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» 5/09/2016 11:42:26 AM I agree with the sentiments of Rob1966! That said, I believe the author and all his classm.....
» 5/09/2016 11:23:09 AM While the observations are essentially correct, the just don't apply to the example cited,.....
» 5/09/2016 11:18:08 AM Yes, we must crack down on the waste of space poor to protect the interests of the wealthy.....
» 27/04/2016 1:09:43 PM Mostly, sad but true commentary? Even so, courage of conviction is far too easy when the l.....
» 27/04/2016 12:42:14 PM Hear, hear and well said ttbn. Even so I believe we need a royal commision to put some of .....
» 27/04/2016 12:26:23 PM I forget how many times I have advocated an inland canal as a two lane system that could t.....
» 23/04/2016 7:11:06 PM Mediation? Yeah sure, and places like Lebanon are places that recognise and abide by int.....
» 23/04/2016 6:56:15 PM My heart bleeds for the mother and her children, none of whom have an outcome they wanted......
» 23/04/2016 9:38:36 AM Don reminds me of the only soldier in step amongst a hundred of his fellows. He and thos.....
» 20/04/2016 12:20:53 PM Yes Yuri, and like arguing with a mindless uncomprehending broken record that just keeps s.....
» 20/04/2016 12:09:04 PM Yes Cobber, those who march do so to honor the fallen, not to glorify war! And but for tho.....
» 20/04/2016 11:42:13 AM The sky is falling. You say it's not. So what redress do I have? This article starts wit.....
» 19/04/2016 12:12:14 PM If you say so Alon. However, let me correct some of your well intentioned comments. Saud.....
» 19/04/2016 11:43:21 AM Another anti-Turnbull rant from an Abbott devotee? In any event, not removing a patently.....
» 19/04/2016 11:23:40 AM Well as someone who spent most of their formative years languishing in orphanages and vari.....
» 17/04/2016 11:17:24 AM Sad but true Armchair critic. But putting an x against every candidate just assists the in.....
» 17/04/2016 10:49:59 AM ttbn: Mobility scooters come in all shapes and sizes some even have tracks and can cope wi.....
» 16/04/2016 9:29:29 AM Yes ttbn, I have a gun cabinet and chock full of long and short arms. I can, even now pu.....
» 16/04/2016 8:43:16 AM That says it all Granny. Even so, as usual, I'll be examining the policy offering and ma.....
» 15/04/2016 10:21:17 AM I think it is high time we stopped worrying about the perceived rights of these inhuman ch.....
» 15/04/2016 9:31:49 AM People who buy lithium and turn it into batteries are adding value and sharing prosperity......
» 14/04/2016 12:55:12 PM All well and good Chris. And too hard an ask given the absolute paucity of future vision a.....
» 14/04/2016 12:31:40 PM Some useful forward looking and thinking here Syd. And just the sort of future vision mi.....
» 14/04/2016 11:57:14 AM This is so far off the mark to almost be a work of fiction or just cherry picked observati.....
» 14/04/2016 8:55:11 AM No I don't envisage lots of stops just four or five? And these places would be out in wh.....
» 13/04/2016 12:40:22 PM Yes Joe and to correct any misunderstanding; I meant the third busiest in terms of domesti.....
» 13/04/2016 11:39:37 AM Sexual appetites attraction and desire are part of what we call normal in all adult humans.....
» 13/04/2016 11:04:06 AM Yup, agree mostly with the article! One should never forget that derivatives (bank produ.....
» 13/04/2016 9:57:42 AM Obviously the author doesn't like or want fast trains, or should that read real competitio.....
» 12/04/2016 6:15:13 PM Has, I take it you've never been involved in routine intell collection or analysis have yo.....
» 12/04/2016 5:14:25 PM THe only real losers here Mikk, are our kids! And were we to instead focus on just best .....
» 12/04/2016 4:57:27 PM And as always a seemingly anti reconciliation and anti recognition John seeks to divide fo.....
» 12/04/2016 11:19:17 AM Well, that's just one opinion or take! All that prevents a Turnbull government being ret.....
» 12/04/2016 10:51:40 AM I find myself agreeing with Milton Friedman, and would rather see the same bucket of educa.....
» 12/04/2016 9:30:02 AM As usual a shiite stirring spray, that adroitly avoids the real problem. And pedophilia .....
» 11/04/2016 11:32:53 AM Good analysis, that clearly and quite massively understates the problem, while advancing n.....
» 11/04/2016 11:15:53 AM Hear, hear and well argued sir! The fully paid for and income earning referenced Snowy Mou.....
» 11/04/2016 10:40:18 AM The only delusionary modeling I've seen in reference to climate modeling is contained in t.....
» 11/04/2016 7:53:53 AM I have never claimed to be horrified by all violence, given for some situations there is n.....
» 8/04/2016 5:24:04 PM Alon, it takes two to tango, and a lot of what you've outlined in a letter, than will like.....
» 8/04/2016 5:06:25 PM Only a complete and utter fool or an intransigent recalcitrant conservative (same diff) wo.....
» 8/04/2016 4:42:53 PM I don't believe anyone can dress up domestic violence and present it as a socialist or fem.....
» 8/04/2016 8:00:52 AM Lego, I think you're on to something with your, drifting too far to the left analysis; and.....
» 7/04/2016 12:55:26 PM Of course there's a soul or spirit being. And evidenced by children born without one, bein.....
» 7/04/2016 11:59:01 AM I believe there's a case for integrity in politics, and indeed in all your dealings with o.....
» 7/04/2016 11:07:58 AM Pyne, Trump and Turnbull walked into a bar, you'd think, one of them would have seen it! .....
» 6/04/2016 10:45:48 AM It's too broad a brush depiction of Islam; and to the point of, I believe, islamophobia? .....
» 6/04/2016 10:02:15 AM Well, when it comes to egos, Malcolm can't fit into the same room as his? Even so, his h.....
» 6/04/2016 9:42:25 AM The Irish had the right idea, when they created the celtic economic miracle via the simple.....
» 6/04/2016 8:20:15 AM In today's politics, it's hard to find a right or left, just an up or down, good policy ve.....
» 5/04/2016 10:05:10 AM The only folk with crystal balls are Gypsies? And bare back horse riding for them, just ha.....
» 5/04/2016 9:55:26 AM David as usual your blinkered and myopically focused analysis is way off the mark. Malco.....
» 5/04/2016 9:37:43 AM Graham: I believe any progressive conservative worthy of that nomenclature, would never ev.....
» 4/04/2016 1:42:02 PM I think I agree with most of this and have frequently critiqued our massively manipulated .....
» 4/04/2016 1:29:46 PM Free speech that doesn't include a right to offend is just not free! And amply exampled in.....
» 4/04/2016 1:19:49 PM Well CW has said most of it and ably completed by Cobber! Rhrosty......
» 4/04/2016 1:14:43 PM Any positives coming out of dehumanizing big cities has been made obsolete by things like .....
» 4/04/2016 8:35:41 AM A few simple keystrokes is all that is needed to virtually double the money supply. (Quant.....
» 3/04/2016 12:00:45 PM Armchair critic:, why shouldn't they? Rhrosty......
» 3/04/2016 11:54:22 AM Actually Has, it was mostly the creation of welfare for the rich when we had river of gold.....
» 3/04/2016 11:02:39 AM If Trump wins the republican nomination then the presidency; the best thing coming out of .....
» 2/04/2016 11:46:39 AM There are over fifty million displaced persons in the world, more than that created by WW1.....
» 2/04/2016 10:44:20 AM I remember reading in some exclusive men's magazine around half a century ago, that men wh.....
» 2/04/2016 10:17:31 AM Hear hear Aidan and well said. The article is based on an entirely false premise. Namely.....
» 2/04/2016 9:27:45 AM Armchair critic says it all, and can find nothing worthwhile to add. Rhrosty......
» 31/03/2016 12:56:07 PM Yes, and given that's so, no case can be made for allowing these medieval cultures any fur.....
» 31/03/2016 12:29:14 PM I'm sorry David but see no merit and nothing but environmental harm in your simplistic sol.....
» 31/03/2016 11:36:47 AM We are under no obligation to import generational immutable hostility or cultures struck i.....
» 31/03/2016 8:55:42 AM Prebs, That's the dumbest obfuscation I've seen posted thus far. I'm at loss to understa.....
» 30/03/2016 12:06:25 PM The main problem is the change of emphasis from a properly funded essential service to an .....
» 30/03/2016 11:48:25 AM Good analysis Nicholas, And things like a ramped up electric car production, with Tesla to.....
» 30/03/2016 10:58:49 AM To be or not to be? Aye, that's the rub? And as was the tradition of the times, just asks .....
» 30/03/2016 10:05:31 AM Definitely: My usually reliable judgement tells me that a patently narcissistic Presiden.....
» 29/03/2016 1:21:36 PM I have a brother in law, hanthony 'ancock, not 'is real name ou migrated here wiv 'is pare.....
» 29/03/2016 12:29:52 PM Okay got it wrong, Canada is not a republic, but a completely autonomous federal democracy.....
» 29/03/2016 11:59:51 AM I believe you've hit the nail on the proverbial head, Cobber, and our only viable solution.....
» 29/03/2016 11:45:08 AM I agree with most of the article and we have options that may well include factory manufac.....
» 29/03/2016 10:50:42 AM It was once postulated that land was the basis of all wealth! And just antiquated nonsense.....
» 29/03/2016 9:27:37 AM The financial collapse has two definable causes. #1, A distinct lack of governing regula.....
» 29/03/2016 8:27:20 AM The Japanese were indeed our WW1 allies as they are again today, and the symbol on the Aus.....
» 28/03/2016 8:59:03 AM Yes Diver, Witlim was, I believe, among other things a gutless wonder. Who caved in to Ind.....
» 26/03/2016 9:34:17 AM Yes Is Mise, however we just can't wait for millennia for our current crop of turds, or fa.....
» 26/03/2016 9:11:42 AM Yes Peter and apologies. Some of the "authoritative" historians I read as a much.....
» 24/03/2016 10:28:13 AM Yes fanciful indeed! But then what can you expect from patently pompous parsimonious pol.....
» 24/03/2016 10:11:18 AM Look, our Australian borders are not new but have existed for decades,(centuries even) and.....
» 24/03/2016 9:29:29 AM Propaganda John? Parenthetically that's your particular forte, and none better at it or se.....
» 24/03/2016 9:20:33 AM Indeed Peter, there is no way of knowing if he said these words or the intent expressed th.....
» 23/03/2016 10:28:34 AM As april 1 approaches and health insurance rates go up yet again; and as usual, significan.....
» 23/03/2016 9:50:12 AM Thankfully new technology will enable better targeting by radiation therapy that just targ.....
» 23/03/2016 9:29:38 AM Strage? Safe schools was perfectly fine when rolled out and fully funded by the (inclusive.....
» 23/03/2016 9:23:49 AM This rubbish is not political analysis, just an Abbott supporter wish list!? Having said.....
» 23/03/2016 9:04:10 AM Yes and we're blindsided due to lack of verifiable intell! And that is because folks with .....
» 22/03/2016 5:05:51 PM This program was rolled out and fully funded by the Abbot lead government! Without so mu.....
» 22/03/2016 10:16:28 AM If you are gay,it's not something that can be taught or acquired after birth! Or bullied o.....
» 22/03/2016 9:55:10 AM Well David as usual you seem to think only other folk need to be bound by past agreements......
» 22/03/2016 9:31:01 AM What's best, well being true to yourself is a good start, say what you mean and mean what .....
» 22/03/2016 8:25:40 AM It's a no brainer, if we are to assume anything whatsoever, it is that these victims of th.....
» 21/03/2016 6:34:25 PM Tas there's no imperative to burn coal to create electricity, save govt policy and revenue.....
» 21/03/2016 5:08:00 PM You don't want to get out of bed and go and vote! And like any juvenile you storm in and t.....
» 21/03/2016 10:36:58 AM Possibly? Take the money for nothing profit demanding market manipulating speculators out .....
» 21/03/2016 10:18:06 AM Well the homophobes need time to mount their mendacious and divisive campaign hence the de.....
» 21/03/2016 10:05:30 AM Anyone can cherry pick data and have their particular selection say anything they want. Co.....
» 21/03/2016 9:36:37 AM No one is claiming that Christians didn't care about the poor, why Christian Conservatives.....
» 21/03/2016 8:41:08 AM JF, Thanks mate, suggest you take a bopeep at www.gizmag.com for the latest relevent info......
» 20/03/2016 11:58:42 AM Chinese scientists are reportedly experimenting with a VLT, that might nudge 3,000 KLMPH, .....
» 20/03/2016 10:52:44 AM As a former paramedic who manned ambulances, I'm here to say. Jenny's article is essential.....
» 20/03/2016 10:25:09 AM Yes there is a mandate, given anything less would turn our "DEMOCRACY" [by the p.....
» 19/03/2016 6:23:02 PM Well rare agreement with Adian, and given every decade of delay doubles rollout costs, we .....
» 19/03/2016 5:13:37 PM Three years is three years too long for a bad government or even just a lame duck Hung gov.....
» 18/03/2016 12:08:44 PM JF, YOU keep making your surely comments that ignore reality, namely the service would be .....
» 18/03/2016 11:37:21 AM Yes bren your points are germane, however we don't have a queen who can order a brutal beh.....
» 18/03/2016 10:56:40 AM Yes Jenny and all true! While much is cultural and learned behavior, there surely has to.....
» 18/03/2016 10:08:39 AM Malcolm and his preferred policies need to face the electorate and win a mandate for both,.....
» 18/03/2016 9:27:47 AM Electrically powered fast trains use locally available fuel! When a train stops there's .....
» 17/03/2016 11:59:46 AM The big picture? And pray tell what is that? How to differentiate between flesh and fish? .....
» 17/03/2016 11:34:10 AM Well what did we expect from individualism, and private enterprise outsourcing? An improve.....
» 17/03/2016 10:49:56 AM Well the premise of the argument is inherently correct? However, the same can't be said .....
» 17/03/2016 9:22:15 AM I just don't think the Trump phenomena could be repeated here? We've already had our pauli.....
» 16/03/2016 11:26:01 AM Done all that Cobber, even so, am unable to stop the server from imposing extorted money f.....
» 16/03/2016 10:29:25 AM Murray, I don't know what the answer is, other than the authorities becoming proactive; an.....
» 16/03/2016 9:40:39 AM Yes, and it seems google are implicated and subservient? I keep receiving a notice when .....
» 16/03/2016 9:05:03 AM The musings of the brainwashed? This highly dubious article is based on an entirely unprov.....
» 15/03/2016 3:49:40 PM Has old mate, we're discussing land and water and turfing that lot out hard on the heels o.....
» 15/03/2016 3:28:52 PM Aidan, all I've required of the unrepresentative swill is they actually face the people/th.....
» 15/03/2016 9:53:02 AM I also have no beef with private schools and even less they way they manage and account fo.....
» 15/03/2016 9:26:51 AM Just so Cobber, however we just can't make it rain. We know that all that remains is dam.....
» 15/03/2016 9:14:10 AM The only applicable comment comes from the past and Paul Keating, who described similar ob.....
» 15/03/2016 8:56:41 AM I quite like Barnaby, particularly when he was that courage of conviction Queensland rebel.....
» 14/03/2016 8:54:26 AM Well, he has a very real chance of making Barnaby, the first deputy dawg to possibly lose .....
» 14/03/2016 8:36:22 AM Sad but true commentary! And given that says it all, nothing else to add. Rhrosty.....
» 14/03/2016 8:30:42 AM At first I was tempted to say yes, poor ickle didums,then sanity prevailed and so the resp.....
» 14/03/2016 8:24:39 AM The last thing the average Argentinian motorist is going to worry about, is those poor imp.....
» 13/03/2016 10:26:52 AM Malcolm was stabbed in the back b Mr Abbott. Then Mr Abbott promised the earth to win the .....
» 13/03/2016 10:02:44 AM I'm always surprised by some appeals, like the one presented to the high court, claiming e.....
» 13/03/2016 9:47:34 AM One recalls how popular Herr Hitler was when elected and on racist and popularist issues! .....
» 12/03/2016 5:47:05 PM Well those that have unmet needs, are hardly likely to be the well off! And able to engage.....
» 12/03/2016 8:01:46 AM Given mormons are also prolific breeders, it therefore follows they must also live in abje.....
» 11/03/2016 10:44:26 AM Risible Rubbish! No always mens no! What it looks like and what it is, might well be two.....
» 11/03/2016 10:32:29 AM There are no ifs, buts or maybes here! If you know you are infected with a life threaten.....
» 11/03/2016 10:12:11 AM It really is quite a puzzle Brian, given we are only one country, one economy and harming .....
» 11/03/2016 9:38:30 AM I'm sorry Syd, I just don't share your "analysis"; and make the point, that cour.....
» 11/03/2016 9:24:53 AM Gidday Graham,I think Malcolm has had some good and worthwhile ideas, and indeed, clearly .....
» 11/03/2016 8:09:14 AM Killarney: There's much in what you say, and I was one of those who worked till they dropp.....
» 11/03/2016 7:22:18 AM That's the problem, since when has stolen land become the property of the thief? Who then .....
» 10/03/2016 11:13:31 AM Many of the problems associated with aging are because of reduced blood flow to important .....
» 10/03/2016 10:35:53 AM Of course we should work longer, but only if the "work" is done sitting at a des.....
» 10/03/2016 9:59:48 AM Emotional diatribe: You simply can't imagine what it must be like for someone falling pr.....
» 10/03/2016 9:11:18 AM Wedge politics patently designed to shore up Jewish votes and political donations!? Rhros.....
» 9/03/2016 2:53:42 PM Well Has, I suppose lick up is your particular forte? I'm just not into that(spit, spit).....
» 9/03/2016 2:40:42 PM Shadow minister: I've always thought of charities and political parties, as two very dif.....
» 9/03/2016 10:27:49 AM Rosie, have you looked at the sheer number of hoops you are required to jump through in or.....
» 9/03/2016 10:01:57 AM Rosie, excellent article that explains open accountable Government, Aussie style, and than.....
» 9/03/2016 9:50:54 AM A couple of things. I'm quite happy that only one single central authority has any inheren.....
» 9/03/2016 9:18:21 AM Like you Max, I don't believe directors/union bosses have any inherent right to donate mem.....
» 9/03/2016 8:48:22 AM Excellent cogent analysis! As you say, the only ethnic in the woodpile is the very real .....
» 8/03/2016 10:12:27 AM Wrong again Adian. Nuclear submarines can operate in shallow water if the inboard coolant .....
» 8/03/2016 9:37:44 AM I'm almost sure most folk believe we are doing more than we need to, for economic migrants.....
» 8/03/2016 9:11:23 AM THe problems are, you can't put an old head on young shoulders, testosterone overload impa.....
» 8/03/2016 8:49:34 AM At first I was puzzled by the article and what the Author was trying to say or infer? howe.....
» 7/03/2016 4:54:26 PM Hare/Clark? no good? So, what about Duckworth Lewis or Jerry Mander? No? Optional preferen.....
» 7/03/2016 9:30:26 AM Educated and erudite, and almost impossible to argue with the analysis or any of the self .....
» 7/03/2016 9:17:39 AM Well I simply have to agree with the court of public opinion! I too have a blood pressur.....
» 7/03/2016 8:52:34 AM What did we expect? Create a climate and an institution that attracted power wielding pe.....
» 7/03/2016 8:14:05 AM Well something has to change, given the current fundamentally flawed system was self evide.....
» 7/03/2016 8:10:39 AM Yes and however, The changes put the preferencing back in the voters hands, allegedly And .....
» 6/03/2016 10:29:38 AM The only place to light a fire Yoyo, is under folks like you, whose grasp of intellectual .....
» 5/03/2016 5:17:36 PM Reversing climate change is just not that difficult. First cab off the rank is to repla.....
» 5/03/2016 11:03:54 AM And let's not conveniently confuse service charges with the actual infrastructure the prov.....
» 5/03/2016 10:27:09 AM We are just one country with one single economy! Harm any part of it, and you harm all of .....
» 5/03/2016 9:32:00 AM Well and given he is right one of those rare times, where I'm almost forced to agree with .....
» 5/03/2016 9:00:19 AM I remember a time when some smart person (now doing time) creating a program to pay all Q'.....
» 5/03/2016 8:38:29 AM Yes Suse, And another, if you don't understand it don't buy it! However the suggestion t.....
» 3/03/2016 5:40:24 PM I'm afraid I have to agree with Salman Rushdie, and freedom of expression can only be free.....
» 3/03/2016 5:15:26 PM Big Nana: Every school is populated by responsible teachers, and they act as filters on an.....
» 3/03/2016 1:08:54 PM Yes, but requires an attitudinal adjustment! At the moment aged folk are providing big p.....
» 3/03/2016 12:07:21 PM Yes, very accurate history lesson and the part played by billionaire oil speculators, who .....
» 3/03/2016 11:23:47 AM What you are suggesting Joe, is hardly any different than the exercise of brute force powe.....
» 3/03/2016 9:32:10 AM Aidan, your information is as almost always, hopelessly out of date and wrong. Recent ad.....
» 3/03/2016 9:21:21 AM Joe, Pumping water anywhere requires energy and pumping copious quantities requires copiou.....
» 2/03/2016 6:48:38 PM Joe: Well if your house was summarily demolished by an order of the state then your ancest.....
» 2/03/2016 11:05:01 AM 11-15% growth in relatively small economy is impressive. But seemingly slower 5-7.5% growt.....
» 2/03/2016 10:38:55 AM WTF are you rabbiting on about David? Refugee camps presented as gravy trains!? You driv.....
» 2/03/2016 10:13:15 AM Given recent advances in solar thermal power and desalination (operational data, not theor.....
» 2/03/2016 9:21:22 AM China could electrify most of the streets that are us routes, and then replace the smoky d.....
» 2/03/2016 9:09:08 AM Our trade minister was in china recently to progress the FTA. And reported when back here,.....
» 1/03/2016 10:51:01 AM Pedophiles are not just attracted to boys, but little girls as well! Little doubt that t.....
» 1/03/2016 10:30:46 AM Tim, the problem with the centre left is they became the centre right, and arguably more r.....
» 1/03/2016 9:57:56 AM I'm sorry Max but completely disagree, with your fatuous and empty argument; having a fore.....
» 1/03/2016 9:33:08 AM Well Peter, common ground on homosexuality, being an aberration of the natural order, that.....
» 29/02/2016 5:22:12 PM Someone who tries to justify the annexation of Ukraine's sovereign territory, by the bigge.....
» 29/02/2016 11:08:44 AM Mineral sands have long had thorium, thrown away with the other wasted minerals, like lith.....
» 29/02/2016 10:39:17 AM WollyB, Pilger has developed a terrible reputation that must surely make propaganda promul.....
» 29/02/2016 9:39:12 AM Hear, hear, succinctly put and exactly Curmugeon! And given that is so, community consen.....
» 29/02/2016 9:32:40 AM Interesting opinion. However, if a commision with unpalatable and intrusive powers to fo.....
» 29/02/2016 9:01:22 AM You found some secret document John? That must have been exciting, breaking into secret .....
» 29/02/2016 8:44:15 AM We have significant to copious deposits of lithium, found where we have thorium in a two f.....
» 28/02/2016 10:12:12 PM The eastern seaboard is one of the busiest air routes in the world, and given a VLT could .....
» 28/02/2016 9:33:41 PM Bring on the plebiscite! Better yet make "equality" an election issue and stop w.....
» 28/02/2016 10:58:06 AM Onthebeach: Landlords who buy older and more expensive houses as investment, often have to.....
» 28/02/2016 10:35:23 AM Very fast trains could be built along straight lines, if the line was either in shallow co.....
» 28/02/2016 10:04:18 AM The self evident homophobes posting here are it seems, more offended by difference than th.....
» 27/02/2016 11:54:34 AM Yes Geoff, and and the rest of the world confronts saudi and Iraq, where the oil is so clo.....
» 27/02/2016 12:05:42 AM We are one of very few nations not to opt for self terminating thirty year, government gua.....
» 26/02/2016 10:24:45 PM On and on they go claiming that homosexuals choose to be that way, and nothing could be fu.....
» 26/02/2016 9:57:35 PM If you buy a $500,000.00 investment house, the capital outlay will be the deposit $50,00.0.....
» 26/02/2016 9:35:03 AM Lies, lies and damn statistics! Over and over we're told how many mums and dads have modes.....
» 26/02/2016 9:13:01 AM Hear, hear and well said Foyle. Rhrosty......
» 26/02/2016 9:05:09 AM ttbn, a war is never really over until you win the hearts and minds of former enemies. And.....
» 26/02/2016 8:42:13 AM Killarny, during the second world war a lot of those metal heads deliberately fired over t.....
» 25/02/2016 7:31:13 PM Big Nana; I think you should read me again if only to ascertain I was mostly agreeing with.....
» 25/02/2016 1:24:34 PM Some pollies are attracted to parliament for all the wrong reasons? They talk of power and.....
» 25/02/2016 12:58:40 PM Well, given the partisan nature of some of our speakers, choosing a president by that meth.....
» 25/02/2016 12:25:52 PM Well, there are always more than just the bare facts, such as extenuating circumstance the.....
» 25/02/2016 12:09:27 PM Conscription? yes and no. One volunteer is worth 7 pressed men! One only needs look at t.....
» 25/02/2016 10:49:38 AM Powerful and passionate message Alon, which I fear will fall on deaf ears? The reason th.....
» 24/02/2016 5:42:31 PM Aidan: you keep on saying an unavoidable expenditure tax is avoidable? Repetition of ris.....
» 24/02/2016 5:22:46 PM Yes cal. an 800,000 mortgage remains the same regardless of market movements, given you we.....
» 24/02/2016 11:18:18 AM Well, let me make this point about David Cameron. His approach is like that of a marriage .....
» 24/02/2016 10:20:30 AM Hard to argue with any of that given my Girls learnt both! Even so, I'd be happier if th.....
» 24/02/2016 9:25:32 AM Well I'd like to see the 5 permanent members of the Security council agree on anything, le.....
» 23/02/2016 10:00:57 AM Exactly and hear, hear loudmouth. I don't see how this is the US's problem. And somethin.....
» 23/02/2016 9:31:57 AM Well, public transport needs to be covered by substantial affordable parking stations to b.....
» 23/02/2016 8:56:42 AM This is round earth stuff coming from a patent flat earther, who clearly disbelieves in Go.....
» 22/02/2016 11:56:59 AM Yes Edward, James Hacker has a lot to answer for, however I'm not advocating people who co.....
» 22/02/2016 9:54:20 AM No, we just don't need to open the door to folks based solely on their ability to pay, but.....
» 22/02/2016 9:28:28 AM Well David, just because you are unable to empathise with grieving parents who've lost a s.....
» 22/02/2016 8:57:50 AM The problem with this thesis, it tries to further commodify an essential service. As they'.....
» 22/02/2016 8:31:41 AM Syria? Well what can America do? The rebels are a divided rabble, the Turks are shelling.....
» 21/02/2016 11:01:05 AM Suse, from my understanding sexual orientation is not down to any gene? but rather two of .....
» 20/02/2016 5:18:39 PM Suse, given we are discussing clergy, I thought you might enjoy the following story. Man.....
» 20/02/2016 4:43:16 PM Runner: Their land?.....
» 19/02/2016 4:47:03 PM What you and every other freedom loving African is asking for, is like building a mighty c.....
» 19/02/2016 4:23:45 PM Well you've finally come clean and admitted there's no intention on the part of the Israel.....
» 19/02/2016 4:06:02 PM I see nothing wrong with a nominally christian country creating laws that protect/entrench.....
» 19/02/2016 3:50:48 PM I just don't see any possible connection to theoretical marxism and so called sexual freed.....
» 19/02/2016 3:37:41 PM Aidan, if we know there are tax loopholes? WTF? If we know? We should close them? Are you .....
» 19/02/2016 12:02:10 PM If we replace the current can of worms called a tax act, with a stand alone entirely unavo.....
» 19/02/2016 8:29:09 AM Geoff mate, I have actually stated that some debt is useful and or productive, when used f.....
» 18/02/2016 7:31:43 PM Bazz you are right on the money with cheap energy, and that's not coal! We have much che.....
» 18/02/2016 6:50:08 PM Yes Aidan, generally folks that claim they pay the most taxes are the wealthiest, and ofte.....
» 18/02/2016 12:37:22 PM Aidan: The best debt is that which is owed to you and not that which claims around 30-50% .....
» 18/02/2016 11:49:16 AM Yes Syd, and a clarion called for those, who like warm and comfortable frogs are being gra.....
» 18/02/2016 11:09:24 AM I'm sorry Tristan, but I have to disagree with you on this one. Spending can be reduced an.....
» 18/02/2016 10:31:13 AM Well I suppose it would have been moral to allow undocumented folks, some possibly with cr.....
» 17/02/2016 5:04:07 PM Oil was just $13.00 a barrel before the first oil shock, and no doubt manipulated by the u.....
» 17/02/2016 9:12:42 AM Well John, the GST was a bad tax from the day it was rammed down our collective and unwill.....
» 17/02/2016 8:41:14 AM The critics weren't nearly so verbose when multi billion oil speculators pushed the price .....
» 17/02/2016 8:08:39 AM A good news story Andrew of the wisdom of staying the course until the job is truly done! .....
» 16/02/2016 9:18:28 AM Exactly! and called telling it like it is! Rhrosty......
» 16/02/2016 9:04:15 AM Looking in from the outside again Peter? So how can you understand love? And why do you th.....
» 16/02/2016 8:02:54 AM Yes there was a time when the media recorded the news, now what we seem to see are opinion.....
» 15/02/2016 6:43:04 PM I sort of agree with you Peter and would like to see all public hospitals means test their.....
» 15/02/2016 6:31:18 PM I just don't see how starving the civilian population to death is going to do anything but.....
» 15/02/2016 6:10:21 PM I think the problem even though it's had billions thrown at it, are aboriginal elitists, w.....
» 15/02/2016 5:41:12 PM I think the author is grasping at straws and or false positives? As for science unable t.....
» 14/02/2016 8:09:51 AM Hear, hear, Armchair critic, someone not afraid to call it as it is and as plain as the no.....
» 13/02/2016 9:17:23 AM I forgot to mention the small drone I'd need to eyeball the lie of the land and the ".....
» 13/02/2016 8:53:02 AM Yes I do mean the ultra orthodox Jews who to a man are supported by the state. Yes, they.....
» 12/02/2016 4:51:56 PM I never implied I wanted the new settlers to do military service, just the hard line funda.....
» 12/02/2016 10:46:06 AM If netanyahu is powerless to put a deal on the table that all sides except militant settle.....
» 12/02/2016 9:41:15 AM If Waleed Aly and his ilk find that Australia is such a uncivilized place, he remains comp.....
» 12/02/2016 9:01:07 AM This is no better than the pot calling the kettle black! Surely such killing are reprehens.....
» 12/02/2016 8:30:01 AM Sometimes the law is an ass, but only because the folks charged with interpreting it are a.....
» 10/02/2016 6:09:00 PM One can read between the lines and the hugely resented loss of Authority/influence? The re.....
» 10/02/2016 5:53:58 PM Leaders with righteous courage! Where are those indomitable Leaders today? Not those int.....
» 10/02/2016 5:33:49 PM Madman dictators and Africa seem to go hand in hand. We here in the west have other option.....
» 10/02/2016 4:58:52 PM Yes Ant, and all happening while our solar furnace has been in a waning (cooling) phase si.....
» 10/02/2016 7:54:27 AM Such polls a have been taken, suggest that only the voter elected head of state has a chan.....
» 10/02/2016 7:34:39 AM Well given coal mining is becoming increasingly unprofitable, even though power supply cha.....
» 9/02/2016 4:23:06 PM Mhaze; Hansard keeps a very accurate record of who said what and when in our nation's parl.....
» 9/02/2016 11:26:48 AM The last time the issue was raised, it was effectively killed off, although having popular.....
» 9/02/2016 10:42:26 AM Insult the intelligence of Labor MP's? Intelligence? what intelligence? Could that be .....
» 9/02/2016 10:28:48 AM Why indeed? And given all maths and equations were settled hundreds of years ago, why do w.....
» 9/02/2016 9:55:53 AM As always Adian you're full of it! Your idea of using the RBA to fund an expanded economy.....
» 9/02/2016 9:41:55 AM Killarney:You do write a lot of risible rubbish! Everybody knows that the Celtic economi.....
» 8/02/2016 2:08:07 PM Pt Augusta might suit a pebble reactor, which is cooled by helium, not water. These reac.....
» 8/02/2016 9:29:56 AM If I lived next door to a nuclear reactor, I'd probably be exposed to more radiation, if I.....
» 8/02/2016 8:52:06 AM Well, I think Britain should ask the people who still want to belong to the UK, If they wa.....
» 8/02/2016 8:35:28 AM I have a better idea David, and just means test all public hospital admissions except say .....
» 6/02/2016 8:36:49 AM Q: If you noted, as you drove out or a small country town, several refugee advocate lawyer.....
» 6/02/2016 8:16:56 AM Adian. Surely someone as obviously as smart as you hasn't swallowed all that BS, if he wen.....
» 5/02/2016 9:43:44 AM Yes runner, if we make exceptions and allow these "publicly supported" numbskull.....
» 5/02/2016 8:56:56 AM China needs to take a couple of step back and develop a more conciliatory attitude and sta.....
» 5/02/2016 8:45:15 AM Exactly Chris, John as usual defends the R soles of the world? Assange is a bail jumping n.....
» 4/02/2016 6:41:43 PM Adian, our own funds have some two trillion dollars, if we were smart, we would coax most .....
» 4/02/2016 12:09:26 PM Well we could borrow some money if the terms we good enough? And use it to finance some in.....
» 4/02/2016 11:41:50 AM We? In our universities more women seem to graduate than men currently. As for the popul.....
» 4/02/2016 11:02:42 AM In a nation that has the very best democracy money can buy. Trump just hasn't got enough m.....
» 4/02/2016 10:35:11 AM Foreign investment? Why when if we just encourage our own super funds to invest here, we'd.....
» 3/02/2016 6:04:30 PM A returning dead person, or rather their eternal life force and basic personality, would i.....
» 3/02/2016 4:58:57 PM We have some 2 trillion in our super funds, yet most of this money is invested offshore? .....
» 3/02/2016 11:42:24 AM If the family home can be sold to replace the pension, then what about health care bills, .....
» 3/02/2016 10:36:58 AM Jon J says most of it for me and can add little. Except to say the article was, well jus.....
» 3/02/2016 9:57:41 AM Continued and expanded. We have to stop allowing other nations to not only decide our dest.....
» 3/02/2016 9:23:51 AM If we jettisoned the entire tax act, because it's garbage full of endless tax avoidance lo.....
» 2/02/2016 10:36:40 AM The shocking truth about MH370, is that we don't know the shocking truth about MH370! And .....
» 2/02/2016 10:20:28 AM I'm not sure how effective any constitutional change would be Brian, even if you could per.....
» 2/02/2016 9:48:48 AM I don't know how many times I need to repeat it, but we must have better border controls! .....
» 1/02/2016 10:37:00 AM THere is no understanding of this madness! Simply put, the people, all of them who presc.....
» 1/02/2016 10:21:49 AM There's a lot in what you say Robert and I agree with most of your conclusions. This is th.....
» 1/02/2016 9:11:32 AM I like David. Here's what a true outspoken leader looks like! a man who calls a spade a sp.....
» 1/02/2016 8:13:22 AM Onthebeach. Ditto! Suse, I'm not angry just tired to the point of outrage with all the e.....
» 31/01/2016 6:06:24 PM Hi Cherful, the bananas have all gone, but there's a bit of chocolate cake left. Mind yo.....
» 31/01/2016 5:45:52 PM Thanks for that Is mise. Incidently I like the idea of visibly armed phys Ed teachers in s.....
» 31/01/2016 5:00:22 PM Yes, and thanks for that mhaze. I hope that the indians aren't simply gilding the lily her.....
» 31/01/2016 4:24:21 PM I was in the system very recently and I was told in no uncertain terms, that I was a nursi.....
» 31/01/2016 10:52:42 AM My mother had to have an operation to remove a goitre, which had compromised a carotid art.....
» 31/01/2016 9:46:15 AM Mostly agree, Is Mise, and would like to see the stats on gun crime, which you claim is hi.....
» 31/01/2016 9:18:25 AM mhaze, Yes and sorry, It was years ago when I read a scholarly and credible article, writt.....
» 31/01/2016 8:07:00 AM She drives a car aged 84? And can afford to maintain it and pay for the fuel bill with the.....
» 30/01/2016 10:58:07 AM Discuss the issues David? Well I could have, but would have risked being labeled just too .....
» 30/01/2016 10:21:40 AM Read everything I written above and then given a still functioning cerebral cortex, unders.....
» 30/01/2016 10:18:13 AM The chinese are throwing mega bucks at thorium by building a reactor a week a week. And gi.....
» 30/01/2016 9:30:55 AM There are too many cogent and believable stories of out of body experiences to simply assu.....
» 29/01/2016 9:55:31 AM Yakity yak and blah blah that's all I hear all day, from you david and your broken record .....
» 29/01/2016 9:49:11 AM I don't care how he's dressed David, I would love to change places with Clark Kent! Even.....
» 29/01/2016 9:39:42 AM Sorry Tim your approach is completely wrong. There's huge economic upsides to opting for c.....
» 29/01/2016 8:59:27 AM Yes Paul. a quarter of a century ago my life was irreparably changed, by multiple spine fr.....
» 28/01/2016 10:54:44 AM Labor just does not need more doctors or merchant bankers and lawyers however clever! Far .....
» 28/01/2016 10:24:22 AM Given someone else has raised it. The worse than useless nats, who after the usual talk fe.....
» 28/01/2016 9:41:13 AM Continued: Having said that, let me say this, I don't see very much changing in "NE.....
» 28/01/2016 9:20:02 AM Maybe not, not is there any other actual choice? Does anyone actually believe that sancti.....
» 28/01/2016 8:57:37 AM Hear, hear, and well said John. Rhrosty......
» 28/01/2016 8:44:05 AM Leadership, vision, what's that? New ideas original thinking, what's that? A future? Let's.....
» 27/01/2016 10:00:56 AM Interesting information/history pertain to a very near and very different neighbor, and no.....
» 27/01/2016 9:47:09 AM Yes, Malaysia's PM apparently sent some 62 million back to the Saudis? but that still appa.....
» 27/01/2016 9:28:04 AM Yes and we all stood where we were and just allowed it to happen, without lifting a finger.....
» 26/01/2016 9:34:55 AM Hear, hear, Rhian, and well said! Rhrosty......
» 26/01/2016 9:31:14 AM At one time being Australian meant being fair dinkum and standing by your mate. It meant a.....
» 26/01/2016 8:58:54 AM The actual people responsible for that history and from all sides, need to front up and ow.....
» 26/01/2016 8:47:36 AM Around 95% of corporate australia is now headquartered offshore, Adian, and as the first c.....
» 25/01/2016 3:43:27 PM What happened when we were still a british colony is something outside of the control of a.....
» 25/01/2016 7:59:39 AM Adian given as you claim, ceramic fuel cells can't run on methane and give the Bluegen fue.....
» 24/01/2016 5:54:50 PM You may count chill filtering a part of the refining process Adian, but given the refining.....
» 24/01/2016 7:57:32 AM Adian. I watched an Australian invented "ceramic fuel cell" being assembled by r.....
» 23/01/2016 6:17:02 PM Suse, the emerging archaeological evidence is demonstrating that the exodus from egypt by .....
» 23/01/2016 5:54:10 PM Thanks for that Bazz. It might be of some interest, but the federal government ordered a s.....
» 23/01/2016 9:37:34 AM Electricity assets in government hands once again would enable the old aging polluting exa.....
» 23/01/2016 8:54:30 AM Bazz, you also misrepresent my written for anybody else to see remarks. I said 0 to 100 .....
» 23/01/2016 8:21:33 AM Adian so you think graphene lets a few protons through? Given we are just talking about so.....
» 22/01/2016 4:47:24 PM Just as I'm not convinced that all mystery oil slicks come exclusively from shipping Aidan.....
» 22/01/2016 9:28:30 AM Adian, I used to work in the mining industry, as a chemical engineer, where I depended on .....
» 22/01/2016 8:50:25 AM When words of unconditional love fall on deaf ears it's time for something else! Can you h.....
» 22/01/2016 8:42:06 AM Unconvincing diatribe. When has the free market protected the interests of the consumer,.....
» 21/01/2016 4:29:49 PM Curmugeon, suggest you go to California and take a bo peep at the latest actual Solar ther.....
» 21/01/2016 4:03:19 PM I'm constantly amazed at the anti climate change lobby. And given his views and prognostic.....
» 21/01/2016 3:47:37 PM Yes Pete, and interesting about the state of affairs and patent sympathies in islamist Mal.....
» 21/01/2016 3:38:14 PM Bring on the plebiscite.And take pollies at their word they will honor the expressed will .....
» 21/01/2016 9:44:35 AM Too young? Rubbish! The great Barrier Reef is just a chain of submerged mountains and part.....
» 21/01/2016 9:08:06 AM Aidan. Given we're talking about either hydrogen or methane as fuel type for all known fue.....
» 21/01/2016 8:16:42 AM Adian, Graphene is the both the strongest martial on earth,and one of the best conductors;.....
» 20/01/2016 10:29:25 AM Given increasing Co2 levels are the undisputed cause of man made climate change; there's p.....
» 20/01/2016 9:44:10 AM Risible rubbish Viv. Simply put, the great solar furnace in the sky has been in a waning.....
» 20/01/2016 9:24:46 AM Hard to disagree with any of this, Dona, a lot of Aussie kids learn to swim,by being throw.....
» 20/01/2016 9:11:59 AM I guess the low oil price is hurting the speculators james, given you seem to be clutching.....
» 19/01/2016 10:04:10 AM Correction and apologies, once the battery is fully charged, surplus alternator energy is .....
» 19/01/2016 9:58:36 AM Well, while that might be possible in the future Ben, we can do something similar now, jus.....
» 19/01/2016 9:13:59 AM In my day admitting to having some aboriginal blood was considered shameful, and those mix.....
» 19/01/2016 8:33:31 AM I saw David in Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence. As an actor he was a journeyman, with a pre.....
» 18/01/2016 2:21:54 PM I fail to see why we need to do anything about the UN, aside from remaining a good world c.....
» 18/01/2016 2:11:33 PM I fail to see how selling anything to foreigners is in our national interest. That said,.....
» 18/01/2016 1:44:56 PM Agree and Gandhi showed just how effective that could be. And worth all the sacrifices, gi.....
» 18/01/2016 9:09:33 AM A guaranteed basic income would still need to be linked to earn or learn; or failing that,.....
» 17/01/2016 11:01:56 AM Full employment would reduce the scheme's cost to less than we currently pay for job start.....
» 16/01/2016 11:12:42 AM Lifting people out of poverty has a very positive effect on society overall, with everyone.....
» 15/01/2016 9:55:35 AM It's okay to build dream castles in the clouds John, but it's a mistake to move in as a pe.....
» 15/01/2016 9:22:24 AM Thanks to the courage of eyewitness and a few intrepid investigative Journalists, these st.....
» 15/01/2016 8:37:24 AM Well, and this is the most intelligent and erudite president to inhabit the White House fo.....
» 14/01/2016 6:58:23 PM Gotta agree mainly with Chis C but point out the left has been sliding to the right now fo.....
» 13/01/2016 5:04:23 PM What right do japanese have to fish in other nation's oceans? Or in oceans, where internat.....
» 13/01/2016 12:11:17 PM Hi Joe. That number is one I can recall reading in some history book. And not all that uni.....
» 13/01/2016 9:35:18 AM Well for once we're in agreement. The Saudis will continue to flood the gluted market to.....
» 13/01/2016 9:06:59 AM Once again you go the verbal Peter and with nothing more than your par for the course grab.....
» 13/01/2016 8:41:18 AM Whales, elephants, rhinos, is there no limit on which animals we exterminate for the most .....
» 11/01/2016 4:05:04 PM Bernie, the chinese set about to deliberately downsize their population with harsh penalti.....
» 11/01/2016 10:01:25 AM Well what can you expect after so much extended by any and all means, mono party rule and .....
» 11/01/2016 9:50:12 AM I think the too rich and too powerful Saudis are sending an unmistakable strong man, I can.....
» 11/01/2016 9:41:24 AM I predict a longed for international ETS, which after simply churning mucho plenty money, .....
» 11/01/2016 8:18:18 AM I would suggest that a binding plebiscite be taken with the next general election, which w.....
» 11/01/2016 7:57:50 AM As a young man I was in uniform and taught/trained to control riots with live ammunition. .....
» 11/01/2016 7:06:23 AM Risible rubbish Raycom! Rhrosty......
» 9/01/2016 7:32:46 AM Clutching at straws here David. I'm not sure that the UN ever had any legal right to give .....
» 8/01/2016 10:18:37 AM Sorry, but this has been made into such a divisive issue by those fighting a rearguard act.....
» 8/01/2016 9:50:32 AM I'm sorry, But this is just so much feel good rhetoric? Seriously, we need to be practical.....
» 8/01/2016 9:15:05 AM Great advice from a wise elder everald! But is anybody listening? As we all know by now, .....
» 6/01/2016 8:14:23 AM Sorry, don't see any of this, just a public voting with their feet for alternatives that f.....
» 6/01/2016 7:44:07 AM WHilst historically correct, the assertion that any of this is likely to cause the coaliti.....
» 5/01/2016 12:01:55 PM We need to make better use of completely covert unbeatable space age lie detection, at our.....
» 5/01/2016 11:30:23 AM Well what do you expect, when everything is faith based and not supported by a single scar.....
» 5/01/2016 11:09:42 AM Why all this fuss about a human female? Because every human being has rights. I have dau.....
» 4/01/2016 5:56:48 PM Runner, violence simply begets more violence. I seen schools where the rod was replaced .....
» 4/01/2016 5:01:34 PM To reiterate, we don't need to use coal to build anything when we have massive deposits of.....
» 4/01/2016 4:42:13 PM Bazz. Why do you believe that the chinese are smarter than us, and why do we need to use c.....
» 4/01/2016 1:20:32 PM Some folks clearly think increased energy provision requires more fossil fuel to be burned.....
» 4/01/2016 10:33:41 AM The problem here is vested interest and the power they exert over "leaders". T.....
» 4/01/2016 9:58:09 AM We humans are not inherently evil. Albeit, somewhat self obsessed and selfish. But not to .....
» 2/01/2016 8:16:18 AM Brian sounds very much like a man many would have liked to know, and if they did would pro.....
» 2/01/2016 7:44:42 AM Dear Yuyutsu, so much intensely intimate knowledge? How come? Do you have a bug in Netanya.....
» 1/01/2016 12:47:30 PM Thanks John, lovely story and marvelous tradition. I remember evening barbeques beside c.....
» 31/12/2015 11:01:13 AM Who cares what Monk thinks about anything? Why even in places like thailand, a deeply budd.....
» 31/12/2015 10:47:27 AM Maybe? There's only one way to find out what a lemon tastes like, suck it and see! Rhro.....
» 31/12/2015 10:43:23 AM Disagree! Handing back the purloined palestinian land is the best place to start as is the.....
» 31/12/2015 10:26:30 AM Bring it on! Rhrosty......
» 31/12/2015 10:20:36 AM Tooth and nail. The greens and labor left have little if any common ground. Labor should.....
» 30/12/2015 10:52:29 AM I simply cannot see any justification of the dispossession of the palestinians, any more t.....
» 24/12/2015 9:19:07 AM Same old, same old and completely ignores the historical data, which informs us it would b.....
» 23/12/2015 11:45:48 AM Religious freedom does not confer a right to knowingly break the law or trample over the e.....
» 23/12/2015 11:02:40 AM I think the real problem are people with power giving mere lip service to a belief system .....
» 23/12/2015 10:25:43 AM Yes, but if you were as equally worried about the trampled over human rights of the Palest.....
» 23/12/2015 9:39:37 AM With one exception we are the most over governed country in the world! Why there are citi.....
» 22/12/2015 10:03:26 AM God given land? so how do you come to terms with the emerging Archaeological evidence that.....
» 22/12/2015 9:21:02 AM Hear, hear, and well said Everald. Rhrosty......
» 22/12/2015 9:10:44 AM Typically, David like all of his selfish and self centred, self serving ilk, wants to cut .....
» 22/12/2015 8:32:08 AM Congratulations Calwest in managing to count as far as five; and quite remarkable for some.....
» 21/12/2015 10:05:38 AM Yes and given most displaced people are fleeing conflict caused by power hungry madmen, on.....
» 21/12/2015 9:35:13 AM Absolutely! And easily done, simply by replacing the animal model with a few harvested hum.....
» 21/12/2015 9:27:27 AM Says who? You? And apart from endless hearsay and quite massive plagiarism! There are no e.....
» 20/12/2015 4:40:03 PM And the after burners cut in when Santa applies a barbeque lighter to the reindeer's metha.....
» 20/12/2015 9:41:37 AM Well how big is the sleigh? After all, it is expected to carry what, a couple of million.....
» 20/12/2015 8:45:58 AM Excellent erudite cogent article, that summarizes the problem very well! We know from pr.....
» 19/12/2015 9:30:42 AM Because we have been inculcated with the need for Me, Me, Me, power and money, and just be.....
» 19/12/2015 8:58:03 AM As usual Monk fishes about for the usual stuff that divides Muslims and christians. If w.....
» 17/12/2015 9:33:36 AM I'm sorry, but I find his a most unconvincing, unintelligent and troubling essay! I just d.....
» 17/12/2015 9:23:01 AM Good luck getting the morally bankrupt to find the moral imperative in the long abandoned .....
» 17/12/2015 9:13:48 AM In reading through this article I wondered if the Author wasn't channeling Santa Maria The.....
» 16/12/2015 11:58:45 AM Hi Geoff, in many cases improving food production is limited by water availability. Overco.....
» 16/12/2015 11:02:46 AM Yeah, yeah, yeah Marco. And as one would expect, there will be technological advances, lik.....
» 16/12/2015 10:37:18 AM Well, these folk didn't get where they are by being thick between the ears or afraid of a .....
» 16/12/2015 10:15:36 AM I feel completely ripped off when I discover that my charity is being plundered by so call.....
» 15/12/2015 11:05:14 AM Yes we can have clean coal, but not by just wishing for it or waiting for some investment .....
» 14/12/2015 5:14:12 PM Strippers would be well advised to save what investment capital they have; then rollout ve.....
» 14/12/2015 5:01:33 PM You'd think listening to some folk, we were limited to coal or renewables, the later being.....
» 13/12/2015 1:01:32 PM Yes Bazz, one can live in hope!? Rhrosty.....
» 13/12/2015 12:56:58 PM Seriously M'dear, I just don't give a dam! It just doesn't matter who won given it is al.....
» 13/12/2015 12:51:22 PM Yes Yuyustu, and as for (return bill) Turnbull; one needs to factor in serendipity, and an.....
» 13/12/2015 12:36:13 PM We just don't need these sort of articles, which seem to have a Privilege based bias, and .....
» 10/12/2015 10:12:15 AM A fairer tax system would allow pensions to be doubled along with the economy boosting dis.....
» 10/12/2015 9:29:45 AM It's always the same with poor me, me, me, me smokers! There's one sure fire way to beat t.....
» 9/12/2015 8:43:55 AM The real danger for North Korea is success and overestimating its power or threat. Thus .....
» 9/12/2015 8:32:18 AM The two state solution was dead buried and cremated a long time ago, with the advent of th.....
» 9/12/2015 8:23:24 AM Hear, hear. Rhrosty......
» 9/12/2015 8:19:29 AM Every now and then some popular character shows up with some popularist ideas. (Joh for Ca.....
» 9/12/2015 8:04:50 AM RUBBISH! Rhrosty......
» 8/12/2015 11:14:56 AM I'd welcome a royal commission if only to let morons like the Author to finally look at th.....
» 8/12/2015 10:42:34 AM I think you're on to something here Kellie. I mean we all now know that thorium which we h.....
» 8/12/2015 9:58:59 AM Rubbish, the U.S. Has already bombed the piss and pick handles out of ISIS oil fields, wha.....
» 7/12/2015 9:04:29 AM We need to change the health system so that it creates outcomes rather than simply line th.....
» 7/12/2015 8:29:04 AM Somewhere in all of this hype and hyperventilation has to be a fair tax scheme, you know t.....
» 6/12/2015 10:58:14 AM We talk about renewables all while ignoring some of the most basic and affordable solution.....
» 4/12/2015 5:01:46 PM More power to your prehensile thumb Geoff! There aren't enough superlatives to describe .....
» 4/12/2015 4:40:42 PM A mobility scooter/motorized wheelchair sometimes needs to use roads, foot paths, bikeways.....
» 4/12/2015 10:34:25 AM Only complete dunderheads and moribund morons would envision we could allow the ambient te.....
» 4/12/2015 9:58:42 AM I was disabled before the stroke, which hasn't resulted in some kind of improvement! On.....
» 4/12/2015 8:34:33 AM I don't give a fig if any woman wants to wear a Burqa, always providing it is solely her c.....
» 3/12/2015 9:16:36 AM Politicians the world over seem to share the same affliction an ability to supplant anythi.....
» 3/12/2015 9:09:56 AM No, but because it's all downhill. Rhrosty.....
» 3/12/2015 9:05:59 AM I wonder at the brainpower of folks who think we can go all the way out to 2C ? Which in m.....
» 1/12/2015 11:56:08 AM Folks who gun down folks sitting in wheelchairs are not heroes, just craven cowards hiding.....
» 1/12/2015 11:39:03 AM We need this census to know that affordable housing is a thing of the past, that the gap b.....
» 1/12/2015 11:23:27 AM He needs to own his own behavior and be accountable for it. Hopefully that ego and his abi.....
» 30/11/2015 9:12:06 AM Absolutely! And not before time! Rhrosty......
» 30/11/2015 9:09:14 AM I can't see anything superior to being your own man and being true to yourself and your pe.....
» 30/11/2015 8:59:42 AM In his own way Mark Latham's patent hatred of all things Islam is just as disingenuous and.....
» 30/11/2015 8:22:27 AM YES and what peace process!? Rhrosty......
» 29/11/2015 8:50:48 AM Dealing with climate change is just not that hard! The first step is to isolate all those .....
» 29/11/2015 8:23:59 AM Just because I quote from an ancient tomb, just doesn't infer or imply that I agree with t.....
» 28/11/2015 9:07:46 AM If we invented a new economic paradigm to take into account the fact that unchecked popula.....
» 27/11/2015 9:16:03 AM You've got all the (must do) solutions, bar one david; the one which compels Russia/Putin .....
» 27/11/2015 8:50:18 AM Population numbers are inherently linked to climate change! Yet we persist with an inher.....
» 27/11/2015 8:30:31 AM Mirror mirror on the wall, who is the most intellectually and wilfully disingenuous, self .....
» 26/11/2015 11:29:29 AM Not all that long ago the general populace was sent into a wide eyed open mouthed frenzy a.....
» 24/11/2015 9:18:43 AM Everyone is born to die! And not all the gold in the world will buy so much as an addition.....
» 24/11/2015 8:36:15 AM Indeed how can so many young folk be turned into murdering mindless animals with no respec.....
» 24/11/2015 8:22:57 AM Well given assisted dying can still be murder, I see very little reason to change this law.....
» 22/11/2015 12:04:58 PM Given an endlessly stalling Netanyahu is never ever going to agree to a real two state sol.....
» 22/11/2015 11:52:13 AM The trouble with the conservation foundation is their our way or the highway stance. If .....
» 22/11/2015 11:28:39 AM 2015 looks like being the warmest year on record in spite of the fact that our sun has bee.....
