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» 9/12/2019 7:56:04 AM I agree with the article's general point about fascism being anti-modern, opposed to the h.....
» 30/10/2018 12:02:21 PM A third are in Culture and Society courses. 21% in Health and 13% in Education courses. Ac.....
» 30/10/2018 9:53:35 AM Joe, Thank you for the link. It's excellent data, and I noticed that the biggest increase .....
» 30/10/2018 8:27:50 AM Loudmouth, I do not dispute the figures, which are cause for hope, but I would like a link.....
» 17/08/2018 6:05:46 PM Jayb, I did respond. I drew your attention to a document called Rescuing the Communist Man.....
» 16/08/2018 8:43:46 AM Frankly, the nature of the comments is such that they aren't worth responding to. There's .....
» 1/06/2015 3:54:51 PM For a long time now, I've wondered why anyone should still require the state to approve or.....
» 7/01/2015 7:27:08 PM The Australian Government has an Inventory of Pollutants. This is compiled by the Departme.....
» 29/11/2014 5:09:56 AM spindoc, every single drowning occurred because desperate people hired unscrupulous people.....
» 26/11/2014 4:25:55 PM spindoc, no-one drowns if the borders are open. Think about it. Even Clive Palmer got that.....
» 13/11/2014 5:07:56 AM DavidK, were I to reply in kind, I'd say that you are denying the failure of the IPCC mode.....
» 12/11/2014 7:51:17 PM DavidK, the quote from the IPCC report establishes that I was not 'making stuff up'. I was.....
» 11/11/2014 4:15:39 PM But DavidK, I was not telling any scientists they don't know what they are talking about. .....
» 11/11/2014 1:27:42 PM Interesting how DavidK cannot consider that I may be mistaken rather than dishonest. Any.....
» 11/11/2014 5:18:17 AM India is a good case in point against 'sustainability'. The Indian people are lifting them.....
» 11/11/2014 5:10:45 AM As I work for a living and have domestic chores after work, I cannot easily keep up. Howev.....
» 10/11/2014 3:53:55 PM Joe, I don't think I ever thought I was involved in a struggle for a perfect society; th.....
» 10/11/2014 3:03:43 PM Part two, Joe: As for China, my understanding is different to yours in that I believe tha.....
» 10/11/2014 3:01:22 PM Joe, Happy to explain but need two parts, word limitation. If you are who I think you a.....
» 9/11/2014 4:59:31 PM DavidK, I asked you to explain why you saw your link as relevant because it was not clea.....
» 9/11/2014 10:25:34 AM Poirot, Shadow Minister's point is valid. The Occupational Safety and Health Admin in the.....
» 8/11/2014 8:57:23 AM DavidK, Latest post at my blog, 'C21st Left', may be of interest: http://c21stleft.wordpr.....
» 8/11/2014 5:51:39 AM DavidK, I could also start my reply by borrowing your phrase: "Oh please David, don't.....
» 8/11/2014 5:25:06 AM LEGO, do you really believe that dams and industry did not undergo tremendous rapid develo.....
» 7/11/2014 8:21:07 AM DavidK, the bottom line is that the 95% or 98% consensus says nothing beyond the fact that.....
» 7/11/2014 6:45:09 AM Aidan, if you look at the actual surveys on which the 98% analogy is based, you will find .....
» 7/11/2014 6:26:46 AM LEGO, where I'm coming from is the 'red left' tradition - definitely not green. Of course,.....
» 6/11/2014 4:50:56 PM No, Rrhosty, you made a claim via an analogy that was invalid and I'm not letting you 'mov.....
» 6/11/2014 4:05:35 PM LEGO, "Socialists don't believe in censorship, Byork? Gee, that's funny, national soc.....
» 6/11/2014 3:12:17 PM Rhrosty, your analogy is invalid because you cannot provide evidence for 98% of climate sc.....
» 5/11/2014 6:33:13 PM The IPCC's latest assessment summary admits that 111 of the 114 climate models have been p.....
» 5/11/2014 2:43:03 PM SM, as I said originally, your definition was superficial and purposely left out the essen.....
» 5/11/2014 2:05:05 PM Shadow Minister, Britannica actually endorses my definition of socialism, not yours. I che.....
» 4/11/2014 4:18:27 PM SM, your definition of socialism is unsatisfactory because it looks only at government inv.....
» 4/11/2014 11:27:52 AM SM, Menzies certainly left a lot for Keating to privatise! By your measure (and mine), Aus.....
» 4/11/2014 10:46:50 AM SM, Big central government also characterised Howard and Menzies - and Bush in USA - were .....
