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US election descends into a circus with first Republican debate

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imageTen of the 17 Republican candidates for president shared a stage in the first official televised debate ahead of the 2016 election.Reuters/Brian Snyder

H L Mencken, one of America’s great satirists, once said democracy is “the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage”. And so it went as ten of the 17 Republican...

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No snow, no worries? China gears up for its first serious Olympics

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imageImpressively fake.How Hwee Young/EPA/AAP

The slogan of Beijing’s 2008 Olympic Games was “One World, One Dream”. It turned out many people in the world did not share Beijing’s dream. The torch relay became a public relations disaster for Beijing and the regime. It took a real disaster (a magnitude 7.9 earthquake in May 2008...

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Grattan on Friday: Entitlements issue turns into cluster bomb

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imageA freshly-weakened Tony Abbott faces some difficult issues and dangerous flashpoints in the upcoming parliamentary sitting fortnight. Ben Macmahon/AAP

Memo from Finance department to minister Mathias Cormann: “Urgently needed – staff reinforcements for the Great Expense Chase”. Just joking. But only a little.

The department’s...

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