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Higher taxes and house mates

Tuesday, May 4th, 2004

The latest series of Big Brother premiered last night and I couldn’t resist putting those two words – “big” and “brother” – in this first paragraph because it will generate a lot of google searches; and because shared housing is one model that demonstrates the problems with the latest campaign to convince us we should […]

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Dine Out With Darlene: Interview With Senator Amanda

Monday, May 3rd, 2004

Figuring Amanda, or Mandy as I will soon be told not to call her, is used to fine parliament house style dining I choose Cuisiny A La Classy, that well-known haunt for C list celebrities, for our meeting. I arrive early and thus ensure we get a table near the wine rack. Twenty minutes and […]

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Internet Dating: Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places?

Friday, April 30th, 2004

Apparently, meeting a potential partner in between Wham and Duran Duran’s latest hits is becoming a thing of the past since singles started trading their dancing shoes for a computer, modem, internet connection with a reasonable download limit and unlikely nicknames such as “shyandretiringozgal” and “Aussiestud”. Miranda Devine in The Sydney Morning Herald recently revealed […]

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Why Professor Flint must go

Thursday, April 29th, 2004

THE cat fight between John Laws and Alan Jones must not be allowed to obscure the serious questions that have arisen concerning the Chairman of the Australian Broadcasting Authority (ABA), “Professor” David Flint. As a believer in the Constitutional Monarchy I have long held the view that Professor Flint is the best thing the republican […]

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A scandal with wide ramifications

Tuesday, April 27th, 2004

ANYONE who watched the “A Current Affair” expose on Brisbane “entrepreneur” Keith Lloyd and his association with the Shafston International College could not help but be appalled at the revelations, and alarmed at the possible wider implications. I did not know until I saw the program that the particular college is in fact a privately […]

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Celebrating ANZAC Day

Tuesday, April 27th, 2004

John Howard credits the rise in enrolments at private schools to a desire by parents to have their children taught values in education. I think he is only partly right. It is a desire to have children taught the “right” values. There is no such thing as value free education and no matter what school […]

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My Last Blog Entry

Monday, April 26th, 2004

This is my last ‘Ambit Gambit’ blog entry. In it I’ll make a few comments on how I think the whole Internet thing is going. The Internet is undoubtedly an amazing invention, perhaps as important in its long–term impact as writing. The form still has some way to go to be really broadly functional (and […]

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Hits and Mrs

Sunday, April 25th, 2004

Politicians’ wives, or ex-wives, have been in the news a bit of late. In Australia, we seem to hear from the missus when she can confirm her husband was the drongo we always suspected him to be. America, meanwhile, prefers to see its political spouses gazing lovingly like a bride on her wedding day, even […]

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Ingrid Tall – guest blogger, almost

Wednesday, April 21st, 2004

Every now and then you get what is called in the parlance a “get out of jail free card”. I think I got one of those last night when the Liberal Party preselected Dr Ingrid Tall to be the candidate for the seat of Brisbane in the next federal election. The Liberal Party has referred […]

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Kathy and Frank, Alex and Alistair

Wednesday, April 21st, 2004

Discussion surrounding sexual assault allegations levelled at some sportsmen has challenged the idea that maleness is naturally expressed by certain behaviours. The Family Court’s decision last week to approve a 13-year-old’s eventual transition from woman to man appears, at a time when masculinity and femininity are viewed as social constructs rather than inherent states, as […]

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