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» 25/01/2018 9:59:20 PM I watched the interview and it seemed to me that he was making the age-old argument that t.....
» 25/01/2018 3:51:22 AM Are you talking to ME? If so, I've no idea what you are talking about. Could you speak En.....
» 21/01/2018 3:54:00 AM The Aziz Ansari issue is a seismic shift that women have been waiting for, for centuries. .....
» 29/12/2017 2:41:13 AM leoj 'The reason why radical feminists don't pursue the due diligence solutions (discusse.....
» 25/12/2017 2:29:51 AM ALTRAVE 'Anyone, yes, anyone who was around back then and alive today, if they throw PC d.....
» 24/12/2017 7:55:40 PM leoj Further to your earlier comment:'That example could the sexualisation of children, e.....
» 23/12/2017 3:49:48 AM ALTRAV Even in the past, the perpetrators knew that what they were doing was morally and .....
» 23/12/2017 3:22:09 AM leoj I'm not sure I follow your argument. Could we not accept that sexual exploitation ex.....
» 22/12/2017 6:37:27 AM ALTRAVE This is a crime that has been continually committed, but past social norms disall.....
» 1/12/2017 3:59:11 AM Geoff of Perth You're a voice of reason, while the rest of the US-led Western world is sp.....
» 15/11/2017 11:53:09 PM This Russia Russia Russia stuff has become a mass hallucinating media group think. The DNC.....
» 4/11/2017 5:41:47 AM Regardless of the rights or wrongs of Greens policies, the current Australian electoral sy.....
» 2/11/2017 3:47:57 PM mhaze More Mexicans are actually leaving the US than entering it. Between 2000 and 2014, .....
» 24/10/2017 2:02:18 AM Alan B. I asked for evidence. You gave none. You asked for evidence, I (and others here) .....
» 23/10/2017 11:24:18 PM We're going of on a 'frozen foods' tangent here. NZ chose not to be part of the Australian.....
» 23/10/2017 10:57:03 PM Alan B. Don't you see even a glimmer of McCarthyist hysteria in Clinton's Russia bashing?.....
» 19/10/2017 11:29:15 PM Jayb That was not my point. There is a difference between a woman proactively choosing to.....
» 19/10/2017 3:05:04 PM Everyone is pretending to be shocked about something that everyone has known about, joked .....
» 19/10/2017 2:22:24 PM Geoff of Perth 'Killarney is a war criminal and psychopath, no ifs, no but's, no maybe's!.....
» 16/10/2017 1:44:27 AM Yuyutsu No real problem with that. We're seeing this now with the growing independence mo.....
» 14/10/2017 12:03:46 AM 'Will the Palestinians ever play their cards right?' That's a no-brainer. Of course they'.....
» 13/10/2017 5:47:05 PM runner There hasn't been a REAL socialist in Hollywood since the McCarthy purges of the 1.....
» 13/10/2017 3:46:47 PM Hasbeen Socialism has not failed. In fact, not only does it refuse to die, it's gaining g.....
» 12/10/2017 6:24:29 PM Capitalism is not the problem. Predatory capitalism is the problem. Predatory capitalism e.....
» 10/10/2017 1:13:28 AM Yes, Corbyn's agenda on domestic policies (e.g. the NHS and free tertiary education) will .....
» 5/10/2017 11:56:37 PM jayb, Alan B There is also the Trinity Knot of the ancient Celts, which pre-dated Christi.....
» 2/10/2017 1:22:12 AM Alan B. Thanks. leoj I'd like to respond, but I'm not sure what your point is - at leas.....
» 30/09/2017 11:12:25 PM Grace on Coronation is an utter abomination! So too, was the previous ABC site, which I al.....
» 30/09/2017 3:19:10 AM Yes, erectile dysfunction gets a lot more press than the almost 'invisible' problem of vag.....
» 28/09/2017 3:33:00 AM There is a Kurdish saying: No friends but the mountains. So true. Their drive for indepen.....
» 28/09/2017 2:54:55 AM Alan B. 'And the second world war was a righteous war that ended the reign of a mass murd.....
» 25/09/2017 10:39:29 PM Yuyutsu Wow! Your comment sums up exactly what I think and feel. You only have to look a.....
» 22/09/2017 7:41:56 PM Now_not so soon 'Do you see the alternative to just not have sex before wanting children .....
» 22/09/2017 12:40:33 AM OK. Let's reinvent the wheel all over again. Women carry the baby to full-term - with ug.....
» 18/09/2017 8:16:08 PM McCackie Up until the 1970s, North Korea's industrial economy far out-stripped South Kore.....
» 18/09/2017 1:07:20 AM Alan B OK. Let's destroy a country in order to save it. We've been down this road many ti.....
» 16/09/2017 2:43:38 AM Them's gold their in them there hills. US10 trillion in gold. No problem. Just keep havin.....
» 14/09/2017 6:14:02 PM Just go to Google Images and key in 'Disappearing Palestine' and you'll see what 'country'.....
» 11/09/2017 11:34:29 PM Joe 'In traditional Aboriginal societies, women were frequently killed for stepping out o.....
» 11/09/2017 11:25:58 PM WollyB, diver dan Yes, of course. Whatever. Politically inclined women's sense of gender .....
» 9/09/2017 2:35:27 PM Leoj Yes, I did ‘raise the stakes’, but all’s fair on online forums, as long as you stay .....
» 8/09/2017 3:50:50 PM Too many responses to address individually. However ... jayb 'Wow Killarney you must liv.....
» 7/09/2017 11:48:14 PM OK. Let me get this straight. If women get blind drunk, they only have themselves to blame.....
» 7/09/2017 11:36:06 AM 'Why won't women's advocates support banning the burka?' Feminism or any form of women's .....
» 4/09/2017 10:15:19 PM Oh, Gawd! Now there's another one. I've just read that Princess Kate is pregnant with Bab.....
» 2/09/2017 1:59:13 AM calwest A lot of young Irish female backpackers (as with all backpackers everywhere) will.....
» 1/09/2017 1:14:14 AM Oh, dear. I did it again! My last comment should have been to Shockadelic, not yuyutsu. S.....
» 1/09/2017 1:07:03 AM yuyutsu 'If you are a "slave" paying for your degree, mortgage, etc. you *chose.....
» 31/08/2017 4:40:15 AM Yuyutsu 'That is, whether or not they wanted to work (especially when having no ability t.....
» 30/08/2017 8:07:26 PM Correction: It was diver dan I should have addressed my last comment to, not Aidan......
» 30/08/2017 8:00:49 PM Calwest ‘As for "public opinion" in Russia, Hungary and the former East Germany.....
» 30/08/2017 5:32:15 AM Aidan ‘Communism is not a threat to us. Almost nobody here wants it (I certainly don't)’ .....
» 26/08/2017 5:49:17 PM Nothing will change for the better until we rid ourselves of our current electoral system .....
» 25/08/2017 7:13:20 AM najia History is full of women who proudly and publicly exhibit their masochism. In most .....
» 25/08/2017 2:24:30 AM CHERFUL What is that supposed to mean? Muslims have migrated to Europe en masse, because .....
» 24/08/2017 5:36:09 PM I think it's a misperception of US long-term military strategy that it tries to win wars. .....
» 24/08/2017 1:21:10 AM doog Don't agree. I'm to the left of politics, but I have no trouble aligning with the ri.....
» 23/08/2017 1:21:09 AM Feminism finds strange allies. From cynical experience, liberal (or centrist) feminists wo.....
» 21/08/2017 12:34:48 AM Armchair critic By 'chicken and egg', I meant the author is arguing that only the US can .....
» 19/08/2017 5:29:18 PM jamo Yes, Trump also overruled a Republican party platform endorsing the continuation of .....
» 18/08/2017 12:09:07 AM Before you armchair warriors send down the mother of all missiles on North Korea, just in .....
» 15/08/2017 5:26:00 AM Just adding to the comments by mox, philipS and ilmessaggio, even though there is not much.....
» 14/08/2017 6:19:31 PM mox Agree with all you say. In addition, NK reportedly has trillions in mineral wealth th.....
» 10/08/2017 1:50:04 AM Foxy If you must have your heroes, then fine. But why not also look at the socio-politica.....
» 10/08/2017 12:54:59 AM In October 1916, Australians voted down the first of two referendums to make conscription .....
» 8/08/2017 11:13:58 PM Yuyutsu Yes, businesses that make a turnover of less than $75,000 per year are exempt fro.....
» 4/08/2017 7:30:08 AM I don't get it. These sharing economies are still businesses. Businesses pay tax. Why sh.....
» 3/08/2017 5:21:57 AM That whole silly, embarrassing grief-by-media dead-Di frenzy may get some renewed traction.....
» 31/07/2017 5:40:35 AM Hi leoj My comment was more about evolutionary sexism, which dictates that women are evol.....
» 29/07/2017 3:23:48 AM 'Australian women, like women everywhere, have an inherited maternal instinct to want to h.....
» 16/07/2017 12:40:53 AM It's become mandatory for any conflict in the ME, in which the West takes sides, to portra.....
» 13/07/2017 4:35:35 AM What is this article saying? That in the past, socially sensitive members of the rich elit.....
» 7/07/2017 11:36:16 PM This problem lies in the age-old male privilege of occupying armies. On the one hand, the .....
» 7/07/2017 11:12:34 PM ttbn Yeah. Useless young bludgers faced with a 4-6 year HECS debt, followed by unpaid int.....
» 7/07/2017 6:18:02 AM ttbn 'We will be pushed further to the Left as more young people are put on the electoral.....
» 27/06/2017 12:51:28 AM ‘The late great historian and sociologist Franz Oppenheimer pointed out that …’ ‘… the gr.....
» 23/06/2017 4:49:33 AM diver dan 'ISIS is actually a rising tide against Capitalist elitism. It has great benefi.....
» 21/06/2017 9:48:35 PM runner 'Well Kilarney if Islam can achieve stopping the killing of millions of unborn and.....
» 21/06/2017 5:46:34 PM The real 'religious war' of our times is between capitalism and socialism. Time and again,.....
» 21/06/2017 3:49:36 AM The Irish Supreme Court ruled that the asylum seeker was entitled to seek work before his .....
» 19/06/2017 12:12:00 AM Pete I propose a wrestling match between Khaled Mashal (Hamas leader) and Bibi-Yahoo. Tha.....
» 18/06/2017 11:43:02 PM Oh, Lawd! Why bother to comment except to say why bother to comment. So, in an effort to .....
» 15/06/2017 11:43:36 PM I always enjoy Leyonhjelm's articles. Right or wrong, he's a spirited and independent thin.....
» 13/06/2017 1:28:53 AM How many people have become victims of terrorism in Australia? On body count alone, we s.....
» 13/06/2017 1:06:21 AM Here's what actually changes. The last thirty years have created a status quo that the peo.....
» 8/06/2017 1:49:59 AM diver dan Yes. Drug abuse, especially steroid drug abuse, is a factor in many of these po.....
» 8/06/2017 12:57:21 AM yuyutsu I tried the second link and it worked. Even so, why assume that people living und.....
» 7/06/2017 11:42:38 AM jayb Thanks for the correction. I normally make a point of checking my facts, but I was t.....
» 6/06/2017 2:32:58 AM Yuyutsu Why do we need to liberate the people of North Korea? Why did we need to liberate.....
» 4/06/2017 2:19:40 AM The rising kleptocracy is not just an Australian phenomenon. It's become standard practice.....
» 30/05/2017 12:07:52 AM These internships are not 'unpaid'. The internee is receiving jobseeker benefits paid by t.....
» 26/05/2017 10:50:41 PM This is the first I've read about this. Didn't know it was happening. I hope it involves .....
» 30/04/2017 3:28:38 AM What exactly is the problem here? Publishing accounts of people who tried and failed to .....
» 24/04/2017 12:28:40 AM jamo 'Even Keating admitted recently major policy shifts from his time were a mistake. To.....
» 20/04/2017 1:29:07 AM Joe, Is Mise, Yuyutsu I thought I had put up an earlier comment in reply, but on checking.....
» 19/04/2017 11:13:34 PM Correction: In my last paragraph, that should have been 'US-backed' (although my typo was .....
» 19/04/2017 11:09:33 PM EJ I think the North Korean village you refer to is Haeju. The attack from South Korean f.....
» 19/04/2017 1:58:18 AM North Korea has never attacked anyone (even the Korean War was provoked by South Korean at.....
» 18/04/2017 5:48:29 AM Britain's horrific penal laws that raged for over two centuries after the tragedy of the c.....
» 8/04/2017 7:19:57 AM 'God gives little girls a special gift - this is how Dad thinks, and this is how I can get.....
» 4/04/2017 11:09:07 PM Loudmouth Yes, interesting on all counts. What’s really important here is that those who .....
» 4/04/2017 6:30:02 AM Shadow minister Yes, true. Africa has had its fair share of genocides without colonial in.....
» 4/04/2017 5:25:58 AM Mhaze and Loudmouth All your arguments are appreciated. Thanks. African slavery is a hug.....
» 2/04/2017 7:20:17 PM Mhaze ‘Well, given that the African slave trade existed for 500 yrs prior to the arrival .....
» 2/04/2017 7:17:00 PM LEGO ‘Killarney, I was once an anti racist like your good self. What made me start thinki.....
» 2/04/2017 3:32:13 AM LEGO Africa before European imperialism was no more or less wonderful than any other cont.....
» 1/04/2017 4:23:16 AM diver dan Germany did not 'create' WWI. That's victor's rhetoric. The reasons are complex.....
» 1/04/2017 4:10:50 AM I'm ashamed to say that I had never heard of this genocide. It makes for harrowing reading.....
» 27/03/2017 3:05:07 AM George '... the modern forms of consciousness encompassing abstract right, modern science.....
» 26/03/2017 9:21:21 PM diver dan 'Killarney...your very sensitive to the subject of domination. But domination i.....
» 26/03/2017 8:37:28 PM Graham Y 'You wouldn't have the sense this was wrong, because human rights as we understa.....
» 26/03/2017 12:44:52 AM diver dan 'You also imply by your ridicule of Christian ethics, a disdain of the patriarc.....
» 25/03/2017 8:16:03 PM mikk <The bible is a horror story of murder, manipulation, lying, genocide, and evil ......
» 25/03/2017 5:09:42 AM The Gnostic gospels and Dead Sea Scrolls show that the Bible was a heavily edited text tha.....
» 23/03/2017 8:38:24 AM rechtub In terms of your latter option, from my recollection of my days as a tenant, land.....
» 23/03/2017 2:42:20 AM I don't normally weigh into these Israel issues, but really, this essay is as sanctimoniou.....
» 23/03/2017 2:08:21 AM The baby boomer bubble, on which most current grey-tsunami fears are based (and distorted).....
» 21/03/2017 4:54:50 AM Oh, gimme a break! As a feminist myself, I can smell a faux-feminism argument a mile away......
» 20/03/2017 7:15:48 PM R0bert 'No guarantees that Trump will stick with that but I was much more concerned about.....
» 18/03/2017 10:21:16 PM The issues underlying political correctness are not 'insane'. It's only when they are used.....
» 15/03/2017 3:00:56 AM LEGO What on earth have Barbary Coast pirates got to do with anything? Where’s the Phanto.....
» 13/03/2017 2:33:46 AM LEGO I’m sorry but I don’t go for treating politically complex issues like a football gra.....
» 11/03/2017 11:52:03 PM LEGO Did you actually READ my comments? If you had, you might have noticed that my viewpo.....
» 11/03/2017 11:31:34 PM leoj ‘It is as though the Sixties protests against censorship and demand for free speech .....
» 11/03/2017 3:40:54 AM People are entitled to crack smutty jokes as much as they like in private. When these joke.....
» 11/03/2017 3:00:36 AM Toni (and mikk) I know runner has some provocative views, but your response rhetoric is r.....
» 10/03/2017 10:49:58 PM Joe Feminists, like the rest of the population, are divided on this issue and many admit .....
» 10/03/2017 12:00:34 AM diver dan 'If Muslims wish to stone adulteresses to death in Australia for example, who c.....
» 9/03/2017 6:53:44 PM Joe Both the Christian and Muslim religions and the countries they have ruled for over a .....
» 9/03/2017 5:35:41 AM One of the major reasons why the Left is reluctant to criticise Islam is because they see .....
» 7/03/2017 10:51:03 AM phanto 'How is violence toward women unjust towards them?' Excuse me?? WTF? As the jok.....
» 7/03/2017 4:44:51 AM phanto 'Is the idea to elicit more sympathy so as to heap more blame on men for ruining t.....
» 6/03/2017 10:31:41 AM Hi Joe Yes, despite my statistical blunder, the amount of government spending on DV aware.....
» 6/03/2017 9:04:32 AM Whoops! Very red-faced. Got one of my statistics catastrophically wrong! The Australian D.....
» 6/03/2017 4:24:47 AM diver dan Agree on all counts. The current discourse on the supposed 'grey tsunami' compl.....
» 6/03/2017 3:06:54 AM Here are some back-of-the envelope figures. 1. ABS (2014): Total DV homicide victims (ro.....
» 4/03/2017 5:16:50 AM leoj 'The DV industry sucks a lot of dollars from government and there are those who jeal.....
