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Keywords: Academy

MEDIA

Cyber traps for young players
- Chris Middleton
- 11 April 2011
6 Comments
The use of Skype to demean a young female trainee at the Australian Defence Force Academy once again demonstrates that the internet can damage young people’s sense of self. It also points to the need for an educational program that builds an awareness of our culture and an ability to question information and critique forms of communication.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Best of 2010: To Kill A Mockingbird and asylum seeker justice
- Kerry Murphy
- 13 January 2011
1 Comment
Atticus works within the system and hopes thereby to reform it. He wonders 'why reasonable people go stark raving mad when anything involving a Negro come up'. Many lawyers will understand the challenge of working for the unpopular 'other': just replace 'Negro' with asylum seeker or 'Muslim woman in burqa'.
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EUREKA STREET TV

A hybrid Christianity for Aboriginal Australians
- Peter Kirkwood
- 05 November 2010
Prominent Aboriginal elder Tom Calma was brought up Catholic but no longer sees himself as a Christian. While he has gravitated towards his Aboriginal spiritual heritage, he envisions a positive engagement between Christianity and Aboriginal spirituality, and urges the Churches to be open to a hybrid Christianity that embraces both.
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EUREKA STREET TV

A hybrid Christianity for Aboriginal Australians
- Peter Kirkwood
- 05 November 2010
7 Comments
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RELIGION

Reconciling religion, politics and human rights
- Frank Brennan
- 04 November 2010
15 Comments
Cardinal Pell, with whom I have voiced disagreement, preached superbly at the mass of thanksgiving after the canonisation of Mary MacKillop. 'She does not deter us from struggling to follow her.' As we wrestle with the common good, let's make a place for all our fellow citizens.
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RELIGION

Rethinking indigeneity in the age of globalisation
- Frank Brennan
- 01 November 2010
3 Comments
There is an emerging Aboriginal middle class. The contested questions in those communities relate to the expensive delivery of services including health, housing and education. The contested issue in the urban community is over self-identification as Aboriginal by persons of mixed descent.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

To Kill A Mockingbird and asylum seeker justice
- Kerry Murphy
- 09 July 2010
11 Comments
Atticus works within the system and hopes thereby to reform it. He wonders 'why reasonable people go stark raving mad when anything involving a Negro come up'. Many lawyers will understand the challenge of working for the unpopular 'other': just replace 'Negro' with asylum seeker, or Muslim women in burqas.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

New old ways of understanding justice
- Alexander Lewis
- 11 June 2010
1 Comment
Amartya Sen suggests we might never know what perfect justice is, but we certainly know injustice when we see it. Instead of giving a tired rehash of Hobbes, Locke and Rousseau, Sen uses vibrant, colourful examples from history, philosophy, and literature, in particular from the Indian tradition.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Hilary Clinton and Hollywood's gender war
- Ruby Hamad
- 04 March 2010
3 Comments
Remember the man who yelled 'iron my shirt!' at Hillary Clinton? No doubt Clinton knows the problems women face in their fight to be taken seriously in the workplace. Acclaimed The Hurt Locker director Kathryn Bigelow has similarly found that male peers seem more interested in her body than her body of work.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Sympathy for an immoral Arab prophet
- Tim Kroenert
- 11 February 2010
From the moment of Malik's imprisonment he finds that if he is to survive, he needs to choose between conflicting evils. His Muslim roots appear from time to time, but while these moments lend transcendence to the film, they give no moral credence to Malik's actions.
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INFORMATION

Bringing theology home to the academy
- Gerard Goldman and Terry Lovat
- 24 November 2009
It has been suggested, but surely not seriously, that the public university’s prime motive in including theology among its disciplines might be around financial benefit.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Hot body
- Various
- 03 November 2009
The sun is a hot body. It warmly makes love to me.
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