Opinion

Jeff Corbett

Privacy in public life

Posted: 01 Sep 09 | John Della Bosca has paid a high personal and public price for his relationship with a woman half his age, and many among you will nod in approval. Why? |

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Marriage vices

Posted: 31 Aug 09 | The notion of romantic love is a myth created by novelists, filmmakers, soapie concocters and songwriters. |

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Baring indecency

Posted: 28 Aug 09 | They were the days, when after work on a Thursday or a Friday or on a Saturday afternoon we'd join the chanting frenzy of a strip show at the pub. |

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Posted: 27 Aug 09 | To us he may not have been even just a goldfish. The curiosity value expired some time after he arrived in a tank with three or four other goldfish five or six years ago, a gift from friends leaving the country. |

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Myths of fatherhood

Posted: 26 Aug 09 | No man who is induced by a woman's wiggling nubility to take her as his wife can ever be prepared for what is very likely to happen shortly thereafter! |

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The useless apostrophe

Posted: 25 Aug 09 | These stick-in-the-muds clutch what they see as special knowledge, the rules of correct English, and somehow they continue to insist successfully that the measure of education is this knowledge of the rules of English. |

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Bearded pretenders

Posted: 24 Aug 09 | Beards don't just happen, and don't believe any man who tries to tell you that he has a beard simply because he tired of shaving. |

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chaff and oats

Posted: 21 Aug 09 | A selection of blog responses from our friend chaff and oats. |

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Community gardens

Posted: 20 Aug 09 | Community gardens attract people to a common endeavour and achievement, and bonuses are the mixing of generations, which is often missing in cities, and a sense of accomplishment for some who might not have experienced that for some time. |

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False alarms

Posted: 19 Aug 09 | NSW Fire Brigades has just doubled the false alarm charge to commercial buildings from $250 to $500, and I say that's still a bargain! But it's a bargain no-one wants. |

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Homosexual havens

Posted: 18 Aug 09 | A beat is as much a place for sex between men as it is a meeting place, and I can see no good reason why the community should not provide such facilities. |

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No myna problem

Posted: 17 Aug 09 | The problem is that a myna-hating friend became so excited on seeing the trapped myna that he immediately took it from the trap as a couple of dozen sqawking mynas watched and dislocated its neck. |

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Selective empathy

Posted: 13 Aug 09 | A kitten that has been the victim of cruelty in our region prompts a torrent of outrage and sympathy while the rape and murder of children in Africa provokes not even a trickle. |

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Beachy grossness

Posted: 12 Aug 09 | Rampant tuftiness is not the only shock in store at the beach. There's belly rolls wobbling between upper and lower elements of the bikini, navels that burrow out of sight, inner thighs that squelch audibly. |

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Interminable texting

Posted: 11 Aug 09 | Being self conscious and anxious when we're on display or in public is nothing new, and we have the glass of drink, the bottle of water and the handbag as props to counter that anxiety. But there must be something else to this constant texting. |

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Timely seasons

Posted: 10 Aug 09 | The problem is that our seasons are a fit for what happens in the northern hemisphere, not for what happens in Australia. |

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Short-changed leisure

Posted: 07 Aug 09 | It is not work that makes us happy. It is leisure, the time we have to do what we want to do. Work is about doing what other people want us to do. And as we strive to meet other people's expectations of material success we have to devote more of our lives to doing what other people want us to do. |

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