Canberra, as I have stated before, is an example of an effective policy of regional development.   What makes it possib...

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      The Government's latest foray into the asylum seeker issue is beyond comprehension and I would suggest, contemptible. Malaysia...

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    Next week's budget is shaping up as another rollicking frolic on the road to pandemonium. Almost a year ago, Wayne Swan delivered a b...

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  Well I will be watching it, ably encouraged by the fact that I live in a house of five females, young ladies of varying degrees of youngness t...

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  On August 9, 1916, a boy from Condongblonga Station, near the town of Adelong, 100km as the crow flies from Canberra, walked into an office, t...

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  I relax by taking a walk behind Red Hill onto the ridge that overlooks the city; the lights of our nation’s capital lay below with all their t...

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  Well we do not have a problem as long as the 7,000 mega litres of water held back by the tailings wall does not break. In total there is 11,50...

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    President Reagan’s strength was to make up his mind, then move his cabinet, then move the politicians, then convince the people. Austr...

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    World trade and economic growth has some well meaning rules which if broken, whilst relying on others to keep them, can deliver an imm...

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  Sometimes you salivate at the liberty of the backbench to express views unencumbered. For those who are leaving parliament that liberty is acc...

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