of country life in Australia is on a par with McLeod's Daughters. Polystyren.....
» 10/01/2009 1:34:56 PM Women are the big success story in the federal and state public services and this is testa.....
» 5/01/2009 7:29:00 PM ninaf "..if this is such a non-issue, why is it the most commented on article for the.....
» 5/01/2009 7:25:28 PM Spikey The meaning of a word should remain consistent for at least a sentence. However, a.....
» 4/01/2009 12:49:19 PM Spikey Discrimination has one meaning, but not for you it seems. That you are able to fle.....
» 3/01/2009 8:30:12 PM Spikey Your definition of discrimination is circular. I can see how you think the 'posit.....
» 2/01/2009 11:58:12 PM Spikey What bearing can two members' resignations have on the core issues which are: - f.....
» 2/01/2009 6:39:34 PM Spikey You gave a link to an article in The Age where Victoria's Equal Opportunity and Hu.....
» 1/01/2009 4:09:21 PM Spikey You used a couple of totally irrelevant Aunt Sallys (straw man arguments) to misre.....
» 1/01/2009 12:39:19 PM You are prohibited from voting, having a bank account and so on? Feminist = cherry-pickin.....
» 30/12/2008 1:22:45 PM Docile wife?! That is an urban myth for Snopes. Have a look around, there would be very f.....
» 30/12/2008 11:39:59 AM If it is the mark of patriarchy to adopt the husband's name, why then carry forth the fath.....
» 24/12/2008 2:46:04 PM Not much respect for the old in modern Australia and we are the poorer for it. I am beginn.....
» 24/12/2008 12:47:18 PM Vaccination is based on a wealth of medical science. However if anyone doubts the science,.....
» 23/12/2008 10:39:32 AM Whoops, misread! Apologies to the author and no more multi-tasking while balancing the lap.....
» 23/12/2008 10:35:00 AM "Don’t like gays? Hate foreigners? Loathe Muslims? You may be suffering from a mental.....
» 23/12/2008 10:18:06 AM You really have to wonder about the professionalism of workers involved in the health indu.....
» 22/12/2008 2:24:42 PM examinator, Axe grinding?! You may not think that the demonstrated record of a party is o.....
» 20/12/2008 4:31:09 PM Examinator: "Calender check this is nearly 2009. Axe grinding is moot' This is what .....
» 20/12/2008 1:31:04 PM The Nats lost support because they are gutless, preferring short-term populist policies to.....
» 17/12/2008 8:58:11 PM pelican It is irrelevant if was directed at both genders, the use of 'humour' does not ex.....
» 17/12/2008 1:29:07 PM The learned judge interpreted the available law to arrive at his judgement. It is up to le.....
» 10/12/2008 1:26:08 PM contd.. What about the federal government's ridiculous attempts to install an internet fi.....
» 10/12/2008 1:20:51 PM Personally speaking, I have lost rights and liberties over the past decade and more. I go .....
» 7/12/2008 1:25:34 PM Veronika As you imply, your aim is to ram home feminist ideology and misogyny. For that p.....
» 6/12/2008 8:51:25 PM The sensitive, kind and whimsical Michael Leunig, who was the white haired boy of social l.....
» 4/12/2008 3:54:41 AM misschief, Agree but that should be: 'Men who complain about violence by women are often .....
» 3/12/2008 11:58:42 AM The test is for men to try some anti-women jokes at work or with customers. Of course such.....
» 1/12/2008 11:31:25 AM On either side of the gender wars there are zealots who would choke first before admitting.....
» 14/11/2008 11:37:52 PM Yabby You may have a point there and of course there are other factors at work including .....
» 14/11/2008 10:48:23 PM Another set of pollies led by the nose on this one. It is some public service gnome's brai.....
» 13/11/2008 4:14:34 AM This is a one-sided article. Both men and women cheat and they do it for the same reasons......
» 10/11/2008 3:48:44 AM Mally-p Some quick comments which might prove useful to you. It is easier to meet people.....
» 9/11/2008 12:35:29 AM Post 2 However there is another way for the author and that is to simply forget hunt for .....
» 9/11/2008 12:29:50 AM It is quite possible that the author will never find the 'right' man because none are good.....
» 1/11/2008 11:44:46 PM Noel Pearson summed it up for most Australians when he said: "I'm amazed that anybo.....
» 29/10/2008 12:18:37 PM Last night I watched a Sixties film on DVD with one of our children. She was amazed when I.....
» 28/10/2008 5:05:29 PM Rob513264 Until very recently it has been unthinkable to even suggest that any woman, let.....
» 27/10/2008 8:51:36 AM Child neglect is the elephant in the room, yet it is not being mentioned. It is reasonable.....
» 20/10/2008 1:59:19 PM The boys club and the double standard? Women are the most trenchant critics of the morals.....
» 19/10/2008 2:14:17 PM In all likelihood, authorities have no idea how many foreign prostitutes are working in Au.....
» 18/10/2008 8:16:01 PM hocuspocus "I totally agree that there are a lot of inequities in patriarchal percept.....
» 17/10/2008 1:48:39 PM As long as there is a market for the images and stories that are the subject of complaint,.....
» 6/10/2008 4:16:25 PM Faustino Jolly good that you are doing so well but others might not be. I am not a pensio.....
» 5/10/2008 12:28:11 AM Othello Cat You seem to go out of your way to target and insult heterosexual couples, esp.....
» 4/10/2008 3:02:27 PM Kath, On the 1st of October 2008, the International Day of Older Persons came and went bu.....
» 1/10/2008 1:55:47 PM Recent events in the US indicate that times have changed and have taken a self-serving fem.....
» 30/09/2008 3:11:43 PM Country Gal They would be worse off pairing with metros who will not perform traditional .....
» 29/09/2008 7:31:01 PM Countrywoman No, young women like all young people will rightly get their backs up if the.....
» 29/09/2008 12:57:56 PM Bronwyn "That is why I find it so disappointing when it seems the next generation of .....
» 26/09/2008 6:19:11 PM Usual Suspect The young women I spoke about have grown up being able to make choices. The.....
» 26/09/2008 3:13:13 PM We have a rambling old beach house which has been in the family for several generations an.....
