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Summer in Australia - enjoy it at your peril

Posted: 13 Jan 10 | It is the most wonderful time of the year, and would be more wonderful still if we could do something about the road deaths, drownings, fires, floods, melanoma, booze-fuelled violence and heart attacks. |

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Time to end smoking break exceptionalism

Posted: 12 Jan 10 | Anti smoking campaigner Dr Simon Chapman takes aim at puffers who don't like the Health Department's proposed ban on public servants taking smoke breaks - saying they get an extra week off a year just in taking smokos. |

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Google shows how to trash a business model or three

Posted: 06 Jan 10 | Today's launch of the Nexus One, the Googlephone, is the latest move by a company bent on world domination. |

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It's elementary: Watson needs help at the top

Posted: 06 Jan 10 | Australia has a problem requiring immediate attention. Shane Watson is the team's best batsman. Yesterday, he stood out like a plum among prunes. |

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Student assaults teach some harsh lessons about racism

Posted: 05 Jan 10 | It is a sad fact of life some young Indians have become targets of random violence because they work hard while studying in tertiary institutions or in their part-time or permanent employment. Some travel late at night, either on public transport or by foot. |

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Parents left in the lurch

Posted: 05 Jan 10 | Parental leave - or maternity leave, as we tiresomely insist on thinking about it - is back in the news. |

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Quitting meat is murderous

Posted: 11 Dec 09 | Growing up in the country, the journey from paddock to plate was not a mystery wrapped in polystyrene and cling film. I've seen an animal killed and served up at the dinner table and nearly passed out the day an uncle threw fresh horse testicles out of a bucket to the dogs for their dinner. The dogs seemed to think it was Christmas. |

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I'm a celebrity, I eat rats

Posted: 09 Dec 09 | Murwillumbah Police have arrested two British reality TV " celebrities" for killing, cooking and eating a local rat. |

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Internal debate gets uglier

Posted: 08 Dec 09 | Malcolm Turnbull has declared a jihad on Tony Abbott over climate change, and it will be ugly. |

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Why the cure for flagging female libido is hard to swallow

Posted: 08 Dec 09 | Pharmaceutical companies are behind a drive to cast women's sexuality as problematic, pathological and in need of treatment, writes Annemarie Jutel. |

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Obama holds the ace in determining how far others will go

Posted: 08 Dec 09 | The much-anticipated Copenhagen climate conference is being hosted by the stylish, sustainable Danes who have installed a spectacular wind turbine to power the venue at the Bella Centre. |

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Is Abbott the Liberal equivalent of Latham on amphetamines?

Posted: 03 Dec 09 | He's already scared the chooks, but there's little to get in a flap about. |

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Why I hate big monster prams

Posted: 02 Dec 09 | I HATE those monster prams. You know the ones. Obscene, humungous, four-wheel-drive prams with cup holders and bull-bars. |

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Liberals outfox themselves with Boxer Abbott

Posted: 01 Dec 09 | The air of disbelief that has enveloped Federal Parliament over the past week became a roar of gobsmacked silence when it was announced that the Liberal Party had elected Tony Abbott the new leader by precisely one vote. |

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Liberals embrace spirit of kamikaze fundamentalism

Posted: 01 Dec 09 | Australia's climate change consensus has fractured spectacularly. |

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Abbott laid out his plans for all to see

Posted: 01 Dec 09 | No-one has ever said Abbott lacked the courage of his convictions. And those convictions were laid out in 200 pages of political manifesto on July 28 this year. |

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Abbott wins by standing for something

Posted: 01 Dec 09 | The Liberal Party room has decided it wants a leader who stands for something rather than a cuddly teddy bear who can’t take a position |

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Turnbull to die for honour

Posted: 01 Dec 09 | MALCOLM TURNBULL will offer himself as Australia's first political martyr to the cause of climate change. |

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Ascetic warrior ready for battle

Posted: 27 Nov 09 | Tony Abbott, long known as the Mad Monk, transmogrified into a vision of the Grim Reaper as he swung through Malcolm Turnbull's office yesterday afternoon. Those who have met him on a rugby field or a boxing ring know there is much of the ascetic warrior in the Abbott. |

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The lawyer who under-charged...and other fairytales

Posted: 23 Nov 09 | Heard the one about the lawyer who charged like a perfectly reasonable, unmolested, even-tempered bull? Me neither. |

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