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» 2/03/2009 4:11:59 PM Okay, joke's over guys. What's going on here? I quit this site a while back, sick to dea.....
» 31/01/2009 10:13:40 PM "Everybody on the forum should exercise their responsibility to know the rules and re.....
» 31/01/2009 8:03:00 PM "Distort me once, shame on you. Distort me twice, and I'm outa this dysfunctional exc.....
» 30/01/2009 7:47:20 PM CJ, it's not so much about the issues or the people, more about the dynamics here. By gett.....
» 30/01/2009 3:25:13 PM Houellebecq could perhaps have taken more care with wording, but the main point is valid. .....
» 30/01/2009 11:48:11 AM Had no idea what this article was trying to achieve until the final sentence, which is bar.....
» 30/01/2009 11:12:07 AM From time to time I think about giving up on this site altogether because of these problem.....
» 27/01/2009 11:14:05 AM On topic, the Israeli leadership saying it will indemnify soldiers suggests it knows war c.....
» 26/01/2009 9:06:29 AM . The trouble with Western bleeding hearts and UN 'obervers' and "Human Rights" .....
» 25/01/2009 1:16:20 PM As RobP pointed out, war crimes tribunals follow the logic of nation states. War crimes ar.....
» 24/01/2009 4:27:31 PM >>My original suggestion was if there were to be any censorship, it should be formul.....
» 24/01/2009 12:07:52 PM Col is right about the vague wording which is a problem with both the existing and propose.....
» 23/01/2009 4:03:22 PM >>That assumes I am incapable of making the decision for myself. Yet our democrati.....
» 22/01/2009 12:59:16 PM There's plenty of overlap between the anti-choice and pro-filtering mobs. For the pro-filt.....
» 15/01/2009 11:13:17 AM Graham's right about the Crikey banner, although it does still have that animated exclamat.....
» 15/01/2009 10:40:28 AM >>P.S. see u this sunday at the statue in front of the State Lib :) 2.00pm unless co.....
» 13/01/2009 11:26:56 AM MaryG - the Crikey! masthead comes with the exclamation mark. I've been pondering the Le.....
» 9/01/2009 10:46:54 AM The article makes a good point about extremism in both religions being oppressive. ".....
» 2/01/2009 3:08:47 PM That's the theory Foxy, but it leaves cashed up bogans out of the picture. Cashed up boga.....
» 28/12/2008 11:30:17 AM Foxy mentioned plastic surgery which was the first comparable thing which came to mind thi.....
» 27/12/2008 9:42:39 AM The technical bits of this go straight over my head, but the general message is clear. Ele.....
» 23/12/2008 8:20:19 PM >>I attack the ABUSE of the concept by both the gay community and the Islamic mob<.....
» 23/12/2008 5:28:46 PM Because, Bugsy, Polyboaz denies the nice version of Jesus. His tastes run towards the wrat.....
» 18/12/2008 5:00:19 PM >>Any more disgusting stereotypes of men?<< Keep yer hair on honey. Just some.....
» 18/12/2008 12:06:55 PM Psychologists have done all sorts of research on this and if I could remember what they ca.....
» 17/12/2008 11:14:00 AM Yeah, those pesky feminists engineered everything so young breeders reorganised their prio.....
» 15/12/2008 6:46:09 PM I often think of changing my pseudonym, but have grown perversely fond of it. It actually.....
» 15/12/2008 7:59:30 AM A fair bit of what kids learn at school already has a humanist angle. They consider the th.....
» 15/12/2008 7:40:42 AM If it's only about pool fencing, pools should be properly fenced. The best and worst of pa.....
» 13/12/2008 8:33:44 PM >>or shoot him in the leg. Why did they have to kill him?<< I've thought the .....
» 12/12/2008 9:05:46 AM No cartwheels or handstands, no swinging kids around, no cuddling them, no photos, no inte.....
» 11/12/2008 10:18:50 AM They're also doing what governments before them have done and watched while Australian inn.....
» 10/12/2008 12:26:20 PM ” I always thought the justification for censoring child pornography was that children wer.....
» 9/12/2008 6:18:36 PM What Foxy said. Great story Examinator. Along with others, welcome spkout, and great pos.....
» 9/12/2008 5:56:36 PM I wouldn't say I deliberately limit my time here, and I don't have a permanent strategy fo.....
» 9/12/2008 2:22:07 PM Geez Runner, it must be a terrible burden for you to have to slog through life in this mis.....
» 8/12/2008 3:55:31 PM I just posted a comment on that ridiculous red pen article and no birds or leopards. Why n.....
» 8/12/2008 3:50:22 PM "They will not have much 'self-esteem' left after they have spent a few months in the.....
» 8/12/2008 10:22:17 AM I've had problems too. Sometimes the page will load if you wait long enough, sometimes not.....
» 8/12/2008 10:07:20 AM Any halfway decent content producer will tell you that the most popular movies/tv shows re.....
» 6/12/2008 10:12:46 AM Antiseptic has one good point. Letting the poster's motivation dictate discussion gets nob.....
» 4/12/2008 7:01:26 AM I signed too, and passed it on. Increasing any government's arbitrary powers over anything.....
» 4/12/2008 6:57:04 AM The question is a perfect example of someone swallowing talkback radio polemics whole. Don.....
» 1/12/2008 1:08:05 PM We could extend it to everything and limit ourselves to animated penguins. Or is that stil.....
» 30/11/2008 8:05:48 PM Too true Romany. The crazier parts of the American media were spruiking it as deliberately.....
» 30/11/2008 7:31:23 PM Just back from seeing the movie and Nicky has a valid point. >>Do we accuse those .....
» 29/11/2008 11:45:50 AM Hugh Jackman should hang his head in shame for his part in the X Men films. Making fun of .....
» 28/11/2008 4:35:36 PM >>It is time that we simply en masse, stopped responding to any of his threads<&l.....
» 28/11/2008 10:15:03 AM Now there's a set of info worth having. Thanks OUG. The Twitter article is intriguing. On.....
» 28/11/2008 7:12:05 AM If someone other than Boaz had started this thread we'd be having a reasonable discussion .....
» 27/11/2008 5:22:07 PM >>One of the (reported) 3 groups involved sought out British and American passport h.....
» 27/11/2008 11:15:59 AM >>The goal of this thread, is to establish the connections between this action, and .....
» 27/11/2008 11:07:23 AM Mark me down as another one who agrees with TRTL and Pericles. We live in a fairly new hou.....
» 25/11/2008 2:08:33 PM Nations are individual propositions, which is something the GWOT ignores. Of Iraq, Afghani.....
» 24/11/2008 9:22:47 AM The question of compulsory vs voluntary voting is one of those things that's only interest.....
» 22/11/2008 6:13:31 PM I was under the impression that the worst Australia had to worry about on this front was t.....
» 21/11/2008 6:34:02 PM Keep your lupins Austin. Nobody wants lupins these days. Can I interest you in this here s.....
» 21/11/2008 12:16:20 PM "Kinda makes a joke of the academic community." speaking of things that don't ex.....
» 18/11/2008 3:04:20 PM What sort of monkeys are we talking about here? Are we talking the more advanced primates .....
» 15/11/2008 7:55:07 PM The copper/infection thing is new to me. I was under the impression copper bracelets were .....
» 14/11/2008 1:25:12 PM Go here http://nocleanfeed.com/ and click on Take Action. Politicians take way more noti.....
» 12/11/2008 4:39:04 PM Spikey's right about the meaning of 'culture'. It used to be something you'd go to 'get' a.....
