Drive

Finding a new car with character is enough to drive you up the wall

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Danny Katz Maybe we pushed her too hard and that's why she died. But the old girl should've been able to make it: I mean, she had a speedometer that went all the way up to 220 - she should've been able to...

Deep fears drive Japanese whaling

Whaling

Trevor Watson Understanding why Japan persists with whaling will help us stop it.

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bonkers drive me Bus lanes

Heckler THIS is probably only a small matter in the overall scheme of things but it's one which annoys me whenever I am driving. I am talking about the markings that appear on the roads in this state.

Our lost heritage is enough to drive a person to drink

Foster's beer

Keith Dunstan Foster's have sold out to a bunch of Poms and South Africans for a miserable $12 billion or so.

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Calls in car drive normal people crazy

Heckler OK, I'M not particularly young. I'm not particularly old either. I have a mobile phone. I have a computer and use the internet daily. Facebook, Gmail, hey, I'm cool with them. I love Skype.

Elevated anxiety as children drive lifts

REMEMBER the halcyon days of lift drivers? Some had great personalities and made the journey a wonderful start to the shopping experience, offering tempting delights on each floor with helpful...

Snarl, you're on nanny camera: a cynical lurk to drive us crazy

Miranda Devine

Miranda Devine Don't Melbourne police have worse people to arrest than the formula one driver Lewis Hamilton? His "crime" was to smoke his tyres while doing a bit of a fishtail as he left the grand prix...

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Don't Gogh: it will drive you insane

Heckler I HAVE always been a firm believer in Jean-Paul Sartre's saying that ''hell is other people'', which is why I don't like going to places where there are lots of people.

It's enough to drive you to drink

There are calls to raise the legal age of drinking to 19 because of growing evidence about the impact of alcohol on a maturing brain.

Jeremy Bass Cracking down on tobacco is like cracking down on devil worship. It's easy to put the boot into something that antisocial without apology. Smoking stinks and it's bad for you.

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Drink and drive? Not the publican's problem

The High Court has issued a controversial ruling on the responsibility licensees have for their patrons.

Simon Chapman A unanimous decision handed down this week by the High Court will cause jubilation in the hotel industry in its ongoing efforts to shift all responsibility for the harms caused by drinking onto...

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It's OK being SWOK

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YES, Bethany (Ignoring the unwed childless is singly low, Heckler, May 15), I also bemoaned my fate as a single and childless taxpayer.

I'm 50 - and that's all, folks

THE very next person who says to me, ''Geez, you look good for 50!'' is really going to get something. Why the disclaimer? Why can't I just look good?

Hatred of women exists in the West as well as the Arab world

Burqa

Ruby Hamad Misogyny has reduced women to headscarves and hymens.

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'Mummy porn' and the woeful art of blockbuster female eroticism

Wendy Squires

Wendy Squires Like millions of women all over the world, I spent this week staying up late reading porn in bed. And like so many females have breathlessly confessed of late, I too moaned and sighed throughout the...

Who are these haters that poison the well of our discourse?

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Andrew Stafford People can be wise, considered, challenging and eminently reasonable, and they too can reach a wider audience than ever before. In practice, though, this rarely happens.

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Why do we need any more semi-automatic pistols in Australia?

Semi-automatic pistol

Samantha Lee April is an eerie time of year. Sixteen years ago this month, Martin Bryant opened fire at historic Port Arthur in Tasmania, killing 35 people and wounding 18 others.

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Light of my life: with buttons and glows, you're not just a pretty fascia

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Danny Katz The Unit is great, The Unit is the best: it makes your life so much more happy and rewarding, because all your friends will go 'Oh, you have The Unit ... , reckon it's all hype ...

War of words in 'the Toyota way' leaves clarity mortally wounded

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Julie Szego Barely 24 hours after Toyota's retrenchment of 262 workers, the regrettable allusions to World War II began flying about.

Women aren't fruit and men aren't accessories

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Steph D'Souza Bettina Arndt's 'Why women lose the dating game' was a 1000-word pie in the face to all women who have foolishly assumed that self-esteem is a good thing.

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Cutting out the middle-of-the-road man

Peter FitzSimons

Peter FitzSimons There is no longer the need to have the actual documents tearing up and down the streets via bike couriers.