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Posted: 28/11/2008 | The fiendish outrage in Mumbai this week will not dent India’s resilience one bit. | CommentsComments (5)
Posted: 28/11/2008 | What happened in Mumbai will not shake India to its foundations. | CommentsComments (1)
Posted: 28/11/2008 | Much is at stake in a growing nation whose struggle with terrorism had gone unheeded. | CommentsComments (3)
Posted: 25/11/2008 | Perhaps the only thing worse than having your family killed is being told their deaths could have been prevented. | CommentsComments (11)
Posted: 20/11/2008 | There is something worse than having one GFC. That's having two. | CommentsComments (5)
Posted: 14/11/2008 | There isn't any doubt any more about whether Deputy PM, Julia Gillard, has the killer instinct. The problem tends more to be how to drag her off the victim's body. | CommentsComments (31)
Posted: 10/11/2008 | In the grand scheme of things, Kevin Rudd is to Barack Obama what Oasis is to the Beatles, but in relative terms, they face a similar predicament. They carry the weight of great expectation into an uncertain world. | CommentsComments (3)
Posted: 10/11/2008 | Kevin Rudd wants to be best mates with Barack H. Obama. But be careful what you wish for, writes Michelle Grattan. | CommentsComments (3)
Posted: 5/11/2008 | Look on the bright side — it seems we're all going to die fairly soon. Global warming will fry us or we'll drown in the rising seas. | CommentsComments (4)
Posted: 5/11/2008 | Don't think the looming world recession hasn't put the wind up celebrities, too. | CommentsComments (3)
Posted: 4/11/2008 | By the tone of Governor Stevens' statement, it seems to have once again been something of a last-minute decision to increase the cut. | CommentsComments (2)
Posted: 30/10/2008 | US election is the kiss of death to the baby-boomer generation, Miranda Devine says. | CommentsComments (6)
Posted: 28/10/2008 | I was advised by a very wealthy friend to borrow $1 million and put it into super. The cost of servicing the debt, he said, would be covered by tax-free dividend payments. I did not take his advice. | CommentsComments (12)
Posted: 28/10/2008 | Obama will be guessing white voters' intentions to the end | CommentsComments (2)
Posted: 23/10/2008 | Of all the gossip spewing out of the imminent Madonna divorce, the most poignant item is that the 50-year-old pop star is enraged with estranged husband Guy Ritchie because he told her she "looked like a granny" on stage. | CommentsComments (6)
Posted: 17/10/2008 | The most lasting fallout of the global financial crisis is unlikely to be economic. | CommentsComments (18)
Posted: 17/10/2008 | Hysteria and opportunism engulfed both Henson and the entire issue of pubescent sexuality. | CommentsComments (6)
Posted: 17/10/2008 | The Wall Street Journal is the newspaper of preferency of those who gave us the sub-prime crisis, and it is only appropriate that it now give us sub-prime words. | CommentsComments (1)
Posted: 15/10/2008 | KEVIN RUDD is spending $10.4 billion to promote economic activity, but his larger goal is something that can't be bought at any price - confidence. | CommentsComments (1)
Posted: 22/09/2008 | Once upon a time finding a mate was easy. It was a childhood sweetheart, someone from church or if you were ugly, the other ugly person. | CommentsComments (21)
Posted: 8/09/2008 | When I heard that some obscure woman from Alaska had been selected as the Republican Party's vice-presidential nominee, my first reaction was not to check the cable news channels, or even the internet news sites. No, my first reaction was to go to YouTube. | CommentsComments (12)
Posted: 8/09/2008 | Many of today's teenagers are screenagers. They look, comment and criticise from the comfort of the couch. And schools are not helping them. | CommentsComments (36)
Posted: 5/09/2008 | THIS WEEK I turned 40. How does that explain the schoolgirl figure and youthful looks? | CommentsComments (7)
Posted: 4/09/2008 | You would think the prospect of a woman in the White House as US vice-president - and a working mother to boot - would be welcomed by feminists. Not one bit. | CommentsComments (32)
Posted: 1/09/2008 | Tattoos were once the domain of sailors, pirates, prisoners and freaks. | CommentsComments (7)
Posted: 1/09/2008 | We hear a lot less these days about the risk of a terrorist attack in Australia. | CommentsComments (5)