» 22/09/2008 3:28:00 PM All the federal government is doing is playing the blame game when it is plainly unwilling.....
» 14/09/2008 12:12:24 PM Just adding to my post, I now believe this was covered poorly by the media and in fact the.....
» 14/09/2008 11:32:09 AM Whatever happened to the private member's Bill in NSW to remove the word 'father' from bir.....
» 5/06/2008 4:09:26 AM rojo, Wednesday, 4 June 2008 12:08:35 AM One swallow does not make a summer and that sing.....
» 3/06/2008 12:14:02 AM rojo, Monday, 2 June 2008 10:54:58 PM: "I think you make a good observation about the.....
» 31/05/2008 4:40:53 PM Coming from a farm I wouldn't drink raw milk because of possible salmonella, this is despi.....
» 11/05/2008 12:17:46 AM Bronwyn Did you always shout your son down like that too? You may equivocate now but amo.....
» 8/05/2008 5:13:42 PM Bronwyn, After reading your comments about how you pre-conditioned your boy (your daught.....
» 8/05/2008 4:24:54 PM Why not rant about girls' and women's magazines, or the rubbish that is commercial televis.....
» 6/05/2008 11:00:54 AM Ever seen a list of the side effects of a normal pregnancy? What about an abortion? Choic.....
» 5/05/2008 9:42:26 PM Robert: 'Those campaigns use very broad definitions of DV but these discussions seem to ke.....
» 5/05/2008 2:30:38 PM mog: "How do these misogyinst activists cope with the everyday news of injured and de.....
» 3/05/2008 7:24:59 PM yvonne, Saturday, 3 May 2008 5:40:42 PM referred to DVOs. It would be unethical and irres.....
» 3/05/2008 3:17:01 PM I am pleased that Romany mentioned children because that was a reminder that domestic viol.....
» 27/04/2008 11:15:18 PM gecko, Sunday, 27 April 2008 6:59:00 PM: "How many peace loving parents have been dis.....
» 21/04/2008 11:38:55 AM Sigh, just when I was thinking I was 'evolved' by choosing to reduce work responsibilities.....
» 30/03/2008 7:02:25 PM Danielle, It would be closer to the truth to say: "Boys went to war, came back as br.....
» 29/03/2008 7:49:09 PM Danielle: 'Yes, boys did go, and came back men. ........Similarly, on the return of ".....
» 27/03/2008 11:27:52 AM It is reasonable for a person on a low or moderate income to ask questions about investmen.....
» 25/08/2007 9:39:31 PM Maximus I am pleased you wrote that because I feel the same way about Helen Pringle. She .....
» 25/08/2007 12:17:28 AM C J Morgan Re the misspell, yes I did miss that point. Sorry about that......
» 23/08/2007 9:17:31 AM stickman said: "Atheism is, by definition, the asbence (sic) of something (define the.....
» 22/08/2007 3:12:57 PM snake: "I would have thought that Dawkins was the epitome of logic with the whole of .....
» 22/08/2007 2:46:31 PM C J Morgan: Here Susan: 'But I think there should be no full stop here, rather a coma' Pi.....
» 21/08/2007 12:16:54 PM Times are changing and the day of the small council run by a few local interests (usually .....
» 21/08/2007 11:49:00 AM James Purser said: "The job of a school is not to force students down one idealogical.....
» 21/08/2007 10:16:51 AM This will be interesting because a lot of those who damn 'church' schools support Islamic .....
» 20/08/2007 10:06:08 AM It is the choice of politicians and other leaders in the community that bureaucrats do not.....
» 19/08/2007 3:15:24 AM What is also interesting is the apparent differences in the definition of domestic violenc.....
» 18/08/2007 10:54:14 AM ena Having read a number of your posts I sense you are making the same mistake as I did o.....
» 17/08/2007 1:28:04 PM My impression is this 'shock, horror' article is part of the usual scare campaign to secur.....
» 16/08/2007 5:10:07 PM The Access Economics survey has been around for some years and was discussed at length on .....
» 15/08/2007 1:18:08 PM Bronwyn Pike, Victoria's Vic Health Minister say she is concerned about alcohol abuse and .....
» 15/08/2007 12:28:40 PM In The Australian of July 13, 2007, a prominent criminologist published research showing t.....
» 14/08/2007 9:42:20 PM Celivia, yvonne Numbers are available from the Health Insurance Commission. Quoted here: .....
» 14/08/2007 4:17:01 PM If it was a swindle, some of the largest IT and accounting services providers to governmen.....
» 13/08/2007 4:16:01 PM Celivia said "Why don't they tell the politicians to improve sex education at schools.....
» 13/08/2007 9:00:24 AM logic Technocrat is the appropriate term for the people we are talking about. If they hav.....
» 12/08/2007 11:03:50 AM logic You are in the denial business. I gave the example of a preventable accident at a .....
» 11/08/2007 8:04:12 PM strayan Surely the sweet young thing doesn't presume to one day be the hairy chested wiel.....
» 11/08/2007 7:14:44 PM But is it young people who need more education? I read a report that the significant surg.....
» 11/08/2007 11:36:40 AM Coalition ideology is to sell the farm regardless of its efficiency or the value of its pr.....
» 11/08/2007 9:35:57 AM The greatest bulk of regulation is drafted an approved by unelected people - the bureaucra.....
» 10/08/2007 8:54:31 PM ena I do not know what the solution is but the ramifications of same sex marriage could h.....
» 10/08/2007 2:51:28 PM ena The problem was probably more the expectation that people were seen as being more sta.....
» 10/08/2007 11:56:35 AM Nita said: "I eventually said yeah, sorry, it's Posseidons fault, and the nurse wante.....
» 10/08/2007 10:55:18 AM It is always good to get assurances from experts who chastise the (allegedly) uninformed f.....
» 9/08/2007 12:26:21 PM Following Mr Howard's support for the Marriage Act as it presently stands, the co-convenor.....
» 9/08/2007 11:41:03 AM The Howard government is criticising the States for borrowing to invest in infrastructure......
» 9/08/2007 10:37:22 AM Both major political parties oppose change to the Marriage Act. Given the nature of politi.....
» 8/08/2007 11:28:19 AM If the ABC is left wing I am not sure where that places Malcolm Fraser, who has often crit.....
