Rob Davis of the Queensland Law Society is opposed to using private laboratories to augment the John Tonge centre’s DNA testing. Apparently private companies couldn’t be trusted not to tamper with the evidence!
Read Bernie Matthews’ series of articles about the centre and DNA testing in general on On […] Continue Reading…
March 17, 2005 | Graham
Mogadon versus heroin
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March 16, 2005 | Graham
Tower of Babel shows democracy alive in Iraq
The Iraqi Parliament is due to sit today and the parties still haven’t managed to form a government – that’s a good sign.
Much of the Australian commentary on the Iraqi elections, including a number of articles published in On Line Opinion, is prefaced on a belief that the US […] Continue Reading…
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March 15, 2005 | Graham
More evidence of evolution?
Our environmental narratives tend to exclude man as being a sort of non-natural being. A termite nest is a thing of wonder, but a sky-scraper is a blight, that sort of thing.
Until recently man has been such an insignificant animal that most of creation could get by quite […] Continue Reading…
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March 11, 2005 | Graham
Memo to Howard: They’re armless
The Courier Mail reports this morning that John Howard is going to broker a peace between the Queensland Libs and Nats. Here we go again. Not that the CM journalists appear to be aware of this.
The CM reports “Mr Howard has never before personally and formally intervened […] Continue Reading…
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March 08, 2005 | Graham
Urban environment shapes urban violence
One thread binds the riots in Redfern’s “The Block”, Palm Island and Macquarie Meadows. It’s not race, it’s public housing. In all the talk of tougher laws and social intervention, hardly anyone is dealing with the root cause.
If you bang a whole lot of financially deprived people together […] Continue Reading…
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March 08, 2005 | Graham
Will Ingrid equal Tracy?
The Queensland coast has had a period of relative cyclonic calm since the storms that brought the Brisbane floods of 1974, but is that about to change? Cyclone Ingrid, centred 330 kilometres off Cooktown has just intensified to category five. Perhaps the BOM is playing it down, […] Continue Reading…
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March 06, 2005 | Ronda Jambe
You’ve got to be mean to be green
It’s not easy being an eco-fem. That why Vandana Shiva and Arundhati Roy are heroines. Long ago, I also had some sympathy for Ros Kelly as she struggled to place ‘brown issues’ on the policy agenda. Overall Labor has not enjoyed my full respect since Whitlam flooded Lake Pedder, […] Continue Reading…
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March 03, 2005 | Graham
Another interest rate story
Some were well and truly banking on an interest rate rise this morning. Westpac was very fast out of the blocks with this email. Curious thing is that I’ve never received anything from them by email before, and as far as I know I’ve never opted in […] Continue Reading…
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March 03, 2005 | Graham
How rich do you have to be to read The Australian?
Today’s front page on The Australian illustrated the interest rates story with yarn about a poor Sydney woman who would now have to pay $160 more per month on her mortgage. The accompanying table showed that she must have had a mortgage of $1M! So that’s what it […] Continue Reading…
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February 28, 2005 | Graham
Can do canal – should Colin Barnett blame Campbell Newman?
I’ve been wondering about Colin Barnett’s canal. Could it be that he elevated the idea from Campbell Newman’s campaign for Lord Mayor of Brisbane. Afterall, the last time anyone beat Labor anywhere significant apart from Canberra, was the Brisbane City Council elections last year.
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