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» 4/05/2012 10:59:36 AM Runner: So the world-wide phenomenon of priests molesting children is *homosexuality's* fa.....
» 4/05/2012 9:02:24 AM My 2c. Two functions of religion: -The existential question: where did it all come from? .....
» 4/05/2012 8:50:06 AM Bravo. One can only hope that the despotic religious right will wane in influence from her.....
» 30/04/2012 3:48:25 PM runner: I agree. Rudd looked OK until he was asked to lead...then his inability to work wi.....
» 30/04/2012 2:27:32 PM Atman: Google's Street-view photos can be obscured by request and the WiFi scan that enabl.....
» 30/04/2012 8:57:07 AM runner: I respect religion...but once an aggressive zealot IDs themselves they are fair ga.....
» 27/04/2012 12:19:31 PM alwaysalearner: To associate the ethic of the successful West with Christianity you have t.....
» 27/04/2012 11:55:41 AM Where your hole suggests an imaginary Father (or Mother) figure...others like to just know.....
» 26/04/2012 12:30:43 PM Aristocrat: True, conflict is probably unavoidable when border/resources are seen differen.....
» 26/04/2012 10:26:41 AM Nicely put...but be prepared for the outrage. I always wondered why politicians "need.....
» 26/04/2012 9:10:48 AM Interesting article. If there is one thing the lead-up to the Iraq war taught us it is tha.....
» 24/04/2012 9:36:38 AM James O'Neill: Thanks for some factual context. I find it strange that the one-eyed pro-US.....
» 16/04/2012 4:03:00 PM The basic "Green" idea is not pooping in your own nest...an idea not too many fo.....
» 5/04/2012 11:08:57 AM Quote from a friend: "Starting work life during the "recession we had to have&qu.....
» 5/04/2012 10:51:15 AM There should be more emphasis on the quality of life statistics that have declined so mark.....
» 5/04/2012 9:56:14 AM Gee sorry Libs...taking a stand against illegal activities is *so* unfair! How dare illega.....
» 3/04/2012 4:03:21 PM Sorry Peter but for those of us raised free of indoctrination your Christ looks like just .....
» 2/04/2012 3:50:20 PM Sorry colinset...limited time at work. Debugging makes my brain soggy. Nice preliminary m.....
» 2/04/2012 2:40:23 PM Hi colinsett. Do you know of any such proposals that have had that sort of analysis done? .....
» 2/04/2012 12:06:02 PM What KAEP said... Piping or channelling water from the top to the bottom of Australia has .....
» 30/03/2012 9:49:08 AM Joyce should not have got away with what he did which was clearly deceitful and probably i.....
» 28/03/2012 8:12:32 AM So modelling a massive chaotic system produces probabilistic forecasts, not absolute ones......
» 21/03/2012 2:31:12 PM Those with genuine responsibility will always be hounded by the petty with little skill or.....
» 20/03/2012 12:18:49 PM The wealthy will take 1000% of the good times and then "to be fair" accept a 10%.....
» 7/03/2012 7:41:08 AM CARFAX: All scientific articles must be both peer reviewed and accepted for publishing in .....
» 6/03/2012 12:26:45 PM Those of us living under the "grey ceiling" are looking forward to a workplace w.....
» 5/03/2012 2:44:01 PM runner. Shame most of the child abuse comes from priests. Rubbish article, good posts. So .....
» 1/03/2012 3:18:06 PM Well said Arjay. Was the US ever really slapped for their illegal activities in Iran? How .....
» 1/03/2012 1:12:51 PM Building a Tokyo style metro (big$)...yep, inappropriate. Making signs more useful (0$)........
» 1/03/2012 11:45:56 AM First two posts tell the story. Way too cynical and up themselves to listen to anyone youn.....
» 29/02/2012 2:14:39 PM Yes colinset, because the Gina Rhineheart brand of "leadership" is all too commo.....
» 24/02/2012 11:14:47 AM The article is either frightfully ignorant or cynical. Yet another "scientist" t.....
» 22/02/2012 9:52:07 AM Alas, I reckon the US model of using cheap illegal immigrant for the low-status menial job.....
» 22/02/2012 9:07:39 AM Better schooling is one aspect, but do we reward maths/science skills once students have l.....
» 21/02/2012 12:22:52 PM Nice work. Cue the US apologists who see US killings as Good and all other nations as &qu.....
» 1/02/2012 10:51:22 AM So even if we work out a better economics, how do we get past the vested interests to have.....
» 30/01/2012 2:31:37 PM No mention of credit growth...not relevant to economics. More rocks chucked over the fence.....
» 12/12/2011 10:25:07 AM Having just visited 14 Pacific Island states including Kiribati, I can see the point of wh.....
» 9/12/2011 1:22:22 PM Shadow Minister: I'd argue that *all* power generation has the issue of reliability and co.....
» 9/12/2011 11:13:42 AM Shadow Minister: I can send you pics of oil tanker wrecks, oil well fires, transformer exp.....
» 9/12/2011 10:53:05 AM Hasbeen: 10 years ago I would have agreed with you. I've lived with a couple who tried and.....
» 9/12/2011 9:13:35 AM The shift to renewables cannot be compared on a "Coal->Solar and keep everything e.....
» 8/12/2011 10:14:08 AM Simple solution: 1) Sound money backed by Gold and Silver. Fractional Reserve banking enr.....
» 6/12/2011 11:44:45 AM This puts me in mind of the media run-up to the invasion of Iraq: Only if you used the int.....
» 6/12/2011 10:31:38 AM Whilst I agree that all unnecessary welfare should be cut, we still need the minimal safet.....
» 2/12/2011 10:27:50 AM Interesting take on things. As always there will be pockets of ongoing sanity amongst the .....
» 1/12/2011 2:45:18 PM Yep, finance is the latest "get rich quick" scam that involves wealth without pr.....
» 29/11/2011 11:32:57 AM So long as this does not involve expanding the financial services sector again. We should .....
» 24/11/2011 12:01:20 PM I worked for a university a few years back that had beautiful waterfront property which wa.....
» 16/11/2011 2:03:55 PM I agree with DavidL to a point. Make the costs real and the market will sort it out...howe.....
» 10/11/2011 2:56:44 PM Peter Hume has this one 100% correct. The issue is money creation from nothing, and *massi.....
» 9/11/2011 1:06:21 PM Raycom: "There is no scientific evidence that anthropogenic CO2 emissions cause dange.....
» 8/11/2011 8:53:16 AM Blue Cross has it right...lets see the "private" sector survive without taxpayer.....
» 8/11/2011 7:46:35 AM I see that GW argument is more a matter of faith than understanding complexities! For thos.....
» 5/11/2011 11:19:31 AM Excellent description of science vs pseudo-science. Science is indeed the art of the skept.....
» 5/11/2011 8:59:49 AM I just love pop-philosophy! Free will lives in the chaotic zone where thousands of little.....
» 5/11/2011 8:47:35 AM Seems like another version of the "think of the children" argument but in this c.....
» 3/11/2011 9:14:48 AM And what happens when we print household goods on our 3D printers (designed anywhere in th.....
» 2/11/2011 10:33:44 AM Bravo! Asking the war machine to justify it's actions is not only ethically correct, but i.....
» 31/10/2011 11:08:30 AM We seemed to have entered an era where financial profits and profits through inflation...s.....
» 31/10/2011 10:48:03 AM Yes, Labour held onto some of the Howard government's worst policies: Anti-terror, Middle-.....
» 7/10/2011 9:38:41 AM The pessimism is based on real facts: -Banks around the world are still overloaded with ba.....
» 7/10/2011 9:05:15 AM I was recently given a "cultural briefing" for some aid work in the Pacific. One.....
» 5/10/2011 7:39:26 AM Phil: You are spot on. Economic theory is only half the problem though. Theory says that m.....
» 4/10/2011 2:15:00 PM What we need is for wealth earned to be more proportional to wealth created: ie. A fair sy.....
» 4/10/2011 11:23:31 AM One can only hope that with the "Occupy" movement in the US and the ongoing prot.....
» 4/10/2011 9:28:15 AM For every million made trading shares, buying and selling houses or banking, someone somew.....
» 29/09/2011 12:34:24 PM Running a country (well) requires agile thinking based on real world facts. *No* religion.....
» 29/09/2011 8:34:55 AM Despite their efforts to kick the can (bomb?) along the road for a while longer, the EU *w.....
» 20/09/2011 9:42:15 AM Good article. Will "full employment" ever be possible given the increasing subst.....
» 2/09/2011 10:42:02 AM It is interesting how access to vast wealth is no guarantee that a nation can harness it. .....
» 25/08/2011 10:25:50 AM nutter: I also "name called" the Looney Left (radical greens)...sorry I didn't p.....
» 24/08/2011 3:52:38 PM The battle is not the Left vs the Right; It is the honestly balanced vs the partisans and.....
» 10/08/2011 9:37:46 AM Amicus: Economic prediction is indeed a bit pointless, but that doesn't mean all analysis .....
» 10/08/2011 8:50:28 AM Nice analysis. The attempts of finance to prop up over-borrowing by more borrowing are pat.....
» 9/08/2011 8:54:43 AM Peter, I believe we are closer to agreement than most with regards to the limitations of g.....
» 8/08/2011 3:10:25 PM Yep, bread and circuses...also rampant parasitical behaviour rewarded with praise and weal.....
» 5/07/2011 3:44:23 PM Bravo King Hazza: Lets do things the way that wastes less time, work and capital and deliv.....
» 4/07/2011 11:27:53 AM SaltPetre: Google "Afghanistan gas pipeline"...many answers to be found when you.....
» 1/07/2011 12:10:43 PM To fix is easy in theory yet almost impossible in practice. Let bad investments fail, mini.....
» 30/05/2011 1:50:26 PM Dan: They do it in the media, they do it in schools, they do it in public life. With God .....
» 30/05/2011 1:45:53 PM Please save us ACL! Prohibition is such a success that we want to emulate it everywhere.......
