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» 15/11/2011 1:43:12 PM A measured argument, Steven, and thanks for not simplistically dividing the world into ‘de.....
» 14/11/2011 1:22:58 PM Thanks, Paul R., for helping to clarify the issue. By characterising objections to the w.....
» 13/11/2011 12:49:13 PM C'mon, Bruce! If Murdoch put out a tender and then behaved the way Conroy has (meeting pri.....
» 10/11/2011 9:57:15 PM The problem with the EU is its essentially utopian character. It exists to eliminate the d.....
» 7/11/2011 9:55:42 PM Nice assessment of the problem. I’m not so sure about what you’ve offered for solutions, t.....
» 6/11/2011 1:19:14 PM Methinks you answered your own question, Everald, when you observe that stamp duty is stil.....
» 6/11/2011 9:58:48 AM Thanks, Poirot. Just had a look at the Monbiot link. It's great! When I teach essay writin.....
» 4/11/2011 12:59:45 PM I’m VERY glad to see this on OLO! And I’m much encouraged by the comments so far: I’d expe.....
» 3/11/2011 8:43:12 PM Australia is a huge country, with a very small population. We have enormous resources, if .....
» 28/10/2011 8:09:17 PM I always read Hitchens with interest. No one builds a stronger argument. I don't always ag.....
» 27/10/2011 11:58:21 AM Interesting stats, merv09. Is the average house price actually nearly half a million dolla.....
» 26/10/2011 6:14:41 PM Methinks Formersnag & Hasbeen have both whacked the proverbial nail on the noggin. We coul.....
» 26/10/2011 5:23:05 PM Had Bruce Haigh or any of his sanctimonious mates called to account the perpetrators of nu.....
» 26/10/2011 2:55:25 PM Quite so, pedestrian; I stand corrected in re the financial proclivities of 'arts administ.....
» 24/10/2011 1:18:04 PM tomw makes some good points. It’s one thing for government to support arts and culture. Me.....
» 23/10/2011 5:19:33 PM The thing we’re really starving for isn’t food so much as ... history. The notion that sm.....
» 21/10/2011 12:24:32 PM Yes, Hasbeen. Just a little. But I got over it. The thought of somebody else walking off w.....
» 20/10/2011 8:46:54 PM Yes, well. 'The Arts' in Australia certainly is an 'industry' -- and a mature one at that......
» 13/10/2011 7:13:55 PM Gosh, Austin, I really don’t see why you should feel awkward about Western involvement in .....
» 12/10/2011 10:40:23 AM Maybe we should be at pains to distinguish between 'dams' and 'reservoirs'. It's not like .....
» 11/10/2011 8:08:26 PM This comes across more as a resolution to think about the problem than a plan, but I’d lik.....
» 5/10/2011 8:15:01 PM I’m not sure a NDIS will help. It’s not clear that we’re asking the right questions. Peop.....
» 29/09/2011 7:42:25 AM In the Cold War, when the Soviet Block (Russia and its allies) was in constant competitio.....
» 28/09/2011 8:44:45 PM I don’t want to disagree with Agnostic — solar thermal for power generation look like a g.....
» 27/09/2011 9:43:16 PM A nice argument, Matt ... but I’m not convinced. Good policy isn’t necessarily the one wi.....
» 27/09/2011 8:04:26 AM Well argued, Des. The feedback generated by tariffs and protectionist measures almost alwa.....
» 26/09/2011 1:35:20 PM A well-researched article, Chris. You raise some good points. Without venturing to disagre.....
» 26/09/2011 8:32:26 AM My sincere apologies to David Singer for so many of the pathetic rants I’ve read on this .....
» 24/09/2011 1:28:43 AM I like your conclusion, Glenn, a lot more than I like your reasoning. Leave the ALP Plat.....
» 21/09/2011 8:58:52 PM Yes, well. Getting back to Max’s actual argument ... I haven’t yet come across a detaile.....
» 21/09/2011 11:40:59 AM Well, I suppose the opposite of Free Trade needn't be protectionism. Free Trade is never w.....
» 20/09/2011 10:10:55 PM Peter Hume has a point, but I’m not sure I buy his theorising. Free trade rewards product.....
