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Author: Moira Rayner

AUSTRALIA

Boys with knives
- Moira Rayner
- 23 February 2010
12 Comments
Adolescence is a time of violent, primitive emotions, of play-acting and the most intensely lived reality. Boys' passionate assertion of relative worth is developmentally necessary. That child's place in the society of his peers is, for that moment, a matter of life and death.
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AUSTRALIA

Best of 2009: Indigenous people power challenges mining might
- Moira Rayner
- 06 January 2010
1 Comment
The Martidja Manyjima people of the Pilbara want a WA mining registrar to hear their challenge to BHP Billiton's claim for more mining leases on 200 square kilometres of their traditional land. The outcome will affect every one of us. September 2009
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AUSTRALIA

Indigenous people power challenges mining might
- Moira Rayner
- 22 September 2009
10 Comments
The Martidja Manyjima people of the Pilbara want a WA mining registrar to hear their challenge to BHP Billiton's claim for more mining leases on 200 square kilometres of their traditional land. The outcome will affect every one of us.
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INTERNATIONAL

Religious freedom and secular society
- Moira Rayner
- 13 August 2009
What do our major religions have to fear from changes to equal opportunity law? The challenge is a worthy and a practical one: in what way do the activities of religious institutions actually reflect the values of their prophets and visionaries.
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INTERNATIONAL

Limiting discrimination won't harm religious freedoms
- Moira Rayner
- 13 August 2009
10 Comments
Victoria's Equal Opportunity Act allows religious and quasi-religious groups and individuals to 'discriminate' lawfully. It's hard to see the relevance of the beliefs or lifestyle of a cleaner or clerk in an independent, para-religious school.
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AUSTRALIA

Getting smart, not tough, on bikies
- Moira Rayner
- 07 May 2009
4 Comments
No 'group' can be assumed to be full of criminals. Men form friendships out of common, innocuous interests. Laws introduced in NSW interfere with civil liberties and are likely to be ineffective at addressing organised crime.
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AUSTRALIA

No ark in a firestorm
- Moira Rayner
- 11 February 2009
3 Comments
What can I do, I think, that first Sunday, other than being a nuisance at an emergency centre, or a gawker? I fall into something practical, fostering survivors' dogs and cats, and caring for bewildered companion animals who survived but whose owners didn't.
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AUSTRALIA

Lipstick on America's politcal (dog) collar
- Moira Rayner
- 07 January 2009
3 Comments
There are lessons to be learned from Sarah Palin's quip that the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull terrier is 'lipstick'. In Western politics, women are acceptable if they look 'youthful' and are attached to powerful men to whose authority they defer. (September 2008)
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MEDIA

Newspaper's golden age
- Moira Rayner
- 19 December 2008
7 Comments
It is apparently old-fashioned to expect to be primarily informed and engaged by a newspaper, yet that is what Melburnians loved about The Age. As a one-time Age columnist, I came in — and went out — at the turning point for that once venerable organ.
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AUSTRALIA

Australian superwomen left holding the poison
- Moira Rayner
- 03 November 2008
5 Comments
Commentators predict the economic crisis will see firms fall back on tried-and-true experienced male managers. Women who mould themselves on men whose language and patterns of relationships were formed in the schoolyard will not last long.
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AUSTRALIA

Lipstick on America's politcal (dog) collar
- Moira Rayner
- 18 September 2008
9 Comments
There are lessons to be learned from Sarah Palin's quip that the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull terrier is 'lipstick'. In Western politics, women are acceptable if they look 'youthful' and are attached to powerful men to whose authority they defer.
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AUSTRALIA

'Brilliant' Martin scuppered by party white ants
- Moira Rayner
- 13 August 2008
11 Comments
On Friday the Northern Territory lost one of too few politicians with integrity and courage. We will not see the like of Clare Martin again for a very long time.
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