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Trapped in our home suburb

Posted: 16 May 12 | It's a great shame Unanderra train station does not allow easy access for the elderly, pram pushers and even bike riders. |

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NAPLAN the big bad wolf in our schools

Posted: 14 May 12 | The Big Bad Wolf dressed as Granny to eat Little Red Riding Hood is a harrowing allegory we could well assign to standardised assessment tests, or SATs. |

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Still lucky, in uncertain times

Posted: 14 May 12 | Once again we are living in a time of some uncertainty, both abroad and here in Australia. |

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Posted: 09 May 12 | For more than 25 years there has been an organisation working ‘‘quietly and unheralded’’ for the people of the Illawarra. It is a community radio station called Vox FM Radio 106.9. |

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The day Bin Laden wrote to me

Posted: 08 May 12 | Osama bin Laden no longer had much relevance in the world, and he had a lot of time on his hands. But he certainly went on reading his clippings. Terrorists always read their clippings. |

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PM struggling to find clear air

Posted: 01 May 12 | Prime Minister Julia Gillard has made an eleventh hour bid to try to shore up community faith in the integrity of the Australian Parliament. |

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New light on work trip compo

Posted: 29 Apr 12 | You and I, as taxpayers, are about to fork out compensation to a public servant injured while having sex in a motel on a work trip. |

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Innocents die in pointless war

Posted: 24 Apr 12 | In the midst of the recent Taliban attacks in central Kabul, a journalist called the British embassy for a comment. |

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Paying respects to trailblazers

Posted: 18 Apr 12 | When Ken said, "This is really good isn't it? We should do this more often," he was around the 10th person at the gathering that I heard spontaneously express the same sentiment. |

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Falklands tiff too silly for times

Posted: 17 Apr 12 | Human rights campaigner and actor Sean Penn, whose well-deserved Nobel Peace Prize remains delayed for mysterious reasons, told Argentina's President Christina Kirchner: "The world today is not going to tolerate any ludicrous and archaic commitment to colonialist ideology." |

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Time to review US defence links

Posted: 16 Apr 12 | The long and noisy United States Republican search for a presidential candidate capable of unseating Barack Obama next November is apparently now approaching a conclusion. |

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Park a sign of what’s possible

Posted: 11 Apr 12 | Bouquets to the NSW Government for giving the world the fabulous Dharawal National Park. |

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The Lady and waiting generals

Posted: 10 Apr 12 | "It is never easy to persuade those who have acquired power forcibly of the wisdom of peaceful change," Aung San Suu Kyi once remarked. |

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Be warned: It's the Age of Man

Posted: 09 Apr 12 | Imagine living through an event so catastrophic that it changes the world - significantly enough to warrant an Age being named after it, like the Ice Age. |

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Class struggle all about money

Posted: 09 Apr 12 | We're all familiar with the staffing scenario at cafes, fast-food outlets and shops that employ junior casual staff until they qualify for the full adult pay rate, then replace them with younger workers and repeat the cycle. |

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Join our unsung heroes on trial

Posted: 04 Apr 12 | Next time you go to the chemist to collect your prescription, think about the first person to ever take that medication. |

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Murderous acts had parallels

Posted: 03 Apr 12 | After Mohamed Merah died in a hail of French police bullets , people who had known him talked about "a polite and courteous boy" who liked "cars, bikes, sports and girls". |

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Opening bases closes dialogue

Posted: 02 Apr 12 | Reports that the United States may establish a military base on the Cocos Islands have revived debate about the US relationship and our defence needs. |

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Labor, it's time to turn - or burn

Posted: 28 Mar 12 | In politics, the dead like to perform their own autopsies. It's a control thing, especially true for the former NSW and Queensland Labor governments that treated workers and communities like doormats, then wondered why they wore out their welcome. |

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Stand up, budding city planners

Posted: 27 Mar 12 | The Property Council of Australia tomorrow launches its Make My City Work campaign, so does that mean our cities, including this city, are broken? |

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