Opinion

Jeff Corbett

Quitting obesity

Posted: 02 Jun 09 | Why should we pay, so the talkback went, for fat slobs to quit their gross eating habits? |

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Posted: 01 Jun 09 | A choko vine on the back fence or over the garden shed will put food on the family table most days of the year, and it will do so without spewing a single gram of pollution into the atmosphere. |

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Tips and tossers

Posted: 29 May 09 | Waiters will say that you tip for good service, but I say that their employer and customers expect nothing less than good service. |

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Restaurant complaints

Posted: 28 May 09 | I'm inclined now to pay ne'er to return but I suspect there's a better policy that is fairer to the diner and to the many restaurateurs who strive for a positive experience all round. |

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Coppers dressed as sorts

Posted: 27 May 09 | He was not charged with soliciting sexual services on the other occasions he'd done so - he was charged with soliciting sexual services on the occasion he was enticed to do so by the beauty of the copper's decoy. |

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Prostitutes and public health

Posted: 26 May 09 | As it is now the sex industry, both legal and illegal, is free to pose as great a risk to public health as it chooses. |

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Low life, high life

Posted: 25 May 09 | With a different hand of cards I could well be one of the low lifes I despise, slinking about looking for an opportunity to steal, a bit of drug-dealing action, a charity hand-out. |

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Culinary party tricks

Posted: 22 May 09 | Most people have a culinary party trick. How about sharing yours. |

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Obsessive hatred

Posted: 21 May 09 | We've all spent time with them, people who are so obsessed with what they see as an injustice that they can think of and talk of nothing else. |

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A long time married

Posted: 20 May 09 | A husband accepting his wife's influence is very likely to make for a happy marriage, and apart from the first two years of rooster-like machismo I have done as I'm told. |

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Art versus sport

Posted: 19 May 09 | The arty crowd argues that having a free art gallery makes a better person of us all, that it elevates the community. |

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Short changed

Posted: 18 May 09 | Tall people are always head and shoulders above short arses. They stand tall when lesser men are not even noticed. Ever heard of a man standing short? Or of a short, dark and handsome man? |

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Riches for refugees?

Posted: 15 May 09 | You must have seen them, the emails detailing the scandal of the Federal Government showering money on refugees while paying pensioners a pittance. |

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Killing Taliban

Posted: 14 May 09 | It's a tally when we talk, boastfully, of the number of dead Taliban, and a toll when we talk, as though a great wrong has been perpetrated, of the number of dead Australians. |

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Footballers' rights

Posted: 13 May 09 | As we and the NRL and the media discuss and debate the group sex involving celebrity and former great footballer Matthew Johns, does it occur to anyone that it is none of our business? |

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Toxic indifference

Posted: 12 May 09 | Australia has a permissive wait-and-see attitude to poisons, as opposed to Europe's requirement that the manufacturer prove the toxin is safe before it is sold. |

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Pandemic disappointment

Posted: 11 May 09 | We crave horror, as in asteroids, SARS, tsunamis, bird flu, Y2K, the ozone hole, terrorism, earthquake, pandemic, and even global economic collapse. So long as it doesn't enter our home, of course. |

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Treechange rethink

Posted: 30 Apr 09 | A Charles Sturt University sociologist midway through a four-year study of treechangers has found that 90 per cent of them are so disenchanted they want to move. |

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