» 11/11/2008 6:25:30 PM Ph00 stains, Having spent ridiculous amounts of time watching these arguments about race/.....
» 10/11/2008 7:08:13 PM Spikey mentioned Putnam but didn't elaborate. Putnam is largely responsible for the noti.....
» 5/11/2008 6:57:57 PM If the Atheist Foundation printed t-shirts, bumber stickers, hats, stubby holders etc with.....
» 4/11/2008 4:16:02 PM The first thing that came to mind on reading the slogan was that the godly would *perceive.....
» 4/11/2008 9:51:41 AM The idea seems reasonable enough. The signs and slogans of religion are as common as the g.....
» 31/10/2008 8:07:28 AM Will this filtering stop our kiddies from researching the blue footed booby? What sort of .....
» 30/10/2008 11:04:10 AM "He practices immaculate evacuation." Now *that* was funny......
» 30/10/2008 10:57:39 AM It's all going tremendously well so far. The majority of the thread is the usual slanging .....
» 28/10/2008 9:29:06 AM "As a Christian, one of the things that worries me about a thread like this is that y.....
» 25/10/2008 12:40:53 PM What Bronwyn said. Both religion and its more passionate adherents are already over repres.....
» 24/10/2008 9:07:59 PM Fair enough on the face of it pelican, but in real life, by the time most of us reach adul.....
» 23/10/2008 1:09:22 PM What Kassie said. There's a pattern. Jolanda posts another version of the same post as al.....
» 17/10/2008 1:10:44 PM Head explosion. BD and CJ agree. Always, everywhere, somebody is getting unfairly exploit.....
» 7/10/2008 5:45:54 PM >>Don't know the margin for error here but time will tell.<< The margin of er.....
» 6/10/2008 5:56:26 PM Since I'm not prepared to wade through the emotive rubbish that passes for reportage these.....
» 6/10/2008 9:56:58 AM Quite so david f. Kids are subjected to all sorts of rubbish from individuals and organi.....
» 2/10/2008 10:59:53 AM Headlines are designed to suck as many people as possible into reading a story. Often the .....
» 26/09/2008 4:08:37 PM Not to be outdone, today Julia Gillard also confessed to smoking pot in her uni days, but .....
» 25/09/2008 10:42:04 AM I can't think of anything that would make me adopt religious belief. If a gigantic god-fac.....
» 23/09/2008 11:10:24 AM "I first knew Merv Bendle when he was employed as a sociology lecturer" You mea.....
» 22/09/2008 2:55:59 PM 'Pollywaffle'. Very good. I like it. As you were......
» 22/09/2008 2:47:36 PM All true Bugsy, but I was responding to the suggestion that 'welfare' still means unworthy.....
» 22/09/2008 11:40:38 AM The original post demonstrates a misunderstanding of the issue. "It has been reveal.....
» 19/09/2008 4:00:50 PM I wouldn't worry too much about Australia becoming Americanised Gibo. We watch their TV sh.....
» 18/09/2008 12:03:44 PM What does it say about Western society that XTC can make a fortune out of 'Dear God'? htt.....
» 18/09/2008 11:49:24 AM Politics and the entertainment industries have merged. Since politics has become more ente.....
» 17/09/2008 12:25:02 PM Turnbull will be great for the Liberals. He'll get them their longed for poll bounce, will.....
» 13/09/2008 1:14:58 PM What's a modicom? Is it something like an intercom.....
» 11/09/2008 6:21:37 PM "I hope though, that one day most of you will read ALL that He did and said.. and not.....
» 11/09/2008 11:49:06 AM Jesus was a thoroughly decent bloke by all accounts. Generous, kind, gentle, thoughtful, s.....
» 10/09/2008 3:25:56 PM The frankincense and mhyrr are starting to make sense. Three ordinary men might have given.....
» 10/09/2008 9:14:31 AM "nothing like a good ol stouche to get the juices going.. ya know ur alive :)" .....
» 9/09/2008 10:24:00 AM >Brother Porky seems to have deserted his own thread after only one post< He's a bu.....
» 8/09/2008 11:45:12 AM These posts are a bit like that canned alphabet spaghetti - little bits of something like .....
» 5/09/2008 1:23:49 PM I don't think it's as simple as using it too much. Occasionally you hear it being overused.....
» 1/09/2008 1:56:21 PM Does anyone else here find the levels of delusion exhibited in this post alarming? Or have.....
» 28/08/2008 10:50:15 AM You're all for nationalism as opposed to the universalisms of the UN, but somehow the Amer.....
» 28/08/2008 10:09:39 AM On Lateline Julia Gillard was saying it's about identifying under-performing schools to wo.....
» 27/08/2008 3:03:13 PM "I still maintain though, the primary purpose of the thread is to point out how serio.....
» 27/08/2008 10:19:31 AM "I mention God only because apart from a divine mandate one persons version of 'Human.....
» 27/08/2008 10:06:09 AM You're talking here about first wave feminism. Second wave feminism argued that women shou.....
» 26/08/2008 9:22:58 AM the current governments haven't redefined anything. The general population has never been .....
» 25/08/2008 10:41:37 AM Baby. Bathwater......
» 20/08/2008 5:09:23 PM I wouldn't say ADD or ADHD are complete horsepooh, but they're near enough. Naughty kids w.....
» 11/08/2008 1:29:29 PM Mine came from a short term fling I had with smoking various foods in a wok, which involve.....
» 8/08/2008 2:33:50 PM Julie Vickers has to be doing PR for the ALP. There's no other plausible explanation......
» 8/08/2008 2:30:53 PM Where did this assumption come from that Costello ever really wanted the leadership? The o.....
» 1/08/2008 2:53:07 PM Samsung pointed out that in a population of 20 million plus, OLO is a drop in the bucket (.....
» 22/07/2008 2:50:52 PM Since television was invented we've watched famine victims slowly starving to death on a m.....
» 18/07/2008 6:12:49 PM Interesting observations rstuart. Size: Comparisons with the US are pointless for mine. .....
» 18/07/2008 1:20:13 PM "I have been trying think of reasons why a social researcher might find this General .....
» 17/07/2008 1:23:24 PM You've got a Catholic, telling a Catholic audience, that there aren't enough babies. It's .....
» 17/07/2008 1:12:33 PM The General Forum is far and away my favourite part of the site and from a social research.....
» 12/07/2008 4:11:50 PM "but only those who deserve and have the maturity and discretion to handle them".....
» 12/07/2008 4:06:06 PM "A noticeboard that lists the top 100 posters by the number of posts they have submit.....
» 11/07/2008 11:32:28 AM What Graham said. And Hack is a good place to start. It should dispel some of the myths ab.....
» 10/07/2008 5:25:03 PM Knowing people, whether they're neighbours, friends or family, means SFA. Serial killers h.....
» 10/07/2008 10:35:40 AM Given the role the media has played in all of this, maybe the best place for Ferguson is a.....
» 9/07/2008 6:20:42 PM "It is time the media stopped egging on ignorance and prejudice in Queensland." .....
» 8/07/2008 4:14:29 PM Corri: "I'd add that I also tried to raise the issue of child exploitation generall.....
» 8/07/2008 11:53:49 AM Steel Mann makes a very good point which gets ignored in all this. Amid the outcry and dem.....
» 7/07/2008 10:59:40 AM In the past the christian churches have been able to overstate their political influence w.....
» 2/07/2008 11:53:13 AM I think the answer lies in the question - not so much mood as opinion. Hugh Mackay talks a.....
