Invasion of iraq


Woolcott: ‘Appeals to latent racism … a cancer’

Former UN ambassador Richard Woolcott will tonight launch an attack on the Howard government when his latest book is launched in Melbourne by former premier Steve Bracks, writes Barry Everingham.

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Oil and the war in Iraq … Gunns antediluvian forestry practices … Howard’s NT plan … we need an Australian Olbermann … the mortgage treadmill … so bikies invented motorcycles? …

Brendan Nelson: special subject, the bleeding obvious

That John Howard has steadfastly refused to link oil and the invasion of Iraq has only been influential in undermining his own credibility, writes Richard Farmer.

Google search du jour: oil, Nelson, and doofus

Brendan Nelson’s casual announcement that he is either a) a doofus or b) an official candidate for Liberal party leadership has had one great side-effect – it’s put godzone country onto the front pages and up the Google news listings, writes Guy Rundle.

Is Turkey about to go huntin ”bear”?

There are some places where the hallowed forms of research – sliding into a bar and asking people what they think – is not on, and Turkey is one of those places; at least as far as ‘the bears’ are concerned. The bears? Read Kurds.