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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Is This an Impossible Dream?
I have always maintained that politics is a vocation. If one were not genuinely called to serve, individuals could scarcely
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Where Self-Interest is Less than Super
In politics, as in life, it can be tempting to take a short-term outlook driven by self-interest. The longer term
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Inquiry Increases Awareness of Men’s Health Issues
This piece appeared in The Advertiser, 27 June 2009 Once every year, Movember, supported by the Prostate Cancer Foundation of
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Big Government – Bigger Problems
A recent global trend in government is to categorise any issue as so big, so challenging and so complex that
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Ute-gate - The Substantive Issue
A mid all the allegations and counter-claims, the call for resignations and searches for leaked emails, one thing is absolutely
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A Poll of Principle
Some positive news today for the Coalition. The polls are ticking up and whilst we are still some way behind
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Our Crushing Debt Burden
There are some immutable laws that govern our world. No doubt you are familiar with many of them but today
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Australians’ Right to Peaceful Protest
I have a confession to make. As far as I can recall, I have never attended a protest rally. You
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Character Makes a Difference
The pioneering spirit built our nation. Men and women came to Australia from around the world, seeking opportunity and reward
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A Victory for Common Sense
The decision today from the Coalition to push for a delay on consideration of Labor’s ETS legislation is a
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A Timely Reminder
Few readers would not have heard or read about the expenses scandal rocking the UK Parliament. The public have, quite
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A Tiddle of Change
The “Butterfly Effect” is a phrase that suggests small changes in a system can produce a much greater long-term variance.