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» 25/02/2019 2:04:40 PM Another 'Concorde', a technical triumph but a white elephant financially......
» 13/09/2018 10:52:10 AM Very informative article. The US is the only country that can resist Chinese aggressive me.....
» 4/08/2018 9:52:16 AM This is all alarmingly familiar, an Islamist threat from Turkey. Who would have predicted .....
» 21/07/2018 12:02:17 PM Alan B A market of 50 million is tiny compared with the hundreds of millions or billions .....
» 21/07/2018 10:45:30 AM ericc, Agreed. Sustainable Australia is in the process of attempting to register as a p.....
» 21/07/2018 9:38:50 AM Interesting article. The author busts some of the myths associated with high immigration. .....
» 26/06/2018 4:12:26 PM Daffy Duck, I agree with your last comment completely. Also Gallipoli should be remembere.....
» 21/06/2018 11:29:38 AM Well, the U.K. Is the country that produced Rotherham and many other examples. More multi-.....
» 2/06/2018 4:13:27 PM An interesting article. The Middle Ages were indeed a period of technical and political in.....
» 26/05/2018 8:25:00 AM The situation in the Bslkans doesn't seem to have changed significantly since the 19th cen.....
» 24/05/2018 3:40:54 PM Michi I'd agree with Loudmouth's comments particularly with the atrocities committed by .....
» 23/05/2018 5:34:03 PM Hi Loudmouth, Agreed, North Korea is just a minor player in the game. When we most need t.....
» 22/05/2018 5:58:07 PM AlanB Interesting article, a change in perspective is always interesting. Yes, I've ofte.....
» 18/05/2018 9:09:01 AM A J Philips, I doubt that we will ever get believers to acknowledge the fact that atheism.....
» 16/05/2018 3:54:32 PM GrahamY "Christianity is more compatible than any other religious belief, including .....
» 15/05/2018 5:46:22 PM AJ Philips, The usual strawman arguments from believers. I've often wondered if it's a de.....
» 12/05/2018 12:53:37 PM Aidan AJ Philips has anticipated my replies to your comments. I'd also add that we can't .....
» 11/05/2018 5:32:40 PM Aidan, The position of most atheists is that there is no evidence for the existence of a .....
» 11/05/2018 2:40:21 PM For the umpteenth time, atheism is not a belief. As an apologist for Christianity the au.....
» 13/04/2018 2:06:39 PM Why is opposition to Israel's policies necessarily anti-Semitic?.....
» 6/02/2018 1:56:24 PM Interesting article. I particularly agree with the way the author dealt with the hypocriti.....
» 3/01/2018 9:19:45 PM JBowyer A very famous economist said that when the facts changed he changed his mind. Sci.....
» 3/01/2018 4:12:58 PM Here we go again. Another 'sceptical' article by someone without any appropriate qualifica.....
» 3/01/2018 4:08:02 PM ilmessaggio Brexit, unlike Trump or North Korea, is irrelevant to Australians, that's why.....
» 2/01/2018 2:56:32 PM Alan B Yes, I also noticed the Jacobite theme. The Scots were celebrating a rebellion aga.....
» 2/01/2018 11:50:38 AM Brexit is not inevitable. The so-called referendum was really a plebiscite, it's not legal.....
» 8/12/2017 2:51:09 PM The usual specious Zionist arguments in defence of the indefensible. Israel is a colonial .....
» 17/11/2017 3:08:38 PM Alan B Agreed, I'm just not as grumpy. It's nearly over and it's about time. Argument fro.....
» 31/10/2017 2:26:17 PM "The rest of the time will be spent diligently ignoring each other." Exactly, d.....
» 26/10/2017 9:46:30 AM Very interesting article. Essentially, in the opinion of Murdoch's parrots, the flaw in MM.....
» 24/10/2017 5:01:47 PM Excellent article. I'd recommend "Why we believe in gods", it provides a logical.....
» 18/10/2017 5:33:35 PM For the umpteenth time, the US voting system (the Electoral College) defeated Clinton. Not.....
» 8/10/2017 8:49:10 AM I'm in favour or more regulation, particularly in regard to the way politicians spend taxp.....
» 4/09/2017 3:04:44 PM Jeez,more "we-won-the-war" nonsense. The US and the USSR won WW2. After all the.....
» 8/08/2017 5:39:09 PM Agreed, the World swimming championships are just as important as the Olympic Games, ie th.....
» 8/07/2017 10:58:37 AM Killarney Agreed. The young bludgers will just have to adjust to wage cuts, it's only fai.....
» 20/06/2017 3:45:31 PM Emperor Julian, I agree with your comments in regard to the 'referendum', it's obvious th.....
» 16/06/2017 12:23:36 PM Alan B The Brexit vote wasn't a referendum but a plebiscite since it wasn't legally bindi.....
» 16/06/2017 8:33:34 AM Britain will probably never leave the EU. After all the noise and posturing is over realit.....
» 13/05/2017 10:28:18 AM rehctub, (1) "just how is the housing market going to halve in value?" That's .....
» 12/05/2017 5:50:49 PM Hasbeen, The real debt crisis is not public but private, the country is nowhere near a Gr.....
» 12/05/2017 3:00:25 PM The article demonstates the usual conservative blinkered ideology. Taxes bad, government p.....
» 10/05/2017 9:19:47 PM ttbn, I noticed that you've resorted to ad hominem attacks. I don't favor one superstit.....
» 10/05/2017 5:13:59 PM ttbn, Abdel Magied is entitled to make disparaging remarks about Anzac Day if she chooses.....
» 10/05/2017 3:28:33 PM What a very strange article indeed. It combines ABC bashing, a whine because of the declin.....
» 27/03/2017 7:26:20 AM Graham Y "Christianity exported monotheism to the pagan world, which provided a mor.....
» 25/03/2017 7:40:29 AM Killarney, Agreed, the Christian Church and its 'Holy Book' closed the Western mind for n.....
» 12/03/2017 2:04:25 PM I'm looking forward to the results of the commission of enquiry into the WA budget crisis......
» 23/01/2017 7:18:12 PM Brexit will probably never occur, the UK's political elites will never allow it. The 'refe.....
» 20/12/2016 3:06:42 PM Despite all the imperial fantasies of the loony right Brexit will never occur, some compro.....
» 13/12/2016 4:44:34 PM Emperor Julian, Indonesia and Turkey were, for some time, often cited as the outstanding .....
» 11/12/2016 8:24:33 AM T800, "Well Andras if you want to see a racist bigot I suggest you actually read the.....
» 7/12/2016 1:01:54 PM "I have been around long enough to know what scares you most.... A migrant/muslim wit.....
» 6/12/2016 10:24:04 AM What a racist, xenophobic, Islamophobic hell this country is. It's such a contrast to such.....
» 20/11/2016 11:59:21 AM Albie, Yes, indeed. The country is riddled with abandoned mines, some huge holes in the .....
» 18/11/2016 8:28:07 PM Aidan, "Are you so anti-SA that you regard SA as a toxic waste dump just because the.....
» 18/11/2016 2:39:03 PM If making any state or country the word's nuclear garbage dump were such a brilliant idea .....
» 19/10/2016 2:58:13 PM Armchair, First I should point out that I don't necessarily agree with some of your opini.....
» 17/10/2016 5:32:10 PM Craig Minns You are ignorant of Islam and its history, which explains your smugness and c.....
» 17/10/2016 2:30:27 PM Craig Minns, "at its root is a fear of change" Exactly, the fear of Nazism, Co.....
» 16/10/2016 8:59:50 PM Is Mise, Perhaps you could explain which part of CHERFUL's 'history lesson' is incorrect?.....
» 15/10/2016 12:13:28 PM Craig Minns, Of course, your best friends are Muslims, that's apparently all you need to .....
» 14/10/2016 3:29:41 PM Craig Minns, You're, ineptly, attempting a strawman argument, the issue is about a danger.....
» 14/10/2016 3:06:55 PM Yes, rather than 'deradicalisation' de-islamization might be more useful, although there's.....
» 7/09/2016 2:48:06 PM Craig, it's not always about you, relax. I was replying to Shadow Minister's moments. You'.....
» 7/09/2016 12:26:42 PM Shadow Minister, I agree with your comment about flaunting one's education. sooner or lat.....
» 4/09/2016 4:05:45 PM Craig, I majored in economics at business school it's an interesting subject, but it's al.....
» 4/09/2016 3:33:16 PM Craig Minns, What course are you studying? I'd assumed it was psychology......
» 4/09/2016 2:59:46 PM Craig Minns, Rather than post a link, perhaps you could provide a critique of any of the .....
» 3/09/2016 12:21:35 PM Alan B, Yes, I suppose the Brexit vote is an example of that approach to politics. Voters.....
» 2/09/2016 2:29:49 PM interactive, Oh jeez! What a circus. The joke's on us isn't it? The voters get the politi.....
» 2/09/2016 1:15:17 PM Hasbeen, I agree with most of your comments, however I wouldn't place Menzies 'way right.....
» 24/08/2016 9:43:21 PM I agree with the "who gives a rat's" comments. It's about time the Olympics wa.....
» 22/07/2016 3:45:53 PM " honour killings in countries like Pakistan might not actually be greatly dissimilar.....
» 21/07/2016 10:15:09 AM Yes, agreed, a Pyrrhic victory in very difficult economic circumstances, it's probably a g.....
» 11/07/2016 4:39:04 PM plantagenet, Agreed, you're probably correct. Many voters won't get the message until the.....
» 27/06/2016 6:49:41 PM The Brexit vote is NOT a referendum, it's a plebiscite, so the UK parliament, can and prob.....
» 10/06/2016 8:37:02 PM Isn't the Golden Dawn flag an adaption of the ancient 'Greek Key' design? So perhaps Murdo.....
» 29/05/2016 2:20:35 PM Probably, the 'escape from slavery in Egypt' is a garbled folk memory of the expulsion of .....
» 25/05/2016 7:35:35 PM Once it was the Labor ideologues the preferred ideological purity to electoral success, no.....
» 24/05/2016 11:02:28 AM Hi Loudmouth, Yes, Islamic societies were even slow to adopt innovations that reached the.....
» 24/05/2016 9:40:34 AM Emperor Julian Agreed. Those who accuse others of 'Islamophobia' are either Muslim apolog.....
» 20/05/2016 11:48:24 AM rache, "According to the media one would think that the cruel oppression of women an.....
» 19/05/2016 9:06:19 PM rache, (1) "Even in the 21st century, some people are unable to tell the difference .....
» 19/05/2016 7:23:28 PM Hi Rhian, "During the medieval period the Muslim world experienced flourishing arts,.....
» 19/05/2016 2:33:10 PM "Imperial feminism, approving Western imperialism in order to save other women, has a.....
» 17/05/2016 10:13:34 AM "I'm glad that Australia wasn't colonised by Spain" Agreed, the essential diffe.....
» 19/04/2016 11:22:35 AM Why would anyone expect a Turnbull government to be any different from the Abbott regime? .....
» 16/03/2016 3:17:34 PM The only fact established by the author is that some people, in the 21st century, still be.....
» 15/03/2016 3:50:32 PM Asclepius, david f Yes, indeed, economic or fiscal arguments are irrelevant. It's not the.....
» 13/02/2016 7:15:30 AM Interesting article, after the unfolding disaster in Europe I wonder how the advocates of .....
» 1/02/2016 8:31:16 PM "...claims that women are oppressed" Except those women that are stoned to death.....
» 23/01/2016 9:34:59 AM Suseonline, I'd generally agree with is Mise, I don't think that the Old Testament is rel.....
» 22/01/2016 5:33:17 PM Well, good luck to the Ahmadiyya and their peaceful ways. However this infidel hasn't forg.....
» 12/01/2016 9:06:32 AM Interesting article, who could take the prospect of an 'Arab Spring' seriously when the to.....
» 5/01/2016 11:22:28 AM Loudmouth, Agreed, I don't have the slightest hesitation in judging others by our standar.....
» 23/12/2015 8:36:04 AM Killarney, "The West has been occupying, destabilising, overthrowing, invading and b.....
» 22/12/2015 6:22:08 AM Emperor Julian, Agreed, the problem is the nature of the Islamic ideology itself and the .....
» 19/12/2015 7:46:10 AM Agreed, very informative article, John Perkins. Unfortunately not many people will read Al.....
» 9/12/2015 7:41:43 AM "Unfortunately for those of us standing with the victims of terror, "moderate&qu.....
» 5/12/2015 5:15:36 PM Loudmouth, Yes, it's a dreadfully complicated world, made much more complicated, particul.....
» 5/12/2015 10:22:28 AM renysol, Very interesting comments. (1) The MSM here in Australia doesn't supply much in.....
» 18/11/2015 5:02:23 PM Islam has been at war since the 7th century, what the West mistakenly assumed to be 'peace.....
» 10/11/2015 4:23:37 PM ttbn "So what, and who cares!" I wouldn't give a rat's either if the fallout w.....
» 1/09/2015 7:52:42 AM "why would a UFO need lights at all?" Excellent question, The answer is that UF.....
» 5/08/2015 1:27:58 PM Emperor Julian, Yes, indeed. One of my comments in the Guardian was deleted ( a very rare.....
» 4/08/2015 11:13:11 AM Morris' book should be interesting and instructive. Secularists are always at a disadvanta.....
» 29/07/2015 1:22:20 PM Muhammed was a bandit leader, whatever sophistry Islamic apologists attempt in defence of .....
» 28/07/2015 12:27:16 PM Cody, "Why do muslims like the author come to Australia in the first place? Why don.....
» 27/07/2015 12:15:01 PM ttbn "Islam is NOT a race, so how does this woman think people are "ignorant&qu.....
» 22/07/2015 3:14:53 PM Leslie, To clarify, (1) I never indicated I supported what happened to the Russian econ.....
» 22/07/2015 12:58:48 PM Interesting, but hardly surprising, BRICS always seemed a fantasy, probably only China wil.....
» 16/07/2015 2:55:03 PM Steven, I really can't find any significant points of disagreement with your analysis of .....
» 16/07/2015 11:28:44 AM Steven, "The impetus for Iran's nuclear program was actually the "Saddam Hussei.....
» 16/07/2015 10:40:26 AM Steven, Israel is already a nuclear state, so the 'mad mullahs' could argue that they nee.....
» 6/07/2015 2:43:49 PM "I support payments for the poorest parents so that kids can be raised with good nutr.....
» 5/07/2015 3:59:13 PM Yeah sure, the entire Greek nation is collectively responsible for repayment of the irresp.....
» 23/06/2015 3:15:34 PM I agree with Mr Singer, BDS is an outrage, it's not playing by the Zionist rules......
» 29/05/2015 3:23:00 PM Marriage 'privatisation' is not a 'novel concept', through most of history, marriage, exce.....
» 21/05/2015 2:19:29 PM Ojnab, I agree with most of ConservativeHippy's comments, so I'm not going to repeat them.....
» 21/05/2015 10:46:15 AM Agreed, Islam is the invention of an Arabian bandit leader and his followers, a violent .....
» 5/05/2015 5:45:28 PM I generally agree with the author's opinions, but with some reservations. "the death.....
» 16/04/2015 8:48:14 AM "... if Australians were more knowledgeable about Muslims they would express more fav.....
» 10/04/2015 3:57:59 PM Interesting. Let's hope that Indonesia stays on the democratic path, however, given the le.....
» 1/04/2015 3:03:32 PM If Catholic, parents want to provide their children with a Catholic education they should .....
» 6/03/2015 1:19:10 PM "Extremely well argued, cogent and persuasive!" I agree Rhrosty, although I didn.....
» 4/02/2015 7:14:47 AM Probably many Qld voters realised that their state was on the way to becoming another LNP .....
» 2/02/2015 4:37:18 PM "how to balance women's rights and religious freedom." That statement seem to i.....
» 27/01/2015 10:07:59 AM Bazz, "...moslems are not free to interpret the Koran as they wish." Agreed, h.....
» 26/01/2015 11:44:58 AM Perhaps Arjay's little tinfoil hat needs repair, or rebooting, or something......
