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Grammar Obsessive Disorder (G.O.D.) – anyone you know?

November 11, 2009 – 3:03 pm
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More, not less, equality needed for economic growth

November 10, 2009 – 7:00 am

Now the attention of Australian policy-makers is turning to maximising prosperity, understood as GDP growth, over the next few years.
The Australian’s Michael Stutchbury says this will require ‘tough-love’ policies.
Usually, this is code for giving carrots to the rich and sticks to the poor. Tough for the bottom of society, great for the top,
In economics, inequality [...]

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Asylum seekers: too tough or too humane

November 3, 2009 – 7:53 am

Rudd’s ‘tough but humane’ bob each way rhetoric on asylum seekers was always a crock but hey worth a try and great if you can get away with it. Today’s newspoll shows that he hasn’t got away with it.
Of course, Rudd could hope that this newspoll is an outlier and the damage is not [...]

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Copenhagen loses appeal for Obama

October 26, 2009 – 6:37 am

The much-heralded Copenhagen conference looks like it is about to be dealt a fatal blow, with the Obama administration in ‘lowering expectations’ mode.

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Women’s unhappiness and drugs

October 19, 2009 – 5:34 am

Barbara Ehrenreich:
It’s an old story: If you want to sell something, first find the terrible affliction that it cures. In the 1980s, as silicone implants were taking off, the doctors discovered “micromastia” — the “disease” of small-breastedness. More recently, as big pharma searches furiously for a female Viagra, an amazingly high 43% of women have [...]

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Office work doesn’t need to be boring

October 17, 2009 – 6:21 am
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Mark Scott should talk to Oliver Stone

October 16, 2009 – 7:51 am

Before ABC managing director takes his organisation down the path of the so-called pro-am model (no-one knows what this means but the words sound ‘inclusive’), he should have a chat to film-maker Oliver Stone who told Terra’s Orbita US 2009 conference in New York on Tuesday night:
“I’ve heard the democratic argument [for the internet] and [...]

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In Sydney, adultery is bad but property is really serious

September 4, 2009 – 8:06 am

This week a couple of big media stories gave us another epiphany on the Sydney psyche.
Della Bosca’s escapades with a comedy script writer got a kind of faux serious treatment, ’shock, adultery right here in Sydney, what next?’.
And then last night, the really serious Sydney stuff, a property dispute that resulted (apparently) in a cold-blodded [...]

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Laziness is not the way to the Lodge

July 30, 2009 – 8:05 am

Malcolm Turnbull has failed on two fronts this week, political donations and the ETS legislation. The idea that the Opposition will oppose the Government’s reforms on political donations because they don’t go far enough is pure poppycock. More serious is the admission that the Opposition will oppose the Government’s ETS legislation but will not put [...]

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“Cop you later”

May 16, 2009 – 12:42 pm

Signing off from last night’s rugby league match, the ABC radio announcer said a cheery ‘cop you later’. After the last week of ‘controversy’ he might what to rethink this salutation.

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