» 27/06/2008 11:18:46 AM Took the words right out of my keyboard mhaze. If anything, my kids and their dozens of .....
» 25/06/2008 10:12:34 AM I pretty much agree with all of this, but tried to think of an example where I wouldn't ag.....
» 24/06/2008 11:03:46 AM My shock at finding myself agreeing with BD has just aged me 20 years. It's entirely poss.....
» 20/06/2008 12:27:39 PM Yay CJ and Bugsy. Good for you. A toast to you, in fact. Well done......
» 14/06/2008 8:09:19 PM CJ, maaaaate, I've yet to see you express an opinion I disagree with, including the bit ab.....
» 14/06/2008 5:15:52 PM I can clearly recall the first time another commenter savagely attacked something I'd said.....
» 12/06/2008 5:52:47 PM Other studies find the same thing TRTL, but there are also some very intelligent god bothe.....
» 12/06/2008 12:43:16 PM My impression is that the majority of Christian comment at OLO is extremist. Steel Mann is.....
» 6/06/2008 2:18:28 PM Property values are also subject to the reputation of an area. Camden runs the risk of los.....
» 2/06/2008 4:06:42 PM Right on the money snake. Why otherwise very intelligent people bother rising to these bai.....
» 29/05/2008 5:23:50 PM Well said Steel. A picture is only a picture until people read something into it. One pe.....
» 26/05/2008 6:28:10 PM Rache said: "If you're worried about being somehow personally titillated by such thi.....
» 26/05/2008 9:56:13 AM The assumption that these images are for some kind of pleasure is wrong. They're beautiful.....
» 25/05/2008 4:48:38 PM To look at these photographs and see only naked bodies is to miss the point entirely. Anyo.....
» 23/05/2008 9:22:35 AM Hear hear Ludwig. What goes for London's energy, the decentralisation and dispersal thing,.....
» 19/05/2008 10:38:06 AM Problem: We have been satisfying our energy needs using finite resources that create dange.....
» 2/05/2008 5:15:00 PM Hear, hear, Ian Keese. Donnelly is a politically partisan opinion columnist and should nev.....
» 23/04/2008 1:00:20 PM Sympathy Ginx. I don't know how many times I've seen parents give lollies to a misbehavi.....
» 22/04/2008 11:35:25 AM I've experienced the same thing Fluff4 describes, being told the post failed for some reas.....
» 21/04/2008 5:30:57 PM Hilarious. At first I didn't realise Gibo's comment was Gibo and had a great chuckle over .....
» 21/04/2008 5:16:49 PM I get the time out thing too and it's flipping frustrating when you've just composed the c.....
» 21/04/2008 5:10:49 PM Wow. I disagree with TRTL. First time for everything I guess. "There is far too much.....
» 16/04/2008 10:43:36 AM I'm very wary of this sudden hysteria over "alcohol fuelled violence" as well. W.....
» 16/04/2008 10:27:11 AM The young do not have a monopoly on political ignorance. About a month after the 2007 fede.....
» 15/04/2008 1:03:45 PM I'm with those proposing optional voting from 16. As others have said, age has little to d.....
» 14/04/2008 2:11:16 PM Other members of the IPA are going. I wonder how they reconcile their own attendance with .....
» 1/04/2008 3:03:31 PM If it was a Labor Party love in why was Miranda Devine invited? If it was about the cultur.....
» 1/04/2008 2:51:35 PM Serendipity. We had a family discussion about toilet cleaning last night but the product u.....
» 20/03/2008 1:13:01 PM I think one reason things get nasty sometimes is that people feel motivated to comment on .....
» 3/03/2008 11:23:26 AM I share the author's optimism. Regardless of anything else the summit achieves, it has peo.....
» 3/03/2008 10:49:27 AM My sympathy and best wishes as well Foxy. It's amazing how deep some of our attachments ca.....
» 28/02/2008 12:18:19 PM "RUN FOR THE HILLS PEOPLE! RUN FOR THE HILLS!" Don't be silly Vanilla. The hill.....
» 26/02/2008 3:23:52 PM I resent the implication that my teenage daughter will be so ignorant of the world around .....
» 26/02/2008 10:20:34 AM The paleoconservative right will continue to rally around the same issues they always have.....
» 24/02/2008 6:43:53 PM Hey Col, nobody here is pretending to be a responsible psychologist or psychiatrist. Just .....
» 24/02/2008 12:24:20 PM Taryn, Munchausen by proxy parents most often felt neglected by their own parents, sibling.....
» 23/02/2008 2:51:03 PM Vexatious eh? Wonder why that would be? You'll really enjoy their university years. Much .....
» 14/02/2008 12:36:28 PM If comments around the blogosphere and talkback radio are any indication, an awful lot of .....
» 14/02/2008 12:21:45 PM TRTL, try giving the jar lid a whack around the edges with the back of a knife before open.....
» 12/02/2008 9:22:32 AM Dozens of studies on Hanson and Hansonism have been published. One of the reasons they rar.....
» 8/02/2008 12:36:50 PM Please tell me the author does not teach English. This piece reads like a series of discon.....
» 15/01/2008 11:52:21 AM Who do you reckon is doing your average taxpayer the most damage, half a dozen social secu.....
» 11/01/2008 10:54:03 AM The problem with supermarkets charging for plastic bags is that they already do. The cost .....
» 21/12/2007 12:00:16 PM The world market was heading in its current direction long before the election. The Americ.....
» 6/12/2007 12:38:29 PM "Nelson is a Howard clone with intelligence, and all the more dangerous for that.&quo.....
» 21/11/2007 9:57:33 AM The bit about 18 year olds didn't bother me so much. It seemed like a bit of an ambit clai.....
» 14/11/2007 1:37:12 PM Personally I couldn't care less who made the world. The immediate thing for all of us is t.....
» 14/11/2007 9:33:39 AM Euthanasia is one of many, many issues where huge majorities would like to see change. In .....
» 6/11/2007 11:56:55 AM Interest rates rise gives Garrett glimmer of hope. I suspect that politics junkies are th.....
» 5/11/2007 10:31:58 AM I'd agree with this assessment to a large extent. Up to the point where people vote for pa.....
» 5/11/2007 10:19:24 AM As you'd expect, a member of the CIS understands a complex problem in purely economic term.....
» 2/11/2007 11:44:10 AM BD, I notice you haven't responded to my question. Maybe you missed it so I'll ask again. .....
» 1/11/2007 11:40:05 AM I'm going to give StG the benefit of the doubt here and assume that the post is a challeng.....
» 31/10/2007 2:17:56 PM Christian fundamentalists are part of our society and have a right to their say. Having sa.....
» 25/10/2007 12:02:59 PM There are Labor voters and there are Labor voters. Rudd's not going to lose the ones who v.....
» 23/10/2007 11:41:13 AM Demos made an interesting point there. Howard made it clear he did not want the worm and s.....
» 23/10/2007 11:27:08 AM It's always amusing to see people saying there's no need to apologise because they haven't.....
» 15/10/2007 3:20:57 PM Romany beat me to it. The AWB business was another example of what happens when systems ar.....
» 12/10/2007 3:26:25 PM It's true the media have been reluctant to deal with these people, but it's also true that.....
» 12/10/2007 1:55:14 PM No idea Dave, but have you Googled it?.....
» 12/10/2007 1:52:09 PM I can't remember his name now but for a few decades some bloke in Sydney took to writing t.....