» 26/01/2015 7:12:57 AM Why is the jihadi someone else's fault? Kouachi isn't a classic case of 'prison radicalis.....
» 18/01/2015 3:35:57 PM Does it really matter in this debate whether intelligence is caused by genetic or environm.....
» 13/01/2015 9:57:42 AM Interesting article. 'I don't condone the murder of cartoonists but...' Translation, any.....
» 8/01/2015 2:50:58 PM No, this is not the 'new fascism' but the old Islam, the atrocity is just another phase in.....
» 30/12/2014 10:19:28 AM Well, this is a case of the bullies 'bullied'. For years, non-smokers had to suffer the co.....
» 23/12/2014 10:01:03 AM Well, it's finally happened, I actually agree with most of Singer's arguments in this arti.....
» 11/12/2014 7:53:24 AM Roses1, Yes, indeed, implicit in the author's arguments is the perennial favourite of Neo.....
» 25/11/2014 7:12:47 AM Interesting article. Turkey is often cited by Islamic apologists as an example of a 'mode.....
» 21/11/2014 4:51:47 PM Yuyustu, I agree with Hasbeen, "Rhrosty, Yuyutsu it matters not a damn what you thi.....
» 21/11/2014 11:55:00 AM "It is better to remember the original beginnings." Yes, indeed, never forget t.....
» 19/11/2014 9:56:24 AM Abbott and the Coalition are playing the corporate game of delaying the inevitable and pro.....
» 14/11/2014 9:13:19 AM "A wholehearted embrace of globalisation necessarily includes the free movement of la.....
» 31/10/2014 5:02:15 PM Wolly, Rhrosty, Yes, you're correct, there once was a Labor party, when I was young many .....
» 31/10/2014 11:53:21 AM I agree with most of the points previous commenters have made. Essentially privatisation .....
» 17/10/2014 12:20:27 PM "We should instead concentrate on demythologising Islam and all religions." Yes.....
» 13/10/2014 10:24:27 AM "However 'choices', construed as such, aren't made in a vacuum." Yes indeed, pa.....
» 12/10/2014 10:02:11 AM Killarney. "I've often said on OLO that I believe the Europe-based West would have b.....
» 11/10/2014 8:16:08 AM Kilarney, "Had a good look at the Talmud and the Old Testament lately? They take 'vi.....
» 10/10/2014 7:25:22 PM Well, at least one Muslim understands the problem. Mohammed, the inventor of Islam was a .....
» 23/09/2014 10:22:18 AM " Do we use our reason and logic, and conclude that this is an extreme, radical wing .....
» 10/09/2014 10:24:13 AM Arjay, "If our Western Oligarchs had not invaded countries like Iraq ,and Libya for .....
» 26/08/2014 6:31:35 PM Excellent exposition of neo-liberal ideology, after the privatisation of medical research,.....
» 14/08/2014 9:40:19 PM Johnathan J Ariel, "How many are killed on what side does not an argument make.".....
» 13/08/2014 9:37:18 PM LEGO, The reason Muslims have a reputation for intolerance towards minorities, is because.....
» 9/08/2014 2:33:31 PM Leo Lane, According to what I could discover on the net, Bob Carter is a palaeontologist,.....
» 9/08/2014 9:52:41 AM Poirot, Mon ami, it's all part of the game corporate polluters have played since the star.....
» 8/08/2014 6:54:33 PM Don Aitkin, Of course you're free to express your opinion on climate change as I'm free,.....
» 6/08/2014 7:04:40 PM SPQR, Dane, Actually, there were periods in history when Muslims were far more tolerant o.....
» 5/08/2014 2:49:10 PM runner, Some people don't buy the Zionist propaganda lie that brave little Israel is on t.....
» 5/08/2014 11:03:33 AM "Israel meanwhile ensures that Jews will never find themselves in the same boat as th.....
» 29/07/2014 8:00:04 PM Helga, I attended a Presbyterian grammar school, so religion was applied relatively light.....
» 29/07/2014 4:49:15 PM Helga, despite an education at a Christian school, I can't remember, from my early teens, .....
» 28/07/2014 9:58:34 PM Bernie Masters, Turkey was once part of Greece, Istanbul was a once a Greek City and the .....
» 28/07/2014 7:24:43 PM It's unrealistic to expect believers to keep their religion to themselves as most religion.....
» 28/07/2014 10:14:11 AM s/b --'human lives are God's gift'.....
» 28/07/2014 10:10:31 AM Loudmouth, "Surely if one believes in an afterlife, one is more likely to write thi.....
» 25/07/2014 7:06:12 PM SPQR, I've never been convinced by the concept of Pascal's Wager since I really can't mak.....
» 24/07/2014 12:02:31 PM SPQR, Cryonic 'preservation' is probably about as much use as mummification, although it'.....
» 24/07/2014 8:34:06 AM The author really hasn't presented any argument against the idea that suicide can be a rat.....
» 22/07/2014 1:17:32 PM Has anyone noticed any climate change 'sceptics' on OLO who actually have qualifications i.....
» 11/07/2014 6:36:13 PM david f Agreed, who gives a rat's. I can think of a thousand more socially useful ways t.....
» 11/07/2014 6:25:14 PM david f Encouraging news, soon perhaps the majority of Australians won't give a rat's. .....
» 11/07/2014 11:38:26 AM Straw man arguments, the SPP and the SPA are non-racist organisations. There are many cou.....
» 10/07/2014 9:37:03 AM Interesting article. The inference from the author's arguments is that religious freedom i.....
» 9/07/2014 9:19:34 AM Killarney, "and possibly their heads on spikes along the castle walls." Yes, i.....
» 8/07/2014 3:58:29 PM Yes, it certainly is the Age of Entitlement. I could add a few more 'entitlement whiners'.....
» 7/07/2014 1:07:07 PM Graham, you're attempting to defend the indefensible. There's informative article in toda.....
» 5/07/2014 9:56:32 AM Rhrosty, "And who else was bombed into submission by nuclear weapons, rather than mo.....
» 1/07/2014 3:40:08 PM "For most of recorded history parents have reluctantly sacrificed their children – se.....
» 26/06/2014 8:38:38 AM @Emperor Julian, I couldn't imagine an Australian government that's more obedient to Mamm.....
» 20/06/2014 3:46:03 PM "Whatever our prejudices, status or abilities, when we mix with others with a similar.....
» 20/06/2014 9:51:03 AM Negotiation of the 'semantic minefield' is unlikely to be a 'pressing necessity' for the Z.....
» 13/06/2014 8:08:33 PM Rhrosty, Agree, I heard a report on the ABC that quoted third highest in relation to inco.....
» 12/06/2014 4:46:45 PM "The Liberal Party does have a view of the world, and it needs to be enunciated espec.....
» 11/06/2014 10:33:19 AM "It is just that all worship should be considered as one. We look on the same stars, .....
» 6/06/2014 4:27:29 PM Actually, there's no need for governments at any time, to 'balance the budget'. Authoritar.....
» 6/06/2014 1:23:20 PM FIFA and the World Cup have absolutely nothing to do with sport, it's mass entertainment. .....
» 5/06/2014 9:46:20 AM Yes, voters are mistaken if they assume that a change of PM would make any significant dif.....
» 20/05/2014 11:25:09 AM Actually this budget is indeed the sum of its parts. The Coalition has manufactured a phon.....
» 16/05/2014 8:26:23 PM James O'Neill's & Arjay, It's too early to count your chickens, the US and Europe will pr.....
» 15/05/2014 9:32:08 AM Australia doesn't have a high deficit and isn't a high tax nation. Nhoj Agreed, corporat.....
» 14/05/2014 10:35:11 AM Yes, certainly many wars are unjust, but not all wars. What chance would pacifism have as .....
» 10/05/2014 11:27:03 AM Rhrosty, "Mac, nowhere in my post did I suggest an immediate cessation of school fun.....
» 9/05/2014 5:49:40 PM Rhrosty, I wasn't suggesting an immediate cessation of public funding for private schools.....
» 9/05/2014 8:24:14 AM The solution to the problem is simple, 'independent schools' shouldn't receive any taxpaye.....
» 22/04/2014 1:38:00 PM "Also importantly, success was directly proportional to effort. This was the beginnin.....
» 28/03/2014 9:41:22 AM Yes, Ludwig, agreed, all comments so far "are right on the money". . "We ha.....
» 25/03/2014 3:10:58 PM "In other words late modern man, unlike his predecessors cannot see order in nature, .....
» 24/03/2014 3:52:02 PM Multiculturalism at work in the UK, http://freethoughtblogs.com/butterfliesandwheels/2014.....
» 24/03/2014 3:44:28 PM Banjo, Yes, supporters of institutionalised multiculturalism or mass immigration usually .....
» 21/03/2014 2:47:27 PM Generally agree with most dissenting comments, particularly Squeers and Philip S. Of cour.....
» 21/03/2014 2:24:37 PM "If we want to live in a civil society, we must show respect and tolerance of ‘others.....
» 19/03/2014 12:27:00 PM Now where have I heard this type of sophistry before? Oh yes, many years ago, then it was .....
» 5/03/2014 11:47:50 AM David G, I agree with your comments in regard to American hypocrisy, it's simply amazing.....
» 2/03/2014 12:52:00 PM David G, They were Jay of M's comments, not mine......
» 1/03/2014 9:23:53 PM Hasbeen, Fair comment, perhaps I was too cynical, however I was indicating my doubts as t.....
» 1/03/2014 6:53:53 PM David G, "Once Knights fought nobly." No, never, they were brutal predators wh.....
» 1/03/2014 6:40:42 PM Arjay, Agreed, OLO and En Passant are two of the better blogs, I'd include New Matilda. L.....
» 1/03/2014 9:24:39 AM James O'Neill "A stunning silence from our erstwhile Foreign Minister whom, one susp.....
» 1/03/2014 7:20:32 AM Killarney, I'm also sceptical in regard to the usefulness of Centrelink's 'recruitment co.....
» 24/02/2014 10:18:19 AM Interesting defence of Marxism, I'd agree that any criticism of the ideology justified by .....
» 13/02/2014 9:02:35 AM "At his wife's urging, he confronts the man and they become friends."---the them.....
» 9/02/2014 9:15:32 AM George, Either you agree of you're impervious to sarcasm. Which is it?.....
» 9/02/2014 7:59:45 AM Trav, "What’s your definition of evidence?" The standard dictionary definition.....
» 6/02/2014 6:43:37 PM Trav, I wasn't actually suggesting a split between 'what God does' and science, but that .....
» 6/02/2014 1:25:09 PM Trav, You row your boat and I'll row mine. You're at liberty to employ theologians or phi.....
» 6/02/2014 8:52:43 AM There is only one way of knowing and it's through scientific enquiry, 'Evolution Weekend' .....
» 5/02/2014 8:58:35 AM Moslems pirates from North Africa took about one million Europeans as slaves from the 8th .....
» 4/02/2014 4:11:43 PM I'm rather sceptical as to the degree that Western Civilisation's 'core values' are ".....
» 23/01/2014 9:30:58 AM stevenmeyer, "OK I don't know why states have national religions but many do." .....
» 21/01/2014 8:35:57 AM michael paine, Agreed, with no Senate we'd all live in Queensland......
» 18/01/2014 12:03:52 PM stevenmeyer, I've often wondered if our only reactor was 'insurance'......
» 18/01/2014 9:10:52 AM stevenmeyer, The reference was to small countries, which I thought was implicit, so let's.....
» 17/01/2014 7:19:48 PM plantagenent, Interesting, apparently the trick for any nation to build nuclear weapons w.....
» 17/01/2014 5:26:50 PM Does Israel possess nuclear weapons? If so, what are the ethical or strategic arguments ag.....
» 17/01/2014 4:59:18 PM "So let's not get distracted by the call for 'Judeo-Christian values'. If there's any.....
» 8/01/2014 8:41:59 AM "Just why all taxpayers should continue to subsidise Christianity's failing mission i.....
» 2/01/2014 4:12:49 PM "if Australians were more knowledgeable about Muslims they would express more favorab.....
» 18/12/2013 8:15:18 AM Interesting, however economic arguments are not really relevant, like the 'boat people cri.....
» 16/12/2013 8:57:38 AM Interesting article, the author has summarised the dysfunctions of institutionalised multi.....
» 14/12/2013 1:41:12 PM Apparently racial prejudice is subordinate to class interests after all, another triumph f.....
» 13/12/2013 9:41:58 PM Very informative article. It's alarming that, in a liberal democracy, in the 21st century.....
» 13/12/2013 2:35:25 PM Alfred di Genis, Yes, I understand how Alexander's conquests spread Greek culture, and fr.....
» 13/12/2013 11:42:19 AM "The target may be Muslims today, but could be anyone else tomorrow." Not real.....
» 13/12/2013 6:56:25 AM Oh, jeeeez, not more multicultural baggage. Before Alexander, the Ancient Greeks regarded.....
» 10/12/2013 7:41:10 AM Interesting article. The early nineties were certainly the time for neo-liberal fantasies.....
» 7/12/2013 2:46:16 PM David G, "And one way to create fear is to create a bogey-man nation, like it once d.....
» 6/12/2013 3:15:30 PM David G "..far from suffocating their economy.." Yes, that's the point I was ma.....
» 6/12/2013 1:47:40 PM David G, I'm sure China's neighbours are quite capable of making their own independent st.....
» 6/12/2013 1:27:27 PM Very bad news indeed, but not unexpected. There's an informative article on this subject .....
» 17/11/2013 12:08:13 PM Loudmouth, The remarkable intellectual and artistic contributions of Jews to Western civi.....
» 16/11/2013 9:59:27 AM Grim, "In the sixties, the average CEO's income was around 30 times the average wage.....
» 15/11/2013 4:53:30 PM Hasbeen, "many of those high tax high welfare countries are the ones in most trouble.....
» 15/11/2013 3:08:23 PM Has been, I'm old enough to remember the 1960s, different times, the country had an indus.....
» 15/11/2013 10:18:32 AM Interesting article, in addition to ethical considerations, societies with relatively high.....
» 14/11/2013 10:16:16 AM one under god, I understand your rather technical argument, however you're really drawing.....
» 11/11/2013 11:14:14 AM David G, Thanks for the link......
» 10/11/2013 9:35:03 PM Graham Y, I'd be fascinated to read an article from a Palestinian living under Israeli o.....
» 10/11/2013 9:01:48 AM LEGO, "this total double standard where Muslims burn churches, kill Christians, ethn.....
» 8/11/2013 8:30:39 PM Loudmouth, My reply was was just slightly grumpy. "My point was that anti-Zionists .....
» 8/11/2013 1:10:58 PM LEGO, Agreed, with a significant exception. I no longer identify with the Left, particula.....
» 7/11/2013 6:32:13 PM Loudmouth, "A bit ridiculous, really. I think they call it the logical 'fallacy of t.....
» 7/11/2013 6:23:36 PM LEGO, "I used to be a trendy lefty until I realised that so much "anti racist&q.....
» 7/11/2013 6:06:31 PM Daffy Duck, Very interesting, Blumenthal's book seems worth reading......
» 7/11/2013 10:01:40 AM Yes, indeed we first elect a parliament, not a government, and the party that is able to f.....
» 7/11/2013 9:40:03 AM The usual clumsy attempts to equate criticism of Zionism with anti-Semitism--tedious. SF,.....
» 1/11/2013 5:07:36 PM Any attempts to amend the Constitution are usually undermined by compulsory voting as the .....
» 28/10/2013 12:56:59 PM "This means racially stereotyping all Israeli Jews as an inherently evil oppressor na.....
» 21/10/2013 5:33:24 PM Here are some explanations of why some individuals with no relevant qualifications whatsoe.....
» 20/10/2013 2:29:57 PM SPQR, Yes, anything with Ashley Judd, or Mary-Louise Parker. The final series of "We.....
» 19/10/2013 3:03:47 PM The last movie I went to see was "The Man from Snowy River", (my wife liked it) .....
» 19/10/2013 9:51:24 AM Religions are ideologies and as ideologies are subject to many interpretations as societie.....