» 22/11/2015 10:53:45 AM All good and that's before the 80 trillion barrels of Edmonton crude comes on line thanks .....
» 18/11/2015 10:24:35 AM I just don't get the argument? It's not sexism for better looking women to earn more money.....
» 18/11/2015 10:01:25 AM The values the French need to defend are those won via bloody civil war and are Liberty, f.....
» 18/11/2015 9:29:41 AM John From Pol POt to ISIS your puerile ink never dries. If there were an award for unmitig.....
» 17/11/2015 11:51:27 PM I believe in God, a creator, and that from nothing you get nothing, I just don't believe i.....
» 16/11/2015 11:04:57 AM I think we need to call this for what it is? Extreme bloodlust, which uses any convenien.....
» 16/11/2015 10:49:04 AM Last time I looked, the U.S didn't make kalashnikovs! Enough with the blame shifting alrea.....
» 16/11/2015 10:38:45 AM One notes that some of the folks who blew themselves to hell, left behind passports, which.....
» 15/11/2015 11:18:45 AM entristmoderate: >We already have a bill of rights< You're joking? Where do I find .....
» 14/11/2015 11:47:08 AM It's not just academic dishonesty at work here but, it would seem, corruption at all level.....
» 13/11/2015 5:45:52 PM I don't know what this tells us, except Malaysia is a Muslim oriented society overseen by .....
» 13/11/2015 5:31:42 PM I don't know what being a man means, unless it's being true to your own convictions, setti.....
» 12/11/2015 6:25:25 PM My 4.2 Kw system was rated against my average power use for one year, and professionally c.....
» 12/11/2015 1:20:43 PM Lithium cobalt doesn't seem to have overheating problems? And I daresay the inclusion of g.....
» 12/11/2015 12:41:47 PM Debatable! very debatable! And just one man's opinion at the end of the day! Rhrosty......
» 12/11/2015 12:37:47 PM Laughter is often the best medicine. As is having a reason to live! Happy people content w.....
» 11/11/2015 6:47:19 PM No one commenting here is advocating any form of sick religion, just critical thinking and.....
» 11/11/2015 6:18:35 PM The human species is just around a million years old as a species! And there was a time wh.....
» 11/11/2015 10:57:44 AM Sorry love, homeshare is just not the answer, just a possible source of conflict? Wherea.....
» 11/11/2015 10:09:31 AM Forest Gump put as succinctly as it is possible with the observation, stupid is as stupid .....
» 11/11/2015 9:53:18 AM No! They must be persuaded to keep an open mind on all things, until suchtimes as there is.....
» 10/11/2015 6:06:54 PM The real myth is that we need foreign capital or expertise, when most of both have been tr.....
» 10/11/2015 5:35:27 PM Good! I own my house and am hardly affected if the bottom drops out of the market leaving .....
» 10/11/2015 5:18:59 PM I'm afraid I have to mostly agree with Doog,and note that the smart money should be aimed .....
» 6/11/2015 9:13:16 PM If you knew what was on the other side of death's door you may not be in such a hurry to o.....
» 6/11/2015 8:13:20 PM Trust? What? Trust me I'm politician? Pensioners who' s costs had risen when the GSt was i.....
» 3/11/2015 12:02:04 PM I believe we're approaching this from the wrong direction! If a male person feels he's a.....
» 3/11/2015 10:17:31 AM The nazis/Devils diciples didn't win either even with massive force or the most evil desig.....
» 3/11/2015 10:09:05 AM Imbalances? Risible rubbish! Why can't the usual plethora of market manipulators finally.....
» 1/11/2015 11:50:53 AM Well yes! is al I can add. And rightly so!.....
» 1/11/2015 11:44:08 AM Everyone says we need to put a price on carbon? But why do we need to include some 140 bil.....
» 1/11/2015 11:00:04 AM He doesn't need a strategy, the debate is well and truly over, bring on the plebiscite! R.....
» 26/10/2015 10:58:55 AM The 1922 two state solution may well be the key to this conflict? But who to trust to ke.....
» 26/10/2015 10:30:38 AM I believe the only way this can be managed is by banning all such secret donations/brown p.....
» 26/10/2015 10:20:36 AM I believe enduring entrenched incumbency is a almost guaranteed recipe for endemic corrupt.....
» 26/10/2015 10:08:12 AM Parliament has a very different look now, with the business of opposition being once again.....
» 23/10/2015 10:43:11 AM Bring on the plebiscite and stop with this ignorance personified rubbish that treats a nat.....
» 23/10/2015 10:17:53 AM Fanatical disbelief doesn't make it so. Or able to produce something from nothing. Not.....
» 23/10/2015 9:27:01 AM We need a bill of irrevocable rights which simply must include a right to be born differen.....
» 22/10/2015 4:37:47 PM e should read we, sorry......
» 22/10/2015 4:36:30 PM I fail to see how e can influence ny of that unless through withdrawn trade deals and or t.....
» 22/10/2015 4:24:53 PM Apologies For some apparently missing words which should read, almost as thoughtfully, and.....
» 22/10/2015 4:14:03 PM This surely highlights the case for in home care provided in free market competition by in.....
» 22/10/2015 3:17:56 PM Find myself mostly in agreement with Joe. And can only add, if you take a position based.....
» 21/10/2015 10:18:40 AM Before it is too late being the operative term! And that must include a halt to the new il.....
» 21/10/2015 10:02:22 AM There is a global recession and the only way to beat it is with increasingly lower energy .....
» 21/10/2015 9:46:27 AM Extremism, be it christian fundamentalism, with the worship of snakes, or at war with othe.....
» 20/10/2015 11:51:02 AM Most of the affected folk are hospitality workers and shop assistants? And where possible .....
» 20/10/2015 10:21:20 AM Is medical care on Nauru better than the third world these people come from? I certainly h.....
» 18/10/2015 8:30:04 AM Susan sweetheart, I never meant to imply/infer that nursing homes rip off the old and lone.....
» 17/10/2015 6:05:44 PM Thank you one and all for your kind thoughts and best wishes. I'm told I have made a quite.....
» 17/10/2015 10:25:54 AM One of those experiences included visiting hell and the most evil incarnate I've ever enco.....
» 17/10/2015 9:31:15 AM A few weeks ago the hammer from heaven hit me turning all my 72 year old muscles that stil.....
» 4/09/2015 3:25:02 PM Rhian: Do you think that those folk shown into showers in Auschwitz thought they were in a.....
» 4/09/2015 11:28:25 AM We can take pride in who we are just by once again making stuff and doing better than all .....
» 4/09/2015 10:55:11 AM Yes, exactly and we need a future that can be faced with fresh optimism and one built on a.....
» 4/09/2015 10:13:32 AM Agreed, especially if you replace costly renewables with cost competing carbon free or car.....
» 4/09/2015 9:51:27 AM I also remember how John Howard justified the imposition of his Ubiquitous and cascading G.....
» 4/09/2015 9:14:24 AM I remember when you claimed, that an expenditure tax, would just be a turnover tax by anot.....
» 4/09/2015 8:29:35 AM John. I think we've ruled out bestialiy, poligmy, incest and underage sex. So pack up th.....
» 3/09/2015 4:54:57 PM Jf, because it is! Now you go away look up how oil is made, then come back and apologize.....
» 3/09/2015 4:46:12 PM Aidan, I bow to the superior wisdom of The ATO, who reportedly were the source of the numb.....
» 3/09/2015 12:02:13 PM Agree Crackcup, and can only add any ice by any name is bad ice! And it can maim folk for .....
» 3/09/2015 11:46:00 AM Currently there is an unavoidable levy imposed on some folk and all business! It's calle.....
» 3/09/2015 10:45:14 AM Taswegian: Your are absolutely correct in your observation on the fact that all oil is the.....
» 3/09/2015 9:48:00 AM The risible article is founded on a fundamentally flawed premise that the Saudis are an en.....
» 2/09/2015 11:18:10 AM Phanto: something like a portnoy's complaint? Which encapsulated goes thusly, a dear old.....
» 2/09/2015 11:06:02 AM Curmugeon: To quote no less a luminary than the redoubtable Forrest Gump; "stupid is.....
» 2/09/2015 10:46:56 AM Well argued and cogent! And a good as it gets compulsive argument for a change of directio.....
» 2/09/2015 10:09:34 AM Wild wild women? That's just a figment of an overactive imagination? There is no such anim.....
» 1/09/2015 11:46:12 PM Hi Suse, not all that long ago, we refused to believe that simple bacteria caused stomach .....
» 1/09/2015 6:36:23 PM Well it's only good some of the time David f. Until a clinically crippled and morbidly d.....
» 1/09/2015 6:29:41 PM Tombee as a claimed scientist, you of all people ought to know that passing methane (bioga.....
» 1/09/2015 6:03:25 PM WTF: Cheaper than coal thorium has no emissions and homemade biogas scrubbed and consumed .....
» 1/09/2015 12:53:30 PM I think that President Obama should use his power of veto to force the issue!? He could,.....
» 1/09/2015 12:41:15 PM As a much younger man I once witnessed something that couldn't be explained be conventiona.....
» 1/09/2015 10:51:41 AM There's a lot of pie in the sky tuff here, and an economist? Who sees ordinary folk serv.....
» 1/09/2015 10:14:12 AM While one can agree with most of this there are a few points I would like to make, I don't.....
» 31/08/2015 12:03:02 PM The only thing supported by factual evidence in this treatise is Newtonian time! The fact.....
» 31/08/2015 11:28:56 AM Clever Crows are just aping the cannibal Currawongs, that have done this since time immemo.....
» 31/08/2015 10:50:24 AM The only thing standing in the way of a genuine lasting agreement is Israeli leadership? .....
» 31/08/2015 10:12:28 AM Absolutely agree Chris, and it's high time we invested some real (research grants) money i.....
» 30/08/2015 12:23:50 PM Suse the war in VIetnam failed for many reasons; first and foremost, for not staying the c.....
» 30/08/2015 11:23:03 AM Warmair, every Austrian Family produces enough biological waste to completely power their .....
» 30/08/2015 10:47:34 AM Yes Killarney. What we can expect when good men only need stand and do nothing! The M.....
» 30/08/2015 9:22:47 AM Pompete, you are just so wrong! There is an irrefutable fact laden fossil record that tell.....
» 29/08/2015 9:52:27 AM J.O.M. I find your assertions absolutely and entirely unconvincing, given the oppressed ar.....
» 28/08/2015 7:52:53 PM What J.O.M., like the Rwandan self appointed dictators? Ditto Somalia? Rhrosty......
» 28/08/2015 7:47:32 PM Cobber,I'm with you, except where you say we need billions in government subsidies! Fact.....
» 28/08/2015 10:53:54 AM Agree with most of what you say and the case for early intervention you make! Without whi.....
» 28/08/2015 10:23:24 AM Who will pay the price for this fiscal insanity? The people, our entire future prospects.....
» 28/08/2015 9:56:02 AM The most valuable view is the dissenting view, that disagrees with you, or mob rule/conven.....
» 27/08/2015 6:30:11 PM Christina: Logically, the fact that some people die from gas poisoning does not make elect.....
» 27/08/2015 11:03:59 AM I don't have a problem with full frontal nudity, replete with a luxurious beaver, always p.....
» 27/08/2015 10:40:05 AM Yes! If only they could use the brains they were born with they would decommission all of .....
» 27/08/2015 10:19:56 AM the Author simply fails to compare the health effects of burning coal and demystified nucl.....
» 26/08/2015 5:15:48 PM Yes Curmugeon, but it remains in all cases educated guesses,hopefully, occasionally, some .....
» 26/08/2015 5:02:27 PM Better those millions of engine burn oil or gas created yesterday! Ancient algae the sourc.....
» 26/08/2015 4:38:08 PM Tas. The Saudis have in recent years built a number of the state of the art refineries, gi.....
» 26/08/2015 11:50:47 AM Well you would say that, wouldn't you John? Political funding has to come from somewhere.....
» 26/08/2015 11:23:21 AM Assumptions based on "educated" speculation, which then in turn support wildly i.....
» 26/08/2015 10:58:57 AM So what!? Those, who like the money for nothing, buy and sell profiteers, may scream and .....
» 25/08/2015 11:56:20 AM A well publicized U.S. study, by the medical fraternity, found that it costs over $70,000......
» 25/08/2015 10:25:55 AM Nothing is ever free! Someone somewhere pays for it; and wages growth, the reason for br.....
» 25/08/2015 9:43:25 AM I'm no fan of David Cameron, but to be seen as a credible alternative government, Labor ne.....
» 24/08/2015 11:09:13 AM Two things; in order to have a conscience vote you first need a conscience? And simply n.....
» 24/08/2015 10:29:07 AM Would that there were a speck of a grain of a skerrick of truth in these rumours; or that .....
» 24/08/2015 10:04:11 AM Two women contacted me by email and alleged this article is complete bunkum; or that if re.....
» 23/08/2015 11:10:58 AM Don, suggest an overseas trip and eyeballing the permafrost melt with your own eyes, as I .....
» 22/08/2015 10:17:05 AM Jonathan, your comments regarding the state of play in the Ukraine seem right on the money.....
» 22/08/2015 10:09:29 AM Thanks James, I see the auto correct is still busy trying to make me look stupid? Not that.....
» 21/08/2015 11:02:52 AM I watched some of the game and thought our nerds were briliant! Rhrosty......
» 21/08/2015 10:41:26 AM There is a lot of intellectual arrogance in irrelevance? I was marked down on one subjec.....
» 21/08/2015 10:15:56 AM Common sense, which is anything but common, would have former detractors coming onside; gi.....
» 21/08/2015 9:50:10 AM James, Given your extensive knowledge, perhaps you could enlighten us to what Disraeli's e.....
» 20/08/2015 1:17:45 PM Agree Aidan: As to the subject of subs;they should be built here, with our locally smelted.....
» 20/08/2015 12:38:09 PM Don't worry about it Dan, anybody can make a mistake Mate. But particularly when the subje.....
» 20/08/2015 12:31:35 PM Because my two girls needed to be brought into the world with a caesar; I was the first of.....
» 20/08/2015 11:49:33 AM History is essential; given if we know what happened before in very similar circumstances,.....
» 19/08/2015 4:37:56 PM Yes, Foxy, Rhian, but at the next election please! If only to save the millions any furt.....
» 19/08/2015 12:20:27 PM Yuyustu; Yes all our entirely autonomic behavior, sexual, fight or flight responses are lo.....
» 19/08/2015 11:56:46 AM I think Kellie is having a Jonah in the belly of a whale moment? Alleging something coul.....
» 19/08/2015 11:41:18 AM Hear, hear and well said Luke! If a gentle Jesus were alive and with us today many of Fa.....
» 19/08/2015 10:59:16 AM I can remember a well publicized story of a Sydney footballer, who having received a serio.....
» 18/08/2015 6:40:31 PM Pete; Perhaps the French could've waited until the Nazis were marching into Paris or we wa.....
» 18/08/2015 6:20:04 PM Correction: the Church's charity, comes not from her bulging coffers, but from her devotee.....
» 18/08/2015 6:11:08 PM Sodom and Gomorrah, pillars of salt? An exodus from Egypt for a chosen people. And tablets.....
» 18/08/2015 12:10:06 PM The religious right, given their druthers, would take us to where Turkey is now, presided .....
» 18/08/2015 11:36:40 AM Sells: all Churches are nothing more than groups of people with a shared common belief; no.....
» 18/08/2015 11:09:16 AM I can agree with most of this David and add, my preference is for complete military self s.....
» 17/08/2015 4:33:17 PM Don, you still haven't addressed the reason for the phenomenal unprecedented permafrost me.....
» 17/08/2015 12:20:23 PM The coalition can still turn these numbers around; and as simple as replacing Mr Abbott wi.....
» 17/08/2015 11:51:09 AM Have to agree with Cobber, and have the headline rewritten as, Don't miss the boat, the op.....
» 17/08/2015 11:23:15 AM Startups mostly fail and for two self evident reasons, lack of genuine management skills a.....
» 17/08/2015 10:13:09 AM Exactly David! That's is what palestine needs from Netanyahu; and instead they get endless.....
» 16/08/2015 11:46:19 AM Rehctub: It's well established fact that Governments can borrow for around half what priva.....
» 15/08/2015 10:14:35 AM Absolutely, positively, right on the money James! Cheers, Rhrosty......
» 15/08/2015 10:06:59 AM Warmair, put ten economists in the same room and you can guarantee they'll come up with th.....
» 14/08/2015 6:20:55 PM Sells, You're getting very desperate given you are unable to intellectually refute my argu.....
» 14/08/2015 6:02:44 PM The best energy projects are ones that literally walk out the door, such as homemade bioga.....
» 14/08/2015 5:23:06 PM Quantitative easing is as simple as a few strokes of a keyboard, we could literally double.....
» 14/08/2015 11:21:15 AM Yeah ttbn; and made even worse by Turkey's patently duplicitous role here; and just for th.....
» 14/08/2015 11:14:58 AM A visiting Republican Senator, When guest on Q+A, said and I quote, "at some point, c.....
» 14/08/2015 11:05:47 AM Yes! An a problem made even far worse by reported corruption and plagiarism; study assignm.....
» 14/08/2015 10:34:02 AM I think their strategy is positively brilliant; given their new refining capacity and wher.....
» 13/08/2015 1:14:49 PM Warmair; many poor rural Indian communities have reportedly found they can actually afford.....
» 13/08/2015 12:40:10 PM Well said Sir, more of the same please! You say Aussie Mossies have a sense of humor? Tr.....
» 13/08/2015 12:19:03 PM Curmudgeon it's not figures you need look at, but actual electricity Producing solar therm.....
» 13/08/2015 10:44:18 AM It ain't necessarily so, the things you are liable to read in the bible, just ain't necess.....
» 13/08/2015 10:16:04 AM As proven in California, solar thermal can be rolled out for comparative to coal costs; an.....
» 12/08/2015 6:04:46 PM Hi Has, as usual you seem to think that the only alternatives are wind power or solar pane.....
» 12/08/2015 12:17:18 PM Old time labor has had its day and needs to be replaced with pragmatic Labor! Visionary .....
» 12/08/2015 10:15:32 AM Yes sure, an inherently fair go is on the table; but not if you withdraw into isolated com.....
» 12/08/2015 10:09:24 AM Adverse headlines if factual, are not something to be turned and used against the non musl.....
» 11/08/2015 5:22:02 PM Yes ttbn; around a reported 40% of totally apathetic young folks can't be bothered getting.....
» 11/08/2015 5:04:21 PM Yes rechub, no one can hear you screaming from the vacuum of space! Rhrosty......
» 11/08/2015 4:58:26 PM Onthebeach: I have no idea why some folks choose to come out of the closet, so to speak; n.....
» 11/08/2015 11:40:31 AM Onthebeach: The only person able to decide their sexuality before they were born? Would .....
» 11/08/2015 11:29:04 AM And the usual sunday service, will be held on monday instead of saturday. The heated com.....
» 11/08/2015 11:21:57 AM We need to place a completely independant tribunal in charge of so called "entitlemen.....
» 11/08/2015 10:53:20 AM No! Given we're all Australians, the only missing element is true equality! Ethnic quota.....
» 11/08/2015 10:32:19 AM Completely disagree! Equality in marriage would finally recognize in law the fact that th.....
» 10/08/2015 5:37:35 PM It wouldn't be chicken feed if the great Barrier Reef, wasn't a Great Big Sacred Cow!? I.....
» 10/08/2015 11:26:35 AM Perhaps, but then when has an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth been the rational acts o.....
» 10/08/2015 11:17:57 AM Perhaps? But then Stalinism was still just a perceived threat; nuclear bombs and massive f.....
» 10/08/2015 11:04:52 AM Well David, Turkey is something of an enigma isn't it? I mean here they are bombing the sh.....
» 10/08/2015 10:49:23 AM The only reason oil prices were unnaturally high was market speculators; who created an un.....
» 9/08/2015 11:53:42 AM Schools are places of learning essential and verifiable facts; along with the most plausib.....
» 9/08/2015 11:35:15 AM Johno: If Sunday penalty rates are to go they should go for everyone not the lowest paid b.....
» 9/08/2015 11:26:39 AM Aidan we already pay a value related land tax; it's called rates, and like land tax the on.....
» 8/08/2015 9:56:53 AM Aidan, you've got it backwards, adding something/anything at the front, stamp duty or land.....
» 7/08/2015 5:02:28 PM Sorry Aidan but your proposal unfairly singles out one section of society, and put afforda.....
» 7/08/2015 11:33:20 AM Currently tax as a proportion of the GNP ( our combined total expenditure?) is around a re.....
» 7/08/2015 11:09:59 AM Thinkabit; the only way to implement a universal tax that everybody pays, is to implement .....
» 7/08/2015 10:31:16 AM Agree Cobber; incidentally the best way to improve the popularity of relatively mediocre b.....
» 7/08/2015 10:24:58 AM Greece stood on its own two feet in creating the current problem! And includes a history.....
» 7/08/2015 10:01:35 AM Simply put, no Pollie decides to spruce up his or her office! It something presided over.....
» 6/08/2015 12:10:57 PM Mostly agree with Armchair, and can only add , we need to replace destructive, rat eat rat.....
» 6/08/2015 11:49:00 AM There is no problem creating dream castles in the clouds; but a huge one, when one moves i.....
» 6/08/2015 11:44:07 AM This is exactly what to expect when debt laden speculators are allowed unfettered access t.....
» 6/08/2015 11:30:00 AM Have to agree with EQ and add, has the world ever considered the damage done by the use of.....
» 5/08/2015 12:15:03 PM Ho hum, When has our "government" ever cared what we the people think, except fo.....
» 5/08/2015 11:28:47 AM You are talking to an empty chair? Who by the way seems to be a better analyst than you? .....
» 5/08/2015 11:10:58 AM Have to agree absolutely with JBower! Even so, I would allow this criminal to take a one.....
» 5/08/2015 10:55:58 AM One notes we were reportedly less racist before the war, and at a time when most folk, alt.....
» 4/08/2015 12:01:33 PM Footnote: Expanded explanation, ( all I am saying, lets give priests a chance.) Sorry, bu.....
» 4/08/2015 11:43:45 AM Transgender issues, (as opposed to sex role stereotyping) if real may be ameliorated by bu.....
» 4/08/2015 11:14:18 AM Transgenderism however nuanced, isn't presented, it just is! It about time we stopped rap.....
» 4/08/2015 10:52:03 AM Absolutely Shocka, I heard of a Indian man, who although badly burned by becoming a human .....
» 4/08/2015 10:14:36 AM Mostly agree with Chek, and can only add that not all racially motivated denigration appea.....
» 4/08/2015 10:06:47 AM This issue is resolved in the affirmative; the Lady has resigned, end of story! Rhrosty......
» 3/08/2015 4:48:09 PM The Euro is as good as an entirely unfettered free market for those who belong to this exc.....
» 3/08/2015 1:00:54 PM The usual control freaks posting here really do need to get a life! One of their own! Th.....
» 3/08/2015 12:38:39 PM Time to get over the fact that you've lost this debate Wayne; and, those unfortunate enoug.....
» 3/08/2015 12:15:37 PM A salutary lesson in how not to run a country! There are Greeks all over the world maki.....
» 3/08/2015 11:29:23 AM Since when has Netanyahu shown any predilection for basic human rights for the peaceful pa.....
» 1/08/2015 12:41:08 PM Too much them and us and personal greed/greed is good, in most of the posts to identify wh.....
» 1/08/2015 11:47:01 AM Agree with MacReal: Adam didn't know the age of the racist who was baiting him, and when.....
» 30/07/2015 11:48:14 AM Again you judge and label! I read your stuff or risible rubbish! It's you who doesn't re.....
» 30/07/2015 10:56:00 AM Peter, among the list of broken promises was a promise of good conscientious government fo.....
» 30/07/2015 10:37:44 AM Well written article and erudite! Now if only we could get our so called church to exclu.....
» 30/07/2015 10:23:13 AM And you accuse others of inflexibility and endless repetition! The moral argument was los.....
» 29/07/2015 11:54:17 AM It's just no accident that most of our obese people are also the least well off; which is .....
» 29/07/2015 11:05:43 AM More research and basic intelligence would inform this, I believe, broken record "exp.....
» 29/07/2015 10:32:27 AM Extracting oil may be as low as a dollar a barrel for the Saudis and ten for the Russians,.....
» 28/07/2015 5:57:21 PM Footnote: The Aussie invented ceramic fuel cell produces mostly pristine water vapor as th.....
» 28/07/2015 5:46:45 PM Aging batteries are just not as reliable as bladder stored methane made from the average f.....
» 28/07/2015 1:01:47 PM Economic migration happens around the world and in some places actually encouraged! Woul.....
» 28/07/2015 12:22:41 PM As usual, with the emotive anti abortion control freaks, they invariably overstate the cas.....
» 28/07/2015 11:49:31 AM Once in a while we can actually agree on something Don! Wind power is far too unreliable.....
» 27/07/2015 11:25:36 AM A man's home is his castle, but even there are some restrictions on what we can do legally.....
» 27/07/2015 10:55:03 AM Simply put free trade agreement that don't completely resuscitate our manufacturing arm ar.....
» 27/07/2015 10:09:41 AM We really do need to turn back the boats if we would save what's left of multicultural Aus.....
» 27/07/2015 9:41:09 AM I thought only Gypsies had crystal balls David! And it's just this sort of warmonger sca.....
» 24/07/2015 11:47:10 AM Yes Joe, and surely these par for the course shenanigans are the proof we need; that there.....
» 24/07/2015 11:18:46 AM As I understand it Peter, late term abortions are almost only carried out on sound medical.....
» 23/07/2015 12:44:11 PM I've looked at the stats Bugsy, and have decided to exclude suicide as a crime; given one .....
» 23/07/2015 12:14:20 PM Yes, so!? There's no welcome mat!? One needs to remember that Indonesia was once a hindu.....
» 23/07/2015 11:37:15 AM People who always know best are hardly ever likely or even capable of listening to the wis.....
» 23/07/2015 11:17:36 AM Switzerland has multiple Guns in almost every home; and the gun crime rate there is no wor.....
» 22/07/2015 4:43:46 PM If he wasn't power mad, why did Putin go to such lengths to have the constitution changed .....
» 22/07/2015 11:28:18 AM Given all the factions fighting each other, or all and sundry, who do you protect from who.....
» 22/07/2015 11:05:51 AM Yup, the world is going to hell in a handbasket! And power mad Putin is pushing it? He.....
» 22/07/2015 10:46:09 AM The better off pay more tax! And possibly are paying for the education of folks who like.....
» 22/07/2015 9:51:04 AM It's not a good look, whoever is doing it! And probably a good time for a complete revie.....
» 21/07/2015 4:53:51 PM Fair comment is hardly the politics of envy runner, and the last refuge of the leaning and.....
» 21/07/2015 12:27:00 PM Building a house is just 25% or less of the cost of housing the rest is land and forever c.....
» 21/07/2015 12:01:34 PM While there are some sites where wind power works, like in the roaring forties i.e., I fin.....
» 21/07/2015 11:30:15 AM It's not culture we need but informed legislators who use their powers to create the condi.....
» 21/07/2015 11:10:45 AM How right you are John and nowhere more evident than welfare for the rich! Which has to .....
» 20/07/2015 4:43:45 PM Taste like pepper JOM? so do those pesky little flies that swarm in their millions around .....
» 20/07/2015 11:12:06 AM It has to go somewhere and hardly a better place for it, and the millions it could earn a .....
» 20/07/2015 11:00:52 AM Well given what they've already contributed they should be immune to market forces and mul.....
» 20/07/2015 10:50:12 AM I am anti the Canadian government. I mean who are these people already destroying the natu.....
» 20/07/2015 10:28:22 AM Yes and better every which way than the almost inevitable war which we may have only postp.....
» 20/07/2015 10:16:24 AM Yes Marko but they don't have a right to use a taxpayer funded forum to express those expr.....
» 20/07/2015 9:59:12 AM Plane travel can be replaced by very fast trains and where the distance is not prohibitive.....
» 19/07/2015 5:47:37 PM The fact that some exploration may have ruled out wreck island only proves there's probabl.....
» 19/07/2015 11:39:10 AM Yes Pete and apologies for the obvious fracking slight! It's only a matter of time befor.....
» 18/07/2015 11:16:15 AM Yes Pete, but only if like traditional Australian sweet light crude it creates in common u.....
» 18/07/2015 10:47:12 AM In the news this morning another unexplained mystery oil slick near the Great Barrier reef.....
» 17/07/2015 11:53:31 AM Risible rubbish! The scarcer the commodity the greater the demand and therefore the higher.....
» 17/07/2015 11:28:32 AM A salutary lesson in how to make a bad situation worse without really trying? All while .....
» 16/07/2015 12:19:41 PM There is much truth in what you say John? But it could also apply to most of our former .....
» 16/07/2015 11:40:58 AM In the stick and carrot approach many believe we should have just used a bigger stick, reg.....
» 16/07/2015 10:55:31 AM What you have presented here Paul is, I believe, an entirely irrefutable logic based case .....
» 16/07/2015 10:25:04 AM What secret agreement John? The one the whole world knows about? As usual wherever there.....
» 15/07/2015 12:35:49 PM Greece has had just as many conservative governments as socialist ones and only the simple.....
» 15/07/2015 12:07:00 PM The privatisation estimates seem overly optimistic!? What greece needs is growth and mor.....
» 15/07/2015 11:39:58 AM Exactly! And the forecast tourists are staying away in droves! All we've seen thus far i.....
» 15/07/2015 11:19:07 AM Yes Graham. Their forecast is unusually optimistic and ignores unavoidable fundamentals .....
» 14/07/2015 11:33:23 AM I suppose one could make a rational case for hacking which remains a criminal offence when.....
» 14/07/2015 11:06:23 AM The Fabian society seems to have a wonderful recipe for equality,and equity? Always provid.....
» 14/07/2015 10:43:20 AM The excuse making Author appears to be blaming the west for every middle east problem, in .....
» 13/07/2015 11:58:38 AM What a load of codswallop! The Cosby show the Brady bunch and Young Talent Time were all .....
» 13/07/2015 10:55:40 AM Yes however you serve it up it is a lose lose outcome for a basically bankrupt Greece! Who.....
» 13/07/2015 10:44:34 AM Yes, it is as plain as the nose on your face, if the German line prevails and Greece is fo.....
» 13/07/2015 10:32:58 AM Mostly disagree with the article, and thought Malcolm speech both reasoned and statesmen l.....
» 11/07/2015 12:09:41 PM This matter needs to be put to rest via a public plebiscite. The only thing we have abso.....
» 11/07/2015 11:41:33 AM Who would have thought the entirely unproven martyrdom mythology would have created so man.....
» 11/07/2015 11:24:21 AM Housing supply would increase if negative gearing were exclusively limited to brand new ho.....
» 10/07/2015 11:54:09 AM Some things just do not go out of date! Like integrity in public officials. We the peopl.....
» 10/07/2015 11:15:27 AM Don't panic, I hope they lose their shirts. What do middlemen profit demanders do to the.....
» 9/07/2015 5:37:51 PM I've seen studies that conclude that early childhood education is one of the best investme.....
» 9/07/2015 5:15:44 PM We've had the forteen hottest years on record and the sun has been in a waning phase since.....
» 9/07/2015 5:01:07 PM Get over yourself and your bigotry and just put it to a plebiscite if you're convinced tha.....
» 9/07/2015 10:53:51 AM Bouncing ideas off one another at the water cooler, code for having others do your best mo.....
» 9/07/2015 9:54:22 AM I live in the bush and am anything but green! Yet like Hasbeen my taxes, which have been .....
» 9/07/2015 9:30:13 AM Sodomy occurs between different sex couples as well! All we can require of them is that th.....
» 8/07/2015 12:53:46 PM What I find curious is how some folks don't understand that saying, they don't make cakes .....
» 8/07/2015 12:19:39 PM Why do we need bigger cities, when we really need decentralisation. Decentralisation will .....
» 8/07/2015 11:35:31 AM Well researched persuasive article Malcolm.Just don't expect every employer to embrace thi.....
» 7/07/2015 12:29:51 PM Yes there's a veritable fortune to be made from the recycling of Ewaste, and most househol.....
» 7/07/2015 12:16:27 PM If it looks like a junket, walks like a junket, and barks like a junket, it probably is a .....
» 7/07/2015 12:09:38 PM Well argued Graham! You'd think with a super fund larger than the economy, some of our sma.....
» 7/07/2015 11:40:12 AM The only morally bankrupt people in this whole sorry saga are the people smugglers and the.....
» 6/07/2015 11:56:58 AM Your point David? Or are Christians seen as just another bargaining chip in Netanyahu's re.....
» 6/07/2015 11:38:47 AM Although I disagree with the thrust of J.O.M's post, I agree with him that the people shou.....
» 6/07/2015 11:20:51 AM Agree mostly with David F. If all the available school funding were directed solely at t.....
» 6/07/2015 10:56:50 AM Yes Bren, we'd hear a huge howl from David and his ilk if we decided to half pollies salar.....
» 4/07/2015 12:09:36 PM Even if Jonny Q towel head had a backhoe he'd have trouble digging through solid bedrock, .....
» 4/07/2015 11:34:10 AM Reportedly coal fired power stations have produced uranium in the smokestack emission as w.....
» 3/07/2015 12:10:02 PM Well, when the tide of "official" misinformation and mindless hysteria dies down.....
» 2/07/2015 1:03:35 PM I don't believe Greece has any sort of future outside Europe! And needs to get serious a.....
» 2/07/2015 12:43:09 PM Yes, the Greek nation is a house divided against itself, with its greatest claim to fame h.....
» 2/07/2015 11:59:16 AM I agree with most of this David except the execution, my model would share the same bucket.....
» 2/07/2015 11:37:40 AM If it ain't broke don't fix it! Why should a council that has and maintains a budget surp.....
» 1/07/2015 12:51:13 PM How does one distinguish between armed civilians and legitimate terrorist targets. Answe.....
» 1/07/2015 12:37:15 PM Well said Joe, but particularly when you consider the sheer wealth of recoverable gas chin.....
» 1/07/2015 11:40:50 AM At the end of the day we elect governments to ensure the rule of law as we understand and .....
» 1/07/2015 11:11:33 AM Given polygamy and incest are already unlawful, I just don't see how marriage equality sud.....
» 30/06/2015 11:54:21 AM I have to agree with an eminently sensible Craig Minns and given the number of government .....
» 30/06/2015 11:47:19 AM I agree with an eminently sensible Craig Minns and given the number of government represen.....
» 29/06/2015 8:02:47 PM I like your idea Pete, which if carried through to its logical conclusion would separate t.....
» 29/06/2015 7:20:21 PM Onthebeach, would a plebiscite on gay marriage settle your so called concerns? It might .....
» 29/06/2015 7:03:01 PM Aidan,a surplus would be possible, if all welfare for the rich were wound back,i.e., negat.....
» 29/06/2015 1:40:02 PM Correction: That's loud loco although it could be loaded as well? I should add that the .....
» 29/06/2015 1:28:41 PM I find myself agreeing with Louisa and can only add if folks feel their property is the na.....
» 29/06/2015 12:48:04 PM First and foremost what has to go is an elite committee deciding how others will vote. I.....
» 29/06/2015 11:39:39 AM That was then this is now, and what would we give if only all our Australian made products.....
» 27/06/2015 1:19:05 PM agree Aidan In order to defeat this risible rationale, we have to know what it is and just.....
» 26/06/2015 3:07:05 PM The right to know is what killed princess Diana? If we promulgated just how we are stoppin.....
» 26/06/2015 2:54:55 PM THERE"S A DNA test that not only identifies your ethnic origins, but the locality wit.....
» 26/06/2015 2:05:38 PM I just don't agree with censorship whether it's done by soup or sushi. me I'll continue to.....
» 25/06/2015 2:57:00 PM No ttbn, according to top tax payer and broadcaster Alan Jones, he only pays 15 cent in th.....
» 25/06/2015 2:31:24 PM Yes Peter, we've always had this group with their wacky ideas! I mean if man were meant .....
» 25/06/2015 1:19:56 PM Some of our better off say they pay tax too, so their kids should receive a so called free.....
» 24/06/2015 12:58:16 PM Policing drug cheating is an absolute waste of time and considerable resources, given ther.....
» 24/06/2015 12:13:10 PM Most of the bleating seems to be coming from seemingly paid activists, looking at their ra.....
» 24/06/2015 11:43:42 AM Hear hear Cumugeon. Perhaps if Kellie were exposing some of the things people smugglers .....
» 24/06/2015 11:11:41 AM I have a view that education should be the principle concern of the parents; regardless of.....
» 23/06/2015 2:46:29 PM I think you'd do better than preaching to the converted, Loan. We punch well above our w.....
» 23/06/2015 1:42:53 PM Thanks for that Craig! In any event, I just didn't know that the footy players were that.....
» 23/06/2015 1:23:06 PM Oh I don't know! I watched Q+A last night and the final question and the way it was put .....
» 23/06/2015 1:13:02 PM Bird's fur, horse feathers and risible rubbish! It seems you're more concerned with a pe.....
» 22/06/2015 12:31:03 PM Agree in principle, just don't hold your breath waiting for it to happen! Rhrosty......
» 22/06/2015 12:25:11 PM PRIVACY was that which allowed pedophiles to engage in their secret activities with comple.....
» 22/06/2015 12:14:36 PM Yes Peter, and if we could just change the terminology/circular thinking/renewables, to ca.....
» 22/06/2015 11:41:00 AM Sadly, much of this seems right! However, it being mostly right just doesn't make us res.....
» 22/06/2015 10:50:40 AM Well opinion pieces are just that David, opinion. Julia may well have proscribed to the .....
» 20/06/2015 12:38:53 PM Well, there are known knowns, unknown knowns and unknown unknowns! What we do know is th.....
» 20/06/2015 12:29:16 PM One only needs read the above posts to understand that this problem will never be solved b.....
» 20/06/2015 12:17:43 PM A dimmer switch on the solar furnace perhaps? Well it would take care of climate change!?.....
» 20/06/2015 12:11:56 PM You should worry, the light in my cave has never been worse, but only since the bats moved.....
» 20/06/2015 11:33:48 AM Well, the first lesson here is, if you and your employer agree on almost everything then o.....
» 19/06/2015 5:07:31 PM I agree with JKJ. And where the Magna Carta backs him, is where it states that no man shal.....
» 18/06/2015 1:46:20 PM What if? Well we can be sure of one thing for Greece! It will get a lot worse before it ge.....
» 18/06/2015 1:05:05 PM Bill, give entirely illegal cabinet leaks, there's even a greater role for secrecy in all .....
» 18/06/2015 12:36:31 PM Foyle, we face a future where robotics will eliminate around 50% of today,s jobs, in as li.....
» 18/06/2015 12:04:13 PM An interesting juxtaposition isn't it Everald? On the one hand folks with more than a mi.....
» 17/06/2015 7:48:45 PM Good! Something as fundamentally flawed as that, and crafted for the corporation, by the c.....
» 17/06/2015 7:32:52 PM Agree with BAZZ, and just don't see said reconfiguration; just an overdue expose? Rhrosty.....
» 17/06/2015 7:27:46 PM Well we are at war with ISIS! And if dual citizens go there to take up arms against our fr.....
» 17/06/2015 7:01:18 PM Yes Foxy, and admiral sentiments! If only it could be so!? And on the subject of Japanes.....
» 17/06/2015 12:31:41 PM Yes Pete, read the article! I've never had much time for prose; but am not adverse to a .....
» 17/06/2015 11:37:59 AM Well some of the infrasound could be muted or funneled away inside large towers. Like say .....
» 17/06/2015 11:03:48 AM L.L: Given a warmer globe, one would expect more or greater global convection! And conse.....
» 16/06/2015 1:45:32 PM If you say so David. Rhrosty......
» 16/06/2015 1:42:23 PM Well you can still hear yourself think, which is just not the case adjacent to modern coal.....
» 16/06/2015 12:31:04 PM Overlooked is the fact that the solar furnace has been in a waning phase since the mid-sev.....
» 15/06/2015 1:03:20 PM Wages around 16% of the bottom line, tax 30%? If you could lower either one but not both.....
» 15/06/2015 12:36:10 PM What rapprochement!? That which allows an annual and unchallenged border crossing exerci.....
» 15/06/2015 12:07:56 PM Exactly! And given we fight this war successfully, actually, improve everyone's circumst.....
» 15/06/2015 11:25:56 AM Sorry mate, but given the sheer number of brand spanking new apartment blocks lining urban.....
» 15/06/2015 10:54:48 AM I seem to recall reading somewhere that the strongest opposition to this is coming from so.....
» 15/06/2015 10:13:20 AM How much did they pay? When did they pay? Who did they pay? And given we are able to.....
» 14/06/2015 1:58:29 PM When we put tourists on Australian planes, we are exporting something and or earning forei.....
» 14/06/2015 12:34:25 PM If memory serves, the NSW police are absolutely denying that monis was ever issued a gun l.....
» 14/06/2015 12:18:31 PM Well given Quebec has a fair mix of english speaking Canadians, I'm not sure your as alway.....
» 14/06/2015 11:49:08 AM Northern pastoral practices are a problem and need to be changed, from a fire management p.....
» 13/06/2015 12:24:05 PM People born here are not necessary Australian citizens, as is the case of folk born of ill.....
» 13/06/2015 11:49:05 AM Shadow Minister. Not an easy task to be sure, but essential nonetheless. And best achieve.....
» 13/06/2015 11:37:53 AM What you say is correct for already overpopulated countries david f! And perhaps you sho.....
» 13/06/2015 10:54:11 AM Aidan; what you say with regard to the north is essentially correct, and with regard to pa.....
» 12/06/2015 12:36:02 PM Yes and shame on ASIA, which needs to finally clean up its act. Which could start by for.....
» 12/06/2015 11:42:55 AM Well given all medicine is based on informed consent and the occasional second opinion, wh.....
» 12/06/2015 11:25:16 AM Disagree, we've seen enough local airlines go to the wall, without giving foreigners an en.....
» 12/06/2015 10:57:07 AM Agreed Yuyutsu, and would that Monis were the only and worst possible threat provided, by .....
» 12/06/2015 10:25:04 AM Well given I argued for a three state federation long before the Americans pulled out, it .....
» 11/06/2015 1:20:33 PM Yes and given its effectiveness and for a variety of symptoms including age related depres.....
» 11/06/2015 12:41:30 PM Sorry, but I think this stuff is really quite silly. A brand new leader has definitely g.....
» 11/06/2015 12:05:51 PM All that has been proven I dare say, is that kids who come from areas of economic adversit.....
» 11/06/2015 11:40:26 AM Alarmism; it really frightens people and it sucks, but particularly when all the available.....
» 11/06/2015 11:02:16 AM People can already choose to end unbearable lives! What euthanasia demands is that someone.....
» 10/06/2015 1:37:25 PM Whereabouts is your armchair, Armchair critic? St Petersburg? Rhrosty......
» 10/06/2015 1:09:48 PM Passenger transporting Zeppelins? Why not! We can use carbon fibre technology, titanium sk.....
» 10/06/2015 12:02:40 PM The problem I have with most of this is that some of the most moral people I know are also.....
» 10/06/2015 11:06:09 AM Yes! So? Rhrosty......
» 10/06/2015 11:02:15 AM I mean seriously, does anyone except the moribund think China would swap their commercial .....
» 10/06/2015 9:59:02 AM Horse feathers, bird's fur, risible rubbish, Bah Humbug, balderdash, fatuous asininity, gr.....
» 9/06/2015 12:48:22 PM Yes Monday was a holiday, but at my age and one day being the same as any other, I overloo.....
» 9/06/2015 12:15:59 PM No doubt all the merchant bankers and legal firms setting themselves up to become billiona.....
» 9/06/2015 11:53:44 AM One has to give credit where credit is due, without necessarily agreeing with all the excl.....
» 9/06/2015 11:14:21 AM Russian demands for almost anything ought to be met with a hypothetical knuckle sandwich! .....
» 9/06/2015 11:01:17 AM I guess the cynic's takeout lesson here is; you don't need to be a born again narcissistic.....
» 9/06/2015 10:50:13 AM Sorry David, I see things somewhat differently! Within the scope of their abilities the .....
» 8/06/2015 6:19:39 PM Given we have to find a new Saudi Arabia every three years, why aren't we focusing on achi.....
» 8/06/2015 1:12:17 PM Yes Craig and thanks for that! However, as it was explained to me, the magnetron utilize.....
» 8/06/2015 11:50:01 AM Aidan, the magnetron is I understand, what the magnetic drive that propels maglevs are cal.....
» 8/06/2015 10:37:38 AM J.O.M. I can understand you not wanting me to talk about your kind, gentle and generous N.....
» 7/06/2015 12:03:27 PM J.K.J. Solar thermal activity has been in decline (waning phase) since the mid seventies; .....
» 7/06/2015 11:54:16 AM How many air routes could be replaced by rapid rail, say much faster magnetrons with a cur.....
» 6/06/2015 12:02:00 PM If the patent gay bashing homophobes posting here, and gay bashing takes many forms, inclu.....
» 6/06/2015 11:18:27 AM And somewhat off topic Spinner, I've heard that magnetron trains have a current top speed .....
» 6/06/2015 10:45:35 AM Spindoc, very appropriate nomenclature mate. Not all that long ago one could have bought.....
» 6/06/2015 9:38:03 AM Yes J.J., well thought through! Remarkable insight! The whole world should bow to your inc.....
» 5/06/2015 1:22:36 PM Yes and it will continue apace as we eventually traverse through peak oil; unless we get o.....
» 5/06/2015 12:49:20 PM Good, but then given the symbiosis in much of scientific discovery, we may advance quicker.....
» 5/06/2015 12:14:47 PM We can now grow jet fuel as oil rich algae! And extracting the, ready to use as is, jet .....
» 5/06/2015 11:48:10 AM J.O.M, given your ability to quite massively revise history, I'm not sure your take on the.....
» 5/06/2015 11:20:37 AM Phanto, yes your natural sexual orientation can be proved by which two of four sex centres.....
» 5/06/2015 10:38:00 AM I don't suppose it ever occurred to you David he or she could be right; that in fact you a.....
» 4/06/2015 7:01:16 PM Yes and if the armed nuclear bombs are shot down over the territory they are launched from.....
» 4/06/2015 6:50:38 PM That depends on the perspective and the goal Prompete? And if the goal is to spill as mu.....
» 4/06/2015 6:39:57 PM Yes Peter, but think, the Sahara was once the granary of the Roman empire! And relatively .....
» 4/06/2015 12:25:02 PM Who's misperception or perception; or misconception? Yours or theirs? Rhrosty......
» 4/06/2015 12:20:11 PM The sun shines equally on the innocent and the guilty alike, as does the rain, when it fal.....
» 4/06/2015 12:10:24 PM O2 as a percentage of the atmosphere has declined by around half, according to the paleont.....
» 4/06/2015 10:46:58 AM Clearly some folk treat their money as something they can take with them? And given that.....
» 4/06/2015 10:33:55 AM Shadow Minister: Firstly, if you actually bother to actually read me mate instead of goi.....
» 3/06/2015 2:22:49 PM Hear hear David F. And isn't youth wasted on the young? I have a Brother who shares you.....
» 3/06/2015 1:30:59 PM Yes one can only hope! And even more so, given the US has a charter or individual irrevo.....
» 3/06/2015 1:10:53 PM Yes but, the more socially minded Fins are not trying to run education as a exportable com.....
» 3/06/2015 12:38:33 PM I'm not sure a US naval flotilla would do anything to ease tensions? Besides, the next w.....
» 3/06/2015 11:51:24 AM Well Margret, your article was indicative, I believe, of a class of (I want what she's hav.....
» 2/06/2015 2:28:37 PM The problem for the all too recognizable homophobes/bullies, is that they are the new mino.....
» 2/06/2015 2:10:09 PM We've always had bullies, who will seize on any issue in order to engage in brutish bastar.....
» 2/06/2015 1:17:26 PM Tear down a Rhodes statue? What would you replace it with? Say a very attractive copulat.....
» 2/06/2015 1:00:42 PM Yes Malcolm, there's just no point training people for nonexistent jobs! And hasn't priv.....
» 2/06/2015 11:50:00 AM The tide of history is very much against this Author! However, I for one would allow thi.....
» 2/06/2015 10:45:48 AM Not only do I agree with Mr Abbott, but would ensure Australian passports are cancelled be.....
» 1/06/2015 2:02:24 PM David; your historical reviews are nearly as interesting as watching paint dry or grass gr.....
» 1/06/2015 1:58:22 PM And as good a reason as any to invoke a declaration of irrevocable human rights, which mus.....
» 1/06/2015 1:45:33 PM True leaders have the courage of conviction; even when and where that conviction is both o.....
» 1/06/2015 12:55:15 PM I'm sorry Graham but I tend to disagree! When people are married they become family, wit.....
» 31/05/2015 1:10:57 PM Yuyustu: If the polls are right then your view is very much in the minority! Greece was .....
» 30/05/2015 2:27:19 PM TV and movies JOM? Interesting! You need to reach into the world of theatre and fiction to.....
» 30/05/2015 1:49:45 PM Well given Gay bashing has existed since the dawn of organised religion, and has failed to.....
» 30/05/2015 1:14:08 PM A couple of decades ago Sierra Leone was awash with diamonds and gold mines, other places .....
» 30/05/2015 12:18:04 PM Yes Has, brand new satellite cities built from the ground up; replete with their own CBD's.....
» 29/05/2015 12:47:50 PM Phanto, you go from perhaps perhaps/a conspiracy theory, to treating said conspiracy theor.....
» 29/05/2015 12:00:39 PM Thought provoking article Ross, or at least it should be! Instead of dormitory suburbs f.....
» 29/05/2015 11:35:19 AM What a difference a day can make! And isn't a week a long time in politics? Who would ha.....
» 29/05/2015 11:10:26 AM Well you've been very clear and extremely thorough in identifying the multiple problems Mu.....
» 29/05/2015 10:37:43 AM The cake shoppe took the order and accepted the money in advance! With the pre-written a.....
» 28/05/2015 12:46:14 PM No, speak your piece! But only if it's factual and can be properly validated! But then i.....
» 28/05/2015 12:36:41 PM There is only one constant in the entire universe and that constant is constant change! .....
» 28/05/2015 11:52:43 AM Saying no to incompatible People, particularly when Muslim societies are much closer, is l.....
» 28/05/2015 11:16:03 AM Operating a public service means you serve the public! Yes they could withhold part of the.....
» 27/05/2015 6:17:23 PM I Agree with RObert! These folk entered into a commercial arrangement for money, then fo.....
» 27/05/2015 5:34:25 PM Joe, I don't pretend to know as much as Craig on this topic, but I do know something about.....
» 27/05/2015 12:32:13 PM Bring on the power wall baby! Sounds a bit like a cross between a lithium ion battery an.....
» 27/05/2015 12:20:02 PM Your Grazer friend may be winning for now, and at the expense of ordinary power users and .....
» 27/05/2015 11:45:53 AM Yes Patricia; and isn't a truism that youth is wasted on the young? I could say you're a.....
» 27/05/2015 11:37:39 AM Hackability requires a connection, either wireless or a line! Given neither would apply .....
» 27/05/2015 11:24:39 AM If it wasn't in God's plan, then why did God make Gays? Nobody but nobody chooses to be .....
» 26/05/2015 3:09:25 PM There's much in what you say John! All we need do is change the Employers and their know.....
» 26/05/2015 2:45:28 PM Yes the times they are a changing! Now ordinary citizens can compete with the so called el.....
» 26/05/2015 2:15:18 PM Nope: Some Mena Muslims, others are Mecca Muslims? Both are fundamentally flawed, I beli.....
» 26/05/2015 1:44:22 PM A number of comments: The first being the absolute necessity of public housing; but not as.....
» 26/05/2015 12:08:03 AM Hi snake, in reading the second paragraph of your expansive post, I was taken by your desc.....
» 25/05/2015 11:35:31 PM Yes Yutustu, And that is why a return to the inflation moderating gold standard anytime so.....
» 25/05/2015 12:49:18 PM Yes! We would use scarce resources far better addressing the causes, all of them, of this .....
» 25/05/2015 12:12:03 PM Bird's fur and horse feathers/bah humbug! Given it's actually impossible for same sex cou.....
» 25/05/2015 11:19:49 AM Yes taxes are way too high, and arguably to pay for all the welfare for the rich and their.....
» 24/05/2015 12:36:07 PM You make some compelling points onthebeach. In a two income family the tax threshold is .....
» 23/05/2015 12:04:21 PM Hasbeen; please do me and all the other posters on this thread the common courtesy of poin.....
» 22/05/2015 1:56:48 PM Yet it's a story that must be told! How else are we ever going to obligate the genuine amo.....
» 22/05/2015 1:23:22 PM Well, there are a number of valid grounds for an entirely lawful abortion! The first and p.....
» 22/05/2015 10:20:57 AM Well that's just your patently biased opinion David! Or put another way, shared by a major.....
» 22/05/2015 10:14:16 AM Well, you seem to have outlined all the problems but none of the solutions Valarie! One .....
» 22/05/2015 9:41:21 AM Yes, and is there any other choice!? Rhrosty......
» 21/05/2015 1:25:19 PM Yes, why should a dirt poor tiny Christian East Timor, take in what could be just the tip .....
» 21/05/2015 12:57:34 PM Well and given what it could cost us; as Joe has said, not before time! Rhrosty......
» 21/05/2015 12:51:23 PM Yes Nicholas, lots of swings and roundabouts in prospect? And that's before the 1.7 tril.....
» 21/05/2015 11:51:35 AM Only those with something to lose? Rhrosty......
» 21/05/2015 11:43:29 AM Well John, given none of us can read minds; how can anyone know what motivates the individ.....
» 21/05/2015 10:44:21 AM Given Netanyahu's current carry on just to preserve him in power!? Makes me want to clic.....
» 21/05/2015 10:28:03 AM Well, if it proves one thing, the "Libs" haven't seen any form of social equity .....
» 20/05/2015 10:35:06 AM The only one saying anything of note or germane to the topic is Killarney. As for Carl M.....
» 19/05/2015 1:15:06 PM It's a dead issue! If drug traffickers chose to traffic commercial quantities of illicit.....
» 19/05/2015 12:50:38 PM Because not enough women own a licensed handgun and are then able to claim self-defense an.....
» 19/05/2015 12:12:02 PM Yes way too high! If we could just get rid of four things, we'd likely fix the problem? An.....
» 19/05/2015 11:17:20 AM Yes you're right Marko, the left just haven't got any class! But worse than that, if the.....
» 19/05/2015 10:42:53 AM Hey Spinner, Monty had it "nailed" and as simple as; always look on the bright s.....
» 19/05/2015 10:00:22 AM It didn't kill or maim anyone? No but it did destroy many a family, and with that destru.....
» 18/05/2015 12:35:47 PM Well most lads left entirely to their own devices and unsupervised, will get up to similar.....
» 18/05/2015 11:39:24 AM Prompete, go you good thing! As for the Author, it has to be such a comfort to know he's.....
» 18/05/2015 11:32:06 AM It's all that thinking that's the problem Peter! If you would just learn to still the co.....
» 18/05/2015 10:56:45 AM Yup! Rhrosty......
» 15/05/2015 5:28:59 PM Yes Has, you'd think one or two would stop and smell the Co2 they say is threatening an ex.....
» 15/05/2015 5:02:14 PM An Ivy league study followed 300 economists for thirty years, to ascertain the accuracy of.....
» 15/05/2015 12:28:52 PM Exactly ttbn! Nailed it in one! Rhrosty......
» 15/05/2015 12:24:11 PM Sorry Anica, you're wrong! We have this thing called a vote! And the right therefore, .....