» 12/10/2007 1:43:04 PM Demos, You'll be pleased to know that, contrary to your impressions, research into media .....
» 12/10/2007 1:31:36 PM Belly, Surely you know better than to look for a dog just like the old one. No such thing.....
» 8/10/2007 11:53:18 AM God and Jesus are the only ammunition some people have. I'm reasonably certain the bible w.....
» 28/09/2007 2:42:20 PM Under the current government immigration rates have increased to the highest numbers in Au.....
» 27/09/2007 3:08:04 PM I can't get my head around the idea that people enter into pre-nuptual agreements then pro.....
» 26/09/2007 10:25:42 AM communicat, Surely someone as politically well informed as yourself would have thought to.....
» 18/09/2007 11:13:01 AM Those pointed orange cones they use to redirect traffic. Such blatant skullduggery should .....
» 17/09/2007 4:09:27 PM The part Janet Albrechtson played in the recent leadership shenanigans was amazing. What i.....
» 17/09/2007 4:04:31 PM A lot of the coastal areas the author refers to have also attracted a lot of urban people .....
» 14/09/2007 10:23:28 AM This all strikes me as a matter of trust. It's possible for any one of us to let others us.....
» 13/09/2007 4:42:26 PM Maxine McKew has gone up to an over 50 percent chance of winning Bennelong according to th.....
» 13/09/2007 10:13:38 AM Communicat, Although TRTL is technically right about the experiment, I'm prepared to go a.....
» 12/09/2007 4:56:26 PM Jonathan's got himself into an awful tizz. Poor thing. Chin up old chum. Look at the brig.....
» 12/09/2007 7:31:55 AM the pro-Costello, anti-Howard campaign being run by some opinion columnist is extraordinar.....
» 11/09/2007 4:25:01 PM You're welcome Rainier, thought you'd enjoy it. Straight from the Libs own internal poll.....
» 11/09/2007 10:23:58 AM Rainier, Go have a look at this http://possumcomitatus.wordpress.com/2007/09/07/capitula.....
» 9/09/2007 7:02:43 PM Wow. Interesting thread. I notice plenty of concern that the reputation of PALE is at ri.....
» 9/09/2007 6:03:00 PM Education is positively correlated with left leaning political views, particulary tertiary.....
» 6/09/2007 7:02:58 PM Runner, You know very well that using the term 'Howard haters' is going to set people on .....
» 6/09/2007 1:28:15 PM How often do we do things and only realise later we've been selfish? Often I think. How o.....
» 6/09/2007 9:33:11 AM Well spotted John Simpson. Three posts in one day on one thread. None of us honest people .....
» 5/09/2007 3:25:15 PM This has to be a joke. Anyone with this much knowledge of what Howard has apparently don.....
» 28/08/2007 10:25:24 AM Back when I used to smoke fish I had an active social life, spent time with the kids in th.....
» 27/08/2007 3:56:32 PM Yeh, that Albrechtson is a real left wing loony. And Shanahan is obviously a communist plo.....
» 24/08/2007 5:11:08 PM "So perhaps, for Labor, the reason for removing Gillard from the frontline is more tr.....
» 24/08/2007 1:41:50 PM It's amusing to think that the opinionistas at the Government Gazette are surprised that a.....
» 21/08/2007 3:19:20 PM Evolution isn't just the greatest hoax of our times. It's been a great hoax for billions o.....
» 21/08/2007 12:18:09 PM I'd be seriously surprised if any politician was responsible for putting this about. They .....
» 17/08/2007 10:44:45 AM For a government that goes on endlessly about personal responsibility, they're certainly k.....
» 9/08/2007 11:18:26 AM "To take away the powers that local communities now have to prevent the further ravag.....
» 9/08/2007 11:13:12 AM Did you get your own copy of the Crosby/Textor instructions David, or did you have to shar.....
» 8/08/2007 4:49:17 PM Well, that went over like a lead balloon, eh Felicity? Care to try again with a little mor.....
» 6/08/2007 2:22:39 PM Izzo, Is it true that many animals get through the stun process and come out still consci.....
» 3/08/2007 2:23:40 PM Beautiful piece of writing Mr Buncle. Very clever, very funny and hugely enjoyable. Odd .....
» 1/08/2007 4:35:03 PM A Bill of Rights, which I support by the way, would not be a partisan issue. Burnside is r.....
» 30/07/2007 5:13:41 PM While the article raises some interesting points at this stage it's just another in a grow.....
» 28/07/2007 6:17:45 PM I knew it. I was always suspicious of the way the Very Hungry Caterpillar turned into a bu.....
» 28/07/2007 6:00:35 PM Ditto Shonga. Although, not quite. I've trained myself to read Leigh's comments only aft.....
» 27/07/2007 5:33:16 PM BD and FH, this is great news. It's surprising how moved I was when I read this, given tha.....
» 27/07/2007 3:09:04 PM The sudden flood of voices that appear on abortion comments threads here, but not on other.....
» 26/07/2007 5:00:13 PM Realist made an interesting point others seem to have missed or ignorned. Young people the.....
» 23/07/2007 5:28:41 PM If it wasn't for the real harm that's been done to various people the Howard government's .....
» 22/07/2007 6:53:58 PM James, I think Belly is right about this not being a good year for small parties and indep.....
» 22/07/2007 1:52:50 PM Daggett, I generally lean leftish but that doesn't mean I support high immigration. The r.....
» 21/07/2007 3:47:00 PM Still friends Daggett. That this thread turned from a non partisan discussion of the rea.....
» 20/07/2007 7:03:03 PM Same here o sung wu. Not the PTSD bit, but the confusion over the message the author is tr.....
» 20/07/2007 1:13:09 PM Agreed TRTL. Obviously some people believe everything the media tells them, but they're fe.....
» 19/07/2007 11:43:15 AM "I would rather take my chances with the terrorists than I would giving such a Govern.....
» 18/07/2007 2:33:56 PM Ponder, we always enjoy a good laugh at that too a. Back on topic, studies in the US and .....
» 16/07/2007 5:28:16 PM "the venue for the APEC meeting was decided years ago." And? I haven't said an.....
» 16/07/2007 9:42:32 AM How are these so called self-loathing, anti-Western academic elites responsible for the nu.....
» 16/07/2007 9:22:28 AM "a positive economic outcome for Australia or some genuine Australian assistance for .....
» 16/07/2007 9:01:18 AM BB, you should be charged with reckless misuse of the word "documentary" :).....
» 15/07/2007 4:01:16 PM We can reasonably expect to see three things: -Protestors and police brawling in the stre.....
» 15/07/2007 3:46:23 PM Another shock and awe campaign from a culture warrior. Don't you guys ever get sick of thi.....
» 14/07/2007 7:26:06 PM BB, with respect and affection, you're letting your own side down. Think about it. How ma.....
» 14/07/2007 9:02:04 AM Bas, I don't personally know any forest activists anywhere, and I did read your quote. So .....
» 13/07/2007 3:30:46 PM So Bas, how did all those animals die? Did Sally Neighbour kill them?.....
» 13/07/2007 3:22:18 PM If the denialist members of the audience are representative of denialists generally, you g.....
» 13/07/2007 11:11:02 AM I don't see that Rudd allowed himself to be wedged at all. It didn't take a genius to se.....
» 11/07/2007 5:58:36 PM LOL. White Warlock, you're funny......
» 11/07/2007 5:56:09 PM There's no comparison between the EU and Asia. The EU is a bunch of different countries .....
