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» 23/12/2015 10:31:05 PM I thought Yuyutsu might be interested in - perhaps dismayed by - this revelation by Cardin.....
» 23/12/2015 4:34:02 PM An excellent article - and a timely one, given the obviously orchestrated campaign by Pell.....
» 19/06/2013 8:25:15 PM Bren, I don't know how you came to conclude that the article you linked us to provided &qu.....
» 13/03/2008 5:48:45 PM On the other hand, the awarding of honorary degrees can spice up student life (and don't w.....
» 13/03/2008 5:28:19 PM Well, I couldn't resist. After reading in another place (an old edition of Crikey) the fol.....
» 13/03/2008 5:07:34 PM BOAZ The NSW couple have now been released from gaol following remission of the rest of t.....
» 12/03/2008 9:03:18 PM Lolita I am thoroughly attuned to the needs of carers having been one myself on two occas.....
» 12/03/2008 6:12:02 PM Jean Tops is one of a series of articles stemming apparently from baseless media claims. A.....
» 12/03/2008 3:22:57 PM mjpb, One possible explanation: legislation can be educative. That is, legislators are ke.....
» 12/03/2008 10:18:02 AM BOAZ So you don't oppose the criminalisation of violence, just "the closeness of 'ha.....
» 11/03/2008 5:41:59 PM The level of discussion here is just so abysmal. I'm out of here - going somewhere more .....
» 11/03/2008 11:16:21 AM Typical BOAZ, generating hate and fear through misinformation and deliberate distortion: “.....
» 11/03/2008 9:52:31 AM Martin Ibn Warriq: "... perhaps you could give a 350 word precis of it [Matheson's ar.....
» 10/03/2008 10:58:40 PM Oh, for the Good Old Days when all the best people knew how to spel. And new there grandm.....
» 10/03/2008 10:54:10 PM Martin Ibn Warriq, Ross Douthat's article, which you describe as devastating, is really .....
» 10/03/2008 9:18:01 AM What is this - the Liberal Party's Wailing Wall?.....
» 10/03/2008 9:15:04 AM What, to wear the flak, to absorb some king hits, to deflect attention from the sulking fo.....
» 9/03/2008 12:09:54 PM Henry V111 says: “We need to return to the old style of education because, having brought .....
» 9/03/2008 11:22:14 AM Seeing the publication of a story about the 'Forgotten Australians' in The Age on Saturday.....
» 9/03/2008 11:11:24 AM Cheryl, think your position through logically. Why do you want employers and parents to k.....
» 8/03/2008 11:22:56 AM Cheryl: "I want to know that across the nation there's a standardised syllabus that a.....
» 8/03/2008 10:40:43 AM HenryVIII: "We need to return to the old style of education." And go back to st.....
» 7/03/2008 2:50:32 PM HRS: You claimed initially that: "Australia has only 1 university in the top 100 univ.....
» 7/03/2008 10:56:14 AM Vanilla, those who set themselves up as arbiters of taste and virtue in the English langua.....
» 7/03/2008 10:24:11 AM The author is muddle-headed, especially in his historical analysis of the alleged literacy.....
» 7/03/2008 9:29:46 AM HRS claims: "Australia has only 1 university in the top 100 universities in the world.....
» 6/03/2008 12:26:06 PM I think Jonathon Ariel goes over the top first in attributing too much significance to hon.....
» 5/03/2008 7:51:18 PM BOAZ: "...what better method of understanding either Islam or Christianity than looki.....
» 5/03/2008 4:00:54 PM Banjo Thank you for making the effort. Wish there were more like you - willing to have a .....
» 5/03/2008 12:52:23 PM Oh no! Another BOAZ. So many fears to share......
» 4/03/2008 5:15:54 PM BOAZ Your prolific postings do your cause no good. In fact, a cool assessment of the feed.....
» 4/03/2008 8:37:21 AM BOAZ on Sunday: “…you do love the adhominem don't you ‘You are dishonest/Hypocrite’. My re.....
» 3/03/2008 10:23:27 PM FrankGol: "Could the ALP's dreadful performance in NSW be related to the abysmal stan.....
» 3/03/2008 9:35:06 AM Could the ALP's dreadful performance in NSW be related to the abysmal standard of the Oppo.....
» 3/03/2008 9:31:45 AM Foxy Good fortune. We'll miss your sweet voice of reason......
» 2/03/2008 10:48:19 PM BOAZ: "... you do love the adhominem don't you 'You are dishonest/Hypocrite' My respo.....
» 1/03/2008 11:26:39 AM BOAZ: “…come back and tell me 'you (i.e. BOAZ) are distorting' and how.” For starters, BO.....
» 1/03/2008 10:47:23 AM Scotty Your post is up to your usual standard. I'm sure you've persuaded hundreds of conv.....
» 1/03/2008 12:50:53 AM KGB claims that a school book he once read once “states that marriage is legal for Aborigi.....
» 29/02/2008 11:54:10 PM runner You totally missed the point. Are you thick, or so blinded by your prejudices that.....
» 29/02/2008 5:46:28 PM Runner, It's heartening to see you have backed off your inclusion of Cronulla as among the.....
» 29/02/2008 5:24:46 PM BOAZ_David is never going to admit his prejudices, and will continue to spit out his hatre.....
» 29/02/2008 10:19:52 AM Runner: "... the thousands of innocent victims of suicide bombers. Whether you are in.....
» 29/02/2008 9:41:07 AM BOAZ got only one thing right: Migration laws prevent immigrants bringing in child brides .....
» 29/02/2008 8:45:36 AM CJ Morgan nearly spilled his coffee when he read that Boazy said: "That way...I can a.....
» 28/02/2008 7:41:06 PM BOAZ You argument is still specious. We can't both be right, I'm afraid, no matter how e.....
» 28/02/2008 4:44:09 PM BOAZ, I see you're not going to let uncomfortable facts get in the way of your prejudice. .....
» 28/02/2008 10:55:18 AM ASymeonakis, You might also be interested in a story in today's Age (http://www.theage.c.....
» 28/02/2008 10:31:29 AM BOAZ, For the second time in two days, PLEASE (you might appreciate the shout) stop attri.....
» 27/02/2008 5:20:06 PM BOAZ: "Racism laws are just that.. prevention of discrimination based on RACE...".....
» 27/02/2008 12:46:37 PM Dr Dowling's article is a masterful display of side-stepping through the minefield of vest.....
» 27/02/2008 12:14:50 PM Cheap shot, grn. But your rhetoric is transparent and ill-informed. Anti-discrimination l.....
» 27/02/2008 11:47:14 AM As an excuse for the policy of removing children from their families, Col Rouge writes: &q.....
» 27/02/2008 9:36:50 AM BOAZ: "THE ANSWER IS.....CHRIST!". Fine, but what was the question? BOAZ: ".....
» 26/02/2008 9:51:42 AM Geoff Robinson confused and bemused me. On the one hand, he implies credit when he claims.....
» 25/02/2008 10:59:57 PM In your article on Friday, Nick, you wrote: "For all that, the clear conclusion, warr.....
» 23/02/2008 1:41:14 PM Col Rouge Your arguments can hardly be described as logical and evidence-based, nor your .....
» 23/02/2008 12:05:36 AM FrankGol writes: "The question is not whether whole-word comes before or after phonic.....
» 22/02/2008 11:00:48 AM Nick Maley's article seems logical...but there's one important problem. He shows no unders.....
» 20/02/2008 11:54:23 AM Good on you Chris C. I admire your tenacity. I'm not at all shocked by the newspapers' unw.....
» 20/02/2008 10:37:23 AM Col Rouge, Ginx may have asked Graham Young to remove the racist junk but his request was.....
» 20/02/2008 10:23:01 AM Yes, what is the point this article is making? Is it an extract from a longer piece? Will .....
» 19/02/2008 11:30:44 PM FrankGol to butcher, Saturday, 16 February: "By the way, what government was in power.....
» 18/02/2008 1:51:17 PM Banjo Andrew Murray is the best of the lot (although unfortunately he is retiring from th.....
» 18/02/2008 9:47:47 AM The usual positive response from Leigh, eh?. He knows it all - doesn't need advice from an.....
» 16/02/2008 12:06:44 PM rehctub Let me know the minute you get word that the sky's about to fall in will you? I h.....
» 16/02/2008 11:54:34 AM Dear Dr Col Rouge Thank you for clarifying my muddled thinking. What would we all do with.....
» 15/02/2008 11:07:27 AM Sorry Col Rouge. I was too subtle. Next time I'll use sledgehammer - and you might feel it.....
» 15/02/2008 11:04:26 AM Beware the Col Rouges of this world who tell us that a complex phenomenon like institution.....
» 14/02/2008 7:56:42 PM plerdsus' quandary: "I still just can't work out what the attraction of marxism is.&q.....
» 14/02/2008 1:58:50 PM Lucifer Why don't you spit it out instead of being snide in your racist stereotyping? Wh.....
» 14/02/2008 10:36:09 AM That's what I love about you Leigh - always first in, and with such warmth and generosity .....
» 13/02/2008 10:42:14 PM plerdsus: "I still just can't work out what the attraction of marxism is." Yest.....
» 13/02/2008 10:36:31 PM isatoy, old white girl You personal attack on me is about as wrong as it's possible to be.....
» 13/02/2008 8:17:04 PM wassup "Aboriginals [sic] have had a free ride for far too long and all of their per.....
» 12/02/2008 4:19:15 PM BOAZ Have you no modesty? You speak for all Anglicans, now? According to you, Rowan Will.....
» 12/02/2008 2:58:40 PM David Flint writes: "Although a strong republican, I was gratified that he immediatel.....
» 11/02/2008 10:17:45 PM Rainier I'm sorry for calling you a turd. I misunderstood what you meant......
» 11/02/2008 10:30:09 AM Philo Heaven forbid, another BOAZ think-alike. When you haven't got an argument - or any .....
» 11/02/2008 10:02:40 AM katheedavis I didn't do anything wrong either - nor did my children - but I'm part of thi.....
» 11/02/2008 9:29:20 AM BOAZ You are living proof that the people with the least to say, say it most often.....
» 11/02/2008 9:24:46 AM I am 100% in support of saying sorry to the Stolen Generation, and I would extend that apo.....
» 9/02/2008 6:41:32 PM Rainier So huffnuff is "piggy backing on our struggles"?... "Our"? .....
» 9/02/2008 5:55:47 PM Huffnpuff One day, the Forgotten Australians will shed that skin and be known as the Reme.....
» 7/02/2008 2:53:54 PM Banjo Good on you. Your suggestions and willingness to lend support are valued and much a.....
» 7/02/2008 7:34:49 AM OK BOAZ Let's apply YOUR rules of engagement: "I suggest...that when it comes to 'ri.....
» 6/02/2008 9:56:22 PM BOAZ After all your claptrap, what you mean is that you have no argument or evidence but .....
» 6/02/2008 3:07:26 PM Boaz Crude attempts to manufacture fear by manipulative disinformation and specious argum.....
» 4/02/2008 12:45:24 PM Edward Carson is silent on the fate of his hero, Janet Albrechsen, whose hopelessly biased.....
» 4/02/2008 11:43:22 AM perikles You had a tough time no doubt, and you have my sincere sympathy. As do all kids .....
» 4/02/2008 10:00:21 AM huffnpuff, You're keeping up the good fight. And you have so much support on OLO. Your q.....
» 3/02/2008 12:49:52 PM Edward Carson Your commentary would have more credibility if your logic were clear and co.....
» 31/01/2008 10:38:00 AM For reasons best known to himself, Mr Kennelly perpetuates a false dichotomy; but support .....
» 31/01/2008 10:11:16 AM BOAZ_David, You are the winner of this month's Hackneyed Medal. ("hackneyed - adje.....
» 28/01/2008 5:51:36 PM robinL, I think you're on to something there. Archbishop Pell for Late Night Live. Think.....
» 27/01/2008 10:16:18 PM Edward Carson asks: "Why should taxpayers who choose not to watch, be forced to finan.....
» 26/01/2008 1:00:31 PM GrahamY Thanks for the information about how you chose this item. So that's the method -.....
» 26/01/2008 12:44:06 PM And Happy Republic Day for all our Indian friends......
» 24/01/2008 7:30:42 PM SusanP This was one of the 40 best blogs for 2007, you say? I'm absolutely gobsmacked! .....
» 24/01/2008 9:27:21 AM OLO is getting stale. Scraping the bottom of the barrel with this punch-drunk wannabe cult.....
» 23/01/2008 9:42:32 PM JimF Throwing labels around beats putting up a decent argument, doesn't it James? Beats c.....
» 23/01/2008 10:46:30 AM Yes, David......
» 22/01/2008 3:37:29 PM So James Franklin thinks I haven’t taken on board a word of what he said (i.e. agreed with.....
» 22/01/2008 10:48:34 AM A very conservative and narrow explication of Catholic social justice which supports the s.....
» 21/01/2008 1:45:07 PM He's got to get back on the tablets......
» 20/01/2008 10:05:28 AM Shocker and BOAZ You really know how to hate, don't you Shocker? You need two posts to ev.....
» 17/01/2008 8:09:23 PM recycle myths 1000 points Display ignorance 1000 points Peddle hate 1000 points Game ov.....
» 16/01/2008 10:51:08 PM BOAZ On 6 December 2007, you started this thread with this paraphrase of a Herald-Sun ne.....
» 15/01/2008 2:57:20 PM BOAZ I used to think you were just a bit thick, but what characterises much of your &quo.....
» 15/01/2008 11:37:38 AM Shadow Minister You have it all wrong. Under my proposal unions would have no power whats.....
» 15/01/2008 11:12:55 AM A lucid and reasoned account of a political position. Not once were the terms political 'l.....
» 14/01/2008 3:45:00 PM RobP You misrepresent the case - and probably misapprehend it too. What's with your &quo.....