» 25/05/2011 1:22:41 PM Philo: Exactly! Well said. Most, well almost all Christians do not follow Jesus, nor do B.....
» 25/05/2011 11:38:04 AM "Know them by their fruits": Indeed. Secular society is it's own proof. Science .....
» 24/05/2011 10:04:01 AM Surprise! The IPA wants... 1) More privatisations...despite them being proven to be more e.....
» 20/05/2011 10:09:13 AM Previous posts say the obvious pretty well: Atheists do not hate God, they hate the fact t.....
» 6/05/2011 8:59:55 AM colinset: I think you have it about right. Thorium is technically interesting...but the de.....
» 3/05/2011 1:59:04 PM spindoc: I'm not sure we are commenting on the same article! The article's point 1 was the.....
» 3/05/2011 12:31:09 PM spindoc. Getting in was just as complex, yet it happened very fast. Just how do all these .....
» 3/05/2011 11:10:27 AM spindoc. No solutions? Perhaps I need to spell it out: 1. Get out. 2. Close it. 3. Fix wha.....
» 3/05/2011 10:30:54 AM This reads like paid for US apologist tripe! 1. Afghanistan was and is irrelevant to the &.....
» 3/05/2011 9:18:53 AM I tend to agree...but then I'm one of the few who rejected the official reality distortion.....
» 2/05/2011 1:53:14 PM Well said! The enemy of resilience is one-eyed "productivity" and total optimisa.....
» 29/04/2011 12:24:22 PM Peter. You make a lot of sense. I guess I assume that many competing banks will still coll.....
» 28/04/2011 12:15:06 PM This book sounds like it is much needed. Economic discussion and commentary is dominated .....
» 20/04/2011 1:58:17 PM Curmugeon, you are spot on. I was recently talking to a guy working in the Pacific on Clim.....
» 20/04/2011 12:48:56 PM Most certainly we need to restructure our "civilisation" because we have a sever.....
» 20/04/2011 9:45:57 AM I'd agree that trying to "solve" food shortages without looking at population co.....
» 7/04/2011 1:53:31 PM I had to laugh at one of our close neighbour's "democracy" where only one party .....
» 6/04/2011 3:07:51 PM Ever heard of progressive economics Henry? It was gave Australia it's middle class and it'.....
» 5/04/2011 8:19:58 AM Thanks for the link grputland...but alas I think they have little chance of success. The v.....
» 4/04/2011 4:13:23 PM I just wish they would ban the free-basing treatment that makes the drug so much more addi.....
» 1/03/2011 9:50:44 AM So long as we bow to the US for "defence" we will continue to play these word ga.....
» 1/03/2011 7:52:33 AM Whilst I'd agree that Labour has been pretty weak since Rudd and Julia has not performed w.....
» 25/02/2011 7:32:45 AM Clownfish: Amen! runner: I totally agree (!)...as technology improves we approach an ".....
» 24/02/2011 10:48:03 AM I see where Brian is coming from: Most of our economy is based on quite unnecessary things.....
» 22/02/2011 10:04:31 AM The Neo Libs have done damage to all sectors of society...I'm not surprised that disabled .....
» 18/02/2011 10:41:31 AM "When you see the world as it is"...is a bit flippant and comes across as arroga.....
» 18/02/2011 10:36:38 AM George. There are no acts committed "in the name of" Atheism as that descriptio.....
» 18/02/2011 7:21:37 AM Rhian. True, Soviets were Atheist in name, however their ways were dogmatic and top down.......
» 17/02/2011 2:56:48 PM 2 parts to any good religion: 1 - Existential crisis: Why is anything here? 2 - Morals: I.....
» 17/02/2011 10:02:36 AM longweekend58: I thought so too, but then I realised I've never been given such a choice: .....
» 17/02/2011 8:43:29 AM It is a really complex problem. I was chatting to a guy in Bachelor near Darwin years ago......
» 28/01/2011 11:47:25 AM Peter. I would suggest that we will know the cost of not funding innovation only when our .....
» 28/01/2011 9:33:44 AM King Hazza. Too true. This "we must suck up to the USA to protect us" theory wa.....
» 28/01/2011 8:22:30 AM Bravo. All it takes for evil to prosper is for good people to do nothing. Howard and Bus.....
» 24/01/2011 2:27:57 PM Good article and comments. It is interesting that the proponents of free markets seem to c.....
» 24/01/2011 8:57:24 AM Jon J...I work with climate scientists and have been to 3 conferences in the last 6 months.....
» 20/01/2011 11:20:15 AM Well said Otokonoko. There are also ongoing disasters in Brazil and elsewhere: Horrendous .....
» 20/01/2011 8:32:49 AM Ah Peter! The idea that all taxation is theft and all community spending is waste does hav.....
» 18/01/2011 3:05:03 PM Well I too was annoyed by the media's coverage...but that is what they do. At least there .....
» 18/01/2011 2:39:44 PM Pericles. Could it be that we have a chicken-egg situation here? ie. The reason your 1 exc.....
» 18/01/2011 10:39:21 AM http://www.bom.gov.au/cgi-bin/climate/change/timeseries.cgi?graph=sst&area=aus&season=0112.....
» 17/12/2010 8:49:11 AM Nice one. The double standards that religions expect is unacceptable. It seems they still .....
» 15/12/2010 2:37:31 PM Bravo, great article. Religion absolutely relies on child indoctrination and general ignor.....
» 13/12/2010 2:40:48 PM Anyone here actually dived the GBR lately? The inner reefs are already mostly dead, though.....
» 10/12/2010 10:14:01 AM Ah yes, it is the fault of the *current* younger generations...it always is. What you are .....
» 9/12/2010 8:27:16 AM You really didn't bother doing any deep research did you? The two women agreed the sex was.....
» 9/12/2010 7:50:33 AM Alas, every time there is an attempt to fix education we get Howard style culture wars. W.....
» 8/12/2010 11:49:24 AM Well said! Runner, stop lying. Evolution is as factual as it gets. Name one useful predict.....
» 7/12/2010 8:38:28 AM When the truth is a threat to the State then the State is in deep trouble. Indeed. Our med.....
» 7/12/2010 8:15:32 AM And do you support the ongoing corporate welfare that is our private health insurance &quo.....
» 3/12/2010 10:26:35 AM Wise words Saul. Interest rates should be set by the market to reflect the balance between.....
» 2/12/2010 1:37:26 PM OK for those who are genuinely interested: Yes the models do include convection and ocean/.....
» 19/11/2010 11:19:26 AM Clownfish: I will agree that there will be a minority of science with a bias towards what .....
» 18/11/2010 10:21:57 AM Clownfish. Perhaps I should have said "the rhetoric being used amounts to sophistry&q.....
» 18/11/2010 9:02:01 AM No Ken, Sophistry is using rhetoric to "oppose" all solutions just because their.....
» 17/11/2010 11:33:46 AM SM. If it is so cheap, why does it still require subsidies? Also, when coal (or gas) is bu.....
» 11/11/2010 10:24:14 AM Some folks like being aggressive and are constantly looking for a reason to be "outra.....
» 10/11/2010 9:44:31 AM Amicus: The GFC actually started under Bush. He was the one who started the bank bailouts......
» 9/11/2010 11:00:18 AM Funny how the author glosses over *why* utilities are becoming so much more expensive. The.....
» 4/11/2010 7:52:19 AM Rusty you are on the money...so to speak. For every transparent public funded research gro.....
» 3/11/2010 9:36:48 AM Most of the economic babble is a smokescreen for the fact that "wealth extraction&quo.....
» 22/10/2010 1:58:56 PM This is a minefield but the author has some excellent points. I watched 2 neighbours lose .....
» 19/10/2010 1:11:54 PM How sad that it is only the Australian body count that determines when we've had enough. E.....
» 15/10/2010 9:52:20 AM NZ seems to be a bit more mature than Australia when it comes to politics. Whilst I do lik.....
» 15/10/2010 9:22:50 AM It's like a straw man shooting gallery in here! True, young radical Greens are annoying an.....
» 14/10/2010 8:29:08 AM Firesnake: Love your work. divine_msn: Thanks for demonstrating Christianity does not nece.....
» 13/10/2010 10:25:12 AM I love it when a fringe group claims the "right" to be taken seriously by everyo.....
» 12/10/2010 12:14:58 PM LOL! Thanks runner. I really do appreciate your input here, inadvertent or not. (I still h.....
» 12/10/2010 11:37:45 AM I like the plan, but who will implement it? I'd suggest the media has too much to gain fro.....
» 12/10/2010 10:41:43 AM Sorry Clownfish: " tu quoque"? I guess your quote proves there is a lot of compl.....
» 12/10/2010 8:59:08 AM BTW. this guy works for an institute that has as a main goal to "argue for a reductio.....
» 12/10/2010 8:55:27 AM What rubbish! A report that basically says "the science is sound, but not perfect&quo.....
» 11/10/2010 10:42:36 AM My 2c. I work with climate scientists so I have the "bias" of deductions drawn f.....
» 8/10/2010 3:05:43 PM one under god: I stopped reading after "you atheists believe you only get one life&qu.....
» 8/10/2010 10:30:07 AM Yeah, all profits are good...even if they go offshore and there is no competition to force.....
» 7/10/2010 9:20:16 AM Um, yes government policy is largely determined by big business...this surprises you? Are .....
» 6/10/2010 11:51:09 AM OK so we have identified the threat. Now what to do about him? What is an effective strate.....
» 5/10/2010 2:54:54 PM The interest rate is supposed to be the price of money. Like most prices, it is better to.....
» 5/10/2010 1:45:53 PM BB could terrorism be linked with colonialism? Well imagine if China invaded Australia, b.....
» 5/10/2010 1:32:14 PM Good article. Children overboard was an obvious ploy, as was the WMD lie. But why was the .....
» 5/10/2010 9:37:12 AM As with the Iraq war, the existence of this sort of propaganda organisation shows just how.....
» 24/09/2010 10:11:36 AM Why do private school kids still do worse at Uni? Back in my day it was thought to be due .....
