Keywords: Margaret Dooley Award
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MARGARET DOOLEY AWARD
- Nadine Rabah
- 31 August 2011
43 Comments
My childhood memories are filled with stereotypical Aussie pastimes such as backyard cricket. But as a Muslim, I do feel like an outsider at times. Why do we constantly have to be portrayed as evil people? 'We're not all like that', I find myself shouting at certain news stories.'
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MARGARET DOOLEY AWARD
- Sarah Burnside
- 17 August 2011
8 Comments
Opponents of workplace regulation are well-resourced and powerful. In order to meet them head-on, the Government must do more than invoke the value of hard work. After all, if work automatically confers great dignity, what does it matter that conditions are unsatisfactory?
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MARGARET DOOLEY AWARD
- Patrick McCabe
- 27 July 2011
11 Comments
Ignatius of Loyola and Michel de Montaigne both had privileged upbringings. But where Montaigne was committed to personal fulfillment, Loyala was devoted to service. I, too, had a privileged upbrining and education. I'm not yet sure whose example is best to follow.
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EUREKA STREET/ READER'S FEAST AWARD
The Eureka Street/Reader's Feast Award was announced today in conjunction with Eureka Street's other annual ethical essay-writing award, the Margaret Dooley Award.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Scott Steensma
- 29 June 2011
1 Comment
The average full time employee in Australia works 44 hours a week. The people in the office Ben cleans pull 35. During his busiest weeks Ben slogs through over 70. 'I gotta lot of responsibilities on my shoulders,' he says. 'This is why I want to do well in life.'
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MARGARET DOOLEY AWARD
- Jonathan Hill
- 01 December 2010
5 Comments
Dhurga is a dead language. At my school however it is taught to every student, Indigenous and non-Indigenous. A subject like this is quite radical in an education system that is heavily focused on churning out workers rather than thinkers.
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MARGARET DOOLEY AWARD
- Scott Steensma
- 03 November 2010
4 Comments
The back label of my taboo-smashing pre-10am cake was covered in an unintelligible language, which I could only presume was Dutch. What I had thought a tasty sounding Breakfast Cake was apparently also known less appetisingly as an 'Ontbijtkoek'. I can neither read nor speak Dutch despite my Dutch migrant heritage.
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MARGARET DOOLEY AWARD
- Susie Byers
- 20 October 2010
2 Comments
Harry Wetnose the Bigeye Tuna will probably never adorn any T-shirts. Nevertheless, the endangered Bigeye Tuna is in big trouble and could do with some help. The way we relate to fish raises some important questions about what it is to be a responsible person in the world.
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EUREKA STREET/ READER'S FEAST AWARD
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EUREKA STREET/ READER'S FEAST AWARD
- Ruth Limkin
- 02 December 2009
7 Comments
There are those who argue that the fight to stave off the negative impacts of climate change is a fight to save the world from humans themselves. Dialogue from population-control advocates fails to recognise the dignity of each person.
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INFORMATION
- Meaghan Paul
- 09 October 2009
10 Comments
I applaud Harry Connick Jr for pointing out the error in our Australian way of thinking.
Laughing at someone else's expense is not harmless.
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AUSTRALIA
- Sarah Kanowski
- 08 October 2009
5 Comments
Big families are no longer fashionable, but they had their benefits. Vastly outnumbered, there's no chance for adults
to practice the kind of helicopter parenting common to my own
generation, where we hover over our one or two, soothing and solving.
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