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A salute to brave soldiers in a nerve-racking theatre of war
Posted: 11 Mar 10 | When The Hurt Locker beat James Cameron's 3D preachy green blockbuster Avatar for best picture, his smile was looking decidedly cracked. | CommentsComments (1)
Clarke's choice: love or leadership
Posted: 10 Mar 10 | Michael Clarke needs to choose between a fraught personal life and his career in cricket. All the evidence indicates that the current position is untenable. As Mark Anthony could testify, obsession can be a man's undoing. If Clarke is unwilling to make the call, then cricket will make it for him. | CommentsComments (3)
Rudd's hospital reform more radical than 1984 Medicare revamp
Posted: 03 Mar 10 | The Prime Minister's $30.9 billion overhaul to integrate Australia's health system goes much further than his simple pledge before the last election to "fix" the public hospitals. | CommentsComments (12)
Remember, you heard it here
Posted: 03 Mar 10 | Note this moment. Because there'll be a day when you're asked, ''Where were you when you first heard of vajazzling?'' I thought if I alerted you to the existence of vajazzling here in the privacy of our one-on-one reading communion, the damage would be contained. | CommentsComments (0)
Can't bat, can't bowl - but he's caught the top job
Posted: 03 Mar 10 | JOHN HOWARD has had many things said of him. The nicest, he says, was the cricketer Mark Taylor's description of the then prime minister as a cricket tragic. | CommentsComments (0)
Given the nod, Howard must use his clout
Posted: 03 Mar 10 | Former Prime Minister John Howard is set to become President of the International Cricket Committee in 2012. | CommentsComments (1)
Posted: 02 Mar 10 | There are some things in this world that everyone is an expert on. Politics is one, education is another. The federal government, out of humility or perhaps popularism, is inviting opinion on what should be taught in Australian schools. | CommentsComments (2)
Like a pink batt out of hell, Garrett absorbs the heat
Posted: 23 Feb 10 | Environment Minister Peter Garrett's departmental officials grilled over safety concerns with home insulation program. | CommentsComments (13)
Canada's champ shows up our sourpuss - but for how long?
Posted: 16 Feb 10 | Despite the "Own the Podium" hype, the natural self-deprecation and modesty of the Canadian people shone through when gold medal winner Alex Bilodeau credited his brother, who has cerebral palsy, with his win. In the process, he put our own sourpuss Dale Begg-Smith to shame. | CommentsComments (6)
Why Mr Miserable leaves us icy cold
Posted: 16 Feb 10 | Personally, I find it hard to feel any sense of connection with the Canadian-born Dale Begg-Smith who has won a silver medal for Australia in the Vancouver Winter Olympics. He couldn't give a flying fig for Australia, and is simply flying a flag of convenience. | CommentsComments (7)
They shoot kangaroos don't they?
Posted: 10 Feb 10 | The Boxing Kangaroo (TM) must be K'Od. Pest-controlled. Humanely (or even not humanely, I really don't care) euthanased. | CommentsComments (7)
An insider's view: David Wilson should have been saved
Posted: 09 Feb 10 | Former Labor foreign minister Gareth Evans is the key to the truth on why the Keating government wasted five chances to bring kidnapped Australian David Wilson home alive from Cambodia in 1994. | CommentsComments (5)
Twitter puts iinet trial news into real time
Posted: 04 Feb 10 | Where were you when you first learned of the iiNet decision? If you didn't know the result of the landmark case by about 9.50 this morning then you're probably not a regular traveller in the Twitterverse. | CommentsComments (3)
The great divide in school staff numbers
Posted: 02 Feb 10 | Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard has encouraged parents to use the My School website to hold schools and teachers to account. | CommentsComments (10)
Real tragedy lost in Rockefeller media circus
Posted: 02 Feb 10 | There are, on average, about 300 homicides a year in Australia. That is more than five a week. So why has the unfortunate fate of Herman Rockefeller commanded such attention? | CommentsComments (8)
Steve Jobs Is My Master now. Yours too
Posted: 28 Jan 10 | I have seen the future and it is a thin slate of silicon and plastic, probably powered by the sun. | CommentsComments (4)
My School site brings fair comparisons
Posted: 28 Jan 10 | The My School website became live at 1am this morning. In the lead-up, there has been considerable discussion about what the website would and would not provide and what it should and should not provide. Now people can weigh these various claims against the site itself. | CommentsComments (11)
I was only 17: poor, sleep-deprived Tomic needs to wake up - to himself
Posted: 22 Jan 10 | The way Bernard Tomic is going, he makes it look as if the young Hewitt was done an injustice when he was overlooked for the vacancy of Dalai Lama. Tomic is establishing himself as a precocious brat, as if tennis needs another. | CommentsComments (18)
The ICC arena no place for this inexpert right-arm slow
Posted: 22 Jan 10 | Peter Roebuck: Cricket Australia's decision to nominate John Howard as its candidate for the top job at the International Cricket Council is as pitiful as it is disrespectful. | CommentsComments (7)
Epic election upset in US Senate
Posted: 20 Jan 10 | The euphoria surrounding the elevation of Barack Obama to the American presidency was brought to a crashing end today. | CommentsComments (3)
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