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Keywords: Acceptance

ARTS AND CULTURE

Supermarket and cemetery conversation
- Brendan Ryan
- 09 November 2010
At the IGA, the woman at the check-out peppers her speech with Darl. Her friendliness, the way she packs my plastic bags, greets me two days later – a connection Facebook can’t provide.
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RELIGION

Christian sect's gay snub
- Andrew McGowan
- 16 July 2010
17 Comments
Gay and lesbian youths are at greater risk from suicide and mental illness, and from religious and other forms of exclusion than from their own sexuality. Jesus cared less about the risk he might 'promote' Samaritanism than about the need to promote an ethic of unconditional acceptance.
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ENVIRONMENT

Smart taxing solutions to global warming
- Peter Hodge
- 08 February 2010
6 Comments
Between Rudd's ETS and Abbott's 'climate con job', Australians concerned about climate change have little to cheer about. A growing acceptance of the failings of our market based economy has put wind in the sails of an idea becalmed for a decade.
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RELIGION

Myopic media's Indonesia 'jihad'
- Herman Roborgh
- 20 July 2009
14 Comments
Many in the media have labelled the bombings in Jakarta as the work of jihad. When we understand the Qur'anic verses that advocate jihad in their proper historical context, it is clear that the Qur'an expresses acceptance and respect for non-Muslims.
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AUSTRALIA

Joel's junkets
- John Warhurst
- 14 April 2009
3 Comments
The undeclared acceptance by Defence Minister Joel Fitzgibbon, while he was in Opposition, of two free trips to China, has raised eyebrows. In politics, such 'free lunches' bring dangers of bias and corruption, but also legitimate benefits.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Deep spirituality underlies gay Catholic's activism
- Terry Monagle
- 01 February 2008
11 Comments
Michael Bernard Kelly undergoes the personal struggle to reconcile his own deep faith with being proudly gay. He then takes up the fight for acceptance of gays in the Catholic Church.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

More challenges than resolutions in Jindabyne
- Jemma Galvin
- 07 August 2006
1 Comment
Ray Lawrence’s Jindabyne presents more challenges than resolutions. For the questions asked in this film there are no simple answers. This is a film which cautiously reveals a grace in the honesty, pain and acceptance that can come in life, and partnership. It also intimates that there is still a darkness at the heart of this town, and of this nation.
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