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» 30/05/2018 3:49:34 PM There is one competent woman who should be in the next USA presidential campaign. She is P.....
» 7/05/2018 3:03:14 PM Re the comments on Queensland water. In about 1945, when I was aged 14/15, my parents gav.....
» 23/02/2018 9:07:56 AM I read a book 70 years ago on this subject. I was written by Ian Idriess. I think the titl.....
» 18/01/2018 5:55:19 PM I was aged 15 when the Pacific War ended. I recall many Communist graff All those signs .....
» 29/12/2017 7:38:07 PM I cannot imagine any political candidate succeeding in Australia if, in the previous 15 ye.....
» 13/11/2017 10:37:21 AM Mary people posting on this argument forget that we live in a successful mixed economy. W.....
» 15/06/2017 1:15:49 PM The author ignores the fact that for every debtor their is an equal creditor. If the Cur.....
» 3/05/2017 11:02:13 AM Professor Christina Wood of the University of Oregon has written a book that covers most i.....
» 26/04/2017 11:38:35 AM From the early 50s I worked as a supervisor in an Open Hearth Furnace Steel Making departm.....
» 30/03/2017 10:44:06 AM It is a pity that the author and commentators do not explain how wholesale power is costed.....
» 30/01/2017 4:18:31 PM Runner needs to read and understand Phil Zuckerman's book, Society without God. Extract fr.....
» 9/11/2016 8:33:36 AM In Australia it is a fact that students from public schools achieve results at university .....
» 8/11/2016 9:43:19 AM Peter, Give me a secular society where the various religions have as little influence as p.....
» 5/09/2016 1:17:00 PM Real sovereign governments issue a currency. While there are unused resources of either la.....
» 5/09/2016 12:50:16 PM Atheists could start quoting Christopher Hitchens who wrote; Religion is “the most base a.....
» 2/05/2016 11:06:39 AM To ensure that after WW2 there was employment for returning servicemen and no return to th.....
» 25/02/2016 3:49:26 PM I would much prefer a republic to a constitutional monarchy. In the latter we are subjects.....
» 12/02/2016 6:36:29 AM Peter Sellick wrote, "In our time, secularism insists on a "language of rights a.....
» 10/02/2016 10:41:07 AM A great story. Leaders with courage!.....
» 8/02/2016 3:13:49 PM David is concerned about the 5000 public servants required to operate the government aspec.....
» 4/02/2016 1:28:28 PM I woke up to the fact that Bernie Sanders was likely to be active in the POTUS race when D.....
» 22/12/2015 7:17:51 AM David Leyonhjelm is in parliament but apparently has little understanding of money or the .....
» 11/11/2015 3:28:07 PM Thinkabit and Onthebeach The first trial and report that I saw on having all students part.....
» 11/11/2015 12:05:52 PM All children should be expected to discuss open ended questions among themselves for about.....
» 3/11/2015 3:50:17 PM At least one of those posting does not understand the purpose of a federation. In the USA,.....
» 26/10/2015 7:36:37 PM Adian's first comment made a lot of sense. The Federal Government, as the issuer of the Au.....
» 12/10/2015 6:52:18 PM I worked many tears as a supervisor in continuous production heavy industry, parts of whic.....
» 13/08/2015 1:04:49 PM Some of the comments ignore evidence and valid opinion by competent people. I have done th.....
» 13/08/2015 8:59:27 AM Freedom is not inherent in Christianity. The early protestant churches was just as dangero.....
» 21/07/2015 10:54:02 AM So children should pay for the mistakes of their parents! Both the author and the Yuyuts.....
» 1/07/2015 8:34:34 AM Under genuine democracies, where the power to govern is derived from the voting public, th.....
» 26/06/2015 9:04:02 PM As for the ABC being biased in favour of the left, my experience does not support that con.....
» 22/06/2015 5:05:43 PM I agree that allowing university to extend the range of subjects without any control of nu.....
» 19/06/2015 8:18:04 AM Shorten or his union officers negotiated an agreement that Tony Sheppard claimed brought h.....
» 18/06/2015 8:33:03 AM I attended the Per Capita function addressed by Paul Keating as described in the article. .....
» 4/06/2015 9:30:20 AM The chart provided showed food production but included no comment on food production per c.....
» 14/05/2015 9:37:20 AM Peter Lang may have been taken in by the deceitful behavior of George W Bush and the USA f.....
» 1/05/2015 11:34:41 AM The authors miss the real distinction between the two levels of government. In an economic.....
» 23/04/2015 10:21:44 AM The pause in temperature rise has been at a higher level than the average temperature. The.....
» 8/04/2015 10:35:48 AM If the environmental groups are seen as political active then are they not entitled to cha.....
» 8/04/2015 10:29:37 AM The principal reason that environmental issues are controversial is the distortion attribu.....
» 31/03/2015 1:19:45 PM The author needs to read and understand Professor Mariana Mazzucato's book The Entrepreneu.....
» 16/03/2015 10:25:23 AM Hasbeen, You do not understand the role of the currency issuing government. A growing econ.....
» 16/03/2015 9:29:52 AM Reading the views of someone else on any subject has never hurt anyone. I recently read a .....
» 16/03/2015 8:56:59 AM When there is substantial unemployment and underemployment, austerity is known to be a stu.....
» 11/03/2015 8:27:33 AM Climate change sceptics need to read how the fossil fuel industry has distorted environmen.....
» 5/03/2015 8:40:11 PM Continuing; The author and the others who made comments have not heard of the American com.....
» 5/03/2015 8:38:15 PM I am amazed that a person who thinks that he knows enough to be a member of parliament has.....
» 27/02/2015 2:29:27 PM Yuyutzu wrote; "Having said so, just as daughters aren't the property of their parent.....
» 17/02/2015 10:34:01 AM It is a pity that we have a senator, and many who make comments, who understand so little .....
» 21/01/2015 8:05:17 AM An excellent summation of the situation. But the main problem is the neo-liberal attitude .....
» 7/01/2015 9:09:08 AM The war is not so much on carbon dioxide as on the insulating effects carbon dioxide intro.....
» 30/12/2014 10:03:39 AM I am with Jon Jon . Smoking is a disgusting habit that intrudes on the personal space of t.....
» 23/12/2014 9:37:59 AM Religious forces held sway over human beings for far too long. As Christopher Hitchens w.....
» 3/12/2014 6:27:37 AM The average mother in the developed word gives live birth to less than three children in h.....
» 1/12/2014 11:40:59 AM Once it is disclosed that the author of an article is connected to a right wing (un) think.....
» 20/11/2014 9:59:57 AM The Hargraves comment finishes; The Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Shanghai Institute.....
» 20/11/2014 9:52:09 AM CHINA IS BUILDING COMMERCIAL PEBBLE BED REACTORS. PBR technology was first developed in Ge.....
» 20/11/2014 9:37:00 AM The author is obviously not abreast of what China is doing or proposes. In his book, ".....
» 6/11/2014 10:01:34 PM Jardine K Jardine Which particular articles from neweconomicperspectives.org are you sugge.....
» 6/11/2014 10:08:00 AM The Government policies are the principal problem. Our Current Account will deteriorate su.....
» 4/11/2014 3:17:27 PM The senator needs to learn some of the history of earlier depredations of the church and p.....
» 31/10/2014 3:37:37 PM Armchair Critic, Hasbeen and others, You all need to get some knowledge of the fiscal spac.....
» 31/10/2014 9:00:47 AM The author fails to discuss or even disclose the substantial difference between the situat.....
» 16/10/2014 12:59:42 PM This author does not understand modern economic theory and neither does the Abbott Governm.....
» 29/09/2014 8:26:41 AM The article is not adequately specific. What are the percentages based on, total populatio.....
» 12/09/2014 8:21:22 AM No!.....
» 26/08/2014 11:47:46 AM The author and Pericles needs to read Professor Mariana Mazzucato's book, The Entrepreneur.....
» 18/08/2014 10:57:48 AM I wonder how much of the initial Birmingham school problem was caused by indoctrination of.....
» 8/08/2014 9:04:29 AM Sorry my calculation contained a subtraction error. The refund is $2417......
» 8/08/2014 8:59:59 AM There is a solution to the problems for the younger generation introduced by negative gear.....
» 7/08/2014 8:38:46 AM Total labour employment is a poor criteria. Man hours per Giga-watt hour is an appropriat.....
» 29/07/2014 12:07:27 PM Both sides are very capable at rorting the system. George Brandis spends thousands on hi.....
» 16/07/2014 8:10:48 PM Jardine, If your heroes are correct why do their austerity programs still have Europe stuc.....
» 16/07/2014 10:58:18 AM Jardine K Jardine re; Foyle has no answer to these arguments because he is only endlessly .....
» 15/07/2014 9:35:15 AM The author has stated the situation in the USA precisely. The problem for the world is the.....
» 11/07/2014 2:22:39 PM In the Old Testament the god of that era mandated murder for all sorts of reasons such as,.....
» 11/07/2014 10:32:20 AM Dr Kirchner does not disclose that he writes for the ultra conservative "not think ta.....
» 20/06/2014 10:33:53 AM Graham's prejudices are showing. After the Juliar, Ditch the Witch, and dump her at sea i.....
