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» 24/03/2012 6:45:29 AM @Squeers I don’t make the claim that some women are misogynist entirely as a result of int.....
» 23/03/2012 4:19:17 PM Yes Squeers, those woman are misogynist too. It didn't occur to me when I wrote the articl.....
» 22/03/2012 5:02:54 PM Really, Squeers, the right to safe and legal abortion is hardly “untrammelled freedom.” Ta.....
» 22/03/2012 11:38:38 AM Umm Trav, I don't identify myself as a "feminist" but I certainly don't think it.....
» 7/03/2012 3:46:35 PM How can you be in a monogamous relationship and not feel entitled to a sexual life within .....
» 7/03/2012 3:36:18 PM @Killarney I have no idea how you made the leap from porn to "cultural pornification&.....
» 6/03/2012 2:22:53 PM I haven't read the book and I'm not inclined to take this author's interpretation of it as.....
» 26/02/2012 8:57:14 AM @Squeers I don't recall making an argument for "sanctity" of choice. I'm not of .....
» 21/02/2012 1:54:12 PM @Squeers Sorry to have taken to long, to reply,I'm on holidays. Re bias - as a pro choice .....
» 18/02/2012 8:05:34 AM @ Mishka Part 1 “Badgering?” Now asking questions of Christians is “badgering?” And if not.....
» 17/02/2012 12:24:10 PM Pericles, I agree with you that of course Reist is not obliged to discuss anything she doe.....
» 17/02/2012 10:41:55 AM Mishka, I and many others have asked Reist to answer the questions that interest you, to a.....
» 17/02/2012 9:26:58 AM @Mishka Gora Yes, sorry, I should have signed Jennifer. I did not identify Reist as a Ch.....
» 17/02/2012 7:51:16 AM @Mishka Gora I'm not "censoring" or "silencing" Reist for her religiou.....
» 16/02/2012 2:02:48 PM Squeers, if you are asking for my feminist credentials I have absolutely none......
» 15/02/2012 9:21:31 PM @PetraB I am "critical of those who are critical of porn" because I strongly ob.....
» 15/02/2012 8:57:09 PM @PetraB I have no problem at all with Reist describing herself as a feminist. If you had .....
» 15/02/2012 1:53:11 PM @petraB I find your explanation entirely disingenuous. I most certainly did not attack or .....
» 15/02/2012 5:29:46 AM @Killarney I gather from your post that you are perfectly comfortable with the attempted r.....
» 14/02/2012 4:52:28 PM There is no need for "consensus." There is, however, a need for honesty, particu.....
» 9/12/2011 9:12:15 AM diver dan, There is no mystery about why "Angela" was in the situation. Her moth.....
» 9/12/2011 6:09:07 AM diver dan, You seem to be angered because I didn't address the existence of the sex indust.....
» 7/12/2011 5:54:53 PM Thank you Houllie! Feminist social commentator? That ship long since sailed, and besides,.....
» 7/12/2011 9:08:20 AM Diver Dan, I am not paid for articles in OLO and neither is anybody else. Jennifer.....
» 5/12/2011 7:17:11 AM Diver Dan, I can't find anywhere in my article where I blame any man who availed himself o.....
» 4/12/2011 4:11:56 PM It was actually "Angela's" mother and her mother's boyfriend who prostituted her.....
» 2/12/2011 8:47:28 AM Well, the author does not agree with your bizarre interpretation of the situation. Jennife.....
» 28/10/2011 5:54:08 PM @Progressive Pat I have never heard of anyone in "society" telling women they mu.....
» 24/10/2011 9:58:30 AM And that's not all. On ABC Radio National Life Matters on Friday morning http://www.abc.ne.....
» 23/09/2011 1:11:05 PM Actually, Aristocrat, one of my degrees is in Social Science. As the granddaughter of a Y.....
» 21/09/2011 5:51:54 PM Well said, Mr Gee, now how do we get the politicians to straighten up and fly right?.....
» 21/09/2011 4:04:02 PM As someone who wasn't able to acquire much education until adulthood, then slogged my way .....
» 20/09/2011 2:13:21 PM @Don Aitkin, when the boats arrive, the people on board request asylum in Australia from t.....
» 20/09/2011 1:41:31 PM Oh dear, I see from some comments that I should have put up a "Warning, Satire" .....
» 16/09/2011 6:15:13 PM NSB, most abusers are never brought to trial, especially when they are family members. Unf.....
» 16/09/2011 10:52:32 AM I though it was to do with the Immigration Minister's discretionary powers to determine if.....
» 16/09/2011 8:14:07 AM OMG, Peter, you can’t get past your horror at the possibility of something being “banned” .....
» 16/09/2011 8:03:14 AM I'm very glad you spelled out that what the High Court actually did was notify the governm.....
» 16/09/2011 7:52:05 AM Well, that's a rant. I don't agree with what Xenophon did in revealing the priest's name.....
» 15/09/2011 10:54:08 PM Nobody is currently in a position to ascertain whether or not there is harm caused, or wha.....
» 15/09/2011 4:19:04 PM There are clinicians who say that they are seeing an increasing number of clients with por.....
» 15/09/2011 4:17:43 PM We are in a ludicrous situation in which adolescents can be charged with child sexual abus.....
» 15/09/2011 7:55:01 AM Suze - I agree with you – there’s no possibility of negotiating with the producers of viol.....
» 14/09/2011 10:32:22 PM Peter, I don't think you read the article I wrote or the comments I made. I suggested con.....
» 14/09/2011 1:33:24 PM Houllie - What's important about the measures I suggest, or more to the point, the fact th.....
» 14/09/2011 12:05:10 PM I don't argue for access to violent porn to be restricted because I fear viewing it will m.....
» 14/09/2011 7:35:06 AM My objection is to "violent" pornography being readily available to children and.....
» 13/09/2011 8:42:16 AM Unless you live in Gillard's electorate you have no control over her re-election. Gillard.....
» 12/09/2011 12:59:15 PM @isabelberner (Helen) I don't think requesting that someone making a critique of pornograp.....
» 12/09/2011 12:15:27 PM It's good to see a feminist come out and comment about this issue, even if the author coul.....
» 8/09/2011 4:58:19 PM If the fantasy is consensual, Houllie, I'd argue it isn't degrading. I take degrading to i.....
» 8/09/2011 3:17:22 PM The author writes: "Pornography also affects even women who are not involved in its p.....
» 8/09/2011 12:10:43 PM Thanks, Katie, I was referring to this article as I haven't read the book......