» 11/07/2007 5:19:07 PM That's great news cinders. Bennetts wallabies now outnumber Tasmanian humans with respirat.....
» 11/07/2007 2:17:13 PM As one of the reading/viewing public who may just be interested to know what's really goin.....
» 10/07/2007 12:35:37 PM I took the title of this piece to be a proposed topic for debate, rather than a statement .....
» 10/07/2007 9:22:00 AM I don't understand why academics are still clinging to the dead tree version of journals. .....
» 9/07/2007 5:31:49 PM Communicat, What about the other kinds of political correctness? What about not mentionin.....
» 9/07/2007 5:09:29 PM With all due respect for Graham and his research, it is not we politically interested opin.....
» 9/07/2007 2:43:06 PM Depends which version of political correctness you're talking about. There was the late .....
» 7/07/2007 5:11:47 PM China is not alone when it comes to exporting dodgy food. When Japan finally lifted their .....
» 7/07/2007 9:34:24 AM It's a bit much expecting the author to get his facts straight when the piece is clearly n.....
» 5/07/2007 1:25:19 PM We have ourselves to blame for these shortages. Australians are only too happy to bleat ab.....
» 5/07/2007 1:04:11 PM "But I’ve always been struck by Guy Rundle’s argument in his Quarterly Essay a few ye.....
» 3/07/2007 10:25:39 AM "Given the polls maybe its Rudd we should be putting the heat on for solutions.".....
» 2/07/2007 12:11:17 PM VK3AUU: "Wake up and then white Australia will start to treat you like human beings .....
» 27/06/2007 3:34:38 PM "At the end of the day, simply throwing money at this "problem" hasnt worke.....
» 27/06/2007 1:46:22 PM "What better way to get shift the media agenda from the AWA's, which Rudd was winning.....
» 27/06/2007 1:38:29 PM "I am not sure that there is a future for indigenous people living indigenous culture.....
» 26/06/2007 3:58:28 PM There was a gobsmacking case of a workplace psychopath on the recent 4 corners episode on .....
» 26/06/2007 3:23:12 PM Mr Pearson is not entirely in favour of what's going on here either. For somebody so awful.....
» 23/06/2007 10:53:00 AM k-Jim raises an interesting point. Grog outlets are not going to just pack up and go home .....
» 22/06/2007 1:54:00 PM I'd be very surprised if it changed anybody's mind, shortened or not. If you really wanted.....
» 21/06/2007 5:05:33 PM What does 'legitimately ambitious' mean Communicat? Sounds a bit like a Rudd-ism to me, .....
» 21/06/2007 1:29:06 PM Haven't read the book but from Mark's article the similarities between Rudd and Howard are.....
» 14/06/2007 2:58:59 PM On the contrary its not., Benjamin has just given us the perfect example of what happens w.....
» 12/06/2007 4:35:50 PM FrankGol, Mostly no argument from me there, but the left is not entirely innocent of mind.....
» 12/06/2007 1:12:12 PM The problem with your argument FrankGol, is the underlying assumption that Albrechtson and.....
» 12/06/2007 10:47:42 AM Once again, Chris links up two ideas we normally keep apart - economics and reality - and .....
» 9/06/2007 12:01:05 PM Howard government. Green. Oxymoron......
» 8/06/2007 1:27:45 PM I'd just cleaned up the coffee I laughed all over the desk reading Flint, then had to do i.....
» 7/06/2007 5:34:52 PM In defense of conspiracy theories: They make people question how wise it is to accept eve.....
» 6/06/2007 2:09:12 PM One difficulty I see here is the difference between governance and political theatre. Howa.....
» 6/06/2007 1:42:14 PM Something else you might like to consider is the role journalism unions are playing at the.....
» 1/06/2007 4:55:20 PM Rhian, Rein's business would have no doubt also drawn a lot of unwanted attention to the b.....
» 1/06/2007 2:19:05 PM Sounds like Boot is doing the same thing many conservative Australian commentators are doi.....
» 1/06/2007 2:03:41 PM But wre, you just said that: "What Australians have yet to wake up to is the fact th.....
» 28/05/2007 11:15:51 AM One week after the election, if the Libs win with Howard, there will be an all out pooh fi.....
» 25/05/2007 2:56:35 PM Too true Dale Spender. Except for one little point. The newspapers do support your argume.....
» 22/05/2007 12:39:46 PM I don't think John Howard and Peter Costello have stopped listening. On the contrary, they.....
» 22/05/2007 12:28:22 PM So Hicks supporters should pay the cost of his elaborate transport requirements, which is .....
» 21/05/2007 2:08:18 PM Communicat, I can think of something to say about the $520,000. The total would be a lot .....
» 20/05/2007 12:51:45 PM Of course it was. The Hicks motorcade was about theatre and special effects. We'd hardly b.....
» 20/05/2007 12:42:42 PM This notion that the coalition has spent the last decade fixing the economy so now they ca.....
» 19/05/2007 3:32:38 PM "Have you all forgotten why Labor was thrown out? All the political correctness? the .....
» 18/05/2007 10:50:40 AM Banging on about what fine economic managers they are is only making the coalition look st.....
» 18/05/2007 10:17:42 AM Maybe we're asking the wrong question here. Instead of asking when life begins we could .....
» 17/05/2007 10:32:31 AM If you didn't plant it you don't own it - good slogan. Like a lot of other things we've .....
» 17/05/2007 10:16:08 AM I've been thinking about this for a while now. A decade ago the net was supposed to be the.....
» 13/05/2007 6:16:51 PM "It lacks any moral absolutes and results in death." A bit like real life reall.....
» 10/05/2007 11:54:48 AM more roy and hg: You couldn't put a struck match between them......
» 9/05/2007 3:31:43 PM I also support voluntary euthanasia. One of the interesting things on the 4 corners doco w.....
» 7/05/2007 3:04:45 PM It's a horribly callous thing to say, but I'm with Leigh on this (never thought that would.....
» 4/05/2007 11:05:12 AM Thanks gw and wobbles. So the product/cost ratio version is the right answer. At that r.....
» 3/05/2007 3:55:17 PM The productivity thing is interesting but I'm not sure I understand it. Can anyone enlight.....
» 2/05/2007 2:10:20 PM I can't help sharing Rudd's impression that Joe Hockey is a decent bloke with a crappy job.....
» 27/04/2007 1:31:54 PM Rest in peace Steve. Many of us will miss you. Condolences to his family and thanks jmA.....
» 26/04/2007 2:26:02 PM I think miacat's onto something there. Agree with TRTL that it would be good to see more.....
» 25/04/2007 3:31:31 PM Is Howard past it? Don't be so silly Belly. That's like saying the Osmonds and safari sui.....
» 19/04/2007 12:04:04 PM Saddam Hussein's regime was not a terrorist organisation. I don't know where you should l.....
» 18/04/2007 4:26:07 PM American gun culture is yet another one of those great American institutions that leave th.....
» 12/04/2007 2:14:37 PM Spendo, how about tax? What's the annual tax revenue generated from grog and fags? When t.....
» 11/04/2007 3:18:50 PM For what it's worth, I don't believe the story either. Too many inconsistencies and coinci.....
» 5/04/2007 12:27:39 PM Interesting take on recent events. We haven't learned much in 2000 years, have we?.....
» 4/04/2007 6:32:34 PM Keith, It's ads, not "adds". Most are from ads, "D'oh" is from The S.....
» 3/04/2007 12:47:34 PM What is this? Pick on the Author day? Bill's gone to so much trouble to write this sensib.....