» 18/09/2011 12:25:27 AM Parliamentarians are granted special protection for their speech in Parliament, in order t.....
» 16/09/2011 5:22:01 PM Geez. I suppose this is what happens when history is defunct. Israel was not created out .....
» 16/09/2011 11:52:27 AM Oh c’mon! Marriage has EVERYTHING to do with love and progeny; if you can’t see it in huma.....
» 15/09/2011 10:11:43 PM @ Irate Goldfish Reckon we agree for the most part. Though I’m not sure your a ‘age of co.....
» 14/09/2011 10:17:42 PM ‘Laws evolve as society progresses and it is pure ignorance to think otherwise.’ Posted by.....
» 14/09/2011 11:25:36 AM I see your point, Oz, but you’re not alone in getting sucked into what I perceive as a fal.....
» 13/09/2011 2:12:38 PM I think we’re kinda missing the point here. It’s all well and good to complain about Ameri.....
» 12/09/2011 5:49:25 PM I love reading John Pilger. When the Angels in Heaven finally discover that God has been w.....
» 10/09/2011 1:30:03 AM Sorry, but I just can’t get past the enormous ethical disjunct in Noel’s reasoning. Only f.....
» 9/09/2011 11:18:13 PM Anti-Americanism us easy, if you just count up all the wars they’ve been in. The Yanks alw.....
» 5/09/2011 8:33:06 PM Julian’s proposal has considerable merit. It may not come to much -- thinking outside the .....
» 4/09/2011 8:29:27 PM I don’t want to disagree with Divergence, but I’m a bit more optimistic. I disagree with.....
» 2/09/2011 7:15:08 AM This issue is out of control. At some point, it’s worth asking if there’s ANY conceivable .....
» 31/08/2011 10:54:24 PM I have to agree with some of your critics, John; I can’t really see much in the way of ‘fr.....
» 31/08/2011 8:50:47 PM Hi Maxat! You have a point, but... Ethically, this discussion could get a bit convoluted.....
» 30/08/2011 10:47:38 PM Well said, Graham. A major opportunity lost for Gillard, and it’s hard imagine she’ll get .....
» 30/08/2011 9:37:59 PM Sorry, Max, but the pedantic/semantic approach will wash. Of COURSE politicians need to ch.....
» 27/08/2011 12:54:50 AM 'People who feel powerless, disenfranchised and rejected are more likely to resort to bull.....
» 27/08/2011 12:16:39 AM Unh, I'm afraid you got it wrong. The Coalition withdrew support for a bill which would ha.....
» 26/08/2011 8:40:49 PM All power to the Kiwis. They seem well-governed of late, so there’s nothing to criticise. .....
» 25/08/2011 9:53:08 PM Yes, well. Julius Caeser divided Gaul into three parts with some success, so I suppose eco.....
» 24/08/2011 10:16:21 PM Thanks, Ken. Truly delicious irony here. Anders Breivik mentions Keith Windschuttle, and t.....
» 23/08/2011 8:44:37 AM Thanks, Professor, for the courteous response. We agree on most points, then. Let’s see ho.....
» 22/08/2011 8:41:05 PM With all respect to Professor Gommer, I can’t agree. In fact, I think his got his argument.....
» 22/08/2011 11:10:03 AM Poirot raises a good point. Modern conceptions of ‘history’ are a heavily sanitised versio.....
» 22/08/2011 8:04:35 AM I’m not sure what constitutes a ‘triumphalist’ spirit, Evan. It’s hard to remember the his.....
» 21/08/2011 4:18:25 PM I tend to agree with mollydukes, vanna and individual. But the problem isn’t difficulty fi.....
» 20/08/2011 10:11:44 PM I have to agree with the majority of comments so far. The incident was minor. Rage and hys.....
» 20/08/2011 6:37:46 PM Thanks, Saul, for a very measured and useful analysis. Australia is certainly very much be.....
» 20/08/2011 12:30:02 AM I’ve been mentoring Australian students in HSC English for a decade now. Many of my studen.....
» 17/08/2011 10:24:20 PM This is all very nicely argued, but like Gillard Labour’s justification of its ‘Malaysian’.....
» 16/08/2011 10:20:09 PM I’m not sure I can agree that Europe is the apotheosis of Western civilisation. Much chang.....