» 8/09/2011 11:26:05 AM I'm not sure how we can have a truthful debate about pornography when it's framed as an ex.....
» 5/09/2011 2:39:34 PM No I didn't say we need more sexualized images of women, Dane, I said we need more sexy im.....
» 1/09/2011 9:57:40 AM I agree with your compassionate analysis of this disgraceful situation. And am intrigued .....
» 31/08/2011 12:51:51 PM The author is being disingenuous when he attempts to argue that only in same sex relations.....
» 15/07/2011 12:59:02 PM @Kimberley I sympathise with your situation. As a grandmother I am still wondering about .....
» 11/07/2011 9:45:58 AM I cannot for the life of me understand why this article is directed towards gay and lesbia.....
» 11/07/2011 7:35:11 AM I agree with Suze and Pelican - DV needs to be addressed in all its forms, while we contin.....
» 7/07/2011 5:07:43 PM @Jocelynne In the 21 years since your book was last updated there has been a great deal o.....
» 7/07/2011 8:50:51 AM My criticism of the National Plan is that it doesn't address female perpetrated DV, IPV an.....
» 7/07/2011 7:35:37 AM I'm not aware of research that claims women are more physically violent than men in famili.....
» 6/07/2011 9:53:55 AM I have to agree with Vanna on the terminology "women and their children." This .....
» 5/07/2011 12:09:53 PM @Dannybear, I have yet to see any valid positions put up against claims that are not only.....
» 5/07/2011 10:41:29 AM @Dannybear Nowhere do I suggest that women "shoulder the responsibility" for DV.....
» 27/06/2011 4:32:19 PM Thank you for writing this piece , Claire. Some of the responses here are deplorable. Man.....
» 26/06/2011 1:51:20 PM Peter, your claim that difference is solely defined by value is rubbish. (IMO) We note a .....
» 26/06/2011 12:13:26 PM Yes, Poirot I agree with your village analogy up to a point. However, going back to the r.....
» 26/06/2011 11:13:16 AM Aaaargh! I am saying that it is unacceptable to attach worth to a human being based on wh.....
» 26/06/2011 7:45:27 AM Oh dear. Peter, I don't agree with your premise, and you don't agree with mine. For a sta.....
» 25/06/2011 7:35:33 AM Peter you ask me: *Are you honestly arguing that there is no significance in the differenc.....
» 24/06/2011 5:04:28 PM Don't be such a tease, Peter. Tell me what it is that women do *that's not socially constr.....
» 24/06/2011 11:48:10 AM Sexual difference - female or male Gender - the social and cultural roles that are impose.....
» 10/06/2011 12:28:16 PM You watched the Australian cows - now see what the Malaysians do to human beings. Asylum s.....
» 3/06/2011 6:56:47 AM Lego, I am not claiming that the media has "No significant effect on behaviour.".....
» 2/06/2011 7:50:45 AM Sorry, Lego, I'm not ignoring your information, just had some stuff to attend to. I'm not.....
» 1/06/2011 7:58:15 AM Hi R0bert, re your last paragraph: I agree the stats might indicate a socio economic bias .....
» 1/06/2011 7:05:04 AM suzeonline, I totally agree with your post. What's interesting, as you point out, is tha.....
» 31/05/2011 9:58:30 PM Lego, I would like to see the research that proves your claims. Pornography is consumed ac.....
» 30/05/2011 3:12:08 PM Houellebecq, your posts are a hoot. Personally, I'm sick to death of being pressed up aga.....
» 11/04/2011 5:21:03 PM Houellebecq, that is a wonderful post, just love it, you have totally hit the nail on the .....
» 11/04/2011 10:22:42 AM Jewely, I just meant that sometimes people can get stuck in regret (or any other emotion) .....
» 11/04/2011 8:54:10 AM Excellent informative article, and a very appropriate response to the Tsitas piece, thank .....
» 4/04/2011 5:39:42 PM I would like to ban leaf blowers and whipper snippers. And I think it's good that nobody .....
» 24/03/2011 9:36:05 AM Well, this is an article about the Christian conservatives and the NSW elections, BPT. Of .....
» 21/03/2011 8:32:58 AM I hate to rain on the parade, but we are looking a a government that is almost universally.....
» 18/03/2011 6:00:50 PM This is a good and timely article, given there's increasing interest in adopting the Swedi.....
» 14/03/2011 2:03:44 PM The CEO of Westpac is female. I don't see that bank becoming more nurturing and considerat.....
» 14/03/2011 12:41:16 PM Houellebecq, your observation on the pertinence of the toilet seat to feminism today is qu.....
» 12/03/2011 6:45:43 AM Poirot - cos men have peed on them Just kidding, just kidding!.....
» 11/03/2011 1:38:09 PM rObert, hegemonic masculinity is a term used in some discipline, can't remember what, mayb.....
» 11/03/2011 1:13:01 PM Chris, I agree that the possibility of a Tea Party style movement in Australia is remote a.....
» 11/03/2011 12:01:33 PM Houllebecq you are quite right, wars are started by a particular kind of masculinist hegem.....
» 11/03/2011 6:05:01 AM Thanks, Joe, I knew she was in there somewhere -.....
» 10/03/2011 10:05:05 PM Vanna, You left something out - all wars are started by men with the exception of the Fal.....
» 9/03/2011 4:55:28 PM Pelican, I think the freedom to dress how we choose and the freedom to drink ourselves sen.....
» 9/03/2011 12:03:14 PM Pelican, re your "old days" reference, in those old days the type of media cover.....
» 8/03/2011 6:31:00 PM Today, I've watched with increasing irritation the usual middle class professional women (.....
» 8/03/2011 2:07:31 PM Only if you lose the university phobia, Vanna......
» 8/03/2011 10:04:54 AM suzeonline please don't go......
» 8/03/2011 7:30:31 AM Suzeonline, that study was done in 2004 based on data from 2003 Given that the report its.....
» 7/03/2011 7:03:27 AM suzeonline, I don't have any problems with people expressing their opinion on a topic, my .....
» 6/03/2011 7:53:24 PM One of my sons and his friends took a young woman to hospital after she'd passed out after.....
» 6/03/2011 4:06:45 PM ema, apparently the first thing some women need to learn is how to honestly read what's wr.....
» 6/03/2011 4:02:45 PM suzeonline, you quote Poirot <"There is no equivalent men's movement because they .....
» 5/03/2011 6:10:44 PM Sorry Squeers, I totally get that the context in which these events take place is a capita.....