» 8/08/2007 10:37:18 AM In hindsight, Kathy Lette couldn't cut the mustard as a hardline feminist because she is d.....
» 8/08/2007 10:16:59 AM RObert There is truth in what you say, however modern women and men may not appreciate Ka.....
» 6/08/2007 11:41:32 AM MLK: "..a combination of political correctness, culture wars rhetoric and anti-femini.....
» 5/08/2007 5:30:28 PM MLK In the West, public resources are being redirected from pursuing crime into handling .....
» 4/08/2007 3:56:56 PM C J Morgan If you think I have changed then that is OK by me. I might not agree, but that.....
» 4/08/2007 1:38:41 PM In the past there was the assumption that women were limited by their biology, by their ge.....
» 2/08/2007 6:53:14 PM C J Morgan said: "The article is concerned with the entire population of male and fem.....
» 2/08/2007 6:06:36 PM plantagenet said: "Australia has the right to defend itself with its own indigenous n.....
» 2/08/2007 11:55:16 AM (The logical flaw of) "Exposition: This is the fallacy of generalizing about a popul.....
» 2/08/2007 11:10:42 AM It is not so long ago that a Liberal PM, John Gorton, took the opportunity to develop a si.....
» 2/08/2007 10:30:44 AM Our system of government has been the real loser. How can anyone respect parliament when t.....
» 1/08/2007 2:03:15 PM I would probably be guided by people like Dr Don Weatherburn who has been the Director of .....
» 31/07/2007 7:03:58 PM Lack of interest and the resultant lack of accountability will see the same things happeni.....
» 31/07/2007 10:53:58 AM Is poor unfortunate Violet Baudelaire on the hit list too? Has anyone had the heart to i.....
» 31/07/2007 10:08:25 AM MLK You have stated that you do not agree with the proposition that men are geneticzlly p.....
» 29/07/2007 9:20:26 PM Hamlet, Re Dr Seuss, I experienced the dreaded 'Oh, No' feeling after the comment was pos.....
» 29/07/2007 1:07:04 PM cfb However to take it further and suggest that males are genetically predisposed to comm.....
» 28/07/2007 9:06:56 PM Ours loved poetry. Much of it, written by some of the world's best poets, is very light an.....
» 28/07/2007 7:01:20 PM Tall poppy syndrome. I wonder how many students have been put off reading by the Ms Pring.....
» 28/07/2007 12:36:48 PM MLK The US link you posted is at odds with what the thrust of the subject article. But may.....
» 26/07/2007 11:41:31 PM The author said: "(Australian) Society is reluctant to openly acknowledge core differ.....
» 26/07/2007 4:25:27 PM MLK We differ because I do not believe that men and boys are genetically disposed to be .....
» 26/07/2007 1:18:40 PM Who says everyone ought own their own house? What is so wrong with leasing when the $$ n.....
» 25/07/2007 5:57:42 PM Only a small percentage of men are ever likely to be guests of Her the rhetoric fair and b.....
» 25/07/2007 1:40:15 PM The author would have us believe that there is something fundamentally wrong with men and .....
» 24/07/2007 6:09:46 PM While watching the re-runs of the Benny Hill show an older relative noted that 30+ years a.....
» 24/07/2007 12:38:41 PM MLK So it is heads women win and tails men lose - women don't commit crime but if they do.....
» 24/07/2007 9:13:34 AM There could be another heading: The (Female) Elephant in Child Abuse. Child abuse is very.....
» 23/07/2007 9:13:08 AM You could send some commentators out to study a forest and when you come back twelve month.....
» 21/07/2007 10:49:19 AM Dan, Thanks, explains why the article had a hollow ring to it......
» 20/07/2007 1:22:51 PM The author said: "I’m sure they’ll go about their business with a newfound respect fo.....
» 20/07/2007 11:46:03 AM The rhetoric of politicians is not so limited as to be reserved to just one of the deadly .....
» 20/07/2007 10:03:38 AM Greg The cost with basic installation of a 7 000 L round tank on a concrete pad, level si.....
» 20/07/2007 9:07:25 AM funguy Regardless of one's political preferences, one should be independent enough to rec.....
» 19/07/2007 9:24:07 PM I cannot begin to imagine why men are not incensed by this load of political spin. It is .....
» 19/07/2007 12:27:05 PM davsab Thank you for the links. Reading through your second mentioned link reminded me ju.....
» 18/07/2007 8:34:09 PM As a comment on the article I'd prefer to quote the words of Noel Pearson, interviewed on .....
» 18/07/2007 7:34:58 PM Just following on from what PeterJH has said, I very much doubt the economics for the hous.....
» 18/07/2007 12:12:34 PM I don't doubt that if Malcolm Turnbull and his mates can see a way of turning a dollar fro.....
» 16/07/2007 9:38:53 AM Some might ask why we import more trouble when we cannot effectively risk manage what we h.....
» 13/07/2007 7:55:32 PM I take it that the author has yet to go to Hall's Creek or Dinner Camp. Who knows about th.....
» 13/07/2007 10:23:42 AM You are joking, yes? Wasn't that the same pollster who declared in June that Howard was ra.....
» 13/07/2007 9:00:25 AM That was a huge build up for a damp squib at the end. The Australian population is not en.....
» 12/07/2007 11:27:56 AM I have a better idea. What if all those involved in making the decision to go to war had t.....
» 12/07/2007 11:21:10 AM The Little Children are Sacred report is a good starting point for both questions and answ.....
» 12/07/2007 10:33:07 AM This is just the normal peer review that is going on isn't it? All it says is neither side.....
» 11/07/2007 2:46:17 PM "(There has been) a plethora of formal apologies from Parliaments around Australia, c.....
» 11/07/2007 2:17:09 PM Women can exercise choice. Where is the problem?.....
» 11/07/2007 10:42:50 AM "One definition of an economist is somebody who sees something happen in practice and.....
» 10/07/2007 4:22:55 PM Rainier I referred to one such reliable source in my text but maybe you didn't see it. I .....
» 6/07/2007 1:20:55 PM I suggest the action was in part motivated by the need for a bit of housekeeping prior to .....
» 5/07/2007 3:13:29 PM Having read reports of the Australian Auditor General I cannot agree that 'red tape' is a .....