» 15/05/2015 11:46:44 AM You may be right Arjay, and caused in the most part by price gouged energy!? We could, b.....
» 14/05/2015 12:29:50 PM One can agree with most of what you say or contend? Free speech nonetheless will only re.....
» 14/05/2015 11:53:43 AM Yes BJelly, apparently the CIA rather than irrational (hate masquerading as) religion are .....
» 14/05/2015 11:37:51 AM Yes mate it's a massive challenge! We've often talked about a Tobin tax; which would nonet.....
» 14/05/2015 10:32:26 AM Saudi Arabia continues to ratchet up production! Well, if that proves one thing, it prov.....
» 13/05/2015 12:26:53 PM Lucky for you has that you were still conscious and able to drive Has! I suspect what yo.....
» 13/05/2015 11:44:48 AM I understand this Alternative household Valerie, because I spent time in one! And that f.....
» 13/05/2015 11:00:36 AM The criminal arsonist trying to burn down the asylum centre may be your next dentist? Wh.....
» 13/05/2015 10:43:34 AM Ha, ha, ho, ho, he, he, gasp, hiccup, oh my aching ribs! Rhrosty......
» 13/05/2015 10:33:04 AM I can agree with most of this Graham, and note that subsidized super will soon eclipse, as.....
» 12/05/2015 12:40:13 PM Well that guidance to be real and timely, must include both condoms and birth control! I.....
» 12/05/2015 12:30:03 PM Well, smaller govt is the thing we need to restore the economy, and indeed, create not onl.....
» 12/05/2015 11:52:17 AM Big Nana, $100,000.00 degrees are all too common in the land of the dollar bill! And giv.....
» 12/05/2015 11:22:59 AM Broken ideology and clinically flawed policy, which as shown in the American model we seem.....
» 12/05/2015 10:40:19 AM Afterthought: The latter being dependent on moving to optional preferencing, which should .....
» 12/05/2015 10:36:41 AM Sorry Bruce, but I think it is a politically astute budget, and sets the Government up for.....
» 11/05/2015 12:33:14 PM Yes David, and can only add, after the ten years of exemplary drug and crime free cohabita.....
» 11/05/2015 11:41:36 AM Have to agree with Has, and add, we really do need to have a debate on reinstating the dea.....
» 11/05/2015 11:10:39 AM Well, if Pacifists like Jimmy, would just stop trying to impose their so called standards .....
» 11/05/2015 10:22:59 AM One world one dream; the impossible dream! There's no harm in spending a little time in .....
» 10/05/2015 1:28:35 PM State sanctioned killing? Well surely there are some despicable heinous crimes; gang rap.....
» 10/05/2015 12:21:07 PM J.O.M. How do we know that there was indeed a Holocaust that murdered six plus million Jew.....
» 9/05/2015 12:27:43 PM Yes and so sad! Perhaps if these little tin Hitlers had spent a few years in an orphanag.....
» 9/05/2015 11:41:17 AM Yes a number of people and parties need to be held to account. And the start must be mad.....
» 8/05/2015 1:00:15 PM Don't we do that already Jon? I mean for the self funded retiree immigrant, there are al.....
» 8/05/2015 12:00:38 PM I don't think it's any more horrific than what occurs elsewhere, where say, a black man mi.....
» 7/05/2015 1:27:14 PM Well, I never before heard something critiqued for being too efficient! Too costly, maybe?.....
» 6/05/2015 8:31:02 PM If you create a living will, you can all but decide the manner of your passing, and there .....
» 6/05/2015 1:22:37 PM Thank you Yuyustu, you're too kind! Rhrosty......
» 6/05/2015 1:11:00 PM Yup! Oh and by the way, what happened to all that talk about more democracy, even as some .....
» 6/05/2015 12:57:01 PM Well what else do you expect David, from folk who don't seem to have between them, a new o.....
» 6/05/2015 12:30:19 PM Perhaps we should send Ruddie over there, to show them how it's done without changing anyt.....
» 6/05/2015 12:13:42 PM Death is a natural end of life experience! Most of us will no doubt die in our sleep and.....
» 5/05/2015 7:52:08 PM Everything and nothing Yuyutsu! Third paragraph starts with Ukraine nationalism. Which s.....
» 5/05/2015 11:49:12 AM Hey Yuyutsu. What were the Ukrainians expected to do when attacked by Russian sponsored an.....
» 5/05/2015 10:37:08 AM All genocide matters, be it Russian genocide/pogroms of her own minorities or peaceful dis.....
» 5/05/2015 9:48:50 AM >fall within the realms of journalistic endevour< I believe Mz B was being very po.....
» 5/05/2015 9:10:52 AM If it includes adult free will and informed consent, why not? Although it would need to be.....
» 4/05/2015 12:29:34 PM It comes out of the ground! So why can't it go back in? We Aussies are an inventive lot,.....
» 4/05/2015 11:22:26 AM I agree with most of this. What should happen to migrants, is they be directed where the.....
» 4/05/2015 10:39:54 AM There are places where the location of a few wind turbines would be logical, like say on i.....
» 3/05/2015 1:57:10 PM The problem with creating education as a commodity that can be bought and sold on a free m.....
» 3/05/2015 1:43:13 PM Education is not a commodity, but a right and or, an essential not for profit service! A.....
» 3/05/2015 1:29:38 PM Aidan is mostly right, we just don't need to raise more tax? Take interstate rapid rail......
» 3/05/2015 12:21:46 PM What taxes should the states collect? Arguably none! Given what they do is better done b.....
» 2/05/2015 12:23:40 PM Every western style economy rests on just two support pillars, and therefore any fool in h.....
» 2/05/2015 11:26:07 AM Actually Aidan, the Indians have built a few Thorium reactors, and I understand from earli.....
» 1/05/2015 2:21:19 PM The reason we can't compete with products sourced from halfway around the world, is our ma.....
» 1/05/2015 1:33:55 PM According to my source, and you or anybody else can read him just by googling, transmissio.....
» 30/04/2015 2:13:14 PM Maybe if we were to apply the same standards and lethal consequences to people trafficking.....
» 30/04/2015 1:36:05 PM Hasbeen old mate, before you go on bagging Ted as a latter day/closet commie, please study.....
» 30/04/2015 12:40:58 PM Aidan, read thorium cheaper than coal, before you go on digging an even deeper hole! Fir.....
» 29/04/2015 1:21:59 PM Exactly Mark, exactly! Other threatened fauna are often subjected to captive breeding pro.....
» 29/04/2015 12:56:38 PM Oh and by the way, there's no law that prevents governments from loaning start up funds to.....
» 29/04/2015 12:25:39 PM Aidan, please engage brain before putting mouth into gear. And an F- for failing as usua.....
» 29/04/2015 12:20:17 PM Before you go ripping into me with you usual unresearched ideological diatribe Aidan; you .....
» 28/04/2015 1:24:18 PM Not quite exterminated, the (smaller) Tasmanian aborigine still lives on in a few Tasman s.....
» 28/04/2015 1:07:35 PM I agree with most of this! Revitalizing manufacturing is as simple as supplying what the.....
» 28/04/2015 11:34:53 AM The proof of the pudding is in the eating, and we would be wise given history, to graduall.....
» 28/04/2015 10:47:28 AM Well now that you've finished looking in the mirror and all the personal introspection Bru.....
» 27/04/2015 6:19:43 PM Correction and apologies, 100 millions should be read as 100 billions! Rhrosty......
» 27/04/2015 6:17:25 PM One can only live and hope!? Even so, if I were in charge of Australia's oil and gas res.....
» 27/04/2015 5:39:53 PM I mostly agree Helen, given we can do all the requisite tests and far more accurately and .....
» 27/04/2015 5:26:33 PM Now that I've essentially bagged the current government and many previous ones, here are m.....
» 27/04/2015 4:45:05 PM I agree with everything Ted says, except for the premise, the conclusions and the solution.....
» 27/04/2015 4:06:11 PM Risible rubbish and the delusions of the demented!? Rhrosty......
» 24/04/2015 1:20:11 PM Yes well nice take, even if much of that legend was fiction created by our official war co.....
» 23/04/2015 12:13:04 PM And what other than culpable intransigence prevents us accessing our own import replacing .....
» 23/04/2015 11:37:42 AM Perhaps if the article were headed, all the reasons we can find or make up to preserve the.....
» 22/04/2015 12:48:58 PM A treaty with who? The very first of the first dispossessed Australians, which later gener.....
» 22/04/2015 11:32:20 AM My Irish ancestors would dispute the claim that the invasion and dispossession by the blac.....
» 21/04/2015 12:09:36 PM Well, talk about to overstate the blindingly obvious! Rhrosty......
» 21/04/2015 12:03:30 PM Yes! Albeit Fiji's Leader's divisive rhetoric is just not helping! Perhaps if all aid fu.....
» 21/04/2015 11:17:28 AM It was not just the Turks at fault here but almost everyone; during that period of history.....
» 20/04/2015 6:31:41 PM >The science supports the existence of evolution< No it doesn't, it just supports .....
» 20/04/2015 1:45:11 PM Apologies and correction, paleontologistical should be read as palaeontological. Rhrosty......
» 20/04/2015 1:23:09 PM It was just a little humorous, if entirely sacrilegious and a trifle overdone. This howe.....
» 20/04/2015 12:25:30 PM Well, I mostly agree with the Author and Chris C's take. The original Gonski proposed me.....
» 20/04/2015 11:40:17 AM For many years some communities have been creating out stations, because they could, due t.....
» 18/04/2015 12:40:00 PM Explanation. If the total tax taken by an expenditure tax, is just a 5% impost, then all e.....
» 18/04/2015 12:23:46 PM I'm in favor of replacing the GST with a direct funding model for public health and educat.....
» 18/04/2015 11:02:00 AM The whole idea behind a RET, was to allegedly reduce carbon! I mean and for heavens sak.....
» 17/04/2015 11:51:23 AM There is only one constant in the entire universe and that is constant change. We need t.....
» 16/04/2015 12:45:04 PM Yes and there's no way to say this except, those who speak for the many? Should first earn.....
» 16/04/2015 11:26:31 AM Has, I've seen plenty of bleached coral; for which I blame the greens; and their activism .....
» 15/04/2015 6:41:48 PM The narrow green strip that divides some highways, is nonetheless often wide enough for mo.....
» 15/04/2015 1:13:26 PM Some good ideas there JF! Now all you need is a few dozen pollies not effected by the Sa.....
» 15/04/2015 1:01:36 PM What else can you expect Alan when those charged with building our transport portals are b.....
» 15/04/2015 12:48:31 PM What brought them here? An opportunity to recreate all that they rejected to come here!?.....
» 15/04/2015 12:03:45 PM Thoughtful article Sarah, and likely explains a master servant mentality in people too rig.....
» 14/04/2015 12:54:31 PM According to my Sainted Mother Aidan, anything you like that's lawful, including attempted.....
» 14/04/2015 12:32:54 PM Apologies and correction, Teachers lunch room should read, Teachers' lunch room. Rhrosty......
» 14/04/2015 12:27:05 PM Yusterdee i cuddant evan spell univarsittee stewdent, now i ar wun; an gwaduwated as a tee.....
» 14/04/2015 11:28:45 AM Well when it was a vocation and not just a pay packet! There were far fewer people leaving.....
» 14/04/2015 10:50:53 AM I think the operative word here is sometimes! And in isolation! And to maintain an optimiz.....
» 13/04/2015 12:41:44 PM Well what can you expect of people unable or unwilling to use the brains they were born wi.....
» 13/04/2015 12:26:20 PM New advances in desalination by those clever Dutch, have shown it is possible to turn salt.....
» 13/04/2015 11:59:47 AM I have to agree with the Author on any number of grounds, one of which is there's no manda.....
» 13/04/2015 11:03:20 AM The analysis seems to have missed the estimated 1.7 trillion barrel reserves in Edmonton, .....
» 12/04/2015 12:28:22 PM I need no more than one good woman Suse! Satisfying one is already enough, without looki.....
» 12/04/2015 10:50:06 AM Hear hear and yes Mal. Rhrosty......
» 12/04/2015 10:44:00 AM If the Don was our finest batsman; and the averages might support that, then surely the Do.....
» 11/04/2015 11:59:39 AM Avw: Read my post again and identify where in that single sentence I have objected to, or .....
» 11/04/2015 11:08:58 AM Visionaries like Curtain and Chiefly understood that we were far too reliant on coal, so e.....
» 10/04/2015 1:38:24 PM And one for us old blokes Has. There was an old-timer, in for his annual checkup, and as.....
» 10/04/2015 1:32:32 PM And or the same partner, (widowed) who explains to the judge, I was just walking my dog Ti.....
» 10/04/2015 1:25:02 PM Good one Has. Another goes, well now we know why he works like a horse! And the other .....
» 10/04/2015 1:10:53 PM Well, that seems to be overstating the blindingly obvious Chas!? Rhrosty......
» 10/04/2015 1:08:31 PM And if true, not before time! Rhrosty......
» 10/04/2015 1:06:16 PM Well, you would say that, wouldn't you David!? Rhrosty......
» 10/04/2015 1:01:19 PM Wattle, you're just so wrong in your assumptions. The cheapest energy just happens to be.....
» 10/04/2015 11:59:16 AM Well there's very little about porn that is honest! And that has to include breathless w.....
» 9/04/2015 11:31:41 AM Why did we have to invite the yanks and their desire to dominate everything everywhere, in.....
» 9/04/2015 10:48:54 AM Interesting article, which could just as easily be applied to today's Australia, and our p.....
» 9/04/2015 10:34:53 AM Well, when born to rule parties put winning first and foremost, followed by party loyalty,.....
» 8/04/2015 6:42:41 PM I'm with MWPOYTNER and ask, why should such badly misguided activism and misinformation be.....
» 8/04/2015 12:53:55 PM There's a fairly simple formula for successful investment, buy on the fall, sell on the ri.....
» 8/04/2015 11:41:14 AM Always with the excuses David! Simply put, the truth is, Israel and or the present gover.....
» 8/04/2015 11:06:33 AM Yes LEGO, you seem to grasp reality. Some very simple maths for those who have a vested .....
» 7/04/2015 6:49:39 PM Well David, with a painkiller a thousand times more potent than heroin in the palliative t.....
» 7/04/2015 12:09:22 PM Fly me to the moon or Jupiter or mars! No, on second thoughts Kellie, it be easier to di.....
» 7/04/2015 12:00:04 PM This is exactly what I've argued all along! And even when the so called condition is see.....
» 7/04/2015 11:25:06 AM Our real problem is our guaranteed reliance on debt, and foreign debt at that as far as th.....
» 6/04/2015 10:56:53 AM Yes onthebeach, and you're not alone in that context. Here in Oz there's a story of a le.....
» 6/04/2015 10:12:03 AM Hear hear wobbles! Rhrosty......
» 5/04/2015 12:07:23 PM Yes Phanto, left handedness definitely is created in the womb with some help from genetics.....
» 4/04/2015 1:31:20 PM Has, so many broad sweeping statements, and said with such authority! So, lets flesh out.....
» 4/04/2015 1:02:21 PM BTW, every family produces enough waste to produce enough biogas to completely power their.....
» 4/04/2015 12:16:56 PM >Australians today are in desperate search of a Messiah< You rang? Rhrosty......
» 4/04/2015 12:07:33 PM Uyutsu and Onthebeach; it must be such a comfort to know that you're never ever wrong! A.....
» 4/04/2015 11:31:32 AM Yes C.H., and sad isn't it? Clearly these guys are out and out fundamentalists, just loo.....
» 3/04/2015 1:50:57 PM Well, as bad as the US is, or is claimed to be!? I don't see where there is any official a.....
» 3/04/2015 1:10:00 PM Skepticism is healthy in good or evidence based science or belief! However, it seems to .....
» 2/04/2015 11:49:52 AM Nope! The real problem was and remains the choices, which happen to be both expensive and .....
» 2/04/2015 11:34:26 AM Yup! Rhrosty......
» 2/04/2015 11:32:00 AM So? Rhrosty......
» 2/04/2015 11:26:31 AM Well yes, it ought to be all about the kids! Particularly those millions wasting their y.....
» 2/04/2015 10:12:03 AM If an unavoidable expenditure tax were the only tax levied or needing to be levied, and it.....
» 2/04/2015 9:34:26 AM Chris, sorry but I disagree with your assertions and assumptions! Giving parents the cho.....
» 1/04/2015 6:09:47 PM If we just funded the student with a means tested allocation,(not the cash money) then all.....
» 1/04/2015 5:53:25 PM If an expenditure tax was the only tax collected, we could use it and the tax rate to alon.....
» 1/04/2015 5:23:48 PM If we just removed the complexity and the costs that they incur, we wouldn't need negative.....
» 1/04/2015 12:48:55 PM Ask yourself, do we really need man made complexity, and pay through the proverbial just t.....
» 31/03/2015 11:52:50 AM Nethanyahu is right to worry about the Number of Arabs turning up at polling booths; given.....
» 31/03/2015 10:29:24 AM Have to agree with MARREELORRAINE. The simple biological fact is, that men and women are.....
» 31/03/2015 9:36:07 AM > It's been a long time since any of our leaders have shown this vision.< Correcti.....
» 31/03/2015 9:01:57 AM Not only that Cobber, but he seems to be also saying reducing essential maintenance (money.....
» 30/03/2015 4:07:18 PM Interesting assumptions or analysis. However as informative as the article might be, som.....
» 30/03/2015 10:19:15 AM I fail to see what if any importance is placed on the particular locale of any foreign inv.....
» 28/03/2015 12:07:04 PM Even a billion petitions can't/won't change BBC's workplace rules! One just cannot go up.....
» 28/03/2015 11:29:49 AM Thanks Has; put 10 economists in a single room and they're sure to come up with at least t.....
» 27/03/2015 12:01:17 PM Modeling! Assumptions! But we don't know for sure! Predicting the future is fraught with.....
» 27/03/2015 11:16:24 AM Max T, I'm sorry but you are wrong, or illiterate or both. The new Dutch (green) technol.....
» 26/03/2015 11:49:19 AM And riding a horse/hay burner, may produce as much Co2 emission, and a good deal of methan.....
» 26/03/2015 11:21:31 AM Is Mise; >pipelines anyone?< Well it's essentially a good idea, if we had several .....
» 26/03/2015 10:31:57 AM Kellie; I think you're being unnecessarily pessimistic. In the news recently (in the las.....
» 25/03/2015 6:30:26 PM I'll drink to that Pete. Rhrosty......
» 25/03/2015 6:23:38 PM Is Mise, Perhaps Ojnab is one of those serial offenders, given to beating the meat in publ.....
» 25/03/2015 1:48:55 PM Wall street having trouble getting rid of a pile of bad loans? Now where have I heard th.....
» 25/03/2015 12:35:06 PM Yes and evidence that try as we might, there's just no way to homogenize true liberals wit.....
» 25/03/2015 12:15:24 PM When the social norms change other things must change! And a women should be able to walk .....
» 25/03/2015 9:03:13 AM Interesting comment Has, can you provide so much as a single example that supports your pa.....
» 24/03/2015 12:06:35 PM Yes and well argued, except where scientists shouldn't come out and publicly contradict ot.....
» 23/03/2015 7:10:44 PM I spent too many of my formative years growing up/surviving all kinds of hell on earth in .....
» 22/03/2015 11:04:51 AM Is Mise. Voices coming out of thin air can be terribly distracting! And even more so, whe.....
» 22/03/2015 10:44:16 AM Yes Yutushu, it was all the fault of those Jezebel women. And if only Sweden could have .....
» 22/03/2015 9:36:51 AM Not everybody agrees with everything Mal did; but particularly those on his side of the is.....
» 21/03/2015 11:42:24 AM Sorry Has, but CSRIO, has a long and proud history of innovation and is responsible for so.....
» 21/03/2015 10:59:25 AM Craig, you've nailed it! I've read articles which suggest that only 30% of us understand.....
» 21/03/2015 10:28:23 AM Killarney; You can't be serious!? What are you saying, that the CIA were pulling Assange.....
» 20/03/2015 2:32:38 PM Absolutely agree Plantagenet! Until now Assange has been clearly guilty of very obviousl.....
» 20/03/2015 11:58:21 AM So what else is new! Even so, there's an old Irish saying that goes, you can't polish a .....
» 20/03/2015 11:49:39 AM Out of his hat? Are you sure they aren't coming from somewhere considerably lower down? .....
» 20/03/2015 11:44:17 AM Again we seem to be confronted by another ideologue bereft of a single new idea, save sell.....
» 20/03/2015 10:44:28 AM This is great news for our farmers and the often much maligned CSG industry. And indeed, f.....
» 19/03/2015 8:39:14 PM Plantagenet: What you say is essentially correct but only in reference to oxide reactors; .....
» 19/03/2015 12:37:40 PM No we can't do any of that, better our world is destroyed by runaway climate change; than .....
» 19/03/2015 12:13:08 PM If 97% of climate scientists agree that climate change is real, what does it matter what t.....
» 19/03/2015 11:05:12 AM Hear hear Chaz. Rhrosty......
» 19/03/2015 10:55:11 AM Great article Kellie; and very timely! When we privatized prisons the cost of keeping a pr.....
» 18/03/2015 7:25:45 PM The Brits do have an extradition treaty with the US and as a principle ally, less reluctan.....
» 18/03/2015 2:06:34 PM Aidan: Imagine you're a company. Your current tax liability is 30%! You pay around 7% .....
» 18/03/2015 1:30:06 PM Aidan, you've have just not read anything I have written with actual comprehension have yo.....
» 18/03/2015 12:32:08 PM Situation normal in Israel! Rhrosty......
» 18/03/2015 12:29:06 PM On the other hand they could be right. If it ain't broke don't fix it. The American sy.....
» 18/03/2015 11:58:02 AM Sorry Aidan, what we don't need is yet another layer of complexity added to the tax act. .....
» 18/03/2015 11:16:57 AM Risible rubbish from go to whoa! I know of two brothers raised in exactly the same envir.....
» 18/03/2015 10:45:38 AM And if the case stacks up? What then? Assange will still be in a foreign embassy and untou.....
» 17/03/2015 12:04:42 PM Freedom? What freedom? Conscience? What conscience!? Becoming a largely visionless voi.....
» 17/03/2015 11:26:29 AM Yes Pete and mostly agree. There was a time when you almost had to be semi retired to get .....
» 17/03/2015 10:13:06 AM Hear hear and well argued Yuyustu. There are some out there who seem to think kids barel.....
» 17/03/2015 12:47:26 AM We're one of a half doze or so countries who have never ever tried extremely popular elsew.....
» 16/03/2015 12:53:24 PM I find myself mostly agreeing with Foyle and Kellie. However, we have other options, whi.....
» 16/03/2015 12:22:56 PM Very introspective Sophie, very introspective! However, judge not if you would not be judg.....
» 16/03/2015 11:32:58 AM JF; protecting the oceans from algae bloom, could be very profitably done. First we repl.....
» 15/03/2015 12:42:55 PM Apologies; I forgot the P.S......
» 15/03/2015 12:39:28 PM JF Aus; I'm gob smacked by your comments on not wanting carbon free or carbon neutral ener.....
» 15/03/2015 11:57:23 AM The goal of Buddhists is enlightenment, become our own Buddha and get off the endless whee.....
» 13/03/2015 5:41:37 PM Karma is just another way of saying, so as you sow so also will you reap! If not in this l.....
» 13/03/2015 4:59:57 PM Yes thinkabit; and while everything you say is probably true? At some point someone is go.....
» 13/03/2015 12:39:23 PM Good questions; and why we need a model that places all the available funding in the hands.....
» 13/03/2015 12:13:22 PM Currently it is possible for a parent to give a kid up to %10,000.00 a year GIFT, without .....
» 13/03/2015 11:48:01 AM Excellent Idea. In a cashless economy, supported by smart cards, the black economy just co.....
» 13/03/2015 11:21:33 AM Buddhists will tell you they don't follow a religion, but a philosophy; given there's no G.....
» 13/03/2015 10:51:47 AM A classic case of shooting the messenger Don, simply because you don't like or accept the .....
» 12/03/2015 12:35:30 PM Exactly snibbo! Rhrosty......
» 12/03/2015 12:29:28 PM What, as opposed to allowing crims and killers to effectively exercise that right? One w.....
» 12/03/2015 11:41:22 AM Yes, particularly speculators losing their shirts! HOORAY! That said as long as supply c.....
» 11/03/2015 11:27:19 AM >A decade is but the blink of an eye in the history of a nation< The mandated term.....
» 11/03/2015 10:39:11 AM Nowhere could I find so much as a single verifiable example of privatization resulting in .....
» 11/03/2015 9:38:11 AM Well argued and cogent. No businessman worth the title would sell assets that were so pr.....
» 10/03/2015 7:30:21 PM Aidan, I wasn't referring to a theoretical concept, but a huge (economies of scale) coal c.....
» 10/03/2015 12:21:13 PM Well, the first thing that comes to mind is hydrogen extracted from ever abundant sea wate.....
» 9/03/2015 3:59:27 PM Thanks Thinkabit. And looking at the interaction of energy and matter, leads one to Einste.....
» 9/03/2015 12:12:37 PM Correction: Rail fates should read rail fares or rates. Apologies for the fat fingers and .....
» 9/03/2015 11:58:31 AM Micheal P; I was referring to brand new never lived in housing, not recently renovated old.....
» 9/03/2015 11:31:19 AM Hi Susan, I believe negative gearing has simply allowed far more investors than is healthy.....
» 9/03/2015 10:54:45 AM Well argued and conclusive. Rhrosty......
» 9/03/2015 10:36:52 AM They could!? But only as a "V-I-P" collective! Besides, what other option is t.....
» 9/03/2015 10:08:29 AM All human improvement has been the result of the exchange of ideas and or robust debate! .....
» 9/03/2015 9:30:15 AM Well, negative gearing should only ever apply to brand new housing and for just three-five.....
» 8/03/2015 9:35:26 AM Craig: References? All I can offer is oral history and my unusually reliable memory! .....
» 7/03/2015 12:15:11 PM Oh I don't know Growly? Perhaps if the Constitution could be rewritten to recognize the .....
» 7/03/2015 11:42:53 AM Thinkabit: I have tertiary qualifications in several disciplines. And I have read someth.....
» 6/03/2015 1:07:47 PM If Chamberlain proved just one thing; he proved there's just no way to appease a dictator,.....
» 6/03/2015 12:26:22 PM Well Harris could have been channeling a higher entity? Or maybe he just smoked to much do.....
» 6/03/2015 11:40:20 AM I think a long overdue and "POLITICALLY" resisted bill of irrevocable rights wou.....
» 6/03/2015 10:20:47 AM Extremely well argued, cogent and persuasive! No matter how skillfully manipulated, blat.....
» 5/03/2015 4:42:51 PM Water cracking presents as the cheapest possible way to make hydrogen and given we use upd.....
» 5/03/2015 4:04:08 PM Tas, the ceramic fuel cell went offshore a couple of years back, so I'm not surprised the .....
» 5/03/2015 12:31:25 PM I believe that Christians are being routinely misrepresented here? What Christians do su.....
» 5/03/2015 12:09:11 PM Agree David! Rhrosty......
» 5/03/2015 12:05:24 PM The whole article relies almost exclusively on regurgitated hearsay opinion, which is pres.....
» 5/03/2015 10:55:00 AM What's missing here is the alluded to common sense! Nations around the world will not ba.....
» 4/03/2015 12:54:25 PM Not all religions are religious, some are just controlling cults or even murderous cults, .....
» 4/03/2015 12:34:09 PM I just don't buy any of that! We train soldiers to kill and efficiently as possible! We .....
» 4/03/2015 11:47:36 AM Yes, but you would say that wouldn't you John!? And how would you honestly describe a vi.....
» 4/03/2015 11:21:08 AM Craig; you seem to be the one needed to reacquaint himself with the facts? Before you po.....
» 3/03/2015 11:49:39 AM So? What did you expect? Intelligence and genuine economic advocacy? Or better yet; genu.....
» 3/03/2015 11:43:49 AM I"m not sure Obama ever ignored anyone's human rights! Or indeed, there's any conclus.....
» 3/03/2015 11:24:24 AM Well argued, and more power to your pen Tim! And I believe I will succumb to temptation;.....
» 3/03/2015 11:05:12 AM The only myth on display here is that the patently pro-Abbott Author is basing an argument.....
» 3/03/2015 10:32:45 AM Interesting isn't it? People who try to smuggle a few pounds of what's routinely availab.....
» 3/03/2015 9:56:32 AM Extremely cogent and well argued, with fact! The newest pain remediation, as I understan.....
» 2/03/2015 12:36:32 PM Ah but you are wrong Suse! When any witness is interviewed with the assistance of a cove.....
» 2/03/2015 11:43:46 AM I'm not against voluntary Euthanasia, or having a referendum on it! And while some of you.....
» 2/03/2015 10:43:40 AM Dane, Craig; everything you've added seems to miss the critical point! All we need is to.....
» 1/03/2015 11:49:42 AM Dane, It's almost impossible for a woman to rape a man! And in the sexual context, women.....
» 1/03/2015 10:56:24 AM dane; you've absolutely nailed it in one! Has; have you applied to construct inlaw accom.....
» 28/02/2015 6:42:48 PM R0bert; operator bias is possible with polygraphs, but not with covert thermal imaging, an.....
» 28/02/2015 11:11:08 AM Yes Bren and right on the money, that's why we need to deal the courts out of this during .....
» 28/02/2015 10:40:01 AM >Let anyone divide the land they have title to to do so< Always providing the inte.....
» 27/02/2015 7:19:03 PM True enough Craig, and sometimes real R souls take an unfair advantage of a lady's diminis.....
» 27/02/2015 7:02:10 PM Rhian, that is what happens now! And hardly a day goes by, than there's a new breakthrou.....
» 27/02/2015 1:01:28 PM About time! Rhrosty......
» 27/02/2015 12:59:03 PM Well an internal inquiry might work, if it was conducted like the South African truth and .....
» 27/02/2015 12:39:08 PM Exactly! Rhrosty......
» 27/02/2015 12:36:04 PM Given it remains impossible to give informed consent while drunk or drugged; and given som.....
» 27/02/2015 11:58:18 AM Yes and well argued; always providing, we aren't allowed to express racial and or religiou.....
» 27/02/2015 11:29:25 AM The problem with legislating euthanasia, it requires a doctor absolutely dedicated to savi.....
» 27/02/2015 10:31:41 AM Conservative hippie, given your preferred option is unavailable, the next best thing and a.....
» 26/02/2015 1:10:09 PM Is Mise. Try using a search engine and doing your own research. I spent many years engag.....
» 26/02/2015 12:27:27 PM Sorry Malcolm. Your solution would just add to the contraction, given the current exodus.....
» 26/02/2015 11:55:15 AM Yup! Rhrosty......
» 26/02/2015 11:45:34 AM Yes Everald, and right on the money! It's as if the electorate has stuck its collective .....
» 26/02/2015 10:57:41 AM After hydrogen, we have the option of growing our oil, in also endlessly sustainable algae.....
» 26/02/2015 10:28:04 AM Where indeed? How about hydrogen and recovered from sea water, via the older and far les.....
» 25/02/2015 12:47:10 PM The gas glut in both china and the US; plus huge new finds in Edmonton, (1,7 billion barre.....
» 24/02/2015 11:44:24 AM Big Nana as usual, is right on the money. All we really need to know is that the carers .....
» 24/02/2015 11:22:48 AM He also trained with the Taliban, a terrorist organisation, that provided a safe haven for.....
» 24/02/2015 10:59:58 AM Well I find myself agreeing in part with Curmudgeon; the guy wouldn't ever get a Guernsey .....
» 24/02/2015 10:14:01 AM Finally, someone who just gets it! Rhrosty......
» 23/02/2015 5:54:25 PM Has, you are another one happy to rely on computer modeling to locate the eye and its trac.....
» 23/02/2015 12:01:57 PM Jenny, it's impossible to measure the eye of the storm outside the actual eye, which may h.....
» 23/02/2015 11:17:10 AM A very erudite thoughtful thought provoking article, that was a pleasure to read. And expl.....
» 23/02/2015 10:24:49 AM Actually Jenny, the radio reported recorded wind gusts at the centre, of 295 Kilometes per.....
» 22/02/2015 11:46:32 AM Well now, there is an admission that Hicks reserved military training n Afghanistan. Tha.....
» 22/02/2015 11:10:19 AM Yeah, maybe if we stop trying to bomb the Shiite out of ISIS, fewer of them will try to mi.....
» 21/02/2015 10:59:03 AM YEBIGA: It is said the art of propaganda is to tell a lie so enormous people will believe .....
» 21/02/2015 10:16:44 AM The (bleeding 'eart) commies should never be forgiven for trying to shut down the wharves;.....
» 21/02/2015 1:15:47 AM It's not our legal system that produced this stuff up. Without question Hicks was an ill.....
» 20/02/2015 10:59:15 AM Yeah, that's all we need, another loud mouthed pom, telling us how we should be'ave? And.....
» 20/02/2015 10:37:04 AM Because they are, and because we believe a so called democracy can do better, provide a va.....
» 19/02/2015 10:51:21 AM A decent commuter train service would prove far more cost effective, get traffic off the r.....
» 19/02/2015 10:21:22 AM Maybe, but in response to what? Peace loving Arabs just going about normal activities? I t.....
» 19/02/2015 10:07:39 AM More risible rubbish and from the same pen, replete with the usual tunnel vision, and an a.....
» 19/02/2015 9:38:52 AM Yes but it also makes and exports stuff to the world. We could too, but for the greedy ind.....
» 18/02/2015 10:52:21 AM Agree with Cobber and Curious. And note, Menzies lived in a completely different era, an.....
» 18/02/2015 10:04:33 AM It's amazing how quickly we sing a different tune when our circumstances change; and the h.....
» 18/02/2015 9:14:28 AM Well argued; and, Rocking and a rolling all night long, you're going to hear me singing .....
» 17/02/2015 9:35:51 AM >So the only reason for buying a home is so you can leave it to your kids< What rubb.....
» 16/02/2015 11:14:13 AM Ah yes, leaking in the public interest? Leaking must be measured and moderated against n.....
» 16/02/2015 10:23:52 AM Ship to ship missiles have been around for a while and defensible with the use of early wa.....
» 16/02/2015 9:41:43 AM Yes Don And right on every count! The war on drugs is said to be around 80 years old, an.....
» 15/02/2015 11:31:42 AM Dreamon, I tend to disagree with much of what you say. I don't believe we need to focus .....
» 15/02/2015 10:48:44 AM Tax reform can do two essential thing simultaneously! Lower the individual tax rate to t.....
» 15/02/2015 10:16:46 AM ISIS a USA/Israeli construction gone wrong? Ha,ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.....
» 14/02/2015 11:19:17 AM I know of some people, who seem able to afford to play the pokies as they please, live in .....
» 14/02/2015 10:41:23 AM We should lower the standard of living; and entirely unearned undeserved rewards! i.e, s.....
» 14/02/2015 9:42:45 AM Hard to argue with any of that Joe. But if the funding is placed in the hands of parents.....
» 13/02/2015 12:05:17 PM The Gonski system as I read it focuses, solely on comparative funding needs. So in what .....
» 13/02/2015 11:41:07 AM Yes Has, couldn't agree more! And not only that, we also with our attitude and input, actu.....
» 13/02/2015 10:58:11 AM Yes it is a waste of money if we don't win!? After all, that is why we pour billions int.....
» 13/02/2015 10:19:25 AM Yes David and as always, their atrocities are worse than your atrocities! However, you a.....
» 13/02/2015 10:04:11 AM Very well argued and extremely cogent Jo. What seems to missing in politics is original .....
» 13/02/2015 9:31:25 AM Well I didn't expect to ever agree with this Author, but I suppose there's a first time fo.....
» 12/02/2015 12:43:45 PM This is because nobody on the conservative side has another idea beyond privatizing income.....
» 12/02/2015 11:34:16 AM We just don't have a spending problem, just a revenue problem, easily remedied by ending a.....
» 12/02/2015 11:22:40 AM Arguably, this is exactly what you can expect when dogma and ideology replace logic and re.....
» 12/02/2015 11:19:01 AM We own 3 energy companies and why they are not fiercely competing for every cent of the en.....
» 11/02/2015 1:25:13 PM Don't be so modest Pete/Prince Charming personified? In the face of your taut trim and t.....
» 11/02/2015 12:46:14 PM No warming, = no ice melts, = no loss of summer ice, = no northwest passage, = no melting .....
» 11/02/2015 11:45:57 AM Spoken like a true economist, who has never ever run a business or successful commercial o.....
» 11/02/2015 10:45:27 AM The Mantra I would be endlessly repeating is; a vote for Mike Baird and his coalition, is .....
» 11/02/2015 10:19:22 AM We're told that only 30% of us understand politics, that only 30% understand economics, wi.....
» 11/02/2015 10:03:48 AM Interesting research Graham. So it's full speed ahead Mike and dam the electoral torpedo.....
» 10/02/2015 11:54:28 AM We are after all, a parliamentary democracy, and the leader leads by permission of the par.....
» 9/02/2015 12:45:39 PM The only absurdity here is the article, which would replace inconvenient science with conv.....
» 9/02/2015 12:09:02 PM Hear hear and well said Max. This is far and away your best article! Now if we could j.....
» 9/02/2015 10:30:28 AM 20x20 hindsight is a wonderful thing Alan and nowhere in your critique have you laid out w.....
» 8/02/2015 10:01:16 AM Your arguments have much merit JKJ, however, nothing can justify loan sharking, payday len.....
» 8/02/2015 9:18:37 AM runner: Posse ad esse aposterori a priori, ad hoc, a caoite ad calcem, sub judice lis est!.....
» 7/02/2015 11:13:08 AM Yes D.D., stiletto heels can be dangerous in the wrong hands! However, a few punctured f.....
» 7/02/2015 9:46:42 AM Ah yes Runner, the greatest story ever told, about a man who could walk on water, raise th.....
» 6/02/2015 12:20:22 PM The true vultures here are the loan sharks, tying to carve off their pound of flesh, from .....
» 6/02/2015 11:44:10 AM It's about perspective as much a anything else Don? As an ancient ancestor would've note.....
» 5/02/2015 12:19:08 PM Well the plans all look good in principle. But some of these verbal commitments may not be.....
» 5/02/2015 11:59:11 AM If the principle reason for buying new subs is for intell gathering, why buy noisy diesel .....
» 5/02/2015 11:15:08 AM I'm certain these guys knew all the risks inherent with running dope through a foreign cou.....
» 3/02/2015 5:58:19 PM I sort of agree with Graham. I think almost everyone thought the an LNP win was almost a.....
» 2/02/2015 7:22:18 PM Bazz, Look up www.geoexpro.com/articles/2013/06/oil from an ancient reef. The article ta.....
» 2/02/2015 6:15:50 PM Bazz, there was some reference to these new oil fields on OLO, in some previous editions. .....
» 2/02/2015 11:47:49 AM I have a different view which will see The Saudis ramp up production for all they're worth.....
» 2/02/2015 11:11:11 AM Well said David! If only someone as patently pragmatic were running the country, everybod.....
» 2/02/2015 10:05:48 AM Or perhaps we could ban bikinis? Nude bathing? Or even Pauline Hanson? If she really wan.....
» 1/02/2015 11:18:45 AM I watched an Australian made doco, which was centred on racial discrimination directed at .....
» 1/02/2015 10:37:33 AM Sorry Crowie, but you've missed the latest find in Canada, or new reserves that could easi.....
» 1/02/2015 9:51:07 AM This article flies in the face of the facts. A look at some graphs will show this. The.....
» 31/01/2015 10:14:56 AM I can recall seeing a mini series documentary (the world at war) on the second world war, .....
» 29/01/2015 12:19:31 PM Yes they have the outdoor cook-up, we have the backyard B-B-Q, beer and the usual flies. A.....
» 29/01/2015 12:00:55 PM Yes Kevin. One remembers the time when a single teacher in a largely indigenous hugely d.....
» 29/01/2015 11:51:34 AM Even so, this is a problem for Islam, which Islam must solve or be consumed by. Rhrosty......
» 29/01/2015 11:39:04 AM Of course Negative Gearing has to go, along with other clever tax rorts and ripoffs! Neg.....
» 28/01/2015 1:39:05 PM Well given the Dr's share of the co-payment is intended to be just $2.00, why not allow th.....
» 28/01/2015 1:02:47 PM Oh I don't know? Perhaps things like Blue Polls and a little tin lids finger painting fe.....
» 28/01/2015 12:29:31 PM Yes Haz and well said. AQnd faat fingerrs are alsoo a problemm! Yesterday I cudent even s.....
» 27/01/2015 11:39:09 AM Better that and contained casualties, than say carpet bombing, cluster bombs; and or, tact.....
» 27/01/2015 11:21:00 AM 18C is not the problem, but its application certain circumstances may well be? And easil.....
» 27/01/2015 10:43:13 AM Exactly Arthur, exactly. What the US or any industrialist there or here studiously ignore,.....
» 27/01/2015 9:38:17 AM Continued; if we instead of mining our once only coal, we leave it in the ground and extra.....
» 27/01/2015 8:54:00 AM Actually this may not be such a bad thing! Given it would force us to take a good long har.....
» 26/01/2015 10:47:56 AM Bragging? Sexual exploits Killarney? As I understand it, sexual exploits usually involve.....
» 25/01/2015 12:10:37 PM Ah Google, far more authoritative than the Bureau of stats and official information? Who.....
» 24/01/2015 11:59:26 AM Choice!? What choice did those innocents have, gunned down by hate! Given that's the ro.....
» 24/01/2015 11:06:51 AM Well, reading the posts one can understand why men come from Mars and women come from Venu.....
» 23/01/2015 12:00:52 PM Nailed it in one Crowie! Rhrosty......
» 23/01/2015 11:51:37 AM If sexy women didn't equate to more sales of shoes, aftershave or cars or whatever, there'.....
» 23/01/2015 11:13:19 AM Prison radicalization? Well given you need the IQ of a moron for it to work, perhaps? E.....
» 22/01/2015 12:59:17 PM No it's not the global economy, just planners stuck in the past, or think the only solutio.....
» 22/01/2015 12:10:21 PM Maybe so, but it is nonetheless, sufficiently advanced with our high tech help, to sort ou.....
» 22/01/2015 11:28:52 AM Yes mate, and given most of those lectures can be videoed and on sold over the internet, i.....
» 21/01/2015 11:08:17 AM Hear, hear and yes Aidan. Improving literacy standards particularly among women, is the .....
» 21/01/2015 10:47:46 AM Seriously impoverished Cuba has one of the best public health systems in the world, and co.....
» 20/01/2015 12:17:47 PM Well said Joe. And underlines my own beliefs almost exactly. And put more aptly by someo.....
» 19/01/2015 5:51:26 PM The crusades killed 6 million Muslims. And that's according to history almost anyone can r.....
» 19/01/2015 11:01:13 AM Yes there are projects and projects. i.e., the Greeks would have spent less mothballing th.....
» 19/01/2015 10:31:57 AM They knew full well all the risks, and the possibility that their personally transported f.....
» 19/01/2015 9:56:31 AM Well, it's not that long ago that we Christians killed in the name of our God. Yes we've.....
» 18/01/2015 11:56:50 AM Aidan. I'm not saying that Representatives shouldn't be unaccountable, as you imply. Jus.....
» 17/01/2015 12:56:14 PM Aidan: Accountable? By who? Us or those who effectively control Parliament? We've made .....
» 17/01/2015 11:38:03 AM There are more deaths as domestics by Wiltshire stay sharp knives than firearms, yet none .....
» 16/01/2015 12:26:20 PM Tribal unity? What the hell is that? Rhrosty......
» 16/01/2015 12:23:06 PM Yup, and particularly if we could eliminate the road block (opposition for its own sake) e.....
» 16/01/2015 11:55:12 AM If only that wish list, the social responsibility and true Christian nobility that might m.....
» 16/01/2015 11:44:01 AM RISIBLE RHETORICAL RUBBISH! Had there been a few Gun owners, trained ex-service personal.....
» 15/01/2015 12:19:24 PM Yup! Rhrosty......
» 15/01/2015 12:04:12 PM Sticks and stones will break my bones but words will never hurt me. I think the Pope wea.....
» 15/01/2015 11:07:08 AM Well Why not go back to the armistice lines and negotiate from there, but only if compromi.....
» 14/01/2015 12:23:51 PM Afterthought: As a substitute for actual evidence, fanatical zealotary has very little go.....
» 14/01/2015 12:17:46 PM Susie says it all for me! Rhrosty......
» 14/01/2015 12:11:06 PM Exactly! And in the context of the article, all we can truly say about the barking dog ma.....
» 14/01/2015 11:53:32 AM If Israel didn't have the USA as an ally, her only true one! This situation, and all the .....
» 14/01/2015 11:24:57 AM Contraception is a must for those still at school but sexually active, regardless of their.....
» 13/01/2015 11:27:13 AM Instill enough fear through violence/violent reprisals and you may still some but not all .....
» 13/01/2015 10:35:35 AM Hear, hear and well said Sir! Rhrosty......
» 12/01/2015 11:31:24 AM Yes, and because it's just to big a swing back to expect? Perhaps next time, but particul.....
» 12/01/2015 11:06:12 AM Yup, but particularly if he loses his own seat to Mz Jones. Which then begs the next ques.....
» 12/01/2015 10:59:03 AM Have to agree mostly with JKJ! We need to stop pussy footing around this issue, but inste.....
» 11/01/2015 8:51:22 AM Exactly Crowie, exactly! Just as those who favor euthanasia, those who don't also don't w.....
» 10/01/2015 12:49:00 PM I think the emphasis has to be redirected at preventative health, even if that eats heavil.....
» 10/01/2015 12:11:04 PM Well, we all need to do some belt tightening Particularly the wealthy who can better affo.....
» 10/01/2015 11:28:52 AM Something is very wrong when near record private household debt is misrepresented as wealt.....
» 9/01/2015 11:34:45 AM Tectonic adjacent small earthquakes, surely explains the source of the many reported unexp.....
» 9/01/2015 10:57:36 AM Bazz, Can't help you there mate, given I'm recalling an article from complimentary industr.....
» 8/01/2015 12:06:02 PM I tend to disagree with the Author's view, inasmuch as he seems to resist any action again.....
» 8/01/2015 11:03:08 AM Hear hear David F and yes! Rhrosty......
» 8/01/2015 10:48:25 AM And flooding the market also dries up critical funds for ISIS, who indubitably have their .....
» 8/01/2015 10:29:32 AM What occupies and motivates the Saudis are other oil producers, and the maintainence as mu.....
» 8/01/2015 9:09:52 AM Much ado about naught! Rhrosty......
» 7/01/2015 7:11:14 PM Aidan, so refreshing to read someone who clearly understands science. As for renewable en.....
» 7/01/2015 11:05:48 AM What should Christian worship look like? Well, how about the kindness of strangers, like.....
» 7/01/2015 10:07:40 AM Divorce is not fun, it not only splits Parents and their combined worth, but the Kids as w.....
» 7/01/2015 8:21:58 AM Hear hear Jon J. Rhrosty......
» 5/01/2015 12:18:20 PM Well, the one off act of a deranged lunatic is just that! No other explanation or excuse .....
» 5/01/2015 12:12:16 PM Why help the bludging leaners, when you can help the lifters, the over privileged and the .....
» 5/01/2015 11:31:01 AM I just don't see any US or Saudi collusion. Just the Saudis reacting to protect their mark.....
» 3/01/2015 11:16:41 AM Agree mostly with GlenC: And can only add, any form of "MAN MADE" compelled un.....
» 3/01/2015 10:32:43 AM Hear hear Big Nana! Thank heaven someone is prepared to tell it like it is, rather than d.....
» 3/01/2015 9:59:59 AM Hear hear Isabel. As always, some people never ever let the actual facts get in the way o.....
» 1/01/2015 9:47:51 AM I like the idea of a restricted special debit card, that can't be used to make cash withdr.....
» 31/12/2014 10:47:08 AM Why indeed!? Rhrosty......
» 31/12/2014 10:41:31 AM I speak here as someone routinely and quite viciously abused as a very small child, which .....
» 31/12/2014 9:52:32 AM SURELY! Rhrosty......
» 29/12/2014 11:08:20 AM Yes and no. When I sold real estate, the richest investor in the joint, paddled around we.....
» 29/12/2014 10:40:04 AM Have to agree with cornonacob! And anyway, animals react very differently to pain! i.e.,.....
» 29/12/2014 10:13:26 AM >remove the need for ethnic ghettos< What need is that? Where was that need when.....
» 28/12/2014 9:29:06 AM Sorry LEGO but their culture is no window, but rather who they are and how they think. N.....
» 27/12/2014 10:28:55 AM Well argued LEGO: It's so refreshing when someone relies on facts to carry an argument. .....
» 26/12/2014 10:06:50 AM Yuyustu: You really believe something written fifty, a hundred years after the event, by a.....
» 26/12/2014 9:05:06 AM Lord of the flies LEGO Lord of the flies; rather than race based ethnicity! I mean, look.....
» 26/12/2014 8:31:34 AM Misanthrope: It must be such a comfort to know you're always right; just as (terrified) Jo.....
» 25/12/2014 9:41:01 AM The link between genetics and a propensity to violence, is tenuous at best; whereas the cu.....
» 24/12/2014 1:47:16 PM Yes, without the fine tuning we would not exist! And that fine tuning needed the birth an.....
» 24/12/2014 1:10:32 PM Yeah go for it, I'll trade in the jalopy on an eclectic scooter/shopping trolley! Seriou.....
» 24/12/2014 12:44:07 PM The Mild colonial boy: It is a real treat to read factual data, rather than the unsubstant.....
» 23/12/2014 11:42:47 AM The biggest mouths clamped permanently on the taxpayer's teat Has, are entirely non essent.....
» 23/12/2014 11:32:54 AM It's assumed that indirect tax is the GST! Why? And by who? Those who want it to be so p.....
» 23/12/2014 10:50:54 AM Yes Brendan, somebody should have shot this animal before he killed or caused the death of.....
» 23/12/2014 9:52:10 AM Yes David, but one swallow does not a summer make! Nor one lone terrorist WW111! Had one.....
» 22/12/2014 10:49:11 AM Given some of the recorded intimacy with a whale by a former gospel (a whale of a tale or .....
» 22/12/2014 10:29:51 AM I seem to remember reading that the unexamined life is not worth living; nor indeed, I con.....
» 22/12/2014 10:01:13 AM Yes JKJ and hear, hear! Incidentally, during the relatively recent filming of an ABC doc.....
» 22/12/2014 9:22:43 AM It's almost impossible to look at our world and all that's happening to and or in it, and .....
» 22/12/2014 8:50:32 AM Everybody with half a brain knows what the penalties are if they get caught trafficking dr.....
» 19/12/2014 11:03:53 AM Credible archaeological evidence is putting the story of Moses and the Exodus well and tru.....
» 19/12/2014 10:13:17 AM We need better screening to keep the patent nut jobs out of our country! That's our real d.....
» 18/12/2014 9:21:07 AM What public holidays? The people most concerned with public holidays seem to be the ones.....
» 18/12/2014 8:51:16 AM Aldi, as a good corporate citizen, has every right to decide what belongs on their shelves.....
» 18/12/2014 8:24:01 AM The importance of India in our region of influence cannot be overstated! And it behooves .....
» 16/12/2014 11:27:59 AM Completely agree with david f's patent pragmatism. But particularly when we know prohibit.....
» 16/12/2014 10:57:53 AM An independent Tassie Yutushu? Great idea, let them survive on what GST they can collect .....
» 16/12/2014 10:26:13 AM Where? The people up there in Alaska watching their permanently frozen permafrost melting.....
» 15/12/2014 4:06:21 PM You may well be right Haduwel? But how would we know? Because you claim it to be so!? Got.....
» 15/12/2014 10:55:58 AM Yes and hear hear. Rhrosty......
» 15/12/2014 10:48:35 AM A righteous cause? Yes! But leadership that accepts what can be gained now today by way o.....
» 15/12/2014 10:08:39 AM Interesting history lesson, and moral judgement on moral judgement and or its lack? I mea.....
» 15/12/2014 9:27:57 AM The inherently fair Gonski funding model is inherently sound, extremely well researched an.....
» 15/12/2014 8:48:59 AM Yes Cobber, and political sour grapes writ large! Rhrosty......
» 14/12/2014 11:45:44 AM Actually Has, I was recounting actual history, rather than rationalizing as you (par for t.....
» 14/12/2014 10:55:14 AM Nurses shouldn't be asked to do things for patients, that patients can still do for themse.....
» 14/12/2014 10:21:33 AM Well if the states got all their GST; which by the way they do! They would still be in a .....
» 13/12/2014 10:43:36 AM Yes 579, that's exactly what I'm saying, and before so much as a single service is rolled .....
» 13/12/2014 9:49:14 AM Yes Has, but if you cared to actually read all of my post; [and wouldn't that make a nice .....
» 12/12/2014 12:24:38 PM Perhaps we could encourage the Norwegians to sail their currently unemployed, unused rigs .....
» 12/12/2014 11:42:13 AM Waiting for the baby boomers to die out as a logical solution, may see their homes being t.....
» 12/12/2014 11:03:01 AM While there is much in what the author says, but particularly in reference to some profess.....
» 12/12/2014 10:25:29 AM What sort of higher education system does Australia need? Definitely not the Christopher .....
» 11/12/2014 11:19:27 AM Yes Pete; but, given we've finally learned how to build these things they should be built .....
» 10/12/2014 3:27:41 PM The extreme complexity of our system simply assists now endemic avoidance! Meaning a vastl.....
» 10/12/2014 2:28:09 PM Right on Roses! Rhrosty......
» 10/12/2014 10:51:28 AM The child must take first priority! And returning that child to an abusive arrangement or.....
» 9/12/2014 10:25:34 AM Essentially correct Jack; and because farmers' co-ops (Liberals' enemies) keep them and th.....
» 8/12/2014 12:37:11 PM Yes J.O.M. We need to invest in our brightest people and their better ideas. And that pr.....
» 8/12/2014 11:45:43 AM Nope! Usually the other way round! Rhrosty......
» 8/12/2014 11:40:51 AM I think the death of any young person for any reason is a tragedy. And those that knew and.....
» 6/12/2014 12:25:40 PM Yes, I thought it incredibly shameful, the way these people, for who we still have an unre.....
» 6/12/2014 12:04:10 PM >Developers are a much maligned breed< And with good reason! As they try and cram p.....
» 6/12/2014 11:55:24 AM Matthew, when have the greens done anything that relied exclusively on logic's rites or re.....
» 6/12/2014 11:48:54 AM Lillian, Wow! Agree with most of what you say. This bloke seems to be talking out of his.....
» 6/12/2014 11:35:47 AM Thank you George for letting us know you're not a woman! Critical information; given that .....
» 4/12/2014 6:45:16 PM Aidan: Because start ups start with a huge advantage and a choice of technologies, like sa.....
» 4/12/2014 12:38:11 PM A couple of things: Firstly we should reintroduce a carbon tax, but only if it's accompani.....
» 4/12/2014 12:02:19 PM Euthanasia or its threat is not a cure for depression, aged depression, alcoholism, drug a.....
» 3/12/2014 8:24:02 PM Some interesting observations Killarney. There are more women In Australia now then men. .....
» 3/12/2014 12:04:14 PM Latham had testicular cancer, we're told. And could have been "mentally" affecte.....
» 3/12/2014 11:26:41 AM A.J.Phillips. I completely concur, and should I see a fetus marching down any street, int.....
» 3/12/2014 10:49:44 AM Well said Bren! What's missing in this morally bankrupt argument is the fact, we can if w.....