» 14/01/2008 10:06:01 AM If it's true - as found in the survey - that more than 60 per cent of non-union workers ad.....
» 14/01/2008 9:57:23 AM wizofaus: "A ground-breaking article conclusively demonstrating that the English lang.....
» 14/01/2008 9:11:38 AM Shockaholic asks: "Where are the great Islamic thinkers, artists, scientists? Can't t.....
» 5/01/2008 6:07:47 PM Happy New Year to you Shocker, I find your dissertations on contemporary multiculturalism.....
» 3/01/2008 6:58:11 AM How about a self-regulating demerit system on OLO to cut down on the inane use of the term.....
» 2/01/2008 11:44:28 AM Romany Spot on......
» 1/01/2008 5:01:17 PM wizofaus, 1. What weren't "her own actions"? Taking leave from QANTAS and join.....
» 1/01/2008 2:24:52 PM R0bert, The issue here is truly one of definition. And who is doing the defining, and for.....
» 1/01/2008 1:22:32 PM wizofaus, 1. Simply, individuals can't always take responsibility for their own actions e.....
» 1/01/2008 11:41:57 AM BOAZ-David: With your usual precision you declare that the Australian Constitution has th.....
» 31/12/2007 8:08:10 PM Left, right. Right, wrong. Orange, green. Mind, body. Universal, particular. Emotio.....
» 31/12/2007 12:56:42 PM Horus Your eulogy for Benazir Bhutto was written before today's OLO article by Saleem M. .....
» 31/12/2007 12:26:35 PM wizofus, 1. Life does not always amount to all that we are capable of or want. People imp.....
» 31/12/2007 11:09:13 AM Foxy and others See Irfan Yusuf's article in today's Age: http://www.theage.com.au/news/.....
» 31/12/2007 10:44:07 AM Wizofus, you’re right to admit that your statements, in their bare form, don’t make you so.....
» 30/12/2007 12:44:37 PM Hi Michael All power to your arm. Good luck to you for the future. Remember CLAN and the.....
» 26/12/2007 9:25:48 AM Shocker: "The black hole strikes again." So that's it! That explains all! It mu.....
» 24/12/2007 8:08:33 PM Shocker Go easy on the dynamite and arsenic over Xmas. And watch out for kirpans under th.....
» 24/12/2007 6:51:38 PM Jack the Lad For once I agree with you. I'm wasting time with Shockadelic. Merry Xmas......
» 24/12/2007 5:12:34 PM Shockadelic You're a rank amateur. Your analogies are not just false - they are preposter.....
» 24/12/2007 10:25:43 AM Letter at Xmas: "Don't trust George. Don't trust McClelland. Trust Leigh. Signed Lei.....
» 24/12/2007 10:13:36 AM Thanks for your thoughts Helen, not only on what being un-Australian might mean but on how.....
» 24/12/2007 9:59:33 AM The traumatic experiences of the Iraq war are just a contemporary version of phenomena we .....
» 23/12/2007 11:41:52 AM Nah, Jack, I didn't want to waste any more time on you. Wasting it on BOAZ instead. Happy.....
» 22/12/2007 6:23:36 PM Good on you Michael. Hang in there mate. It takes guts to do what you are doing, and deter.....
» 22/12/2007 2:18:38 PM mickijo I take that deflection to mean you haven't a clue how to answer these simple ques.....
» 22/12/2007 1:08:04 PM BOAZ: "Never..never..NEVER be so silly people as to think that the cries for 'Multi-C.....
» 21/12/2007 12:29:45 PM Nah, Jack the Lad. I don't want to waste any more time......
» 20/12/2007 10:16:18 AM Foxy In other words, you can't find any evidence to back up the absurd proposition that k.....
» 19/12/2007 10:18:53 PM Paul.L, & Foxy and others Please feel free to join in the research. We're looking for th.....
» 19/12/2007 10:05:35 PM uninformed Uninformed and brain-dead......
» 19/12/2007 2:58:28 PM Jack You're so inoculated against the truth. You assert X to be the case and then, when.....
» 19/12/2007 1:18:44 PM Jack Yes, Wikipedia can be edited and 'corrected' by other users, the BBC can't (although.....
» 19/12/2007 12:32:30 PM Perhaps, David you could sort out the differences between these words from ex-PM Howard: .....
» 18/12/2007 9:37:22 PM Why didn't someone tell me to look up Jack's kilt?.....
» 18/12/2007 4:07:10 PM Jack the Lad I pointed to two sources, not one: 1. 'The Invention of Tradition' by Eric .....
» 18/12/2007 11:07:34 AM Yindin, You are obviously nursing grievances that do not relate to Muriel Bamblett's arti.....
» 18/12/2007 10:15:43 AM Botheration, There’s no need to go to a library to read the Forgotten Australians Report......
» 17/12/2007 11:41:58 PM BOAZ_David You just don't get it, do you? For a while I thought you were a bit of a shrew.....
» 17/12/2007 7:52:54 PM SAINTS Good on you. I appreciate what you are trying to do for the Forgotten Australians......
» 17/12/2007 3:19:00 PM Jack the Lad, I've shown you my sources. Will ye now show me thine?.....
» 17/12/2007 2:50:10 PM mickijo, Are you the same mickijo who on Saturday, 8 December 2007 was asked three quick .....
» 16/12/2007 5:43:36 PM kactuz, Nobody with any integrity (or intelligence) quotes Enoch Powell these days. He wa.....
» 16/12/2007 4:56:24 PM mickijo That's such a brilliant rejoinder. I bet it took you the whole weekend to 'think'.....
» 16/12/2007 4:53:49 PM Jack the Lad, Is the sgean dhu a symbol of a Scots religious tradition? Or part of any a.....
» 16/12/2007 12:00:28 PM SAINTS In Victoria, judges are using case precedent to deal with the Statute of Limitatio.....
» 15/12/2007 8:27:46 PM Fencepost I take it you are a serious person with a genuine question: "Why should we.....
» 15/12/2007 7:56:50 PM SAINTS It's good that you've stumbled over this site. Do you know about CLAN (Care Leav.....
» 15/12/2007 5:50:47 PM Muriel Bamblett, As you rightly point out, the existing model of foster care is a false d.....
» 15/12/2007 4:14:35 PM kactuz This is semi-literate twaddle. Your sources are selective, unreliable and lack aut.....
» 15/12/2007 1:00:07 PM Horus You say: "If one raises the issue of poor starving Africans, ones a campaigner.....
» 14/12/2007 5:56:34 PM Bring on the several by-elections that Costello, Downer, Ruddock, McGuaran et al are likel.....
» 13/12/2007 8:10:16 PM Paul.L, Which is the more lethal in the hands of violent student, a ceremonial student k.....
» 12/12/2007 8:24:50 PM Paul.L You make good sense up to a point. The analogy with house insurance is much more r.....
» 12/12/2007 10:21:26 AM Corri BOAZ_David tells you that "Jihad" is already occurring here. And his ev.....
» 12/12/2007 9:35:53 AM Leigh, It was all just a bad dream. You should never talk about those nasty 'Howard-Hater.....
» 12/12/2007 12:05:28 AM Horus, Democracies are fragile, and there's where I prefer to live as opposed to theocrac.....
» 11/12/2007 11:34:55 PM BOAZ_David I don't know why I'm bothering - your post is so spectacularly unintelligent a.....
» 11/12/2007 10:31:30 AM I agree with healthwatcher about this article. What would make it even more useful would b.....
» 10/12/2007 5:11:46 PM ChrisPer, Can you run that past me again? The ALP won government because 'fewer than 12,0.....
» 10/12/2007 3:16:45 PM Is this ‘debate’ the worst ever? From a news item about re-affirming an existing Labor/Coa.....
» 10/12/2007 12:47:41 PM BOAZ_David and SCOTTY Why such an hysterical response? Where do you get all this hate and.....
» 9/12/2007 8:43:48 PM Col Rouge You need some 60s music as accompaniment to this Col. Come out from looking und.....
» 8/12/2007 12:06:54 PM mickijo I hate to be a nuisance, but three quick questions of clarification please. 1. C.....
» 8/12/2007 12:00:39 PM Col Rouge tells me that my 'ability to misread people ensures you would not help anyone.' .....
» 7/12/2007 5:31:21 PM Mercurius Welcome to the OLO casualty station. Don't worry, yours are just superficial wo.....
» 7/12/2007 4:37:30 PM baldpaul You say that Mr Howard was a "great" (not "fairly good") Pri.....
» 7/12/2007 2:10:31 PM Hi huffnpuff A merry Xmas and a happy new year to you, Michael, and to all those Forgotte.....
» 7/12/2007 10:49:49 AM runner You don’t give up on trying tired old debating tricks, do you? Trick number 4: Pr.....
» 7/12/2007 10:28:31 AM Bertrand’s essay is a useful short description of Howard’s political biography, but it fai.....
» 6/12/2007 3:55:18 PM runner Three of the oldest debating trick in the world and among the most transparent: .....
» 6/12/2007 2:53:40 PM No, Col Rouge, yours is not not the 'voice of experience' but the voice of a sanctimonious.....
» 6/12/2007 12:57:56 PM R0bert I suppose if a Party were saying they were going to rip up WorkChoices and introdu.....
» 6/12/2007 10:42:20 AM What a tragic response from Leigh - a tired old grump who stopped thinking last century. I.....
» 6/12/2007 9:41:31 AM Stephen This is a sad article. I wondered where your voice has been for the past decade......
» 5/12/2007 11:01:29 AM Dr Justin Rose says this article is “…classic, ideologically-driven rhetoric in which blam.....
» 5/12/2007 9:52:28 AM Ms Vickers Every serious political analyst in the nation and almost all Liberal MPs agree.....
» 4/12/2007 8:15:35 PM The IQ paradigm is based on a number of key assumptions which can be depicted as a pair of.....
» 4/12/2007 6:37:55 PM dickie You said: "A nation and its morality is judged by the way it treats its anima.....
» 4/12/2007 4:36:57 PM Col Rouge Yes I am indeed speculating on how you think. And you are probably right to say.....
» 3/12/2007 8:40:22 PM Bugsy You say: "IQ tests do not measure intelligence, rather they may measure a weak.....
» 3/12/2007 2:43:11 PM Col Rouge I notice how you've deflected your answer - again. You can't say how you would .....
» 3/12/2007 1:31:54 PM Ozzie You don’t deny that “Anglo's are involved in crime”. However, you make unsubstantia.....
» 3/12/2007 10:28:53 AM Col Rouge says: "I acknowledge and respect your right to be wrong." Is it a uni.....
» 3/12/2007 10:24:17 AM The future of WorkChoices? Former workplace relations minister Joe Hockey has described W.....
» 3/12/2007 9:15:09 AM SCOTTY Thank you for your comic dissertation on race and intelligence. However, I think y.....
» 3/12/2007 8:56:45 AM Poor Julie Vickers Was wetting her knickers; But now she rejoices For saving WorkChoices .....
» 3/12/2007 8:26:21 AM I'll wager that SCOTTY will be an impoverished eunuch......
» 3/12/2007 8:21:31 AM Ozzie In “the last few days”, * Three Kangaroos players - Aaron Edwards, Shannon Grant a.....
» 2/12/2007 5:12:12 PM Keith asks: “Please show me where I used abuse.” Try this quote: “Labor Acadamics. (Somewh.....
» 1/12/2007 11:54:52 PM Keith You can indulge in denial and abuse. I’ll stick to the facts to explain the third l.....
» 1/12/2007 1:11:46 PM Huffnpuff asks: “why is it that you col rouge didn't have any heart in anwering my quest.....
» 30/11/2007 4:22:54 PM I do not agree with the thrust of Kerry Corke's article - that the Labor Party is confirme.....
» 30/11/2007 3:47:42 PM The ALP will probably win more than one more election if the Coalition Party and its suppo.....
» 30/11/2007 2:53:40 PM CoogeeGal I'm sorry for what happened to your mother and to the many, many other Aborigin.....
» 25/11/2007 9:48:22 PM RobP says: "You've just said what Liberty said, but used baby language instead. Why b.....
» 25/11/2007 9:33:21 PM David If you're serious about the truth of these matters - I know Banjo would prefer to r.....
» 25/11/2007 8:55:59 PM David Senate Committees have all-Party membership. If one Party thinks the information is.....
» 25/11/2007 2:32:20 PM Banjo What are you? Spinmeister from Central Casting or just a fundamentalist in denial? .....
» 25/11/2007 1:55:00 PM huffnpuff Hi to you. CLAN has already communicated with Kevin Rudd about the Forgotten Au.....
» 24/11/2007 12:47:07 PM Q&A You say: "there is a school of thought that says this 'leak' was carefully conco.....
» 24/11/2007 11:11:35 AM Possible answers to some questions. Question: Describe the outcome if a Liberal Party mem.....
» 23/11/2007 2:54:48 PM TurnRightThenLeft, Your: "Subversive-tree-hugging-commie-pinko-latte-chardonnay-sipp.....
» 23/11/2007 11:02:08 AM History Buff You say: "The reason we're not hearing about the war, is beacause we're.....
» 23/11/2007 10:53:37 AM Xavier You missed some of the milestones, but I'm sure other right-minded people can help.....
» 23/11/2007 10:40:02 AM Question: Describe the outcome if a Liberal Party member had not tipped off the ALP that t.....
» 22/11/2007 3:49:13 PM Reynard: "I would like to clarify that Objective Thinker is not me writing under anot.....
» 22/11/2007 3:18:59 PM mickijo I wouldn't be focussing on the State Governments at this late stage of the elect.....
» 22/11/2007 11:20:54 AM Thank you for this important article. In the political sphere, the issue of 'privacy' is.....
» 21/11/2007 11:07:29 PM Liberty Thanks for taking the time to give clarification. Now I understand. 1. The marke.....