» 4/07/2007 10:26:06 PM Oh gawd, not another feminist beat-up. ..ZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzz.....
» 4/07/2007 12:58:35 PM A journey of a 1000 steps starts with just one step and the NT is as good a place to start.....
» 3/07/2007 11:17:06 PM For the cynics, a primer on Norforce: http://www.theage.com.au/news/National/A-very-speci.....
» 29/06/2007 11:21:49 AM The record of the Howard government in indigenous matters is like the prelate's egg - good.....
» 29/06/2007 10:22:37 AM What is a distraction is to concentrate on child sexual abuse by itself. The sexual abus.....
» 27/06/2007 1:44:28 PM We are forever demanding that the various layers of government work together to get result.....
» 26/06/2007 6:58:42 PM To Cheryl, I would argue that bullying and other unfair personnel management practices ar.....
» 26/06/2007 4:50:08 PM To exist and flourish, workplace bullying must be sanctioned from the top down. It is syst.....
» 26/06/2007 2:14:23 PM The sexual molestation of children is awful, however it is just one sub-set of the much br.....
» 31/05/2007 9:35:11 AM Just commenting on schoolboy AFL, we have billeted indigenous players and can assure the a.....
» 30/05/2007 11:49:20 PM FG Above your reply there is a clever advertisement about photocopiers and streaking. Is .....
» 30/05/2007 10:43:04 PM Gender feminism was always a joke and it comes as no surprise that hacks are well represen.....
» 26/05/2007 3:53:35 PM From the replies maybe some respondents are shooting from the hip. I went to the site and .....
» 3/05/2007 10:57:58 AM Even if Labor were in power the unions would struggle for members. Many unions had lost mo.....
» 27/04/2007 7:57:11 PM Rainier Now that you mention it, would you call child marriage to elders slavery, or is t.....
» 15/04/2007 10:47:07 PM What irks me as an occasional developer of small lots of land is that for years we have be.....
» 15/04/2007 10:08:17 AM As an employer, the Commonwealth Government has ensured that its own compensation insurer .....
» 6/04/2007 9:53:11 PM Romany said: 'This is also the reason that preventative clinics similar to those set up fo.....
» 2/04/2007 5:26:07 PM There is a broad range of private education in Australia, from coaching colleges through t.....
» 31/03/2007 10:14:33 AM The Fabians must be working for the Howard camp because this is the sort of stuff that wil.....
» 29/03/2007 2:38:20 PM Romany referred to his/her experience with skin colour in China. Maybe one could draw some.....
» 29/03/2007 12:22:13 PM I can remember when everyone aped the 'Poms' and actors had to develop English accents to .....
» 27/03/2007 11:40:05 AM Statistics can be misleading. Just to be practical for a moment, in one community alone a.....
» 26/03/2007 10:43:47 AM It is not as simple as a scarf is it? Islam is a political movement and the scarf is a fl.....
» 26/03/2007 10:05:41 AM It seems that for some, culture is only relevant where it suits their spin. Health initiat.....
» 22/03/2007 9:41:35 AM Senior managers like carrot and stick motivation because they end up with more carrots the.....
» 22/03/2007 9:13:21 AM I should have added that Saul Eslake is one of the very few commentators who has admitted .....
» 22/03/2007 8:57:59 AM Immigration policy is in need of review through direct consultation with the community. Ca.....
» 14/03/2007 6:28:43 PM LL The logical extension of your argument is that we should not trade with any country th.....
» 14/03/2007 11:55:20 AM It is an adolescent stance to maintain that the police alone are there to uphold the law. .....
» 14/03/2007 11:34:36 AM Author, What about some comment about YOUTH alienation and keep this away from being a 'm.....
» 14/03/2007 10:47:54 AM OK authors, what about trying to be a bit reasonable. Here are a few facts to consider. W.....
» 14/03/2007 10:05:18 AM I can imagine that some entrepreneur would see the Bra Boys as a way of branding to get a .....
» 12/03/2007 1:53:42 PM The professor is upset about sackings by state premiers but he is silent about the lack of.....
» 12/03/2007 11:38:03 AM TRTF Getting down to practicalities, does this mean we should have women only bathing bea.....
» 12/03/2007 9:37:43 AM It is because of its history of freedom that we can set the bar so high for it. Not so in .....
» 12/03/2007 9:22:39 AM It is a cause for alarm that the mob with the support of a media addicted to sensationalis.....
» 12/03/2007 9:15:58 AM Without referring to the subject case it is a cause for concern that the mob with the supp.....
» 8/03/2007 2:07:12 PM The Senate is said to be "apart from the Senate of the United States of America, the .....
» 8/03/2007 10:25:06 AM We have too many layers of government and too many politicians as it is. This is resulting.....
» 8/03/2007 10:04:51 AM The author wants girls to enjoy the same civil liberties as their male counterparts. So wh.....
» 1/03/2007 3:29:38 PM This is just another angle on the gay marriage debate which was put to rest a while ago. I.....
» 27/02/2007 6:05:29 PM Saintfletcher, Your generalisations are worthy of a quote from the Four Yorkshiremen, Mon.....
» 27/02/2007 9:35:26 AM Alan Moran of the Institute of Public Affairs, said that “building costs have been stable”.....
» 26/02/2007 7:44:59 PM MLK You need to catch up on your feminism ideology which says that such practices as FGM .....
» 24/02/2007 11:41:53 AM MLK The so-called anti-feminist chat forum you cited is a joke and you were right to surm.....
» 24/02/2007 10:05:13 AM The smart card is a solution seeking a purpose. This situation is now common in governme.....
» 23/02/2007 9:34:10 AM MLK That was a silly little forum, wasn't it? But try this one for a laugh, because this.....
» 22/02/2007 1:22:10 PM Can I turn this around another way and maybe get some feedback as well? Over the last dec.....
» 22/02/2007 12:49:47 PM BOAZ_David You recommend a partition yet you cannot see any parallels with Vietnam? Then.....
» 22/02/2007 12:08:48 PM Lizzie4 No, I was thinking more along the lines of hubris. I had been reading a report on.....
» 22/02/2007 9:31:57 AM Has the author ever read about Vietnam because the parallels are uncanny. Truth is the fi.....
