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» 17/08/2015 1:58:49 PM I've been tempted to offer psychological explanations for this situation... insofar as it .....
» 30/09/2013 11:49:35 AM It's precisely this sort of petty bickering by cloth-eared cynics, over bite-sized points .....
» 10/09/2013 10:28:34 AM Joannie - My comment was addressing Warwick Marsh. It seems to me he is saying that the .....
» 9/09/2013 4:19:17 PM Ok, in a sense I agree with the recommendations you come up with - which basically amount .....
» 19/08/2013 2:59:06 PM Paul - could you perhaps outline your objection to voluntary euthanasia? I was hoping your.....
» 5/08/2013 11:19:06 AM I don't think this article is particularly helpful. Let's first get the simple, objectiv.....
» 1/07/2013 2:12:56 PM Yes... as we hear with unfailing predictability from reformed alcoholics, it seems the onl.....
» 4/02/2013 3:54:47 PM Er, here we see a rare example of the freudian slip in written form - that should say &quo.....
» 4/02/2013 3:50:41 PM Interesting to have this pointed out, but I'd suggest the appeal to christianity in Austra.....
» 7/01/2013 11:32:27 AM Better yet, make it compulsory for everyone to do an Arts degree before they start studyin.....
» 7/01/2013 9:26:16 AM imajulianutter - wonderful demonstration there of the increasingly typical default Austral.....
» 10/12/2012 10:45:58 AM Bit of a shame this. I just think the reason young people aren't interested in cars is be.....
» 24/10/2012 4:16:07 PM It always makes me sad to hear of someone having been abused as a child. It also makes m.....
» 22/10/2012 1:52:08 PM Alright Stephan, if Jesus was so clever then what did he have to say about the chicken and.....
» 22/10/2012 11:35:54 AM Ok, but if we take the approach that it's a good thing that suicide is decriminalised, &qu.....
» 15/10/2012 1:15:55 PM Oh you're over 60? Perhaps you should update your photo. But for God's sake man! Perhaps .....
» 15/10/2012 1:03:23 PM WTF?? Reading this piece quite genuinely almost brought tears to my eyes, and I'm not jus.....
» 12/09/2012 5:01:08 PM I just think, what we're seeing now is just the start of an era of mass migration. Populat.....
» 11/09/2012 4:24:12 PM Well, I live in one of the many parts of Sydney that borders on a national park, and in or.....
» 4/09/2012 4:41:41 PM I do appreciate this article, thanks Jocelynne. The trials and tribulations faced by girls.....
» 4/09/2012 3:34:23 PM I like riding bikes, and it's true that I yearn for a simple life where I can get around u.....
» 3/09/2012 11:20:43 AM The most successful type of commentator is the commentator who leaves more questions open .....
» 29/08/2012 2:28:58 PM Atman said "Sam Jandwich, your post-modern view that no-one can know the truth about .....
» 28/08/2012 12:12:36 PM Oh well, regardless of whether the science is correct (can science in an area this complex.....
» 27/08/2012 4:21:40 PM Well here's (possibly) an interesting reflection on literacy in this country: There is no .....
» 27/08/2012 2:52:28 PM Cosiness is interesting, and interestingness is cosy! Oh well, I just wanted to ask Pete.....
» 16/08/2012 3:33:27 PM Some speed limits are clearly too low in a lot of conditions, but the dilemma faced by tho.....
» 15/08/2012 3:10:03 PM Well, I haven't read most of the foregoing comments... ... but I just wanted to say, what.....
» 16/07/2012 3:28:32 PM I spent a sizeable chunk of the weekend watching The Slap again. If you take that show to .....
» 25/06/2012 1:51:24 PM Come on guys. Asylum seekers are just transnationally homeless people, and qualitatively.....
» 21/06/2012 2:03:41 PM Saltpetre, glad to see we share points of view on this. Reading the other comments it almo.....
» 15/06/2012 4:56:51 PM [cont] The basic problem here I think is that the discipline of psychiatry is still in it.....