» 2/12/2014 11:48:06 AM If we are to import all our durable goods and processed food, how are we to pay for it? Wi.....
» 2/12/2014 10:53:39 AM This very article could have been written a couple of hundred years ago by a Luddite, seei.....
» 1/12/2014 3:25:11 PM Got it in one Aidan! Perhaps if we could clean out Hasbeen's bludgers, we could do better.....
» 1/12/2014 12:11:59 PM Well here we go again; and Labor's victory can be trashed by a hostile Abbott lead coaliti.....
» 1/12/2014 10:57:09 AM The lack of logic or economic expertise in the article is quite revealing, and probably ex.....
» 1/12/2014 10:12:14 AM Have to agree with most of this and add, we need to also focus on the human condition and .....
» 1/12/2014 9:46:02 AM I don't fancy your chances of being correct in any of your prognostications, but rather, c.....
» 30/11/2014 10:16:30 AM Paul: >as rich as the Arabs forever< Before you could turn water and Co2 into wine/.....
» 30/11/2014 9:35:27 AM O Sung, Suse, eternally hostile, always extremely unreasonable, man hating, invariably jud.....
» 29/11/2014 11:13:57 AM Been there done that Dave! As long as the patient is comfortable, and there remains some .....
» 29/11/2014 10:36:45 AM Has, I've had my back broken in five places, followed by multiple major spinal surgery. S.....
» 28/11/2014 11:03:57 AM Yes! So? Rhrosty......
» 28/11/2014 11:00:34 AM I entirely dispute that assertion! The other voices (too many chiefs and not enough India.....
» 28/11/2014 10:51:17 AM Yes John, and the minute we allow manipulating money loving morons merely masquerading as .....
» 28/11/2014 10:30:14 AM I tend to disagree, with the real failure being to improve general well-being; so these ex.....
» 27/11/2014 4:49:45 PM Isobel: You're talking rubbish! Asylum seekers are just not prevented from seeking asylum.....
» 27/11/2014 4:34:42 PM Fortunately, we have plenty of such sand. Albeit, there are places where it must be in sh.....
» 27/11/2014 4:23:40 PM Has, yes and hear hear. Schools started going backwards when unions got involved, and effe.....
» 26/11/2014 6:20:25 PM I think Mr Obama is targeting people already in the country, holding down two or three job.....
» 26/11/2014 5:50:59 PM Micro-grids just don't need to exclude anyone! All that is required to provide base load p.....
» 26/11/2014 11:53:41 AM Yes! Well? So? And? Rhrosty......
» 26/11/2014 11:41:40 AM As I understand it, Mr Obama is not tearing down any walls or opening up any common border.....
» 26/11/2014 11:18:58 AM I just don't buy this do nothing argument, but particularly when other nations are aiming .....
» 26/11/2014 10:45:11 AM Bridging the divide between the haves and the have nots is an absolute imperative! And ju.....
» 26/11/2014 9:29:41 AM Has, you'll probably enjoy this. Some years ago, a bright young thing trying to get a han.....
» 25/11/2014 5:31:03 PM Agree mostly with Rhian. I thought the Gallipoli campaign was a dogs breakfast from start.....
» 24/11/2014 6:05:18 PM An erudite and well argued account! Perhaps formal ejection from NATO, will tell this tu.....
» 24/11/2014 5:32:36 PM Agree mostly with Chris per. It's okay to take a holiday in a dream castle in the clouds,.....
» 24/11/2014 4:47:49 PM Hey Has, you don't think the state of those finances you alluded to, had anything to do wi.....
» 24/11/2014 12:04:32 PM Iran needs $135.00 a barrel to just break even? Well how nice for Iran; whereas, we in th.....
» 24/11/2014 11:32:57 AM > Former foreign fighters<, some of them return disillusioned? At least that what t.....
» 22/11/2014 10:54:09 AM And if any air campaign was matched by an equally rapid but perfectly timed naval attack, .....
» 22/11/2014 10:13:00 AM Pete, I said tested rockets not built! However, given our scientists and skilled technici.....
» 21/11/2014 12:56:21 PM I can say the same thing twice using exactly the same sequence words to produce two quite .....
» 21/11/2014 11:52:54 AM Progressive Pat, I side with D.G. here. We spent years testing rockets at Womera, and are.....
» 21/11/2014 10:42:16 AM I like the idea of a fund, and using it to develop new efficacious drugs big pharma, just .....
» 20/11/2014 4:33:26 PM Why not? I mean, does anyone seriously consider it is beyond Chinese car factories to ret.....
» 20/11/2014 4:01:55 PM Aidan: 0.6 x 1000 as a way of working out percentages is completely wrong! And the very w.....
» 20/11/2014 1:02:03 PM Good article, well written and a great, positive and indubitably pragmatic example to foll.....
» 20/11/2014 12:56:54 PM G'DayBruce and yes, hear hear! After all anyone genuinely seeking asylum only needs fly h.....
» 20/11/2014 12:24:07 PM The Chinese are already doing plenty, and President Obama, still has some administrative o.....
» 20/11/2014 11:59:16 AM An afterthought: What possible difference can it make, if we as a race can destroy our pl.....
» 20/11/2014 10:50:54 AM Tombee, Peter Lang and Foyle; it makes a very pleasant change to read posts from the erudi.....
» 19/11/2014 11:14:54 AM Well Has old mate, given you've always argued that the world is really getting cooler, the.....
» 19/11/2014 10:35:10 AM Well, if merely opening your mouth to change socks is a sign of GENIUS, then Tony Abbott h.....
» 19/11/2014 10:16:14 AM Risible rubbish! The only farce on display here, is Julian's endless escapologist excuses.....
» 19/11/2014 9:47:40 AM Climate change and ocean acidification, have one common cause; namely Co2! The hydrocarbo.....
» 19/11/2014 8:58:20 AM >men need discipline, persistence, order and dependability< Well young men who may .....
» 18/11/2014 11:54:17 AM Well Netanyahu has a point, and the west bank is closer to Israel's population centres, as.....
» 18/11/2014 11:38:32 AM Let's not have the facts get in the way of a good story, or reasons why we the poor gullib.....
» 18/11/2014 10:57:20 AM The author complains about a hatchet job and exaggeration! Then proceeds to do a fine hat.....
» 18/11/2014 9:47:28 AM It's not just lobby groups who undermine democracy, but highly manipulated preferential vo.....
» 18/11/2014 9:05:35 AM >Radiation bead implantation is an option< Arguably Woolly, it's the only option, a.....
» 17/11/2014 4:57:14 PM By the time this cancer has spread to the bones, making them very brittle and as easy to b.....
» 17/11/2014 12:50:16 PM Free speech must as always, include the right to offend; as opposed to being quite deliber.....
» 17/11/2014 12:41:10 PM >As a couple we are content<? Really? I'm not sure any woman can speak for, let al.....
» 17/11/2014 11:59:00 AM Perhaps they are then protected from feral deer, you know those lovable bambis, that nearl.....
» 17/11/2014 11:40:08 AM Couldn't agree more Mark! Indigenous peoples the world over have been sustainably logging.....
» 16/11/2014 11:16:05 AM To take up another point; clearly this person known as JC, never actually penned anything .....
» 16/11/2014 10:32:37 AM Yes Suse and point taken. However, to believe in one thing and use that to refuse to beli.....
» 15/11/2014 12:53:52 PM Unusually, I find myself agreeing with Hasbeen. Simply put, if we but focus on the least .....
» 15/11/2014 11:44:14 AM I think we'd have a better chance of first digging a hole in beach-side sand, then emptyin.....
» 15/11/2014 11:13:45 AM Faith based belief is just that, whether one is locked in to evolutionist or intelligent i.....
» 15/11/2014 10:25:16 AM Short selling, (selling shares you have yet to purchase) could be a very risky or bankrupt.....
» 15/11/2014 9:48:13 AM Well Conrad, you only need look at the previous highly subjective posts, to see where the .....
» 14/11/2014 8:39:57 AM Well said Yuyutsu! Rhrosty.....
» 14/11/2014 8:10:51 AM Before you challenge the science OR MY INTEGRITY, roses1, you first need to be able to do .....
» 13/11/2014 11:48:30 PM Transmission line losses average out at 0.6% a mile. And the national grid covers thousan.....
» 13/11/2014 11:52:58 AM Well researched and argued Peter Lang. Fast breeder/conversion reactors are very definitel.....
» 13/11/2014 11:31:35 AM On face value, the research seems reasonably well done? However, on face value, the concl.....
» 13/11/2014 11:04:26 AM Finally a well written and extremely credible article, based on real research, as opposed .....
» 13/11/2014 10:48:54 AM Well that depends on your perspective and or actual experience. Not too many of us now li.....
» 13/11/2014 10:09:08 AM Pixie dust and bulls, Mackrackie? Well, anyone able to reach that conclusion without any .....
» 13/11/2014 7:14:40 AM I remember video of Romania orphanages, not long after they applied for ECU membership, an.....
» 12/11/2014 3:12:18 PM Yep, the rail lines should have never ever been ripped up Has. Now let me see, just who d.....
» 12/11/2014 2:58:16 PM Do you include widows and deserted wives Hasbeen, or just those pregnant by accident, say .....
» 12/11/2014 11:41:55 AM Have to agree with Big Nana! And because I spent most of my formative years in foster hom.....
» 12/11/2014 10:46:02 AM Hear hear and well said sir; and thinking voter! Rhrosty......
» 12/11/2014 10:06:04 AM #4. Finally there is solar thermal. And no we aren't currently building any, but we could......
» 12/11/2014 9:43:00 AM #3 penultimately, there are Pebble reactors. These also can be mass produced/factory built.....
» 12/11/2014 9:16:26 AM #2: Is biogas, produced onsite and stored in bladders, makes power available 24/7! Scrubb.....
» 12/11/2014 8:36:02 AM Risible rubbish! So we need R+D eh? No doubt at enormous cost to someone, i.e, the as ev.....
» 11/11/2014 12:25:06 PM I agree mostly Micheal! And a convenient label is an easy way out for someone who can't d.....
» 11/11/2014 12:12:46 PM Sadly I think you're right on the money Steven, or rather the lack of it; but particularly.....
» 11/11/2014 11:28:17 AM Nowhere else in the world, can you get 35 years of average 10% growth! But as you rightly.....
» 11/11/2014 11:02:54 AM Incredibly unconvincing argument for privatization! If government's role is reduced to ju.....
» 11/11/2014 9:01:24 AM There are pensioners and pensioners Has. Former public servants do reasonably well as do s.....
» 10/11/2014 4:15:25 PM I wasn't talking about hobby farms Hasbeen, but something quite a lot larger. And yes, pl.....
» 10/11/2014 11:57:15 AM One can only hope so, given current verbal agreements on all sides, seem hardly worth the .....
» 10/11/2014 11:42:02 AM Small family farms are still far and away, more energy efficient than large farms run by p.....
» 10/11/2014 10:47:51 AM Reading between the lines, all we need do is get men to behave like most women! And emoti.....
» 10/11/2014 9:59:13 AM The real driving force behind the so called American oil boom; is sanity, and the weaponiz.....
» 8/11/2014 11:50:40 AM Squeers; self esteem is what gives any of us the ability to raise our head and or say no; .....
» 8/11/2014 10:27:58 AM Hasbeen, a good example is a clothing manufacturer, that took on Asia and won. Computer a.....
» 8/11/2014 9:34:00 AM The whole quote goes, life wasn't mean't to be easy, it was meant to be delightful! I spe.....
» 7/11/2014 5:35:57 PM Yes Hasbeen old mate, and this endless money churn costs billions! Better we just remove .....
» 7/11/2014 5:07:03 PM Yep Hasbeen, it is as always, all about you. >Most country schools still have such mas.....
» 7/11/2014 11:42:12 AM What housing policy? Government inaction in this very area, whether it be limiting foreig.....
» 7/11/2014 11:32:28 AM Yes, and this very intolerance is underlining something we all know! We are approaching a.....
» 7/11/2014 11:15:40 AM Most of this nonsense is just rubbish! Nobody chooses to be born poor, or in a post code .....
» 7/11/2014 10:26:45 AM No and it never was! Simply put, it is just another one of those regressive measures, tha.....
» 6/11/2014 4:35:48 PM Well, I didn't make that link byork, but now you've raised it, lets stick specifically to .....
» 6/11/2014 10:35:28 AM There's only one constant in the entire universe, and that is constant change. Or reef is.....
» 6/11/2014 10:05:29 AM If I were about to board an aircraft surrounded by 100 extremely concerned flight engineer.....
» 6/11/2014 9:31:57 AM Let's set aside credulity for a moment and suppose you are right? What on earth are we su.....
» 5/11/2014 1:19:15 PM I should think there has to be a safe way to pump this rubbish out and for a lot less than.....
» 5/11/2014 12:51:17 PM What can you say!? Birds of a feather always flock together? Like attracts like? Or acti.....
» 5/11/2014 12:28:26 PM Have to agree with Curmudgeon; given I lost thirteen blood relatives in WW1. I hardly thi.....
» 4/11/2014 12:20:23 PM Now let me see if I have this right David? I live on land that has millions of native Abor.....
» 4/11/2014 11:37:18 AM Risible nonsense David, except were you say we need to means test government support. Com.....
» 4/11/2014 11:20:28 AM I spent some of my early formative years on farms. In an absolute first, I absolutely agr.....
» 4/11/2014 11:05:22 AM Yes and sadly there is a level of calloused indifference out there. From time immemorial,.....
» 3/11/2014 5:51:29 PM As curmudgeon has so wisely pointed out, we are better informed by historical examples, th.....
» 3/11/2014 5:12:29 PM There are cities as large as Australia, [population numbers,] run by single administration.....
» 3/11/2014 11:51:39 AM Da sure, You can get people to wote any vich vay, if zay are directed by machine gun totin.....
» 3/11/2014 11:30:00 AM Where'd you yank that one from Dave? Doubleday's dam Yankapedia? Rhrosty......
» 3/11/2014 11:17:08 AM Absolutely agree Chris. If it ain't broke don't fix it! Yet this is exactly what these so.....
» 3/11/2014 10:36:21 AM Maybe, but not so much by the rise and rise and rise of the yuan, but rather, China's huge.....
» 3/11/2014 9:28:34 AM Hardly all that surprising! After all, the fossil fuel industry rakes in over four trillio.....
» 3/11/2014 8:32:24 AM It's not all that often you come across a rational and well researched article on tax, but.....
» 2/11/2014 12:31:34 PM Mostly agree Ajay, and that's two times in a single week! China is proposing a new develop.....
» 2/11/2014 11:59:55 AM JF Aus. You have some interesting and seemingly good ideas, many of which would seem on fi.....
» 1/11/2014 11:05:33 AM Thanks for the very informative link Ajay, and for the most part you seem to be right on t.....
» 1/11/2014 10:03:10 AM You may be on to something there JF Aus. However, I wouldn't spend trillions on the neces.....
» 1/11/2014 9:19:04 AM Yuyustu. I was definitely not referring to my needs, nor am I the right royal we; as in we.....
» 31/10/2014 4:39:10 PM Yes Wolly and that's where the real problem lies? There was a time when labor pollies cam.....
» 31/10/2014 10:37:15 AM Everything in the entire knowable universe is energy in some transformed form. Given ener.....
» 31/10/2014 9:18:48 AM So what! What we need to see here is action, not another talk feast and endless broken pr.....
» 31/10/2014 9:12:52 AM Well, after the hacking debacles, I wonder if the right to privacy isn't a far more import.....
» 31/10/2014 8:25:38 AM Bren says it all for me! Got SFA to add! Except, these people should be locked up and the.....
» 31/10/2014 8:01:07 AM Graham, as a spin doctor you get F for fail! One remembers the absolute rout the became t.....
» 30/10/2014 12:28:12 PM Perhaps Jaylex, and even so, pizantz will always remain pizantz! Rhrosty......
» 30/10/2014 12:16:51 PM Faith built on fiction, and probably underscored by mounting archaeological evidence, whic.....
» 30/10/2014 11:33:11 AM I find it hard to disagree with any part of the article. We should and must remain free t.....
» 30/10/2014 11:13:52 AM There are better more profitable energy investments! Rhrosty......
» 29/10/2014 12:27:35 PM Yakity yak, blah, blah, blah, blah. I think the planet is in more danger from all the hot.....
» 29/10/2014 11:58:27 AM I absolutely disagree with everything you say, but would lay down my life in order for you.....
» 24/10/2014 1:12:17 PM Oh but it does, if it means keeping intending Isil "operatives" (Men, women and .....
» 24/10/2014 12:41:53 PM I've always loved a good conspiracy theory. I mean, there's always someone very competent.....
» 24/10/2014 12:28:24 PM SUBMISSION WITHOUT INFORMED CONSENT IS STILL RAPE! [Do you feel like it? No? Okay, do y.....
» 24/10/2014 11:31:31 AM Low oil prices! And if they slip below $75.00 some companies will remove oil rigs? And fo.....
» 23/10/2014 4:04:07 PM If there was any genuine concern about nuclear proliferation or Australian exports freeing.....
» 23/10/2014 12:44:39 PM Longer term? Further and long overdue decentralization, and the continuation of the curre.....
» 23/10/2014 12:25:34 PM If it swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it probably is a duck! Similarly if it l.....
» 23/10/2014 12:16:55 PM Almost as possible as to get pro Russian sympathizers to stick to the actual facts, instea.....
» 23/10/2014 11:39:02 AM Yes JKJ and hear hear. Uranium is becoming safer by the day, with things like, almost gua.....
» 22/10/2014 12:15:19 PM Curmudgeon: The solar thermal arrays that I've studied and presented as examples, do not .....
» 22/10/2014 11:40:21 AM Exactly Sharpie! And the latter example, would put all the other examples in the shade, o.....
» 22/10/2014 11:19:32 AM John Bennets sums it up very nicely for me, and can add little more, save say, I liked nei.....
» 22/10/2014 10:41:41 AM I can't say I liked the man. I found him arrogant and vain in the extreme; nor did I like .....
» 21/10/2014 3:50:51 PM Yes Suse, one only has to hark back to the deplorable inhuman conditions in some state run.....
» 21/10/2014 11:21:40 AM Yes and no. Yes we need to divest ourselves on a reliance on fossil fuels, but particular.....
» 21/10/2014 10:47:32 AM How do you make hail? Very good! Trouble with economists, put ten in the same room and yo.....
» 21/10/2014 10:05:37 AM Well he was experiencing some difficulty with his PPL scheme, and was slowly sinking in th.....
» 21/10/2014 9:32:57 AM David; this is clearly an ideological argument and avoids various pertinent comparisons! .....
» 20/10/2014 12:47:00 PM I've always thought we should require any GENUINE refugees accepted here legitimately, via.....
» 20/10/2014 12:37:26 PM Yes and hear hear! Now if we could just get those rocket firing extremists to stop with t.....
» 20/10/2014 12:26:11 PM Yes Pericles, and hear hear! If it were the menfolk having the babies, numskull/risible r.....
» 20/10/2014 12:15:47 PM I think the author is splitting hairs! What does it matter if what 98% of any polled grou.....
» 20/10/2014 11:24:56 AM Boomer. Yes and hear hear! Rhrosty......
» 20/10/2014 11:18:24 AM As for uranium, India, doesn't need to follow western example, but go straight to far safe.....
» 20/10/2014 10:34:09 AM Well argued and well researched article! Inherently correct except for the claim that the .....
» 19/10/2014 9:21:12 AM Exactly LEGO! We didn't start WW11, by invading either Hitler's Germany or Nipponese Japan.....
» 18/10/2014 2:13:36 PM There is much in what you say Killarney! And I was one of the most surprised people, when .....
» 17/10/2014 3:24:18 PM People could just use cash! Well that would work well in a cashless economy, or internatio.....
» 17/10/2014 11:08:48 AM Yuystu. Yes and hear hear! Rhrosty......
» 17/10/2014 10:56:57 AM Steam trains? Tell them they're dreaming! Ships that fly? Tell them they're dreaming! .....
» 17/10/2014 10:10:16 AM Absolutely agree Chis; and well written thoughtful article! Look, three weeks ago I cudent.....
» 17/10/2014 10:02:34 AM The spectre of terrorism! What, this is not actually happening, but is just a spectre, th.....
» 17/10/2014 9:38:36 AM There is a fair bit of latter day revisionism here John, including your take on the ".....
» 16/10/2014 5:11:42 PM Right on Foyle. This is part of the problem with a two tier tax system, that taxes those .....
» 16/10/2014 12:55:08 PM Susanonline: Yes and hear hear! Rhrosty......
» 16/10/2014 12:51:33 PM Have to agree with JBowyer, and can only add,the breakdown of the family unit, and out of .....
» 16/10/2014 12:26:27 PM I just don't see it Alan, unless you actually equate personal debt with wealth! Higher ho.....
» 16/10/2014 11:29:58 AM After we've clawed back control of, the cost to us, of energy, we need to claw back contro.....
» 16/10/2014 10:57:00 AM Exactly! But it cannot be allowed to once again degenerate in the ever reliant, it's your.....
» 15/10/2014 12:58:28 PM Agree with MC! And can only add; I'd like to see both macho men in the boxing ring and sq.....
» 15/10/2014 12:47:12 PM Great argument for a wholesale change over to a long overdue, and vastly less costly preve.....
» 15/10/2014 12:11:49 PM Agree with the article, Big Nana and EQ! Typically, the only detractor, thus far, challen.....
» 14/10/2014 10:48:20 AM Well that rather depends whether you're laying dying from Ebola, or on your knees, at the .....
» 14/10/2014 10:09:37 AM I see little of real merit in this (Ivory tower dweller) unrealistic academic article. Th.....
» 14/10/2014 9:40:34 AM Yes, the back to basics is a good move, as is the reintroduction of phonetics. Literacy i.....
» 13/10/2014 7:01:25 PM Hi loudmouth; there is much in what you say! However, I'm not advocating a utopia, nor pe.....
» 13/10/2014 12:43:47 PM Yes JKJ. Sob. Well argued, what we and the world needs now, is cooperative capitalism com.....
» 13/10/2014 12:38:53 PM No! Rhrosty......
» 13/10/2014 12:31:27 PM Have to agree with Mac! Rhrosty......
» 13/10/2014 12:26:22 PM Age shall not weary them Dave, because they're dead Dave! We shall indeed remember them a.....
» 13/10/2014 12:12:44 PM The minority exceptions that prove the rule Pete, perhaps? And hardly ever those living o.....
» 13/10/2014 11:31:56 AM Exactly Patrica and Don. And even truly obnoxious articles like JKJ, will be old one day,.....
» 10/10/2014 12:37:25 PM What can we say Malcolm, except when you're absolutely right, you're absolutely right! Pe.....
» 10/10/2014 12:27:59 PM And arguably, anybody that disagrees with your version of reality John. It must be such a.....
» 10/10/2014 12:24:25 PM Yes, no question! Rhrosty......
» 9/10/2014 5:35:20 PM Luciferase. Atomically, lighter than air methane, is mostly hydrogen atoms with a few carb.....
» 9/10/2014 1:29:11 PM Luciferase. The products may well be the same, but the (inverse) proportions are not! Repe.....
» 9/10/2014 12:42:47 PM If, but, maybe, why, when, where, how, what? The hell you say? You can see things from a.....
» 9/10/2014 12:25:56 PM It's their gas James! Would that the rest of the oil and gas owning world had their coura.....
» 9/10/2014 12:05:48 PM Exactly Tully exactly! Rhrosty......
» 9/10/2014 12:00:25 PM IPCC calculations can be inherently worthless, when measured against historical fact, and .....
» 9/10/2014 10:52:43 AM If the article is accurate, and that's not conceded here Tanveer, maybe we just need to in.....
» 8/10/2014 1:07:21 PM There seems little evidence to support your, par for the course concerns Jim. India stand.....
» 8/10/2014 12:39:10 PM Yes Poirot, and hear hear! Rhrosty......
» 7/10/2014 11:56:25 AM Again and as always, a permanently disgruntled DG, is busy busy bashing America, (endlessl.....
» 7/10/2014 11:28:22 AM So? Rhrosty......
» 7/10/2014 11:25:44 AM Seriously David, it's just not Obama's problem or responsibility! Neither Israel nor Pales.....
» 7/10/2014 11:04:05 AM Agree with a very well informed Curmedgeon. Apart from that and in reference to drugs. H.....
» 6/10/2014 12:28:26 PM Does fairness matter? Well of course it does, as does true justice; inherently, one and t.....
» 3/10/2014 12:47:02 PM Yes Malcolm, but when and how? Crying in the pretzels hasn't worked too well thus far! R.....
» 3/10/2014 12:44:11 PM Did you seriously and honestly expect something/anything different? Rhrosty......
» 3/10/2014 12:40:47 PM Yes, especially in Tienanmen Square! Rhrosty......
» 3/10/2014 12:33:43 PM Poirot; what can I say except, yes, hear, hear. And arguably because most young folk, [40.....
» 3/10/2014 12:03:30 PM This conflict is likely to last for decades, and only end when we win the war fought for h.....
» 3/10/2014 11:24:16 AM JKJ, You have forced dullard David G into a corner, and obliged him to nail his (Tri) colo.....
» 3/10/2014 10:40:37 AM The overwhelming result just shows, B.A., should have trusted the will of the people from .....
» 2/10/2014 4:43:18 PM Let me preface my remarks by revealing, I come form a science background/analyst/chemical .....
» 2/10/2014 3:38:05 PM David G: Thanks for all the compliments. So I thrill you with my wisdom and intellect do.....
» 2/10/2014 12:44:34 PM Sitting on a very narrow fence, (the iron mare) as a permanent position, can be extremely .....
» 2/10/2014 12:12:03 PM Yakitty yak, bah, blah, bah blah; yakitty yak, bah, blah, bah, blah. That's all I hear al.....
» 2/10/2014 12:07:39 PM Wind and solar; wind and solar; wind and solar! Talk about head hurting, redoubtable rigi.....
» 2/10/2014 11:20:44 AM Again sob, (3 times in just one week) I have to agree with my arch enemy, JKJ! Ha ha. How.....
» 2/10/2014 11:00:38 AM There was a time, when we were the third wealthiest nation on the planet and a creditor on.....
» 2/10/2014 10:07:51 AM Absolutely agree with JKJ. That's 2 times in just one week, and a possible new record J. .....
» 1/10/2014 4:31:45 PM Indeed JKJ. And education in a so called democracy, is a right rather than a salable comm.....
» 1/10/2014 4:08:10 PM Ah so Pete. In my humble opinion, the Japanese have a stake in this outcome, as a very in.....
» 1/10/2014 3:23:52 PM What the Author also studiously overlooks, is the fact that when dams are decommissioned, .....
» 1/10/2014 12:25:13 PM Yes Alan, and hardly surprising given the coalition's seeming bent on further entrenching .....
» 1/10/2014 11:33:40 AM I just don't think so. You see Beijing, has to remain cognizant of Taiwan, and their plan.....
» 1/10/2014 10:56:03 AM In the news lately, was a practical electric car powered by a fuel cell! This means, we m.....
» 1/10/2014 10:21:26 AM Don, you're supposed to be some sort of intellectual giant/university Chancellor, yet you .....
» 30/09/2014 12:28:45 PM Of course if we introduced a transaction tax, nobody could escape their fair share. Well,.....
» 30/09/2014 11:51:08 AM Shakespeare 'as said it right: the world's a stage; An'all us 'uman duck an'dames ingage I.....
» 30/09/2014 11:00:34 AM Well. I agree with most of the article, save that we are powerless to deal with climate c.....
» 30/09/2014 10:11:54 AM Competition, hmm. Schools as profit earning entities, hmm. Let's see where that goes? Th.....
» 29/09/2014 1:09:57 PM Well to overstate the abundantly obvious, when you're right you're right David. However, .....
» 29/09/2014 12:47:06 PM Absolutely Agree Poirot; And can only add, your analysis is backed by the Arab Spring Phen.....
» 29/09/2014 12:18:15 PM Yes Hasbeen old mate. Increases in the GST, would allow the entire current convoluted com.....
» 29/09/2014 11:52:54 AM These proposed changes, would increase AUSTRALIAN BASED profitability, by as much as 37%!?.....
» 29/09/2014 11:26:41 AM The 18% tax rate could then be progressively lowered, until the only tax collected, was ju.....
» 29/09/2014 11:04:12 AM Well, perhaps the header should read, how to raise more revenue, without destroying lucrat.....
» 27/09/2014 2:19:03 PM Abject apologies Suse, sorry if I just lumped you in with the mob that enjoys the comfort .....
» 27/09/2014 11:24:36 AM DG. As always, when presented with inarguable facts, you are reduced, to the common for yo.....
» 27/09/2014 9:40:21 AM What do you think would happen if we just all turned our backs, and let those nice people .....
» 26/09/2014 11:43:38 AM The spectre of Islamic extremism doesn't bother some! Well bully for them,and may they lo.....
» 26/09/2014 11:30:40 AM Yes and the very real danger here is a glut in apartment supply. When this bubble bursts,.....
» 26/09/2014 11:18:10 AM This is the summer of our discount tents. Nice story Don, and such a nice fillip, in a wo.....
» 26/09/2014 11:02:15 AM Maybe not Bruce. Maybe he's inspired by thousands forced into sexual slavery, or the mass.....
» 26/09/2014 10:12:39 AM Aw come on, ordinary mums and dads, can buy positively geared property, to pay for the tin.....
» 25/09/2014 2:20:14 PM That fact that we were forced into the second world war, to defend freedom and human right.....
» 25/09/2014 12:10:29 PM Of course one can mount a good conscience argument, for not stilling a already beating hum.....
» 25/09/2014 11:48:18 AM Negative gearing and everything the Author compares it with is an impost on the budget bot.....
» 25/09/2014 10:50:12 AM Over forty nations have pledged their support for this and other similar actions. And sel.....
» 25/09/2014 9:56:35 AM I agree with the right to life as a first principle, and if the mother's life is at genuin.....
» 24/09/2014 11:36:33 PM Rapid rail roll-outs and long overdue decentralization, and the place won't feel nearly so.....
» 24/09/2014 7:00:57 PM Emperor Julian: Owning a gun for self protection need not be mandatory! Why someone with.....
» 24/09/2014 6:15:41 PM What hasn't been trialed is chilled down hyberbaric oxygen compression treatment. Most vi.....
» 24/09/2014 12:41:46 PM Well, when so called reform transfers wealth from the have nots, to those with more than t.....
» 24/09/2014 11:50:04 AM The Chinese have a huge housing surplus! So to be frank, they just don't need to be here!.....
» 23/09/2014 1:24:51 PM JKJ: Who would have thought you had a sense of Humor! Wrap your laughing gear around that.....
» 23/09/2014 1:07:58 PM Afterthought. Return the former funding levels to CSRIO, and make them take on the bulk o.....
» 23/09/2014 1:04:22 PM Agree with Divergence, who says it all! Rhrosty......
» 23/09/2014 12:59:36 PM We live in a world where their simply is no place for supremacists! Be they white, KKK. O.....
» 23/09/2014 9:14:13 AM Bollocks! Rhrosty......
» 22/09/2014 5:12:48 PM Here Now: >torture with impunity< That's completely illegal! Suggest you provide .....
» 22/09/2014 4:53:18 PM Not hoping for something to turn up Divergence, just already existing and already tried an.....
» 22/09/2014 3:36:26 PM David G. As usual you omit the war crimes of Germany, Japan. And those of post war Russia.....
» 22/09/2014 1:11:08 PM David G, That depends which nuclear weapons are used and by who? For example, suppose th.....
» 22/09/2014 12:25:02 PM What's this David G? A love in? You spread so much of it around don't you! It almost mo.....
» 22/09/2014 12:14:21 PM Well yes, but not as even greater expansion of our already over populated overpriced capit.....
» 22/09/2014 11:46:58 AM Mirror mirror on the wall, who is the vilest, horse manure shoveling by the shipload, meti.....
» 22/09/2014 11:38:11 AM Well let's face it, there was a lot of crap written, coupled to the most vicious, ditch th.....
» 22/09/2014 10:41:30 AM This is the very thought processes, that are part of the problem. Full with must and insi.....
» 21/09/2014 11:34:13 AM Yuri: A blind black man? A post nuclear war, braille bible carrying Eli Perhaps? A real.....
» 21/09/2014 10:31:01 AM Well given the essential Magna Carta actually survived, as the later emancipation act, we .....
» 20/09/2014 10:55:18 AM Ah yes David G. enough love will fix anything. Albeit, those who don't ever feel it, have.....
» 20/09/2014 10:09:44 AM David G: We are territorial primates, for heavens sake, not flamin angels. Look, if you .....
» 19/09/2014 5:47:53 PM Women is strange. You take my tip; I'm wise. I know enough to know I'll never know The 'um.....
» 19/09/2014 2:54:41 PM Have to agree with Stezza, and can only add; maybe God and science are one and the same th.....
» 19/09/2014 2:29:44 PM War is the only answer these servants of Satan understand. And the only thing that will s.....
» 19/09/2014 1:50:14 PM I fail to see how assisting, National Muslim Governments, defend their sovereign territory.....
» 19/09/2014 1:23:45 PM Yes, and given huge Chinese gas reserves, far bigger than the U.S. It's only a question of.....
» 18/09/2014 12:02:19 PM If you say so Malcolm. Rhrosty......
» 18/09/2014 11:58:16 AM Ebola Curve? Eventual self termination? [Like the last one? That went well didn't it?] O.....
» 18/09/2014 10:57:50 AM Sorry Graham, BUT COMPLETELY DISAGREE. look at the States, WHERE CANDIDATES NOW SPEND 85% .....
» 18/09/2014 10:04:37 AM I think the Magna Carta was very much written into common law, and reinforced by Disraeli'.....
» 17/09/2014 2:14:05 PM Well David, I don't believe I've ever agreed with anything a risible ranting John has writ.....
» 17/09/2014 1:22:01 PM If five million people can't set themselves up with all the remaining royalty revenue from.....
» 17/09/2014 12:42:00 PM Sorry, that last conceive should read, create! My mind is so far ahead of my fingers! Ap.....
» 17/09/2014 12:35:32 PM Footnote: What if a science degree, was a prerequisite to medicine, how much further and .....
» 17/09/2014 12:29:58 PM There is much in what you say Patricia, and we should start far earlier, imparting informa.....
» 17/09/2014 11:21:46 AM As always, you are absolutely right Mr David Singer, never wrong, counter for the right. .....
» 17/09/2014 10:56:26 AM Wolly B: Nailed it in one W.B. What we need are people willing to divest themselves of r.....
» 17/09/2014 10:07:00 AM A great idea, until there was an actual prospect of a yes vote. All of those things were .....
» 16/09/2014 12:45:38 PM I agree mostly with the first two posters, and can only add, maybe we should take a leaf o.....
» 16/09/2014 12:23:54 PM If the Government doesn't like the senate; it can only blame itself and previous governmen.....
» 16/09/2014 11:58:56 AM JKJ: Sometimes you make perfect sense, and then say it so well, there is absolutely nothi.....
» 16/09/2014 11:45:53 AM Manufactured history? Paleontology scientists the world over, hang your heads in shame. Y.....
» 15/09/2014 11:02:23 PM Like the black and tans took care of Ireland Killarney? Such "caring people" th.....
» 15/09/2014 6:21:41 PM Well , here are a few facts, that simply can't be denied! The formerly permanently frozen.....
» 15/09/2014 5:33:25 PM Och aye the noo J.K.J., neither did I! Although Ma Da played the pipes. And was often he.....
» 15/09/2014 1:26:48 PM Runner: Have to agree with you the greens seem to be little more than ideologues, full of.....
» 15/09/2014 1:07:31 PM Well at the end of the day, as so ably described by you, it was, I believe, all about you .....
» 15/09/2014 12:32:10 PM Runner: I disagree mate, and as important as the issues you've raised are, and indeed, wha.....
» 15/09/2014 11:43:51 AM Isil Heads for Saudi oil wells! And all while we, blind servant to OPEC? Continue to impor.....
» 15/09/2014 11:00:02 AM Computer models are notoriously unreliable, whether predicting climate or economic change......
» 15/09/2014 10:27:22 AM I'm not sure what you are saying here Jennifer? If you are saying some districts seem to .....
» 15/09/2014 9:46:14 AM Och aye the noo. If Scotland goes so does its Shetland oil and gas fields. And what Engl.....
» 14/09/2014 11:52:23 AM J,O.M. Exactly Jay, and never a truer post posted! Facts are cheils tha dinna whing! Och .....
» 14/09/2014 11:42:43 AM Have to agree with loudmouth, and can only add a quote from Scots poet Robbie burns; Facts.....
» 14/09/2014 11:18:59 AM There's a nation that invented CAD, ship building. And that huge technological advance bro.....
» 13/09/2014 1:18:41 PM Well done woolly.(Willy Wonker wonder worker) You've managed to prove my often malfunction.....
» 13/09/2014 12:33:12 PM Backing the Nazis Haduwell? No certainly not! Not now not ever! Have absolutely no tole.....
» 13/09/2014 11:38:10 AM Remote controlled systems are only useful as long as the signals that control them, remain.....
» 13/09/2014 10:38:54 AM Almost anyone who has been exposed to the very basics of business understands there's two .....
» 12/09/2014 11:51:38 AM Yes, this is the most shameful period in the history of war, and the US. Acting in the ro.....
» 12/09/2014 11:01:37 AM Yes John, the terrible US went in there, as reported by you, and bombed the tripe out of a.....
» 12/09/2014 10:23:33 AM Risible rubbish! Germany went to war at the behest of Her Hitler, and a few dozen of his .....
» 12/09/2014 9:58:04 AM Bruce; you'd likely be first in the cliff jumping queue, clamoring for US assistance/justi.....
» 12/09/2014 9:19:24 AM Both Japan and Germany, have higher labor costs; and spare parts may be vastly more expens.....
» 11/09/2014 3:04:50 PM Suse, Agree, children learn what they live, and ape example. So, we see domestic violence.....
» 11/09/2014 11:43:09 AM We would do far better if we could just dissolve the states, and then use the 70 billions .....
» 11/09/2014 11:01:57 AM The problem as I see it; is the destiny of demography and how to address it! And that sim.....
» 11/09/2014 10:32:38 AM I rarely say this to learned academics, but, what a load of cockeyed codswallop! Yes an e.....
» 11/09/2014 10:04:27 AM All the men I know were raised at their mothers knee; and indeed, had their basic characte.....
» 10/09/2014 3:17:40 PM If anyone has seen assisted suicide, very few would advocate it. First the inmate is led .....
» 10/09/2014 12:22:25 PM Very impressive rational argument, that really destroys the rectal fortitude of the pro eu.....
» 10/09/2014 11:43:55 AM An extremely powerful message and impossible to argue against evocation; to stand up and b.....
» 10/09/2014 11:23:56 AM As a nation that "claims" to be both democratic and fair minded; we expect much .....
» 9/09/2014 4:22:29 PM Five actual quotes and the rest what? Verbals? And given that is so? Hardly surprising an.....
» 9/09/2014 4:01:21 PM Hi Has old mate, your points are well made, particularly regarding China. Here is the exa.....
» 9/09/2014 12:04:35 PM I did Grim and the only phrase that comes to mind; is, hear hear! Rhrosty......
» 9/09/2014 11:57:28 AM Very well argued Chris. And a well made case for fixing the fundamentals, like critical t.....
» 9/09/2014 11:16:11 AM Absolutely agree with runner. And as things stand, the flow of refugees can only ever gro.....
» 9/09/2014 10:39:24 AM Suseonline. If I were to walk a mile in your shoes? I'd be a mile further away and probabl.....
» 8/09/2014 1:21:08 PM Absolutely agree with runner and Loudmouth. David already has the option of a handful of .....
» 8/09/2014 12:20:07 PM What? She wants to live in a world without men? A deserted Island perhaps? A Nunnery? Sh.....
» 7/09/2014 12:39:42 PM Not only sea water Mark, but smokestack emission as well, and quite easy to extract! Yet .....
» 5/09/2014 12:18:39 PM Well, GM are currently trialing a new battery, that is at least twice as good as Lithium p.....
» 5/09/2014 11:40:08 AM Those who aren't actually looking, don't hear about it Jon J. Moreover, it's not easy to .....
» 5/09/2014 10:53:09 AM Yes Alan, and refreshing common sense! Let me add my four cents worth. The NBN will allo.....
» 5/09/2014 10:36:51 AM Grumbler's right on the money! Demonstrably dumb Dave doesn't have a clue. Of all the co.....
» 4/09/2014 3:39:37 PM Hear, hear, Hasbeen! Rhrosty......
» 4/09/2014 3:08:47 PM Hasbeen: As I read the article, it was advice to a daughter not a sour grapes killjoy, wh.....
» 4/09/2014 12:12:15 PM Yes, and the first thing that must go, are the Dorothy Dix's. And then questions should b.....
» 4/09/2014 11:54:21 AM In Harm's Way Kellie? What do you think they sign up for? Or why we buy military hardwar.....
» 4/09/2014 11:23:40 AM Talking about old men. An old man was wandering down the road one day, on his way to the .....
» 4/09/2014 11:05:12 AM Everald; Sorry mate but, the problem with thinking inside a very small circle of limited a.....
» 4/09/2014 10:01:25 AM Some articles are just pure pleasure to read, and this was one of those rare pleasures, bu.....
» 3/09/2014 1:11:17 PM Not enough pipelines eh? Maybe? But the do have plenty of rust belts and dozens of mothba.....
» 3/09/2014 12:59:45 PM No he's not! There is no way the west can back down from or appease a virtual dictator! .....
» 3/09/2014 12:18:44 PM Exactly Dave! Nailed it in one! Rhrosty......
» 3/09/2014 12:16:10 PM Everyone is entitled to a view, even a minuscule minority one! Perhaps we could have one?.....
» 3/09/2014 11:02:07 AM Lego: Older more original, least revised versions of the Koran, say none of the things yo.....
» 2/09/2014 4:48:29 PM Those who resort to violence as their first and or only reaction, will always argue for a .....
» 2/09/2014 4:19:40 PM Tearing around in a ute, accompanied by people who think killing is fun, is the strangest .....
» 2/09/2014 1:27:12 PM I believe there is a very real credible risk here, and indeed, activists who provide the p.....
» 2/09/2014 1:08:23 PM I'm sorry, while I can agree in principle, with ending forever all violence against women,.....
» 2/09/2014 12:38:20 AM Well, given I was never ever consulted over the creation of foreign debt now totaling four.....
» 1/09/2014 9:31:25 PM Well J.K.J, when the movement spreads and threatens you and yours personally! Then it's L.....
» 1/09/2014 9:03:46 PM The stagflation of the seventies was a direct result of jettisoning the gold standard. Fo.....
» 1/09/2014 2:28:42 PM We bombed Japan with nuclear bombs on the grounds of not killing, [lessor of two evils,] p.....
» 1/09/2014 2:04:17 PM Judith would be well advised to look at Northern USA, Alaska, if only to understand that t.....
» 1/09/2014 1:40:19 PM Well, if falling into a coma, and awakening able to speak perfectly fluent mandarin, argua.....
» 1/09/2014 12:47:09 PM Individual: It's really is none of your business, but, I owned three houses, one complete.....
» 1/09/2014 12:10:57 PM Nailed it in one Ben! We went from a model that created unprecedented general prosperity .....
» 1/09/2014 11:32:08 AM Well, this is a real storm in a teacup isn't it!? The Muslim community can be a little bi.....
» 31/08/2014 3:26:30 PM I have seen enough credible evidence, to change my belief in reincarnation, to one that ac.....
» 31/08/2014 1:09:06 PM Thanks Susan; And I sense in you a very decent caring person. And no, I don't advocate m.....
» 31/08/2014 11:55:19 AM And yes, if people are complicit in stilling a human heart, without JUST cause. Should suf.....
» 31/08/2014 11:15:17 AM Yuyustu: To quote from the scripture you are so found of forcefully expounding; verily ve.....
» 30/08/2014 12:56:13 PM A T. Are you for real? Palliative care doctors arrested for torture? Who's torture? You.....
» 30/08/2014 12:19:16 PM No individual, No assistance! Albeit a good garden! Thanks for the almost microscopic myo.....
» 30/08/2014 11:45:33 AM S.M: Thorium is not a renewable, and I never ever claimed it was, as you try to infer, vi.....
» 30/08/2014 10:10:24 AM I think this is a hugely good idea; particularly for politicians, who just go on and on, d.....
» 30/08/2014 9:51:50 AM Susanonline is right on the money! There is no such scientifically established link, or b.....
» 30/08/2014 9:36:20 AM I a real pensioner, scrimped and saved for years to put solar panels on my roof, only to f.....
» 29/08/2014 11:49:01 PM Shadow minister. Given thorium connected to local micro grids, costs less than half what .....
» 29/08/2014 11:22:17 PM Beside yourself individual? What? Are you an identical twin? How did I manage! Well t.....
» 29/08/2014 12:48:27 PM No,just time for Dr death to be regulated. Starting with de-registering him for his untim.....
» 29/08/2014 12:12:31 PM As an afterthought, these loans just don't need to be paid for, with larger sums, than cur.....
» 29/08/2014 12:05:19 PM Yes Lisa; Very strange, made more so, by the fact, some of these endlessly sustainable op.....
» 28/08/2014 7:33:16 PM Pete, you really do need to read the book, thorium, cheaper than coal! Thorium reactors a.....
» 28/08/2014 7:00:19 PM J.K.J: There was a period of post war history, where we went through a period of unprecede.....
» 28/08/2014 6:35:16 PM J.K.J. Comparing being required to vote, with being caged and raped is so far over the top.....
» 28/08/2014 1:28:55 PM Yeah yeah, but we go nowhere fast, just resting on alleged historical laurels! What we ne.....
» 28/08/2014 1:04:11 PM On this occasion see pretty much eye to eye with J.K.J. If we are to make housing/accommo.....
» 28/08/2014 12:17:43 PM J.K.J., makes the very same "deregulation" case that lead to the virtual collaps.....
» 27/08/2014 6:31:09 PM Thorium reactors were developed in the fifties, and are just not new technology. [China, i.....
» 27/08/2014 6:11:08 PM I'm just so glad that a permanent cease fire has been successfully negotiated! Hopefully .....
» 27/08/2014 6:05:36 PM Yes Peter: And while sex is great, particularly if you're lucky enough to find a truly un.....
» 27/08/2014 5:43:07 PM Yes Amanda. And because women invariably need to take time out of their lives to marry an.....
» 26/08/2014 11:26:56 PM Foxy darling; Your points are very well made! However, Israel is only half the problem. .....
» 26/08/2014 11:04:08 PM Pete; FBR, can use and reuse this material? Meaning, the half life can be reduced to just.....
» 26/08/2014 12:14:43 PM Given nobody learns the lessons of history, I fear this endless, mindless slaughter will c.....
» 26/08/2014 11:55:59 AM Now ain't that the truth Ian. Rhrosty......
» 26/08/2014 11:51:35 AM We can and should fund it and the research conducted inside our best universities. Other .....
» 26/08/2014 11:23:03 AM Given economies of scale and the fact that both pebble and thorium reactors can be mass pr.....
» 26/08/2014 10:59:41 AM Actually Helen, there are more risks and dangers from coal fired power, which still far an.....
» 26/08/2014 10:15:12 AM Actually John, it's not drivel, but a reasonable analysis of the problem, and nowhere more.....
» 25/08/2014 12:38:01 PM Exactly! Is there another choice? Rhrosty......
» 25/08/2014 12:34:00 PM There is just no comparison between Warsaw and Gaza. The Jews were being systematically e.....
» 25/08/2014 12:09:02 PM I just don't know if any of these apparently planned floating facilities are viable, but p.....
» 25/08/2014 12:00:11 PM Simply put, the delirium seems to be mostly in the mind of the Author!? Rhrosty......
» 25/08/2014 11:54:09 AM Very unlikely indeed! But particularly, nowhere do you need reliable power, more than a m.....
» 25/08/2014 11:04:29 AM Well J.K.J: If warmists are just a bunch of money grubbing fraudsters as you seem to clai.....
» 25/08/2014 10:34:55 AM Arjay; Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps!? Perhaps it is a tremendous comfort, knowing you're nev.....
» 25/08/2014 10:27:48 AM Not all that long ago, shell shocked soldiers, would have been accused of cowardice in the.....
» 25/08/2014 9:54:13 AM Phanto, and a few others! Blaming the victim again!? It's all her fault, she should have.....
» 23/08/2014 5:48:07 PM Strangely, find myself mostly agreeing with Killarney! Who pretty much says it all! Rhro.....
» 23/08/2014 5:39:14 PM One can agree with the Author, inasmuch, as we do need to crack on and develop our best id.....
» 23/08/2014 5:12:49 PM Arjay: From time to time you make some sense, just not this time! Suggest you try talking.....
» 23/08/2014 4:35:19 PM Diver, just as I thought, more allegations, and not so much as a single shred of evidence,.....
» 22/08/2014 5:12:24 PM How very Russian of you Robert!? And if there is a financial crisis as described? It wil.....
» 22/08/2014 4:38:58 PM Diver, I challenge you to name just one person, you know for sure and certain, is feigning.....
» 22/08/2014 12:43:57 PM Given only 4% of males tend to violence as their first or only response? I for one would .....
» 22/08/2014 12:20:53 PM This is exactly what you expect to see in marginalized communities, as endless poverty rep.....
» 22/08/2014 11:49:49 AM The problem with science for sciences sake is, the commercial spin offs may be far and few.....
» 21/08/2014 11:44:58 AM Just have to agree with Jay Of Melbourne, which in Jay's inimical and very informed way, j.....
» 21/08/2014 11:37:32 AM The problems here are vested interests? And a failure to launch/address long overdue dece.....
» 21/08/2014 11:18:11 AM Au contraire. It's exactly what rendered my own committed relationship asunder! And the p.....
» 21/08/2014 10:59:37 AM Sorry Guy, just can't agree! Rather, it seems only 30% of us understand politics, and ano.....
» 20/08/2014 5:45:48 PM Yeah, but. The article approaches its summation/conclusion from the wrong direction? We .....
» 20/08/2014 4:31:37 PM Many young men, in increasing numbers, are avoiding this dilemma, by just remaining single.....
» 20/08/2014 3:47:06 PM Yeah Pete old mate. Why don't we toss that proverbial grenade, and just hasten the proces.....
» 20/08/2014 12:45:27 PM Yes Max and I a peace lover automatically agree with you. However, you need to convince t.....
» 18/08/2014 4:22:36 PM Yes, we were allowed to see Israels reprisals, but none of the rocket fire that precipitat.....
» 18/08/2014 1:14:18 PM Completely agree Jed! JKJ: Interesting and very plausible analysis! Rhrosty......
» 18/08/2014 1:11:13 PM Yes it does David! Rhrosty......
» 18/08/2014 12:09:34 PM Well Don, After the Fitzgerald inquiry, And the stuff now being revealed through ICAC. Do .....
» 17/08/2014 12:11:00 PM A cigar chomping Joe says he has no evil in his heart toward the most vulnerable! And ver.....
» 17/08/2014 11:47:41 AM Hey Pete old mate; I'm not guilty of advocating miniaturized thorium reactors, just the bi.....
» 16/08/2014 1:05:38 PM Spindoc old mate; that's not your usual high speed spin mate, but whipping it into shape/s.....
» 16/08/2014 12:36:19 PM Hasbeen old mate. Fact 1# The water that is melting the ice in question, is a measured 4C.....
» 16/08/2014 11:53:18 AM Foxy; stay on message luv. You are like a tiny candle or truth illuminating the darkness......
» 15/08/2014 1:08:13 PM It's just not small Island states at risk, but large ones as well, if we get say a three m.....
» 15/08/2014 12:47:53 PM Thank heavens for fact checkers and A+ articles just like this one Rob! Rhrosty......
» 15/08/2014 12:39:03 PM A very learned informative article, and hard to disagree with on any grounds! Thanks Tanv.....
» 14/08/2014 11:18:48 AM Yes; and lets deport/exile those that want something different. And while we still need t.....
» 14/08/2014 10:57:48 AM Ebola is a virus, that needs a warm blooded host to survive more than a few minutes! This.....
» 14/08/2014 10:41:30 AM Find it hard to disagree with Petro chemical. Albeit, I would say the jury is still out, .....
» 14/08/2014 10:27:22 AM Malcolm, this is a clear cut case of doing what you've always done, and expecting a very d.....
» 13/08/2014 5:06:53 PM Yes Pete and fully agree! But let's lay the responsibility where it lays? At the feet of.....
» 13/08/2014 11:34:35 AM I just don't have a problem with genuinely successful people paying less tax! But I do ha.....
» 13/08/2014 10:45:32 AM Yes but how!? When Hamas continue to cower like craven cowards, hiding behind women and c.....
» 13/08/2014 10:32:07 AM Yes Johnathon, Fairfax's seemingly incoherent incomprehensible current editorial policy, i.....
» 13/08/2014 10:04:39 AM Sorry James, can't agree! We also had to endure this risible rubbish, when we finally ask.....
» 12/08/2014 11:28:28 AM Agree with a very commonsense Mayan. If there is a plausible endoctrinal/hormone related l.....
» 11/08/2014 4:31:37 PM I never suggested that pensioners make a killing Hasbeen, just a tidy sum on the side, giv.....
» 11/08/2014 12:04:15 PM Reverse mortgages are great David! They enable the comparatively well off, to buy or stea.....
» 11/08/2014 11:18:54 AM Have to agree with Incommunicado! And can only add, and as applied to Joe. The problem of.....
» 11/08/2014 10:50:45 AM The final piece of the puzzle is the roll-out of Cheaper than coal, thorium based power, a.....
» 11/08/2014 10:21:44 AM A 5% marginally varied rate, taken as the only tax necessary, could then be marginally var.....
» 11/08/2014 10:05:54 AM A national emergency, would allow all state govts to be suspended, as they were during WW1.....
» 11/08/2014 9:46:25 AM Agree with most of this Peter. The GST was introduced against the express wishes of aroun.....
» 10/08/2014 2:28:13 PM Well, when the criteria, compares apples with gooseberries, or trys to apply meat market p.....
» 10/08/2014 2:01:02 PM Brain development and learning are just not mutually comparable conditions! In fact, fully.....
» 9/08/2014 10:36:09 AM Incomunicardo: Your opinions are just that! Opinion, and not backed by any informed stud.....
» 8/08/2014 11:49:20 AM Footnote: Yes and knowing people might be listening Kellie, with a capital K, may make peo.....
» 8/08/2014 11:37:49 AM As usual, nothing to hide means nothing to fear! That said, and given the coalitions reco.....
» 8/08/2014 11:02:57 AM Early childhood education is the most important of all, when it comes to education,or its .....
» 8/08/2014 10:23:00 AM Absolutely agree with GRIM! Commonsense is arguably the most rare commodity. If all we di.....
» 8/08/2014 9:56:11 AM I fundamentally disagree with the Author's take, and see it as yet another recipe for a ma.....
» 7/08/2014 11:38:20 AM Haduell; around 50% of our energy generation is lost in transmission wires, and factually,.....
» 7/08/2014 11:05:39 AM The problem of thinking within a limited circle of ideas Ross, is the questions are limite.....
» 7/08/2014 10:26:31 AM Yes Pete, and there's nothing quite like the courage of political conviction is there! And.....
» 7/08/2014 10:16:20 AM This warlord warrior is the man who loads the gun for others, and his never surrender is f.....
» 6/08/2014 12:21:50 PM Correction and apologies; the name John should be replaced with James. Rhrosty......
» 6/08/2014 12:15:01 PM Yes but who do you ask!? Someone or something that knows the answers! And that someone i.....
» 6/08/2014 11:27:35 AM What would be worse, would be, if new citizens brought to these shores, the very problems .....
