Can we get every political leader in Australia to say something about this successful child protection initiative?
Maybe not. Read more »
Can we get every political leader in Australia to say something about this successful child protection initiative?
Maybe not. Read more »
I first heard about Ingrid Betancourt a couple of years ago on SBS news, and I’ve been following the developments with Colombia and FARC since then. It sounds like a clever rescue operation, and hopefully another step toward the FARC abandoning their guerilla activities. Read more »
Andrew Bolt declares Victory! in the war on not-Bolts:
Iraq is going so well that even the New York Times can no longer ignore it
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Iraq is a standing indictment of Western journalism. Nothing we see there today remotely matches what the vast bulk of Western reporting told us to expect.
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Former terrorist suspects detained by the United States were tortured, according to medical examinations detailed in a report released Wednesday by a human rights group.
The Massachusetts-based Physicians for Human Rights reached that conclusion after two-day clinical evaluations of 11 former detainees, who had been held at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and in Afghanistan.
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Don’t Blair and Bolt normally give us an update on how cold it is? Where’s the balanced coverage for heatwaves? Read more »
Following on from Aidan's blog last week announcing that PARADISEC's archive has reached 2000 hours of recordings, here is some of the detail about what's in our digital archive. Read more »
Influential right-wing bloggers Timmy Blair and Andrew Bolt pick up the scent of a new scandal with a link to an old target. Says Bolt:
Was Lara Logan, a former swimsuit model, just training for her new job?
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The news is awash with the scoop that Ozzers are hefty types. We're now on a proportional basis the biggest fatties on the planet.
Hooray! Welcome my people. Read more »
Because the Ten Commandments and abstinence-only sex education have proven so effective:
HEALTH and education authorities have been accused of promoting illegal drugs - including ecstasy, cannabis and methamphetamines - to high school students.
A controversial teaching resource produced by Sydney West Area Health Service advises students on what to do if they “choose to experiment”.
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Not at all surprising - the same honour has been awarded or offered to all of the PMs from recent decades. I’d dispute some elements of the grounds for his award, particularly the notions that we should approve of his social reform and fostering Australia’s international standing: Read more »
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