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The golden thread
The media are determined to take us back to an older time, or to a lawless country, where lynch mobs rule and the media decides on guilt. more
Education + door-to-door sales = a perfect storm of anxiety
The MySchool website, which pinpoints schools that may not be performing so well and therefore where anxiety is most pronounced, is a perfect tool for targeting vulnerable parents.
Super: the missing link
The proposed changes to the superannuation system will dilute rather than enhance corporate governance in Australia, which is already in need of reform following the Global Financial Crisis.
Self love
Rock star John Mayer's recent comments regarding pornography highlight a worrying trend amongst young males.
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Climate debate: opinion vs evidence
The climate debate has descended into a cauldron of misrepresentations which are at odds with the scientific reality. more
Labour pains dog Abbott's maternity plan
Tony Abbott's maternity leave plan is very far from progressive. It's deeply regressive, and if the object of social policy is to redress existing inequalities, it does quite the opposite. more
Showing leadership in Afghanistan
Australia could assume an element of leadership, reduce the risk of further casualties, and improve Islamic relations without weakening the original aim of being in Afghanistan: keeping in with the USA. more
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There's scope for closer ties with Israel
The Australian's Greg Sheridan says there is absolutely no reason for Canberra to copy Washington's unfair criticism.
"[Washington] is developing a very bad tendency to constantly flatter its enemies in the fantastical hope of engaging and converting them, while abusing its friends, to show its even-handedness."
The Great Correction
Bill Bonner in The Daily Reckoning says this is more than a depression; it's more than a financial and economic phenomenon.
"Who's going to bail out China's banking sector? Who's going to bail out Greece? Who's going to bail out Japan? Who's going to bail out the US?"
No peace and little justice
When will the madness in Thailand be over, wonders Sanitsuda Ekachai in The Bangkok Post.
"Instead of letting the elite from different political and ideological camps define justice and peace for their own good, we must set our own agenda. If not, these senseless political feuds without any meaningful change will haunt us endlessly."
When will the Pope resign?
Benedict XVI has participated in a cover-up of sex abuse in Germany. The Vatican's reaction to this scandal and others is ruining the Church, writes Andrew Sullivan in The Atlantic.
"I don't know of many things I find as repugnant as knowingly putting the interests of an institution's public relations before children's protection from molestation. Yet this is the Pope we have. This is the moral judgment he made."
