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Drunk dispute over God leaves two dead
Posted 4 hours 45 minutes ago A dispute over the existence of God between four Russians, drunk on a litre of pure...
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1.4KMeedja: Incest, narcissism, journalist as player …
Media. What an incestuous industry … I endured 10 minutes of The Walkleys live on SBS last week. But 10 minutes –...
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The deeply disappointing Julia Gillard. Bob Brown on honesty. Open letter to Gillard
Letter to Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard By Dear Prime Minister, From the Sydney Morning Herald I note you made a comment...
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TT’s Letter to Santa
Dear Santa, Last year, we dropped you a note wishing that TT would have more readers and even more people commenting on...
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Mr K … and the year’s best cartoons
Jon Kudelka is a freelance cartoonist based in Hobart. His work appears in the Australian, the Hobart Mercury and on his website,...
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What Wikileaks do the media choose to see – El Salvadoran Case Study
On Tuesday evening, the Spanish news website ElPais.com published five cables sent from the U.S. Embassy in San Salvador that were part...
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Chronicle 55: Life and death in black and white
Don Bentley chained the front wheel of his bicycle to the railings of the Commercial Road car park and started to walk...
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The Australian tries to remake its relevance in a changing world
In a strange twist, following recent battles with the Greens, the paper’s Environment Editor, Graham Lloyd, feels it necessary to state the...
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Minister sabotages Tarkine protection
The Tarkine National Coalition has strongly condemned Minister Burke’s decision to allow the Tarkine Emergency National Heritage Listing to lapse. “The lapsing...
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Same sex marriage: Is public opinion a moral value?
One can learn a good deal about morality by looking, not at philosophical theories, but at commonplace arguments on moral issues, such...
