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'One of the worst examples of wartime leadership'

Posted: 22 Jun 10 | With the last two funerals just over, we'll have more departures in coffins from Tarin Kowt, the arrival home, the ceremonials and the weeping of young families. |

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Women are no longer prepared to put up and shut up

Posted: 22 Jun 10 | Sexual harassment needs to be reported, not quietly tolerated. |

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Teflon and the haters of Rudd

Posted: 17 Jun 10 | As soon as Rudd's personal popularity shield started to fall, we began to witness the unedifying spectacle of everyone piling on and kicking a man when he's down ... perhaps it's time to feel sorry for "Heavy Kevvy" and a little in awe of the Prime Minister's thick skin. |

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Boycott Origin says Mundine

Posted: 13 Jun 10 | Indigenous players, it's time to take a stand: back Timana and boycott Origin |

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Living alone offers delights missing from a crowded house

Posted: 11 Jun 10 | Who'd choose life with dubious housemates over a home of one's own? |

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Lessons from Atticus Finch for our race-baiting leaders

Posted: 11 Jun 10 | IT IS almost 50 years since Atticus Finch, the lawyer hero of To Kill a Mockingbird, was first heard. His values are sorely needed in Australia today as our political leaders chase the redneck vote and pander to fear. |

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In miners' war on tax, logic is first casualty

Posted: 10 Jun 10 | Enough is enough. If one more person looks me in the eye and talks about sovereign risk and the new resources tax, I swear I'll strangle them. |

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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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