» 4/03/2017 4:42:08 AM phanto You keep pushing this ridiculous scenario that one in three intimate partners are .....
» 4/03/2017 3:46:19 AM CHERFUL I'm not sure it IS the way of nature to abandon the old and sick. Anthropological.....
» 3/03/2017 3:39:43 AM diver dan 'Government is best positioned to assist people in retirement, by facilitating .....
» 2/03/2017 4:56:30 AM phanto ‘They would have to be very feeble-minded to be so easily convinced and if they ar.....
» 28/02/2017 8:39:30 AM Emperor Julian 'Pontificating about statistics and femmos etc. doesn't carry any proposal.....
» 28/02/2017 8:19:33 AM phanto ‘Why should psychobabble bother you any more than any other type of babble?’ Beca.....
» 26/02/2017 12:49:38 AM phanto I acknowledged Emperor Julian provoked you, so put that Munchhausen-by-proxy argum.....
» 24/02/2017 1:12:08 AM leoj ‘Palaszczuk did move to ban some young backpackers' cheap vans though. That was fake.....
» 23/02/2017 11:51:28 PM Emperor Julian ‘I notice a Moslem "community leader" has just sounded off on do.....
» 22/02/2017 9:46:17 PM phanto I've just re-read EJ's previous comment to you. I must have overlooked this part a.....
» 22/02/2017 9:27:24 PM phanto To Emperor Julian: 'You have said this same thing so many times I am starting to w.....
» 22/02/2017 2:14:29 AM R0bert Yes, the Family Law legal system is atrociously adversarial, as is the entire lega.....
» 22/02/2017 1:52:52 AM phanto ‘If [women] marry for the same reasons as men then why are men not subject to the .....
» 20/02/2017 8:44:13 AM Although my PC indoctrinated brain baulks at many of his arguments, he makes a lot of sens.....
» 20/02/2017 1:01:37 AM R0bert Only 6% of divorces end up in the Family Law Court. Out of these, almost all of .....
» 20/02/2017 12:03:05 AM phanto The statistics (depending on what you read and who is doing the research) are that.....
» 19/02/2017 5:07:20 AM Looking at the comments here, it's obvious we have a long, loooong way to go before recogn.....
» 17/02/2017 6:42:56 AM This is a scenario that has been played out time and again in Australian history. We are .....
» 9/02/2017 6:18:50 AM 'The rabid right posters, the familiar tags are there, are falling out of their tree to at.....
» 3/02/2017 3:33:49 AM These arguments about government infrastructure spending virtually always focus on economi.....
» 29/01/2017 10:42:41 PM Armchair Critic Bingo! It’s always just a matter of time before an anti-feminist trips al.....
» 28/01/2017 3:35:05 AM Not everyone goes to the internet to reinforce their own point of view. My values are diam.....
» 28/01/2017 12:55:33 AM Not quite done yet ... Armchair Critic 'I've personally come to the conclusion that this.....
» 27/01/2017 9:57:57 PM phanto Your bigotry about the march is almost on a level with JKJ. And as with JKJ, your .....
» 26/01/2017 11:32:48 PM phanto The election of Trump was only the catalyst not the cause of the march. Its main p.....
» 26/01/2017 10:56:13 PM Armchair Critic I agree with R0bert. That's a highly selective and over-worn argument. O.....
» 26/01/2017 5:10:44 AM JKJ 'What specifically about my post "spewed sexist bigotry, hatred, lies and double.....
» 25/01/2017 9:32:24 PM Since I last posted, the comments can be summarised as: phanto: The timing makes it look .....
» 24/01/2017 10:35:06 PM This article sums up the nature and tone of virtually every piece of writing I've seen of .....
» 21/01/2017 9:11:27 AM phanto I'm not sure why you are addressing me. My comment was not about dealing with bull.....
» 20/01/2017 12:51:11 PM Foxy 'Mr Kovaleski suffers from a condition known as arthrogryposis. A congenital conditi.....
» 19/01/2017 8:38:27 AM On second thoughts. You weren't sending me up, were you?.....
» 19/01/2017 8:30:17 AM Thank you, Alan B. You're a gentleman. But I'm not yet fluent in Gaelic. I wish. Go raib.....
» 17/01/2017 9:16:16 PM Female politicians have symbolic 'identity' value only, by improving the visibility of wom.....
» 17/01/2017 5:39:31 AM Bazz The term 'Death to ...' is just an Arab expression of frustration. Like death to tra.....
» 17/01/2017 1:47:28 AM Alan B If you break down that popular vote, Clinton's majority came mostly from the popul.....
» 16/01/2017 7:46:11 PM Any speech that starts with 'I love you all' should have anyone's BS detector on high aler.....
» 15/01/2017 9:58:52 AM Referendumdrivensociety Agree on all points. There are so many amongst us who, by virtue .....
» 12/01/2017 11:20:18 PM I'm all for the universal basic income. The part I don't get is the proposal to give it to.....
» 10/01/2017 2:02:15 PM yuyutsu Firstly, I should state that I'm not that badly off. I own my home outright, am c.....
» 10/01/2017 7:11:39 AM ttbn 'The Age Pension is not welfare,Senator; it is a right, made available when politici.....
» 10/01/2017 6:37:20 AM roderick Well, we've got a movement of two! History has been changed starting with less. .....
» 8/01/2017 8:13:58 PM roderick 19 September sounds good. We don't really have a formal date in the Australian c.....
» 8/01/2017 5:27:17 AM Apart from political considerations and sensitivities, the early part of the year has too .....
» 5/01/2017 9:42:19 PM Truthiness is entirely relevant to whatever factiness you choose to use to justify your tr.....
» 3/01/2017 8:28:28 AM Loudmouth The rules of imperialism are as follows: 1. When WE do imperialism, we are spr.....
» 2/01/2017 7:42:35 PM Loudmouth 'If I was a Finn, I would always be looking over my shoulder too.' Finland wa.....
» 2/01/2017 4:28:31 AM Big Nana '... I can say with experience that literacy and numeracy in this country has dr.....
» 2/01/2017 3:39:31 AM As an ex-teacher, I remember all too well that staffroom politics played a huge part in wh.....
» 2/01/2017 12:07:18 AM Loumouth 'Ergo: it's all an American plot. They don't exist. They're actors, kids, bodies.....
» 30/12/2016 5:14:07 AM Was this an article or a stand-up comedy routine? 'These men and women [of the White Helm.....
» 21/12/2016 6:34:06 PM How far would I go to help the Syrians? As far as the TV and radio to turn off the evenin.....
» 17/12/2016 4:47:31 PM By way of comparison, sodomy was decriminalised in Cuba in 1979. Whereas in Australia, sod.....
» 11/12/2016 9:00:58 AM Hi Toni I checked out Bunnings and there actually is a non-electric, non-fuel hand push m.....
» 11/12/2016 4:41:46 AM I've got a pocket handkerchief lawn and can actually cut it with long-armed clippers in ab.....
» 30/11/2016 12:54:04 AM I almost didn't bother to read this, thinking it would be another brutal-tyrant-evil-commu.....
» 29/11/2016 4:04:18 AM Tony Lavis Thanks for the article link. Agree with all of that. Sadly, English speakers .....
» 29/11/2016 3:42:32 AM Alan B I'm sorry. Tá brón orm! Correcting people's spelling on the internet is a low blo.....
» 29/11/2016 3:41:02 AM Is Mise Always nice to interact with another Gaelicphile. I only found out about 10 year.....
» 26/11/2016 7:04:51 AM Roscop The example I gave was that there was clear evidence of domestic assault - the rep.....
» 26/11/2016 6:23:57 AM Alan B 'Given my ancestry, my native tongue ought to be galic!' Well, that's your loss. .....
» 25/11/2016 7:12:47 AM Roscop 'Alleged female victims know they can get protection without the substantiation of.....
» 25/11/2016 6:56:26 AM Albie Definitely, a Royal Commission is needed, but the political will is out to lunch. T.....
» 24/11/2016 5:56:57 AM A massive percentage of the social welfare budget is spent on private contractors to inter.....
» 24/11/2016 5:19:45 AM What has this got to do with nurses? Voluntary euthanasia has little to nothing to do with.....
» 24/11/2016 4:55:09 AM We've managed to change the law on marital rape and workplace sexual harrassment, so why c.....
» 21/11/2016 9:12:24 AM I once volunteered for very high-profile charity. I was under instruction that, if I ever .....
» 21/11/2016 8:42:17 AM Phanto I don't normally like putting up posts that give anecdotal accounts, because reade.....
» 21/11/2016 7:55:48 AM Loudmouth Fine. So capitalism leaves many millions of people without jobs and unemployabl.....
» 20/11/2016 7:20:27 AM I must admit, until two close female friends became the victims of domestic violence, I di.....
» 20/11/2016 6:25:45 AM gen X gent That is so true. Unless neoliberal capitalism can find a way to reverse its re.....
» 17/11/2016 2:05:14 AM I'll keep an open mind on Trump. But the minute he goes to war on welfare and starts anoth.....
» 17/11/2016 1:42:45 AM These issues go way beyond gender. This is the long-term effect of globalisation. We despi.....
» 17/11/2016 1:04:18 AM Partly because of horrible memories of school uniforms, I sent my sons to a high school th.....
» 11/11/2016 6:41:38 AM The result is not a spectacular puzzle to those who see the US as profoundly dysfunctional.....
» 11/11/2016 5:57:43 AM The opinion polls were not representative of the state by state electoral system. They too.....
» 7/11/2016 4:22:18 AM Wow! That video packs quite a punch. I doubt if the liberal establishment could care les.....
» 30/10/2016 5:32:38 AM All these 'analyses' - whether sympathetic or antagonistic - of why people vote for Trump .....
» 25/10/2016 12:00:16 AM Tony Lavis You don't seem to distinguish between constructive and destructive advice. CM'.....
» 23/10/2016 12:16:49 AM CHERFUL WTF? I understand what you are saying, but are you posting to the right thread?.....
» 22/10/2016 11:55:34 PM Tony Lavis Oh, c'mon! You're just doing doing petty tit-for-tat......
» 22/10/2016 11:06:34 PM Waverley This is the abstract to the research study you link to: ‘Does it matter if the.....
» 22/10/2016 9:51:19 PM Phanto CM is clearly showing that he will not back down from his self-appointed righteous.....
» 21/10/2016 9:15:46 PM Craig Minns 'I've given you some simple straightforward advice about how to improve your .....
» 21/10/2016 9:04:35 PM Phanto <“In our media, discussion about men is monitored by, and largely written by, w.....
» 20/10/2016 10:45:47 PM What part of 'Please stop attacking me personally' don't you understand? I don't know how .....
» 20/10/2016 8:23:12 PM Craig Minns I was expecting the usual angry, personally nasty attack from you - that I AL.....
» 20/10/2016 4:00:54 AM Waverley 'Women need good men in their lives.' No. Women need financial and emotional in.....
» 19/10/2016 3:15:15 AM This article is pretending to be about the need for 'fairness' of gender criticism in the .....
» 19/09/2016 8:10:24 PM Sorry, people. I posted my above comment to the wrong article......
» 19/09/2016 4:28:34 AM A 2014 Pew report found that, between 2011 and 2014, more than a million Mexican-Americans.....
» 14/09/2016 12:29:00 AM Pogi 'Yes, none of us like communism and would not choose to live the communist life.' T.....
» 11/09/2016 12:33:20 AM Nice post, Pogi. Brutal wars of liberation from imperialism and/or revolutions against a.....
» 9/09/2016 8:47:00 PM Mao himself took official responsibility for 800,000 execution deaths under his rule, due .....
» 8/09/2016 11:57:59 PM Loudmouth You left out the part where I said 'However, as with Whites ...'. A lot of Whit.....
» 7/09/2016 1:47:45 AM Loudmouth Yes, of course, many Indigenous youth have made significant inroads into the Wh.....
» 7/09/2016 1:32:16 AM The NT Aboriginal Land Rights Act 1976, which gave Indigenous people control, mediated via.....
» 5/09/2016 12:35:13 AM I haven't come back to this discussion, because I've been busy. However, on checking back .....
» 31/08/2016 12:14:16 AM interactive 'And the number one way women manipulate men is through sex, or the suggestio.....
» 31/08/2016 12:01:20 AM Craig Minns This 'horny boys' excuse has been done to death. Being horny does not give AN.....
» 29/08/2016 11:17:14 PM 'It’s an easy narrative to sell to stay-at-home Mums, resentful at yet another boring roun.....
» 25/08/2016 12:07:29 AM Armchair Critic Don't bother with providing a link. I've probably seen it already. I may .....
» 24/08/2016 3:42:25 AM I'm a left-wing radical feminist, but even I am getting to the point that political correc.....
» 16/08/2016 3:41:37 AM The EU has been failing for a long time, but its treatment of Greece was the beginning of .....
» 1/08/2016 9:11:11 PM rehctub 'People have to get their noses out of other peoples business. If you want cage f.....
» 1/08/2016 3:01:53 AM Why doesn't this article include one of our most commonplace forms of animal cruelty - bat.....
» 1/08/2016 2:30:18 AM Hasbeen I like your second-last post. This is something I've increasingly noticed too. Ed.....
» 26/07/2016 3:51:55 AM Roses1 I agree that the level of intimidation, particularly towards left-wing, and especi.....
» 26/07/2016 3:28:17 AM I used to be an avid poster to the Drum, but I haven't commented there for several years. .....
» 22/07/2016 2:20:45 AM As with any other reactionary group, Ms Hanson's views deserve a hearing. We tend to get t.....
» 22/07/2016 1:55:56 AM When it comes to welfare, we need a thorough investigation of the privatised human resourc.....
» 22/07/2016 1:20:07 AM Unfortunately, conservatives do not change their spots. In her answer to Caroline Lucas,.....
» 24/06/2016 2:18:47 AM Much of the hatred of Trump can be put down to liberal snobbery. Yes, he's gross, but he'.....
» 24/06/2016 1:25:12 AM Neo99 Who said anything about relegating anything to the world's dustbin? I made a choice.....
» 23/06/2016 5:26:53 AM Yes, GoT is an unashamed defence of politics from the top. It creates a stunning world inh.....
» 17/05/2016 6:07:58 PM Although I’m on the other side of the political fence, I tend to like this guy’s work. He’.....
» 8/05/2016 3:06:12 AM A supposed 'exaggeration' of a fact does not discount the original fact. Like it or lump i.....
» 9/04/2016 7:33:08 AM Without having seen the report, I don't know what the Victorian government is proposing to.....
» 1/04/2016 2:42:36 AM Forget all the fatuous arguments. Just hold a referendum on whether the flag should be cha.....
» 25/03/2016 2:06:50 AM Armchair Critic Of course, Russia invaded Crimea! Don't let the facts convince you otherw.....
» 23/03/2016 3:28:57 AM It's interesting that no man other than Rhrosty has posted here. (And thanks, Rhrosty, you.....
» 17/03/2016 3:00:21 AM JKJ Rhrosty can speak for himself. MY point is that retirement has become a two-tiered st.....
» 11/03/2016 7:03:26 AM Most retirees are self-funded by superannuation. At present, the statistics are distorted .....
» 3/03/2016 4:48:56 AM Aidan Do some reading. Venezuela and Zimbabwe have been so demonised by the West that eve.....
» 1/03/2016 1:26:30 AM Rhrosty 'Someone who tries to justify the annexation of Ukraine's sovereign territory, by.....
» 1/03/2016 1:12:18 AM Suharto should be up there on the list of worst mass-murderers of the twentieth century. B.....
» 26/02/2016 6:40:36 PM Rhrosty The vast majority of those heads that were being 'fired over' in WWII were almost.....
» 26/02/2016 2:42:48 AM Supposedly giving people the skills to fight terrorism on their own ground is just another.....
» 25/02/2016 8:33:18 PM Any moment while reading this article, I expected the author to bark: 'Hey, YOU ... reader.....
» 17/02/2016 2:24:43 AM When discussions about pornography come up, there is never any mention of the correspondin.....
» 16/02/2016 7:23:04 PM ybgirp Yes, and you notice they only ever privatise the profitable government enterprises.....
» 16/02/2016 7:19:45 PM Ninth: The media have been at the forefront of all the Western propaganda campaigns of rec.....
» 16/02/2016 4:54:37 AM The so-called preventive health lobby has gotten way out of control. These do-good profess.....
» 12/02/2016 10:42:02 AM This script is getting so old and worn and dog-eared, it's likely to fall apart if you try.....
» 10/02/2016 2:25:59 AM Rhrosty It’s unhelpful to tell people they write rubbish, just because you don’t agree wi.....
» 8/02/2016 9:29:10 PM It's not so much Britain that should leave the EU - it's the ECB, IMF and Nato that should.....
» 4/02/2016 3:52:51 AM Lego Lest we forget, the West has also had its squabbling civil wars, the most recent of .....
» 3/02/2016 11:39:16 PM Aristocrat ‘A lot of the right-wing movements gaining popularity at the moment have an an.....
» 3/02/2016 7:15:13 PM Ah, the language of trivialisation. Why are feminists supposed to have conundrums, while e.....
» 16/01/2016 2:41:46 AM I thoroughly endorse this and have long believed that its time has come. In fact, it's lon.....
