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In early 2014 the Abbott Government extended the Transfield Services* contract to cover both Nauru and Manus Island centres and this contract was reportedly worth $1.2 billion.In February 2014 an asylum seeker was murdered in the Manus detention centre.In May 2014 the Cornall report into the incident leading to his death and serious injury to other asylum seekers was handed to the government.By November

Getting children to bed can often be an exercise in frustration and a test of patience.

Guest blogger Matt Rae offers some suggestions.

A question for the ages. How do you get your toddler to go to sleep?

To be honest, if I had THE answer, I’d be a millionaire by now. As most, if not all parents out there will know, getting your little one to bed can be quite a task. They can be a manipulative bunch, and will try anything to stall, or avoid going to bed at any cost. At least ours does.

One of the national organisers of today’s ‘Reclaim Australia’ rallies has been caught out in a racist online rant against Aboriginal people. Max Chalmers reports.

The arguments over the economy tempt me to intervene. So much that is being proposed is dunderheaded, and I note, without surprise, the articulation of massive untruths.

One of these is that average Australians are more ‘prosperous’ than they were in, say, 1973.

Australian Council Of Social Services, 1 April 2015:Drop unfair plan to lower pension indexation, reform super and pension assets test insteadThe Australian Council of Social Service today issued a call to the Federal Parliament to reject the plan to lower the Indexation of pensions that would severely impact all pensioners, and instead focus on eligibility for the part-pension and reforming the unfair retirement incomes system, including superannuation tax concessions.The decision to reduce the Indexation of pens

My computer is working again. It was only the charger, it seems, that was at fault. I will do a review of the next season of House of Cards, and of the fine film Cyberbully, in the next twelve hours …

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In Melbourne’s Richmond Council in the 1950s and 60s, it was said the dead voted on a regular basis to help keep a Labor clique…

Every now and then we have some journalist telling us that the current generation is functionally illiterate because some young person mis-spelled “manoeuvre”, while ignoring the vast number of mistakes in the mainstream media. (One of my favourtes was when Channel 10 posted underneath a photo of Brad Haddin, alleging that he was Australia’s “wicked keeper”… Mm, perhaps they may be on to something!)

However, it’s people’s lack of a basic education in legal and economic principles that most concerns me.

For example, yesterday morning, I read this piece of nonsense in “The Age”:

Over the next few days I will be posting about a number of the most interesting seats in the NSW election, including a breakdown of the seat’s results by sub-area, and maps of booth results. The first seat today is Lismore.

Lismore has been the most captivating seat so far in the election, with a large swing to the Greens and Labor putting the Greens in with a chance of winning a Nationals seat that was held with a margin of well over 20%.

FV Dirk Dirk now known as the Geelong StarPhoto: www.maritimetraffic.comThe FV Dirk Dirk owned by Parlevliet & Van der Plas Beheer B.V.

Paul Dellit has written some excellent political articles for The AIMN, so it came as some surprise that he is better known for his screenplay writing. Thomas Keneally, in a recent review of one of Paul’s screenplays I wrote: “I liked your screenplay and plot very much” and went on to describe it as “a very interesting and well-wrought script”. This particular screenplay – a spy thriller set in 1992 involving a MI5 mission directed at uncovering the source of stolen Russian radioactive material – has been turned into a novella (with input from Mr Keneally) and prior to publishing in hard copy has been offered to The AIMN.

Clouds boiled. Not just blacks and greys, purple, crimson, all and every colour. Each cloud changed colour in the corner of her eye, so that when she looked again it was different. They hurtled across the sky swirling and were stationary. And yet, there was no wind. The land around her was flat; hills grew, towered, shrank and disappeared. There were rocks and there was flat sand. It was arid with dust twisting and shimmering […]

Stan Shamu for Chris Weston, Chief Market Strategist at IG Markets China key for Q2 It has been a choppy start to the quarter for global markets and I get a sense that this will be a dominant theme through the Q2. While equities mostly enjoyed a strong Q1, it’s clear that without the support

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