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- Respect for politicians who represent all of us is crucial
I agree with the New South Wales bishops that persons with respect for human life should vote against stem cell legislation. However, I will continue to respect the conscience of those politicians who say that they have to legislate for all citizens including those who do not share their religious and philosophical presuppositions.
Issue : Published 12-Sep-2007
- Catholic Social Services refuses to police "harsh" Govt policy
After months of deliberation with Government, other church groups, our board and member organisations, Catholic Social Services Australia has advised its 61 member organisations not to participate in the Financial Case Management measures under the Government’s harsh new Welfare to Work legislation, which came into effect on 1 July this year.
Issue : Published 27-Feb-2007
- Studying spiders as medicinal venom factories
Queensland Museum arachnologist Dr Robert Raven says spider venoms have an amazing number of uses. A Year 12 science class at Maningrida (NT) helps him map the the molecules of venom, which will makes certain drugs much cheaper and more effective.
Issue 19 : Published 23-Dec-2006
- Arnhem Land vision for sanity in the city
After a visit to Ngukurr in Arnhem Land, a return home to Sydney and the horrifying reality of a culture that measures progress by the extent to which humans can destroy the land.
Issue 19 : Published 23-Dec-2006
- Becoming native to this large place
White Australians are slow to invent a language which matches this continent and mutes the shock-horror reaction to drought. While politicians talk about Australian values, "little" people are working at a much deeper study of what it means to be native.
Issue 18 : Published 11-Dec-2006
- The best dialogue cherishes difference
Whilst many see and use dialogue as a way to identify our similarities, its true value often lay in the way it can teach us to recognise and respect other people’s differences, and to see difference as valuable in and of itself.
Issue 16 : Published 30-Oct-2006
- The oxygen that breathes life into peacemaking
Other than formal interaction between nations, the role of non-government organisations (NGOs) who provide the heavy lifting in aid relief and community building in war-torn regions is critical, as is the exercise of citizen's voices, and the involvement they have with the political processes of their country.
Issue 16 : Published 30-Oct-2006
- ANZAC tradition now beyond satire
In an age of continuous and ambiguously justified war, the ANZAC commemoration has become highly politicised, infiltrated by party politics and populist bravura.
Issue 15 : Published 30-Oct-2006
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