» 13/01/2016 5:08:43 AM Bazz 'It was always a revolt against states that failed in one way or another.' Most ME .....
» 12/01/2016 7:16:08 PM We just can't help ourselves, can we? This whole article is a living example of the West's.....
» 28/12/2015 12:55:27 AM Aidan Absolutely not true! Sri Lanka is a textbook case of imperialism generating terrori.....
» 27/12/2015 10:40:01 PM Emperor Julian 'The practice of pointing to one evil to cover ideological service to the .....
» 25/12/2015 1:49:35 AM mac ‘Actually, closer to 200 years, however, any attempt to blame the wicked Western impe.....
» 25/12/2015 1:46:14 AM Loudmouth ‘I guess you now feel really truly superior for writing all that …’ Oh, c’mon......
» 23/12/2015 5:12:16 AM It's always both illuminating and depressing to read comments from people who genuinely be.....
» 23/12/2015 4:48:42 AM I've mentioned before on OLO that I know at least 7 people who were victims of Campbell Ne.....
» 18/12/2015 4:06:10 AM Nelson Mandela was a terrorist. He became the leader of post-Apartheid South Africa (and d.....
» 17/12/2015 8:46:12 PM JKJ 'Come on. Admit it. You have never taken any action to equalise the rate of female an.....
» 16/12/2015 2:23:40 AM What this article leaves out is the fact that the Islamic nations have all been moving tow.....
» 16/12/2015 1:50:04 AM JKJ 'Provide proof of what protests or activism you have engaged in to equalise the rate .....
» 15/12/2015 3:37:26 AM OTB Reports that feminism was always a left-wing movement are greatly exaggerated. Sure, .....
» 14/12/2015 6:04:39 AM WollyB ‘When men challenge and disagree with feminist ideology and dogma, they get labele.....
» 14/12/2015 5:34:07 AM I'm coming late to the discussion. However, everyone seems to be putting in their two cent.....
» 12/12/2015 5:25:39 AM Sylvia Pankhurst actively campaigned against the war and became estranged from her mother .....
» 11/12/2015 6:39:02 AM It's now twenty-five years since the introduction of the Keating master-superannuation pla.....
» 10/12/2015 3:59:29 AM Hence, I am coming to increasingly question what the real agenda of multiculturalism is. T.....
» 10/12/2015 3:57:39 AM I am going through a period of questioning about multiculturalism. I was once a huge fan o.....
» 9/12/2015 2:55:56 AM JKJ ‘What about your belief that women are entitled to all the protection and support of .....
» 9/12/2015 2:49:46 AM WollyB You have raised several points, which I don’t have the time or interest in quibbli.....
» 7/12/2015 2:54:06 AM JKJ ‘Killarney, how is what you are complaining about any worse than the feminist movemen.....
» 4/12/2015 8:06:29 PM WollyB Quoting Vilar: 'As compensation for their labours men are given periodic use of a .....
» 2/12/2015 3:12:49 AM Daffy Duck You have a somewhat over-idealised view of women, but I get your drift. The p.....
» 1/12/2015 10:40:02 PM WollyB 'There as been a trend by female commentators, to deride, or to discount male opin.....
» 1/12/2015 6:22:33 AM If gender is not all that important, imagine if the ratio operated in reverse. That is .......
» 9/11/2015 5:20:26 AM Whatever the arguments, the fact is that the overwhelming majority of the population suppo.....
» 28/10/2015 7:22:50 PM Jaye Well said. The right to challenge and defeat reprehensible and dangerous speech perp.....
» 11/10/2015 10:38:42 PM doog/Toni Your steadfast - but all too common - belief that men are always on the make an.....
» 10/10/2015 5:52:02 AM Rhian For years, I've been posting comments that refute R0bert's ongoing links to researc.....
» 10/10/2015 5:20:26 AM phanto 'If they are in a domestic relationship then there is a one in three chance of the.....
» 10/10/2015 5:03:51 AM Toni Lavis ‘However, some people desire it more than others and there is a huge smegging .....
» 8/10/2015 8:03:54 PM doog 'It is nothing new, that men require sex more than women.' No, it certainly is noth.....
» 8/10/2015 7:53:53 PM phanto 'If there is a women’s movement or genuine feminism then it should be using all it.....
» 8/10/2015 4:19:12 AM Clarification: The '29' male homicides in my post referred to the period 1 July 2000 and .....
» 8/10/2015 3:59:00 AM NSW Domestic Violence Death Review Team ANNUAL REPORT 2012-2013 Of the 12 intimate partne.....
» 30/09/2015 6:00:53 AM I'm not so much interested in the finer points of the article and the deconstruction of ge.....
» 21/09/2015 12:35:32 AM The rising of hope in Jeremyn Corbyn's landslide UK Labour leadership election will be sho.....
» 15/09/2015 4:01:40 AM Suseonline To quote the ABC: ‘Mr Turnbull said he would lead a "thoroughly Liberal g.....
» 15/09/2015 12:59:14 AM Foxy 'I wish Mr Abbott and his family well.' That's not necessary. When Abbott retires f.....
» 15/09/2015 12:38:11 AM Suse and Foxy Julie Bishop is an unashamed pro-Israel, pro-Palestinian occupation support.....
» 14/09/2015 11:09:16 PM Turnbull has form in opposing climate change and supporting Australia becoming a republic......
» 12/09/2015 11:51:11 PM YES!! Oh, YES! At time of writing, Jeremy Corbyn has just won the leadership ballot with .....
» 11/09/2015 1:15:58 AM Rhian I appreciate your arguments and those of Tristan's, but to diminish the ideological.....
» 7/09/2015 4:42:48 AM Loudmouth 'it is indeed a wise person who knows his own father, or his mother's or father.....
» 4/09/2015 10:25:42 PM Phanto You are playing the personality card, rather than address the actual argument I ma.....
» 4/09/2015 1:10:48 AM phanto 'I was simply reflecting back your patronising behaviour.' No. You're going on th.....
» 2/09/2015 8:37:33 PM phanto 'Yesum.' Are you being ironic? Or have you automatically defaulted to inverse dom.....
» 2/09/2015 1:06:28 AM phanto What you're doing is confusing sexualisation with sexuality. The former is about p.....
» 2/09/2015 12:18:00 AM Why do these articles ALWAYS assume that everyone spends their entire working life in a fu.....
» 1/09/2015 6:22:36 PM Loudmouth You've said nothing of value in your comment. All you want to do is score cheap.....
» 1/09/2015 4:06:24 AM ‘Meanwhile Tories are stacking the Labour Party in droves to try to prevent Corbyn becomin.....
» 1/09/2015 3:01:08 AM Tony Lavis //'Killarney "perhaps we should be considering why the right to perve ove.....
» 30/08/2015 9:13:20 PM O Sung Wu/Rhrosty/Suse Despite all the official rhetoric, America did not ‘fail’ in Vietn.....
» 30/08/2015 9:10:35 PM Rhrosty You, and so many like you, take official bad-guy media rhetoric completely at fac.....
» 30/08/2015 1:53:04 AM phanto 'Women would be equally to ‘blame’ if they were not so repressive of their own fee.....
» 30/08/2015 1:17:14 AM It's not all that hard to ferment a civil war in a country. All countries have their polit.....
» 28/08/2015 1:30:43 AM Oh, here we go (again ... still). It's all about women exercising their right to make the.....
» 27/08/2015 12:01:16 AM Jonathon Corbyn’s economic policies are backed by several leading economists, including N.....
» 26/08/2015 11:44:30 PM Loudmouth ‘Sorry, Killarney, I'm a bit thick’ Oh, that’s nice to know, considering you c.....
» 26/08/2015 4:39:10 PM Loudmouth I meant to say that the SWING against the Lib Dems was -15% (as calculated by t.....
» 26/08/2015 12:27:37 AM Loudmouth 'No, Killarney, we got your point before you finished your first sentence: the .....
» 25/08/2015 10:35:29 PM Jayb and Loudmouth Thank you for spectacularly and ever so sanctimoniously failing to get.....
» 25/08/2015 9:29:00 PM According to two opinion polls taken in July (YouGov and Comres), not only is Corbyn in-tu.....
» 24/08/2015 11:56:07 PM jayb In answer to my accusation that you started the slanging match, you responded with a.....
» 24/08/2015 11:16:58 PM Loudmouth ‘But schooling is not the only way we learn. ‘ No, it’s not. We are equally ed.....
» 23/08/2015 8:24:56 PM Loudmouth You've written quite a lot to respond to and quite I'm pushed for time today. I.....
» 23/08/2015 8:21:55 PM jayb In response to my comment about Australian schoolchildren learning next to nothing a.....
» 23/08/2015 12:00:36 AM Jayb If royalty and wars are two of the things that give your puny little life (and your .....
» 22/08/2015 11:55:33 PM Loudmouth '... but to suggest that people should ignore the history of how society has de.....
» 22/08/2015 12:53:02 AM Loudmouth You claim that ingroups want to keep outgroups in ignorance by making sure the .....
» 21/08/2015 4:43:50 AM Val I hadn't heard of Mondo dolls either and did a search on Google images. What I found.....
» 12/08/2015 12:46:45 AM A lot of politicians’ entitlements are shrouded in obfuscation within the walls of the Dep.....
» 22/07/2015 9:43:13 PM Yes, BJelly. It's extraordinary that so many still believe this sick propaganda fairytale .....
» 21/07/2015 9:17:00 PM Rather than 'ridding itself of the socialist objective', Labor's only hope is to revitalis.....
» 20/07/2015 9:18:06 PM Well ... I'm very ANTI duplicitous articles like this, that claim to be about a certain is.....
» 17/07/2015 10:56:36 PM The whole Srebrenica 'genocide' narrative is a fraud. About 500-1000 men were executed w.....
» 16/07/2015 5:45:50 AM As I write this, the Greek parliament is a couple of hours away from a decision. Some Syri.....
» 2/07/2015 12:47:29 AM Suse 'However, he has no right to call those of us who believe in marriage, or are curren.....
» 10/06/2015 5:16:59 PM Armchair Critic Excellent analysis. (I wish YOU were running the world.) WWI really began.....
» 6/06/2015 1:48:39 AM This could all be settled by a referendum on the four big issues with which most Western g.....
» 3/06/2015 5:42:40 AM Craig Minns Nasty, nasty, nasty. Yuk! It's a hopeless task to address such vitriol and .....
» 31/05/2015 12:15:17 AM Craig Oh, dear. The bully's lament: 'Stop being a victim'. No problem, Craig. I'll stop .....
» 31/05/2015 12:03:55 AM Emperor Julian Agree with all your points. Specifically, referendums are of democratic us.....
» 30/05/2015 11:27:26 PM There are four issues on which the government remains woefully out of touch with the Austr.....
» 30/05/2015 4:41:43 AM Craig Your last post to me was straight from the gutter. Nasty, spiteful, putrid and deep.....
» 29/05/2015 5:53:26 AM I'd rather have a referendum to get rid of marriage altogether. It's archaic and redunda.....
» 29/05/2015 5:18:28 AM Eric G 'Killarney ... You were gay bashing when you wrote “such an expensive referendum ….....
» 26/05/2015 10:09:20 PM Is Mise, a chara. Go raibh maith mile agat! Despite centuries of British propaganda, espe.....
» 26/05/2015 6:18:24 PM Nice one, Craig. Complaining about people whining is just another form of whining. Now .....
» 26/05/2015 4:16:43 PM Craig Minns Another one of my consistently hostile attackers telling me that I am the one.....
» 26/05/2015 1:41:43 AM Rhrosty 'It must be difficult to live a normal healthy life, with so much unrequited hate.....
» 25/05/2015 9:33:54 PM The average cost of a referendum in Ireland is between 17 and 22 million euros. Yet 6 Ir.....
» 25/05/2015 12:08:31 AM The commentary here is just the same old same old. The poor are poor because it's their ow.....
» 23/05/2015 5:04:59 AM Corrction: In my above post, I meant to say: 'Of those who voted 'NO', the majority were o.....
» 23/05/2015 5:00:43 AM Rhian 'On your earlier post, I suspect the SNP vote was driven by nationalist sentiment a.....
» 20/05/2015 4:58:26 PM Rhian '... Communism is unworkable, or that it inevitably degenerates into tyranny.' Com.....
» 19/05/2015 10:59:19 PM The triumph of the SNP, and consequent wipeout of Labour in Scotland, in the recent UK ele.....
» 19/05/2015 8:45:43 PM Rhrosty Wow! I know from your posting history that your contempt for women is as boundles.....
» 19/05/2015 2:35:42 AM Sarah ‘These debates return us to the tired old model of two opposing genders: man=mascul.....
» 19/05/2015 12:10:11 AM What a macho little lad you were! Did you ever stop to consider why you assumed you had s.....
» 15/05/2015 1:51:30 AM Oh, dear! Mea culpa. My apologies to Natasha Moore. My references to 'the author' in my a.....
» 15/05/2015 1:47:31 AM What this article seems to be arguing is that any form of speech that does not conform to .....
» 10/05/2015 5:28:32 PM Sarah I too shared phanto's concerns about your example of the three posters who left the.....
» 9/05/2015 6:53:30 AM Sarah 'I am very interested in internalised misogyny, and agree that women can be their w.....
» 9/05/2015 6:31:55 AM R0bert 'Killarney has a very long history of extremely unpleasant behaviour towards those.....
» 9/05/2015 6:04:53 AM Thank you, Sarah, for your complete ignoring of my comments and for your decision to pande.....
» 5/05/2015 6:46:00 PM Sarah The above comment to Craig is not meant to be an empty ad hominem. I’m making what .....
» 5/05/2015 6:40:14 PM Craig ‘Killarney, you're just feeling a bit miffed because you don't like having your con.....
» 5/05/2015 3:59:23 AM Roscop If you had any arguments to address, then I'd address them. However, you choose to.....
» 4/05/2015 11:16:24 PM Craig 'I do hope my response is compliant with your response time and emotional tone guid.....
» 4/05/2015 7:10:16 AM Roscop It's interesting that you have reduced yourself to using a poorly reported norther.....
» 3/05/2015 6:59:33 PM Sarah I understand your comments and have no disagreement with them - in theory. I also n.....
» 30/04/2015 11:14:25 PM Rhian Sorry. I should have clarified that I was making a 'springboard' reply to your comm.....
» 30/04/2015 11:00:27 PM CHERFUL 'you wont stop rape in war' No. But men's impunity against ever being convicted .....
» 30/04/2015 3:44:24 PM Rhian 'I’d expect the same reaction if he had made racist or homophobic remarks.' Accord.....
» 30/04/2015 2:50:41 PM Is Mise Some women favoured the war, some didn't, with passionate opinions on both sides......
» 29/04/2015 11:17:01 PM Cobber 'Do you not think that it's a simple outcome of culture that more women are not ra.....
» 29/04/2015 10:55:57 PM The sanitised Anzac version of WWI also hides the real truth of how the Australian populat.....
» 27/04/2015 4:04:58 AM Sarah STOP apologising! STOP right now! You have nothing to apologise for. You have stat.....
» 24/04/2015 7:00:16 PM ttbn 'War ... has protected the free world from Nazism, Communism (to a large degree); st.....
» 24/04/2015 6:44:36 PM Some random points ... Frankly, I suspect the Turks think we're completely barmy descendi.....
» 12/04/2015 12:52:13 AM Graham Your choice of wording says it all. If a woman does not have an orgasm, it's becau.....
» 11/04/2015 7:55:33 PM Valley Guy 'It was Bettina Arndt's study - The Sex Dairies, that showed most guys wern't .....
» 11/04/2015 3:46:59 AM Pete 'So when I read Sister Maria's wee copy of "Fifty Shades of Grey" I was fa.....
» 10/04/2015 6:01:53 PM Pete 'If wowser women would put out more. Blokes wouldn't need pornography.' There are a.....
» 10/04/2015 1:17:52 AM Greeks were not living beyond their means. The standard of living of the Greek people was .....
» 3/04/2015 9:01:45 PM Robingdon ‘I’m not interested in this stupid gender war.’ If that is so, then why keep b.....
» 3/04/2015 8:52:20 PM Roscop ‘I'm more interested in insightful statistics produced using unbiased methodologie.....
» 2/04/2015 9:20:00 PM Rogindon Most of those statistics you gave are skewed by the fact that the overwhelming m.....
» 2/04/2015 8:59:38 PM Roscop Roscop As I didn’t know about the Albanvale woman, I did quick a Google and this .....
» 31/03/2015 10:25:34 PM Is Mise You're starting to get weird. I thought you wanted to discuss self-defence, but y.....
» 31/03/2015 5:39:02 PM Is Mise You seem to be stuck in dominance-submission thinking. Self-defence is not about .....
» 30/03/2015 7:13:15 PM on the beach I confess I got through the first two paragraphs of the first of your two le.....
» 30/03/2015 7:06:12 PM Is Mise 'Partially, Killarney, partially.' Yes, I know. If a woman is confronted by an a.....
» 29/03/2015 11:01:42 PM Is Mise In answer to your question, yes, there are many things women can do to get themse.....
» 29/03/2015 10:56:54 PM rogindon/on the beach You are confusing progress with winning. Women have made some progr.....
