A book in a Catholic school library which labels Robert Menzies a tyrant in the company of Pol Pot and Saddam Hussein ought to be withdrawn – see report of incident here.
I’m no friend of George Brandis’s (although I have been), but my old school debating colleague is right […] Continue Reading…
October 26, 2006 | Graham
Catholic school and teachers union flunk education test
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October 19, 2006 | Graham
Telstra sale strategy unethical
Just as with T2 the federal government is requiring investors to borrow money to get into the stock. Not only is it mandatory but they are targetting the bulk of the sale at small shareholders, and then allowing salesmen to use the gearing to disingenuously claim that the investment […] Continue Reading…
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October 10, 2006 | Graham
International nuclear disarmament must be the long-term response to Korea
I’m not a dove or a peacenik, but you have to wonder how much the massive nuclear armaments still held by the US and Russia play into the decision of paranoid states like North Korea and Iran to develop nuclear weapons. If the US and Russia didn’t have their […] Continue Reading…
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September 27, 2006 | Graham
Church in disarray in Rome, still militant in Somalia
The Pope may be finding ways to soften his message about Islam, but his frontline is holding firm, according to this report from Yahoo! News. When news of killings in response to Pope Benedict’s Regensburg speech arrived in my in-box I didn’t notice that one of the dead was […] Continue Reading…
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September 26, 2006 | Graham
Telstra goes imperial.
Exactly who does the Telstra board think it is accountable to? Corporate theory says that boards are responsible to the equity holders. They are certainly in theory appointed by them, even if shareholder apathy more often than not confers re-election by delivering proxies to the Chairman. So why is […] Continue Reading…
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September 21, 2006 | Graham
The Carbon Dioxide Wars
I’ve just seen Al Gore’s movie, “An Inconvenient Truth” and it has all the weight of a CIA dossier on weapons of mass destruction in Iraq in 2003. He must be the only one in the world to think that Tuvalu and Kirribati have sunk into the Pacific Ocean!
The […] Continue Reading…
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September 19, 2006 | Graham
Better to have been silent than to apologise
Pope Benedict’s error wasn’t to criticise Islam, it was in not being prepared to back-up his criticism. His speech is a difficult one, and I wouldn’t pretend to understand it anywhere near completely. But I understand it enough to know a few things.
It is disingenuous to suggest that he […] Continue Reading…
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September 09, 2006 | Ronda Jambe
Very Gore-y, but not gory enough
A friend on the East Coast of the USA complains that An Inconvenient Truth is not playing at any of the local cinemas. That’s about 150 films per day within a 30 km radius of her house. After seeing the SBS program about the Bush admin’s suppression of information […] Continue Reading…
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September 06, 2006 | Ronda Jambe
Vale Steve Irwin – a man whose love took him too far
He didn’t need to die, but his passion for bringing the world’s attention to the loss of habitat eventually contributed to his death. He was sincere, committed, decent, inspired and worthy of our highest regard.
Vale, Steve Irwin. While you were alive it was easy to see you as a […] Continue Reading…
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August 29, 2006 | Graham
AVO for Jihad Jack
There’s been a frenzied reaction from some to the Interim Control Order that has been placed on Jack Thomas, the erstwhile Al Qaeda member dubbed “Jihad Jack” by the media.
It seems out of all proportion to the restraints that have been placed on him. The controls are that he’s […] Continue Reading…
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