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Polls, hype and a dose of reality

Posted: 08 Jun 10 | The latest Herald/Nielsen poll had the Coalition ahead of Labor by 53 per cent to 47 per cent and the Greens with 15 per cent of the primary vote, a result that ignited some media hyperbole. |

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Food for thought while millions die of hunger

Posted: 08 Jun 10 | The world is rapidly moving towards disaster, whether you call it doomsday or apocalypse...We face a global food shortage, the like of which the world has never seen. |

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In China, the party always starts at the top

Posted: 08 Jun 10 | In China, the red phone is the ultimate status symbol - and we need to understand why, writes Peter Hartcher. |

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You go, girls: we're just so over Sex

Posted: 28 May 10 | Wouldn't it be great if there were just one character of real substance in the fading female pantheon of Sex and the City? Say, someone like Eleanor Roosevelt? (''Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.'') |

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Book publishers look forward to the Apple Effect

Posted: 27 May 10 | When Apple devotees finally get their gleaming new iPads tomorrow, they won’t be able to download any Australian titles from Apple’s iBookstore. |

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Di hard with a vengeance, starring Princess Kristina

Posted: 27 May 10 | NSW Premier Kristina Keneally is following a tried and true formula |

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'Leftie' Fraser leaves party that left him

Posted: 26 May 10 | In resigning from the Liberal Party, Malcolm Fraser could well invoke the line that Ronald Reagan used to explain why he quit the Democratic Party - "I didn't leave the party, the party left me." |

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Playing God? Not just yet

Posted: 26 May 10 | Let's be clear. The development of a fully synthetic DNA transplanted into a bacterial cell is not the "creation of new life". What we have here is really better described as a very complicated transplant. |

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With sorrow and regret, Smith declares cooling-off period with Israel

Posted: 24 May 10 | Stephen Smith at the press conference today announcing Australia will expel an Israeli diplomat over forged passports used in an assassination of a Hamas leader. Photo: Glen McCurtayne |

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Manufactured scandal leaves another political career in tatters

Posted: 21 May 10 | David Campbell should not have resigned from the NSW cabinet for entirely personal behaviour, that was – as far as anyone can establish – neither illegal nor exploitative. |

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Time for Akermanis to come out from his cocoon of ignorance

Posted: 21 May 10 | What Jason Akermanis appears to be saying, in a nutshell, is: ''Look, it's OK to be gay, if you really must be, but keep it to yourself if you're an AFL player." |

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Women in sport hit the grass ceiling

Posted: 21 May 10 | Despite what many politicians might think, the talk in town isn't the new resources tax or the coming federal election - it's actually next week's State of Origin and who will win the men's FIFA World Cup in June. |

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Tony Abbott: not phoney enough

Posted: 20 May 10 | Tony Abbott needs to learn that sometimes honesty is not the best policy , writes Miranda Devine. |

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Barnaby's defence of 'Phoney Tony' didn't help

Posted: 19 May 10 | POOR Tony Abbott. Here he was trying to defend his honesty by confessing he sometimes didn't tell the truth, when who should come bustling into the confusion but Barnaby Joyce. |

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Prosperity cannot be paid forever by maxing out our green credit

Posted: 19 May 10 | Ross Gittins says we need a new economic model which recognises the environment as a cost - or we risk disaster. |

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Fidelity, it seems, is in the jeans

Posted: 18 May 10 | I WAS horrified this week to read that David Boreanaz had joined the ranks of celebrity apologisers and admitted to being unfaithful to his wife. At this point, your reaction will likely fall into two camps: first, disappointment, like mine. David, David. What were you thinking? Or, just as likely: David, David. Who the hell is David Boreanaz?* |

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Scheming king unwilling to stop the violence on Bangkok's streets

Posted: 18 May 10 | AS THAI troops moved to confront tens of thousands of protesters on a Bangkok university campus one evening in the political crisis of 1992, a vision appeared that brought days of violence to an instant halt. |

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The urban myth of the federal budget bounce

Posted: 17 May 10 | Another post-budget opinion poll, another non-existent bounce. |

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Abbott in fantasy land

Posted: 13 May 10 | Abbott's response: The 2010 budget is a work of fiction. |

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Battle of the burqa

Posted: 13 May 10 | Who knows the difference between ethics and morality? Belgium does, for one. Technically, there's not a lot in it. |

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