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Archive - 2008Submitted by Richard Tonkin on April 29, 2008 - 7:57pm.
Colonel Davis' testimony could well herald an annulment of the powers of the military tribunal and negate the only conviction it has produced...
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Submitted by Guest Contributor on April 29, 2008 - 6:18pm.
Being a carer may not be the most recognised job in the world, but it is by far the most rewarding. Now when people ask me what I do, I am proud to say that I am a carer, knowing that by doing this job I am giving Warren the greatest gift of all - a life worth living. (Tania Hayes)
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Submitted by David Roffey on April 29, 2008 - 4:06pm.
You will have noticed some changes over the last few weeks coming from having updated the site to Drupal 5.2: unfortunately, we found a problem in the comment management system, and had to suspend comment boxes until it was fixed - which it now has been - thanks, Nigel.
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Submitted by Malcolm B Duncan on April 28, 2008 - 2:30pm.
The case against members of ABC TV's The Chaser's War on Everything has been dropped. Here's why.
Submitted by Richard Tonkin on April 28, 2008 - 12:28am.
If you throw enough money at something, it will make money. With publicists you can create a mystique into which nature will introduce scandal. You can fill people's heads with information that they'd prefer not to possess. We could be doing so much more to turn more kinds of music into self-propagating entities, but we don't.
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Submitted by Melody Kemp on April 27, 2008 - 4:16pm.
This well researched book is meant to help labour activists rediscover history, not, Mason says, “to piously learn lessons” but to see where activism leads, what reactions various patterns of revolt bring. He notes that when work becomes humane, fair and representative, the red fire tends to be quashed. If only more would listen.
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Submitted by Ian MacDougall on April 26, 2008 - 10:14pm.
Norman Mailer once wrote: “My long experience with human nature … suggests that it is possible that fascism, not democracy, is the natural state.” Mailer was a novelist, and his business was being provocative. I found his article … to be food for considerable worthwhile thought. After the thinking, I decided he was wrong.
Submitted by Fiona Reynolds on April 25, 2008 - 10:18pm.
Back in 1980,
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Submitted by Jenny Hume on April 24, 2008 - 5:44pm.
Hope was the last casualty and it was not till 1921 that the family felt they had to let go, and held a memorial service. The file of these letters, some photos of a handsome lad, and a small envelope labeled pressed flowers from the service are all that remain, along with his name amongst the missing on the Menin Gate in the Belgian
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Submitted by Solomon Wakeling on April 23, 2008 - 4:53pm.
"I no longer consent to the continued publication of my work on Webdiary; I do not necessarily continue to endorse the content; I have not received any payment for my contribution; I do not and have never had direct control over its publication. This is not intended as a denial of any legal liability which would otherwise flow from its publication." Solomon Wakeling
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Submitted by Richard Tonkin on April 22, 2008 - 1:23am.
If you want the job done, get Paul Kelly, Archie Roach, Bogle, Williamson, Schumann, Missy Higgins and Lior into a studio with a well stocked bar for the weekend, and they'll give you what a team of musicologists could never create in a million years.
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Submitted by David Roffey on April 21, 2008 - 8:56am.
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Submitted by Melody Kemp on April 17, 2008 - 3:51pm.
It seems our ex Prime Miniature is now a cult hero amongst born again Aryans. Readers of Webdiary may be interested to see some of the interchange. ADDED: It should be noted that there is no evidence that ex-Prime Minister Howard actually said any of these things attributed to him, and some are clearly extracted from other sources.
Submitted by John Pratt on April 17, 2008 - 12:41pm.
The way the world grows its food will have to change radically to better serve the poor and hungry if the world is to cope with a growing population and climate change while avoiding social breakdown and environmental collapse. (International Assessment of Agricultural Science and Technology for Development)
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Submitted by David Roffey on April 17, 2008 - 10:35am.
Robert Manne's collection Dear Mr Rudd: Ideas for a Better Australia covers some interesting ground, if relatively superficially (or "readable", according to the blurb). But what I find more interesting is what it doesn't cover.
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Submitted by Democratic Audit on April 16, 2008 - 12:49pm.
The latest update from the Democratic Audit program at Swinburne on how our democracy is working.
Submitted by Stephen Smith on April 16, 2008 - 12:31pm.
To make the best of the Australia 2020
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Submitted by Richard Tonkin on April 15, 2008 - 5:55am.
Nelson's crusty salts, fresh from their Waterloo, would be better off hoisting John on his own petard than giving him a cushioned chair in the crows' nest. Certainly they don't need a figurehead that, politically speaking, has just killed the electoral albatross?
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Submitted by Guest Contributor on April 12, 2008 - 5:28pm.
The financial and economic crisis now upon us is by far the most menacing of the past century - even more so than the Great Depression of the 1930s. It is not just a "subprime" crisis; it is systemic - affecting the entire financial system. (James Cumes)
Submitted by Basil J Smith on April 12, 2008 - 10:50am.
Kevin Rudd’s comments in London have stirred the pot again on this perennial issue, and Greg Barnes, organiser of the 1999 Republic Referendum Campaign, returns to the fray with his recent Melbourne Age opinion piece.
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Submitted by Guest Contributor on April 10, 2008 - 2:06pm.
For a cops and robbers tabloid, the Herald Sun has been way off the pace in terms of the underworld connections to Opes Prime. The Age has been leading since day one and today’s front page story is perhaps the most significant contribution yet. (Stephen Mayne)
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Submitted by Paul Lloyd on April 10, 2008 - 12:53pm.
This is the Crossroads of Australia at the head of the
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Submitted by PF Journey on April 10, 2008 - 12:32pm.
One thing you can't accuse of our Dear Leader is that he is lacking guts. Not only delivering his speech to students at Peking University in Mandarin, he again repeated his concern about Tibet.
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Submitted by geoff ward on April 10, 2008 - 12:26pm.
Grain prices have suddenly doubled worldwide and are expected to remain at these levels. For the billions of people who spend a large percentage of their income on food, mostly the urban poor in developing countries, this is and will be a disaster.
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Submitted by Justin Obodie on April 9, 2008 - 12:56pm.
As computers become more powerful and more and more information is gathered about individuals it will be very easy to track people simply by their buying habits. We will not need to know their names, just a profile will be enough to identify them. Human being are extremely predictable.
Submitted by Tony Eleninovski on April 9, 2008 - 12:12pm.
A news article on Australia-China Free Trade Agreement negotiations, emphasizing the broader ramifications of the Tibetan issue on economic policies.
Submitted by Basil J Smith on April 8, 2008 - 3:39pm.
Demonstrations are a legitimate form of public dissatisfaction by those who feel their impotence to influence government action or non action – in the present instance e.g. a boycott of the torch relay in view of the situation in Tibet.
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