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» 9/02/2009 4:23:27 PM I suggest that sec 116 of the Constitution deals sensibly and constructively with the issu.....
» 9/02/2009 4:13:26 PM One of the things we need most of all is Bushfire Education in schools. It should be taugh.....
» 2/02/2009 2:17:22 PM Okay, what ARE the answers to all the problems? Has Rudd solved any of them? I don't think.....
» 22/01/2009 10:58:58 AM I am sorry Sparky I didn't realise you had all the answers, or that I was making an issue .....
» 22/01/2009 7:23:59 AM Spikey, how do you know I am not 'aboriginal' or from some other minority group? (For the .....
» 20/01/2009 7:35:28 AM Thanks Rainier - I intended it as a serious discussion because I believe the issue does ha.....
» 19/01/2009 7:07:54 PM I hoped I was being careful not to comment on the rights or wrongs of the individual case .....
» 19/01/2009 9:40:07 AM Following on Polycarp's thread perhaps someone out there would care to debate the followin.....
» 14/05/2008 10:05:18 AM Careful Kartiya Jim - I was merely stating what the actual situation is in a court of law......
» 13/05/2008 4:57:44 PM I'm fed up with 'working families' - there are plenty of other workers out there as well. .....
» 13/05/2008 1:56:18 PM There is no legal right to be heard in your first language - even the deaf do not have a l.....
» 13/05/2008 8:18:39 AM As I understand it indigenous languages have a rich and diverse vocabulary for the environ.....
» 11/05/2008 5:12:47 PM Language teaching certainly needs a major overhaul mil-observer but what Kevin Rudd appear.....
» 11/05/2008 8:10:42 AM It is disappointing, but not surprising, that the article and all the comments to date hav.....
» 10/05/2008 5:04:41 PM Healthwatcher - what a sad comment on cultural diversity. I doubt you are correct. Gaelic .....
» 10/05/2008 4:55:53 PM I have not changed my position mil-observer - although I suspect you are trying to suggest.....
» 10/05/2008 4:39:12 PM We will not improve relations with India when Rudd takes unilateral action to dismantle im.....
» 9/05/2008 2:41:29 PM Can't say I am wildly enthusiastic about any of the nominees but it is up to the Americans.....
» 9/05/2008 2:30:42 PM So, because India has not signed the treaty do you think we should not do any business wit.....
» 9/05/2008 2:03:27 PM Why does the union movement think that it runs the ALP Belly? Isn't it time to acknowledge.....
» 8/05/2008 11:27:36 AM Careful mil-observer you are misrepresenting my position. I am (from the position of being.....
» 8/05/2008 8:30:55 AM I would suggest that unilaterally cancelling the four way talks between Australia, the US,.....
» 7/05/2008 3:45:13 PM Kevin Rudd may speak Chinese but there are very few Australians of non-Chinese background .....
» 7/05/2008 3:26:57 PM Sign language is certainly useful at times - yes, I know a little although not enough. My .....
» 7/05/2008 8:17:38 AM Cultural awareness can, and should, be taught in other ways. If language learning is to be.....
» 6/05/2008 12:23:33 PM There is no mention in this article of any other 'international' language. Esperanto is no.....
» 5/05/2008 3:34:19 PM Marilyn are you aware that at least some of those students were required to attend the ral.....
» 5/05/2008 3:22:36 PM You don't need to worry about me Belly, I worry about myself at times. :-) But, seriously,.....
» 4/05/2008 2:56:36 PM The Australian carried some interesting articles this weekend about the concerns being rai.....
» 4/05/2008 2:26:46 PM If China cannot get what it wants by stealth it will take it by force......
» 24/04/2008 5:31:10 PM Anyone who has ever lived in the middle of a 'soldier settlement' at any time as I have wo.....
» 24/04/2008 5:23:19 PM Do we want a republic? No. Do we need a republic? No. Are we going to be stupid enough to .....
» 24/04/2008 5:17:11 PM Foxy, if you happen to read this...the reports are trickling out and I am more pessimistic.....
» 22/04/2008 3:58:41 PM If I read the reports from the 2020 summit then there is not going to be any consultation .....
» 22/04/2008 7:16:41 AM I suspect history will judge John Howard rather more kindly than that Foxy How long do I h.....
» 21/04/2008 4:44:24 PM Ah yes Foxy the tall poppy syndrome....the ALP loves cutting down tall poppies even more t.....
» 21/04/2008 8:24:59 AM Did the 2020 Summit produce any new ideas or big ideas? Was it merely an ALP talkfest with.....
» 21/04/2008 8:09:07 AM Of course Kevin should have attended John Button's funeral - but JB would turn in his grav.....
» 20/04/2008 5:27:16 PM I doubt those in favour of a republic ever believe anything could go wrong FG - after all .....
» 20/04/2008 7:32:55 AM Hi Foxy If you happen to get this I am sorry to say the link you mentioned had gone. Yes, .....
» 19/04/2008 5:36:49 PM Thanks for the link Foxy - I'll take a look. SIG - it is for practical purposes that I am .....
» 19/04/2008 8:49:38 AM It was Australia's choice to be cut off. The EU membership did not prevent the UK from kee.....
» 19/04/2008 8:27:48 AM I was not suggesting that there would be no teaching of other languages, just that there w.....
» 18/04/2008 4:54:18 PM There is a health problem associated with wearing Muslim dress. Women do not always get su.....
» 18/04/2008 4:47:27 PM We are already a republic - a crowned republic (yes there are such things) - the question .....
» 18/04/2008 4:38:40 PM Another issue for the 2020 Summit has been the issue of language teaching, or should I say.....
» 17/04/2008 7:47:17 AM I was not talking about voting in my last post Steel. I was talking, since the subject was.....
» 16/04/2008 4:11:08 PM As the person who started this thread I have to say that I do not believe 16yr olds are ge.....
» 16/04/2008 8:40:25 AM Foxy I think it is more like saying, "Here's a Coke or a Pepsi because you are not qu.....
» 15/04/2008 5:00:23 PM Okay but nobody has yet addressed my suggestion that, if the age is lowered, then it shoul.....
» 15/04/2008 4:55:32 PM The benefit of such legislation to the ALP should be obvious. The unions will just do the .....