» 29/03/2015 4:32:00 AM On the beach ‘They were raised by women. Many come from fatherless homes.’ And where did.....
» 29/03/2015 12:44:55 AM Jay ‘Ordinary men don't rape women under any circumstances’ No. But ordinary men either .....
» 28/03/2015 3:26:15 AM On the beach Re Daniel Morecombe. Children have always been a major target of disturbed m.....
» 28/03/2015 3:19:34 AM phantom ‘I don’t think violence against women is any worse than it has been through histo.....
» 28/03/2015 3:12:53 AM Oh, dear. So many hostile comments. So little time! Jay You seem to be missing your own .....
» 26/03/2015 10:42:35 PM Jay 'Feminism provokes such hostility because it's a pack of lies ...' No. Feminism prov.....
» 26/03/2015 6:49:45 PM OTB If the 'gender war is old hat', why do gender threads on online forums attract so man.....
» 26/03/2015 1:02:41 AM Ojnab This masturbating-man on public transport thing has happened to me twice (and much .....
» 26/03/2015 12:29:32 AM Ah, c'mon, Ms Tsitas! Why do we women keep supporting this fiction that we can be free an.....
» 25/03/2015 4:42:45 AM Arjay 'The world has not warmed since 1998 so the new con is climate change which has not.....
» 25/03/2015 4:20:00 AM BJelly So tragically true. The Libyan people are the all-time losers in this. The West c.....
» 22/03/2015 9:43:36 PM Pete '... by creating an organisation to entice people to leak Western secrets, he has br.....
» 21/03/2015 6:59:32 PM Rhrosty (Pete) I'm as much committed as the next feminist to bringing all rapists to just.....
» 21/03/2015 5:13:18 AM Pete What you call the 'Assange cheer squad' are actually individuals who are not at all .....
» 21/03/2015 2:21:21 AM Loudmouth Oh, for goodness sake! Do you honesty believe that the political players in thi.....
» 20/03/2015 7:11:54 PM YEBIGA Obviously, that 'smaller and smaller' number is not getting small enough, fast eno.....
» 20/03/2015 4:10:02 AM Virtually every journalist in the Western mainstream media is obliged to portray Assange a.....
» 20/03/2015 12:47:55 AM Rhian I forgot to include that Acacia is a medium security prison with considerable priso.....
» 20/03/2015 12:45:40 AM Rhian To quote from the report you linked to: ‘It is obvious that costs will vary widely.....
» 19/03/2015 4:31:46 AM What part of 'trumped up charges' don't you understand? The women approached the authorit.....
» 18/03/2015 8:08:11 PM Suse 'Trying to deflect the huge problem of DV out in the community by saying there is mo.....
» 17/03/2015 3:25:28 AM There are many sides to this problem, but in Australia’s case, we need to start looking at.....
» 17/03/2015 1:47:34 AM vr041 You cite a link that doesn’t work. Authoritative websites usually look after their .....
» 15/03/2015 8:15:23 PM Suse All those questions have been answered in many studies over several decades. The re.....
» 15/03/2015 8:01:00 PM WollyB and Roscop 'This makes me wonder what is the real reason that these groups upset y.....
» 15/03/2015 4:57:02 AM Roscop No, I'm not aware of Jodhie Meares or her history of driving offences. On checking.....
» 15/03/2015 12:41:04 AM Jay Your argument about Nazi Germany disarming the Jews actually validates my argument ab.....
» 14/03/2015 11:42:17 PM I understand, WollyB. Women have 'hissy fits'. Men have justifiable outrage. Men are driv.....
» 12/03/2015 6:56:56 PM Women particularly should have the right to some form of weaponry defence, even if it's ju.....
» 12/03/2015 3:15:02 AM Roscop Everything you say about the divorce system applies equally to both men and women......
» 12/03/2015 3:05:30 AM Ojnab I understand what you say. A woman close to me, a family member and close friend, h.....
» 11/03/2015 9:54:46 PM Craig The 'dead white men' I referred to was Marx and other leftist gurus such as Engels,.....
» 11/03/2015 9:25:20 PM Roscop 'So its only men, thanks to advice received from the evil MRM groups,who know how .....
» 10/03/2015 10:49:32 PM Craig Ah, yes, of course! The feminist ‘dialectic’ was laid down by a bunch of dead middl.....
» 10/03/2015 10:34:26 PM Roscop/MHA The men involved in the three anecdotal cases I mentioned in a previous commen.....
» 9/03/2015 11:40:13 PM Ojnab Your tale is harrowing. I can't begin to imagine what you went through and still go.....
» 9/03/2015 10:04:04 PM No, Roscop, my comments re the Family Court are not rubbish. In the last seven years, I’.....
» 9/03/2015 9:39:22 PM Craig No. What I am describing is a very common pattern in online forums such as this. Wo.....
» 8/03/2015 9:13:46 PM Craig 'Sheesh, you girls are so defensive it's like trying to have a conversation with a .....
» 8/03/2015 8:49:18 PM WollyB Look, I ignored your last post, because I can't be bothered arguing with people wh.....
» 8/03/2015 8:24:08 PM @Craig: '[Suse] I suspect that you're not really a typical feminist in the sense of having.....
» 7/03/2015 10:46:38 PM I’m not going to address every hostile reply made to me over the last few days. Suse and I.....
» 4/03/2015 6:35:17 AM Mens Health The statistics you cite do not provide context. Neither do they refute the cu.....
» 4/03/2015 6:27:03 AM phanto '... where are the women’s voices warning young women in particular about becoming.....
» 3/03/2015 9:50:05 PM 'For instance, during 2010–11 and 2011–12, there were 121 females (62%) and 75 males (38%).....
» 26/02/2015 5:03:37 AM I saw Swan Lake again recently in Dublin. Yes, it’s a gorgeous ballet. The music and the d.....
» 7/02/2015 8:29:21 PM Jay ‘The reason I reject Feminism is because it infantilises women and if followed to the.....
» 7/02/2015 8:18:13 PM Jay By ‘new social realities’, I meant how the major parties still make policies based on.....
» 5/02/2015 10:42:47 PM Pete 'Australia BUYING 4 nuclear propelled Vaginas off the US...' You know ... men inces.....
» 5/02/2015 10:16:07 PM Jay Just one more thing... Although you strongly condemn feminism, I do appreciate the fa.....
» 5/02/2015 10:11:51 PM Jay ‘Huh? The divorce rate before 1976 was 16%, now it's 45% and the number of women who .....
» 4/02/2015 11:28:49 PM Gaudium With or without the context, your use of the term 'rabid feminist' is childish an.....
» 4/02/2015 9:29:54 PM Jay Tell that to the millions of women over the centuries who were deserted by their prot.....
» 4/02/2015 1:53:31 AM Jay ‘For a party to grow a supporter base it has to appeal to young men, the only way for.....
» 1/02/2015 11:27:42 PM Rhian ‘Though the Nazis stole property from the Jews and used them as slave labour, the h.....
» 1/02/2015 10:30:43 PM LEGO What do you make of Christopher Lasch’s concept of ‘associative coupling’? This des.....
» 30/01/2015 8:32:12 PM Rhian ‘Mal’s article raises a couple of interesting points: that the racial theories than.....
» 30/01/2015 12:46:51 PM Jay's comment refers to various fields of investigative research that challenge the offici.....
» 26/01/2015 7:20:56 PM Just one more comment before leaving the thread ... Yuyutsu 'Yes, women have ongoing and.....
» 26/01/2015 7:13:50 PM Craig If you want to condemn tribalism in forum discussions, then practise what you preac.....
» 26/01/2015 1:59:25 AM Rhrosty Way, WAY too much information, mate. I made a comment to you about how society .....
» 26/01/2015 1:01:34 AM Craig Minns 'JKJ, that's an excellent comment.' I seriously hope you were being ironic, .....
» 24/01/2015 4:42:02 PM Rhrosty ‘… men find erotica sexually stimulating; whereas most but not all women need tac.....
» 23/01/2015 11:17:36 PM JayB ‘Whoooa! I remember the big Feminist Rally in front of the Capitol Building in Ameri.....
» 23/01/2015 8:45:59 PM Hasbeen The right to go topless in public is not, and never has been, a feminist issue. T.....
» 23/01/2015 5:48:11 PM JKJ 'Why do you think there is something abusive about men wanting to look at women's bre.....
» 23/01/2015 3:50:45 PM JKJ '"What I am wondering is if there is 41% female readership of this paper, why th.....
» 21/01/2015 2:45:00 PM SteeleRedux ‘If Boko Haram was described as a North Nigerian separatist movement rather a.....
» 21/01/2015 2:41:44 PM Luciferase ‘What is your pathway to avoiding misery and destruction as things stand?’ St.....
» 20/01/2015 6:48:25 PM Luciferese 'However, don't be so usefully idiotic as to say Islam has nothing to do with .....
» 20/01/2015 3:23:17 PM Joe ‘... seems to contain a slight contradiction: are you saying that 'violent Islam' is .....
» 20/01/2015 4:14:35 AM LEGO ‘the defining characteristic of an intelligent and moral person, is to always suppor.....
» 20/01/2015 12:57:30 AM Remember that 'useful idiots' are useful to both sides. Those who dutifully parrot the '.....
» 19/01/2015 3:54:00 PM spindoc ‘Isn’t it a bit contradictory to firstly deny as a myth the radicalization of ter.....
» 18/01/2015 11:01:33 PM One of the great pre- and post-9/11 ‘war on Islam’ myths is that so-called Islamic terrori.....
» 15/01/2015 5:28:48 AM hasbeen 'it won't be much longer now. Greece here we come.' For the record, until its ec.....
» 15/01/2015 12:23:15 AM It doesn’t really matter what is said here. The insufferably wealthy leaders of the Wester.....
» 14/01/2015 12:43:12 AM Correction: In my comment above, instead of 'non-aligned', I should have said 'non-US-alig.....
» 14/01/2015 12:37:22 AM The author doesn't appear to give a flying rubber duck about the murder of the cartoonists.....
» 12/01/2015 12:32:24 AM Poirot 'Would you put Salman Rushdie in the category of unnecessarily provocative - and d.....
» 12/01/2015 12:22:25 AM Jay and Joe Yes, guys. We know that you are compelled to keep writing post after post a.....
» 11/01/2015 12:03:03 AM Arjay, halduell et al, The thick plottens ... Police Chief Helric Fredou, the man appare.....
» 10/01/2015 11:45:49 PM SteeleRedux ‘As to whether their actions were either “deliberate provocation and grotesqu.....
» 10/01/2015 5:06:41 AM SteeleRedux ‘Charlie Hebdo's brave, irreverent souls may well have soundly approved.’ On.....
» 8/01/2015 6:44:59 AM 'I would also hope that if a director of your repute did make a documentary film about Ukr.....
» 4/01/2015 11:08:39 PM Jay ‘Socialism and Darwinism go hand in hand, since when has the right accepted Darwin's .....
» 4/01/2015 10:39:22 PM Craig Minns ‘How could we do it better?’ I don’t see much wrong with introducing a blank.....
» 3/01/2015 7:27:23 AM Big nana I've no idea what you are talking about. But I'm glad I gave you a good laugh. .....
» 3/01/2015 6:54:45 AM LEGO I have a pretty good idea of how the system would work. What I'm referring to is the.....
» 2/01/2015 10:40:57 PM A few commenters here have queried how such a system would be administered, but no one so .....
» 2/01/2015 10:34:24 PM Having just browsed this and the ‘No contraception, no dole’ thread, this whole issue appe.....
» 31/12/2014 6:17:47 AM LEGO As with so many commenters here, you are arguing over the symptoms and not the cause.....
» 31/12/2014 4:32:39 AM The author writes: ‘… the majority of scholars would probably adopt a check-list of ten e.....
» 29/12/2014 10:47:57 PM My attitude to multiculturalism is a bit like that old joke: ‘I used to be indecisive. Now.....
» 29/12/2014 9:34:22 PM Whenever I fly, I always wear my best (yet comfortable) clothes and put on a string of pea.....
» 24/12/2014 10:55:26 PM LEGO ‘Those cultures which have no regard for the law, and who instead value a macho ment.....
» 24/12/2014 10:47:41 PM Overall, I am in full agreement with the author. (This is one issue on which I depart the .....
» 18/12/2014 11:34:01 PM Yuyutsu I was being ironic. I can't stand Anzac Day and everything it symbolises. Howeve.....
» 18/12/2014 9:23:49 PM The only change I would want is to make Labour Day a national holiday on the same day, ins.....
» 17/12/2014 1:58:34 AM Joe The media's lies take many forms - outright lies, repetition of unexamined assumption.....
» 14/12/2014 1:57:06 AM Stev 'Thanks, Killarney, for conceding my point about narratives.' Aha! Yet another fals.....
» 14/12/2014 1:41:08 AM Craig Sorry, mate, but you really are a bit of an intellectual bore. Stev seems to have s.....
» 14/12/2014 1:33:59 AM Jay 'Work was my wife's problem, she's been at home for almost three years now and she's .....
» 9/12/2014 6:23:47 AM Jay I am at a disadvantage here, as I don't know the truth of your situation. What I woul.....
» 9/12/2014 5:55:25 AM stev ‘Feminists have realized that the way to get resources flowing in their direction is.....
» 8/12/2014 11:50:20 PM The ‘more women than men go university’ statistics are misleading. Across the Western wor.....
» 8/12/2014 11:10:24 PM Joe Your 'explanations' about the ever so subtle nuances in why the US-Nato is fighting a.....
» 8/12/2014 9:20:33 PM There is NO war against Islamo-fascism. Surely the ISIS farce has exposed that particula.....
» 8/12/2014 1:01:10 AM Jay ‘Been there, done that and worked a 40 hour week on top of it, being a full time home.....
» 7/12/2014 10:45:51 PM Joe Oh, dear! So many insults … and only 250 words to reply. Well, here goes … Rememb.....
» 5/12/2014 8:16:28 PM Joe 'And what place do you think they could take under your mates, the Taliban ?' None, .....
» 5/12/2014 7:51:46 PM Jay and Dane, Here's a little joke for you ... A husband came home one night and found t.....
» 5/12/2014 4:07:41 AM Correction: In my previous comment, I meant to say 'that AFGHAN women need more of a place.....
» 5/12/2014 4:02:27 AM Rhrosty ‘I would have thought a more conciliatory, less attack dog attitude, would have a.....
» 5/12/2014 1:37:17 AM While the central argument of the article – that women need more a place at the negotiatin.....
» 3/12/2014 6:37:32 PM It's always interesting to hear men of the Left denouncing feminism - especially when, the.....
» 2/12/2014 9:26:51 PM Even 100 years ago, economists were warning that unless the working week was reduced in li.....
» 29/11/2014 9:53:19 PM ojnab It's one of those weird paradoxes that, despite some exceptions, those who are all .....
» 28/11/2014 5:12:16 AM yuyutsu What on earth are you talking about? 'I'd like nothing better ...' is purely an e.....
» 27/11/2014 7:35:57 PM ojnab Pointing out the parallels between religion and Anzac mythology is not to endorse .....
» 26/11/2014 9:22:01 PM yuyutsu Yes, you're right. I was in two minds about including Krishna. However, there are.....
» 26/11/2014 9:07:14 PM It's funny how war remembrance only focuses on men killed in battle. It never gives any a.....
» 25/11/2014 11:46:50 PM Christianity is not the only religion that has at its core the sacrifice of a young male p.....
» 25/11/2014 12:39:28 AM on the beach At last we agree on something. High five!.....
» 24/11/2014 10:51:07 PM ‘When a leader in Australia on the left with support from a major party, who has intellige.....
» 22/11/2014 5:20:28 AM For what it's worth ... Russia has never invaded Australia (although Fort Denison is still.....
» 20/11/2014 8:22:45 PM I suggest people check out Harts Island in New York, where approximately 400,000 babies, c.....
» 19/11/2014 10:24:25 PM Pericles 'The Assange situation is beyond ludicrous. It defies any form of logic or const.....
» 19/11/2014 9:29:08 PM 'As an example, when I asked friends and colleagues what percentage of men they thought we.....
» 18/11/2014 9:37:52 PM I don't always like Brendan O'Reilly's work, but when he writes on this sort of issue, he .....
» 15/11/2014 10:02:36 PM Joe ‘Thanks for that complete rubbish, and quite irrelevant rubbish at that.’ You’re wel.....
» 14/11/2014 2:05:58 AM 'Nobody is ever going to go back to, day after day, collecting grass seed and pounding it .....
» 13/11/2014 8:21:45 PM Jo I didn't really want to get drawn into this debate. I was just making a comment about .....
» 13/11/2014 1:13:19 AM Another of these labels is 'conspiracy theorist' or, less politely, 'conspiracy nutter'. .....
» 12/11/2014 2:00:43 AM Loudmouth ‘Indigenous people would find your comment quite racist and ignorant.’ Well, i.....
» 10/11/2014 10:32:49 PM I'm coming in late to this thread, but just to get back to the original topic of victimhoo.....
» 4/11/2014 9:55:26 PM Aidan 'As oil prices are determined in real time, it doesn't really make much difference .....
» 4/11/2014 9:37:42 PM Pericles 'So little thought is necessary to cut'n'paste the "opinions" of hyste.....