» 16/10/2013 9:27:28 PM David G, My comments are not necessarily praising the USA, just a statement of the facts .....
» 16/10/2013 2:27:06 PM David Singer, "The PLO has made its bed. It has to live with the consequences.".....
» 16/10/2013 9:50:57 AM "Impressively resilient, the US has enormous reserves of intellectual and human capit.....
» 4/10/2013 9:39:43 AM I agree with the author's analysis, with one important exception. "Let's not delude .....
» 27/09/2013 11:01:38 AM jeremy, "Either way it seems to justify putting Aitkin on your "don't bother to.....
» 24/09/2013 7:32:08 PM David G "now that the brain-dead right-wingers are no longer in the ascendancy.".....
» 24/09/2013 7:26:22 PM David Singer, I'm also somewhat amazed by your expression of compassion for the displaced.....
» 15/09/2013 11:49:57 AM Yes, indeed. The "dark art of economic forecasting" had already been outed- &q.....
» 15/09/2013 10:12:31 AM "To represent us properly we do need to ensure we elect people with more than one ide.....
» 13/09/2013 8:31:55 AM theHypocrisy, "Oops, I guess you didn't understand the analogy you were quoting, nor.....
» 12/09/2013 10:05:46 AM omarb, Speaking of fairy tales, here's one that's pertinent to the article, "The Emp.....
» 11/09/2013 10:33:03 AM Pericles, "Maybe it's just me. But what exactly is the author saying here?" No.....
» 11/09/2013 10:05:40 AM Interesting article, however I'll leave the psychology to the experts, the real test is th.....
» 9/09/2013 1:56:01 PM Anyone doubt that the country with the greatest arsenal of WMD in the ME is Israel, why no.....
» 8/09/2013 1:18:06 PM LEGO, "But the yanks are tired of the ingratitude of the world when it comes to bein.....
» 8/09/2013 9:21:50 AM OUG, Please take my advice, you really need a holiday from OLO......
» 5/09/2013 7:16:30 PM Very amusing, LOL. Definitely a promising new talent from the strange universe of climate .....
» 4/09/2013 6:56:20 PM David Singer, "Believe it or not some people are influenced in their vote by the for.....
» 4/09/2013 1:17:38 PM David Singer, http://www.jpost.com/Features/Front-Lines/Bedouin-citizens-in-Israel-feel-b.....
» 3/09/2013 7:36:29 PM The inference that can made from David Singer's "article", is that both Moslems .....
» 3/09/2013 3:37:01 PM I wonder how much the tension between Japan and China is due to the their territorial disp.....
» 3/09/2013 1:47:31 PM MEH, Very interesting, however, the genetic debate is best left to geneticists. Even if i.....
» 3/09/2013 11:27:11 AM The Black Cat, "Her faux concern for population aging is just a smokescreen for her .....
» 31/08/2013 8:29:55 PM David Singer, I certainly wouldn't try to have you banned from the site, you're a very el.....
» 29/08/2013 9:30:27 PM OUG, Could you please supply an English translation for your last comments? Who is ".....
» 29/08/2013 6:37:29 PM David G, I disagree, silence is complicity, and I also don't like to be characterised as .....
» 29/08/2013 6:10:01 PM Rhys Jones, Yes, Nazi Germany was the most technologically advanced nation in Europe and .....
» 28/08/2013 10:09:54 AM To the best of my recollection, for years on OLO, there's been a weekly "article' fro.....
» 28/08/2013 9:57:37 AM Interesting article. Australia hasn't experienced a war of independence or a murderous civ.....
» 25/08/2013 4:14:15 PM Livio, I'd also be very interested in an answer......
» 23/08/2013 3:32:34 PM "News Ltd"? LOL......
» 22/08/2013 9:21:15 PM JP, (1) "no one denies that atheists cannot and do not make up their own notions of .....
» 22/08/2013 4:37:24 PM JP, Basically the article is another variation on the assertion that morality is impossib.....
» 22/08/2013 9:52:59 AM This article is a total fantasy. The author has created straw man atheists, I could equal.....
» 22/08/2013 9:23:50 AM I noticed that Malcolm King has carefully avoided discussing the economic, social, environ.....
» 20/08/2013 9:06:47 AM Antiseptic, You seem to be as ignorant of Japanese history as Islamic history. 1."h.....
» 19/08/2013 10:53:22 PM Emperor Julian, I was born in 1946, so when I was growing up memories of Japanese barbari.....
» 19/08/2013 2:09:21 PM Yes, we should never let Japan's wartime record be forgotten. The Japanese are well-pract.....
» 18/08/2013 7:00:04 PM LEGO, So you can't provide any evidence, OK......
» 18/08/2013 1:13:44 PM LEGO, "Sorry Clara. Your prejudice against Jews is exactly the same a my prejudice a.....
» 17/08/2013 5:44:50 PM Third line should be "no support for Zionism"......
» 17/08/2013 2:40:34 PM BSDetector, "...every nation State in Europe and the Middle East is based on a claim.....
» 17/08/2013 9:31:45 AM david f, "I know it's hard to grasp that a person is against the idea of ethnic nati.....
» 16/08/2013 3:34:38 PM BSDetector, Your writing style appears very similar to David Singer's, intriguing......
» 15/08/2013 3:09:52 PM Hasbeen, If is weren't for those "lefties" there would have been no political a.....
» 15/08/2013 2:00:42 PM david f, "Makes no sense, and merely encourages Israel to draw the wagons together&q.....
» 15/08/2013 11:08:01 AM There are two overdue reforms to our electoral system- (1) The introduction of proportion.....
» 15/08/2013 10:32:30 AM A concise summary of both the ethical and political issues involved, although the author s.....
» 13/08/2013 8:22:32 AM David Singer, You've obviously nothing left but ad hominem attacks and a vindictive attit.....
» 11/08/2013 10:10:33 AM David Singer, EJ isn't "helping me out", he, like most people can identify a tr.....
» 10/08/2013 10:48:30 AM David Trollsinger You're carrying your personal animosity from one thread to another, tha.....
» 9/08/2013 4:40:12 PM Interesting article, unfortunately not much has changed in regard to the state of our econ.....
» 9/08/2013 3:11:34 PM EJ, Geoff of Perth, I considered not commenting on David Singer's toxic "articles&qu.....
» 8/08/2013 8:52:31 AM LEGO "But what we are concentrating on is the fact that the two religions are total.....
» 7/08/2013 7:17:55 PM David f, I should emphasise that I'm defending Western civilisation not Christianity, I h.....
» 7/08/2013 2:28:25 PM David f, "My reading of history leads me to regard the Christian record as far worse.....
» 7/08/2013 12:49:59 PM David f?Loudmouth "Some people on one side tend to see all those on the other side a.....
» 6/08/2013 7:00:57 PM So much outrage on OLO in regard to the Government's health policy, I wonder how much mone.....
» 6/08/2013 6:50:09 PM Smokers, like those people addicted to alcohol, should consider themselves lucky since the.....
» 6/08/2013 4:40:49 PM Antiseptic, (1) ""imposition" implies force. " of course it does, wha.....
» 6/08/2013 2:55:04 PM Antiseptic, "I'm presently studying at tertiary level the historical expansion of Is.....
» 6/08/2013 11:43:09 AM Poirot, Oh jeez, you've assumed the moral high and started writing platitudes, do you hav.....
» 6/08/2013 10:53:04 AM "Islamic terrorism is a very real challenge to our way of life." yes, however, t.....
» 5/08/2013 2:05:52 PM George, Thanks for the explanation......
» 4/08/2013 9:12:11 PM Emperor Julian, Thanks. I must have scored a few points, the desperation is palpable. Y.....
» 4/08/2013 12:44:52 PM George, (1) "...different debating standards that you call “dishonest” and “sprinkle.....
» 4/08/2013 9:50:08 AM David Singer, "Is this the statement of a Jew-lover or a Jew hater?" Actually .....
» 4/08/2013 9:05:41 AM Antiseptic, I have to agree with AJ Phillips in regard to the way you continually shift y.....
» 3/08/2013 6:27:06 PM Poirot, "the almost indistinguishable policies by the two majors are representative .....
» 3/08/2013 11:22:38 AM Davis Singer, "Do you support the right of the Jewish people to have their own State.....
» 2/08/2013 3:45:52 PM David Singer, 1. Sophistry. There were Arabs living in what is now Israel, the Ottoman Em.....
» 2/08/2013 10:05:23 AM Antiseptic, "The evolutionary psychological approach begs the question, mac. It does.....
» 1/08/2013 9:51:38 PM David Singer, "Answer: Because Israel is the Jewish National home legally sanctioned.....
» 1/08/2013 9:24:58 PM Antiseptic, " Ockham's Razor doesn't apply, because the empirical approach doesn't a.....
» 1/08/2013 4:38:34 PM Ockham's Razor applies, there's no reason to postulate the existence of a Creator, or the .....
» 1/08/2013 4:11:29 PM David G, "Australia needs to be independent of these two rogue powers before we are .....
» 1/08/2013 2:06:54 PM Jay, Agreed. That sort of hubristic threat can't be dismissed completely......
» 31/07/2013 10:40:32 PM Jay of Melbourne, "they have the capacity and the willpower to take out Rome and Ath.....
» 29/07/2013 2:54:22 PM David f David Singer is a Zionist propagandist, winning arguments is not the purpose of p.....
» 28/07/2013 11:22:57 AM David Singer, "Your Jew-hatred is clearly expressed for all to see - virulently expr.....
» 27/07/2013 8:24:10 AM Mr Singer, I doubt if anyone would be surprised by any "retaliatory" action by .....
» 26/07/2013 8:56:49 AM Jay of Melbourne, First, a correction, Spencer is not Jewish, but Catholic. "All A.....
» 24/07/2013 3:30:51 PM oops, "non-existent".....
» 24/07/2013 3:28:57 PM I know, Don, there's just something "illegitimate" about Labor governments ( and.....
» 20/07/2013 9:35:04 AM Saltpetre, Yes, the term "social democratic perspective" was referring to the c.....
» 19/07/2013 9:13:52 AM Saltpetre, I agree with the examples you've provided, however, the attitude to negative g.....
» 18/07/2013 9:32:23 AM Saltpetre "..to move also on Negative Gearing," Actually, negative gearing is .....
» 17/07/2013 6:34:44 PM Emperor Julian, I wasn't referring to the Christian ideology but to the institution of th.....
» 17/07/2013 3:11:33 PM I'm sure there will be many opportunities for negative comments if Tony, "Tow the Boa.....
» 4/07/2013 11:11:17 AM "The SPP has returned to the tired old theories of Thomas Malthus," Drivel-- t.....
» 3/07/2013 10:34:11 AM Bren, "Both governments were left wing dominated and associated with financial misma.....
» 30/06/2013 3:39:12 PM Well, everyone loves a winner, at least someone with a chance, rather than a lame duck. Fo.....
» 30/06/2013 11:04:05 AM Chris Lewis, Rudd is obviously a 'better' choice in regard to Labor's electoral prospects.....
» 29/06/2013 11:15:45 AM Hasbeen, Agreed, Gillard was an embarrassment, both for the way she gained power and for .....
» 28/06/2013 9:18:21 PM Pompete "The MSM mostly controlled by coalition supporters? Does that include Sydney.....
» 28/06/2013 10:14:20 AM Graham, Don't worry, remember that most of the MSM is controlled by Coalition supporters .....
» 27/06/2013 2:51:35 PM The most likely reasons for Gillard's downfall were that voters didn't forgive her for the.....
» 26/06/2013 10:31:12 AM Well, they would say that wouldn't they? If Bush and his accomplices thought that Iraq ac.....
» 14/06/2013 11:15:27 AM Politico, "On the world stage we’re seeing protestors in a country with a majority M.....
» 12/06/2013 10:49:22 PM Here we go again, the West is in terminal decline. About the only reliable characteristic.....
» 12/06/2013 5:55:23 PM VK3AUU, "We are only playing into the hands of their leaders who find ready listener.....
» 12/06/2013 12:38:46 PM An informative article, however, most of the arguments presented by the author have alread.....
» 5/06/2013 10:32:16 AM Killarney " And their horribleness has been going on for centuries and centuries. It.....
» 5/06/2013 9:05:43 AM This might be of interest--from the conservative/right wing "counterjihad" site .....
» 3/06/2013 9:49:15 PM Mitch@T4R, "your comments must address the topic: Western injustices." Actuall.....
» 3/06/2013 2:35:11 PM "Muslim violence pales in comparison to western violence in all respects: numbers of .....
» 1/06/2013 1:44:56 PM Jardine K Jardine, "But you don't only assume that, you assume that the State morall.....
» 31/05/2013 2:26:59 PM Yuyutsu, You're begging the question by assuming the state is an enemy, where did I asser.....
» 31/05/2013 12:41:17 PM Another attempt at the "Nanny State" argument. "Science and technology has.....
» 29/05/2013 4:02:28 PM Bazz, Read the previous comments where, for the umpteenth time, it's been explained that.....
» 29/05/2013 10:42:11 AM Very interesting article. Oh, jeeez, not more "tried and true" methodologies wi.....
» 28/05/2013 7:37:44 PM fungus, The hidden agenda behind the so-called "anti-Semitism declaration". ht.....
» 27/05/2013 2:48:49 PM OZSHRINK makes an important point, these kinds of atrocities are far from unusual in Islam.....
» 26/05/2013 10:37:06 PM SF, Eh? So all "Arabs" originate in Arabia, that statement implies that all th.....
» 25/05/2013 10:32:49 AM paul2 "There never was a Palestine, so the assertion that Israel occupies Palwstinia.....
» 24/05/2013 6:02:44 PM JayinPhiladelphia, "Also, I would note that the Jewish people are the one ethnorelig.....
» 24/05/2013 2:28:49 PM JayinPhiladelphia, Let's set some parameters in regard to "anti-Semitism"-- Sa.....
» 24/05/2013 10:09:03 AM Christianity, Islam and Judaism are ideologies and like any ideology, are fair game for cr.....
» 21/05/2013 1:44:56 PM "We are light years away from a fuly democrat UN, and i dont expect to see it my life.....
» 20/05/2013 12:55:58 PM Very interesting article on a conservative perspective of the state of the American nation.....
» 17/05/2013 9:36:31 AM Bazz, Many critics of Israel - (1) aren't ignorant in regard to Islam's 1000 year war ag.....
» 16/05/2013 4:52:20 PM Lexi, Agreed, unfortunately that's the case, and there's no evidence that the current pol.....
» 16/05/2013 9:36:37 AM David Singer, "If you care to tell me what you object to in my article I will reply .....
» 15/05/2013 1:10:57 PM Pericles, LOL Once we pass the warmongers and other ethically challenged "notables&q.....
» 15/05/2013 11:12:19 AM "Every man is entitled to express his opinion - but he should be prepared to justify .....
» 9/05/2013 11:26:36 PM stevenmeyer, Yes, I can understand, but not excuse, BBC management, outraged Moslems are .....
» 9/05/2013 6:16:36 PM stevenmeyer, I recently participated in a discussion on the same theme on "The Conve.....
» 9/05/2013 1:27:25 PM The solution to this problem is simple, Christians need to be redefined as a "race&qu.....
» 8/05/2013 10:20:36 AM "The recognition of this new country called "Palestine" by Google - and any.....
» 3/05/2013 3:22:35 PM I agree with the author we should be managing peace, not war, however that's not so easy w.....
» 24/04/2013 1:41:14 PM Interesting article. "However the dogmatic assertion of the inviolate rights of indi.....
» 10/04/2013 3:35:50 PM "The Palestinian Arab narrative conveniently ignores the fact that the two-state solu.....
» 29/03/2013 6:22:57 PM Yuyutsu, You're rather too glib. Don't paint us all with the same brush, where have I &qu.....
» 29/03/2013 4:20:09 PM David G "The Singer is, without doubt, the world's premier lily-gilder." And i.....
» 28/03/2013 8:17:31 AM stevenmeyer, "... to be a free people in your homeland." Tragically, it's som.....