» 24/09/2010 9:10:47 AM Comparative RE is now as important, or more important than maths or English. Kids need a B.....
» 23/09/2010 12:14:17 PM Well it's nice to see some non-US propaganda material. Sure it's one sided, but it is also.....
» 23/09/2010 8:53:18 AM david f. I can only agree. The real shame is that the same thing is now happening to Engla.....
» 22/09/2010 11:10:04 AM Our labour average labour cost is indeed too high, but this is not due to the average work.....
» 20/09/2010 4:06:19 PM Restrict the salaries of execs and board to 20 times the lowest worker salary. When 1 year.....
» 20/09/2010 3:33:33 PM If a biker gang had been hanging around town bossing people, stealing, occasionally killin.....
» 20/09/2010 3:15:23 PM No, its just another stupidophobia, possibly arrogantophobia, or more likely get-out-of-my.....
» 20/09/2010 11:25:48 AM I think that there is an element in society that cannot tolerate folks being free and fear.....
» 20/09/2010 10:08:42 AM Anyone interested in Buddhism should first read what Buddha actually said. This will get o.....
» 20/09/2010 9:26:36 AM Appalling article, appalling campaign. The media were blatantly self-serving and seemed to.....
» 20/09/2010 9:21:09 AM I agree the Libs "all debt is evil" line was pretty disingenuous, but Labour's e.....
» 17/09/2010 12:24:30 PM The author is obviously unaware just how much our world has been changed by the internet. .....
» 14/09/2010 4:12:09 PM So long as religion is excluded as a cause for atrocities, the analysis will be incomplete.....
» 14/09/2010 10:03:14 AM Brain scans show that when folks are "talking to God" in their minds, the part t.....
» 13/09/2010 1:32:55 PM Seems all holy books say nice things on one page then several pages later the opposite. Be.....
» 13/09/2010 12:27:43 PM God save us from all religion! All mainstream religions provide rules for the in-crowd, bu.....
» 13/09/2010 11:45:16 AM Take home message: The "market" of pure selfishness cannot optimise, it can only.....
» 10/09/2010 11:06:06 AM Good article. What is progressive? Is the fine art of balancing "freedom" with w.....
» 9/09/2010 12:55:43 PM Apologies for the misquote Pericles. Curmudgon: repeating a figure does not justify it. Wh.....
» 9/09/2010 10:19:07 AM Not sure why the "net" is joined to TV in this article ("TV-net"). Th.....
» 9/09/2010 8:54:41 AM I am disgusted that the media has consistently pushed lies. The blatant nature of the re-w.....
» 7/09/2010 1:05:48 PM OK Andrew so what of the future? AS merv09 says, the statistics are being fiddled to make .....
» 3/09/2010 12:44:36 PM Good article. Both neoclassical and Keynesian models require competition to keep efficien.....
» 2/09/2010 12:26:18 PM What the author called "neo-liberalism" was no such thing, it was actually ".....
» 27/08/2010 10:09:03 AM So we have an economist trashing part of Dicks argument. We know that growth can continue .....
» 26/08/2010 12:28:35 PM Peter, that might be how some of the muppets interpret Keynes, but it is oversimplifying t.....
» 26/08/2010 10:24:42 AM Well said. You have identified the key real issues our economy faces. Allowing the bankers.....
» 24/08/2010 10:47:48 AM A conservative historian takes on modern science...and thinks he knows better. Frankly Jam.....
» 23/08/2010 2:44:10 PM "Piracy" is an invention of the corporate middle-men who won't acknowledge their.....
» 20/08/2010 2:56:55 PM I'm guessing HasBeen has benefited from negative Gearing! Welfare is all well and good mat.....
» 20/08/2010 2:23:12 PM Dick's program pointed out that the 4% growth since Howard was not matched with appropriat.....
» 20/08/2010 11:06:14 AM Good housing policy will offend the current asset holders, so is unlikely for some time. T.....
» 19/08/2010 3:03:03 PM Anti-abortionists believe a bundle of cells has more rights than a fully grown woman. funn.....
» 19/08/2010 2:50:29 PM Well said. Alas, the conservatives do not have the concentration span necessary to get the.....
» 19/08/2010 12:10:43 PM Greg, unless we start to address the issue of environmental sustainability the economy wil.....
» 19/08/2010 11:00:52 AM Education should *not* be treated like a business! A university I worked for a few years a.....
» 19/08/2010 9:14:04 AM Great article. Wealth distribution has been distorted by corporations in recent years to a.....
» 18/08/2010 10:44:50 AM Where were the "conscientious Christians" when the government was involved in il.....
» 12/08/2010 11:39:51 AM ...cont "2. How do YOU know that anthropogenic carbon emissions are causing warming,.....
» 12/08/2010 11:36:25 AM Herbert, in answer to your questions: "1. How do YOU know that it is warming? A lot .....
» 12/08/2010 10:40:57 AM Thanks for bringing up a vital issue: equality. Economic growth is not beneficial if it is.....
» 12/08/2010 9:15:23 AM My issue with Christianity is that it is being used as a "get out of jail free" .....
» 11/08/2010 3:28:35 PM Anyone who still falls for the "Left wing bias" BS clearly has learned nothing f.....
» 11/08/2010 8:53:30 AM Jon J. On what basis do you reject GW as a personal barrow? You see I work with the BOM an.....
» 10/08/2010 9:04:33 AM OK so increased frequency and severity of bushfires was a clear prediction from GW...yet s.....
» 20/07/2010 1:57:42 PM A study of Nauru and the benefits that overseas owned mining companies provided would be u.....
» 20/07/2010 12:31:01 PM What a bunch of grumpy old comments! Sorry Ramya, OLO is a idealism free zone at times. Mo.....
» 14/07/2010 3:23:40 PM OK I'll bite. Why not? Pragmatism and getting as much bang for limited education buck. Mat.....
» 14/07/2010 2:13:29 PM Whether due to "culture" or "religion" abhorrent practices like female.....
» 13/07/2010 3:37:19 PM Good article. I wish you had mentioned "operation Northwoods" as well. This was.....
» 12/07/2010 12:40:45 PM CO2 you are in cloud cuckoo land! Increased CO2 only works if heat stress doesn't come wit.....
» 12/07/2010 12:07:54 PM Power corrupts. Giving *anyone* too much say in what others can do in public places will t.....
» 12/07/2010 9:30:32 AM She lost me when she didn't can internet censorship and started playing "me too".....
» 9/07/2010 12:59:07 PM Sustainable economies have to arise from the current quagmire of vested interests, corrupt.....
» 9/07/2010 11:47:15 AM Cue the US apologists... If Iran is a messed up theocracy it is mainly because the US made.....
» 9/07/2010 10:27:11 AM So now the Christians are claiming democracy and law as their own! You obviously haven't s.....
» 9/07/2010 9:02:38 AM Peter, the problems with Lawyers is not that they are atheist (which is a pretty big call .....
» 8/07/2010 11:50:31 AM I wonder how many KKK members are in the local police? This may prove a barrier to extermi.....
» 8/07/2010 10:12:32 AM Sounds like there should be a follow up story retracting all claims found to be false. Of .....
» 7/07/2010 12:07:10 PM Well said phanto. Convince us that Christianity has value by virtuous acts, not pontificat.....
» 7/07/2010 10:58:30 AM Peter, I know many Christians and "free" is not what I would call their mindset!.....
» 5/07/2010 4:11:34 PM Fair enough. I guess I have a problem with this "ownership", much as I'd have a.....
» 5/07/2010 3:25:07 PM LoudMouth: So Who's backyard is Ularu? I thought it was a national monument! Are you sugge.....
» 5/07/2010 1:56:18 PM I visited, I climbed. When I asked why the local tribe didn't like it I got a reply along .....
» 2/07/2010 3:19:26 PM CO2: Not sure what planet you are from, but here on Earth the real data suggests the oppos.....
» 1/07/2010 4:05:53 PM Julia is marginally better than Kevin, but much better than Tony, who really isn't fit to .....
» 29/06/2010 2:07:10 PM ALGOREisRICH..."walking away" from faith is an act of rationality that leads to .....
» 29/06/2010 12:54:59 PM No, our political system is much the same as it was. What we have now is a spineless media.....
» 25/06/2010 9:16:55 AM As the author says, asking ISPs to log everything is asking for denial of service attacks......
» 23/06/2010 11:19:09 AM It pains me, but Amicus and Leigh have the right of it. Continuous charity leads to resent.....
» 22/06/2010 1:55:00 PM Great to see how this article is reacted to! Choice for individuals should always trump th.....
» 22/06/2010 11:52:01 AM This is part of the great unaccountability culture that pervades society at the moment. U.....
» 21/06/2010 9:53:15 AM First casualty of war is the truth...and aint that the truth. There is nothing honest abou.....
» 21/06/2010 9:10:30 AM Manorina, unfortunately it seems likely that we have passed beyond the point where mitigat.....
» 18/06/2010 3:51:43 PM Of course the increase in costs will be blamed on the "greenies" for some reason.....
» 18/06/2010 3:43:45 PM BTW. Do I sound peeved? You bet! Having my co-workers being accused of outright fraud when.....
» 18/06/2010 3:18:44 PM Leo, you are a sucker! The oil industry has you convinced that a bunch of scientists worki.....
» 18/06/2010 2:41:46 PM BTW. We have tried true "free market" economies for many thousands of years...it.....
» 18/06/2010 2:36:15 PM ... Another issue: Global warming is *not* just about temperature! It is about energy. A g.....
» 18/06/2010 2:34:46 PM OK, I work with a bunch of climate scientists and have just come from a climate change ada.....
» 18/06/2010 11:10:14 AM Kris, I believe your "private good, government bad" theory has crossed the line .....
» 18/06/2010 11:00:10 AM Leo you are hilarious! You will be blaming the greens for holding back solar power next. T.....
» 17/06/2010 12:26:53 PM This sounds like a quite reasonable summary. Cue the pro-Israel "But the holocaust........
