Recent content by Stott Despoja

Re: Australian Politics Chatter Thread So long as Tony Jones is there to lean and leer into the camera our world will survive!

Though I will concede that dhj does have a point concerning the economic development of Tibet (even the Dalai Lama admits as much), posts like the above just make me laugh.

The thread clearly refers to both the 2020 Summit and the 2020 Youth Summit, but if it helps, feel free to ignore the 's'.

As strange as it may seem, nobody has created a thread for the 2020 Summit as yet, so I thought that I'd throw one up for discussion (a thread was created for the recent Youth Summit, see here, but come on, who cares about the kids' table, eh? ;). Seriously, there's little point in limiting the...

Someone [else] should start (or bump) a thread about coarse language and its use in daily life.

Labor.

They're called discussion papers for a reason. Anyway, a policy that stipulated a leaving age of 18 would (or should) include provisions for those who complete their secondary education before the age of 18.

I was going to say something about Doc Martins and such but with Mr Bentham's arrival I'm afraid that I'm just not up to scratch :(. Anyway, this account will retire with the Senate term (or maybe a little earlier, like now, or better yet in a moment with the final fullstop of this particular...

That's because it's much better to be a bully with a 'social conscience', right? I find it strange that so many people criticise Mr Howard for being a 'fundie' yet they seemingly ignore Mr Rudd's own religious leanings. Guess what, guys, Mr Rudd is nothing more than a younger version of Mr...

The article merely points out that the Wikipedia is reasonably reliable (much like an encyclopedia), not that it's an appropriate secondary source for a tertiary level assessment task.

Discussing issues that are largely ignored by the regular news bulletins and the mainstream press in general is hardly indicative of a left-wing, anti-Israeli and and anti-US bias. In fact, it has been my experience that the Foreign Correspondent programme does its best to investigate each issue...

Apples and oranges - the 34 year old ad 45 year old are both adults, whereas you're still a kid (and still at school). That your parents seem to be OK with it... Baffling.

Assuming that //Niix//'s account is real (yes, I see the humour in such a statement) - If it's offered at all, flowers and ice-cream-like advice along the lines of "Go with your heart" should only ever be offered when someone is old enough to actually understand what it is they are getting...

ASIO kept dirt files on ABC journalists Plug for Dateline. I realise that I could probably spin this thread into a discussion regarding the freedom of the press in Australia (either in general or in an age of 'anti-terror' laws), but I'm sure that there are better articles that could be...

1. Unlike business interests and the Coalition, the Unions posses institutionalised power within the ALP (one only has to look at the ALP's National Conference, which, in theory, is meant to determine the ALP's policy platform, to see this). 2. Anecdotally, most people recognise and respect the...