Articles tagged ‘Politics’.
By Major General Smedley Butler, US Marine Corps Major Butler joined the Marine Corps when the Spanish American War broke out, earned the Brevette Med...
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By Mark Twain O Lord our Father, our young patriots, idols of our hearts, go forth to battle-be Thou near them! With them, in spirit, we also go forth...
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Great Grandma Sassy ‘Saskatchewan’ O’Higgins came to Australia from County Monaghan via Canada and Chicago. She migrated after falling i...
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Grisly photos of American soldiers posing with bodies of suspected Taliban insurgents resemble ’tourist pics’ and represent the changing ...
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The average age of Australian farmers is 57, and the ABC reports on an agricultural researcher who says young people would be more keen to work in rur...
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Is Fukushima’s Doomsday Machine About to Blow? By Mike Whitney April 19, 2012 “Information Clearing House” — Mounting troubles...
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By Christian Monahan, The Produce Garden You’re lying supine in the middle of the road, you have no idea how you even got there, you turn your head,...
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The Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (VCAT) has listed Council’s appeal against the decision of the Victorian Commission for Gambling and...
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A new study has shown that the level of charitable and community contributions provided by poker machine operators is ‘miniscule’ in comparison to...
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Many environmental behaviour change campaigns target small, easy actions, such as taking shorter showers, believing this will motivate other green beh...
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The Howard government made it harder for some nationalities to become citizens, and Labor has made it worse, writes Kerry Ryan, a researcher at the Sw...
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Complaints received by the Human Rights Commission indicate that there is a lot of misunderstanding around discrimination by employers and job-seekers...
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Enough Pokies in Castlemaine has launched an online campaign urging the Victorian government to cancel a lease it signed with a pokies developer. EPIC...
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Mount Alexander Community Wind is hosting six Community Forums across the shire in April and May. These are an opportunity to hear more about the pr...
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Hi everyone. It’s your friendly moderator here. The CI editorial collective decided to cut comments off on the pool/Western stories, especially ...
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In an Australian first, a new study by Monash University has investigated the amount and content of sports betting marketing during Australian sportin...
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Great Grandma Sassy ‘Saskatchewan’ O’Higgins came to Australia from County Monaghan via Canada and Chicago. She migrated after falling i...
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From a reader … I also choose to remove my donations from local groups who want to take gambling money. I have several relatives and friends wh...
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Several ironies in response to the above: (a) I read the comments whilst AT the Kyneton Aquatic Centre with my son because regrettably none of our pub...
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Dear CI, At the Easter Tuesday Meeting of the Mount Alexander Shire Council an historic opportunity was missed to heal the wounds and begin to rebuild...
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Last night Council voted unanimously against siting the new indoor pool on the Western Reserve. Below is Cr Machin’s reasoning for her vote: I a...
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The arrest of a black man has led to hundreds of youths rampaging through the streets of Brixton in south London. They hurled petrol bombs at police, ...
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GORI (AP).- A museum that has honored Josef Stalin in Georgia since 1937 is being remodelled to exhibit the atrocities that were committed during the ...
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The Northern Ireland peace talks have ended with an historic agreement. The accord – dubbed the Good Friday Agreement – was reached after ...
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By Ben Laycock Smoking pot is quite possibly the most popular illegal activity in the world, no doubt because governments throughout the world are alm...
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Over the past four years, claims have been made that large wind turbines cause a wide range of adverse health effects, including tinnitus, headaches a...
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By Andrew McKenna The independence of a Castlemaine community group formed to support the proposed ‘Castlemaine Sports and Community Club’...
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Despite all opposition (68% in Council’s own commissioned survey), despite acts of God, Council seems prepared to proceeded with the design work...
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The Trades Hall in Castlemaine was full to overflowing last week when a determined crowd of 120 voted overwhelmingly to support the establishment of t...
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By Brian Terrell, ICH April 05, 2012 – Were Jesus to preach today as he preached in Jerusalem two millennia ago, instead of a cross of wood the ...
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On Monday the VCAT Directions Hearing was held in Melbourne in relation to the Maryborough Highland Society’s proposal to establish a new gambling...
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By Andrew McKenna Jesus was a maverick who turned his back on his church, wandered the desert with a bunch of free thinkers and spat in the soup of th...
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The average personal income in China has risen by five per cent a year since the mid 1990s. Yet according to Professor John Knight and Dr Sai Ding in ...
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Dear CI, One of the other candidates in the Calder Ward By-Election referred in his election material to secret plans for wind turbines in Sutton Gran...
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