» 17/06/2010 10:07:18 AM Well said LErnest. We too are conquerors and occupiers, as are most nations. The focus doe.....
» 16/06/2010 11:27:52 AM BTW. Fester brings up an excellent point. Growth spruikers like to point out profits witho.....
» 16/06/2010 11:18:25 AM Sounds like this author confuses GDP with standard of living. Yes, under Howard our GDP ro.....
» 15/06/2010 3:31:47 PM Yep, I'm all for hybrid vigour and beautiful children (ie. interracial mixing) but ferrets.....
» 15/06/2010 2:01:44 PM CJ. Agreed on the bashing. I do like to learn the rhetorical tricks that are deployed by r.....
» 15/06/2010 11:52:46 AM I think for multiculturalism to work there needs to be respect both ways...We cannot have .....
» 15/06/2010 11:18:48 AM Expecting religious authority to act reasonably when it comes to childhood indoctrination .....
» 9/06/2010 12:19:53 PM Poor old military industrial complex...being starved of funds are we? Has Haliburton and B.....
» 7/06/2010 4:35:25 PM Indeed blame our recent leaders, but also blame the press who will not call them out on ab.....
» 7/06/2010 2:51:35 PM It is said that the reason organisms die rather than self-repair is the impact of parasite.....
» 4/06/2010 3:14:04 PM Well said. What a disgrace......
» 4/06/2010 2:24:58 PM Proxy, so you reckon a spoilt rich cocaine addict who couldn't run a profitable business e.....
» 4/06/2010 12:14:19 PM Alas, Obama has an almost impossible job before him. Bush bankrupted the country with tri.....
» 4/06/2010 12:00:16 PM Ban it in banks, for the same reasons as helmets are: No exceptions should be made for a c.....
» 26/05/2010 8:51:45 AM I got one a few days ago. Yes it's a little slow but the page turn delay can be catered fo.....
» 24/05/2010 11:48:53 AM Abbot's gaff was quite amusing. Being "straight up" is one thing, but admitting .....
» 20/05/2010 11:37:27 AM Well said Rhian. The extremes of Left and Right are more similar than different. The use o.....
» 20/05/2010 9:07:31 AM So a conservative financial reporter quotes other conservative financial interests saying .....
» 20/05/2010 8:52:08 AM Good on her. Sure there may be risks, but the result is worth it. Millions take similar ri.....
» 19/05/2010 3:03:15 PM I too would be more impressed by the achievements of Israel if they were not so tainted by.....
» 18/05/2010 8:39:00 AM Good article. Nice to see most folks here support and appear to understand science. We wil.....
» 17/05/2010 10:02:47 AM Well said Houellebecq! Dangerous to let sensible thought get in the way of a good winge th.....
» 14/05/2010 8:38:35 AM This issue is the economic elephant in the room. It should be obvious that profiteering fr.....
» 13/05/2010 11:08:56 AM Bravo. Exporting wealth creation industry to chase low wages whilst allowing unlimited &qu.....
» 13/05/2010 9:14:15 AM What a silly article! Straw men are so easy to kill. Perhaps if the author represented th.....
» 11/05/2010 3:15:13 PM Good article. The real issue I believe is: Why is such a popular issue "controversia.....
» 10/05/2010 3:39:35 PM Dear sweet Renaissance, Or perhaps sometimes time is limited and stream of thought prose .....
» 10/05/2010 12:27:55 PM Alas, we have no statesmen in politics. The parties would never allow it. We also have Go.....
» 10/05/2010 12:18:52 PM We certainly attract the cynics here! The civilised world is moving on whilst our backward.....
» 7/05/2010 11:29:53 AM Well said! Of course the "utility theory" that economics is based on also leads .....
» 4/05/2010 4:29:14 PM Another green bashing piece that uses *economics* as the untouchable axiom. What a joke. M.....
» 3/05/2010 1:25:29 PM Amicus: It is governments that are being lobbied and exploited by big business to ignore c.....
» 29/04/2010 9:41:24 AM I think Neo-liberalism deserves all the criticism that it gets. Basically it is/was a fake.....
» 28/04/2010 10:57:33 AM Well said Oliver. I would add that to have any credibility as a "godly" organisa.....
» 28/04/2010 9:43:29 AM The simple fact is that this abuse is world-wide and the protection of offenders is also w.....
» 21/04/2010 4:05:41 PM I agree that Buddhism is compatible with science as taught by the Buddha, however it is mo.....
» 21/04/2010 11:44:37 AM I doubt even the CIA could alter migration patterns of dozens of species and fudge the dat.....
» 21/04/2010 9:08:36 AM I suspect that more mere evidence will not change the denialists attitude one iota. If you.....
» 16/04/2010 10:43:35 AM Sorry, JP, not SD!.....
» 16/04/2010 10:43:10 AM SD. You omit the fact that religion assumes that God appeared from nothing, yet feel no ne.....
» 16/04/2010 9:17:11 AM JP. I'd like to tackle your assertion that science cannot discover the source of life. The.....
» 14/04/2010 1:29:55 PM thinkabit: True, but you can rank the systems by an agreed measure of fairness. Combining .....
» 14/04/2010 11:15:48 AM The need for electoral change is indeed an urgent one. Which of the two major parties will.....
» 13/04/2010 3:04:10 PM When I was a kid the eye testing doctor tried to put me into glasses. The same year about .....
» 13/04/2010 10:02:17 AM Very good article. Sadly we have allowed "private" schools to distort both the c.....
» 1/04/2010 11:04:07 AM Looks like Rudd is trying to pass on the hot potato that Howard passed to him. The US has .....
» 1/04/2010 8:43:39 AM This reads like a propaganda piece to an ignorant public...trouble is we are not that naiv.....
» 1/04/2010 8:10:04 AM Well said Rusty and King Hazza. Many things are harmful if abused. I'd put TV in this cate.....
» 30/03/2010 1:39:57 PM ...As for the CO2 issue: Yes, it is settled. Solid theories predict certain patterns: If i.....
» 30/03/2010 1:38:40 PM Amicus. Many of the same inconsistencies and arbitrary decisions apply to short and medium.....
» 30/03/2010 11:40:41 AM This is a real eye opener. I hadn't realised things were that bad. I agree with Pelican, h.....
» 25/03/2010 10:28:50 AM What is happening in Tassie is a sign of things to come on the mainland. Most would rather.....
» 19/03/2010 10:35:14 AM Leo Lane, you are full of it! There is *overwhelming* evidence from peer reviewed processe.....
» 19/03/2010 8:32:10 AM Jon J. "Little evidence?" Actually mate, it is pretty overwhelming now! Air temp.....
» 17/03/2010 3:37:37 PM Sounds great. The trouble with accurate information though is that it threatens the arbit.....
» 17/03/2010 1:40:09 PM Well said. When I hear these tossers go on about "Left wing bias in the media" I.....
» 17/03/2010 12:17:18 PM spindoc. The enquiries have been held and the scientists have been exonerated of fraud. Th.....
» 17/03/2010 9:39:56 AM You folks *still* believe that hundreds of scientists world-wide can fiddle the figures an.....
» 17/03/2010 8:03:40 AM At last an article that tells it like it really is. Forget higher energy prices, these cou.....
» 12/03/2010 11:53:10 AM I agree that corporate welfare is the problem. It is not only unethical but also distorts .....
» 11/03/2010 3:25:52 PM The thrust of this article is simply "Bad Kevin!" without saying anything much. .....
» 11/03/2010 11:38:44 AM Rstuart is correct in that peak oil will not solve the climate problem. We have already pa.....
» 5/03/2010 11:33:31 AM Great article. Secrecy + censorship can only lead to evil. Manorina has it spot on...Contr.....
» 3/03/2010 10:29:14 AM Bravo AJ Phillips and Grim. Well said. Religion is an excuse for selfish, arrogant thought.....
» 1/03/2010 3:16:01 PM Best way to avoid bubbles: Make interest rates the market price for money instead of fixin.....
» 26/02/2010 11:25:35 AM I too find Rudd a big disappointment and he certainly lives by spin. Regarding the title o.....
» 19/02/2010 10:38:14 AM I'd be happy with an electronic program guide that is not a joke. Of course they will neve.....
» 17/02/2010 8:16:22 AM K Rudd has to decide if he is going to be a conservative industry minion, or a real states.....
» 16/02/2010 3:05:00 PM Raycom...there is no doubt that glaciers are retreating. "GlacierGate" was just .....
» 16/02/2010 12:50:35 PM The science may well indicate personal risk of violent thoughts. I get violent thoughts f.....
» 16/02/2010 11:18:27 AM What rubbish. 1) Forcing people to go around authority undermines the authority. The ratin.....
» 15/02/2010 10:03:04 AM Afghanistan was about the gas pipeline, Iraq was about the oil. Both wars totally illegal .....
» 12/02/2010 7:41:24 AM Another one! The collective knowledge of decades of work is surpassed by an industry hack .....
» 11/02/2010 1:36:03 PM I'll second the "education as industry" story. Standards dropped and income beca.....
» 11/02/2010 12:16:33 PM Well the BBs have definitely screwed my generation. They got free university education bas.....
» 11/02/2010 9:02:31 AM Sigh...I am almost looking forward to the next piece of Antarctica falling off. I went to .....
» 10/02/2010 10:56:14 AM Yet another little parasite industry making undeserved "profits". Seems the lega.....
» 9/02/2010 10:35:33 AM Chris, I would like to agree with you, however the system we have now is quite different f.....
» 4/02/2010 11:15:15 AM david_f raises an interesting point: Most bible study is based on an arbitrary translation.....
» 4/02/2010 7:59:56 AM Refreshing to see sane comments outnumber the insane! The theory that 2000 year old folks .....
» 3/02/2010 12:27:00 PM I had hoped that the author is correct and interest rates would approach realistic levels .....
» 2/02/2010 10:18:51 AM Great analysis Andrew and well written. We seem to have lost the centre of Australian poli.....
