The storms have returned, the frosts have left and the ladies have returned to their ritual pre dawn constitutional. I can hear them chatting ...

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    Simia quam similis, turpissimus bestia, nobis. So said Cicero; how like us, the ugly beast, the monkey. How much can we say about the ...

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    Whilst driving my daughter to the Queensland Primary School Athletics Championships at QE2 in Brisbane I was very encouraged that I co...

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    In the mall outside the City Hall gathered the Socialist Action Alliance; speeches, placards, all fairly predictable, about eighty of ...

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    Swan should forget climate change and concentrate on debt   THE joy of vindication on the prospect of a US government default i...

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     While in a capital city on one of my 200 or so days a year on the road, I had a meal by myself, always good company, then on dep...

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TASMANIAN Premier Lara Giddings this week declared peace for the forests. I trust she wasn’t waving a piece of paper from the foot of the steps after ...

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    For those of you who have had the fortunate experience of working at an accountancy practice, you will understand the joys of every da...

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  Australia must invest in the regions that are the source of our wealth. It is nauseating to hear the pejorative "pork barrelling" used for wha...

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  Are you sick of it yet? It's only just started. The carbon tax legislation has not even been introduced yet. Why does it have so much res...

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