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Jury in on heroin ban

Posted: 24 Sep 09 | We don't need a debate about heroin-assisted treatment. We should be providing this now to the small minority with very severe problems who have not benefited from repeated episodes of other treatments |

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Telstra should get up before it's a train wreck

Posted: 17 Sep 09 | Successive governments have done little to weaken Telstra's advantage over its competitors. It controls the infrastructure they depend upon. It has been permitted to dominate every platform and every service, from telephones, to pay TV, to mobile telephones, to broadband. |

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Let our young women find their own way

Posted: 17 Sep 09 | Any parent can tell you that from age five kids work out that peers are the ones to impress and measure yourself against. This peaks during adolescence when popular culture becomes the way they express and construct themselves. |

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Weddings? I prefer funerals - they're far more real

Posted: 16 Sep 09 | I quite like going to weddings. I just prefer funerals - the chat's more earthy, you hear more secrets, you don't have to buy a present and there's no group on the balcony muttering: ''I give it three months, tops.'' |

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Immigration: Our door should always be open

Posted: 16 Sep 09 | It's normal in times of financial uncertainty, or even at other times, to call for reductions in immigrant numbers. It has always been a false response. We are part of a world of political and climatic uncertainty, in which for economic and political reasons people are on the move. |

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Memo to future MPs: don't leave your run too late

Posted: 09 Sep 09 | Even before the Liberal Party opened nominations for the north shore seat of Bradfield, Arthur Sinodinos, former chief of staff to John Howard, ruled himself out as a candidate. "I know the sacrifices involved in a serious political career," he said. |

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Face it, we are all narcissists now

Posted: 03 Sep 09 | Let's play a game: who doesn't have narcissistic personality disorder in our self-obsessed age? |

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Sexist pigs?

Posted: 02 Sep 09 | Working 9 to 5: Women still miss out on senior jobs. Why? |

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Our Father, to thine own pathological self be true

Posted: 02 Sep 09 | HERE'S my theory. God has narcissistic personality disorder. |

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Why eggheads get the girls and birdbrains don't

Posted: 02 Sep 09 | NERDS take heart. Scientists have shown for the first time that being smart is sexy, and the most clever males get the most partners. |

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As you give Della a kick, remember his successes

Posted: 02 Sep 09 | Ritualistic exorcism is part of democracy. Hence John Della Bosca's political corpse lies in the sawdust and every citizen is entitled to stand in line and thrust another blade in his flesh. |

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Forget the fantasy, feeling like a natural woman is unreal

Posted: 26 Aug 09 | The final frontier of womanhood is under siege from the "beauty" police. |

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Living with the risk of fire should mean living responsibly

Posted: 18 Aug 09 | IN THE wake of disaster, blame is the easiest thing to spread. The Bushfires Royal Commission mostly avoided that temptation, however, in the interim report it released. |

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The pull of the track continues to inspire

Posted: 13 Aug 09 | There are few bigger challenges than the Track, but its pull is irresistable. |

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Save energy to help industry

Posted: 12 Aug 09 | The more economics I've learnt the more I've come to embrace my old school motto. A modern interpretation might be ''with belt and braces'' or ''use every weapon at your disposal, leave nothing to chance''. |

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One step forward, two back, in fight for reproductive rights

Posted: 11 Aug 09 | Opinion: Bligh must act in fight for abortion rights RU486 pill is available, but in Queensland a 19yo girl faces abortion charges. |

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Strong African communities will defeat terror recruiters

Posted: 05 Aug 09 | The media also have a responsibility to treat these events with care. |

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The wheels fell off, but Turnbull’s still gunning the ute

Posted: 05 Aug 09 | Malcolm Turnbull is a creature of contradictions. Charming and persuasive, yet aggressive sometimes to the point of brutality. Disarmingly frank at times, and given to silly fibs at others. |

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Radio shock waves focus attention on privacy

Posted: 31 Jul 09 | Kyle Sandilands is not a man famous for knowing when enough is enough. The 2Day FM radio host raffled tickets to his own wedding and outed a young gay member of his staff on live radio. |

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Sports shearers beaten to the blow

Posted: 30 Jul 09 | Baton twirling's been recognised as a sport but in a move that seems positively un-Australian, the physically gruelling activity that is shearing, has been snubbed. |

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