» 20/11/2007 2:57:00 PM petal I agree with you about the facile claims of private school parents who tell anyone .....
» 20/11/2007 1:10:49 PM citizen Have you any evidence to put before us for this serious allegation? Put up or wit.....
» 18/11/2007 7:03:49 AM The stories circulating here in Victoria are that, if the Liberals lose on Saturday - and .....
» 17/11/2007 11:22:07 PM tommybob Don't lay your smug self-righteousness on us. Some of us have very good reason.....
» 17/11/2007 3:03:13 PM Costello would be worse for the Liberals than Howard. The Libs have got to go for some re.....
» 16/11/2007 8:39:38 AM It's now becoming obvious that the Liberal Party has a succession crisis which is unmanage.....
» 15/11/2007 5:59:21 PM Liberty Let's see if I understand your economic theory. Employers generously offer top w.....
» 15/11/2007 5:34:12 PM DSBCK Despite those who say there's no place for unions today, unions offer insurance aga.....
» 15/11/2007 11:12:45 AM Pondering, You said: "Everyone who leaves a comment on OLO is so bloody left wing i.....
» 15/11/2007 10:06:45 AM Mr Deane's posting is, to use his words, 'deeply strange'. But why should we be surprised .....
» 15/11/2007 8:57:29 AM DSBCK Is your husband a member of a union?.....
» 14/11/2007 11:07:25 AM Here's what a well-placed Liberal Party member sent me back in May: "If you are inte.....
» 14/11/2007 8:48:15 AM Sr Joan You say: "I think that I am now retiring from this discussion as my knowledg.....
» 13/11/2007 10:47:17 PM Celivia Well said. I'm with you on respect and freedom. Given the flagrant discriminati.....
» 13/11/2007 10:34:13 PM Sr Joan The 'threat' of the prospect of all the students who attend non-Government school.....
» 13/11/2007 2:03:28 PM ozzie, I noticed that all the Victoria Police senior officers involved in the current sca.....
» 13/11/2007 11:23:44 AM There is no phanto. Just a pain......
» 12/11/2007 2:58:06 PM joanw_op We know that federal money for primary and secondary education is combined with .....
» 12/11/2007 2:06:31 PM 61 I've had a ball with this post. Though your parroty was a bit unsubtle. My friends ar.....
» 12/11/2007 1:47:56 PM Pericles, "Mere opinion, I'm afraid, FrankGol. No statistics, just observation at th.....
» 12/11/2007 8:26:25 AM 61 Oh dear, I presented a pastiche of your words and some from others, and you didn't eve.....
» 10/11/2007 10:12:26 PM Hey Ditch Thanks for the link. Can I trust it, though? After all: (a) the data is releva.....
» 10/11/2007 5:18:47 PM CJ Morgan I owe you an abject apology. Wasn't JP Morgan a plutocrat in the US banking and.....
» 10/11/2007 1:53:29 PM Ditch I over-estimated the intelligence levels of many OLO posters and under-estimated the.....
» 10/11/2007 1:41:00 PM Shockadelic Your poetry is better than your prose. And your baby talk is superior to you.....
» 10/11/2007 1:33:36 PM BOAZ_David, I read your double-instalment 612-word post in search of an argument in suppo.....
» 10/11/2007 12:59:51 PM Ditch, JP Morgan's link has a redundant symbol at the end which invalidates the link. Tr.....
» 9/11/2007 1:06:25 PM Andrew, A timely article. I know it's true that there are lots of Liberals who would su.....
» 9/11/2007 8:50:45 AM Outside Observer, Thank you for at least taking the time and making the effort to underst.....
» 8/11/2007 10:56:58 PM 61, Personal abuse, I thought, was assigned to unions. But you’ve shown I was wrong. You.....
» 8/11/2007 10:41:07 PM Phanto When the Senate Committee tabled "Forgotten Australians", several Senato.....
» 8/11/2007 5:56:25 PM huffnpuff Good on you! Well said. phanto You're perceptive to notice 'highly emotive l.....
» 8/11/2007 1:51:28 PM Dear 61 1. I am not a union member, so it's not possible for me to be a union rep. 2. Fa.....
» 8/11/2007 1:08:03 PM Hey Shocker Your pretty good on transcription. You'll set hearts racing with that wondrou.....
» 8/11/2007 11:45:28 AM CJ Morgan I set out the facts in my first post and then decided I wasn’t going to do more.....
» 7/11/2007 11:25:51 PM 61 Where have you been? Counting sheep? "If you will insist on quoting a statistic o.....
» 7/11/2007 10:44:35 PM Pericles I'm accused of offering a fact whereas you offered an opinion - as if opinion ha.....
» 7/11/2007 5:16:49 PM Jonathan So private toll roads are in too. Now, can you show us how you costed your propo.....
» 7/11/2007 3:38:16 PM DEMOS, You use the word 'retribution' where others might use the word 'justice'. Of cou.....
» 7/11/2007 2:44:20 PM In bagging Labor's Solar Schools Policy, Ariel's simplistic cost-benefit analysis conclude.....
» 7/11/2007 12:21:31 PM Haygirl, It's great to see you plugging away. Tenacity is one of your obvous strengths. .....
» 7/11/2007 10:40:58 AM Pericles You say: "Simply quoting a claim made by someone else - who, by the way, h.....
» 6/11/2007 10:06:33 PM Ditch I see you have no response on the Liberal lie campaign which you have been supporti.....
» 6/11/2007 8:43:00 AM Shockadelic Did you know the Melbourne Cup is on today? And I hear there's a grey that mi.....
» 5/11/2007 11:23:22 PM Ditch Why would Julia Gillard waste time on the Liberals anti-union ad that says 70% of t.....
» 5/11/2007 10:33:10 PM David I agree with your starting point - that there is a problem with my use of the term .....
» 5/11/2007 5:26:04 PM I’ve been thinking of the Liberals anti-union ad, you know the one that says 70% of the La.....
» 5/11/2007 4:02:14 PM Rhian That's a pretty shrewd and well-balanced assessment. But you've left out one big .....
» 5/11/2007 3:48:39 PM Belly Thanks for your enlightened support. And I'm sure your workmate appreciated your su.....
» 5/11/2007 11:03:10 AM Kuma Think of it in terms of who wins and who loses when nations sign up to human rights .....
» 5/11/2007 10:35:57 AM Bugsy There are lots of sites that discuss the benefits of unions and I've listed a few i.....
» 5/11/2007 9:24:56 AM Ditch and credibility: "Evidence that union members earn $118 / week more than non m.....
» 4/11/2007 10:58:52 PM Ditch You say: "There is no support for your claim in your link." There's none.....
» 4/11/2007 7:19:07 PM Shockadelic What are we to do with the 54 ethnic groups recognized as Vietnamese by the V.....
» 4/11/2007 2:18:19 PM Shockadelic Thank you. Your wikipedia source was quite helpful. http://en.wikipedia.org/.....
» 4/11/2007 1:22:12 PM Ditch I’m not here to be your research assistant, but I’ll ‘try again’ at your earnest re.....
» 3/11/2007 6:14:28 PM Ditch I take it you’re serious in your quest for information about unions, rather than ju.....
» 3/11/2007 1:58:05 PM Pericles I’m glad I’ve made you happy – except you complain that I haven’t told you what .....
» 3/11/2007 1:00:54 PM David You had a sad and no doubt frightening experience. But, tell me, what has all tha.....
» 2/11/2007 7:00:13 PM Pericles When you sort out the chaff from the wheat in everything you've said, this what .....
» 2/11/2007 6:48:01 PM David We are not fighting each other – well I’m not fighting anyway. You are fighting som.....
» 2/11/2007 9:57:01 AM Chris While the methodology and definition of (un)employed may not have changed in a long.....
» 1/11/2007 10:58:50 PM BOAZ_David Philip Tang gave us a short answer to the question about moving from empirical.....
» 1/11/2007 5:47:09 PM grn, Apart from your ‘typo’, you are quite wrong about the ABS intermarriage statistics. .....
» 1/11/2007 1:56:32 PM Shockadelic I'll spell it out: There is no such thing as 'the Vietnamese race' as a sing.....
» 1/11/2007 8:51:33 AM David One major difference between us is that I don't think reducing the differences need.....
» 31/10/2007 10:24:59 PM Davo You say: "People in ethnically diverse communities are less likely than people .....
» 31/10/2007 10:11:08 PM Arjay Forget the earwax. What the story with Alan Jones?.....
» 31/10/2007 5:39:50 PM EasyTimes or Michael Jonas You assert that “…a massive new study, based on detailed inte.....
» 31/10/2007 3:51:39 PM Pericles You've upset me? Nah! If your logic and evidence were better, I might be upset. .....
» 31/10/2007 2:51:43 PM Yes, I think unions are often thuggish. You should see how the Bar Council of Victoria tre.....
» 31/10/2007 1:16:12 PM Shockadelic As a seeker after knowledge and wisdom, I mistook your 'rhetroical' questions.....
» 31/10/2007 10:58:10 AM BOAZ_David, My hat! Here's a first. I find myself more in favour of than against one of .....
» 31/10/2007 10:45:00 AM Shockadelic When you say: 'The "race" of Vietnam and the "race" of It.....
» 30/10/2007 11:13:23 PM Arjay says: "Frank the 60% of QLD PS bureaucrats in Kevin's reign in the health servi.....
» 30/10/2007 8:41:42 PM After trying more than once in vain to get Arjay to show how his proposition works that it.....
» 30/10/2007 8:24:34 PM Grn You accuse me of being “utterly misleading” in my quoting of ABS stats. I went to t.....
» 30/10/2007 7:32:06 PM Arjay You claim that: "When Kevin Rudd was in charge of health in Queensland 60% of .....
» 30/10/2007 5:03:48 PM palimpsest Your "experience as an employer, as a manager and as a worker has been th.....
» 30/10/2007 4:45:10 PM grn, hurling abuse at people who, you anticipate, may disagree with you is hardly a useful.....
» 30/10/2007 2:45:08 PM Pericles laments: "I don't mind defending things that I say, but I obviously can't de.....
» 29/10/2007 10:52:21 PM BOAZ_David, I'm pleased that you enjoy my 'strident moralistic overtures'. I wish I coul.....
» 29/10/2007 10:29:52 PM I said: Arjay's own little scare campaign: "If Kevin romps in with a huge margin,then.....
» 29/10/2007 2:50:32 PM Pericles On your argument, unions are necessasry where employers are incompetent (as you .....
» 29/10/2007 12:06:43 PM Pericles lives in a parallel virtual universe: "The fact is that there is no real nee.....
» 29/10/2007 11:19:46 AM VK3AUU What's my ilness due to? Shockerholic's total lack of logic has given me the sh**s.....
» 29/10/2007 11:17:03 AM Arjay's own little scare campaign: "If Kevin romps in with a huge margin,then we the .....
» 28/10/2007 3:23:52 PM Shockadelic It seems that, when faced with actual evidence that demonstrates your ignoran.....
» 27/10/2007 12:48:50 PM Arjay Sexual abuse and exploitation of children is criminal wherever it occurs and whenev.....
» 27/10/2007 12:38:19 PM Shockadelic Your misunderstanding of the White Australia Policy confirms the ignorance o.....
» 26/10/2007 6:28:13 PM johncee1945 It's interesting to have this tragic story put into an international perspect.....
» 26/10/2007 11:04:49 AM huffnpuff, haygirl, Wilma, Bernie and others Please have a look at today's new article on.....
» 26/10/2007 10:51:05 AM A very clear, wide-ranging article exposing the moral bankruptcy of governments, churches .....
» 25/10/2007 8:26:10 PM I say Carson, old China, pass the snifter will you. And listen up, tight, if you knows wha.....
» 25/10/2007 3:35:57 PM Shockadelic I can't decide which topic you know less about - Christ's philosophy or Austr.....
» 25/10/2007 3:26:10 PM anti-green You concede that it's a non sequitur but you point out that Mussolini was a s.....
» 25/10/2007 11:25:52 AM Well said Wobbles. Have you ever met a non-unionist who refused to put their hand out to a.....
» 25/10/2007 11:16:24 AM Mirko Bagaric picks out four instances where the ALP has supported the Coalition: - interv.....
» 24/10/2007 12:17:10 PM Runner I asked you: Which part of my post (or CJM's) made a claim about left and right? Y.....
» 24/10/2007 9:25:36 AM Runner Why not comment on the content of what I say - and just what I say - rather than c.....
» 23/10/2007 10:57:01 AM BOAZ_David, Your usual cold 'Christian' response to a tragic story. In your eyes, that's .....
» 22/10/2007 12:25:15 PM lizz-the-yank I will apologise for your arrogance and insensitivity to Stephen Hagan and .....
» 22/10/2007 10:54:46 AM Haygirl and Wilma I agree with Liftingtherug. You are both strong people and your example.....
» 21/10/2007 1:08:52 PM Edward You're becoming more confused with each posting. Your definition of fraud - ".....
» 20/10/2007 1:18:11 PM Edward Carson asks: "what harm has [Pratt] actually caused to society?" Or ".....
» 19/10/2007 3:15:42 PM Let's get this in perspective. Richard Pratt is facing a fine tipped to be in the order of.....
» 19/10/2007 10:12:18 AM David Flint shamelessly argues that criticisms of his mate, industrial conman Richard Prat.....
» 17/10/2007 11:08:01 AM I can match the anecdotes about being refused simple information "because it will bre.....
» 15/10/2007 2:30:48 PM JOHN HOWARD........"RIGHT" leadership. KEVIN RUDD........."NEW" Leade.....
» 15/10/2007 11:29:41 AM Graham I couldn't quite follow your thinking in this article. Making judgments about pol.....
» 11/10/2007 2:16:57 PM Hey EasyTimes If, as you say, "we are all born equally but the culture you grow up i.....
