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In spite of 17 reviews and a new landmark study, Sarah Laurie defiantly continues her propaganda campaign against wind farms. Mike Barnard reports.
A LANDMARK STUDY by Fiona Crichton at the University of Auckland recently showed that...
9 April, 2013 7:30 am / 20 comments
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The latest “poll disaster” for the Government has absolutely no validity and, in fact, is probably a crime, says Bob Ellis.
The Fairfax/ReachTEL robocall poll of Werriwa, Chifley, Blaxland and MacMahon on ‘Thursday evening’...
2 March, 2013 2:50 pm / 27 comments
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US ambassador Jeff Bleich lies on Q&A about Julian Assange, while Australian foreign minister Bob Carr sits by and says nothing. Tess Lawrence reports.
by contributing editor-at-large Tess Lawrence
AUSTRALIA IS LUMBERED with a Foreign...
27 February, 2013 10:29 am / 86 comments
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It is sad to see the ABC taking its lead from the often ignorant print media and getting it wrong as a result, says Rodney E. Lever.
(Image courtesy Andrew Kos.)
IT IS SAD TO SEE the once determinedly independent 81-year-old ABC aborting...
9 February, 2013 2:42 pm / 75 comments
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Senior correspondent Barry Everingham says twice disgraced senator Cory Bernardi should be dropped from first place on the S.A. Liberals’ Senate ticket.
Senator Cory Bernardi has got himself in more hot water over not declaring his...
29 January, 2013 1:48 pm / 19 comments
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Back in Jacksonville, Peter Wicks has some new revelations, including details about who Kathy Jackson had been in contact with on her official HSU phone.
Linked: Eric Abetz, Kathy Jackson and Greg Pearce.
IT’S BEEN A WHILE since...
24 July, 2012 5:43 pm / 18 comments
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NSW Greens Senator Lee Rhiannon was pilloried in the press for helping pen a press release In February criticising her own party — but why has it become news now, in May? Blunt Shovels reports.
Senator Lee Rhiannon
THE recent leak...
28 May, 2012 12:01 am / 2 comments
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ANZAC Day reminds us that Australia’s nationhood has been tempered through blood and tears. “We have reached a level of maturity that enables us to confidently take the next step in our nation’s development”, says...
25 April, 2011 12:00 am / 2 comments
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Australia’s system of democracy is far from perfect. David Donovan details some of its failings and offers some solutions.
Let’s get this straight: our system of representative democracy is far from being a perfect democracy.
As...
16 February, 2011 12:20 am / 9 comments