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Forgive our leaders - they're having a lovely, lovely crisis

Posted: 06 Feb 09 | WHEW - they signed it. Obviously, there was always a bit of anxiety about whether all those premiers would ever agree to that $42 billion worth of free stuff. But they did - and did you ever see a happier little bunch of vegemites? |

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Economic stimulus

Posted: 05 Feb 09 | The ailing economy has been supercharged against recession with the Government unveiling a massive $42 billion stimulus package and the Reserve Bank slashing interest rates by another 1 percentage point. |

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Being poor is not what it used to be

Posted: 27 Jan 09 | How poor is poor? Does the inability to pay your bills on time make you poor? Can you be classed as poor on a world scale if you can put food on the table? If you have a table? |

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Big brother filter plan insults parents

Posted: 27 Jan 09 | Underlying the Rudd Government's plan to screen the internet is an offensive message: that parents cannot be trusted to mind their children online. But there's also a strong opposing view. |

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Thank you for drinking despite the hazards

Posted: 21 Jan 09 | Soon you will see full-page advertisements from alcohol retailers with a difference. They are planning to devote 10 per cent of the ad space to promoting websites that discourage binge drinking. |

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Recession in eye of the beholder

Posted: 21 Jan 09 | Amid all the bold predictions that Australia will enter "official recession" this year, here is something you may want to keep in mind: there is no such thing. |

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Letting parents vote with their feet on school choice doesn't add up

Posted: 16 Dec 08 | So we now have desperate parents attempting to bribe teachers to get their children into a selective high school. What a sad indictment of our education policies, the holy grail of which is parental choice. |

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Qantas-BA merger a bad Irish joke

Posted: 08 Dec 08 | By all accounts, Alan Joyce, the new head of Qantas, is a likeable man with an excellent record as an airline executive. Yet his first week as the chief executive of Australia's international carrier and national icon has unfolded like a bad Irish joke. |

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Consequences of the Mumbai massacre

Posted: 28 Nov 08 | The fiendish outrage in Mumbai this week will not dent India’s resilience one bit. |

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The old ghosts of India show their faces again

Posted: 28 Nov 08 | What happened in Mumbai will not shake India to its foundations. |

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Not just India's problem anymore

Posted: 28 Nov 08 | Much is at stake in a growing nation whose struggle with terrorism had gone unheeded. |

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Out of tragedy, hopefully some good may come

Posted: 25 Nov 08 | Perhaps the only thing worse than having your family killed is being told their deaths could have been prevented. |

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Food for thought as other crisis hits hard

Posted: 20 Nov 08 | There is something worse than having one GFC. That's having two. |

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When Kev's away, Killer Gillard comes out to play

Posted: 14 Nov 08 | There isn't any doubt any more about whether Deputy PM, Julia Gillard, has the killer instinct. The problem tends more to be how to drag her off the victim's body. |

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Rudd could teach Obama about expectations

Posted: 10 Nov 08 | In the grand scheme of things, Kevin Rudd is to Barack Obama what Oasis is to the Beatles, but in relative terms, they face a similar predicament. They carry the weight of great expectation into an uncertain world. |

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Here we go with B.H.O

Posted: 10 Nov 08 | Kevin Rudd wants to be best mates with Barack H. Obama. But be careful what you wish for, writes Michelle Grattan. |

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We won't survive unless we get a bit crazy

Posted: 05 Nov 08 | Look on the bright side — it seems we're all going to die fairly soon. Global warming will fry us or we'll drown in the rising seas. |

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Famously frugal

Posted: 05 Nov 08 | Don't think the looming world recession hasn't put the wind up celebrities, too. |

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It's worse than we thought

Posted: 04 Nov 08 | By the tone of Governor Stevens' statement, it seems to have once again been something of a last-minute decision to increase the cut. |

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Next week the Boomers go bust

Posted: 30 Oct 08 | US election is the kiss of death to the baby-boomer generation, Miranda Devine says. |

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