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How a toxic elixir destroyed the prism of trust

Posted: 10 May 10 | KEVIN RUDD appears to have committed a fundamental breach of faith with the voter. In just a month, he has fallen from being Australia's most enduringly popular politician in 40 years to being abruptly unpopular. |

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For moochers, by moochers: Brown's disunited kingdom

Posted: 10 May 10 | Gordon Brown's doomed attempts to buy the electorate's loyalty have pushed the United Kingdom to the brink of an economic crisis. |

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Why Cyclists Should Pay For Rego

Posted: 06 May 10 | A common comment that I hear from motorists is that cyclists should pay for rego. The argument goes like this, "Cyclists use the roads therefore they should pay to use them". |

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Working families of Australia arise

Posted: 06 May 10 | It's federal budget time again, ''working families'' of Australia brace yourselves. |

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For Australia's sake, we need to ban the burqua

Posted: 06 May 10 | The burqa is no longer simply the symbol of female repression and Islamic culture, it is now emerging as a disguise of bandits and n'er do wells. |

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When a bouquet isn't enough...

Posted: 06 May 10 | THAT'S what I always do for you, mum, I always do the Interflora thing. I just go to a florist and point at some flowers and say, "I wanna send these to my mum in Sydney". Then somehow, supernaturally, those exact same flowers appear at your doorstep the very next morning. |

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Bureaucrats catch the bully bug from anti-test teachers

Posted: 06 May 10 | Eve and Katsuya left Sydney at 7.30am and drove home, arriving at 12.30pm. Eve drove for the first two hours at an average speed of 60km/h. Katsuya drove the rest of the way, averaging 90km/h. What was the average speed of the whole journey? a) 67km/h; b) 75km/h; c) 78km/h; d) 84km/h.* |

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Broadband study may quell its critics

Posted: 06 May 10 | The $25 million implementation study into the national broadband network set for release this afternoon has unusual origins. |

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No rabbit in school building hat

Posted: 05 May 10 | Building the Education Revolution Program is akin to sending your kid out to buy milk 10% short of the money you need. |

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Bring on the non-beliebers

Posted: 04 May 10 | AS 14-year-old boys, my peers and I find ''Bieber fever'' distressing - and bemusing. This can, in part, be put down to jealousy - considering that the Canadian teen singer Justin Bieber has a contingent of 4000 girls chasing him and none of us knows why. |

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This is no storm in a teacup

Posted: 22 Apr 10 | At the press conference announcing the end of the cheating Melbourne Storm, the corrupt heart of professional sport lay bleeding on the table, spraying blood over NRL boss David Gallop, News Ltd chief John Hartigan and Storm chairman Rob Moodie. |

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When the dust settles, there will be lessons from flight bans

Posted: 21 Apr 10 | The ease of air travel has lulled us into a fragile, unhealthy dependence. |

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Exit Turnbull from a political stage littered with underachievers

Posted: 14 Apr 10 | Malcolm Turnbull made the right call when he decided to retire. All through the election campaign he would have been pestered about Labor's emissions trading scheme. |

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Facebook - where users get used

Posted: 30 Mar 10 | I understand the driving impulse enabling sites like Facebook. People, by and large, are blathering imbeciles. We like to natter on about the minutiae that makes up our pitiful existence, regardless of how inane it may be. Fair enough. What I can't grasp is the desire to surrender so much private information in the process. |

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Hey Dad furore: Media disclosure may help victims where a trial can't

Posted: 30 Mar 10 | Airing allegations about sexual abuse in the media, such as former Hey Dad star Sarah Monahan did, can be cathartic for victims. |

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Leaders go hard on an issue that really counts

Posted: 23 Mar 10 | Kevin Rudd and Tony Abbott made their best pitches for the all-important health vote in their first head-to-head election year debate at Canberra's national press club today. |

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Partisan politics and secrets in Obama's health deal

Posted: 23 Mar 10 | Health win for Obama, but fight ahead: President Obama has delivered one of the most partisan pieces of major legislation, delivered by one the most partisan processes, in the last 100 years. It also stands in vivid contrast to the rhetoric in Obama's victory speech after the 2008 presidential election. |

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A salute to brave soldiers in a nerve-racking theatre of war

Posted: 11 Mar 10 | When The Hurt Locker beat James Cameron's 3D preachy green blockbuster Avatar for best picture, his smile was looking decidedly cracked. |

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Clarke's choice: love or leadership

Posted: 10 Mar 10 | Michael Clarke needs to choose between a fraught personal life and his career in cricket. All the evidence indicates that the current position is untenable. As Mark Anthony could testify, obsession can be a man's undoing. If Clarke is unwilling to make the call, then cricket will make it for him. |

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Rudd's hospital reform more radical than 1984 Medicare revamp

Posted: 03 Mar 10 | The Prime Minister's $30.9 billion overhaul to integrate Australia's health system goes much further than his simple pledge before the last election to "fix" the public hospitals. |

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