ABC Home | Radio | TV | News | Local | Environment | More Subjects… | Shop

You Said It

12 March 2010, 20:35pm

Sometimes a painting is just a painting... and not a very good one at that.

I am a pretty committed voter for one party, but the pandering to religion from both sides is disturbing. Especially the press conferences in front of church. That's way out of line Rudd. You choose to be a politician, not a minister. Keep your religion separate from your politics, if you can't, go be a minister somewhere.

I think it's about time the media did more serious investigation into how much religion is influencing our politicians. I saw a report into Hillsong church, what about the rest?

I think it's a deep and grubby story that needs airing in the light of proper journalistic inquiry.

Michelle on Painting a picture of politics via story comment

12 March 2010, 8:47am

Education is one of the strongest correlates of population health. Putting money into hospitals doesn't improve population health - all it does is apply bandaids to largely preventable health problems.

Trevor on The education devolution via story comment

11 March 2010, 22:28pm

If Rudd has the numbers, then he can force his policy through. If he doesn't have the numbers, then he can change his policy to gain support.

Or he can go to the next election, and try to explain to the public why he didn't do either of the above.

Anon on All roads lead to the Senate via story comment

11 March 2010, 14:31pm

There is only one way to reduce carbon emmissions, or any other emission for that matter. Burn less fossil fuel by using less of its byproducts.

Phil Mayne on The simple mathematics of decarbonisation in Australia via story comment

11 March 2010, 9:41am

It's time for an audit of ABC activities and some rationalisation of ABC services. Do we actually need the government to provide programming for every niche market when these things are available on the internet for free?

MarcH Mark their words: the battle begins via story comment

10 March 2010, 18:31pm

Abbott can learn from his colleagues! Which ones, if I may ask? He's supposed to be their best, Malcolm is a backbencher now, who is there to ask...

Helvi on Abbott still has lots to learn via story comment

10 March 2010, 9:56am

Rudd Labor's claim that Howard's Coalition decreased spending on health is a fairy tale. It seems to me that to get more bang for our bucks requires an audit of health areas of spending, and one in particular would be the number of administration personnel and what they do or don't contribute in return for their cost to taxpayers.

DT Healthcare: bang for buck via story comment

9 March 2010, 21:31pm

Interesting observation Niki. For a self-professed straight talker he sometimes comes across as a sermonising windbag.

Observer on C'mon Tony, spit it out via story comment

9 March 2010, 20:20pm

I haven't seen Hurt Locker but there seems to be a large contrast between a film that could beat Avatar (I have seen that and was blown away by the whole spectrum of accomplishment in that movie) and one that was going straight to DVD.

Still, I reckon Cameron might check out his bank balance if he wants to cheer himself up.

Good deconstruction of the motivations of the Academy ... it will be interesting to see what is said about Hurt Locker vs Avatar in 10 years.

lono on Oscars and new tinder via story comment

9 March 2010, 11:15am

Until you start enabling teenagers to be charged with assault and punished in similar ways to adults, nothing will change. If the bullies get expelled from one school they will go to another and start there.

Politically Incorrect on Fatherly Rudd strikes a chord on bullying via story comment

9 March 2010, 8:24am

Nobody has more interest in your welfare than you do. Or that's how it should be.

ateday on Demolishing the entire superannuation system via story comment

8 March 2010, 21:34pm

I must live in a different world to Emma and those doing the studies she is quoting. I have always done housework cooking and shopping and usually the washing up. My wife does the laundry. I don't know too many men that don't do at least some of the housework. If they don't they aren't working as a team.

the yank on Having it all but missing out on so much via story comment

8 March 2010, 13:34pm

Remember affirmative action. It failed, was unfair and in hindsight was very quietly swept under the carpet. Here we go again. The left wanting politicians to intervene because they think things are not fair. Well in fact they are not for many reasons and its not a gender issue.

Sean on Equal pay for equal work via story comment

8 March 2010, 9:08am

I still remember as a 17-year-old hearing a band called Skyhooks singing songs about the places in Melbourne where I lived, and was amazed that you could actually sing about your own place, rather than "going down to Memphis " or "California dreamin".

I love world music and enjoy listening to what people have to say from around the world, but I also want our own musicians to tell us (and the rest of the world) about the uniqueness of our own place.

I fear that 'imusic' generation sees music as a mere commodity and as background to their lives, rather than helping us to understand who we are and where we live.

oped on Perry Keyes: the real deal via story comment

5 March 2010, 13:45pm

The problem with climate science is not wether it's factual or not it's what can be sold.

Steve Frankes on Overselling climate doom via story comment

4 March 2010, 22:15pm

Well change was promised and we've been whingeing about keeping those promises, well now it's time to embrace changes. Are we so staid and afraid that we can't let go of the old, and accept new up to date methods?

MH on Rudd ready for combat over health reforms via story comment

4 March 2010, 22:32pm

Balance is all well and fine, but some things are just flat-out wrong and are not worth giving balanced airtime to. It does a grave disservice to society to report 50/50 on an issue when the weight of opinion and credibility is nowhere near that at all.

Dane on Climate change reporting: balanced or biased? via story comment

3 March 2010, 19:58pm

Its just one sex or nudity scandal after another. I am beginning to think that tabloid journos and magazine editors are a bunch of sexually repressed voyeurs. People have showers. In the nude. All the time. This is not news, people! 800 people dead from an earthquake in Chile - that's news - but you have to search for it. As Johnathan says - lets get some perspective.

Jenny on Stop press: a photo scandal has emerged via story comment

12 March 2010, 20:14pm

Hmmm, it seems as though the real issue is where the funds taken from education have gone... Health has remained static as a proportion of the total budget but education has dropped significantly, so where did all that funding go?