» 6/08/2014 11:05:41 AM The even bigger story is the discovery of trillions of barrels of the stuff at Edmonton, C.....
» 6/08/2014 10:32:51 AM The facts are hardly surprising, given few if any other explanations would explain our per.....
» 5/08/2014 12:20:46 PM Again find myself having to agree with Jon J. Religion/false belief by the bucket load, h.....
» 5/08/2014 11:44:46 AM Roses1: If you are not part of the solution, then you may well be part of the problem!? .....
» 5/08/2014 11:21:17 AM Clearly, we need to bite the bullet and get more kids into city based high schools, even i.....
» 5/08/2014 10:56:35 AM Zealots should not be allowed to suppress medical evidence, simply because it conflicts wi.....
» 5/08/2014 10:15:51 AM Well, while I can agree some of the things the Jews are doing, makes them look little bett.....
» 4/08/2014 5:44:56 PM Yes and the only way to deal with it, is; 1# Put an end negative gearing! 2# Put a 30% u.....
» 4/08/2014 5:07:10 PM Have to agree Everald and a prospect borne out by recent polling? And without a workable .....
» 4/08/2014 11:20:48 AM Killarney: <<<there is no peace process between Palestine and Israel. There neve.....
» 4/08/2014 10:50:39 AM The one thing we have plenty of is space! And what we need is high tech transformation, g.....
» 4/08/2014 9:55:33 AM We do need to get back to those practices that worked, before we had antibiotics and so ca.....
» 2/08/2014 11:38:37 AM Yes Hasbeen, good points and well made! However, our cart before the horse approach is al.....
» 2/08/2014 10:45:57 AM A copyright on good Ideas Yutustu? What an interesting new novel approach! As for reloca.....
» 2/08/2014 9:52:09 AM Thank God Hamas has real friends like Killarney, (birds of a feather!) Given they're rapid.....
» 1/08/2014 11:24:00 AM I find it passing strange why these genetic cousins (Sons and Daughter of Jacob) couldn't .....
» 1/08/2014 10:54:03 AM The people are not hiding among terrorists: Just the very opposite! If the extreme minori.....
» 1/08/2014 10:14:35 AM As we were emerging from the alleged primordial slime, the atmosphere, greatly assisted by.....
» 1/08/2014 9:18:17 AM Interesting and thought provoking article. That said, we need to do many things very diff.....
» 31/07/2014 6:24:11 PM Warren Truss g-g-good with ah um er w-w-words? Surely you jest? Even prepared speeches se.....
» 31/07/2014 6:04:37 PM It is only a matter of time before the Coalition is given a conscience vote on officially .....
» 31/07/2014 1:04:38 PM We have enough thorium to power the world for around 700 years, and for far less, than we .....
» 31/07/2014 11:54:55 AM Yes, true! But the response then and now, is entirely different! No great power, or or s.....
» 31/07/2014 11:38:33 AM Killarney: As you might have already guessed, I'm a former soldier. And as a former sold.....
» 30/07/2014 11:24:49 AM Well, this is a good news story! And one we need encourage, with all possible means, to c.....
» 30/07/2014 11:20:18 AM Well, if we could but relocate all of Israel to these shores, and into a large empty mid/n.....
» 30/07/2014 10:52:04 AM During WW11, we were at war with an equally fanatical Nipponese army, who equally did not .....
» 28/07/2014 12:13:18 PM Putting people in harms way, is increased with the size of a vessel, but particularly a su.....
» 28/07/2014 11:48:06 AM At the end of WW11, we had an viable aerospace industry. The beaufighter bomber we were t.....
» 28/07/2014 10:43:28 AM If the only thing we worried about, was long term hip pocket pain! Then climate change re.....
» 28/07/2014 10:39:55 AM Hasbeen: You can run your diesel with biogas. All you need do is shove some steel wool .....
» 25/07/2014 11:09:07 AM Correction. Correcting the automatic correction! NORMAN should read NORMAL! Rhrosty......
» 25/07/2014 11:02:45 AM As always Valarie, the peerless personification of perspicacious perspicuity! Rhrosty......
» 25/07/2014 10:27:06 AM Well, there are differences, and between solar voltaic and solar thermal. However, the fat.....
» 25/07/2014 9:43:17 AM Killarney: I'm not the one using Gazan Mothers and their babies as human shields! What di.....
» 24/07/2014 4:17:11 PM Killarney: Please spare us the almost unbelievable calloused indifference! Cheap theatri.....
» 24/07/2014 11:47:27 AM There is clear and incontrovertible evidence, that a ground to air missile, fired just ins.....
» 24/07/2014 10:58:48 AM Perhaps if the fail aged and or disabled, or their carer/parent/son or daughter, had to si.....
» 24/07/2014 10:23:30 AM Yes, and moreover, offer a conscience vote to the coalition, to give the same rights to Au.....
» 24/07/2014 9:51:18 AM Yes it's all about oil! If the Ukraine didn't have considerable reserves of oil/gas, woul.....
» 23/07/2014 3:14:37 PM The problem with this author and other similar thinkers, is growth is always dependent on .....
» 23/07/2014 11:54:05 AM We are uniquely positioned to take advantage of growth in Asia, but not in services that c.....
» 23/07/2014 12:31:40 AM Bazz: Thanks mate, however, my preference is the ceramic fuel cell, which as you know, ru.....
» 22/07/2014 12:02:10 PM And if they are? Who then should be held to account or final judgement, for the impossible.....
» 22/07/2014 11:44:54 AM Well, if Co2 is not causing climate change? What is? What has caused ocean temperatures t.....
» 22/07/2014 10:36:57 AM No it can't; and it simply has to ignore those who essentially say, don't return fire or o.....
» 21/07/2014 5:47:52 PM Building nuclear powered subs sounds like practical common sense to me, as does building t.....
» 21/07/2014 12:38:12 PM Well, a seemingly Kudos grabbing/blame shifting, reticent, reluctant, recalcitrant Mr Mori.....
» 21/07/2014 11:35:38 AM Nonsense; If we were at war, we'd find that and three times as much, to upgrade our submar.....
» 20/07/2014 1:26:13 PM The thing the world needs now is growth. An increase of just 2% would make an enormous di.....
» 19/07/2014 12:24:48 PM Some time ago, laying flat on my back in Gold Coast hospital, almost unable to feed myself.....
» 19/07/2014 11:27:44 AM An expenditure tax is virtually a flat tax. It is similar to a transactions tax, but only.....
» 19/07/2014 10:43:32 AM It's a long time since I studied medicine or Anatomy; but when I did, I discovered we huma.....
» 18/07/2014 1:05:43 PM Footnote: The average international cost of extracting oil is around $3.00 a barrel, and .....
» 18/07/2014 12:33:05 PM I'm glad we have discovered horizontal drilling, which means, we can locate or create a fe.....
» 18/07/2014 12:17:11 PM Well, who is to apologize, the few demented men left, who actually where responsible, or m.....
» 18/07/2014 11:50:27 AM I completely disagree most vehemently with this author. To put it mildly, he doesn't have .....
» 18/07/2014 11:02:31 AM We would all win if everyone was taxed. The only possible way , is with an entirely unavo.....
» 17/07/2014 12:24:54 PM I think I speak for most Australians, when I say, I've had a real bellyful of a control fr.....
» 15/07/2014 5:15:34 PM They also expose hidden history; like Peter's daughter, the alleged first female pope!? R.....
» 13/07/2014 11:02:06 AM There's patently no nuclear war aimed at Aboriginal people, just huge misrepresentation of.....
» 12/07/2014 12:11:59 PM Debbie: Whales and indeed, all ocean going mammals experience extreme difficulties, when .....
» 11/07/2014 11:58:46 AM Compensation Kellie? What for Kellie? And given you're a Lawyer, and a professional refu.....
» 11/07/2014 10:59:47 AM Part of the problem is low interest rates; meaning, investors get a bigger bang for their .....
» 10/07/2014 6:27:27 PM Agree with roses and incommunicado. And can only add, today's new labor seems somewhat to.....
» 10/07/2014 11:28:05 AM Have to again agree with Jon J. Faith based belief has done nothing but harm! It made ou.....
» 9/07/2014 12:07:38 PM I believe the answer is rapid rail and simply keeping cars out of cities. Rapid rail, wou.....
» 9/07/2014 10:01:07 AM No, it is hard to believe, and as others have noted, not too dissimilar from sending Jews .....
» 8/07/2014 6:16:18 PM The actual measure of a nation's worth, is the way it treats the most vulnerable. And giv.....
» 8/07/2014 12:10:34 PM Well, given we currently shell out around 70 billions per as middle class welfare, rolling.....
» 8/07/2014 11:20:26 AM Yes, there is a case for abolishing imputation, if it then results in lower tax. My prefe.....
» 7/07/2014 11:31:55 AM Correction, 1.8 billion should read, 1.8 trillion. Sincere apologies. Rhrosty......
» 7/07/2014 11:27:44 AM Yes, nor will providing welfare for the rich, improve our economy, or the conditions of ou.....
» 7/07/2014 10:41:46 AM Piketty's general observations seem correct. However, I tend to disagree with your remedy.....
» 5/07/2014 12:03:33 PM Well, I can add nothing to this debate, as Imajulianutter and cogent, coherent Killarney, .....
» 5/07/2014 11:53:21 AM Agree with most of your as usual pragmatism Pete. [You should be running the country!] But.....
» 4/07/2014 12:40:44 PM You can't defend yourself against the local bully, with your hands tied behind your back; .....
» 3/07/2014 10:45:10 AM How do they get here? Migrate? So why aren't the responsible parents ensuring that both .....
» 3/07/2014 9:56:14 AM That's not how we got on the hiss when I was a very young alpha male! The fact that some .....
» 1/07/2014 6:05:35 PM We just don't need bigots of any flavor or description peddling their beliefs, inside a sc.....
» 1/07/2014 5:41:18 PM Really? Or is that just subjective analysis? Or the result of sleep deprivation, party d.....
» 1/07/2014 5:27:53 PM Indeed, why the outrage now? Perhaps it's because we are just finding out, this outrage i.....
» 30/06/2014 5:31:03 PM If we the people actually owned a citizens initiated referendum, we could, i.e., reverse s.....
» 30/06/2014 4:57:23 PM It's a bit rich, complaining that the liberal democrats is a misnomer, when the most conse.....
» 30/06/2014 12:32:40 PM Nobody will a still functioning brain argues that we need to collect more tax. Just not f.....
» 28/06/2014 9:59:16 AM Jayb. As a divorced dad with two girls of my own,I can understand your very visible heart.....
» 27/06/2014 12:30:06 PM Of course there are gay people! I bump into many, possibly hundreds of times a day? Many.....
» 27/06/2014 12:04:53 PM Well the rule of two, three or four, would indubitably prove, that many Asian mothers and .....
» 27/06/2014 11:12:04 AM While one can agree with most of this, and the first post, we need to ensure, any proposed.....
» 27/06/2014 10:40:44 AM Yes, and just as we close in on the cheats with new tests, the cheating industry, finds ne.....
» 26/06/2014 11:18:52 AM One can't ague that PPL, is just the same as say, work entitlement, extended sick leave! .....
» 26/06/2014 10:41:20 AM A don't believe the guns buy back prevented so much as a single killing. But tougher gun .....
» 26/06/2014 10:12:20 AM Have to agree with Diver! It's not the gun that is the problem, just the hands that hold i.....
» 25/06/2014 5:38:42 PM Individual, some published examples please, that actually give a modicum of actual evidenc.....
» 25/06/2014 2:59:52 PM What would ensue, do you think, if one of the minor parties, or a loose confederation of m.....
» 25/06/2014 2:05:58 PM Q:Normal? Q:What? Q: Silent war? Q:Surely you jest!? Rhrosty......
» 25/06/2014 10:25:43 AM This never ending saga/blood feud, is going nowhere, and when I see how so called democrat.....
» 25/06/2014 10:04:36 AM Exactly, that also applies to former co-ops, stupid enough to hand over control to private.....
» 24/06/2014 12:03:46 PM Well, A theory remains just that, until it is proven, then it is just fact? I plan not to.....
» 24/06/2014 11:24:41 AM Well, all this was very predictable Fred, when China started stockpiling vast coal reserve.....
» 23/06/2014 12:50:23 PM Well it's a nice dream and only partly realized, as a consequence of the still very powerf.....
» 23/06/2014 12:12:43 PM Well almost anything is possible, if you include slave labor or slave wage conditions, 12 .....
» 23/06/2014 11:50:00 AM Well this seems to be one of those rare occasions I find myself actually agreeing with J.K.....
» 23/06/2014 11:43:15 AM Yes, and some real world experience as opposed to coming straight from uni/the union movem.....
» 23/06/2014 11:12:20 AM Have to agree with spindoc. And can only add, if the seemingly radical extremely self cen.....
» 20/06/2014 12:26:34 PM Prompete; These were the same protesters, promising catastrophe, as Bass Straight was bei.....
» 19/06/2014 11:42:26 AM U.O.G: Extremely interesting! Rhrosty......
» 19/06/2014 11:27:34 AM Yes JKJ, and no more outstanding example, than the way the self serving, empire building, .....
» 19/06/2014 11:00:34 AM It could only ever happen in occupied territory, where the occupier, exercises, almost abs.....
» 19/06/2014 10:38:31 AM Well, we can dispute that it's occupied, but the absolute Israeli control and their many c.....
» 19/06/2014 9:27:01 AM People of the book should not have any more freedom, freedom of expression/assembly than s.....
» 18/06/2014 4:16:19 PM Yes JKJ, and the biggest state funded parasites, are those comparatively wealthy folks, ta.....
» 18/06/2014 12:18:33 PM And given exactly the very same logic, not necessarily a good or just barely adequate one .....
» 18/06/2014 12:08:24 PM To be sure, current outcomes seem to be cruel, although not as cruel as sending them to Si.....
» 18/06/2014 11:39:04 AM US studies show, that for every government dollar spent on research, 30 more are handed ba.....
» 18/06/2014 11:12:10 AM Andrew Wilkie and the greens may be loading the double dissolution shotgun, but others wit.....
» 17/06/2014 5:20:17 PM Or not! Paradoxically the more things change the more they stay the same! With even more .....
» 17/06/2014 4:30:35 PM Words can and do mean a lot, as are agreements written in them, regularly dismissed with t.....
» 17/06/2014 3:57:26 PM So, what else is new? As another poster puts it, it's gone-ski! Rhrosty......
» 17/06/2014 3:47:17 PM There haven't been so called mass shootings, since Port Arthur, because getting a gun lice.....
» 17/06/2014 12:03:47 PM Diver mate, if we decided to follow the example of Canadia, you know, that mythical place .....
» 17/06/2014 11:40:07 AM The states will howl like wounded banshees, when we take away the GST! However, their los.....
» 17/06/2014 11:09:38 AM The only measure that will restore equity, is a complete jettisoning of the current tax co.....
» 16/06/2014 5:50:39 PM Oh, the French and British empire building expansionist were the to blame! Sure they were.....
» 16/06/2014 5:10:49 PM We occupied both Germany and Japan, for many years after the war had ended, and for good a.....
» 16/06/2014 4:41:42 PM As always, whenever this topic is raised, someone judging others on their, what I would do.....
» 16/06/2014 4:05:26 PM Oh dear, firearm assisted suicide, is just as easy with a single shot 22, as it is with a .....
» 16/06/2014 12:08:31 PM If I knew the answer to that, I could tell you how long a piece of string is? Or how much.....
» 16/06/2014 11:49:32 AM Complicated, is the understatement of the century. Look, all we can do is use our technol.....
» 16/06/2014 10:47:48 AM As for Labor, how are they so different from the coalition, and where are the ideas or act.....
» 16/06/2014 10:10:52 AM Agree with much of this Tristan, the idea that a flat tax is inherently unfair is wrong! .....
» 13/06/2014 11:48:42 AM Our pivotal role, way out there for such a small county, and one only voluntarily involved.....
» 13/06/2014 11:24:11 AM Apart from saying, that I agree wholeheartedly agree with DD and foyle. My only additional.....
» 13/06/2014 11:06:15 AM Well, when someone is the suppository of all wisdom, its hard to convince them of a contra.....
» 13/06/2014 10:23:02 AM Big Nana, we already have the second highest house prices in the world, with Sydney alread.....
» 12/06/2014 4:33:06 PM Hi Pete, The substitution of 4.7% methanol, gives a low octane unleaded petrol, a high en.....
» 12/06/2014 3:52:34 PM Glorious, glorious, one can of beer between the four of us. Hail the purple flower there.....
» 12/06/2014 3:41:42 PM Simplistic ideas HB? Well, I guess I have to bow to your expertise there mate? However, .....
» 12/06/2014 3:28:21 PM Hasbeen, the Law of unintended consequences, simply cannot be applied to something never e.....
» 12/06/2014 11:37:05 AM Surgeons can't work beyond their hand tremble, or failing eyesight, except where assisted .....
» 12/06/2014 10:35:52 AM What the PM might have said, or better yet, given in writing before the election, goes lik.....
» 11/06/2014 11:45:08 AM Yes Pete, and may it be your hands holding the loaded rifle, with bayonet fixed, that forc.....
» 11/06/2014 11:21:55 AM If there were indeed all all powerful all seeing God, one of his/her first tasks would be .....
» 11/06/2014 11:01:18 AM I sincerely wish I could disagree with just some of this Bill. However, I can't given how.....
» 11/06/2014 10:26:52 AM Extremely well argued David! Democracy is safe, if it can be left in hands such as yours!.....
» 11/06/2014 10:20:07 AM I believe the argument being made here, is based on a number of false premises. The first.....
» 10/06/2014 2:29:01 PM Loudmouth: There's clearly no left or right, just an up or down, or a right way or a wron.....
» 10/06/2014 11:09:09 AM At the end of the day, Indonesians can and will smell a rat, or a would be dictator! And .....
» 10/06/2014 10:55:33 AM What else would you expect in India, which also boosts the rape capital of the world. All.....
» 10/06/2014 10:03:06 AM So big (little) nana. You'd punish a few hundred thousand single mums, for the sins of a f.....
» 10/06/2014 9:29:12 AM Well given more than half the voters are also women, good luck with that sir! Instead of .....
» 10/06/2014 8:47:16 AM Plug the leaks! is there another choice? Landfill leaks methane, as do sewerage plants. .....
» 9/06/2014 12:52:13 PM My long deceased father tells a similar story HB. Particularly just after he'd spliced th.....
» 9/06/2014 10:59:40 AM A thinking donkey Yuyustu? Not as unusual as the genetically altered creatures of our fut.....
» 9/06/2014 10:39:34 AM Yuyustu. One can teach themselves from books and attending STOLEN lectures!? I met an Em.....
» 7/06/2014 10:18:17 AM Leo Lane, I propose we wait until more irrefutable evidence is in! Say like a 3 metre ave.....
» 7/06/2014 10:00:01 AM Spindoc: Ah to be sure to be sure, anyone who believes they need a psychiatrist, ought to.....
» 7/06/2014 9:49:30 AM Everyone posting has a point, and few areas of agreement; like parliament at question time.....
» 6/06/2014 8:38:20 PM Yuyustu: It's not them who grant rights but those who elect them. We tell them with our .....
» 6/06/2014 8:12:03 PM Yuyustu: The immoral part is nothing whatsoever to do with surrogacy, just the obscene pr.....
» 6/06/2014 12:14:04 PM I just don't see an issue here, any more than that in controlled consensual contractual, p.....
» 6/06/2014 11:51:42 AM So Graham, there's corruption in sport! What else is new? Betting and match fixing perha.....
» 6/06/2014 11:21:22 AM Thorium is more abundant and less expensive? I mean, we have enough to power the world fo.....
» 6/06/2014 10:36:31 AM Afterthought: Balancing the budget is just not that difficult, albeit, some patently unea.....
» 6/06/2014 10:21:41 AM Without human rights, we still have child labor, slave labor, and absolute monarchs doing .....
» 6/06/2014 9:56:30 AM Sorry but nothing is free, someone somewhere has to pay for it! That said, if we were all.....
» 6/06/2014 12:14:12 AM We just don't need to grow the population to grow the economy! We just need to attack and.....
» 5/06/2014 11:27:44 AM I was one of half a dozen kids raised by a deserted single mum. Two of us didn't make it......
» 5/06/2014 10:47:51 AM The only problem with Malcolm (return bill) Turnbull, is in the patently paranoid minds of.....
» 5/06/2014 10:32:03 AM There's money to be made with green innovation. Starting with, cheaper than coal thorium......
» 5/06/2014 9:50:36 AM Panegyric par excellence, cogent, and to the point! Almost impossible to find any fault w.....
» 5/06/2014 9:38:04 AM I just don't see where we were left with any other moral choice! We look out for and afte.....
» 4/06/2014 4:15:24 PM Yes Pete, you're probably right? However, if we just keep shining that "spotlight&qu.....
» 4/06/2014 3:44:07 PM J.O.M: Yes there is a cycle of violence, and the less powerful are attracted to perceived.....
» 4/06/2014 12:11:07 PM Yes Pete; but, we need to keep shining the searchlight of public exposure, on all human ri.....
» 4/06/2014 11:33:12 AM No real man, beats up on a woman! Moreover, the second you resort to violence, you've los.....
» 4/06/2014 9:55:41 AM Yes Pete, they the three of them, were out fishing together, very early one summer Sunday .....
» 4/06/2014 9:37:41 AM A personal predictable predilection for promulgating patent prehistoric propaganda! Diffe.....
» 3/06/2014 11:59:12 PM Taswegian, make that closer to 3 metres! Cheers Rhrosty......
» 3/06/2014 11:20:05 AM Yes, there were just so many other choices, like for starters, closing down all the tax av.....
» 3/06/2014 10:38:50 AM Agree in principle with Jon J! This seems to becoming habitual J.J? Perhaps it because y.....
» 3/06/2014 10:19:12 AM Drain the lake. Turn the rotten rotting foreign fish into fertilizer. Refill and restock.....
» 3/06/2014 10:10:04 AM Schooling has always been compulsory! In fact, so compulsory, I and my siblings were obli.....
» 3/06/2014 9:14:44 AM In a nation of just around 21 million people, and the most over-governed one at that, save.....
» 2/06/2014 12:10:00 PM There seems to be un undeclared war happening between Chechen, and the Ukraine, in the Ukr.....
» 2/06/2014 11:49:23 AM Time for "decent" world leaders to unite and slam the glove into the ground, and.....
» 2/06/2014 11:30:53 AM Not before time! The only people paying the price, were the innocent civilians! Surely w.....
» 30/05/2014 9:01:47 AM Yes Graham, and thanks for the update! Stuff older than a month should go! Maybe? And I.....
» 30/05/2014 8:52:13 AM It's a good thing I'm not paranoid, given the number of articles simply errored out, one c.....
» 27/05/2014 12:00:42 PM This thing only made the public headlines that it did, because we have no actual bill of a.....
» 27/05/2014 11:38:13 AM Don't have to worry on that point Graham? Nobody is guilty as charged on that score! I m.....
» 27/05/2014 10:36:42 AM Trust is almost as rare as common sense, perhaps the rarest commodity of all! And once tr.....
» 27/05/2014 10:20:22 AM There is never a case for a general strike, unless of course the aim is to recruit support.....
» 26/05/2014 4:44:43 PM Jay of Melbourne: Have you anything else except a well documented patent bent for homopho.....
» 26/05/2014 1:15:40 PM Footnote: We don't have the luxury, of wasting any more time! Young people everywhere, g.....
» 26/05/2014 12:59:55 PM The only way to provide more employment, is to grow the economy. And that just not a hard .....
» 26/05/2014 12:30:10 PM Tas: Only 40% of El Ninos, result in drought, particularly, if you factor in an Indian Oce.....
» 26/05/2014 11:59:11 AM I have to agree with DD and PP. If speech is to be truly free, then it must contain a rig.....
» 26/05/2014 11:32:12 AM Yeah. So? Rhrosty......
» 26/05/2014 11:25:20 AM What I find passing strange Rob, is the fact that the man's father, sought help from the p.....
» 25/05/2014 3:17:59 PM Hasbeen: I don't envy anyone, a complete waste of time! I do however, call it as I see i.....
» 25/05/2014 11:36:41 AM Diver. My parents, both of them worked very hard. They were raised by single parents doi.....
» 25/05/2014 10:34:00 AM Incidentally, Big Nana? One or two sentences specific to the aged, is hardly rabbiting on!.....
» 25/05/2014 10:10:32 AM Big Nana. You are wrong! i.e., pensions are currently indexed to average male wages! Sta.....
» 24/05/2014 10:52:21 AM Don't worry individual, nobody on Labor's side, has the testicular fortitude to actually b.....
» 23/05/2014 11:50:03 PM To be inherently fair, when bagging someone else's ideas, the truly ethical or Labor, woul.....
» 23/05/2014 11:10:42 PM Chris C: Only the most perverse would argue/twist/spin against a needs based funding model.....
» 23/05/2014 12:18:07 PM People that had a decent merit based education, would have at least realized, that selling.....
» 23/05/2014 11:46:46 AM We simply cannot compete with emerging economies, and a dollar a day wages, or 7, in reall.....
» 23/05/2014 11:15:11 AM One contends that returning the fair go is only doable by growing the economy! If you mak.....
» 23/05/2014 10:37:20 AM Well Andrew; One simply can't continue to live off of an already maxed credit card, and b.....
» 22/05/2014 3:57:42 PM Hasbeen: Here are a couple of facts to cogitate on: Every one job created in high tech m.....
» 22/05/2014 10:00:55 AM Well, while there's an element of truth in the assertions, it misses the most important el.....
» 21/05/2014 5:26:59 PM The smoker who thoughtlessly fouls the very air others, including small children or babies.....
» 21/05/2014 2:27:19 PM Hasbeen: If we had a government, with enough real smarts, to make us the preferred destin.....
» 21/05/2014 2:00:59 PM Agree with Taswegian on value adding! We who invented the much cheaper and vastly more ef.....
» 21/05/2014 11:37:53 AM On the TV this morning were images of well heeled suckers pulling nicotine laden vapor int.....
» 21/05/2014 10:59:27 AM No young boy or girl dreams of becoming a slave in a cocoa plantation, nor a child slave s.....
» 20/05/2014 10:38:48 PM Agree with much of your post Killarney, except where you say we can't compete with $4.00 a.....
» 20/05/2014 3:31:53 PM Exactly Divergence! Rhrosty......
» 20/05/2014 12:08:13 PM Obviously the author is a contractor, which should include rates above that of weekend wag.....
» 20/05/2014 11:09:48 AM Well, there are other fairer options,including widening the base of the GST, and then more.....
» 20/05/2014 1:23:30 AM Killarney, My Irish Great Grandmother, died just a few months after I was born. My mother.....
» 19/05/2014 6:21:24 PM Cato, I predict that the economy can grow, if we roll out cheaper than coal, thorium power.....
» 19/05/2014 12:03:47 PM Well that should mean we outlaw divorce! LOL! Better a loving same gender family united a.....
» 19/05/2014 11:46:16 AM If only politicians everywhere, had to be the very first to suffer the adverse results or .....
» 19/05/2014 11:19:01 AM As a teenager, I moved thousands of miles, chasing well rewarded work, some of which was v.....
» 19/05/2014 10:52:58 AM The other asinine approach, is related to some of the carbon free energy assets we could h.....
» 19/05/2014 10:17:12 AM Well the Abbott Government by nailing its colors to the wall on science, with around a 170.....
» 19/05/2014 10:08:54 AM Yes there are any number of tough decisions, but with the power to rule in its own right, .....
» 18/05/2014 2:22:36 PM Yes Tristan, and many of those referred to, also have a difficulty in distinguishing betwe.....
» 18/05/2014 9:04:42 AM You make some very interesting observations and points with regard to banks Ajay! And prob.....
» 17/05/2014 11:26:33 AM There's nothing that's looks more ME, ME, ME, than a bloated billionaire, with entirely un.....
» 17/05/2014 10:32:00 AM Iran is secretly assembling an arsenal of nuclear weapons? She sees an opportunity to str.....
» 16/05/2014 12:36:47 PM Many Eastern Ukrainians, reportedly around two thirds of them, don't want to unite with Ru.....
» 16/05/2014 12:15:26 PM Agreed! And if any think differently, then the way forward is another, replete with indep.....
» 16/05/2014 11:39:10 AM Agree with Ben. Native peoples have been selectively logging their forests for millennium.....
» 16/05/2014 11:11:08 AM Agree Tristan! But it's all to easy to critique someone who may genuinely believe, that a.....
» 16/05/2014 10:29:43 AM I don't see any connection, save both are performances, with a solid hint of insincerity. .....
» 15/05/2014 4:08:03 PM Agree with most of this Chas, But can only add, we could do much more on the mitigation s.....
» 15/05/2014 3:38:34 PM Footnote: An 18% stand alone unavoidable expenditure tax, is effectively an 11% tax, give.....
» 15/05/2014 3:18:19 PM People don't want to pay tax! That's why they employ expensive accountants etc, to avoid i.....
» 15/05/2014 12:26:40 PM I think the ICAC's role must remain as the gather of incriminating evidence. I don't thin.....
» 15/05/2014 11:53:50 AM Anachronistic state parliaments, ought to be replaced by seriously downsized Administratio.....
» 15/05/2014 11:22:27 AM Highly commendable Stuart: And you are right, we do need to have a conversation, and abou.....
» 15/05/2014 10:24:24 AM John, what are you, an apologist for a warmongering, bloodthirsty Stalinist Russian presid.....
» 15/05/2014 12:11:05 AM David Singer: same old broken record song, (endless Chinese water torture) and sung by som.....
» 14/05/2014 11:32:32 PM I lost 13 of my Uncles in some of these engagements! These men to a man volunteered, and .....
» 14/05/2014 11:03:20 PM Asylum seekers need passports and visas to make it as far as Malaysia or Indonesia! Once .....
» 13/05/2014 5:43:46 PM Well, given my druthers, I'd raise the carbon tax to around a million dollars a ton. Howe.....
» 13/05/2014 3:42:10 PM All well and good, but promises, however sacred, need to be funded! And due to the fact t.....
» 13/05/2014 10:36:54 AM A single stand alone entirely unavoidable expenditure tax, and the repeal of virtually all.....
» 13/05/2014 10:06:18 AM Only informed consent should result in a pregnancy! Rape, incest, battered wive victims, .....
» 12/05/2014 11:46:59 PM Oh by the way, the pebbles are the marble sized fuel pieces, that are wrapped in grapefrui.....
» 12/05/2014 11:17:19 PM Graphite burning Pete? Well they really will have to stop them using it in crucibles, tha.....
» 12/05/2014 6:17:08 PM Pete continues to waffle on about rods and water, when the latest advances require neither.....
» 12/05/2014 11:02:10 AM Yes, there were other opportunities to fix the budget, starting with a direct funding mode.....
» 12/05/2014 10:37:53 AM Agree Everald! A fool and his money are soon parted, and indeed, then become a taxpayer b.....
» 12/05/2014 9:51:12 AM Agree! A direct federal full funding model, and vastly more autonomy, would save around 3.....
» 12/05/2014 9:33:32 AM Scots have been living for generation in stone houses. The stone is principally granite, w.....
» 11/05/2014 12:00:40 PM Pledurs: If only politicians had to wear all the consequences of all their decisions, we .....
» 10/05/2014 11:57:55 AM Iamjulianutter: Indeed, and even more so, after ICAC concludes its current investigations.....
» 10/05/2014 11:50:45 AM Well, usually consent is needed, to actually make a woman pregnant! If this is not so, th.....
» 10/05/2014 11:15:00 AM I can remember reading an article, that reported the man with the highest recorded IQ, was.....
» 10/05/2014 10:54:55 AM Mac, nowhere in my post did I suggest an immediate cessation of school funding, just a ver.....
» 10/05/2014 10:06:33 AM Exactly! I mean, the US and Europe/NATO etc, need only stop buying Russian oil and gas to.....
» 10/05/2014 9:42:11 AM U.O.G. Very easy to read, very lucid, easy to follow commentary. However, I don't think w.....
» 9/05/2014 4:01:23 PM I'd not want to go as far as mac, given the sheer numbers educated in so-called private sc.....
» 9/05/2014 12:04:02 PM Yes, oil and gas and lots of it, along with the reopening of Eastern state factories. Sur.....
» 9/05/2014 11:31:06 AM Yes. So? Rhrosty......
» 9/05/2014 11:26:58 AM If this was the corpse of fair and equal treatment Tristan, then your piece would at least.....
» 8/05/2014 2:51:38 PM ateday. Australia is hardly overcrowded! We could even grow food in the Sahara, using jus.....
» 8/05/2014 12:31:25 PM Yes Andrew! But shouldn't the punishment fit the crime? On the one hand, we see an immor.....
» 8/05/2014 11:48:05 AM Yet, given the age of entitlement being over, I agree Chris, all education and health ough.....
» 8/05/2014 10:53:49 AM Some interesting points Babette. And breastfeeding for at lest six months does improve the.....
» 8/05/2014 10:33:04 AM The answer my friend, is blowing in the wind. Rhrosty......
» 7/05/2014 2:52:16 PM Hasbeen: Brail! Rhrosty......
» 7/05/2014 2:24:51 PM Q+A, is a top rating program! The only improvement one could make, is to make it a pollie.....
» 7/05/2014 2:01:16 PM Have to agree with Foyle, who as usual, puts everything into sensible, intelligible perspe.....
» 7/05/2014 11:34:19 AM Agree mostly, with Jayb. The Israelis, can no more do deals with terrorists, that Chamber.....
» 7/05/2014 11:10:01 AM Helen, I have heard something similar, which seems to have originated from an American sen.....
» 6/05/2014 5:44:10 PM If everything remains as is, and the Palestinians can exercise some patience, rather than .....
» 6/05/2014 5:20:45 PM Divergence has summed it up, as well as anyone could! Rhrosty......
» 6/05/2014 5:09:01 PM Okay, if all you say is true, what to do about it? The current PM will be the first to ad.....
» 6/05/2014 11:34:07 AM Hard to argue against any of this! Particularly given I am permanently partially disabled......
» 6/05/2014 10:31:11 AM Well as someone who believes in the right to free speech, even were that offends, I though.....
» 5/05/2014 4:57:38 PM And, when I see a smoker I usually remark, there's a sucker on the end of every one of tho.....
» 5/05/2014 4:35:00 PM Risible rubbish, and patent evidence of the conformation bias? What's next David, a schol.....
» 5/05/2014 1:05:26 PM I had difficulty deciding Rodney position until he reached his final conclusion. There ar.....
» 4/05/2014 11:36:01 AM We should put out the welcome mat for economic migrants; namely, non voting, self funded r.....
» 4/05/2014 10:42:42 AM Ajay, I agree with the creation here, of a brand new peoples' bank! A good place to put .....
» 4/05/2014 9:30:53 AM U.O.G: It's actually impossible to find almost anything in any of your extremely hard to f.....
» 3/05/2014 9:48:53 AM State govts, are proposing they have a right to levy tax restored! Then compete with each.....
» 2/05/2014 3:47:57 PM It must be a huge comfort Hasbeen, to know you're always right! Rhrosty......
» 2/05/2014 3:25:41 PM OLD MAN: You are mostly right in your summation of the very visible causes of the GFC! Th.....
» 2/05/2014 2:50:01 PM Snake: A single stand alone expenditure tax collected via the banking system as part of t.....
» 2/05/2014 11:48:51 AM Nationalism is indeed a disease, none more evident or more virulent, than the strain curre.....
» 2/05/2014 11:27:12 AM Well, if we are to have a republic, we need a plebiscite, that asks just one question, Sho.....
» 2/05/2014 10:19:06 AM Agree almost exactly with Jon J. and can only add, Bah Humbug! Rhrosty......
» 2/05/2014 10:08:06 AM Footnote: Self funded retirees, do not usually produce children, or compete with national.....
» 2/05/2014 10:00:16 AM Some interesting comments Conrad. We do need to vastly expand our vision, and look up at .....
» 2/05/2014 9:27:29 AM Well it's hard to disagree much with Arjay, and the recent publication of 200 years worth .....
» 1/05/2014 12:35:59 PM Footnote: The best reason for wanted to attract virtually millions of foreign self funded.....
» 1/05/2014 11:58:47 AM Hear hear Fran, more power to your pen! It's not a case of over spending, but rather fixi.....
» 1/05/2014 10:06:41 AM We can't legislate away either ignorance, nor blatant stupidity. I recall Martin Luther k.....
» 1/05/2014 9:09:53 AM I agree the entry level bar for teachers ought to be higher, particularly, given the numbe.....
» 30/04/2014 7:09:34 PM Further footnote: Oil rich algae production doesn't need arable land, but can be grown al.....
» 30/04/2014 6:57:52 PM Footnote: B of B is completely correct, with regard to coal, as a excellent alternative t.....
» 30/04/2014 6:34:12 PM Crops would suck up Co2! None more so than oil rich algae, that suck up 2.5 times their b.....
» 30/04/2014 5:56:09 PM Who cares if too much wealth concentrates in too few hands? Well given our real wealth ha.....
» 30/04/2014 12:28:23 PM Additional footnote: Why would high tech companies and millions of self funded retirees q.....
» 30/04/2014 12:13:51 PM Footnote. The austerity measures, as touted by the current govt has only one possible end.....
» 30/04/2014 11:10:22 AM An inland canal, even as it was being rolled out, would open up the inland for quite vast .....
» 30/04/2014 10:43:43 AM Well Malcolm, I thought we already had a boomer party, led by the biggest boomer of them a.....
» 29/04/2014 12:29:46 PM The cost of housing is not due to the 7% Asian owners, but rather, a supply and demand iss.....
» 29/04/2014 12:01:03 PM A former soldier, many of my comrades were black, and so also was my best friend. No sold.....
» 29/04/2014 10:11:07 AM The only constant in the entire universe is constant change! People need to adapt to that.....
» 29/04/2014 12:12:06 AM J.O.M. We sorted the Balkans out, because we didn't wait for the U.N. The U.N. is a hous.....
» 28/04/2014 4:31:31 PM Yes, and interesting to watch from the sidelines! Even so, the Indonesians will have the o.....
» 28/04/2014 4:24:09 PM Yes, the rules of engagement are clearly part of the problem. Just as they were in the Bal.....
» 28/04/2014 4:01:52 PM If true, why does a demonstrably duplicitous Pakistan still provide a safe haven for borde.....
» 28/04/2014 3:47:32 PM We already have virtual dictators in power in Australia? The GST, i.e., was rammed throug.....
» 28/04/2014 10:41:46 AM Ajay: We could compete with president Putin, by exploiting our own oil. Various industr.....
» 28/04/2014 10:02:19 AM Well, is Putin doing the world a favor? There are other sources of gas far more reliable,.....
» 28/04/2014 9:25:32 AM Is the cult of celebrity holding back an Australian republic? Probably, along with the pa.....
» 27/04/2014 11:54:02 AM Russia already had virtual unlimited access to a warm water port, in Crimea, and just need.....
» 27/04/2014 10:49:54 AM Lego, you have outlined as nobody else has, the differences of living well within our mea.....
» 27/04/2014 9:48:14 AM D.D. If we used new surpluses to buy majority shares in resource companies, via the free .....
» 26/04/2014 11:46:49 AM If the Crimea didn't have significant oil and gas reserves, would Putin been interested in.....
» 26/04/2014 11:04:54 AM D.D. I just don't see developing our own resources as any kind of nationalization! But par.....
» 25/04/2014 5:31:39 PM This is one of those rare occasions I find myself agreeing with spindoc, and real world ex.....
» 25/04/2014 4:11:38 PM Yes Dick, and to think we were once the third wealthiest nation on the planet, and a credi.....
» 25/04/2014 11:52:51 AM Yes Yegg; Obviously, people on the extreme far right, were burying their collective heads.....
» 25/04/2014 11:22:23 AM LEGO: There are some I almost always disagree with; but may on rare occasion, find agreem.....
» 25/04/2014 10:48:17 AM David Leigh, agree mostly, and you make several good points as does Sussanonline. Cornco.....
» 25/04/2014 10:06:49 AM The deaths of 25 million Chinese is not ignored! However, given all those responsible are.....
» 24/04/2014 6:00:36 PM Red baron, interesting if ill-informed contribution, to an article on paid maternity leav.....
» 24/04/2014 3:28:48 PM If we want to increase the job opportunities for young school leavers, we need to reincorp.....
» 24/04/2014 12:18:18 PM Good article informative Andrew. And your commentary about what Labor should do, is timely.....
» 24/04/2014 11:36:44 AM The only hoodwinking attempted here, seems to be those of the author, or his half a dozen .....
» 23/04/2014 6:31:25 PM I've never ever seen a solar powered steel smelter, nor any assembly plant, particularly, .....
» 23/04/2014 12:36:36 PM All very worrying developments for Australia, and the best reason yet, to crack on and jus.....
» 23/04/2014 11:36:32 AM A couple of hundred march in outrage? Well they were upset because they did'na hae a piper.....
» 23/04/2014 10:43:03 AM Footnote: Pebble oxide reactors are very different to thorium reactors, and ought not be c.....
» 23/04/2014 10:18:04 AM There are just no actual surprises here! Nor is the fact that these waterless reactors ca.....
» 22/04/2014 11:37:06 AM If God is all powerful, and everywhere present, as is alleged in virtually all religious t.....
» 22/04/2014 11:12:24 AM Well, Captain America seems to replace God for the Godless, yet still need someone who app.....
» 22/04/2014 10:56:51 AM The larger our cities seem to grow, the more isolated and suspicious we seem to become, ex.....
» 22/04/2014 10:39:44 AM The author seems to confuse tribalism and socialism, which is an extremely recent developm.....
» 22/04/2014 8:09:47 AM I have read reports that show, daycare that includes some very basic or toddler steps, lit.....
» 21/04/2014 1:02:32 PM We do nothing to deny third world countries the right to export! We need to be an economy.....
» 21/04/2014 12:26:18 PM While we make cars here as good as anybody, our compartmentalized fabrication, makes them .....
» 21/04/2014 11:42:28 AM As long as the price of energy keeps rising, so will the cost of transporting goods around.....
» 20/04/2014 2:43:11 PM Lenin was a rouge and a liar, who conned the Labor movement, (who he had "removed&quo.....
» 19/04/2014 11:06:47 AM Right on Killarney. Nowadays, the "Master" wouldn't be limited to losing his co.....
» 19/04/2014 10:16:15 AM J.O.M. You're pretty spot on and off topic with your critique of Islam, as one of the most.....
» 18/04/2014 6:48:22 PM Rhian, You're the one completely missing the point, with your overly simplistic view of th.....
» 18/04/2014 10:21:15 AM Well, U.O.G. the ultimate work incentive, would have to be a nearly naked man nailed to a .....
» 17/04/2014 6:18:53 PM Thanks for that JOM. I can't help wondering how many of those Poles, Latvians, Germans etc.....
» 17/04/2014 4:14:37 PM Jay of Melbourne. Everything you say, could contain an element of truth? But the overwhe.....
» 17/04/2014 3:27:25 PM We build houses as good as you can buy anywhere! And we milk cows, make computers, and our.....
» 17/04/2014 2:49:48 PM When numbers of so-called asylum seekers, discovered that an Australian passport was perma.....
» 17/04/2014 12:18:22 PM Well, have a nice day, is offensive speech to some, determined to be offended! As is, for.....
» 17/04/2014 11:46:41 AM I just don't see giving in to Russia (appeasement to a power hungry megalomaniac dictator).....
» 16/04/2014 11:32:22 PM Speaking as a former soldier, the people who are asked to fight all our wars and make the .....
» 16/04/2014 5:21:57 PM Freedom of unregulated free speech, is arguably only left with the ABC, and some social me.....
» 16/04/2014 4:38:18 PM Same old singer, same old song, and almost as boring as bat poo! Look,the middle East is .....
» 16/04/2014 4:21:22 PM A few points, If we deprivatized, and returned prisons to public ownership, we'ed save co.....
» 16/04/2014 3:38:48 PM It's hard to argue that the political system doesn't serve the young, while they refuse to.....
» 16/04/2014 1:04:47 PM I don't see a left or right leaning ABC, but rather, that they get endless complaints from.....
» 15/04/2014 4:35:13 PM Anyone who knows anything at all about oil, knows that our own sweet light crude, in commo.....
» 15/04/2014 4:01:23 PM Not everybody has a chance to go to uni, or have parents who support them while they quali.....
» 15/04/2014 11:34:05 AM Given nobody wants to commit political suicide, the ABC will go on. However, Barry, you w.....
» 15/04/2014 10:51:55 AM The better off, who have been granted undeserved entitlements in recent years, courtesy of.....
» 15/04/2014 10:15:39 AM Yes we could and should grow the economic pie John! This means we could pay down debt, wi.....
» 14/04/2014 3:36:26 PM One of the things to think about, is the banana republic, third world economy, we will bec.....
» 14/04/2014 11:27:54 AM Agree with much of this Paul. I mean, just because we sit at home alone, the idea that th.....
» 14/04/2014 10:47:07 AM The problems raised by Tristan, are created by the revenue raising model, with all of is f.....
» 14/04/2014 10:07:03 AM For conventional thinkers, there's no other choice than, reform the GST. An act of the fe.....
» 13/04/2014 2:00:27 PM Don, Algae farming is what we need to be doing for numerous reason! The very first of wh.....
» 13/04/2014 1:20:03 PM If we simply ended welfare for the rich, we could plow an additional 26 billion per, into .....
» 11/04/2014 5:55:03 PM Adapting to climate change real or imagined, man made or naturally cyclic, must include pu.....
» 11/04/2014 11:21:40 AM Well Don, It's not either either but both. Of course we need to mitigate against man made.....
» 11/04/2014 10:39:45 AM Good critical thinking Karl! However, we do need to change some investment models, so tha.....
» 10/04/2014 12:00:06 PM It's okay for some to do unpaid work!? What? Just as long it is not those who are privil.....
» 10/04/2014 11:22:14 AM Agree with most of this. Clearly Conservative thinkers/rationalists, are mired in their o.....
» 10/04/2014 10:32:51 AM Our best two generals were civilian volunteers, or weekend warriors. A banana farmer and a.....
» 9/04/2014 3:59:05 PM Value adding a a finished ready to use product would enable us to command premium prices! .....
» 9/04/2014 3:31:00 PM Shockaholic, The problem with the non-vaccinated older child, is that any pathogens they .....
» 9/04/2014 3:03:16 PM Yuyutstu, Majorities may not, as claimed by you, need a bill of rights, but minorities cl.....
» 9/04/2014 12:18:19 PM Perhaps the answer is a donation box, where the well heeled can pay a gold coin for the pr.....
» 9/04/2014 11:40:13 AM Very well said Tanveer! And I can add, a very well constructed bill of irrevocable rights.....
» 9/04/2014 10:48:02 AM Absolutely agree with everything you have written here Peter! Rhrosty......
» 9/04/2014 10:39:37 AM Descartes promise has turned out to be absurd! What an absurd thing to claim! Peter, you .....
» 9/04/2014 8:47:18 AM Have to agree with Stezza! Same old same old fear-mongering!? No ivory tower dwelling, wi.....
» 8/04/2014 1:00:14 PM The problem is not too much information, but complexity and obfuscation, completely opaque.....
» 8/04/2014 12:40:06 PM David, with your huge knowledge and extremely intimate grasp of the situation and underlyi.....
» 8/04/2014 12:30:19 PM Well Jim, what do you want? The developing nations to burn more coal? Or maybe we should .....
» 8/04/2014 12:11:20 PM Well, we are unequal from the day we are born! There are physical, intellectual and emoti.....
» 7/04/2014 6:00:37 PM Incidentally, just in are unexpected reduced unemployment numbers? Could this be people d.....
» 7/04/2014 5:16:28 PM Yes Graham. And to add another homily, the only certainty in the entire universe, is chang.....
» 7/04/2014 5:11:40 PM I believe that readily available socially responsible condoms is in everybody's ultimate i.....
» 7/04/2014 4:38:22 PM Perhaps we could crack on with long overdue rapid rail options, so that those still under .....
» 7/04/2014 4:16:11 PM Have to agree with hasbeen! All too often businesses today are managed by young Turks, wh.....
» 7/04/2014 11:41:40 AM Legalizing most drugs, which should be available legally and over the pharmacy counter for.....
» 7/04/2014 11:30:19 AM I believe that most recreational drugs ought to be decriminalized, with addicts treated as.....
» 7/04/2014 11:09:54 AM Would we still want to execute the completely innocent girl, if the infidel, was converted.....
» 7/04/2014 10:27:17 AM I've always argued for wages equality! Some very young people can be quickly capable of o.....
» 6/04/2014 5:07:15 PM If we were to crack on with rapid rail, we could pay for most of it, with the later sale o.....
» 6/04/2014 4:42:14 PM Yes Alan, agree with most of what you say. Clearly, Govts own considerable parcels of Gov.....
» 6/04/2014 4:03:40 PM A referendum, conducted under a Russian gun, and without a no option, is not a referendum,.....
» 5/04/2014 11:16:36 AM Chris, that's speaking straight from the shoulder! On second thoughts, all those who sp.....
» 5/04/2014 10:16:30 AM underonegod, Wow! And to add, someone, [possibly the former President?] has transferred .....
» 4/04/2014 3:53:09 PM Alan, You are right, the energy saving from pink batts, could be saving energy for years, .....
» 4/04/2014 3:06:32 PM The last Soviet Union president, Mr Gorbachev, was a Ukrainian! The Ukraine was the secon.....
» 4/04/2014 2:31:14 PM Gibberish? It is reported fact that the Crimea has substantial reserves of both gas and o.....
» 4/04/2014 11:05:56 AM Russian gas may well be the most profitable gas in the world, but then, that could be said.....
» 4/04/2014 10:27:37 AM One really needs to read the Peter Andrew's story, and about his pioneering ecological res.....
» 4/04/2014 9:51:30 AM I think this article builds on a case for a long overdue bill of individual human rights, .....
» 4/04/2014 9:36:37 AM Well said Chris! I seem to recall, some comparisons between centralized administrations a.....
» 3/04/2014 10:51:36 AM Hi Alan, agree that spending on selective infrastructure is well worth borrowing for. i.e......
» 3/04/2014 9:27:24 AM Have to agree, that the area under de-listing consideration is not wilderness! It's the g.....
» 2/04/2014 12:21:18 PM You are right James H, Co2, is a very efficacious fertilizer, that causes increased top an.....
» 2/04/2014 11:25:28 AM The body of evidence is small and of poor quality? What the? The evidence for that claim.....
» 2/04/2014 10:52:35 AM Thalidomide, may have a very useful future, as a very efficacious caner treatment, that ma.....
» 2/04/2014 10:09:30 AM Well, the great flood, if there was one, was limited to just a few hundred thousand humans.....
» 2/04/2014 9:43:15 AM Not necessarily! In a warmer wetter world, the extremes might well become much more evide.....
» 1/04/2014 7:16:58 PM I just wonder, if we are looking in the right place? The first area, was dropped in favor.....
» 1/04/2014 10:59:40 AM As a young man, I spent a few years [summer holidays,] in New Zealand, chasing constructio.....
» 1/04/2014 10:14:57 AM You make a number of interesting worthwhile points Evald, but I have some issues! Why in .....
» 31/03/2014 4:25:09 PM Yeah sure, a referendum conducted under the barrel of a Russian gun, is truly representati.....
» 31/03/2014 12:04:08 PM Pray tell David G, which nation has been annexed by America, Tibet, Crimea? Suggest a whi.....
» 31/03/2014 11:18:19 AM None of Ukraine's election results matter to us, for two reasons, one, the presidential el.....
» 31/03/2014 11:11:38 AM Castle your king and turn back the moats! Ah, so much too clever by half, distraction for.....
» 31/03/2014 10:51:50 AM Don, C'mon mate, we're paying these people for sound and fury; and theatre! What'd you exp.....
» 31/03/2014 10:39:10 AM Without a shadow of a doubt, our kids are falling way behind many other nations, and the n.....
» 29/03/2014 12:20:58 PM The very best economies, face a certain boom or bust reality, that remains cyclic. Ideolo.....
» 28/03/2014 12:30:56 PM We do have an aging population/shrinking taxpayer base. Unremarkable conventional thinkers.....
» 27/03/2014 7:44:37 PM A bill of rights, may have prevented the Government from incarcerating A kind and Gentle D.....
» 27/03/2014 12:37:30 PM Not too hard to continue an education or employment, when pregnant! [What about with a ba.....
» 27/03/2014 12:13:21 PM A bill of irrevocable rights, is exactly what we do need, to advance real social cohesion......
» 27/03/2014 11:43:45 AM I don't see a problem here! In too many cases, that's the very first question a woman nee.....
» 26/03/2014 3:58:51 PM I don't see anything in Coalition ideology, that supports economic growth, rather contract.....
» 26/03/2014 2:51:14 PM China can align herself with whosoever she chooses! However, Chinese pragmatists, may cons.....
» 25/03/2014 12:07:17 PM Some pollies insist we need to import some heavy crude for industrial lubricants and bitum.....
» 25/03/2014 11:42:52 AM We continue to reward risk and maximized profits, when what we need is probity, caution an.....
» 25/03/2014 11:10:29 AM Have to agree with Hauduell! John is a completely disgruntled stirrer, of the first water.....
» 25/03/2014 10:51:58 AM Yes, and not only does the Farmer buy at retail prices, sell at wholesale prices, but with.....
» 25/03/2014 10:01:59 AM Chris, A high PSA score, on its own may not mean very much! Digital rectal examinations, .....
» 24/03/2014 11:59:54 AM Well it should mean that the Ukraine pushes on with its shale oil development, ASAP! Rhro.....
» 24/03/2014 11:49:29 AM There's a twofold problem here! Politicians who actually believe the govt has no business.....
» 24/03/2014 11:40:28 AM The entire problem is politicians, with very short sighted tunnel vision and no ideas! Th.....
» 24/03/2014 10:43:00 AM Judy, it's not just quite grossly over-rewarded Tories, who think within a fixed or very l.....
» 24/03/2014 10:24:55 AM The DJIA is a hoax? Hasn't it always? As are economic models that need inflation? To in e.....
» 24/03/2014 9:56:09 AM The problem is not welfare for the states, but welfare for the rich! This welfare costs th.....
» 22/03/2014 12:31:18 PM There's surely no doubt whatsoever, we are experiencing climate change! The argument is, .....
» 22/03/2014 11:35:35 AM The whole of human progress has been achieved through dialogue and debate. Were it not fo.....
» 22/03/2014 11:22:58 AM Squeers, I think, if memory serves, the end times, will be where things are reversed. Tha.....
» 21/03/2014 11:53:21 AM We are already attracting rich Asians to Australia, just look at the property market, whic.....
» 21/03/2014 11:20:13 AM We would all lose if churches were taxed! Errant nonsense! All too often we see, churches.....
» 20/03/2014 12:38:20 PM Phillip, There was a time when much more pragmatic govts built things, owned by we the peo.....
» 20/03/2014 12:03:22 PM I believe we should subsidize. But selectively. We need to keep producing and processing f.....
» 20/03/2014 10:51:28 AM All very convincing and cogent. Alcoa has seen the writing on the wall, and is building a .....
» 19/03/2014 4:12:55 PM One of the best culture mediums for propagating various pathogens in the laboratory, is in.....
» 19/03/2014 12:41:58 PM No they are not! This long overdue law is being enacted to protect the rights of the not .....
» 19/03/2014 12:13:47 PM Surprise, surprise, Crimea has oil and gas reserves! And Mr Putin wants them? Perhaps if.....
» 19/03/2014 11:38:49 AM The only way, we might end this patent nonsense, that basically makes a joke out of democr.....
» 18/03/2014 1:56:02 PM Well, the only real cure for poverty is economic growth. This growth should include all ci.....
