The night before the election I was out to dinner with my family at an inner-city pub in the seat of Melbourne. On the next table, the conversation mixed popular culture and, of course, the election. 'Instead of changing their own lives, they'll ch
"Uh oh, overflow, population, common group, but it'll do. Save yourself, serve yourself. World serves its own needs, listen to your heart bleed. Tell me with the rapture and the reverent in the right - right. You vitriolic, pat
One of Kevin Rudd's flagship policy platforms is his plans on health. It is all over his advertising, and he will take any opportunity to claim that "The buck will stop with me". His fliers boldly say that "Almost every Q
This may be the last post unless I manage to flush out the sitting member before election day. When I started as a citizen-journalist with Youdecide2007 I sent emails to the Liberals, ALP, Democrats and Greens offering to post their media releases
Something I have yet to learn from my wide range of reading, the advertisement or two on the television, and websites such as this, is what does Kevin Rudd really stand for?
Dr Paul Mees is a Senior Lecturer in Transport and Land Use Planning at the University’s Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning. He is the author of numerous book chapters, journal articles and conference papers, and a book titled A V
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Professor Ian Anderson is Director, Onemda VicHealth Koori Health Unit, Centre for Health and Society, School of Population Health, the University of Melbourne, and Research Director of the Cooperative Research Centre for Aboriginal
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Associate Professor Hector Malano is Head of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Melbourne. His water resources research has included on-farm modelling of surface irrigation systems, modelling of irrigation distribution network
Professor David Karoly, an internationally recognised meteorologist, is an Australian Federation Fellow based in the University of Melbourne’s School of Earth Sciences. A leading authority on the global climate and climate variability, Profes
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This may be the last post unless I manage to flush out the sitting member before election day. When I started as a citizen-journalist with Youdecide2007 I sent emails to the Liberals, ALP, Democrats and Greens offering to post their media releases 
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Professor Ian Anderson is Director, Onemda VicHealth Koori Health Unit, Centre for Health and Society, School of Population Health, the University of Melbourne, and Research Director of the Cooperative Research Centre for Aboriginal