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Back in 2003, Federal Liberal MP Sophie Panopoulos (now Mirabella) was keen to see that Australian "terrorist" David Hicks "paid for his crimes". Her eagle eye had spotted that Hicks' father Terry was trying to beat up sympathy for his son. In an attempt to attract sympathy,...

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Google is closing down a great experiment called Google Answers in which Google acted as a broker for research assistance. If you've not seen it, you posted a question and offered a fee, and if someone wanted to they responded - for 75% of the fee with Google taking the rest....

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I've started using Google reader which, in case you don't know about it, is a great way to read blogs. Joshua Gans told me about it pointing me to the link on his own blog which shares interesting links through Google Reader. This took me to this link and thence to this speech...

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Just remember. This link brought to you and endorsed by Club Troppo. Home of middle aged grumpy respectability .

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Yes folks - it's the new swiss army knife - link overleaf

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No caption needed really ... There hasn't really been a particular obsession in the blogosphere over the last couple of days. A few more Rudd posts, of course, but it looks like bloggers might have joined the pollies in heading off for summer holidays. I certainly hope not, ha...

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What do Schapelle Corby and John Howard have in common? (hint see Hansard page 54) What is it about Northern Territory politicians and fridges ? Why didn't I realise that Miranda Devine was right ? [ NB not work-safe ]

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I was alerted to this funny story on Late Night Live. When the London Review of Books began taking personal ads, the content was quirkily British - as for instance in the ad from which I took the heading. ""Bastard. Complete and utter. Whatever you do, don't reply - you'll onl...

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When I went from year 10 to year 11 at high school, I also moved cities and schools. I moved from a private boys school - Haileybury College in Keysborough (Vic) - to a co-ed High School in Canberra - Campbell High. I remember arriving at Campbell and spending lunchtime during...

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Adrian the Cabbie photoblogs a truly dreadful Christmas decoration at Sydney's (usually uber-trendy) Double Bay Most readers won't be surprised to learn that Rudd, Fiji and the cricket are the most common blogosphere themes of the last day or two. I'm only extracting a tiny se...

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In the late 1500s England was rising as a maritime nation. It was beginning to dominate the important technologies of cartography and longitudinal calculation. In 1598 Edward Wright produced the most accurate map the world had seen. Apart from using the new technology of Merca...

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Some people are little grumpy before they've had their first cup of coffee. And maybe that's why Sunrise co-host David Koch got so many complaints when he repeated this joke at 6:50am. But how risqué can a joke be if versions of it have appeared in respectable magazines like t...

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The increasingly farcical Milne versus Mayne prizefight at last Thursday's Walkley Award presentations has taken an even more bizarre but very entertaining twist. Yesterday the Poison Dwarf came out with a very funny piece titled Why I snapped on live TV . It blamed Mayne for...

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Looks like Rowen favours the Dream Team The Labor leadership spill result will be known by the time I post this (update - fairly predictably it's Rudd ), so there's no point in posting links to the predictably huge volume of blogosphere comment on Bomber versus Rudd. A couple...

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Michael Duffy thinks we live in a meritocracy -- a society where everyone gets the income they deserve. But in the Duffyverse, evil genius Lex Luthor would be more deserving than Superman . Why? Because Luthor has a higher IQ . Duffy argues that Australia has a new upper class...

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The December 1st Senate Hansard had an interesting exchange during the debate over the Independent Contractors amendment to the behemoth Workchoices legislation. First Andrew Murray ; As the chamber knows, various state legislatures have attempted to grapple with this but at t...

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Not the football team you galahs, this man .

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Pursuant to Ken's ambition to make CT Australia's premium soccer and opera blog, it's my duty to announce that Opera Australia's production of Giulio Cesare launched its Melbourne season tonight. This is probably the best known of Handel's fifty or so operas, and, if that were...

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