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Jack Waterford

Writing the wrongs of plagiarism

Posted: 30 Oct 08 | The next time someone decides to write a "Whither the Liberal Party?" book, I suggest they get the Special Minister of State, John Faulkner, to edit it. |

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More important battles than grammar

Posted: 23 Oct 08 | Even as people of my vintage have a little smirk at the news that grammar will once again be taught in English classes, we should recognise that the enterprise is fraught with peril. |

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Motion of no confidency

Posted: 16 Oct 08 | The Wall Street Journal is the newspaper of preferency of those who gave us the sub-prime crisis, and it is only appropriate that it now give us sub-prime words. |

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Indifference to making a difference

Posted: 09 Oct 08 | Even those with a settled view on who ought to win the ACT election would be finding it difficult to drop everything to persuade fellow citizens, Jack Waterford writes. |

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What stinks about the methane debate

Posted: 02 Oct 08 | I do not mind the occasional piece of roo, but it is no substitute for proper red meat, say seven kilograms a week worth, writes Jack Waterford. |

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Taxes for the betterment of whom?

Posted: 25 Sep 08 | Ron Gilbert, a prolific letter writer on matters economic, and sometime correspondent to the Oped pages, has long been campaigning to have change-of-use, or what we once called betterment charges abolished. |

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Little to show for our great NT crusade

Posted: 11 Sep 08 | The time is right, I think, to revive an educational idea of 30 years ago. What we badly need is an Aboriginal Institute of Australian Studies, writes Jack Waterford. |

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In defence of the semicolon

Posted: 29 Aug 08 | Some wordsmiths argue for the death of the semicolon, however it should be known that this punctuation mark has actually saved a life. |

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Barefoot and pregnant just does not cut it anymore

Posted: 21 Aug 08 | Over on the continent from which, or from nearby which, so many of our ancestors fled or left in chains, there's a good deal of concern about the falling birth rate. |

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Absorbing tale gets a guernsey

Posted: 14 Aug 08 | Neither reading as duty nor as marathon always inspires to see reading as fun, reading as addiction, and reading as essential pleasure, writes Jack Waterford. |

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Sex guide worth rescuing

Posted: 24 Jul 08 | Sex and the City would never have persisted as a series had the gals read a particular checklist from some years ago, writes Jack Waterford. |

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Guessing games of the Apocalyptics now

Posted: 17 Jul 08 | End of the world visions of a steaming planet of deserts surrounded by water are fostered by anti-human modern-day manicheans, writes Jack Waterford. |

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Jungle fever for pedants

Posted: 10 Jul 08 | Here's an ideal controversy between pedants of the sort that many readers of the letters page, including myself, love. |

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Unholy system of self-loathing

Posted: 26 Jun 08 | There will still be cases of abuse within the church but we can all hope that the worst days of an abusive culture are behind us, writes Jack Waterford. |

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Trials of the modern parent

Posted: 19 Jun 08 | Of the facts and the circumstances surrounding the finding of 18-months old twins a week dead, apparently of malnutrition, in Brisbane, I have no idea, but will be slow to rush to judgment. |

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