» 15/04/2008 8:59:22 AM One of the issues raised at the 2020 Youth Summit was the idea that the voting age should .....
» 15/04/2008 8:44:32 AM China is an economic disaster waiting to happen. Many of the workers are little better tha.....
» 5/04/2008 11:13:14 AM Freedom of expression surely involves responsibilities as well as rights.....
» 31/03/2008 4:09:43 PM I read the list of participants with boredom - same old faces as before. Rudd reckoned he .....
» 28/03/2008 1:23:20 PM KOLLONTAI are you aware that China is on the verge of bankruptcy? Workers are being ".....
» 25/03/2008 4:36:10 PM There is no need to boycott the Olympics. They could, even at this late stage, be relocate.....
» 19/03/2008 1:29:14 PM Hope you are right about the boycotts CJ - we can at least try and encourage such action -.....
» 19/03/2008 1:25:56 PM So boycott the Olympics if they are held in Beijing. The Chinese government needs to be to.....
» 18/03/2008 3:01:39 PM I am all for appointing a woman to the job - if we can find a competent one to take the jo.....
» 18/03/2008 2:48:49 PM See my note in OLO - we need to act on the suggestion by KM Gunn in the Australian today (.....
» 18/03/2008 12:59:14 PM Just because things have happened a certain way in the past does not mean that they have t.....
» 13/03/2008 1:30:31 PM Kevin Rudd still intends to cut social welfare by $1.8bn. He may juggle the figures to loo.....
» 13/03/2008 1:23:25 PM Not so hasty SIG - 'working families' get plenty - including tax breaks and child care all.....
» 10/03/2008 3:23:37 PM Ah, the great "working family". Nobody else contributes to Australian society. N.....
» 10/03/2008 3:17:46 PM "Random selection" can also fail. Look at any meeting. How many people speak up?.....
» 7/03/2008 1:29:26 PM I have nominated someone I know for the talkfest. She has outstanding academic qualificati.....
» 8/02/2008 4:25:12 PM Ah DEMOS the Cynical One!.....
» 8/02/2008 7:21:48 AM Anyone out there have any suggestions as to who will be the 1000 'non-usual' suspects invi.....
» 7/02/2008 7:40:15 AM Interesting editorial piece in today's (Thursday) Australian. People may care to look at i.....
» 7/02/2008 7:35:17 AM Belly if Rudd does not backtrack on his promise of tax cuts inflation will go up. Interest.....
» 6/02/2008 4:16:29 PM Kevin Rudd was pre-judged before the election...and Australians elected him. Now they have.....
» 6/02/2008 4:08:02 PM Rest assured - someone IS reading this. They would be fools not to read it......
» 5/01/2008 2:42:35 PM This was almost bound to happen - without it there is no news story. The media is not inte.....
» 4/01/2008 2:42:07 PM Parents wield great power when they name their children. My neighbour tells the story of a.....
» 4/01/2008 2:32:06 PM It's all too depressing Belly...the situation in Pakistan is on a knife edge, so is Kenya .....
» 4/01/2008 2:27:25 PM Doubtless they do not think it is 'junk'. Try 'No advertising material please' and, if the.....
» 28/12/2007 6:40:03 AM Ah yes Belly - I noted the little phrase about 'non-union contract workers' in this mornin.....
» 24/12/2007 2:45:10 PM Ah Belly Merry Christmas mate - because next year it will all start to unravel. Brendan Ne.....
» 19/12/2007 1:48:18 PM Time the writer read 'The Bullsh.t. Dictionary' - sorry I have wrapped it already to give .....
» 19/12/2007 1:43:34 PM The word 'evil' should be used with care. 'Evil' in this context suggests deliberately rem.....
» 15/12/2007 3:13:17 PM Steel I think you owe more than a few people an apology...have you read the transcripts of.....
» 14/12/2007 4:01:39 PM The fact that it happened is totally and utterly unacceptable and the events that followed.....
» 6/12/2007 11:38:14 AM Just catching up here - the AEC may claim a 97% turnout but I still believe the reality is.....
» 2/12/2007 7:59:39 AM I stand by my view that there is no moral or legal right for anyone to apologise to anyone.....
» 1/12/2007 7:31:34 AM Hang on Belly. I, quite fairly, pointed out that unions had done some good but that they w.....
» 30/11/2007 3:44:22 PM What is the 'right thing' Belly - abide by union demands I assume? Never mind what the wor.....
» 30/11/2007 3:36:57 PM I think I see what you are getting at FG but I am not sure I agree - the AEC figures are s.....
» 30/11/2007 8:34:03 AM Belly a local business is about to close its doors - three people will be out of work. The.....
» 30/11/2007 8:23:43 AM I do not want anyone to apologise on my behalf for something I had no part in. They have n.....
» 30/11/2007 8:07:42 AM Rudd is in the honeymoon period. He has yet to face the factions or the unions, yet to try.....
» 30/11/2007 8:04:06 AM Mmm very gradually going up Freediver but I would still say a matter for concern. The perc.....
» 28/11/2007 3:38:45 PM Who said Australian elections were free of fraud and other nefarious behaviour? They are n.....
» 28/11/2007 1:11:51 PM Are demands for 'legal equality' more to do with money than anything else? There is absolu.....
» 28/11/2007 1:05:06 PM Nobody would wish Bernie Banton's ill health and subsequent death on anyone else but, and .....
» 28/11/2007 7:47:32 AM As many contributors will be aware there is actually no compulsion to vote - there is a co.....
» 26/11/2007 3:59:19 PM The figures came from someone at the Electoral Commission. I just rang Andrew and asked hi.....
» 26/11/2007 1:04:54 PM Electoral Commission figures Freediver As I understand it Pericles this is the difference.....
» 26/11/2007 11:12:00 AM One in five Australians failed to vote. Why is the requirement to attend the ballot box be.....
» 26/11/2007 10:57:34 AM Rudd thinks he can run the government the way he ran a government department. He has told .....
» 11/10/2007 5:44:58 PM Frank - I am about to leave for the airport so this will be very brief but the sample was .....
» 11/10/2007 12:13:52 PM Frank I was (a) asked to remain apolitical (which I did) and (b) give an example (which I .....
