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You didn't read the article, did you. How ought universities to increase their endowments? Oh look - rich students paying full fees that they can afford, and charitably contributing to their educational institution, might actually reduce the cost for those poorer students who need...

http://www.adamsmith.org/images/uploads/bulletin/Education_Kealey_Briefing.pdf A reasonable and well-argued exposition of why government contributions to universities should in fact be abolished or massively reduced.

i thought that as a self-described leftist, you professed your solidarity with homosexuals and I am surprised to see that sort of invective coming from a supporter of gay rights such as yourself

captain frootloops is back cunts in suits guys, they're out to get us all also for future reference read the rest of the thread instead of spewing out the same bullshit that has already been discussed five times over

HECS is for students whose educations are subsidised by the government (a.k.a. Cth Supported Places). It allows the student to defer their own contributions (roughly 1/3-1/2 of total) until they make forty-something thousand dollars a year, at which time they are automatically deducted from the...

Wankers. This mass of unpaid debt exposes the downside of our supposedly 'world's best practice' HECS/HELP regime. In my mind a superior system would involve regular banks making student loans, with government removed altogether. These student loans would be made on the basis of whatever credit...

For the love of yahweh, please give everybody some sort of logical justification for your position that goes beyond a completely unfounded assertion that such a right is 'inalienable'. This 'right to privacy in government' nonsense has been attacked numerous times, yet you stubbornly insist on...

What are you talking about? Why are you referring to 'individuals' here? We are dealing with an institution here (government), not an individual. Nobody on this planet has ever said that governments or their agents have an 'inalienable' right to privacy in the discharge of their duties. Did...

I studied Arts/Law at Newcastle last year and have applied for a transfer to USyd this year. 2009 ATAR: 98.90 2010 GPA: 7 Best of luck everybody!

My god where the fuck did these rabid leftist schoolboys come from Which is obviously why union membership rates have been declining for decades... lol i am not in a union and therefore a slave. Have you ever heard of employer-employee negotiation etc etc? If you don't like the contract then...

I could hardly care less what Rudd calls Ban Ki-Moon. What I do care about are his actual thoughts on, say, the war in Afghanistan. As I said, you're trivialising the leaks in general.

lol what possible business of mine is it if government is making misrepresentations to its citizens? Why are you trivialising leaks that have, in some cases, been very illuminating? Faultless logic.

Government transparency requires the highest level of disclosure possible. This includes conversations that are had behind closed doors, government documents and everything else. If governments are to be 'upfront with their constituents', then those constituents are entitled to the reasonable...

government officials do not have a 'right to privacy'

Which it doesn't in this case. Political donations flow in all directions and leftist largesse is just as substantial as donations from more conservative types. No major party in Australia has any trouble finding money, so I fail to see where your 'handicap' stems from. Is that so...

http://www.firstnationspoliticalparty.org/about.html Check out the flag. I don't really see how forming a political party focused on Aboriginal advocacy is prima facie racist though - it's like saying that a gay-rights group is inherently anti-hetero. Of course, their policy proposals might be...

Liberty is equally (if not more) important as democracy in our society. I support a society that afford individuals and groups the liberty to pledge as much (or as little) money to a political cause as they feel like. You are right that a party which opposes the interests of the 'extremely...

People ought to be able to donate however much money to a political party that they think is appropriate. The same goes for 'big business' - their interests are, of themselves, no less legitimate than any other group's. If Bob Brown and the Greens were serious about retaining the moral...

First it was DJ's, Harvey Norman etc, now it is the smaller guys who are muscling in on the campaign to have GST imposed on internet purchases under $1000. http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/small-retailers-join-in-battle-over-import-taxes/story-e6frg6nf-1225984663069 Personally I...

lol yes, the mining industry does nothing for 'Australian society'. Moving back to university education however, there is absolutely no way it should be free. HECS/HELP deferability means that no-one of sufficient academic merit will ever miss out on a university education. Full fee places...