Posted: 6/08/2008 | I've always been taken by the catch-cry of the great American con man, Bernie Cornfeld: "Do you sincerely want to be rich?". | CommentsComments (8)
Posted: 1/08/2008 | It's really quite simple. Parent as if you were a grandparent, writes Catherine Deveny. | CommentsComments (18)
Posted: 24/07/2008 | The great contradiction of life in a modern capitalist economy is that to be a winner you have to resist most of the blandishments of the capitalists. | CommentsComments (10)
Posted: 18/07/2008 | NO WONDER the Opposition is struggling in its efforts to pick a fight with the Government over its emissions trading scheme. | CommentsComments (17)
Posted: 7/07/2008 | Ross Garnaut's draft report presents a clear picture of the possible future impact of climate change on Australia, and begins the process of determining what we must do about it. | CommentsComments (31)
Posted: 4/07/2008 | Farewell to the Clouseau of foreign ministers: pompous, slightly ridiculous and self-important. | CommentsComments (21)
Posted: 18/06/2008 | The Catholic Church's new social networking site gives the illusion of progress. | CommentsComments (47)
Posted: 16/06/2008 | It has been said that marriage is highly likely to be our last and best chance to grow up. | CommentsComments (7)
Posted: 16/06/2008 | If our luck runs out we'll slow to the point of recession. If we do reach that point, my bet is the recession will be a severe one. | CommentsComments (6)
Posted: 11/06/2008 | I think I've stumbled on a new law of politics: the harder life becomes in this capitalist economy, the more our supposed leaders soft-soap us. | CommentsComments (13)
Posted: 4/06/2008 | Our computerised cars are far more reliable and less rust-prone. Our homes are much bigger, with more bedrooms, bathrooms and living space. But has all this material success made us any happier? | CommentsComments (12)
Posted: 2/06/2008 | In late February 2007 Kevin Rudd met the US Vice-President, Dick Cheney, arch neo-con of the flailing Bush Administration. Undeterred by their first meeting or Cheney's fearsome reputation, Rudd confidently explained the strategic and operational rationale behind Labor's policy to withdraw Australian combat troops from Iraq by the middle of 2008. | CommentsComments (10)
Posted: 27/05/2008 | POLITICIANS should keep out of art. Kevin Rudd all but ruined his new-found cachet with the artistic community last week by declaring that photographer Bill Henson's work was "revolting". | CommentsComments (14)
Posted: 26/05/2008 | Kevin Rudd is brilliant at using language that either makes no sense or few people comprehend, writes Phillip Coorey. | CommentsComments (20)
Posted: 21/05/2008 | The self-pity of the well-off will always drive me to the keyboard. And what an outpouring of it we've seen in response to Wayne Swan's praiseworthy decision to impose a $150,000 limit on eligibility for the baby bonus, family tax benefit part B and the dependent spouse tax offset. | CommentsComments (27)
Posted: 21/05/2008 | Those on the wrong side of the Tweed say the only good thing about NSW is that it keeps Victorians out of Queensland. | CommentsComments (4)
Posted: 20/05/2008 | KEVIN RUDD'S lead over Brendan Nelson as preferred prime minister is the biggest that any party leader has enjoyed in the 36-year history of the Nielsen poll. | CommentsComments (5)
Posted: 19/05/2008 | For almost 600 years, the monks of the Sera Monastery in Lhasa have debated each other in the same courtyard. | CommentsComments (1)
Posted: 13/05/2008 | The Treasurer, Wayne Swan, talks tough. He trumpets it as a budget to "fight inflation first," yet it is a budget that actually squibs the fight. | CommentsComments (10)
Posted: 12/05/2008 | The wolves are howling in the hills. They are stalking. They are hungry. And they have identified their next victim. This is the cruel and menacing spectacle we have in Australian public life - yet again. | CommentsComments (8)
Posted: 7/05/2008 | So. You're looking forward to a budget tax cut. I've got some disappointing news. The tax changes being talked as budget tax cuts are not actually budget measures. You won't find them in next week's budget bills. | CommentsComments (10)
Posted: 7/05/2008 | Grant Hackett's physical overhang, not the norm for an elite athlete, is more a result of a wardrobe malfunction rather than a diet of hamburgers and beer. | CommentsComments (5)
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