» 10/10/2007 4:26:18 PM In South Australia a community hospital had to close and be sold to pay compensation to a .....
» 10/10/2007 4:13:35 PM I don't have the report to hand Frank and I think that any further comment would probably .....
» 10/10/2007 8:45:05 AM Very briefly Frank (1)the data base was too narrow and (2) the questions were framed so as.....
» 9/10/2007 5:42:57 PM Apply a little logic and it becomes obvious that athletes cannot go on breaking records fo.....
» 9/10/2007 5:36:09 PM Radical suggestion - we make all residents sit the test. That being unlikely to happen I .....
» 9/10/2007 5:27:28 PM As an academic could I point out that it is extremely difficult to present a report such a.....
» 4/10/2007 4:28:03 PM Oh come on Johnny Rotten Julia Gillard is a puppet having her strings pulled by the Party......
» 4/10/2007 4:25:13 PM I think there may be a problem here that many contributors are unaware of. First may I sa.....
» 3/10/2007 5:44:31 PM Employers are more enlightened - and so is the media. Employees are also more media savvy......
» 3/10/2007 5:40:46 PM Periwinkle, how could you! I have to grit my teeth in order not to scream every time Juli.....
» 3/10/2007 4:25:22 PM There is a relatively new company on the children's literature scene which is re-publishin.....
» 3/10/2007 4:16:14 PM The union movement not only failed to assist me but also actively worked against me. Why s.....
» 2/10/2007 5:59:14 PM Until China withdraws support for the regime in Burma (currently an unlikely scenario) lit.....
» 2/10/2007 5:14:41 PM I would like to know how many Australian school students could pass the citizenship studen.....
» 2/10/2007 5:06:28 PM Sorry Marilyn but the people coming to Australia are not usually refugees. They may want .....
» 2/10/2007 4:49:48 PM Good grief Gibo - I thought everyone but me considered the games some sort of sacred trust.....
» 30/09/2007 4:37:31 PM Hmmm....there must be an awful lot of people out there who have something in common with B.....
» 30/09/2007 4:25:00 PM It is unfortunate that the media has allowed several high profile members of the legal pro.....
» 30/09/2007 4:01:46 PM Well no Ditch, China should not have been given the Olympics but they were - and I am cyni.....
» 29/09/2007 5:32:44 PM Time for everyone to start watching the re-run of the Story of English on SBS perhaps? Lan.....
» 29/09/2007 5:25:58 PM Under international law there is a requirement for would be refugees to seek asylum in the.....
» 29/09/2007 5:14:36 PM I have little time for Bush but I too am tired of people bashing Western leaders and there.....
» 29/09/2007 9:03:42 AM There have been some mild suggestions that other countries should boycott the Beijing Olym.....
» 28/09/2007 5:23:56 PM Dear Lyn The Democrats started well (gee I even voted for one of you once) and Natasha and.....
» 28/09/2007 5:18:30 PM True Snappy Tom but it was widely reported on the Arabic news services (including the big .....
» 28/09/2007 8:45:32 AM "Moved back" says it all Thinks4self - Australia will once again become uncompet.....
» 28/09/2007 8:36:18 AM Marilyn is it possible that this time, as on so many occasions in the past, you are mistak.....
» 28/09/2007 8:24:37 AM KB is retiring from politics...and the ALP will be the poorer for it. He was too good for .....
» 27/09/2007 4:52:05 PM "Necessary involvement in the workforce"? For what? The bigger house (with the e.....
» 27/09/2007 4:39:52 PM Bollinger would have done better not to invite the Iranian President at all. It gave the P.....
» 27/09/2007 4:32:16 PM As I understand it the meat industry has had problems for many years and will probably go .....
» 26/09/2007 5:19:26 PM Chainsmoker why would I bother - the Australian's list of inquiries proposed by the ALP wa.....
» 26/09/2007 8:32:04 AM I was not aware that Labor had any policies...just plans for inquiries into this, that and.....
» 26/09/2007 8:28:25 AM While sitting on a committee concerned with transport for people with disabilities I was t.....
» 25/09/2007 5:36:08 PM I did live in Victoria - and where did you get the idea that there was a Ministerial ban o.....
» 25/09/2007 5:31:55 PM Ah Belly this little runt was so smug I just had to let everyone know what he was saying! .....
» 25/09/2007 9:13:03 AM Is Labor getting 'cocky'? Does it matter if they do? There are already reports of jostlin.....
» 25/09/2007 9:05:08 AM Chris C I am glad I do not live in Victoria - your examples do not impress. Many of them w.....
» 25/09/2007 8:55:49 AM Discrimination Commissions in all states and at the federal level favour left wing policie.....
» 25/09/2007 8:48:04 AM The South Australian Advertiser's lead story this morning is about the changes to the SACE.....
» 24/09/2007 4:23:29 PM We will get better results in schools when teachers actually teach and children are expect.....
» 24/09/2007 4:13:15 PM The ALP has a completely unwarranted reputation for being the 'social welfare' party which.....
» 24/09/2007 4:08:48 PM I know someone who has a very close association with a "refugee camp" for unacco.....
» 20/09/2007 4:32:32 PM Sorry but I detest daylight saving. It is actually used by very few people. School student.....
» 20/09/2007 2:11:19 PM Bennelong would be a good place to start - but there is a need to acknowledge that Bureau .....
» 20/09/2007 9:28:50 AM Well said Nell. There are far too many people out there who presume that they have the rig.....
» 19/09/2007 4:42:17 PM This problem has been around for decades. I went to England in the 70's to do a specialist.....
» 19/09/2007 9:50:44 AM Ah so it is all the fault of the government is it Aqvirvs? If you want to put your baby al.....
» 18/09/2007 5:56:42 PM Aqvi - have you tried to get insurance for you and your disabled kid? You can afford it ri.....
» 18/09/2007 4:17:34 PM The Labor government (under Whitlam) disbanded the technical schools. They have never been.....
» 18/09/2007 12:14:14 PM And ever noticed the way those orange pointed cones bounce back when someone runs over the.....
» 18/09/2007 8:09:01 AM Oh that is so tempting Bazz - but probably a waste of time. Can you imagine the media publ.....
» 18/09/2007 8:01:45 AM I wonder if people who are cheerfully criticising the government (this is an issue on whic.....