» 19/06/2014 10:00:57 AM Rhosty, The Theory of Evolution is unproven only to the equivalent extent that the Theory .....
» 13/06/2014 11:02:46 AM I suggest that anyone posting a comment on this item, and the author, read George Monbiots.....
» 13/06/2014 10:34:01 AM The SMH this morning appears to take the opposite view to Shadow Minister. As a self fund.....
» 10/06/2014 10:47:00 AM The rate of new job creation in the USA is not even keeping pace with the rise in working .....
» 21/05/2014 9:03:19 AM Is the author's problem her libertarianism? During the seventies I read two of Ayn Rand'.....
» 13/05/2014 8:38:20 AM WmTrevor, I'm with you. Every potential mother over her lifetime has about 300 opportuniti.....
» 7/05/2014 1:46:57 PM Peter (Sellick), The contributors (so far) appear to having a laugh at your expense. You.....
» 5/05/2014 9:11:05 AM The author has ignored some significant facts. Cigarette deliveries to retailer may have r.....
» 22/04/2014 11:58:12 AM This article has it all backward. It is impossible for the human race to throw off the n.....
» 16/04/2014 10:10:34 AM I also only watch and listen to the ABC. Many of those commenting on this article do not .....
» 26/03/2014 4:02:02 PM Rhian, I suggest that you need to look at some of the slides which accompanied the article.....
» 26/03/2014 8:44:46 AM Alan, The best economic theory work is now done at the University of Missouri, Kansas City.....
» 20/03/2014 9:27:18 AM The author ignores the long term effects some industries can have on the balance of paymen.....
» 17/03/2014 9:45:46 AM This author gives little thought to the consequences of ignoring the adverse long term eff.....
» 14/03/2014 8:19:14 AM Many of us are not interested in salvation under the rules of Peter Sellick's god. Many p.....
» 6/03/2014 9:09:56 AM The case referred to was a Common Law matter as are I suspect cases brought by councils ag.....
» 20/02/2014 2:10:58 PM Curmudgeon, I cannot see where our views are far different. Solar panels have a conversi.....
» 20/02/2014 8:50:28 AM A year ago I plotted the price paid by the grid operator for electricity from NSW fossil f.....
» 14/02/2014 11:51:04 AM The author has the story straight. Dr Robert Hargraves has assessed the risk ratio for t.....
» 7/02/2014 5:31:38 PM Those who have commented do not seem to accept that, for the economy to grow in population.....
» 3/02/2014 9:56:08 AM Minister Pyne, and at least one of his inquiry members, is steeped in the beliefs that hav.....
» 31/01/2014 9:53:37 PM runner, I often wonder if you have ever read anything but religious tracts and right wing.....
» 31/01/2014 2:47:41 PM Fortunately the intellectual capacity of ABC journalists is well above that of the average.....
» 30/01/2014 10:55:37 AM Australia has lost almost all the white goods industry, almost all the rolling stock manuf.....
» 29/01/2014 10:00:45 AM Arjay, In addition to commenting here and probably elsewhere did you ever approach the Fed.....
» 29/01/2014 6:11:21 AM Arjay and Shadow Minister You both show that you do not understand how money flows in econ.....
» 28/01/2014 4:29:26 PM Shadow Minister, Just a few days ago I made the point in one comment on the OLO site that.....
» 28/01/2014 9:17:53 AM runner, Up to about your usual standard. You always overlook that the Christian religion .....
» 28/01/2014 8:54:20 AM The author needs to read the JD Alt article mentioned in my comment on the PM's Davos spee.....
» 28/01/2014 8:25:05 AM This whole article is the PM's Davos address un rehashed. RE; "You can't spend what y.....
» 20/01/2014 11:29:45 AM A friend of mine had the following published in The Age today. "The proposal to drop.....
» 19/01/2014 3:15:17 PM Jardine K Jardine; Jefferson's statement was a simplification of a complex issue, the conc.....
» 19/01/2014 8:34:43 AM Jardine K Jardine, You appear to have never heard of axioms or you are prepared to complet.....
» 18/01/2014 6:26:09 PM runner, All my close adult friends are Secularists or Skeptics and/or Humanists. Every one.....
» 18/01/2014 10:06:24 AM Jardine K Jardine In the name of the State? I interpreted what Glen C wrote was advocating.....
» 17/01/2014 12:35:47 PM runner, Since the days of Socrates it has been known that people who have learned how to t.....
» 14/01/2014 12:04:14 PM JP wrote "Foyle, where is your evidence that killing, say, children,is wrong?" .....
» 14/01/2014 9:29:54 AM A secularist in a person who seeks evidence to support his or her philosophy and only form.....
» 30/12/2013 10:37:17 AM Federal Minister Andrew Robb has stated; "The Australian Government is not intending .....
» 26/12/2013 6:08:53 AM "Lucretius retrieved the views of Epicurus from the efforts of the early monotheist r.....
» 25/12/2013 7:05:40 PM One way the atheists, secularist, humanists and sceptics work is to bring advances through.....
» 23/12/2013 10:00:35 AM The capital cost per unit generated for renewables is between 18 and 22 cents per KWH. For.....
» 17/12/2013 10:17:40 AM For once I agree with rehctub. Everyone should have two tax department accounts from birt.....
» 13/12/2013 7:55:55 AM I could support to a lower minimum wage if, 1. The Australian dollar was at the level of.....
» 12/12/2013 8:58:20 PM Yuyutsu, The happiest, safest, most socially considerate populations in the world are fou.....
» 11/12/2013 7:25:42 PM Jardine K Jardine wrote, 1.At what stage, short of actually shooting people, do you renoun.....
» 11/12/2013 10:14:08 AM Much of what is written by those opposed to the views of the author of this article ignore.....
» 10/12/2013 7:16:22 PM Cobber the hound Yes, I realise there are two, one producing flat product the other what a.....
» 10/12/2013 8:31:56 AM The article ignores some pertinent facts. If the car manufacturing business ceases what .....
» 9/12/2013 8:14:09 AM I agree with the sentiments expressed by the author although I would go further. Saving mo.....
» 5/12/2013 9:29:08 AM Even when Kevin07 made his retirement speech Malcolm Turnbull commented that he still thou.....
» 3/12/2013 12:08:26 PM Jardine K Jardine I never squirm out of any argument. Yesterday I was away from my laptop .....
» 3/12/2013 8:30:32 AM Pericles, You fail to see Alt's points. During WW2, money was not a constraint in produc.....
» 3/12/2013 7:55:05 AM Jardine K Jardine You wrote, "You can start by telling us by what rational criterion .....
» 2/12/2013 10:00:33 AM Jardine Jardine Before making such a comment you need to become aware of, and read, some o.....
» 2/12/2013 9:15:51 AM Paul Collits apparently needs to catch up with modern economic theory. Dr Stephanie Kelt.....
» 26/11/2013 7:52:45 AM Shadow Minister, For the budget years when Howard and Costello were responsible for the ou.....
» 22/11/2013 2:42:04 PM The abortion legislation is an effort to ensure that women who make a decision concerning .....
» 20/11/2013 11:27:46 AM The author seems to be hankering for his own version of nirvana. He appears to forget that.....
» 19/11/2013 9:09:58 AM I am always wary of any thing which comes form a right wing think tank. Recently at the Fi.....
» 18/11/2013 1:15:35 PM Bazz, You are basically on the right track. Professor Mariana Mazzucato's recently publish.....
» 15/11/2013 7:16:12 AM This post indicates that the writer does not understand nuclear decay. The fact is that a.....
» 14/11/2013 2:36:14 PM Hasbeen, You obviously think J M Keynes and Joan Robinson knew nothing about international.....
» 14/11/2013 10:26:04 AM Shadow Minister and Hasbeen You and probably many others do not understand how Howard and .....
» 31/10/2013 9:52:07 AM Kevin Donnelly writes "And we don’t have to look to Asian countries and Finland for s.....
» 31/10/2013 9:21:19 AM One under god and other believers in conspiracy nonsense You obviously have not read the .....
» 28/10/2013 1:09:06 PM Denmark was recently declared to have the world's happiest population. There. the churche.....
» 11/10/2013 11:40:14 AM I expect to have a DVD of the film shortly but I agree with the the claim that the danger .....
» 23/09/2013 9:13:26 PM Arjay, The Fukuyama disaster was man made in that the reactors were built behind sea (bun.....
» 23/09/2013 11:07:08 AM Correction, I wrote; "The initial Fukuyama problem was caused by a hydrogen explosion.....
» 23/09/2013 8:48:49 AM Arjay, I suggest that you are even further out of your depth than I am on this subject. .....
» 11/09/2013 3:46:43 PM Hasbeen, You obviously jump to false conclusions rather readily. I included the links to b.....
» 11/09/2013 8:43:44 AM The American Exceptionalism claim for Abbott was rather strange. What evidence is there .....
» 10/09/2013 8:43:33 AM How does anyone know what they would like to look like 20-40 years from now. Mike Carlton .....
» 6/09/2013 4:01:47 PM Alan, Keating and Hawke deserve little credit on economic matters. They accepted the recom.....
