Opinion

Jeff Corbett

Pedophilia's future

Posted: 06 May 10 | Pedophilia may be in the early stages of the same move to public acceptance homosexuality enjoyed late last century. |

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Posted: 05 May 10 | Rock fishermen should be required to wear a lifejacket, carry a personal locating beacon, be attached to any available lifeline, and pay for their rescue if they have not met these requirements. |

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Sharing superstitions

Posted: 04 May 10 | Many studies have found that the superstitious are more likely to have a low capacity for critical thinking, poor logical reasoning and a low IQ, and despite that I'll tell you of one of my flirtations with luck. |

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What for a 21st?

Posted: 03 May 10 | I hadn't realised just how devalued our treasures of old had become until my mind turned the past few days to choosing a 21st gift for one of my daughters. |

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Belated deportations

Posted: 30 Apr 10 | Tongan brothers Motekiai and Sione Taufahema failed the deportation character test by being sentenced to jail for at least 12 months a long time before they were involved in the killing of Constable McEnally, so should they not have been deported then? |

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Phone number lists

Posted: 29 Apr 10 | Every time we filled out a form we were providing data that could be sold to and by list brokers. Many businesses, she said, sold contact data. |

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A slur on the church

Posted: 28 Apr 10 | "For Mr Corbett to accuse Church authorities of covering up this case is both incorrect and a slur on the integrity of those authorities." - Bishop of the Newcastle-Maitland Catholic diocese, Michael Malone, May 2001. |

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NRL in peril

Posted: 27 Apr 10 | If the penalty imposed on Melbourne Storm is any indication, NRL directors are confident that salary cap cheating is confined to the Storm. |

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An eBay ride

Posted: 23 Apr 10 | You've listed something on eBay and it sits there without a bid day after day, and we know what's going to happen. |

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Quitting addictions

Posted: 22 Apr 10 | We are more supportive of smoking and smokers, as in allowing pubs and clubs to have them on the premises, than we are of other junkies, heroin addicts among them, and I'm not sure that is fair. |

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Arguing the point

Posted: 21 Apr 10 | I see a difference between argument and discussion - the former is debate between people of different opinion and the latter is an exchange between people of similar opinion. |

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Celebrity or fame

Posted: 20 Apr 10 | The distortions of television dramatisation have conferred celebrity on all who lived and died through Melbourne gangland's spray of bullets, and the script writers are waving their glamorising wand over Sydney's underworld now. |

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Anzac ugliness

Posted: 19 Apr 10 | We have two national binge festivals, Australia Day and Anzac Day, that so many young fellows see as their days of entitlement, and on both days they parade clutching stubbies and draped in the Australian flag and bravado to prove their patriotism and courage. The result is not pretty. |

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