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20/08/2008 | The success of Aussie athletes in China warms my cockles but my enthusiasm is tempered by a nagging suspicion that when it comes to ''fair play'' Olympic sport is shooting wide of the mark. This wa...
20/08/2008 | Forty years ago, the ACT was having a significant problem with a particular type of serious crime. A long series of rape cases before the ACT Supreme Court had led to acquittals. The problem was not w...  | CommentsComments (1)
20/08/2008 | Few these days would disagree with the proposition that high-performing teachers should be rewarded for their professional actions, as measured by their students' educational outcomes, including value...
Can Pakistan make fresh start?
20/08/2008 | In the end, for all his false bravado, the general walked. Validating Churchill's aphorism yet again, Washington finally did the right thing in casting him adrift, having first tried everything else. ...
20/08/2008 | It is hoped the release of the ACT Government's discussion paper regarding raising the school leaving age and re-engaging so-called disengaged youth (''Outcry at plan to lift school leaving age'', Aug...
20/08/2008 | Few Pakistanis will lament the enforced early departure of Pervez Musharraf as Pakistan's president as a result of long-running attempts by the country's political opposition to have him impeached. M...
20/08/2008 | ''Bullying and intimidation are not acceptable ways to conduct foreign policy in the 21st century,'' George W. Bush says in regard to the South Ossetian crisis. The lack of moral credibility that le...
19/08/2008 | Barack Obama's celebrity has fuelled cult worship in Berlin and provided fodder for John McCain's negative ad blitz. But it conceals the fact that Americans remain unconvinced they should put Obama, a...  | CommentsComments (1)
19/08/2008 | There's a pause for a second, and Major General Jim Molan considers his response carefully before replying. ''Our commandos are just as good as the British, American and Dutch soldiers they were serv...
19/08/2008 | The Federal Government has confirmed it will conduct a pilot scheme to import guest workers from Pacific nations to help overcome labour shortages in Australia's horticultural sector. This is an impo...  | CommentsComments (1)
19/08/2008 | Pakistan's military dictators don't often go quietly. Field Marshal Ayub Khan was removed by a three-month-long popular insurrection in March 1969. General Yahya Khan destroyed Pakistan before he dep...
19/08/2008 | John Thistleton's report ('''Sneaky tax' may force up rents,'' August 16, p9) raises some interesting points of concern about the Unit Titles Amendment Bill. It also demonstrates the truth of the old...
Scourge of the oil speculators
19/08/2008 | Until a few weeks ago, while oil prices were surging, debate raged about the relative roles of economic fundamentals and speculation in boosting oil prices. Although oil prices have now fallen back f...
19/08/2008 | The Attorney-General, Simon Corbell, in an attempt to discredit the views in my earlier letter, states that he is confident that the new controlled operations legislation will prevent corruption and i...
Beyond David and Goliath
18/08/2008 | When push came to shove, Georgia never stood a chance of defending these parts of its territory (South Ossetia and Abkhazia) against the military might of its northern neighbour, Russia. Arguably, the...  | CommentsComments (4)
18/08/2008 | The ACT Government is assessing the health impacts of the proposed data centre and power station at Tuggeranong. Last month the ACT Minister of Health announced a health impact assessment in respon...  | CommentsComments (1)
18/08/2008 | Radovan Karadzic, the murderous Sarajevo psychiatrist, was the architect of a brutal war in Bosnia Herzegovina during the mid-1990s that cost hundreds of thousands of civilian lives and that involved ...  | CommentsComments (9)
18/08/2008 | Circle September 2, 2008, in your calendar. The Olympics will be finished but we are set to have an almighty tussle between the private banks, the Federal Government and the Reserve Bank of Australia....  | CommentsComments (1)
18/08/2008 | In response to Robert Allan, medical director of the Phillip Medical Centre (Letters, August 14, p16), I would like to highlight a number of issues that as a former patient of the centre I feel could ...
18/08/2008 | Barry York claims (''If you want to be red, don't be green'', August 16, pB2) that the environment movement is basically submissive and religious in its view of nature. Although it is hard to generali...
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