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» 2/10/2019 10:06:38 AM In the 1930s there was a sect which met on the south head of Sydney Harbour to await the e.....
» 23/04/2019 5:58:57 PM All that study to be awar5ded a doctorate Natasha and you still did not learn that there a.....
» 27/03/2019 3:11:16 PM Pell's big mistake and he big mistake of is legal team was Pell's failure to get into the .....
» 5/03/2019 10:27:52 AM Pell made his living as a preacher of the Gospel which translates as a "teller of the.....
» 20/02/2019 9:42:01 AM Dear "runner", You say Mohammed had black slaves. Read Luke13:47( top of page858.....
» 19/02/2019 3:47:12 PM Mr. ttbn I acknowledge my blunder. I am silly as I have reached the age of brain shrinkage.....
» 19/02/2019 3:15:16 PM Alan B. you say:-As for consummating a marriage with a nine-year-old bride? Who among you.....
» 19/02/2019 10:13:25 AM Mr. ttbn. You say"In Australia their is a good chance that some godless secularist wo.....
» 10/01/2019 12:10:09 PM Thank you for n ailing an other lie David. It is a very old tactic used by quacks for cent.....
» 16/10/2018 10:30:43 AM What a load of rubbish. Nothing Australia's 25 million people do to use renewable energy.....
» 5/10/2018 11:05:51 AM This man has nothing to say and that is what he should say- nothing. He should try to make.....
» 13/09/2018 3:22:31 PM Don and "runner". It is quite wrong to say, as runner does " the vast major.....
» 15/08/2018 1:13:57 PM Binoy, when I came into the workforce in the 1950s every bank teller had a revolver under .....
» 10/08/2018 3:59:47 PM Binoy, I have tried to work out what you mean by " a true academic underclass seduced.....
» 5/06/2018 11:47:13 AM So the Founding Fathers did not mean to give power to the Senate to vote down a government.....
» 23/03/2018 2:11:54 PM Binoy, Your second point:- " the poisoning of traitors, defectors or the like – only.....
» 19/03/2018 2:46:16 PM Bruce, I am sure South Africa will eventually take the white farmers' land to right past w.....
» 9/03/2018 11:01:51 AM Binoy, Why was East Timor "liberated" as you say. Could it be because that &quo.....
» 16/01/2018 11:25:00 AM There is one huge advantage of having a President with democratic base. That advantage is .....
» 12/01/2018 11:46:02 AM When this kerfuffle about male bosses abusing power first came up I asked my daughter ( a .....
» 26/09/2017 3:17:47 PM The gentleman who did the head butting has demonstrated the quality of the heads that want.....
» 26/09/2017 3:09:34 PM Oops, Old Man made an error. A nuclear family should be taxed at twice the tax of half of .....
» 26/09/2017 3:04:51 PM I hope progressive Pat realises where her argument leads ? The next step will be to make i.....
» 5/09/2017 8:34:26 PM Eric Porter has stated what is right and fundamental about marriage. It is all about repro.....
» 28/08/2017 10:10:02 PM Alice, I am as entitled to feel offended by a seeing a woman wearing a burka as I am ay se.....
» 24/08/2017 10:46:55 AM Najla, you state "Give Australians a fair go and allow them to freely express their .....
» 23/08/2017 4:21:33 PM Geoff, Were you an adult during the seventies? NO recession ! I had a legal practice and s.....
» 18/08/2017 12:00:59 PM If anyone at all fails to report the abuse of a child that person is sick. If the Pope mak.....
» 8/08/2017 12:36:19 PM What a naïve child you are. Facts. :- Mohammed "married" his youngest wife Aish.....
» 4/08/2017 12:02:56 PM By paying to overseas holding companies (or their tax haven subsidiaries) royalties on sof.....
» 28/07/2017 4:15:26 PM If Canavan's statement of fact is accepted ( it must be if he swears to it and his testimo.....
» 21/07/2017 9:45:45 AM A good summary of our population problem. Several steps could be taken to restore a health.....