» 2/02/2010 8:26:02 AM Good article. My main fear is that the US will start provoking China into a huge military .....
» 1/02/2010 12:58:56 PM Well said Grim. 'Nuff said. Creationists: Why did God create our lungs from swim bladder.....
» 29/01/2010 2:33:32 PM Yep, most politicians are hypocrites, Abbot more so than most. In his defence, I'd say mos.....
» 29/01/2010 12:42:24 PM Peter, Government funding is necessary to set up the *capability* of a profitable industry.....
» 29/01/2010 11:26:56 AM Honest Police don't like the war on drugs because it is extremely harmful to society, incr.....
» 20/01/2010 1:16:00 PM Joe, you missed something. Water does indeed expand as it gets hotter. Somewhat counter-in.....
» 20/01/2010 11:32:16 AM Amicus, where is the insult? I have a right to be angry about the deliberate misinformatio.....
» 20/01/2010 9:36:42 AM If science were susceptible to "common sense" we wouldn't need professionals. Th.....
» 20/01/2010 9:16:13 AM Simplify the tax system to remove the hidey holes that (un)-accountants use, then re-apply.....
» 12/01/2010 11:50:41 AM Applying science to management is an excellent idea, but it inevitably clashes with cultur.....
» 12/01/2010 10:06:22 AM Best article for a long time. Quote:"such opposition would be based on an ideological.....
» 8/01/2010 10:56:44 AM The anti-Israel opinions seem to me to be based on some pretty firm facts, and it is the I.....
» 6/01/2010 11:50:14 AM BTW. Well said Mikk! Taking science when you *dont* like the results is most important! .....
» 6/01/2010 11:41:00 AM You have summarised the "old and ignorant" position quite well I think. this &qu.....
» 23/12/2009 10:36:22 AM The Christian lobby wants to take us back to the dark ages where "wise men" sit .....
» 23/12/2009 9:00:43 AM Bravo. For those who missed it, the point is that Prohibition causes more issues than the.....
» 22/12/2009 12:40:33 PM Nice idea...but like all rational policy choices it will be killed by vested interests. O.....
» 17/12/2009 11:58:37 AM I have to agree with Yabby, Leigh and Atman here: Corrupt regimes do not benefit from aid......
» 17/12/2009 9:45:35 AM sceptic. A system such as yours would be very suitable in a rational society that values .....
» 15/12/2009 11:11:43 AM So the real reasons for going there? We know Iraq was about oil. Regime change and WMDs ne.....
» 14/12/2009 9:24:44 AM Arjay: I completely agree. Rather than creating borrowings from savings we have allowed th.....
» 8/12/2009 11:45:56 AM mikk. Good point. The "Pay peanuts get monkeys" brigade have conveniently ignor.....
» 7/12/2009 2:25:17 PM Poirot. The closest thing to a "faith" that I have is the conviction that being.....
» 7/12/2009 1:09:15 PM Good science. OK, now some good news... Human induced climate change may well save us from.....
» 4/12/2009 2:46:57 PM And yet the ice melts, the temperatures soar and the denialists winge, winge winge... Thes.....
» 4/12/2009 12:22:19 PM runner. You have only seen the radical loony fringe so far. All in all I'd say their ".....
» 4/12/2009 9:57:38 AM All I can say is that the scientists are doing a difficult job very well. Being conservati.....
» 3/12/2009 9:18:14 AM For those who think all tax is theft...go to a poor African country and see how "law .....
» 2/12/2009 7:28:59 AM One of the parties will have to take the "blame" for the low interest bubble gen.....
» 1/12/2009 11:49:24 AM We haven't avoided the GFC. As plerdsus and PH says, we haven't started yet. Borrowing mo.....
» 1/12/2009 9:56:17 AM This war showed just how flimsy our "free" society is. The media followed the mo.....
» 1/12/2009 8:23:26 AM Nice article. Hit the nail on the head. The Right has not a coherent philosophy, it is sim.....
» 30/11/2009 3:23:42 PM Cont... 6) So Climate change science is killing people now? Do tell! BTW. The recent bank.....
» 30/11/2009 3:23:25 PM PH. You have clearly been reading some paranoid anti-science articles. 1)The consensus is .....
» 25/11/2009 12:45:06 PM Well said leela! Add to this the removal of all restrictions on foreign ownership. Governa.....
» 24/11/2009 11:35:35 AM I have worked in a couple of banks over the last few years. They are essentially daycare f.....
» 20/11/2009 1:29:28 PM "It is tragically apparent that we can no longer trust the pronouncements of the high.....
» 16/11/2009 3:30:43 PM What a shame Rudd opted to carry on inflating the bubble instead of popping it and beginni.....
» 13/11/2009 1:02:11 PM Good analysis! We will see a correction sooner or later due to demographic trends and our .....
» 13/11/2009 10:52:54 AM There will be resistance: Companies profit from inappropriate defaults. Defaulting to bene.....
» 11/11/2009 1:12:35 PM slasher...I reckon you are right on that. The US has been undermining it's southern neighb.....
» 10/11/2009 9:37:58 AM Lets build at least one city that can sustainably support, say, half a million people. Wh.....
» 9/11/2009 12:12:52 PM Lets start with a free transparent press. Without accurate information we cannot properly.....
» 6/11/2009 12:38:54 PM Next time you see a cost comparison between oil and newer clean technologies...keep in min.....
» 5/11/2009 7:35:42 AM Nice argument Cheryl. Got any more gems of wisdom?.....
» 4/11/2009 11:56:28 AM Good article: Facts are so annoying to some! For those who wonder how predictions for the .....
» 26/10/2009 3:04:48 PM Great article. Every change will involve positives and negatives. The positives of liberat.....
» 26/10/2009 2:54:08 PM Sadly, Benjam1n has nailed it: We have to report honestly the nature of the attacks to ha.....
» 26/10/2009 11:41:34 AM Stop the fighting and lying. We are sick of war propaganda. *Both* sides are wrong...but .....
» 21/10/2009 3:26:15 PM Very biassed and a bit wingey. As usual you exaggerate the "world is against us".....
» 21/10/2009 11:11:01 AM Clearly there will not be a "one size fits all" solution. The clownfish team: (n.....
» 16/10/2009 2:48:34 PM Well said Bushbasher! "Fluffy nonsense hiding dubious moral axioms gets blasted!&quo.....
» 16/10/2009 1:40:17 PM OK faithful, here is the question I asked as a 7 year old: If God created all. From whence.....
» 15/10/2009 12:09:02 PM OK here is a basic fact for all the newby climate scientists out there. If you only look a.....
» 15/10/2009 9:12:18 AM I just have to say last I checked 95% of peer reviewed climate articles still support huma.....
» 14/10/2009 1:53:22 PM Nicely done. We need more of this to show just how bad integrity declined during the Howa.....
» 14/10/2009 1:26:19 PM We could do with some more transparency here too. Democracy is government for the people. .....
» 14/10/2009 1:12:26 PM Good article. About time Greenspan and the other money printers were put in their place. I.....
» 14/10/2009 10:21:02 AM Arjay. Correct. It would have been much cheaper to do it the sensible way. Those in power.....
» 12/10/2009 2:58:47 PM The gas pipeline is what the US is there for. Its the elephant in the room folks, and like.....
» 12/10/2009 12:06:40 PM Nice try at an explanation, but you went over the heads of the Christians I'm afraid. Havi.....
» 12/10/2009 11:45:06 AM Whilst we ignore the hypocrisy and corruption of politicians and allow churches to run pae.....
» 29/09/2009 2:25:29 PM Saul was correct in that interest rates have been, and are now too low and are an importan.....
» 4/09/2009 12:34:59 PM This seems to be asking scientists to dumb-down their mathematics to the point where non-s.....
» 3/09/2009 1:06:26 PM I was in Malaysia recently and at least the religious influence is mostly overt. In Austra.....
» 3/09/2009 9:41:10 AM Runner, you are the proof of the impact of religion: hate, narrow mindedness and aggressio.....
» 21/08/2009 11:19:45 AM The "conservative" approach to child sex education has just had a pretty good te.....
» 20/08/2009 11:53:05 AM The problem is double standards: When "intelligence" agencies break laws and go .....
» 19/08/2009 3:27:02 PM Nicely put Matt! The article was total junk with many errors. Just like the US "intel.....
» 14/08/2009 4:23:29 PM I'm with Ludwig here: Good points except for the nuclear bit: Way too expensive unless the.....
» 13/08/2009 4:17:52 PM Bringing gender into this is unnecessary. Far more relevant is the attitudes that people t.....
» 11/08/2009 8:46:25 AM If we remove some of the market distortions (tax breaks, "R&D" , etc) that suppo.....
» 22/07/2009 11:53:24 AM OK, so was the Commonwealth bank really a failure? Seems we have tried it before and it wo.....
» 22/07/2009 11:08:11 AM I love the comment from Agronomist: Italians have religion sorted. Catholic teaching canno.....
» 21/07/2009 4:08:36 PM I learned Indonesian in high school and was pleasantly surprised when it came in handy whi.....
» 21/07/2009 3:59:48 PM I'd like to see our defence forces being used for defence and disaster assistance. Assisti.....
» 21/07/2009 9:47:54 AM I kind of liked the fact that I recieved "religious education" in school. It all.....
» 20/07/2009 4:35:23 PM If religion were not so powerful it would be a good laugh. Reminds me of overhearing kinde.....
» 14/07/2009 2:29:50 PM It is clear that the US is only there for the resources and to secure the gas pipeline. Fu.....
» 13/07/2009 12:31:33 PM Informed folks are getting more scared, fools are increasing the fervor of their denial. T.....
» 9/07/2009 10:00:39 AM Part of the problem is that even the good economic theory is selectively applied. For inst.....
» 8/07/2009 4:41:54 PM Thanks to the previous posters for pointing out what the anti-science brigade likes to pre.....
» 6/07/2009 3:13:04 PM Whatever system is used: 1) Make it transparent. Secrecy causes corruption. 2) Make it ef.....
