Fairfax columnist Richard Ackland has discovered a "smoking gun" linking Tony Abbott to James Ashby and what Labor sorts see as the dark campaign to ruin Peter Slipper. What a pity for his tale conspiracy that the weapon was dis-armed more than a month

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If you have been smelling smoke in the air, perhaps even fleeing your home ahead of bushfires, avoid the very many press reports blaming the latest summer fire on "carbon pollution". Instead, rent Stork and see the real reason why our future is in flames

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A recently beefed-up federal agency has been trumpeting an alleged gulf between the starting salaries of male and female graduates -- a gulf the author of the report denies. Very soon, the agency that can't read a spreadsheet will be inspecting industry's books to root out gender-based salary discrimination.

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When Quadrant found its grant from the Literature Board cut in half, the first question was "Why?". The second was, "Who makes these decisions?" Could be it be that answers to the second question satisfy the first?

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There is no shortage of evidence to support the argument that the ABC needs to be reformed. Over two successive days, ABC Radio 774's Jon Faine made the case to perfection

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Julia Gillard's former law firm insists it can find no trace of her legal work on behalf of ex-boyfriend Bruce Wilson. Perhaps, in order to dispel any suspicion of dishonesty, she might like to have a word with Nicola Roxon, who might just know a thing or two 

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Our Prime Minister is holding her breath as the decision on Australia's full-court press for a Security Council seat draws near. It would have been cheaper to apply for residence in Long Bay Gaol, where the neighbours a classier bunch

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Isidore Ropschitz came to Australia a refugee from totalitarianism. Family history counts for nothing as far as a prominent descendant is concerned

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As the documentary trail reveals, and Michael Smith explains in a new Cando.org video, the entity Julia Gillard established for boyfriend Bruce Wilson was never quite what it seemed

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