» 22/03/2013 9:50:32 AM JKJ "You need to deal with the actual issues"---OK what are the actual issues? .....
» 21/03/2013 1:10:36 PM Australia has a relatively low percentage of government debt to GDP ratio, the country's r.....
» 17/03/2013 1:49:11 PM @Loudmouth, Yes indeed, the issue is ideological, earlier generations were menaced by com.....
» 15/03/2013 10:14:26 AM Well, with Mr Kazak's articles OLO finally has a Palestinian propagandist to "balance.....
» 14/03/2013 3:10:50 PM It's about time His Eminence and his colleagues got a real job, or at least, the multi-bil.....
» 12/03/2013 2:55:49 PM Another climate change sceptic who appears to have no relevant qualifications whatsoever. .....
» 8/03/2013 10:05:30 AM halduel, "It's also worth remembering that all of us in the "west" are chi.....
» 8/03/2013 9:56:45 AM I have to agree with Mr Kazak's description of Melanie Phillips and Daniel Pipes, they're .....
» 6/03/2013 1:21:57 PM Jon R, As well as Constantinople, why not North Africa and the ME, they were also once c.....
» 2/03/2013 10:54:17 AM cohenite "The concept of the 'moderate muslim' should be in the same category as oth.....
» 28/02/2013 11:41:36 AM Peter Murphy, You've made a category mistake and missed the point entirely, the distincti.....
» 27/02/2013 10:36:01 AM For the umpteenth forking time, Moslems do not constitute a "race" anymore than .....
» 23/02/2013 11:52:13 AM cohenite, I think that the women are referring to Edward Said's definition of "Orien.....
» 23/02/2013 10:14:54 AM What is of more concern than the usual clique of inept pro-Moslem propagandists are those .....
» 12/02/2013 10:00:18 AM A realistic assessment of current trends. "Australia’s integration into Asia is cle.....
» 4/02/2013 12:53:40 PM stevenmeyer, Yes, there's no evidence for the existence of of any deity, deities or indee.....
» 1/02/2013 3:01:13 PM Oh, jeeeez! Not another one, is David Singer on vacation?.....
» 27/01/2013 12:54:21 PM Interesting article. If Australia had been colonised by the French we could have followed.....
» 26/01/2013 11:31:37 AM Apparently Malcolm King hasn't bothered to research the objects of his ad hominem and stra.....
» 18/01/2013 7:02:32 PM david f "The populations of both the US and Australia have convict ancestry, but the.....
» 18/01/2013 8:17:38 AM Very interesting indeed, somewhat different from Hollywood's version of American history. .....
» 14/01/2013 7:09:30 PM o sung wu, Thanks for the clarification. Regardless of how much we might respect and ad.....
» 14/01/2013 1:54:50 PM OLO, the last refuge of the climate change deniers, they just don't get it, it's not polit.....
» 14/01/2013 6:52:57 AM o sung wu, "Why, may I ask do you and others harbour such loathing and abhorrence fo.....
» 13/01/2013 9:40:39 AM o sung wu, "More good, than some of the minor errors in judgement they've made in re.....
» 11/01/2013 9:59:48 AM Robert LePage, Agreed, however the "Great and Powerful Friend" delusion is wide.....
» 9/01/2013 10:34:13 AM Aristocrat, I agree, blaming the "Patriarchy"or the "System" is all r.....
» 8/01/2013 3:10:24 PM "Thus it is very easy to fall into the neo-colonial trap of inferiorising nation-stat.....
» 20/12/2012 1:42:29 PM Informative article. America's grotesque domestic firearm laws are entirely America's pro.....
» 18/12/2012 10:05:10 AM SPQR, I can assure you, that even though I'm a chronic Social Democrat, I'm completely im.....
» 17/12/2012 8:55:18 PM SPQR, It's a very contagious lurgy and one of the side effects is that people leave the D.....
» 17/12/2012 4:23:44 PM Poirot, Phillip S, Didn't know, thanks. Phillip S, I'm definitely not comfortable with .....
» 17/12/2012 2:25:14 PM Philip S, We only have 4 comments, so I was going to wait to reply to other commenters, h.....
» 17/12/2012 12:27:12 PM SPQR, No, it hasn't escaped my notice. To avoid the "post hoc" fallacy, we woul.....
» 17/12/2012 10:48:45 AM @Bonjour Poirot, Yes, "boat people"/refugees/asylum seekers are, in comparative.....
» 15/12/2012 12:48:33 PM SF, "...he did sign a petition in defense of Robert Faurisson, a Holocaust denier&qu.....
» 14/12/2012 1:18:29 PM Stan1 Agree with those points as presented in your post. 1, 2,4 &5 are self evident and.....
» 13/12/2012 10:39:15 AM David Singer, Stop whinging and acknowledge that the old ploy of labelling all critics of.....
» 11/12/2012 2:48:50 PM Tony Lavis, Those people partying on New Year's eve 1999 thinking that they were celebrat.....
» 11/12/2012 12:37:58 PM "On 21 December 2012 the Mayans said the Earth and its inhabitants will undergo a ‘ph.....
» 11/12/2012 7:06:15 AM csteele, I agree with your comments. Unfortunately, members of minorities glibly use term.....
» 10/12/2012 8:41:41 PM David Singer, More sophistry, pious words mean nothing and don't try to divert the discus.....
» 10/12/2012 7:53:37 AM David Singer, < the National Home set aside for the Jewish people was located in just .....
» 8/12/2012 4:34:21 PM stevenmeyer, "But here is a test case." A rather small sample, Steven. <&.....
» 8/12/2012 2:52:59 PM David Singer "I could have asked OLO to remove many personally offensive or Jew-hati.....
» 8/12/2012 7:54:46 AM stevenmeyer, You've indicated some particularly offensive comments, however we need a ref.....
» 7/12/2012 3:50:11 PM Rhys Jones, "To most progressive enlightened westerners, being called a racist is on.....
» 7/12/2012 3:30:47 PM More crocodile tears from the Zionist lobby, Mr Singer's articles are rather pythonesque i.....
» 3/12/2012 5:41:15 PM The main game here is the usual capitalist scam of transferring the costs of the externali.....
» 2/12/2012 8:49:14 AM stevenmeyer "Well of course if the Israelis did treat the Palestinians "like Ge.....
» 1/12/2012 12:53:47 PM Banjo "I know nothing of Zionist history", actually if you knew anything about .....
» 1/12/2012 9:27:44 AM Banjo, Of course, neither of us can be sure as to the real motivations behind what choice.....
» 30/11/2012 7:30:21 PM Banjo, To avoid any misunderstandings---I certainly don't have any sympathy for Islam and.....
» 30/11/2012 2:51:56 PM Rhian, <the technology described in this article is designed to save lives, not to tak.....
» 30/11/2012 2:37:36 PM Banjo, "What does this change tell us about Labor parliamentarians?" Well, ac.....
» 26/11/2012 1:58:39 PM Yuyustu, "Just as secular people must be free from the impositions of the church, so.....
» 26/11/2012 1:34:00 PM Very informative article, this debate should have been settled long ago. The secular stat.....
» 23/11/2012 2:20:47 PM This is a minor issue and there's not much a liberal democratic government can do to reduc.....
» 20/11/2012 12:15:13 PM concerned, Yes, population control should be a major concern, let's concentrate on Austra.....
» 19/11/2012 1:44:54 PM Yuyustu, and Graham Y, "In other words, if you are only 35% independent, then you sh.....
» 18/11/2012 8:52:42 PM Yuyustu, I don't understand your first comment, the following might help to explain my po.....
» 18/11/2012 2:02:14 PM Such chutzpah! This article demonstrates how entrenched the sense of entitlement in regard.....
» 17/11/2012 2:04:44 PM SPQR, There are two main Zionist propaganda themes that are employed by Ariel and others......
» 17/11/2012 8:08:43 AM SPQR, I'd agree with csteele, you usually present a coherent argument, however here you'r.....
» 13/11/2012 8:22:39 PM Jonathan J Ariel, First I should acknowledge the fact that you're prepared to engage with.....
» 13/11/2012 4:37:52 PM What does it matter where an Israeli company is located, whether it's in 'Israel or the Oc.....
» 13/11/2012 10:32:27 AM Here we go again, the usual sophistry that equates criticism of Israel with anti-Semitism......
» 11/11/2012 1:36:16 PM Hasbeen, (1) Anyone who wants to fight Israel's enemies is welcome to join the IDF. (2).....
» 11/11/2012 8:26:03 AM cohenite, Few people believe that Israel is in the front line defending the West from the.....
» 10/11/2012 8:11:17 PM Poirot, Sacre bleu, mon ami, Poirot would never wear ze burqa, ze moustache would disappe.....
» 10/11/2012 9:17:59 AM cohenite, Israel is an expansionist state that has declared war on the Palestinians, and .....
» 10/11/2012 9:07:07 AM David G "But, amazingly, in a world where many people are supposedly 'educated', a m.....
» 8/11/2012 6:53:19 AM I get the impression that the Americans think that they invented democracy and have the wo.....
» 6/11/2012 8:00:21 AM Stezza, I agree with most of your comments, it's probable that the "Great Australian.....
» 6/11/2012 7:17:18 AM stevenmeyer, Very interesting. The problem for our strategic planners is whether to dela.....
» 5/11/2012 5:01:49 PM Drone submarines seem like the ideal choice......
» 2/11/2012 2:23:26 PM Bugsy, I agree, the article is confused as well as confusing, there's not much point in c.....
» 30/10/2012 1:40:35 PM Dan S, "And I sense it leans more towards the philosophical than to anything else.&q.....
» 26/10/2012 6:38:52 PM George, Yes, I know you've made statements to the contrary but the assumption in your ar.....
» 26/10/2012 11:58:58 AM Squeers, I should state that I've no interest whatsoever in philosophical discussions in .....
» 26/10/2012 7:47:32 AM George, In my opinion david f and I have already refuted your argument that "atheism.....
» 24/10/2012 6:31:26 PM George, ">>the onus is on the believer<< Why should it be? Unless, of co.....
» 23/10/2012 9:51:31 PM Squeers, I understand your position, for me, there's no proof or even evidence of any sup.....
» 23/10/2012 7:11:06 PM Squeers, I don't want to derail the thread either, however your comments can't be left un.....
» 23/10/2012 2:58:13 PM Brian, Your article is a refreshing change from the usual "politicking". I've.....
» 21/10/2012 11:50:07 AM Bugsy -- LOL, this site specialises in unqualified climate change "sceptics". R.....
» 20/10/2012 8:35:20 AM Where are all the climate change sceptics who are qualified climatologists and actually kn.....
» 18/10/2012 9:00:05 AM Less than a generation the later the Japanese invaded China devastating large areas of the.....
» 18/10/2012 7:52:43 AM When believers cite statistics that x% of those surveyed "believe in God" what g.....
» 14/10/2012 2:14:04 PM Aristocrat, Agreed. "Privatising" Islam isn't going to be easy, as many commen.....
» 14/10/2012 1:58:54 PM PeacefulPeace, "If the universe requires a cause why doesn't God? Because that's His.....
» 13/10/2012 3:28:39 PM PeacefulPeace, "How do you explain the point from nothing to something without God? .....
» 12/10/2012 10:31:07 PM PeacefulPeace, I'm definitely not insincere, in my sincere opinion Islam is a primitive s.....
» 12/10/2012 9:51:02 AM PeacefulPeace, I'll ask the same question as SPQR, I'm also concerned by your remarks. .....
» 11/10/2012 7:50:40 AM @Hadi, So some people are outraged by other people's outrage, so what? It's not a require.....
» 10/10/2012 6:37:32 PM @Hadi, "...simply rubbishing aside the source of it all as "non-existent".....
» 10/10/2012 3:47:26 PM This article is a considerable improvement on the usual special pleading from Moslem comme.....
» 10/10/2012 10:55:13 AM Divergence, The problem for us high population growth opponents is being heard above the .....
» 9/10/2012 7:57:49 AM Australia's problem with asylum seekers/ illegal immigrants is minor by world standards, d.....
» 3/10/2012 7:29:17 AM Curmudgeon, "To each his own trade". There are some people without the appropri.....
» 2/10/2012 12:30:42 PM Neither author appears to have any qualifications in climatology whatsoever. What is the c.....
» 27/09/2012 10:52:02 AM Bugsy, The situation you described is very confronting and far more threatening than a sm.....
» 26/09/2012 5:20:45 PM I found this on GoV, yes, I know, it's a right-wing pro-Israel site, however, stories like.....
» 26/09/2012 10:30:15 AM "What are Moslems so angry about?" Let's see a list of Moslems' grievances. &qu.....
» 23/09/2012 4:25:17 PM Rhrosty, There's no polite way to say this--you have absolutely no idea of what you're ta.....
» 22/09/2012 7:22:18 PM Rhrosty, Jihad, schmihad! The name is irrelevant, the fact remains that Islam was spread .....
» 22/09/2012 1:21:26 PM kactuz, The website says it all, just more propaganda and of course, the Kuffars must be .....
» 21/09/2012 7:42:12 PM Johnathan J Ariel, It's the kind of article someone writes when wearing very large multi-.....
» 21/09/2012 7:38:42 PM Hasbeen, Yes, the article seems remarkably naive......
» 21/09/2012 3:06:35 PM Emperor Julian "Their demands are not political, they're religious, clearly spelled .....
» 21/09/2012 12:29:15 PM "....it is difficult to say exactly what is being articulated." Really? We coul.....
» 14/09/2012 12:43:45 PM Just what the country needs, another Ord river project, private profit at public expense......
» 12/09/2012 11:51:46 AM Hasbeen, I wasn't making any value judgements as to which of the various environments was.....
» 12/09/2012 8:16:41 AM Jon J, Yes, Aboriginal Australians didn't "protect" or "care for" the.....
» 29/08/2012 8:54:08 AM stevenmeyer, An interesting and dispassionate assessment of the situation we all face. &.....
» 28/08/2012 7:26:13 AM drab, There are reports of Mugabe style pressure, some of it lethal, on White farmers in .....
» 24/08/2012 2:38:21 PM Yes, same script, different actors. I wonder if there's a SA version of Robert Mugabe wait.....
» 17/08/2012 9:46:15 AM McCackie, Israel is a "true democracy", so what? Another "true democracy&q.....
» 16/08/2012 8:09:05 AM Another ME nation is being demonized in preparation for an attack, sound familiar? All t.....
» 15/08/2012 10:35:37 AM Graham Cooke, Agreed. The Iranians could argue that they need nuclear weapons to protect .....
» 10/08/2012 11:10:30 AM I really want to believe that the author's survey reflects a new maturity and a decline in.....
» 10/08/2012 8:57:12 AM Ludwig, Yes, indeed I'm fed up with the "Only Caucasian people are racist" pro.....
» 9/08/2012 12:40:47 PM Is this article serious, or an attempt at satire? Foreign investment is a political and ec.....
» 8/08/2012 4:03:31 PM Yes, the widespread concern over the "gold medal gap" is rather embarrassing, pa.....
» 8/08/2012 8:36:50 AM Yes, I entirely agree, there is indeed, nothing inevitable about the "Asian Century&q.....
» 4/08/2012 2:29:09 PM stevenmeyer, "In western countries declines in TFR predate the pill by many decades......
» 3/08/2012 10:27:54 AM "And sociologists' theories about population, or anything else, aren't worth the pixe.....
» 25/07/2012 10:40:03 AM YERBIGA, First, Greco-Roman cultural traditions survived the disappearance of the Western.....
» 24/07/2012 8:13:23 PM YEBIGA, You're confusing the end of the Western Empire with the end of Greco-Roman civili.....
» 24/07/2012 3:48:05 PM I don't think that the preferencial system can be "fixed", better to abolish it .....
» 24/07/2012 3:32:49 PM mik, I agree with you in regard to Ziabari's double standards BTW, previous articles have.....
» 24/07/2012 7:59:56 AM Poirot, Doesn't make me wonder, science is neutral, how humans use science is a different.....
» 23/07/2012 1:36:17 PM Rhrosty,mik, So, Moslems should be massacred and abused in one country because Moslems op.....
