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Yeah, a bit of kind-hearted racial profiling is ok, in moderation. For example, after seeing Flightplan my friends and I now joke about laying blame, for whatever reason, on the closest Arab.

Bit of a Romanticist eh? I know I am. Whenever I find myself in the Art Gallery of NSW I always make my way over to that massive painting of the Napoleonic cavalry charge and just stand in awe. I really like the 'war' and 'peace' statues out the front as well.

I know! It's so frustrating. You get it alot out here in the west. I love correcting people trapped in that mindset with "you mean my ethnic background?", and they look back, dumbfounded, and reply with "yeah, like, where ya parents from and shit" and from that point on, you are viewed through...

I find it annoying when Australians of any given ethnic background, proclaim themselves to actually be a national of the region from which that given ethinicity originates, wherever it is in the world. It stems from stupidity, they think that because they are not white they are somehow not...

-I would like to see Howard stay on. He's beginning to get a Hindenburg feel about him- you know, the old, unmoveable statesman enjoying the undying support of the people. It would be dissapointing for him to end his era by just walking away, even if in glory. It would be more theatric for him...

My mother is a public servent (state government; DOCS). She supports the ACTU and the rallies, but she did not attend as her workload is too intense for her to be taking leave for two hours. I think you would find that out of the workers who did not attend the rallies, those who were sympathetic...

Perhaps it's less about stimulating the economy than it is about a liberalistic ideological frolic. There are probably other means of further enhancing the economy, just now that with almost ten years in power the Libs want something they can slap each other on the back and congratulate...

No politician of any standing reads Green Left Weekly. GLW, like the ALP, is opposed to WorkChoices and you can expect statements from both organisations to be similar (only I imagine GLW makes use words like 'solidarity' and 'comrades' whereas the dictum of the ALP isn't imported from Soviet...

I said the CCP, not the ideology. It was in bold. Because I like the purple mark on his head.

Every Member should be permitted an oppurtunity to voice their rhetoric. The concerns of the electorates whose representatives were denied such an oppurtunity will not be heard, which is non-democratic. Anybody know if Joyce decides to cross the floor when the Bill is taken to the Senate in...

I don't know what people complain about in regard to an apparent lack of Labor policy. If passed, Kim has promised to "rip up" the workplace reforms proposed by the Government. Doesn't cut any more clear-fucking-cut than that.

What exactly, are you saying happened back in the 30s and twice in the 90s? Workplace reform or the conversion of a democracy into a one-party state?

I almost lost my virginity to a Finn.

The prosperity of small business is threatened by workplace reform. If legions of workers end up earning less they will no longer enjoy the spending power they do now and will be forced to forgo current leisures. Restaurants and cafes would experience diminished patronage and in order to recoup...

15. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP): China, 1924. Responsible for the deaths and murder of millions of Chinese, including its own members. Oversaw largescale famine and economic ruin under the tenure of its much vaunted hero, Mao Zedong. Systematically incarcerates opposition, political and...

Remember, green coloured crescent moon fridge magnents only count as one idea.

It's called internal party democracy. You criticise it because you inherently hate democracy. People of the same political background fight against each other in order to perfect their political background. Advocating otherwise infers absolute adherence to the party line, which means democracy...

That question just cried out for reference to the Brezhnev Doctrine. Come on, a policy which gives the USSR the right to invade another country in order to 'safeguard socialism'? Of course it's going to be a major contributing factor to the development of a crisis!

France has the Foreign Legion at its disposal. Having an ethnically diverse military put down the riots would look better than a Gallic army putting them down. Imagine the propaganda value, seeing the Legion marching down a Paris cobblestone street towards an enemy barricade, the Marseillaise in...

Imagine if we currently had a Presidential system in place, and Presidential elections took place right about now. The Labor candidate would win, possibly a big win- which would be weird considering the results of the 2004 parliamentary elections.