» 6/07/2009 2:22:40 PM If you are good at it, being a bully works well in a "law of jungle" type situat.....
» 3/07/2009 12:15:49 PM Nice one Nina. The church apologists really don't like other people playing by their rules.....
» 3/07/2009 10:20:06 AM Now we need to bring to account the Haliburtons, Blackwater and the remnants of Standard O.....
» 1/07/2009 12:50:10 PM First casualty of war is Truth. Articles by Tedd Rall prior to Iraq also paint a very simi.....
» 23/06/2009 3:14:54 PM I enjoyed the article while it rambled on about crowds...then the conspiracy theory anti-i.....
» 22/06/2009 12:19:09 PM I think that when perks such as their "superannuation", which is really a pensio.....
» 19/06/2009 11:30:23 AM During the "mining boom" we had private debt blow out to 30 times historical whi.....
» 17/06/2009 2:41:53 PM The popularity of the Chaser and it's tendency to highlight absurdity seems to have attrac.....
» 17/06/2009 12:10:50 PM The experts have had honest debates about this subject. It is the dishonesty in the skepti.....
» 17/06/2009 11:50:01 AM Leigh, your ignorance and/or bias is showing. The real science has been going on for over .....
» 12/06/2009 3:01:31 PM Aime: Not quite correct. Oil is just the first, easiest and cheapest energy source. There .....
» 12/06/2009 1:57:34 PM Curmudgeon: I raised the issue of latent heat because, as Bugsy said, it is just one examp.....
» 12/06/2009 9:36:02 AM Racism exists in both sides of politics and more runs in families than to political leanin.....
» 11/06/2009 12:29:40 PM A little experiment for the home climate skeptic: Fill a glass with crushed ice, top it of.....
» 11/06/2009 12:22:44 PM Nicely written FUD. "Warming" is not necessarily temperature related, it mostly .....
» 11/06/2009 10:18:38 AM Fractelle: Too true. I just couldn't resist after runner's anti-science comments. The faux.....
» 10/06/2009 4:11:22 PM Leigh it is a bit of a stretch but... Christians should be peaceful if they are true to Ch.....
» 10/06/2009 10:56:55 AM mikk: Don't worry, humans have always relied on a very small fraction of people throughout.....
» 10/06/2009 10:10:48 AM Fractelle: The notion that humans are animals that evolved on a dynamic world is anathema .....
» 10/06/2009 9:34:12 AM I cannot believe how stupid this arrangement is! If you have a billion to spend on health .....
» 9/06/2009 11:00:52 AM This article states an important point: Innovation comes from Public funds...exploitation .....
» 4/06/2009 11:38:15 AM We've had experience dealing with morally ambiguous countries that abuse power. The USA lo.....
» 4/06/2009 10:35:00 AM I thought the evidence points to fertility being linked to *Womens* wealth in society, not.....
» 4/06/2009 9:16:02 AM No Peter, Jesus said that the way and the truth is through "the self", not ".....
» 3/06/2009 4:22:59 PM Peter the Believer: "atheists, secularists, and other do gooders". That is so fu.....
» 3/06/2009 2:36:34 PM Both sides are disgusting at the moment. We have a system developed over 100 years ago in .....
» 1/06/2009 10:46:23 AM rpg. I'm not so convinced that the bias is to any one party. The commercial channels are g.....
» 1/06/2009 8:58:03 AM So who in Australia dares wade into the "babbling brook of bu**sh**"? Our countr.....
» 29/05/2009 4:19:02 PM Well said Oliver. A little bit of historical truth can really mess up a overly simplistic.....
» 29/05/2009 3:41:23 PM David raises a good point which may be misunderstood by some readers. Not all students are.....
» 29/05/2009 3:09:36 PM Well said Pericles. We are far more an oligarchy than a true democracy. Ambit politics and.....
» 29/05/2009 2:50:10 PM I for one am very glad this sort of article can be written. I only knew the "official.....
» 29/05/2009 12:38:03 PM Yup, the publishers will only be interested in profit, and are subject to back door influe.....
» 28/05/2009 11:36:45 AM I have to agree with Leigh here. Remaining hunter-gatherers is not an option, reversing th.....
» 28/05/2009 11:15:25 AM Good call Rowan. We can pretty much agree that: -Borrowing for consumption is bad. -Borro.....
» 27/05/2009 4:04:12 PM JF Nutrient pollution has been known/very strongly suspected as the cause for some time. W.....
» 27/05/2009 3:46:11 PM Glad to see some general agreement on this one. This is not necessarily a green sentiment,.....
» 27/05/2009 8:58:09 AM OK I'll join the chorus. How is it that the Government debt we are entering into is so bad.....
» 25/05/2009 2:07:06 PM runner: I really must point out that secular humanists should not be victimised by zealots.....
» 25/05/2009 9:04:13 AM Whilst a semi-secret nuclear program (like Israel) *may* provide a deterrent, more likely .....
» 22/05/2009 3:58:16 PM How cute! Lower wages for the poor = good for all. This is based on labor being just anoth.....
» 22/05/2009 11:48:39 AM There is an elephant in the room that dare not be mentioned. High tech modern industry is .....
» 22/05/2009 9:30:10 AM Wing, you over simplify in this case. Some products are not best served by market competit.....
» 22/05/2009 8:58:13 AM It would be nice if the communistic tendencies of China were balanced by the fascist tende.....
» 21/05/2009 11:07:50 AM Poor Libs must be feeling a tad left out. Just because Howard ignored Treasury and ramped .....
» 18/05/2009 9:25:12 AM Good on them. The sooner as the US dollar is dethroned the better. Maybe some meaningful.....
» 15/05/2009 9:50:53 AM Pretty good summary of situation. Rudd is clearly not trying hard enough to minimise the d.....
» 14/05/2009 12:13:47 PM Dave. The knockers will attack any re-newables right up until their house is powered by th.....
» 13/05/2009 3:19:04 PM rpg....I think you missed a key point. They did *not* drop the nukes on Hiroshima and Naga.....
» 13/05/2009 8:48:54 AM Could they be preparing the students for management? Lets face it, the ability to spout in.....
» 12/05/2009 11:46:05 AM The real issue is: How is it that my parents could raise 5 kids on one income without too .....
» 11/05/2009 4:34:45 PM I agree with Leigh on this one. No one trust partisan advice, especially not from politici.....
» 11/05/2009 1:51:20 PM Runner's comment reminds me of a comment I heard early Black Saturday: "The Premier i.....
» 11/05/2009 9:27:23 AM Thank God no one is suggesting a "War on obesity". I'm sure the holier than thou.....
» 8/05/2009 10:06:10 AM Well said Australiana. Billie, I am a strong advocate of a safety net and looking after th.....
» 7/05/2009 4:06:23 PM Wow, we still have supporters of corrupt authoritarian stuffups like Keelty! Howard's atti.....
» 7/05/2009 12:19:30 PM Poor dears, happy to take the growth in the good years (subsidised by taxpayers), now you .....
» 7/05/2009 12:05:41 PM Probably all true given todays situation. It still doesn't feel right to let Israel get aw.....
» 1/05/2009 4:34:08 PM Wattle. No Australian banks have collapsed because the average taxpayer is propping them u.....
» 1/05/2009 4:13:58 PM What rubbish! Pure political BS. The title describes the article: No substance. Reversing.....
» 1/05/2009 1:15:28 PM Good article! Many older folk equate ego with usefulness and have truly missed their own i.....
» 30/04/2009 9:20:06 AM Accountants and economists are very good at baffling us with BS. Make it needlessly comple.....
» 27/04/2009 3:51:21 PM mill-observer. Why then do the countries with the most fervent anti-drugs policy have the .....
» 24/04/2009 1:21:02 PM Excellent article. Perhaps by repeating this argument, and going slowly for the ones used .....
» 23/04/2009 11:19:31 AM I second the Chris Martenison reference. The "crash course" clearly explains the.....
» 23/04/2009 9:44:16 AM Well said stormbay! We are indeed children in our nursery, and until we learn to stand on .....
» 22/04/2009 1:58:05 PM Until the deficiencies of the UN are brought into the light no one will trust a world gove.....
» 20/04/2009 12:37:33 PM Nicely said! If Christians actually followed some of Jesus's teachings then I'd have more .....
» 20/04/2009 10:18:55 AM First principle of markets: Failures must be allowed to fail. The only organisation that s.....
» 17/04/2009 11:18:52 AM You replace one form of quackery for another. We need a government to *govern* the economy.....
» 16/04/2009 2:10:20 PM Our politicians are totally beholden to the big business interests. After all, they still .....
» 8/04/2009 10:45:45 AM Good article. We definitely need to stop empowering the authoritarian factions of society......
» 8/04/2009 10:34:49 AM Democritis: And what was the real inflation over that period? Transport cost, medical cost.....
» 7/04/2009 9:41:32 AM Thank you for pointing out what should be obvious: the real economy gains nothing from the.....
» 7/04/2009 9:06:20 AM OK, so Rudd is far from perfect. Conroy must go, as must all who support secret censorship.....
» 6/04/2009 4:30:11 PM Under Howard the wealth of the nation was channeled to the wealthiest 10% at the expense o.....
» 6/04/2009 4:09:55 PM The moral of the story seems to be that all social systems need to let the individual make.....
» 6/04/2009 10:14:25 AM Ah yes, creationists trying to play the man. Firstly, Darwin was a man of faith but he let.....
» 3/04/2009 2:05:02 PM Sorry spindoc but I have to follow this up: You agree that it was all about oil? You know .....
» 3/04/2009 1:46:01 PM Now we can see what Saddam's real sin was: selling oil in Euros Now we can also see why Ir.....
» 1/04/2009 9:20:02 AM Wake up, all information is global now. Unless the publishing industry wakes up and goes f.....
» 27/03/2009 1:12:04 PM I think there are enough facts out now to end the "greenie bashing" since the tr.....
» 27/03/2009 10:15:41 AM If you manipulate the information then rational people cannot make good decisions. This is.....