» 4/11/2014 6:09:44 AM LEGO, Just as Conroy cannot seriously be regarded as left-wing, so too the Gillard governm.....
» 3/11/2014 3:44:07 PM Shadow Minister, Conroy represents no left-wing tradition or outlook known to history. He .....
» 3/11/2014 4:54:13 AM LEGO, I have expressed opposition to 18C elsewhere. Point taken about war-time but........
» 2/11/2014 9:40:32 AM JKJ, can you hear the echo arising from your appeal to 'everyone' to accept your superior .....
» 2/11/2014 9:16:14 AM JKJ, it was my support for individual liberty that led me in the direction of Marxism in t.....
» 1/11/2014 5:07:56 AM JKJ, I don't think I have ever encountered someone so absolutely certain of the absolute c.....
» 31/10/2014 3:13:42 PM JKJ, I think you are the one who is confused - and very closed-minded. Not much point tryi.....
» 31/10/2014 9:44:09 AM JKJ, the social ownership of means of production is precisely what would enable individual.....
» 16/10/2014 9:07:57 PM JKJ, it would be undignified for me to respond to the inaccurate nonsense in your post. .....
» 16/10/2014 3:48:20 PM Yuyustu, By your own logic, the two billion of our fellow human beings who live in acute p.....
» 15/10/2014 9:02:32 PM JKJ, you are misrepresenting me, so I feel no need to respond. Nowhere did I say that capi.....
» 15/10/2014 7:34:09 PM Yuyutsu, I am not forcing my ideas down anyone's throat - just presenting a case. As I do .....
» 15/10/2014 8:51:57 AM JKJ, definitely not! Not since the Industrial Revolution. Nearly everything is made by coo.....
» 15/10/2014 6:09:14 AM Hi Yuyustu, I like Marxism because it proceeds from reality: analysis of the actual social.....
» 14/10/2014 6:20:21 PM JKJ, An example of private production is anything made by an individual. Not much of that .....
» 14/10/2014 3:12:56 PM JKJ, I apologise to you for the ad hominem implication. It was not intended that way, thou.....
» 13/10/2014 6:50:09 PM (cont) reply to JKJ. Hitler was a National Socialist and the most vicious anti-communist o.....
» 13/10/2014 6:36:47 PM JKJ, Cognitive dissonance can express itself in a belief that something is 'confused jumbl.....
» 23/09/2014 6:32:40 AM JardineKJardine, my wife and I didn't at any point do anything formal or devise a set of v.....
» 19/09/2014 11:36:47 AM Onthebeach, my children were denied British citizenship because they were 'illegitimate' u.....
» 19/09/2014 7:42:56 AM Onthebeach, in a couple of years my wife and I will celebrate 30 years of a happy and frui.....
» 18/09/2014 7:57:51 PM Individual, society looks after the 'neglected', including children, regardless of the Mar.....
» 18/09/2014 5:38:46 PM Some of the comments miss the point. The question is really: does society still need the s.....
» 17/12/2011 6:29:10 PM There's misunderstanding of what I was saying about capitalism. davidf, my point was that .....
» 17/12/2011 10:57:24 AM Woah! This is the most depressing set of comments I've ever read at this site. davidf is s.....
» 16/12/2011 11:15:58 AM davidf, I think you would be very hard-pressed to find evidence for your claim that Hanson.....
» 14/12/2011 10:23:47 AM Like a lot of opinion pieces these days, this article expresses a view of what's wrong but.....
» 9/12/2011 9:46:02 AM Stephen, I think the aptly named Marx Brothers were classics when it came to sending up au.....
» 8/12/2011 1:51:05 PM Gorufus, A fine example of using comedy (loosely defined) on your part to express a prejud.....
» 8/12/2011 7:06:52 AM rpg, there are comedians who challenge the mainstream orthodoxies but, yes, they're outnum.....
» 7/12/2011 12:29:57 PM Good stand-up comedians should (most of the time) be confrontational, challenging audience.....
» 30/10/2011 12:55:13 PM Must say I don't find it helpful to merely be presented with links, when no summary is off.....
» 29/10/2011 7:58:22 AM It's true that we're better off than the US working people. But do not underestimate the e.....
» 28/10/2011 4:32:19 PM Here's The Australian newspaper's editorial: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/opinion/.....
» 28/10/2011 1:01:28 PM There was no violence until the police created it. The alternative was to let the Occupati.....
» 28/09/2011 12:58:39 PM Karl Marx saw free trade as 'revolutionary'. Today it is bizarre that people could oppose .....