» 3/04/2007 11:43:53 AM Here's a few for you Keith: Good on ya Mum, Tip Top's the one. Two all beef patties spec.....
» 2/04/2007 2:48:33 PM "5. How can cultural studies be a science when we all know (from tabloid newspaper re.....
» 31/03/2007 3:21:50 PM It's not a matter of what these maniacs have or have not done, so much as how we, the civi.....
» 30/03/2007 4:17:12 PM I confess to thinking Chris Shaw is funny. I confess to sharing the same concerns. I con.....
» 29/03/2007 11:29:42 AM What Markob said. You can only guess that these two articles had an audience in mind oth.....
» 28/03/2007 5:33:28 PM Hicks symbolises a whole lot of stuff, but if he is a hero figure it's not because of anyt.....
» 28/03/2007 5:12:28 PM Excellent point Betty, and one that shouldn't be lost on postmodernists. Lyotard anyone? .....
» 27/03/2007 4:55:46 PM Thanks Runner, you answered other questions I would have asked if I'd thought of them. Mix.....
» 27/03/2007 4:45:59 PM Romany, if I may nitpick? There are probably quite a lot of creative people working in go.....
» 27/03/2007 3:06:24 PM Thanks Jonathan Ariel. Haven't had a belly laugh like that in years. After a while though.....
» 27/03/2007 1:34:56 PM Kelly Hoare has that seat because it was passed to her by the last incumbent - her father......
» 27/03/2007 1:27:33 PM Runner, what sorts of activities did you get the kids involved in for social purposes? It'.....
» 26/03/2007 2:26:21 PM I think one of the reasons we have so much trouble defining, using or harnessing creativit.....
» 26/03/2007 2:04:08 PM BD, cluster bombs do kill children. They're the bombs that spray out showers of bomblets t.....
» 26/03/2007 1:37:26 PM Have a look at Yousuf Youhana (check spelling of the surname). Brilliant batsman and shoul.....
» 21/03/2007 2:59:41 PM This is how you can tell The Simpsons aren't real. Marge and Homer are forever having trou.....
» 21/03/2007 2:36:31 PM This is probably a bit lateral, but why are we discussing women as though they're a homoge.....
» 21/03/2007 2:14:47 PM Deliberative polling sounds like a great idea. Bit utopian perhaps, but we do need an alte.....
» 21/03/2007 2:01:20 PM Yep, FrankGol, here they come. The usual avalanche of people with the misguided impression.....
» 20/03/2007 3:50:39 PM Whenever I hear this stuff about arty elites wasting the honest battlers tax money I'm rem.....
» 20/03/2007 12:11:01 PM SEQ is not alone in having a housing crisis or inadequate infrastructure. The 75th birth.....
» 18/03/2007 12:14:39 PM The Australian arts community did a pretty good job on the opening and closing ceremonies .....
» 16/03/2007 2:06:58 PM Like many people here I'm curious about Rudd's policies. He's clearly got Howard worried a.....
» 14/03/2007 4:49:26 PM BD Fukuyama is a neocon. That's his context. It's also why he's so amusing - he can't see .....
» 13/03/2007 4:35:49 PM Pericles is right about the quote-the context is important. Also the deterritorialisation .....
» 13/03/2007 11:15:16 AM BD, your capacity for absorbing big ideas and bringing them to bear is wonderful. The way .....
» 10/03/2007 2:55:57 PM Banjo, I think you're onto something there with the urban/remote thing. I'm not aboriginal.....
» 9/03/2007 12:29:12 PM Geez Tone, don't seem to be doing a very good job of convincing the punters around here. .....
» 9/03/2007 12:17:35 PM Thanks Luke. No arguments from me. Now that that's all cleared up, can somebody explain ho.....
» 8/03/2007 2:24:55 PM If the purpose of this article is to clear up misunderstandings about Hick's situation, ma.....
» 8/03/2007 1:23:12 PM So what's the more urgent matter here Banjo, aboriginal health or somebody's political age.....
» 6/03/2007 11:40:18 AM It might have worked if the coalition had been more successful at making Rudd out to be a .....
» 4/03/2007 2:11:22 PM Banjo makes a very good point. There are communities doing quite well for themselves. What.....
» 4/03/2007 10:24:53 AM The Surf Life Savers joined in this year too. Who'd have thought those bronzed Aussie ic.....
» 3/03/2007 1:59:13 PM Poor old Dave must be experiencing a horrible meltdown of cognitive dissonance. He's holdi.....
» 2/03/2007 10:45:13 AM Using terms like "sit down money" isn't about solving the problems. They're abou.....
» 1/03/2007 2:16:04 PM We're basically reproducing the whole problem here. Seems to me if we'd never used the wor.....
» 28/02/2007 8:44:16 AM eet, You seem to have fallen for the "noble savage" stereotype that the only re.....
» 24/02/2007 4:21:27 PM Eet, I wasn't talking about those things in white communities. I meant these things are pr.....
» 24/02/2007 12:37:48 PM This reminds me of the Robert Mapplethorpe exhibition in the United States. People lined u.....
» 24/02/2007 12:21:23 PM Rainier, that's precisely what I was trying to say. Why do we talk about "the Abori.....
» 23/02/2007 10:42:41 AM It's such a shame this has turned into the familiar cultural left/right brawl we see every.....
» 20/02/2007 4:44:42 PM Proverbs, take a closer look at the footage this year. The buildings lining the street are.....
» 20/02/2007 4:27:57 PM Ah Mercurius, you're a funny beggar. We bought our parsnip at the local corner shop where.....
» 19/02/2007 1:12:39 PM The thread seems to have been gatecrashed. Congrats OLO, good on you Graham, well done. .....
» 19/02/2007 1:07:02 PM We bought a parsnip yesterday. Seems like a pretty commonsense assertion to say you can't .....
» 16/02/2007 5:20:47 PM Howard's own seat is marginal with some pretty big demographic changes in the past few yea.....
» 13/02/2007 4:50:13 PM If you've been waiting for the mainstream media to take up the Hicks story I hope you have.....
» 13/02/2007 4:09:02 PM Howard may exhibit physical vitality, but he seems lately to have contracted foot in mouth.....
» 13/02/2007 3:57:34 PM Steve Madden, great news. You're starting to look like our local immortal. Good timing t.....
» 2/02/2007 3:57:47 PM "David Hicks, otherwise known as Mohammed Dawood" He is not otherwise known as .....
» 25/01/2007 1:49:08 PM I laughed too. Fairly even distribution of chuckling over the article and the comments. S.....
» 23/01/2007 12:37:45 PM Triplej have nothing to do with organising the BDO. The organisers never "banned&quo.....
» 22/01/2007 6:03:22 PM Wow. What a fantastic writer......
» 9/01/2007 10:57:58 AM My favourite Best Blog so far. Sorry Audrey, you've just been knocked off the top of the l.....
» 9/01/2007 10:26:40 AM Agreed, Country Gal. Gossip, and especially damaging gossip, is an important way for us to.....
» 4/01/2007 7:46:39 PM What working granny said. As a society we don't seem to appreciate that normal or averag.....
» 29/12/2006 4:32:48 PM Smoking and non-smoking venues is a really good idea. It would also be an opportunity for .....
» 29/12/2006 3:44:22 PM So a member of the Labor Party reckons we should know how our system works. What rubbish w.....
» 18/12/2006 5:26:28 PM This is scary. This is nuts. It's like watching Psycho. I've never thought much of your .....
