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One failure doesn't mean corporate child care can't be as simple as ABC
Two years ago ABC Learning Centres seemed an unstoppable force as it grew to become the largest private child-care provider in the world. It had a...
Neutering the net is about repression, not protection
It seems like only yesterday that the country was prosperous and the Labor Party was going to make everyone's internet faster. But now the Federal...
Free choice the key to get more women on board
Federal Government studies released recently have claimed that the glass ceiling is bearing down on Australian working women, crushing their career...
Why greed's just too small a word to hang a crisis on
Pundits, letter writers, talk-back radio callers, John McCain and the Prime Minister all agree: It Woz Greed Wot Done It. In a speech in Sydney...
Get off the turps - idiots are the problem, not alcohol
Hardly a weekend goes by without a heavily publicised nightclub bashing or brawl plastered all over the newspapers. Melbourne seems to have...
Don't close the door on our envied bar culture
Premier John Brumby probably wasn't expecting a backlash this big. Nearly 30,000 distressed drinkers have signed just one of the many Facebook...
Politicians find religion a cross to bear
Over these Christmas holidays it seems as though religious leaders have been happy to talk about anything other than religion. In Australia,...
Xmas buying is full of spirit
Before the three wise men went to visit Jesus at his birth, they first had to visit the gold, frankincense and myrrh traders. Retailers have been...
Culture wars are good for society
Since it lost the federal election, the Liberal Party has had lots of advice -- much of it useless or self-interested. One of the more useless...
Stars in the Net sky
Is the internet making us stupid? That, at least, is the conclusion of Doris Lessing, this year's winner of the Nobel prize for literature. In her...