» 11/10/2007 1:10:53 PM Communicat A most unconvincing 'explanation'. This is the first reference to a possible.....
» 10/10/2007 4:44:28 PM So Communicat Yesterday you believed the report was 'fundamentally flawed' and there was .....
» 10/10/2007 10:23:31 AM CJ Morgan I wouldn't waste too much time on the so-called 'People Against Live Exports & .....
» 10/10/2007 9:46:07 AM Communicat Can you tell me what the benchmark figure is for a data base to be considered .....
» 9/10/2007 7:09:32 PM Hey SCOTTY Ad nauseum, you've called everyone with whom you disagree, 'selfish pricks'. I.....
» 9/10/2007 7:01:35 PM Let's put the labels aside - how about a moratorium on the words 'left' and 'right'; they .....
» 8/10/2007 10:00:51 AM BOAZ_David, Re your claim that an Islamic scholarly source gave the green light for Musli.....
» 7/10/2007 5:56:34 PM Hey SCOTTY I love your colourful (oops!) language. First you had "sub saharan black.....
» 7/10/2007 11:09:28 AM sharkfin Who was your History teacher? Cute! "World War 1 was not caused by the West.....
» 6/10/2007 3:43:34 PM mickijo, you've given me a hellova a scare: "Our streets are full of menace and there.....
» 6/10/2007 12:55:45 PM Sharkfin asks: "Why the hell do they [Sudanese] have to come half way across the worl.....
» 5/10/2007 11:59:44 AM Paul No matter how wantonly you interpret what I said, I don't endorse propaganda or coun.....
» 5/10/2007 10:39:08 AM Ben-Peter Terpstra set out to 'analyse' seven classroom history books and claimed he found.....
» 5/10/2007 9:40:39 AM Pericles One of the consequences of globalisation and diversified mass immigration has be.....
» 4/10/2007 5:50:04 PM David, I try to make my posts 'restrained and balanced', sticking to evidence-based facts.....
» 4/10/2007 11:38:20 AM garpet1 Your questions are straight-forward: 1. What (if any) rights do countries who a.....
» 18/09/2007 2:48:45 PM mickijo, If I thought you were really interested I'd recommend a large bibliography outli.....
» 18/09/2007 2:19:58 PM aqvarivs So we can look forward to your vigorous postings on OLO whenever the agrarian so.....
» 18/09/2007 10:44:37 AM haygirl & huffnpuff I've just found the forum you referred to. Thanks for alerting me to .....
» 18/09/2007 10:41:42 AM huffnpuff and haygirl Thanks for drawing my attention to this forum which I didn't know a.....
» 17/09/2007 11:06:05 PM huffnpuff, I have made several references to the Senate Report on the Forgotten Australia.....
» 17/09/2007 6:28:32 PM aqvarivs Oh, so that's it. I get it. It's not being federated but being lobby groups - th.....
» 17/09/2007 2:04:19 PM Dear old mickijo! "There is none so blind as the ALP fanatics. None." I'll bet .....
» 17/09/2007 1:56:57 PM aqvarivs, You told me to ‘hit any online dictionary or flip through any printed dictiona.....
» 16/09/2007 10:53:50 PM Chris C There you go - spoiling Ariel's ALP-hating with pertinent facts. Go easy on him, .....
» 16/09/2007 10:49:28 PM liftingtherug Good for you for reminding us what we are dealing with here......
» 16/09/2007 5:58:57 PM aqvarivs You say: 'You can not separate out ethnicity and culture, they develop from the .....
» 16/09/2007 1:22:47 PM aqvarivs I apologise for over-estimating your English language comprehension. To 'elide' .....
» 15/09/2007 2:13:00 PM aqvarivs Notice how easily you elide 'ethnicity' and 'culture' - four times no less? They.....
» 15/09/2007 1:18:54 AM The debate about multiculturalism continues after all this time for several good reasons. .....
» 13/09/2007 4:56:47 PM BOAZ_David As his Campaign Manager, I have a question. If I vote 1 for the Messiah, what.....
» 12/09/2007 6:06:41 PM Nor do you seem to know much about the Party......
» 12/09/2007 10:51:24 AM Jonathon Ariel admits upfront that 'current polling is indeed a shock for conservatives (i.....
» 10/09/2007 11:27:12 AM Senator Bartlett is spot on with his opening comments: 'Governments are fond of asserting.....
» 10/09/2007 10:28:39 AM Shockadelic zzzzzzzzzzzzz... oh sorry, were you saying something?.....
» 10/09/2007 10:20:39 AM online_east Irish terrorists have been known to strike fear into the hearts of Englanders.....
» 7/09/2007 8:07:33 PM I've got it Shocker. You've got me pegged. I'm really one of those nutters who believes t.....
» 7/09/2007 7:57:46 PM Shockadelic resigns himself to "constant misinterpretation and contemptuous bullying .....
» 7/09/2007 9:33:07 AM Very droll Julie Vickers. You're a fine judge - I'll nominate you for the Chaser script-wr.....
» 5/09/2007 11:23:50 AM Belly and Bushwacker Com'on, don't you get it? Felicity McMahon and Julie Vickers are one.....
» 5/09/2007 10:33:24 AM James Purser Apologies accepted. My protest was tongue in cheek as you might have guessed.....
» 4/09/2007 11:57:25 PM James Purser Let me assure you, kartiya jim and I do not inhabit the same body/mind. Nor .....
» 3/09/2007 4:50:02 PM Told you so, Peachy. Never suggest they read. It agitates them no end. About that report .....
» 3/09/2007 2:28:11 PM Steady on Peachy. Are you asking people to read and consider the facts? Next thing, you'.....
» 3/09/2007 10:58:28 AM Well argued Tom Calma, but you'll get the usual OLO apologists asserting that if you want .....
» 3/09/2007 9:53:45 AM BOAZ_David Got to get your priorities right, eh? Quote: "The thing which rather irr.....
» 2/09/2007 11:32:19 PM Thanks Rainier. I'll read as many of these essays as I can. Do you know if there's anythi.....
» 2/09/2007 3:11:32 PM I found this confusing and somewhat incoherent. I'm not sure what the interviewer was tryi.....
» 1/09/2007 6:02:23 PM David-BOAZ I'll talk in your language. You don't seem to understand mine. "Jesus sa.....
» 1/09/2007 2:28:33 PM BOAZ_David asks why I said his post on another thread was unethical. (Why doesn’t he ask m.....
» 1/09/2007 1:41:47 PM Desipis and miacat agree with Bagaric that the right to privacy is over-rated. They won’t.....
» 31/08/2007 4:22:18 PM Runner says (and nary a blush): "The author and Howard haters ignore that Haneef lie.....
» 31/08/2007 1:55:05 PM Bagaric’s logic fails spectacularly. His assertion that “…medical problems are no more w.....
» 31/08/2007 12:39:20 PM Thank you Ellen Goodman for crystallising some of the key isssues of principle in this sca.....
» 31/08/2007 12:25:46 PM BOAZ_David This is one of your least ethical posts. The article was about sexual abuse by.....
» 29/08/2007 6:06:37 PM The black-and-white assertions from Col Rouge are superficial. And a shaky grasp of the fa.....
» 29/08/2007 5:16:15 PM "Would I rely on Wikipedia for a judgment on a key point of a highly contested argume.....
» 28/08/2007 2:21:25 PM Col Rouge While I agree that sexual abusers and similar filth should be pursued in the c.....
» 27/08/2007 11:43:18 AM Communicat Your last sad post bewailed the lack of recognition of Australians of Scots d.....
» 23/08/2007 6:40:55 PM o sung wu Thank you for your very compassionate and generous response. Why do some people.....
» 22/08/2007 9:31:17 PM I tackle Kevin for telling Wilma that she was weak for feeling that her life has been toug.....
» 22/08/2007 9:08:28 PM BOAZ_David: "... nothing personal mate," you say, but since I have views you di.....
» 22/08/2007 1:52:17 PM BOAZ_David Your language gets more colourful every time you write about the seditious (s.....
» 22/08/2007 11:11:41 AM Kevin Give us a break yourself mate. We can do without self-righteous moralising - look.....
» 18/08/2007 5:58:56 PM Shockadelic I value my time. I haven't got any to waste on further remedial tutorials for.....
» 18/08/2007 5:19:18 PM punter57 goes on the attack in response to my claim that the Howard Government has done no.....
» 17/08/2007 5:24:41 PM Punter57: 'Support the Feds or allow the previous state of affairs to go on.' Howard's way.....
» 17/08/2007 2:58:26 PM Shockadelic I’m sorry you’ve missed me so much. I know I said on 2 August 2007: ‘One las.....
» 17/08/2007 1:37:34 PM punter57 Two weak ‘arguments’ and one attempted character assassination. Whether it’s c.....
» 17/08/2007 12:02:11 PM Another revealing article by Bernie Matthews. State-sponsored child institutions - ‘emotio.....
» 15/08/2007 11:40:39 AM Bernie Matthews’ article focused on the Stolen Generation – and rightly so. Marlene’s stor.....
» 14/08/2007 12:58:00 PM Thank you Jennifer Clarke - this is a clear, reasonable and competent account of the probl.....
» 14/08/2007 12:57:39 PM Thank you Jennifer Clarke - this is a clear, reasonable and competent account of the probl.....
» 13/08/2007 7:00:26 PM C. J Morgan, HRS writes to you: "It is obvious that I mistook you for a Frank Gol, wh.....
» 10/08/2007 10:58:04 AM When people like Stickman trot out as 'fact' that “…The exodus of ABC staffers into Labor .....
» 8/08/2007 1:43:23 PM Jennifer Mahohasy, Is that the best you can do in support of Felicity's inane attack on t.....
» 8/08/2007 11:22:33 AM Felicity McMahon gives most space to alleged left-wing bias, an argument long shown to be .....
» 7/08/2007 8:21:26 PM Hrs, a 'hard-hitting' posting I would have thought rather than 'violent'. Sticks and stone.....
» 7/08/2007 8:05:01 PM Admiral von Schneider says that if my proposition - "The Australian economy in genera.....
» 7/08/2007 11:58:01 AM HRS is deadly. He pounces on Mercurius Goldstein's comment that Geoffrey Robertson had m.....
» 7/08/2007 11:13:07 AM Regarding Kevin Rudd and empathy: Mark, today on OLO you're claiming that: 'One of Clinto.....
» 7/08/2007 10:56:57 AM Two things are clear from this article. 1. The Australian economy in general and interest.....
» 2/08/2007 11:33:00 PM Shockadelic One last try and then I give up. You say (or should I say SHOUT?), ‘The Wh.....
» 2/08/2007 1:58:58 PM real says: 'We never see the Left take up the cause of real victims.' And gives the exampl.....
» 2/08/2007 1:07:27 PM Shockadelic So I "mischievously distort" your words and Deakin's: he said “ble.....
» 2/08/2007 12:00:45 PM JamesH I haven't missed your point. A Bill of Rights is about Human Rights, not just the .....
» 1/08/2007 6:13:20 PM mickijo You say 'the civil Libertarians are extremely selective in choosing whom they may.....
» 1/08/2007 3:59:13 PM Is anyone else sick of these vacuous, evidence-free posts claiming the educational sky is .....
» 1/08/2007 1:14:56 PM David, you say: 'The people Frank mentioned are not equally straight forward.' But you la.....
» 1/08/2007 11:35:34 AM JamesH says: 'Hey I am white, heterosexual and male. I have never heard males being mentio.....
» 1/08/2007 10:03:07 AM Shockadelic You started this thread with the claim that: ‘There was no "infamous Whi.....
» 31/07/2007 5:19:44 PM mickijo, you claim that 'the two ladies in question Rau and Alveraz (sic) were simply excu.....
» 30/07/2007 7:03:10 PM A comprehensive list Shockadelic, you've done well - and it's worth repeating: "dece.....
» 30/07/2007 4:48:36 PM With characteristic calm reasonableness and mountains of evidence, mickijo says: "W.....
» 30/07/2007 2:04:16 PM Among the many plausible reasons being touted in forecasting a loss by the Howard Governme.....
» 29/07/2007 10:47:05 PM Shockadelic If your aim is to deceive, you need to better understand the historical fact.....
» 29/07/2007 4:17:24 PM Shockadelic You claim it was not race but culture that drove the White Australia Policy .....
» 29/07/2007 1:28:39 PM Leigh says: "The only person using OLO of the left pursuasion who has any respect fr.....
» 28/07/2007 4:15:50 PM Davsab, one thing you must say about Leigh: he's consistent. Consistently dismisses any o.....
» 28/07/2007 3:49:59 PM Shockadelic You – and Oligarch - are in denial about the White Australia Policy. But you .....
» 27/07/2007 1:17:15 PM Leigh I should know better than to give your posting any credence by responding; but you’.....
» 26/07/2007 11:11:32 PM Chris C Very well put...but will it be read? zahira You asked me what I would like to s.....
» 26/07/2007 5:20:19 PM Shockadelic asserts, 'There was no "infamous White Australia Policy".' Attorney.....
» 26/07/2007 2:16:21 AM So Dresdener thinks the study of (a) 'the origins of each student's personal history' and .....
» 25/07/2007 10:09:58 PM zahira asks: what would you suggest we teach as history then? First my negative answer. I.....
» 25/07/2007 4:10:41 PM aqvarivs says: “The existence of a Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs Department with .....
» 25/07/2007 12:55:41 PM aqvarivs says: “The existence of a Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs Department with .....
» 24/07/2007 11:58:11 PM Dresdener On the one hand you say people like me are 'Cultural Marxists' because we advoc.....
» 24/07/2007 8:59:07 PM Dresdener If we now have what you call "entire generations of confused, culturally d.....
» 24/07/2007 8:38:01 PM Col Rouge says: "... federal police[are] employed to make our society safe from terro.....
» 24/07/2007 1:32:44 PM Col Rouge, my reference to bipolar related to your authoritarian and limited view of choic.....