» 6/08/2011 12:25:06 AM Have to agree with Kenny. Individual citizens generally do quite a good job when it comes .....
» 4/06/2011 12:08:36 AM Thanks, Tristen. It's good to see a truly canonical example of preaching to the converted......
» 17/04/2011 7:47:25 AM I tend to be exceedingly suspicious of so-called ‘paradigm shifts’, but in terms of popula.....
» 16/04/2011 1:57:45 PM Nicco, I appreciate your point. I do value science, and I agree that there is evidence o.....
» 16/04/2011 12:10:41 AM They must be selling rhetoric at Macca’s these days. Whether it’s climate change, immigra.....
» 14/04/2011 10:44:48 AM No insult intended, but Geoff’s article reminds my of a course I took at uni many years a.....
» 10/04/2011 6:50:57 PM I think the real problem here is that science education, in Australia at least, is essenti.....
» 10/04/2011 12:24:58 PM The LNT assumption can be reasonable ... up to a point. It’s very hard, often impossible,.....
» 8/04/2011 11:24:46 AM Bless you, R0bert, for graphically putting Fukushima into perspective. The terror some peo.....
» 7/04/2011 9:02:59 PM Everybody's alarmed. Why not? It's a serious situation. I'd be alarmed if there was a fire.....
» 1/04/2011 10:15:43 PM As an atheist of long standing, I’m not inclined to defend ‘religion’. Nevertheless, I ha.....
» 31/03/2011 9:02:57 PM I think the problem is analogous to inflation. Universities, institutes ... anyplace i.....
» 30/03/2011 8:40:59 PM Sounds like a reasonable, temperate stance. I certainly agree that the Public Service need.....
» 28/03/2011 9:00:07 PM As one who gleefully put the boot into NSW Labour on Saturday, I’m not exactly a Carr fan......
» 28/03/2011 10:39:54 AM Quite so, bugsy. And even if cooling since 1998 were shown to be statistically significant.....
» 28/03/2011 9:42:49 AM No, bugsy. It's not 'equal' hottest. GISS-NASA have calculated a 0.18 F difference between.....
» 28/03/2011 7:15:35 AM Hi, Bugsy! The GISS-NASA press release in January 2011 said: “Global surface temperatu.....
» 27/03/2011 6:00:17 PM If you're going to insist on following the scientific 'consensus', you might note that a f.....
» 27/03/2011 11:06:20 AM Good riddance to bad rubbish. Still, and it's intensely ironic, Kenneally was probably the.....
» 26/03/2011 11:05:38 AM Hi, bonmot! I would consider any scientist who declares science 'settled' to be disreputa.....
» 25/03/2011 10:54:45 PM Back in the 1950s & 60s, scientists predicted mass famine, war, and widespread poverty ow.....
» 20/03/2011 1:28:07 AM I think we hear quite a lot about state government on TV and in broadsheets ... if it’s ab.....
» 17/03/2011 8:23:10 PM The Protocols of the Elders of Zion encompass all the nasty things Israel is accused of do.....
» 17/03/2011 7:34:29 PM More than ten thousand people have died in the Sendai earthquake and subsequent tsunami. N.....
» 16/02/2011 8:02:36 AM bonmot Agreed that the properties of GHG’s are well understood. Problem is, as you point .....
» 12/02/2011 10:41:07 PM A very nice sermon ... for the converted. And no, I’m not a denialist -- I just mislike ar.....
» 11/02/2011 10:50:51 PM As one who’s taught English at secondary and tertiary levels, I have to say that Humanitie.....
» 10/02/2011 12:11:17 AM What's so good about the current retailing model, then? You're expected to hop into a car,.....
» 9/02/2011 11:31:47 PM Back in the 1960s, or maybe even the late 50s, Isaac Asimov (aka The Good Doctor) penned a.....
» 8/02/2011 9:35:02 PM I'm not altogether sure it's a good thing to hear that AARES economists are of one mind on.....
» 6/02/2011 10:53:22 PM There are to good reasons to stop arguing about public vs private schools. The first is th.....
» 6/02/2011 10:12:43 PM The problem is that, starting with Nasser and the Arab League, most Middle Eastern governm.....
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