27 Mar 09 | Government ministers are given access to the most highly classified secrets without having to undergo a security clearance because to do otherwise would potentially thwart the wishes of the voters who...
26 Mar 09 | We can all learn from the case of Marcus Einfeld, Kath Hall writes.
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26 Mar 09 | All my life I have pondered the question: how could the German people have knowingly tolerated the Holocaust in their midst?
While nothing in our experience compares with the industrial scale of the...
25 Mar 09 | The US President seems determined to confirm he is out of touch, PAUL KRUGMAN writes
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25 Mar 09 | Clive Williams (''Troop deployment should focus on volatile Pakistan'', March 23, p9) appears to recommend more Australian troops be sent to both Afghanistan and to Pakistan, though in his informativ...
24 Mar 09 | Canberra owes its leafy avenues to the foresight of early planners, Ken Taylor writes.
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24 Mar 09 | Further to Major-General (ret'd) Alan Stretton (Letters, March 18), the war in Afghanistan and Pakistan is unwinnable and without strategic purpose.
President Barack Obama reiterated last week that ...
23 Mar 09 | Scientists say we must now adapt to what nature sends our way, George Monbiot writes.
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23 Mar 09 | Primary Health Care is said to have changed the locks on the premises of Kippax Family Practice ''to protect'' my medical records which are ''being transferred to the Ginninderra clinic'' where I can ...
23 Mar 09 | The Government's response to climate change is indeed misguided, but not for the reasons given by Keith Orchison(''Rudd, Wong should trade in wasteful carbon vehicle'', March 18, p19).
Orchison foll...
22 Mar 09 | HOW DOES one tell a young woman, scarred and near death after a horrendous childbirth, that she should not allow a man to use a condom, or that should she be raped again, her young body must endure another life-threatening birth? How do you tell an AIDs sufferer that if you use a condom it could aggravate the spread of the disease?
22 Mar 09 | Praise misplaced
SOMETIMES one wonders if rational thought has been suspended.
During the period Australian troops served in Vietnam, elements of society blamed the soldiers as if they were the makers of Government policy.