I’ve noted earlier how globalised terrorism has moved the front-line behind us in a war in which we are all footsoliders, whether we like it or not, and whether we approved of invading Afghanistan and Iraq or not.
I was dismayed to see the news reports that Jason Gillespie thinks […] Continue Reading…
August 03, 2005 | Graham
Send Jason Gillespie a white feather
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August 01, 2005 | Graham
Howard only has to GetUp to get lucky
Looking at the disasters of the first half of John Howard’s career, who would have thought that second half would be so fortunate. Howard’s latest stroke of good luck is the new website http://getup.org.au/. The site claims to be part of “a new progressive movement in Australia” and is […] Continue Reading…
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July 31, 2005 | Graham
By-election? I’ll have a coalition with that!
Liberals are scratching their heads about the new demand by Bruce Scott, the Queensland Nationals’ new State President, that they form a Coalition with the Nationals before the Redcliffe and Chatsworth by-elections. Is this deliberate sabotage, or just incompetence?
What our polling (rtf) shows is that Queenslanders want a […] Continue Reading…
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July 25, 2005 | Graham
Primo amigo?
The resignation from parliament today of Queensland Treasurer Terry Mackenroth forces Premier Peter Beattie to take a position on a by-election quinella. It also gives Liberal Party State President Michael Caltabiano a decisive part to play in proving that the Queensland Liberal Party is fit to help provide Labor […] Continue Reading…
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July 24, 2005 | Graham
Can Queensland Opposition capitalise on Redcliffe by-election?
Queensland’s Labor Party appears to believe it is born to rule, and that could help the Queensland Opposition to win the Redcliffe by-election. That’s as long as the opposition can convince the public that they are not born losers – and the signs are not good on that front […] Continue Reading…
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July 22, 2005 | Ronda Jambe
Faith to Faith? I’m sweating it out
Most of the US is sweltering, my pink and soft Canberra body (and spirit) no longer able to easily deal with the combination of heat and high humidity. It was hot in London, too, when we departed our hotel in Russell Square just a few days before the bombings.
I […] Continue Reading…
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July 21, 2005 | Graham
Model mummies the fat problem
I was just playing and trying to provoke with my recent post asking whether obesity was a product of “mummy culture”. I thought it was probably the truth, but not the whole truth. And I thought it was more to do with Mum being seduced into supersizing our lunch […] Continue Reading…
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July 19, 2005 | Graham
Howard and Caesar’s Slave
The latest Newspoll shows the Coalition winning the same proportion of the vote now as at the last election (within the statistical margin for error). This is a very bad result for Labor as it comes at a time when popular commentary suggested that the Government was in […] Continue Reading…
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July 18, 2005 | Graham
Is obesity a product of mummy culture?
When I defended fast food against the charge that it was to blame for our increasing obesity, most comments said that obesity was the result of lack of exercise. I think that is a superficial explanation too, so I wanted to throw some more straws in the wind which […] Continue Reading…
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July 13, 2005 | Graham
The obesity villain isn’t fast food
I’ve been described as a food fascist, and while I don’t sit down at the dinner table singing “Tomorrow belongs to me” I do watch what I eat. And sometimes what I am watching is a Macca’s Quarter Pounder. They have never done me any harm (photos on request, […] Continue Reading…
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