» 5/03/2011 5:57:48 PM I don't know if suzeonline's reference to "the anti feminist brigade" was direct.....
» 5/03/2011 3:23:24 PM There's a difference between taking responsibility, and blame. Nobody male or female dese.....
» 4/03/2011 6:56:43 PM Squeers, that's a disgraceful rant. I argued that men aren't just driven by base carnal d.....
» 4/03/2011 10:30:33 AM Pelican, I have actually commended MTR on my blog for her attention to the sexualisation o.....
» 28/02/2011 7:46:44 AM If only these ethical constraints were applied with such diligence to tabloids and shock j.....
» 28/02/2011 6:36:41 AM Shadow Minister, I don't recall "conceding" the Pacific solution "worked&qu.....
» 27/02/2011 8:40:34 AM Cherful, you write: *John Pilger is an old left wing hippie who has failed to move on in.....
» 26/02/2011 4:16:37 PM Shadow Minister I am not arguing about the success or otherwise of Pacific solution in thi.....
» 26/02/2011 11:36:58 AM Yes, Shadow Minister, I read it in another place, but we reached an impasse there as we wi.....
» 26/02/2011 6:28:23 AM Oh, Shadow Minister, I was wondering where you were. Of course you are quite right - alth.....
» 25/02/2011 4:02:41 PM *Redefine marriage and you'll encourage polygamist agendas.* Well, for one thing I have n.....
» 25/02/2011 3:14:49 PM And as for Sheikh Hilaly's revolting comparison of a woman to a lump of meat, what about t.....
» 25/02/2011 1:11:07 PM I don't know what world the author lives in, but when it comes to setting women's liberati.....
» 25/02/2011 11:24:54 AM Curmudgeon, I didn't miss your point - that would be an impossibility - I just don't agree.....
» 24/02/2011 5:48:58 PM Curmudgeon, it doesn't matter what my personal views are , or yours, or anybody else's. .....
» 24/02/2011 12:07:48 PM I'm sorry to point it out again, and no offense intended, but these arguments are a waste .....
» 24/02/2011 7:18:12 AM Apologies, readers, the link I included to Philip Jensen is a bad one, here is the correct.....
» 23/02/2011 1:41:02 PM Mikey Bear, zip it, why don't you? Anybody who tried to bring down an online community li.....
» 21/02/2011 9:17:49 PM Australia is also a decent place to live because of the contributions to the economy and t.....
» 21/02/2011 11:18:35 AM That's cool, King Hazza, do you want to apply the same discriminatory processes to Austral.....
» 21/02/2011 8:04:42 AM Dickybird, Australian law allows anyone from any country to arrive by any means without an.....
» 17/02/2011 4:00:29 PM Mikey Bear Kindly stop stalking me round the blogosphere leaving comments wherever you pa.....
» 17/02/2011 1:32:51 PM Crabsy : *The religious institutions are important as the bearers of wisdom, symbols and u.....
» 17/02/2011 9:50:48 AM As someone who has brushed with death from cancer twice, I do not wish to be kept alive, n.....
» 17/02/2011 9:41:41 AM Well, said Cronus. How come so many Christian churches ignore that advice? I've got no i.....
» 17/02/2011 8:47:17 AM Mikey Bear, this is Goldilocks - I'm gonna repeat this comment you posted on my blog, be.....
» 15/02/2011 11:27:19 AM Cornflower, It never ceases to amaze me how people apparently force themselves to read wh.....
» 15/02/2011 9:48:49 AM Mikey Bear It seems to have been my fate this week to be pursued across the blogosphere by.....
» 15/02/2011 8:32:46 AM While Gregory and Mikey have gone after the publisher (who also publishes articles that ar.....
» 15/02/2011 8:10:52 AM If anyone wants to see how Lavartus Prodeo deal with disagreement have a look at what they.....
» 11/02/2011 10:41:45 AM I was referring to the Hellfire Harry post, Graham, not the one you quite rightly defended.....
» 11/02/2011 8:44:11 AM Shintaro, check this outhttp://sxnews.gaynewsnetwork.com.au/news/scare-tactics-008393.html.....
» 11/02/2011 7:59:37 AM I also want to point out that I'm a vocal and unrelenting supporter of gay rights, and hav.....
» 11/02/2011 7:45:45 AM Kipp, for one thing it is rather presumptuous of you to claim knowledge of my life experie.....
» 10/02/2011 8:11:34 AM The question I'd like to have answered is why Gregory Storer and whoever else engineered t.....
» 7/02/2011 3:20:23 PM Gregory Storer You were also a political candidate in the 2010 election. You are a public.....
» 7/02/2011 2:41:17 PM Gregory Storer - On Line Opinion is a publication that covers a wide range of interests. I.....
» 7/02/2011 12:59:46 PM http://www.anz.com/common/forms/default.asp?intID=174 This will take you straight to an A.....
» 7/02/2011 11:28:39 AM Email to Storer, cc Rodney Croome, Dear Mr Storer, I wrote a piece that Graham Young publ.....
» 7/02/2011 6:15:18 AM Ummm, Dan, just look up delusional. I have yet to see anybody prove the existence of any .....
» 5/02/2011 1:42:21 PM This argument is also feeling a bit weird as I have just put up a post on my blog, http://.....
» 5/02/2011 1:20:35 PM I think as we are both expressing our opinions, an independent arbiter would have to decid.....
» 5/02/2011 9:30:53 AM It's true that Bill didn't make reference to his faith in this article. However, as his be.....
» 5/02/2011 6:26:44 AM Thanks for that, Dan. Here is what I wrote: *The truth is,” the author instructs us, beca.....
» 4/02/2011 11:27:26 AM Totally agree with that observation, Shadow Minister.....
» 4/02/2011 7:19:58 AM *It is a sad thing to say but we could lose 95 percent of the journalists following both l.....
» 2/02/2011 8:54:22 PM Skeptic, I'm sorry you feel my opinions cause you to feel self -protective. I can't do any.....
» 2/02/2011 1:58:06 PM Thank you for your feedback, Shadow Minister......
» 2/02/2011 12:22:32 PM Thank you Shadow Minister, you make some good points. It is rather unreasonable, however,.....
» 2/02/2011 8:14:01 AM Killarney, you need to acquaint yourself with the ad hominem fallacy - it is quite complex.....
» 2/02/2011 7:05:44 AM Dear Dr Troppo, How many hits does it take for a blogger to be called popular?.....
» 1/02/2011 5:26:11 PM Killarney, you have obviously assumed someone on that forum (where everybody used pseudony.....
