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A home birth is not a safe birth

Posted: 09 Apr 09 | Dr Andrew Pesce, Westmead Hospital's clinical director of women's health, says he knows of four home births in the past eight months in western Sydney in which the baby has died, along with a further four home births in which the baby has suffered possible brain damage from oxygen deprivation; preventable tragedies if prompt medical care had been available. |

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Weeds for the poor, bribes for the Dear Leader

Posted: 07 Apr 09 | North Korea would be a lot better off if it could export legal products as good as its counterfeit Viagra. |

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Has Rudd's inner bogan been outed?

Posted: 03 Apr 09 | Has Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's inner bogan been outed by reports of his in-flight tantrum at being served a non-vegetarian meal? |

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If men want more sex, they could try improving their appearance

Posted: 03 Apr 09 | Why do women shy away from sex with their men? Maybe it's because the blokes cocooned in married bliss, have lost their sex appeal. |

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Wifely duties spark firestorm after therapist's book

Posted: 02 Apr 09 | The sex therapist Bettina Arndt's latest book The Sex Diaries has been selling like hottie-cakes. |

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What do you think? Do we need more severe laws against biker gangs?

Posted: 24 Mar 09 | Bikers are just about the closest Sydney has to a mafia these days. The reasons are simple: they're loyal, secretive, prepared to be very violent, and have no respect for the law. |

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The ins and outs of navel gazing Hanson-style

Posted: 17 Mar 09 | Why Hanson 'scoop' may go belly up: Raunchy photos from the past have the media pack in a lather, writes Rick Feneley. |

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Tune in to Truman Show

Posted: 13 Mar 09 | IT'S official. Peter Costello's life has become The Truman Show. Because Costello isn't actually doing anything, Turnbull can't call him out. But neither can he persuade viewers to tune out of The Truman Show, the top-rating fixture on MPTV. |

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Stimulus money goes to foreigners

Posted: 12 Mar 09 | BARBARA TOKLEY was grateful, if a little embarrassed, to receive $1400 from the Rudd Government as part of its stimulus package to bolster the Australian economy. The trouble is, she is not an Australian citizen, she has not lived here since 1969, and she has spent every cent stimulating the New Zealand economy. |

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A shot across the bows in unending battle of the sexes

Posted: 04 Mar 09 | IT'S International Women's Day this week and I'm wearing camouflage after my seven-year-old son handed me a tampon and said, "Here's one of your vagina bullets". |

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Australians were told this would happen to them

Posted: 04 Mar 09 | AUSTRALIA was told this would happen, thank God they listened. Before Cricket Australia announced they would abandon their tour of Pakistan last year, they received frightening information that Ricky Ponting and his teammates would be specifically targeted by terrorists. |

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The rules have changed and safety cannot be guaranteed

Posted: 04 Mar 09 | SAD to say it, tragic even, but the rules have changed. There was no Geneva convention-style pact to cover sportsfolk on tour in dangerous places anyway, but since the 1972 Munich Olympics there has been a kind of tacit understanding that terrorists would not target them, for fear of an even more severe backlash. |

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Weasel words and dust - between rock and about-face

Posted: 25 Feb 09 | Can Midnight Oil field 20 whole minutes of material that wouldn't get Mr Garrett sacked if he were to read it out in Parliament rather than shrieking it while twitching violently to guitar music? |

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Trillions of reasons why priorities beat rights

Posted: 24 Feb 09 | Barack Obama said last month that Americans should get used to "trillion-dollar deficits for years to come". |

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People died doing exactly what they were told to do

Posted: 11 Feb 09 | For all our preparation, it was pure luck that my family survived. |

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Condolence Book

Posted: 09 Feb 09 | Share your thoughts with the victims of the Victorian fire tragedy. |

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Forgive our leaders - they're having a lovely, lovely crisis

Posted: 06 Feb 09 | WHEW - they signed it. Obviously, there was always a bit of anxiety about whether all those premiers would ever agree to that $42 billion worth of free stuff. But they did - and did you ever see a happier little bunch of vegemites? |

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Economic stimulus

Posted: 05 Feb 09 | The ailing economy has been supercharged against recession with the Government unveiling a massive $42 billion stimulus package and the Reserve Bank slashing interest rates by another 1 percentage point. |

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Being poor is not what it used to be

Posted: 27 Jan 09 | How poor is poor? Does the inability to pay your bills on time make you poor? Can you be classed as poor on a world scale if you can put food on the table? If you have a table? |

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Big brother filter plan insults parents

Posted: 27 Jan 09 | Underlying the Rudd Government's plan to screen the internet is an offensive message: that parents cannot be trusted to mind their children online. But there's also a strong opposing view. |

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