Gary,
You say “However I will not from behind my lap top lecture those who seek to resist violence with violence,” but that is in fact what you are doing. The US, British and Australians resist violence with violence and you condemn them, even though this is done more closely […] Continue Reading…
June 30, 2004 | Unknown
Replying to Graham on Iraq – long
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June 30, 2004 | Graham
John Howard should sue – for all of us!
Should John Howard sue for defamation? I would, that’s if I were John Howard and had seen the site www.johnhowardlies.com. Alternatively, I might go to this site www.afternic.com/rcom.php?ref_id=2987 where I can make an anonymous offer to buy the URL.
On reflection, I’d sue for defamation, and you’d be […] Continue Reading…
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June 30, 2004 | Jeff Wall
The non-Labor amalgamation cause suffers a setback.
WHEN I was at school we were taught almost as much about Canada – and other Commonwealth countries – as we were about Australia.
Times have changed, and I venture to suggest that most politicians here could not name the Canadian Prime Minister. One who no doubt can, and add […] Continue Reading…
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June 29, 2004 | Graham
Iraq – the end of the beginning.
Some of the critical commentary on the war in Iraq seems to show the same lack of concern for human life that the accusers level at “warmongers” such as George Bush, Tony Blair and John Howard.
The AFR’s Geoffrey Barker described as hardline Howard’s June 4 speech to the […] Continue Reading…
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June 28, 2004 | Unknown
Bathos in Iraq
So the Occupation has ended in a secret ceremony! What a bathetic joke. I was tempted to write ‘So that is how the Occupation ends, not with a bang but a whimper.’ Except of course that the Occupation has not ended and there will certainly be […] Continue Reading…
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June 28, 2004 | Unknown
On a sense of persepctive
The sight of yet another hostage, marine Hassoun Wassef Ali, in Iraq being prepared for the grisly ritual of arraignment, soon to be refused demands, and then the brutal beheading – all delivered to us on the web – is truly and deeply sickening. It is easy to […] Continue Reading…
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June 28, 2004 | Graham
Housing Summit just gets more unaffordable
Just as I predicted the National Summit on Housing Affordability is developing into an eyrie of bird-brained schemes that will make the affordability “problem” worse, not better. It is also encouraging others to come out independently with their own deficient proposals.
Yesterday’s Sunday Mail carried a story headlined […] Continue Reading…
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June 27, 2004 | Unknown
Happy Anniversary Pete
Yesterday marked the sixth anniversary of the Beattie Government’s ascension to power (gee, it only felt like five years and three hundred and sixty-five days). There would be few people who would argue that Beattie hasn’t be a good leader; his ability to meld populism with socially […] Continue Reading…
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June 24, 2004 | Unknown
True Love Waits or Just Waiting for the Fall?
President George W Bush’s faith makes it predictable that sex education in American schools is increasingly about teaching teenagers not to do it, rather than how they should protect themselves when they do.
While public promises to abstain prior to the honeymoon gives pleasure to fundamentalist Christians, a Columbia University […] Continue Reading…
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June 24, 2004 | Jeff Wall
A major test for the power to direct police.
THE Rt Hon David Blunkett is one of the more interesting Members of the Blair Government in the UK. He is also one of the most powerful – and successful.
Totally blind, David Blunkett has held the largest, and most complex Ministry in the UK, Home Affairs, since 2001. The […] Continue Reading…
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