» 21/02/2007 3:16:44 PM Lizzie4 OK, I will enlighten you. You declaim that feminism is really about equality, bu.....
» 21/02/2007 10:45:59 AM Lizzie4 You have proved a point however it might not be the one you set out to prove. Wo.....
» 21/02/2007 9:08:54 AM I was not surprised yesterday when a neighbour's young daughter was telling me how she was.....
» 20/02/2007 12:22:38 PM As priorities, men need: - much more reliable long-term contraception that they control; .....
» 20/02/2007 8:58:25 AM I do not have the time to address the twisted logic in this article and it is sufficient t.....
» 16/02/2007 10:05:53 AM ena You asked how many women sent men off to war. In response I am sorry to report that i.....
» 16/02/2007 9:34:51 AM Chris It was a major gaffe by Howard but his minders are making sure it is only a tempora.....
» 15/02/2007 11:09:57 PM Billie I have a male relative who was living in Canberra in 1975 and he was refused a mor.....
» 14/02/2007 9:59:54 AM Romany You say you should not be accused of ageism but why shouldn't you be, after all yo.....
» 14/02/2007 9:34:49 AM I don't think that positive discrimination or quotas help women generally but such approac.....
» 14/02/2007 8:59:39 AM So what was the article really about, euthanasia or abortion? Looks a bit like bait and sw.....
» 13/02/2007 5:57:23 PM The obvious answer to the question posed by the author is that no, we do not have the righ.....
» 4/02/2007 7:59:30 PM As can be seen from my earlier contribution I saw the author's article as a plea (or maybe.....
» 1/02/2007 10:10:23 AM The abortion rate is highest in the 20-25 age group followed by those aged 25-30. However .....
» 30/01/2007 7:20:46 PM CJMorgan You appear quick to take offense but you have yet to understand what I am talkin.....
» 30/01/2007 1:27:37 PM That it is a church contracting is probably the least of anyone's worries. If the communi.....
» 30/01/2007 9:15:11 AM CJMorgan Does an academic writing on political or cultural issues need creative storytell.....
» 29/01/2007 10:47:58 AM West, I agree with your pithy outline and with your final sentence in particular. Well sa.....
» 29/01/2007 8:50:04 AM CJMorgan said: "sorry to tell you, but despite its pretensions OLO is by no means the.....
» 28/01/2007 1:55:45 PM So while out on a wave (very butch, very Ozzie!) the author overheard a longwinded convers.....
» 25/01/2007 12:57:27 PM So the author says we should listen to the superficial spin and not drill beneath? That is.....
» 24/01/2007 10:13:57 PM It could be that maternal gatekeeping connects with some deep needs and drives of women - .....
» 24/01/2007 11:19:30 AM KerryMcG said: "..Obstetricians do not know how to give birth. .....To find out how, .....
» 22/01/2007 12:53:20 PM I formerly referred broadly to 'medical science' and it is reasonable to include researche.....
» 21/01/2007 9:23:57 PM ena Do you have sons or other men in your life to love? Men and women are not the same an.....
» 21/01/2007 11:35:47 AM KerryMcG Any woman who is giving birth for the first time or is not of optimal age and he.....
» 20/01/2007 7:49:28 PM Romany You so ably demonstrate why so many modern feminists lack credibility because they.....
» 20/01/2007 10:28:05 AM KerryMcG That was really wild stuff you said about episiotomies. Why promote the mendac.....
» 18/01/2007 2:41:32 PM KerryMcG Whilst i might not disagree with you opn what feminism should be -in particular .....
» 18/01/2007 1:07:43 AM KerryMcG said, “It has only been feminists who have worked for baby friendly initiatives i.....
» 16/01/2007 12:07:39 PM If you wanted to design an environment that was hostile to young women with infants you co.....
» 15/01/2007 6:11:51 PM In giving birth we are re-born. Nothing can prepare a mother (or father) for that moment w.....
» 11/01/2007 4:48:39 PM Franzy said: 'The problem with accepting that a foetus is a living human being is that it .....
» 11/01/2007 3:26:21 PM Terminations will occur regardless so the best anyone can do is to look earnestly and fran.....
» 10/01/2007 1:19:21 PM Parents cannot be laissez faire in raising children; they must be proactive, give guidance.....
» 10/01/2007 12:27:35 PM Julie Bishop interviewed by Barry Cassidy: "JULIE BISHOP: Barrie, the States are bei.....
» 9/01/2007 2:12:09 PM sam said: "it seems the actual abortions are more than 90 000 as number of women have.....
» 8/01/2007 3:44:44 PM Although I generally support the right to choose, I would have reservations about the late.....
» 8/01/2007 12:36:55 PM I don't think the rants of modern feminists help women very much, rather they alienate peo.....
» 8/01/2007 12:05:14 AM Parliament and government agencies are reasonable sources of information. As welfare sta.....
» 7/01/2007 1:03:00 AM We donate to Médecins Sans Frontières and other overseas relief organisations that have de.....
» 6/01/2007 6:32:47 PM billie I was referring to Franzy's hypothetical. To become a partner or senior manager in.....
» 6/01/2007 1:26:31 PM Franzy, there is nothing to be gained from cheap shots along gender lines: “Often the unde.....
» 5/01/2007 1:49:41 PM When I read this article on the author’s website I was disturbed by women respondents who .....
» 5/01/2007 11:48:27 AM The Australian Scout Jamboree is on in Victoria at present. Anyone who has ever been to a .....
» 4/01/2007 6:24:08 PM TRTF When you read the author's affiliations at the bottom of the article you possibly no.....
» 4/01/2007 12:05:48 PM What a waste, all of that imagery and humour just to knee men in the balls over some very .....
» 3/01/2007 2:38:56 PM So the end justifies the means and where it suits us it is quite OK to discriminate becaus.....
» 3/01/2007 1:04:08 PM West said: "articles or essays are venues for information or points of view which onl.....
» 2/01/2007 11:52:11 AM West What about the ethics of sledging without evidence? I reckon this was an elaborate a.....
» 1/01/2007 11:21:06 PM The author throw her net wide, however the following two paragraphs from the text appear t.....
» 28/12/2006 3:06:25 PM chrissie Your abuse shows you are on the defensive against against anyone who would quest.....