» 1/02/2011 12:35:16 PM suzeonline, a writer puts him or herself at the mercy of anybody whenever they publish any.....
» 1/02/2011 11:42:15 AM Whoa! Killarney! You won't find any ad hominem arguments I've made against MTR. You'll fi.....
» 1/02/2011 6:47:06 AM So Jocelynne, what does the video say about the women who are stomping their stilettos int.....
» 31/01/2011 10:05:47 AM Well, Mary I don't agree with your premise that either video is intended primarily to be *.....
» 31/01/2011 8:22:59 AM Great example, Clownfish - roped man hung upside down on a meat hook, images of torturing .....
» 31/01/2011 7:04:17 AM Have you actually watched the video,Ms Elias? There are just as many scenes of women infl.....
» 21/01/2011 4:25:20 AM That's cool, Yabby - apply that to all opinion pieces everywhere and there'll be nothing l.....
» 20/01/2011 9:35:54 PM I'm not required to find solutions, Yabby. I write opinion pieces not public policy. That .....
» 20/01/2011 7:31:34 PM Guys - eat my dust......
» 20/01/2011 2:40:14 PM Shadow Minister, I'm positive that you will take this post as evidence that I am a totally.....
» 19/01/2011 9:03:21 PM Continued… On the question of my courage: I do have the bottle to publish an article tha.....
» 19/01/2011 8:42:56 PM Well well. Don't get emotional, Shadow Minister. I refer you to my article. You've clearl.....
» 19/01/2011 5:15:42 PM Leo Lane, would you have any objection to setting out the reasons for your condemnation of.....
» 19/01/2011 4:12:06 PM Shadow Minister Which part of “I do not accept your analysis of the Pacific solution and I.....
» 18/01/2011 4:40:56 PM Shadow Minister, My article is an opinion piece about the use of propaganda by politicia.....
» 18/01/2011 1:22:07 PM Ummm - I don't think my argument has to be defined by your criteria, Shadow Minister. Don'.....
» 18/01/2011 11:37:59 AM Ibbit, I don't accept your disparaging description of boat arrivals as "leaky boat ty.....
» 18/01/2011 11:17:02 AM Actually, the reason why the boat was off Christmas Island in the first place is because t.....
» 17/01/2011 4:09:38 PM Shadow Minister 1. I do not accept your foundational premise that a Pacific solution will .....
» 17/01/2011 10:52:04 AM No Shadow Minister, you’re wrong. The “single defining weakness of my argument” is that i.....
» 16/01/2011 7:45:35 PM Ibbit - The only reason for sending asylum seekers to Nauru is to make it as difficult as.....
» 16/01/2011 5:30:31 PM Guess you don't do irony, Shadow Minister. Still you refuse to explain why you want to re.....
» 16/01/2011 3:58:31 PM There's a global ebb and flow of asylum seekers over decades. it's never consistent anywhe.....
» 16/01/2011 8:18:07 AM Shadow Minister, your ludicrously simplistic and reductionist assertions about the succe.....
» 15/01/2011 6:10:21 PM *Stop the pro people smugglers from creating a market for human misery*? There aren't any.....
» 15/01/2011 2:03:39 PM It’s really quite amazing how so many posters have completely ignored the thrust of my art.....
» 15/01/2011 6:10:39 AM Like I said, bread and circuses. The issue is about the law. The issue is about whether o.....
» 14/01/2011 7:14:24 PM I'll add that it will come as no surprise if when next in government the Coalition does in.....
» 14/01/2011 4:40:33 PM Shadow Minister You are steadfastly ignoring the law that says unauthorised arrival shoul.....
» 14/01/2011 1:18:54 PM The point of my article is that Australia advertises itself as a Western democratic signat.....
» 14/01/2011 11:20:19 AM Half-baked is right. Fullilove also peddled this same pompous twaddle in an article in the.....
» 13/01/2011 8:37:00 PM So Yabby, what's your explanation for Howard not changing our asylum seeker laws when he h.....
» 13/01/2011 6:53:19 PM Do I know you, Killarney? I can swear on my grandmother's grave that I indulged in no ad .....
» 13/01/2011 4:26:34 PM Indonesia is not a signatory to the Refugee Convention. Refugees cannot request asylum in .....
» 13/01/2011 2:52:47 PM This is such an important article, once again those who are doing it tough are sidelined b.....
» 13/01/2011 2:43:13 PM Ibbit, if you think a Coalition government will withdraw from the UN Convention, you're in.....
» 13/01/2011 1:09:24 PM Shadow Minister, et al: The UN Refugee Convention, to which Australia is signatory, recog.....
» 12/01/2011 6:00:47 PM Shadow Minister, They actually come under the definition of 'People seeking asylum in anot.....
» 12/01/2011 3:30:30 PM Anti Green - The passengers on the boats declare themselves immediately as asylum seeker.....
» 12/01/2011 12:54:45 PM David, *she* is making extremely practical and fundamental observations about the law. I d.....
» 12/01/2011 12:41:38 PM Ibbit, did you actually read the article? The whole point of it is that under Australian .....
» 4/01/2011 2:35:25 PM Very much enjoyed this article and agree with the author's promotion of Julian Assange as .....
» 24/12/2010 3:19:15 PM Exactly, Yabby. That is exactly what I'm saying. Those who are unhappy with our current .....
» 24/12/2010 2:05:59 PM You are all missing the point. As long as Australia is a signatory to the convention asyl.....
» 24/12/2010 10:07:27 AM Oh, I'm sorry I forgot there is another option. If you don't like how we do things in thi.....
» 24/12/2010 9:39:28 AM Much of this article seems to be founded in the author's subjective moral judgement of tho.....
» 21/12/2010 10:16:37 AM Forrest Gumpp, thank you and I am indeed honoured and happy to accept the accolade. Thank.....
» 19/12/2010 12:22:48 PM PaulL I must confess I don't quite see how you know the content of some 230,000 cables th.....
» 17/12/2010 1:27:47 PM I am so over this "we" thing Christians persist in getting into. You are not sp.....
» 17/12/2010 1:14:38 PM GregB Thank you I can't help with the Scientology ad, except to say journals like OLO hav.....
» 17/12/2010 1:11:48 PM PaulL The cables are accessible to anybody and it is not my task to do this research for p.....
» 16/12/2010 5:45:55 AM PaulL Overthrowing the current system does not equate with anarchy. If this is the case,.....
» 15/12/2010 7:22:25 PM PaulL - Landauer may indeed be calling for anarchy but Assange is not. He is calling for t.....
