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Cyclists up against shock-jock ravings

Posted: 29 Jul 10 | I'm freewheeling down Macquarie Street, breathing the salt-sparkle, seeing the Opera House rise from the bush, mindful of the good Guvnor's legacy, when a car veers in, shoving me dangerously near the parked vehicles. "Ya, gedoff the road!" yell its occupants, evidently delighted with their command of broadest yobbo. |

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Girl power is not enough Ms Gillard

Posted: 29 Jul 10 | Julia Gillard's photos in The Australian Women's Weekly are beautiful. The soft cover image gives an impression of an attractive, warm and open person, with an appealing vulnerability the photographer says he detected during the shoot. |

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Gillard on population: no numbers, no substance and no solutions

Posted: 22 Jul 10 | Julia Gillard says she wants a population policy, but it's sounding more like a population placebo. |

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Hazel Hawke written out in biased history

Posted: 21 Jul 10 | It is unlikely Bob's ambitions would have been fulfilled without Hazel's loyalty and dedication to him. To claim her role as PM's wife was peripheral is a fiction and a fantasy. |

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Playing the Rudd card

Posted: 21 Jul 10 | Who'd be Kevin Rudd for the next five weeks? Still deep in grief, the former prime minister - who arrived back in Australia yesterday - is the candidate the ALP wishes it didn't have. |

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Australia’s first ‘‘twitterised’’ campaign

Posted: 20 Jul 10 | The Labor party plans to draw on the success of Barack Obama’s online strategy in the 2008 presidential campaign to raise money and recruit volunteers. |

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May the least loathed win

Posted: 20 Jul 10 | Preferential voting gives everyone an opportunity to vent their spleen. And this is the nub of the preferential system: where first-past-the-post elected the candidate most loved, preferential delivers the candidate least loathed. |

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Great-hearted men in tragedy at Fromelles

Posted: 20 Jul 10 | For more than 80 years, Fromelles was never in the forefront of Australian military history. It lived in the shadows, like a dark secret. And perhaps this was because if you talked about it, you also had to explain it, and Fromelles is hard to explain. |

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Call me a wowser, but this technology is oh-so creepy

Posted: 16 Jul 10 | Is it just me, or is this social networking aspect of new technology all getting a bit creepy? As we embrace clever new technologies, what are we losing in the bargain? |

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Looks too good, if it's true

Posted: 15 Jul 10 | Ken Henry is Wayne Swan's $6 billion man. That is how much more the revised resources tax is set to raise compared with how much it would have reaped under the forecasts Treasury made in May. |

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A lean, mean America turns on its illegal migrants

Posted: 15 Jul 10 | In an America still in the lock of recession the illegal day labourer is tolerated less and hounded more. |

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PM's forward motion hits a speed hump

Posted: 15 Jul 10 | The Prime Minister will not be amused; that naughty Laurie Oakes, hijacking her outing at the National Press Club with a bit of new-fashioned foot-in-the-door journalism. |

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The sour note of Blanche and Bob's sweet romance

Posted: 15 Jul 10 | More shabby treatment in the greatest love story ever sold |

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Thanks a bunch, Nike

Posted: 12 Jul 10 | So, the Nike curse is complete. Not even the Netherlands could escape the kiss of death that was a slot in the sporting goods giant's Write The Future ad. |

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MasterChef cooks up a masterstroke

Posted: 09 Jul 10 | The unthinkable has happened. Marion is gone. Skewered by a satay, no less and now MasterChef has got back the one ingredient it looked to have lost: surprise. |

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Australia's most unwanted

Posted: 09 Jul 10 | The facts and furphies about Australia's most unwanted |

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Gillard is no Twit

Posted: 08 Jul 10 | In the oh-so-quickly produced Downfall spoof video of Rudd's departure as PM, the witty creator summed up the ousted leader's media strategy as run by "Gen-Y morons" who wanted him simply to "use Twitter and say 'working families'." |

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Cup a boon or bust for Africa?

Posted: 07 Jul 10 | There are impressive infrastructure developments, but whether they turn into white elephants remains to be seen. |

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It is not a good time to seek asylum

Posted: 07 Jul 10 | Julia Gillard is devilishly clever. Her asylum seeker policy is a masterstroke of improvisation. And she's tapping into community hostility to boat people with an empathy driven by Labor's focus groups, while keeping her tone oh-so reasonable, scolding Tony Abbott on the way through. No wonder some refugee advocates initially weren't sure whether to like or hate it. |

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Gillard's Timor solution dog whistles with the best

Posted: 06 Jul 10 | Julia Gillard's decision to ask East Timor President Jose Ramos-Horta to allow a regional processing centre on his island sounds familar — as familiar as John Howard setting up just such a camp on Nauru. |

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