» 28/12/2006 11:54:07 AM Feminists are quick to scream foul when people with differing opinions join 'their' organi.....
» 26/12/2006 12:40:51 PM If indigenous people concur with as Noel Pearson (see his interview with Peter Cave on 15 .....
» 24/12/2006 12:26:04 AM I wonder what the recidivism rate of all child neglecters is though, because from my readi.....
» 24/12/2006 12:08:17 AM Celivia said: "Very well said, RObert; it's all about freedom." Rubbish! If tha.....
» 20/12/2006 1:07:55 PM Laurie With respect, feminism isn't one big sugar coated pill that is good for all, but a.....
» 20/12/2006 8:15:17 AM Western feminists are like cows in a china shop when clumping in around other cultures. As.....
» 15/12/2006 1:31:59 PM Returning to the article, my assessment is that the '-isms' in drastic need of attention a.....
» 15/12/2006 11:18:10 AM Maybe it is time to draw a breath and take a dispassionate look at an emotionally charged .....
» 14/12/2006 2:49:48 PM Country music is mainly a male genre and it affords men the same relief that a good cry af.....
» 14/12/2006 11:43:39 AM vivy Was it you who said on 7 Nov 2006 ('Mr Lust' thread): "At the risk of sounding .....
» 14/12/2006 10:52:03 AM Kirsty I accept where you re coming from and the government has had ten years to show lead.....
» 12/12/2006 4:29:50 PM Old farts?! No, that would not be a fair assessment. Restructuring forced redundancy on m.....
» 12/12/2006 11:36:33 AM Come on author, that was a bit dog in the manger. Let's be reasonable, many of these senio.....
» 11/12/2006 7:16:07 PM ronnie peters said, "Below is a link from Cornflower. What a gendered weekend? They c.....
» 11/12/2006 10:32:03 AM In the last sentence of my post above I meant to say "..certain large superannuation .....
» 11/12/2006 10:25:11 AM CEOs and politicians become masters of the same black arts to get where they are and it is.....
» 10/12/2006 1:46:51 PM Rainier Your aggression and stream of insults are way out of line. I don't mind people sp.....
» 10/12/2006 9:40:34 AM ronnie peters Why is it so hard for you to say 'some'? That is the main sticking point th.....
» 9/12/2006 11:24:10 PM Rainier Blustering and bullying gets you nowhere. You are stuck in a rut. If you have not.....
» 9/12/2006 9:49:00 AM Rainier With few exceptions, people who respond to OLO articles do so in the honest belie.....
» 8/12/2006 12:18:28 PM Ronnie Peters I am a bit bemused by the fear and loathing with which you and some radical.....
» 8/12/2006 11:02:18 AM Rainier Why blame others? Mal Brough is echoing what others say, including the substantia.....
» 8/12/2006 12:20:16 AM Rainier You asked for evidence that there is violence aagainst women and youth in Aborigi.....
» 6/12/2006 11:49:06 AM Both men and women need to be concerned with where the Australian Law Reform commission is.....
» 6/12/2006 10:54:49 AM Rainier Blaming it all on the governments past and present lets everyone off the hook, hu.....
» 5/12/2006 3:46:38 PM Rainier Your personal abuse does you no credit. Abuse is always counterproductive and you.....
» 5/12/2006 9:48:00 AM Rainier You are in denial, what I related is a matter of fact: Nanette Rogers http://www.....
» 4/12/2006 11:08:16 PM The marketing is for nuclear power but the real goal is to have reprocessing and dumping i.....
» 4/12/2006 3:12:51 PM HRS Have you allowed a reasonable delay and then made a request under the NSW Freedom of .....
» 4/12/2006 2:56:49 PM Recently one woman professional put her career and life on the line to draw attention to a.....
» 4/12/2006 10:34:12 AM Rob13264 A man who is his own man gets plenty of attention form the opposite sex. Set you.....
» 2/12/2006 3:56:30 PM I cannot understand why men would go along with the feminist oppression of men as represen.....
» 1/12/2006 10:20:23 AM I would venture that most women and men would support Rainbow Ribbon Day, as would the man.....
» 1/12/2006 10:06:06 AM I propose a Rainbow Ribbon Day in lieu of WRD for all of the children who suffer from negl.....
» 1/12/2006 9:30:37 AM I wonder if it would be of value to use either 'manliness' or 'manfulness' in lieu of 'mas.....
» 30/11/2006 4:45:42 PM The author said: "But we cannot deny that for many surrogate mothers and their childr.....
» 30/11/2006 3:53:46 PM Where is the evidence that women are being forced to donate eggs, or that women are someho.....
» 29/11/2006 7:45:08 PM I would say that more women go to gyms and to boxercise, water aerobics, yoga - the list i.....
» 29/11/2006 7:06:42 PM ronnie peters said: “And Cornflower you are also wrong to chastise feminist for supposedly.....
» 29/11/2006 2:59:38 PM Contrary to what gender feminists would have people believe, violence against women by som.....
» 27/11/2006 2:02:50 PM We should be concerned about violence from any source: Lesbian Domestic Violence: unseen,.....
» 27/11/2006 12:26:50 PM Stomont You sound envious and lazy. Go to realestate.com.au and you will find hundreds o.....
» 27/11/2006 9:36:19 AM Ho Hum, more intergenerational jealousy bunkum. With the greatest respect to the author, .....
» 23/11/2006 2:58:15 PM Two thoughts: first, the Queen will be rooting for the English team so what does that tell.....
» 22/11/2006 12:01:46 PM Also of interest: One in 25 Dads Isn’t Biological Father, British Study Shows 11 Aug 200.....
» 22/11/2006 11:24:19 AM You should have whispered that. Golda Mier was 71 when she became PM and our Man of Steel .....
» 22/11/2006 10:56:09 AM There is a need for an ongoing debate on values and for values education in schools. Spiri.....
» 22/11/2006 9:41:36 AM It is clever of the government to focus on nuclear energy production but it is only a blin.....
» 22/11/2006 1:32:57 AM ena, Where did you get those numbers from because Brendan Nelson as federal Minister for.....
» 21/11/2006 10:04:01 AM The medical use of radioactivity has been used for years as a justification for a nuclear .....
