The Pulse
Politics wrap: May 22, 2012
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Question Time
The elephant in the chamber
Judith Ireland Opinion For the first half of question time it was like Craig Thomson’s statement had never happened.
The Party Line
Should a promised boost to the foreign aid budget be deferred for a year to help return the budget to surplus?
This week's debate Opinion Bob Carr and Simon Birmingham debate the issue.
Godless Gross
Confessing to an atheist heresy
Dick Gross Opinion The relationship between faith and state is inevitable because of the historical strength of faith and the current numbers of the faithful. It is absolutely legitimate for the Christian community to expect that in this pluralistic society, their ideological interests, in balance with the rest of the secular policies, have respect and resonance.
Rocco Blog-Go
A Greek Tragedy for all
Rocco Fazzari Opinion Having gifted cartoonists and headline writers with the best ever metaphors and analogies - Pandora’s Box, Achilles heel, wooden horse, etc - democracy’s founding fathers and mothers, the ...
The Vulture
Vile Kryal? Not when it comes to flogging Victoria to the world
Karl Quinn Opinion Tourism Australia wants to flog Victoria by attracting foreign dollars, and tourists, to Kryal Castle.
Blunt Instrument
Soft and materialistic, we won't cope with the next depression
John Birmingham Opinion Soft and materialistic, we won't cope with the next depression.
The Religious Write
How the mighty are fallen
Barney Zwartz Opinion Secularists root out a great evil as Britain's High Court bans tiny Bideford Council's prayers.
Wokkapedia
Jethro Tull's Little Milton, at 50
Warwick McFadyen Opinion How would Gerald Bostock have gone in his NAPLAN tests? He was, it was said, something of a wizard with the pen and ink, back in the days before computers. Would his parents have allowed him to sit them?
WorldView
The danger in getting defensive
Daniel Flitton Opinion ''We must always be outgoing,'' Keating said. ''We must be alert, dextrous and positive: never defensive.''