» 24/07/2007 10:28:35 AM Liza Hopkins Thank you for this. OLO is not noted for such nuanced discussion of identit.....
» 23/07/2007 11:01:29 PM Neil Hewett How can one disagree that "The power to demand: * equality under the law.....
» 23/07/2007 9:50:55 AM Neil Hewett is right to remind us that Andrew Jakubowicz's 'state of war' metaphor of warf.....
» 22/07/2007 10:51:10 PM Col Rouge says: "There are only two choices – assimilation or not assimilation.".....
» 20/07/2007 10:52:51 AM Col Rouge, after giving me a hard time for believing that the Government might have been r.....
» 19/07/2007 11:46:03 PM Col Rouge, I was wrong about the source of the leak. And I've acknowledged it. Although le.....
» 19/07/2007 11:31:33 PM Col Rouge says: “I challenge you to define how people like myself are so limited, unlike y.....
» 18/07/2007 8:00:45 PM Yes I was quite wrong - it is now quite clear that Haneef's barrister (not his solicitor) .....
» 18/07/2007 6:29:05 PM Communicat airily says: "As I understand it the transcript was leaked by his own lawy.....
» 18/07/2007 6:07:14 PM What intellectual giants we meet on OLO postings! GYM-FISH takes us back to the failed po.....
» 18/07/2007 1:18:08 PM xoddam Just a quick point in response to your: "Why ascribe to racism what can be p.....
» 18/07/2007 1:03:03 PM An excellent essay Andrew. I was especially taken by your comment that: "Australian.....
» 16/07/2007 6:05:33 PM Leigh You're masterly. Another scintillating comment: "Only dangerous lunatics advo.....
» 13/07/2007 4:25:38 PM Oliver: Your advice, “We cannot live the past. It's gone. The past is the past”, is simpli.....
» 13/07/2007 3:24:21 PM punter57 It’s an important point you raise and I appreciate the sentiment behind your com.....
» 13/07/2007 10:48:28 AM Mr Denmore is right to challenge Cornflower’s assessment that the “Australian population i.....
» 12/07/2007 11:32:22 PM Oliver says: "We are all descendents of emigrants from Africa." Suppose we agre.....
» 12/07/2007 3:40:56 PM Interesting piece on Crikey.com today by Ben Oquist about the ABC's screening of The Great.....
» 12/07/2007 11:13:35 AM For a man who believes that a scientific hypothesis "...is validated not by shouting .....
» 12/07/2007 12:35:47 AM Dear zahira To characterise my evidence as just "one study" as against that of.....
» 11/07/2007 11:43:43 AM No. No. No!, White Warlock Your assertions – in order of presentation are: 1. Working wi.....
» 10/07/2007 1:35:04 PM And furthermore, Oliver, regardless of whether you can find any evidence for immigration o.....
» 10/07/2007 1:19:25 PM Graham Y, stop "wondering what others would say to the proposition that there's only .....
» 10/07/2007 11:12:38 AM There’s a smell of hypocrisy, vested interest and special pleading in Graeme Haycroft’s ar.....
» 9/07/2007 5:29:54 PM zahira I think we might be getting somewhere. You’ve moved some distance away from excess.....
» 8/07/2007 10:18:17 PM HRS I was curious to learn that one of your children has "¼ aboriginal blood"......
» 8/07/2007 9:56:35 PM Leo According to you, I'm "boring" and "readable" and "sensible&.....
» 8/07/2007 9:47:51 PM It's happening! I saw it on TV. A white man in Ethiopia (some thought him a bit yellow). I.....
» 8/07/2007 8:42:37 PM Zahir, I’ll give it one more shot. I used my experience of my own children and grandchild.....
» 8/07/2007 1:32:35 PM Yes, zahira, as I said: we can swap extreme and somewhat implausible anecdotes about hopel.....
» 7/07/2007 6:25:30 PM Leo Lane Here we go again. Your own words: - puerile vandalising of a sensible post. - .....
» 7/07/2007 6:09:14 PM Arjay So you and I and zahira swap anecdotes. Your experience against mine. Your negative.....
» 7/07/2007 1:20:12 PM zahira Any evidence for your diatribe against schools? Or is this just talk from the sea.....
» 6/07/2007 10:09:01 PM Leo Lane Just stop listening to all these other hysterical left-wing voices for a moment .....
» 6/07/2007 12:59:29 PM Holden’s facade of concern doesn’t disguise the purpose of his diatribe. 1. Holden assume.....
» 6/07/2007 10:25:34 AM Well Horus, I’m relieved that you’re relieved that Australia is not about to lose its nati.....
» 5/07/2007 8:45:23 PM David You say: "I would like to know where people get the idea that the Aboriginals.....
» 5/07/2007 3:44:57 PM Aqvarivs, You really should pay more attention. The reason I highlighted the ALP speeches .....
» 5/07/2007 1:04:11 PM Banjo Fred Chaney, director of Reconciliation Australia, deputy president of the National.....
» 5/07/2007 12:30:15 PM Leigh You haven't had a dangerous thought for decades. More important, you haven't had a .....
» 4/07/2007 8:58:05 PM Oligarch You first said the Austro-Hungarian Empire succeeded. Now, you’re saying that we.....
» 4/07/2007 3:15:26 PM Aqvarivs: I know facts are at a discount in your world; but despite your allegation, I am .....
» 4/07/2007 11:21:33 AM It's prudent to be skeptical of any compulsory curriculum in the humanities/social studies.....
» 4/07/2007 11:08:22 AM The widening disconnection between parliamentary democracy and economic democracy is artic.....
» 4/07/2007 10:54:47 AM A cogent and well reasoned article. Thank you Jennifer Clarke. I trust and hope Australian.....
» 3/07/2007 5:57:25 PM Oligarch offers a ‘history’ lesson for those ‘multiculturalists’ who, he says, are ‘ignora.....
» 3/07/2007 12:17:47 PM Banjo: You won't debate the MC issue any further because, you say, "Both major politi.....
» 2/07/2007 5:50:46 PM Aqvarivs: “Multiculturalism…pits cultures, races and religions against each other for reco.....
» 2/07/2007 12:56:47 PM Well said, chainsmoker......
» 2/07/2007 11:08:18 AM I agree with Brett Solomon and others that urgent and long overdue action is needed to com.....
» 30/06/2007 11:46:39 PM Ten propositions about multiculturalism. 1. Multiculturalism and immigration are two diff.....
» 29/06/2007 9:40:16 AM palimpsest says: "...if CJ morgan, FrankGol and co. are representative of the support.....
» 28/06/2007 10:19:06 AM Oligarch Your hostility towards multiculturalism is matched by your ignorance of it. You.....
» 27/06/2007 1:28:32 PM Roskam asserts that the most famous promise in national politics is Hawke’s: "By 1990.....
» 25/06/2007 11:24:45 PM My purposefully strong invective against anti-multiculturalism showed what it’s like when .....
» 23/06/2007 11:10:11 PM Has 'multiculturalism' become a dirty word? Yes, among people of limited intelligence and .....
» 21/06/2007 12:40:23 PM Yes, Mark, I accept that; but you can only guess at the reasons why Rudd did not want Nich.....
» 21/06/2007 11:29:38 AM Graham, I too am struck by the grim irony of Sheriff Brough's toe-cutting tactics followin.....
» 21/06/2007 11:19:17 AM So Kevin Rudd did not want Nicholas Stuart to write his biography. Shock horror! On the ot.....
» 21/06/2007 11:04:30 AM Dealing With The Mob The problem lies in proving intention to conspire - i.e. to work sec.....
» 20/06/2007 2:41:02 PM runner You say that my "extremely selective cut and pasting which paints Hawke/Keati.....
» 20/06/2007 11:10:56 AM JamesH: I agree with you that a highly-charged context is part of a conspiracy. However,.....
» 19/06/2007 5:37:49 PM runner says: “These posts just show that people will hold to their dogmas no matter what t.....
» 19/06/2007 12:35:01 PM Benjamin What more can I say? Your so-called argument is that we should belt the crap out.....
» 19/06/2007 11:56:51 AM “It’s the economy, stupid”. Yes but what economy? The one spruiked by Costello, the expert.....
» 16/06/2007 1:48:00 PM LHS I agree with your assessment of runner, but he lifted my spirits when he wrote: &quo.....
» 16/06/2007 1:10:06 AM White Warlock (on face value) You SAY the difference between you and those nasty people i.....
» 15/06/2007 5:45:18 PM wre, Today you claim: “I never attempted to blame the aboriginal people for their plight.....
» 15/06/2007 2:15:21 PM White Warlock (on face value) You SAY the difference between you and those nasty people i.....
» 15/06/2007 12:29:59 PM I think the explanations of Howard's election successes lies somewhere among the intellige.....
» 15/06/2007 11:39:37 AM Coach I am an Australian humanist and proud to be so. I don’t find this statement provoc.....
» 14/06/2007 3:16:43 PM White Warlock So, what you're saying is that it's OK to bomb people, deny them their free.....
» 14/06/2007 11:41:55 AM Benjamin Extreme confusion and double standards, mate. On the one hand you say we shoul.....
» 13/06/2007 4:06:46 PM Wre There are important parallels between Australia and Canada’s treatment of Indigenous .....
» 12/06/2007 2:42:36 PM wre I'm sorry you find me sarcastic. (It's not all that hard to say 'sorry'.) If 'sorry' .....
» 12/06/2007 1:59:57 PM Chainsmoker, While I have some sympathy with your assessment of media commentators - Alb.....
» 12/06/2007 1:17:41 PM Reynard, I think, badly misreads Throssell’s article. Throssell sees parallels in the sham.....
» 12/06/2007 12:16:02 PM Sage says Janet Albrechtsen’s column appears under the heading of ‘Opinion’. So what? Why .....
» 8/06/2007 12:13:45 PM Shadyoasis noticed that Mrs Turnbull is on the editorial board of OLO and asks is there an.....
» 8/06/2007 12:00:39 PM Alex Perrottet is being a bit cute here. Cardinal Pell "is simply talking about his C.....
» 8/06/2007 11:39:11 AM Coach, you may speak for the likes of Benjamin but your claim to 'speak for most intellige.....
» 5/06/2007 11:08:35 AM Thanks for the reference Chris, I've just finished listening to Roy's speech. It's brillia.....
» 1/06/2007 2:50:30 PM wre So the unions will run Australia because the ALP is controlled and funded by the unio.....
» 1/06/2007 10:40:26 AM Hey wre You say that if Rudd gets in, he won’t be running the country. Can you let us all.....
» 31/05/2007 6:09:44 PM Cornflower I take it that that's a "Yes"?.....
» 30/05/2007 11:18:22 PM Cornflower Do you include anti-feminism on your list of 'isms' that, as you say, 'have be.....
» 30/05/2007 6:27:38 PM Banjo, You still can't spell 'hypocrisy' nor, it seems, do you even know what it means. T.....
» 30/05/2007 2:03:00 PM Runner I’m not aware that the 7.30 Report criticised Mr Howard’s appearance. If they did, .....
» 30/05/2007 1:57:53 PM Banjo I wasn’t offended by Arjay, and I didn’t feign offence. So I don’t know why you accu.....
» 29/05/2007 8:23:04 PM Runner, you don’t get it really. The issue turns on the question: when is a personal att.....
» 29/05/2007 1:32:49 PM Yes Sage, now that you've got that phlegm of your chest, what do you make of the many idea.....
» 29/05/2007 1:27:43 PM Arjay An intellectual and emotional challenge for you. Can you quote any words in any of .....
» 29/05/2007 1:07:15 PM palimpsest asks: "Linda and FrankGol, do you really believe equality of outcomes can .....
» 29/05/2007 12:07:43 AM Real nonsense! real says: “Parents want a curriculum that provides a very solid base of f.....
» 28/05/2007 6:17:33 PM What dark caves do they keep coming from? Plerdsus relishes the psychotic thrill he felt .....
» 28/05/2007 12:26:51 PM Thanks Linda Graham - a good summary. The ideology of parental 'choice' has always been a .....
» 28/05/2007 11:52:56 AM What can you say? The refugee swap scheme is grotesque, bizarre, hair-brained, silly. Whoe.....
» 27/05/2007 12:56:59 PM David Quote: "...the greatest danger we face in Australia today (in terms of terrori.....
» 23/05/2007 4:55:22 PM Edward Carson, I agree with your sentiments when you say you are “always amused by the len.....
» 23/05/2007 3:28:00 PM HRS Apologies for what you call my profane language. Now what did you think of my ideas?.....
» 22/05/2007 7:57:54 PM Tommy lad Bruce Pascoe used the word 'civilization' in the last sentence of his article a.....
» 22/05/2007 5:28:59 PM Dan Fitzpatrick Until you show evidence of having read something about the advanced techn.....
» 22/05/2007 4:52:57 PM Runner So you think I’m in denial and and Piers Ackerman (a regular on ABC ‘Insiders’) ca.....
» 22/05/2007 4:04:40 PM HRS You triumphal ejaculation (and that of Julie Bishop) over a limited study publicised .....
» 21/05/2007 1:34:31 PM Now it's religious bias on the ABC, Runner? Let's see, that would have been last night’s “.....
» 21/05/2007 12:52:38 PM Dan Fitzpatrick, you accuse Bruce Pascoe of ‘another kind of Australian ignorance and prej.....
» 21/05/2007 11:50:10 AM A timely article. Thank you Jill Greenwell. One by one our great public icons - Commonwea.....
» 21/05/2007 11:17:27 AM Interesting reactions to this passionate message. healthwatcher says that because it's n.....
» 18/05/2007 12:11:37 PM Edward Carson First your disclaimers or “minor corrections”: 1) You seem to think I sai.....
» 17/05/2007 7:51:43 PM HRS, so small business owner should work 10-12 hr days for 6 days a week, and only have 10.....
