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Celebrity sinners fail test of true atonement

Posted: 25 Aug 10 | The one thing the public loves more than a fallen hero is a redeemed sinner, says Nina Funnell. |

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Mavericks saddle up for some old-time wrangling

Posted: 23 Aug 10 | BOB Katter is a larrikin famous for wearing a 10-gallon hat over his shock of white hair, an unabashed protectionist who walked out on the National Party in the lead-up to the 2001 election, declaring Howard government policies had destroyed the livelihoods of tobacco growers in his constituency. |

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A grab for the mantle of moral authority

Posted: 23 Aug 10 | THE people have rejected Labor, but failed to embrace the Coalition. So the two parties are left straining not only for extra seats, but arguing for something grander - legitimacy. |

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Broadband network the one big issue in a desultory campaign

Posted: 20 Aug 10 | It has been a depressing election campaign: a stagnant morass of parochial pork-barrelling, tit-for-tat squabbling and mindless trivia. |

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What's next for the loser?

Posted: 20 Aug 10 | A Liberal loss would herald a generational change, but for Labor it would be devastation. |

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Look to the fringes if you want principles

Posted: 19 Aug 10 | Look to the fringes if you want principles - just ask Turnbull and Brown |

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Felled by green plot

Posted: 19 Aug 10 | Miranda Devine: How green activists targeted and brought down John Gay, the former chairman of Gunns. |

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Shock of the new, or why voters want life to be simpler

Posted: 18 Aug 10 | In Australian elections, fear trumps hope. So, each party campaigns against the other's weaknesses - the implicit slogan: ''No they can't''. |

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Labor blood will flow over Rudd dumping, says union boss

Posted: 18 Aug 10 | A senior union leader has predicted a post-election wave of Labor "bloodletting" in a furious backlash over the issue that has overshadowed its campaign: the dumping of Kevin Rudd. |

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Gay marriage: what would it really take?

Posted: 18 Aug 10 | Marriage equality is not the victim of the tyranny of the majority, but of a powerful minority, says Tim Dick. |

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Latham's blank vote blather from mouth of truculent teen

Posted: 16 Aug 10 | If the voters of Werriwa had all voted informally, Mark Latham would have had to get a real job as opposed to living off us for the rest of his days. |

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Burqa defenders' paradox of injustice

Posted: 13 Aug 10 | I am Muslim by birth and I find the burqa confronting. I even wish no women would wear it. Does that make me a bigot? |

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Abbott played room like a Stradivarius

Posted: 12 Aug 10 | Tony Abbott clearly ''won'' last night's People's Forum at the Rooty Hill RSL club, yet the impact of the much-hyped event on the larger campaign will prove evanescent. |

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Kiesha mystery: everyone has a theory

Posted: 12 Aug 10 | Kiesha's shrine reminds us why her name must be remembered. |

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Cut and splice expert slashes Costello

Posted: 11 Aug 10 | This is an election where the political spin doctors and black operations specialists are making the news media look like rigorous, impartial, honourable professionals. |

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Minor miracle as indigenous policy rates a rare mention

Posted: 11 Aug 10 | Labor's commitment to recognition is welcome. But is that all there is? |

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Clear choice on national internet

Posted: 11 Aug 10 | One of the few policy hopes for Australia is that all three of our major political parties are now committed to delivering a national internet policy. At best, this can liberate Australia from the tyranny of distance. At the very least, we could keep pace with countries at the forefront. |

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News giant Oakes shows up new media pretenders

Posted: 11 Aug 10 | It turns out that the most profound moments of the contest between Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Opposition Leader Tony Abbott have been delivered by the lumbering, unfashionable beasts of the "old" media, television and newspapers. |

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Scapegoating boat people a true-blue Australian tradition

Posted: 10 Aug 10 | Australia since 1788 has been made of and by immigrants. It still has an intake program of over 150,000 new settlers each year, yet the arrival of boats carrying a few hundred asylum seekers invariably causes a frenzy. |

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Latham and Fraser's retirement syndrome

Posted: 10 Aug 10 | On leaving a high-profile job, some become bitter critics of their one-time colleagues. |

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