» 15/06/2012 4:55:32 PM Oh no, it seems I’m in the minority here… But I’m going to stick my neck out and say that.....
» 13/06/2012 4:03:48 PM [cont] however the conventional wisdom in the child protection field, partly arrived at t.....
» 13/06/2012 4:01:26 PM Thanks for that elaboration and references mog. Again, I don’t dispute that these “beliefs.....
» 12/06/2012 5:11:03 PM [cont] Family violence is a self-fulfilling prophecy. If an accusation is made, then if t.....
» 12/06/2012 5:06:04 PM Interesting and well-constructed article Elspeth, and essentially I agree with your conclu.....
» 28/05/2012 1:10:00 PM Oh well, I just thought I'd chime in and say... Of course it's important to ensure that s.....
» 28/05/2012 10:27:23 AM "Censorship may be a crime but selective reporting with the intention to mislead the .....
» 30/04/2012 2:46:37 PM Yes popnperish, that's why I named my son Sam Yandwich. I think you'll find that the wor.....
» 30/04/2012 1:03:36 PM The prospect of having civilisation as we know it completely collapse is, I've always thou.....
» 23/04/2012 12:57:55 PM Er, is anybody else struggling to figure out what on earth this author is on about? Is thi.....
» 23/04/2012 11:37:56 AM That’s quite a short-term and simplistic view of class*. The types of people you are descr.....
» 10/04/2012 11:18:08 AM The malaise afflicting DFAT is symptomatic of the pressures currently facing the public se.....
» 20/03/2012 3:13:09 PM Good gracious. I think I can see what Warwick is getting at: he is essentially lamenting .....
» 20/03/2012 1:14:07 PM Martin, I think you'll find child abuse pre-dates medical abortion practices......
» 12/03/2012 2:04:07 PM [cont] But how do we go about this? I'd like to suggest, unlike the author, that this is .....
» 12/03/2012 2:00:45 PM There are so many things we *could* do as a collective, but does that mean we *can*? One t.....
» 8/12/2011 10:45:50 AM Nah, I think what we're seeing here is another OLO-inspired example of the way free speech.....
» 7/12/2011 11:08:06 AM Demystifying slaughtering practices sounds like a good idea to me. I remember one year b.....
» 6/12/2011 2:55:39 PM On the subject of free speech, one of the things I appreciate most about OLO is it lets ev.....
» 6/12/2011 12:06:00 PM Dickers I concur, and as someone who admittedly doesn't follow every single legal proceedi.....
» 16/11/2011 10:14:21 AM Yes Dr. Albert, Susie, my understanding is that eating disorders are primarily a factor of.....
» 14/11/2011 2:09:57 PM It’s not just women either; you’d be surprised how many men take great pains over their ap.....
» 14/11/2011 2:06:59 PM Er, does anyone else here think it’s a bit of a leap to say that because people are concer.....
» 14/11/2011 11:05:18 AM [cont] I would suggest that a better (though more difficult – perhaps Jeremy you’re just .....
» 14/11/2011 11:03:55 AM I’m not sure where you get your “data” on placement prevention programs. Can you break thi.....
» 14/11/2011 11:01:23 AM Jeremy, this is a very useful article – useful because it serves as a reference point for .....
» 8/11/2011 11:55:07 AM [cont] The reason I think life is worth living is that people do have something like a “s.....
» 8/11/2011 11:53:05 AM Haven’t had time to read the comments yet, but that at least ensures I won’t be influenced.....
» 26/10/2011 10:06:54 AM Hey wow, someone actually replied! Unfortunately SPQR, you've completely missed the point.....
» 25/10/2011 3:43:40 PM Yes R0bert, I agree: "I don't think that a lot men reduce women "to merely a sex.....
» 24/10/2011 12:43:49 PM Yay, Mine's the 100th comment! R0bert, this is why the police care: http://www.youtube.co.....
