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    Should fee-paying degrees be abolished for students with lower socio-economic status?

    Source. There are interesting parallels between the British and Australian tertiary systems. Like Britain, students are gravitated towards universities with prestige and thus perceived job enhancement prospects. These universities by their nature only wish to admit the brightest (excluding...
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    Form Your Own Budget

    Ok, so we always speculate about whether we should change the tax system, or spend less on defence and more on education etc etc. Well, here is our chance to hypothesise. Starting mine now.
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    The Official Horse Racing Thread

    Surely there are some punters in this forum? Let's share our hard luck stories, tip some winners, look forward to future races. Cannot wait until Saturday, great racing here in Sydney and the field in the Sangster is stunning in Morphetville.
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    Pope claims condoms aggravate AIDS

    Source: New York Times editorial. EDIT: Have changed article to something with more contextual analysis. The maxim 'I will defend your right to say something, no matter how much I disagree with it' springs to mind here.
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    23 y.o. claims compensation for injuries sustained in highschool

    Omg like I was totally going to be a marine biologist, win seven golden guitars and become the lead singer of an international band. But then my life was like, totally destroyed man because a window shattered and a few drops of blood had to be wiped from my face. Dumb bitch. This is why we...
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    Tired of Unions

    Is anyone else sick of hearing the Unions response to this non-event? Ok, so Bonds 'axed' 1850 workers. This is their prerogative. If labour is cheaper overseas, with no discernible reduction in quality of product, then a publicly listed company has an obligation to reduce expenditure and thus...
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    The iPhone is killing pub trivia

    Meh. It's not my fault Shazam is awesome.
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    Only Fools and Horses

    I cannot believe there is not a thread on this. Quite simply, I cannot split it and Fawlty Towers and the funniest comedies of all time. Blackadder and Are You Being Served? running close behind. Surely someone has watched OFAH? They have been on UKTV throughout the summer. Rodney you plonker!
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    Would you trade your HECS debt for a volunteer Youth Corps?

    http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,24972830-661,00.html I've been critical of Rudd in the past, but I think this idea has legs. The rate of reduction is still to be published but it looks a pretty fair trade-off to me.
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    Microsoft Songsmith

    Oh. My. God. Come back Jerry, all is forgiven! This may be the worst piece of advertising in history. Now, when i first watched it I assumed it was a fake. Microsoft could not release a) this software and b) this ad. But here is the proof. By now you are probably thinking it can not...
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    Failings of the IB

    Source: SMH And this is why the IB is flawed. I'm sorry, if you get 44/55 you are not smarter than 99.9% of the state. The whole degree just sounds pretentious to me. Discuss.
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