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All not fair in love of sport with haves and have-nots
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...
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Rape law ripe for reform but nothing like the circus of old
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...
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The best teachers deserve rewards
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...
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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. ...
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The high cost of vainglory
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...
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Obama: reach out and touch Middle America
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...
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Armed forces should turn out soldiers, not bureaucrats
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...
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Let's treat these workers as guests
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...
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Not long before army in power
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...
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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...
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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...
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Forsaking expert input unhealthy for democracy
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...
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Justice the remedy required to help Bosnia heal
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 ...
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Battle with the banks is coming
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....
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A sensible market needed for PS pay
18/08/2008 |
The arguments about disparities between agencies with public service pay resemble, in some ways, arguments about performance pay for teachers and schools. If poor schools are identified, should they b...
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One-way road to winning car future
16/08/2008 |
Unions, car makers and the governments of Victoria and South Australia will not be happy that the Federal Government's review of the Australian automotive industry, conducted by former Victorian premier Steve Bracks, has recommended that tariffs on imported cars and car parts be cut from 10per cent to 5 per cent by 2010.
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Endurance-testing times
16/08/2008 |
Over the past three months I have spent most of my time in the United States, Indonesia and Britain.
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Forget the sport, here's an Olympic trauma for everyone
16/08/2008 |
The world knows now that the adorable little girl we saw warbling Ode to the Motherland at the Olympics opening ceremony was not really singing. She was a Potemkin performer.
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A crisis fit for another poll
16/08/2008 |
Former Republican majority leader Newt Gingrich once claimed, ''The world is harder than you think.''
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An end to Labor status quo part of tale of two territories
16/08/2008 |
The large swing away from Labor in last weekend's Northern Territory election was quite unexpected.
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