» 15/12/2010 3:31:28 PM Spindoc - http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/42176.html Great article yesterday on the psych.....
» 15/12/2010 3:29:17 PM PaulL Landauer isn't calling for the abolition of the state. He calls for a re-organisati.....
» 14/12/2010 4:25:54 PM Ms Dalton I find your defense disingenuous. In the middle of an article entirely about J.....
» 14/12/2010 10:58:07 AM Pelican, you say much of what is revealed in the cables is nothing new. I am seriously ov.....
» 14/12/2010 10:08:37 AM I realise I ought to have acknowledged in my article that the Drum has presented and conti.....
» 14/12/2010 9:42:58 AM Thanks Bruce, I did see it and I heaved a sigh of relief. As Scott Burchell's article tod.....
» 14/12/2010 9:38:18 AM Here is a link to Scott Burchall's piece today in the Drum, looking at the possible psycho.....
» 14/12/2010 7:55:06 AM This is an accurate and chilling break down of the insidious manner in which whistleblower.....
» 10/12/2010 6:11:22 AM Sorry, hadn't finished that post - there is no question of taxpayers funding Assange's def.....
» 10/12/2010 6:03:35 AM Raycom - In his Quarterly Essay on Kevin Rudd, author David Marr revealed that the former .....
» 9/12/2010 6:01:19 PM Oh my god, rpg. I give up. Can nobody see beyond Julian Assange's personality? Look at a.....
» 9/12/2010 4:58:06 PM For one of the most informative articles to date on what Wikileaks has actually achieved, .....
» 9/12/2010 2:44:12 PM Candid diplomacy? There's an oxymoron.....
» 9/12/2010 2:39:17 PM I think it is extremely irresponsible of anybody, including Ms Dalton, to be writing piece.....
» 8/12/2010 10:03:09 AM Diver Dan, your comments are defamatory. Assange himself has yet to hear the charges again.....
» 8/12/2010 9:58:54 AM Point 2. is an excellent one - Wikileaks is a media organisation doing what media organisa.....
» 8/12/2010 9:19:32 AM "Mount your arguments against gay marriage, therefore; but leave out the claims that .....
» 8/12/2010 5:48:20 AM The latest definition of a terrorist: someone who tells you what your government is really.....
» 8/12/2010 5:40:06 AM Ok, Cherful, if you don't like Al Jazeera try the Guardian and the New York Times. Highl.....
» 7/12/2010 3:22:27 PM Great article, many thanks to the author. Lentaubman, I don't know how you can be so cyni.....
» 7/12/2010 5:36:39 AM Stezza I quote the Republicans because they are the people publicly calling for Assange's .....
» 6/12/2010 8:10:54 PM Stezza, people who stick their necks out and take risks most of us can't even contemplate .....
» 6/12/2010 8:06:23 PM Robert McClelland is quoted in a Crikey article today as saying that "a discussion mi.....
» 6/12/2010 7:51:29 PM Great article. Thank you......
» 6/12/2010 4:16:44 PM Veritas, I think that is a spectacularly good idea, and I for one would participate......
» 3/12/2010 10:14:40 AM History Buff, what is your problem with anal sex anyway? Why are you so fixated on it? Wh.....
» 3/12/2010 9:21:23 AM The lack of response by the Australian government and mainstream media to the calls by sen.....
» 2/12/2010 3:58:54 PM Runner you can be so irritating. Sodomy is as common in heterosexual relationships as it .....
» 2/12/2010 2:13:57 PM Christians founded this country? You mean all those people the British Christians put in .....
» 2/12/2010 1:54:39 PM History Buff, There are so many ways of depriving a child of a father and a mother, that t.....
» 2/12/2010 11:22:16 AM History Buff, the point is that while you are committed to a Christian perspective, very m.....
» 2/12/2010 10:34:12 AM I don't think you read my post properly, History Buff. The point I made was about choice......
» 2/12/2010 10:10:18 AM The only problem with ignoring them is that their voices then dominate the debate. There .....
» 2/12/2010 10:00:04 AM Opponents of gay marriage make much of the fact that there are gays and lesbians who do no.....
» 2/12/2010 9:37:52 AM "Marriage... serves the predominant role of connecting children to their parents; S.....
» 2/12/2010 6:17:39 AM Proxy - the argument had become repetitive, which is a sign that it is over. However, con.....
» 1/12/2010 8:56:05 PM Reason and Proxy, we've reached the point in the debate where mature and civilised people .....
» 1/12/2010 6:42:51 AM I still haven't read any post that explains the connection between same sex marriage, and .....
» 1/12/2010 5:52:56 AM Proxy - As far as I'm aware there aren't currently any campaigns in this country to legali.....
» 30/11/2010 7:24:13 PM I think love is (hopefully) considered to be the essence of marriage, and the erotic is bu.....
» 30/11/2010 5:14:35 PM I'm quite suspicious of claims of "a world view so taken for granted few are aware of.....
» 15/11/2010 3:20:14 PM Ludwig, how would you suggest the Australian government prevent some groups being slaughte.....
» 12/11/2010 5:47:03 AM Congratulations to Jay Thompson for drawing attention to the downside of groups who are cr.....
» 3/11/2010 4:34:43 AM I'm in the USA, not too far from the Mexican border. Australia has nothing, absolutely not.....
» 13/10/2010 3:53:38 PM What group had the placard "I F*ed Jesus", I wonder? What's their message? I onc.....
» 12/10/2010 8:19:22 AM OLO is a most admirable site, and unique in the editors' willingness to publish topics acr.....
» 11/10/2010 11:00:53 AM The point is not whether or not the men knew the girl was underage, but whether or not it .....
» 11/10/2010 10:32:04 AM Pelican, while the child may be able to identify her abusers, the point is she has refused.....
» 11/10/2010 9:57:56 AM http://www.themercury.com.au/article/2010/10/02/176611_opinion.html This is a link to the.....
» 11/10/2010 9:44:21 AM What would have to be proved in this awful case is that the men who had intercourse with &.....
» 10/10/2010 10:44:55 AM One of my sons recently completed his Dip Ed as a mature age student. He was the only male.....
» 1/10/2010 6:55:43 AM Cornflower, thanks for apologising. I think we must agree to disagree on this topic for t.....
» 1/10/2010 6:46:46 AM Vanna, I'm beginning to accept that nobody can post a comment on anything to do with male/.....
» 30/09/2010 7:08:08 PM Cornflower,the Marriage Act was non-discriminatory until the Howard government amended it .....
