18 Aug 09 | Once again the forces of political conservatism in Australia are employing the politics of fear against a reformist government this time stirring up concern about who is going to pay back the debt bu...
17 Aug 09 | Unfortunate incident may prove to be a "teachable moment", Ramesh Thakur writes.
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17 Aug 09 | Paul Pollard (Letters, August 12) claims the climate change debate is not helped by trotting out the same old, often-refuted denialist debating points.
The reason these debating points are continua...
16 Aug 09 | Monstrous reminder
THE ARCHITECT of Parliament House may think ASIO's new headquarters is a monster (''Parliament architect attacks ASIO building 'monster''', August 15, p5), but maybe he should look...
16 Aug 09 | AS CONSUMER confidence surges by a reported 3.7 per cent and commentators suggest most people believe the worst of the economic downturn is over, we cannot lose sight of the fallout from the global f...
15 Aug 09 | The current Opposition spin that it is an unreasonable and arrogant Federal Government which will not sit down and discuss attitudes to its climate-change proposals while accusing the Government of i...
15 Aug 09 | The defeat of the Rudd Government's legislation to establish an emissions trading scheme was inevitable, given that it was opposed by all non-Labor Senators. However, all sides of politics still have ...
14 Aug 09 | Despite the noisy atmospherics that surrounded it, the climate change vote in the Senate yesterday was largely a waste of time
14 Aug 09 | The new move by the Rudd Government to eliminate the warrant requirement for searches is a disgraceful assault on civil liberties from a government that really should know better.
Since September 11 ...
13 Aug 09 | We need to act based on what is possible in Burma, Morten Pedersen writes.
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13 Aug 09 | It is extraordinary that the Government is being criticised by the Opposition for giving too little compensation to the big polluters.
The Opposition could have demanded more compensation for state ...
12 Aug 09 | Rosslyn Beeby on why Sharman Stone could cut it as the Opposition leader.
12 Aug 09 | The new Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan leader will have to impose his personality on the Pashtun tribes without attracting CIA air strikes
12 Aug 09 | Anthony Moore (Letters, August 10) calls for more debate on climate change , but this is not helped by his trotting out the same old, often-refuted denialist debating points.
He implies scientists ...
11 Aug 09 | Bruce Baird is a good choice to review the international education industry, but it is incumbent on the Government to act on his findings
11 Aug 09 | Legislating a target now could jeopardise negotiations, OWEN CORDES-HOLLAND and DONALD ROTHWELL write
11 Aug 09 | I do not pretend to understand the government's carbon emissions trading scheme, however, putting our faith in economists and free markets as the government would have us do is misplaced. If the globa...
10 Aug 09 | Evan Hanford with a list of truly wonderful things about Australia's capital city.
10 Aug 09 | Factors other than market efficiency need to be considered when we contemplate changing our parallel import restriction arrangements
10 Aug 09 | The Government says its cap-and-trade emissions scheme is the primary means of meeting its carbon emissions goal. It says it will set its cap at 5 to 25per cent below emission levels in 2000. It wil...