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John Howard doesn't need an authorised dirt unit when he has young Liberals running amok using aliases and masquerading as members of the Maroubra ALP.
A young blueblood last week duped Sauce by claiming he was a Laborite who was cranky with Bob Carr as he stirred up trouble over a photo that the Premier had in one of his recent Maroubra newsletters.
He also misrepresented himself as a reporter from this organ to Carr's media adviser, Michael Salmon, who picked him for a dirt trickster.
It turns out that Salmon's suspicions were right.
The chap was Steve Josephs, who ran unsuccessfully for president of the UNSW Students Guild last year on a [dry] Liberal ticket called Y.O.U. (Your Own University).
Young Bipartisan rascal

Eye on Politics & Law Lords: Play with science, and face unthinkable consequences
One of the leading themes of current philosophy is that the notion of objectivity is utterly illusory.
According to Wittgenstein, the purpose of philosophy is to show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle. For those reluctant to regard themselves as flies, still less ones trapped in bottles, Wittgenstein's aphorism gives all the excuse needed for lobbing philosophy into a mental box marked Not Needed on Voyage.
Having long regarded Wittgenstein an intellectual fraud, it has taken me a long time to recognise the potency of his definition. It began with a growing suspicion that those keen to boss us about are indeed like flies buzzing around in bottles, in the shape of academic departments or the Westminster Village. Only very recently has it occurred to me that philosophers might have something useful to say on the matter dealing with political risk.
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