» 20/11/2006 2:19:55 PM What woman wouldn't blister the paint off the hospital walls if she was accidentally given.....
» 20/11/2006 12:39:17 PM Talking about the federal government and its boasting about sur-pluses, I am surprised no-.....
» 20/11/2006 11:17:08 AM There is no doubt that the government is insincere about Medicare and is passing on user p.....
» 20/11/2006 8:47:31 AM Returning to the discussion of ethics and this was a well conceived article, it will be in.....
» 18/11/2006 1:31:28 AM The good thing about Ray Martin's interview was that you got to see and hear the Sheik exp.....
» 17/11/2006 10:19:13 AM A short-cut would be to enquire about the ratio of male and female teachers and what roles.....
» 16/11/2006 6:57:13 PM Just to add to what rogindon said, the subject literature review concluded that when a fat.....
» 16/11/2006 11:29:07 AM Mr Magill's lawyer Vivien Mavropoulos was quoted in The Courier Mail as saying that the ca.....
» 16/11/2006 9:59:22 AM I support co-ed however single sex schools also serve a useful purpose, suiting some stude.....
» 16/11/2006 1:29:05 AM Has the author considered that the underachievement and disengagement of boys in education.....
» 15/11/2006 10:43:51 AM Along with the author and greatest bulk of respondents to OLO, I share a concern about pro.....
» 14/11/2006 12:52:21 PM The author said: “No one should condone the statements made by Sheik Hilali. .....Just as .....
» 14/11/2006 12:52:05 PM The author said: “No one should condone the statements made by Sheik Hilali. .....Just as .....
» 12/11/2006 3:54:14 PM You could draw a parallel between the feminists attacking Leunig and the reaction of some .....
» 11/11/2006 4:56:11 PM Forrest Gumpp Thank you for your kind words. C.....
» 10/11/2006 7:16:54 PM I think of Islam more as a political movement than a religious one and that is the basis o.....
» 10/11/2006 10:33:23 AM From our experience, students need diversions to expend energy, to help with personality a.....
» 10/11/2006 8:46:25 AM ronnie peters said, "Yes I agree there is an undercurrent of disrespect for women in .....
» 8/11/2006 9:31:46 AM Linda What you say makes good sense and from discussions with teachers at the sharp end t.....
» 7/11/2006 2:13:28 PM Thanks for a very interesting article which rang true. There has been an enormous amount .....
» 7/11/2006 1:05:04 PM The author asserts that: "Taken within this context, Hilali's words,.... sit well wit.....
» 7/11/2006 10:44:19 AM Crikey, better duck, the feminists are after Leunig now. Er, did someone say 'duck'? Aw, .....
» 7/11/2006 10:04:21 AM Of course men find a nubile young woman in flattering clothes sexy. Women like looking at .....
» 5/11/2006 9:59:36 PM Tristan I can see why the World Socialist Website quotes that report which was commission.....
» 5/11/2006 5:01:46 PM From what they are led to understand, people imagine that domestic violence involves physi.....
» 5/11/2006 4:36:36 PM Spider said, "With housing, the growing trend of feudalism in Australia where the few.....
» 3/11/2006 11:52:52 PM Christians had to become more secular to escape the yoke of priests. Takes guts and determ.....
» 3/11/2006 10:48:40 PM Spider Don't buy that intergenerational jealousy line peddled by the federal government. .....
» 2/11/2006 9:07:39 AM Reading through the posts reminded me just how effective story telling is as a rhetorical .....
» 2/11/2006 8:28:33 AM Who says that everyone is entitled to own a house? Some do not want the responsibility or .....
» 1/11/2006 1:35:45 PM Country Girl said, "You have neatly summarised the problems at the other end of the s.....
» 1/11/2006 1:20:28 PM Daniel 06 I am not surprised there are drug searches outside night clubs, after all that .....
» 1/11/2006 10:35:37 AM Lets not be too precious though about the rights of perpetrators while telling other law a.....
» 31/10/2006 3:35:50 PM It cuts both ways. For example, child neglect is rife as is the psychological abuse of spo.....
» 31/10/2006 11:16:00 AM Albs “Cornflower, no offence but I don't think you know too much about "Western femi.....
» 31/10/2006 11:08:04 AM What about the reported incidence of violence in same sex relationships, in particular by .....
» 30/10/2006 11:57:19 PM Some good has come out of the Sheik affair and that is the light now being shed on the pol.....
» 30/10/2006 4:39:31 PM Western feminists have hit the wall trying to rationalise their brand of feminism with mul.....
» 30/10/2006 10:21:20 AM Rayann is making a plea on behalf of all non-Western women to be able to define and pursue.....
» 29/10/2006 5:31:02 PM If we are to believe the Sheik, it is probable that Muslim men will molest and rape any wo.....
» 28/10/2006 12:37:26 PM But it is not about such simple things as veils and miniskirts, is it Professor Bagaric ? .....
» 27/10/2006 12:16:01 AM RObert You miss the point - other countries do have flogging for adults. It strikes me t.....
» 27/10/2006 12:05:57 AM Firstly, the subject matter was inappropriate for the student at her age and stage of psyc.....
» 25/10/2006 10:07:26 AM If corporal punishment works so well why not mete it out to adults? I can see it now: wom.....
» 24/10/2006 12:25:24 PM Rex The SMH of 15 April 2006 had an article on junk food advertising that gives a window .....
» 23/10/2006 2:04:19 PM Spider, You are right on the money there. Some of the contributors to these comments may .....
» 23/10/2006 1:50:01 PM Arjay Teachers who physically, emotionally or psychologically abuse students should face .....
» 22/10/2006 9:14:03 PM Rex The ethics of major companies pulling the psychological strings of children is what I.....
» 22/10/2006 8:48:06 PM Bondi Pete Authoritative parenting, which I would favour too, is at odds with the corpora.....
» 22/10/2006 12:18:11 PM Rex Being pragmatic, would you roll back the clock and have tobacco advertising everywher.....
» 21/10/2006 11:41:45 PM Returning to the question posed by the author, I don't think any amount of feminist ration.....
» 21/10/2006 11:06:13 PM BOAZ_David If you use a thump or two to 'train' boys how then do you train your dog/s? H.....
» 21/10/2006 1:37:53 PM Boys need diversions and most do not have fathers. They do not have diversions readily av.....
