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Overseas researchers visiting the Green Triangle this week called on Australian governments to adopt a long-term plan for healthy eating choices similar to anti-smoking campaigns. Finnish health promotion experts Erkki Vartiainen and Tiina Laatikainen suggested Australian governments consider tougher regulations and higher “junk food” taxes that could lead to a…
March 5 2010, 2:05am | Comments »
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Australia is heading towards one of the most fundamental changes to our federation since income tax powers were ceded to the Commonwealth. Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has confirmed he is moving to seize control of hospital funding from the states. It was revealed earlier this week that funding will be…
March 5 2010, 2:03am | Comments »
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Political advertising disclosure
The South Australian Labor Party is portraying Liberal leader Isobel Redmond as being soft on crime. The image to the left is a screenshot of the website “Redmond Facts” authorised by M. Brown, 141 Gilles Street, Adelaide SA 5000. That’s ALP state secretary Michael Brown. I have no problem with…
March 5 2010, 1:57am | Comments »
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Isn’t it refreshing to see a rising young sports star who is untainted by any controversy. The Cooma snowboarder has won Australia’s first gold medal at the Vancouver Winter Olympics. Aged 23, she comes from a Mormon family, doesn’t drink or do drugs, and apparently doesn’t even drink coffee. While…
February 19 2010, 6:39pm | Comments »
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If banker David Kiely is sacked for looking at near-nude snaps of model Miranda Kerr the system sucks. The red-blooded Aussie bloke was found checking out chick pics in an email while one of his colleagues did a live cross to Seven News on the subject of interest rates in…
February 3 2010, 3:32am | Comments »
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Abbott addresses Young Liberals
Opposition leader Tony Abbott addressed the Young Liberal convention in Adelaide today. He attacked the government over its spending program and said Labor had failed to deliver on key promises. Here is the full text of his speech: Just before he went on holiday in January, Prime Minister Rudd declared…
January 30 2010, 1:35am | Comments »
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The Australian reports the father of spoilt brat tennis player Bernard Tomic has threatened his son will play under a Croatian flag. At the same time as Tomic junior was criticising the night-time scheduling of his second-round encounter against the world number 14 14 as “ridiculous”, John Tomic was arguing…
January 29 2010, 10:29pm | Comments »
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Alternative cricket uniforms required
The International Cricket Council (ICC) ought to make itself meaningful by sorting out the confusion of colored uniforms clashing in one-day internationals. It’s ridiculous to see players from Australia and Pakistan in virtually identical strips. They may as well be wearing whites. It’s not Pakistan’s fault either. Australia used to…
January 26 2010, 1:59am | Comments »
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KKK stunt a nuisance distraction
One wonders if the protest at the Australian Open by artist Van Tanh Rudd against racism would have generated any publicity if he wasn’t the Prime Minister’s nephew. Probably not. Rudd was acting as a member of the radical Marxist group, the Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP), which calls for the…
January 26 2010, 1:44am | Comments »
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