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Everest

Scaling the mystery

Ben Sandilands

Ben Sandilands

Andrew 'Sandy' Irvine disappeared high on Mt Everest on June 8, 1924 and as climbing season approaches on the world's highest peak the riddle is close to being solved. more

File photo: Howard speaks with a patient at Cairns Private Hospital, November 15, 2007 (Getty Images: Lisa Maree Williams)

Sinclair Davidson

Healthcare: bang for buck

There seems to be some 'confusion' about who spent what on the hospital system.

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Tony Abbott's maternity leave plan is far from progressive (Getty Images)

Mark Bahnisch

Labour pains dog Abbott's maternity plan

Tony Abbott's maternity leave plan is very far from progressive. It's deeply regressive, and if the object of social policy is to redress existing inequalities, it does quite the opposite.

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Clive WIlliams

Showing leadership in Afghanistan

Australia could assume an element of leadership, reduce the risk of further casualties, and improve Islamic relations without weakening the original aim of being in Afghanistan: keeping in with the USA.

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Garth Paltridge

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Overselling climate doom

Scientists have allowed themselves to be part of a huge propaganda machine that has developed to such an extent that they can no longer countenance any public expression of doubt about its origins. more

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Thom Woodroofe

File photo: Anti-Terrorism Training Exercises In Sydney (Getty Images: Ian Waldie)

No one is born a terrorist

The reality is that no one is born a terrorist and understanding terrorism is not the same as an understanding with terrorists. more

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Barry Brook

Electric pylons linking the Hinkley Point Nuclear Power Station to the National Grid in Somerset, England (Getty Images: Matt Cardy)

Climate debate missing the point

The government and much of the environmental movement are missing the point on climate change and energy security. The time has come for practical energy plans. more

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But paid maternity leave is not a welfare program! It is tied in what people earn, it is a employment condition. Rudd wants another welfare ...
Gregh
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If selling real estate is so easy then why dont you do it? This is nothing about income, but a typical Labor politics of class ...
Gregh
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What do you mean hidden? I found it with a click of my mouse.
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Wrong. It means that it is worth more to big business to entice one woman to return to work after maternity leave than another. This ...
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The perfectionist PM

The government throws prudence - and billions - to the wind, writes Malcolm Turnbull in the National Times.
"It looks as if Kevin Rudd is not the bureaucratic messiah after all, but just another headline-hunting politician."

Woo mums and big end of town

The Coalition should offer parental leave as part of a reform of family benefits, says Jessica Brown in The Australian.
"A plan for reform, rather than an election year handout, could be the policy that Abbott needs to win support from the big end of town and young mums."

Fat kids

Daniel Engber, in Slate, says get ready for a new front in the war on obesity.
"Since we don't expect kids to make their own decisions, we're free to indulge in all sorts of nanny-state shenanigans, like mandatory gym classes and bans on cafeteria vending machines."

The zombies of Westminster

Cameron's team sees itself as the good guys but the whole system is decomposing, writes Rafael Behr in the NewStatesman.
"It is as if, having come back from so many disasters - the economic meltdown, the coups, the Prime Minister's violent rage - Labour had developed a weird immunity to bad news. How do you kill a government of the undead?"