» 4/11/2014 4:05:28 AM Not a bad article, despite completely falling for the brainwashing Western media propagand.....
» 3/11/2014 5:16:22 AM Lillian Re your comments about King Amanullah of Afghanistan, there are numerous historic.....
» 3/11/2014 4:44:17 AM squeers 'Our feminists are apparently happy for this global "violence" to go on.....
» 3/11/2014 4:26:58 AM Poirot ‘Lost somewhere in the machinations of a masculine system, where women are require.....
» 3/11/2014 3:46:16 AM All of the comments so far, while all insightful and knowledgeable in terms of their pract.....
» 1/11/2014 12:24:04 AM phanto 'My ‘psychobabble’ has obviously hit a nerve with you.' Oh, get over yourself. Yo.....
» 31/10/2014 12:51:37 AM aristocrat 'A historian should try to transport themselves back to the time they are writ.....
» 30/10/2014 9:51:45 PM Phanto A bit of advice ... Ease up on all the psychobabble. You may get a kick out of poi.....
» 30/10/2014 9:46:54 PM Poirot You’re conflating feminism with humanism, which are two fundamentally separate soc.....
» 30/10/2014 10:24:17 AM Poirot ‘I've got little time for whinging women in first world countries who sit back and.....
» 27/10/2014 5:14:53 AM imho Agreed. But non-violent men also have to wake up to their complicity in maintaining .....
» 26/10/2014 9:56:42 PM Lillian/imho et al Another seminal work on the historical development of the patriarchy i.....
» 24/10/2014 7:54:47 PM dane ‘You berate white Australan men using a non-white female gender warrior (with a paci.....
» 24/10/2014 6:54:16 PM Along with Rob Cover’s recent ‘Shirtfronting: the dangerous diplomacy of hypermasculine Au.....
» 23/10/2014 1:11:05 AM pete ‘I'm saying that Murdoch wanted Gough out by November 1975 and the US White House di.....
» 22/10/2014 10:07:15 PM This dystopian system has operated in many places, in many forms and throughout much of hi.....
» 22/10/2014 9:37:49 PM Pete 'Theories that the US took measures to undermine Gough's Government may not be total.....
» 20/10/2014 6:46:38 PM Calm down, LEGO. You're the one rabbitting on about 'the evil West', not me, and I suspect.....
» 20/10/2014 7:06:46 AM LEGO ‘Killarney/ I am glad that you have realised that your last post was so over the top.....
» 20/10/2014 2:24:52 AM LEGO For someone so gung-ho about accusing people of 'blithering stupidity', you seem to .....
» 18/10/2014 7:29:36 AM Rhrosty Well over 5 million people were killed in the DRC by the darling of the West, Pau.....
» 17/10/2014 7:18:14 PM phanto You know full well I've addressed you as 'phanto' plenty of times. The text defaul.....
» 16/10/2014 10:50:35 PM phantom 'If someone is obviously lacking in freedom then it is human nature to want to he.....
» 16/10/2014 10:16:53 PM phantom 'Would things be any less ‘toxic’ if women had all the power?' Why is it always .....
» 16/10/2014 12:12:05 AM Hardly anyone here so far has actually addressed the gist of Rob's article, which IMO very.....
» 15/10/2014 11:09:46 PM Poirot 'I wish we could throw a metaphorical burqa over [runner's] "unattractive&quo.....
» 15/10/2014 11:08:02 PM phantom Your posts are thoughtful and interesting. However, I feel they wander too far in.....
» 14/10/2014 9:59:01 PM on the beach I just love reading your regular comic-book-caricature feminism alerts. Ju.....
» 14/10/2014 9:40:04 PM Yuyutsu/Emma I neither know nor care whether banning the burqa/niqab is neo-colonialist, .....
» 14/10/2014 2:08:38 AM bazz 'It ties in with a quote I saw re the burqua; "She has to wear it, I don't want.....
» 14/10/2014 1:50:04 AM I agree with most of the comments here, which is quite an achievement, considering I'm usu.....
» 13/10/2014 12:52:25 AM 'Killarney / 'Stop trying to squirm out of it./ Do you oppose the enforcement of all the p.....
» 12/10/2014 7:28:55 PM Jay of Melbourne 'So which parts of the non European world were conquered by Christian ar.....
» 12/10/2014 2:51:03 AM Look ... a lot of people have thrown stuff at me about what I'm supposed to have said that.....
» 11/10/2014 3:31:17 AM JKJ No, I don't 'remember'. What on earth are you talking about?.....
» 10/10/2014 11:59:59 PM mac 'however Islam's violent ideology is far older than Western imperialism' Had a good .....
» 10/10/2014 11:52:58 PM Is mise Neither of your links establish that FGM is in the Koran, only 'circumcision' - a.....
» 10/10/2014 5:15:10 PM LEGO Christians and Muslims are free to criticise Christianity and Islam all they like. B.....
» 9/10/2014 8:12:25 PM runner Well, if you've got plenty of bombs to drop, the truth doesn't really matter, does.....
» 9/10/2014 7:06:33 PM I must say Tanveer's previous OLO article of a few months back - the one about road rage b.....
» 7/10/2014 6:09:44 AM 'Soeharto was another ruthless iron-fisted general who held power for 32 years ...' Dunca.....
» 2/10/2014 12:31:56 AM As always, Alan, your analysis is as detailed as it is awesome. Sadly, it doesn't amount .....
» 2/10/2014 12:12:00 AM Yes, I agree with Bazz. Give up on me, Loudmouth. I've only stayed in the exchange this l.....
» 1/10/2014 3:33:07 PM Joe 'So Obama's job is to keep a lid on much of it ...' Duh! You must be right, Joe. I A.....
» 1/10/2014 1:29:48 AM Joe ‘what do you think Iran and the Saudis will do if all those obstacles in between them.....
» 30/09/2014 8:17:27 PM Bazz 'Well Killarny, ... I note that you have no solution.' Yes I do. The solution has b.....
» 30/09/2014 5:25:41 AM Bazz 'Killarney, don't get your knickers in a twist. It will not happen' There's nothing.....
» 29/09/2014 10:11:06 PM 'One possibility might be to isolate the Middle East.' My God!! 'We put up a permanent .....
» 26/09/2014 10:39:04 PM Apologies to Lord Laurence Olivier and all those ardent youngbloods who go into ideologica.....
» 26/09/2014 10:07:43 PM 'In all from 1962 – 1972, 60,000 Australians served in Vietnam, 521 died and 3,000 were in.....
» 25/09/2014 7:16:22 PM James 'Our stampede to join this latest war staged by the Empire against the latest bogey.....
» 19/09/2014 5:42:49 AM Over and over again in this commentary, we read about the 'education' of women as the main.....
» 16/09/2014 10:16:19 PM pete A Yes victory is extremely unlikely. To achieve such an impossibility, the Scots wou.....
» 15/09/2014 10:32:42 PM It seems to be mandatory to make fun of this issue and use embarrassingly bad Scottish acc.....
» 15/09/2014 9:55:56 PM Suseonline I’ve been away for a few days, so haven’t been following OLO, and this thread .....
» 11/09/2014 11:57:47 PM Rhrosty If you look at my posting history on the gender threads, you will find that I am .....
» 11/09/2014 11:30:12 PM Suse You confirm by the leaflet you were given that men WERE the main perpetrators of eld.....
» 10/09/2014 8:27:28 PM On the beach Of course I dismiss this garbage. Apart from the fact that toilets and trans.....
» 10/09/2014 8:21:59 PM Suse I have two things to say about the incident you describe: One, in forty years as a.....
» 9/09/2014 11:11:00 PM On the beach Do you have to work hard at self-parody or were you just born that way? I m.....
» 9/09/2014 10:03:09 PM Could somebody please explain to me what is SOOO incredibly terrible about the author writ.....
» 9/09/2014 9:44:12 PM Suse ‘I just wish we could have more of a happy medium between a world according to pre 1.....
» 8/09/2014 9:06:19 PM On the beach ‘The only ones who haven’t had much to say are the feminists …’ Like this s.....
» 8/09/2014 8:58:08 PM Rusty Catheter makes a good point. The most provocative sentence in this essay, the one .....
» 5/09/2014 3:55:33 AM Suse It's not enough to have positive role models of both sexes in a young girl's life, w.....
» 4/09/2014 6:22:52 PM OK. We have here a father who, no doubt with lots of love and the best of intentions, has .....
» 3/09/2014 10:12:58 PM ‘He is winning this game of bluff and counter-bluff because right from the start European .....
» 3/09/2014 9:36:07 PM Rhrosty Unfortunately, you're right about the threat of a real war. VKA3UU What on ear.....
» 28/08/2014 9:59:01 PM JKJ ‘Please answer my numbered questions.’ Excuse me, Mr Do-As-I-Say. I’ll respond to y.....
» 28/08/2014 9:39:45 PM R0bert Yes, I also have a problem with taxpayers funding the tertiary educations of child.....
» 28/08/2014 8:58:40 PM JKJ Bear in mind that much of the global financial planning of the last 100 years, and es.....
» 28/08/2014 1:02:56 AM It certainly will affect women more adversely than men, but that shouldn't be the focus of.....
» 26/08/2014 6:58:42 PM on the beach Yaay! That good ol' British Crime Survey that gets trotted out virtually eve.....
» 25/08/2014 12:18:34 AM Jay Of Mars Well if women like Anita Sarkeesian are ‘obnoxious’ (as opposed to silent, su.....
» 22/08/2014 9:24:54 PM AdrianD 'On most occasions domestic violence is near impossible to prove, because it's us.....
» 22/08/2014 6:32:34 PM The journalism profession has been fighting for this for a long time, and rightly so. All .....
» 22/08/2014 2:39:43 AM Suse 'Give me a guy with a great sense of humour and a cheerful disposition as opposed to.....
» 21/08/2014 7:01:35 PM ‘Qualities sought by females in a mate (such as sociability, dominance, parental ability e.....
» 21/08/2014 12:29:39 AM Very nice flag, Pete. It ticks a lot of boxes. It makes excellent use of the green and g.....
» 20/08/2014 5:49:37 PM Dear oh dear, Rhrosty. Ain't it exhausting being the good guys? So many evil demons to van.....
» 20/08/2014 12:32:57 PM Gee whiz! We can always do with yet another government-funded institute dedicated to remin.....
» 19/08/2014 5:37:29 PM The youth of every generation get playful and creative with the language. Not all of it is.....
» 15/08/2014 6:39:53 PM Tanveer is also describing the migrant experience. Even with all our pretensions to multic.....
» 13/08/2014 2:44:05 AM After reading this article, I’ve been having a browse of various breast cancer studies - t.....
» 12/08/2014 9:13:35 AM loudmouth Referring to women as God's 'perfect creations' and revelling in 'their gloriou.....
» 11/08/2014 7:14:17 PM loudmouth 'I LOVE women: if there actually is a God, I have no trouble believing that the.....
» 11/08/2014 5:16:19 PM One thing the article doesn't mention - mainly because it wasn't the article's intent to d.....
» 4/08/2014 9:35:26 PM on the beach I'm guessing you are woman. If not, then the post doesn't directly apply to .....
» 4/08/2014 8:58:15 PM Rhian '[Paul's] letters are often addressed to or make reference to female church leaders.....
» 2/08/2014 6:35:18 PM Rhrosty 'If it was all about gas, there is a peace process and international law.' Well .....
» 1/08/2014 10:02:40 PM Well, foxy. The Israelis ARE worried about what's happening under the ground, but it ain't.....
» 1/08/2014 4:20:46 PM Arjay Out of hundreds of commercial airlines in operation globally, the probability of th.....
» 1/08/2014 4:16:11 PM Halduell ‘But I still think in the end, if we ever get that far, we will find that it was.....
» 31/07/2014 6:49:04 PM halduell I think the link you are referring to is this one - if not, it's in the same bal.....
» 31/07/2014 12:55:55 AM Avw '[The author] also chooses to ignore the numerous cease fire offers recently made to .....
» 31/07/2014 12:33:46 AM elizabeth4 'A passionate plea by Caroline Glick, in which she describes the awful twistin.....
» 30/07/2014 8:04:59 PM As I see it, there are three issues here that I am trying to grapple with - the horror of .....
» 26/07/2014 9:05:24 PM Avw 'You are unable to respond to any of the flaws I pointed out in your posts.' Whateve.....
» 25/07/2014 6:57:56 PM Rhrosty 'I'm not the one using Gazan Mothers and their babies as human shields!' No. But.....
» 24/07/2014 6:12:47 PM Yes, Rhrosty, cheap theatrics! Airline disaster porn to score equally cheap political poin.....
» 24/07/2014 3:50:13 PM The investment newsletters that hit my email desk every day are full of bullish bargain hu.....
» 23/07/2014 9:27:26 AM Avw There is no point arguing with the 'Hamas started it' brigade, who are only slightly .....
» 23/07/2014 3:33:56 AM Avw I’m not going create a very long post by responding to every point you made, as most .....
» 22/07/2014 11:29:54 PM Whichever way you choose to look at it - that some of those going through the ghastly proc.....
» 22/07/2014 9:02:52 PM Bruce 'Isn't that exactly what virtually the entire Muslim world is doing to Israel?' An.....
» 22/07/2014 8:46:27 PM Rhrosty I've always thought you were one of the more reasonable of the OLO posters. I'm p.....
» 21/07/2014 10:52:20 PM Hasbeen I both agree and disagree. I certainly agree that the extent of 'able-bodied' s.....
» 21/07/2014 7:57:30 PM This premise is absolutely correct. It's not just applicable to the Pararoos; it's been th.....
» 19/07/2014 10:29:38 PM ojnab I can't see how my being alive at the time would have made a brass razoo's differen.....
» 19/07/2014 7:28:38 PM The West has always practised a double standard in regard to German and Japanese war guilt.....
» 13/07/2014 11:42:25 PM Well, on the beach, I AM a baby boomer, one of the later ones, so I only have to go as far.....
» 13/07/2014 7:15:44 PM My reference to hate speech had nothing to do with immigration or with government regulati.....
» 12/07/2014 5:28:04 PM on the beach 'There will be interesting times ahead for those who refuse to take responsi.....
» 8/07/2014 9:42:44 PM Well, the choice is yours, folks. Rabbit on incessantly about entitlement and keep on cut.....
» 7/07/2014 9:53:23 PM aristocrat I don't know the first thing about Foucauldian theories of power. I do know,.....
» 7/07/2014 7:08:55 PM Killarney says this and Killarney says that. And Killarney likes to think this and Killarn.....
» 5/07/2014 12:04:56 AM aristocrat [Men = privileged] does not translate to [Men = bad] although I would translat.....
» 4/07/2014 7:22:22 PM Yet another 'F' word that men do is fibbing. They know full well that they have been swim.....
» 4/07/2014 6:50:41 PM I didn't know about the 'Irish joke' amendment, but if it's true, that sums up entirely th.....
» 3/07/2014 5:43:25 PM The list of issues in which the two majors are seriously out of step with public opinion i.....
» 2/07/2014 6:52:19 PM OOG 'why is this even needing talkng about the law re murder is clear' Exactly. Honour k.....
» 1/07/2014 7:53:59 PM My goodness me! I agree with Hasbeen. (Hi five, Hazza.) Mothers are the principal family .....
» 30/06/2014 6:43:15 PM How much of the $20 billion allocated to new weapons systems this year will be wasted on a.....
» 27/06/2014 1:25:30 AM Babette didn't bother to include single mothers in her hand-wringing over how hard it is n.....
» 25/06/2014 7:22:58 PM Correction to post above: The name 'Keith Packer' shouldn't be there. I just keyed the wro.....
» 25/06/2014 7:19:19 PM This is a very old fight that goes back to the mid-20th century (and beyond) and the strug.....
» 24/06/2014 6:43:25 PM Graham Y Don't be discouraged that the commentary on OLO often gets nasty. It's still one.....
» 18/06/2014 5:22:02 PM VK3AUU If ONLY people had the option of squandering their money on 'grog, pokies and fags.....
» 18/06/2014 10:18:33 AM Well, if we're going to have a constitutional crisis, then I can't think of a better moral.....
» 18/06/2014 9:54:12 AM Well, excuse me, Kellie, but raising the pension age to 70 and introducing 6-month waiting.....
» 18/06/2014 1:55:32 AM Let's not forget that sport, like war, is mostly about the glorification of the cult of ma.....
» 15/06/2014 6:47:06 PM runner When is the last time you bought a house? 1970?.....
» 13/06/2014 5:04:25 PM Not only is it extremely difficult for first home buyers to purchase a home in Australia, .....
» 13/06/2014 1:02:16 AM My fellow Australians. I begin this speech the American way, because America is the count.....
» 12/06/2014 7:48:44 PM R0bert I've read enough of your posting history to know about your background and how per.....
» 12/06/2014 8:19:47 AM Another spectacularly callous piece in the seeming conveyor belt of work-till-you-drop art.....
» 12/06/2014 2:34:54 AM Suse Agree. These so-called studies are basically 'proving' that water runs up hill. They.....
» 11/06/2014 11:39:11 PM Adam Blanch ‘Killarney, not a single one of your statistics is correct.' OK. Here are so.....
» 11/06/2014 7:22:10 PM 'It's also worth noting that men on average are three or four times more likely to be the .....