» 14/07/2017 12:22:00 PM Mahomed , Mahamud, or whatever you spell his name as, "married" a girl Aisha at .....
» 14/07/2017 12:07:22 PM Congratulations. You have picked a part answer to one of our large problems. Another matte.....
» 13/06/2017 5:15:48 PM Binoy, The first thing anyone appointed to an office of authority should do is fire anyone.....
» 19/05/2017 5:15:11 PM Race and culture are not the same. We would not ban Germans today. We do ban Nazis because.....
» 3/05/2017 4:36:26 PM Piping water from the north to the Murray Darling may have some merit but it must be compa.....
» 27/04/2017 9:13:45 AM I will keep my Australian values thank you and you can keep your biased nonsense you would.....
» 8/03/2017 12:12:10 PM How can we distinguish between Islam and Muslims. Muslims ( we used to call them Mohamedan.....
» 23/02/2017 11:49:55 AM Surely no-one can expect Israel to accept a solution which would surround it by a State wh.....
» 10/01/2017 6:00:51 PM There is one basic problem with 18C. It is that there is such a thing as truth. If the t.....
» 30/11/2016 3:46:24 PM The problem is that there is no substitute for experience and that is not obtained in univ.....
» 29/11/2016 3:34:49 PM Dorothea, Thousands of people ( at one time an average of 2000 per year) drowned trying to.....
» 29/11/2016 3:05:47 PM The average 2000 people per year who drowned were trying to trying to get from Cuba to USA.....
» 5/10/2016 2:37:49 PM Michael, This dispute is not about rights. Under the Personal Relationships legislation o.....
» 3/10/2016 12:06:45 PM James, Your observation is spot on and is an example of a wider principle learned the hard.....
» 3/10/2016 11:34:09 AM On the ball David. The government's playing about with superannuation has taken away the p.....
» 23/09/2016 12:46:32 PM At last someone is thinking. We should bring our tax system into line with reality. Peop.....
» 18/08/2016 1:09:45 PM Keep on the warpath Jennifer . We are very lucky to have you. Iwas appalled by Brian Cox'.....
» 16/08/2016 9:44:34 AM Peter, do you believe there is such a thing as truth? Should a government pass legislatio.....
» 28/07/2016 10:17:22 AM Rivka, There are certain facts which make Kruger's comments valid. These are:- 1. Mohamed.....
» 18/07/2016 9:56:12 AM As long as we have are arrogant know-alls like Jardine K Jardine we will have rabble rouse.....
» 24/06/2016 11:05:44 AM As an eighty year old I regard the right to end my life as a basic human right that no- on.....
» 23/06/2016 11:03:19 AM Well Bruce, Menzies was a "redneck". Were you around when he was in power? Be.....
» 6/06/2016 9:50:32 AM What a pile of absolute nonsense. The shame is that the taxpayer is probably paying this d.....
» 13/05/2016 12:44:41 PM Every politician knows that , when something is too hard to handle, you pass the buck. Pat.....
» 12/05/2016 9:10:06 AM I cannot understand the worries about the failure of employers to provide experience. In t.....
» 4/04/2016 5:18:06 PM Don, Are you saying that if a statement of fact offends someone it may still be a punisha.....
» 30/03/2016 12:38:33 PM For any Court to find a plebiscite not necessary would be a usurping of the power to alter.....
» 1/03/2016 10:17:25 AM Max, The problem with our present system is that the Governor General is, in effect,chosen.....
» 9/02/2016 10:01:11 AM David f There is a need for a Head of State. The need is to have someone without undoubted.....
» 27/01/2016 4:35:32 PM What absolute drivel. 90 % of the world's population would not exist today were it not f.....
» 21/01/2016 10:21:54 AM The Australian Constitution is an Act of the UK Parliament passed at the request of the Au.....
» 24/12/2015 10:36:15 AM It is wonderful that some Muslims have formed organisations dedicated to peace. The dilem.....