» 21/07/2012 5:07:05 PM Steven, The West hating left are far more dangerous than the far right. PC and multicul.....
» 21/07/2012 4:51:04 PM csteele, "Roman roads became hard to maintain because the knowledge and expertise ha.....
» 21/07/2012 10:39:57 AM Steven, Yes, (1) the expressions 'Dark Ages' and "The Lucky Country" are ofte.....
» 20/07/2012 4:20:47 PM csteele, I'm another fan of Mike Duncan, he presents a very coherent continuous narrative.....
» 20/07/2012 10:03:55 AM csteele, "The second is one we can take from history. It is claimed by some scholars.....
» 20/07/2012 9:43:04 AM Steven Meyer, At least half the commenters here appear to be missing the point entirely-t.....
» 17/07/2012 10:30:09 PM Steven Meyer, Yes, "peak oil" is really a variable not a fixed point, it's a pr.....
» 17/07/2012 5:30:25 PM Steven Meyer, Well argued. I never believed that the USSR was a threat to America's econo.....
» 15/07/2012 5:35:09 PM Squeers I can't think of any of Harpo's friends who was more eccentric than Alexander Woo.....
» 15/07/2012 10:55:28 AM Squeers, "Bring on the Empty Horses" is marvellous. "Harpo Speaks",.....
» 14/07/2012 8:54:17 PM Poirot, I forgot to mention "The Lucky Country" by Donald Horne--a seniors' mom.....
» 13/07/2012 8:12:16 AM If anyone doubts that Islam is an enemy of democracy they should see this video and text o.....
» 12/07/2012 10:59:49 AM Rhrosty, I generally agree with SPQR, you are, off the mark. (1)We don't owe our alphabe.....
» 10/07/2012 12:21:36 PM AdamB, I wouldn't describe OUG as a "troll" either, he's a practicioner of the .....
» 9/07/2012 2:37:20 PM jeremy, it was the Menzies government that first involved Australia in Vietnam, his finge.....
» 5/07/2012 8:20:09 PM Yuyustu, Yes, of course, Mr Singer is really a pro-Palestinian propagandist posing as a .....
» 4/07/2012 10:20:05 PM csteele, I've been a Clarke fan since I read "The City and the Stars", Asimov w.....
» 4/07/2012 6:28:30 PM Dear csteele, I read "The Prince" when I was at High School, which was indeed a.....
» 4/07/2012 2:56:12 PM Poirot, Very good question. I don't reach much fiction either and I don't have a single .....
» 4/07/2012 12:00:42 PM Religious freedom is most likely to occur in a secular liberal democratic state, so religi.....
» 4/07/2012 10:19:52 AM Jon J, Yes, indeed, this is a dialogue from a parallel universe. The idea that religion i.....
» 30/06/2012 11:42:51 AM Another example of the "Only White People are Racist " hypocrisy. When I've been.....
» 23/06/2012 10:01:06 AM drab, I generally agree with your comments in regard to 'subservience' being our idea. Ho.....
» 22/06/2012 12:43:11 PM Very interesting article. The myth that the government is the enemy seems to be an import .....
» 16/06/2012 10:27:19 PM Ludwig, Yes, that classification is very significant. What I meant was that dingoes were.....
» 16/06/2012 8:59:12 AM o sung wu, Very interesting 'insiders's' opinion. I, and many others, have always suspect.....
» 15/06/2012 5:52:29 PM Hasbeen, I'm not sure what you mean by 'remain with them', do you mean stay as a constitu.....
» 15/06/2012 11:35:38 AM Interesting article. Australia is 'British' because we acquired the British brand of liber.....
» 15/06/2012 10:40:44 AM I'm also old enough to remember the entire squalid affair from the start. I was appalled a.....
» 11/06/2012 11:21:01 AM Chris Lewis, I agree, Australia has a "great British Legacy", particularly thos.....
» 7/06/2012 8:53:57 AM Interesting article, I thought that Kiwis would have more sense. Without public broadcast.....
» 30/05/2012 9:10:08 PM Yes, politicians, during a period of "austerity", are more likely to spend money.....
» 27/05/2012 8:07:59 PM Time gentlemen, puleeeze!.....
» 24/05/2012 7:54:10 PM plantagenet, I certainly agree with your comments on the military capacity and technologi.....
» 24/05/2012 6:47:08 PM plantagenet, Yes, but (1) it was a war we involved ourselves in without adequate preparat.....
» 24/05/2012 4:28:03 PM Yes, indeed, the article is a neat summary, Australia's 'enemies' are really America's and.....
» 23/05/2012 9:12:34 AM Why are some drugs legal and others illegal? Two extremely dangerous drugs (nicotine and a.....
» 14/05/2012 4:59:41 PM If indeed "Israel is the only democracy in the ME" that fact is completely usele.....
» 14/05/2012 1:35:49 PM Just when I thought is was safe to visit OLO, he's back! Poor little defenceless Israel, .....
» 11/05/2012 8:28:55 AM Yuyustu, Thanks for the info, however, regardless of the details, the bombing of the King.....
» 9/05/2012 3:58:40 PM I wonder where Begin was during the Deir Yassin massacre-wasn't he a member of the Irgun, .....
» 8/05/2012 8:26:44 AM Jon J, Yes, so do I. Unfortunately there are two main factors that prevent civilised soci.....
» 7/05/2012 10:48:14 AM The reason Jones can 'get away with it', is that he lives in a liberal democracy, not an I.....
» 4/04/2012 11:52:46 AM "The absence of God will not bring with it the presence of human harmony because we w.....
» 27/03/2012 7:55:28 AM rache, Yes, however, that still doesn't alter the fact that Nazi Germany wasn't a democra.....
» 27/03/2012 7:43:36 AM It's probably too late to change to Rudd, even if it were possible, apparently most Labor .....
» 25/03/2012 1:44:28 PM Rache, Germany "a democratic republic" when it entered WW1 and WW2? Eh, are you.....
» 22/03/2012 2:13:58 PM G R, I agree with your sentiments in principle, however, a necessary condition for the em.....
» 21/03/2012 3:39:24 PM Agreed, why discriminate? We run an immigration policy, not a service for temporary econom.....
» 17/02/2012 8:14:11 AM What can you do with those recalcitrant 'Palestinians'? So ideologically committed to thei.....
» 1/02/2012 9:50:21 AM Neoliberal economics is wrong. Far too much, philosophical-first principle reasoning and n.....
» 25/01/2012 12:54:59 PM I must have misunderstood, Mr Alhadeff appears to be conflating anti-Semitism with (1)crit.....
» 24/01/2012 9:44:59 AM Brian, I'd say the problem is not so much 'credentialism' as the type of credentials educ.....
» 20/01/2012 2:26:49 PM "Pressure Israel, not Iran" Pressure Israel? That will be the day when pigs fly......
» 19/01/2012 4:28:11 PM Ulis, "I can not believe the printing of two pro Israeli articles back to back witho.....
» 17/01/2012 8:09:11 AM It's about time, hopefully, nearly 200 years of Yanqui murderous interference and bullying.....
» 13/01/2012 10:40:58 AM David Leigh, I agree that the we have serious environmental,economic and political proble.....
» 12/01/2012 7:24:31 AM "2012 is, now famously, the year that the long count Mayan calendar predicts will see.....
» 9/01/2012 2:57:36 PM This is tedious, some 'balance' on Online opinion is long overdue, some Palestinian propag.....
» 6/01/2012 5:23:32 PM Peter Hume, Altough you appear to be 'Off Topic' by discussing the relative virtues of so.....
» 6/01/2012 1:04:53 PM Bryan, I'm a retired accountant (and halfway through Gleeson-White's book) I already know.....
» 5/01/2012 1:01:43 PM Why is Oz "open to NZ citizens"? More than 100 years ago Kiwis decided not to jo.....
» 3/01/2012 11:57:23 AM Grim,David f and other sceptics, You might find this book interesting- "why we belie.....
» 2/01/2012 9:17:07 PM Luciferase, As david f has stated, the onus is on believers to prove the existence of an .....
» 29/12/2011 2:37:05 PM David Singer, "What particular expertise do you possess to pooh pooh what the PLO Ch.....
» 28/12/2011 8:57:06 PM David Singer, Of course most comments here might appear OT, however you're not really wri.....
» 28/12/2011 7:54:23 AM One of the propaganda lines used by Zionists and their supporters is that Israel is on the.....
» 27/12/2011 7:37:38 AM csteele, Agreed, that's obvious to all except Zionists and their fellow travellers whose .....
» 26/12/2011 8:49:36 AM Yabby, I'm sure the trans-national corporations would thrive without the federal governme.....
» 25/12/2011 7:10:58 AM Yabby, No, my point was that foreign corporations would buy the state after 'independence.....
» 24/12/2011 2:06:45 PM There seems to be a universal law of federations-- when a province or state experiences a .....
» 23/12/2011 4:15:43 PM Yuyustu, (1)Who said that the Palestinians would 'disappear'? Well, actually, it was the .....
» 23/12/2011 7:46:02 AM "I think that we've had an invented Palestinian people who are in fact Arabs and who .....
» 19/12/2011 6:58:09 AM Hitchens, the atheist supported an atrocity, the invasion of Iraq, and its consequences. I.....
» 3/12/2011 9:14:42 AM Very interesting article. I can remember reading Ross Garnaut's Australia and the "NE.....
» 30/11/2011 6:58:54 AM Delchev, You seem to have the idea that I intend to get involved in discussions as to who.....
» 29/11/2011 3:16:10 PM Demetri, I'm not going to discuss genetics as different studies lead to different conclus.....
» 28/11/2011 1:52:38 PM Agreed Killarney, We could also say that without... The Minoans, The Romans, the Etru.....
» 10/11/2011 7:55:09 AM "The secretary acknowledges that Islam has been linked to terrorism and the oppressio.....
» 11/10/2011 12:06:40 PM Ah, the ancient Australian rural socialist, dam building ritual. Yes, just what the econo.....
» 5/10/2011 9:13:10 AM Brian, Yes, what have the scientists ever done for us? I certainly agree with your obser.....
» 1/10/2011 8:40:51 AM stevenlmeyer, I read Prof. Keen's article as a another critique of economics' intellectua.....
» 30/09/2011 7:48:00 AM Heresy! Interesting article. "If economics were a real science, it would have long .....
» 26/09/2011 4:57:36 PM "Like many, I believe in a two state solution, with peace and goodwill between Israel.....
» 26/09/2011 3:49:00 PM Danielle, I'll accept the data you present, of course many Palestinians benefit from the .....
» 25/09/2011 4:35:37 PM David Singer, "Classifying the Jews as "invaders" - when they were returni.....
» 25/09/2011 9:53:26 AM Danielle, Well, those links really don't provide any ethical basis to the Zionist enterpr.....
» 24/09/2011 4:23:19 PM David Singer, Hamas,schmamas. I don't doubt that, generally,the Palestinians have been v.....
» 25/08/2011 1:17:37 PM Peter Hume, We're actually talking about the current state of Western and Chinese economi.....
» 25/08/2011 8:46:07 AM imajulianutter, "Now 'state directed capitalism' is a contradiction in terms..".....
» 24/08/2011 10:25:51 AM imajulianutter, You're making sweeping generalizations in regard to China, you could be c.....
» 23/08/2011 11:38:14 AM Chris, You're certainly not alone in your views. I majored in economics at business scho.....
» 23/08/2011 9:21:44 AM Chris Lewis, Yes, economics isn't a science, citizens are basically lab rats in social ex.....
» 22/08/2011 3:51:42 PM Interesting summary of the Western dilemma, now we're the societies strangled by ideology .....
» 2/08/2011 4:05:08 PM The usual ideological bias presented as economic theory, market failure is irrelevant. The.....
» 26/07/2011 3:34:52 PM The biter bit. Unfortunately Murdoch and his organization will survive and probably thriv.....
» 10/06/2011 8:54:25 AM Yes, I agree completely. The Afghanistan tragedy is just another in a long series of US fo.....
» 29/05/2011 3:27:57 PM @individual, Do you mean all the posts (which includes my post,btw) or the previous two? .....
» 29/05/2011 1:46:53 PM @ individual "I can't believe some of you seeing themselves as enlightened & democra.....
» 27/05/2011 4:33:37 PM The idea implicit in the author's arguments is that liberal democratic societies will have.....
» 4/05/2011 10:28:34 AM Mohammed Ali has tainted an otherwise reasonable position with the illogical conflation of.....
» 25/04/2011 12:14:18 PM Jim Wallace, The significant factor in the West's pre-eminence is not really 'Christianit.....
» 21/04/2011 3:03:58 PM I agree with Dr Cannold and other sceptics. Implicit in the claim that Christianity is the.....
» 21/04/2011 9:05:45 AM Agree with previous posts. Isn't multiculturalism just marvellous, with its hyphenated id.....
» 19/04/2011 7:49:47 PM 40 years in the country and couldn't be bothered to take out Australian citizenship(luckil.....
» 15/04/2011 4:59:33 PM Peter Hume, Actually, now that you've restated your position and realise that I'm not arg.....
» 14/04/2011 4:28:22 PM Peter Hume, I refer you to this definition-- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoliberalism .....
» 14/04/2011 11:51:58 AM Chris Lewis, Very interesting summary of the 'state of play'. "Whatever the outcome.....
» 12/04/2011 7:31:59 PM Loudmouth, Racial villification laws shouldn't apply in the case of religious belief,if t.....
» 12/04/2011 2:42:16 PM Dilan Thampapillai has made a good case for racial villification laws--if they are applied.....
» 11/03/2011 8:06:44 AM Interesting article. I agree with Chris Lewis's assessment of the differences between the .....
» 10/03/2011 11:33:34 AM stevenlmeyer, Exactly, the author expresses the standard conflation of race and religion .....
» 9/03/2011 1:52:39 PM "The UN partition plan was rejected by the Arabs"(outrageous!)- as was their rig.....
» 3/03/2011 10:14:16 AM I agree with Houston Ash, I wouldn't value the opinion of anyone who regards Henry Kissing.....
» 1/03/2011 1:31:46 PM stevenlmeyer, Thanks for the support and info. Yes, I realise 'grateful's' playing a gam.....
» 28/02/2011 9:21:23 PM grateful, Nice try,do you really think I get most of my information instantly from the Ne.....
» 28/02/2011 6:33:01 PM grateful, here they are some- (1)'Byzantium: The Early Centuries' (2)'Byzantium: The Ap.....
» 28/02/2011 3:32:37 PM pelican, Yusuf Islam was reported during the 'Satanic Verses'controversy as calling for t.....
» 28/02/2011 8:17:11 AM suzeonline, "yet some of their descendants today are upset about having peoples from.....
» 26/02/2011 5:38:53 PM I'd like to add, those who use the terms 'race' and 'religion' synonymously or won't ackno.....
» 25/02/2011 1:13:38 PM As so often occurs, the dicussion has been diverted from 'Multiculturalism' as a doctrine .....
» 25/02/2011 7:56:58 AM I can't remember reading a more concise summary of the dysfunctions of 'Multiculturalism' .....
» 23/02/2011 1:21:41 PM stevenlmeyer, "But is this really what the multi-culti crowd have in mind?" Ind.....
» 22/02/2011 4:06:02 PM "Multiculturalism in Australia is about letting people in Australia keep parts of the.....
» 18/02/2011 4:44:33 PM Yuyustu, Yes, even though I don't agree with the arguments that Zionists use for the crea.....
» 18/02/2011 12:25:00 PM Yuyutsu, "6 million people in Israel are not oppressing Palestinians-only a few of t.....
» 16/02/2011 9:36:17 AM I wonder how much longer Israel can depend on the uncritical support of a declining and ov.....
» 7/02/2011 12:04:38 PM Graham, What a surprise, corporations are not prepared to support free speech. I'd certai.....
» 6/02/2011 7:48:18 AM SPQR, Fair comment. I should have been more explicit, I wasn't trying to present Prof Ore.....
» 5/02/2011 5:33:36 PM I'll accept the climate change hypothesis until climatologists change their minds. I don't.....