» 17/09/2007 5:27:21 PM Harry Potter is one of the best things that has happened to young (and old) kids in years .....
» 17/09/2007 5:21:04 PM Mmmm...remember the Australian newspaper came out heavily in favour of a republic - and th.....
» 17/09/2007 5:11:57 PM Disability activists/advocates also have something to answer for here. They have made dema.....
» 16/09/2007 5:08:11 PM Marilyn Shepherd you were writing anti-Howard letters before Howard had a chance to do any.....
» 16/09/2007 9:32:28 AM My mate has just gone past on his morning constitutional. He informs me that he has just h.....
» 16/09/2007 9:25:24 AM The Chinese would be too polite. I based my comments on (a) a sound knowledge of the Chin.....
» 15/09/2007 4:38:53 PM I wonder how the media would have reacted if there had been a major gang rape in Sydney du.....
» 15/09/2007 4:20:57 PM Peer assessments assume that the student has sufficient knowledge to judge whether the wor.....
» 14/09/2007 2:02:01 PM Pericles - try the letters page. It is seen as a breach of protocol to require a translati.....
» 13/09/2007 5:00:16 PM I can speak enough Chinese to greet someone in Chinese. (I also work in multiple languages.....
» 13/09/2007 12:41:45 PM Rudd's use of Chinese was, as someone pointed out in the Advertiser yesterday, an embarras.....
» 12/09/2007 5:28:00 PM Ah but that was the issue TurnRightThenLeft. They were all on the same very hot topic inde.....
» 12/09/2007 4:20:33 PM Just been talking to a mate of mine who has conducted an interesting little experiment - s.....
» 12/09/2007 1:47:04 PM Graham I was not suggesting that people need to stick to the norm. If they do not want to .....
» 12/09/2007 10:15:50 AM An excellent analysis - the media is baying for change and allowing the ALP a dream run. .....
» 12/09/2007 9:58:39 AM If I moved to (or even visited) "ABC" country then I would expect to have to abi.....
» 11/09/2007 5:58:37 PM Efforts to get rid of John Howard are getting desperate...and it is not all coming from hi.....
» 11/09/2007 5:44:57 PM It is tempting to send it back in an envelope without any postage on it - so they have to .....
» 9/09/2007 4:31:47 PM China is on the verge of economic collapse. It is being propped up by internal money recyc.....
» 9/09/2007 4:18:08 PM If enough people refused to vote or refused to vote in the manner demanded then there woul.....
» 8/09/2007 8:15:29 AM Think you will find a lot of people did not think it was anything other than stupid - I kn.....
» 8/09/2007 8:13:25 AM Answer to that question Paul L is no. There have been enough voters go through school and .....
» 7/09/2007 5:21:46 PM Was it really funny? I know a lot of people who think it was downright stupid and irrespon.....
» 7/09/2007 5:18:24 PM Compulsion to attend the ballot box (usually seen as a compulsion to vote) is undemocratic.....
» 7/09/2007 5:06:35 PM Ah yes but the reality is that we are a small and insignificant nation and, if we want to .....
» 6/09/2007 4:31:51 PM Wow! I wonder if we could get rid of - wait for it...Canberra?.....
» 5/09/2007 2:37:21 PM I depend on the availability of good international news to do my job as efficiently as pos.....
» 4/09/2007 4:42:43 PM That's a very simplistic approach which does not work. There is a need to enumerate respon.....
» 4/09/2007 4:37:08 PM If we did away with the states then I think that we would also need to do away with any th.....
» 4/09/2007 4:27:58 PM Water is a resource and needs to be treated as such. It is valuable. I am appalled that we.....
» 3/09/2007 4:35:34 PM Oh dear, oh dear - Labor can do no wrong, the unions can do no wrong. The Coalition are me.....
» 3/09/2007 4:26:26 PM My point was that (I believe) you cannot have rights without also taking on the responsibi.....
» 1/09/2007 9:14:08 AM Just as well I do not drink coffee Belly. Fear? No, I don't think so. Fact? Yes. I am not .....
» 31/08/2007 4:59:37 PM Churches are seen as a soft target Runner - there is an assumption that they are going to .....
» 31/08/2007 3:38:08 PM One of the saddest things about the abuse saga is that it has tainted all church workers, .....
» 31/08/2007 3:25:09 PM Belly are you aware of the fact that the ALP spends less on social welfare than the Coalit.....
» 31/08/2007 3:20:43 PM Er, I did not want to turn this into a discussion on Princess Diana - I was querying wheth.....
» 30/08/2007 5:19:40 PM How many members of this group caught the interview on SBS news between Geoffrey Robertson.....
» 30/08/2007 5:11:25 PM Labor is a lot of PR and very little policy. They are hoping to win on advertising rather .....
» 30/08/2007 12:15:13 PM Oh dear Belly - I don't think you do understand the issues or how the ALP works. The ALP i.....
» 29/08/2007 8:25:53 AM Nothing will ever pursuade me to vote ALP Belly - they broke more promises than anyone. Ho.....
» 28/08/2007 5:33:01 PM Liz - I reckon you must have done a fantastic job of bringing up your son - congratulation.....
» 28/08/2007 8:02:53 AM I never thought you would agree Belly - but I do think that ALP policies could make matter.....
» 28/08/2007 7:59:15 AM Gee Saintfletcher where do you socialise? I went through more than one uni and was never o.....
» 27/08/2007 4:02:29 PM Michael Kirby is not an intellectual giant. He also allows his personal beliefs to get in .....
» 27/08/2007 11:26:07 AM A good friend of mine, a life-long non-smoker, died of lung cancer. I would not wish her d.....
» 27/08/2007 8:29:53 AM Are you short of money this week? Yes? Aren't we all? Do you run a car? Take it to work? C.....
» 27/08/2007 8:18:12 AM The Australian right wing? You are joking of course? Some right wing columnists perhaps bu.....
» 26/08/2007 5:26:18 PM Multicultural means everything and anyone - unless you happen to be of Scots descent. We d.....
» 26/08/2007 4:58:23 PM Ah, the Press Gallery in Canberra - left wing. The ABC - ditto SBS - ditto The NUJ - very .....
