The Sixty Zone

The hospital cure: more spin doctors

John — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 06:05:18 +0000

WHAT is wrong with our health-care system? Too few doctors and nurses? Not enough allied health-care professionals ? Not enough hospitals, hospital beds and operating theatres? Not enough equipment? Not enough money?

The people like Barnaby

John — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 05:19:32 +0000

Having been shown to be wrong on the public reaction to the election of Tony Abbott as leader and opposition to the ETS, the commentariat has decided that Barnaby Joyce as finance shadow is a barnacle on the Coalition.

Eating fruit

John — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 07:05:03 +0000

You may think eating fruit is as simple as hopping down to the fruit and vegie section of Coles, taking it home, cutting it up and popping it into your mouth. It's not as easy as that. It's important to know how and when to eat fruit.

This is a disgrace…

John — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 05:50:29 +0000

The discrimination police are so short of business that they’ll take up the complaint of the very hate-merchants they’re meant to police.

Political nonsense

John — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 07:02:06 +0000

I had never been remotely interested in politics until late in 2009 when Prime Minister Kevin Rudd attempted to pass his Emissions Trading Scheme through the Senate.

Relationship milestones

John — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 05:58:38 +0000

Before dreaming about "happily ever after" with your true love, there are some significant relationship milestones to manoeuvre through.

Climate scam shakeup

John — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 09:03:37 +0000

Ever since the Climategate scandal, the mainstream media have been very quiet on global warming. Climategate involves scientists who tried to hide the truth that the world was cooling, and was revealed in hacked emails from The East Anglia Research Centre in the UK.

The ethical bachelor

John — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 06:19:59 +0000

She calls around and he says, "I really need to concentrate on my surfing just now. You were overseas on business, what was I supposed to do?" Have single men no ethics these days? Enter the ethical bachelor.

In the public interest

John — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 06:05:27 +0000

Making a spectacle of yourself has become the norm with people sharing their private lives in public.

Opposites attract-personality counts

John — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 05:54:11 +0000

She loves champagne and opera, he loves a few beers and a barbeque at home. Chemistry is one thing between opposites, but what about long-term potential in a relationship?