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		<title>Morons and Philistines</title>
		<description><![CDATA[OMG! If this run of comments on this topic is anything to go by, this town is majority populated by philistines who are arrogant in their ignorance and have no idea of context. For as historical a piece as this to be completely open to the street and elements is the exact opposite of elitism [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://themodernthinker.allmedia.com.au/2010/04/morons-and-philistines/</link>
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		<title>A Message to My Fellow Australians</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There's been a lot of indignation at the international response to the Jackson Jive act on Red Faces on the second reunion show of Hey Hey It's Saturday. So many Australians have been outraged that we should be told that an act on national TV in classic "black-face" make-up is somehow racist. Many have tried [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://themodernthinker.allmedia.com.au/2009/10/a-message-to-my-fellow-australians/</link>
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		<title>Abbott: He&#8217;s the Latham of the Right</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tony Abbot is such a smarmy little cocksucker but this morning's doorstop seemed just a little too rehearsed and premeditated. That's the one where he complained that Julia Gillard was cruising through question time with "a shit-eating grin." He actually pre-excused himself for using the phrase and then went on with it.
And it's not even [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://themodernthinker.allmedia.com.au/2009/09/abbott-hes-the-latham-of-the-right/</link>
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		<title>And we&#8217;re back</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It's been a long time since I've brought some knowledge to you and a lot has happened in that time.
When I was last writing, I was quite depressed at the cynicism of the Howard government and the inability of so many people to be able to see through the obvious deceptions and still be talking [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://themodernthinker.allmedia.com.au/2009/09/the-thinker-returns/</link>
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		<title>Again? Hang about</title>
		<description><![CDATA[AN academic hired by the NRL to educate rugby league players about women has sin-binned the Liberal Party over comments by Workplace Relations Minister Joe Hockey.
Mr Hockey said yesterday that his Labor counterpart Julia Gillard was popular because she had a high-media profile - "I'm not as pretty as Julia Gillard, obviously," Mr Hockey told [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://themodernthinker.allmedia.com.au/2007/05/again-hang-about/</link>
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		<title>Hockey: You&#8217;re a fucking ASS!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Young workers ruling unnecessary: Hockey
 Federal Workplace Relations Minister Joe Hockey says today's ruling on junior workers by the New South Wales Industrial Relations Commission will confuse both business and workers. 
 The commission says it is apparent AWAs are designed to reduce wages and working conditions under WorkChoices to the detriment of children. 
 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://themodernthinker.allmedia.com.au/2007/05/hockey-youre-a-fucking-ass/</link>
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		<title>Bitter?&#8230; NAH</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nursing a grudge
THERE'S never any money for nurses, but there's always extra money for teachers. Considering their performance in the classroom is appalling, why are they always in line for more money?
Teachers are entitled to four weeks' annual leave, so why do they take another eight weeks' annual leave, as well as curriculum days?
They should [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://themodernthinker.allmedia.com.au/2007/05/bitter-nah/</link>
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		<title>When you&#8217;re done raping the earth&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Forest friendly
THE article by Tracee Hutchison "They don't get it" (Opinion, 12/5) and subsequent letters by Don Stokes and Karina Kanepe (14/5) display a disturbing ignorance about forests, wood and climate change.
Deforestation in Indonesia is disastrous because it permanently removes forest cover. But this is vastly different from Australian (and Tasmanian) forestry practices under which [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://themodernthinker.allmedia.com.au/2007/05/when-youre-done-raping-the-earth/</link>
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		<title>The further degradation of Our ABC</title>
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Taking the theatre out of ABC criticism
The ABC's new policies will give audiences a full range of views, writes Mark Scott. The Age, 18/10/06
IN MY early weeks as managing director, I have called on some of the ABC's harshest public critics. And almost to a man and woman, they have been at pains to point [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://themodernthinker.allmedia.com.au/2006/10/the-further-degradation-of-our-abc/</link>
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		<title>Uh&#8230; John&#8230;? Where are we heading?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After seeing a contemporary dance piece last week, based around the stories from people who lived through the war in Bosnia, I was part of a conversation with the director and someone who had come from the same area the story-tellers were from. One of the things that the piece was wanting to explore was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://themodernthinker.allmedia.com.au/2006/09/uh-john-where-are-we-heading/</link>
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