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Hating to love Gordon
01 July, 2009
MY wife Wendy – whose opinions on such matters I accept unreservedly – reckons he’s “an ugly coot”. Certainly, he has a personality to match. Yet the egregious Gordon Ramsay commands a massive television audience and thousands flock to his live performances. So, how is it so?

How Malcolm turned mud into humble pie
01 July, 2009
WHEN you throw mud it sticks to your hands. Sometimes people get dirty up to the armpits. So it was for Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull when he took on Kevin Rudd over the “Ute-gate affair”.

When left holding the baby
01 July, 2009
ONE way or another, working parents rely on childcare, parents, grandparents, sometimes friends, maybe nannies, as they juggle work and family responsibilities – and most of the time everything goes okay.

Who can you trust?
25 June, 2009
MARK PARTON puts sentiment ahead of science and comes up with a list of the city’s most-trusted people.

Behind questions of accountability
25 June, 2009
IT is the nature of politics that accountability is the catchcry of those seeking government rather than those in government.

Future of farming
25 June, 2009
BUNGENDORE’S organic Mulloon Creek Natural Farms have been using biodynamic methods for two decades, and now they’re becoming the centre for cool-climate permaculture techniques.

Hooray, bottoms are back!
25 June, 2009
THE poor old “gluteus maximus’’, the butt of so many jokes and so much female angst, has at last apparently come into its own.

Time for the vision
25 June, 2009
WE’RE now well into the 21st century and it’s high time steps are taken to ensure that Australia’s capital will never again be seen as a “cemetery with lights” or the “ruin of a good sheep station”.

Explosive politics of cracker night
18 June, 2009
THE politics of fireworks has always been explosive. I cannot help admiring the approach taken by Labor to handle this divisive issue.

The argument for infill
18 June, 2009
IF we care about environmental sustainability, it makes sense to reduce our dependence on cars. Urban infill developments achieve this, especially if they are mixed-use.

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