» 17/05/2007 6:54:38 PM Communicat, I think you missed the point. Ian Keese was asking some pertinent questions ab.....
» 17/05/2007 11:29:18 AM Mick V mounts this ‘argument’: “The ABC exists to support the ideologies of the people who.....
» 15/05/2007 5:27:20 PM Runner – offering not a shred of evidence - revives the old mythical beast of ABC bias: it.....
» 13/05/2007 12:34:27 PM Yvonne, I usually like to read what you post on OLO. Lots of good common sense. Consider .....
» 11/05/2007 2:23:36 PM ruawake asks: "Did you notice that yesterdays unemployment figures were the lowest si.....
» 11/05/2007 11:11:02 AM Peter Saunders' first sentence asks the pertinent question: "What was the overall rat.....
» 10/05/2007 5:51:18 PM Country Gal, statistics can mislead. Numbers of Indigenous people compared to non-Indigeno.....
» 9/05/2007 4:22:06 PM Country Girl, you are right to say that Indigenous deaths in custody are now roughly comme.....
» 7/05/2007 11:07:34 AM This is a necessary and effective challenge to the uncritical celebration of the Gallipoli.....
» 29/04/2007 2:07:26 AM Oh Netab You're incomprehensible. Far from telling you that the report was "too obsc.....
» 28/04/2007 6:05:10 PM Netab You tell me "the report exists" whether I "like it or not". Thi.....
» 27/04/2007 11:28:19 AM Netab Your first post proclaimed that a survey had found “some pretty disturbing results.....
» 26/04/2007 11:49:43 PM Netab If, as you claim, most Principals started teaching when they were 18 the teaching pr.....
» 26/04/2007 5:55:07 PM Yabby That's a good summation of OLO posting protocols and 'types' of posters. I couldn't.....
» 26/04/2007 4:06:08 PM "Tapp will fight and tapp will stand up to you from the common people." A tapp-.....
» 25/04/2007 1:26:32 PM It never fails to amaze Doc Holliday how “so many people can become indignant about percei.....
» 24/04/2007 8:39:24 PM Thank you Liz. aqvarivs, I think you don't read too well - did you go to a private school.....
» 24/04/2007 6:41:34 PM Sounds like contempt to me Simon Templar. Looks like contempt. Now your retreat into Latin.....
» 24/04/2007 6:37:04 PM Shorbe I wrote about the estimated half-a-million Australian kids (minimum) growing up in.....
» 24/04/2007 12:37:24 PM Billie, you’ll have noticed how the patronising Doc Holliday avoided your issues about emp.....
» 23/04/2007 1:10:51 AM Shorbe, you claim that "with very, very few exceptions, anyone can afford to send the.....
» 23/04/2007 12:23:04 AM Simon Templar, you say to Liz, "your arrogance and self-aggrandisement are overwhelmi.....
» 23/04/2007 12:04:47 AM real, there's just one word for your ignornat diatribe against Garth Boomer - but I won't .....
» 20/04/2007 10:59:31 AM Simon Templar says, "It is the pot calling the kettle black for a teacher to accuse a.....
» 18/04/2007 5:03:49 PM So, Realist, there are "vast differences in ability, knowledge and drive" among .....
» 18/04/2007 11:05:48 AM Jonathan Ariel is lucky that OLO does not have a pay-by-peformance system. His diatribe ag.....
» 13/04/2007 5:38:38 PM Yes, John Roskam, the sky didn’t fall in the day Howard’s new media ownership rules came i.....
» 13/04/2007 1:50:00 AM Part 2 Why doesn’t the Howard Government take into account the size of a school’s fees or.....
» 13/04/2007 1:41:23 AM What Simon says and doesn’t say Simon says, ‘In my real world guise I have just finished .....
» 12/04/2007 12:59:40 AM Leo, I despair of you. Where have you been? Even John Howard now admits there were never e.....
» 11/04/2007 3:39:00 PM Col You say your examples are 'general' and my examples are 'specific and conditional'. E.....
» 11/04/2007 12:45:31 AM Honest John Tapes Part 2 (Dedicated to Leo Lane) Question to JH September 2002: "Pri.....
» 11/04/2007 12:41:55 AM “…Howard is the first truthful Prime Minister since Gorton…”, Leo Lane, 10 April 2007 Hon.....
» 10/04/2007 12:02:35 PM Col, Asserting you're right and I'm wrong, again, reminds me of schoolyard arguments. &qu.....
» 10/04/2007 9:54:44 AM Col, Your simplistic – it’s all a matter of choice – is a logical travesty “A womans right.....
» 9/04/2007 3:09:44 PM Honest John Howard lets the facts speaks for themselves on the David Hicks affair. 25 Ja.....
» 8/04/2007 1:39:11 PM BOAZ_David With you and Leo's glowing assessment of my post mate I feel really pleased th.....
» 8/04/2007 11:46:37 AM Col Personal choice is a shallow concept. People are not born morally competent - they le.....
» 7/04/2007 11:00:41 PM Where do they keep coming from, these Leo Lanes, these warriors of high cliche, these idel.....
» 7/04/2007 2:10:33 PM Col So it's "all about choices", is it? Nothing else? Wish I could make life as.....
» 6/04/2007 5:52:37 PM Col Rouge, I hope you never run foul of the law - as a perpetrator, or more to the point i.....
» 5/04/2007 11:32:13 AM Rumplestiltskin (how could I forget your name?) I drew a contrast between Mr Muehlenberg'.....
» 4/04/2007 7:04:32 PM Bill Muehlenberg writes that 'the Left has become expert at turning the truth inside out.'.....
» 3/04/2007 5:45:19 PM I think Don Aitkin is right, although I can remember one other article that was an absolut.....
» 3/04/2007 10:43:28 AM Bernie What a hell hole! I can't but agree that "Tamworth Institution for Boys remai.....
» 3/04/2007 10:12:29 AM This is such poor writing. Lacks balance, is poorly researched, begins in speculation and .....
» 2/04/2007 3:17:10 PM gonginalong, Why do people make unfounded assumption about me based on nil/zilch/zero ev.....
» 2/04/2007 11:42:54 AM JamesH is right: "Campaigning on fear is not new technique and has been used extremel.....
» 2/04/2007 10:56:44 AM aqvarivs, throwing labels at people's ideas is always a safer tactic than debating their i.....
» 2/04/2007 10:21:25 AM This will be my last post on this thread. My time is valuable; and I'm sick of people fail.....
» 1/04/2007 11:46:00 PM David I await with bated breath your answers to JohnJ's pertinent questions. Many Christ.....
» 31/03/2007 5:45:53 PM GZ Tan I'm struggling to understand what you say we failed to learn from Bhutan and vice .....
» 31/03/2007 1:55:20 PM Oligarch, when the topic is Bhutan, let’s debate Bhutan. In the meantime, back in Australi.....
» 30/03/2007 3:04:27 PM David, you want to replace the word ‘Multiculturalism’ with the word ‘Citizenship’. This s.....
» 30/03/2007 9:44:00 AM I'll know when politicians and 'religious' leaders are serious about raising the quality o.....
» 29/03/2007 4:12:43 PM BOAZ_David With fans like GZ Tan, who needs opponents? GZ Tan tells us that you did not d.....
» 29/03/2007 11:40:16 AM BOAZ_David You are so predictably arrogant and blinkered on this topic. You define 'Mul.....
» 27/03/2007 6:08:27 PM Simon Shall I go stand in the naughty corner? Do you know why there is no national curri.....
» 27/03/2007 1:38:25 PM gw says: "give me five POSITIVE reasons why anyone should have voted for the ALP? I c.....
» 27/03/2007 1:12:17 PM Jonathan Ariel resurrects Andrew Peacock's line: We didn't lose, we just didn't get enough.....
» 21/03/2007 2:37:31 PM Davo, you say: In fact, speaking fluent english is essential in breaking down the barriers.....
» 21/03/2007 10:47:04 AM Peter van Vliet is right to expect responses to his article to reveal outright hostility t.....
» 21/03/2007 9:20:40 AM Echoing CJ Morgan, Happy Harmony Day! Horus, you distort my argument. I said that success.....
» 20/03/2007 3:46:21 PM Banjo You ask Bennie: 'From where did you get the idea that MC teaches immigrants Engli.....
» 20/03/2007 8:05:11 AM Horus, Now you're getting down to tin tacks, Mate. Multiculturalism is popular because pe.....
» 19/03/2007 2:33:27 PM Horus, You say: ‘Of course Blair is not likely to say MC is abolished forthwith…’ I ask .....
» 18/03/2007 7:54:54 PM Saturday - Banjos claims: ‘The British Government has dumped MC (Multiculturalism)’ Sunda.....
» 18/03/2007 2:14:50 PM Banjo, you and Horus sing the same chorus. Keep mangling the truth about multiculturalism .....
» 17/03/2007 4:45:16 PM Horus, Do you expect Governments to put all social policies like multiculturalism to a '.....
» 17/03/2007 1:21:56 PM Banjo, your wishful thinking blinds you to the truth. Your myth: "...multiculturalis.....
» 16/03/2007 3:42:39 PM I suppose all the political mud-slinging has one unintended benefit for the public. With t.....
» 16/03/2007 10:14:57 AM This is an important article that should be read and widely discussed. Joo-Cheong Tha is.....
» 15/03/2007 11:13:35 AM Arguments exist for and against a national curriculum. And those who move about during the.....
» 14/03/2007 5:07:30 PM John Thanks for this article. I was particularly interested in your final paragraphs begi.....
» 14/03/2007 4:46:30 PM Sille, I take it your nom-de-plume was a conscious and inspired choice?. You say: "K.....
» 13/03/2007 5:09:06 PM Banjo Nearly a week ago in response to a post by you I wrote: 'Banjo, you say to me: &q.....
» 8/03/2007 1:42:39 PM David, I'm not the least concerned with the Biblical view of women or the names of a coup.....
» 8/03/2007 1:29:29 PM Sniggid says: "It is not agreed that David Hicks has been charged under a retrospecti.....
» 8/03/2007 1:14:05 PM Newspaper columnists and letter writers who disagree with Neil James and the ADA offer 'fu.....
» 7/03/2007 10:45:29 PM I feel so sad that so many men feel the need to vent their anger and express their inadequ.....
» 7/03/2007 10:33:54 PM Banjo It's good that you can find common ground with Rainier in agreeing that " many.....
» 7/03/2007 11:02:03 AM Mary Bryant, well done. The article is certainly salutary and thought-provoking. But, more.....
» 7/03/2007 10:42:56 AM David You say, "large numbers of Asians have moved into' Bennelong. If they are not .....
» 6/03/2007 11:29:51 AM David, Given that you have posted on OLO 3,144 times, it's pretty hard to read everythin.....
» 6/03/2007 10:04:11 AM Banjo this is getting silly. eet was unequiivocal when he said: 'If you speak to any remot.....
» 5/03/2007 11:27:01 PM Is Mise and Yvonne How refreshing your posts are after all the misery and blinkered visio.....
» 5/03/2007 11:20:14 PM eet In the hope that you really are interested in Indigenous health issues and know only .....
» 5/03/2007 12:12:27 AM Peachy Thanks for the reference. It looks like a book worth reading and taking seriously.....
» 4/03/2007 11:42:23 PM eet You're being a bit precious and defensive aren't you? I called you wrong. I called yo.....
» 4/03/2007 7:40:07 PM eet on Wednesday, 21 February: 'If you speak to any remote area nurse you'll find that Abo.....
» 4/03/2007 2:57:25 PM Davo You, like David_BOAZ, say: "Australian culture can definitley be defined: the e.....
» 3/03/2007 10:58:51 PM David I think your posts are getting silly. You really are exposing the vacuity of 'mains.....
» 3/03/2007 10:04:34 PM eet I challenge your unqualified assertion - "Aboriginals are the most prodded, test.....
» 3/03/2007 4:58:06 PM Banjo. eet's exact words were:" If you speak to any remote area nurse you'll find th.....
» 2/03/2007 11:36:18 PM Oligarch You ask me: (a) Are you honestly asserting that Western values are universally a.....
» 2/03/2007 4:04:15 PM mylakhrion Thank you for that interesting, intelligent and well-reasoned contibution. You.....
» 2/03/2007 11:24:40 AM Banjo Your defence of eet is touching but wrong-headed. I did not need to call him a liar.....
» 2/03/2007 9:20:38 AM VK3AUU says I am "is completely out of step with reality". His version of realit.....
» 2/03/2007 9:20:23 AM VK3AUU says I am "is completely out of step with reality". His version of realit.....
» 1/03/2007 4:21:59 PM David We are making progress but your slipperiness with words is an impediment. You were .....
» 1/03/2007 10:30:02 AM Aka Good on yer. Well said......
» 1/03/2007 10:26:03 AM The year 2040: John Howard's obituary has appeared in the few surviving illicit websites. .....
» 28/02/2007 11:09:05 PM David You now say you didn't call Jieh-Yung Lo a racist. You are either a dishonest wease.....
» 28/02/2007 3:34:46 PM tRAKKA So you're now arguing that "He [David Hicks] adopted an lifestyle that was in.....
» 28/02/2007 2:38:55 PM BOAZ-David Your brain flipped a couple of post ago when accusing Jieh-Yung Lo of being ra.....
» 27/02/2007 10:59:37 PM online_east It would really pay for you to read what you recommend to us. Why would you .....
» 27/02/2007 10:29:39 PM eet, You claim you teach Aboriginals and have done so for four years. How fit are you for.....
» 27/02/2007 2:18:32 PM Gecko, it takes two minutes it takes to find Australia's policy on Multiculturalism. (http.....
» 27/02/2007 1:00:59 PM tRAKKA Do you realise the enormity of the implications of your view that: '... given his .....
» 27/02/2007 12:43:50 PM David, why are you so hysterical and afraid? Why do you find it necessary to distort wha.....
