09 Aug 09 | THE GLOBAL Financial Crisis has rendered the community almost immune to the colossal amounts of money being sucked into its gaping jaws. Massive figures simply wiped off the stockmarket, off super, off the dollar.
09 Aug 09 | Paying for online news
RUPERT MURDOCH is reported (''News to charge for web access'', August 7, p20) as saying that News Corp's newspapers could no longer afford to give away the content on its news websites.
08 Aug 09 | Five published correspondents in two days Dianne Proctor (August 6) and Bryan Docherty, Sam Nona, Janice Watkins and G.J. Katz (August7) all seeking to excuse Godwin Grech, a forger who, had he bee...
08 Aug 09 | Is the Parliamentary Triangle a precinct set aside for Australia's most important national institutions an appropriate place for the headquarters of a large security intelligence agency, bearing i...
08 Aug 09 | The Chinese Government has a habit of shooting itself in the foot when it comes to public relations, at least when seen from a Western perspective.
07 Aug 09 | Email affair has damaged the Opposition's chances of gaining ground.
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07 Aug 09 | The tawdry political affair of the moment, constructed by the Leader of the Opposition and his cohort, continues to play out against the background of the character assassination of the misguided publ...
06 Aug 09 | We should use the Hiroshima bombing anniversary to fashion a nuclear-free future.
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06 Aug 09 | On Tuesday, I listened to commentary on ABC Illawarra radio by a journalist who decried the false piety of the alleged terrorist who refused to stand for a Melbourne magistrate when brought before t...
05 Aug 09 | Some question the value of deterrence, despite North Korea's unpredictability.
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05 Aug 09 | H. Ronald (Letters, July 31) wants three reasons why Kevin Rudd wants 16- and 17-year-olds to vote. Not sure about Kev's reasons but here are mine.
First, they are intellectually engaged across more ...
04 Aug 09 | RAMESH THAKUR looks at how implementation of the UN's 'responsibility to protect' might be more readily achieved.
04 Aug 09 | Tim Curtin (Letters, July 31) quotes, as percentages, the rates of growth of annual net increases in the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide for the five decades 19602009.
Now, I'm no mathem...
03 Aug 09 | How many Muslims were really in favour of the death threat against Salman Rushdie?
03 Aug 09 | In the article ''Pushing nuclear option to a critical mass'' (July 25, p12), Cathy Alexander quotes Dr Mark Diesendorf as saying that solar farms are increasingly able to store energy and wind farm...
02 Aug 09 | THE $30million Immigration Bridge proposed for Lake Burley Griffin's West Basin has stirred up plenty of controversy since the plan was unveiled in 2006.
02 Aug 09 | IT'S TIME for Commonwealth public servants to stop whinging and get used to the idea of paying for parking in the Parliamentary Zone as well as Russell and Barton.
02 Aug 09 | Back in the dark ages
THE GOVERNMENT of Albania, a majority Muslim country, is preparing to legalise same-sex marriage and calls it an important move against discrimination. Meanwhile, in Kevin Rudd'...
01 Aug 09 | For a government which has been so coldly indifferent to world opinion in the past, the Burmese junta is suddenly showing remarkable signs of sensitivity (or perhaps it is nerves) in the way it is han...
01 Aug 09 | The article ''Govt 'bedazzled by the dollar' in race for students'' (July 28, p2) rightly highlights immigration as the root cause of the present problems with the overseas student program.