Sometimes the whole political creature gets so fascinated with its own navel, the media staring intently full frontal at it as well, t...

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      The Brumbies have done it again. They are without doubt the most successful Australian rugby franchise. On paper they shouldn'...

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  Currently the globe is contending with this; France has elected a socialist government that wants to change its budget austerity measures; the...

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   Somewhere among the chaos of Craig Thomson, Peter Slipper and the moribund polling of the Labor Party lies our nation’s forthcoming fede...

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    On the morning of New Year’s Day, 1900 a picket party of five troops from the Queensland Mounted Regiment set out from their Orange Ri...

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    It became quite apparent that the journalist was trying to contact me. There had been two phone calls, and a text message, rather Alic...

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   A couple of years ago I was apparently a financial hayseed from the wild west of Queensland when I mentioned the debt.  Canberra i...

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     Easter, Queensland's State Election is over, parliament is out, time to relax with the family. Relaxation is essential but in so...

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  A joke I remember well from school is that of the Japanese Wing Commander briefing his pilots before a mission in about 1945. In emphatic lang...

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      The lingering fear of many in a sedentary job is the unreasonable expansion of the body mass. In Parliament you have the tacti...

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