» 23/02/2011 11:45:04 AM From the time of Grassby to Howard, any official national statements on mutliculturalism h.....
» 14/02/2011 7:51:13 AM It doesn't get more reactionary than this! 'The people aren't ready for democracy' is a ti.....
» 3/02/2011 1:50:21 PM Unbelievable. And good on you, Jennifer, for writing it all up, and for your persistence. .....
» 26/01/2011 6:07:41 PM Mr Windy, I think you'll find that the Greens are basically anti-growth. You're closer to .....
» 26/01/2011 10:22:19 AM Pelican says the greatest threat to jobs is free trade. I recently heard a similar sentime.....
» 24/01/2011 8:06:44 AM Pericles, I concur with your point about the younger generation having a different attitud.....
» 23/01/2011 8:59:09 AM Peter Hume, Sorry I cannot continue this discussion. You and I both seem to support open b.....
» 22/01/2011 12:36:34 PM One thing that can and should be advocated, as a practical measure, is the trebling of the.....
» 21/01/2011 4:28:10 PM Peter Hume, socialism (as the word implies) is the social ownership of means of production.....
» 21/01/2011 2:46:52 PM Peter Hume, I'm neither confused on this nor dishonest. I think you're wrong if you believ.....
» 21/01/2011 12:47:14 PM Peter Hume, best not to call others 'fools', especially when you are so oblivious to the h.....
» 21/01/2011 10:34:54 AM Peter Hume, the welfare state and government spending big on infrastructure are hardly 'so.....
» 17/01/2011 1:28:49 PM Tes, thank you for your answer to the article's question: "What would have been the f.....
» 17/01/2011 12:52:53 PM No, Passy, I do not support 'state capitalism' or any kind of capitalism (save for those u.....
» 22/12/2010 9:26:44 AM Very good point. A similar thing happened with the lack of coverage when water was discove.....
» 16/12/2010 10:20:56 AM The anti-nuclear point of view has had a dream run in Australia for more than 20 years but.....
» 15/12/2010 1:01:54 PM Atman, that opening paragraph of yours is more left-wing than anything in Jim Green's arti.....
» 17/10/2010 7:52:57 AM Okay folks, here's a report via BBC World. It claims that moves are under way in Venezuela.....
» 15/10/2010 1:16:29 PM jorge: well said. One might add the Reporters Without Borders group who have documented .....
» 26/07/2010 9:21:06 PM ozzie, Pauline Hanson was made into a media celebrity and was given far more publicity tha.....
» 26/07/2010 2:06:56 PM Ozzie, I remember that violence too - and was appalled by it. There was irony in the way t.....
» 26/07/2010 1:32:33 PM SONYA 2, neither immigration or other population pressure causes poverty. You need to look.....
» 25/07/2010 9:54:45 PM cornflower, The use of "politically correct bullies" is name calling. Opponents.....
» 25/07/2010 8:08:06 PM ozzie, you haven't even begun to address my arguments, just taken my response to Divergenc.....
» 25/07/2010 1:45:37 PM Hardly an argument, Sir Vivor. I would think the growing public acceptance of nuclear powe.....
» 25/07/2010 10:30:30 AM Sir Ivor, I would take you more seriously had you not included wind power along with solar.....
» 25/07/2010 9:07:33 AM Divergence, zero net immigration (81,000 pa) would be an utter disaster, especially for th.....
» 25/07/2010 7:55:00 AM Sir Vivor, the beauty of nuclear fusion is that it can generate all of humanity's energy n.....
» 24/07/2010 7:02:28 PM Cornflower's response proves my point about generalisations: "let greed rule eh what?.....
» 24/07/2010 6:12:36 PM The Greens, with their doom-and-gloom alarmism, are actually nuclear's best chance. The gr.....
» 24/07/2010 3:56:01 PM Cornflower is not willing to put a figure on the intake he/she thinks 'sustainable'. Oh we.....
» 24/07/2010 2:35:24 PM Cornflower? I thought it was Divergence who raised the issue of numbers, of size, and with.....
» 24/07/2010 7:58:22 AM Divergence, waiting for you to respond to this question from previous exchange: "Can .....
» 23/07/2010 6:02:07 PM Divergence, the economic crisis in America since the late 1970s is a crisis of capitalist .....
» 23/07/2010 3:18:00 PM Divergence, the reality of high density living is hardly an argument against immigration. .....
» 23/07/2010 2:26:00 PM The Productivity Commission report quoted by Divergence actually indicates that immigratio.....