» 26/08/2007 4:43:52 PM Well Belly what are you concerned about? I cannot understand why you object to a PM (any P.....
» 25/08/2007 9:02:18 AM As I said Belly - quit belly aching! Howard is PM. He has a responsibility to meet all sor.....
» 24/08/2007 4:15:15 PM Dear Belly Members of the CPSU went directly to Paul Keating with a request that someone I.....
» 24/08/2007 4:08:09 PM Actually you see very little of anyone in the Opposition apart from Kevin. When you do see.....
» 24/08/2007 3:59:54 PM Calm down Belly. It should not be a sackable offence to meet someone. If it was then Kevin.....
» 23/08/2007 4:48:34 PM Did anyone else notice that free trade talks are now underway with India - a notoriously c.....
» 23/08/2007 4:45:20 PM Has the writer of this article actually talked to anyone in Asia? As I understand it from .....
» 23/08/2007 4:44:11 PM Dear Spanky Try being truly discriminated against and you may change your mind. I have to .....
» 23/08/2007 4:25:37 PM The real concern here is the fact that the ALP was not given the same funding - if they ha.....
» 23/08/2007 7:59:14 AM No Belly I am not Joe Hockey - and the last PM controlled by the union movement was Paul K.....
» 23/08/2007 7:56:48 AM I have no time for the religious beliefs of the Brethren but before criticising John Howar.....
» 22/08/2007 5:33:55 PM I was not intending to sound glib and self righteous. My apologies if it came over like th.....
» 22/08/2007 5:24:44 PM The judge has made a decision on a fairly technical point. Mr Russo did not sound very hap.....
» 22/08/2007 8:54:03 AM Belly if you really believe that the unions will not control Rudd then you must live in so.....
» 21/08/2007 5:47:09 PM Sure Chris, not a problem - all you need to do is look at what is currently taught. You ge.....
» 21/08/2007 4:26:08 PM Yes, there were 100,000 'nutcases' gathered together recently in Indonesia - the idea may .....
» 21/08/2007 4:19:20 PM As our Constitution does not permit the making of laws about religion it would be difficul.....
» 21/08/2007 4:03:14 PM As Alexander Downer is happily married to Nicky and they have children I wonder about the .....
» 20/08/2007 8:26:20 AM Miacat, a Rudd government will look after their union mates...and to hell with the rest of.....
» 20/08/2007 8:20:09 AM Would it be too cynical to suggest that this has been leaked from Rudd's office - he knew .....
» 19/08/2007 3:22:09 PM What are these overseas junkets by politicians for? What are they 'observing'? Are nightsp.....
» 19/08/2007 3:08:09 PM Sport is corrupt and so is politics. Opera can be high drama but it is also full of intrig.....
» 17/08/2007 2:23:58 PM I have good reason to be terrified Ruawake.....
» 17/08/2007 2:22:12 PM Abortion needs to be left to a woman and her conscience Women have the right to advice abo.....
» 17/08/2007 2:12:52 PM It's the usual story though isn't it? The Coalition makes the unpopular changes because pe.....
» 16/08/2007 4:36:15 PM Peter, how do you handle the individuals who are not capable of making choices? e.g those .....
» 15/08/2007 4:28:44 PM It is supposedly politically incorrect to suggest any form of special or separate educatio.....
» 15/08/2007 4:15:54 PM My own feeling is that it is one of those nice little schemes which make good election hea.....
» 13/08/2007 4:18:14 PM Will Rudd's rent scheme work? Will the states come on board? Is this just an election ploy.....
» 13/08/2007 4:11:30 PM Some years ago an aid worker of my acquaintance was in the midst of a crisis in a refugee .....
» 10/08/2007 8:00:26 AM The referendum question was set by the Constitutional Convention. The republicans thought .....
» 9/08/2007 5:07:56 PM We had a referendum on the issue of a republic and it was damned expensive exercise - it w.....
» 9/08/2007 4:57:12 PM I sneezed a moment ago, John Howard is to blame! I spent too much money on something I rea.....
» 8/08/2007 2:29:38 PM Ah Mercurius I wondered when someone would come up with the arguments you posted. Unfortu.....
» 8/08/2007 2:19:44 PM I have a gay cousin who is 'married' to his partner under UK law. They are both 'nice guys.....
» 8/08/2007 2:02:10 PM Surely it is the responsibility of the individual to ensure that they enrol to vote as soo.....
» 7/08/2007 12:25:22 PM As someone who had a less than adequate education in the "area" schools of South.....
» 6/08/2007 4:37:27 PM I want to know why nobody in South Australia is jumping up and down about the South Austra.....
» 3/08/2007 4:36:56 PM Sport honest? You would have to be joking of course? It is riddled with corruption, disho.....
» 2/08/2007 5:24:46 PM Supposing that your brother or sister or cousin or aunt or uncle is a terrorist then the q.....
» 1/08/2007 3:25:59 PM What's new? Some years back the United Nations designated another International Year. It w.....
» 1/08/2007 8:34:42 AM No Mise, food is not good aid...the fishing line is better aid. Food aid is only of value .....
» 31/07/2007 4:08:47 PM If Democratic Socialism worked we would all want to live in China or Russia or Cuba or may.....
» 31/07/2007 8:17:02 AM Australia cannot ever be self reliant for national defence. We have a vast coastline and a.....
» 30/07/2007 5:28:04 PM The ALP does not want an election quite yet - they have not yet spent the money they have .....
» 30/07/2007 8:05:07 AM Trust Jocelynne to agree with Helen...it sounds suspiciously like, "I didn't like it .....
» 29/07/2007 9:00:29 AM I sense a touch of intellectual arrogance here...I am better than you because I have read .....
» 29/07/2007 8:46:13 AM Hawaiilawyer have you ever heard of the terms 'fiction', 'fantasy', 'fun' and 'imagination.....
» 29/07/2007 8:34:48 AM Yes you can pick up a lot by reading Country Gal. I should have read more. My neighbour co.....
» 28/07/2007 2:07:13 PM Of course it is the government that causes the interest rates to rise. It has nothing to d.....
» 28/07/2007 1:52:47 PM Demos, what if it is not there on the shelves because the adults have decided that the kid.....
» 28/07/2007 8:53:21 AM So you would deny them Swallows and Amazons even if they might enjoy it? (Had a kid tell m.....