» 30/09/2010 6:19:27 PM Cornflower, that's outrageous. I don't dismiss the use of character references, for men or.....
» 30/09/2010 6:05:53 PM Cornflower, there are two issues that are being conflated in this debate. One is the issu.....
» 30/09/2010 12:08:55 PM I agree with the author's observations, however Pastor Jones and those like him will alway.....
» 30/09/2010 11:55:21 AM david f: "Kevin Rudd was not politically assassinated. Australia has a Westminster sy.....
» 30/09/2010 7:36:30 AM I think Ms Pringle is quite right to point out the false assumptions that can be made base.....
» 30/09/2010 7:01:28 AM There seems to be some confusion about the term "inclusion." Some posters seem t.....
» 29/09/2010 7:29:38 AM History Buff - I did not write "anti gay", I wrote "anti gay marriage.".....
» 28/09/2010 11:59:59 AM Jay of Melbourne : Your post is a load of hysterical twaddle - and demonstrates exactly wh.....
» 28/09/2010 9:23:03 AM What is most interesting in this debate is that it is a debate at all - why do so many peo.....
» 24/09/2010 1:05:21 PM Jon J - there are people in this world who take the risk of sharing their beliefs and opin.....
» 21/09/2010 9:08:43 AM Constance, I don't get why you conflate the choice to live a life outside institutional re.....
» 20/09/2010 2:03:46 PM I think there has been an increase of religiphobia, not just catholicophobia, along with t.....
» 13/09/2010 9:44:19 PM No Vanna, I'm not prejudiced against Antiseptic, or against genuine debate. I really didn.....
» 13/09/2010 9:29:31 PM Sienna 1. I don't recall suggesting that Jefferson is "personalising" the argume.....
» 13/09/2010 4:59:34 PM Re Antiseptic's post on Johnny Rotten's prostate cancer - This is the kind of post that .....
» 13/09/2010 4:02:04 PM KenH, the poll was conducted by Galaxy, and I'm quite sure they will inform you fully of t.....
» 13/09/2010 3:48:04 PM Jefferson, you sound really worked up about this, a little aggressive even. I refer you b.....
» 12/09/2010 9:31:38 PM Bound and gagged and tied to a lamp post - one man's experience at his bucks party. Oh, he.....
» 12/09/2010 8:53:05 PM Jefferson – Most of your points I’ve addressed in earlier posts. In addition: 1. Much fam.....
» 12/09/2010 5:00:04 PM Russell, I did not suggest that registration makes a union more legitimate. A de facto mar.....
» 12/09/2010 11:40:28 AM Russell, Abolishing the Marriage Act altogether is one way of addressing its discriminator.....
» 12/09/2010 7:16:07 AM Vanna, I never saw those ads, but they sound pretty interesting. I'm not sure why you exp.....
» 12/09/2010 7:00:11 AM For crying out loud - We live in a society where our marriages are registered by the fed.....
» 11/09/2010 9:09:43 PM Pastor Jones has the right to burn any book he likes. Nobody can force him not to, he live.....
» 11/09/2010 8:46:20 PM Chill, Jardine K Jardine. Nobody is trying to bully you into recognising anybody. You can .....
» 11/09/2010 4:02:49 PM Cornflower, I don't really think social change can be reduced to people trying to "we.....
» 11/09/2010 10:26:55 AM Cornflower, if the Marriage Act did mean a union between men and women only, why did the H.....
» 11/09/2010 10:14:27 AM I'd be interested to know who is backing Pastor Terry Jones, and what is their hoped for o.....
» 10/09/2010 6:01:39 PM Sells - when the government passes legislation that states marriage is a union only betwee.....
» 10/09/2010 5:42:39 PM Really, chaps, breast cancer campaigns are nothing to do with your sexual desires and grat.....
» 10/09/2010 4:57:37 PM In 2004, that is, 2004, the Howard government passed an amendment to the Marriage Act that.....
» 9/09/2010 10:23:32 AM I think that is exactly my point, David. God and love are not contradictory terms, but t.....
» 9/09/2010 10:07:43 AM History Buff - I associate Christianity with more than attending church - basically, it's .....
» 9/09/2010 9:18:54 AM I was educated by Anglican nuns. From them I learned the high Anglican version of Christia.....
» 9/09/2010 7:27:21 AM we are unique - If only Christians who hold your point of view would write articles for OL.....
» 8/09/2010 6:03:38 PM Sells - You advise Severin to "drop his guard and think deeper about the tradition t.....
» 8/09/2010 4:36:46 PM bach: all those catholic priests who sexually abuse children - do you think they believe i.....
» 8/09/2010 12:27:25 PM Diver Dan where we disagree is that I do not subscribe to what to me is the illusion that .....
» 8/09/2010 11:00:12 AM As a "non believer" I'm again struck by the Christian compulsion to insist that .....
» 8/09/2010 10:09:03 AM I am at a loss as to grasp how a Charter of Politcal Accountability can do us any good at .....
» 8/09/2010 6:44:46 AM Vanna, I'm beginning to think it doesn't matter what anybody says, you are utterly dedicat.....
» 8/09/2010 6:27:10 AM No worries, Sonofgloin. Agree to disagree......
» 7/09/2010 7:57:47 PM "Many men have been emasculated by dominant feminism" says Runner. I'm really t.....
» 7/09/2010 7:26:30 PM Sonofgloin - Thank you for replying so fully to my question. I was really interested in y.....
» 7/09/2010 6:28:09 PM Dear Sells, "It is extraordinary that the one tradition that has shaped our whole cul.....
» 7/09/2010 5:23:08 PM bach - you ask me what I think about "swingers' clubs?" I don't think anything .....
» 7/09/2010 4:21:29 PM Thank you Vanna, I understand your position a lot better now. While there are certainly a.....
» 7/09/2010 9:41:36 AM There are church schools in the community where Christians can educate their children in t.....
» 6/09/2010 11:13:17 PM Dear grateful Thank you for that link and I will certainly follow through. If you know of .....
» 6/09/2010 11:06:22 PM Vanna, what is it with you and academics and universities?.....
» 6/09/2010 11:03:21 PM bach - if you think gay sex is all about pleasure and not procreation, what do you think o.....
» 6/09/2010 10:54:45 PM Sonofgolin - you write: "Those of you, who are pro same sex adoption, give your child.....
» 6/09/2010 6:36:42 PM One thing that is said over and over again in these posts is that there's something unnatu.....