» 10/06/2014 3:01:04 PM Whatever one feels about working mothers, the days of the single-income family are long go.....
» 5/06/2014 7:00:14 PM Pericles 'health, employment, education, old age, all came under the heading of "it'.....
» 4/06/2014 9:02:38 PM rper1959 I was neither 'making excuses for women' nor claiming neglect is not as serious .....
» 4/06/2014 5:41:45 PM Older people need belonging, meaning, sexual intimacy, fun? Man, have you got it wrong. A.....
» 4/06/2014 5:24:28 PM jay ‘The first step to an honest public discussion is to de-couple the public discourse o.....
» 4/06/2014 4:56:32 PM rper 1959 'She might also approach Australian authorities to reintroduce reporting of the.....
» 24/05/2014 4:40:11 AM peter lang ‘hard work, entrepreneurism and success’ What rot! That is Bunkum Success Myt.....
» 22/05/2014 4:12:10 PM Hasbeen So GMH ‘fully funded' your engineering degree, huh? AND no doubt paid you a salar.....
» 22/05/2014 6:10:49 AM Leo Lane I've always scratched my head about this sort of thing too. I don't mean to re.....
» 20/05/2014 9:24:29 PM Arjay 'This means that $48 billion created by private banks as debt is depreciating our s.....
» 20/05/2014 6:04:26 PM Excellent post, Divergence. (In fact, most of the comments here have been excellent.) Tha.....
» 19/05/2014 10:19:27 PM '[Abbott's] attack on Australia was not foreshadowed whilst in opposition.' Are you kidd.....
» 19/05/2014 9:49:14 PM The naivete of the usual gaggle of 'I did it my way' rubbish that tumbles out into every c.....
» 18/05/2014 12:34:25 AM Tristan 'In the meantime progressive social movements need to coalesce and prepare for th.....
» 18/05/2014 12:22:18 AM Arjay 'Did you know Tristan the financial market of shares, derivatives and currency trad.....
» 17/05/2014 2:40:05 AM O sun wu 'after six years of Labour and the massive debt they left' Yes, mate ... becaus.....
» 17/05/2014 2:14:28 AM snake ‘We kept cool in the Summer by sitting with out feet in bowls of cold water.’ Feet.....
» 17/05/2014 1:40:11 AM Hasbeen 'If I hear any more bulldust about the vulnerable, disadvantaged, or underprivil.....
» 16/05/2014 12:15:55 PM What a cruel, selfish, unforgiving, barbaric country Australia has become. Despite a feel.....
» 15/05/2014 6:24:42 PM spindoc 'Some of the wealthiest Australians came from poor backgrounds.' But MOST of the.....
» 15/05/2014 6:16:21 PM rechtub 'I'm guessing because they earn more and super is a percentage of their income, i.....
» 15/05/2014 4:41:05 PM 'Understandably, many of these people are actively searching for jobs and a source of inco.....
» 15/05/2014 4:15:08 PM No doubt you gentlemen are all enjoying a very comfortable and privileged retirement. Only.....
» 15/05/2014 4:37:54 AM 'If you want to stop work at 40/50/60/65 or whatever, you should have saved up during the .....
» 14/05/2014 5:54:06 PM I cannot think of a time when I have felt so ashamed to be an Australian. This is the th.....
» 14/05/2014 4:15:39 PM 'What chance would pacifism have as an effective policy against the Nazis or the Japanese .....
» 8/05/2014 10:16:56 PM Edward Carson Like your point about Casablanca. As with Rhian's point about 'Let them eat.....
» 7/05/2014 7:04:40 PM We put far too much importance on the pontifications of dead white dudes anyway. I guess i.....
» 30/04/2014 5:45:25 PM In the UK almost one in 60 people are now having to use food banks to avoid starvation and.....
» 30/04/2014 5:22:30 PM The most poignant point in the article is this one: 'Those in greatest need of the aged p.....
» 24/04/2014 4:10:06 AM Leslie 'Most posts have missed Hendy's real objective which is to justify the $12 billion.....
» 23/04/2014 1:37:47 AM Jay Do you know how I can get that 9 minutes of my time back - the 9 minutes I spent watc.....
» 22/04/2014 5:25:49 PM 'Also importantly, success was directly proportional to effort.' Yes, of course. All the .....
» 18/04/2014 11:08:01 PM Nature never meant humans to work as hard as they have had to over the last few millennia......
» 15/04/2014 10:04:03 PM This bill is not only outrageously unjust and unfair, it's an insult to feminism (or at le.....
» 3/04/2014 6:04:22 AM cohenite What Lysenko and the Irish Famine have in common, as well as the Chinese famines.....
» 2/04/2014 7:08:34 PM Divergence Agree. Parallels with the Irish Famine are important. A lesser known fact abou.....
» 1/04/2014 6:39:22 PM Two things I would add: Firstly, stop believing propaganda. In fact, the more a foreign r.....
» 28/03/2014 7:18:02 PM Debbie ‘How is it a sign of maturity for a woman to succumb to another person's pressure .....
» 28/03/2014 2:52:42 AM DearMe ‘Said he couldn't cope (they only had a 4 year old at the time) she was gutted and.....
» 27/03/2014 9:45:41 PM K8TIE ‘It's interesting that an opinion advocating for more supports for women is copping.....
» 26/03/2014 6:19:37 PM Yebiga '... identity politics, never ending arguments about racism, sexism, violence to w.....
» 24/03/2014 8:01:20 PM I've been saying much the same thing the author has for a while - especially on OLO. Howe.....
» 21/03/2014 6:29:27 PM The previous comments have said it all. However, one additional point I'd make is to ask:.....
» 20/03/2014 8:17:05 PM The artists' stance is riddled with hypocrisy, but moral stances don't have to be 100% pur.....
» 20/03/2014 6:29:47 PM Judging by the kneejerk right-wing boys club comments so far, it's perfectly OK for the ta.....
» 20/03/2014 6:25:02 AM Rhrosty - get a grip! (According to Wikipedia) In most Western countries, fetal alcohol.....
» 18/03/2014 7:37:44 PM I don't think either Left or Right sides of politics advocate the criminalising of offensi.....
» 12/03/2014 8:03:40 PM What never ceases to amaze me is how we seem to be ignoring all the alarm signals pointing.....
» 12/03/2014 1:03:55 AM Could I request a fact check here? Who is saying what about what and to whom and in what w.....
» 10/03/2014 11:20:04 PM Malcolm 'But I wouldn't make too much of the so called piles of cash the Boomers have sto.....
» 3/03/2014 7:04:35 PM Hasbeen 'Killarney just what did your last post have to do with recruitment.' About as m.....
» 2/03/2014 11:27:57 PM hasbeen ‘You seem to forget they are being paid over $1500 a month by me & my tax payer m.....
» 2/03/2014 5:30:57 AM Hasbeen No doubt your wife's organization acts responsibly (although we only have your an.....
» 1/03/2014 9:42:46 PM under one god 'getting a BIT..SILLY..this attack on our fair sex' Women are not the fair.....
» 1/03/2014 8:13:37 PM jayb ‘They were a very man hating vicious lot at James Cook …’ What an objectively matur.....
» 1/03/2014 6:18:35 AM Thank you so much for this essay, Malcolm, and for reminding me why I hang around forums l.....
» 1/03/2014 1:05:28 AM phanto 'Of course men are more violent than women because they are in general bigger and .....
» 1/03/2014 12:48:20 AM Chris 'I would also say that centre-right think tanks can also lift their game.' No. Tha.....
» 28/02/2014 6:49:15 AM Look, don’t worry about it. A few lefties hiding amongst the ivy in our sandstone academic.....
» 28/02/2014 1:57:11 AM Ludwig Nature is a fine-tuned survival machine without any moral centre. The fact that ma.....
» 27/02/2014 8:24:37 PM Ludwig ‘You won’t see that the male spiders have to risk their lives in order to mate wit.....
» 21/02/2014 7:30:25 PM R0bert (quoting Rosarium) 'Women are powerful, but their power lies in their virtue, in t.....
» 20/02/2014 6:48:11 AM Suse '... only 29% of American women would describe themselves as feminist - and only 42%.....
» 19/02/2014 8:31:33 PM For a gal who doesn't like bossy women, this was one heck of a bossy article. Move over, M.....
» 17/02/2014 8:08:01 PM Is Mise Maith thú, a chara. :) In a country like Australia, so far from everywhere and w.....
» 17/02/2014 10:17:40 AM Oh, dear. Poor Syd-ums. You and your 80s Keating fire-sale gang sold off virtually every .....
» 13/02/2014 9:36:14 PM EQ: 'How anyone can doubt the value of Australia's adoption of free trade principles and e.....
» 13/02/2014 9:01:46 PM mac I fully agree with you. That quote had me reaching round for a bucket. Regardless o.....
» 13/02/2014 8:59:27 AM This is the kind of review that makes me NOT want to read a book. It’s a pretentious revie.....
» 5/02/2014 3:54:12 AM As a long-time leftie, I don’t particularly care anymore whether the ABC is ‘reformed’ – w.....
» 4/02/2014 6:28:19 PM Why is it assumed that examining the ‘dark’ side of the West’s history is an insult to Wes.....
» 30/01/2014 6:35:52 PM Certainly, the subject deserves a lot more acknowledgement in mainstream discourse. Althou.....
» 30/01/2014 6:18:22 PM Governments right across the developed world are commissioning reports willy-nilly on thei.....
» 30/01/2014 5:48:07 PM Australia's housing prices have defied gravity for too long now, having remained high due .....
» 23/01/2014 9:54:39 PM Rhian I meant 'philosophy' as a general worldview. If you want a list of names and ideolo.....
» 23/01/2014 5:23:50 AM Rhian ‘Can you point to a neoliberal who has actually advocated this?’ It’s a bit hard t.....
» 22/01/2014 7:10:03 PM Much of the increased university participation rate since 1980 is due to a combination of .....
» 16/01/2014 7:26:56 PM Irigaray is a philosopher and all philosophers make weird and wonderful epistemological ob.....
» 14/01/2014 10:50:42 PM suse, pelican The problem with films that claim to be ‘based on true events’ is that in t.....
» 14/01/2014 5:29:51 AM Suse ‘… you and the author are reading too much into what is essentially mainly a fiction.....
» 14/01/2014 4:29:12 AM Pericles Let me get this straight ... Because John Pilger took an item from a less than.....
» 14/01/2014 12:07:36 AM Ancient Greece – as with Rome and the Early Christian Empire – were very good at generatin.....
» 13/01/2014 6:47:50 PM I came perilously close to losing my licence a few years ago - getting to within one point.....
» 13/01/2014 1:18:01 AM The last British-made film I ever saw about Ireland and Irish themes was 'Some Mother's So.....
» 11/01/2014 11:55:08 PM The comments here assume that Pilger and his team of researchers have simply pulled their .....
» 11/01/2014 7:50:36 AM My only comment on this list is that I always find it sad to be reminded of how much women.....
» 6/01/2014 10:37:00 PM The Sri Lankan government is firmly entrenched within the Washington consensus - along wit.....
» 4/01/2014 11:31:05 PM rechtub So what do you suggest we do with all those aged people who didn't 'work hard' en.....
» 3/01/2014 8:20:39 PM I've lived in three different countries that have multi-party proportional representation .....
» 3/01/2014 7:54:14 PM The author's 'Maturelink' suggestion is blindingly practical and long overdue. The Western.....
» 3/01/2014 7:17:29 PM individual 'any people whose income does not afford them to save are poor' That's a pret.....
» 2/01/2014 8:18:16 PM David G and individual Only the poor are ever punished for being greedy. With the excepti.....
» 2/01/2014 7:59:07 PM If there is one thing I have learned over the course of my life, it's the need to UNlearn .....
» 20/12/2013 11:40:23 PM That whole kill-UBL scenario was such an improbable PR farce that this imprisonment conspi.....
» 17/12/2013 10:06:42 PM Yuyutsu You are throwing around a whole lot of libertarian-esque piffle to justify the ri.....
» 13/12/2013 8:50:33 PM These 'studies' vaguely referred to in the article obviously haven't done a simple compari.....
» 10/12/2013 8:41:33 PM Keating's other superannuation screw-up was to structure the scheme as a salary percentage.....
» 6/12/2013 9:45:42 PM Yuyutsu <Producing this majority-thing as a justification for cruel acts is the materi.....
» 3/12/2013 11:41:45 PM Great essay! I thought the comments section would be full of hard right-wingers screaming .....
» 29/11/2013 6:16:47 PM 'What the Anzac legend did do, by the bravery and sacrifice of our troops, was reinforce o.....
» 27/11/2013 8:31:14 PM The lies of the Abbott team are now apparent, but largely unacknowledged. It probably does.....
» 27/11/2013 9:13:09 AM Actually, dane, that '3.4' years figure is a mathematical average caused in large part by .....
» 26/11/2013 9:29:40 PM Oh, dear. The poor modern menz - ripped to shreds by feminist harpies, deprived of their k.....
» 19/11/2013 12:23:44 AM It's delicious irony that Abbott has given 2 warships to the Sri Lankan government, consid.....
» 13/11/2013 6:53:26 PM plantagenet Yes, there are quite a few examples of countries that erect memorials and hol.....
» 12/11/2013 6:59:14 PM ‘I do believe that Australia and the International community has a responsibility to ackno.....
» 12/11/2013 12:44:40 AM There is a fifth way of remembering - and that is by refusing to get caught up in all this.....
» 7/11/2013 8:36:13 PM Sparkq ‘I would like to know where the figures of 70% to 80% in support of gay marriage a.....
» 7/11/2013 7:42:55 PM 'The popular vote will never go to the party which offers higher taxation.' No. But the p.....
» 6/11/2013 8:56:28 PM Correction: 'Liberal and Progressive' above should have been 'Progressive and Conservative.....
» 6/11/2013 8:43:54 PM I wouldn’t dismiss the terms left-wing and right-wing so easily, Emperor Julian (although .....
» 5/11/2013 11:30:05 PM The international monetary system, which for thirty years has been based on debt growth (a.....
» 4/11/2013 10:51:12 PM As far as that boat we might end up missing is concerned, it seems as if we're damned if w.....
» 3/11/2013 7:28:16 PM A few posters here are confusing a republic with a general reform of our political process.....
» 3/11/2013 7:09:19 PM Chris, and others here who are going down the 'Labor blew it and now I'm so confident that.....
» 1/11/2013 8:35:38 PM I know this is one of those issues I should care about more, but I don't. So far, most ref.....
» 1/11/2013 7:50:53 PM 'Australians are too smart to be fooled by Mr Hockey’s political diversions' The author w.....
» 29/10/2013 10:34:12 PM SES Certainly, the ALP and the unions woefully fail to recognise the dangers of rapidly d.....
» 24/10/2013 10:45:56 PM Poirot Fair enough. I would have checked out the photos first, but to actually go looking.....
» 24/10/2013 10:26:23 PM It's hard to know to what extent we have a literacy problem, because records from the far .....
» 24/10/2013 10:02:29 PM Three points ... Firstly. Sorry, Mishka, but no amount of firefighting daring-do will ev.....
» 22/10/2013 9:12:12 PM Much and all as I am fully pro-choice, I believe that conscientious objection is an import.....
» 20/10/2013 6:45:05 PM Whether films are good or bad, old or new, they exist mainly to keep preaching the same ol.....
» 18/10/2013 4:50:35 PM I stopped going to Woody Allen films a long time ago. (In fact, I stopped going to ANY mov.....
» 17/10/2013 2:04:54 PM Was this an essay about psychopathology or just an excuse for a psychoanalytic beat-up of .....
» 10/10/2013 9:50:19 PM Emperor Julian I had to check the name at the bottom of your post to make sure it wasn't .....
» 10/10/2013 9:28:57 PM Is Mise ‘He was not going to have his wife placed in such a predicament so he killed them.....
» 10/10/2013 9:18:37 PM The relationship between inappropriate adult violence and child-rearing methods that depri.....
» 8/10/2013 10:19:16 PM Surely this essay is a joke ... isn't it? I mean ... Prince Harry for President of Pacific.....
» 7/10/2013 7:38:35 PM '... the Labor story is the same: ... it was just "negative" tactics of the cons.....
» 5/10/2013 9:56:34 PM SPQR ‘I will keep this little gem: <<The boats were never able to be stopped>>.....
» 4/10/2013 7:05:27 PM Good article by Jonathon Green, Poirot. The boats were never able to be stopped. The low .....
» 3/10/2013 10:31:49 PM OoooK … got it. Tony Abbott ‘nails Jakarta’ and did ‘handsomely’ in holding ‘frank but c.....
» 30/09/2013 10:17:38 PM Ah, well. I guess that, after brainwashing generations of Australian schoolchildren to b.....
» 30/09/2013 9:54:08 PM '...a new survey has revealed one in 10 bosses won't hire a worker older than 50' As most.....
» 28/09/2013 1:57:25 AM Graham Firstly, I did not deny that the rates went down under Howard, so I'm not going to.....
» 26/09/2013 6:57:20 PM Wow! A whole essay about the Australian Labor Party and hardly a single word about workers.....
» 25/09/2013 8:23:54 PM Graham Yes, I am looking at the same graphs as you are. I was refuting Atman’s claim that.....