» 18/12/2006 5:07:39 PM It would be pretty obvious by now to most regular OLO visitors that the old left/right, co.....
» 8/12/2006 10:23:04 AM We need a new term to describe these people. They are not political journalists at all, th.....
» 8/12/2006 9:56:28 AM Since when has referencing yourself as the only authoritative source become academic rigou.....
» 7/12/2006 2:22:27 PM Yes, Sneeky, "paint" struck me as terribly polite too. Mark is right, Rudd doe.....
» 7/12/2006 1:06:10 PM Among the people I know who don't vote (and you're right, it is surprising how many there .....
» 7/12/2006 12:55:30 PM The Cold War finished a long time ago Kev. Theory got over postmodernism about a decade ag.....
» 6/12/2006 4:09:33 PM I'd like to know who decided politics in this country should be dictated by opinion column.....
» 1/12/2006 2:23:18 PM I'm with you there Leigh. We seem too desperate to find some momentous historical occasion.....
» 25/11/2006 4:51:05 PM Take care when aiming blame at the loony left in education. We members of the loony left a.....
» 25/11/2006 4:21:32 PM Conform to the mainstream - best suggestion yet. Then we could all conform to the mainst.....
» 23/11/2006 1:00:13 PM As opposed to "You get the government you vote for" Dave seems to have woken up .....
» 21/11/2006 3:57:20 PM Sheesh. John Stone sure is angry. In 2005, 70 percent of Australians were worried about g.....
» 17/11/2006 5:34:17 PM "The author regrets that "there are few spaces in the Australian or British medi.....
» 15/11/2006 4:55:39 PM Great article Andrew. Thank you. I remember the Russian and Polish arrivals in Bondi too.....
» 15/11/2006 3:56:00 PM Interesting article. Amazing how quickly such a huge country managed to turn itself around.....
» 13/11/2006 4:52:31 PM Is anyone else here concerned that somebody who has such poor understanding of something a.....
» 13/11/2006 4:42:46 PM Every time this issue is raised it provokes a lot of response and far less animosity than .....
» 10/11/2006 4:30:00 PM I've never been there but I imagine that Americans are not that much different from people.....
» 6/11/2006 5:36:13 PM The particular version of patriotism being sold to us now is infuriating not because it de.....
» 2/11/2006 6:09:15 PM Now look what's happened. The comments have gotten all personal, poisonous and nasty. It's.....
» 2/11/2006 5:54:06 PM What Mercurius said. At least Bourdieu had the decency to admit the awkwardness of his own.....
» 31/10/2006 6:10:25 PM "comforting the afflicted, and afflicting the comfortable". But only the comfor.....
» 28/10/2006 6:11:56 PM I've supported euthanasia since Dad gave me Welcome to the Monkeyhouse to read when I was .....
» 27/10/2006 3:38:48 PM When you start to look at Australian history it's amazing how few strong central stories t.....
» 25/10/2006 2:13:22 PM James also neglects insecurity and uncertainty. People feeling nervous about interest rate.....
» 23/10/2006 5:38:10 PM Absolutely right Pericles, which is why hell would be more interesting than heaven. On th.....
» 23/10/2006 5:22:33 PM It's a great idea, regardless of who thought it up. I'd love to see something themed aro.....
» 19/10/2006 3:54:46 PM Kalin has a good point. If the ABC did change significantly it would just drive its audien.....
» 19/10/2006 3:33:50 PM Hopefully this discussion hasn't turned into a bickerfest between two people. It's a topic.....
» 18/10/2006 5:47:37 PM Good point Pericles. I was leaning towards the Stuff the Farmers argument but you've persu.....
» 16/10/2006 5:04:43 PM Aussies - egalitarian one day, xenophobic the next.....
» 13/10/2006 5:37:11 PM Hear hear. What Ranier said......
» 12/10/2006 6:04:29 PM Perhaps DB missed the good samaritan story. Some comments make a good point - ignoring th.....
» 8/10/2006 10:35:38 AM You'd think President Howard would want to avoid talking up white Australian history consi.....
» 8/10/2006 10:14:41 AM BD, have you read Kevin Rudd's article in The Monthly? He has some interesting things to s.....
» 2/10/2006 5:12:50 PM If Ruddock is the AG he's cracked up to be, wouldn't he have anticipated the problems he's.....
» 28/09/2006 12:55:01 PM The Democrats may be able to enlist the help of other Arab nations to help find some kind .....
» 28/09/2006 11:54:57 AM Tristan, You seem to have misunderstood the comments. I don't think anybody is saying we .....
» 27/09/2006 11:14:54 AM Good comments. One of the more prominent and enduring of Australian values is that we don'.....
» 25/09/2006 4:10:22 PM The porn on the walls was the first thing I could make out in those fuzzy images and an un.....
» 21/09/2006 3:44:31 PM This article resonates with me. I'd go a step further and say we carry our landscapes arou.....
» 18/09/2006 3:04:45 PM Beautiful article Dr Hage. So true. The assimilationists can only be assimilationists fo.....
» 18/09/2006 2:50:37 PM What sneekeepete said......
» 17/09/2006 4:31:32 PM Knocking multiculturalism and taking advantage of every opportunity to howl at a minority .....
» 12/09/2006 2:35:42 PM So if we were all just more like Kevin Donnelly Australian history, culture and education .....
» 12/09/2006 2:31:54 PM The academics on the ABC last night (was it the 7.30 report?) seemed to have a pretty good.....
» 8/09/2006 3:57:10 PM Nice article Tony. My experience is similar, if half as long......
» 8/09/2006 3:40:19 PM I'm too busy to read it. Otherwise, great article......
» 1/09/2006 4:42:32 PM If the political rhetoric was more reflective of the actual risk, rather than inflated to .....
» 30/08/2006 10:37:43 AM David Flint seems to have an unhealthy obsession with authority figures. The queen is some.....
» 28/08/2006 4:08:06 PM Very clever and very funny and very sobering. Whether it should have been filed under &quo.....
» 21/08/2006 4:13:10 PM That people continue to believe the WMD story regardless probably has as much to do with w.....
» 21/08/2006 3:50:31 PM So if I buy an expensive box of breakfast cereal and it turns out nobody in the house want.....
» 16/08/2006 5:01:24 PM Personally, I rather like "well-meaning but misguided and soft-centred Australians&qu.....
» 1/08/2006 5:04:08 PM Israel offers an interesting idea of what nation is about. Nations are usually populated w.....
» 1/08/2006 4:32:15 PM Didn't read the article. Don't need or want to. When Davo writes it's a certainty that the.....
» 28/07/2006 2:14:56 PM Mainstream media may not be much good at reporting the news objectively, but it sure is go.....
» 12/07/2006 4:46:21 PM I miss cracker night. High risk, certainly. Every year we heard stories of kids who'd blow.....
» 12/07/2006 4:25:25 PM Whether you like Seidler or the Opera House seems beside the point. For such a small popul.....
» 11/07/2006 11:25:08 AM Oi Kev, what's this I hear about you receiving copious largesse from John Howard and Phill.....
» 10/07/2006 1:14:59 PM Ah Dave, I do so look forward to your articles. Always so balanced, consistently consideri.....
» 16/06/2006 4:42:38 PM I was a "white" anti-racist until I read Ghassan Hage's books. I've been trying .....
» 5/06/2006 3:22:10 PM Trade215, Reading the posts following your interpretation of world events illustrates you.....
» 22/05/2006 2:17:48 PM "How about looking at the arguments, instead of having a go at me?" Kev, you ha.....