» 18/03/2014 12:54:13 PM Well, if the Ukraine falls, or is annexed by Russia, who is next? The West stood idly by,.....
» 17/03/2014 1:14:48 PM We simply do not need foreign investors, pushing already unaffordable houses out of the re.....
» 17/03/2014 12:31:57 PM Are Russian positions on Ukraine and Crimea legal? NO! Definitely not! If there were no .....
» 17/03/2014 12:13:28 PM I've always held that free speech ought to include the right to offend, always providing t.....
» 14/03/2014 12:07:13 PM Maybe he doesn't know, or hasn't made up his mind yet? Maybe he goes both ways, but not n.....
» 14/03/2014 11:24:28 AM The last time I looked it was a free country, that still tolerated freedom of speech and o.....
» 14/03/2014 10:59:41 AM Clear felling and then selling woodchip at a loss is the only reason forestry Tasmania, ma.....
» 14/03/2014 10:32:56 AM Indigenous peoples have been selectively harvesting/logging their forest for millenia, and.....
» 14/03/2014 9:45:41 AM What an awful person, such lack of empathy, for those who can find no words of their own, .....
» 12/03/2014 6:19:54 PM Well given the necessary and superbly timed death and rebirth of trillions of stars, time .....
» 12/03/2014 5:46:37 PM Actually, future carbon constraints don't need to be an impediment to economic growth, but.....
» 12/03/2014 12:33:50 PM This last train is in the station and ready to start on a single one way journey! That gi.....
» 12/03/2014 11:27:33 AM Footnote: Said canal, would support several brand new thorium reactors, and or, solar the.....
» 12/03/2014 11:15:52 AM We do need to grow, but in a sustainable way. What we need are leaders with both courage.....
» 12/03/2014 10:25:02 AM If everything has a price, then there must be a price imposed for the privilege to live, b.....
» 11/03/2014 7:14:41 PM The thing we need to do, is build an inland shipping canal right though the dead centre, a.....
» 11/03/2014 6:42:11 PM Pericles, ever sit down and work out what we already spend on roads? The last time a poli.....
» 11/03/2014 12:02:04 PM Comparing serial non performers, is arguably an exercise in abject futility! Other than th.....
» 11/03/2014 11:09:38 AM The only real problem with the extremely ignorant mate, is, they're usually too ignorant, .....
» 11/03/2014 10:41:24 AM As one can see from some of the other posters, the SA greens are not the only greens with .....
» 11/03/2014 10:24:54 AM Have to agree with most of this Everald. Today, cars, trucks and buses, rely almost exclu.....
» 10/03/2014 2:18:23 PM Bah humbug. We number among the most innovative people on the planet, with near the worst.....
» 10/03/2014 1:49:27 PM Some years ago, I did what most retailers/service providers do today, judge a book by its .....
» 10/03/2014 1:39:28 PM What the bush doesn't need is the lunatic fringe, banning the construction of dams! Dams t.....
» 9/03/2014 2:19:37 PM One of the only peaceful means, in the hands of the west, that could succeed, is to apply .....
» 7/03/2014 12:04:48 PM Yes, and the comparisons don't just end there, given one can fly to an international desti.....
» 7/03/2014 11:49:52 AM Almost the same thing could have been said of Mr Hitler, another well known, power hungry .....
» 6/03/2014 12:20:54 PM Oh I don't know? Some of us patently expect climate science to be absolutely correct at a.....
» 6/03/2014 12:03:04 PM Have to agree with Ludwig on this one. Co2 per se, does not cause climate change, and no .....
» 6/03/2014 11:34:52 AM Clever! We stop sending our yellow cake, and they buy it elsewhere! It makes almost as mu.....
» 5/03/2014 11:03:43 AM Footnote: This proposed new law, ought apply equally to also prevent former lobbyists beco.....
» 5/03/2014 10:52:46 AM There ought to be a law that prevents former pollies and staffers from becoming lobbyists,.....
» 5/03/2014 10:37:51 AM While one can agree with most of what you say Conrad, we confront the practical reality, t.....
» 5/03/2014 10:01:03 AM There is much in what you say Graham! A recent post Redcliffe poll saw a slide to labor o.....
» 4/03/2014 6:34:17 PM There are a number of elements to consider. First, millions of ethnic Russians have marrie.....
» 4/03/2014 12:50:13 PM When it comes to Colonel Putin, I've always seen him as a power hungry psychopath!? And P.....
» 4/03/2014 12:28:06 PM Typically of conservative thinkers/tea party types, [and is that an oxymoron or what,] of .....
» 4/03/2014 12:18:14 PM What is just plain dumb, is the preferred use of fully imported petroleum products, that d.....
» 3/03/2014 11:56:01 AM This is the reason why we should not simply cool our heels, but crack on exploring and exp.....
» 3/03/2014 11:08:55 AM Is there any other part of the national estate we can sell, along with our childrens futur.....
» 2/03/2014 12:08:26 PM Some claim, a transaction tax hurts the poorest the most? Well, only as an add on, that si.....
» 1/03/2014 4:29:20 PM Investment is good, except if it comes from overseas? What? Like say those who invested in.....
» 28/02/2014 12:02:38 PM Probably? Henry was also considering a turnover tax, which he alluded to in one of his pos.....
» 28/02/2014 11:08:46 AM London to a brick it will, and it really would be history simply repeating itself? Howeve.....
» 27/02/2014 11:46:11 AM All human progress has it's foundation in disagreement and debate, although at the end of .....
» 26/02/2014 10:35:29 AM Not long ago, childhood leukemia was a death sentence, now it is almost always cured, and .....
» 26/02/2014 9:30:47 AM Well, the tripling of the cost of energy, in real terms, is what shut down our car industr.....
» 24/02/2014 12:30:38 PM Yes Graham, but will Campbell get the message? The extremely autocratic Bligh government .....
» 23/02/2014 11:30:56 AM Secrecy and a complete lack of any genuine empathy was all that was needed by a homophobic.....
» 23/02/2014 10:31:29 AM He who pays the piper calls the tune! Arguably, we need a few more independents or Clive .....
» 22/02/2014 5:00:22 PM Agree with most of what this Author writes. However, short of dropping a nuke on the regim.....
» 22/02/2014 4:35:46 PM Well, those that have routinely trashed so-called sovereignty, are the Indonesians. For o.....
» 20/02/2014 4:34:39 PM The price on carbon is not the cause of rising electricity prices, but rather privatizatio.....
» 19/02/2014 3:16:48 PM As difficult as it is for the intellectually challenged, it is not nuclear waste current t.....
» 16/02/2014 11:01:11 AM Well, we could if we were smart, digest all waste in a smell free locally invented two tan.....
» 16/02/2014 10:28:16 AM Pebble reactors would preclude the possibility of yet another meltdown! However, I prefer.....
» 16/02/2014 10:08:45 AM It's not peak oil we should worry about, but rather the extraordinary amount of disinforma.....
» 11/02/2014 11:37:39 AM Good idea, it has to go somewhere, and the rent received could completely resuscitate, the.....
» 11/02/2014 11:14:52 AM Well, this was very predictable. We of all first world countries, subsidize manufacture l.....
» 20/12/2013 5:15:21 PM I'm really rather tired of John's par for the course rant. There is only one hand that rai.....
» 19/12/2013 10:12:02 AM Have to absolutely agree with the Author, and his very well argued and cogent article. Pe.....
» 11/12/2013 11:17:23 AM People who are born left handed, ought to be able to marry who the chose! Ditto people bo.....
» 11/12/2013 11:07:57 AM Hasbeen, the only reason we don't make a Toyota hilux or a Mazda 3 here, is because we hav.....
» 11/12/2013 10:25:08 AM I just don't get it! All anyone needs to do, is put up a few portable electric fences, a f.....
» 10/12/2013 10:31:52 AM Correction, and apologies. 40 cents a litre, should read 40 cents a cubic metre. Rhrosty......
» 10/12/2013 10:28:57 AM No! Not in its current form. We need to make something the rest of the world will want to .....
» 27/11/2013 11:57:08 AM No Kilmouski, I do not jest. It took a while to be sure, but we as ship and submarine buil.....
» 27/11/2013 11:08:25 AM Magnetron rail links, would enable this service to beat current air freight, and for less .....
» 27/11/2013 10:16:31 AM I don't know about a levy or how that would help! The actual and ever rising cost of bunk.....
» 26/11/2013 11:13:34 AM Hasbeen: You are so wrong. The most successful economy in Europe, is, was and remains Germ.....
» 25/11/2013 9:59:42 AM I don't believe the old should have to sell heir home to fund their retirements, unless of.....
» 21/11/2013 10:54:14 AM I don't see how! Given that Temporary protection continues as long as the danger or persec.....
» 20/11/2013 10:57:30 AM Well, to give the man his due, he did consider developing the north. Some say that is vis.....
» 20/11/2013 10:32:16 AM Footnote: The argument for more autonomy in public education is well made! And would save.....
» 20/11/2013 10:28:36 AM Postcode poverty traps breed more and more of the same, and indeed, generations of familie.....
» 19/11/2013 3:07:42 PM Well yes, but the real cause was their own disunity, and a small cohort that simply couldn.....
» 19/11/2013 2:47:21 PM Well, it's probably a lot smarter to spy on items of interest, and collect actual evidence.....
» 19/11/2013 2:22:27 PM Not likely, but an insurrection, possibly? But particularly, if we hear from just one more.....
» 18/11/2013 9:53:36 AM While the Author might believe some of the assertions made, I hardly think that applies to.....
» 18/11/2013 9:35:46 AM What Labor needs is to truly unify behind some brave new ideas; ideas that will win the ap.....
» 16/11/2013 9:27:09 AM There is something very wrong with a system that taxes billionaires at half the rate of hi.....
» 15/11/2013 3:15:52 PM I find much of the article, less than cogent. Look, put ten economist in the same room an.....
» 14/11/2013 11:07:59 AM The Govt doesn't own these assets, the people do. In their original concept, these things .....
» 13/11/2013 5:38:32 PM Can't help those who allow others to do all their critical thinking for them, sparky. Lab.....
» 13/11/2013 11:41:31 AM The carbon tax hurt labor! And could hurt it again should they take it or and ETS to the n.....
» 13/11/2013 11:04:34 AM I think another alliance with the greens by labor, is almost certain to hand the next elec.....
» 12/11/2013 11:24:44 AM A pollie free tropical island? I'm sorry Robert, I simply cannot find one of those on such.....
» 12/11/2013 10:30:36 AM Yes the population growth is a problem, but so also is an aging population. There is anot.....
» 11/11/2013 12:10:43 PM The very worst thing we could do, would be to establish an ETS! This has proven elsewhere.....
» 11/11/2013 11:45:35 AM If there were not very significant economic advantages to be gained by decarbing the econo.....
» 11/11/2013 11:14:02 AM Well, in a word, no! Not without creating a precedent, that will then apply to all other f.....
» 10/11/2013 8:47:52 AM Every western style economy, rests on just 2 support pillars; energy and capital. Energy .....
» 10/11/2013 8:06:34 AM A really smart govt would act at the earliest possible opportunity, to usher in optional p.....
» 8/11/2013 2:11:08 PM Solutions? Well the economy is 70+% domestic! And that is dependent on discretionary spen.....
» 7/11/2013 3:41:35 PM An unavoidable expenditure tax, collected by the banks/finance houses on behalf of the gov.....
» 7/11/2013 11:53:11 AM The Author makes a very cogent case for quite massive reform. For mine, that is a complet.....
» 7/11/2013 11:05:10 AM Reforms to the industrial relations system? Yes sure, and given absolutely everyone contr.....
» 6/11/2013 12:14:59 PM What is necessary? A free trade agreement, and people who can talk to each other, in a com.....
» 6/11/2013 11:51:42 AM Well, it could and or, should. We live on an already quite grossly overpopulated planet; s.....
» 5/11/2013 12:35:00 PM Wonder away. While other countries have employed thirty year, self terminating bonds, our.....
» 5/11/2013 12:09:21 PM No, true the RBA can't! However, if given the necessary authority, the RBA could, with a .....
» 5/11/2013 11:50:48 AM I simply can't abide unnecessary cruelty. And I've worked in abattoirs, and hunted game me.....
» 5/11/2013 11:08:49 AM Oh, neither. They are just a very reliable money making schemes, that treats drug addicts.....
» 4/11/2013 11:27:32 AM I've got just one word for this article, and it's spelt, see are eh pee! Rhrosty......
» 4/11/2013 11:21:39 AM Arguably, there is no such thing as a free will!? We don't get to pick our parents, our ge.....
» 4/11/2013 11:07:56 AM Well, there is really only one rule in intelligence, don't get caught or found out! Every.....
» 4/11/2013 10:35:13 AM More nice sounding rhetoric is not going to win labor govt! Some policies that return equ.....
» 4/11/2013 9:45:42 AM Well, have to agree with bondi tram! And can only add, that the new senate election in th.....
» 2/11/2013 11:27:40 AM It's a non issue. There are far more important things to do first. Like finally reformin.....
» 1/11/2013 11:09:52 AM So, what else would you expect from a party that is already setting itself up to win the n.....
» 1/11/2013 10:45:09 AM In early esoteric Christianity, marriages were not performed in church, but rather in the .....
» 1/11/2013 10:00:02 AM You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink! Barry O'Farrell is a politic.....
» 31/10/2013 10:28:00 AM Read all of the article Chris and couldn't agree more! Would that you were tasked with rol.....
» 31/10/2013 10:02:14 AM I'm not an Abbott fan, however, he's only been in the job 5 minutes, give the bloke a fair.....
» 31/10/2013 9:48:35 AM It's the singer not the song! Rhrosty......
» 31/10/2013 9:46:10 AM If the Christian lobby believe that their view is the majority view, then let them advocat.....
» 30/10/2013 11:31:33 AM I didn't follow or know much of the Dawkin's reforms. when they were introduced, I was alr.....
» 30/10/2013 10:48:12 AM Bipartisan blindness is most apparent when it comes to govt guaranteed, thirty year, self .....
» 30/10/2013 10:04:33 AM Well if the voting system does not represent the majority of voters' views or wishes, then.....
» 30/10/2013 9:34:22 AM How are we supposed to respond to almost endless broken non core promises? Perhaps if the.....
» 30/10/2013 8:58:28 AM Have to agree with Ludwig, and add that one can't judge if climate change is occurring bas.....
» 29/10/2013 12:12:40 PM This is one of those chicken egg thing discussions? Old folks would be able to live more .....
» 29/10/2013 11:36:11 AM Have to agree, and not just NSW's Ministers either. Yes we could create a salt problem th.....
» 29/10/2013 11:07:44 AM As a young man I enjoyed riding a bike. There's nothing quite like the wind in your hair, .....
» 28/10/2013 12:55:39 PM Given all the reports and impossible to refute, negative outcomes of lead poisoning, one w.....
» 28/10/2013 11:55:13 AM Justice in today's Australia, a so called democracy, the only one yet to embrace a bill of.....
» 28/10/2013 11:50:52 AM North Korea already has the bomb, in spite of billions already surrendered as aid! And the.....
» 28/10/2013 11:41:01 AM If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, quacks like a duck, then it has to be a duck? .....
» 28/10/2013 11:33:19 AM Yes David G, and if you're the one battling, with your every resource to save hearth and h.....
» 28/10/2013 11:05:32 AM We can't say there has been no change! We might be able to say that our winters are milde.....
» 27/10/2013 9:57:15 AM If we return to selective logging, we will open up some space in our eucalypti forest for .....
» 27/10/2013 9:17:34 AM Shrashen: By their fruits ye shall know them, and the fruits of whole of language learning.....
» 26/10/2013 1:03:56 PM Robert LePage; why aren't you running the country mate? Your clear headed reasoning is lik.....
» 26/10/2013 12:26:46 PM George: Nowhere! Rhrosty......
» 26/10/2013 12:14:55 PM Under One God: Whatever you're smoking, I'd get off it if I were you? To be sure, life is.....
» 26/10/2013 11:59:00 AM Yes sure, there are things like bough, borough, brow and bow. And English has French roots.....
» 25/10/2013 11:22:15 AM Portable energy is an economic weapon, and that, I believe, is how sabre rattling and dict.....
» 25/10/2013 10:15:13 AM Correction, Alanah should read Alannah. Sincere apologies Alannah. Should have used Phonet.....
» 25/10/2013 10:10:00 AM Could not agree more Alanah! There is only one way to fix this problem, and that is the w.....
» 24/10/2013 2:27:16 PM Except where crooks and shonks cheat their workforce, and have them effectively work for f.....
» 24/10/2013 9:46:48 AM The problem with poor returns from property, are the reasons for investing. If it's just t.....
» 23/10/2013 6:37:24 PM There are over forty different taxes that impact to a greater or lessor degree, on the pri.....
» 23/10/2013 11:40:36 AM The lack of investment in new housing has two major causes. Taxes which are in some cases,.....
» 23/10/2013 11:00:18 AM Your major issue with local govt seems to be, you're still are not part of it? That said,.....
» 23/10/2013 10:25:09 AM Is moral hazard destroying the social contract? YES! Rhrosty......
» 23/10/2013 10:21:37 AM Prefer the unbiased objectivity of Justine Ferrari and Chis Ryan. As a boy I attended bot.....
» 23/10/2013 9:57:35 AM Absolutely spot on. Just don't hold your breath waiting for this loaded with Landlords go.....
» 22/10/2013 6:34:43 PM How long are we going to continue to disadvantage, on the grounds of disadvantage! We sta.....
» 22/10/2013 5:48:21 PM I don't agree that any baby is in any way part of the woman's body. The fact is, it is ano.....
» 22/10/2013 5:14:31 PM Being born a girl is not a medical condition? Sadly, parents can use ultra sound to find .....
» 21/10/2013 12:31:32 PM Goats do a better job of fire hazard reduction, as well as reduce or remove feral weed spe.....
» 21/10/2013 11:47:16 AM You would have thought by now and after the disastrous bush fires that ravaged Victoria, n.....
» 21/10/2013 11:06:05 AM Yes Don the modeling/guesstimates is never ever better than a ball park figure at best, as.....
» 19/10/2013 11:53:22 AM Agree with Jon J! As for the bad movies, to quote the perpetually bewildered, sentimental.....
» 19/10/2013 11:34:43 AM It's a pity Nicola Roxon hadn't spoken her mind so honestly, just over three years ago. I.....
» 18/10/2013 10:49:36 AM Just click on ALL, Tony. However, none of the various religious/politics/race arguments h.....
» 18/10/2013 10:11:19 AM All too true! That said, the very worst people in the world to give that very care are th.....
» 18/10/2013 9:49:48 AM We have the highest median house prices in the English speaking world. Not all that long .....
» 17/10/2013 12:02:06 PM I believe Bill Shorten understands that the real aim of Labor is the treasury benches. An.....
» 17/10/2013 11:28:20 AM Not sure that Bill Shorten's religion has any relevance in politics? And our Parliament al.....
» 17/10/2013 11:16:46 AM Well, given they are moths to the flame of power, corporate psychopaths in politics may be.....
» 17/10/2013 10:12:30 AM Well the crisis may be over for now! But there will be long term repercussions? How can t.....
» 16/10/2013 1:00:12 PM I've owned guns since I was eighteen, and learned to shoot and respect guns long before th.....
» 16/10/2013 12:08:26 PM There may be links Kellie, but not of our making. Moreover, they need to be addressed at .....
» 16/10/2013 11:26:12 AM It takes two to make a baby. And babies can't look after themselves! It's entirely irresp.....
» 15/10/2013 1:06:38 PM I don't believe we can live in a world that doesn't include oil. Nor will we be able to gr.....
» 15/10/2013 12:15:41 PM Due diligence is a two way street, and needs to be applied with equal vigor to those who's.....
» 15/10/2013 10:34:02 AM There is only one way to fix this and that is to means test public health. Since we made .....
» 14/10/2013 5:37:51 PM Yeah Hasbeen and your points are well made. Clearly the green movement have done there wh.....
» 14/10/2013 12:10:58 PM Well, who cares what the tea party thinks, or how many chairs they try to occupy simultane.....
» 14/10/2013 11:18:58 AM There are far too few grains of truth amongst all this chaff or rubbish. Which sounds, I b.....
» 14/10/2013 10:28:10 AM Well, the now extremely dysfunctional system, as inherited, once worked quite well for the.....
» 11/10/2013 11:31:51 AM >The assumption is made, no scientifically qualified person is against climate change&l.....
» 11/10/2013 10:56:15 AM The lost art of discipline? What does the Author really want? The return of the cane? Go.....
» 11/10/2013 10:01:05 AM Perhaps we should look at all expenses of all state and federal parliamentarians during th.....
» 11/10/2013 9:34:02 AM Ain't 20X20 hindsight a wonderful thing! Rhrosty......
» 10/10/2013 1:00:08 PM The Middle East! Safe! You've got to be joking? Oil and oil supplies are very much an e.....
» 10/10/2013 12:01:55 PM Well, I also prefer Albo, however, I believe a better performing Shorten has the numbers? .....
» 9/10/2013 7:07:28 PM I wouldn't waste my time Noel or hold my breath! The man has very strong and complex views.....
» 9/10/2013 6:59:18 PM Exactly! Some people seem to think they can trespass with impunity, or create a public nui.....
» 8/10/2013 2:30:32 PM Nonetheless, this is the way we and every other western style economy is heading, and argu.....
» 8/10/2013 11:42:18 AM Oil is the answer here. If we could say find a new source of relatively easily recovered o.....
» 8/10/2013 11:23:21 AM This idea has some merit, and would serve to keep these states from falling into the hands.....
» 8/10/2013 10:42:37 AM And not before time! It's not all that different from a cheque account connected to an ove.....
» 8/10/2013 10:22:03 AM A couple of pastoral leases for 35 million! You're joking? Somebody is being taken to the .....
» 7/10/2013 12:17:32 PM I agree that both carbon pricing and Nuclear option (thorium) are both part of the solutio.....
» 7/10/2013 11:48:25 AM An inland shipping canal connected to rapid rail would negate the need to dredge new harbo.....
» 7/10/2013 11:04:02 AM Fossil fuels must remain buried? Well no! Not all fossil fuels are the same or contribute .....
» 7/10/2013 10:22:24 AM It's a bit early to start having concerns or worse, actually expressing them! We need to .....
» 7/10/2013 10:15:45 AM China could show she is not a nation we ought to fear, by offering Taiwan regional autonom.....
» 6/10/2013 9:44:05 AM I agree with the notion of smaller govt and a bill of rights to protect us from the absolu.....
» 4/10/2013 6:09:53 PM Yuyutsu. Complex advice? Surely you jest? All I've advocated is keeping it peaceful, and .....
» 4/10/2013 12:46:21 PM If you've ever run a business, you know for a fact, you can't ever estimate what income yo.....
» 4/10/2013 11:55:46 AM If you've ever run a small business, you know to the cent, what your operating budget by e.....
» 4/10/2013 11:15:50 AM Two state solution? What two state solution? As things stand, it's only a matter of time,.....
» 4/10/2013 10:59:34 AM A moral code is something that is lived, not lectured! The Christian master said, in so m.....
» 4/10/2013 9:57:06 AM A truth always has an explanation, even that which we humans recognize as the internal rin.....
» 3/10/2013 12:05:50 PM I believe the west's patience with an endlessly sabre rattling Netenyahu is already exhaus.....
» 3/10/2013 11:16:07 AM This is something I more or less advocated just after the last election! It makes perfect.....
» 2/10/2013 6:31:09 PM Isn't it wonderful. So many intelligent unselfish people and so many positive contributio.....
» 2/10/2013 6:16:11 PM Yes Candide; interesting isn't it, that virtually all remedial reading is founded on phone.....
» 2/10/2013 6:02:00 PM Ah yes JKJ, how right you are about socialism! No wonder all those socialist republics in.....
» 2/10/2013 5:52:51 PM If the Liberal Party, were in any way, a bona fide liberal organization, instead of dyed i.....
» 2/10/2013 5:45:31 PM Well BJ, and I agree with your summation; even the fittest amongst us are not going to be .....
» 2/10/2013 12:08:48 PM Our very survival relies on universal cooperation! When we all finally get that! We as a .....
» 2/10/2013 12:04:26 PM Have to agree with Tosca: It seems to me, the loss of literacy in the general population,.....
» 2/10/2013 11:33:43 AM We will if we survive, run out of oil one day! We might even run out of so-called unconven.....
» 2/10/2013 10:58:16 AM The reason we rejected shale oil in the past, was it was just too expensive to recover! A.....
» 1/10/2013 1:29:31 PM We could also try social credit. If we would create roads, ports and very rapid rail out o.....
» 1/10/2013 12:52:19 PM I never ever made such an astonishing claim JKJ! Listen and learn, this is exactly what h.....
» 1/10/2013 12:19:35 PM The solutions to these and many other problems are not here, but in Lebanon! No matter wh.....
» 1/10/2013 11:45:40 AM Misinformation doesn't assist the debate! Nor does almost endlessly repeating it! Algae d.....
» 1/10/2013 11:23:20 AM This might have had more currency, if it wasn't a trogan horse, to support Manning or Assa.....
» 1/10/2013 10:57:48 AM The elephant in the room is the tea party and what they seem to be doing to the world's la.....
» 30/09/2013 11:26:25 AM As long as they are writing a constitution, a bill of irrevocable rights, might not be a b.....
» 30/09/2013 11:06:10 AM Have to agree with WmTrevor: As a young man working through my holidays, to supplement a .....
» 29/09/2013 11:28:39 AM At first glance, a rise of just 0.9C may not seem much of a problem? This is not alarmist.....
» 28/09/2013 11:14:01 AM Corrected correction: Substitute Candice for Pericles! Even more apologies, supplemented b.....
» 28/09/2013 11:10:04 AM Correction: Yes your point about> Should read. Yes Pericles, your point about Nick Grie.....
» 28/09/2013 11:03:57 AM Hi Jonathon and thanks for the response. I don't like privatization on a number of counts......
» 28/09/2013 10:10:32 AM Point taken Graham and appropriate apologies tendered. Sorry Don. Rhrosty......
» 27/09/2013 11:27:27 AM What transgenders need is to be believed! Our sexual orientation is entirely autonomous, .....
» 27/09/2013 11:08:25 AM If the author is arguing that there is no genetic cause of homosexuality, then that is pro.....
» 27/09/2013 10:29:00 AM Have to agree with Poirot! I wouldn't be very surprised to discover the Author of the OPI.....
» 27/09/2013 9:48:47 AM Don't hold your breath Jonathon, waiting for that refund cheque. I think that making the .....
» 26/09/2013 3:10:16 PM I would prefer to know when and where this was going on, or just how demeaning it had beco.....
» 26/09/2013 2:29:04 PM Well JKJ, on some points one can agree with you. But let's not confuse democratic socialis.....
» 26/09/2013 10:21:52 AM Yes, ocean acidification has effectively doubled in just the last 16 years! So simply doi.....
» 26/09/2013 10:05:17 AM We are talking about a coalition that has routinely and repeatedly rejected a bill of righ.....
» 26/09/2013 9:56:19 AM All essentially true, but only because a MINORITY fanatical element went far too far, and .....
» 26/09/2013 9:37:49 AM Future vision also has to include quite massive tax reform and simplification. This will r.....
» 26/09/2013 9:18:14 AM The key words here are recapturing Labor values and principles! Implying as they so accura.....
» 25/09/2013 6:30:45 PM Cazza, Julia was a trail blazer, who will no doubt make it easier for other women to aspir.....
» 25/09/2013 12:16:02 PM Kelly, I've long held the view that with every change of Government, there ought to be a c.....
» 25/09/2013 11:41:00 AM What the world needs now are politicians that actually listen, instead of as per usual, te.....
» 24/09/2013 12:23:42 PM Well one can argue or rant against the raw numbers, and the fact they always seem to rise .....
» 24/09/2013 11:43:04 AM Rudd is very clever, possibly one of the smartest minds we've ever had in politics. That .....
» 24/09/2013 11:01:44 AM Men and women aren't the same! Really? Have you just noticed or has somebody taken the t.....
» 23/09/2013 6:54:12 PM Correction, marginally veritable should read marginally variable. Anyone would think I wa.....
» 23/09/2013 6:33:56 PM We already imprison people who knowingly transmit HIV! I would add compulsory castration! .....
» 23/09/2013 5:34:23 PM Yes onthebeach, it is time the taxpayers were given a very large break! Easy enough if we.....
» 23/09/2013 12:13:58 PM Hard to disagree with any of this, which really ought to be required reading for any aspir.....
» 23/09/2013 12:01:10 PM If I had a penny for 1% of all unheard prayers, I would be richer than the oracle from Oma.....
» 23/09/2013 11:37:15 AM One would have thought this problem was more urgent than putting chaps in schools. Partic.....
» 23/09/2013 10:57:44 AM One of the lessons of history, is nobody learns the lessons of history. We saw what happe.....
» 23/09/2013 10:20:27 AM Finally someone who gets it! At every turn we seem to select politicians who just don't g.....
» 20/09/2013 11:44:25 AM We already do argue if heterosexual couples can or should marry! Just try and marry a Chr.....
» 20/09/2013 10:57:27 AM I believe many Christians would also refuse to wear a loan shark's jumper? Good on the blo.....
» 20/09/2013 10:25:57 AM Fortunately, there is the online, non Murdoch non Fairfax alternative. And people in poli.....
» 19/09/2013 12:05:23 PM Well, the major parties created a flawed voting system and refused to reform it as long it.....
» 19/09/2013 11:35:41 AM Well you don't have to be very bright, with tin ears to prefer conservatism, but I guess i.....
» 19/09/2013 11:20:19 AM Why are we still discussing this? Every human being extant on the planet has certain basi.....
» 18/09/2013 11:56:06 AM We have tried both communism and capitalism; and at the end of the day, in either system, .....
» 18/09/2013 11:16:17 AM White phosphorous, agent orange, napalm, cluster bombs, mines depleted uranium. Yes all th.....
» 17/09/2013 11:49:26 AM LEGO, you are the ignorant one and it shows, I believe, like a flashing neon light! We ow.....
» 17/09/2013 11:19:01 AM Have to agree with Jardine K Jardine! He sums it up with his usual inescapable science ba.....
» 16/09/2013 11:32:38 AM The free Syrian Army has nothing left to lose! It does need to act and speak with a singl.....
» 16/09/2013 11:11:07 AM As we have found throughout recorded history, dictators can suppress dissent, but never ev.....
» 16/09/2013 10:49:01 AM Who cares if some of the modeling overstates the case, while others understate it? I mean.....
» 15/09/2013 10:13:48 AM There is no similarity between what is happening now and the regional solution we entered .....
» 13/09/2013 7:23:03 PM It's a democracy and the people have spoken. No amount of tail wagging the dog activism, w.....
» 13/09/2013 11:28:36 AM An Ivy league study that followed 300 economists over a period of thirty years, discovered.....
» 11/09/2013 6:24:45 PM I'm not sure there is any longer a left or a right? Just an up or down, or good policy ver.....
» 11/09/2013 12:51:23 PM I didn't know you could read minds or see into the future Lyn? As insightful as anyone mi.....
» 10/09/2013 10:26:18 AM There seem to be more and more tattoos and facial/body piercings these days. Some tattoos.....
» 9/09/2013 12:19:19 PM The Irish have an expression which goes, anyone who believes they need a psychiatrist, oug.....
» 9/09/2013 11:52:15 AM Well, if Jesus walked amongst us today, with his single status and obvious preference for .....
» 6/09/2013 11:39:13 AM A coalition Government still has to obey its political masters, and those masters appear t.....
» 6/09/2013 11:05:04 AM A referendum on this issue would likely end for all time, the official discrimination agai.....
» 5/09/2013 12:24:42 PM It's not the govt that has failed the unemployed, but the unemployed? As a young and able.....
» 5/09/2013 11:55:56 AM Thank heavens for young people, who are still able to do their own thinking! Rather than .....
» 5/09/2013 11:45:01 AM Well, given a few ignoramus bigots are still welded to stone age philosophy, they may inde.....
» 5/09/2013 11:17:10 AM There's a fair bit of guilt to peddle around. Particularly for the greens, who as usual, .....
» 4/09/2013 12:07:33 PM I believe in a fair go. Given none of us have crystal balls, which I'm reliably informed,.....
» 4/09/2013 11:22:03 AM I for one agree with the ban. I don't believe voluntary euthanasia is a good cure for age.....
» 4/09/2013 10:44:51 AM Dopes in sport. A very apt term, given very little is known about the long term consequen.....
» 4/09/2013 10:05:47 AM J.K.J. It is said that one third of us understand politics, another third understand econo.....
» 4/09/2013 10:00:47 AM If Mr Rudd were actually a true believer, perhaps? However, one can fool all of the peopl.....
» 2/09/2013 12:17:37 PM Kids don't vote. However their parents do. Looking after the interests of parents, (fami.....
» 2/09/2013 12:10:53 PM Stephen G says it all for me! One can also add, credible reports tell us that the NBN is .....
» 1/09/2013 11:53:43 AM The CIA has a number of scenarios, with regard to the Middle East (oil supply surety). Ac.....
» 1/09/2013 10:53:41 AM We are the only nation on earth with negative gearing! It costs the tax payer around 5 bi.....
» 1/09/2013 9:55:15 AM So you feel like a single mum Sophie? I'm not sure where we could find you a compliant one.....
» 30/08/2013 12:44:46 PM Yes, and that windfall belongs to the people. We need some nation building projects, all .....
» 30/08/2013 12:14:46 PM Targeting military installations is hardly likely to kill civilians. The Assad regime imp.....
» 29/08/2013 8:27:48 PM Have to agree with loudmouth. Besides, after all the civilian deaths/genocide, doing nothi.....
» 29/08/2013 2:45:41 PM Is there any other choice? The Syrians have been making and stockpiling this nerve gas fo.....
» 27/08/2013 12:16:17 PM Where would the rebels get their chemical weapons? Perhaps the Assad regime, who we know h.....
» 27/08/2013 11:50:36 AM Great question! Find myself mostly agreeing with DKit. Vision would include plans to act.....
» 27/08/2013 11:08:01 AM My qualified bet is a coalition win. And for the following reasons. The baggage Mr Rudd b.....
» 26/08/2013 11:32:23 AM So you are going to vote green Sophie? Why am I not surprised! But then, you also believe .....
» 24/08/2013 10:38:12 AM We need to replace the sensible precautionary principle with a proactive one! Why? Well a.....
» 22/08/2013 1:29:10 PM Have to agree with Mac! Both John Howard and Tony Abbott are committed Christians, allege.....
» 22/08/2013 12:36:43 PM Agree with Foyle, but then I usually do. However, the most important level of education i.....
» 21/08/2013 11:59:27 AM An interesting if extremely expensive idea. Our town has lots of purpose built bike-ways .....
» 21/08/2013 11:37:52 AM The promised return of affordable housing could even now, swing the election back to Labou.....
» 21/08/2013 11:03:19 AM I'm also with Taswegian! Yes one of the holding tanks is leaking. It could be managed wit.....
» 21/08/2013 10:41:01 AM Errant nonsense. The only one running out of puff is Kevin Rudd. From day one he campaig.....
» 20/08/2013 1:15:04 AM If they didn't have rockets, tanks and artillery, they'd resort to small arms! If the didn.....
» 20/08/2013 12:46:09 AM Dementia is a terrible affliction, that mainly affects the elderly or some aids patients. .....
» 19/08/2013 12:15:22 PM These guys have got all the weapons they need to annihilate each other, including their in.....
» 19/08/2013 11:55:17 AM Well why not? It costs tens of billions in pension payments to continue to support depres.....
» 16/08/2013 11:51:28 AM Hi Bill. A few weeks ago I was queuing for a popular concert. The queue was nearly a kilo.....
» 16/08/2013 11:13:43 AM Well no, public debt is not much of a problem, or no worse in comparative terms than havin.....
» 15/08/2013 10:39:31 AM I plan to vote Katter in the lower house and Palmer in the senate. Why Katter, well what .....
» 14/08/2013 12:19:01 PM Next time Rudd could forgo the notes and rely almost exclusively on a teleprompter or a ta.....
» 13/08/2013 1:07:18 PM If the domestic economy was paramount, we would mine the Great Barrier Reef for its probab.....
» 13/08/2013 12:14:25 PM Nothing, as it just ain't gonna happen. Katter has made his views on marriage equality per.....
» 8/08/2013 2:05:35 PM Well, first and foremost, we need infrastructure. Very rapid rail would be a very useful .....
» 6/08/2013 5:23:23 PM A vote for wiki-leaks is a vote for complete loss of privacy and or, the right to own/keep.....
» 6/08/2013 5:06:41 PM Govts of all political persuasion treated the mining boom as recurrent income, and it wasn.....
» 5/08/2013 12:27:38 PM The pages of history, once accurately recorded, can never ever be erased! Rehashing or re.....
» 5/08/2013 12:06:37 PM There are 3 pilot projects in Australia, currently trailing Algae production as a means to.....
» 2/08/2013 12:57:55 PM The public who own the power stations have already said NO to the fire sale of their gener.....
» 31/07/2013 12:10:17 PM One gets much more from a work animal, if it is treated with kindness. A horse that loves.....
» 30/07/2013 1:42:25 PM Whatever happened to ethanol? Well some unusually bright folk discovered that the product.....
» 26/07/2013 1:17:05 PM Oil slicks are all some need to establish probable major new oil discoveries. A large oil.....
» 26/07/2013 12:42:46 PM I thought only Gypsies had crystal balls Graham? I've got an interesting new idea. Why do.....
» 25/07/2013 11:51:20 AM We aren't obliged to honour our UN convention on asylum seekers, with either onshore proce.....
» 24/07/2013 12:26:07 PM One of the things about NG/CSG/biogas, (methane) is the fact it can be consumed in ceramic.....
» 24/07/2013 11:38:15 AM The next petro super state? Well we could be, if only our government would get back into .....
» 24/07/2013 11:03:11 AM I wonder why we haven't tried a non chemical extraction method. The application of super h.....
» 23/07/2013 1:04:27 PM Scams being the operative word for the dog's breakfast of complex rip-offs and rorts? If .....
» 21/07/2013 12:55:08 PM The election and the Australian people will determine the outcomes for irregular arrivals......
» 18/07/2013 11:40:24 AM As I see it, all real leaders are arrogant. They also have incorruptible core beliefs and .....
» 17/07/2013 2:38:12 PM Have to agree with divergence. Yes sure, people fleeing from persecution may well be regar.....
» 17/07/2013 12:17:28 PM Peak phosphorous? We currently pour energy into transporting millions of tons of perfectl.....
» 17/07/2013 11:49:50 AM There is much in what you say David. However, what you seemed to have missed is the paras.....
» 16/07/2013 5:40:10 PM The Clayton's FTA we have with the US, allows the US to maintain a 30+ billion dollar trad.....
» 16/07/2013 11:39:52 AM We can't compete and also retain the middleman profit taker. We need a direct factory to .....
» 16/07/2013 11:19:37 AM The people who need a serious reality check, are the recalcitrant greens! You know, those.....
» 13/07/2013 1:50:33 PM Human rights and equality before the law, have a foundation in the Christian ethos. And th.....
» 12/07/2013 1:47:41 PM We need a regional solution that sees people processed in Indonesia, Malaysia and perhaps .....
» 11/07/2013 10:06:41 PM If people need papers to travel through transit countries, what is wrong with requiring th.....
» 11/07/2013 4:04:23 PM Well if Kevin Rudd has proved just one thing, he has proved that he is one of the most det.....
» 11/07/2013 12:23:23 PM There is an interesting contradiction showing up here? The people who are close to Kevin .....
» 11/07/2013 11:57:41 AM Rank and file to elect leader? Well let's see what happens when and if that actually ever.....
» 10/07/2013 12:05:18 PM It's a free country and humanitarian conservationist Malcolm Fraser can campaign for whoev.....
» 9/07/2013 6:40:26 PM Farms are after all businesses. And the value of a business is largely dependant on the in.....
» 9/07/2013 12:08:54 PM If uninvited people arrive here by irregular means, minus either a visa or identifying doc.....
» 8/07/2013 4:20:06 PM Batteries are not the only way to store solar energy. In fact, solar power can be used to.....
» 8/07/2013 3:43:19 PM Agnostic of Mittagong. A couple of things. Thorium reactors consume most of their fuel! Th.....
» 8/07/2013 2:53:22 PM Have to agree with Lexi and James O'Neil. They spell most of it out for mine; apart from .....
» 8/07/2013 10:47:51 AM The national grid is a great white elephant, that virtually doubles the cost of energy to .....
» 5/07/2013 12:15:02 PM Rubbish. For far too long AUTOCRATIC state Govts, have been the tail that endeavours to w.....
» 4/07/2013 11:47:10 AM Reafforestation should start in our north. But not as the Author probably imagines. That .....
» 4/07/2013 10:56:30 AM This article simplistically examines the landscape in isolation. The pricing of carbon (e.....
» 2/07/2013 6:20:06 PM Unfair dismissals could go, as a trade off for much higher job start payments. Which woul.....
» 2/07/2013 5:43:40 PM Rhian, To avoid a recession all we need do is export more and import less. [We have to ou.....
» 2/07/2013 12:14:49 PM Have to agree with most of this Henry. There are things we can and should do! One is to .....
» 2/07/2013 11:34:08 AM We need to invest in our own people and their better ideas. Ending tax avoidance would ena.....
» 1/07/2013 8:43:22 PM A shared vision doesn't automatically include conservative conyism. It may just be pragma.....
» 1/07/2013 11:06:33 AM Rudd's position is like the weather vane, swings with the wind. A fiscal conservative one .....
» 1/07/2013 10:39:40 AM The entire party membership should chose its Leader! Proportional representation seems fa.....
» 30/06/2013 10:10:08 AM I'm not all that sure the greens can maintain their increase in the polls. They have to b.....
» 28/06/2013 1:28:01 PM The wet tropics are just that, and where annual rainfall is measures in metres. The dange.....
» 28/06/2013 12:44:56 PM Other reports say other things, or the complete opposite! We've always had experts who al.....
» 28/06/2013 12:27:14 PM I don't believe Labour can win? Too much water under the bridge and too many completely d.....
» 27/06/2013 3:40:48 PM We need real tax reform and massive simplification. That tax ought to be a stand alone an.....
» 26/06/2013 11:46:35 AM I don't see how any of this relates to us, except with regard to what we pay at the bowser.....
» 25/06/2013 12:18:39 PM Yes the mining boom shows very distinct signs of slowing, with the rest of the economy in .....
» 23/06/2013 2:45:21 PM Correction, grapheal, should be read as graphene? Apologies, Rhrosty......
» 23/06/2013 12:29:37 PM Have to agree with Hasbeen! We will always need the car and roads in a land as vast and l.....
» 23/06/2013 11:10:29 AM A little over 200 years ago, Aboriginal communities controlled their water. Even so, there.....
» 20/06/2013 1:07:16 PM The hydrocarbons contained in coal were once part of a much warmer atmosphere. A time whe.....
» 19/06/2013 4:45:18 PM It was widely reported that some WW11 soldiers shot over the heads of the "enemy".....
» 18/06/2013 4:37:24 PM Have to agree with Foyle and Peter Lang. Interestingly, the Japanese authorities are appa.....
» 18/06/2013 12:12:15 PM If Mohammed won't come to the mountain, then the mountain must come to Mohammed! We need .....
» 18/06/2013 11:32:27 AM Yes, well argued! Our investors seem to have a bricks and mortar mindset! This is because.....
» 17/06/2013 12:42:55 PM Have to agree with shadow minister! If the UAE wanted to buy our uranium, we would have t.....
» 14/06/2013 11:46:58 PM The opposition are on a winner here! Just as long as they can keep the masses focusing on .....
» 14/06/2013 11:30:10 PM Alan, Why do you bother? People have stopped listening. And you just would not believe th.....
» 14/06/2013 12:42:17 PM My much much bigger economic pie solution, has two essential, must do first parts. The fi.....
» 14/06/2013 11:57:49 AM One has to agree in part with Ludwig; inasmuch as we seem to follow population growth with.....
» 11/06/2013 4:24:46 PM More drowning at sea, by people who invite themselves, and in so doing, push legitimate re.....
» 11/06/2013 3:52:55 PM In formulating his approach, John does a huge disservice to the poor he would help. To tr.....
» 11/06/2013 1:03:54 PM Yes Graham, and the light at the end of the tunnel is the headlamp of the electoral expres.....
» 11/06/2013 12:44:36 PM Yes Malcolm, but that's only because the Govt., any government, doesn't possess the testic.....
» 10/06/2013 10:09:58 AM The real solution here is very rapid rail. And the thing could pay for itself, if some of.....
» 8/06/2013 11:55:31 AM We could, with just a few strokes on a keyboard, introduce quantitative easing, and or vir.....
» 7/06/2013 2:11:01 PM Again find myself unreservedly agreeing with Jon J. Malcolm, if you think you have proble.....
» 6/06/2013 4:56:02 PM Manufacturing has been declining in this country for around forty years. Industrial dinos.....
» 6/06/2013 12:00:00 PM The Japanese miraculous post war economic recovery, was a product of social credit, cradle.....
» 6/06/2013 10:18:13 AM Yes Tanveer, and it's likely to get a lot worse before it gets better. It's a bit like ho.....
» 6/06/2013 10:02:38 AM Compelling argument Valerie, and have to agree with most of it! One could do a lot worse .....
» 6/06/2013 9:51:51 AM Yes, there is and remains a legal duty to expose war crimes! But that is where it ends. .....
» 6/06/2013 9:31:56 AM A sign of the times Alan, tin ears all round and massively manipulated public sentiment? .....
» 5/06/2013 2:24:31 PM Have to vehemently agree with Jon J. As a child I spent most of my formative years living.....
» 4/06/2013 11:40:16 AM This is nonsense. Only those interested in reaping in the unearned billions, a projected .....
» 4/06/2013 11:05:05 AM Our charity ought to be for the needy, not the greedy! As indeed, should those lifeline b.....
» 3/06/2013 12:24:03 PM I believe the roll-out of the NBN will change much of this, as would the roll-out of rapid.....
» 3/06/2013 11:01:16 AM I might find some of the views of this author more compelling, if Islam were at peace with.....
» 3/06/2013 10:14:48 AM Intelligent and well educated!? Then why the extremely obtuse and completely illiterate a.....
» 1/06/2013 12:20:37 PM Marilyn, Bradley released highly confidential information the put thousands of real lives .....
» 1/06/2013 11:46:41 AM I don't think it was a drone Ajay, but American troops in a chopper? And yes, one can abs.....
» 31/05/2013 11:37:45 AM I just don't agree with any of this. This bloke broke the law just as the occasional graf.....
» 30/05/2013 11:31:30 AM I rarely give to charities. I resent the hell out of "charities", paying admin .....
» 29/05/2013 12:33:44 PM Work choices wouldn't have suffered as badly as it did, if the Ideologues, who promoted it.....
» 29/05/2013 11:33:28 AM While I wouldn't have put it quite that way, I basically agree with JKJ. The banks borrow.....
» 28/05/2013 10:33:56 PM Rhian, Howard did give away much of the rivers of gold that flowed from mining boom mark o.....
» 27/05/2013 4:03:03 PM Rhian, all you've confirmed is the boom and bust nature of economies, and the fact we were.....
» 27/05/2013 1:25:41 PM Electric cars Roses1? How about NG powered water cooled, solid state ceramic fuel cells, .....
» 27/05/2013 12:26:10 PM Current ethanol production creates an energy debt! We can produce endless hydrogen with n.....
» 27/05/2013 11:28:59 AM If we would keep and or expand our manufacturing industry, we have no other choice or opti.....
» 27/05/2013 11:08:20 AM Almost the most unconvincing article/industry blurb, I ever been exposed to!? Petrol pric.....
» 27/05/2013 10:07:51 AM I admired the way Adam conducted himself. In the post match media conference, he went out.....
» 25/05/2013 11:55:38 AM We could once again build a large car in Oz, but it would need to be made from moulded car.....
» 25/05/2013 10:14:00 AM CARFAX: You need to be the one that stops digging and looks up Finland's official educatio.....
» 24/05/2013 11:46:04 AM Agree with most of this Tristan, except where you argue that the states ought to be compen.....
» 24/05/2013 11:09:27 AM We've ploughed billions into our car manufacturing industry. And Foyle is quite correct, .....
» 23/05/2013 4:07:26 PM Okay Rational-debate, you got me. I should rephrase my statement by saying. As a conseque.....
» 23/05/2013 12:09:00 PM I do give a Gonski, I just want all Govt largesse to be means tested. We could do worse t.....
» 23/05/2013 11:33:40 AM All too true, but particularly in Pakistan! A house divided against itself, can never sta.....
» 23/05/2013 11:07:27 AM The lack of logic is the Author's, rather than Kevin Rudd's. I just don't see where any o.....
» 23/05/2013 10:24:18 AM Good lesson in basic (conventional) economics. And or, the boom and bust nature of convent.....
» 22/05/2013 3:13:43 PM Oops, Rational-Debate......
» 22/05/2013 3:08:50 PM Correction, and apologies David. Peer reviewed evidence, Rational View. Rhrosty......
» 22/05/2013 2:56:53 PM Rhrosty is in favour of a referendum to let the people decide! Bring it on! Rhrosty is in.....
» 22/05/2013 11:49:47 AM The fact that around 40% of us live just above or below the poverty line, is what really p.....
» 22/05/2013 10:48:16 AM Sexual orientation is not something we choose, but rather, something that is decided for u.....
» 21/05/2013 11:25:17 AM I agree with everything you say Andrew. However, in order for us to get fibre to the home,.....
» 20/05/2013 12:17:05 PM This debate is reminiscent of fight night! With the fight well and truly over and the winn.....
» 20/05/2013 12:03:56 PM Peter. Only time will tell if Tony tells pork pies or makes non core promises. One unders.....
» 20/05/2013 11:35:27 AM The budget is the product of treasury, not Wayne Swan Or Joe Hockey. If treasury official.....
» 19/05/2013 11:00:56 AM Chris, the industrial revolution started in Northern England. Two factors brought it into.....
» 19/05/2013 10:24:33 AM Hi Chris. We make ceramic fuel cells here. And it shows just how uninformed the uninform.....
» 17/05/2013 6:09:11 PM Who know what causes climate change? The Sahara used to be Rome's granary. Now it is most.....
» 17/05/2013 12:09:54 PM In the news this morning, was Australia's richest woman, a toffee nosed, plump Gina Reinha.....
» 17/05/2013 11:15:44 AM What could one expect? The climate change debate here in this country, has been poisoned .....
» 17/05/2013 10:13:15 AM Well, we do know that the Syrian Govt has chemical weapons! Perhaps some fair-minded Govt.....
» 17/05/2013 9:52:22 AM Yes, and well argued. At one time Australia was covered coast to coast, in verdant forest.....
» 16/05/2013 3:44:56 PM Hasbeen: >I had to go guarantor for one who bought her first house aged just 20, while .....
» 16/05/2013 2:57:17 PM A very long term US study followed a substantial sample of children from their very early .....
» 16/05/2013 12:16:05 PM What is missing in this rose coloured, excuse making, justification of the status quo, ess.....
» 16/05/2013 10:36:19 AM Exactly Susan,exactly! Rhrosty......
» 15/05/2013 12:30:14 PM At the end of the day, the only thing that should decide who does what job is merit! I kn.....
» 14/05/2013 9:15:04 PM A real job? Perhaps an elected President, could also assume the role of speaker, to final.....
» 14/05/2013 4:56:33 PM Interesting informative argument. One notes that neo-liberal concepts, when given first pr.....
» 14/05/2013 4:02:25 PM One of those things that truly puzzle our Asian neighbours, is our allegiance to a foreign.....
» 14/05/2013 3:36:01 PM Agree, more or less, with Francis. An online plebiscite would allow some of the proposals.....
» 14/05/2013 1:06:43 PM Essentially agree with praxdice. No ifs buts or maybes, we should recognise councils. Rec.....
» 13/05/2013 11:08:46 PM JKJ. Economic theory is just that, theory! And if one theory creates a Great Depression a.....
» 13/05/2013 9:45:17 PM JkJ. We elect the Govt, that Govt then makes decisions in our name. From my reading, this .....
» 13/05/2013 9:01:34 PM Spindoc. Oh my aching ribs, that's really very funny. My advice for what it is, is to sto.....
» 13/05/2013 11:49:38 AM Put ten economists in the same room and you'll come up with thirty different opinions? A .....
» 13/05/2013 11:26:24 AM Completely concur with Foyle. Had the Irish or the Spanish gone down the Bank nationalisa.....
» 13/05/2013 11:07:18 AM No they don't lack talent, but may come at issues from a different perspective? There's n.....
» 13/05/2013 10:40:00 AM I was quite astounded at the time of Mz Hanson's imprisonment and later case quashed relea.....
» 13/05/2013 10:08:07 AM Hear, hear Wade. Can you imagine, they were cleaning irradiated soil around Fukushima, wit.....
» 11/05/2013 7:05:01 PM Foyle: You fail to understand, gas,(methane) is mostly hydrogen. It is the hydrogen that .....
» 11/05/2013 11:52:57 AM Foyle, the current problem is the type of vehicles we make and use! Were we to produce an.....
» 11/05/2013 11:24:11 AM Foyle, Some more knowledgeable industry experts may well disagree. But lets assume for a .....
» 11/05/2013 10:24:03 AM The problem for the greens has been their blinkered approach! Their make it more costly t.....
» 10/05/2013 7:13:34 PM David G. I seem to remember a quote that went, if you and your boss invariably share the s.....
» 10/05/2013 6:52:19 PM Yes Foyle, free flowing sweet light crude and natural gas. Why, we can be reasonably sure.....
» 10/05/2013 2:35:38 PM Foyle, we have, according to some industry experts. Hydrocarbon reserves to our immediate .....
» 10/05/2013 11:04:33 AM Cogent, credible, thoughtful, informative and well researched article. Agree Malcolm! So.....
» 10/05/2013 10:20:22 AM This is one time you and I may see eye to eye John. There was a time when almost anyone c.....
» 9/05/2013 6:33:18 PM Hi Ludwig, Pebble rectors and research have come a long way since 1940. This is exactly w.....
» 8/05/2013 8:00:47 PM Apologies Ludwig: But having worked with radioactive materials and machines for years, I t.....
» 8/05/2013 12:19:39 PM Why now? Well now enough of the anti gay discrimination has been exposed as the extreme i.....
» 8/05/2013 11:11:14 AM Ludwig: If the reactor at Fukushima, had of been a pebble reactor! It would still be pump.....
» 8/05/2013 10:26:33 AM WE should consider nuclear energy. And that model ought to be, cheaper than coal, Thorium.....
» 7/05/2013 7:09:40 PM J.K.J. Well, it's certainly not the current over inflated value, and not all that long ago.....
» 7/05/2013 10:23:13 AM Inflation is too much money chasing too few products. I don't see that occurring here. Pa.....
» 6/05/2013 6:22:29 PM I do believe we should be in control of our refugee intake, rather than criminal organisat.....
» 6/05/2013 12:11:56 PM Hasbeen, quite deliberately and knowingly drowning non combatant civilians, many of who ar.....
» 6/05/2013 9:10:21 AM The article is assumption built on proposition. Simply put, Clive and his country counterp.....
» 5/05/2013 3:42:41 PM Jon R: Scram jets, which NASA are also trialling, are a fairly recent local innovation! W.....
» 5/05/2013 3:09:28 PM KAEP: Actually, you are the one who is wrong, again! We own 40% of the world's uranium, an.....
» 5/05/2013 2:23:38 PM Agree with Praxidice! And I do remember the almost bizarre way Haneef was treated, Kevin!.....