» 25/09/2013 5:03:11 AM Atman Have another look at the MindFrame graphs in Graham's link. There was a particularl.....
» 24/09/2013 6:56:21 PM Of course men and women are not equal! That’s why … - men rape women, but women don’t ra.....
» 24/09/2013 6:20:21 PM Not only do conservative governments pursue financial policies that favour the rich and sc.....
» 23/09/2013 8:46:56 PM Rhrosty Can you explain the actual mechanics of the tax system you are describing? That i.....
» 23/09/2013 7:28:29 PM This whole essay could have been written WITHOUT the grey tsunami beat up. The issue is ab.....
» 21/09/2013 1:42:23 AM LEGO If Allende’s government was such an economic basket case, how come did its vote incr.....
» 20/09/2013 2:15:45 AM SF: 'I work at Executive level and can tell you that in those positions men are infinity b.....
» 19/09/2013 11:09:23 PM SF: ‘I support whoever is chosen as the best for the job’ Having sat on several selection.....
» 19/09/2013 5:41:50 PM Correction: Above post should read 'female PM'......
» 19/09/2013 5:40:02 PM Fact 7: A politician’s work requires a lot of heavy lifting. Men have more physical streng.....
» 18/09/2013 9:27:30 PM The posters here who regularly gloat that capitalism 'defeated' communism are living a fai.....
» 18/09/2013 8:21:29 PM The other major reason for war on Syria is financial. The US has military bases in about 1.....
» 17/09/2013 10:57:23 PM I hope there is a chapter on several government sweetheart deals and compensation packages.....
» 17/09/2013 8:32:12 PM You left out the media, David G. In fact, I would place it number one before 'the ultra-ri.....
» 15/09/2013 10:55:44 PM Two UK studies published this year have found strong correlations between government auste.....
» 11/09/2013 8:27:27 PM Apart from the dubious psychoanalytical angle, this essay has little to offer. I'm really.....
» 11/09/2013 7:35:40 PM As far as conservative politics goes, I would trust the Tea Party over the Heritage Founda.....
» 11/09/2013 4:05:59 AM Hasbeen ‘Unless treasury trots out a new bunch of figures …’ Waddya mean ‘unless’? Of .....
» 10/09/2013 11:07:42 PM I don't know if 'surprise' is quite the term to use. Try 'shock and awe'. The ABC - sold......
» 6/09/2013 11:08:55 PM Writing this on the eve of the election, it's all a moot point now as the election is a sl.....
» 5/09/2013 6:45:06 PM Foyle: Meant to say in my above comment that I agree with all your points. Good post......
» 5/09/2013 6:42:04 PM I've been writing about the burgeoning, increasingly expensive and mainly privatised 'unem.....
» 5/09/2013 6:24:24 PM While the Coalition, Murdoch media and to a lesser extent the ALP love to demonise the une.....
» 5/09/2013 5:41:01 PM ‘I am by nature a Liberal voter in Australia, since I believe that while we must look afte.....
» 4/09/2013 8:50:00 PM Proportional representation is a much more achievable goal than abolishing the states. PR .....
» 4/09/2013 8:32:05 PM '... supporting the destruction of what was, whatever the fabled failings of its leader, t.....
» 4/09/2013 7:43:56 PM I saw the GetUp! ad when the funding campaign was being launched - in fact I donated to it.....
» 4/09/2013 4:35:38 AM Emperor Julian: 'For one, I think he's dinkum about no return to Work Choices or increased.....
» 3/09/2013 5:39:36 PM Fantastic article. But, as always, well-argued, well-informed debunking of the endless lit.....
» 1/09/2013 8:58:29 PM Bazz ‘It matters not a damn what happens to interest rates etc the houses rise or lower t.....
» 1/09/2013 6:18:52 AM Thank you, Hasbeen, for reminding me to face up to the well-worn right-wing mantra that I .....
» 31/08/2013 8:02:27 PM Bazz ‘A little history, the government was pressured to force the lending organisations t.....
» 31/08/2013 4:24:51 AM The sad truth, Alan, is that you are doing for the Labor government what the Labor governm.....
» 31/08/2013 12:52:13 AM John J. As a long-term freelancer myself, I sympathise with all your points (even though .....
» 31/08/2013 12:48:23 AM Sophie There are just not enough articles like this. There should be many more. It's no.....
» 29/08/2013 2:39:22 AM 'The Lefty campaign to kill off ANZAC day with plays like "The One Day of the Year&qu.....
» 27/08/2013 10:48:19 PM The reason that Gallipoli is important is because all Australians are educated from a very.....
» 16/08/2013 4:43:02 PM Yeah ... this all sucks big time. But so what. The scourge here is the glorification of m.....
» 12/08/2013 11:55:26 PM And the moral of the story is ... a woman's face on a banknote is too threatening for the .....
» 5/08/2013 9:37:04 PM It's always a joy to read a humbug-busting article such as this. This article is challeng.....
» 31/07/2013 7:06:11 PM 'The only liberal government that had debt rise was the Frazier government, after Whitlam .....
» 30/07/2013 7:45:03 PM Why are so many pro-Coalition commenters here insisting that Australia was debt-free when .....
» 30/07/2013 6:53:07 PM I am passionately opposed to physically assaulting children in the name of discipline; nei.....
» 29/07/2013 10:20:30 PM One of the main reasons that the public have fallen prey to so many Coalition and pro-Coal.....
» 29/07/2013 6:13:57 PM CHERFUL ‘What has driven most of the people on this planet into abject poverty is male do.....
» 24/07/2013 6:38:08 PM Good article. I was all set to put up a sneering comment, until I realised the author was .....
» 20/07/2013 9:00:51 PM Jay Thank you for the in-depth expose of Zimmerman's racial heritage. However, as with vi.....
» 19/07/2013 7:03:55 PM Zimmerman stalked and confronted Travyon with a gun, not the other way round. Any struggle.....
» 16/07/2013 1:12:23 AM Jay Those videos were interesting. I’ve been fascinated with the subject of right-wing an.....
» 11/07/2013 7:46:48 PM Those who have privilege at a given point in time are the ones who determine the truth by .....
» 9/07/2013 7:56:06 PM Anne Summers should know a thing or two about misogyny, as she has had so much of it level.....
» 7/07/2013 5:46:34 PM LEGO I stopped supporting multiculturalism as a policy at least a decade ago, once I unde.....
» 5/07/2013 1:34:43 PM LEGO People are not fleeing these countries because their cultures are repressive. They a.....
» 2/07/2013 10:39:45 PM My view of social justice is that a society functions for ALL its members, not just the st.....
» 2/07/2013 9:41:19 PM While all of Kellie's points are valid, the huge elephant we're stumbling around in the da.....
» 2/07/2013 5:47:37 AM Antiseptic 'Killarney, the fact is that 60% of partner violence is mutual and more than h.....
» 1/07/2013 8:44:17 PM Rhian 'When Tyler shouted “who is going to go out of here tonight and rape and kill someo.....
» 1/07/2013 8:26:18 PM This is similar to the saying: ‘If you help the poor, you’re a saint. If you question why .....
» 28/06/2013 9:24:48 PM Antiseptic, According to the International Institute of Psychopathic Assessment, which r.....
» 28/06/2013 7:49:12 PM Very good article, especially the second-last paragraph. LEGO Thatcher did NOT 'really ......
» 28/06/2013 7:16:35 PM Marliyn Actually, the blue-tie joke was a very witty expose on male power and male group.....
» 27/06/2013 6:47:05 PM Marilyn They were derided, yes, but not by those who wield the major influence over publi.....
» 27/06/2013 5:42:52 PM The major tide-turning point against Gillard was the media’s handling of the carbon ‘tax’ .....
» 25/06/2013 5:01:45 PM Shock, horror! At least ten years of grey tsunami propaganda has created a political clim.....
» 22/06/2013 11:56:36 PM Poirot My comments were about anthropology disciplines and documentaries rigidly enforcin.....
» 22/06/2013 11:49:56 PM LEGO Just because the AVERAGE strength, muscle mass etc of women is lower than the averag.....
» 21/06/2013 8:50:31 PM Poirot ‘I agree that in a well-ordered community, be it tribal or industrial, the onus is.....
» 20/06/2013 10:33:28 PM Pelican ‘The article is not an attack on feminism. I wonder if anyone ever reads these pi.....
» 20/06/2013 9:44:21 PM Poirot ‘I think you'll find that human's are rather a brutish species once the veneer of .....
» 20/06/2013 8:19:17 PM Emperor Julian ‘Foolishly he got killed invading Persia – unwise then and unwise today.’ .....
» 19/06/2013 6:59:13 PM Poirot There have been some lively debates on feminist websites about the failure of Aust.....
» 19/06/2013 5:38:08 PM I love the way that women have been completely left out of the equation here (except of co.....
» 19/06/2013 5:05:47 PM Davidf 'A bunch of frustrated women taking out their frustrations on children and teenage.....
» 18/06/2013 6:35:03 PM Marilyn ‘Gillard and many other ALP women are only in parliament thanks to an archaic and.....
» 18/06/2013 5:55:49 PM What a shame to have to break this to you, Sonia, but you’re NOT a feminist. You are act.....
» 16/06/2013 11:50:20 PM The only way the Labor government could have continued to run surpluses since the GFC dras.....
» 16/06/2013 10:53:06 PM Nothing much has changed since men went into state-terrorism overdrive to prevent women fr.....
» 14/06/2013 7:02:58 PM Like the author, I've been living overseas for the last few months. Everyone I talk to on .....
» 13/06/2013 6:55:44 PM ‘… young women are disregarding the scolding feminist dinosaurs left over from the Seventi.....
» 13/06/2013 6:29:29 PM Did any of the belittling, pontificating dudes here actually read the article at all? Or d.....
» 13/06/2013 8:04:47 AM 'Dr Swinbank, in case you didn't know, the Gender War in the West was won long ago by your.....
» 11/06/2013 9:37:22 PM Let's not forget that the last Coalition PM failed to even win his own seat at the 2007 el.....
» 7/06/2013 6:55:24 PM I adore John Pilger, but like so many men of the far left, he has his blind spots about wo.....
» 6/06/2013 6:21:55 PM I started reading this in a braced position, waiting for the inevitable 'men under threat .....
» 4/06/2013 10:56:21 PM bigmal and cohenite Thank you so much for expanding my education and de-ignorating me. .....
» 4/06/2013 8:03:40 PM Loudmouth So … on the basis of arguments A, B, C, D and E, we in the West have a noble du.....
» 4/06/2013 4:15:32 PM From reading the comments here, the overall argument seems to be that: a. Islam is a viol.....
» 30/05/2013 12:36:27 AM R0bert It looks as if you were far too busy proving your own selective prejudices about r.....
» 29/05/2013 11:39:53 PM Suseonline Actually, abortion is NOT legal in Australia. Because of the vague wording of .....
» 29/05/2013 3:13:40 AM R0bert Expecting men to take financial responsibility for a child regardless of whether t.....
» 28/05/2013 6:34:34 PM R0bert, shalmaneser, debbie The main reason why the pro-choice side reacts so negatively .....
» 22/05/2013 9:52:55 PM The major flaw of the UN is, and always has been, the Security Council.The 5 veto-wielding.....
» 20/05/2013 7:21:50 PM Praxidice All good comments in regard to my previous post. 'Centrelink is, and always h.....
» 20/05/2013 7:19:28 PM Hasbeen I’m delighted that you are surrounded by gung-ho, proactive go-getters, who sail .....
» 18/05/2013 9:22:49 PM Hasbeen I know several people who are long-term unemployed. None of them fit your descrip.....
» 18/05/2013 2:37:08 AM hasbeen 'Killarney, There is no universal or natural law that says humans were put on thi.....
» 17/05/2013 9:50:27 PM Geoff of Perth I'm not sure what you are confused by in my post. Looking at my comment an.....
» 16/05/2013 6:49:55 PM Apart from the offensive snobbery embedded in the article, i.e. that blue-collar work is i.....
» 14/05/2013 6:31:12 PM Rhrosty ‘…neo-liberal concepts, when given first preference by extreme capitalists, create.....
» 13/05/2013 9:26:30 PM Suse '... 20 something, muscled male chests, thick thatches of hair, bulging crotches, ti.....
» 13/05/2013 9:21:13 PM If either Barker or Christenson want to make a case against TV networks for employing too .....
» 6/05/2013 10:54:45 PM This is very similar to Julie Bishop's articles on foreign policy. They take a straight-.....
» 2/05/2013 10:02:52 PM Self-regulation in advertising is a joke. 'Regulatory' bodies like the Advertising Stand.....
» 30/04/2013 4:38:12 AM ‘… after the Vietnam War it seemed to me that Anzac Day might dwindle away too. But it is .....
» 29/04/2013 5:06:12 AM Peter Ridd I was not disputing your facts, only the premise you have drawn from them, i.e.....
» 27/04/2013 8:05:40 PM You have to admit that, despite the horror and tragedy of the carnage, the Homeland Securi.....
» 27/04/2013 7:36:19 PM Correction: second last line above should read 'of government schools'.....
» 27/04/2013 7:33:03 PM It’s far too simplistic to assume that there is sex discrimination being practised against.....
» 24/04/2013 7:39:33 PM According to legend Simpson's donkey actually survived the madness of Gallipoli, probably .....
» 16/04/2013 2:30:28 AM Because Australia's superannuation system is based on percentage of salary, thirty-seven p.....
» 13/04/2013 6:30:38 PM mhaze You can be forgiven for not having encountered the 138% (or 137.6% to be exact) deb.....
» 12/04/2013 7:23:41 PM mhaze Thatcher will also be remembered for getting clean away with one of the biggest pro.....
» 9/04/2013 7:34:51 PM Suse 'When the posts start degenerating in this manner, then there is no point going on, .....
» 9/04/2013 7:28:19 PM Antiseptic At least I write about ideas and concepts. All you seem to have written here a.....
» 9/04/2013 6:11:37 PM Interesting timing for this article, coming just the day after Margaret Thatcher's death. .....
» 8/04/2013 6:51:08 PM So many of the arguments here are based on stereotypical myths about womanhood, not women'.....
» 7/04/2013 9:32:05 PM [This got left out of my previous comment, due to technical problems in posting.] A lot o.....
» 7/04/2013 8:55:26 PM No, Jay, I'm not 'just being silly now'. Modern warfare is no longer won by heavily armed .....
» 7/04/2013 5:04:56 AM Jay Well, all that stuff they have to carry hasn’t brought them much success, has it? A.....
» 6/04/2013 9:23:01 PM If it hadn't been for Jane Austen and Judith Wright, I think I would have jumped screaming.....
» 6/04/2013 8:59:24 PM Women have a role to play in combat just as much as men – if combat is your thing. The abi.....
» 25/03/2013 7:25:04 PM Speech given by the Prime Minister to the House of Representative, March 2063. "The .....
» 18/03/2013 8:56:08 PM You want to trim that 35% down to 30%? Try trimming back on these taxpayers funded subsidi.....
» 8/01/2013 1:21:58 PM Well, Ross, you may feel ever so enriched by your extensive readings of the classics. Howe.....
» 4/12/2012 8:34:36 AM Waterhole: ‘Killarney, who do you suggest McKee should have used as his research responden.....
» 3/12/2012 7:35:53 PM Surprise, surprise! An article that quotes (a) the manager of Sexpo Townsville (b) the Sex.....
» 22/11/2012 1:41:12 PM ‘Most of the occupants, much like the author, completely bewildered pacifists, who wouldn'.....
» 15/11/2012 10:59:56 AM JohnBennett Good pickup. Thanks......
» 14/11/2012 4:00:25 PM ‘WWI and II, probably the last wars that actually needed to be fought’ WWI was all about .....
» 14/11/2012 1:34:10 PM The second half of this essay got a bit wobbly - understandable, considering that as a soc.....
» 4/09/2012 12:30:05 PM Thanks, Graham. I too wish to clarify that I have just found Graham's email responses in .....
» 2/09/2012 10:05:35 AM Graham I've clicked the 'X' (Recommend deletion) box under your comment of Saturday, 1 Se.....
» 1/09/2012 12:43:51 PM ‘I'd also be interested to know why you didn't complain about them before so I could at le.....
» 31/08/2012 7:54:41 AM Graham ‘I'm getting a bit tired of the abuse of Julie every time we put something up by h.....
» 30/08/2012 1:13:28 PM Until reading this article, I didn’t know about Australia’s attendance at the NAM summit. .....
» 23/08/2012 8:11:39 PM Geoff of perth ‘If you consider all the important things, all the services that are most .....
» 21/08/2012 9:41:38 AM ‘Meanwhile African products are shut out of European and American markets by protectionist.....
» 19/08/2012 10:18:27 AM Ludwig Re the ‘lack of real democracy incurred by the donations regime and other favours….....
» 19/08/2012 9:54:42 AM Roses 1 I agree with your general comment but take issue with this: 'there are encouragi.....
» 14/08/2012 5:23:39 PM Poirot Check the pic again. The two women in the background are the Australian team and t.....
» 14/08/2012 4:51:37 PM As with free trade, free speech is vastly overrated. And as with free trade, free speech a.....