» 5/09/2013 10:53:50 AM Australia has done much better than most of the developed world. Those on the right compl.....
» 3/09/2013 2:01:38 PM My veto on several who comment on the OLO sites is simply to pass over their comment to th.....
» 30/08/2013 4:22:09 PM Alan, You at least supply adequate evidence to support you views. Your detractors ignore .....
» 30/08/2013 12:25:06 PM Hasbeen and Ludwig, Pity that neither of you understand updated Keynesian theory. A sove.....
» 30/08/2013 12:03:11 PM Philip S I assume that the economic refugees you refer to are the ones who fly in on visit.....
» 27/08/2013 11:13:59 PM I'm with Wobbles and Jo runner, and other Abbott fans, forget that Abbott would have done .....
» 27/08/2013 8:52:07 AM I have no trouble with the House of Representatives preference voting system but I loath a.....
» 22/08/2013 10:09:53 PM @ Chris lewis "The thing that annoys me about these poor students of policy and socie.....
» 22/08/2013 9:39:37 PM EQ and others Over the last 17 quarters the NZ employment rate has ranged between 6.0 and .....
» 22/08/2013 11:04:20 AM Hasbeen, A power station of 2.6MW output capacity (the size of Eraring or Bayswater, NS.....
» 22/08/2013 9:29:42 AM No parent or grandparent, at least any interested in the future of their offspring could s.....
» 22/08/2013 9:04:02 AM Alan, You wrote; As Prof Stiglitz wrote, "Kevin Rudd … realized that it was important.....
» 21/08/2013 10:38:47 PM Plantagenet wrote; "Coal, oil and gas are far less dangerous and also cheaper"......
» 21/08/2013 4:59:38 PM Chris Lewis and others. I have a few other things on and have only now found more time to.....
» 21/08/2013 12:55:49 PM The exclusion area around the plant is excessive. Studies of Hiroshima and Nagasaki surv.....
» 20/08/2013 11:12:56 AM Chris Lewis I previously thought you understood something about economics and employment. .....
» 19/08/2013 7:56:34 PM Shadow Minister, Your points 2, 3 and 4 make little sense. 2) "How much income do yo.....
» 19/08/2013 10:29:19 AM Luciferase, You and Alan Austin are among the few on this discussion who understand what h.....
» 19/08/2013 9:37:11 AM Tony Abbott expects the electorate to ignore the distributive effects of his policies. All.....
» 19/08/2013 9:14:56 AM My gripe is that we look like heading back to making the idiotic mistakes of the Howard er.....
» 18/08/2013 11:12:38 PM Cohenite, The figures you quote just prove my point. Spent 40.5% Saved 24.0% Paid off .....
» 18/08/2013 9:16:41 AM Arjay, The Australian banks were all ripe for a government take over on 15th or 16th of Se.....
» 17/08/2013 9:47:04 PM Arjay, "Foyle totally ignores the counterfeiting derivate market which is destroying .....
» 17/08/2013 4:53:45 PM Spindoc and Arjay, Alan's article made quite a lot of sense to anyone who has knowledge o.....
» 17/08/2013 2:21:53 PM @ Cohenite Re; "a domestic budget deficit outcome increases private financial wealth&.....
» 16/08/2013 5:17:37 PM Alan, The New Economic Perspectives blog provides, on the top of the home page, access to .....
» 16/08/2013 11:09:57 AM Correction; Figures in brackets should read (1% + 3% = 4%).....
» 16/08/2013 11:06:03 AM Alan, The other comment of import yesterday from Tony Abbott was his claim on ABC 7.30 tha.....
» 16/08/2013 9:11:46 AM An excellent article. Radio National just reported that 50% of conservative voters do not.....
» 1/08/2013 12:17:10 PM I suggest that the author, and those who take the trouble to read the article, make the ef.....
» 30/07/2013 4:30:18 PM Alan Austin re; @Foyle: Agree with most of your observations. Not sure, however, that Sca.....
» 29/07/2013 8:21:05 PM There are so many wrong things in the comments supporting Abbott that I have had to be rat.....
» 29/07/2013 10:11:30 AM I agreed wholeheartedly with the views expressed in this article. It is a pity that the .....
» 25/07/2013 9:02:25 AM I suggest that the author and at least one of the comment writers so far need to read abou.....
» 23/07/2013 11:00:29 AM The author appears to have learned little about the variation in the influences of Hayek a.....
» 22/07/2013 10:25:15 AM The ATAR requirements for any really worthwhile university subject should be set at a leve.....
» 15/07/2013 11:01:50 AM The original comment shows a lack of understanding of both fiat money in a sovereign state.....
» 8/07/2013 9:32:03 AM Without a national grid the Snowy scheme cannot be used to help cover peek demand which is.....
» 5/07/2013 9:40:34 AM I disagree almost entirely. One good reason for the referendum on federal government/loca.....
» 5/07/2013 8:39:48 AM I'm with Ludwig on this issue. Laws re work safety and training are mainly state matters.....
» 3/07/2013 9:51:26 AM These sorts of discussion often ignore economic facts. The Commonwealth Government is sov.....
» 1/07/2013 9:34:26 AM Spokespeople for right wing economic think tanks seldom let facts get in the way of their .....
» 26/06/2013 11:54:26 AM Few economic comments of this question make sense so far. Money is really a promissory no.....
» 26/06/2013 9:56:16 AM I accept that the earth's resources are finite and that fossil carbon is an essential raw .....
» 25/06/2013 11:10:27 AM Thank you for a very comprehensive article. Re; "....the extent to which our gross f.....
» 24/06/2013 9:44:12 AM Excellent. Thank you. Too ofter universities are more interested in getting bums on seats .....
» 18/06/2013 10:25:20 AM My science qualification is not connected to medical science but I have read on many occas.....
» 14/06/2013 6:39:42 AM In my last comment I referred the author, and others, to New Economic Perspectives and the.....
» 13/06/2013 8:48:38 PM Now being aware of the authors employment, I read one of his earlier articles on the failu.....
» 13/06/2013 11:49:53 AM I agree with Chris Lewis's comment. The author doesn't understand much about trade or econ.....
» 13/06/2013 9:53:44 AM Towards the end of WW2 Chifley and his cabinet decided that infrastructure and productive .....
» 7/06/2013 11:32:20 AM The first four to comment on this article do not appear to realize that there has been a w.....
» 6/06/2013 1:46:03 PM Corrections to comment posted a few minutes ago. Hasbeen You did not argue many of my mai.....
» 6/06/2013 1:38:29 PM Hasbeen You did not argue many of my main points. The Big New Tax was a lie was conceive.....
» 6/06/2013 10:06:36 AM Kevin 07 was an incompetent administrator and the ALP was losing ground fast when he was r.....
» 29/05/2013 10:37:40 AM Thank heaven that Bill Gates has the money and common sense to aim to eliminate common dia.....
» 28/05/2013 9:53:49 AM Shira, I am a much older widower with a big family. All of my children remember their de.....
» 27/05/2013 8:30:20 AM The ethanol (E10) mandate is indefensible as it is in Australia at present. Per litre, e.....
» 24/05/2013 10:21:35 AM Last night, on the figures supplied in yesterday's Professor Bill Mitchell's blog I calcul.....
» 24/05/2013 8:38:33 AM (Continuing from earlier comment) Our mining industry has being expanded to the point wher.....
» 24/05/2013 8:37:04 AM The late Bert Kelly, a South Australian Federal MP championed free trade in the 1970s. Few.....
» 20/05/2013 9:18:29 AM Reg Little gets very close to the truth. The position of the American Dollar as the curr.....
» 18/05/2013 9:53:47 AM What Individual and rehctub do not understand is that a sovereign government, one that iss.....
» 17/05/2013 5:18:22 PM Chris Lewis, Sorry but I didn't notice your comment earlier. I have been on one of my oth.....
» 16/05/2013 12:53:53 PM There is a much better and easier solution to the problems of the younger child. The solut.....
» 16/05/2013 12:32:05 PM rehctub, You persist with your belief that Howard and Costello were good economic managers.....
» 14/05/2013 3:49:48 PM I agree with the tenor and contents of this article. In one way I would go further. The Co.....
» 13/05/2013 3:43:07 PM A few weeks back New Economic Perspectives posted the three blogs listed below. They are f.....
» 13/05/2013 9:57:41 AM The author ignores the role that the electors confer on the Federal Government, that is, t.....
» 13/05/2013 9:32:11 AM Most of the comments so far have shown that the poster does not understand money theory. .....
» 10/05/2013 11:02:53 PM Rhrosty, The information I could find shows the Saudi reserves as 265 Billion barrels and .....
» 10/05/2013 3:49:27 PM Rhrosty, I assume you are talking about free flowing oil off-shore under the GBR rather t.....
» 10/05/2013 12:17:43 PM First people need to understand what Norway has done. Norway's government used the money.....
» 10/05/2013 8:08:53 AM JKJ wrote-To put it another way, if Macfarlane was wrong, how would you know? Would you ha.....
» 9/05/2013 10:34:54 PM Jardine K Jardine I only studied one year of economics when it was a prerequisite , along .....
» 9/05/2013 10:10:13 PM I was with Rhosty until he reverted to gas. Gas is still a fossil fuel so the resource wil.....