» 5/05/2013 11:27:27 AM Individual: Negative gearing,costs us over 5 billion per, for just this single measure. M.....
» 4/05/2013 1:16:53 PM Actually KAEP, we can build nuclear bombs here now to day! And here we are not talking abo.....
» 4/05/2013 12:14:01 PM Managing the peace means maintaining traditional alliances, which have not just served us .....
» 4/05/2013 11:23:58 AM Individual, how about the 20-26 billion, we current shell out PA as middle class welfare? .....
» 3/05/2013 3:12:06 PM Labour is a lower taxing Govt than Howard's and spends less as a total percentage of the G.....
» 3/05/2013 12:18:22 PM There is a 12 billion dollar shortfall in the Govt's budget? It occurs to me, if we still.....
» 3/05/2013 11:21:27 AM The dole is not enough to live on, and could be improved, to say 80% of the average wage, .....
» 3/05/2013 10:50:23 AM Before China accepted a free market as the basis of it's now burgeoning economy, 800,000 l.....
» 2/05/2013 12:06:28 PM Well, Not too much! And thanks for the links. I do know we pay far too much welfare, as we.....
» 2/05/2013 10:18:47 AM I can see no case whatsoever for destroying the innocence of children, simply to satisfy t.....
» 1/05/2013 12:35:12 PM How many times have we raised the destiny of demography, only to see the Govt, all govts b.....
» 1/05/2013 11:13:43 AM Life is full of risks and unpalatable side effects. If you're gluten intolerant, then eat.....
» 1/05/2013 9:25:57 AM Alan, I don't want to sound ungrateful for the very timely response of the Labour Govt, th.....
» 30/04/2013 7:33:01 PM What do I want Alan? Well we could do with a reduction in burgeoning record foreign debt;.....
» 30/04/2013 3:13:30 PM Having broken the law by jumping bail, Assange is now nothing more than a common criminal......
» 30/04/2013 12:08:37 PM I'm in favour of abortion for sound medical reasons, both physical and psychological, incl.....
» 30/04/2013 11:23:56 AM Yes well, maybe? However, A 15% non-contributory system just might rescue it! If you read.....
» 30/04/2013 11:00:30 AM Doing what you've always done while expecting a different outcome is madness. It follows .....
» 30/04/2013 10:28:02 AM Just because we are not quite a basket case economy, is hardly a comfort. Just because we.....
» 29/04/2013 8:36:58 PM Finland has very cold bitter winters, where the indoors are routinely preferred? One imag.....
» 29/04/2013 2:58:27 PM Yes, there are far too many shamelessly linking a particular ideological or extremely odio.....
» 29/04/2013 2:27:47 PM Dear Spindoc: Wrong on all counts, as usual. And typical play the man offensive rubbishing.....
» 29/04/2013 12:20:29 PM The end game for North Korea is to climb down and stop threatening everyone; and indeed, C.....
» 29/04/2013 10:58:07 AM What does it mean to be Australian? Well, first and foremost, it means, fair go mate. Ba.....
» 29/04/2013 10:02:03 AM The answer for all universities and their economic survival is online. Online courses can .....
» 28/04/2013 11:02:26 AM Given the overwhelming majority now favour marriage equality, it should be legislated into.....
» 28/04/2013 10:31:37 AM All humans start life as female! Some of them are transformed in the womb, by a release o.....
» 26/04/2013 8:26:25 PM Thanks Steven. I understand, we may also be developing some interesting if relatively ben.....
» 26/04/2013 12:28:59 PM Well no, just one leader with the testicular fortitude to take a stand one way or the othe.....
» 26/04/2013 11:40:17 AM We do need to more adequately staff our hospitals! Nurses are literally run off their fee.....
» 25/04/2013 10:34:55 AM We do need to return to an economy that once again makes things, our future depends on it......
» 25/04/2013 9:23:20 AM Putting algae in the same basket as solar and wind renewable, is like confusing coal with .....
» 24/04/2013 5:10:26 PM Shale oil, enough to last for a century? The economics of recovery is a factor, and the am.....
» 24/04/2013 11:19:30 AM David G: The ones that least want war, are those poor buggers, who have to go and fight t.....
» 23/04/2013 4:39:02 PM I wonder if coal to diesel can match 45 cents a litre retail for algae sourced fuel? If i.....
» 23/04/2013 12:16:14 PM Without imagination and all the what ifs it inspires, we would still be living in caves an.....
» 23/04/2013 11:51:29 AM We think virtually nothing of shelling out a billion for a floating oil rig. Yet baulk at.....
» 23/04/2013 11:23:06 AM If you drive a petrol or diesel powered vehicle, you are powered by algae. Albeit, laid do.....
» 22/04/2013 8:38:43 PM I know many straight couples. Not one amongst them can say, when it was they chose to be s.....
» 22/04/2013 12:45:01 PM Well, we have just lived through the hottest summer on record. And that number is the resu.....
» 22/04/2013 12:16:38 PM Dry land farming is only as reliable as the rain that falls on it! At some point, farming.....
» 22/04/2013 11:20:31 AM Nor was it an argument for giving women the vote. New Zealand sadly, has all to often led.....
» 22/04/2013 10:59:36 AM When we created a heroin drought, we all but compelled the production and use of crack and.....
» 21/04/2013 11:50:34 AM I thought all the trialled fuel cell buses, in WA ran on hydrogen? At $6.00 plus per cubi.....
» 21/04/2013 10:28:40 AM Back of the envelope reforms? Well, if that's the author's view, then the authors researc.....
» 20/04/2013 12:42:39 PM Footnote: Or convert all our biological waste into biogas,(methane) in smell free digester.....
» 20/04/2013 12:15:48 PM A number of industries have already converted their operations to low or neutral carbon. .....
» 19/04/2013 12:14:40 PM Jon J, why aren't you running the country, or at least someone just as pragmatic? We need.....
» 19/04/2013 11:19:40 AM Well the first thing we should know about an ETS, is the 140 billions PA, that could be ea.....
» 18/04/2013 10:13:04 AM The article highlights some of the problems, but not its worst aspects, which is pensioner.....
» 18/04/2013 9:26:48 AM Fluoride isn't a single chemical, it's a compound, or if you will, a salt. Fluoride occur.....
» 17/04/2013 11:50:41 AM Some people will always fail, regardless of the opportunities and or breaks they get! Yes.....
» 17/04/2013 11:12:37 AM Speaking as someone who remembers, having to share textbooks, with a head in the book, myo.....
» 17/04/2013 10:09:32 AM We do need to revitalise the private sector! The only way we can now do that is through q.....
» 17/04/2013 9:40:21 AM Part of the problem is, I believe, incompetence and endless repetition, to get it right, e.....
» 16/04/2013 12:35:29 PM Yes Chris, agree with most of your post. Free trade? Well that might advantage Corporate.....
» 15/04/2013 5:36:10 PM With just one exception we have more politicians per capita, than almost any other nation .....
» 15/04/2013 4:29:35 PM Agree almost completely with Shadow Minister. If Shariah law is problematic for moderate .....
» 15/04/2013 11:17:12 AM Footnote: We need reform of our tax system for any number of reasons, quite massive tax av.....
» 15/04/2013 10:39:13 AM We need massive reform, not just of our super system, but the tax system as well! Basicall.....
» 15/04/2013 9:51:40 AM Well, interesting and informative. Transparency or its lack, is just the tip of a very lar.....
» 14/04/2013 9:48:24 AM Thatcher presided over the downfall of communism? What? Regan did that with an arms race.....
» 13/04/2013 12:19:30 PM Woodside should lose the lease! Ditto any other resource based business that simply sits o.....
» 13/04/2013 11:54:03 AM Grim: What would happen to fuel prices, if we the people placed a commercial boycott, on B.....
» 13/04/2013 11:23:34 AM Grim: How do you figure the removal of fuel excise would result in a price rise of 35%? Gi.....
» 12/04/2013 5:28:17 PM 500 pages of in depth and professional analysis ever, is hardly the back of an envelope. .....
» 12/04/2013 11:47:33 AM Footnote: A single expenditure tax set at a painless 4.8% would collect around a 100 billi.....
» 12/04/2013 11:27:05 AM The only business people who are affected by penalty rates are invariably retail outlets, .....
» 12/04/2013 10:34:04 AM Interesting informative well researched article, which ought to be required reading for ev.....
» 11/04/2013 4:00:44 PM Interesting and thoughtful article. However, we probably need at least one of the major pa.....
» 11/04/2013 12:07:40 PM Diplomacy? Hard won and incredibly costly experience tells us, you can't appease any dicta.....
» 11/04/2013 10:31:02 AM Yes it was Gough Witlam who defied convention and the views of the coalition and our Ameri.....
» 11/04/2013 9:38:32 AM Divergence: Just a few points. We routinely pump millions of tons of nitrates and phosphor.....
» 10/04/2013 5:13:06 PM From poverty to pipelines, I guess there is some connection? That said, the Bradfield sch.....
» 10/04/2013 4:41:47 PM Prompete; if the Israeli Arab cannot get their act together, to defeat their common enemy,.....
» 10/04/2013 3:58:06 PM If there is a purpose in human life, then surely it has to be the realisation of dreams. .....
» 10/04/2013 3:12:03 PM Agree with Cheryl. Single issue parties, usually have a very short life cycle!? However, .....
» 10/04/2013 11:24:07 AM Our problems go back a long way, and lay in the so-called need to create inflation and eve.....
» 10/04/2013 10:16:37 AM Citizens of the state to which they belong! So true David. And given current trends, Isra.....
» 9/04/2013 6:19:44 PM Nothing could suit Labour more at this time, than a fight with the conservative states, ov.....
» 9/04/2013 6:04:52 PM Marilyn; mmm, far be it for me to correct your reminiscence, but I believe it was Kerr tha.....
» 9/04/2013 5:53:56 PM Pericles; perhaps if all parliamentary terms were limited to two terms, we the people coul.....
» 9/04/2013 11:31:48 AM Footnote: Reganism, Thatcherism has created most of what is wrong with the world today. Gr.....
» 9/04/2013 10:35:06 AM One finds the article and the argument both compelling and illuminating! While all that's.....
» 9/04/2013 10:04:56 AM Empty argument, contradictory and or non-existent connections? In today's world, we have .....
» 8/04/2013 12:01:52 PM Yes Bazz, if the oil is really liquid condensate, then the Israelis, would be very wise to.....
» 8/04/2013 11:30:10 AM Everybody is entitled to believe what they will! There are other ways of interpreting, in.....
» 8/04/2013 10:28:21 AM The greens can't lead us anywhere, they are not in power! Many farmers were disappointed .....
» 7/04/2013 2:07:29 PM I've seen a few women, who could outperform their male counterparts, in almost any test. .....
» 6/04/2013 11:45:57 AM It seems to me, we would spend less, helping the boat people to return and set up as thriv.....
» 6/04/2013 10:01:01 AM The Bradfield scheme would be prohibitively expensive, costing many multiple billions! Al.....
» 5/04/2013 11:38:54 AM Absolutely agree with the sentiments of the Author. But for very different and, I believe,.....
» 5/04/2013 11:00:59 AM There is a fairly standard test for front-line grunt. Which may include a very long run in.....
» 4/04/2013 12:14:16 PM Failing to learn the lessons of history, needs must, ensure they are eternally repeated. .....
» 4/04/2013 11:07:24 AM It's not a sin to sell assets. Business all round the world buy, sell and trade asset cla.....
» 4/04/2013 10:06:00 AM Sure lets have a free trade agreement with China, and one with India, another with Japan, .....
» 3/04/2013 11:07:08 AM Onthebeach, it seems to be the current Federal Govt having the enquiry, and various states.....
» 3/04/2013 10:48:47 AM A right to an automatic appeal, a giant leap for justice? Indeed, and a right to have all.....
» 3/04/2013 9:45:45 AM I don't believe there is going to be a blanket ban on 457 visas, just an in depth inquiry,.....
» 3/04/2013 9:01:55 AM I believe that this is errant nonsense, put about by someone, who very obviously knows B'a.....
» 3/04/2013 8:30:47 AM The media are only catering to a perverse, extremely narrow, insular interest! I mean, a .....
» 2/04/2013 3:19:59 PM Bazz. With reference to hydrogen, I believe it should be reserved for very large projects,.....
» 2/04/2013 11:39:47 AM At the end of the American civil war, southern land holders were able to grow some food, b.....
» 2/04/2013 10:53:31 AM Kevin, reading your patently partisan narrative, one could be forgiven for believing it wa.....
» 2/04/2013 10:31:15 AM I have yet to read a more incisive and in depth analysis of labour's problems, and how the.....
» 1/04/2013 10:53:06 AM Ah Hasbeen, never heard of white gold then, which I understand may be an amalgam of platin.....
» 1/04/2013 10:20:12 AM A very well informed and cogent post BAZZ! Wages inflation in China is currently running .....
» 31/03/2013 9:16:00 AM A sneeze leaves the nostrils at 104 miles PH, or around a 170 klms PH! The tiny droplets .....
» 31/03/2013 8:39:07 AM Eyeinthesky: A lot of people in Cyprus, probably wish their Govt owned the banks, that th.....
» 30/03/2013 9:56:28 AM JF aus, it wasn't the Australian Govt that closed these clinics, but Queensland's. The PNG.....
» 29/03/2013 5:09:07 PM Hi Bazz, nothing we have in our current laws stops the black economy. However, smart card.....
» 29/03/2013 11:14:13 AM Footnote: We do need to collect more net tax! Because, for decades we've systematically an.....
» 29/03/2013 10:35:41 AM JKJ, If you visit the Graham's archives, you will see I've written a veritable article. I.....
» 28/03/2013 4:26:07 PM The whole quote Bazz goes, life wasn't meant to be easy, but delightful. Yes you are righ.....
» 28/03/2013 2:51:32 PM Marilyn, Nowhere in any post do I blame Kevin, for what we would have once called a nervou.....
» 28/03/2013 12:23:48 PM A dollar spent on prevention, saves at least four spent on a cure. The TB strain to our im.....
» 28/03/2013 11:07:43 AM The fat lady may not have sung, but she is clearly warming up the vocal chords backstage. .....
» 28/03/2013 10:09:53 AM Agree that the carbon and mining taxes be repealed, but only as part of quite massive, lon.....
» 28/03/2013 9:19:13 AM Hard to fault the historical record or the critique Julie. However, your side's record, is.....
» 27/03/2013 10:35:30 AM Well it would cost the public purse a lot less, about 70% less, if people were helped to s.....
» 27/03/2013 9:37:45 AM Nothing could suit the Gillard Govt more, than a fight over school funding, on the eve of .....
» 26/03/2013 10:45:24 AM I take issue with the assertion, that Tony Burke represents a Gillard Govt view! Tony Bur.....
» 26/03/2013 10:22:54 AM Great and well researched article. Land prices are also impacted by taxes. As much as 43%.....
» 25/03/2013 11:28:54 PM Better off if adopted? You have to be joking, or know absolutely nothing about adoption, b.....
» 25/03/2013 12:08:22 PM Horse feathers, bird's fur and Bah humbug! Very young women had their children stolen by .....
» 25/03/2013 11:10:04 AM Seems like we are pumping a lot of energy into waste water, just to treat and remove it co.....
» 23/03/2013 10:28:22 AM Well Spindoc, given I seemed to have convinced you, in spite of your legendary cynicism, t.....
» 23/03/2013 9:59:50 AM Actually JF aus, algae consume Co2 not oxygen, which they photosynthesise into oxygen. Th.....
» 23/03/2013 9:24:47 AM Well, Shadow Minister, what would you have them do? As a visiting American governor comme.....
» 22/03/2013 10:49:49 AM Foyle makes a number of interesting and valid points. However, there is a structural defi.....
» 22/03/2013 10:03:35 AM I'm not sure if it's possible for the religious zealots in Pakistan, to feel any more host.....
» 22/03/2013 9:18:51 AM Yes it is tokenism! The power station turbines still spin and coal is still consumed. And .....
» 21/03/2013 3:45:21 PM Just gotta agree with Robert, Mac and James. There simply no substitute for cleared eyed .....
» 21/03/2013 11:33:48 AM Well, with so many competing interests how could it not be a huge compromise or a virtual .....
» 21/03/2013 10:55:57 AM We've been talking about this for around five years, now on the eve of an election, Conroy.....
» 21/03/2013 9:39:08 AM The lessons are very different than those you've very briefly and very simplistically outl.....
» 20/03/2013 11:28:55 AM Well Robert, excluding hand to mouth survival, most food production is reliant on fuel! O.....
» 20/03/2013 10:29:16 AM What's good for the goose is good for the gander. Almost every thinking person knows that.....
» 19/03/2013 11:25:57 AM WE need to change the public service with every change of Govt! We need to understand, th.....
» 19/03/2013 10:29:38 AM AN Ivy league study of 300 economists over 30 years concluded; that their average predicti.....
» 19/03/2013 9:46:30 AM I just don't understand all the fuss! The media are only being asked to follow those rules.....
» 18/03/2013 3:52:27 PM Smaller Govt doesn't necessarily imply service reduction. Services are supplied by the coa.....
» 18/03/2013 11:11:35 AM Agree Alan: What actual changes are advocated? That the self regulation News corporation.....
» 18/03/2013 10:23:08 AM Climate change, ought not dampen Abbott's northern Australia plans, but rather, hasten the.....
» 18/03/2013 9:26:11 AM Yes sure, it's time for smaller Govt! State admins and their duplication, costs us around.....
» 12/03/2013 3:18:29 PM I have argued for years, that we clean out the millions of years worth of alluvium, from o.....
» 11/03/2013 12:41:01 PM Flannery is a goose, who seemingly, gets both dates and data wrong? That said, someone as .....
» 11/03/2013 11:51:36 AM Very interesting informative and well researched article, Murray! Maybe it should be title.....
» 9/03/2013 10:36:35 AM I agree, but we do need to focus more on domestic issues? Like the extremely high rate of .....
» 9/03/2013 10:03:45 AM Jon J says it all, nothing else to add to my original post on this topic. Rhrosty.....
» 8/03/2013 4:57:44 PM It says a lot about our society, and sad commentary, that we undervalue mature age wisdom .....
» 7/03/2013 11:42:04 AM One of the few things the physically disabled, single mums and mentally alert oldies can d.....
» 6/03/2013 10:10:36 AM If one can earn more, just by selecting a term deposit, then super doesn't have a lot goin.....
» 5/03/2013 12:04:10 PM Well, if Thailand and Malaysia could agree? The most pragmatic response would be, I belie.....
» 5/03/2013 11:50:38 AM Yes, at least for now, or until democracy is rusted on. Rhrosty......
» 4/03/2013 11:11:19 AM Sometimes described as the morning after pill, it simply does not procure an abortion; but.....
» 1/03/2013 12:45:12 PM The problems as I see them are multiple. First problem is, I believe, providers. The midd.....
» 28/02/2013 12:03:00 PM We have facial recognition technology and thermal imaging cameras, which used in tandem; b.....
» 22/02/2013 9:40:04 AM The far right have always needed a scapegoat to blame for their own shortcomings? The Naz.....
» 21/02/2013 12:04:00 PM I don't vote Labour! But, agree with Alan. To be fair, what more can a government do tha.....
» 20/02/2013 9:38:34 AM Well research and interesting, informative article! There's no doubt the NBN will assist .....
» 19/02/2013 10:49:32 AM My mother spent 40 hours in labour with her first baby; and was not offered a whiff of any.....
» 18/02/2013 6:09:30 PM Snake. Given I'm not in favour of a property, death or retrospective wealth tax, I guess m.....
» 18/02/2013 10:41:34 AM Many years ago, when replying to a reporter's question, why had he settled on the GST as r.....
» 18/02/2013 10:04:22 AM Well, the answer is, not more tax, just getting everyone to pay their fair share. Goggle,.....
» 16/02/2013 11:47:12 AM A new revolution? Ah yes, A place where all men are self evidently equal? America already.....
» 16/02/2013 10:55:02 AM Men learn/develop all their traits/habits at their mother's knee! Then they are re-educate.....
» 15/02/2013 12:27:43 PM Ah yes, the greatest story ever told! If we believe it, then we believe that a mere humbl.....
» 13/02/2013 10:11:39 AM We have spent over 15 billion on recovery recently, and that's just govt money; and just a.....
» 12/02/2013 4:38:06 PM There is much one can agree with in the article, and or, that those surviving on a pension.....
» 12/02/2013 12:12:36 PM Agree with agnostic. Simply put, doing nothing is not an option! The author knows all of .....
» 11/02/2013 11:29:58 AM Well, lets get real and stop all building approvals on flood plains, which by and large, a.....
» 11/02/2013 10:47:08 AM This problem has been created by both sides of the political divide, who both myth the poi.....
» 8/02/2013 11:51:35 AM Well, Julie Bishop is only saying what has been coalition policy, for as long as there has.....
» 8/02/2013 11:21:28 AM Informative analysis! So what's the solution? Nationalize and break up the big four? So .....
» 7/02/2013 12:06:14 PM It's not a problem confined to NSW, but every state? One remembers well the, [lay preache.....
» 7/02/2013 11:00:40 AM Footnote: How to pass any exam easily! [Human DNA is capable of storing vastly more infor.....
» 7/02/2013 9:53:48 AM I find very little merit in this article or its central argument. The author adroitly glo.....
» 4/02/2013 11:06:22 AM An ivy league university study that followed 300 economists for 20 years, found that their.....
» 3/02/2013 10:50:59 AM I believe the announcement is a master stroke. It changes the political dynamics! It make.....
» 2/02/2013 11:18:47 AM Yes, the Chinese are also active in Africa, particularly where there are copious mineral r.....
» 1/02/2013 11:28:57 AM What's the alternative John? Another dozen or so mass murdering Idi Amins? Or the genoci.....
» 1/02/2013 11:05:08 AM As others have noted, the Aboriginal was nomadic, followed the game and the rainfall. Whe.....
» 30/01/2013 10:55:37 AM Freedom of speech must of necessity, include a right to offend! In some cultures, inoffen.....
» 30/01/2013 10:19:44 AM Hasbeen, I'm with you! If any of these city central green advocates actually experienced .....
» 29/01/2013 11:31:58 AM Nuclear energy does not need water! The latest examples are cooled with helium! Pebble r.....
» 25/01/2013 9:08:17 AM The African bushman has survived through similar droughts for millennia, and who knows whe.....
» 24/01/2013 10:51:50 AM So the defence budget has been cut? How else could we continue to pay all that welfare fo.....
» 23/01/2013 11:17:15 AM We used to own a telco/IT provider, which used to earn, we the people around 7 billion plu.....
» 22/01/2013 12:02:34 PM Well, all that is said is possible! The main problem for Palestinians are, they are a div.....
» 21/01/2013 11:51:16 AM Interesting informative article. One only has to compare us with the rest of the English .....
» 18/01/2013 10:32:47 AM Julian, I read some time ago of an entrepreneurial West Australian, who had apparently bui.....
» 18/01/2013 9:51:02 AM Very important empowering information, we all need to know; and far too important to be us.....
» 17/01/2013 12:12:01 PM I think we could and should redesign the economy so it works for us rather than enslaving .....
» 17/01/2013 10:48:33 AM What is the natural cost of energy, and what should you charge yourself for what you own? .....
» 17/01/2013 10:02:20 AM Denmark, like the rest of pragmatic Scandinavia, is a social democracy, with a higher pers.....
» 16/01/2013 2:42:39 PM Ice core samples seem to point to the proposition that increased Co2 numbers follow warmin.....
» 16/01/2013 9:53:46 AM There was a time when our currency was pegged to the price of gold, and inflation was virt.....
» 15/01/2013 12:49:35 PM Hey Hasbeen; what's possible now today, are CNG powered ceramic fuel cells, in electric ca.....
» 15/01/2013 12:06:47 PM No, nuclear is not the only way forward. We could collect and digest all our current biol.....
» 15/01/2013 11:10:15 AM Is nuclear the only way forward? Well, no! We have copious NG, and Methane is 75% hydrog.....
» 15/01/2013 10:12:19 AM Agree with Tombee: Interesting, informative and well researched article. Fukushima was du.....
» 14/01/2013 12:51:43 PM Hasbeen, I suggest we jettison all the current complex taxes. Inclusive of payroll tax, fu.....
» 14/01/2013 12:07:14 PM One can make a case for increased capital gains on the sale of Australian assets/land, com.....
» 14/01/2013 10:19:01 AM Tax incoming capital Peter? How? Like say as it enters the banking system as term deposi.....
» 13/01/2013 10:28:21 AM David G: The most important line of defence is the colourbond fence you build around your.....
» 11/01/2013 11:22:55 AM Coal exports, hmm. Turn them off, hmm. Now where is that tap? I mean, turn them off, it.....
» 9/01/2013 10:57:54 AM Britain is central to the problem with Europe. Here is a "state leader", [big f.....
» 9/01/2013 10:21:12 AM Beauty is in the eye of the beholder! Put a small pile of grain at the centre of a large .....
» 6/01/2013 11:09:28 AM One could comfortably argue, most of those in favour of keeping the states, are predominan.....
» 6/01/2013 10:31:53 AM I think no better argument exists for dismantling state govt admins, than the school hall .....
» 4/01/2013 10:35:42 AM The constitution and the federation were formed or founded in the horse and cart era; both.....
» 3/01/2013 11:35:19 AM I believe a Middle East war is almost inevitable. Exactly when is the only question; and .....
» 3/01/2013 10:34:22 AM Jay of Melbourne: You never ever seem to lose an opportunity to bag white folks do you? I.....
» 3/01/2013 9:51:05 AM Not again! Please, when anyone mentions means testing school funding outcomes? Someone lik.....
» 2/01/2013 11:59:19 AM One of the changes we could also make is remove the cowards castle. Or so-called Parliame.....
» 2/01/2013 11:23:11 AM Free speech needs to include a right to offend! If I offend members of the murderous Tali.....
» 2/01/2013 10:24:13 AM Concur completely with the Author. Rents are governed by demand and little else. i.e., we.....
» 1/01/2013 10:28:12 AM Not all that long ago the medical world believed almost to a man, that stomach ulcers were.....
» 31/12/2012 12:39:22 PM My insurance premiums doubled and then doubled again in just the last five years, courtesy.....
» 29/12/2012 6:30:34 PM Relying on private industry has created the supply line we have now. We know that there a.....
» 29/12/2012 10:55:11 AM Morons in govt, individual? Well, one supposes we could be forgiven for assuming that, ba.....
» 28/12/2012 11:29:21 AM Well argued case, which by the way did mention population growth! In as much as we need t.....
» 27/12/2012 9:58:08 AM Hi Don, the test of true intelligence is to be able to hold open in your mind, two complet.....
» 22/12/2012 11:35:03 AM I think the very worst thing that happened to teaching, was the teachers union! While the.....
» 21/12/2012 12:33:14 PM Onthebeach: Finally some informed comment. Rather than more of the same old same old Anglo.....
» 21/12/2012 11:46:26 AM Blame shifting and funding, up to 30% of which, can disappear in state management fees are.....
» 20/12/2012 11:28:36 AM ArthurN: If you outlaw weapons, then only outlaws will possess weapons! It is not the gun.....
» 20/12/2012 10:41:05 AM DavidG. You seem to be judging all Americans by your own highly flawed/blood lusting, pers.....
» 20/12/2012 9:57:32 AM Agree with DavidL! America is unique, in as much as there are literally millions of unreg.....
» 18/12/2012 1:09:30 PM Agree with hunter. After all, Guns by themselves don't kill, the nut with his finger on t.....
» 16/12/2012 11:52:21 AM Some years ago, the CIRSO, came up with a solar powered hydrogen producer, the size of a m.....
» 15/12/2012 12:11:22 PM If you drive a petrol or diesel powered vehicle, you're driving an algae powered vehicle! .....
» 15/12/2012 10:15:04 AM We have to thank Harry Potter for the fact that many kids learned to read at all, let alon.....
» 13/12/2012 11:35:57 AM Well free to air needs a better business plan that reflects the new reality, and or compet.....
» 13/12/2012 10:31:50 AM Agree with Cheryl, Robert and Pelican! They say a drowning man will clutch at a straw? Th.....
» 13/12/2012 9:52:18 AM Let me preference my remarks with the revelation, that I never have and never will vote La.....
» 12/12/2012 2:15:28 PM Well we are witnessing a decline. Sometimes it'd be a shame to interrupt all those commer.....
» 12/12/2012 1:41:06 PM No, but it might kill a few business models? Rhrosty......
» 12/12/2012 10:52:05 AM Yes, and the two choices are, universal suffrage, aided and abetted by a bill or irrevocab.....
» 12/12/2012 10:20:43 AM Dry ice, solid Co2, is obtained through very simple fractional distillation. Every gas has.....
» 12/12/2012 9:25:42 AM Finally, someone who as least concedes that additional atmospheric Co2, is accompanied by .....
» 11/12/2012 6:17:39 PM Yup, Z+ Y will always = X, given no variables! In this case, that of an earlier extinctio.....
» 11/12/2012 11:47:51 AM Talking about disgraced belief systems, Mayan, Christian, Mooneism, Whateverism. The Maya.....
» 11/12/2012 11:00:50 AM A study of past events and their causes, allows us to predict probable outcomes! If Z+y= .....
» 11/12/2012 9:34:12 AM Lets get serious. Was all the furore caused by the jaw flapping of a couple of arrested d.....
» 11/12/2012 8:45:33 AM Apsley: Pretent? Ah yes, pre tent, or the days of caves and or cave dwelling? That's a un.....
» 10/12/2012 2:50:00 PM I prefer the irrefutable palaeoecological record, to the wisdom/opinion, of learned schola.....
» 10/12/2012 11:36:25 AM Agree with Cheryl. And talking about fathers, having lived with one, who was a street ang.....
» 10/12/2012 10:44:48 AM We are on target to achieve 4-6C increase by the end of this century. The last time we had.....
» 10/12/2012 9:30:29 AM Well, it was a silly extremely juvenile joke, in keeping with typical Australian larikanis.....
» 9/12/2012 12:20:08 PM And hasbeen, you are right, we will still need to produce Co2, just to fertilize the plant.....
» 9/12/2012 11:51:14 AM Hi spindoc. Thanks for the input, wasn't talking about conventional hydro, but rather som.....
» 9/12/2012 10:46:51 AM What was the implicit question? How to reduce the carbon load we currently add to the bio.....
» 9/12/2012 9:46:56 AM Wet mountains Hasbeen? Try our tropical north, where rainfall is measured in metres. Mor.....
» 8/12/2012 11:04:18 AM Footnote: The Israelis are growing price competitive bananas, in their desert, utilising s.....
» 8/12/2012 10:15:47 AM Agree with Foyle: Yes everything has risks, even coal-fired power, which can and does pro.....
» 7/12/2012 11:55:52 AM Solar thermal might be? Economies of scale and automated solar reflector production, will.....
» 6/12/2012 11:06:27 AM A deal with the greens? I thought that was done and dusted years ago? Until activists sh.....
» 6/12/2012 9:49:53 AM So Senator Carr has called for the assassination of Assard? When did he do that; and, did.....
» 6/12/2012 9:15:32 AM Our trade minister ought to be looking at this, to see if there is some way we could benef.....
» 5/12/2012 11:05:59 AM The annual burn produces carbon and sends millions of tons of virtually irreplaceable nutr.....
» 5/12/2012 9:21:36 AM Stewart, you should be running the country! Extremely well argued and cogent case. Back .....
» 4/12/2012 11:12:12 AM Well as the author says, water is the greatest impediment to rural enterprise/development!.....
» 4/12/2012 8:49:10 AM I'm tipping a 50 basis-point rate cut; given, the slow down in mining investment, general .....
» 3/12/2012 11:54:20 AM An honest politician coenhite? Now that's something I'd like to see, preferably in this l.....
» 3/12/2012 11:14:09 AM If all the land based ice melts, we could see ocean level rises of as much as 70 metres. .....
» 3/12/2012 10:46:55 AM According to the palaeoecological record, 90 million years ago, the world warmed by aroun.....
» 3/12/2012 9:24:11 AM A Case to answer? Says who? The same people who want her job! And indeed, it would seem.....
» 2/12/2012 9:48:35 AM Hasbeen, I've rounded up a few cows in my callow youth and even a few bulls, as have many .....
» 1/12/2012 11:31:18 AM Diver Dan. Yes we did once have a shameful white Australia policy! A policy that simply a.....
» 1/12/2012 10:39:14 AM Rare agreement indeed hasbeen! With just one exception, we are the most over governed peo.....
» 30/11/2012 11:48:09 AM An adversarial model may have been appropriate for a horse and cart parliament, seeking to.....
» 30/11/2012 10:51:41 AM Better candidates? Hmm. Well we could extend our defamation laws into parliament, so as t.....
» 29/11/2012 12:15:01 PM Yes they do deserve much better, than a single city centric specialist hospital, in a grid.....
» 29/11/2012 10:38:07 AM Doesn't fit? Well, yes. But because it's more of a vote winning inspirational aspiration.....
» 29/11/2012 10:11:26 AM Agree with JonJ. The article is symptomatic with just what is actually wrong with republic.....
» 28/11/2012 12:44:00 PM I disagree! I believe that there is a time and place for the death penalty, which simply .....
» 28/11/2012 11:38:45 AM I agree mostly with JBowers erudite comments. Before white settlement, indigenous populat.....
» 28/11/2012 10:42:19 AM Yes, a pattern. The collection of more and more of our finite wealth in fewer and fewer h.....
» 27/11/2012 1:03:31 PM The NRMA was never ever an incorporated cooperative, but rather a club? Which allowed an .....
» 27/11/2012 12:39:37 PM Great question and interesting informative article! I remember a documentary, about a Bra.....
» 27/11/2012 11:19:57 AM Well, it a bit like failure to launch, a sort of half whacked comedy, about an adult male,.....
» 27/11/2012 10:44:16 AM As a student of history, I see certain correlations between today's China and pre-war Germ.....
» 27/11/2012 10:21:04 AM Well there are differences, and very little comparison! For starters, evidentially Obama .....
» 27/11/2012 9:53:55 AM Well argued, and from a base of actual knowledge, which is clearly found wanting in some o.....
» 26/11/2012 10:42:22 AM Convincing argument! Particularly, when one considers the number of sham religions, and o.....
» 26/11/2012 10:22:29 AM Chris is right! Up to and including the start of the first world war, British officers, c.....
» 26/11/2012 9:48:08 AM It never ever worked well! The states, for a start, is like a house divided against itself.....
» 25/11/2012 10:25:30 AM Africa is finally free of the yoke of colonialism; and has been for decades; and therefore.....
» 25/11/2012 9:44:30 AM Why do we care about leadership? Well, arguably because we are largely, thoughtless/unthi.....
» 25/11/2012 9:25:06 AM Convincing, informative, cogent, credible argument, that underlines the fact that men and .....
» 24/11/2012 11:14:13 AM One can only hope that mature adults are the ones seeking to end the conflict? Were we to.....
» 24/11/2012 10:05:58 AM Perhaps the answer is after all, a sociopath's lack of empathy? A sociopath's lack of emp.....
» 23/11/2012 2:15:45 PM I'm almost certain you are wrong David! I think the extensive involvement of the wider Mu.....
» 23/11/2012 1:50:12 PM The people wearing the blinkers are those who seem to believe, Israel ought not respond to.....
» 23/11/2012 11:18:58 AM Cumugeon, you are right, economic growth has literally lifted millions from endless, endur.....
» 23/11/2012 10:32:29 AM The reason we are now number ten is largely down to the GFC, which forced many former weal.....
» 23/11/2012 9:53:48 AM Chamberlain was a typical pacifist, and believed that it was actually possible to appease .....
» 22/11/2012 12:16:38 PM As a footnote, one can add. All the rocket firing and armed resistance in Gaza, are ".....
» 22/11/2012 11:57:32 AM This is one of those rare occasions, where one can agree with almost everything you say Ju.....
» 22/11/2012 10:23:44 AM This extremely offensive, to all those who sacrificed, "active evil", emptied Ge.....
» 22/11/2012 9:51:19 AM We are better off!? Really!? Back in 1973, two and a half times the average family incom.....
» 21/11/2012 11:31:47 AM The powerful have always been able to control/mould public opinion via the traditional med.....
» 21/11/2012 10:25:39 AM Well what else would govts do? Follow failed wall street perhaps and socialize the losses.....
» 20/11/2012 12:10:27 PM Romanticized, emotive, simplistic drivel!? Yes, would that we could return to a simpler l.....
» 20/11/2012 10:47:44 AM The rising value of the earth is not a given; but rather, a product of supply and demand! .....
» 19/11/2012 11:24:42 AM One Middle East oil Minister, is on the public record, saying, the stone age didn't end be.....
» 19/11/2012 10:03:56 AM Well Arthur's right, there isn't a lot of gas in shale as a percentage of total volume; he.....
» 16/11/2012 11:56:56 AM Hatred is so self destructive, and only hurts those who cling to it, the way a very small .....
» 16/11/2012 11:30:50 AM The article seems well reasoned and rational argument. Violence only ever begets violence.....
» 16/11/2012 10:44:25 AM Well, given the alternative to a taser is a nine millimetre glock, it might be prudent to .....
» 16/11/2012 9:58:26 AM All laudable if unattainable goals? Obama has never been the bottle neck or the cork prev.....
» 15/11/2012 1:24:25 PM Rome may well have no monopoly on child abuse, but does seem to have a peculiar monopoly, .....
» 15/11/2012 12:41:08 PM Well if he were real and walked amongst us today, he probably take out that dreaded whip a.....
» 15/11/2012 11:57:40 AM Tensions Julie, created by the cold hard facts, that all economies are supported by just t.....
» 14/11/2012 11:51:11 AM Well, they are not lies, just non-core promises, like say, a never ever GST? Q: How can w.....
» 14/11/2012 11:11:32 AM Some of the realities referred, to have been warmongering tyrants ready willing and very a.....
» 14/11/2012 10:27:30 AM Insightful perspicuous article. And this game of pugnacious pernicious political chicken .....
» 13/11/2012 11:54:25 AM While the lighthouse metaphor, may be a good example of a free ride, with the light provid.....
» 13/11/2012 11:10:10 AM While it might be a little inconvenient, and embarrassing, if all my personal peccadilloes.....
» 13/11/2012 10:17:00 AM Interesting analysis Graham, and it is good to see some affordability returning to the hou.....
» 12/11/2012 10:57:22 AM Alan Jones? Who is he? Some washed up old and about to retire, media tart/stranger to th.....
» 12/11/2012 10:00:55 AM Most atheists seem to have an almost fanatical zealot's belief in the THEORY of evolution?.....
» 8/11/2012 12:40:31 PM Well, Dr Haneef is arguably living testament to this Author's advocacy? What we do need a.....
» 8/11/2012 11:47:30 AM The Chinese could conceivably take on and beat any of their near neighbours in military co.....
» 8/11/2012 10:36:55 AM Just loved the article Valerie, and the intelligent imagination that crafted it. Not for .....
» 7/11/2012 5:38:45 PM Typically, the green movement quite mischievously and mendaciously went abroad and virtual.....
» 7/11/2012 4:42:41 PM The only critique I place any value on whatsoever, is one that is accompanied by a, what I.....
» 7/11/2012 9:47:01 AM Risible rubbish, and shovelled by the shipload? Peter Lang's comments, ditto? Apparently.....
» 6/11/2012 12:16:16 PM Well, what can the Fed do after it lowers rates by another 25 basis points? What we need .....
» 6/11/2012 11:31:31 AM Well, it seems that President Obama has the popular vote, which is hardly ever conclusive .....
» 5/11/2012 12:37:36 PM While the author makes a cogent case backed by credible argument? He seems to miss the mos.....
» 5/11/2012 11:44:32 AM I see little merit in the article. Self sufficiency, is never ever important, unless or u.....
» 4/11/2012 8:24:35 AM Even something as benign as vitamin C can and does render the pill ineffective? And the st.....
» 3/11/2012 11:00:43 AM Oh, and parenthetically, we were once the third wealthiest nation and a creditor one at th.....
» 3/11/2012 9:44:27 AM Jon J, thanks for the excellent footnote mate! Cogent credibility, which I couldn't have .....
» 3/11/2012 9:21:33 AM stevenlmeyer, with all due respect mate, I would prefer to avoid an abortion altogether. .....
» 2/11/2012 3:17:51 PM China is a so-called economic miracle! Unprecedented economic growth has lifted millions .....
» 2/11/2012 12:31:17 PM All take and no give? It's simply mendacious mischief making? And yet another cultural c.....
» 2/11/2012 11:43:42 AM It is clear as mud mate. If Regan were amongst us today, he simply would not recognise th.....
» 2/11/2012 11:22:54 AM When does life begin? With conception? Conception can and sometimes does, simply lead to a.....
» 1/11/2012 1:27:08 PM While it was an interesting read, the conclusions reached by the Author were hardly convin.....
» 31/10/2012 12:34:57 PM Energy costs are in line with efficiency factors or the energy coefficient. Costing aroun.....
» 30/10/2012 12:52:48 PM Very insightful article. However, I believe the form of capitalism which will emerge as th.....
» 30/10/2012 11:43:49 AM Is Abbott the conservatives" liability? I believe he is, and history supports my view.....
» 30/10/2012 9:58:38 AM Well, it is a reboot. Moreover, it has given us an opportunity to adjust the helm? The fu.....
» 29/10/2012 12:32:26 PM The scientists, were imprisoned for not predicting a disaster; in fact, for claiming there.....
» 29/10/2012 11:39:40 AM Myths and highly emotive politics, that have very few facts incorporated, are the real rea.....
» 29/10/2012 10:43:42 AM Well, almost as soon as this new tax and even more complexity was proposed, I rejected it!.....
» 28/10/2012 5:28:46 PM Agree with Arjay. It is a, ah um, convincing human ah um, interest article, by a ah um ma.....
» 28/10/2012 12:10:36 PM I find most of this author's work often extremely offensive; and or, quite blatant rabble .....
» 28/10/2012 10:49:53 AM If we are to train foreign Doctors in Australia, at considerable expense to the Foreign st.....
» 28/10/2012 9:36:00 AM Agree with Alan and Arjay. The article and the author demonstrate that the conformation b.....
» 27/10/2012 12:09:00 PM Privatisation has been a dismal failure that has undeniably concentrated far too much of o.....
» 27/10/2012 10:58:39 AM Around the world there are millions of blind people. None of them have drivers licences, s.....
» 26/10/2012 11:28:38 PM Agree with Kip and rache. All we've ever gained from privatisation has been increased cos.....
» 25/10/2012 1:14:26 PM Quite frankly, I believe, the author's argument at best fundamentally flawed and at worst .....
» 25/10/2012 12:45:36 PM Agree with Atman's erudite opinion! If we want to actually contribute to population reduc.....
» 25/10/2012 11:46:03 AM Julie makes some valid points. The light at the end of the tunnel may well be the economic.....
» 24/10/2012 5:05:25 PM The only people that actually profit from disadvantage, are the money hungry money grubbin.....
» 24/10/2012 4:27:29 PM It's all too easy to pontificate from the wilds of Queenstown, where rents and power bills.....
» 23/10/2012 1:58:37 PM It's not just the tax system that needs reform or a very thorough make over, but our gridl.....
» 23/10/2012 12:31:34 PM 77% of the tax in return for 22% of the benefit? We could always follow Mitt Romney's exa.....
» 23/10/2012 10:57:29 AM If I had my druthers, there'd be no safe location from which to commit cyber crime! If so.....
» 23/10/2012 10:05:55 AM Enough already of the endless equivocation and broken record rhetoric! The Palestinians ne.....
» 22/10/2012 7:45:08 PM Very cogent, well argued and rational article! We certainly cannot continue with an econo.....
» 22/10/2012 1:17:45 PM Agree with EmperorJulian, Saw and heard the whole speech, and thought, not before time. T.....
» 21/10/2012 5:27:54 PM Agree with kactuz! The people who make war on an entirely innocent unarmed child, in the .....
» 20/10/2012 12:30:48 PM Agree: Observation, evidence, call it what you will, emanating from incomprehensibly shame.....
» 20/10/2012 11:31:22 AM Find myself taking no pleasure whatsoever, from being quite literally forced to agree, wit.....
» 20/10/2012 11:00:30 AM Waste of time money and effort, better spent right here at home! Say in providing homes fo.....
» 19/10/2012 4:25:17 PM No tornadoes in Australia! Well I'll be b---ered. Apart from the endless trotting out of f.....
» 19/10/2012 12:03:01 PM Agree with Robert Le Page! No tornadoes in Australia? Tell that to the people living in s.....
» 18/10/2012 1:58:19 PM While one can and does agree with most of what Julie espouses, one prefers the Nelson Mand.....
» 18/10/2012 1:32:12 PM A better late than never bridge building, that should have been done long ago and before w.....
» 17/10/2012 12:39:18 PM Cogent intelligent article. The dime and ten cents store as a concept, had its beginnings .....
» 16/10/2012 11:19:22 PM There is a scientifically way to demonstrably lower/curtail population growth, and that is.....
» 16/10/2012 4:32:07 PM We need to get away from centralised power, with its millions of miles of wasteful transmi.....
» 16/10/2012 1:33:04 PM I don't see any objective analysis in the part 2, of a very subjective article, which seem.....
» 16/10/2012 12:56:25 PM I find myself completely and with all due respect, entirely disagreeing with Peter Lang th.....
» 16/10/2012 12:24:06 PM Find myself, once again agreeing with Peter's patent pragmatism! New straight off of the .....
» 16/10/2012 10:59:57 AM An interesting article, but difficult to reconcile scientifically. We see serious reducti.....
» 15/10/2012 2:03:13 PM When we are compared with the Finnish example the Fins come out better? Why? Well, their .....
» 15/10/2012 1:05:37 PM Agree with Alan Austin: Alan has nailed it! I believe the day of being outrageous and ove.....
» 12/10/2012 2:40:47 PM Agree with the informative article. Arguably, much/most/nearly all medical/bio-med resear.....
» 12/10/2012 1:21:26 PM Exams can and are a useful tool, if they help us understand which and why some students ar.....
» 12/10/2012 12:59:12 PM Look, ASIO do have a a case in law problem with their decisions in this area; and or, do n.....
» 12/10/2012 12:22:23 PM Getting rid of the crown of thorns starfish is as simple as stopping the flow of phosphate.....
» 11/10/2012 2:41:18 PM Also agree, we need negative gearing and the traditional bricks and mortar mindset, almost.....
» 11/10/2012 12:41:01 PM I didn't hear her defend the former speaker! It simply didn't happen and Hansard will supp.....
» 10/10/2012 4:33:13 PM One can agree that Jones is not the brightest star in the intellectual firmament? I guess.....
» 9/10/2012 5:25:02 PM The Bradfield plan, basically proposed a very long and very large pipe to carry water from.....
» 9/10/2012 4:44:42 PM Look, under glass food production uses just a tiny fraction of open irrigation. [Between 5.....
» 9/10/2012 4:24:20 PM Ah well, as someone who was in the public record advocating Peter Andrews ideas, possibly .....
» 9/10/2012 12:40:04 PM Increase all incomes by 20%!? As has always happened, every general wage rise has been acc.....
» 9/10/2012 11:49:10 AM The article was well argued and cogent. We live in a country which honours the concept of.....
» 8/10/2012 11:41:04 PM Individual: Please note that Marilyn Shepard is a paid professional, I believe, who earns .....
» 8/10/2012 4:01:36 PM We are a nation of immigrants! Sure and some of those came here as unwilling emigrants, bo.....
» 8/10/2012 3:23:33 PM Some green group seems to think all we need do to provide better welfare is to print more .....
» 8/10/2012 11:28:01 AM A better plan would manage the water, from the mountains down to the sea. Millions of smal.....
» 8/10/2012 10:49:43 AM We do need a far better water plan and a govt not afraid to use its external powers to see.....
» 7/10/2012 6:20:55 PM Well, Shanghai are doing better than the Finnish? Really? Look at the hours spent in cla.....
» 6/10/2012 3:44:01 PM Agree mostly with Daffy. Thank God we do have an ABC and some balance! I think this subjec.....
» 4/10/2012 12:09:03 PM Shale not only contains Gas but oil as well, sometimes referred to as naphtha? Extracting.....
» 3/10/2012 4:10:47 PM This issue has had its day. The bad boy has been suitably chastised and has apologised, we.....
» 2/10/2012 12:45:00 PM Exceptions that prove the rule, is just another of those clichés, that if repeated enough,.....
» 2/10/2012 12:03:03 PM Jobs growth as returning manufacture is continuing in America, given the cost of transport.....
» 1/10/2012 7:32:56 PM If we were just half smart, we would simply jettison all the current taxes and replace the.....
» 1/10/2012 6:47:19 PM Yes, money does move from account to account! Often it's the same parcels of money, transi.....
» 30/09/2012 11:59:36 AM If a 2% transaction tax would replace our current federal tax take and it could, if there .....
» 30/09/2012 11:28:36 AM So we need foreign capital? Why? Almost anyone can remember Lance Hancock and the mountai.....
» 29/09/2012 1:51:28 PM The problem for Australia and we Australians, is our current crop of visionless politician.....
» 28/09/2012 2:03:02 PM I largely agree with Grim. Albeit, I think that there is a hole in the bucket? We need to.....
» 28/09/2012 12:46:44 PM There seems to be a core of logic in the centre of the article. The problem for Palestine.....
» 28/09/2012 12:04:07 PM If it doesn't rate, it does worry! It's a sign of deeply held resentment by young radical.....
» 27/09/2012 12:19:48 PM Agree with the Author! Perhaps we should also oblige our journalists/publishers to sign t.....
» 27/09/2012 11:02:06 AM The people that need to hang their heads in shame are the South Africans, who stood by whi.....
» 26/09/2012 12:46:22 PM Agree with Grim. The riots are symptomatic with what is wrong with Islamic belief and or t.....
» 25/09/2012 12:57:10 PM I enjoyed the life of Brian! Particularly where his naked lover places her body between Br.....
» 25/09/2012 12:22:30 PM Obama did/does have a plan! Unfortunately, it has been endlessly blocked and or sabotaged,.....
» 25/09/2012 11:33:00 AM Agree with Diver Dan. And just another entirely incompetent example, of an unrepresentati.....
» 24/09/2012 1:14:36 PM Great well researched, thoughtful,extremely cogent article. Yes there are some multinatio.....
» 24/09/2012 11:32:05 AM Arab culture preceded Islam! Clearly these are two very different and inherently opposing .....
» 23/09/2012 3:36:10 PM Well, Christianity was hijacked by atheist Emperor Constantine, around 350AD? There was s.....
» 23/09/2012 11:23:44 AM Well, as others have indicated, the official crusade didn't kick off until the thirteenth .....
» 22/09/2012 4:54:35 PM Jihad as a holy war against infidels, is the "new" interpretation. In older les.....
» 22/09/2012 9:37:31 AM Well, given the rant chanting rioters, numbered just a couple of hundred, with a combined .....
» 20/09/2012 1:45:04 PM I believe a very astute govt would put this issue to a referendum, to decide, at the next .....
» 20/09/2012 12:27:27 PM Under One God: There was a time, when we still had a illuminating light on the hill, you.....
» 15/09/2012 1:15:25 PM I stand by the term tree hugging eco fascist, but reserve it for a very few, who replace r.....
» 15/09/2012 12:09:03 PM I agree with Ludwig, trees store carbon whether horizontal or vertical! Moreover, Indigeno.....
» 14/09/2012 4:36:35 PM Gay activists don't have a cause per se to mount. They are just sick and tired of being et.....
» 14/09/2012 3:16:47 PM A thoughtful, well argued and logical article! Northern rainfall is measured in metres, a.....
» 14/09/2012 11:38:35 AM As memory serves, Canadian researchers recorded the first serious mutations of HIV/aids? .....
» 14/09/2012 10:55:25 AM The truth is complicated by the suicide rate of young men between 15 and 24, the highest d.....
» 13/09/2012 12:47:38 PM We should introduce our native wisteria to Africa and the Middle East. Ditto wattle! Give.....
» 13/09/2012 10:47:58 AM Great article! I have often wondered why the nationals remained in the coalition, while l.....
» 12/09/2012 3:29:57 PM How will we cope with a 100,000 boat people a year? I believe that outboard powered tradit.....
» 12/09/2012 1:00:37 PM Real tax reform and simplification as outlined, and mathematically proven by me, in previo.....
» 12/09/2012 12:14:57 PM What? Pinochet was extradited and charged with numerous human rights abuses/genocide and a.....
» 12/09/2012 10:36:04 AM On the face of it, the raw numbers seem accurate. And yes tougher disability tests have mo.....
» 10/09/2012 12:54:43 PM Individual: There is little difference between a fixed rate expenditure tax and a flat tax.....
» 10/09/2012 12:42:45 PM Peter, we routinely waste around 26 billion per, on welfare for the rich? If we had just .....
» 10/09/2012 12:23:45 PM The problems for VAS is the number of elderly depressed patients it could conceivably term.....
» 10/09/2012 10:32:57 AM Yes the party is over! However, it's all too easy to outline our problems, without actuall.....
» 9/09/2012 11:31:06 AM One notes that Jesus preferred the almost exclusive company of men? Spoke with complete c.....
» 8/09/2012 12:30:34 PM We've always had common law agreements, which allowed employers to offer individual agreem.....
» 8/09/2012 11:12:44 AM Ah so, Rev Moon? Marry everyone? What, from his grave? All licentious levity aside. The .....
» 8/09/2012 10:31:14 AM Left handed people are an affront to normality. They are a minority who have tried and suc.....
» 7/09/2012 1:50:04 PM We can chew gum and walk. We can reduce our carbon emission, while prospering the populati.....
» 7/09/2012 11:59:31 AM Where did we come from? Listening to some of our most privileged, or self made millionair.....
» 7/09/2012 11:19:14 AM Well what an interesting read? And so much mature comment? If Iran is not pursuing nucle.....
» 5/09/2012 12:59:48 PM I sort of agree with Aristocrat. Moreover I just don't see a distinct left or right in to.....
» 5/09/2012 11:46:04 AM Australia a great country, badly governed? Sure and it has been since Lang Hancock went h.....
» 4/09/2012 1:58:33 PM I agree that Mr Abbott misread the evidence? However that should come as no surprise, give.....
» 4/09/2012 1:18:59 PM No! Disagree with the article and its premise; or, reading of the tea leaves/economy? It .....
» 4/09/2012 12:22:05 PM The cotton won't be sold? just simply sent to china? This means Cubbie station, will proba.....
» 31/08/2012 12:19:50 PM Footnote: Never ever saw a co-op that ever grew too big to fail? Never ever saw a co-op t.....
» 31/08/2012 12:08:43 PM I've long argued for returned cooperative capitalism. Co-ops inculcate a culture of prod.....
» 31/08/2012 11:18:14 AM Tying ourselves in any economic way to the failed EU is patently a major mistake? The Euro.....
» 30/08/2012 12:22:22 PM Where from here indeed! Time to act not dispense more BS? Israel needs to stop with the m.....
» 30/08/2012 11:24:12 AM I believe one should stick to their principles! However, there is a need to actually own s.....
» 30/08/2012 10:45:00 AM Well, I don't think it will! The prosecution was, I believe, botched from the very start? .....
» 29/08/2012 12:26:56 PM Let me preface my remarks by disclosing, I have many Chinese friends and relatives, some o.....
» 29/08/2012 11:47:26 AM I see no compelling evidence in this article that we all have to have a homeland. Since t.....
» 29/08/2012 10:48:36 AM There are a number of Medical reasons to permit legalised abortion. A licensed medical pr.....
» 28/08/2012 1:00:17 PM Energy and its ever increasing cost clearly contributed to the GFC. At least 70% of our ec.....
» 28/08/2012 11:49:57 AM Many Ministers/Priests are mired in basically medieval superstition, merely masquerading a.....
