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Richard Ackland

Plenty of activity, if not activism, coming from High Court justices

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Will we start to hear the present High Court being denounced as ''activist''? After Wednesday's drowning of the ''Malaysian solution'', you'd think a fresh burst of ''j'accuse'' from the darker recesses of the commentariat or blogosphere can't be too far off.

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Peter Hartcher

Nowhere to run from this burning building

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As Julia Gillard's troops choked back rising panic yesterday, one of her lieutenants compared the government to a "house on fire". Indeed, there are fires in many rooms. The smouldering problem of the asylum seeker policy has now burst into a full conflagration.

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David Marr

The bottom line: it's Australia's responsibility

David Marr

We can't get rid of them. That's the message the High Court has sent Canberra. It doesn't matter where we send the boat people who reach Australia, we remain responsible for seeing they are protected and their refugee claims are properly assessed. The subtext is: we might as well do it at home.

Andrew Bray

New laws toss energy jobs to the wind

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It is a telling coincidence that Premier Ted Baillieu's new anti-wind farm laws have been sharing the headlines with Australia's manufacturing malaise.The Clean Energy Council estimates the laws will drive $3.6 billion of investment away from Victoria.

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The bloggers More blogs

Rocco Fazzari

Mayhem, Disaster and Revolution?

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7:26am In the parallet universe of Australian politics, two extremes battle it out on a daily basis.

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Daniel Flitton

The danger in getting defensive

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10:35am ''We must always be outgoing,'' Keating said. ''We must be alert, dextrous and positive...''

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Mark Dreyfus

From apples to oil, Liberals get lost in afternoon light

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The Liberal Party of Australia may need to change its name.

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John Birmingham

Argument over boats reveals the worst of us

Blunt Instrument

So, PM, how'd that dodgy refugee swap deal work out for you?

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Features

Uneasy Truth

Steve Jobs's Apple legacy may not be so sweet at the core

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Julian Lee: No sooner had Steve Jobs resigned than the process of his canonisation began. Genius, visionary, even revolutionary were some of the epithets used to describe the man who took Apple from the brink to the world's most valuable company.

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PM swipes at High Court

Prime Minister Julia Gillard has taken a swipe at the High Court chief justice over the decision to block the transfer of aylum seekers to Malaysia.

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Labor has failed in its soft and tough policies on emigres.

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The international forces should leave this beleaguered nation.

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GM crops can play a vital role in health and food security

After a raid by Greenpeace, the head of CSIRO responds to critics of plant gene research and genetically modified crops.

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Print is at the root of good news

An Australian inquiry into media bias would ignore the bigger crisis facing newspapers in the digital age.

Ros Marsden

Leave Bert and Ernie alone. They are not gay advocates

Puppets are for fun and should not be manipulated to suit political agendas.

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