18 May 09 | When Wayne Swan says it will be seven years before the budget is back into balance you know he means he can never achieve this. Still less can he build the surpluses to pay back the hundreds of bill...
17 May 09 | THE FALLOUT from the ABC's Four Corners program on rugby league players continues to preoccupy the media.
16 May 09 | It is a fortunate person who so loves his or her vocation that he/she is willing to keep working at it even after becoming eligible for retirement.
15 May 09 | Treasurer Wayne Swan used a rather unfortunate analogy this week to explain the Federal Government's approach to coping with the global recession as he sold his second budget. For the Pineapple Mafia ...
14 May 09 | Proposals to improve Australian health care have a habit of ending in public slugfests over systems of hospital funding. The current dispute over the future of Calvary Hospital is a case in point. The...
13 May 09 | Australia is said to be well behind the rest of the world in not having a national bill of rights. I think Australia can leapfrog the pack and become a world leader if it plays to its strength as a pr...
12 May 09 | There has never been a drug quite like alcohol. In small doses, it relieves anxiety and makes us more sociable. Unfortunately, as the dose increases, the effects are not so positive. Many of us become...
11 May 09 | We can remember low points and even low farce, and few of us, probably, will think of many high points, but I think it is possible to claim that the general quality of territorial government, during most of the past 20 years, has been higher than that enjoyed in any state or territory of Australia over the same period. And that's quality at an executive as much as a legislative level.
08 May 09 | Home buyers' plan needs a rethink
07 May 09 | Federal PS cuts a false economy
03 May 09 | IT WOULD seem like the bleeding obvious. Wash your hands, don't spread germs.
But it is one of the key messages being delivered in a bid to reduce the chances of the spread of swine influenza.
02 May 09 | Seven years and counting. As Australia sends more forces to Afghanistan, it's time for some straight answers on why they're there, when they might get out and how much the whole mess is going to cost.
02 May 09 | The tradition of marking the first 100 days of American presidencies sprang from the desire of Franklin Delano Roosevelt to project an air of dynamism and achievement.
01 May 09 | Outbreak needs a global response, but there are many unknowns, Michael Richardson writes.
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30 Apr 09 | America must bring its torture enablers to account, Jorge Heine and Ramesh Thakur write.
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29 Apr 09 | Defence White Paper to reinforce importance of our American allies, Kim Beazley writes.
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29 Apr 09 | A dip in support for greater defence spending is good news for Kevin Rudd, says HUGH WHITE
28 Apr 09 | Action needed to prevent the recession from taking a toll on our youth, Toby Hall writes.
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27 Apr 09 | A Bill of Rights would redress the power imbalance between the individual and the government, BEDE HARRIS writes
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25 Apr 09 | Australian men and women served overseas in their nation's interest even before we were strictly a nation. Australia has men and women abroad now in a number of areas, placing them in potential harm's...