Opinion

Jeff Corbett

World Cup diving

Posted: 08 Jun 10 | About 1500 lairs and dandies are expected to gather before a big screen in Newcastle's Wheeler Place to watch the diving that will be Australia's first 2010 World Cup match. |

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Should paintball have a minimum age to play?

Posted: 07 Jun 10 | The loonies are warning that dropping the minimum paintball age would be promoting a dangerous gun culture to children, that we'd be corrupting a generation to satisfy the greed of business. |

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Lifetime disqualification

Posted: 04 Jun 10 | There is no light at the end of the tunnel for Valentine, no prospect of a clean slate, and I suspect that it is the hopelessness of his situation that stands in the way of his rehabilitation. |

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Face mapping

Posted: 03 Jun 10 | A high-definition camera linked to a face-mapping computer could scan the crowd at a football game pointing police to people with outstanding warrants. |

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Exercising restraint

Posted: 31 May 10 | When a friend who's spending a month at a health retreat to lose weight asked me at the weekend for my tips on an exercise regime she could stick with, I made a valiant effort to quell the evangelist. |

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Ginger and cancer

Posted: 28 May 10 | A happy story of a 12-year-old Dalmation called Annabelle, her thyroid cancer and treatment using ginger extracts. |

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Weather or not

Posted: 27 May 10 | It's only one claim to credibility, but for us in the Hunter The Moon Man's prediction a year earlier of the 2007 Pasha Bulker storm is one helluva claim. |

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Astrology explained

Posted: 26 May 10 | Psychological astrology goes out to Pluto and is concerned with shape shift, spiritual astrology is concerned with the growth of the soul and evolutionary astrology is about karmic experiences, challenges and gifts. |

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Cancer-fighting stuff

Posted: 25 May 10 | The only knowledge I have of cancer-fighting stuff, I told my friend, is that it is all crap! And that goes for prayers to a certain saint in waiting. |

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Homosexuality or sexuality?

Posted: 21 May 10 | It wasn't just sex, it was homosexual sex, and despite all the assurances of equality for homosexuals the sex is seen by many heterosexuals as at best sordid. |

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Seal Rocks gutful

Posted: 20 May 10 | Not only should the council improve Seal Rocks Holiday Park, it should ensure that all holiday-rental houses at Seal Rocks meet fire safety and other requirements for such commercial premises. We're in the 21st century now, all of us. |

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Three lies a day

Posted: 19 May 10 | My first lie of the day was to my eldest daughter as I started work when she phoned to ask if I'd remembered what day it was, and of course I insisted that I had while I searched through my mind for possible significances of the day. |

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Gap years for all

Posted: 18 May 10 | It was a great step all those years ago to introduce long service leave as a break for long-serving employees, and it's time now for another great step. |

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Customer disservice

Posted: 17 May 10 | Topping the list of my favourite customer disservices is the greeting of "Yes?", and since I seem always to be at the hands of a monopoly when I encounter this I've yet to respond "No!". |

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A busy vicar

Posted: 14 May 10 | The vicar of Terrigal has been defrocked by the Bishop of Newcastle for purportedly enjoying multiple sexual liaisons even though, the church acknowledges, none of the allegations - I prefer tributes - were of a criminal nature. That's a nice change. |

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