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DO NOT feel guilty if English is your first language. Feel blessed. It obviates the need for you to learn English. Continue reading “Engaging with Asia not a language matter”

THE final figures are not in, but a pro-female swing is clearly discernable in last weekend’s ACT election. Maybe the general political environment of Julia Gillard’s denunciation of Tony Abbott for being what she called misogynist might have rallied female voters. Continue reading “Females preferred in ACT election”

A FEW observations. The day was saved for the Government by the better-than-average performance of two women – Katy Gallagher and the Greens’ Meredith Hunter. Continue reading “Democracy at work, ACT style”

TWO nuclear powers – India and Pakistan — face each other in the Asian sub-continent. Millions of lives are at stake. Neither country is a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation treaty. Australia – the country with second largest amount of uranium on earth — is a potential supplier of uranium to one of those states, India. Continue reading “Trivial masks the big uranium question”

ITS term is fixed. It collects the garbage and it is the most democratic of all the Parliaments in Australia. Yes, this is the Parliament which the people of the ACT are electing today, in the eighth ACT self-government election. Continue reading “ACT election extra articles”

ONE of Australia’s leading constitutional experts, Professor George Williams, called this week for a firm timetable for a referendum to recognise Indigenous people in the Constitution and to rid the Constitution of its remaining racist clauses. Continue reading “Why the 1967 referendum went wrong”

ALAN Jones makes it very difficult for us Voltairians who find merit in the precept: “I disagree with what you say but I will defend to the utmost your right to say it.” Continue reading “Jones makes it hard for Voltairians”

THESE days they call it trivial pursuit. Forty years ago this week it was general knowledge and, for me, the pursuit was not trivial. Continue reading “”

QUEENSLAND joined Western Australia and Victoria in a resounding piece of hypocrisy this week by increasing its mining royalties. It also joins Western Australia and Victoria in a resounding under-estimation of the Commonwealth’s taxation power. Continue reading “Qld Govt hypocritical on over mining tax”

WHAT on earth is the Gillard Government doing wasting so many taxpayers’ dollars on dental health for children, education, and support for the disabled. Continue reading “Government waste on teeth and disabled”