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ETS in the Twilight Zone

  • Tom Quirk
  • 25th May 2009
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In the words of Sir Humphrey Appleby, it is a “courageous act” to tax pipelines with such an extraordinary formula. It is more than courageous, it is really stupid.

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When Sharia rules

  • Hal G.P. Colebatch
  • 25th May 2009
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The Archbishop of Canterbury, the ineffable and inimitable Dr Rowan Williams, has offered the opinion in The Times that it is time to “move on” and stop humiliating Britain’s corrupt and larcenous MPs. Has Dr Williams thought through the fact that if Sharia Law, which he has been reported as welcoming, becomes instituted in Britain, thieves […]

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Sex and the single footballer

  • Philippa Martyr
  • 25th May 2009
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When Australian Rules footballers invite a stripper to perform in the dressing room before a show, "it is absolutely, completely unacceptable and inappropriate and it sends all of the wrong messages.” Name the source of that quote -

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Spin, spun, splat!

  • John Izzard
  • 25th May 2009
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If there were such a thing as the Eurovision Spin Contest, Australia’s Kevin Rudd would have won it hands down. Nobody in Australia, but nobody, does a wall-of-sound like our Kevin Rudd.

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David Flint

A double dissolution election: not much room to move

  • David Flint
  • 25th May 2009
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Kevin Rudd has only a short window for a double dissolution election early next year – and the result is not guaranteed.

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Bill Muehlenberg

Defending the Indefensible

  • Bill Muehlenberg
  • 18th May 2009
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If anyone wonders why society is in such a mess, they simply need to look at our ruling elites. Many of our opinion makers, judges, movers and shakers, and intellectualoids tend to promote ideas, values and worldviews which are not only contrary to the sensible majority, but are often perverse, irrational and outrageous.

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QED

Magnanimity in victory

  • James Allan
  • 18th May 2009
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These twin evils of sore losing and sore winning can even tell us something about democracy. To make a democracy work, you need to be able to throw those in power out peacefully, whatever sort of job they’ve been doing. And you need them to leave without being sore losers.

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Money, spin and lies

  • John Styles
  • 18th May 2009
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With the next federal election almost certainly less than 18 months away, the Coalition parties face a difficult task. One of the big questions will be, as the economy declines, whether or not today’s more media savvy electorate will see through what will be, most certainly, a very dense fog of Labor and media spin.

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QED

How long is temporary?

  • John Izzard
  • 18th May 2009
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Thank goodness they have repaired the Hubble Space Telescope because we might need it when trying to find the end of Wayne Swan’s “temporary deficit”. His vague estimate, and that of the Australian Treasury people, is that “temporary” means some time between 2015 and…well…er…infinity?

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Sex and the single girl

  • Philippa Martyr
  • 18th May 2009
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Feeling bad about oneself is the first sign of wrongdoing in present-day antipodean culture, and finding the culprit – who is invariably someone else – is the customary solution.

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