» 9/05/2013 6:57:50 PM I am surprised that so many people who have commented on this issue show no evidence that .....
» 9/05/2013 9:42:46 AM To clarify my earlier comment I suggest the second paragraph should read; Under Globalisa.....
» 9/05/2013 9:34:24 AM Rehctub, You apparently support that discredited neo-liberal philosophy Globalisation, a s.....
» 3/05/2013 9:18:25 AM rehctub and others of like mind, Neo-liberals of the political generation of 1980 to 2007.....
» 25/04/2013 7:07:30 AM Yuyutsu, you wrote, "While there are societies that have no concept of God, that does.....
» 24/04/2013 10:17:40 PM JP You need to read Phil Zuckerman's book, "Society without God" written after a.....
» 24/04/2013 5:51:11 PM Many people who comment on articles, such as this one, understand almost nothing about the.....
» 24/04/2013 1:04:26 PM Jardine K Jardine (and others) The article in the latest New Statesman makes a lot of sens.....
» 24/04/2013 12:41:04 PM Jardine K Jardine So you would see no problem in privatising the armed forces, the police,.....
» 24/04/2013 9:38:42 AM Brian, An excellent article. Life has no meaning other than the meaning you want it to h.....
» 23/04/2013 10:31:02 PM A condensation for New Economic Perspectives "A principle of Keynesian theory is that.....
» 23/04/2013 10:07:00 PM Jardine K Jardine You should read more. The second item of the three I drew attention to e.....
» 23/04/2013 2:13:40 PM Hasbeen, In some ways the old telecom was a dinosaur but the problem was mainly poor manag.....
» 23/04/2013 10:34:34 AM So far the comments on this issue are disappointing. The budget balance of a currency iss.....
» 17/04/2013 9:43:23 AM Shadow Minister; You state; "The comparison between Knox which gets government fundi.....
» 16/04/2013 10:41:25 AM I'm with GYM FISH. Last evening on Radio National a commentator, bemoaning Julia Gillard's.....
» 9/04/2013 7:49:52 PM Constance wrote; "Yes, surrendering does make us different from mammals". You h.....
» 8/04/2013 5:39:39 PM Jay Of Melbourne wrote;"You're also being coy, you know there are taboos surrounding .....
» 8/04/2013 1:23:14 PM re; "Nope, science doesn't affirm anything, affirmation is part of a belief system.&q.....
» 8/04/2013 12:10:55 PM In his speech Tony Abbott stated the following; "In the garden of Eden, Adam and Ev.....
» 2/04/2013 12:25:23 PM In this argument I am with Rhrosty. Rudd ran a dysfunctional PM's office and although I .....
» 26/03/2013 11:30:08 AM It is amazing how many commentators ignore the reality of the global situation. Our econom.....
» 26/03/2013 9:36:53 AM In his book on religion and society Phil Zuckerman summed up how a society little under th.....
» 22/03/2013 9:41:12 AM As early as January 1999 John R Saul was pointing out the dangers of having our economy be.....
» 19/03/2013 12:03:09 PM Commenting to David G runner comments; "you are either naive or deceived." I hav.....
» 18/03/2013 11:36:55 AM The author writes; "the size of government has grown to now reach 35% of GDP". .....
» 18/03/2013 9:13:59 AM This is an excellent topic for reading recommendations. Two books come immediately to mi.....
» 15/03/2013 3:21:32 PM ChrisC re; "500,000 studies have shown that “the sage on the stage approach to teachi.....
» 7/03/2013 10:44:21 AM Julie Bishop makes one massive mistake early in this article. Italy does not have a sovere.....
» 6/03/2013 10:50:38 AM All theology is designed to perpetuate ignorance and submission. Please, can we start hel.....
» 28/02/2013 9:37:09 AM I agree that the head of the elected government should be the principal representative of .....
» 26/02/2013 10:57:02 AM The author makes some very valid points. In the 1980s Alex Carey was making similar argu.....
» 25/02/2013 8:44:43 AM I wrote to Treasurer Costello in 2004 on this subject. I had written in a similar vein as .....
» 22/02/2013 3:44:23 PM Anyone who is interested in what things are like for USA citizens at present should read t.....
» 22/02/2013 2:53:23 PM The author is repeating the mantra that led to the GFC. People interested in how a gover.....
» 21/02/2013 9:28:04 AM The first two comments on this article cause me concern. The best societies take care of t.....
» 7/02/2013 9:25:21 AM Arjay is correct about the banks. Yesterday Alternet had an excellent article pointing out.....
» 4/02/2013 9:02:18 AM In my view the Prime Minister has shown her secular ethics in such matters as the coming N.....
» 29/01/2013 7:54:22 AM I was with the author until he mentioned his belief that the end of this life is the begin.....
» 24/01/2013 2:51:19 PM runner, You stated, "The way evolutionist have to shut their eyes daily in order to r.....
» 23/01/2013 12:44:23 PM Pericles, I know the author of this article and he is no intellectual lightweight. He an.....
» 22/01/2013 8:47:57 AM Should I assume that the writer of the article meant Joel Fitzgibbon? The states have to .....
» 18/01/2013 10:18:53 AM The article mentions a couple of chemicals by name, nitrogen and phosphorus. Nitrogen is n.....
» 16/01/2013 1:04:41 PM Plerdsus wrote; "When you have euthanaised the rentier, from whom will you borrow?&qu.....
» 16/01/2013 10:25:26 AM Ethical people need to email the PM and their local MP with a message similar to the follo.....
» 14/01/2013 7:38:38 PM Arjay, I couldn't see who wrote the item on the Barnaby Joyce site. The Australian Banks .....
» 14/01/2013 3:27:41 PM The article concentrates on inflation, interest rates and the exchange rate. The writer ap.....
» 14/01/2013 12:47:04 PM A group I belong to wrote at least twice to the PM advocating a Royal Commission. So did m.....
» 4/01/2013 9:14:34 AM runner wrote; "Moira and her supporters deny the social disaster of an education syst.....
» 2/01/2013 2:53:16 PM runner, As usual you never let evidence get in the way of your story. You hardly ever com.....
» 2/01/2013 11:08:15 AM I certainly do not wish to be deliberately intimidated or publicly humiliated. Intimidatio.....
» 18/12/2012 6:24:15 PM Runner, And, Hitler had the support of the Roman Catholic Church. Mao, Stalin and Pol Pot .....
» 10/12/2012 12:13:01 PM I am not sure what is being advocated. Is it that if we elect Abbott this will all stop? .....
» 7/12/2012 4:00:34 PM I agree with almost everything in this article except that nuclear reactors have largely b.....
» 7/12/2012 8:15:11 AM Our planet as a "heavenly" body won't cease to exist some time soon. About the.....
» 3/12/2012 10:42:42 PM I was finishing the editing of my last comment when the item disappeared. I may have hit a.....
» 3/12/2012 10:25:33 PM Cohenite stated; "It is incontrovertible that Gillard knowingly put the incorrect pur.....
» 3/12/2012 10:39:24 AM This article appears to be doing exactly what Abbott and company is attempting, creating s.....
» 29/11/2012 12:39:34 PM The author makes significant claims about the success of very selective and high pressure .....
» 27/11/2012 8:27:22 AM Rev Dek objects that, when GlenC made the following comment, he was accusing the reverend .....
» 26/11/2012 6:34:20 PM There are some fixable thing that need fixing in the Australian parliamentary system. Havi.....
» 26/11/2012 12:53:04 PM Those of us supporting separation of church and state are satisfied that adults who follow.....
» 26/11/2012 9:43:12 AM Congratulation to Moira Clarke on an excellent article. I am not sure of Amnesty's approa.....
» 23/11/2012 2:37:33 PM I am just old enough to recall Smiths Weekly in the late forties and its stories of young .....
» 15/11/2012 8:24:55 PM No other group, even if some members are guilty of child sexual abuse, have the albatross .....
» 12/11/2012 8:17:20 AM If Tony Abbott ever wins power we are in for more DLP type efforts. But from a professor a.....
» 31/10/2012 7:03:52 PM Bazz, The USA has not tried a sensible alternative. The US government has not put the ne.....
» 31/10/2012 1:27:28 PM So far no one on this group seems to understand Modern Money Theory. Businesses cannot be.....
» 29/10/2012 8:38:46 AM Rudd would probably have lost the 2010 election. I found his press stops and his goody to.....
» 4/10/2012 5:47:16 PM Carbon in fossil fuel is essential for a moderately high living standard for ever. Carbon .....
» 26/09/2012 6:59:17 AM It is a pity that creationist Christians and Muslims do not look at and appreciate the rea.....
» 25/09/2012 8:55:01 PM Diver Dan and Runner need to do some decent reading and expand their actual knowledge. R.....
» 25/09/2012 9:20:21 AM An excellent article thanks. It is essential that we criticize people who are now alive w.....
» 19/09/2012 12:23:42 PM re; "This means that 'fly in fly out' strategies for employment must be given as limi.....
» 14/09/2012 10:20:00 AM In this article Canadian information is used to support the arguments. In the Canadian ite.....
» 13/09/2012 12:34:23 PM What is the author advocating? Is the Deputy Leader of the Opposition advocating that more.....