» 6/09/2010 5:08:55 PM While wearing the burqa may or may not be a paternalistic imposition, making it illegal to.....
» 6/09/2010 4:52:03 PM A few years ago I was leading a tutorial for first year ethics students. There were two yo.....
» 5/09/2010 6:53:32 PM Keith, I'm pretty sure Johnny Rotten was being ironic. I can't see anything offensive in h.....
» 5/09/2010 6:46:48 PM Severin, you are right about the article being on a vile topic, and insulting to just abou.....
» 5/09/2010 6:53:54 AM SH Tan - Your post goes a long way towards explaining why there's such a lot of anti-Chris.....
» 4/09/2010 6:58:54 PM If the reason for the USA invading various countries is that those countries are run by &q.....
» 4/09/2010 3:20:29 PM Runner you write: "Obviously more children are abused in heterosexual relationships b.....
» 4/09/2010 10:18:50 AM gpenglas - Your argument that refusing gays the right to adopt will reduce the level of ch.....
» 4/09/2010 8:31:53 AM The children in dispute are as Shadow Minister points out, the children of a partner in an.....
» 3/09/2010 4:40:48 PM Ha ha, that's wonderful, Johnny Rotten! Really love that question. Come on, Warwick and s.....
» 3/09/2010 4:28:04 PM Johnny Rotten - I LOVE that question! Brilliant!.....
» 3/09/2010 11:09:34 AM There is a huge moral abyss between the ideals of those who join the armed forces, and the.....
» 3/09/2010 10:50:45 AM ...yet apparently it's all right to argue that anything that might go wrong in a same sex .....
» 3/09/2010 10:38:33 AM Dear Runner Can you tell me if and when God will have had enough of the rights of a child.....
» 3/09/2010 10:31:45 AM Children are already fostered into same sex households - allowing them to be adopted gives.....
» 3/09/2010 9:20:21 AM The author writes: "One very important new book in this regard is Out From Under by D.....
» 3/09/2010 9:05:34 AM "It seems that parliaments around Australia, both at a federal and state level are he.....
» 3/09/2010 8:03:47 AM 1."Commentators who should know better see the inconclusive result as requiring a “pa.....
» 3/09/2010 7:45:23 AM It's been observed that you can judge the nature of a society by how it treats its childre.....
» 1/09/2010 7:04:56 AM JS Mill: "I do think that it is all rather unpleasant and undignified for the entire .....
» 31/08/2010 8:05:21 AM The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination recently declared that racial.....
» 28/08/2010 7:25:37 AM [Deleted. Refers to deleted comment, and so redundant.]].....
» 27/08/2010 2:17:05 PM I would like to suggest that the burqa hysteria is driven by the fear and discomfort of We.....
» 27/08/2010 6:55:19 AM Dear Hecate Thank you for your thoughtful reading of the article. I agree with your obser.....
» 26/08/2010 5:59:35 PM Women wearing burqas in Australia are few and far between. Why, then, one wonders, is th.....
» 26/08/2010 10:54:55 AM This is a fascinating perspective, and thank you very much for providing it. I agree tot.....
» 25/08/2010 5:53:12 PM Hi, David G and Houellebecq I don't believe for a moment that there could possibly have .....
» 20/08/2010 7:17:23 AM runner- your allegations of homosexuals causing disease through the practice of sodomy are.....
» 20/08/2010 7:11:53 AM Cornflower - You call upon the common sense of the general public to interpret the Articl.....
» 19/08/2010 4:04:58 PM diver dan, there have been several articles on OLO expressing antagonism towards same sex .....
» 15/08/2010 7:28:56 AM Forgot to mention as well, ALGORE, that for those of us who support gay marriage, it isn't.....
» 15/08/2010 7:19:46 AM ALGOREisRICH, you people are in the minority on gay marriage - 60% of Australians believe .....
» 13/08/2010 1:25:03 PM "heteros have only two forms of relationship, marriage and de facto?" I know th.....
» 13/08/2010 10:22:55 AM I don't care about Gillard's gender. I find her insufferable because of her actions agains.....
» 13/08/2010 10:08:33 AM "First, allow me to explain what I mean by “natural marriage”. It doesn’t take more t.....
» 13/08/2010 8:04:54 AM The difference between the pro gay marriage crowd and the anti gay marriage crowd is that .....
» 13/08/2010 7:57:20 AM And, I forgot to add "all it takes for evil to flourish is for good men (sic) to rema.....
» 13/08/2010 7:54:45 AM Otokonoko, I know there are many men who speak out against male violence. I know there are.....
» 12/08/2010 12:26:58 PM "Sinful relations?" You think a de facto relationship is sinful, runner, well, .....
» 12/08/2010 11:40:14 AM "I wonder why the break up of a longstanding cohabiting relationship doesn't seem to .....
» 12/08/2010 10:11:02 AM Why don't Christians care about the appalling contemporary record Christians have for comp.....
» 12/08/2010 7:44:37 AM suzeonline - same sex marriage wasn't happening here prior to 2004, which only makes it mo.....
» 11/08/2010 10:29:53 PM suzeonline - there are interviews with Gillard over the last few years where she states th.....
» 11/08/2010 5:22:38 PM Dear Runner - "Proposition 8 failed to "advance any rational basis" to deny.....
» 11/08/2010 3:13:45 PM One of the many baffling arguments made by Christians against gay marriage is that marriag.....
» 11/08/2010 8:48:03 AM "Wisdom in the Judeo-Christian tradition is found in the person who knows how to “do .....
» 11/08/2010 8:42:12 AM It continues to amaze me that given Christianity's record, these people still feel they ha.....
» 10/08/2010 8:29:03 AM It's likely that the majority of couples who enter into marriage do so hoping for and beli.....
» 6/08/2010 3:35:21 PM Chris, I gave into the impulse to wildly generalise. There are indeed pollies with a sens.....
» 6/08/2010 2:52:32 PM Chris Lewis - I don't think the major parties are doing so badly because it's all so hard......
» 6/08/2010 2:42:43 PM Leigh, I think you have completely missed all the points the author is making in this arti.....
» 6/08/2010 2:22:49 PM Michelle X: I am a woman over fifty. I was never criticised for working. Please do not mak.....
» 6/08/2010 11:56:24 AM Give this author a big round of applause. His observations are timely and accurate. This.....
» 6/08/2010 9:54:20 AM The author makes sound arguments for an affirmative action framework rather than a "t.....
» 4/08/2010 4:35:02 PM Oh my, the twaddlers are all coming out to play! The birthrate doesn't fall because femin.....