» 18/05/2006 2:26:43 PM You've got to love old Bolty. Where would we be without him? Every newspaper has its funn.....
» 5/05/2006 3:10:17 PM Kev's a genius. If we took a critical approach to his article we might conclude that he'.....
» 3/05/2006 4:02:47 PM And our own Australian president seems to absorb American paranoid psychosis by osmosis......
» 24/04/2006 12:52:56 PM Interesting question. Why do we seek ethnic authenticity in our clothes, accessories, home.....
» 21/04/2006 12:53:24 PM If I was a highly articulate person who, for some perverse reason, wanted to stir up anti-.....
» 13/04/2006 3:56:32 PM Well said FrankGol. The pendulum will eventually swing back as it always does. I just hope.....
» 13/04/2006 3:44:36 PM We've been letting the US make our decisions for us for years now. Why not let someone els.....
» 5/04/2006 3:35:06 PM Also in today's news, two white supremacists involved in terrorist (bombing) attacks on As.....
» 5/04/2006 9:07:01 AM That sounds lovely Eric, but it won't happen. Pragmatic courses like business and engineer.....
» 25/03/2006 9:47:24 AM There are already quite a few Australian phd students blogging, partly about their researc.....
» 22/03/2006 10:49:51 AM I wonder whether Australians really are more interested in their whitegoods than in securi.....
» 17/03/2006 4:11:18 PM I agree with Tony as well. John Howard seems to have studied at the Bjelke Petersen school.....
» 6/03/2006 4:18:41 PM Other questions you might ask in your next survey: Should women considering abortion be f.....
» 3/03/2006 4:14:45 PM On a global scale Australia is a little tin-pot economy that gets blown along in the inter.....
» 24/02/2006 2:55:01 PM The argument that we should be looking at the reasons behind the number of unwanted pregna.....
» 20/02/2006 12:37:36 PM Ditto what Kenny said. It looks great, cleaner and the article description is a big improv.....
» 17/02/2006 9:28:39 AM Aboriginal peoples currently have the highest reproduction rate of Australian social group.....
» 12/02/2006 4:41:50 PM Why did we not see this level of blood-curdling ferocity over Howard's new sedition laws? .....
» 10/02/2006 3:57:57 PM There are any number of drugs available that can cause death yet we haven't handed control.....
» 10/02/2006 3:41:05 PM Although it pains me, I have to agree with plerdsus and Barnaby Joyce. The majority of Aus.....
» 8/02/2006 6:26:07 PM While I agree that Kate's article doesn't quite hang together it's nevertheless very power.....
» 8/02/2006 11:05:24 AM Aah Davo, wouldn't be without him. Every self-respecting village needs an idiot to remin.....
» 3/02/2006 10:41:17 AM Golly Alchemist, There must be something wrong with me. I started uni at the age of 40 af.....
» 31/01/2006 6:38:36 PM Count0, You are now on my Christmas card list. Amnesty cards of course......
» 31/01/2006 6:23:41 PM Vanstone for PM. Icon of womanhood, awash with merit, capable of making hard decisions wit.....
» 31/01/2006 5:51:21 PM Well done, Graham. If I were you I'd argue that publishing stuff from big Kev, Davo Flint .....
» 29/01/2006 7:02:45 PM Friedrich, I didn't mean to insult you, just to point out how some others might interpret.....
» 29/01/2006 5:53:26 PM "I'm for white pride" Who said that a few forums ago? That's the sort of statem.....
» 29/01/2006 10:21:35 AM Thanks Andrew, for the article and for joining the forum. You do get the impression that.....
» 26/01/2006 7:07:11 PM Ranier, Over the past few days I've noticed a few comments on blogs saying they've abando.....
» 25/01/2006 1:42:39 PM Acknowledging that it is a sin to forget a source, somewhere or other I read a Davo respon.....
» 24/01/2006 4:21:27 PM Whether you agree with AL on the issue of the war or not, his point about media is valid. .....
» 24/01/2006 4:05:51 PM How can you all be so callous? Surely Davo is entitled to national treasure status. He's .....
» 16/01/2006 5:10:08 PM The first, middle and last objective of all of my (humanities and arts) lecturers was to e.....
» 11/01/2006 4:33:44 PM Irfan, Just read your article in New Matilda. Well done. Have you had your Crikey today?.....
» 8/01/2006 10:20:05 AM Yeah, what robbyh and shonga said. And more. Private schools and private health care are .....
» 5/01/2006 2:54:57 PM "the communities at risk from these sedition laws would be the Australian Muslim comm.....
» 5/01/2006 2:19:39 PM I agree. People who smoke should not be allowed to do anything at all......
» 5/01/2006 2:02:38 PM Lets not even consider apostrophe's......
» 3/01/2006 5:09:43 PM Pericles, Although I agree with you I beg to differ on a minor point. The professor is a .....
» 3/01/2006 4:29:09 PM Owen, So you don't like the intellectuals. What's wrong honey? Wouldn't they let you play.....
» 28/12/2005 2:38:52 PM Yabby, Thank you. In the middle of all this angst and insult hurling your comment brought.....
» 28/12/2005 2:04:33 PM Rebecca, Thank you for a great article, your bravery and a very good point. How can we pu.....
» 26/12/2005 2:31:10 PM In 1974, under Whitlam, 120,000 immigrants settled in this country. This year the immigrat.....
» 17/12/2005 10:12:26 AM What a load of poncy, snobbish tosh this man talks. Populations everywhere have their un.....
» 16/12/2005 4:12:22 PM Ev, I would like to know the answer to your question too......
» 16/12/2005 3:48:23 PM Sir Flint must be slowing down. It took him a whole nine paragraphs before he got around t.....
» 15/12/2005 4:29:37 PM Having read the article but not the comments (yet)it's true, it's true. If a government wi.....
» 15/12/2005 3:15:15 PM Striker, You're not alone, not at all. Keep thinking. You're obviously good at it. And ke.....
» 12/12/2005 10:17:28 AM Is it possible that the reason we're having so much trouble theorising community formation.....
» 12/12/2005 9:52:28 AM Well said Pericles. Not that I have a problem with anyone needing religion, but using it .....
» 10/12/2005 11:50:53 AM D2, Academic cultural relativists have nothing to do with high levels of immigration or t.....
» 9/12/2005 6:11:34 PM DW, I agree with you on the several issues raised while still agreeing with myself. What .....
» 9/12/2005 8:54:49 AM Me too. I'm also doing a PhD and thinking of a section on blogs. The thing that bothers me.....
» 5/12/2005 2:34:29 PM Wow, this is fantastic. Look at all the people who've turned up. The pseudonym question i.....
» 28/11/2005 6:19:32 PM If it is permissible and moral to torture a Muslim fundamentalist for the purposes of prot.....
» 14/11/2005 12:35:01 PM Reason, You are not the first and won't be the last to try and reason with Redneck. There.....
» 8/11/2005 9:33:55 AM Of all the nouns attached to the term nuclear, 'dump' is not the most offensive or emotive.....
» 1/11/2005 8:48:09 AM Does it really make any difference whether it's Gareth Evans or the Easter Bunny talking? .....
» 27/09/2005 8:28:31 AM I was under the impression that government advertising had to be clearly acknowledged as s.....
» 22/08/2005 5:34:34 PM Well said Numbat. It is indeed interesting that the people currently running the place con.....
» 12/08/2005 11:19:34 AM Poor Professor Flint. He left his most prized bait right there in paragraph four and there.....
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