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i don't think this is an accurate assessment, and is probably coloured by your own political preferences. my point was that the kind of people who would really be up in arms about this issue (i.e. it might affect voting preferences) would probably not be mainstream voters; they'd vote for the...

the majority of people who would really care about news of american internet snooping were never going to vote for the liberals, or were always going to preference labor over liberals, anyway.

kevin rudd is palestinian

Re: Do you think that Australian government can pay back net federal govt debt by 202 considering that net debt is only around $160bn, it's certainly manageable. treasury's current projections for zero net debt by 2019-2020 are probably unrealistic, but it's no reason for concern.

while academic achievement is more important today than ever before, the primary attributes of a rhodes scholarship are still achivements in sport and community service. academic achievement is only used to distinguish and select between candidates already sorted, and is thus not the primary...

in case you haven't cottoned on, they're the same person.

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both paul keating and adolf hitler didn't have university degrees, and yet turned out to be superb economic managers, capable administrators, and cunning political tacticians.

you don't need a study to tell you 99% of australians haven't read the crimes act, criminal procedure act, crimes (sentencing procedure) act, or young offenders act, and have no actual basis for making any judgements about criminal penalties.

yes, I'm sure someone here has access to information on the educational attainment of the 30,000 odd labor party members out there. if you're referring to cabinet members, you can wiki them all yourself and find out.

Shorten had no ship to go down with. He poured his heart and soul into the NDIS for six years. Any firm commitment he had to Gillard as leader was extinguished after her government delivered it.

A life sentence with a non-parole period of 35 years is not a soft sentence. Juvenile justice is a sensitive issue. However, a $2000 fine, a six-month suspended sentence and 18 months probation with 100 hours of community service are, again, not soft sentences. False dilemma. Someone shut...

may as well move the nation's capital to moscow while you're at it

it's not like people actually care about the research anyways, unless it vindicates a preexisting agenda. if you gave a person comprehensive evidence that positive eugenics is a good thing, they're generally not going to be like "well, the research is in, lets do it!"

sounds like someone doesn't want to be decapitated

there have been a number of cases in which PTSD has mitigated sentencing. even if it might fly in the face of whatever your logic is, it has little to do with his being an afghan or a muslim. given that he has been diagnosed with a mental illness that contributed to his actions, he will receive...

that is not evidence of nutjobbery at all. hezbollah is a shi'a organisation. the assad regime is a shi'a regime. hezbollah has been one of the most important means by which syria has maintained its influence and control over lebanon. if anything this demonstrates the efficacy of the assad regime.

Why do you think the Assad regime hasn't toppled yet? Why do you think the Israeli regime hasn't toppled yet? Why do you think, sans Western intervention, the Serbians would have demolished the other Slavic states? How were the Boers and the Mau Mau rebellions resolved? How did the Sri Lankan...

i never said the war effort wasn't sabotaged by politicking, backflippping chickenhawks. if we committed to the war, we could have won it. this directly contravenes your statement that the conventional military is more than capable of instituting sustainable regime change in iraq and...

poverty doesn't cause terrorism. this isn't to say there isn't an economics of terrorism, but there is no monocausal explanation, particularly not poverty. also, brutality is an effective way of dealing with insurgencies. deal with it. most of the policies malaysia has adopted in regards to...