» 20/10/2006 3:40:28 PM Rex I wasn't suggesting fashion police. However we should limit advertising directed at ch.....
» 19/10/2006 5:50:25 PM Good article. The wider perspective is needed. I was becoming quite hungry for a balanced,.....
» 18/10/2006 9:59:42 PM ena In extolling the sensitivity of your spouse to feminism you said he was "gender-b.....
» 18/10/2006 10:49:49 AM Maximus The real joke is that the Western feminists strode forth to lead and dominate the.....
» 18/10/2006 10:29:07 AM Why does Dr Elspeth McInnes shy away from including child neglect and psychological harm i.....
» 17/10/2006 8:47:50 AM ena asks 'Why all this struggle to be male' and coos that 'everything will be alright, jus.....
» 16/10/2006 8:21:15 PM To Susan Prior If you want specifics on costs why not have a word with Michael Green, the.....
» 16/10/2006 4:17:47 PM Crikey, Canberra would have trillions and trillions of flies. Maybe if some of the prime .....
» 16/10/2006 2:42:42 PM amrita makes a very telling point when she says, "Stop talking 'about' us. Talk to us.....
» 16/10/2006 11:35:01 AM Another feminist academic dinosaur attempting to rationalise the obvious inconsistencies i.....
» 16/10/2006 2:36:34 AM The feminists are ridiculous when they claim that pornography always demeans women and tha.....
» 13/10/2006 6:30:25 PM For decades we have taught boys that at best they could aspire to becoming defective girls.....
» 13/10/2006 8:35:01 AM Poor communications and lack of services are reasons why people have drifted from country .....
» 10/10/2006 10:36:42 AM The overheads of delivering education are too high. There are too many administrators and .....
» 8/10/2006 7:41:42 PM The lesson we should have learned was from Vietnam: don't get sucked into these wars in th.....
» 8/10/2006 4:25:31 PM Like many unions, the National Union of students did not serve it membership very well at .....
» 8/10/2006 12:59:14 PM There is a perception - as seen in second-rate TV shows (one starring Donald Trump) - that.....
» 8/10/2006 10:38:14 AM It would be good if it were that simple and maybe not. I found the (Australian) Manhood s.....
» 7/10/2006 1:56:41 PM Liam said 'how typical of men'. Well we know for certain that Germaine Greer didn't appro.....
» 6/10/2006 11:59:36 PM I don't get that impression of men's help groups. Have a look at the Men's Health and Well.....
» 6/10/2006 1:19:53 PM Dr Moodie, you could say all the same things about our captains of industry and it does no.....
» 6/10/2006 12:15:10 PM Men are what society has defined men to be. There is an isue of liberation and it is separ.....
» 6/10/2006 5:19:10 AM ena You missed my points about using this column to fundraise and about the need to be ver.....
» 5/10/2006 12:43:13 PM As long as the medical practitioner is the sole 'gate keeper' in the medical model they wi.....
» 5/10/2006 12:09:21 PM The writer should declare from the outset that this is storytelling to plead for money. T.....
» 5/10/2006 11:36:16 AM Posing the question "Is masculinity in Crisis" avoids the real issue of whether .....
» 3/10/2006 3:28:49 PM At one time, a lot more of Australia was settled. But they had established their farms and.....
» 3/10/2006 2:53:31 PM Well done and thank you for sharing. I suspect there always were many people who put the f.....
» 3/10/2006 2:04:00 PM In Australia, prostitutes are private entrepreneurs who make good money with far less exer.....
» 3/10/2006 1:35:02 PM There used to be Reds under every bed, now we have a terrorist threat. The conservatives .....
» 3/10/2006 1:11:38 PM The article rang hollow. Reading it you would never think that there are thousands of men .....
» 2/10/2006 12:54:58 AM Religious zealots and feminists share a creepy obsession with sex and for both sex is a to.....
» 27/09/2006 11:21:24 AM la1985 What about the double standard of feminists? It is OK for the high priestess of fe.....
» 26/09/2006 11:42:33 PM Citizen said: "Speaking only for myself, i have learnt over the years that lieing is .....
» 26/09/2006 12:37:24 PM Radical feminists narrow and flex the definition of child abuse to suit their obsession wi.....
» 26/09/2006 12:19:42 AM Hedgepig If you like Greer quotes here is more recent one of hers apropos of her passion .....
» 25/09/2006 2:41:03 PM Melinda didn't have to squint to see scantily clad women on the walls of young soldiers' b.....
» 25/09/2006 1:21:45 PM Like all radical feminists, Melissa is blind to all of the degradation, suffering and deat.....
» 23/09/2006 1:53:18 PM Let's see now, one one hand we have Barbara Biggs a journalist whose expertise claims rely.....
» 22/09/2006 7:36:34 PM It is a waste of time writing to the people who drafted it. The best approach is the hand.....
» 22/09/2006 1:40:23 PM RObert (and others) That stuff on the Queensland Dept Health site is outrageous. Stephen.....
» 21/09/2006 4:48:01 PM What you just wrote is sufficient to send to politicians. Just grab the addresses from the.....
» 21/09/2006 11:54:13 AM It is eminently reasonable to challenge the obvious unfairness and emasculating effect on .....
» 20/09/2006 10:36:29 AM [continued] Greer stumbled over her own mouth in her rush to attacked Steve Iriwn's still.....
» 20/09/2006 10:12:44 AM Germaine Greer suffers from phallus phobia. Always did and always will because she has not.....
» 18/09/2006 12:16:26 PM It is a mistake to underestimate the enormous ground gained in public policy by the femini.....
» 18/09/2006 10:20:56 AM Some women have to work out of pure necessity, however many choose to work and do not need.....
» 17/09/2006 10:53:13 PM Every mother in Australia should buy the book The War Against Boys: How Misguided Feminism.....
» 15/09/2006 12:11:18 PM JamesH I second your view on Tricia Duffield (ABC radio). I was astounded to hear her m.....
» 15/09/2006 10:07:13 AM Because the subject is abortion there will be a line-up on one side of feminists (who driv.....
» 15/09/2006 9:38:27 AM There are deeper problems. From Pre-Kindy all of the way through to Year 7 at primary sch.....
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