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Help needed - preferably intern!
Our last intern had a job even before she graduated. She was good, but it must have been the experience gained at On Line Opinion that really tipped the scales in her favour!!!
So, here's how you can improve your job prospects. We need volunteers to help prepare our Federal Election 2004 project.
They will preferably live in Brisbane, but some work can be done by telecommuting. We are after a commitment of one day per week.

Please contact Hughie at hug...@onlineopinion.com.au

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Major Sponsors:

QUT: free public lecture.
"Bewitched by the Fear of Possession: Fifty Years after the Prohibition of Heroin" with Professor Desmond Manderson, Faculty of Law, McGill University, Montreal.

Tuesday 6th July 2004 12.00pm - 2.00pm

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Great Debate "That cancer treatment should have a higher priority than cancer prevention".

27 July 2004 at 5.30pm doors open for 6.00pm start.

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27-29 August 2004

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Call for August contributions:
"Energy Policy: how do the parties line up?"

John Howard has launched his policy, aimed at "securing Australia’s energy future", while Labor’s focus is on "protecting the environment". So how do these and the other parties’ policies compare? Are they talking past each other or is there common ground? Where do the significant differences lie?

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New Articles

A thankyou to coalition peoples from a citizen of Iraq.
http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=2321
Feature - Firas Georges - posted 5/7/2004

The people of Iraq deserve every assistance the West can give them.
http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=2340
Feature - Miles Craig - posted 5/7/2004

Proportional representation in Iraq is a recipe for instability.
http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=2342
Feature - Michael Rubin - posted 5/7/2004

The ACT Bill of rights is just the first step in the right direction.
http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=2341
Law & Liberties - George Williams - posted 5/7/2004

Oil in troubled waters - funding a Basic Income for East Timor.
http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=2332
International - Daniel Raventós, David Casassas and Julie Wark - posted 2/7/2004

A fourth commercial free-to-air TV network? Should be a no-brainer.
http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=2338
Media - Terry Flew - posted 2/7/2004

A republic would enhance the value of the Australian national identity.
http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=2337
Domestic Politics - David Morris - posted 2/7/2004

Reality Bites for a wannabe game show millionaire.
http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=2339
Humour & Satire - Rose Cooper - posted 2/7/2004

Boys, books and stories - how boys relate to reading.
http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=2336
Feature - Scot Gardner - posted 1/7/2004

How can Tariq Ali justify an apologia for terrorists?
http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=2333
International - Jim Nolan - posted 1/7/2004

Ayad Allawi's government does not have sovereignty in Iraq.
http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=2331
International - Tariq Ali - posted 1/7/2004

Refugee detention centres: breaking hearts and breaking the bank.
http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=2335
Domestic Politics - Louise Humpage - posted 1/7/2004

George W Bush should have noted FDR's approach to foreign policy.
http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=2334
Indigenous Affairs - Michael Fullilove - posted 1/7/2004

The next international "debt crisis" is in North America
http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=2328
International - Keith Suter - posted 30/6/2004

No-one chooses to be fat - obesity is an issue of fairness.
http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=2327
Health - Stephanie Short - posted 30/6/2004

G W Bush conservatives for gay marriage.
http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=2329
Law & Liberties - Iain Clacher - posted 30/6/2004

The potential and limitations of university-business collaborations.
http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=2325
Economics - Peter Jonson - posted 29/6/2004

An idea to change university Humanities and Social Sciences.
http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=2322
Education - Elspeth Probyn - posted 29/6/2004

Will George W Bush be remembered as another Reagan?
http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=2324
International - Stephen Barton - posted 29/6/2004

Military Intelligence.
http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=2326
Humour & Satire - Mark Cornwall - posted 29/6/2004

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Ambit Gambit - our blog

July 03, 2004
Get Ye Home and Up the Duff: The Howard Government and Women

- posted by Darlene Taylor

It has often been claimed that those who preceded John Howard and Associates in power were banished because they were distant from most Australians. Although the alleged aloofness of Paul Keating’s Labor is sometimes argued to have been chiefly economic,...
http://nationalforum.com.au/the_domain/archives/ambit_gambit/000331.html

July 02, 2004
www.johnhowardlies.com

- follow-up
- posted by Graham

Maybe they like the attention, or perhaps they are plain obstinate, or maybe even just being boof-headed, but the "team" behind www.johnhowardlies.com have struck back at my post with this letter to Crikey!. It’s not surprising, given his Liberal Party...
http://nationalforum.com.au/the_domain/archives/ambit_gambit/000330.html

June 30, 2004
On Empire

- something to read and ponder over
- posted by Gary MacLennan

Graham and I are having something of a dispute over the word Empire. I have pointed out that I am not alone in using the term to describe current American policy. Scholars of all political hues have employed the expression....
http://nationalforum.com.au/the_domain/archives/ambit_gambit/000329.html

Replying to Graham on Iraq

- long
- posted by Gary MacLennan

Gary, You say "However I will not from behind my lap top lecture those who seek to resist violence with violence," but that is in fact what you are doing. The US, British and Australians resist violence with violence and...
http://nationalforum.com.au/the_domain/archives/ambit_gambit/000328.html

John Howard should sue - for all of us! - posted by Graham Should John Howard sue for defamation? I would, that’s if I were John Howard and had seen the site www.johnhowardlies.com.

Alternatively, I might go to this site www.afternic.com/rcom.php?ref_id=2987 where I can make an anonymous offer to buy the URL. On...
http://nationalforum.com.au/the_domain/archives/ambit_gambit/0003207.htm...

The non-Labor amalgamation cause suffers a setback.

- posted by Jeff Wall

WHEN I was at school we were taught almost as much about Canada - and other Commonwealth countries - as we were about Australia. Times have changed, and I venture to suggest that most politicians here could not name the...
http://nationalforum.com.au/the_domain/archives/ambit_gambit/000326.html

June 29, 2004
Iraq - the end of the beginning.

- posted by Graham

Some of the critical commentary on the war in Iraq seems to show the same lack of concern for human life that the accusers level at "warmongers" such as George Bush, Tony Blair and John Howard. The AFR’s Geoffrey Barker... More
http://nationalforum.com.au/the_domain/archives/ambit_gambit/000325.html

Regards,
Graham Young
Chief Editor

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Editorial Advisory Board: Brian Johns, Leonie Kramer, Michael Kelly, Peter Donoughue, Ray Evans, Michael Williams, Kathy Sullivan, Tom Worthington, Julian Cribb, Helen O'Neil, Lucy Turnbull.

Acknowledgement of Collaborative Editors

The following people and groups have collaborated in producing this edition of On Line Opinion, please visit their websites to find out more about their organisations:

Carly Hammond and James Ensor,
Oxfam Community Aid Abroad
http://www.caa.org.au/

Terry Flew,
QUT
http://www.creativeindustries.qut.edu.au/