» 2/02/2011 7:10:23 AM Interesting.The dispute seems ridiculous from this distance, however one person's farce is.....
» 1/02/2011 8:48:36 AM Interesting article. What alliance? I'm also rather sceptical as to the real reason for .....
» 31/01/2011 2:30:11 PM Clownfish, Very interesting paper I read it last year, however it's useful to read it aga.....
» 31/01/2011 10:27:58 AM Peter King, Yes,exactly,the theodicy problem,in my opinion this is compelling evidence ag.....
» 30/01/2011 8:35:40 AM Shintaro, The evidence is produced by inductive reasoning. Squeers, I'll accept that a .....
» 29/01/2011 5:15:19 PM Squeers, What relevance does 'faith' or ideology have to the AFA's definition of atheism?.....
» 28/01/2011 3:17:21 PM david f, I'll accept your argument that there are different definitions of 'atheism'. How.....
» 28/01/2011 9:43:08 AM grateful, I'm afraid the Sheik is rather incoherent himself, I have to say I don't see wh.....
» 28/01/2011 9:10:09 AM david f, "One can be a religious person and an atheist person", yes, if we use .....
» 27/01/2011 7:17:54 PM Congratulations,another person has achieved enlightenment. I can understand people abando.....
» 27/01/2011 3:16:08 PM Very interesting. Some of the pro-Israel propaganda sites are becoming almost hysterically.....
» 11/01/2011 2:30:18 PM I have a suggestion-read Connor and Lines' book "Overloading Australia". The aut.....
» 10/01/2011 2:21:42 PM The ancients Greeks didn't regard the Macedonians as Greeks,rather as semi-barbarians with.....
» 20/12/2010 10:26:10 AM I suppose the endangered apostrophe will cause more confusion when it finally becomes exti.....
» 18/12/2010 8:15:01 AM @wobbles 'only one religion can possibly be true',well, believers might hold that opinion.....
» 17/12/2010 7:30:36 AM Agreed. However, even if we eliminate the Christianity from 'Christmas' we're left with a .....
» 1/12/2010 8:23:33 AM Rhian, I agree with your latest comments, but with some reservations. Trade and a flexibl.....
» 30/11/2010 6:27:54 PM Rhian, Well, yes, I learned the economic theory of free trade many years ago, however eco.....
» 30/11/2010 10:24:16 AM I agree with most previous comments.The author's arguments seem remarkably naive, free tra.....
» 26/11/2010 5:25:03 PM Andrew Carr, If the Chinese assessment of North Korea's future is pessimistic they might.....
» 26/11/2010 11:56:56 AM The author's arguments are sound, in principle, however China has the veto over internatio.....
» 12/11/2010 7:18:41 AM Chris Lewis, I couldn't listen to Bitar for more than 5 minutes. Agreed. I have been a .....
» 3/11/2010 5:46:47 PM Yes,in reference to rare earths, Stezza has effectively refuted the author's argument. Tho.....
» 2/11/2010 8:24:42 AM @Al, We're not discussing the possibilties of any society defining itself as an 'ethno-re.....
» 1/11/2010 3:35:10 PM I still don't understand what the term 'Jewish State' means.If someone proposed an oath of.....
» 29/10/2010 3:11:14 PM BAYGON, As far as I understand, Hicks was never properly convicted,as he wasn't allowed a.....
» 28/10/2010 3:05:22 PM Yes,well argued. There seems to be an assumption by a sizeable proportion of the Australi.....
» 27/10/2010 10:39:13 AM A more accurate title would be, 'Malign Israel'......
» 26/10/2010 2:23:07 PM Yes,far too often opponents of our 'population policy' are characterised as 'dreamy greeni.....
» 24/10/2010 8:07:36 AM stevenlmeyer, Yes,agreed,our liberties are being eroded by continous accommodation to Mos.....
» 22/10/2010 10:20:47 PM Pericles, Yes, but in that case, Caesar,came, saw, didn't conquer and left. I'm sure some.....
» 22/10/2010 6:10:06 PM Pericles, (The Roman conquest of Britain was in 43 AD) 'There are far more examples of s.....
» 22/10/2010 12:21:09 PM Interesting article,and a refreshing change from the usual ill -defined versions of 'multi.....
» 21/10/2010 6:44:52 AM Michi, Thanks for the interesting discussion,a different perspective is always informativ.....
» 20/10/2010 12:47:53 PM Michi, You're saying that anti-Japanese sentiments in China are the result of cynical pro.....
» 19/10/2010 2:30:29 PM Michi, I've never claimed to 'know a lot about China', who does? Australia needed to i.....
» 16/10/2010 3:55:10 PM stevenlmeyer, The correct category for your opinion is- http://www.fotosearch.com/bigcom.....
» 16/10/2010 2:21:57 PM Don't some ignorant people realize that the West is locked in an existential struggle with.....
» 15/10/2010 12:01:34 PM David G, I doubt very much if the present rulers of China are 'Communists' in anything bu.....
» 14/10/2010 9:32:28 PM PaulL, You're basically arguing that the Palestinians should accept their third-rate stat.....
» 14/10/2010 9:13:57 PM Chris Lewis, I didn't find anything significant in Hugh White's comments to disagree with.....
» 14/10/2010 4:13:43 PM This is an interesting link, Hugh White is commenting on his Quarterly Essay "China,.....
» 14/10/2010 7:38:44 AM Chris Lewis, 'Western societies cannot compete with China', that's certainly true if the.....
» 13/10/2010 8:21:04 PM David G, I agree with 'TurnRightThenLeft' in regard to China's expansion. The idea that C.....
» 13/10/2010 4:03:06 PM Throughout its history the US has outlasted or defeated its rivals. Now America is in the .....
» 11/10/2010 7:48:52 AM PaulL, Re 'Zionism', "a worldwide movement founded with the purpose of establishin.....
» 10/10/2010 10:53:42 AM stevenlmeyer, Those arrest warrants sound like a marvellous idea, I doubt if the practice.....
» 9/10/2010 8:05:31 PM David G, I don't agree with you that Zionist propaganda should be ignored, that implies a.....
» 7/10/2010 7:55:27 AM I agree with other comments here, that there are some religious/ cultural practices by eth.....
» 7/10/2010 7:10:18 AM I wonder if the Chinese are also 'getting even' for Japan's appalling record of atrocities.....
» 3/10/2010 8:13:46 PM The discussion has certainly digressed into irrelevant comments as to the virtues(or vices.....
» 1/10/2010 5:02:52 PM Brian Kollin, (1) thanks for the definition, however,it's not relevant to my question as .....
» 1/10/2010 12:27:35 PM stevenlmyer, So far I've never read, or heard, the definition of 'multiculturalism' from .....
» 27/09/2010 7:50:47 PM stevenlmeyer, I have to agree with David G that the US is a remarkably bellicose society .....
» 27/09/2010 4:54:04 PM Interesting article and it presents some disturbing realities. How can any credible,ethic.....
» 27/09/2010 4:07:50 PM No, total waste of the taxpayers money,those who think that circus(the Commonwealth itself.....
» 27/09/2010 3:59:57 PM TrashcanMan, Of course no society is perfect, however my argument is of degree, not of ki.....
» 27/09/2010 9:14:25 AM TrashcanMan, Your comments are naive, there is great difference between the noble sentime.....
» 26/09/2010 5:18:09 PM Well, I hope that those who argue that the majority of Moslems don't accept the totalitari.....
» 24/09/2010 4:27:11 PM The teaching of religions has absolutely no place in the curriculum of a modern education .....
» 23/09/2010 3:18:51 PM Alice Aslan, "But Islamic bigotry has received the greatest attention",and the .....
» 21/09/2010 11:43:31 AM I thought I'd muddy the waters a little more in regard to Hitler's atheism. A media releas.....
» 21/09/2010 8:57:13 AM Constance, "[T]he death of God also means the death of Western morality and Western .....
» 20/09/2010 10:23:14 PM Chris C, Yes,my statement was really a general comment on the 'Hitler as atheist' remark .....
» 20/09/2010 4:25:22 PM Chris C, Whether Hitler was a Catholic or an atheist and what his intentions were to the.....
» 19/09/2010 4:01:32 PM grateful, I really should have known better than to argue with a believer, To explain th.....
» 19/09/2010 3:35:11 PM stevenlmeyer, Unfortunately, the magic words 'religion and race',especially if these can .....
» 19/09/2010 9:40:41 AM grateful. I think we should end our dicussion we're not making any progress because of ou.....
» 17/09/2010 11:06:55 PM grateful, The reference to O'Neill's book is on page 19, there are also other books on th.....
» 17/09/2010 2:48:58 PM McReal, OK, however, I can't think of any moral or political imperative that requires the.....
» 17/09/2010 11:11:43 AM Poirot. Agreed. The Zionists originally claimed that they intended a 100% 'purchase' of P.....
» 16/09/2010 10:12:14 AM grateful, I suggest you avoid ad hominem arguments, I don't use them. What statements a.....
» 15/09/2010 10:32:56 AM Prof.Jakubowicz hasn't explained why Australia needs a 'multicultural policy' administered.....
» 14/09/2010 3:08:39 PM All this whingeing from the Murdoch-Coalition faction,basically they're saying "we we.....
» 14/09/2010 12:50:43 PM Dear david f, Well yes,of course it's better to divert the attention of a destructive mil.....
» 14/09/2010 9:47:26 AM Pericles,Arjay, Actually you've both missed the point,I thought the significance was obvi.....
» 13/09/2010 7:44:27 AM grateful, I have read numerous extracts from the Quran,after 9/11 there's been no shortag.....
» 12/09/2010 2:21:30 PM bigmal, I agree with your concluding comments,many Moslems just don't seem to understand .....
» 12/09/2010 9:19:58 AM Banjo Paterson, I'm not sure what point you making by mentioning the atrocities committed.....
» 12/09/2010 8:56:59 AM ulis, david f has already corrected your mistake,however- Arabs are Semites in a cultur.....
» 11/09/2010 9:27:55 AM @ grateful There are two approaches to the text of the Quran- (1)There is no evidence th.....
» 10/09/2010 4:33:17 PM Troposa, Agreed,unfortunately 'b' is the most likely interpretation. I wish the loony ha.....
» 30/08/2010 4:39:13 PM KenH, We all know what a 'post hoc' fallacy is,however we can't be sure that the correlat.....
» 20/08/2010 4:27:44 PM Interesting article on how the Greens have 'lost the plot'. In their book 'Overloading Au.....
» 10/08/2010 9:17:37 AM LOL This article was originally published in the Murdoch media,the propaganda department o.....
» 5/08/2010 2:47:51 PM What 'demographic time bomb'? Who's blowing the 'dog whistle' here? I'm waiting for an arg.....
» 3/08/2010 3:33:08 PM Cheryl, So,you can't present any evidence to support your assertions. NB Ad hominem attac.....
» 3/08/2010 2:43:08 PM Cheryl, Where's the evidence that much of the opposition to high immigration rates is mot.....
» 3/08/2010 9:14:00 AM A concise summary of the dysfunctions of the national immigration addiction.There are soun.....
» 22/07/2010 10:20:03 AM Foyle, yes,who wants to elect a quasi-monarch for four years who is often in conflict wit.....
» 22/07/2010 10:04:22 AM Once more I have to point out-Australians never have elected a Prime Minister,we elect a P.....
» 12/07/2010 3:54:59 PM The number of refugees illegally entering Australia is trivial by world standards the 'pro.....
» 10/07/2010 4:10:20 PM Benjamin1n "Apart from Israel, the entire region is a basin of racism,misogyny,homop.....
» 8/07/2010 3:57:38 PM The Coalition can't prevent the refugee boats from arriving anymore than Labor,although th.....
» 29/06/2010 11:52:19 AM Chris Lewis and Phil Matimein, of course, no Australian prime minister has ever been voted.....
» 11/06/2010 1:25:24 PM Banjo, I agree with your comments on 'muticulturalism as an ideology' and in regard to it.....
» 11/06/2010 9:24:30 AM Yes,Proxy, Moslems aren't a 'race' anymore than communists are a 'race'(if there are any .....
» 10/06/2010 10:15:32 PM Country girl, What point are you making?' Culture'is not synonymous with 'race',so what's.....
» 10/06/2010 3:46:15 PM First, who cares what Robin Williams says? This article appears rather tendentious,it as.....
» 5/06/2010 11:45:15 AM Let's get some perspective here,the topic is not the behaviour of Jews,it's the policies a.....
» 3/06/2010 11:13:09 AM Zionists are receiving justifiable criticism because of an irrefutable fact-Israel's long .....
» 28/05/2010 1:51:36 PM Interesting, Those financial institutions that lent money to Greece would notice if the co.....
» 25/05/2010 8:52:05 AM Bruce, The proposed tax is on super or excessive profits.I doubt very much that the manag.....
» 21/05/2010 9:58:33 PM Rhian, The question of what level of population is optimum for Australia is a totally dif.....
» 21/05/2010 10:27:26 AM vanna, Somewhat higher than my experience in 14 footers,however, my argument, originally.....
» 21/05/2010 10:08:18 AM Mohammmed Ali, I don't doubt the contributions that immigrants from all ethnic groups hav.....
» 21/05/2010 8:30:39 AM David G, Generally,the real value of an 'achievement' is whether or not it improves socie.....
» 20/05/2010 2:27:45 PM What significance does this achievement have for society,the youngest to 'achieve' this, t.....
» 13/05/2010 7:23:03 PM Ho Hum, OK,I don't know anything about Thornton's other affiliations,however his is defin.....
» 13/05/2010 2:47:29 PM Surely we can allow the Athenians some latitude,after all they were the first urbanised so.....
» 13/05/2010 9:57:57 AM Interesting.The Athenians lost the Peloponnesian War because their hubris,perhaps it's an .....
» 12/05/2010 10:17:45 AM The author is presenting a classic 'straw man' argument by inventing the category 'anti-po.....
» 7/05/2010 10:54:24 AM Yes,I agree,excellent article.High population growth mainly serves vested interests, not t.....
» 25/04/2010 10:05:21 AM Proxy, An impressive summary of militant multiculturalism and the ideal society,however f.....
» 24/04/2010 11:01:06 AM Jay, Interesting. I agree with your comment in reference to values'...as long as they do.....
» 23/04/2010 1:04:16 PM Perhaps some of you could stop being bitchy and consider the article? Is anyone intereste.....
» 22/04/2010 5:14:07 PM The term 'racist country' is really relative,Australia is not as racist as Japan for examp.....
» 12/04/2010 2:21:13 PM Yes,sound advice from Peter McMahon.The problem for Australians is that we've always relie.....
» 8/04/2010 2:39:11 PM The main function of the anti-Labor parties is to keep Labor out of office and to support .....
» 31/03/2010 9:33:54 AM "Wafted by a gale of Jew hatred that seeks the elimination of the Jewish state...&quo.....
» 24/03/2010 12:48:49 PM Yes,very informative article. Surely the PM, of all people, should understand,Asians are n.....
» 23/03/2010 6:47:35 AM David Jennings, Yes, Leigh is basically a cyber-bully......
» 22/03/2010 10:54:41 AM Obama's unforgiveable 'crime' is the adoption of a more even-handed policy in the Middle E.....
» 18/03/2010 9:32:24 AM Interesting, "needless duplication" -very amusing,commercial TV doesn't provide.....
» 10/03/2010 2:08:03 PM Georgia Lowe, "..the first and longest serving President managed to form a peaceful .....
» 5/03/2010 6:36:42 AM ymeiosis, I'm interested to know which majority Moslem country you lived in,you mentioned.....
» 4/03/2010 10:52:14 AM I'd agree with the author as to the threat from anti-terrorist laws It's difficult to unde.....
» 25/02/2010 3:46:26 PM Joyce runs sovereign debt and private debt together,either deliberately or out of monument.....
» 22/02/2010 8:56:02 PM Like the summer Olympics,a total waste of the taxpayers' money......
» 22/02/2010 4:11:31 PM Berger, Yes,I agree with your comments about Norway's policy in regard to conserving its .....
