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  1. Vaccination staff police escort killed (8 replies)
  2. People really don't see it, do they? (57 replies)
  3. Prominent Australian entertainer arrested re Savile investigation (150 replies)
  4. Penis Size actually matters (89 replies)
  5. Which NBN plan? (65 replies)
  6. Johnny Rotten incredibly rude to Carrie Bickmore (29 replies)
  7. Margaret Thatcher has died (194 replies)
  8. Attempted Abduction Centennial Park Monday 1st April (6 replies)
  9. Dear Joel, $250,000 pa is NOT Doing It Tough! (348 replies)
  10. Article about mother who wishes (67 replies)
  11. Advertising for a new wife :P (22 replies)
  12. What on earth has our legal system come to? (4 replies)
  13. George Bush - the artist (19 replies)
  14. Dad charged with child/sex crimes for 'allowing' his son to visit a prostitute. (11 replies)
  15. Early-onset puberty study (5 replies)
  16. Seizure of deposits (20 replies)
  17. Future of the Labor Party (19 replies)
  18. Removed thread (1 reply)
  19. Judge describes attacker as "gentle" (42 replies)
  20. Forced adoptions (20 replies)
  21. Obesity crisis (250 replies)
  22. NZ baby "mummy's gone shopping" spin off (143 replies)
  23. John Laws rape comments (could be upsetting) (99 replies)
  24. Tunisian woman, Amina (4 replies)
  25. Campbell was going to Quit politics. (6 replies)
  26. Mums facebook post goes viral (8 replies)
  27. US Paediatric Groups Support Gay Marriage (2 replies)
  28. Not another leadership spill (236 replies)
  29. Archibald Prize (8 replies)
  30. Proposed changes to media laws (26 replies)
  31. Gillard/Rudd/Crean? (134 replies)
  32. Holding Kids Back (184 replies)
  33. Art project photographing women hunting (6 replies)
  34. She didn't say NO (73 replies)
  35. Toxic Masculinity (2 replies)
  36. they have been found guilty (24 replies)
  37. Has anyone heard what the motive could be (11 replies)
  38. Saving downs (74 replies)
  39. Reya. Do you know her? (2 replies)
  40. Australia's Federation Guard falling (0 replies)
  41. Election 2013 (173 replies)
  42. A new Pope has been chosen (52 replies)
  43. humiliating and degrading filming (5 replies)
  44. Rape Culture (107 replies)
  45. Tassie takes steps to protect women (8 replies)
  46. National Alcohol Crisis (8 replies)
  47. Surrogacy and ethical issues (42 replies)
  48. Excessive Police Force (87 replies)
  49. Prisioners manning our Call Centres (37 replies)
  50. "think of the children" Pauline Hansons interview on gay marriage (40 replies)
  51. Coca Cola Amatil successfully sue NT govt over cash for containers (7 replies)
  52. Abbott, Gillard in row over 'foreigners' (130 replies)
  53. Ted Ballieu resigns (38 replies)
  54. Universal DNA Database (28 replies)
  55. Misogynist T-shirts created by 'computer error' (53 replies)
  56. 60 MINUTES...Scraping the news barrel (52 replies)
  57. UN monitoring single parent welfare (11 replies)
  58. Are SAHMs wasting their brains? (154 replies)
  59. Outer east melbournians. Keep your eyes peeled and protect yourself (52 replies)
  60. Mum gives birth alone in a major Sydney hospital (183 replies)
  61. HECS (62 replies)
  62. Someone explain to me... (10 replies)
  63. RIP Peter Harvey, you will be missed (6 replies)
  64. Keli Lane to apply for bail (6 replies)
  65. America's broken dreams - Four corners (59 replies)
  66. 10 'commandments' for atheists (33 replies)
  67. Chinese boss outsources daughter's homework to nine employees (3 replies)
  68. Cafe owner tells mother breastfeeding 'offensive' (129 replies)
  69. Overseas adoption topic removed for review (1 reply)
  70. Air New Zealand - sets a new bear on safety (2 replies)
  71. Sexualisation of children (21 replies)
  72. Tea Party defends right to ride manatees (13 replies)
  73. Olympian Oscar Pistorius (395 replies)
  74. The Cat People Nation (37 replies)
  75. My parents didnt love me enough (0 replies)
  76. Rape in the Military (6 replies)
  77. Everyone should watch (0 replies)
  78. Rapist taken care off the smart way! (5 replies)
