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Ladies Day: alcohol poisioning, sunburn and regret

Posted: 05 Nov 09 | As a feminist, I struggle with the Spring Racing Carnival. |

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Jackson and Safron, as similar as black and white

Posted: 29 Oct 09 | Michael Jackson and John Safran are peas in a pod, two sides of the same coin, ebony and ivory on the keyboard in perfect harmony. Seriously. |

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Celebrity atheists expose their hypocrisy

Posted: 26 Oct 09 | A flurry of books bashing religion are making best-seller lists and grabbing a lot of attention. |

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BBC goes PC potty over Humpty Dumpty

Posted: 20 Oct 09 | The BBC has tweaked children's nursery rhymes, including Humpty Dumpty, to ensure it has a happy ending. |

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Real men not afraid to take a stand

Posted: 19 Oct 09 | 'Great gig, eh?'' the drunk at the pub sprayed at me as we stood at the urinal on Saturday night. |

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A bloody mob of hypocrites

Posted: 19 Oct 09 | Eight nights ago Channel Nine's 60 Minutes ran a blood-curdling story about the herding and slaughter of dolphins near the Japanese fishing town of Taiji, describing what it called the ''Dante's inferno'' for dolphins. It was harrowing. It was also a classic case of Australians in glass houses. |

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Kids should not be taken on planes

Posted: 07 Oct 09 | I need to make a public apology. I am deeply sorry for travelling on planes with my children when they were babies and toddlers. I am ashamed. I am remorseful. I am scum. |

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Lessons from the death of a little girl

Posted: 07 Oct 09 | In sentencing the mother of Ebony - the seven-year-old girl from Hawks Nest who died of starvation - to life and her father to 12 years, Justice Robert Hulme of the NSW Supreme Court got one thing right. Their crime was reprehensible. No lesser sentence would have done. Nothing excuses her parents' inaction. |

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Forgiving fans in a league of their own

Posted: 02 Oct 09 | As a member of the National Rugby League board for the past five seasons, I am only too familiar with off-field incidents. Each in isolation brought shame to the game and those who love it. Collectively it seemed to reach almost epidemic proportions. |

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Should gyms intervene if someone has an eating disorder?

Posted: 29 Sep 09 | don't go to the gym as regularly as I should, but each time I do, Amy is there too. While I'm trying to wake up on the treadmill, Amy is coming out of the early morning aerobics class, after an hour-long workout. While others head to the showers, Amy heads to the bicycles. |

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Jury in on heroin ban

Posted: 24 Sep 09 | We don't need a debate about heroin-assisted treatment. We should be providing this now to the small minority with very severe problems who have not benefited from repeated episodes of other treatments |

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Telstra should get up before it's a train wreck

Posted: 17 Sep 09 | Successive governments have done little to weaken Telstra's advantage over its competitors. It controls the infrastructure they depend upon. It has been permitted to dominate every platform and every service, from telephones, to pay TV, to mobile telephones, to broadband. |

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Let our young women find their own way

Posted: 17 Sep 09 | Any parent can tell you that from age five kids work out that peers are the ones to impress and measure yourself against. This peaks during adolescence when popular culture becomes the way they express and construct themselves. |

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Weddings? I prefer funerals - they're far more real

Posted: 16 Sep 09 | I quite like going to weddings. I just prefer funerals - the chat's more earthy, you hear more secrets, you don't have to buy a present and there's no group on the balcony muttering: ''I give it three months, tops.'' |

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Immigration: Our door should always be open

Posted: 16 Sep 09 | It's normal in times of financial uncertainty, or even at other times, to call for reductions in immigrant numbers. It has always been a false response. We are part of a world of political and climatic uncertainty, in which for economic and political reasons people are on the move. |

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Memo to future MPs: don't leave your run too late

Posted: 09 Sep 09 | Even before the Liberal Party opened nominations for the north shore seat of Bradfield, Arthur Sinodinos, former chief of staff to John Howard, ruled himself out as a candidate. "I know the sacrifices involved in a serious political career," he said. |

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Face it, we are all narcissists now

Posted: 03 Sep 09 | Let's play a game: who doesn't have narcissistic personality disorder in our self-obsessed age? |

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Sexist pigs?

Posted: 02 Sep 09 | Working 9 to 5: Women still miss out on senior jobs. Why? |

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Our Father, to thine own pathological self be true

Posted: 02 Sep 09 | HERE'S my theory. God has narcissistic personality disorder. |

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Why eggheads get the girls and birdbrains don't

Posted: 02 Sep 09 | NERDS take heart. Scientists have shown for the first time that being smart is sexy, and the most clever males get the most partners. |

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