Libs should send for the doctor

Posted: 11 Aug 09 | Sharman Stone might be seen by the electorate as representing real change, Rosslyn Beeby writes. |

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Capital happy to buck green trends

Posted: 09 Jun 09 | There's a certain irony in the future of Australia's emissions trading scheme being debated in a city that has one of the biggest ecological footprints on the planet. |

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Bravery in the face of censorship

Posted: 17 Apr 09 | Was the Rudd Government serious when it raised the notion of introducing a charter to protect scientific debate? |

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Has Rudd's inner bogan been outed?

Posted: 03 Apr 09 | The PM's memory of his red-meat rant seems as hazy as his recollections of his visit to a New York strip club or his invite to dine with former West Australian premier, Brian Burke, Rosslyn Beeby writes. |

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The case against bikie bans

Posted: 27 Mar 09 | Crumpled in a cupboard drawer in my spare room are a dozen or so old T-shirts that get rummaged out for gardening and heavy duty renovation jobs like floor sanding or painting. |

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Where are our green visionaries?

Posted: 16 Mar 09 | There's a wave of green euphoria sweeping cyberspace following the announcement that environmental and social justice activist Van Jones will be special adviser on green jobs to the Obama administration. |

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What stinks about dead Roo figures

Posted: 03 Mar 09 | If 5000 eastern grey kangaroos have died of starvation "in one season" at a Federal department of defence training site in Canberra, our noses would know about it, Rossyln Beeby writes. |

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Something missing at mourning ceremony

Posted: 23 Feb 09 | White flowers, bells and choirs singing Leonard Cohen songs may bring touches of beauty and poignancy to a memorial ceremony. But they are mere trappings if the dead are nameless. |

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Visionaries lost to the blaze

Posted: 13 Feb 09 | Among those confirmed dead in the Victorian bushfires is ecologist Jenny Barnett and her husband, Professor John Barnett, a University of Melbourne endocrinologist and senior researcher with the Animal Welfare Science Centre. |

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Brit's fire blast patronises pioneers

Posted: 10 Feb 09 | I have friends and family in the fire-affected area, and like many people, I'm relying on the Internet for updates as there are outages in phone services across the region. So it was while scrolling through online news coverage that I came across this piece in The Guardian. |

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