» 25/03/2009 3:11:28 PM CJ Morgan: It is indeed sad when a specialist lays out a bit of experience and this is int.....
» 25/03/2009 9:34:02 AM Wing Ah Ling is spot on. What would the US say if China started occupying hundreds of coun.....
» 25/03/2009 8:42:01 AM I think this article is setting the Left up as a straw man to some extent. Liberal democra.....
» 23/03/2009 2:16:20 PM But what about the finance industry? Don't they deserve their billion dollar profits? If y.....
» 20/03/2009 3:12:48 PM Reasons: 1) Drugs. Hard drugs are more common these days. Speedy substances (God knows wha.....
» 18/03/2009 11:31:00 AM It is worse than most people even suspect: The gangs earn revenue in the $Billions due to .....
» 18/03/2009 9:08:27 AM The Walsh quote is spot on: Too little, too late. I have always believed in the hard sci-f.....
» 16/03/2009 2:19:29 PM Do we have a shortage of skilled people to step into senior roles? No way! We have a glut .....
» 16/03/2009 12:55:46 PM Agreed. Get rid of the tax-free status, stop them taking public funds for limited private .....
» 16/03/2009 9:11:02 AM Great article. Jon J. If it was pure capitalism then the banks would have failed by now a.....
» 16/03/2009 7:46:30 AM I can't believe folks are still supporting the neo-lib ideas even when they have clearly c.....
» 11/03/2009 1:16:11 PM Parisjune: The descendants of free people are already cursing the apathy of Australians to.....
» 4/03/2009 1:16:55 PM Pathetic political squabbles. Arguing over the Bible is little more than arguing over tea .....
» 4/03/2009 12:19:54 PM The article skirts around the most relevant issue: Parasite industry. How long would it ta.....
» 4/03/2009 10:57:10 AM PaulL, you are ignorant and wrong. The US created Saddam the "cruel dictator". T.....
» 4/03/2009 8:13:05 AM Well said in the article, and by Daviy. What Jesus actually stood for is the opposite of w.....
» 4/03/2009 7:37:27 AM Pure electric vehicles are *almost* there. The current bailout of automakers in the US mig.....
» 3/03/2009 9:50:22 AM Themistocles, that is a foolish argument. Bush's policy has created more enemies than he e.....
» 2/03/2009 1:59:38 PM Sadly, people don't actually mind murderous governments so long as it is theirs and there .....
» 27/02/2009 3:21:57 PM Sorry to say I have to join the negative here. It is a two way street and keeping the focu.....
» 26/02/2009 2:10:38 PM I reckon we'll need to shift to city states to get over the hump. There are simply too man.....
» 26/02/2009 7:37:05 AM PhillipM. Well done for spotting the elephant. We don't need EMTs or new taxes. We just ne.....
» 25/02/2009 9:13:06 AM 10 years of drought and a horror week of weather are the main culprits. Blaming "extr.....
» 13/02/2009 9:29:37 AM This guy is supposed to be Gods rep, and therefore infallible. What a joke. At least they .....
» 12/02/2009 2:38:37 PM I'll just join Miranda and defend the science: The models have suggested that human induce.....
» 12/02/2009 8:23:46 AM Doc Holiday: Good points. I think some of it is down to demographics and will solve itself.....
» 11/02/2009 3:17:26 PM Sadly, I see this in very large companies too. It seems that wherever the "cult of au.....
» 11/02/2009 3:07:14 PM Er, Keith...Look at some history mate. It was the US and Britain that setup the current di.....
» 11/02/2009 2:50:45 PM The author is part of a US "Institute" that pushes US business interests. This i.....
» 10/02/2009 12:55:07 PM Runner. No implication that only the rich are greedy, nor that the rich are rich because t.....
» 10/02/2009 12:07:45 PM Ah! the inevitable "but communism failed" straw-man has come already. A minimum.....
» 10/02/2009 11:08:21 AM BTW. One of the few authors to pick up on the pseudo-money supply issue. Q. Why did gover.....
» 10/02/2009 10:48:11 AM I reckon Davity is spot on about the financial system being a lubricant, and not the real .....
» 9/02/2009 12:08:34 PM Sparkyq. Imagine you were born in Gaza in the last 5 years. It is not Islam that would cau.....
» 9/02/2009 10:36:55 AM You appear to be asking religion to play fair. They will not. It is time to fight back as .....
» 9/02/2009 9:56:20 AM Just so long as we learn the lessons from the US. Having a 2 tier system and catering for.....
» 9/02/2009 8:14:06 AM Another Neo-Liberal apologist with nothing to offer but sniping! If they had any *real* ar.....
» 6/02/2009 1:19:24 PM Good article. We like scalliwags and rogues. I have heard that his private issues are a pr.....
» 6/02/2009 11:02:08 AM It will take a couple of generations before an aboriginal has a chance of being PM here. F.....
» 5/02/2009 11:30:04 AM There are some problems with user generated content. 1) Subject to abuse by marketing comp.....
» 5/02/2009 10:58:46 AM spindoc: You cannot say it is the cheapest. They haven't fixed the waste problems! They h.....
» 5/02/2009 10:34:46 AM Ha! liberal fanboy shows just how hypocritical they are. "breathtakingly cynical".....
» 4/02/2009 2:46:24 PM OK so where are the "next generation" pebble-bed reactors that are supposed to b.....
» 4/02/2009 9:10:46 AM All true. But pharmacies are clearly not really about health...just "health related&q.....
» 4/02/2009 8:55:44 AM He was a failed oilman. Couldn't even make money in the family business. He lied repeated.....
» 3/02/2009 11:20:17 AM For someone with a PHD in history this is poor analysis. Privatised health care has *fail.....
» 2/02/2009 3:14:44 PM bigmal. I appreciate where you are coming from. We are living in a cynical time. Some GW &.....
» 2/02/2009 1:01:28 PM It's like watching a field of straw-men having a riot. Both sides agree that government sp.....
» 2/02/2009 10:54:40 AM You are right to raise the limitations of computer models, but linking the credit crash to.....
» 2/02/2009 9:48:07 AM LOL! Great example of a religious "argument". Gobbledegook indeed. First he dec.....
» 30/01/2009 3:11:00 PM Yeah, and we should rubber coat all the sharp rocks, put railings over all cliffs, put &qu.....
» 30/01/2009 10:26:19 AM Correction: Education must be all about teaching kids. This "pro choice" nonsen.....
» 30/01/2009 10:09:25 AM What a crock! In terms of results, public beats private every time. Experiences in Europe.....
» 30/01/2009 9:44:54 AM Taswegian has it about right I reckon. Never let a crisis go to waste. Leigh and runner c.....
» 30/01/2009 8:36:33 AM I am with Davity here: Lets stick to the economy and leave tribal rivalries out of it. The.....
» 29/01/2009 1:01:26 PM Someone once said that if we had to re-build civilization from scratch and ranked the skil.....
» 29/01/2009 9:52:43 AM Ignorance and ideology triumphs over good sense yet again. Rudd's Labour is looking more a.....
» 27/01/2009 1:10:52 PM The Right have no philosophy other than self-enrichment. The economics of the Right is def.....
» 22/01/2009 12:29:16 PM I've got to agree with the article and all comments so far. Politicians get labeled ".....
» 22/01/2009 7:40:29 AM Well said. One man will not make the difference, but he might be a catalyst for the sort o.....
» 21/01/2009 3:01:24 PM Paul I think you have a good point. The "Neo Liberal" philosophy is no such thin.....
» 21/01/2009 1:17:18 PM I've said it before. Emissions trading is a Bankers solution to a technology problem. Give.....
» 21/01/2009 11:26:26 AM I read this as a cautionary tale. The common idea of "freedom by default", when .....
» 21/01/2009 8:08:22 AM I guess we'll see if the president has the power to change, or just talk whilst the Israel.....
» 20/01/2009 2:32:23 PM Downloading a copy of a song is not stealing. Theft applies to physical objects where taki.....
» 20/01/2009 12:59:25 PM What a shame our leaders are such spineless gits with little imagination. Time and time ag.....
» 19/01/2009 11:42:47 AM Great article! There is no doubt that Rudd has more in common with Howard than traditional.....
» 16/01/2009 3:02:26 PM Peter, you are right that although I live in a secular country...it is one that is control.....
» 16/01/2009 2:29:49 PM Wow, the Israel supporters are really out on a limb now! It should be self evident that th.....
» 16/01/2009 8:36:26 AM Excellent article. Battery cars will take over when they perform better and are more conv.....
» 16/01/2009 7:59:33 AM Good thought provoking article. It is clear we are suffering from a social disconnect. Unl.....
» 14/01/2009 3:25:01 PM If methane levels accelerate then it is all moot. Permafrost is releasing methane now due .....
» 14/01/2009 3:08:06 PM TRUTHNOW78: Hillsong or jail. Now I know that religion limits thinking...but is it really .....
» 14/01/2009 2:46:13 PM Bravo Daggett! Well said. the Neo-Lib method has actually been tried for most of Human his.....
» 14/01/2009 10:34:19 AM Well balanced article. About time we read an economic article from someone who appears to .....
» 14/01/2009 9:46:28 AM I agree the article has a "beware the yellow menace!" feel to it. Most of the ar.....
» 12/01/2009 3:35:57 PM Well spotted bennie: Current Catholic policies are responsible for many, many children dyi.....
» 12/01/2009 11:22:05 AM I love this one... The pope's comments were actually quite mild and misreported...but as u.....
» 12/01/2009 9:46:51 AM I believe the "clash" is more between religions of all creeds vs secular rationa.....
» 8/01/2009 3:26:09 PM Great article, and nicely restrained comments too! I actually think it is sort of refreshi.....
» 8/01/2009 1:27:24 PM Nice article! I think most Australians are somewhat suspicious of rhetoric as it tends to .....
» 6/01/2009 10:47:07 AM Howard ensured that profits were high for a decade. The fact that these "profitable&q.....
» 6/01/2009 10:28:08 AM Well said Kulu! Runner, you are full of it. Show us the fraud! Where are your authoritativ.....
