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Tough Drug Policies Failing, Stupidy, Pyne Again & Daily Telegraph Readers

The Australian Heroin Diaries - July 9, 2008 - 12:21pm

“Tough on Drugs” is a Useless Policy

The World Health Organisation recently did a huge survey titled, Toward a Global View of Alcohol, Tobacco, Cannabis, and Cocaine Use: Findings from the WHO World Mental Health Surveys. 

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Linking without Thinking part 2

Deltoid - June 12, 2008 - 6:41am

Andrew Bolt should have been embarrassed with his unthinking linking, but he is unrepentant: Read more »

Linking instead of Thinking

Deltoid - June 10, 2008 - 7:31am

Glenn Reynolds, Tim Blair and Andrew Bolt are prolific bloggers, posting several posts each day. With such frequent posting they don't seem to have time to check to see if they stuff they link to is correct. Read more »

Buy Me A Pony

Not a Hedgehog - May 27, 2008 - 2:11pm

Dear Canberra,

I want:

  • Petrol prices that only go down
  • Cheap food
  • A Baby Bonus
  • Bigger, better, faster tax cuts
  • Reasonably priced vodka cruisers
  • and an iPod

Really, I don’t need you guys to spend any more time thinking about education, health care, aged care, telecommunications infrastructure, the environment, foreign policy, or that other boring stuff. Just put some extra money in my wallet, right now. That’s what governments are supposed to do.

Thank you. Read more »

The Pinata Strikes Back

Deltoid - June 11, 2008 - 7:48am

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On the essential Missing Link, Ken Parish links to my post of yesterday: Read more »

Round 2

Not a Hedgehog - June 9, 2008 - 10:54pm

This media merry-go-round, fed by the pollies but enabled by the journos, is getting ridiculous.

Up until Rudd left for Japan, the pattern went like this: Read more »

  • Liberal pollies or right-wing pundits (Piers et al.) claim that Japan are worried and offended by Rudd’s mishandling of the Australia-Japan relationship, and that his close ties to China are contributing to the strain.
  • The traditional media adopts a generalised and unattributed manner of reporting that it “is understood” that Japanese officials are concerned.
  • Rudd is asked about these purported tensions and defends his approach to foreign relations.