» 27/07/2007 4:35:15 PM The opposing items on Harry Potter raise another question. What else do kids want to read?.....
» 27/07/2007 4:22:02 PM Ah, some common sense entering the debate about HP. There were no less than seven adults r.....
» 27/07/2007 1:00:12 PM I was talking to someone I know recently. She has written a number of books for children a.....
» 26/07/2007 5:35:39 PM Mmm Chainsmoker I knew there was a damn good reason that I have never had a credit card or.....
» 26/07/2007 3:40:00 PM Been unable to reach the Forun for a few days - plenty of time to read the papers...I make.....
» 26/07/2007 3:33:21 PM Oh come on you bleeding hearts take on some personal responsibility. Do you need a house t.....
» 22/07/2007 3:10:29 PM Welcome to the real world kids. You don't always get what you want. You don't always get t.....
» 22/07/2007 3:05:36 PM Anyone like to consider that the sort of jobs available have changed since the union membe.....
» 22/07/2007 11:21:01 AM Bronco Lane - many people with disabilities would like a job and are unable to get one - '.....
» 22/07/2007 11:12:58 AM I will argue a convincing case for AWAs - "Made in China" or made in anywhere bu.....
» 20/07/2007 8:36:04 AM Read the letters to the editor recently? I am not sure what we are all worrying about. A l.....
» 20/07/2007 8:25:27 AM There is an alternative society Demos? Where? Utopia? It sure isn't any communist regime.......
» 19/07/2007 4:13:23 PM I disagree Sylvia. There needs to be a balance and at the moment I would say that the law .....
» 19/07/2007 4:00:00 PM Did the media meddle in the Labor leadership so that we now have Kevin instead of Kym? Is .....
» 19/07/2007 1:53:46 PM Yes terrorism is bad. Ask anyone who has lost someone they love to terrorism. It may kill .....
» 18/07/2007 5:42:29 PM As I understand it the transcript was leaked by his own lawyer - but that is only part of .....
» 18/07/2007 2:22:39 PM Unfortunately the only realistic approach to indigenous affairs is assimilation not separa.....
» 17/07/2007 5:06:57 PM Sorry but unions deserve a kick in the guts. They have endlessly campaigned for 'better pa.....
» 17/07/2007 4:57:15 PM Whichever way the government had jumped on this one it would have been criticised - and pr.....
» 16/07/2007 5:04:33 PM The safety of children is the issue of primary importance here. The obvious way to avoid t.....
» 16/07/2007 12:13:57 PM I suggest that concern about language loss and cultural loss are far higher among non-indi.....
» 16/07/2007 12:04:12 PM I cannot comment on doctors but a young male Indian physiotherapist here to do some postgr.....
» 16/07/2007 12:00:28 PM Tut tut Chainsmoker I think the venue for the APEC meeting was decided years ago. Now a ni.....
» 15/07/2007 5:13:43 PM I can Chainsmoker - a positive economic outcome for Australia or some genuine Australian a.....
» 15/07/2007 4:51:06 PM Hong, I'd love to do something about it. I think a lot of other people would too. Do boyco.....
» 14/07/2007 8:10:47 AM Given the back biting, arguments, political intrigue, vast costs (which put many countries.....
» 13/07/2007 4:00:42 PM Given the article on Spinning the smoke and mirrors then what about returning the Olympic .....
» 13/07/2007 12:52:53 PM Nice thought Glendabeth but unrealistic. We should aim for the EU for the purposes of dive.....
» 13/07/2007 8:14:49 AM Sexual abuse is utterly abhorrent and absolutely not to be tolerated. Racial isolation is .....
» 13/07/2007 7:54:35 AM Many countries in the world have identity cards of one sort or another and we will have on.....
» 11/07/2007 5:15:01 PM Yes, the separation of powers doctrine (while not perfect) is a very, very important part .....
» 11/07/2007 3:58:04 PM It is only a hypothetical question until someone actually does something about it... like .....
» 11/07/2007 9:53:44 AM Say Dumbledore is not dead (yet) then what has actually happened to him? Is this why Snape.....
» 11/07/2007 9:42:01 AM Not sure you are right Belly - the idea was touted when the EU was first set up and it has.....
» 10/07/2007 5:51:15 PM This topic has been suggested as a branch of the topic concerning Australia's status as a .....
» 10/07/2007 8:00:57 AM If Senators did their jobs as representatives of their states... need I say more? That sa.....
» 10/07/2007 7:54:12 AM Chainsmoker I am a bit puzzled by your post. I was not aware that I had said any topic of .....
» 9/07/2007 5:07:42 PM Australia could have been part of the EU (and really should be) but Labor put a stop to al.....
» 9/07/2007 4:15:50 PM Nobody has mentioned the media's role in all this. While the media allows and indeed encou.....
» 9/07/2007 4:03:45 PM mmm having started this thread...what about the reports in the Australian this weekend tha.....
» 8/07/2007 5:18:19 PM King Canute you forget the very high mortality rate among indigenous people in 1788, espec.....
» 8/07/2007 5:07:57 PM Och yes - just goes to show I am as brainwashed as the majority! But then 'gay pride'?.....
» 8/07/2007 8:00:43 AM "Without the unions workers will have no protection" - nonsense! These days the .....
» 8/07/2007 7:51:04 AM Such cynicism Demos! Free speech - I'd say the ability to say whatever one wishes provide.....
» 6/07/2007 3:58:18 PM Now now did I say unionism was compulsory - no, just that it should not be compulsory. The.....
» 6/07/2007 2:52:46 PM This statement came from Cath Gunn, a "communication activist". (She was the per.....
» 6/07/2007 12:13:56 PM Compulsory unionism is unacceptable anywhere but abhorrent in a democracy. There is absolu.....
» 6/07/2007 12:04:51 PM HREOC has no solutions...they work on a 'conciliation' model/process which rarely produces.....
» 6/07/2007 11:47:02 AM "Political correctness is a denial of free speech" (Cath Gunn). I tend to agree......
» 6/07/2007 9:08:15 AM It is time to thoroughly address the question of "who is indigenous?" I understa.....
» 6/07/2007 8:49:40 AM Australians are not poor. If you want 'poor' then look elsewhere. The "Aussie Battler.....