» 5/09/2012 10:44:09 PM Otokonoko Thanks for your comments. I have read the Finnish site information. Indoctrinati.....
» 5/09/2012 1:29:48 PM The right tend to think that market forces can act without government. They ignore the fac.....
» 5/09/2012 11:29:25 AM VK3AUU Some trades do not change very much over time but education for work is often educa.....
» 5/09/2012 8:57:23 AM The author states; "The evidence is that progressive fads are counter-productive and .....
» 3/09/2012 1:05:54 PM rehctub stated; "Insulation, Solar, School Halls, Fuel Watch, Grocery Watch," I.....
» 3/09/2012 9:18:24 AM This discussion is ignoring the differences between state and federal funding. The Feder.....
» 10/08/2012 10:32:11 PM Carnivore writes; "Perhaps when some of our young, healthy, enlightened posters are o.....
» 10/08/2012 10:45:41 AM runner Christ is only alive in your head and the head of the others who have been indoctri.....
» 10/08/2012 10:09:31 AM The Catholic Church and others sets Christ up as a scapegoat and then appoint another huma.....
» 8/08/2012 9:39:31 AM I have always taken the view that the main game is conservation of the resources that the .....
» 6/08/2012 9:55:53 AM Had the Japanese government stood aside after WW2 the Japanese economy would have gone now.....
» 31/07/2012 10:02:04 AM (Continuation) Service industries are not part of a solution to Australia’s economic prob.....
» 31/07/2012 9:58:56 AM I is a pleasure to read that an economist can occasionally question free trade. I have co.....
» 26/07/2012 1:17:37 PM As usual runner gets it wrong. Since the Enlightenment, when religious leaders started t.....
» 23/07/2012 9:46:37 AM If you think preferential voting brings problems you need to consider the problems that co.....
» 10/07/2012 9:55:29 AM Just to annoy the fundies I would point out that the use of "The God Particle" a.....
» 9/07/2012 11:26:33 AM If anyone is a subject of the Queen, to use a term that should be eliminated, then they ha.....
» 28/06/2012 8:34:36 PM Plerdus, Adages aren't much of a guide. Most people on the right understand little about p.....
» 28/06/2012 8:57:25 AM The right need to read more (and understand what is written by really thoughtful people). .....
» 26/06/2012 10:12:08 AM When Rudd and his cabinet bailed out the Australian banks they were within a day or so of .....
» 19/06/2012 10:26:10 AM There is major misunderstanding of sovereign government debt in the community and that mis.....
» 25/05/2012 10:11:01 AM There is some substantial evidence for one aspect of the climate debate. The BOM sea level.....
» 1/05/2012 8:59:31 AM After reading this I suggest that the reader then access the last section of Chapter 10 in.....
» 24/04/2012 9:02:37 AM Jon J sums the situation precisely. It is nearly 20 years since Terry Lane wrote "G.....
» 21/04/2012 9:09:05 PM runner, Please provide details of one evolutionary fraud which you consider is still in th.....
» 21/04/2012 12:56:31 PM re; The Hubble telescope has recorded the arrival of light from galaxies as they existed 1.....
» 21/04/2012 11:26:59 AM runner, The evidence for evolution is far stronger than you are prepared to acknowledge. R.....
» 17/04/2012 12:05:49 PM My wife died of terminal pancreatic cancer with liver secondaries and was sent home from a.....
» 17/04/2012 10:07:33 AM I attended the Global Atheist Convention and found it intellectually stimulating. The rea.....
» 29/03/2012 11:55:17 AM I suggest that the author Ben Courtice, and anyone who is tending to believe what is in th.....
» 1/03/2012 9:21:03 AM The average mother in the developed word gives live birth to less than three children in h.....
» 21/02/2012 12:43:27 PM Runner, You ignore the sting in the tail of my quote and only repeat the lead in. I should.....
» 21/02/2012 10:06:06 AM Runner Please do some reading on the geology of the earth. Competent scientists knew 200 y.....
» 21/02/2012 9:56:52 AM "Democracy, after all, is one of the greatest faiths imaginable, precisely because it.....
» 23/01/2012 11:06:35 AM Pericles, I agree. A reasonable standard of living for a population half what it is now mi.....
» 19/01/2012 8:54:43 PM One Under God I cannot follow your posts. Many people commenting seem unable to come to .....
» 18/01/2012 12:13:01 PM Earlier I suggested contributors seek evidence, particularly in science, when making comme.....
» 18/01/2012 9:09:45 AM This discussion highlights the problems between religious belief and real knowledge or sci.....
» 13/01/2012 8:16:04 AM Kevin Donnelly's proposal would lead to more "dumbed down" students; students le.....
» 1/01/2012 3:10:08 PM Saltpetre stated the arguments against Peter Hume's Thatcherite "no such thing as soc.....
» 31/12/2011 1:13:51 PM This whole article make quite alot of sense. One problem overlooked is the problem caused .....
» 6/12/2011 9:04:19 PM In the new York Times on 29th October there was an opinion piece by Charles Blow which rep.....
» 6/12/2011 8:11:08 AM The article is correct in that the present problems have been developing for 25 years or m.....
» 2/12/2011 6:50:40 AM The average mother in the developed word gives live birth to less than three children in h.....
» 1/12/2011 2:32:42 PM Martin Ibn Warriq, My promotion of ethics classes (discussion of open ended questions) is .....
» 1/12/2011 10:25:55 AM With a sovereign currency the deficit (and Federal Government borrowing) is irrelevent whi.....
» 1/12/2011 8:37:13 AM Martin Ibn Warriq's comment about the "still small voice" concerns me. Conscie.....
» 28/11/2011 10:36:10 AM This article sums up the present situation very well. The comment by DavidL shows that h.....
» 7/10/2011 9:36:18 AM Reading this article indicates that the author can cheerfully ignore all the progress of m.....
» 5/10/2011 8:29:40 AM The comments so far show that people need to learn about Modern Monetary Theory. When bank.....
» 29/09/2011 9:18:13 AM The author needs to do some sums. Queensland boasts 30 billion tonnes of coal reserves but.....
» 21/09/2011 10:15:43 PM I suggest Peter Hume read the item in Domain today written by Lee Sustar who explains why .....
» 21/09/2011 1:18:53 PM Rosie1 RE; "How also do we tackle the problem that protection may prolong the life o.....
» 16/09/2011 3:52:11 PM Any Brother, Priest or other member of the hierarchy of the RC Church who has remained in .....
» 30/08/2011 4:10:35 PM The Clackmannanshire Report, available at the OLO site, shows that bullying largely disapp.....
» 20/05/2011 10:14:59 AM Future needs of essential construction materials such as all metals produced from oxide or.....
» 6/05/2011 11:03:42 AM The best and least costly improvement in our education system would be to introduce one ho.....
» 7/04/2011 9:40:10 PM For the optimists two items from What's New NORMAN BORLAUG: THE DEATH OF THE GREATEST AMON.....
» 6/04/2011 9:48:22 AM runner, You appear to believe that there is never any controversy in the Coalition ranks. .....
» 4/04/2011 10:46:25 PM Skeptic, I avoid all charities except the Red Cross. Apart form the case mentioned below.....
» 4/04/2011 11:21:50 AM I am one of those who benefit from the existing idiotic taxation system but have often poi.....
» 24/03/2011 7:52:52 AM The author is Director of Melbourne-based Education Standards Institute. ESI is a conserva.....
» 14/03/2011 12:19:58 PM Thinker, You need to catch up with the science. Carbon in fossil fuels is an essential raw.....
» 14/03/2011 9:38:38 AM The anti-nuclear lobby will have an unjustified field day over the Japan reactor problems......
» 9/03/2011 10:35:10 AM Re; The Howard and Costello legacy Between them they allowed the profligacy of the banking.....
» 9/03/2011 9:49:38 AM Ralph Norris's claim of one percent return on assets is really deliberately understating t.....
» 1/03/2011 10:28:19 AM I supply below a comment from the CEO of Google. The comment repudiates just one part of t.....
» 24/02/2011 11:25:18 AM The cost for broadband in Australia is high mainly because of the distances between popula.....
» 23/02/2011 12:32:55 PM Some of the comments miss the main points of the article . Human numbers are growing by a .....
» 14/02/2011 8:25:40 PM Grateful, As someone who has never been one to drink large quantities of alcohol I am not .....
» 13/02/2011 7:17:56 PM Grateful, Re; This is a dodge. As you know, my challenge was direct to the methodology whi.....
» 11/02/2011 12:56:29 PM Grateful, re Epicurus You missed much of my point. The HIV virus jumped between the green .....
» 10/02/2011 2:44:21 PM Grateful, Have you looked at any of the evidence I suggested, Robert Ardrey's books for ex.....
» 6/02/2011 3:36:23 PM Grateful, You have fallen back to the idiotic 'we cannot know the mind of god defence'. I.....
» 6/02/2011 7:47:49 AM Grateful, Science works on "supposes". That is what an hypothesis is. But scienc.....
» 5/02/2011 10:03:46 AM Grateful, It is you who is ducking the issue. It is you who is ignoring factual evidence .....
