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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Kerry Murphy
- 23 June 2011
13 Comments
The participants on SBS's Go Back Where You Came From seem like rejects from a bad reality TV show and are stereotypical in their views. Some reflect on the difference between 'good' and 'bad' refugees: this false dichotomy is a sticking point for many refugee advocates too.
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EDUCATION
If the aim is to inform students about religions, this is best done within the curriculum by people trained to deliver such content in a way that engenders respect for all religions. Problems arise if the goal is to produce believers in a particular religion.
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MEDIA
Defence has the same problem as society in relation to young people's attitudes to sex, alcohol and social media. I wonder if we handle it better than most. The firestorm of ignorant criticism of the ADF and its 'culture' and leadership was mostly undeserved and could be counterproductive.
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AUSTRALIA
- Trish Madigan
- 15 February 2011
21 Comments
One website proudly proclaimed that Egypt's protests were a safe space for women. In fact women were on the frontline. They were part of a long history of women who have struggled for recognition of their human rights in Egypt.
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AUSTRALIA
- Edwina Byrne
- 07 January 2011
5 Comments
It would be easy to cast a donkey vote or a vote for a minor party and to thus wash your hands of the responsibility for our governance for the next three or so years. In a representative democracy, a vacuous election represents a lazy polity.
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MEDIA
- TIm Kroenert
- 16 December 2010
6 Comments
The mainstream media dons a benevolent face. 3AW talkback radio, The Herald Sun, Channels Nine and 7 News carry Mikayla into Melbournians' homes. It's easy to be cynical about their motives. In an ideal world every sick child would be noticed in this way.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 09 December 2010
8 Comments
A ridiculously wealthy humanitarian, Bono is an object of scorn among grassroots human rights advocates. But a U2 show may be as close to church as a rock concert gets. Nowhere outside a church would you find so many voices declaring in unison: 'I believe in the kingdom come.'
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 06 October 2010
1 Comment
Fiction writers have to arrange events so that they achieve the required outcome without stretching credulity. Yet real life routinely throws up sequences so bizarre that a fiction writer wouldn't dare to own them. Try this one.
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AUSTRALIA
- Andrew Hamilton
- 27 August 2010
33 Comments
The churches, with their tradition of recognising the deeper values
in human beings and society, can play an important part in generating a richer vision of Australian society. They'll need to cooperate with other groups who decry
the self-interested focus in Australian politics.
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AUSTRALIA
- Paul Cleary
- 24 August 2010
3 Comments
Kevin Rudd's failure to embrace the Timor legend with more imagination and
substance was a missed opportunity to connect with Labor's Second World
War legacy. Wartime Prime Minister John Curtin saw the guerilla war in
Timor as a unique and significant part of turning back the Japanese
tide.
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AUSTRALIA
- Edwina Byrne
- 20 August 2010
22 Comments
It would be easy to cast a donkey vote or a vote for a minor party and to thus wash your hands of the responsibility for our
governance for the next three or so years. In a representative democracy, a vacuous election represents a lazy polity.
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AUSTRALIA
- Andrew Hamilton
- 11 November 2009
9 Comments
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16 November 1989. Bangkok. We looked forward to hearing from Jon Sobrino, the El Salvador Jesuit theologian, who had been speaking at another meeting. But at breakfast we heard the dreadful news.
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