» 6/01/2009 10:08:18 AM From my own first hand experiences I'd say that profit has no place in education. Period. .....
» 6/01/2009 7:54:57 AM Well done Daggett, nice counter to the pre-canned view that our press and government(s) ha.....
» 2/01/2009 2:26:18 PM Passey: I think that the value of labour theory needs modification in the light of technol.....
» 2/01/2009 2:04:40 PM rpg: Are you suggesting we pay our Pollies the way banks have been paying their CEOs? Lik.....
» 2/01/2009 10:12:11 AM What twaddle! The author forgets to mention the US role in the Iran-Iraq war. Also forget.....
» 2/01/2009 9:06:54 AM Two peoples so focussed on God that they have completely lost sight of Good. It is shamefu.....
» 30/12/2008 10:59:55 AM Lithium battery tech is coming along nicely now that there is some serious investment. Hob.....
» 23/12/2008 1:50:27 PM The problems with God are: 1) Existential question is pushed back. Instead of "how di.....
» 23/12/2008 10:32:04 AM Yes, there is lots of uncertainty... We *might* be headed for an ice age except for GW, an.....
» 19/12/2008 1:21:58 PM I believe you are confusing quantity of government with quality of government. Liberals su.....
» 19/12/2008 10:38:39 AM PolyCarp. When you bomb a modern city to smithereens, people start dying for indirect reas.....
» 19/12/2008 10:22:32 AM Without wading into the issues too much, I agree that some answers are needed. Lies were t.....
» 18/12/2008 3:10:59 PM The US$ is China's problem, unless they convert enough to oil while it's cheap. Romany: I .....
» 18/12/2008 8:06:37 AM Turnbull is no stateman. He flipflops on ideology and is merely an "opposition"......
» 18/12/2008 7:54:52 AM Great article! Transparency is needed to get the full picture before any changes can be ma.....
» 16/12/2008 8:08:41 AM The Bush histories, when written in 10 years time will highlight the moral bankruptcy of t.....
» 12/12/2008 2:04:23 PM I enjoyed this article and would agree with most of it. BUT... Howard government lead us .....
» 10/12/2008 9:27:47 AM Bravo Fractelle! Hemp should be the feedstock for all paper products and replace cotton fo.....
» 9/12/2008 8:04:22 AM Good article. I have to agree that the "houses for all" policy had a lot to do w.....
» 8/12/2008 9:43:27 AM A large sector of society is is actively working against a true education system. The foc.....
» 1/12/2008 8:24:20 AM Runner, the filth exists mainly in your mind, and the minds of the others who "know b.....
» 26/11/2008 10:48:02 AM As with anything non-trivial this is a cost-benefit issue. Prohibition/Censorship is too r.....
» 26/11/2008 9:08:48 AM I'll just say this: Science has saved more children, more pain and given more hope in 100 .....
» 26/11/2008 8:53:27 AM I'll stay away from the feminist issues and agree with the main thrust... Profits are curr.....
» 25/11/2008 1:53:27 PM Funny that. I thought it was all the old buggers that had stuffed it up! There is a crop o.....
» 25/11/2008 8:31:01 AM The limited real wealth has been accumulating in the pockets of the super-wealthy while th.....
» 17/11/2008 10:16:04 AM Actually I'm a little tired of having to defend myself from the "social Conservatives.....
» 14/11/2008 12:46:23 PM Compulsory filtering is neither technically feasable nor desirable. I have no desire to jo.....
» 7/11/2008 1:07:57 PM Nicely written article and about time for some clear speaking. Drought is indeed the wrong.....
» 5/11/2008 2:33:06 PM Another top article pointing out very relevant facts. I suspect the pollies are somewhat h.....
» 5/11/2008 8:51:22 AM Bravo! Excellent article. As a young child I took religion very seriously. The first chink.....
» 28/10/2008 2:22:51 PM What a winge! The religious folks *really* don't like being told to pull their bloody head.....
» 27/10/2008 10:16:02 AM Hi PolyCarp. Problem with invoking the "Good book" is that it is the same book t.....
» 23/10/2008 8:46:25 AM Wow, what amazing confusion. Not being a dualist it seems like a poor substitute for real .....
» 22/10/2008 2:48:25 PM I too am amazed at the cruelty, arrogance and hypocracy of the vocal Christian. I am hopin.....
» 17/10/2008 8:38:45 AM I think the government is somewhat restrained by the risk of house prices dropping and is .....
» 8/10/2008 9:48:58 AM I got the impression from our last decade of "leadership" that the puppet string.....
» 2/10/2008 1:43:08 PM Good article. Sadly, the arguments in this area are usually very 1 dimensional and dogmati.....
» 2/10/2008 10:13:28 AM Technology improvements and global trade has decreased the power of labour in the economy,.....
» 1/10/2008 4:07:32 PM I love your thinking here: back to real monetary theory instead of the neo-economics pract.....
» 1/10/2008 3:27:25 PM And here is the really funny thing: After spending more than they earned for many years an.....
» 30/09/2008 12:18:06 PM Hi Analyst. I hear what you are saying about the bias in female managers. Any critisism in.....
» 29/09/2008 10:55:12 AM The real innovation we need is in wealth distribution. Australia has loads of potential, a.....
» 26/09/2008 12:43:31 PM Hooray! Someone pointing out the obvious. Climate change is like war: an opportunity to re.....
» 24/09/2008 3:51:04 PM Well written article. A little known fact: The mathematical models that economic theory ar.....
» 24/09/2008 12:14:01 PM JamesH. Just because natural climate change exists, does not mean that pumping large amoun.....
» 23/09/2008 3:32:06 PM The point made by Jenny E is perfectly valid Runner because you "Goddy" folks te.....
» 23/09/2008 1:59:14 PM You Pro-lifers must really hate God for designing such a cruel reproductive system. Nature.....
» 23/09/2008 9:28:31 AM On a political note: After 10 years of Liberal economic policy, they are already trying to.....
» 22/09/2008 2:53:03 PM Religious folk crack me up. The "real Christian voice" does not exist because &q.....
» 11/09/2008 4:39:19 PM Humans made a great leap forward when they domesticated animals. Which animal was the most.....
» 11/09/2008 3:03:54 PM We are indeed plunging, eyes wide open into a population and ecological crisis. Preferring.....
» 5/09/2008 2:53:02 PM Very well written. Yep, a singe working parent used to be able to raise 5 kids. Now even r.....
» 1/09/2008 9:56:21 AM Another demonstration of why science is best done by trained scientists. Letting journalis.....
» 29/08/2008 2:31:39 PM 911 was indeed a turning point. To see all of Australian media jump on the US bandwagon wi.....
» 29/08/2008 8:34:13 AM People will stop bashing America only when America stops bashing people......
» 28/08/2008 1:10:19 PM Here are your reasons: 1) Technology has made a lot more jobs redundant than have been cre.....
» 6/03/2008 10:42:05 AM Ah yes, the Institute of Public Affairs. Sorry, this group justifies any argument based on.....
» 4/03/2008 9:13:45 AM Prohibition is half the problem. This is now the 2nd generation of the half-arsed war of s.....
» 3/03/2008 11:23:03 AM 15 years ago only 1 member of a family needed to work to support a family. Now both parent.....
» 28/02/2008 2:13:13 PM Tell me why parents are still paying top $ for paper textbooks when we could have a Nation.....
» 27/02/2008 2:22:54 PM Nice honest description of the anti-left. Various parts of the right would find this arti.....
» 26/02/2008 1:37:40 PM OK, the cynics have had a good run: They clearly think that all climate science is as poli.....
» 26/02/2008 11:57:02 AM Damn. Politicians and policemen are scary these days! If these bastrds start doing a CIA a.....
» 22/02/2008 10:17:01 AM I reckon there is some "slow boiled frog" in this situation. Not the privacy iss.....
» 21/02/2008 3:32:33 PM The tradgedy is that viable alternatives are emerging NOW. Electric bikes and trikes are s.....
» 21/02/2008 8:28:40 AM Having lived in the territory for a while I know that this is much more complex than most .....
» 20/02/2008 12:14:40 PM Some folks have no problem with cruelty to animals. The bible tells them that we were put .....
» 20/02/2008 9:24:29 AM Silly, silly, strawman indeed! Has the author ever heard of Buddhism? This is a genuine At.....
» 18/02/2008 3:43:51 PM Actually there is a bigger problem: Our current economy relies on each human being one of .....
» 8/02/2008 9:05:56 AM Good article. The problem is a big one: Our economy is based on growth and individual weal.....
» 6/02/2008 11:24:14 AM It will be a very interesting year! Our economy is a bit like the US in that we have off-s.....
» 4/02/2008 11:10:11 AM I reckon religious folk get "one God" confused with "One Good". Their .....
» 1/02/2008 10:20:18 AM Bravo! Good article. Ho Hum, Talk to a nurse who looks after dying folk. Religious people.....
» 1/02/2008 9:45:27 AM Leigh, Of course its their own fault. They should have chosen their parents much more care.....
» 1/02/2008 7:14:18 AM Runner, Comments like that demonstrate the scary nature of the Religious mind. No value in.....
» 30/01/2008 9:38:04 AM I am glad that the so-called economic boom of the last 10 years is being revealed for the .....
» 29/01/2008 10:56:04 AM One thing I have found is it is pointless to argue with religion, but one must be ready to.....
» 23/01/2008 12:14:28 PM Billy, The answer to your question is in Leigh's post. Homosexuals are an interference bec.....
» 22/01/2008 9:42:18 AM If Dawkins is "vitriolic" merely because he states his honest, well thought thro.....
» 17/01/2008 8:25:03 AM Last couple of posts highlight the real problem: Civilisation requires spare wealth. If th.....
» 20/12/2007 3:44:29 PM Myth: Australia is in excellent economic shape due to Howard government. The reality is t.....
» 13/12/2007 10:51:13 AM Why is science, an open and self-critical enterprise copping so much paranoia on this? Thi.....
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