» 4/02/2011 7:39:47 PM runner, A just god would not have allowed the HIV virus to jump the species "gap".....
» 4/02/2011 5:10:49 PM Grateful, re: Is it always true of a human-being who is capable of preventing harm that th.....
» 4/02/2011 8:37:03 AM Grateful, (and runner and other usrd) If you really are interested in proof of human evolu.....
» 30/01/2011 6:42:08 PM Crabsy and Trav Your arguments are nonsense. It is generally accepted that it is not possi.....
» 29/01/2011 7:02:19 PM Sqeers You state to the atheist foundation contributor, "Would you agree then that th.....
» 29/01/2011 12:11:19 PM weareunique When any information not supported by empirical evidence is presented to child.....
» 29/01/2011 8:56:45 AM Grateful, It makes no sense to state an hypothesis in the negative. Thinkers and science a.....
» 29/01/2011 5:32:13 AM weareunique, You stated, "Furthermore, what right does the Atheism Foundation have, t.....
» 28/01/2011 11:10:41 AM Grateful, You and Sheikh Nuh both string a lot of words together but they do not make much.....
» 27/01/2011 8:37:57 PM Grateful and runner, You both dispute in one way or another evolution claiming it is not a.....
» 27/01/2011 5:05:36 PM Dear me , we are again afflicted. There is another contributor has not been influenced by .....
» 25/01/2011 8:29:08 AM Peter Hume I read the economics.org site recommended and concluded that no sensible societ.....
» 25/01/2011 7:33:46 AM sonofgloin >>Not whether you think he is there or not, none of us know, some hope, .....
» 24/01/2011 11:48:28 AM Peter Hhume <<Yes but that’s not what you’re arguing. You’re arguing that *the state.....
» 23/01/2011 8:39:32 PM Peter Hume, I certainly do disagree with you. I cannot find the full quote or the author b.....
» 23/01/2011 10:30:42 AM "Toward the close of African Genesis I wrote: Had man been born of a fallen angel, th.....
» 23/01/2011 10:26:51 AM 4. Because of their factual differences, humans cannot be made equal, nor afforded equal o.....
» 21/01/2011 9:48:20 PM In my earlier post I was making the point that out moral and ethical constructions are far.....
» 21/01/2011 12:54:13 PM In 1996, Robery Ardrey succinctly stated how we developed our concepts of ethics and moral.....
» 18/01/2011 11:12:32 AM Glad to hear that you didn't fare too badly, and that you made some new neighbourhood frie.....
» 17/01/2011 11:49:38 AM EQ Your table is poorly set out and doesn't explain anything. As for draining the oceans .....
» 13/01/2011 9:12:14 AM Before any more people get carried away by solar or wind I suggest that they look at the B.....
» 5/01/2011 8:39:35 AM I wish I could locate a copy of Neil McInnes' serialized article in the AFR about 1972-3. .....
» 17/12/2010 8:17:40 PM Yabby, CEO's do not make the big decisions on their own, at least not those who wish to ma.....
» 15/12/2010 12:39:56 PM Bronwyn, The ethics classes in NSW are aimed at developing in each child the capacity to .....
» 14/12/2010 8:59:34 PM Yabby The article was not about entrepreneurs or inventors. It was about functionaries - p.....
» 14/12/2010 7:55:20 PM Some forty years ago large Australian manufacturing companies had a points system (Hayes?).....
» 10/12/2010 9:01:07 PM Raycom Are you suggesting that whoever leaked the diplomatic emails to Wikileaks was not a.....
» 9/12/2010 1:18:15 PM Raycom In the recent federal election Laurie Oakes released leaked confidential cabinet in.....
» 6/12/2010 11:56:40 AM As usual in such articles emotive comments are evident wherever possible. The mine site s.....
» 29/11/2010 12:47:03 PM Fortunately I am a non-theist. That means I disbelieve in the whole ten thousand or so god.....
» 29/11/2010 10:37:06 AM I posted the following comment in the comments re the Tuvalu item last Friday. As a metall.....
» 28/11/2010 7:46:35 AM AlGoreisRich You drew attention to a site address. I have read it and the main point of th.....
» 26/11/2010 10:12:12 PM A year or so ago I examined the tidal data at the BOM for Australian sea level measuring s.....
» 23/11/2010 8:52:13 PM The Blue Cross Thank you for your comments and support. I was aware of Lyn Hynton and the .....
» 23/11/2010 12:16:02 PM Runner Your views ignore evidence. Religiosity has been examined to determine how it effec.....
» 22/11/2010 8:28:11 PM For rational-debate and yuyutsu And for anyone wishing to know something about the full p.....
» 22/11/2010 7:02:39 PM Yuyutsu Not teaching children to think clearly, and indoctrination, is child abuse. I do .....
» 22/11/2010 4:08:00 PM rational-debate The thoughts expressed were my own very brief summation of the report on .....
» 22/11/2010 10:56:25 AM Robert Haddad does not believe that the state school system is or should be secular. In fa.....
» 21/10/2010 8:58:38 AM Why honour a woman who, under the influence of an organisation which fosters a story purlo.....
» 24/09/2010 9:59:47 AM A few years ago Andrew Denton, in an article in the SMH, quoted the Risen Ape passage from.....
» 13/09/2010 9:53:09 AM re; As long as nothing can be proven, neither one way nor the other, religion will not onl.....
» 9/09/2010 3:09:58 PM runner, The present behaviour of the clergy bishops is not much better than in history. Th.....
» 9/09/2010 1:39:26 PM runner, I am secular and an a non theist yet I will back my ethics and decency against any.....
» 8/09/2010 10:15:34 AM Pericles, No argument against what Pilger wrote? Just a personal attack on the writer! Whi.....
» 2/09/2010 9:57:51 AM There were plenty of misleading lines in the election campaign but the biggest was the out.....
» 31/08/2010 6:50:06 PM "The most secure thing a parent or grandparent can do in this life is to ground their.....
» 29/08/2010 10:36:10 PM Peter Hume, Re; the three questions you asked, If it’s true that government has a general .....
» 29/08/2010 5:59:27 PM Peter Hume, Yes we do live in a democracy, certainly not a perfect one but it has similar.....
» 28/08/2010 8:17:23 PM Peter Hume (continued), Roosevelt commented at his 1993 Inauguration, "“In our progre.....
» 28/08/2010 7:40:32 PM Peter Hume, Let me just point out how ridiculous most of your arguments are. One or two ex.....
» 28/08/2010 8:00:52 AM Peter Hume Re; I see you haven’t answered my question as to the economic distinction betwe.....
» 27/08/2010 5:09:55 PM merv09 I don't disagree with you on the tax item. Prof Bill Mitchell argues that tax is a.....
» 27/08/2010 11:46:24 AM Peter Hume Your argument overlooks the fact that in economic productivity terms all unempl.....
» 26/08/2010 1:52:50 PM Peter Hume, You really do not understand when a writer is being ironic. Keynes is making .....
» 26/08/2010 12:30:14 PM Peter Hume, You need to read or re-read, and understand, the last section of chapter 10 of.....
» 20/08/2010 12:41:00 PM runner, You again misrepresent what Singer has said on the subject. He in effect said that.....
» 20/08/2010 12:27:57 PM runner Take a look at the depletion of the oil field reserves of the USA. The USA peak oi.....
» 20/08/2010 10:32:40 AM China stimulus package good; Australian stimulus package bad! Shades of George Orwell. Al.....
» 20/08/2010 9:20:55 AM runner You have repeated your previous misrepresentations of Peter Singer views. As I re.....
» 19/08/2010 5:05:50 PM Angry Oak and Amicus I am disappointed no one has taken up my challenge on Catholic morali.....
» 19/08/2010 12:52:03 PM Angry Oak So six lines of comment is a long rant? Why not comment on the morality issue I .....
» 19/08/2010 10:29:36 AM Amicus and Chris Lewis Most of Kellie Tranter's comments were based on what Tony Abbott ha.....
» 30/07/2010 11:43:32 AM Runner, Read my comment. I did say partners to cover both marriage and other long term rel.....
» 30/07/2010 10:32:26 AM So "the church knows the truth". Peter, which truth is that? Is it the truth th.....
» 22/07/2010 9:59:03 AM The author seems to forget that we do not have a presidential election system although man.....
» 9/07/2010 9:21:46 AM Cornflower I did not advocate censorship. The ABC can broadcast whatever they wish provide.....
» 8/07/2010 10:26:47 PM "In creationist thought, much of the geological strata with the fossils they contain .....
» 7/07/2010 11:39:34 AM I am starting to wonder what the ABC has in the pipeline for broadcast just before the com.....
» 6/07/2010 8:09:15 AM Richie 10 In your last to post you have revealed much about yourself which does you little.....
» 5/07/2010 9:03:42 PM Richie 10 You do not own your children, you borrow them from their future and you have an .....
» 5/07/2010 1:09:24 PM Runner stated; The Secular lobby are too blind to see that the less Christian influence th.....
» 2/07/2010 9:31:46 PM Runner, have you bothered to read anything about the advantages flowing from philosophical.....
» 2/07/2010 12:18:13 PM Proxy, I didn't appear to me that Glen Coulton was advocating teaching children that priva.....
