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When winning may be almost as painful as losing

Conventional political wisdom is that there is no fate worse than losing an election. However, it is interesting to contemplate the consequences for the Rann Government if it narrowly wins ... ABC Unleashed - 11 p.m. Thursday 18th March 2010 EST View Article Related Articles Email to Friend

O other where art thou?

While I was an international student in Australia, between 1998 and 2001, I worked as a waitress in an Indian restaurant in Sydney. Some of our customers were locals reduced ... ABC Unleashed - 11 p.m. Thursday 18th March 2010 EST View Article Related Articles Email to Friend

Historical highwaymen

At Glenrowan, the proprietor of 'Ned Kelly's Last Stand' was spruiking his show, an animatronic representation of the famous bushranger's career. 'It's great for autistic kids,' he whispered confidentially. 'They ... ABC Unleashed - 11 p.m. Thursday 18th March 2010 EST View Article Related Articles Email to Friend

Weekly wrap: Australia's Age of Wonders

What a week this has been. A week in which our best and brightest suffered an epidemic of hurt feelings, yet emerged as stronger and better human beings. In Federal ... ABC Unleashed - 11 p.m. Thursday 18th March 2010 EST View Article Related Articles Email to Friend

The Obama "narrative" narrative

"Every successful [political] campaign," Jon Taplin noted last month over at TPMCafe, "has a narrative." And "if there's one note that runs through many of the theories as to why ... ABC Unleashed - 11 p.m. Thursday 18th March 2010 EST View Article Related Articles Email to Friend

Self love

In an interview in this month's Playboy, John Mayer says he can't keep his hands off himself. Giving new meaning to narcissism, Mayer says he prefers an intimate night in ... ABC Unleashed - 11 p.m. Wednesday 17th March 2010 EST View Article Related Articles Email to Friend

Education + door-to-door sales = a perfect storm of anxiety

Would you say your child's education is important to you? It seems like a harmless enough enquiry and, when asked, what parent would not instantly agree that their child's education ... ABC Unleashed - 11 p.m. Wednesday 17th March 2010 EST View Article Related Articles Email to Friend

Super: the missing link

The government's long awaited review into the superannuation system (the Cooper Review) is about to be released and is already generating a lot of media attention. Mr. Cooper and his ... ABC Unleashed - 11 p.m. Wednesday 17th March 2010 EST View Article Related Articles Email to Friend

The golden thread

It was the axe that finally drove me over the edge I think. Like everyone else I had grown accustomed to the cameras banged against car windows and paddy wagon ... ABC Unleashed - 11 p.m. Wednesday 17th March 2010 EST View Article Related Articles Email to Friend

The honeymoon is over

Since he became Labor leader in late 2006, Kevin Rudd's approval ratings have been remarkable both in their strength and their consistency. It's a fact that has puzzled many observers ... ABC Unleashed - 11 p.m. Tuesday 16th March 2010 EST View Article Related Articles Email to Friend

Politics written in blood

Thailand is in yet another phase of political and social transition as the red shirt protesters pour their own blood, literally, on the ground at Thai Government House. The act ... ABC Unleashed - 11 p.m. Tuesday 16th March 2010 EST View Article Related Articles Email to Friend

'Curing' depression

'Curing depression' appeals as an aspirational and idealistic goal for mental health professionals, just as 'curing cancer' is a goal for doctors and medical researchers. In practice, medicine - and ... ABC Unleashed - 11 p.m. Tuesday 16th March 2010 EST View Article Related Articles Email to Friend

The young and the voteless

Everyone intuitively suspects that politicians are cynical and self-serving, but rarely are those traits more evident than when they discuss electoral reform. Today, a long succession of self-interested decisions have ... ABC Unleashed - 11 p.m. Tuesday 16th March 2010 EST View Article Related Articles Email to Friend

Singing loud and proud

Lawrie Zion's article in The Drum yesterday raises some crucial and interesting questions to do with reconciliation of Jewish identity and questionable Jewish actions. Indeed, I too can relate to ... ABC Unleashed - 11 p.m. Tuesday 16th March 2010 EST View Article Related Articles Email to Friend

Internet: ignorance is the real threat

If you've spent any significant time following the Open Internet campaign, you'll see that Rudd's censorship proposal isn't the only internet issue that gives the community cause to take umbrage. ... ABC Unleashed - 11 p.m. Tuesday 16th March 2010 EST View Article Related Articles Email to Friend

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