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Same-sex couples are as capable at parenting as heterosexual couples. There is no compelling evidence that having a mother and father is necessary or significantly beneficial to child development. This is the formal position of the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Academy of Child...

Chan and Sukumaran did nothing wrong. Their only 'crime' is attempting to supply a product which is loved by millions of people. Their only crime is trying to make other people happy. They attempted to help others, at extreme personal risk, and paid the ultimate price. Sounds like heroism to me.

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That's weird, I've been told by friends who've worked in polling that the proportion of people who vote below the line is about 1 in 1000. You were able to do full preferential voting above the line in this election, so I don't see why you'd vote below the line. In the previous elections I...

Where has Keating endorsed Luke Foley? I don't think he has. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-11-28/keating-full-of-praise-for-nsw-liberal-premier/5925960 Mark Latham also endorse Baird over Foley http://www.smh.com.au/national/foley-is-wrong-man-for-nsw-says-mark-latham-20150105-12hxfy.html

even Paul Keating thinks you should vote for the Liberal party in NSW

The mx5 is pretty fun to own and is practical for my needs, but it's also not as good or as fun as I fantasised, it's not the jesus car or meaning of life. I thought it would be heaps exciting every day, but it's sort of a quite similar feeling to driving fwd hatchbacks. I enjoy driving my mums...

I own a 1999 nb mx5, ask me anything They're not economical compared to other 1.6 and 1.8L cars, mazda tuned them in an uneconomical fashion for some reason. It's still a 1.8 though, so it's better than any v6 or a turbo 4 of similar size. Rust isn't really a problem for Australian mx5s, in...

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Illegal drugs are often much safer than the legal alternatives, I'd advise young people to steer clear of legal drugs such as alcohol and tobacco, and err towards using illegal drugs instead.

I think taking psychedelic drugs is an essential part of human experience, to not take drugs would be a huge mistake. Don't waste your life by failing to use drugs. http://www.samharris.org/blog/item/drugs-and-the-meaning-of-life

"In his Who Do You Think You Are episode, Stephen Fry was livid when someone suggested to him that if Jewish people had so many connections, it seemed suspicious that they didn’t leave Germany when things were getting bad for them during the second world war. He announced that it offended him...

There has never been a ruling made on any section of the racial discrimination act about anything concerning Islam. No section of the act, including section 18c, has ever found any comment made by anyone in Australia in regard to Islam to be unlawful...

At least 12 muslims were jailed over those riots http://world.time.com/2013/05/14/harsh-sentence-a-warning-to-australias-malcontent-muslim-youth/ As far as I know there was only one person reported holding that specific sign - and she publicly apologised, explained that it was a mistake, the...

Good point, well made "A TEENAGE boy who screamed death threats against Christians outside a school in Sydney’s west has been charged. The 14-year-old was in the front passenger seat of a red hatchback driven by another man when he allegedly began bellowing abuse outside the Maronite...

great freedom Article 13 of the PRC Labour Law prescribes that employees or applicants for employment must not be discriminated against on the basis of nationality, race, gender, or religious belief. Various levels of government have mandated quotas of ethnic minority representation...

The Liberal party fucking hate free speech, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_sedition_law , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Peaceful_Pill_Handbook , etc I don't know what the push to repeal section 18C is actually about, but I think you are a total sucker if you've been taken into...

Re: What will happen? Oil production will hopefully peak because humans start reducing consumption, hopefully peak oil occurs in our lifetime as a result of less consumption and nothing to do with diminishing supply. Personal transport is the last thing oil is needed for I think, it's the...

You are very smart. This is what I was going to suggest, I'm glad I don't have to explain t.i yes I bought bitcoin in 2011 also. I put a few hundred bucks into bitcoin and the most it ever peaked at in aud valuation was $20000 :-( I now have no bitcoin, I sold at a lot more than the current...

I used small amounts of dexamphetamine during my university degree. I got them from a friend who was prescribed them for his ADHD. I typically used half his prescribed dose, 1 5mg pill daily when I felt it was needed, a very mild dose. I found the effect very similar to a standard dose of...