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- The politician who can't be bought
Newly-elected Tasmanian independent MP Andrew Wilkie is basing his quest for power on ethical conduct. There’s nothing new about politicians talking about doing the right thing. Wilkie’s point of difference is that he quickly follows his words with action.
Issue 17 : Published 06-Sep-2010
- Why we're slow to help Pakistan
The Australian public is being delivered a profoundly misleading
subliminal message that, because the Taliban are active in the region, they
are tied up in providing relief for flood victims. We need to forget politics for a while and
think about the part we can play in helping Pakistanis through their
crisis.
Issue 17 : Published 30-Aug-2010
- We're to blame for election shocker
We are wrong to assume our involvement
in the political process ends with the casting of votes. If the experience of a fetid election campaign, of leadership abdicated
and of a hung parliament leads us to offer more modest
local forms of participation and leadership, all Australians will gain.
Issue 16 : Published 23-Aug-2010
- Technophobe Tony's broadband back-step
Broadband policy is the only major point of difference between Labor and the Coalition in the lead up to this Saturday's federal election. The minimalist approach mooted by the Coalition fails to appreciate fast broadband's nation-building potential.
Issue 16 : Published 16-Aug-2010
- Atheist 'Real Julia' courts Christian vote
Gillard was photographed looking up to Cardinal George Pell with an admiring glance, and attended a fundraiser for expenses associated with October's Mary MacKillop canonisation in Rome. She offered $1.5 million in government money, but much more than that in flattery to Catholic electors.
Issue 15 : Published 09-Aug-2010
- Gillard's atheism belongs in the closet
It could have been a mistake for Gillard to 'come out' as an atheist, as if giving witness to a firmly held religious belief. Abbott did better by declaring candidates' religious views a private matter that should not distract from voters' judgment of their policies.
Issue 15 : Published 02-Aug-2010
- Gillard bombing on moral leadership
Julia Gillard appears to be in no mood to countenance the type of conviction politics that would be required to ratify the ban of cluster bombs. This is a far cry from the glory days of Kevin07 when Rudd said he would ratify Kyoto, then did exactly that.
Issue 14 : Published 26-Jul-2010
- Forget Keating-Hawke soapie, give Rudd a hug
The public stoush between Paul Keating and Bob Hawke seems little more than soap opera for political
junkies. Australian Jesuit Fr Frank Brennan longs for a political morality
to guide politicians at times of political upheaval, such as Kevin Rudd's emotional departure from the Labor leadership.
Issue 14 : Published 19-Jul-2010
- MySuper's justified paternalism
Channelling people into a default superannuation fund could be compared
with the indignity of income management. But MySuper is geared to protect the human dignity of Australians in
retirement against their own indifference, and also commercial
exploitation.
Issue 13 : Published 12-Jul-2010
- Gillard mining deal betrays the common good
Julia Gillard is expected to exercise moral authority because she was chosen by her party to work
for the common good of the nation. Her agreement with major mining companies to take the sting out of the mining tax
shows a poor start.
Issue 13 : Published 05-Jul-2010
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