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Re: The Official Cricket Thread Dravid has retired, I hope he continues to have a significant role in world cricket. In addition to his enormous cricketing abilities (which always seem to go under-appreciated by Australians who understandably preferred Sachin) he was without doubt the most...

By the rivers of Babylon, where we sat down. Yea-eah we wept, when we remembered Zion.

If you had an abortion, you should have been an abortion.

Nobody believes that any of the policies they advocate are going to create some Utopian paradise of wealth and prosperity where we all love each other always. Early schooling can mitigate the impacts of the disparity in upbringings from household to household.

Gosh, point to the part where I said I was backing the Kony 2012 campaign? All I did was complete a half truth of yours.

To my knowlege those troops were not authorized to engage the LRA except in their own self defense. Hardly the sort of thing that will stamp out a guerrilla army.

Whatever, pick a side and I'll oppose you.

As someone who has worked voluntarily as a legal researcher with House of Welcome for the past two years, primarily focusing on assisting asylum seekers and Internally Displaced Persons who have suffered at the hands of Lord's Resistance Army, I have to say getting harangued because I said I...

Lol, Hockey was extremely well thought of before Abbott became leader. Recall something like 60% of liberal voters said they preferred him as leader in the lead up to the 2009 spill. He's unconvincing now because he's flogging all this neocon economics which he doesn't believe in. Meanwhile...

While Labor has inflicted most of its wounds unto itself, Abbott has created the environment to allow for it. The propensity of Swan and Gillard to capitulate under pressure was only expose due to a lot of Abbott's reckless all or nothing gambits, eg the health reform debate, the blocking of the...

University is a different kettle of fish all together, by that stage a person is pretty much responsible for creating their own opportunities, primary school children are not.

You nauseating, tawdry, odious piece of feted bourgeoisie scum.

No child left behind? What an innocent and coincidental use of language. Frankly yes but I know nobody is ever going to sit in the lower house uttering communist propaganda like that.

Surely though, what with those places having waiting lists, every parent who sends their children to said school is telling the parents of the child who misses out that they can't do what's best for their child?

No no, I believe it is in the child's best interest to be raised in a fair and equitable environment.

Not this shit again. Yes schooling is unequal and our kids don't get equal opportunities in life but it can't be rectified because nobody is going to tell a parent that they can't do what's best by their child.

No it isn't, climate change is not an all or nothing concept it is very much a case of how much can we curb its impacts by. The extent to which we curbed the impact wouldn't cease to exist because a global consensus doesn't come about. And great risk, you seriously aren't telling me that the...

Yes and as such any participation by Australia in a concerted global movement would be swamped by the big emmiters (come reducers) and in effect be pointless. Without a global movement however you get into a situation the proportionate impact of our reductions multiplies many fold. Therefore far...

Again, no. If there was a global push to reduce emmisions then our efforts would be nothing more than tokenism, the job would get done with or without us. If there is no global action than, whilst ineffective at reversing the tide of global warming in itself, the impact of our carbon emmision...