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Blogs1959 — russia... 2014 — australia...As Russian students were getting a wage for being studious back then in 1959, In Australia, the Abbott regime wants to burden students with more fees on their already hefty loans, to study at university. -----------------------------
University students should pay an extra fee on top of government loans to fund more enrolments, a review has recommended.
playing with retirees' mind at a numbers guessing game...The MMMM is full of speculation about the age of pension which if I had it my way should be 60 or under (say 55) and give the young people a go at mucking things up.
the way it works — and the way it worked back then when gentlemen wore top hats...
through a looking glass darkly .....
step by step, inch by inch .....When Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas decided to defy the United States and Israel over stalled peace negotiations, he formally indicated to the United Nations last week that Palestine will join 15 international conventions relating mostly to the protection of human rights and treaties governing conflicts and prisoners of war.
flogging the farm, the kitchen sink and even the chopsticks to the chinese for a buck...
an old doddering fellow sees the light while a younger one turns it off...
unfurling the red carpet of "friendship" in a china shop, not to buy nor sell anything...The prime minister, Tony Abbott, says he wants to accelerate free trade talks with China, but he is in the country to “be a friend”, not to do a deal.
the aussie beef-cake and his travelling troupe...
Make no mistake, Japan is the big winner from the slight reduction in agricultural trade barriers announced with so much fanfare from the Prime Minister's captive travelling trade troupe. And that's a perfectly good and very desirable thing. There's also a strong chance that much of the immediate advantage Australia should enjoy won't last long. Other beef exporters will be hot on the heels of our most favoured nation status – stand by for American trade negotiators to target the Australian beef tariff level as they seek their own deal. They've never stopped working on a better deal for themselves.
great acts of chutzpah .....“Moreover, Russia has pointed to America’s decision to go into Iraq as an example of Western hypocrisy. … But even in Iraq, America sought to work within the international system. We did not claim or annex Iraq’s territory. We did not grab its resources for our own gain. Instead, we ended our war and left Iraq to its people and a fully sovereign Iraqi state that could make decisions about its own future.”
remembering gelibolu .....introducing George Venturini ….. “One of the most horrible features of war is that all the war-propaganda, all the screaming & lies & hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.” George Orwell
arthur at ICAC .....
according to clive, the cia is funding the australian environment movement campaign to keep the carbon tax...Palmer dismisses latest report from IPCC, calls for cut in nature's carbon emissions...
picasso: "I should have been president of the united states of america"...Critic: 'Frat-brother quality'
concern over the abbott regime’s rhetoric about the scheme...The Abbott government must do a better job to assure people about the future of the national disability insurance scheme, says a leading advocate, who argues the anxiety could encourage rushed purchases of once-in-10-year support items.
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