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24 Nov 2011

Who's Rooting For Team Australia?

Ben Pobjie

Team Australia? No, it's not a bad TV series about young Christians solving crimes and learning about democracy - it's the way forward for multicultural Australia. And Ben Pobjie is head cheerleader

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10 Nov 2011

Love Me Tender

Ben Pobjie

Should the Australia Network be run by the left-wing crypto-Stalinist ABC or the right-wing goose-steppers of Sky News? Ben Pobjie weighs in with some advice that will settle this matter once and for all

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27 Oct 2011

How To Occupy With Dignity

Ben Pobjie

Australians are all for a good protest shindig but even so, the Occupy movement has had some public sympathy issues. Ben Pobjie is here with advice on how to win over hearts and minds

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13 Oct 2011

Blood Pledge Now Or Burn Up, Baby

Ben Pobjie

When is enough enough? When there's a carbon tax involved. The time for correct spelling and punctuation is over. Ben Pobjie has his say on the colourless gas that is changing our way of life

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29 Sep 2011

Does The Lucky Country Ban Pokies?

Ben Pobjie

Forget about the one-armed bandits and start worrying about the thieves who want to steal our national joys from us. Ben Pobjie files from the pokie lounge

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15 Sep 2011

How To Keep Asylum Seekers Keen

Ben Pobjie

Julia Gillard is treating asylum seekers mean and she sure is keeping them keen. Is this a brilliant strategy or a political duckdive, asks Ben Pobjie

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1 Sep 2011

When Did Prime Ministers Get So Precious?

Ben Pobjie

So the PM threatened to sue News Ltd just because she was defamed. That blow to Andrew Bolt's freedom of speech hit Ben Pobjie hard. He wrote this as he weighed up his principles

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18 Aug 2011

We Need Tough Love To Keep The Peace

Ben Pobjie

We Australians are wholesome hedonists who love to roll nude on piles of brown coal. The last thing we want is UK-style riots. Ben Pobjie on how we can keep this country calm

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4 Aug 2011

It's Time To Let Kids Be Adults

Ben Pobjie

Open your mind, look beyond the sparkles and you might learn something from child beauty pageants. Don't let the naysayers shut them down, pleads Ben Pobjie

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21 Jul 2011

I Get Paid To Write This Crap!

Ben Pobjie

Thanks a lot, Julia Gillard. Journalists across the land, including Ben Pobjie, are floundering in the wake of the PM's injunction not to write crap

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7 Jul 2011

Hippies Gone Hipster

Ben Pobjie

Hey Greens, why'd you have to ride your fixies into the limelight? Bob Brown, you were cool once. Ben Pobjie liked the Greens before anyone you knew voted for them

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23 Jun 2011

Labor Woes? Show Me The Labor Woes

Ben Pobjie

The great Australian Labor Party in strife? You’ll have a hard time convincing Ben Pobjie that's the case. He's read the polls and he can still see the light on the hill

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9 Jun 2011

Bob Katter's Politics Of Effectiveness

Ben Pobjie

Every now and then a man in a hat comes along and blows your paradigms out of the water. And sometimes he's collecting crocodile eggs as he does so. Ben Pobjie dips his lid to Bob Katter

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26 May 2011

Add Fishnets And Stir

Ben Pobjie

We all have soft, fleshy things hanging off us. So why is SlutWalk causing so many headaches? Slut of the people Ben Pobjie has got it all figured out...

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12 May 2011

You Might Get Snakes, You Might Get Ladders

Ben Pobjie

Confused by Labor's new policy on asylum seekers? Ben Pobjie explains the Government's board-game template for immigration policy. Watch out for hotels on Mayfair