» 22/02/2010 1:32:08 PM Although I generally agree with the author's arguments,Norway is definitely a special case.....
» 20/02/2010 4:52:26 PM David Fisher, you(and others) might be interested in this article explaining the psycholo.....
» 19/02/2010 5:38:34 PM runner, Read my comments carefully and you'll notice that 'designed' is in quotes,which m.....
» 19/02/2010 4:33:20 PM runner, The burden of proof is not on the 'god deniers' such as David Fisher but on those.....
» 10/02/2010 11:13:04 PM I'd like a few words with those 'geniuses' in the Howard government who thought up this ha.....
» 28/01/2010 6:44:36 PM How are the hoons going to make noise when all cars are electric,unfortunately,I'm sure th.....
» 29/12/2009 6:07:55 PM Ho Hum, Yes,exactly, the Christmas that most people celebrate is now more or less secular.....
» 24/12/2009 9:56:37 AM What a devestating critique of the ABC,I never realised the organisation's sinister agenda.....
» 23/12/2009 7:50:30 AM This article presents quite a contrast with Hollywood's propagandist version of the 'drone.....
» 22/12/2009 2:57:32 PM Who can argue with David Singer's condemnation of those vicious tyrannical regimes that pl.....
» 20/12/2009 9:15:44 AM leckos, In my opinion finding the causal factors and triggers helps us determine the solu.....
» 19/12/2009 12:05:47 PM leckos, .."what last yer showed us that oil at US$147 a barrell is to expensive for .....
» 18/12/2009 1:58:10 PM What's the lead time between the proposal for a nuclear power plant and the production of .....
» 18/12/2009 1:29:53 PM (1)The level at which oil production peaks depends on what consumers are prepared to pay p.....
» 16/12/2009 3:00:39 PM rstuart, I'm also amazed that Plimer has "credibility" with climate change &quo.....
» 13/12/2009 2:55:51 PM Horus, Plimer wasn't being misrepresented - is it a valid position for a geologist to say.....
» 12/12/2009 3:33:41 PM Horus, I think you missed the point,we don't live in a controlled experiment but an uncon.....
» 12/12/2009 7:20:58 AM bushbasher, Yes,Plimer's behaviour in taking a creationist to court was an embarrassment .....
» 11/12/2009 11:37:12 AM Plimer's arguments sound like like a version of the "argument from authority" fa.....
» 1/12/2009 2:31:43 PM " A special relationship"? how can this develop when OZ bashing and hypocritical.....
» 23/11/2009 5:40:54 PM Australia is essentially a large desert with a small amount of arable land around the coas.....
» 21/11/2009 9:58:54 AM The "Climate change" scare is obviously a plot by those World Government conspir.....
» 31/10/2009 9:28:58 AM The author makes some reasonable points in regard to climate change,however climate change.....
» 22/09/2009 12:55:17 PM Jieh-Yung Lo, Your article applies the usual double standards,that is,any problems are ca.....
» 17/09/2009 9:04:00 AM "Aren't Western culture and civilisation distinctly, uniquely and inherently Christia.....
» 16/09/2009 10:10:50 AM Certainly, 1. the climate has been warmer in the past,we live in a relatively cool phase a.....
» 8/09/2009 9:24:17 AM Chris Lewis, I understand, you were examining public perceptions rather than political or.....
» 7/09/2009 6:51:59 PM "Australia was just one of four OECD nations in 2005 where the gap in income between .....
» 7/09/2009 6:13:39 PM One aspect of the law that's frustrating,especially to those of us who have a business bac.....
» 3/09/2009 4:14:19 PM I agree with mikk,advertising is effective, the smoking habit is evidence of this,zillions.....
» 15/08/2009 8:49:44 AM Very informative article,so,there's a totalitarian mentality behind the capitalist market .....
» 11/08/2009 2:20:54 PM WTF? I agree with your comments, I've even heard Churchill described as a 'warmonger' by E.....
» 10/08/2009 9:36:31 PM david f, I agree that there's no way of knowing whether the quote is genuine,however it i.....
» 10/08/2009 1:54:03 PM In his lecture "The Decline and fall of the American Empire" Prof. Johan Galtung.....
» 9/08/2009 9:24:09 AM CJ, You're still using ad hominem arguments......
» 8/08/2009 4:33:12 PM David Young, "The history books in Japan are so brutally honest that it is almost pa.....
» 8/08/2009 9:54:57 AM CJ, False analogy, I require people on the phone to identify themselves,if they don't I do.....
» 7/08/2009 6:36:27 PM CJ, people have the right to take any action they choose as long as that action is not det.....
» 6/08/2009 8:55:41 AM Informative essay. Even in a democracy people don't have an absolute right to practise the.....
» 31/07/2009 4:59:54 PM This is an encouraging,at last economists are bringing some rigour into the notoriously un.....
» 16/07/2009 8:50:35 AM "China has done all of us a favour by bursting this bubble" Oh yes! This inciden.....
» 13/07/2009 6:02:13 PM I put my faith in "legislation and bureaucracy to produce a beter world", in oth.....
» 13/07/2009 11:50:16 AM Ah,the parallel universe of economics ,where economic theory is true and not the result of.....
» 19/06/2009 4:59:01 PM "even in such far off corners as the Media and Communications department of the Schoo.....
» 17/06/2009 1:41:37 PM Peter Costello was very lucky to be in office during the mining boom,like all politicians .....
» 3/06/2009 3:36:10 PM Kenny, Yes,I don't see the point either. It appears that only one of the 3 Canaanite peo.....
» 2/06/2009 4:34:18 PM David, What happens to the Israeli "settlements" on the West Bank in your idea .....
» 2/06/2009 10:41:25 AM David Singer, What a brilliant idea, another Bantustan for the dispossessed Palestinians......
» 2/06/2009 10:28:58 AM rstuart, The right to presumption of innocence is a legal convention,I prefer to rely on .....
» 1/06/2009 3:40:00 PM rstuart, You say-"I can't recall any incident that gave me a reason to be afraid of .....
» 1/06/2009 9:31:13 AM Webby, I support multiculturalism only up to a point and that is, when the values of cert.....
» 30/05/2009 6:29:00 PM Webby, I agree that ethical standards are probably declining,particularly in modern citiz.....
» 30/05/2009 2:19:15 PM "the right to maintain their specific ethnic cultural and religious identity," T.....
» 24/05/2009 3:27:06 PM plantagenet, Thanks for the info.- so the technical problems are not insurmountable for a.....
» 23/05/2009 9:13:15 PM plantagenet, Wouldn't Australia need a nuclear power industry to enable the development o.....
» 20/05/2009 3:14:24 PM Yabby, I agree, the standard of the language courses offered is important,I wonder how ma.....
» 19/05/2009 12:59:50 PM Wing Ah Ling, Exactly, for many,even educated people, "God" is the god of the g.....
» 19/05/2009 8:57:22 AM Horus, you might be interested in this link- http://www.newstatesman.com/middle-east/200.....
» 18/05/2009 4:11:39 PM Cazza, Certainly, "I'd rather be a Palestinian living in Israel than a Jew living in.....
» 17/05/2009 4:19:31 PM Horus, I wasn't denying the fact that Moslems have an appalling record of imperialism, I .....
» 16/05/2009 9:24:36 PM eileen fleming, "vanish from the pages of time" We don't often see that versio.....
» 15/05/2009 6:37:22 PM Leigh, A final comment, "The idea is to comment on the article contributed" .....
» 15/05/2009 11:55:51 AM Leigh, I'll direct my comments at whomever I choose. FYI,this is a public forum and if y.....
» 14/05/2009 5:52:23 PM Cazza, 2000 years of anti-semitism is perhaps an explanation of Israel's oppression of t.....
» 14/05/2009 11:25:15 AM Leigh, "Everything about Smith's article points to his own anti-Semitism",reall.....
» 13/05/2009 3:00:15 PM Brian, I doubt if the Menzies government's motivation for allowing atomic testing in Aust.....
» 6/05/2009 8:21:57 AM Istvan, "Religion is not behind every conflict on the planet.The economy is". .....
» 5/05/2009 3:35:27 PM "...religion is once again becoming the primary marker of identity in all parts of th.....
» 1/05/2009 6:58:11 PM I don't understand why Ms Dickie wasn't able to communicate her sense of discrimination,it.....
» 22/04/2009 2:46:10 PM rstuart, Agreed, there appears to be a strong correlation, however cause and effect is di.....
» 17/04/2009 2:55:36 PM Brian, I agree with your analysis in principle, however you've made some generalisations.....
» 16/04/2009 11:50:10 AM One problem with this article is the definition of "growth", it's basically the .....
» 15/04/2009 3:11:36 PM Leigh, I've noticed that the degree of rudeness is in inverse proportion to the quality .....
» 15/04/2009 12:03:57 PM I don't regard the idea as necessarily "crackpot", however I'm curious in regard.....
» 15/04/2009 11:41:09 AM bushbasher, You made an incorrect assumption, I was educated at a Christian school and I.....
» 15/04/2009 9:42:33 AM Even though I'm not a Christian I agree with Trav's argument, Christianity without miracle.....
» 9/04/2009 1:34:48 PM Of course Australia has a dependent relationship with the US, any other type of associatio.....
» 7/04/2009 7:49:27 PM SFJ, You cynic! I agree, we've all seen these transparent attempts at gathering sympathy .....
» 7/04/2009 10:40:39 AM A licence to offend is not necessarily a free pass "to vilification, intimidation and.....
» 31/03/2009 7:44:14 AM "Palestinian houses have been demolished by Israel for security reasons" So all .....
» 28/03/2009 2:55:54 PM bushbred, I agree with Maximillion, A democratically elected UN might be bad news for .....
» 25/03/2009 4:26:41 PM spindoc, What's the point of your comment, why are the inverted commas around scientists?.....
» 25/03/2009 9:05:10 AM Leigh, "governments can do nothing about climate change" Why can't they? If cl.....
» 22/03/2009 5:28:00 PM bushbred, you might be interested in this article- "Rabbis framed Gaza as Religio.....
» 19/03/2009 10:44:27 AM ShazBaz001, So,you don't care about private debt,it's harmless ask the Americans. Do you.....
» 18/03/2009 3:10:12 PM speakup, Rudd wasn't left with a strong economy but a rather weak one, the country is ba.....
» 18/03/2009 9:58:19 AM bigmal, The law that applies here is,"survival of the fattest".Many corporate e.....
» 16/03/2009 4:13:23 PM What's the correlation between financial success of a particular corporation and the salar.....
» 16/03/2009 1:00:18 PM As another atheist, I don't think religious groups should be allowed exemptions from anti-.....
» 15/03/2009 8:43:54 AM David Singer, "the division of sovereignty of historic Palestinians bdetween Jews an.....
» 14/03/2009 7:39:59 PM mil-observer, Wave the Red Flag as much as you like comrade, you're about 100 years too .....
» 14/03/2009 7:33:19 PM David Singer, So Jordan is located on 77% of historic Palestine, of course that's where .....
» 13/03/2009 4:02:46 PM PeterHume, If I understand correctly, you interpret the current difficulties as a product.....
» 13/03/2009 8:46:43 AM curmudgeonathome, I can remember these same arguments 20 years ago when I was studying A.....
» 12/03/2009 6:08:07 PM bushbred, I agree, the US is the key to the Palestinians survival, however America shows.....
» 12/03/2009 2:49:40 PM Curmudgeon, "more numerous and costly" -really? Do you think that, in aggregate.....
» 12/03/2009 2:18:48 PM Israel "will find itself faced with the demand to transform itself and the Occupied T.....
» 11/03/2009 9:39:46 AM Irfan, "a definition of terrorism that is universally accepted", this seems ra.....
» 9/03/2009 7:38:11 PM Israel probably gets the criticism it deserves. Antisemitism of course, is another matter .....
» 9/03/2009 1:14:40 PM Bushbred, You don't reply to my postings (sigh) perhaps I'm not rude enough,as I've aske.....
» 8/03/2009 1:16:05 PM bushbred, " a few admittances to the Islamics ..." yes, however that also requi.....
» 7/03/2009 7:43:09 PM bushbred, "we are by far the worst offenders",nonsense, I suggest you consult s.....
» 6/03/2009 3:01:50 PM I'll concede that the Western media is biased when reporting the ME, however, let's keep s.....
» 1/03/2009 3:25:56 PM ASymeonakis, You're wrong! I'm an Australian of British decent and I could fight agains.....
» 1/03/2009 8:51:18 AM examinator, What do you mean by a "to do" list, all out invasion or massive il.....
» 27/02/2009 2:29:50 PM crabsy, Like most non-religious people (unlike many religious people) I don't object to .....
» 27/02/2009 10:03:23 AM Peter Sellick, You haven't demonstrated that there is any other evidence apart from empi.....
» 25/02/2009 8:06:05 AM ShazBaz001, We lived dangerously during the term of the last government, the Howard-Cost.....
» 24/02/2009 12:04:25 PM Dr Hubbard, Probably, the Lurking Smirker will wait until enough voters blame the Rudd g.....
» 9/02/2009 6:31:48 PM meredith, please don't give mil-observer any excuse to go off at a tangent to the topic(.....
» 9/02/2009 1:40:22 PM Pericles, I agree that the author's proposal is impractical, however, you're equating fr.....
» 31/01/2009 2:21:09 PM Sir Vivor, Thanks for the link,unfortunately the Guardian article reinforces conclusions.....
» 30/01/2009 3:30:17 PM Sir Vivor, You can't compare your capacity to influence the political process with that .....
» 29/01/2009 9:56:55 PM Sir Vivor, Well, yes they do. If they remain silent it's usually due to apathy,cynicism .....
» 29/01/2009 2:38:33 PM relda, I'm certainly not against the modern liberal democratic and secular state, believ.....
» 28/01/2009 6:22:55 PM relda, I think you have the wind under your wings and have soared too far, you seem to.....
» 27/01/2009 8:22:49 PM relda, The long and barbarous history of European anti-semitism is not in dispute,howeve.....
» 27/01/2009 2:40:53 PM relda, "Nation states characteristically are expansive" no, they are not,at le.....
» 26/01/2009 6:26:18 PM Renegade Science, "Fortunately I can and will find better ways to deal with diffe.....
» 25/01/2009 5:48:05 PM Bronwyn, I should have also written that we Australians don't have any bloodstained sign.....
» 25/01/2009 1:55:07 PM Arjay, Many Australians seem to think that they live in America, why all this obsession .....
» 25/01/2009 1:47:27 PM Examinator, We celebrate as our "national" day the date that the British dumpe.....
» 25/01/2009 1:35:05 PM BOAZ_David, I think the most disturbing aspect of these imported rivalries is when they .....
» 23/01/2009 3:14:59 PM Savvas Tzionis, Wrong,mate, I'm not any sort of hyphenated Australian and I have no Balk.....
» 23/01/2009 11:54:02 AM Let's hope that this obscure,poisonous Balkan "ethnic" conflict doesn't spread t.....
» 21/01/2009 8:31:35 PM stevenlmeyer, Yes, indeed, let's see, constructive engagement is worth a try. "The .....
» 21/01/2009 8:31:56 AM Yuyutsu, I suggest(1) you don't attempt to read my mind, and (2) don't try ad hominem .....
» 20/01/2009 9:33:42 AM stevenmeyer, As Emma White has written what is required is is "constructive engageme.....
» 18/01/2009 8:43:20 PM Bushbred, The punter's qualifications are a major in applied ignorance. Incidentally, wh.....
» 18/01/2009 1:14:43 PM punter, your attempts to portray critics of Israel as anti-semitic are tedious and clum.....
» 17/01/2009 8:08:28 PM punter57, The reason that the Israelis returned Sinai to Egypt was simple strategic calc.....
» 16/01/2009 2:47:45 PM punter57, You're very amusing,"I am yet to see any sign of serious expansion or thre.....
» 16/01/2009 12:19:10 PM There are probably no lines for Israel to overstep. Whatever atrocities Israel commits &qu.....
» 15/01/2009 3:56:20 PM david f, For a policy of non-violent resistance to have a chance the stronger party must.....
