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Shock: Port Phillip Bay Not Level

Rex Ringschott
November 30, 2007November 30, 2007
Dramatic photos from The Age this morning show Melbournes enormous Port Phillip Bay on a tilt.     Readers were witness to the astonishing spectacle of...
Politics - national

The Howard Years (Condensed)

Rex Ringschott
November 29, 2007December 2, 2007
A collection of useful words arranged in satisfying ways for the benefit of future historians. (Also beneficial when faced with drunken red-faced Howard-Huggers at Christmas...
Politics - Northern Territory

Dave by a bee’s foreskin?

Ken Parish
November 28, 2007December 1, 2007
Bryan "Ozpolitics" Palmer on the state of play with counting in doubtful seats as at 8:24 this morning: The ABC Computer now has Robertson on...
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Missing Link après le déluge edition

Ken Parish
November 28, 2007November 29, 2007
Miss Haversham refuses a proposal from Terry Sedgwick 1. News and Politics Stuff 2. Life and Other Serious Stuff 3. The Yartz 4. T.S.S 5....
Economics and public policy Politics - national

Howard’s legacy

Tony Harris
November 28, 2007
If John Howard were to summarise his legacy, he would emphasise economics. As he claimed in the election, Australia has a strong economy with low...
Economics and public policy Politics - national

The fiscal challenge: The column

Nicholas Gruen
November 28, 2007November 28, 2007
Here's the column foreshadowed in a previous post as published today in the Fin. I was only given 500 words, so whether or not you...
Politics - national

The election and ‘The Intervention’

Nicholas Gruen
November 27, 2007November 27, 2007
From today's Crikey! Brough, Pearson, Yunupingu rejected by Aboriginal voters Editor of the National Indigenous Times, Chris Graham, writes: I never quite understood how Mal...

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