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Ray Manzarek was the keyboardist for The Doors. Yesterday he passed away from bile duct cancer. Their music was simply mgnificent – these days, however, the only songs you’re likely to hear are ‘Riders in the storm” or ‘The end’. I’ve posted what I think is their best song below.

Paul Murray has been off air for two days. It is hard to see why. He is said to be sick. Sick with what? One of Boris Yeltsin’s ‘heavy colds’?

It is likely, I think, that Murdoch has pulled him off air, fearing Gillard will sue him, now or later, for having said her tears were false on Thursday. That it was libel is not in doubt. That it was malicious libel is not in doubt; you only have to punch up six hundred of his programmes.

It may be that we will never see him again.

Sad, sad, sad.

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Is Tony Abbott a good man? The evidence is thus far not convincing.

He refused to marry, twice, his twice-pregnant girlfriend. He seduced young women while dressed as a priest.  He swore to the good character of a convicted pederast, and a Governor-General who defended pederasts. He sought to deny desperate women the morning-after pill. He went along with WorkChoices. He believes his sister will fry in hell for a billion years for sodomy.

Academic and general staff at Sydney University held another 24-hour strike on Tuesday, 14 May writes Alma Torlakovic in Socialist Alternative. The strike was the third one this semester and coincided with a national student strike in response to education cuts announced by the federal government. The strike was followed by a Sydney-wide rally against education funding cuts in nearby Victoria Park.

This looks like an interesting project, using digital connections to engage the wider community in developing innovative solutions to a public health problem. If you’re interested in making a pitch to VicHealth’s Seed Challenge, which aims to boost...

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Andrew Leigh MP
Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister
Member for Fraser
20 May 2013

Topics: Federal budget, paid parental leave, GST.

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A few weeks back I wrote a piece about Fairfax Senior Journalist Kate McClymont’s apparent obsession with Craig Thomson.

The article I wrote was in regards to her attack on Thomson regarding two blokes setting up a fund to ensure Thomson can afford a decent defence, something I would consider in the public interest.

Flicking through the channels two nights ago I came across the Eurovision song contest.  That reminded me of what a mismatch Europe is for the UK.  Isn’t it inevitable that the UK will leave the EU eventually?  Europe is on a slow but ineluctable path to much deeper political union.  Some of the current 27 members of the EU will not accept that Union and will chose to, or be forced, to leave.  It is certain that the UK will not chose to subsume itself into a Federal Europe.  So departure is inevitable.

Big Coal wants you to believe that fossil fuels will lift India's poor out of poverty. Gaurav Jagdish, who recently boarded a coal ship in QLD, knows the poor are usually the last to benefit from coal

My op-ed in Online Opinion discusses why it’s so important to build infrastructure for generations to come, not just today’s needs.

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