» 24/10/2011 12:22:38 PM Thank you for this well-researched article Marilyn. Firstly on King Hazza's point "th.....
» 19/10/2011 1:08:24 PM Pericles, don't forget that it was you who said "If judged as a schoolgirl's essay, I.....
» 19/10/2011 11:05:07 AM [cont] Secondly my reading of religious texts is that, no matter how hard they try, they .....
» 19/10/2011 11:02:47 AM Firstly Madeleine I hope you can ignore all the patronising remarks about your age. There .....
» 10/10/2011 11:49:58 AM [cont] I remember saying something like this in a comment somewhere else that I can't be .....
» 10/10/2011 11:48:50 AM Oh Helen not again! "Not having to work in an unsought sexually permeated work envir.....
» 5/10/2011 3:31:18 PM And before anyone is tempted to say so, yes I am aware of the irony of speaking about &quo.....
» 5/10/2011 3:29:57 PM Excellent article Tanveer, thank you. It's pretty difficult to capture the complexity of t.....
» 30/09/2011 12:51:38 PM Thanks for that Rhian, and in some sense I do take your point about being seen to be antag.....
» 29/09/2011 2:24:13 PM "Those with a conservative point of view believe that marriage is the union of a man .....
» 29/09/2011 1:37:03 PM [cont] Further, none of the parents I've ever heard of, with the possible exception of Jo.....
» 29/09/2011 1:32:32 PM I just don't know where to start with this one... I don't think it's particularly healthy.....
» 27/09/2011 12:46:47 PM "Sandwich, You make sneering suggestions about people with the title Rector yet you .....
» 23/09/2011 1:22:14 PM Yes, Aristocrat I do agree that there are unfortunately a lot of professional academics wh.....
» 23/09/2011 10:47:34 AM [cont] Just because Arts graduates talk about asylum seekers more than they do "thei.....
» 23/09/2011 10:47:03 AM Blistering barnacles! I have often thought that it should be compulsory for every universi.....
» 21/09/2011 11:34:51 AM "the West is one giant soup kitchen whose duty it is to feed the rest of the world. S.....
» 21/09/2011 10:22:34 AM Ah Hasbeen, but what's wrong with the odd catastrophe if it staves off the boredom of livi.....
» 20/09/2011 10:11:06 AM That's "seen the signs", Sam Jandwich!.....
» 20/09/2011 10:08:45 AM What a very peculiar comment, VoxUnius. I can't begin to comprehend where you got that fro.....
» 19/09/2011 6:27:25 PM This seems like a good summary (though admittedly I haven't actually read the ICG report!).....
» 15/09/2011 6:00:14 PM [cont] "Hormone fuelled teens have an imagination that would send the censors into t.....
» 15/09/2011 5:56:34 PM "Unless you can come up with substantial proof that violent porn is inaccessible to c.....
» 14/09/2011 9:31:00 AM By "good porn" I'm referring to pornography that people like Helen Pringle would.....
» 13/09/2011 1:41:28 PM All this talk of pornography has got me thinking, why is "porn culture" so diffe.....
» 12/09/2011 4:18:06 PM Well this *is* an interesting thread, though I can’t help wishing – no disrespect to anyon.....
» 8/09/2011 3:16:23 PM For what it's worth I agree with Houellebecq and rObert. The problem with this article is .....
» 5/09/2011 12:01:39 PM Yes anna52, the statistics are shocking, and the challenges are huge. But I think it's t.....
» 31/08/2011 4:13:37 PM [cont] And then there's the notion that the children born into same sex relationships pro.....
» 31/08/2011 4:09:07 PM If you can ignore the occasional lapses into jingoism, this article is actually reasonably.....
» 24/08/2011 12:13:51 PM chandralekha, " Anyhoo- I think we should probably get all those beauty pageant girls.....
» 23/08/2011 12:44:31 PM [cont] I think it's important to learn to let go of the people who aren't capable of comi.....
