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Trap for novices: beware of geeks bearing gifts

Posted: 23 Jun 09 | MALCOLM TURNBULL would be glad Peter Costello announced his resignation last week because had he not, tongues would be flapping again about the leadership. |

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What will we do now that he's no longer not there for us?

Posted: 16 Jun 09 | A decade's worth of "Will he? Won't he? Wouldn't you like to know?" - all crumbled away to nothing, with the publication of a small statement on the Peter Costello website. |

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Brutal truth about attacks

Posted: 10 Jun 09 | ANOTHER bashing of an Indian student, another angry demonstration by fed-up Indian residents, another brick in the wall of the misconception that Indians in this country have become the frequent victims of violent white racism. |

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Pandemic pandemonium: pass the paracetamol

Posted: 05 Jun 09 | Last Monday I collected the child from school. "I think I've got swine flu," was her only utterance which I, ever the devoted mother, ignored. |

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Opposition reclaims question time's utility

Posted: 05 Jun 09 | When Turnbull began asking questions about the Prime Minister's supposed advocacy for an Ipswich car dealer who for several years has provided Kevin Rudd with a ute, a new mood of intrigue enveloped question time. |

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10 million ways to say thank you

Posted: 26 May 09 | This is why I always like to keep an extra passport, in a false name, close at hand. You just never know when some dopey 'chuck frum nuzullund' is going to drop a lazy 'tun mullion' into your account and it pays to be prepared. |

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Sol Trujillo on Australia and racism

Posted: 26 May 09 | Controversial former Telstra chief Sol Trujillo has taken a swipe at Australia, describing the nation he called home for four years as racist, backward and like "stepping back in time". Asked in a BBC interview whether there was racism in Australia, Mr Trujillo said: "I think it was evident in a lot of ways with me personally but more importantly with others." What do you think of Sol's comments? |

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Natural men scolded into timidity

Posted: 21 May 09 | As the mother of two junior rugby forwards, the wife of a former prop and daughter of a one-time flanker, it is time for me to come to the defence of violent sports and the men who play them. |

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Wedded abyss: how to avoid a bitter, lonely marriage.

Posted: 16 May 09 | Relationships expert Dr John Gottman says every marriage is a mistake, the question is what you do with it. |

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Code of silence at the top reveals little has changed

Posted: 15 May 09 | DO YOU want to know what is wrong with rugby league and the frustrating issue relating to club attitudes and women? Look firmly across the Tom Uglys Bridge at the besieged and struggling Cronulla Sutherland club. |

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Ethical men must fight for change

Posted: 15 May 09 | Amid the fallout from the Four Corners report on footballers and sex, I can't help thinking of the young women whose lives have been changed forever. |

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Farewell Bud Tingwell

Posted: 15 May 09 | Leave your tribute here to one of Australia's finest actors, Charles "Bud" Tingwell. |

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Sometimes the media have to be judge and jury

Posted: 15 May 09 | All but a hermit would know of the absolute cracker of a Four Corners story on Monday night, called Code Of Silence. The intriguing thing is, I hear people insist the code of silence should have extended to Four Corners. |

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Morality code kicked into touch

Posted: 14 May 09 | It serves Matthew Johns right that he was dumped yesterday from The Footy Show over a group sex session with former Cronulla Sharks teammates in New Zealand seven years ago. |

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Planning the clean-up before the storm has even arrived

Posted: 13 May 09 | This is the budget of the Treasurer who has everything. You name it, Wayne Swan's selling it: increases in government spending, cuts in government spending, tax cuts and tax increases. |

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Go ahead, make a mother's day

Posted: 08 May 09 | I am a regular mother - not perfect, not bad. I have consistently tried, yet nothing I have done in my life has drawn the level of public scrutiny that comes with just being a mother. |

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The deadbeat of international aid

Posted: 29 Apr 09 | The greatest and most immediate threats to Australia's security and prosperity arise from three sources: the degradation of the global environment, the plunging back into poverty of hundreds of millions of our neighbours due to the financial crisis, and new and mutating infectious diseases, including swine influenza, HIV/AIDS, and tuberculosis. |

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Got your bonus? They want it back

Posted: 15 Apr 09 | We need to talk about bonds. Not the underwear brand, or the British spy, but bonds, financial assets, that little understood but fundamentally important vehicle for government fund-raising. |

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Lonesome and blue: the soul-destroying lives of boys in the bush

Posted: 15 Apr 09 | Rural men in their teens and 20s are the most vulnerable group in our society. They have shown the biggest increase in suicide in the past two decades and their methods - guns and hanging - are also the most violent. |

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A home birth is not a safe birth

Posted: 09 Apr 09 | Dr Andrew Pesce, Westmead Hospital's clinical director of women's health, says he knows of four home births in the past eight months in western Sydney in which the baby has died, along with a further four home births in which the baby has suffered possible brain damage from oxygen deprivation; preventable tragedies if prompt medical care had been available. |

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