» 6/07/2007 8:42:24 AM Given the likely destabilising alternatives I would say we had no choice...imagine Austral.....
» 5/07/2007 8:34:31 AM Odd Mercurius your view about the Commonwealth's constitutional capacity in this respect g.....
» 5/07/2007 8:30:47 AM Saying 'sorry' is not going to solve the present problems. Nor do I think that the governm.....
» 4/07/2007 12:16:23 PM Liked what you had to say here - could you go a little further however and suggest some wa.....
» 4/07/2007 12:06:19 PM Yes a national emergency requires a national response. Talk to the states. The federal gov.....
» 4/07/2007 12:02:10 PM Unfortunately Belly unions do control the ALP. What is even more unfortunate is that they .....
» 3/07/2007 4:57:48 PM People enter our land all the time. They come and demand money (in the form of collections.....
» 3/07/2007 12:30:54 PM Australia's head of state is Australian - and republicans know it. There is a dual role........
» 3/07/2007 12:23:48 PM I find this post confusing. How can you speak about the in/accurate reporting of an event .....
» 2/07/2007 4:31:06 PM I just caught up with this - what will happen after the election. If Labor gets in, as wid.....
» 2/07/2007 9:25:46 AM Of course they need 'consultations' Rivergum - this is about 'power' not 'people'. The ind.....
» 2/07/2007 9:14:38 AM Footy is partly to blame. It is a violent war game which is made acceptable because it is .....
» 2/07/2007 9:09:03 AM As I understood the news the two men arrested were not shouting Buddha, Buddha but somethi.....
» 29/06/2007 4:47:36 PM Why is it that Democrats always reckon they have the answers but won't tell the rest of us.....
» 29/06/2007 4:26:49 PM Dear Andrew We met once (at a Senate Hearing) I was not impressed by your grasp of that su.....
» 29/06/2007 4:22:21 PM Of course if we were really opposed to the nuclear option then we would not be providing o.....
» 28/06/2007 5:41:11 PM All those claiming that the government is being 'paternalistic' why is it that you and you.....
» 28/06/2007 5:30:34 PM Politically correct social engineering is responsible for a lot of unnecessary misery. All.....
» 28/06/2007 8:21:39 AM Believe it was the Chinese who discovered gunpowder and it was downhill all the way after .....
» 27/06/2007 5:06:18 PM I suggest that people (the lefties particularly) read Clive Hamilton's book "Affluenz.....
» 27/06/2007 4:17:52 PM Initiatives will fail while people fail to support the initiatives. If those who are now m.....
» 27/06/2007 3:57:30 PM Do we celebrate Guy Fawkes? It is pretty much a non-event isn't it? If we want to get conc.....
» 25/06/2007 5:02:49 PM Hmm...might be mistaken here but I imagine that Christ would say that anyone who followed .....
» 23/06/2007 3:31:07 PM Multiculturalism should mean an ability to communicate with one another - unfortunately it.....
» 23/06/2007 9:24:44 AM Kartiya Jim of course they exist everywhere - I did not say they did not. The difficulty i.....
» 23/06/2007 9:10:00 AM One of the biggest problems with all aid organisations and the relief that they are trying.....
» 22/06/2007 4:54:44 PM Let's get one thing straight here - I understood John Howard said he would do the same thi.....
» 21/06/2007 5:11:36 PM Ah well now I was not the one to use the phrase...I am not sure that there is such a thing.....
» 21/06/2007 4:40:45 PM Rudd is ambitious and a control freak. He is not however legitimately ambitious and he may.....
» 21/06/2007 4:38:05 PM Pay pollies double what they get now, ban all trade unionists and public servants from ent.....
» 19/06/2007 5:52:32 PM Doing away with the Family Court and putting these matters back into the mainstream would .....
» 18/06/2007 5:38:35 PM This problem is almost certainly insoluble. What happens when a partner goes into another .....
» 18/06/2007 8:25:38 AM Ah Demos - yes, little things can make a big difference....but sometimes it takes an awful.....
» 16/06/2007 11:15:59 AM Sir I took the trouble to look your name up on the internet. It was interesting. However .....
» 16/06/2007 11:06:48 AM Okay Demos you do not want to be your 'brother's keeper' but remember 'no man is an island.....
» 15/06/2007 4:32:24 PM I'd rather meet the Dalai Lama than the Chinese leadership... Whatever your brand of relig.....
» 15/06/2007 4:27:10 PM Demos I am not sure that this is helpful but surely you could argue that makes all Austral.....
» 15/06/2007 8:04:45 AM Sir, I suggested that you might like to start a new thread if you wish to debate the issue.....
» 14/06/2007 5:35:37 PM And of course if you DO happen to know something THEY don't want others to know about then.....
» 14/06/2007 8:47:40 AM Sir, since you have so far failed to give any of us any details of what it is you are talk.....
» 13/06/2007 2:24:28 PM The Press still has not managed to learn the difference between "in the public intere.....
» 13/06/2007 2:14:39 PM Hang on Demos - I was not defending the Constitution (it IS defective - nobody anywhere ha.....
» 13/06/2007 7:47:53 AM I could not post again until this morning but look carefully at what you have written sir......
» 12/06/2007 5:24:14 PM Ah yes, back to the "everything in the garden would have been and will be rosy under .....
» 12/06/2007 5:08:18 PM Saying "sorry" is not going to solve present problems. Our present PM has recogn.....
» 12/06/2007 4:57:00 PM I suggest that this last correspondent needs to do a course in Constitutional Law. Ken, he.....
» 12/06/2007 1:11:55 PM I also wonder about the legal ramifications of saying "sorry" and suspect that i.....
» 12/06/2007 12:59:49 PM Ken You are asking some complex questions and you have obviously given the issues a bit of.....
» 7/06/2007 7:39:31 AM No Belly I do not misunderstand you or the nature of the union movement. Unlike Bobbica th.....
» 6/06/2007 4:55:29 PM Not all union are the same? Give me a break! Some may be a little less radical than others.....
» 4/06/2007 3:25:34 PM Charlee be realistic, one of the reasons you cannot get job is because the unions have pri.....
» 2/06/2007 12:52:45 PM Let's just call this well orchestrated "stage management" by the ALP - like temp.....
