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The social media today is pretty furious with the men on Qanda last night interrupting Kate Ellis. Most folk here will know I tend to bandy the term sexist about without much restraint but I was surprised by some of the commentary. I thought Piers Akerman was repugnant as he always is but I...

IMHO the most exciting horse since Sunline, gutted it never came to race in Sydney but loved watching her career. Not disappointed as many others were with his European campaign, 5 group one wins and two seconds, a fourth in the Arc Grand Prix. I remember when he won the Cox Plate2009, this...

Disclaimer: Yes I am writing a uni thing on this at the time, no I am not posing the question to you but rather issues that I encountered in my research. Essentially even within the parameters of a free market framework, what theoretical rights are impinged upon by an inheritance tax? The...

http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/rail-study-pushes-for-bondi-line-to-be-sold-20120212-1sztc.html They've been around five minutes and already this government is trying to flog public assets. Fuck off. Don't blame me I voted Labor.

Most folk here would have deduced I'm a republican and that I'm not a fan of the monarchy generally. The current monarch in particular I think in her behaviour reflects the era in which she was coronated but the one exception in this family for me as always been Charles. He has always struck me...

Any thoughts on it? I know one of the programmes writers and had been desperately wanting it to go well but I think it's days are numbered.

I think it'd be more efficient if we did.

..what would happen to Orphans?

Do you support carbon pricing?

Does anyone in this world actually think it's a good concept? People on this place will know I'm a big proponent of a tax and spend economy but even I can see that this is the most mind numbingly stupid form of raising revenue ever. Deterring the fortunate from providing the disenfranchised with...

Mumble wrote a little thing about this today, the readership of the Australian seems spectacularly opposed to it, writing off young people as stupid and immature. I'm interested in what a younger view on this is. I hate people who try and dictate the contents of a thread but it would be...

May he rest in peace. "Deirdre Chambers, what a coincidence" for my mind was about the most iconic line in Australian film history. It's kind of unfathomable that he'd do a film I didn't like.

Any thoughts on the long awaited successor to Summer Heights High? It didn't strike me as much worse than SHH but didn't strike me as that original either. For the large part I felt he just sort of air lifted the same humour techniques onto a new lot of characters. It'll have less appeal amongst...

PM vows to block 'dark side' of net Yeah but she's better than Rudd, somehow, I mean there's that thing, whats it called? The one that has to do with the thing.

Julia Gillard is a more aggressive debater than most. She tends to get away with such hostility and a contemptuous tenor on such a large range of issues dare I say, because she is a woman. In particular it is effective because ours is still too conservative a society for a man to fire back in...

This isn't a sneer at how few of them they are thread, it's a legitimate question. Given in academic and intellectual circles the idea of incrementally getting rid of the state gets quite decent representation and that its promises are as beautiful as those of any ideology that includes a...

There is a line or sentiment that seems to be floating around which basically goes something like "You've changed Kevin, you used to be about the working families." This is obviously in light of his polling nosedive but I would suggest that this has less to do with a change in his style as...

Anyone a fan? I discovered it via the miracle of youtube and think its very sad ABC haven't decided to use the BBC rights to show it like they do QI and the Graham Norton Show. I think it kind of demonstrates the quality of the writing/producing/concept etc that after losing a host as...

Noticed there was no thread on this, possibly because many of our political heavyweights (Iron, SP etc) Have moved on but I favour a different excuse. Nobody cares but I thought it might just deserve a thread given it deserves Kerry O'briens time slight on the ABC. So a few jottings loosely...

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