» 14/08/2012 10:21:46 AM Wm Trevor The dress codes for women’s beach volleyball – requiring them to wear high cut .....
» 13/08/2012 11:48:48 AM Poirot: ‘I think most women are happy competing in a minimum of clothing.’ Really? Is t.....
» 11/08/2012 5:00:30 PM Oops! The 'bra and panties' adjective went in the wrong place in the above post, due to a .....
» 11/08/2012 4:42:44 PM Poirot: ‘Btw - volleyball costume reflects beach costume. Women get around in next to noth.....
» 11/08/2012 4:22:44 PM Re female canoeing at the Olympics. Ms Scutt is correct in saying there are no female cano.....
» 6/08/2012 8:40:57 AM As part of Campbell Newman's shock-and-awe razor gang tactics, his government has sold off.....
» 5/08/2012 8:09:19 PM Sienna My experience with older (60+) workers is completely at odds with yours. I’ve foun.....
» 5/08/2012 7:59:07 PM Peter Hume ‘What are the answer to my questions in my last post? … Just the answers with .....
» 3/08/2012 12:56:24 PM Peter ‘The purpose of a job is to produce something that other people want. It's not to .....
» 3/08/2012 10:45:04 AM It's more than just a matter of discrimination and abiding by the law. It's gradually beco.....
» 1/08/2012 10:36:32 AM Oh, dear. Here we go. If only the Greens became more like the majors, then the people who .....
» 31/07/2012 8:41:37 AM Wow! It's quite a feat of selective myopia to write an entire article about Australia's sc.....
» 27/07/2012 10:11:47 AM Excellent article. Certainly, the suggestion of animal shelters within refuges is long ove.....
» 26/07/2012 1:43:13 PM I agree, davidf. There seems to be some confusion surrounding the term ‘self-esteem’ here.....
» 25/07/2012 12:25:50 PM grim 'I couldn't believe it when Hawke and Keating sold off everything they could lay the.....
» 25/07/2012 9:58:25 AM The Greens can't win. If they fight for the environment, they're slagged as a one-issue pa.....
» 24/07/2012 11:37:48 AM '...the minority party actually gets into a position of power, demonstrates how embarrassi.....
» 24/07/2012 11:08:23 AM The lack of empathy in the previous comments is a sad reminder of how far removed most Aus.....
» 24/07/2012 10:22:28 AM This article reads like one long sales pitch. (Hey, guys. Give us the funds we need to ris.....
» 21/07/2012 9:07:57 AM divine msn Why don't you pop into Queensland and do a speaking tour? I'm sure the 20,000 .....
» 21/07/2012 8:58:26 AM squeers The difference between misogyny and misandry in a patriarchal culture is that mis.....
» 20/07/2012 5:26:19 PM While I sort of get Ms Scutt’s argument that the sportsman was only held accountable for o.....
» 20/07/2012 10:57:58 AM 'Centrelink already has plenty of methods it uses to make sure people are looking for work.....
» 19/07/2012 8:40:24 AM divine msn Please stop shouting at people that they can't read simply because they don't .....
» 18/07/2012 8:54:16 AM divine msn What difference does the use of ‘some’ make, when you’ve successfully tarred a.....
» 17/07/2012 12:09:44 PM 'Find it galling when I encounter the "World owes me this and more and you can go jum.....
» 16/07/2012 5:07:48 PM 'a govt that thus far has protected Australia from the GFC' The only thing that has prote.....
» 11/07/2012 4:23:29 PM Paul 1405 To continue your condescending cut-n-paste cliche fest, here's a few more ... .....
» 10/07/2012 1:20:03 PM R0bert Exact statistics vary, but all studies on depression and suicide show that, while .....
» 10/07/2012 12:53:57 PM The first rule of journalism, as taught to any first-year journalism student, is check you.....
» 10/07/2012 8:38:26 AM As a general reply to the comments above, the problem is not that men and boys are underva.....
» 9/07/2012 3:19:19 PM 'And just which govt, is going to say NOOOOOOOOOOOOO! To an increasingly large, long lived.....
» 9/07/2012 9:21:49 AM The statistics on ageing in Australia have not caught up with the global downturn and real.....
» 9/07/2012 8:59:58 AM 'But why do we expect men to look after their health if they are always told that society .....
» 5/07/2012 9:51:23 AM Does Ms Bishop actually write these articles, or does someone on her staff just pass her t.....
» 29/06/2012 5:35:45 PM Poirot ‘[Killarney] is often aggressive and belligerent and insulting to the men who post.....
» 28/06/2012 1:22:24 PM I always like to check in on any OLO article that puts a spotlight on women, just to have .....
» 19/06/2012 5:48:55 PM It's extraordinary that the author wrote an entire article about limits to children's natu.....
» 17/06/2012 3:57:14 PM Poirot. I'm done with wasting mine and everyone else's time arguing with people on blogsit.....
» 17/06/2012 12:32:48 PM Poirot. I'm not sure what you are disagreeing with. My comment completely allowed for the .....
» 17/06/2012 9:30:38 AM Marriage between same-sex couples should not be conflated with polygamous marriage on the .....
» 14/06/2012 12:25:03 PM Geoff of Perth All excellent points, Geoff, and stem from information freely available to.....
» 10/06/2012 1:28:47 PM Malae Oan Alot of interesting observtions about international TV viewing. You must either.....
» 8/06/2012 1:18:17 PM 'Killarney, where have you been these past 5 or so years? Living in Killarney, Ireland?' .....
» 8/06/2012 1:13:05 PM 'Tighten the rules on welfare payments'?? How much tighter can they possibly get? And how.....
» 7/06/2012 12:03:00 PM 'It is quite immoral to force everyone to fund a TV station that only a minority is intere.....
» 4/06/2012 9:56:13 PM 'All the men on this thread have been thoughtful and reasonable in their responses' Good .....
» 4/06/2012 9:44:27 PM 'Maybe some women find the best access to power is from within the confines of the married.....
» 4/06/2012 9:04:47 PM 'I don't buy your attempt to justify feminist position on domestic violence with statistic.....
» 3/06/2012 5:02:28 PM ‘… the problem is an often toxic dynamic between partners rather than it being just a case.....
» 18/05/2012 8:50:34 AM Depending on what you read, there is just as much, indeed far more, firing going in the ot.....
» 13/05/2012 3:07:29 PM The problem with women politicians in Australia is that they are bound by the rules of the.....
» 8/05/2012 8:39:43 PM Poirot 'What's the use of coming on to a thread just to belligerently inform everyone tha.....
» 8/05/2012 8:24:08 PM Squeers I only saw your comment after I posted. Actually, I agree with much of your first.....
» 8/05/2012 7:47:17 PM Nice try, Pericles and R0bert. What you are desperately trying not to face up to is that.....
» 8/05/2012 4:30:50 PM Interesting stats: This article has accrued a total of 74 ‘Likes’. Comparing this ‘Like.....
» 7/05/2012 3:50:58 PM ‘… weary batallions of ghosts of wars past and present’ ‘… the gentle tears of angels, ano.....
» 28/04/2012 7:36:29 AM imajulianutter There's a quote attributed to John F Kennedy that goes: 'War will exist u.....
» 25/04/2012 7:47:08 PM 'Well, returned soldiers generally are on a far more exalted plane ...' Brilliant! Thank .....
» 25/04/2012 5:37:05 PM 'I do not agree with you regarding having children in the parade. I think that is fine.' .....
» 25/04/2012 5:20:01 PM You may be in a minority, Catriona, but it's a fairly sizeable one. Perhaps if Australia.....
» 25/04/2012 9:10:55 AM Despite being a small nation, Australia is and always has been imperial in its outlook - e.....
» 26/03/2012 8:05:25 AM Do you know any home-schooled children, diver dan? Because I've had a lot to do with alte.....
» 25/03/2012 4:17:26 PM Thanks for that link, Poirot. I had vaguely heard of Risinghill. Unfortunately, intolerant.....
» 25/03/2012 10:38:22 AM Believe it or not, there are still some schools around that carry the flame of the Illich .....
» 24/03/2012 7:43:06 PM Rhian The byline to the article says: 'As employees women are superior so why after decad.....
» 22/03/2012 10:47:40 AM Aha ... it must be getting on for April. Like TV network hookups to Lone Pine and Long T.....
» 19/03/2012 4:54:45 PM To quote: 'The school had rapidly grown over the past two years and to the relief of the b.....
» 18/03/2012 6:11:29 PM 'Clearly, the only thing that changes is the power of the 'weapons'.' What is really worr.....
» 16/03/2012 6:20:10 AM dane The missing context of that Dworkin quote is a no-brainer, except to the lead-blinke.....
» 15/03/2012 5:42:05 PM 'You have called into question [women's] sense of entitlement. And look at how they respon.....
» 15/03/2012 4:44:03 PM 'That descent from the skyscraper can be not only perfectly safe, but quite exhilarating a.....
» 15/03/2012 12:56:33 PM Out of morbid curiosity, I took a peek at the link to Dr Laura Schlessinger’s ‘brilliant a.....
» 11/03/2012 11:18:36 AM under one god With respect, I wish I could understand your stream-of-consciousness style......
» 11/03/2012 11:11:46 AM 'Could you please point me to the bullying intimidation in my last response to you?' I wr.....
» 9/03/2012 8:47:07 PM Poirot, Yabby OK guys. Sarcasm taken. Bullying intimidation noted. Exclusion obvious. Der.....
» 8/03/2012 9:53:24 PM Poirot 'The Naked Ape' was published in 1967, when women were still legally enshrined as .....
» 8/03/2012 4:22:37 PM briar rose 'The anti porn campaigners I referred to are campaigners against pornography. .....
» 8/03/2012 4:19:32 PM Poirot ‘…women have recourse to a stable, devoted partner so that she can nest and raise .....
» 8/03/2012 3:09:11 PM Pericles 'Not all expressions of nationalism "[reek] of the same controlled narrativ.....
» 8/03/2012 8:25:10 AM Many Europeans are proud of their Age of Expansion and past imperial glory, but I doubt th.....
» 7/03/2012 8:10:13 AM briar rose 'Yet the anti porn campaigners stubbornly resist any deeper analysis of the is.....
» 7/03/2012 7:49:27 AM Suse 'I feel like it is understood that it is all the woman's fault that men 'have to' vi.....
» 5/03/2012 9:23:59 PM The posters here have got it all wrong about feminism and porn. Porn is actually one of th.....
» 4/03/2012 11:07:35 AM Roughly in response to Marilyn S ... To quote Lebanese writer Sharmine Narwani, 'In the d.....
» 2/03/2012 6:06:05 PM I avoided the Thatcher movie like the plague. One reason for this was that, after enduring.....
» 1/03/2012 9:48:47 PM dane You get no argument from me about the less than admirable qualities of Gillard’s pub.....
» 1/03/2012 3:23:39 PM It's a case of separating the wheat from the chaff. Some abuses of women in public life ar.....
» 27/02/2012 8:46:25 PM And let’s not forget Australia’s own witch-burning of conservative women's advocate, Melin.....
» 26/02/2012 4:24:39 PM '... the middle east seems to be almost a no-holds-barred, dog-eat-dog mess of hatred and .....
» 25/02/2012 5:55:43 PM I endorse everything Marilyn Shepherd said. Although Rudd is no major radical by any means.....
» 20/02/2012 7:48:46 PM The extraordinary thing about this whole R2P farce is that the media still pushes it with .....
» 20/02/2012 7:50:26 AM 'pseudo-socialist regimes seem to inevitably turn fascist' Well, yes. But it's not an ine.....
» 19/02/2012 5:28:44 PM The missing ingredient in all these pass-the-port armchair analyses of how the ME is suppo.....
» 18/02/2012 1:28:40 PM Arjay 'The people of Zimbabwe needed saving many times but oil could not be found in or n.....
» 16/02/2012 5:46:33 PM individual ‘You can not & definitely must not object to discipline.’ I don’t object to .....
» 16/02/2012 10:30:10 AM R0bert I wonder if you would be as willing to defend your paddy wagon logic if someone tw.....
» 16/02/2012 8:23:47 AM I've just checked up on Patmalar Ambikapathy's background and realise that 'father' in my .....
» 16/02/2012 8:14:13 AM The point of the article is that, in every other context, hitting another, even mildly, is.....
» 14/02/2012 9:45:47 PM Fourteen comments so far, all of which disturbingly miss the point. But having followed th.....
» 20/01/2012 1:44:40 PM Aristocrat 'Your post is typical of the personal vitriol that passes for debate amongst fe.....
» 20/01/2012 11:30:53 AM Thank you to all the sad men on this commentary section. You have overwhelmingly proved ev.....
» 6/01/2012 6:36:45 AM The trouble with defence advisors is that they are defence advisors. Every human activity.....
» 6/01/2012 6:16:03 AM The price to be paid in order to survive as a pariah state is ongoing poverty and paranoia.....
» 4/01/2012 3:13:23 PM Thanks, Lexi, for that link, which I've bookmarked. vanna: 'The concept that men’s magazi.....
» 2/01/2012 9:13:16 AM What an absolutely pitiful discussion thread! 101 posts so far, of which about 7 and a h.....
» 31/12/2011 2:10:35 PM Humphrey B. Flaubert Going back to your much earlier comment, I (a female) also did the t.....
» 24/12/2011 8:50:26 AM vanna If you were slagging off on pathetic celebrity/royalty voyeurism rags posing as wom.....
» 28/11/2011 12:23:52 PM Ancient Greece and its legacy to Western civilisation has, like Rome, been vastly overrate.....
» 14/11/2011 10:15:49 AM 'Most economists agree that such microeconomic reforms were appropriate, enabling the more.....
» 11/11/2011 12:30:31 PM It never ceases to amaze me how much flowery nonsense people can come up with to euphemise.....
» 4/11/2011 11:04:47 AM Apart from the typical 'blame every European crisis all on allegedly generous EU welfare s.....
» 4/11/2011 10:43:04 AM I agree with the basic premise of this essay. It's a topic that should receive a lot more .....
» 27/10/2011 8:54:08 AM Thinkabit Up to your final paragraph, I absolutely agree with you and heaps of official w.....
» 27/10/2011 8:41:54 AM What a pathetic mish-mash of paternalism and white-man's-burden garbage. And what a sad r.....
» 14/10/2011 8:04:06 AM (halduell: While I was composing my post, you've beaten me to the punch. However, I'll put.....
» 14/10/2011 5:59:46 AM ‘That Qaddafi was a brutal dictator that was killing his own people was the reason he had .....
» 13/10/2011 7:56:09 AM ‘When I travelled to Benghazi, Ajdabiya and Tobruk briefly this June ... not one of the pe.....
» 7/10/2011 7:21:19 AM 'And grow up. War is about a bit more than profit ... and deserves better discussion than .....
» 6/10/2011 4:17:08 PM Those figures say nothing about context or comparability. For example, were the 1 million.....
» 6/10/2011 3:14:16 PM Abdul Belhaj, head of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG), an official Al Qaeda affil.....
» 6/10/2011 2:38:48 PM According to the MDC website, the Department of Veterans Affairs is forking up $250k to ki.....
» 29/09/2011 12:31:39 PM Not only are pokies a scourge on the community, but so are a lot of the clubs that do so w.....
» 29/09/2011 9:18:22 AM 'Indeed, there seems to be a consensus among most mainstream economists that a rise of pro.....
» 29/09/2011 8:33:27 AM Lindy True. I am aware we've gone way off topic, but not necessarily off-theme. Underlyin.....
» 28/09/2011 5:57:57 PM '6,186 victims at Srebrenica have been positively identified using DNA testing and it is a.....
» 28/09/2011 4:59:29 PM Jay of Melbourne Thanks for the link to that simple and cogently argued article. So much .....
» 27/09/2011 2:21:42 PM The UN is mostly OK. What's poisoning it is the power of veto privilege of its permanent m.....
» 15/02/2011 8:32:41 AM Ah ... OK. I'm somewhat new to OLO, so I'm still getting a handle on OLO-speak. From what .....
» 13/02/2011 8:44:03 AM Sorry to rain on the author's titillating homage to masturbation, blood and all things Got.....
» 9/02/2011 9:01:05 AM This comment from Ulis seems to sum up the general slant of the commentary so far: 'What .....
» 8/02/2011 9:10:55 AM briar rose Aren't you using the slippery slope fallacy? Ad slipperamus slopium? :) With.....
» 6/02/2011 8:38:43 PM R0bert (and others) ‘...it is disturbing to see more evidence of such foul behind the sce.....
» 2/02/2011 10:26:06 AM briar rose I'm confused. How do I know that you are the real briar rose and not one of yo.....
» 2/02/2011 7:51:34 AM briar rose 'Killarney, you have obviously assumed someone on that forum (where everybody .....
» 1/02/2011 4:16:33 PM briar rose 'You won't find any ad hominem arguments I've made against MTR. You'll find pl.....
» 1/02/2011 11:21:22 AM The 40-second trailer clip compresses all the dead/drugged-fetished-women aspects of the f.....
» 1/02/2011 9:01:50 AM 'There’s a cultural expectation that if you publish on inflammatory topics then you’d bett.....
» 2/01/2011 7:06:38 PM Ease off on the self-righteous hypocrisy, Jennifer! As one of the commenters to that Drum .....
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