» 15/12/2015 8:20:09 AM Michael, You fail to recognise the importance of the nuclear family ( or institutionalised.....
» 7/11/2015 11:02:44 AM We can simplify taxation and welfare with reality and balance the budget problem . The fol.....
» 3/11/2015 3:05:37 PM Professor, If you wrote an opinion piece as biased against Palestinians as your piece is a.....
» 30/10/2015 3:34:26 PM The High Court's re- interpretation of the meaning of "marriage" is another exam.....
» 8/09/2015 11:04:10 AM Syd, a well reasoned argument, but would not your solution result in an oligarchy not dem.....
» 29/06/2015 11:09:09 AM Although religion is all based on belief having no basis in fact and has been responsible .....
» 15/06/2015 10:31:37 AM What the equal marriage right people lose sight of is the huge impact institutionalised mo.....
» 15/06/2015 10:05:32 AM I agree with EQ. I cannot see what is wrong in paying smugglers to return to Indonesia. Th.....
» 12/06/2015 12:32:20 PM Monis case shows legal aid has become a sad joke. 40 years ago solicitors paid half their.....
» 5/06/2015 11:17:02 AM Craig Minns, It seems that your definition of "bigot" is "anyone who believ.....
» 2/06/2015 11:51:13 AM What is at risk here is the society we have built with the nuclear family as its fundament.....
» 25/05/2015 5:37:42 PM David, As an atheist I would be expected to be in favour of gay marriage. I am not for the.....
» 18/05/2015 1:25:20 PM The author here fails to understand that our legal system forgives the many mistakes made .....
» 9/05/2015 11:42:11 AM Are the issues here really so complicated? If a person deliberately kills another person s.....
» 9/05/2015 10:29:00 AM Is not the basis of all these problems to holding of non- evidenced based beliefs, whether.....
» 16/03/2015 2:15:09 PM Courtney, We all judge ourselves and other people - and all the time. Here is my judgment.....
» 16/03/2015 12:13:45 PM Kellie and Has been, You seem to think that, as long as a State has a fiat currency, the S.....
» 17/12/2014 9:15:13 AM "The minute someone believes they can kill based on their religious convictions, they.....
» 10/12/2014 5:26:20 PM Our taxation system should be lined up with reality. Whitlam introduced the concept of reb.....
» 24/10/2014 9:16:23 AM Toby, I suggest you carefully read the Koran. It is the basis of a society with a basic bu.....
» 3/10/2014 10:13:58 AM You raise the right questions but your answers are silly. The only way to reduce unemploym.....
» 9/09/2014 12:07:51 PM Don, I would have liked to send this onto other people but you destroyed the validity of t.....
» 19/08/2014 9:23:59 AM The case for indexing fuel excise is undeniable as you have pointed out. The complexity of.....
» 5/08/2014 7:49:45 PM Matt, You take it as accepted that sinking of islands is caused by burning of carbon. That.....
» 8/07/2014 12:32:20 PM Your article is to be congratulated. Imputation credits made a huge difference to the oper.....
» 17/06/2014 10:05:45 AM Paul, a meaningful tax reform should start with a effort to bring taxation in line with re.....
» 11/06/2014 10:07:23 PM Well, David, who do you propose as the thought policeman? 600 years ago it used to b the P.....
» 4/05/2014 8:18:26 PM This Old Man reads this interchange with despair. There is no doubt that the productivity .....
» 2/05/2014 1:05:57 PM Your commentator Jon J has demanded an argument against gay marriage. Here is one from a 7.....
» 2/05/2014 11:33:34 AM Well Henry, is it not wonderful how you well argued comments give rise to such drivel in r.....
» 27/02/2014 8:09:02 PM Tristan, I see no harm in Marxism being studied in universities as long as the lesson of h.....
» 15/05/2013 10:12:51 AM Good points David. Non- evidenced based belief, whether called ideology or religion has, t.....
» 21/06/2012 9:39:19 PM Recent Articles in On Line Opinion assume that all objection to gay marriage is on religio.....

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