» 14/01/2009 1:49:39 PM Arjay&Gibo Come out from behind the barricades and tell us how and why China would want .....
» 14/01/2009 1:33:32 PM bennie, I agree, I was exposed to 5 years of Christian education, to no effect. The No.....
» 12/01/2009 4:29:26 PM Hduggin, What racial bias? The author was commenting on the disfunctions typical of an a.....
» 12/01/2009 11:51:22 AM Graham, I know little about the culture wars, however, there is one point on which I wil.....
» 11/01/2009 1:39:34 PM meredith, You haven't answered my questions on the previous post, especially as to why .....
» 10/01/2009 7:35:00 PM meredith, Are you serious? "The reason the Jews are in Israel is that the world gav.....
» 9/01/2009 10:50:33 AM Bren Carlill, how do you know that the Palestinians killed by the Israeli army are ".....
» 8/01/2009 4:06:37 PM Nursel Guzeldeniz, What is the justification of re-defining prejudice against Moslems as.....
» 7/01/2009 2:52:35 PM stevenlmeyer, I agree that the UNRWA definition of "refugee" is extremely unre.....
» 6/01/2009 5:18:04 PM stevenlmeyer, There are those critics who don't fall into either of your convenient grou.....
» 5/01/2009 1:56:09 PM meredith, I'm quite prepared to discuss Israel and the Palestinians at length,as I have .....
» 5/01/2009 7:11:16 AM mil observer, Based on the old theory of the monkey, the typewriter and the complete work.....
» 3/01/2009 8:46:03 AM KGB,Bigmal&TR, Thanks for the feedback, too many people seem to regard "Islamophobi.....
» 2/01/2009 9:03:45 PM mil observer, Finally, you appear to have given up postmodernism,in my opinion, this has.....
» 2/01/2009 8:09:18 AM Most of you are so far off-topic you've disappeared over the horizon, those people who are.....
» 31/12/2008 3:15:16 PM one under god, I read your post and found it unconvincing. All right, so I found Trav .....
» 31/12/2008 12:21:38 PM Passy, Presumably you are claiming that boom and bust are essential characteristics of a.....
» 31/12/2008 11:58:39 AM Trav, I'll concede that the fine tuning argument is not easy to dismiss, however, to me .....
» 31/12/2008 6:37:28 AM Bronwyn, Who diagnosed the "auto-immune disease and the fluctuating blood sugar lev.....
» 30/12/2008 4:49:44 PM Bronwyn, I'm neither young nor in good health and I still regard naturopathy with deris.....
» 30/12/2008 1:21:39 PM Naturopathy is utter nonsense, it has no scientific basis at all, its only success lies in.....
» 30/12/2008 1:08:01 PM The article reads like a text from the 1960s or is it the 1930s. We've tried socialism, it.....
» 30/12/2008 7:54:20 AM Trav, I'll agree that "fine tuning" in the Universe is a fascinating phenomeno.....
» 28/12/2008 9:25:18 PM Trav, "everthing has a cause,"then so must God be caused by something, where d.....
» 28/12/2008 9:40:21 AM one under god, I think we'll just have to agree to differ on some points, however I can'.....
» 28/12/2008 8:44:53 AM GZ, I agree, Islamic ideology is by its nature a threat to democracy, earlier generation.....
» 27/12/2008 7:09:32 PM TRTL I wonder if I have misunderstood,this seems like another call to surrender our liber.....
» 27/12/2008 6:32:29 PM Trav, Hawking's isn't the only opinion, also his comments have absolutely nothing to say .....
» 26/12/2008 7:29:36 PM Chris Lewis, I don't think so either,predictions in regard to the decline of the West ar.....
» 26/12/2008 1:43:21 PM TRTL, I agree with you arguments, up to a point- It's our right to utter hostile comment.....
» 25/12/2008 8:17:29 PM mil observer, "As fear based irrationalism entrenches..............", You rea.....
» 24/12/2008 9:37:28 PM mil-observer, 1. I'm not sure what you mean by "culture-warriors", perhaps i.....
» 24/12/2008 9:22:24 AM So many have missed the point entirely,you need to forget PC and think. Haslam is a psyc.....
» 23/12/2008 11:01:20 AM Well said, however there's a political dimension to this, Accusations of "Islamophi.....
» 23/12/2008 10:13:06 AM Trav, since you have condescended to comment , I'll reply to you The Big Bang theory doe.....
» 22/12/2008 1:37:33 PM Michael Viljoen, you are incorrect, the burden of proof is on those who believe in life .....
» 21/12/2008 9:17:50 PM Nursel Guzeldeniz, 1. I haven't noticed where you have actually defined "Islamophobi.....
» 20/12/2008 8:46:38 PM TO ANYONE THAT'S REALLY INTERESTED ,in the subject of the article, the origins and purpose.....
» 20/12/2008 7:59:57 AM So many people who post here don't get the message that Islam is simply a superstition lik.....
» 17/12/2008 1:16:24 PM "Islamophobia" is a catch-all term. Islam is an ideology like any other and, in .....
» 16/12/2008 3:01:29 PM Col Rouge, Do you still think that private debt is harmless? Less ideology and more real.....
» 16/12/2008 1:23:46 PM JBowyer, In what way was Howard a good PM? The Howard government left us with an enormou.....
» 4/12/2008 1:01:23 PM The author tries to equate all "sporting" activities,there are different types o.....
» 28/11/2008 2:10:10 PM So, Moslems are looking over their shoulders again, I'm not surprised, considering the reg.....
» 24/11/2008 3:52:55 PM Mr Right, Have you been told you were wrong 1000 times? I'm not at all surprised. Have p.....
» 24/11/2008 11:56:38 AM Mr Right,you're Wrong, I understand the difference, I'll explain, again, my point was th.....
» 21/11/2008 2:42:29 PM Mr Right, "Labor governments are economically illiterate", really? During the t.....
» 20/11/2008 3:02:51 PM Brian, Surely the real point of this article is to indicate how dangerous to the West it.....
» 18/11/2008 3:13:25 PM Of course, Are the Chinese really serious? We should mind our own business and with grea.....
» 17/11/2008 12:50:31 PM Why all the hype about Obama's ethnicity/race/minority status as indicative of major chang.....
» 8/11/2008 8:26:08 AM Polycarp, I'll leave the theology and Church history to you and accept your argument tha.....
» 7/11/2008 11:40:21 AM Clownfish, you're not,all religions are ideologies of one sort or another, except mine o.....
» 7/11/2008 11:31:12 AM Some of Archimedes'work was preserved,inadvertedly, for the wrong reasons by the wilfully .....
» 8/10/2008 1:16:13 PM Yes, for decades we have heard the neo-liberal nonsense, which essentially maintains that .....
» 5/10/2008 8:30:13 AM Banjo, Your last sentence is the key to the survival of liberal democracy,we must mainta.....
» 4/10/2008 9:02:35 PM Banjo, I think you have confused me with someone else, my point was that examining scrip.....
» 3/10/2008 10:44:46 AM The attempt to make sense of any religion is basically a fool's errand, the jihadis are ps.....
» 2/10/2008 7:56:25 AM David Singer, Israel has no qualms in uprooting Palestinians it appears, how many Palest.....
» 1/10/2008 2:25:56 PM Relda, "the UN voted..... to create two states in Palestine, one Arab the other Jew.....
» 29/09/2008 6:05:45 PM David, Of course, Israel should return to its pre June 67 borders, evict the "settl.....
» 29/09/2008 3:56:54 PM David, I'll tell you where you have got it wrong, for the umpteenth time, you don't appe.....
» 28/09/2008 3:05:49 PM David Singer, Your proposals are very plausible if we accept that the Palestinians don't.....
» 28/09/2008 10:43:00 AM Polycarp, According to your logic there are no such identities as an Australian, Greek o.....
» 27/09/2008 2:08:48 PM David Singer, Let's examine your proposals, (you avoid the term "Palestinian" .....
» 26/09/2008 4:00:25 PM Paul L, Israel doesn't have the right to be a "Jewish" state any more than Mal.....
» 26/09/2008 12:57:51 PM David Singer, Why should Israel negotiate on humanitarian principles since its settlemen.....
» 18/09/2008 3:59:20 PM It's all a waste of cyber space and innocent trees, we can't vote anyway. Who cares?.....
» 12/09/2008 4:06:34 PM This article is rather alarming, what are we getting ourselves into? As usual, America's g.....
» 27/08/2008 3:54:40 PM Phil and analyst. One way to help the public with numbers is to indicate what goods and se.....
» 27/08/2008 8:43:34 AM Valerie Yule, Some taxpayers do indeed begrudge the enormous amounts of public money was.....
» 20/08/2008 10:28:58 AM So much for the "End of History" thesis, it seemed a fantasy even in those optim.....
» 20/08/2008 9:58:22 AM Fair go Olympics? The Olympics are certainly not fair to taxpayers, since government funds.....
» 13/08/2008 4:09:24 PM I agree with the first sentence, however there are no "great religions" just wid.....
» 11/08/2008 10:16:17 PM The original Olympic athletes were certainly not amateurs and not above cheating or winnin.....
» 6/08/2008 10:47:37 AM Given that the Japanese did not intend to invade Australia we should have been even more p.....
» 16/07/2008 10:55:10 AM Carl Mather, Since belief is psychological rather than intellectual religious people are.....
» 8/07/2008 10:25:19 AM Religion is a myth, evolution is a theory, subject to scientific examination. Any theory t.....
» 2/07/2008 9:24:19 AM Clive Hamilton, I don't have any expertise in the subject, however I am rather sceptical.....
» 12/06/2008 12:03:09 PM tRAKKA, You resort to an ad hominem argument,perhaps you have nothing logical to contrib.....
» 12/06/2008 10:40:04 AM Anzac Harmony The same old spurious argument, that the incompetence and bad faith of the.....
» 10/06/2008 1:02:06 PM BOAZ David, No,you have misunderstood, my reference to an "historical excursion&quo.....
» 10/06/2008 10:28:49 AM Bren Carlill, Oh, I see the present state of misery of the Palestinians is all their fau.....
» 23/05/2008 9:01:33 AM If the Americans are trying to sell us a lemon why don't we buy some of those Russian Su 2.....
» 9/05/2008 10:12:13 AM Mustafa Qadri, Criticism of Islam, (whether justified or not) or the beliefs or practice.....
» 2/05/2008 3:37:47 PM Why is prejudice against Moslems described as "racism"? Islam is a religion, an .....
» 30/04/2008 11:11:56 AM This is an improvement on an article written by a political "scientist", however.....
» 26/04/2008 9:17:15 PM Ginx, you really should argue with the straw man "mac" that you have created, n.....
» 25/04/2008 2:49:15 PM Paul L, You are writing with the benefit of hindsight. How did Churchill know, at the ti.....
» 25/04/2008 11:48:02 AM Ginx, My term "British" refers to the nation state( which Bronwyn understood)......
» 25/04/2008 8:46:51 AM There are two factors in Australian society that delay the adoption of a republic- 1 Com.....
» 24/04/2008 11:40:25 AM Paul L, Leave your offensive personal remarks aside and try to argue logically. The Brit.....
» 24/04/2008 10:25:07 AM I agree generally with the writer's sentiments, particularly in regard to the First World .....
» 16/04/2008 11:16:03 AM We are in danger of losing all that has been gained in 300 years of struggle. Those smug, .....
» 13/04/2008 6:15:12 PM Richard Castles, There appears to be some confusion in regard to my objection to yet ano.....
» 11/04/2008 8:52:37 AM Col Rouge, Where did I say that Aitkin wasn't entitled to express an opinion? Ill-inform.....
» 10/04/2008 3:44:15 PM As far as I understand Don Aitkin is qualified in poltical science not physical science. C.....
» 9/04/2008 8:43:03 AM Of course, but where is the balance? There is the danger that as religious adherents react.....
» 31/10/2007 8:05:51 AM Col Rouge, again. I can't see how you can take the ratios in the total debt as a guide,.....
» 30/10/2007 1:53:04 PM Yes, So they're role models,for what? running around in circles for an hour or so once a.....
» 28/10/2007 4:16:30 PM Col Rouge, You can't use your own personal balance sheet as an analogy, or simple arithm.....
» 28/10/2007 12:51:33 PM Yabby, I hope you're right, however I don't share your optimism given the country's past.....
» 27/10/2007 3:15:43 PM Col Rouge and Yabby Yabby, "let the $A drop, to reflect the value of exports".....
» 27/10/2007 9:33:13 AM Shadow Minister & Yabby, in reply Shadow minister, we all have access to journals or t.....
» 26/10/2007 2:29:42 PM Shadowminister, I could claim your arguments are straight from Liberal HQ, it's always s.....
» 25/10/2007 1:53:07 PM Shadowminister, What would Australian management do without the unions to blame? I could.....
» 24/10/2007 6:37:33 PM Shadow Minister, What huge investment in machinery and equipment? Let's see how much of .....
» 24/10/2007 11:07:38 AM Of course we have a weak economy, I suspect most voters don't want to know, they seem to l.....
» 22/10/2007 6:52:41 PM DonaldS, I think the "d" word is forbidden because neither side wants to frigh.....
» 22/10/2007 2:07:12 PM Howard has left us with a real time bomb and when it detonates he will probably have retir.....
» 19/10/2007 7:57:38 AM Liberty, Ludwig The expression was "moral duty", why don't rights and moral dut.....
» 18/10/2007 11:56:59 AM I agree that the nation needs electoral and constitutional change, however, one of the obs.....
» 15/10/2007 7:37:14 AM Liz, Yes, I agree that some politicians are recklessly prepared to exploit prejudices, a.....
» 14/10/2007 12:46:03 PM Liz, " This comment is completely irrelevant" Why is it? Minorities are just a.....
» 13/10/2007 7:48:41 AM yes, Scotty Any one who takes the moral high ground should make sure they have something.....
» 12/10/2007 5:58:07 PM Mr Yusuf, Western society has its faults, including anti -semitism and prejudice against.....
» 8/10/2007 11:43:31 AM It's irrelevant whether or not modern Jews are descendants of the ancient population, even.....
» 23/09/2007 8:03:00 AM Yvonne, If you are my age I find your comments difficult to understand. Yes we had TV an.....
» 21/09/2007 5:51:33 PM Although I have no sympathy for most of the policies of the present government, I'd like M.....
» 20/09/2007 8:04:59 AM Antiseptic, I hope you're right. However I'm not optimistic, we have enough dopey voters.....
» 19/09/2007 9:00:30 PM The point of Horne's book was that Australia had been lucky so far and that sooner or late.....
» 15/09/2007 10:04:01 AM Gary, I'd take the argument further. The US alliance is dangerous to Australia, no amoun.....
» 8/09/2007 3:05:52 PM Plerdsus, Paul L, Thanks, I'm not sure, however, that many people still vote on the old .....
» 7/09/2007 5:50:52 PM Cheryl, I've heard that compulsory voting favours Labor, what's the evidence? I suspect .....
» 7/09/2007 1:10:57 PM Brett Walker, Why not (1) abolish compulsory voting itself, then there's a better chance.....
» 6/09/2007 4:36:59 PM Runner, No, the Howard haters are not happy with the 550 billion foreign debt time bomb .....
» 6/09/2007 11:02:31 AM Exactly! I've tried to convince people that our economy, is in fact heading for disaster b.....
» 5/09/2007 1:35:08 PM yes, asap. Federalism seemed a good idea in the 19th century, it is a colossal waste of mo.....
» 30/08/2007 1:50:09 PM David Long, a thoughtful article. Why do we as citizens, need to even consider "mul.....
» 22/08/2007 1:27:46 PM The governments of liberal democratic societies have no business spending taxpayers' money.....
» 8/08/2007 10:45:41 AM We have commercial broadcasters that are mouthpieces of the right which all consumers are .....
» 5/07/2007 5:23:58 PM Irfan Yusuf The great Moslem mathematicians of yesteryear did not invent zero or the mod.....
» 12/02/2007 4:43:37 PM I wouldn't write Howard off just yet, he might succeed in convincing the voters that his g.....
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