» 25/06/2010 11:56:48 AM The economic stimulus package was almost certainly the main reason Australia escaped the G.....
» 23/06/2010 11:01:11 AM This article was a fair summation of the proposed new tax regime. BHP sold off its steel.....
» 14/05/2010 10:45:38 AM The ideas expressed in this article are deficient. Resources are a capital asset. Depletin.....
» 30/04/2010 8:49:37 PM I may be too down to earth but I am having trouble recognising as a democracy a country th.....
» 29/04/2010 10:56:16 AM "but to sacrifice theological integrity" Sorry but that lost me. Terry Lane onc.....
» 27/04/2010 12:12:42 PM "Archbishop Jensen is concerned children may be attracted to the new ethics classes a.....
» 7/04/2010 10:04:41 AM After reading this I went to the McKinsey website looking for the report quoted. I found a.....
» 16/03/2010 8:41:39 PM Some contributors cannot tell what forces actually drive people to do cruel things. Nazism.....
» 15/03/2010 9:58:31 AM The non-theist is someone who accepts that there will probably never be any evidence to su.....
» 14/12/2009 11:13:25 AM The author mention that France produces its electricity needs without fossil fuels. The au.....
» 8/12/2009 11:05:26 AM I think the author needs to be more aware of the education results in other countries. By.....
» 3/12/2009 10:46:07 AM I am wary of predictions of substantial sea level rises over the next 100 years. The Natio.....
» 27/11/2009 10:37:16 AM I think that on education neither Rudd or Gillard ever had the plot. Scandinavian countrie.....
» 10/11/2009 9:43:18 AM I found the article thoughtful and of value. There should be no doubt that the role of the.....
» 23/10/2009 10:51:12 AM I agree with the author on several points. I am sure my own mother and my late wife never.....
» 12/10/2009 1:22:22 PM Should I assume that Al Jolson's marvellous rendition of "Mammie" is now banned .....
» 5/10/2009 2:19:20 PM In her position as education minister Julia could really make a difference. Children need.....
» 11/09/2009 4:02:01 PM re: It is time to stand up for science, indeed it’s our only hope for survival of our spec.....
» 27/08/2009 1:44:51 PM With only about 400 years worth of gas available to Australia from proven reserves plus an.....
» 17/08/2009 12:40:52 PM Several years ago I saw pages of statistical analysis of long term temperature records fro.....
» 6/08/2009 11:26:42 AM I understand that the latest generation of nuclear power reactors are capable of utilising.....
» 1/08/2009 10:24:50 AM As predicted runner made an anticipated comment particularly attacking one of the best evi.....
» 30/07/2009 1:02:58 PM Runner, True science will always validate Scripture( not that the Scriptures need the vali.....
» 22/07/2009 10:27:34 AM In the Christian religion we only have to look at the Bible and its values for a community.....
» 20/07/2009 12:54:19 PM I commented earlier on this article and mentioned the succes of some school, particularly .....
» 20/07/2009 12:34:54 PM “…..the greatest shifts in scientific thinking from Copernicus to Galileo to Newton were n.....
» 17/07/2009 12:13:55 PM No TRUTHNOW78, the real crime is indoctrinating children with views that are not supported.....
» 4/06/2009 10:07:24 AM I suggest that parts of this article are wrong. In my view increased ocean carbon dioxide .....
» 3/06/2009 11:19:21 AM Coal is too valuable as a reducing agent in metal production and as a feedstock in the che.....
» 25/05/2009 10:39:49 AM I'm with Shal but would add; If you join a church you can get your mental and even physic.....
» 11/05/2009 10:51:39 AM Shal, I think that the author made his point. Had Elian Gonzalez not been rescued the Flor.....
» 21/04/2009 3:30:35 PM A competent analysis but with no precise recommendations. We need as a nation to produces.....
» 15/04/2009 11:59:45 AM Trav, I think you are mistaken. Jesus and the Christian Churches claim Jesus conquered dea.....
» 27/02/2009 12:52:51 PM Pericles has summed it up well. There are plenty on unlucky and disadvantaged adults and .....
» 20/02/2009 11:58:05 AM The author makes a mistake often made when evaluating Keynes. Keynes prophesised that peop.....
» 11/02/2009 10:44:30 AM Pope Paul VI in Humanae Vitae as far back as 1968 (said): "Responsible parenthood imp.....
» 10/02/2009 12:36:27 PM I agree with the author; We need a new international financial agreement based largely on .....
» 27/01/2009 12:47:04 PM Peter Hume - "The solution is to abolish governmental control of the money supply.&qu.....
» 27/01/2009 10:28:26 AM 'To look at finding a solution we need to correctly diagnose the disease." Somewhere .....
» 17/12/2008 10:38:54 AM This article completely ignores history and many facts. Firstly central banking was insti.....
» 15/12/2008 12:33:13 PM I agree with most of this article. Free trade between developed states has always been du.....
» 14/12/2008 11:13:51 AM I cannot agree with Diocletian’s position or let it pass without comment. In the article .....
» 11/12/2008 12:22:38 PM An excellent article. My only comment is that I would appreciate a further explanation of.....
» 10/12/2008 9:59:29 AM Diocletian, re "The fact is, the financial crisis was caused by government's monopol.....
» 8/12/2008 10:13:23 AM I agree with Bennie. Theism is authoritarian and that is the last thing any society needs......
» 26/11/2008 10:19:48 AM A thoughtful well written article and only a day after the usual balderdash from Sells and.....
» 25/11/2008 10:33:53 AM The comments on this article remind me of the introduction to one of Paul Samuelson's text.....
» 25/11/2008 10:07:14 AM Sells, In your comment to Phil you state that theology is an active science. Theology is n.....
» 10/11/2008 10:39:41 AM All developed economies once had a secure guarantee for the customers of their banking sys.....
» 5/11/2008 8:26:09 PM I have difficulty understanding how some contributors can support their beliefs. Runner pa.....
» 31/10/2008 10:16:02 AM Sells, You and your religious kind live in glass houses. Your leaders live in palaces yet .....
» 21/10/2008 11:01:49 AM I think there is a serious mistake on page 1. The old concept of Reserve Banks holding sta.....
» 14/10/2008 10:32:21 AM The first comments I recall on the dangers of basing world trade in real goods and service.....
» 10/10/2008 10:07:08 AM There is a hole in the bucket of your reasoning dear Henry. The biggest waste of recent ti.....
» 30/09/2008 9:28:21 PM It is usually accepted that a positive should be capable of being supported by evidence wh.....
» 24/09/2008 10:02:17 AM I agree almost entirely with the thrust of this article. Since shortly after "the re.....
» 22/09/2008 10:49:13 AM This article is a little late. Neil McInnes in 1972 or therebaouts in the AFR wrote a seri.....
» 12/09/2008 8:34:55 PM Yes 3000 citizens were murdered in the USA on one day by people whose brain was addled by .....
» 10/09/2008 10:44:23 AM "For vulnerable families, a commitment to the intelligent use of childcare as a key c.....
» 9/09/2008 10:17:24 PM Keith and runner. The religious right's policies on sexual education, such as abstinence a.....
» 9/09/2008 1:21:59 PM Keith, On Friday you commented; Foyle You are a touting gossip...shame on you. Foyle You a.....
» 4/09/2008 2:20:39 PM I made my earlier comment before reading the following remarks from today's Crikey email (.....
» 4/09/2008 2:04:05 PM Runner, You make a foolish case using Hoyle's 747 comment. The 747 evolved from Hargraeve'.....
» 3/09/2008 10:56:46 AM I too wonder why our politicians are facinated by the failing USA education system. Good .....
» 25/08/2008 1:03:13 PM Another truism is "We get the politicians we deserve." The author is really adm.....
» 14/08/2008 11:13:36 AM Ho Hum Depleted Uranium (DU) is almost pure U238 which is not radioactive in any real sens.....
» 11/08/2008 11:11:45 AM I find it strange that churches wish to tell us how society should be organised but protes.....
» 28/07/2008 11:19:19 AM Spot on. A few years ago Andrew Denton wrote a 'Diary" article in the SM Herald and q.....
» 18/07/2008 12:50:05 PM "Some say that faith is the enemy of reason, I say they are wrong" Our PM will .....
» 17/07/2008 10:47:29 AM re: Polycarp and, "A person must not, on the ground of the religious belief or activi.....
» 13/07/2008 2:37:15 PM Jon J In an earlier reply I mentioned a contribution by Prof. B J Morris to the winter 200.....
» 11/07/2008 8:33:00 PM It is well over half a lifetime since I did my tertiary chemistry education but the maths .....
» 11/07/2008 4:06:22 PM JonJ Your comment came up only afer I had posted my recent comment. On circumcision I will.....
» 11/07/2008 3:35:17 PM GP, I think you have missed the authors point. My interpretaion is that the author is sugg.....
» 10/07/2008 9:07:55 PM Crasby, Indoctrinate means teach or imbue with a doctrine. Religious doctrines are not sup.....
» 9/07/2008 8:22:19 PM Crasby, I do not know why you need myths but I do not need them. I need evidence to suppor.....
» 7/07/2008 12:25:39 PM The Sydney Morning herald in an article 'In God's Name' answered this OLO diatribe in a fe.....