» 21/07/2010 8:46:33 PM Here's a study from the site of the American Civil Liberties Union. The study was conducte.....
» 21/07/2010 6:38:18 PM The argument that immigration should be slowed or reduced or stopped because it undermines.....
» 21/07/2010 2:31:48 PM The problem isn't caused by people but by government incompetence in not providing adequat.....
» 8/07/2010 10:35:29 AM The huge point being missed is that the Greens are quasi-religious. Some of the most relig.....
» 27/06/2010 5:29:42 PM It was scandalous of the Rudd Labor Government to reintroduce a form of racial discriminat.....
» 27/06/2010 7:53:49 AM All the parties, including the Greens, support the deportation of asylum seekers who are f.....
» 26/06/2010 6:47:59 PM I'd like to respond to Fernando, who pointed out that there are 15.2 million refugees worl.....
» 1/04/2010 10:54:01 AM rstuart, that response is, well, er, simply bizarre, and I feel no need to continue with y.....
» 1/04/2010 10:12:37 AM rstuart, the evidence would be the content of the original article, which we would have to.....
» 1/04/2010 6:06:27 AM rstuart, that's not evidence - that's a rumour. But, to return to my original point, it .....
» 30/03/2010 1:32:44 PM Amicus, yes, I agree that "the suppression of debate and insults (Denier!)come from t.....
» 30/03/2010 12:29:32 PM Amicus, genuine scepticism allows for the possibility that global warming is primarily cau.....
» 30/03/2010 11:34:37 AM The term 'denialist' is used to suggest there's something immoral and an absence of integr.....
» 29/03/2010 12:49:23 PM rstuart, This is just sad. You clearly ignored my key point: "you need to show how an.....
» 29/03/2010 10:55:30 AM HelenL, the argument put forward by Max Rheese is evidence based and cogent and supportabl.....
» 26/03/2010 3:11:45 PM rstuart, stop pretending to be part of some battling under-dog group. The princes and pope.....
» 26/03/2010 12:52:29 PM rstuart, "corporate masters" can be found on the greenie side, too. The green ou.....
» 26/03/2010 10:47:23 AM rstuart, you still need to be able to argue against the content and logic of Max Rheese's .....
» 26/03/2010 8:11:30 AM rstuart resorts to a common but unfair method of arguing by pointing to associations of Ma.....
» 25/02/2010 7:34:18 AM Hello Evan, A well written piece but I think we're all caught in 'Ground Hog Day'. Rudd is.....
» 24/07/2009 2:57:19 PM Q&A, you might like to condescend to debate with David Evans, who was a climate-modeller w.....
» 24/07/2009 2:30:54 PM Q&A, you are backing down from a position that sought to give an impression of catastrophe.....
» 24/07/2009 7:35:50 AM Sancho accuses me of being breathtakingly ignorant, silly, and using straw men and persona.....
» 23/07/2009 3:42:05 PM When Sancho says that I "appear to know almost nothing about this topic" and rel.....
» 22/07/2009 7:44:25 PM Exterminator, Nothing you say is a case for CO2 being a pollutant. Sancho, you are yet t.....
» 22/07/2009 5:27:25 PM When Turnbull and Rudd speak of 'carbon pollution' they do so in the context of 'global wa.....
» 22/07/2009 12:51:06 PM By Sancho’s logic, everything is toxic. And Sancho is technically correct: CO2 can have to.....
» 22/07/2009 8:21:18 AM Foxy says we "cannot continue to tolerate unlimited amounts of pollution" but th.....
» 21/07/2009 7:37:01 AM Rache, sceptics do accept that human activity could be a significant contributor to the 0......
» 20/07/2009 5:34:45 PM Q&A, the greenhouse effect is not in dispute - by Senator Fielding or anyone else. It st.....
» 20/07/2009 12:47:04 PM Examinator, The difference between weather and climate is a difference in short-term and l.....
» 20/07/2009 8:12:58 AM Rache, You say you're not willing to bet the 'whole planet' on the chance that "those.....
» 19/07/2009 6:25:07 PM Belly, "Do we truly think temperatures are not rising?": The IPCC estimates that.....
» 17/07/2009 6:28:59 PM Belly, Senator Fiedling is a Christian and arguably his type of "primitive belief sys.....
» 17/07/2009 5:54:24 PM Both Fielding and Gore believe in a supernatural 'Creator' so I wish some people would sto.....
» 5/12/2008 2:52:27 PM Those who support the proposed government censorship of the Internet are yet to respond to.....
» 21/11/2008 6:17:03 AM I want to thank the editors for publishing my original article. The media rarely publishes.....
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