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Bureaucrats catch the bully bug from anti-test teachers

Posted: 06 May 10 | Eve and Katsuya left Sydney at 7.30am and drove home, arriving at 12.30pm. Eve drove for the first two hours at an average speed of 60km/h. Katsuya drove the rest of the way, averaging 90km/h. What was the average speed of the whole journey? a) 67km/h; b) 75km/h; c) 78km/h; d) 84km/h.* |

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Broadband study may quell its critics

Posted: 06 May 10 | The $25 million implementation study into the national broadband network set for release this afternoon has unusual origins. |

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No rabbit in school building hat

Posted: 05 May 10 | Building the Education Revolution Program is akin to sending your kid out to buy milk 10% short of the money you need. |

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Bring on the non-beliebers

Posted: 04 May 10 | AS 14-year-old boys, my peers and I find ''Bieber fever'' distressing - and bemusing. This can, in part, be put down to jealousy - considering that the Canadian teen singer Justin Bieber has a contingent of 4000 girls chasing him and none of us knows why. |

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This is no storm in a teacup

Posted: 22 Apr 10 | At the press conference announcing the end of the cheating Melbourne Storm, the corrupt heart of professional sport lay bleeding on the table, spraying blood over NRL boss David Gallop, News Ltd chief John Hartigan and Storm chairman Rob Moodie. |

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When the dust settles, there will be lessons from flight bans

Posted: 21 Apr 10 | The ease of air travel has lulled us into a fragile, unhealthy dependence. |

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Exit Turnbull from a political stage littered with underachievers

Posted: 14 Apr 10 | Malcolm Turnbull made the right call when he decided to retire. All through the election campaign he would have been pestered about Labor's emissions trading scheme. |

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Facebook - where users get used

Posted: 30 Mar 10 | I understand the driving impulse enabling sites like Facebook. People, by and large, are blathering imbeciles. We like to natter on about the minutiae that makes up our pitiful existence, regardless of how inane it may be. Fair enough. What I can't grasp is the desire to surrender so much private information in the process. |

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Hey Dad furore: Media disclosure may help victims where a trial can't

Posted: 30 Mar 10 | Airing allegations about sexual abuse in the media, such as former Hey Dad star Sarah Monahan did, can be cathartic for victims. |

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Leaders go hard on an issue that really counts

Posted: 23 Mar 10 | Kevin Rudd and Tony Abbott made their best pitches for the all-important health vote in their first head-to-head election year debate at Canberra's national press club today. |

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Partisan politics and secrets in Obama's health deal

Posted: 23 Mar 10 | Health win for Obama, but fight ahead: President Obama has delivered one of the most partisan pieces of major legislation, delivered by one the most partisan processes, in the last 100 years. It also stands in vivid contrast to the rhetoric in Obama's victory speech after the 2008 presidential election. |

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A salute to brave soldiers in a nerve-racking theatre of war

Posted: 11 Mar 10 | When The Hurt Locker beat James Cameron's 3D preachy green blockbuster Avatar for best picture, his smile was looking decidedly cracked. |

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Clarke's choice: love or leadership

Posted: 10 Mar 10 | Michael Clarke needs to choose between a fraught personal life and his career in cricket. All the evidence indicates that the current position is untenable. As Mark Anthony could testify, obsession can be a man's undoing. If Clarke is unwilling to make the call, then cricket will make it for him. |

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Rudd's hospital reform more radical than 1984 Medicare revamp

Posted: 03 Mar 10 | The Prime Minister's $30.9 billion overhaul to integrate Australia's health system goes much further than his simple pledge before the last election to "fix" the public hospitals. |

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Remember, you heard it here

Posted: 03 Mar 10 | Note this moment. Because there'll be a day when you're asked, ''Where were you when you first heard of vajazzling?'' I thought if I alerted you to the existence of vajazzling here in the privacy of our one-on-one reading communion, the damage would be contained. |

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Can't bat, can't bowl - but he's caught the top job

Posted: 03 Mar 10 | JOHN HOWARD has had many things said of him. The nicest, he says, was the cricketer Mark Taylor's description of the then prime minister as a cricket tragic. |

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Given the nod, Howard must use his clout

Posted: 03 Mar 10 | Former Prime Minister John Howard is set to become President of the International Cricket Committee in 2012. |

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Less will mean more in national curriculum

Posted: 02 Mar 10 | There are some things in this world that everyone is an expert on. Politics is one, education is another. The federal government, out of humility or perhaps popularism, is inviting opinion on what should be taught in Australian schools. |

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Like a pink batt out of hell, Garrett absorbs the heat

Posted: 23 Feb 10 | Environment Minister Peter Garrett's departmental officials grilled over safety concerns with home insulation program. |

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Canada's champ shows up our sourpuss - but for how long?

Posted: 16 Feb 10 | Despite the "Own the Podium" hype, the natural self-deprecation and modesty of the Canadian people shone through when gold medal winner Alex Bilodeau credited his brother, who has cerebral palsy, with his win. In the process, he put our own sourpuss Dale Begg-Smith to shame. |

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