» 4/07/2008 10:12:37 AM David does appear to be a busybody. How much of each woman's stress is due, if she decide.....
» 2/07/2008 8:44:02 PM A windfall tax would not need to be spent within Australia. The extra funds could simply b.....
» 26/06/2008 10:33:20 AM None of the United Nations human rights instruments contain a “right to die”. They are all.....
» 30/04/2008 2:34:29 PM Much of the MDB water problem is due to over allocation. I cannot help wonder how this hap.....
» 30/04/2008 2:18:46 PM RE: [As Alan Mitchell (chief economist at the Australian Financial Review) recently noted,.....
» 28/04/2008 10:20:38 AM I have heard senior coal industry employees comment that clean coal technology is an oxymo.....
» 7/04/2008 12:31:23 PM I prefer to consider theology education as one group of people who helped make up what wen.....
» 16/03/2008 5:56:57 PM Boaz_David; It is the ‘them and us’ complex which flows from the belief that one set of fa.....
» 14/03/2008 9:50:12 AM I suggest to runner and anyone of like mind that they do something to improve their knowle.....
» 12/03/2008 8:53:08 PM I do not know runner or Boaz_david or any other of the posters who support religion but I .....
» 10/03/2008 10:13:36 AM An excellent article. People who send their children to religious schools, particularly t.....
» 22/02/2008 8:17:22 AM Romany makes a good point. There are problems with words such as philosophy and the advers.....
» 11/02/2008 2:58:42 PM I agree we need a renaissance rather than a revolution. Introduction of Philosophy for Ch.....
» 7/02/2008 2:16:48 PM re: but who knows what occupations are going to exist in 20 years time? Our Asian competit.....
» 6/02/2008 12:31:02 PM I would be fairly sure that the NSW coal fired stations with factors under 60% are those w.....
» 24/01/2008 9:27:51 AM At least on the ABC there is occasionally something great. Apart from the 6pm news on loc.....
» 16/01/2008 7:56:31 PM In an earlier post I meant commend the contribution of Mr Smith to this discussion as I di.....
» 16/01/2008 9:35:15 AM Col Rouge So much for old men among whom I am numbered. FDR was credited from lifting the .....
» 15/01/2008 4:04:14 PM Country boy and Col Rouge, This article and the posts by Desipis are as good as anything I.....
» 14/01/2008 11:45:37 AM continued... Adam Smith was adamant that capital should not be allowed to move across bord.....
» 14/01/2008 11:31:37 AM I agree wholeheartedly with the theme of this article. My comments below are extracts from.....
» 3/01/2008 11:20:54 AM wizofaus, The oil sands in Venezuala are actually larger than those in Canada. George Duby.....
» 21/12/2007 7:14:07 PM Boaz_David Yes I do evaluate ancient happenings based on my western enlightenment educatio.....
» 21/12/2007 10:31:24 AM The ancient biblical story is in many places the story of racism and brutality that would .....
» 28/11/2007 7:52:39 AM I have never been a fan of democracy as practiced in the USA and I have often wondered abo.....
» 22/11/2007 11:43:42 AM This article is excellent and shows just how far out of touch people like Mark Vaille are......
» 22/11/2007 11:10:21 AM Shadow minister, In my first post I pointed out that the motives behind some, not all, pri.....
» 21/11/2007 3:55:05 PM Runner, All scientific theory is subject to change if an improvement is found. For example.....
» 21/11/2007 10:48:16 AM We don’t divide children in education on the basis of the political, economic or philosoph.....
» 19/11/2007 12:49:57 PM The conservatives approach to teaching is to avoid teaching children to think clearly. In .....
» 15/11/2007 10:21:37 AM There are several things ethically not right with the author's views; for a start his view.....
» 15/11/2007 9:45:55 AM I have just noticed my own number error in my initial posting. I wrote that some galaxies .....
» 14/11/2007 7:53:23 PM Runner and other creationist supporters. Biology, geology, astronomy and archeology each i.....
» 26/10/2007 10:41:02 AM I read two of Ayn Rand's books including Atlas Shrugged when Malcolm Fraser was in power a.....
» 24/10/2007 11:14:48 AM This is the best comment on our future economic problems that I have read. John Howard's e.....
» 22/10/2007 11:06:36 AM The article does not draw attention to one of the principal causes of the problem, the lac.....
» 8/10/2007 10:28:34 AM The patient who is suing for compensationfor having two implants survive rather than one d.....
» 1/10/2007 12:11:47 PM The horrors of 20th century were only different in scale from those of the Crusades or the.....
» 19/09/2007 10:05:59 AM I was hopeful that the hard questions would get a run. My hard questions would be, What do.....
» 10/09/2007 9:53:28 PM Runner, re: Foyle your absurd unscienticic comments.. Aren't you aware of Raymond Dart's &.....
» 10/09/2007 1:07:42 PM runner- Are you coming around? Of course we evolved, and over millions of generations. Aus.....
» 6/09/2007 12:05:10 PM The clearest article on this subject for some time. Howard's way was the wrong way even wh.....
» 27/08/2007 10:52:58 AM Continuing- The fundamental argument is that money is not something that is produced in a .....
» 27/08/2007 10:51:05 AM Many factors have contributed to the housing affordability crisis but here are a few of th.....
» 25/08/2007 8:11:39 PM Stickman. You did a good job of defending me and rebutting Aqvarvis. There are hundreds of.....
» 24/08/2007 2:34:02 PM Aqvarvis- In my teaching a child something not backed by very strong evidence is not ethic.....
» 24/08/2007 10:31:36 AM aqvarivs- 'religious' education barely skims the ten commandments. How is it that the Jesu.....
» 24/08/2007 9:54:21 AM Kathryn, best wishes for success in all you attempt. Your story tells me you are competent.....
» 23/08/2007 12:19:49 PM aqvarivs - Foyle, the arogance etc. and your nihilist upbringing. I am the son of parents .....
» 22/08/2007 5:08:18 PM Aqvarivs –If you are not of that persuasion its none of your business. I believe that each.....
» 21/08/2007 1:02:30 PM runner, It isn't just evolution which discredits creationism and the existence of an omnip.....
» 21/08/2007 10:38:21 AM An aim to reduce the intellectual curiosity of a child is despicable. This article follows.....
» 8/08/2007 10:23:53 AM The conservatives won't be happy until only the views of their committee of cardinals is a.....
» 1/08/2007 9:59:48 AM An excellent article and not just because it matches my views. On the basis of school fund.....
» 30/07/2007 11:09:56 AM I disagree, meat should not be entirely eliminated from the human diet; reduced consumptio.....
» 26/07/2007 3:40:10 PM I agree. An excellent article yet so far only one post whereas there are many, some of the.....
» 23/07/2007 10:49:43 AM I agree entirely: the Education Department is dysfunctional. I am in my late 70's and afte.....
» 17/07/2007 10:57:25 AM Albert Arnold Gore versus James Lovelock is a no brainer. Gore has a B.A. in government an.....
» 12/07/2007 5:28:12 PM Comments so far indicate that many assume that new migrants used virtually no oil before m.....
» 1/07/2007 11:28:02 AM Lucky for me I have been attacked a couple of times for my postings. That gives me targets.....
» 29/06/2007 7:20:19 PM Admiral V.S.-- "The market will determine when 'Peak oil' arrives." No it won't.....
» 28/06/2007 1:43:29 PM Leigh, Your experience of big business much be much different from mine and mine included .....
» 28/06/2007 10:11:42 AM A proper sentiment and a very good article. However peak oil is not when we have used half.....
» 27/06/2007 9:18:08 PM Jocelynne, Please use capital to start your sentences. I found your comment very difficult.....
» 26/06/2007 1:25:31 PM I cannot allow runners broad comment to stand. In my thirties (now in mid seventies) I was.....
» 26/06/2007 10:31:35 AM Having worked for over 30 years as a technical manager in heavy industry I have some exper.....
» 6/06/2007 9:54:10 AM The natural weather is alays changing but how can humans be having no effect when we burn .....
» 1/06/2007 9:54:39 AM Re John Howard "His success is his downfall" Our PM has succeeded in pricing hou.....
» 28/05/2007 11:14:16 AM In future we can still live a reasonably comfortable life. We need much better and further.....
» 24/05/2007 2:11:51 PM Goodgrief - Aborting a feotus that has no concept of self is very different to killing a s.....
» 23/05/2007 11:55:59 AM Thanks Aime for your kind comment......
» 23/05/2007 10:24:09 AM I have never viewed Amnesty as as a circus or a potential one. The article appears to over.....
» 21/05/2007 10:33:08 AM With regard to climate change, stay on message but remember that climate change is a softe.....
» 20/05/2007 11:33:12 AM The average mother in the developed word gives live birth to less than three children in h.....
» 18/05/2007 10:19:41 AM I am surprised that Peter Costello rabbits on about privatisation. Anyone who uses Sydney .....
» 9/05/2007 11:05:42 AM The article is first class but the author does not propose a solution. Adam Smith never ad.....
» 3/05/2007 6:07:10 PM The comment that money supply in the last year has been 14%. The growth has been netween 1.....
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