» 4/08/2010 4:22:11 PM David G, your prophesy of revolution and chaos is intriguing. But I find it so hard to ima.....
» 4/08/2010 9:24:17 AM Try as I might, I'm unable to imagine moral leadership on just about anything coming from .....
» 4/08/2010 8:28:35 AM Mr Holden, As a woman, I have to say that I find your deterministic generalisations about .....
» 4/08/2010 7:56:44 AM I agree with Ms Tranter's assessment of Julian Assange and his work. I found it highly ir.....
» 2/08/2010 6:19:16 PM Furthermore, Peter Bowden, I have been using the internet since we got an internet and I h.....
» 2/08/2010 6:03:55 PM I forgot to add that I apologise for lumping in people who want the boats stopped with peo.....
» 2/08/2010 5:58:33 PM Peter Bowden, you are pursuing the same hysterical arguments as Conroy and his supporters......
» 2/08/2010 5:46:03 PM It's amazing how one week commentators are accused of being coalition apologists and the n.....
» 2/08/2010 1:04:01 PM I think I have seldom come across a more insulting and despicable attack on freedom than C.....
» 2/08/2010 12:42:33 PM This is a timely article. As an example of just how professional communicators control el.....
» 2/08/2010 12:20:01 PM Having told us that the government had lost its way, now she's telling us she's lost her w.....
» 30/07/2010 12:00:07 PM What is so bizarre to me is the author's assumption that the church is the only way to ach.....
» 30/07/2010 11:30:13 AM Why would Rudd want a role in cabinet? Impossible to know the answer unless he tells us. .....
» 29/07/2010 3:39:23 PM Sorry Severin, very different photo shoot, very different outcome. All I'm saying is that.....
» 29/07/2010 2:58:35 PM Julia "looks like a Prime Minister?" Have you seen the glammed-up killer-heeled .....
» 24/07/2010 6:08:41 PM There are climate change skeptics and climate change deniers. It's really important to d.....
» 22/07/2010 11:29:05 AM No, Shadow Minister, we don't actually have to "suck it up" if we don't like it......
» 22/07/2010 10:53:36 AM I have to agree with King Hazza on this. We should weep in the streets for the lack of pol.....
» 22/07/2010 10:39:09 AM Once again it's necessary to point out that even according to the PM herself, Australians .....
» 19/07/2010 10:07:30 AM This is really horrible - stop fighting everybody!.....
» 15/07/2010 1:15:23 PM "Could it be that he simply saw it as sensible to keep their faces out of the media s.....
» 15/07/2010 11:58:55 AM Ludwig, a quote from the Solicitor General made in the High Court during the events of the.....
» 14/07/2010 6:00:48 PM I don't know where you've been Ludwig but the language used by shock jocks and the Howard .....
» 13/07/2010 10:15:13 PM Yabby, "the other two can purchase their Australian visas by paying people smugglers&.....
» 13/07/2010 7:07:52 PM Dear Runner I can only suggest that you visit one of the countries asylum seekers are flee.....
» 13/07/2010 6:02:29 PM Runner, go to the Amnesty pages, or Immigration pages and find it for yourself. In the m.....
» 13/07/2010 5:10:19 PM I think these posts are proving the author's point. Everyone seems to assume that all asy.....
» 13/07/2010 9:24:50 AM R0bert, the non elected unionists and party factions got rid of Rudd because they consider.....
» 12/07/2010 6:24:47 PM RObert, in fact the last Newspoll conducted before Rudd went indicated that the ALP would .....
» 12/07/2010 4:06:05 PM Leigh: "The over stayers who at least arrive legally, have been found of suitable cha.....
» 12/07/2010 3:55:07 PM Yabby, you're assuming that those 16 million are all hanging out to come to Australia. Wha.....
» 12/07/2010 1:33:03 PM Banjo, are you saying that if you're fleeing torture by plane you are more legitimate than.....
» 12/07/2010 11:55:31 AM Asylum seekers represent the great divide between those who can imagine fleeing terror and.....
» 12/07/2010 10:29:03 AM You are right, Daviy. The desire for power is not a gendered desire - and the desire for.....
» 12/07/2010 9:37:55 AM I think it's extremely unfortunate that the first female prime minister came to power in t.....
» 9/07/2010 12:23:19 PM Peter the Believer: I've really had it with you Christians. I've listened to and read so m.....
» 9/07/2010 12:15:30 PM J S Mill: "Or is it perhaps suggested that if we had more tradespeople, miners and fa.....
» 7/07/2010 5:55:24 PM yes, I think you're right Bruce - but they all take us for fools, not just Rudd and Gillar.....
» 7/07/2010 5:40:17 PM I have been ridiculed about my supposed appearance by people who have never met me or even.....
» 2/07/2010 4:24:41 PM There's lots of things we could all maybe calm down about but racism isn't one of them. &.....
» 1/07/2010 8:18:06 AM Socratease, You are so last century. You have destroyed any credibility you might have ha.....
» 30/06/2010 5:49:56 PM Yo, BITEY The Constitution is a legal document , it isn't Democracy. An analogy: the Ma.....
» 29/06/2010 6:31:05 PM And tonight Tiggy Forrest tells us Rudd was on the brink of opening new negotiations with .....
» 29/06/2010 12:40:18 PM It wasn't "the will of the people", that's the whole point. It was the will of u.....
» 29/06/2010 12:16:38 PM And, I forgot to add, seeing as the Constitution permits circumstances such as these, then.....
» 29/06/2010 12:03:30 PM So its all right to accept that we now live in a country where an ALP Prime Minister can b.....
» 29/06/2010 11:37:12 AM Do we or don't we elect our prime ministers? Under the Westminster system, we don't direc.....
» 10/06/2010 11:01:00 AM Severin: You want articles written by "real women?" Female journalists emplo.....
» 6/03/2010 9:24:32 AM You're wrong, Peter Hume. "Politics" is not specific to government and state. Th.....
» 5/03/2010 5:29:55 PM So, does this author mean to imply that the ABC wants to see the back of the Labour govern.....
» 23/02/2010 5:47:24 PM Hello!! Are we all reading the same article? Cos I think the author is pointing out Abbott.....
» 10/11/2009 6:33:50 AM I agree with you that assisted self-referral offers the best possibility of a good outcome.....
» 17/08/2009 7:34:54 AM Nina, thank you for your response to my article. I don't for a moment think that all dis.....
» 23/07/2009 4:14:30 PM Human rights law demands public debate about existing cultural patterns of private power, .....

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