» 2/06/2007 12:05:59 PM Let's get a few things straight. (1) Australia went to war in Iraq because they need to ha.....
» 31/05/2007 5:01:23 PM It would seem that, in Malaysia, religion is an accident of birth and something you cannot.....
» 30/05/2007 12:05:00 PM Like it or not our traditions are based more on the Old and New Testament than they are on.....
» 29/05/2007 5:41:40 PM One of the correspondents in the Advertiser made an interesting remark this morning (Tuesd.....
» 29/05/2007 8:09:44 AM One week after the election Australians are going to wake up and realise that they have ma.....
» 28/05/2007 3:36:25 PM I doubt "everyone" does know the importance of the upcoming election - at the mo.....
» 26/05/2007 5:36:44 PM Ah but remember the electric car?.....
» 26/05/2007 2:07:39 PM I wonder what I am personally supposed to feel sorry and guilty for. Why do I have to apol.....
» 26/05/2007 10:05:25 AM thinks4self where did you get these figures? They are certainly not anything like the figu.....
» 26/05/2007 9:58:16 AM Never thought to see it from Kerry - wish I had not missed it! Kevin and partner should ha.....
» 25/05/2007 12:23:02 PM Ah, try any "Public Service" outfit in the country....their Human Resources do n.....
» 24/05/2007 4:07:10 PM But Saintfletcher apparently thinks it is okay for the unions to spend $25m on propping up.....
» 24/05/2007 4:02:41 PM "Broadband" as we now know it is apparently already considered to be out of date.....
» 23/05/2007 2:00:34 PM Okay no taxpayer funds for advertising (though how we would be informed is an interesting .....
» 22/05/2007 3:35:06 PM Why are we being "treated" to descriptions of what Hicks had for breakfast? Why .....
» 22/05/2007 3:26:03 PM As they currently are unions should be written off. The "them and us" philosophy.....
» 22/05/2007 2:56:05 PM We have no hope if we get Rudd - that really will be back to the future. Australia has jus.....
» 21/05/2007 5:39:53 PM No Mr Swan they have not stopped listening. They have been unable to get some important in.....
» 21/05/2007 5:27:17 PM Ah but no airline would have taken him on board. It is easy to blame the government. They .....
» 21/05/2007 8:45:32 AM 5 full pages in our state paper this morning suggests the obsession really has gone too fa.....
» 20/05/2007 5:49:58 PM Someone out there is planting trees and that is perhaps the most important thing of all........
» 20/05/2007 5:36:41 PM Terry Hicks was being interviewed by Lee Lin Chin on the SBS last night (Saturday). His co.....
» 20/05/2007 5:17:43 PM To the contrary Workchoices is very much in the interest of workers - although it may not .....
» 20/05/2007 8:07:44 AM Re-reading these posts I am saddened by the lack of acknowledgment of a job well done by t.....
» 18/05/2007 4:44:11 PM Kevin Rudd should really be known as "Mr Flip-Flop" - he flips and flops in what.....
» 18/05/2007 3:58:33 PM Oh dear - now it is party political to point out that my less than satisfactory teacher tr.....
» 18/05/2007 3:43:39 PM We went to war in Iraq for reasons other than non-existent WMDs. Two of those reasons are .....
» 17/05/2007 5:04:04 PM I imagine that this is just the sort of thing Kevin Rudd will be happy with. He will see i.....
» 17/05/2007 11:04:30 AM Ian Keese has nothing good to say about summer schools for teachers which leads me to ques.....
» 16/05/2007 8:36:44 AM Tut tut Belly - your reaction just goes to prove my point......
» 15/05/2007 3:16:24 PM Perhaps we could add a CIR on the right not to be compelled to attend a polling booth. Now.....
» 15/05/2007 7:46:19 AM Unions, like many other advocacy groups, are part of the articulate minority. These are pe.....
» 14/05/2007 8:52:59 AM South Africa will go the same way...it may take some time but it will happen. Some white S.....
» 14/05/2007 8:38:35 AM If the ALP wins the election (which looks likely) then the focus will be even narrower tha.....
» 13/05/2007 5:33:28 PM Ah easy to learn a little and hard to learn a lot - and that comes from many, many teacher.....
» 12/05/2007 8:43:03 AM Dear MS Gillard I doubt you will read this but I might be lucky. I am unemployed. I also d.....
» 12/05/2007 8:26:30 AM Sure China (which is effectively bankrupt) and Japan are our big trading partners. How man.....
» 11/05/2007 2:10:48 PM Oh dear back to the "everything in the garden will be rosy under the ALP"? It w.....
» 11/05/2007 2:05:27 PM Kevin Rudd has once again insulted Australians with his narrow Asian focus. He wants to pu.....
» 26/04/2007 4:32:04 PM To those questioning it. No I am not in paid employment. The ALP and the union movement ef.....
» 26/04/2007 3:52:29 PM Rudd and his team will not even need to worry about policy. They have the media right behi.....
» 24/04/2007 5:14:00 PM When you work you are a servant of the person who employs you. Negotiation of terms and co.....
» 24/04/2007 4:35:52 PM The right to strike is a right that should be used only when every other avenue has been e.....
» 24/04/2007 4:19:53 PM The Prime Minister is not past it. He still has the capacity to run the country and run it.....
» 23/04/2007 4:55:32 PM Public money for public education? Do you want to add to the tax bill? If all public fundi.....
» 20/04/2007 4:10:57 PM This appointment is disturbing if only because there are so many well qualified people out.....
» 20/04/2007 4:02:48 PM I have, on more than one occasion, been given unsolicited feedback by an Editor "exce.....
» 20/04/2007 12:19:54 PM What utter nonsense to suggest that the media is muzzled by John Howard. The media is cont.....
» 19/04/2007 2:59:00 PM Kevin Rudd will do whatever the unions want in the end. Whatever he may say this small unr.....
» 17/04/2007 9:25:20 AM Whoever said that politics in Australia was about democracy? I must have missed something .....
» 17/04/2007 9:18:06 AM Labor voters do not need to be concerned. The media has already decided the outcome of the.....
» 5/04/2007 12:06:48 PM I stopped attending church some years ago because of the "happy-clappy" nature t.....
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