Editors' Picks
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Election 2013: this likability race is so vulgar you could vomit
Luke Ryan: Clive Palmer did get one thing right: in a modern election, there is no greater sin than being boring. Why should the Australian candidates bother with policy? -
An attack on Syria will only spread the war and killing
Seumas Milne: Instead of removing the chemical weapon threat, another western assault on the Arab world risks escalation and backlash
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How Australia weathered the global financial crisis while Europe failed
David Alexander: Kevin Rudd can't take the credit for avoiding the economic crisis – it is the pre-existing strength of the Australian government's finances which saved us from a catastrophe -
Jamie Oliver, you haven't tasted real poverty. Cut out the tutting
Alex Andreou: Living in poverty means a world of no, so you are grateful for ready meals or a large TV. Jamie's judgments take the biscuit -
Let's ban all loyalty programs
Xavier Toby: You heard me: make the whole lot of them illegal. No more member's price, special price, club price, or points to get you a discount price -
Gok Wan can call my bangers whatever he likes
Catherine Deveney: I'm on Team Gok and I'm going in swinging for him. Any British-Chinese gay man who gets up people's noses for calling breasts 'bangers' is my kind of guy
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