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Archive - Sep 17, 2005Submitted by Guest Contributor on September 17, 2005 - 5:58am.
"Australia claims to be a free society with freedom of speech. In a free society, in a democratic society they should be able to basically take on that criticism or that message that I'm putting out and be able to deal with it in a civil discourse, not in basically, you know gagging and arresting and removing people who disagree with them." Scott Parkin speaking to AM's Karen Percy [ category: ]
Submitted by Phil Uebergang on September 17, 2005 - 4:38am.
"A group of conveniently accommodating imaginary 'experts' are invoked by Duffy, who claim that we are fighting a war against terrorism - a spurious claim in itself - largely for the sake of 'evolutionary theory'. Having mentioned the war for dramatic effect it is immediately discarded, to be replaced by a quote from a noted historian who supposedly legitimises the imaginary experts by claiming that Darwin's theory of evolution is the 'most important idea of all time'. Apparently it is more important, to Duffy at least, than the idea of brotherly love and tolerance." Phil Uebergang [ category: ]
Submitted by Guest Contributor on September 17, 2005 - 3:49am.
"I do not believe that Mark Latham should have published these diaries in this form. I suspect when we see the full book that it will describe some major issues that need to be addressed, about Labor's policies, about its culture, about Australia's political culture generally and the way the media works. I suspect the truths in the book will be ignored because the focus will be on the spleen, not the substance. I think that is a great pity." Julia Gillard [ category: ]
Submitted by Chris Saliba on September 17, 2005 - 2:32am.
"Author Robert Pape, associate professor of political science at the University of Chicago, has studied every suicide attack from 1980 to 2003 - a total of 315 attacks. His findings on the motivations of suicide terrorists fly in the face of the war-on-terror rhetoric that our leaders and media lackey’s serve up daily." Chris Saliba reviews Robert Pape's book: Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism. [ category: ]
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