» 26/02/2007 11:34:53 AM Argy's article is lucid and logical and I enjoyed reading it. I would like to see two furt.....
» 26/02/2007 11:13:35 AM Everyone seems to have a ready opinion on contemporary education. Many are bereft of data .....
» 25/02/2007 6:26:44 PM tRAKKA Thank you for clarifying that you have not made up your mind about David Hicks' i.....
» 25/02/2007 11:46:22 AM Thank you CJ Morgan. You're right to correct my serious typo. I meant to say: less than 20.....
» 25/02/2007 12:07:00 AM Eet At least this time you have refrained from personal attack to focus on the argument......
» 24/02/2007 6:46:22 PM David, When we debate the notion of 'unacceptable danger' in the context of immigration,.....
» 24/02/2007 5:41:22 PM It's really hard work trying to engage with Eet. He first claims that while he has practic.....
» 23/02/2007 7:28:23 PM David...in the spirit of progress. I agree in theory that there may be certain cultural o.....
» 23/02/2007 12:10:30 AM A miracle - people like eet can 'know' all about my experience with Indigenous people with.....
» 22/02/2007 11:30:23 AM If there's a case for 'staying the course in Iraq', Leslie Cannold has failed to make it. .....
» 22/02/2007 10:26:07 AM BOAZ_David, I'm fine thanks. Your novel definitions are a worry. Ethnocentrism, for examp.....
» 21/02/2007 10:56:04 PM Arjay When we open your box of rhetoric, the second-hand cliches tumble out - "Rabid.....
» 21/02/2007 3:06:10 PM Good one aka. But after reading eet's contributions I think you missed a couple of aspects.....
» 21/02/2007 1:19:00 PM tRAKKA, Let me see if I've got this right. 1. A television program aired some stories ab.....
» 20/02/2007 11:13:56 PM tRAKKA, How do you know all this about David Hicks in advance of his trial (which you obv.....
» 19/02/2007 1:51:17 PM BOAZ_David, I was... TRYING to READ... your POSTING but I got A severe CASE of SPOTS'nDOTS.....
» 19/02/2007 10:21:10 AM Typical comment Leigh. No ideas of your own and no rebuttal of the author's challenging id.....
» 15/02/2007 12:43:25 PM Here we go again: "Our taxpayer funded national broadcasters are nothing more than pr.....
» 14/02/2007 10:03:27 AM John Howard is yesterday's man, and it's time for him to go. The US Alliance is critical .....
» 13/02/2007 4:51:04 PM aqvarivs, I'll give it one more shot then I surrender! You say: '...stereotypical pattern.....
» 13/02/2007 1:08:07 PM Ok aqvarivs, I guess we are on different psychological and sociological wave lengths. I th.....
» 12/02/2007 2:29:41 PM aqvaris, you seem to be upset with my comments on your earlier post on three counts. (a) .....
» 12/02/2007 12:27:00 PM aqvarivs, I agree with you that there is widespread misunderstanding of family values; how.....
» 10/02/2007 3:25:32 PM Hemstich, on the assumption you make, namely: "that is that there is no certainty eit.....
» 8/02/2007 9:31:37 AM PFH makes an unAustralian comment: "It's UnAustralian to label people UnAustralian.&q.....
» 2/02/2007 11:07:42 AM Brilliant, Flinty. I haven't enjoyed such wonderful satire in years. David Hicks got real .....
» 1/02/2007 5:19:09 PM mickij, I asked you two specific questions: 1. Do you have any statistical evidence to su.....
» 1/02/2007 10:50:58 AM Jieh-Yung coins the term 'Asian' values to describe a 'different ethical structure' that o.....
» 31/01/2007 11:48:42 AM Another good contribution Stephen, thank you - a mix of passion and reason. I was partic.....
» 31/01/2007 11:37:46 AM Whispering Ted, Boswell claimed it was Samuel Johnson who first claimed that "Patriot.....
» 30/01/2007 7:53:00 PM Hey Doctor, what can I say in response to your question: "How could I be so stupid?&q.....
» 30/01/2007 3:46:45 PM David, you missed the key point - that Brunton, Albrechtson and Windschuttle had been acti.....
» 29/01/2007 9:52:10 PM Divorce Doctor, your post was unhelpful because not only were your assumptions false but y.....
» 29/01/2007 3:18:14 PM The ABC is clearly and perhaps irrevocably compromised by political interference by the Li.....
» 29/01/2007 12:14:13 PM Divorce Doctor, you quote Helen Garner: "Dear God if I know anything I know there ar.....
» 29/01/2007 9:02:56 AM Jennifer joins forces with Graham Young to attack Tim Lambert. I would have thought Graham.....
» 26/01/2007 5:02:03 PM Trade215 formulated a great summary of many of the hysterically belligerent anti-feminsist.....
» 25/01/2007 5:49:37 PM Mark Richardson, a nice try, but too glib by far. The claim that different social roles re.....
» 25/01/2007 12:05:06 PM Cireena Simcox makes some excellent points about the complex nature of feminism. I agree w.....
» 25/01/2007 11:22:03 AM I agree this is a readable article, with a light touch. It identifies an issue that concer.....
» 19/01/2007 11:08:57 AM “Pure casuistry” (to use Perseus’s term) on both sides, including from Perseus himself. S.....
» 18/01/2007 12:16:59 PM Sniggid's limp offering: "What a dopey post followed by the usual suspects lambasting.....
» 18/01/2007 11:34:29 AM This is a great story Stephen, not just for the way it shows the pride and dignity of the .....
» 18/01/2007 10:57:39 AM Bolt belted? Did he reply or did he do the usual cowardly thing, ignore knowledgable criti.....
» 6/01/2007 8:29:22 PM IAIN HALL replies to my questions. 1. Why are police still locking up Indigenous Australi.....
» 6/01/2007 1:10:49 PM Cowboy Joe, my last post asked two simple, direct questions: (a) Did Clinton actually ma.....
» 6/01/2007 12:48:53 PM IAIN HALL says 'The real question that Rainier and his cohort should answer is this: Now t.....
» 4/01/2007 10:15:17 PM Well said, GrahamY. A calm and reasonable summation of key issues in this matter, yet writ.....
» 2/01/2007 10:03:02 PM Cowboy Joe We all have opinions. Some are based on better information and clearer argumen.....
» 2/01/2007 5:51:59 PM Cowboy Joe We all have opinions. Some are based on better information and clearer argumen.....
» 2/01/2007 1:38:08 PM Horus, you've cracked it. It’s all a left-wing conspiracy: “only a matter of time”, “backr.....
» 1/01/2007 9:30:45 PM Cowboy Joe, what is this, Dis-information Week? You admit to being “no expert on the issue.....
» 1/01/2007 3:57:09 PM Hamlet, you rise to only one of my challenges for evidence of your allegations against OLO.....
» 1/01/2007 12:51:40 PM Horus, if I understand your English right, your answers come down to this: 1. Initially y.....
» 31/12/2006 4:26:08 PM Sage, my point in touching on George Williams' c.v. was to challenge The Skeptic's illogic.....
» 31/12/2006 10:53:10 AM Hamlet, are you squibbing it too? Hamlet, you want a debate on your preferred terms, so w.....
» 31/12/2006 10:50:29 AM Horus, I'm holding my breath (still) and can't let go until you answer - or are you sqibbi.....
» 30/12/2006 10:34:53 PM Horus, Can you please enlighten your readers: exactly how do "multitudes of career-.....
» 30/12/2006 10:24:11 AM Hamlet, you want a debate on your preferred terms, so what better way of getting what you .....
» 29/12/2006 2:12:52 PM Thank God, The Skeptic has outed Professor Williams as a member of the ALP, and warned us .....
» 26/12/2006 10:01:09 AM There you go again Chris C! I told you before that facts only confuse people who want to .....
» 24/12/2006 3:54:35 PM Chris C, People like Kevin Donnelly and their pet parrots like HRS don't want to know ab.....
» 24/12/2006 11:30:39 AM David_Boaz You remind us - on the eve of Christmas - that there are 13 people in Melbourn.....
» 22/12/2006 11:52:05 AM Sir Vivor, HRS and all other Kevin fans, Sorry, sorry! Mea culpa maximus! I appear to ha.....
» 22/12/2006 10:45:27 AM Overlooking all the more important factors giving rise to social conservatism in Australia.....
» 22/12/2006 9:55:23 AM Chrisse says that "Many people in 'western democratic nations'...are waking up to a w.....
» 21/12/2006 7:23:16 PM HRS states: "The ratio of left-wingers to right-wingers in many schools and Universit.....
» 21/12/2006 11:08:41 AM HRS says that chaplains coming into the education system "would help to turn the tide.....
» 20/12/2006 5:41:32 PM AnthonyMarinac makes a reasonable, detached argument but misses a couple of crucial issues.....
» 20/12/2006 5:00:54 PM I showed David Flint's article to some friends, former refugees from Chile, who fell about.....
» 16/12/2006 10:59:35 PM David_BOAZ You ask what motivates me and Ranier and suggest some answers - without a shre.....
» 13/12/2006 8:43:44 AM Kevin, you say you taught in secondary schools for 18 years. What subjects did you teach? .....
» 13/12/2006 8:43:35 AM Kevin, you taught what? where? when? with what results? When was the last time you taught .....
» 11/12/2006 10:40:40 AM A plausible and interesting thesis, Peter. A few notable examples to illustrate the point .....
» 11/12/2006 9:24:21 AM Notice how Kevin Donnelly cherry-picks the issues he responds to and the partial concessio.....
» 9/12/2006 5:19:57 PM Let's see if I've got this right, HRS. Your first point: If the schooling system were le.....
» 9/12/2006 1:38:57 PM HRS Two quick points about your last post. 1. Your suggestion that chaplains may "a.....
» 8/12/2006 12:16:42 PM Gadget, after reading your latest post in response to mine, I think I now understand the s.....
» 8/12/2006 12:31:43 AM Gadget calls Donnelly's polemic "a proper and well balanced article, nice and scholar.....
» 7/12/2006 12:09:12 PM Some wit long ago defined a fool as one who comes to believe his own propaganda, and Kevin.....
» 4/12/2006 10:31:52 AM Graham Ring says: "[Aboriginal Affairs Minister] Brough can expect to be abused in Ar.....
» 16/11/2006 9:35:39 AM BOAz-David I think Chris has a point, but NB he/she said 'to most of the above' which you.....
» 14/11/2006 10:55:07 PM This site produces some of the most bizarre contributions from ignorant buffoons who exhib.....
» 14/11/2006 1:54:11 PM Charlock You write: "In Sweden statistics show Muslim men are responsible for 68% [so.....
» 14/11/2006 11:08:57 AM Thank you Jocelyn Scutt for this useful article. It's an evidence-based counterpoint to Fa.....
» 14/11/2006 10:43:41 AM Father Dave provides a mish-mash of populist mush: “Sheik Taj Din al-Hilali…allegedly said.....
» 8/11/2006 10:01:57 AM I was going to make a response to this article but I was reminded that the author had writ.....
» 4/11/2006 12:09:48 AM BOAZ_David, when you write: "...the desire to 'remain aboriginal' is pretty close to .....
» 27/10/2006 5:20:50 PM Regarding the appalling gang crimes at Werribee, the callous violence and the crass trade .....
» 27/10/2006 12:11:13 PM Ingan Clendinnen's article makes good sense although her opening claim: 'The “history wars.....
» 26/10/2006 11:43:30 AM What an inspiring story - a brave woman facing a mob of bullying cowards urging others to .....
» 25/10/2006 5:47:05 PM sneekeepete (and others) McConvill may be right in the outcome he predicts (time will tel.....
» 25/10/2006 3:49:09 PM Runner, yesterday you said: “One of her [Pru Goward’s] recent statement was along the line.....
» 25/10/2006 11:50:33 AM I hope McConvill is a better lawyer than historian. e.g. McConvill claims: "Gough Wh.....
» 24/10/2006 6:06:33 PM Runner – in your response to an article about the Democrats you referred to Pru Goward. “O.....
» 24/10/2006 2:50:04 PM Hey Runner, I suggest you track down Pru Goward and ask her which Party she's been presele.....
» 18/10/2006 12:59:11 PM Ena, thank you for your refreshing commonsense. This debate had become debased and silly......
» 17/10/2006 9:43:15 AM Is this the weakest article ever posted on OLO? I can't remember a worse-argued, evidence-.....
» 16/10/2006 5:43:00 PM Leigh asks: "Has any thought been given to two possibilities: Muslim women cover up b.....
» 16/10/2006 10:46:18 AM Quote from the first poster: "Muslims are still in the 14th Century and do not appe.....
» 16/10/2006 10:34:59 AM On your contribution Leigh (1st cab off the rank): Quote: "[O]ur ridiculous multicul.....
» 15/10/2006 11:52:31 PM Dee - When you talk about the "corrosive effect diversity has on communities", y.....
» 13/10/2006 1:42:17 PM Dee, you give a selective commentary on Putman's research, no doubt influenced by the medi.....
» 11/10/2006 12:46:52 PM Hamlet, abyss, Banjo and Boaz-David Every time I write something here, one or all of you t.....
» 10/10/2006 6:43:51 PM Col Rouge, maybe you haven’t intended to lie. But you’ve certainly got a few things wrong......
» 9/10/2006 11:49:21 PM abyss, If I knew what the heck you were saying I'd give you a proper response ('closet-as.....
» 9/10/2006 6:06:38 PM T800, you ask if I’m aware that the definition of Multiculturalism has changed three times.....
» 8/10/2006 9:14:53 PM The standard of this debate is more appalling than most. Some posters SHOUT (upper case in.....
» 8/10/2006 4:41:46 PM T800, you say I dismissed Hamlet's scenario out of hand. Not so. My post argued that Hamle.....
