Boats, asylum seekers and tragedy have cornered the headlines, so the Rudd government's approval of mining-lease extensions on the environmentally stressed island has gone largely unnoticed

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These days the only country in the Middle East prepared to tolerate Barack Obama’s patronising poppycock is the State of Israel

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Some people like to be hit with whips or trussed like turkeys and stomped beneath imperious high heels.

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Traditional freedoms are being eroded in the US, where Obama's has made the IRS a tool of political harassment as an aquiescent press debases itself with silence. Sound familiar?

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The IPCC, at least in its Policymakers Summary, continues to promote ever shriller forecasts of doom.  But it can no longer deny that those prophecies have been mugged by almost two decades of data that show temperatures obstinately refusing to rise and climatic disasters maintaining their established patterns. To many, the 2013 IPCC report reveals climate alarm as […]

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After six years of incompetence and adolescent self-righteousness, Australia finally has a federal government led by an adult. If only the same could be said of the United States.

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It should come as no surprise that Barack Obama would tap a believer in perpetual pump-priming to head the Federal Reserve. The real shocks will come later, when the frantic quest for revenue reaches a grasping urgency

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Quick, call the re-write desk at the Macquarie Dictionary! The ABC has demonstrated, at least to its own satisfaction, that "tow" and "turn" share the exact same meaning

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Like Japanese soldiers fighting on long after their Emperor had surrendered, the Press Council persists in embodying the former government's loathing of free speech. It deserves nothing less than every Australian's contempt

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