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  • Ashton McAllan: What media someone chooses to expose them-self to is the choice of the individual, what media a child is exposed to is the choice of the parent. An ISP filter is gross invasion of the human right... (4 June 2009)
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  • Ben : It is incredibly poor public service to ignore the major point of Bradley's Review which was that the Howard government gutted universities by decreasing funding. For example, Bradley notes:... (2 June 2009)
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  • Ashton McAllan: This is brilliant. Must email this fellow to congratulate him. (28 May 2009)
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  • Leonard Matthews: It is quite amazing that when a government increases a revenue item (tax) it does so immediately. Yvette DÁrth supports the Labor Government collecting the Alcopops Tax for a year when it had no... (17 May 2009)
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  • Leonard Matthews: Yvette DÁrth and the Labor Government are rudderless on the issue of alcohol addiction and its imapct on the Australian community. In my submission to the Senate Committee on the Alcopops Tax,... (17 May 2009)
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  • Sherif Mansour: Does anyone know if it is possible to make public the actual usage stats of the GROCERYchoice website? Is it being used at all? What evidence do we have for this? To be honest, I am amazed it... (16 May 2009)
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  • Joshua Moran: Does Senator Conroy ever answer a question without aggressively attacking the person who asked it, it’s supposed to be a debate not a tantrum. If they want a health outcome, focus on health.... (24 April 2009)
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  • Leonard Matthews: If the Member for Petrie is really interested in the international community and how it impacts on Australia? Perhaps she ought to ask her Prime Minister what guarantees Mr Rudd gave to the... (25 March 2009)
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  • Joel Dignam: Too right! (24 March 2009)
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  • Joel Dignam: Haha! Standing up for human rights. It's almost as if he thinks ideas, vision and policy are more important than political rhetoric! (20 March 2009)
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  • Graham Inskip: Thank goodness for someone with the foresight of Bill Heffernan in relation to these N.S.W. laws of lunacy. It also needs someone to control the mad dog the N.S.W. R.T.A. is. (19 March 2009)
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  • Leonard Matthews: G'day Ben, I remember the years when Paul Keating was treasurer and then Prime Minister. The justification given by Mr Keating for the failures of the ALP government was to say it was a... (17 March 2009)
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  • Leonard Matthews: The ALP in their legislation for the Alcopops Tax has ignored the lessons from history regarding the campaign to reduce tobacco addiction and passive smoking health risks. The ALP is simply... (17 March 2009)
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  • James Hay: I think the better Idea would be to adjust the legal drinking age to 25 years of age,also more heavy penalties or loss of licence for the vendors that sell these alcopops to under age... (17 March 2009)
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  • Lindsay Holmwood: Wow, way to conflate two separate issues. Censorship of the entire internet is no where in the same category as junk food advertising. Firstly, the research conducted on junk food... (13 March 2009)
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  • Leonard Matthews: Yvette D'Ath's comments on education makes an interesting read. Her comments are on buildings and not children. Whilst I know buildings are needed for schools, for me the focus with education... (13 March 2009)
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  • ben rogers: Leonard - you don't think that the global economic downturn has anything to do with the current state of the economy? (13 March 2009)
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  • Leonard Matthews: If Yvette D'Ath and the Australian Labor Party is about protecting jobs of Australians, then why is it that when Labor has control of the Commonwealth purse the unemployment rate is higest and... (12 March 2009)
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  • Leonard Matthews: Question time in both Houses of Parliament is very limited. I believe it is a great waste of limited time when parliamentarians ask a Dorthy Dixer such as this one asked by the Member for Petrie... (11 March 2009)
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  • Raymond J Warren: This Tribute mau be late arriving on iys own post nut it is placed with no less heartache dor those lost. For We Are Aussies And We Care Raymond J Warren Brisbane Qld February... (8 March 2009)
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  • James Hay: Well I am glad you were brief Phew!!! if not, then we wouldn't see anything passed in the house before the next decade using your strategem. (4 March 2009)
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  • Raymond J Warren: As I am unable to figure out how to place my own tribute, I must apologise to Scott for using his post, perhaps someone can place my words on a post for me? We Are Aussies And We Care... (2 March 2009)
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  • James Hay: Lets have some backbone , eject the troublemakers it only hinders policy by all this interjecting. (25 February 2009)
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  • James Hay: He has as much intelligence as his predecessor (25 February 2009)
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  • James Hay: All governments have to borrow and all borrowings have to be repaid, just like most households that take out a loan. Some governments/households admit to their borrowing like the elected party... (16 February 2009)
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