» 7/10/2006 5:27:54 PM Angelo’s ‘evidence’ that there is a “de facto civil war waged by Muslims in France” consis.....
» 7/10/2006 2:44:29 PM Hamlet, mickijo and others, no sensible purpose is served by raging against something you .....
» 5/10/2006 4:52:04 PM Sage, calling contributors “dills” or “intellectual dwarfs” rather than addressing their s.....
» 26/08/2006 5:09:52 PM Realist, your logic amounts to this: 1. A lot of serial killers, death row inmates and ra.....
» 25/08/2006 2:15:11 PM The man who was freed by the Victorian Court of Appeal and subject of current debate is na.....
» 25/08/2006 12:21:14 PM Shock-jock Bagaric posts his usual mean-spirited, ethics-free mediocrity. For the opposite.....
» 23/08/2006 12:04:18 PM At the risk of you telling me to mind my own opinion, Leigh, the first two paragraphs of y.....
» 23/08/2006 10:55:24 AM Mervyn Bendle's is a useful paper in that it describes the background to the national hist.....
» 22/08/2006 2:13:49 PM In my first post today I gave a few examples of the mindless labels which are offered as a.....
» 22/08/2006 10:17:56 AM Alan, you ought not be surprised at the lack of transparency and the hypocrisy of the Chri.....
» 15/08/2006 12:46:10 PM Good for you Scout - a voice for sanity and a voice of reason among a mob of shouters. It .....
» 14/08/2006 9:38:59 PM Shorbe, when you can't cope with the other fellow's argument, and the going gets too tough.....
» 14/08/2006 12:29:36 PM Leigh, throwing insults at a women contributor ("dearie"), at Islam in general (.....
» 14/08/2006 12:02:54 PM I wonder if modern technology makes killing technically both easier and politically expedi.....
» 10/08/2006 12:59:58 PM Shorbe, you say there is “very little data” about the outcomes of education and “Facts can.....
» 8/08/2006 5:29:13 PM Shorbe, you are right to be skeptical of some types of government statistics on educationa.....
» 8/08/2006 12:29:49 AM Shorbe, you are now asking good general questions like: “Without being able to put anythin.....
» 7/08/2006 11:35:33 AM Shorbe, I and my four children and their partners could answer all of your exemplar questi.....
» 6/08/2006 11:07:13 PM Shorbe, you throw wild assertions around like confetti at a multiple wedding. But you need.....
» 4/08/2006 11:11:11 AM Banjo, I don’t want to create a red herring either because the topic of this thread is ver.....
» 3/08/2006 8:42:17 PM Arjay, perhaps yu missed my last post in which I said: - suppose for the sake of argument .....
» 3/08/2006 1:17:50 PM Kevin Donnelly says, "...workchoice ads, while it is OK to analyse them in the classr.....
» 3/08/2006 1:07:47 PM Banjo, you say that it would be more honest of us to say that we are a multi-racial countr.....
» 3/08/2006 12:17:40 PM Kevin Donnelly is a master of recycling tired ideas and today’s essay doesn’t disappoint. .....
» 1/08/2006 10:28:57 PM Unlike Australia, all private land in Queen Elizabeth's primary country is owned by the Cr.....
» 1/08/2006 9:55:48 PM Arjay, - suppose for the sake of argument that I agree with your ahistorical claims about.....
» 1/08/2006 5:45:06 PM Estimates of the Queen’s wealth, income and expenditure are fraught. The royal family is e.....
» 1/08/2006 3:35:48 PM I think Liz Connor begins by being unduly reticent in condemning infibulation. Catherine A.....
» 31/07/2006 11:26:00 PM On Sunday, Arjay told us “Jeff Kennett did what was necessary. Just firing a few fat cats .....
» 31/07/2006 11:24:00 AM With breathtaking hypocrisy Arjay accuses me of being “very selective” while in the next b.....
» 28/07/2006 12:24:03 AM Arjay, you obviously don't know your history. Your hero, Jeff (not Geoff) Kennett, was thr.....
» 27/07/2006 10:57:02 AM I can match soft anecdote for soft anecdote with Mervyn Bendle. My four children have exce.....
» 27/07/2006 10:26:16 AM Arjay, Janet Albrechtsen’s data on public servants warrants close scrutiny. In particular,.....
» 25/07/2006 11:44:07 AM The first article posted today starts with this sentence: "We live in a world where.......
» 20/07/2006 2:05:12 PM I love you too, Leigh!.....
» 19/07/2006 6:51:52 PM Leigh, you say you "don't comment on the opinions of others, no matter how daft [you].....
» 18/07/2006 5:22:21 PM Leigh, I have found that thoughtful uncertainty has helped me and others with answering li.....
» 18/07/2006 11:28:32 AM Kevin has reached the conclusion that Indigenous Australians are a group of people who hav.....
» 13/07/2006 8:43:53 PM Ted Lapkin, I don't agree with your basic line of argument but I respect you for your will.....
» 12/07/2006 3:30:49 PM TurnRightThenLeft, there are mathematical figures and there are figures of speech. Are you.....
» 12/07/2006 12:06:21 PM What's going on? Free 'choice' advocates are on a roll. And it's all so individualised and.....
» 12/07/2006 10:48:55 AM Mr Lapkin, what interpretation do you put on the Pentagon's announcement yesterday that it.....
» 12/07/2006 9:15:42 AM David, I didn’t directly refer to moral choices in this thread but rather focused on real .....
» 11/07/2006 3:02:34 PM Leigh, you’ve got me there; and I confirm that I agree with you. How REALLY dumb of me - I.....
» 11/07/2006 3:00:16 PM Pericles, you’re right. It was not you I should have targeted. Please accept my sincere ap.....
» 11/07/2006 11:33:04 AM Congratulations Stephen on your award. More strength to your arm! I admire your work. More.....
» 10/07/2006 7:26:10 PM Pericles, at the end of my response to Farrell's posting I did indeed say, “What a load of.....
» 10/07/2006 1:18:30 PM Leigh, let's see if I understand your logic when you say, "The fact that the left rus.....
» 10/07/2006 12:48:36 PM Ross Farrell argues that "choice is, in almost all cases, an absolute good and should.....
» 10/07/2006 11:57:37 AM Relative to the quality of his frequent contributions, (ex) Professor Flint seems to get m.....
» 10/07/2006 11:30:26 AM Mr Lapkin, can you explain what you mean by "legal reality"? And in what three s.....
» 7/07/2006 1:17:14 PM With the help of divine inspiration or media reports, Leigh knows for certain, “even witho.....
» 7/07/2006 11:35:11 AM Mirko Bagaric demonstrates that the illegal detention of David Hicks and hundreds of other.....
» 5/07/2006 10:40:52 AM Graham Haycroft's essay is basically about assigning (self-interested) motives to the ALP .....
» 4/07/2006 4:17:15 PM Arjay, sorry I have taken so long to get back to you. I agree with you on all those terrib.....
» 4/07/2006 4:08:22 PM Mr Lapkin, your derisory opening gambit detracts from your argument. You don't have to liv.....
» 3/07/2006 3:01:45 PM So you’re happy, jeremy29, for Mr D’Sousa to make sweeping statements about Australian aca.....
» 3/07/2006 12:45:35 PM On Line Opinion lowers the bar when it runs this essay by Rohan D’Sousa who believes Austr.....
» 30/06/2006 11:20:38 AM John Stone accuses the Coalition government of having "almost forgotten about the rig.....
» 29/06/2006 11:46:47 PM Col Rouge, I know it's hard for some people to deal with more than one idea in each post. .....
» 29/06/2006 2:56:59 PM After ignoring six of my seven original points, and dismissing the other with his personal.....
» 28/06/2006 1:57:24 PM Tony Abbott says, "Australians’ sense of guilt about the past and naïve idealisation .....
» 14/06/2006 6:22:54 PM An absurd play in one act brought to you by Opinion On-Line: FRANKGOL [Tuesday, 13 June]:.....
» 14/06/2006 5:39:37 PM Let’s see if we can make more progress, BOAZ_David. You lament the horrific cost of ‘blood.....
» 13/06/2006 6:13:53 PM Redneck, I’ll have one more go and then I’ll give up on you. First, I can agree that peopl.....
» 13/06/2006 5:34:40 PM BOAZ_David, do I agree that Chinese people are different to Europeans? Not to be flippant,.....
» 12/06/2006 10:28:18 AM So it’s all a conspiracy, Redneck: “…the hard evidence in the form of genetic science is b.....
» 11/06/2006 1:11:53 AM Redneck and other white supremacists, here are two scientific facts for you to consider: .....
» 10/06/2006 11:55:22 AM Redneck just won’t give up! ‘Some people are smart and some are dumb,’ she asserts withou.....
» 4/06/2006 7:15:44 PM The aptly self-styled Redneck pontificates on some links he alleges exist between equality.....
» 4/06/2006 12:31:59 PM By the way, Redneck, two and two make four only some of the time. For example, if you add .....
» 1/06/2006 3:27:41 PM I nearly fell off my chair when I read michjio saying to another correspondent, "I do.....
» 31/05/2006 2:53:08 PM Mickijo, I thought you were just dazzled by the colour white but I realize you are also hi.....
» 30/05/2006 6:00:30 PM Mickijo claims that whites are "entirely responsible for medical research, the discov.....
» 30/05/2006 12:40:04 PM Frank Brennan's article is profound and illuminating while at the same time frustrating: h.....
» 27/05/2006 3:27:02 PM This is what Peter Costello said in his address to the Sydney Institute on 23 February 200.....
» 25/05/2006 4:53:14 PM Dear Jane Doe, Of course you are entitled to your opinion; but some logical thought and .....
» 25/05/2006 4:21:20 PM Mr Hasbeen, you tell us about the miracles you are able to conjure from your pension - &qu.....
» 25/05/2006 3:32:40 PM Jane Doe tells us all she is " so sick of this racist crap....The white people have t.....
» 19/05/2006 12:48:47 PM Leigh says, "The important issue is the horrible abuse of innocent, voiceless aborigi.....
» 18/05/2006 11:05:56 AM Graham Ring says to Andrew Bolt, "I imagine your columns are read by roughly a millio.....
» 12/05/2006 11:49:57 AM Sniggid, your "whole gloom and doom thing" will never "run out of steam&quo.....
» 13/04/2006 3:48:59 PM Sniggid, when you say, "It is a shame that this site is dominated by left wing people.....
» 13/04/2006 11:50:18 AM With syntax crashing, Professor Bagaric asks, ‘So why, despite the saturation media covera.....
» 7/04/2006 2:29:25 PM I took your advice, tennyson's_one_far-off_divine_event, and read the recommended article .....
» 7/04/2006 10:27:38 AM Kevin Donnelly complains about a school text which states: "there are many perspectiv.....
» 24/03/2006 10:02:19 AM I don't know what makes me feel sicker - the original tragic story of callous indifference.....
» 15/03/2006 10:45:28 AM Hey Bruce, you have had no troubles with Centrelink therefore you conclude Simon Schooneve.....
» 6/03/2006 2:31:50 PM Jenny Stokes is quite right when she says that the way a question is framed and the surrou.....
» 6/03/2006 1:17:24 PM Alan Baker claims ‘…MP after MP asserted that the Bill to clear the way for the abortion p.....
» 27/02/2006 9:35:41 AM Another simplistic dualism from Darlene - those who agree with her are 'quite perceptive';.....
» 26/02/2006 10:21:42 AM Darlene 1. There are about 30,000 kooris in Victoria, so I guess one day you might bump in.....
» 24/02/2006 8:58:17 PM Darlene Stop now before you make more of a goose of yourself. Where do you hang out? Koor.....
» 23/02/2006 3:41:14 PM Mickijo says, 'How about Andrew Bolt as host of "Media Watch" , then it may beco.....
» 23/02/2006 10:50:36 AM Was Darlene Taylor’s article meant to be a review of Andrew Bolt’s "still not sorry!&.....
» 23/02/2006 10:48:24 AM I enjoyed reading this article by Stephen Hagan. Clear, reasonable and informative. Thanks.....
» 16/02/2006 11:13:23 AM An excellent article Stephen (I wish you had added 'left' and 'right' to your list of misl.....
» 6/02/2006 11:09:33 AM Julian Cribb says Australia is one of the very few nations on earth where the word “academ.....
» 3/02/2006 5:22:54 PM Yesterday Professor John B Goode (aka Rainier?) wrote here that in another post I chastise.....
» 2/02/2006 2:08:49 PM I'm a bit clearer now, thank you chronicler. The "problem" (as you declare it) i.....
» 2/02/2006 12:31:45 PM We now have two contrasting pictures of universities in contemporary Australia - one by Me.....
» 26/01/2006 11:00:06 AM Dear David Flint Do you mean to imply that people in important positions (elites) are to .....
» 24/01/2006 11:54:55 AM Is this the same David Flint who championed the cash-for-comment king, Alan Jones while he.....
» 17/01/2006 10:18:22 AM Regarding this "debate": so many opinions, so many assertions, so many allegatio.....
» 16/01/2006 12:37:21 PM Greg Melleuish asserts that "...many academics, especially in the humanities and soci.....
» 29/06/2005 9:08:23 AM Oh Odyseus, I missed 'dummed' down. How dumb of me. Now for the content of your message:.....
» 28/06/2005 10:42:16 AM If you are going to bemoan the "numerous spelling and grammatical errors" of uni.....
» 26/06/2005 12:41:54 PM Alchemist, please spare us! There isn't time enough to read uninformed wild assertions. If.....
» 23/06/2005 12:02:41 PM This is an illogical, poorly-researched, offensive, self-serving piece of ideological (fac.....
» 14/06/2005 5:15:20 PM McConvill's paper on this site was not about torture. He used this forum to make a claim t.....
» 10/06/2005 11:17:27 AM James McConvill "fears that the attack, still ongoing, against Bagaric and Clarke wil.....
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