Weekly Dose of Common Sense
On Overnight Success
It often takes decades to be deemed an 'overnight success' and that maxim has been proven true once again.
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Marriage Should Remain the Gold Standard
Since my appointment to the Senate I have written letters of congratulations to those reaching 100 years of age or
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What is an Extreme Conservative?
Apparently conservatives are now regarded as extremists, or so I was told via email yesterday. In a thinly veiled insult,
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Thunderbirds Are Go
It is like the longest and most painful episode of The Thunderbirds ever. The crises are just as contrived, the
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Uphold the Rule of Law
Do you remember Marcus Einfeld? He was the former judge who was jailed for providing a false statutory declaration asserting
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Making a Difference: At Home and Abroad
It’s not often you’ll find me celebrating government advertising. Of course, I am not referring to the political
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Where Have Our Standards Gone?
Evidence of our decaying values is presented with monotonous regularity in our daily papers and on our plasma screens. We
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Additional Mining Imposts Should Remain with States
Right from the outset I need you to know that I am philosophically opposed to new and higher taxes. Adapting
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We’ll All Pay the Price for Rudd’s Failures
The falling global stock markets are sending a very clear message that the global economy is still at risk of
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The Devalued Prime Minister
Whatever the political stripe of the incumbent, the office of Prime Minster has always commanded a certain respect. It is
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Where’s Kevin?
You may have noticed that as his popularity plummets, Kevin Rudd seems to have disappeared from the 24 hour news
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Big Government, Big Troubles
“A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything
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Rudd’s Record Speaks for Itself
Less than three years ago Kevin Rudd declared war. There was a war on inflation, a war on obesity, a