  79. Teachers Forced To Wear The Hijab (222 replies)
  80. Woman gives birth to Two sets of twins-at once (21 replies)
  81. The Age article - children's services (0 replies)
  82. ACT to debate sex & gender (4 replies)
  83. Savita Halappanavar (0 replies)
  84. Amazing footage of meteorites hitting Russia (13 replies)
  85. Nine-year-old Mexican girl gives birth to healthy baby daughter (35 replies)
  86. Melbourne mum jailed for baby car death (42 replies)
  87. Saudi preacher gets fine and short jail term for raping and killing daughter (27 replies)
  88. Dangerous Sex offender to be released QLD (1 reply)
  89. Health Warnings on Coke (39 replies)
  90. Words fail me (24 replies)
  91. Feminism - Speaking Up (18 replies)
  92. Rise Up Australia Party! (14 replies)
  93. The Pope Is Retiring.... (80 replies)
  94. ABC presenter racially abused (31 replies)
  95. Queen abdicates.... Netherlands. (26 replies)
  96. Vic Parliamentary enquiry into builder (0 replies)
  97. 20 yr anniversary of a horrible event... (49 replies)
  98. Look Just look what they have done to Anne of Green Gables (29 replies)
  99. Death of community spirit.... (3 replies)
  100. How Dumb Can You Be ? Lock Up Pregnant Women.... (137 replies)
  101. Perfume for babies (7 replies)
  102. Chrissie Swan smoking while pregnant (317 replies)
  103. liberal government paid maternity leave scheme (71 replies)
  104. Legal action launched against teachers industrial action! (1 reply)
  105. We can do it! (3 replies)
  106. The new standard defense against child pornography? (21 replies)
  107. Man convicted of common assault (33 replies)
  108. Aussie phonics app - young devlopers (0 replies)
  109. Guide dog taken by nsw ambulance to vet (8 replies)
  110. Good news flood story? (1 reply)
  111. Hello Mary Lee, whatcha been up to? (15 replies)
  112. Mum loses children after years of inventing illnesses (55 replies)
  113. Craig Thomson arrested (23 replies)
  114. No! Really?! (4 replies)
  115. Notions of female modesty- a danger to women (8 replies)
  116. Australian of the Year 2013 Awards (11 replies)
  117. Brisbane conserve water (2 replies)
  118. Tragic outcome for nurse who took hoax call (387 replies)
  119. New Mexico (US) proposed legislation to criminalise post rape abortion (7 replies)
  120. School not informing parents that a convicted rapist is attending their child's school (75 replies)
  121. Mother forced to leave Bribie Island Aquatic Centre after breastfeeding her daughter (804 replies)
  122. Harvard professor seeks mother for cloned cave baby (15 replies)
  123. Child sex abuse link to celibacy (29 replies)
  124. Tsonga = idiot (21 replies)
  125. Seriously how did Katter's Party even get in (22 replies)
  126. Sportskids of the Year (8 replies)
  127. Melanie's Marvellous Measles (211 replies)
  128. We could all see this coming . . . (165 replies)
  129. Just putting this out there. (16 replies)
  130. Lance Armstrong & Oprah (89 replies)
  131. Jinidi Cheese - listeria cases (1 reply)
  132. Powerful and frightening photos, but SUCH bravery by this family (58 replies)
  133. Second income not a good earner (769 replies)
  134. Gastro: Norovirus on the increase (1 reply)
  135. Indian rape victim blamed for her attack (10 replies)
  136. fire situation in NSW (19 replies)
  137. Is anyone following the Steubenville, Ohio Rape case? (70 replies)
  138. Dennis Ferguson Found Dead... (114 replies)
  139. Deliberately drinking to harm unborn baby. (77 replies)
  140. Moved: Treatment of women (-- replies)
  141. Worst MIL? (15 replies)
  142. Thread removed for review (0 replies)
  143. WDYT should voting be compulsory? (55 replies)
  144. I don't know how they do it (42 replies)
  145. Victoria Loses its appeal (1 reply)
  146. A Disability Party? (12 replies)
  147. Another mass shooting in the US (213 replies)
  148. ABDUCTED CHILDREN: BRISBANE (11 replies)
  149. Gifted children Parliamentary Enquiry (99 replies)
  150. It took less than a week for the crazies to emerge! (34 replies)
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