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Opinion

  • 11 Mar 2010 (0)

    The release of the Federal Government’s National Curriculum proposal and the review of which priority languages to include in the National Curriculum presents a historic window of opportunity to lo

  • Prime Minister Kevin Rudd speaking at the National Press club in Canberra.
    11 Mar 2010 (0)

    Back in 1969 when he was in opposition, Labor leader Gough Whitlam delivered a talk on reforming Australian federalism for the ABC’s Boyer Lecture series.

  • Tarpon Springs. Sponges.
    10 Mar 2010 (0)

    Tarpon Springs
    or why the Turkish Cypriots should be worried

    Lets begin with a series of brain teasers?

    How many of you know where Tarpon Springs is?

  • 9 Mar 2010 (0)

    "Bombs are not so unusual in Greece," says Chris, the only Athenian I have met so far who drinks Greek coffees. It's probably because he's half-Irish.

  • 1 Mar 2010 (0)

    The Cycladic Museum in Athens is currently hosting a new exhibition on Eros in the ancient world.

  • 1 Mar 2010 (0)

    In a parliamentary speech on global environmental issues delivered late last year, ALP MP Kelvin Thomson said it was time to discuss the environmental elephant in the room.

  • There is no reason to end life time tenure in the Greek civil service
    23 Feb 2010 (1)

    The Greek economic miracle -

  • 22 Feb 2010 (0)

    Last week the European Union economy and finance ministers (Ecofin) council approved the Greek stability plan which entails a 4 percent cut in the budget deficit this year, to bring it to 8.7 perce

  • Povery Chic. Melbourne.
    17 Feb 2010 (0)

    Police Commissioner's Poverty chic

    Victoria Police Chief Commissioner Simon Overland's counsel to Indian students to ''look as poor as you can'' to evade being battered by thugs, should be

  • Cambridge Fellow, Michael C Scott
    16 Feb 2010 (0)

    When visiting Athens today, most tourists, for obvious reasons, head straight for the Parthenon.

  • 15 Feb 2010 (0)

     Governments don’t like by-elections. They tend to occur at most inconvenient times, and they nearly always result in an anti-government swing.

  • 15 Feb 2010 (4)

    Greece's financial and fiscal problems are front page news over my breakfast table daily here in London.

  • 12 Feb 2010 (0)

    "Greeks and the state...fehhh". In Florus cafe on Exarchia Square, Stavros hovers over a cappucino and neatly demolishes my cherished illusions of a new Greek revolution.

  • 9 Feb 2010 (0)

    Walking on Thessaloniki's Aristotelous square some leaflets draw my attention.

  • 1 Feb 2010 (1)

    Last week I was invited to lunch with senior Indian journalists who were visiting Australia at the behest of the Australian Government, to assess the reality of the violence confronting some of the

  • 1 Feb 2010 (0)

    In the dying days of the 2009 federal parliamentary year, the Liberal party took the plunge.

  • 1 Feb 2010 (0)

    Ancient Greece's most famous export to this day is arguably democracy.

  • 25 Jan 2010 (1)

    Just before Christmas I attended my cousin's name day party on the other side of town where I got into a conversation with one of his guests about Coburb, the suburb where I live.

  • 18 Jan 2010 (0)

    The first 100 days of the new PASOK administration have seen a great deal of activity, but also chaos.

  • 18 Jan 2010 (0)

    2010 promises to be a very important year in Australian politics, not least because of the number of elections that are due to be held over the next twelve months.

  • Stereosonic festival 2009
    6 Jan 2010 (0)

    The last time Tony went to the Big Day Out two years ago, he was constantly approached by people wanting to buy drugs.

  • 29 Dec 2009 (0)

    In his inaugural speech, President Obama stressed that the rule of law would be fundamental in his administration. Referring to national security he said.

  • Kevin Rudd. PM.
    21 Dec 2009 (0)

    With just days to go until the end of the pre-Christmas session of the Australian parliament, the then federal parliamentary leader Malcolm Turnbull, was desperately trying to hang on to his leader

  • 15 Dec 2009 (0)

    A few days ago, I started to have cravings.

  • 14 Dec 2009 (0)

    "A singe spark can start a forest fire", Mao Zedong, 1930.

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