Hubert on The education devolution via story comment

12 March 2010, 11:38am

In ten years i can return to my bookcase and reread favourite books. Think about the technology you were using ten years ago and whether you could still use it today?

mik on Well-readhead: e-reader vs the good old book via story comment

11 March 2010, 18:38pm

To the best of my knowledge very few charge for news content at this point in time.

If commercial online sites are going to charge for the content, isn't that going to push more of their audience in the direction of ABC Online's way? Is that laughter I detect?

But the charging for commercial online content is simply the industry maturing, no?

maturation on Mark their words: the battle begins via story comment

11 March 2010, 12:08pm

Until our political leaders act like Australia is an independant, grown up nation of people who are autonomous and proud we will not be taken seriuosly by any country in our neighbourhood. Why would Indonesia want a closer relationship with such a weakly run country?

married with 2 on A failure of leadership in foreign affairs via story comment

10 March 2010, 20:51pm

Very well said. Hypocrites the lot of them. Well done Clarkey. There's more to life than cricket and we forget there is a poor girl who is being traumatised beyond belief and her wellbeing is all that matters.

Mark on Family matters cause cricket bingle via story comment

10 March 2010, 13:00pm

I cannot see Tony Abbott's maternity plan working when a woman gets $70/hr for staying at home and nursing her baby and another woman gets $10/hr. She might be worth $70/hr at work however at home she is worth no more than the waitress.

Glen Sheather on Labour pains dog Abbott's maternity plan via story comment

10 March 2010, 8:45am

I agree, nothing could beat 9/11, a documentary made by two French film makers who captured the whole incident. Film criticism aside, I eagerly await the Afghanistan version of 9/11, to be followed by every day of the year in which bombs are dropped on defenceless poor people and children traumatised.

roland deschain: Get ready for more war movies via story comment

9 March 2010, 19:46pm

I don't know, I'd rather someone who admits to feeling threatened than someone who feels threatened and plasters over it with PC mumbo jumbo or goes all macho. I'm not sure what the big deal is, I'm not a fan of Abbott but on this issue I think there's far worse around.

luisa on An open letter to Tony Abbott via story comment

9 March 2010, 12:49pm

Like Menzies before him and Howard after him [Fraser] provided stable and prudent government for the betterment of the nation.

margaret on The prime ministerial life and times of Malcolm Fraser via story comment

8 March 2010, 21:35pm

Asking a climate scientist if climate change is likely to be a problem is a bit like asking a barber if you need a haircut.

Lets face it, climate change was never about science, its a nasty little political movement with wealth redistribution and societal reorganisation as its goals.

Mercifully the general public is beginning to wake up to this colossal deception, it really warms to heart to see a grassroots opposition to the lies and propaganda emerge. The truth will prevail.

Allan on Climate change science: the evidence is clear via story comment

8 March 2010, 13:54pm

Martin Amis writes fiction which enough people enjoy to make him wealthy and successful. End of story, he can do what he wishes in his personal life, its not really any one else's business

realist on All hail the brooding but brilliant author via story comment

5 March 2010, 20:37pm

In the litigious [world] we live in it's refreshing to hear a public person say sorry. The fact that he can and has said sorry shows the depth in character. It's something completely lacking in the previous administration and they had so so much more to apologise for.

Algernon on Apologetic PM: absurd or genius? via story comment

5 March 2010, 20:04pm

"In fact, there was so much nudity, oddly, it was a bit of a turn-off. All those flabby boobs and bellies, and hairy white bums. Eewww. Funny. But not sexy at all."

I hope you are being the devil's advocate here Bronwen, because otherwise I think you would be being narrow minded and prudish.

I believe the uncensored human body, warts and all, should be on display more often, maybe then people would have less hang ups about their less than perfect silhouettes. That was the beauty of the Tunick shot and my only grudge was that I couldn't be in Sydney to participate.

BTW, Lara who?

Claire on Laid bare: A week of nakedness via story comment

5 March 2010, 8:54am

Senator Barnaby Joyce wasn't too far away from the truth when he raised the issue that sovereign risk was becoming a clear and present danger to the financial markets globally.

Monko Anime on Worth its weight in gold via story comment

4 March 2010, 22:16pm

We should not be surprised, there is a lot of smoke and mirrors happening in government circles. They have awoken to the fact that the public is sick of hearing promises, they want to see delivery, and so the Labor Party's best salesperson is here, there and everywhere. For me Julia is neither here nor there.

Jack on 'Minister for Everything' mobilised again via story comment

4 March 2010, 12:28pm

This carbon trading scam is a derivative-traders dream - selling something that's almost impossible to measure to someone who won't use it! It's the equivalent of selling indulgences.

Speedy on The money trail via story comment

3 March 2010, 21:18pm

Before we condemn Abbott as being motivated purely by media image making, how many people remember when he spent one of his vacations doing voluntary work at an Aboriginal community? Perhaps we don't remember this because he did it out of compassion, and not for his media image?

PaulD on Action-figure Abbott went missing in the NT via story comment

3 March 2010, 14:12pm

I think most Australians don't understand why housing for Indigenous Australians is such a complicated issue.

Garbo on Another brick in the wall via story comment

Open for Comment

Read our terms and conditions.

Contribute
The 7:30 Report Foreign Correspondent Lateline Lateline Business Breakfast Insiders Inside Business 4 Corners Offsiders Landline Australia Network News Radio Australia News Australian Story Business Today AM PM The World Today Correspondents Report NewsRadio Behind the News

ABC | abc.net.au

This service may include material from Agence France-Presse (AFP), APTN, Reuters, AAP, CNN and the BBC World Service which is copyright and cannot be reproduced.

AEDT = Australian Eastern Daylight Time which is 11 hours ahead of UTC (Greenwich Mean Time)

© 2010 ABC Privacy Policy