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Oct 5 2010
1:00am		Social media is nothing to fear
It's human nature to dislike, even hate, what we fear and to fear that which is foreign to us.These drivers underpin many of the entrenched prejudices that exist in this world, to humanity's great shame and dismay. Prejudice and its implications ca... more
Oct 5 2010
1:00am		Think, don't tax
As I walked through the city of Melbourne on Saturday night I got caught up amongst the rushes of crowds on the streets from the post-grand final replay bogan bonanza. As a Carlton supporter myself I was surprised to hear someone wearing a Collingw... more
Oct 4 2010
1:00am		Anonymous sources no window to truth
"[W]hat bothers me," wrote Christian Kerr in yesterday's Australian in regards to the outing of Grog's Gamut author, Greg Jericho, "is that someone seriously expected they could stay anonymous online in this day and age."Clearly, Kerr reads a diffe... more
Oct 4 2010
1:00am		The Uruzgan Six
We continue to mourn the Balibo Five but we have not, thus far, much mourned the Uruzgan Six. Though both groups were said to have been killed in crossfire the second group is felt to be less important for we do not know the names, ages or genders ... more
Oct 4 2010
1:00am		Climate change challenge for rich and poor
With business leaders and the Australian Government finally acknowledging the need to put a price on carbon, climate change is back on the agenda here in Australia and it's also on the agenda this week internationally. Representatives from countrie... more
Oct 1 2010
1:00am		An ethical debate on the war in Afghanistan
It is good that there will be a debate on the war in Afghanistan. However, it would be a great pity if this gets bogged down in operational details of how the war is progressing and the prospects of "success," rather than addressing the fundamental... more
Oct 1 2010
1:00am		Wild Rivers: environmental colonisation
In all of the current debate on the Queensland Government's Wild Rivers laws, one major matter is being completely missed. That matter is the process of contemporary environmental colonisation of Cape York. Where once Indigenous rights in land were... more
Oct 1 2010
1:00am		Nuclear arms: the global threat
I had a vision of a way we could have no enemies ever again, if you're interested in this. Anybody interested in hearing this? It's kind of an interesting theory, and all we have to do is make one decisive act and we can rid the world of all our en... more
Oct 1 2010
1:00am		The Age of Monitoring
Last week, as I waited for a bus to take me to Bernie Hobbs' house, so we could watch the semi-final episode of The New Inventors, I was struck with a recurring thought: Here I am, stuck in the dark, without a clue. I'd timed my arrival at the bus ... more
Oct 1 2010
1:00am		The wisdom of illness
'Never start fights,' my dad told me when I was little. 'End them.'I'm not much of a fighter, but over the years I've always taken this to heart. I never started a blue, but in my youth I tried to give a good account of myself.But last winter I was... more
Oct 1 2010
1:00am		Sending a credible drugs message
The greatest flaw in Australia's War on Drugs strategy is that it treats the possession and use of illicit substances like cocaine and cannabis as a criminal justice issue instead of it being seen for what it clearly is - a matter that is more appr... more
Oct 1 2010
1:00am		Weekly wrap: the new paradigm-y parliament
What a week this has been. A week in which we came to see just how badly we had been deceived, but still found we could laugh at our misfortune.For those of us interested in important things, the week proceeded in the shadow of the aftermath of the... more
Oct 1 2010
1:00am		And so the settlement expansion continues
Will they or won't they? The international media was counting down the hours until Israel's self-described "settlement freeze" ended this week. Most Western journalists, based in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, looked for any signs from the government of B... more
Sep 30 2010
1:00am		Stop blaming feminists for the world's problems
I have much to atone for. You see... I. Am. A. Feminist. And as Virginia Haussegger so helpfully pointed out, I am therefore partially responsible - guilty! - for the continued horrific oppression and murder of millions of women worldwide. I have w... more
Sep 30 2010
1:00am		Housing market's soft-landing secure
In news that will doubtless please policymakers, the desired soft-landing in Australia's housing market looks to be secure with the robust capital gains of 2009 and the first quarter of 2010 well and truly behind us. In the month of August the seas... more
Sep 30 2010
1:00am		Footy fatigue
Whilst I'm neither a punter nor a supporter of either of the two warring sides, I am devastated by the result of Saturday's grand final. I don't think I can handle anymore football. Please don't get me wrong; I do enjoy watching the footy. On many ... more
Sep 30 2010
1:00am		Education revolution for parliamentarians
The independent members have delivered some parliamentary reforms but the poor election performance of the major parties demands more - an education revolution for politicians.The grasp of the important issues - renewable energy, tariffs, climate c... more
Sep 30 2010
1:00am		Quality sets The Australian apart
A friend suggested to me the other day that political debate in our country would be improved if The Australian just went out of business.They're a self-obsessed monolith who use their position to intimidate critics rather than address their concer... more
Sep 30 2010
1:00am		Treasury's little Red Book
"You are starting this term of government with an economy that is performing strongly and approaching full employment," begins Treasury's Red Book briefing, recently declassified and released to the general public for the first time.Written in the ... more
Sep 30 2010
1:00am		Redefining masculinity is key to stopping rape
Women can't stop rape. We've been trying for decades. From the early days of the women's movement in the late 1960s and 1970s, feminists have launched anti-rape campaigns. But, while rape crisis centres continue to promote the message that rape is ... more

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