» 27/08/2012 1:34:31 PM Extremely well argued thoughtful article. If we would but follow the greens to their event.....
» 27/08/2012 12:43:39 PM Extremely well argued, thoughtful article. Written by someone who clearly understands econ.....
» 27/08/2012 11:21:54 AM There doesn't appear to be any evidence that Sweden is treating Assange any different from.....
» 27/08/2012 10:35:06 AM Is Assange damaging the net? Arguably he already has! Rhrosty.....
» 26/08/2012 12:11:16 PM What is unsustainable, is basically bankrupt cities investing in anything, let alone susta.....
» 26/08/2012 10:59:45 AM Replace Tasmanian forestry with Thermal mining KAEP? So, that's around a thousand holes at.....
» 26/08/2012 9:52:32 AM Hi Julian. Reading through some of these posts, with their references to Atheism, religion.....
» 25/08/2012 12:34:30 PM Useful informative factual article, that demonstrates, the abject total lack of logical gr.....
» 25/08/2012 11:28:21 AM David Suzuki, a Leading globe-trotting conservationist, is on the public record saying, &q.....
» 24/08/2012 1:47:34 PM Well researched informative article! Yes, it's a mystery, why we pay ever increasing pric.....
» 24/08/2012 11:56:57 AM The road to recovery lies in thinking outside the box. Doing what you've always done and e.....
» 23/08/2012 5:14:42 PM There is no magic in unavoidable. Suggest you both read and understand the irrefutable mat.....
» 23/08/2012 4:13:35 PM Hasbeen, no plans to buy junk bonds, regardless of the rate of return! Don't fancy the &qu.....
» 23/08/2012 12:54:20 PM The Great Depression and the more recent GFC was preceded and caused by the accumulation o.....
» 23/08/2012 11:34:24 AM Footnote: A simple unavoidable expenditure tax; like that outlined, would also prevent Mul.....
» 23/08/2012 11:14:20 AM A simple unavoidable expenditure tax set at around 5%, would as outlined, collect more tax.....
» 23/08/2012 10:38:21 AM This fiction is proposed by a complex rationalist, to effectively transfer the tax from th.....
» 22/08/2012 11:18:05 AM Little wonder there is an identity crisis? We used to led the world in education excellenc.....
» 22/08/2012 11:04:18 AM No! Marriage equality, though long overdue, is hardly a response to L/G youth suicide. Th.....
» 21/08/2012 1:14:41 PM Peter Lang; not picking winners mate. Just the only oxide reactor type, to my knowledge, a.....
» 21/08/2012 12:24:54 PM The Swedes could travel to Britain to question Assange! He would deny everything except, t.....
» 20/08/2012 11:45:11 PM As I understand it, Assange may be guilty of rape/sexual assault, under Swedish law! And .....
» 20/08/2012 12:44:29 PM Yes a lot of it is boring. Indeed, almost as boring as the toffee nosed snobs who claim to.....
» 20/08/2012 12:11:12 PM Basically agree with the patent pragmatism of Peter Lang's informed commentary! One optio.....
» 20/08/2012 11:35:06 AM Nothing to add here except to say, do the crime do the time; and, vigorously/robustly agre.....
» 20/08/2012 11:22:32 AM We learned fairly recently that "ONE" of the criminal cartel of people smuggling.....
» 18/08/2012 11:12:51 AM If I were designing an Australian vehicle, I would start with a carbon fibre chassis. Aus.....
» 17/08/2012 4:39:09 PM Saltpetre; Yes sure, One can only conveniently compress NG just so much for practical purp.....
» 17/08/2012 12:29:00 PM Most of the vehicles plying our highways and byways will perform almost as well on CNG, as.....
» 17/08/2012 11:54:46 AM The purpose of drilling gas wells is to collect and use the methane, rather than allow it .....
» 16/08/2012 2:56:30 PM Sorry hasbeen, should have just said transport, but excluded road transport? As for me bei.....
» 16/08/2012 2:23:31 PM I believe that blaming state govts for unprecedented energy price rise is a fair; given, i.....
» 16/08/2012 12:32:58 PM I'm looking forward to a time when speed signs are written in bar codes, which is read by .....
» 16/08/2012 11:48:33 AM The first option seems the rational one Julie! But when has the leadership in Iran been s.....
» 15/08/2012 11:45:16 AM As one might expect, the greens were/are busy rejecting the new refugee arrangements. Fir.....
» 15/08/2012 10:58:07 AM Interesting article, that largely sums up old Arabian wisdom, which goes, my enemy's enemy.....
» 15/08/2012 10:47:53 AM What we know about Iran's plans and nuclear capability is pure speculation; except perhaps.....
» 15/08/2012 10:25:36 AM It was a huge back down by Gillard! So, did the endless opposition by the cock-a-hoop crow.....
» 14/08/2012 12:42:21 PM As an after thought or footnote: A more liberal democracy must surely start with much mor.....
» 14/08/2012 12:23:06 PM I agree in broad principle with most of the article. However, I disagree that non identif.....
» 14/08/2012 11:46:23 AM Very thoughtful and well argued article. America is already withdrawing some of its indust.....
» 14/08/2012 10:58:40 AM A free trade agreement with Tassie? What? Is it a foreign country? We subsidise diesel fo.....
» 13/08/2012 12:46:02 PM A bikie gang shooting up a town with real bullets, is somehow similar to a group of activi.....
» 13/08/2012 12:04:23 PM I understand that J.C. preferred the company of men and never ever married? [If he walked .....
» 13/08/2012 11:11:17 AM A really insightful and extremely intelligent article! Farmers should read it and re-form.....
» 11/08/2012 11:54:23 AM csteele. Although we can say with absolute certainty, that measurable irrefutable climate.....
» 10/08/2012 12:53:47 PM Why are we having this debate? Is it because a few of us have finally woken up to the fact.....
» 9/08/2012 12:53:01 PM Julie, it is time we collectively realised, there is no way and no statesman that can nego.....
» 9/08/2012 11:53:45 AM Michael-in-Adelaide, you get it mate. Fortunately, we have possibly massive reserves of e.....
» 8/08/2012 1:19:11 PM Cumgeon, The role of Co2 in the atmosphere is minimal? Let me give you a endlessly repeata.....
» 8/08/2012 12:44:22 PM What would be the first felt effect of adjusting our economies to carbon neutral ones, to .....
» 8/08/2012 11:25:08 AM We have too be glad that the sun is in a slightly cooling phase? This will add just a litt.....
» 7/08/2012 5:20:28 PM Agree with other posters who postulate that global population is already too large and mus.....
» 7/08/2012 12:46:24 PM The obvious solution is to entirely jettison the current tax act, along with the thousands.....
» 7/08/2012 12:17:54 PM Finally, someone who gets it! When more of our often fixed incomes, pensions/wages/salarie.....
» 7/08/2012 11:11:41 AM The Author seems to approach the subject matter with the usual dismissive attitude of a se.....
» 6/08/2012 12:45:59 PM Pebble reactors are arguably safer than coal-fired power! They can be mass produced in fac.....
» 6/08/2012 12:00:45 PM Bazz, it was BMW, as memory serves, that experimented with hydrogen for years? They report.....
» 5/08/2012 11:00:55 AM Forecasting for disaster is very reliant on past events! Around 90 million years ago, the .....
» 31/07/2012 12:29:49 PM G'day Grim. Mostly agree with you and where you are coming from. Telecom, with all its rep.....
» 31/07/2012 11:22:47 AM An interesting juxtaposition isn't it? On the one hand Iran was all for the Arab spring an.....
» 30/07/2012 1:14:03 PM My sympathy goes to those who propose, or do, no harm to others; and took to the streets o.....
» 30/07/2012 12:33:17 PM Talking about antibiotics and their widespread use? Australian scientists, reportedly have.....
» 30/07/2012 11:30:43 AM Talking about human greed, Rio Tinto is currently developing a massive coal mine in Mongol.....
» 29/07/2012 11:53:38 AM I often note that some men, still try to exercise control after the separation or divorce......
» 29/07/2012 10:54:46 AM Yes and speaking as one who came from a broken home and a disenfranchised mother, at a tim.....
» 28/07/2012 5:56:24 PM A rational Greenie? Sea grass by itself absorbs 3 times as much carbon as all the rain fo.....
» 28/07/2012 1:46:42 PM Agree with Banjo. Our high speed drills and those produced in NZ, i.e, are vastly superior.....
» 28/07/2012 12:56:02 PM One Middle Eastern oil Minister is on the public record as saying, "that hydrogen cou.....
» 28/07/2012 12:17:16 PM Au contraire, we don't need to impose higher taxes or energy costs, to make carbon free en.....
» 28/07/2012 11:40:08 AM Curmudgeon; I do understand the vast scale that would be needed to grow enough algae to pr.....
» 27/07/2012 12:07:35 PM There is little doubt in my mind that very low water use algae framing will eventually rep.....
» 27/07/2012 11:28:28 AM Fossil fuel is a once only gift from nature, and will need to be eventually replaced! No t.....
» 27/07/2012 10:32:43 AM The author made the point that his was an opinion piece. However he makes a number of inte.....
» 26/07/2012 12:25:08 PM Instructive article. Nonetheless, we need to stop listening and or reacting to, this or th.....
» 26/07/2012 11:45:41 AM A negotiated settlement Julie? If only that were still possible! We could have probably a.....
» 26/07/2012 10:47:21 AM I also share your concerns Julian. Farmers are suiciding at the rate of 4 a day? Small fa.....
» 25/07/2012 12:48:42 PM With all due respect Don, and I really did like and agree with the bulk of your reasonable.....
» 25/07/2012 12:25:40 PM The Great barrier Reef is not a reef. But rather a series of reef systems, or if you will .....
» 25/07/2012 11:26:23 AM The rise of amateurs/gifted thinkers has arguably underpinned every new development or adv.....
» 25/07/2012 11:04:22 AM The problem with School Chaplains, is their views and or advice is coloured/flavoured by a.....
» 25/07/2012 9:57:49 AM A COAG to remember indeed; given the predicted reluctance of the richer states to embrace .....
» 24/07/2012 5:37:20 PM G'day Grim. Thanks for the informative input. We here seem to be welded to American style .....
» 24/07/2012 4:46:30 PM Every high rise, village or urban suburb, could create all the alternative endlessly susta.....
» 24/07/2012 3:34:55 PM I'm very firmly in favour of an open and widely reported official enquiry. If that enquir.....
» 24/07/2012 3:14:10 PM Some of my forbears made that same desperate six month or more journey from Ireland and Sc.....
» 24/07/2012 2:38:13 PM Well, they can! If they become an entirely inclusive party once again, and determined to d.....
» 24/07/2012 11:43:11 AM Yes, it is an imbecile's dilemma? Imbecilic, inasmuch as it is the result one would expec.....
» 23/07/2012 12:54:29 PM To the victor goes the spoils and the right to record or revise history? It might be argu.....
» 23/07/2012 12:23:54 PM The tide of radical Islam needs to be reversed. How many former Buddhist countries have b.....
» 23/07/2012 12:10:47 PM Yes, agree. We don't need to impose any law totally foreign to our way of thinking or natu.....
» 23/07/2012 11:46:42 AM I agree with the policy of putting the greens last on the ballot paper! If Labour were un.....
» 23/07/2012 11:25:49 AM Given I've always argued for proportional representation, it's hard to argue against the w.....
» 22/07/2012 12:42:16 PM The answer seems to me to be building brand new regional cities, not over populating, over.....
» 22/07/2012 11:41:30 AM We reportedly, are under producing housing, by as much as 140,000 units per year. We cont.....
» 20/07/2012 11:53:21 AM When one is discussing the different carbon output of various comparable hydrocarbons, one.....
» 20/07/2012 11:14:45 AM Cohenite: The GFC was caused it would seem, by the creation of 64 trillions worth of large.....
» 20/07/2012 10:30:14 AM Ah well, the par for the course results of privatisation of one of the key pillars of the .....
» 19/07/2012 2:53:49 PM Interesting article, and good point made by one poster, illuminating the difference and ef.....
» 19/07/2012 12:34:26 PM I believe we need to embrace a new health model, called preventive medicine. As opposed to.....
» 19/07/2012 11:06:05 AM Julie, all the cited tensions are about oil! We contribute, inasmuch as, we have locked a.....
» 18/07/2012 12:35:10 PM Why shouldn't we be unhappy? We live in the richest land on earth, with the most prosperou.....
» 18/07/2012 11:26:38 AM Every Empire, since the dawn of time, has come and gone. Every Empire since the dawn of t.....
» 17/07/2012 11:37:22 AM Cheaper more productive labour? Don't forget its arguably the much lower cost structures, .....
» 17/07/2012 10:46:35 AM Yes, there is a traditional bricks and mortar mindset in Australia, when it comes to priva.....
» 16/07/2012 1:35:17 PM I largely agree with Planta's summation. I would simply add that torture does not work. P.....
» 16/07/2012 12:32:39 PM If I were advising the Gillard govt, I'd advise them to load up the double dissolution tri.....
» 16/07/2012 11:34:54 AM The greens clearly owe their positions of power to preferences. When they signed up to th.....
» 14/07/2012 11:36:42 AM Let's give peace a chance! Noble sentiments and possible! But only for people who have tak.....
» 14/07/2012 10:15:49 AM It beats me how penniless asylum seekers, escaping with what they stand in, can find the m.....
» 13/07/2012 6:08:23 PM I find myself agreeing with Curmugeon This was not always the case, but too many lives hav.....
» 13/07/2012 5:05:54 PM Yes, I agree wholeheartedly with the Author and her article! [Let he who is without sin, b.....
» 13/07/2012 4:23:50 PM American housing undervalued? They are still building new ones! Perhaps those builders ar.....
» 12/07/2012 12:56:55 PM We could assist the American economy to recover, and assist ourselves as well, by explorin.....
» 12/07/2012 11:17:32 AM Get real Julie, President bush handed out tax breaks to people who didn't need them, then .....
» 11/07/2012 1:18:19 PM We owe our alphabet and numerical system to Arab scholars. And stories like Arabian knigh.....
» 11/07/2012 12:24:48 PM Just as Christianity has its fundamental schools of thought and historic religious suppres.....
» 10/07/2012 12:11:00 PM If Fairfax were just a mirror/mirror on the wall. Most of this author's hyper critical ra.....
» 10/07/2012 11:52:28 AM No Islam is not to blame for the state of affairs in the Middle East! What may be to blame.....
» 10/07/2012 11:26:53 AM I believe Paul Howe was right, inasmuch as Labour would likely improve it's long term futu.....
» 9/07/2012 12:39:24 PM Four million Baby Boomers are about to retire and no longer pay taxes, but instead, become.....
» 9/07/2012 10:40:08 AM I saw in pig iron Bob, a bowler hat and brolly asynchronism, that plunged Australia into y.....
» 9/07/2012 10:01:24 AM Correction; the article ought to read, completely agree all unnecessary medical procedures.....
» 9/07/2012 9:56:26 AM Completely agree that all necessary medical procedures be made illegal in law! Particularl.....
» 8/07/2012 7:22:26 PM Carbon free as a term applying to the economy; means, energy derived from sources that pro.....
» 6/07/2012 11:37:30 AM Various govts have attacked housing affordability, with tax charges and patently puerile p.....
» 5/07/2012 12:35:29 PM Yes Roses1, we do need a new globalised standard of currency, that addresses some of the m.....
» 5/07/2012 10:26:38 AM Interesting and informative article. We always reach a point where complexity becomes frau.....
» 4/07/2012 11:24:40 AM When Keynes was formulating his economic theories, money was an IOU, that was backed for t.....
» 3/07/2012 1:29:50 PM There's not much to like in the article, which seems to advocate austerity as the solution.....
» 3/07/2012 12:33:02 PM Great well researched article! Those who proudly trumpet "our" desire to live li.....
» 2/07/2012 11:06:20 AM Peak oil and carbon! We can do something about both by exploiting our own hydrocarbon supp.....
» 2/07/2012 10:18:29 AM Supply and demand set the price of most things, except maybe, energy and capital. We made .....
» 1/07/2012 11:50:59 AM Of course a bill of human rights is a great idea, and we should have one, if only to led b.....
» 1/07/2012 11:21:58 AM Footnote; low IQ in third world countries is usually a product of enduring poor nutrition,.....
» 1/07/2012 10:53:39 AM JOM: Not talking about charity per se. But rather, a hand up rather than a hand out. Warr.....
» 1/07/2012 9:56:06 AM Squeers, a reference for an oral history? Surely you jest or simply refuse to acknowledge .....
» 30/06/2012 1:20:21 PM We are indeed a land of immigrants. The very first of the first Australians, Tasmanian Abo.....
» 29/06/2012 12:26:55 PM Of course the public interest is served, by setting in train policy paradigms that seek to.....
» 29/06/2012 11:29:07 AM Where do I come from? Why planet Earth of course. My ethnicity? Why human being of course!.....
» 29/06/2012 10:42:28 AM Every western style economy rests on just two pillars, energy and capital! Before the GFC.....
» 28/06/2012 1:06:02 PM Very insightful and interesting article Julie. And one that underlines why we need to beco.....
» 28/06/2012 11:52:25 AM Entirely over the top horse feathers and bird's fur. The intervention didn't make good ent.....
» 27/06/2012 6:41:56 PM We can and should send asylum seekers to Malaysia in exchange for five times as many genui.....
» 27/06/2012 12:14:34 PM The only reason, I believe, we still see asylum seekers drowning and or, boats overfilled .....
» 27/06/2012 11:50:39 AM Well, given sexuality is decided by nature, in the womb, there is simply no justification .....
» 27/06/2012 10:39:16 AM As I see it we have just two choices? If we are to see less human beings drowning at sea,.....
» 26/06/2012 12:43:10 PM Yes, the charity food queues, are reminiscent of the soup kitchens that so marked the Grea.....
» 26/06/2012 11:33:33 AM One can agree that under-performing govts ought to be afraid. However it is hard and very.....
» 26/06/2012 10:45:56 AM Assange a journalist? Well, in the first instant a journalist will do jail time, rather t.....
» 25/06/2012 12:52:02 PM Austerity and growth cannot coexist. If you've ever run a business, you'll understand tha.....
» 25/06/2012 11:42:59 AM I believe unions could once again become very relevant, if they but morphed into contract .....
» 25/06/2012 11:03:05 AM The govt looks set to legislate to allow this program, and its govt funding to continue, a.....
» 24/06/2012 12:21:55 PM Yabby: "People will shag 2 or 3 times a week and without family planning, babies will.....
» 23/06/2012 12:32:49 PM We have always been able to limit the take by limiting the seasons; and or, getting very t.....
» 23/06/2012 11:34:31 AM Whilst hundreds of millions of women in the third world don't have enough education, to kn.....
» 23/06/2012 11:01:20 AM Footnote; seriously, if you and your boss invariably share the same opinion, then one of y.....
» 23/06/2012 10:53:52 AM I'm not sure that one can agree with the article? So-called freedom of speech is limited;.....
» 22/06/2012 5:15:04 PM We can plan, we can recycle, we can come up with myriad ideas, all of which may assist. P.....
» 21/06/2012 4:50:37 PM Further footnote: When ones considers the destiny of demography, we know we cannot continu.....
» 21/06/2012 4:13:50 PM Footnote: A single stand alone expenditure tax set at a very marginal 5%, would collect ar.....
» 21/06/2012 4:05:15 PM The titanic might have suffered much less damage and or survived the calamitous collision .....
» 21/06/2012 3:45:54 PM Pete, can't ague with history! Cheers Rhrosty......
» 21/06/2012 3:43:29 PM Footnote; we for our own part, need to act with urgent alacrity, to seize/guarantee our ow.....
» 21/06/2012 3:08:49 PM If the Egyptian military really want to radicalise people with nothing left to lose? They .....
» 21/06/2012 12:20:10 PM One of the most erudite historically correct articles I have thus far read! One also agre.....
» 21/06/2012 11:24:54 AM I'm not sure one can agree with all this patently partisan article? However, the Author do.....
» 20/06/2012 4:37:59 PM Decentralisation is an absolute essential, if we would actually address climate change. Th.....
» 20/06/2012 12:12:33 PM I was one of the few conservative thinkers, small l liberal, who agreed with a carbon tax,.....
» 20/06/2012 11:29:07 AM Well, yes it does. But particularly for progressive conservatism. We live on just one pla.....
» 19/06/2012 10:37:43 AM Assange claims Journalistic privilege? Journalists are normally required to validate thei.....
» 19/06/2012 9:41:13 AM I believe what is occurring around the world to the print media is probably a good thing. .....
» 18/06/2012 11:36:03 AM An afterthought or footnote. The Chileans were able to build a very large solar thermal p.....
» 18/06/2012 10:46:11 AM What is worse than denial? Arguably, deliberately providing counterfeit information? On o.....
» 17/06/2012 12:46:46 PM It makes absolutely no sense whatsoever, to place ourselves at the mercy of potential and .....
» 17/06/2012 11:33:01 AM Oil exports pay for most of the Russian sabre rattling and Iran,s nuclear ambitions? If p.....
» 17/06/2012 11:02:58 AM My European forbears were in the main, Irish and Scots. They lived through a time when spe.....
» 17/06/2012 10:07:56 AM If it could be arranged that every legal gun anywhere in the community, could be temporari.....
» 15/06/2012 12:43:57 PM It only takes one nut job with a finger on a button, to precipitate a war of nuclear repri.....
» 15/06/2012 12:28:25 PM Polygamous relationships/marriages, have existed for centuries, and are sanctioned, legiti.....
» 15/06/2012 11:52:55 AM Completely agree with DavidL! Hunting as a sport is a fairly recent phenomena, in the over.....
» 14/06/2012 11:22:53 AM It's a vexed question Julia? However, the only way to remove Assard is through unification.....
» 13/06/2012 3:56:41 PM The French and indeed most of Europe need to face the fact they can no longer kick the deb.....
» 13/06/2012 12:50:47 PM I agree in principle with the article. If opinion pieces are going to largely replace trad.....
» 13/06/2012 12:23:13 PM It's not all that long ago that we compelled young men like those depicted, to learn to us.....
» 13/06/2012 11:57:05 AM Almost any diesel or petrol powered vehicle can also be powered by compressed natural gas,.....
» 12/06/2012 6:22:54 PM Same old same old tired argument? Sure thorium reactors need a little kick start with othe.....
» 11/06/2012 4:45:58 PM Diver Dan, yes, we should pause and please consider, what we may in fact, be locking away .....
» 11/06/2012 4:15:13 PM hasbeen. Sure, solar and wind energy is carbon free, but the wing only blows for around 35.....
» 11/06/2012 12:07:30 PM Interesting informed and erudite article Chris. Yes, The Brits usually brought with them a.....
» 11/06/2012 11:33:32 AM Sadly, much of what the author proposes seems to be true? Rational argument would cause a.....
» 11/06/2012 10:56:53 AM What cruelled the Californian economy? The green agenda of its very conservative governor,.....
» 11/06/2012 10:11:18 AM A number of points, first and foremost, it is easier for the US to extradite from England .....
» 10/06/2012 11:32:13 AM Ultimately, regardless of the rhetoric or religious zeal etc/etc. All wars are fought for/.....
» 9/06/2012 12:45:03 PM Yeah, the inherent wealth of a once mighty America came from mineral wealth, iron ore and .....
» 9/06/2012 12:08:00 PM We in the west, all but forced Japan, a former WW1 ally, into the Nazi camp, by cutting of.....
» 9/06/2012 11:26:11 AM Ending all forms of welfare for the rich or better off would enable us to spend what we ne.....
» 9/06/2012 10:35:24 AM Welfare for the rich or "better off" is at least as large as the budget assigned.....
» 8/06/2012 12:27:39 PM Interesting informative erudite article, that very succinctly spells out why America can n.....
» 8/06/2012 11:39:43 AM We owe a blood debt to the USA that arguably can never ever be repaid? The sacrifice of th.....
» 8/06/2012 10:46:34 AM From my perspective both the article and the author are extremely offensive! Clearly the a.....
» 7/06/2012 3:34:56 PM If freedom of speech is not moderated to exclude certain topics, in an anything goes appro.....
» 7/06/2012 3:06:15 PM Geoff of Perth. Apparently Assange allegedly claims said Journalistic Licence, which if cl.....
» 7/06/2012 2:48:51 PM We do not need more migrant families, who then demand additional housing, education and me.....
» 7/06/2012 1:08:45 PM Great article Julie, which demonstrates an extremely good understanding of CURRENT interna.....
» 7/06/2012 12:55:56 PM As a divorced person I have some sympathy with the Author's opinion piece. My spouse and .....
» 7/06/2012 11:28:30 AM Some of the most important of human rights is the right to privacy; and the right to have .....
» 7/06/2012 10:48:04 AM If the homophobic community ran out of excuses for their own peculiar predilection or pern.....
» 6/06/2012 1:17:56 PM One can agree in part with the Author. Clearly any reasonable person would understand the .....
» 6/06/2012 12:29:52 PM Unfair dismissal legislation could be entirely repealed/ripped up, in exchange for a job s.....
» 6/06/2012 11:43:34 AM Very erudite and credible article. It makes a very pleasant change to read something writ.....
» 5/06/2012 12:37:09 PM I'm not sure, but memory suggests that we have a native Australian berry that is around a .....
» 5/06/2012 11:31:21 AM Technically the only way to sever a child from the biological sperm or egg donor, is throu.....
» 5/06/2012 10:43:51 AM Typical tail wagging the dog comment from a dyed in the wool control freak? People everywh.....
» 4/06/2012 12:00:01 PM Arjay, suggest you try talking from a little higher up? I agree in broad principle with th.....
» 4/06/2012 11:32:32 AM On the ground evidence given surreptitiously, by wives and mothers of alcoholics, drug add.....
» 4/06/2012 11:08:35 AM Why indeed? Perhaps we should wait until the facts are entirely irrefutable? Say when enou.....
» 3/06/2012 3:48:53 PM Part of the food debate is energy. Crops grown for fuel are a very large part of the food .....
» 2/06/2012 1:22:10 PM On the subject of HIV/Aids. We might be able to cure it with a combination of anti cancer .....
» 2/06/2012 12:53:44 PM Great and very well researched informative article! One of the most outstanding anti-vacc.....
» 2/06/2012 12:25:07 PM Recent advances have demonstrated that even irreversible spinal cord damage may be reversi.....
» 1/06/2012 12:19:38 PM With all due respect to popnperish, all He/She seems to be saying that population control,.....
» 1/06/2012 11:22:34 AM China certainly has an extraordinarily long way to go, in its international relations and .....
» 1/06/2012 10:49:18 AM Who are the the vulnerable in the euthanasia debate? Well we all are. At some point we all.....
» 31/05/2012 1:06:51 PM I suspect that people like Cheryl are very skilled a quite deliberately misinterpreting an.....
» 31/05/2012 10:34:56 AM Over leveraging is only possible, when you stop creating the tangible assets that back the.....
» 31/05/2012 9:45:46 AM I agree, when we started to elect people who had no real world experience, is about the ti.....
» 29/05/2012 11:14:23 AM Julia made a number of critical errors that would be less likely in a man? For a start, s.....
» 28/05/2012 4:20:44 PM I agree with most of what John McRoberts says. He is right on the money. However, even th.....
» 27/05/2012 1:02:14 PM Just how green is Google? Well one would expect those who created and run the Giant corpor.....
» 27/05/2012 11:36:31 AM Professor Plimer is a Geologist, who'es actual knowledge of climate science could probably.....
» 26/05/2012 12:25:48 PM Interesting article, which simply underlines the fact that Labour is city centric Koala ha.....
» 26/05/2012 11:40:12 AM In the household where I was raised the word conservative, was usually followed with a mou.....
» 25/05/2012 12:01:45 PM Beware of conservatives? Why? When we started the first parliament/Westminster system, the.....
» 25/05/2012 11:25:01 AM Even if climate change is not real ocean acidification is. The ocean produces two thirds .....
» 24/05/2012 10:22:31 AM Julie, what about enlightening us on what an Abbott/Bishop coalition would do as policy se.....
» 23/05/2012 3:35:52 PM If we are under-investing as portrayed; then we should better resource parents, who would .....
» 23/05/2012 2:57:10 PM I agree we need to ensure we also don't exceed our fragile environment's ability to suppor.....
» 23/05/2012 10:54:55 AM We might somehow be better off with the coalition and their ideologically inspired predile.....
» 22/05/2012 5:14:24 PM Pericles: Yes and there's another problem, Share trading by computer generated programs, t.....
» 22/05/2012 4:59:25 PM If Pericles was actually right, and derivites were just a completely benign financial inst.....
» 22/05/2012 3:54:01 PM One notes that an all knowing all seeing God allegedly carved His thou shalt not laws into.....
» 22/05/2012 3:15:56 PM Ethics in politics? Moral people attracted to politics? Increase the rewards, say some? P.....
» 22/05/2012 11:56:54 AM All around the world, people who plainly didn't understand that derivatives which relied o.....
» 22/05/2012 11:11:39 AM Pericles: I do know what a derivative is. It's money plucked from the ether by rat cunning.....
» 22/05/2012 10:24:35 AM A number of points. Firstly, we don't possess a bottomless bucket of money, in fact there .....
» 19/05/2012 11:51:12 AM This govt is not clever enough; given a clever govt, would have completely reformed the do.....
» 19/05/2012 11:14:18 AM People who break political promises should never ever be re-elected! Or engage in endless .....
» 18/05/2012 4:42:18 PM Maybe Sydney rail was inspired by the Greek compatriots, who carried more non-productive d.....
» 18/05/2012 4:01:55 PM Tanks and artillery against small arms? Apologists for Assard all but condoning his ongoi.....
» 18/05/2012 3:22:23 PM The confirmation bias remains very much alive and well! Rhrosty.....
» 18/05/2012 3:16:52 PM It's ironic that we can even think that today's union movement has anything at all in comm.....
» 14/05/2012 4:50:59 PM There is little doubt this matter will end up in court? When that day finally dawns the ca.....
» 14/05/2012 12:28:02 PM Yuyutsu; Appropriate comment mate, well almost; given the collective noun for a group of B.....
» 14/05/2012 12:23:18 PM Yes a report exists; but it is only as good as those who have compiled it. If some evidenc.....
» 14/05/2012 11:55:16 AM Dammed if you do, dammed if you don't and largely irrelevant argument? Like somebody actua.....
» 14/05/2012 11:25:55 AM Before we can apply our combined attention to a problem, we first have to know about it! .....
» 14/05/2012 11:03:25 AM The recreation of Israel, was predicated on a belief, that as the sons and daughters of Ab.....
» 14/05/2012 10:35:34 AM As a once married heterosexual alpha male, I find myself in broad agreement with both Jon .....
» 14/05/2012 10:02:06 AM New Labour hardly resembles Old Labour, or the light on the hill that inspired Chiefly or .....
» 14/05/2012 9:03:48 AM When it comes to matters of law and or our constitution, opinion ought at the very least b.....
» 13/05/2012 5:23:11 PM Popernish; the thing that will make both Canadian tar sands and the vast bulk of Russian o.....
» 13/05/2012 11:47:01 AM Steeza; there are working examples, but you might need to travel! We are just not bright e.....
» 13/05/2012 10:59:46 AM Not all that long ago, we knew as immutable scientific law the the sound barrier couldn't .....
» 13/05/2012 10:16:37 AM Why do the coalition want Rudd returned as Labour leader? Well, arguably because multi-mil.....
» 12/05/2012 11:39:57 AM ZandR: I'm not sure we should follow blindly wherever the USA goes, Certainly not if she s.....
» 12/05/2012 11:17:49 AM If I were a long term forward thinking Labour strategist, which I'm not; I'd give the Gill.....
» 11/05/2012 3:58:03 PM I would prefer we spent all our available exploration funds finding and deploying endlessl.....
» 11/05/2012 2:50:11 PM Turning our world class universities into competing businesses, is arguably following Amer.....
» 11/05/2012 2:34:18 PM Germany still makes and exports vehicles! In fact, it is one of the few European economies.....
» 11/05/2012 1:43:09 PM There seems to be a lot of sexist rubbish written about Julia; and or political proponents.....
» 10/05/2012 2:52:06 PM As a footnote, one adds that other older studies indicate that population pressures add to.....
» 10/05/2012 2:18:30 PM In days long gone by, Children stayed on much longer in the parents home than now. In fact.....
» 10/05/2012 12:25:57 PM Saccharin sweet hyperbole Julie? The recent reforms in Burma underline the very different.....
» 10/05/2012 11:57:19 AM What does it mean? It means the Population is finally beginning to understand; that the Co.....
» 10/05/2012 11:40:12 AM I like the Idea of means tested very low cost price capped Govt loans! A working holiday i.....
» 10/05/2012 10:35:54 AM Herbert; you and your very common sense approach ought to be running the country. I thoug.....
» 10/05/2012 9:48:19 AM Persausive science based argument. Land based melt water will always collect at the lowest.....
» 9/05/2012 11:22:18 AM Words not backed by confirming action, remain just words! "Anyone uttering such word.....
» 9/05/2012 11:00:16 AM The Author conveniently ignores a number of realities? We simply don't own a bottomless bu.....
» 9/05/2012 10:20:01 AM We outlawed alcohol during the prohibition era and created Al Capone, organised crime, gan.....
» 9/05/2012 9:30:22 AM Very wise and astute, erudite and informed article. It's very easy for young immature infa.....
» 9/05/2012 8:43:31 AM Great article! The anti vaccination movement lost most of its credibility, when the princi.....
» 8/05/2012 5:13:55 PM While one can agree broadly with Chris's summation. It is only that applied to just one st.....
» 8/05/2012 4:50:54 PM I've long held that the Finnish example was the one we should follow? They have the runs o.....
» 8/05/2012 12:01:49 PM Anyone driving a motor vehicle is driving on algae; albeit, laid down and metamorphosed mi.....
» 8/05/2012 10:56:58 AM Yes it is a problem? So also is forcing people with very different fundamental belief syst.....
» 8/05/2012 10:13:14 AM What would Britain look like if the Nazis had prevailed? Well, arguably not too different .....
» 7/05/2012 4:38:36 PM What needs to change, is the entirely unprovable assertions of a stone age poeples' belief.....
» 7/05/2012 4:01:54 PM We already make some of these drones right here in Australia. Yes they are small and are l.....
» 7/05/2012 3:35:47 PM I know of no individual in mandatory detention for twenty years? Which the patently mislea.....
» 7/05/2012 2:43:06 PM The graph is interesting, but fundamentally flawed, given, none of the lines actually shar.....
» 7/05/2012 2:07:25 PM As an after thought or footnote, one sees the Obama campaign being enormously assisted by .....
» 7/05/2012 12:04:31 PM I believe that Mitt Romney will be the Republican candidate. However, I believe he will en.....
» 7/05/2012 11:42:05 AM I would like a referendum on just how we address Co2 emission? Let's assume we can all agr.....
» 7/05/2012 11:08:11 AM The ultimate cost of a carbon trading scheme, the operative word being scheme, will have t.....
» 5/05/2012 11:24:23 AM Quite a few of our now east flowing rivers used to flow west? When they last flowed west, .....
» 5/05/2012 10:34:39 AM In the late sixties early seventies, a paedophile was brought before the same Scottish jud.....
» 4/05/2012 4:13:36 PM Put the matter to a referendum that asks only this question! Should we or should we not al.....
» 4/05/2012 3:56:39 PM Agree with other posters. A lot of money was expended, with forlorn time wasting, human ri.....
» 4/05/2012 3:42:24 PM There seems to be a lot of pedantic must be's in this article? As for the merge of both co.....
» 4/05/2012 3:23:20 PM Yes Geoff, you don't keep flogging a dead horse! Doing what you've always done while expec.....
» 4/05/2012 3:00:07 PM Is growth making a comeback? Not necessarily, as a commodity exporter, our growth is tied .....
» 4/05/2012 11:58:50 AM I don't believe that there is a left or right in modern politics; just an up or down, or g.....
» 4/05/2012 11:17:51 AM I agree, the European Union is arguably a union in name only. And politicians that lead ot.....
» 3/05/2012 3:27:35 PM I don't see this conflict; given, they can always turn their quite massive human and other.....
» 3/05/2012 2:54:55 PM Chinese is not a difficult language it's an almost impossible language! The very same word.....
» 3/05/2012 2:25:52 PM When Henry Parkes made his statement, the tax rates, tax breaks and comparative adjusted f.....
» 3/05/2012 1:19:44 PM As a matter of record, Paedophiles offending in public schools; once outed, were routinely.....
» 3/05/2012 11:26:57 AM We stand almost alone as the only democracy without a bill of human rights. The problems f.....
» 3/05/2012 10:40:44 AM This article seems to be both well researched and accurate. Binge/comfort eating, seems to.....
» 3/05/2012 10:01:18 AM No such guilty until proven innocent legislation or constitution changing act exists! Com.....
» 3/05/2012 8:46:02 AM Have your children at home in secret? Avoid the baby bump? All public contact? Make sure t.....
» 2/05/2012 11:32:40 AM Children have different needs to adults? Well it's self evident, of course they do! Most e.....
» 2/05/2012 11:22:31 AM I agree with the article and that the dept of veterans affairs ought to be demobed, with t.....
» 2/05/2012 10:43:41 AM In times not all that long past, our grannies were our nannies. I would rather see nannies.....
» 2/05/2012 10:01:06 AM Harmonising of endless red tape is a must for business and states alike! Before Australian.....
» 2/05/2012 9:29:10 AM There are other conventions and or rules, one of which requires elected members, to sit an.....
» 1/05/2012 5:37:50 PM I fail to find much merit in the article or its summation. Comparative bench marking, woul.....
» 1/05/2012 4:42:43 PM I believe there's not too much wrong with porn; always providing it reflects real life and.....
» 1/05/2012 3:18:42 PM Let me clear up a few points before other posters go ballistic. One doesn't need to charge.....
» 1/05/2012 2:53:26 PM A few points; the GFC was created in essence by the debt funded creation of wealth not con.....
» 1/05/2012 1:55:10 PM I don't expect it, but see merit in a 50 basis points reduction. Arguably, because it's Lo.....
» 30/04/2012 5:51:53 PM David; of course you are right about sodium density! Currently, we get about 300 kilometre.....
» 30/04/2012 4:06:12 PM I agree with Ozandy. I don't recall any example or slightest hint of a rumour, where Googl.....
» 30/04/2012 3:27:45 PM One can agree in principle with most of the article, which simply states some unavoidable .....
» 30/04/2012 2:33:26 PM Micat; we can not provide advice to people we do not know until we have to understand them.....
» 30/04/2012 1:56:18 PM Hasbeen, would you have been able to afford to own land, if a punitive annual rent/land ta.....
» 30/04/2012 11:13:23 AM If we but invent better ways of producing endlessly available and much cheaper than coal-f.....
» 30/04/2012 10:10:07 AM One of the replacement fuel options of the future will be endlessly available hydrogen. Ex.....
» 30/04/2012 9:32:47 AM Thinking inside a very limited circle or locked and bolted box of ideas, limits the questi.....
» 29/04/2012 2:30:24 PM Actually and factually Shadow, I have tertiary qualifications in three separate discipline.....
» 29/04/2012 1:55:57 PM Siller; great post and great pragmatism mate. Water is arguably the most inert substance w.....
» 29/04/2012 1:20:53 PM I saw the Motor Home story in print in a local newspaper! Newspaper publishers have a lega.....
» 29/04/2012 12:10:56 PM Technology may help drunk or fatigued drivers. There are devices, which can be fitted to a.....
» 29/04/2012 11:53:56 AM Many Physicists postulate that the known universe came into being from nothing; yet baulk .....
» 29/04/2012 10:50:37 AM A visiting Republican Senator said while speaking as a guest on Q&A; " you always rea.....
» 28/04/2012 5:16:16 PM Again I must refer to very old technology. We were able to produce hydrogen long before we.....
» 28/04/2012 4:29:24 PM It is easier and a lot less expensive to drive your drink home than to tank up at your fav.....
» 28/04/2012 11:08:42 AM Individual; thanks mate for the input. Ethiopia became a barren lunar landscape, caused by.....
» 28/04/2012 10:25:08 AM The Sahara desert was once the granary of imperial Rome. Now it is endless bone dry desert.....
» 28/04/2012 9:30:12 AM Landlords can't pass on increased charges, rates, insurance, land tax? Ha ha ha ha, oh my .....
» 27/04/2012 11:53:54 AM Its the same old story! Ignore already existing endlessly sustainable alternative systems .....
» 27/04/2012 11:02:34 AM This proposal would simply drive up rents and impact most negatively on the poorest most v.....
» 26/04/2012 4:27:27 PM I'm not at all sure we can trust any of the usual rhetoric or patent posturing coming out .....
» 26/04/2012 4:12:16 PM We only made one serious mistake in Afghanistan; that was to leave prematurely, with the&q.....
» 26/04/2012 3:35:09 PM Oh please, spare us the usual diatribe about difference or what separates us? Enough alrea.....
» 26/04/2012 2:56:29 PM Soldiers, not those who placed them in harms way or led with almost legendary incompetence.....
» 26/04/2012 1:59:13 PM Self reliance? Yes we need a small highly trained and very mobile very rapid response forc.....
» 26/04/2012 11:58:27 AM Wars are invariably caused by just a few hostile "politicians", with their hands.....
» 26/04/2012 11:02:25 AM I note that the author is unable to cost the broad bulk of his proposed initiatives? Altho.....
» 24/04/2012 11:57:26 AM So, the author apparently believes that what is required is megaphone diplomacy. Actually,.....
» 24/04/2012 11:24:18 AM I agree broadly with both Squeers and Roses1; and would add these comments. We have a medi.....
» 24/04/2012 10:35:49 AM We are told the true test of genuine intelligence is the ability to hold two conflicting v.....
» 24/04/2012 9:38:48 AM Yes we and blindly blundering America have made many foreign policy mistakes, which simply.....
» 24/04/2012 9:10:53 AM Yes constitutional principles do matter. And the constitution in the spotlight is Sweden's.....
» 23/04/2012 5:50:40 PM I simply don't buy the argument or assertions in the very anti America anti Australia arti.....
» 23/04/2012 1:02:35 PM Well researched and thoughtful article. We could do well by following Singapore's pragmati.....
» 23/04/2012 12:28:33 PM This seems to be yet another fatuous argument for the current highly flawed status quo, se.....
» 23/04/2012 11:48:05 AM This is a curious article, which seems to blame men for the conflict between the sexes? Of.....
» 22/04/2012 10:23:28 AM Obituary continued: Common Sense took a beating when you couldn't defend yourself from a b.....
» 22/04/2012 10:10:49 AM James O'Neil I agree with most of your comment except that, in your opinion, all politicia.....
» 21/04/2012 10:48:50 AM Imagine if a pre-war Nazi Germany had been able to develop nuclear weapons. They would hav.....
» 21/04/2012 10:21:40 AM The problem with current economic modelling; is it it enslaves people, when in fact it oug.....
» 21/04/2012 9:42:56 AM I agree with most of what Diver Dan says and can remember the almost obscene haste with wh.....
» 21/04/2012 9:03:56 AM No one in their right mind would choose life long discrimination or gay bashing. Or perman.....
» 20/04/2012 11:42:45 AM Show pony phoney Tony Abbott waffles on endlessly about the cost for business of the carbo.....
» 20/04/2012 11:31:45 AM Other compelling reasons to completely jettison our current ultra complex tax regime in fa.....
» 20/04/2012 10:33:28 AM Cohenite: I thought singling particular ethnic or religious communities out for "spec.....
» 19/04/2012 4:05:05 PM Cohenite: Show me in any post that I've ever posted, where I've held up either Indonesia o.....
» 19/04/2012 3:40:38 PM Well, if I were a military commander in chief, surrounded on all sides by modern military .....
» 19/04/2012 3:25:25 PM As for learning Asian languages? Why? English is now very much an international language a.....
» 19/04/2012 3:02:08 PM An incisive astute article from an erudite observer. It would be good if we could espouse .....
» 19/04/2012 1:09:13 PM There is simply no correlation between the Greens and former democrats, assassinated by Me.....
» 19/04/2012 11:57:18 AM History teaches that you can't appease dictators. This is simply seen by them as a sign of.....
» 19/04/2012 10:46:00 AM We simply have to get over this irrational fear of all things Islam. Sure there are small .....
» 18/04/2012 6:19:29 PM It's a wonder that there was enough room at the centre for all those massive intellects; o.....
» 18/04/2012 12:00:57 PM Anti Iran basis? Sure why not? Or should we simply ignore a murderous regime that simply e.....
» 18/04/2012 11:19:21 AM The Author doesn't seem to understand we already have the highest median house prices in t.....
» 18/04/2012 10:13:13 AM It seems to be a well researched article, which unlike most economic espoused evocation, s.....
» 17/04/2012 5:59:00 PM Sadly, it is hard to disagree with Diver Dan elegant and brief summation. Rhrosty......
» 17/04/2012 5:49:51 PM If one believes that Jesus died on the cross; then one has to hold in an open mind the pos.....
» 17/04/2012 4:47:38 PM The article starts describing a process of aging and perceived dementia. One school of tho.....
» 17/04/2012 1:52:54 PM Prohibition does not work! But it has created quite massive illegal international cartels .....
» 17/04/2012 1:05:38 PM I agree with other posters who see the article as fanciful? The Labour party are the autho.....
» 17/04/2012 12:13:45 PM This seems to be more of the extremely muddled thinking that patently emanates from fundam.....
» 13/04/2012 3:58:19 PM The only way Turnbull,[return bill,] can improve his position on the benches, is if there .....
» 13/04/2012 3:39:45 PM When you've had your fill of politics Julie, perhaps you could consider international jour.....
» 13/04/2012 3:03:44 PM Judging by the burial sites, compassion and empathy is nearly as old as we are? As we've e.....
» 12/04/2012 11:10:52 PM Populate or perish used to be the catch cry of many politicians, who thought that ever gre.....
» 12/04/2012 10:24:23 PM A couple of things, transmission losses averages at around 50%. Locally sourced power made.....
» 12/04/2012 12:02:02 PM I see it as a positive and the very first tottering step toward addressing the ever wideni.....
» 12/04/2012 11:43:40 AM The article is accurate; inasmuch as it highlights what is important to those who decide o.....
» 12/04/2012 10:38:04 AM It's very hard to find fault or flaw in this article. Moreover it's hard to disagree with .....
» 11/04/2012 2:59:44 PM Let me add to my previous post by saying we are not discussing pie in the sky solutions. T.....
» 11/04/2012 2:25:33 PM Let me paint an energy scenario for you. You live in a large high rise or modest village/s.....
» 5/04/2012 7:44:29 PM A well known ivy league American university, studied the careers of 300 economists, over t.....
» 5/04/2012 3:13:52 PM Julie: this is far too important issue for the business as usual politicking; of the ever .....
» 5/04/2012 2:24:58 PM Yes the young will in all likelihood; be the first generation to be worse off than their p.....
» 4/04/2012 5:11:41 PM The reason Labour needs to cut services; is because of vastly reduced tax receipts. Vastly.....
» 4/04/2012 4:32:56 PM Benjamin doesn't get it? The light on the hill is really the headlamp of the thundering st.....
» 1/04/2012 11:30:59 AM When Julia disposed Rudd just prior to the election, she made 2 critical mistakes; the fir.....
» 1/04/2012 10:48:35 AM As an aside, an interesting American study, conducted by one of their more prestigious uni.....
» 31/03/2012 6:27:08 PM India already has 2 30 megawatt thorium reactors! Pebble reactors can be factory mass prod.....
» 31/03/2012 11:02:42 AM Great article, well written and painstakingly researched! If only all our posters were as .....
» 31/03/2012 10:44:40 AM Bonmot; You're are right; the trend line ambient temperatures have been very steadily risi.....
» 30/03/2012 5:19:32 PM Yes, excesses have always proceeded empire and or financial collapse? Nero had been Emper.....
» 30/03/2012 4:36:22 PM Bonmot; I also believe in evidence based science; and the evidence says to me that the Co2.....
» 29/03/2012 5:50:07 PM I don't believe that the carbon tax altered the predictable Queensland election outcome. M.....
» 29/03/2012 5:23:20 PM It is fine to build dream castles in the clouds; but a mistake to move in and take up perm.....
» 29/03/2012 4:53:13 PM Curmugen: If you'd bothered to check with ABC's new inventers, you'd have discovered that .....
» 29/03/2012 1:18:16 PM Spin-doc; by name and nature? I lived through a time when we were the third wealthiest nat.....
» 29/03/2012 12:47:17 PM Wind is just one form of solar power! All air movement is caused by the heat emanating fro.....
» 29/03/2012 12:05:30 PM The predicted result in Queensland, was embodied in a perception that Labour had deserted .....
» 28/03/2012 3:41:21 PM One can agree with much more autonomy for schools and Principles. This would allow quite m.....
» 28/03/2012 3:18:14 PM We often punch well above our weight in almost any area of scientific endeavour; and conse.....
» 28/03/2012 2:43:21 PM Links? Try the technical library of any good university! We had history/geology etc/etc bo.....
» 28/03/2012 11:54:45 AM Ambient temperature usually refers to the recordable air temperature. The cause 90 million.....
» 28/03/2012 11:05:10 AM Yes there is and was a lot of spin pre and post the Queensland election! None more so than.....
» 27/03/2012 12:03:57 PM A week is often a long time in politics and longer in 18 months. I see things just a littl.....
» 27/03/2012 11:23:10 AM The soldier who murdered 17 innocents was twice wounded in Iraq; and on his forth tour of .....
» 26/03/2012 6:28:43 PM We know as fact that the oceans are warming, by as much as 2C in places! We know as fact t.....
» 26/03/2012 5:52:06 PM When the numbers stack up and say that one third of one percent collected as an expenditur.....
» 26/03/2012 11:55:34 AM How would we be able to distinguish and select merit? I know, we could simply reject poli.....
» 26/03/2012 11:22:54 AM The fundamental flaws in the Westminster system are arguably as old as this archaic system.....
» 15/03/2012 6:09:49 PM We confront a future that likely will include a Great Depression in Europe by 2016! We nee.....
» 15/03/2012 5:28:27 PM Alternatives that actually require a net energy input include ethanol. Or if you will, if .....
» 15/03/2012 11:54:29 AM There is an endless supply of oil! Some algae are up to 60% oil. Algae absorb up to 2.5 ti.....
» 10/03/2012 11:07:18 AM Thinking within a fixed circle of ideas or ideological imperatives, limits the questions; .....
» 9/03/2012 5:22:30 PM We need to manage the Murray from the mountains down to the sea. There are old irrigation .....
» 9/03/2012 4:55:11 PM The Irish economic miracle was created by Ireland investing in her own people and their be.....
» 8/02/2012 2:15:19 PM Everything in the known universe, including every life form extant on this planet, is one .....
» 19/01/2012 2:15:00 PM If money talks then Dr Paul is getting plenty of it! Of all the republican potential candi.....
» 17/01/2012 11:35:43 AM AS long as humans produce biological waste and that waste can be converted to methane, we .....
» 17/01/2012 11:01:28 AM We've outlawed this barbaric practise in our public hospitals! The next step has to be; to.....
» 16/01/2012 4:22:54 PM No, free trade must be truly reciprocal to be free trade; and, nobody has ever explained; .....
» 16/01/2012 3:55:47 PM I believe that pt Manning is due a dishonourable discharge and little else! It's hardly a .....
» 16/01/2012 3:38:42 PM Given all the Gillard got through a hung parliament, she simply has to be a bit smarter th.....
» 16/01/2012 3:04:18 PM Speaking as a former small business operator, one can say good reliable staff are the very.....
» 16/01/2012 2:36:48 PM I don't understand why people believe there is any argument for circumcision; that cannot .....
» 15/01/2012 11:17:22 AM Mining is by it's very nature is a dirty business; however, at current extraction rates; m.....
» 15/01/2012 10:21:18 AM Individual, I concur and agree there is a case for compulsory service; military and non mi.....
» 15/01/2012 9:53:30 AM Hasbeen, Those lemon sipping crows are probably trying to find where you've planted the sa.....
» 15/01/2012 8:55:06 AM Well the current political system in America is controlled by money and lobbyists! And Pre.....
» 15/01/2012 8:20:52 AM Tanner makes some interesting comments; and seems a lot more thoughtful as a private citiz.....
» 13/01/2012 12:16:04 PM I think the NBN will make a national curriculum easier to impose; and give recalcitrant te.....
» 13/01/2012 9:14:24 AM Common sense tells us adults ought to be in charge not children. Children ought to be enco.....
» 13/01/2012 8:41:41 AM Well written well researched cogent article, most parents with school age children will li.....
» 13/01/2012 12:54:48 AM It's like having a conversation with a pet parrot. Make it more expensive, make it more ex.....
» 12/01/2012 1:06:32 PM I think it is time Israel started to respect international opinion and gave themselves som.....
» 12/01/2012 11:38:30 AM The carbon tax is only due to be introduced in July! Little wonder it has failed to have a.....
» 11/01/2012 6:14:05 PM A convention is just that; or if you will, a gentleman's agreement rather than inflexible .....
» 11/01/2012 4:22:11 PM I watched in absolute horror as the recent disastrous Queensland floods devastated so much.....
» 11/01/2012 1:21:52 PM It's a very long way from a gong for a former PM; to the invasion of Australia by whites? .....
» 11/01/2012 11:54:47 AM Listening to any senate debate; it is clear, that our politicians come from many backgroun.....
» 11/01/2012 11:17:29 AM Why don't we run a bi-monthly fast ferry service from an agreed Indonesian port; to Christ.....
» 11/01/2012 10:30:45 AM We could argue for fish farms, where the sanitation is good and the systems are large enou.....
» 10/01/2012 3:34:41 PM We cannot marry coal seam gas extraction with the health of the MDB. These are two differe.....
» 9/01/2012 5:09:46 PM Profit and loss accounting is usually undertaken to minimise tax; and reportedly costs the.....
» 9/01/2012 4:38:56 PM A much better idea is to use preventative medicine to keep the often tragic old and frail .....
» 9/01/2012 4:18:51 PM When politicians have to wear the consequences of their decisions; those decisions are lik.....
» 7/01/2012 12:24:06 PM This argument is almost entirely predicated on a belief; that old people are useless? The.....
» 7/01/2012 11:53:02 AM Double line account keeping; allows us to privatise profits and socialise losses! At some .....
» 5/01/2012 12:43:57 PM The biggest part of the problem; is economic paradigms absolutely locked to population gro.....
» 5/01/2012 10:41:28 AM Well, I think the people of Honest John's former electorate got it right and gave him is d.....
» 5/01/2012 9:40:10 AM The election results confirm that elections are almost always decided by the one third of .....
» 4/01/2012 4:36:03 PM It's said you need to walk a mile in another mans shoes. Of course economics and disabilit.....
» 3/01/2012 10:42:20 AM You can print money, [quantitative easing,] you can print derivites, you can print bearer .....
» 3/01/2012 9:49:47 AM Invariably the do-gooders do more harm than good, be it the stolen generation; or, religio.....
» 2/01/2012 1:22:39 PM Cutting the fertility rate? Well, we already have a whole host of contraceptive measures; .....
» 2/01/2012 12:49:33 PM I agree with testing; given, its lack allowed a whole generation to grow up and leave scho.....
» 2/01/2012 12:23:12 PM There only a very few immutable facts or scientific rules connected with genuine science! .....
» 2/01/2012 12:07:24 PM Put ten economists in the same room and you'll likely get thirty different opinions; meani.....
» 25/12/2011 2:18:41 PM Why do we even bother with centralised power provision? Even with less carbon producing fu.....
» 23/12/2011 10:09:18 AM I simply don't understand why we are even having this discussion, when we can make all the.....
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