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Minor miracle as indigenous policy rates a rare mention

Posted: 11 Aug 10 | Labor's commitment to recognition is welcome. But is that all there is? |

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Clear choice on national internet

Posted: 11 Aug 10 | One of the few policy hopes for Australia is that all three of our major political parties are now committed to delivering a national internet policy. At best, this can liberate Australia from the tyranny of distance. At the very least, we could keep pace with countries at the forefront. |

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News giant Oakes shows up new media pretenders

Posted: 11 Aug 10 | It turns out that the most profound moments of the contest between Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Opposition Leader Tony Abbott have been delivered by the lumbering, unfashionable beasts of the "old" media, television and newspapers. |

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Scapegoating boat people a true-blue Australian tradition

Posted: 10 Aug 10 | Australia since 1788 has been made of and by immigrants. It still has an intake program of over 150,000 new settlers each year, yet the arrival of boats carrying a few hundred asylum seekers invariably causes a frenzy. |

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Latham and Fraser's retirement syndrome

Posted: 10 Aug 10 | On leaving a high-profile job, some become bitter critics of their one-time colleagues. |

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Nobody died, so why is she demanding a king's ransom?

Posted: 06 Aug 10 | Unpleasant, affronting, and unforgivable though McInnes's alleged behaviour was, is it worth $37 million? No. Playing up your victimhood rather than getting on with life invariably makes for an unhappy life. |

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Marriage of convenience

Posted: 06 Aug 10 | Money, filthy lucre is the present of choice at modern weddings and one poor old wedding guest (and pensioner) is sick of it. |

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The day my baby became a political football

Posted: 06 Aug 10 | Out of all the hospital wards, on all the days, the leader of the opposition, Tony Abbott, just happened to stroll into mine yesterday. |

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Voters show up a nation divided

Posted: 04 Aug 10 | Australia is a nation dramatically divided - with voters fracturing sharply along regional lines, and that means the outcome hangs on a geographic precipice. |

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Our resilience to disasters is lacking

Posted: 04 Aug 10 | Australia must develop a national strategy to deal with natural hazards. |

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'No' gets no firmer than a $37 million lawsuit

Posted: 04 Aug 10 | The David Jones case is set to be a watershed for sexual harassment in Australia, writes Kate Lahey. |

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How do you make a political leader?

Posted: 03 Aug 10 | Mix personality, diplomacy, negotiation skills, a vision for the future, plus the special X-factor, writes Geoff Gallop. |

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Time to get real, Julia

Posted: 02 Aug 10 | As Julia might say, "give us a break". |

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Taking a bite out of Apple's success

Posted: 31 Jul 10 | Steve Jobs has seemed like a man under siege lately. The co-founder and chief executive of Apple is not just under siege from the cancer that invaded his body six years ago and whose threat always lurks, despite successful treatment, but from an ungrateful world that gobbles up his beautiful inventions and then whinges about details. |

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Cyclists up against shock-jock ravings

Posted: 29 Jul 10 | I'm freewheeling down Macquarie Street, breathing the salt-sparkle, seeing the Opera House rise from the bush, mindful of the good Guvnor's legacy, when a car veers in, shoving me dangerously near the parked vehicles. "Ya, gedoff the road!" yell its occupants, evidently delighted with their command of broadest yobbo. |

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Girl power is not enough Ms Gillard

Posted: 29 Jul 10 | Julia Gillard's photos in The Australian Women's Weekly are beautiful. The soft cover image gives an impression of an attractive, warm and open person, with an appealing vulnerability the photographer says he detected during the shoot. |

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Gillard on population: no numbers, no substance and no solutions

Posted: 22 Jul 10 | Julia Gillard says she wants a population policy, but it's sounding more like a population placebo. |

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Hazel Hawke written out in biased history

Posted: 21 Jul 10 | It is unlikely Bob's ambitions would have been fulfilled without Hazel's loyalty and dedication to him. To claim her role as PM's wife was peripheral is a fiction and a fantasy. |

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Playing the Rudd card

Posted: 21 Jul 10 | Who'd be Kevin Rudd for the next five weeks? Still deep in grief, the former prime minister - who arrived back in Australia yesterday - is the candidate the ALP wishes it didn't have. |

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Australia’s first ‘‘twitterised’’ campaign

Posted: 20 Jul 10 | The Labor party plans to draw on the success of Barack Obama’s online strategy in the 2008 presidential campaign to raise money and recruit volunteers. |

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