» 23/08/2011 12:43:40 PM Rose, I'm perhaps a little less inclined than Monsieur Houllebecq to believe in the infall.....
» 16/08/2011 11:12:23 AM [cont] What I do think however is that a platform of the Democrats' objectives and core b.....
» 16/08/2011 11:11:51 AM Interesting article Paul. I remember when I first started getting actively interested in p.....
» 9/08/2011 11:23:36 AM {cont} Which brings me to "under one god" - who as far as I can understand is re.....
» 9/08/2011 11:22:34 AM There's a big difference between rigorous psychiatry and popular quackery though. Rememb.....
» 8/08/2011 5:26:29 PM What I find interesting about this article is the way it evoques a sort of "clash of .....
» 8/08/2011 4:15:31 PM Well I think this article is a very good demostration of why you should resist the temptat.....
» 6/07/2011 11:23:16 AM Suzieonline, in answer to your question "why are the predominantly male parliamentari.....
» 5/07/2011 4:30:27 PM [cont] Fantastic, but that still begs the question, "so if it's wrong why does it st.....
» 5/07/2011 4:28:20 PM Ah voxUnius, if only it were that simple. But it's not. This is a complex topic which do.....
» 20/06/2011 3:31:31 PM RObert, simple rule of anonymous online interactions: just don't acknowledge anyone you th.....
» 17/06/2011 5:39:57 PM [cont] So essentially, I think it is quite dangerous to try to combat the problem of dome.....
» 17/06/2011 5:38:40 PM ChazP, I work in child protection, because I think there is no greater dilemma facing rich.....
» 16/06/2011 6:22:10 PM [cont] And lastly, I would like to register here that I have been subjected to false alle.....
» 16/06/2011 6:15:02 PM Damn... well I'm exceedingly cross with myself that I missed the pointy end of this debate.....
» 10/06/2011 2:14:53 PM Hi, I'm just reposting (more or less) this comment I put up on Jennifer Wilson's blog the .....
» 2/06/2011 2:32:27 PM What I would like to add though, is that the reason I engage with these debates - even tho.....
» 2/06/2011 2:26:22 PM I don't know why I do this to myself, but I read Michael Flood's chapter in my lunch hour......
» 1/06/2011 5:53:32 PM I do take issue with holding up Abby Winters as an example of responsible porn though, as .....
» 1/06/2011 5:50:21 PM pelican this is a very useful point to make: "There is a difference between mainstr.....
» 30/05/2011 5:12:37 PM I'm with Houllebecq on this one. We are all adults, ergo we all have the ability to distin.....
» 3/05/2011 10:13:31 AM (cont) The reason I commented on this article in such a negative way however is that it f.....
» 3/05/2011 10:11:14 AM Hello pelican, I admire your tolerance and resilience in continuing to state your well-ba.....
» 2/05/2011 1:22:19 PM (cont) I can't understand how this author could consider herself a serious scholar. (and .....
» 2/05/2011 1:21:41 PM Yeah girls, come and stir the pot. Because it seems to me, that the fundamental problem w.....
» 22/03/2011 1:38:05 PM Julie if you think the public service is overly well-disposed to the Labor party then why .....
» 22/03/2011 10:17:04 AM I recognise other people's right to free speech, but wow, aren't there some complete nut-j.....
» 21/02/2011 2:43:36 PM Come on you guys. The salient point in Philip's article is that the IEA has shown that the.....
» 1/02/2011 3:32:10 PM I think you’ll find that Mr. West’s intention in making that video is to accentuate the fa.....
» 24/01/2011 10:51:37 AM (part 2) Believe it or not, policy-makers are people too. They are prone to stress and fru.....
» 24/01/2011 10:49:26 AM This is a very good article John. Thank you for putting the time into producing it. I wou.....
» 6/12/2010 2:36:32 PM The aid and development sector attracts a diverse range of people, who have a diverse rang.....
» 12/10/2010 2:05:54 PM Thank you Caroline Taylor for this article, and for providing such well-balanced coverage .....

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