Keywords: Catholic Health Care
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AUSTRALIA
- Martin Laverty
- 07 February 2011
8 Comments
One of our most daunting challenges is how to look after the baby boomers, who are fast approaching old age. The cost of aged care, and the number needing it, is skyrocketing. Funding has not been committed, and there's a train wreck in sight. Doing nothing is not an option.
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ECONOMICS
- Gerry O'Hanlon
- 02 December 2010
7 Comments
A hopeful sign has been the emergence of commentators, mainly secular, advocating the transformation of the economy to a model based on values like the common good, solidarity, environmental concern, equality, active and inclusive citizenship.
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AUSTRALIA
- Andrew Hamilton
- 09 November 2010
12 Comments
Recently Victoria's Catholic Bishops distributed their advice to voters in the November 27 state election. Entitled Your Vote, Your Values, it was quickly portrayed as an attack on the Greens, given its focus on euthanasia. The statement, however, was more complex and interesting than that description suggested.
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RELIGION
- 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
- Frank Brennan
- 21 September 2010
27 Comments
Now that we have a hung parliament, Greens leader Senator Bob Brown wants to agitate the issue of euthanasia once again. But a hung parliament will not have the time and resources to consider these complex issues in its early days.
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AUSTRALIA
- Tony Kevin
- 24 August 2010
22 Comments
There was a massive loss of confidence in Labor's policies. The Australian electorate saw through the triviality of what both major parties were offering. Gillard would deserve her party's full support in leading a Labor Government in a hung parliament. This may be the making of her as a great prime minister.
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AUSTRALIA
Advocacy from the likes of esteemed psychiatrist Professor Patrick
McGorry continues to highlight Australia's mental health system crisis. If Julia Gillard wants to lead on this issue, she will need to further the Coalition's $1.5 billion electoral commitment to mental health services.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 07 July 2010
Fr Frank Brennan's address to the Melbourne College of Divinity
Centenary Conference, Trinity College, University of Melbourne, 6 July
2010.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 18 June 2010
1 Comment
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 17 May 2010
6 Comments
Dedicated aged care workers are leaving because they can't afford to
exist on such low pay. Employers have their hands tied by the Federal
Government, which last week passed over the opportunity to provide for aged care
workers in the Budget.
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AUSTRALIA
- Frank Quinlan
- 12 May 2010
23 Comments
If a 'fiscally responsible Budget' can increase spending on Australia's representatives in elite sports by $237 million, it is hard to imagine that there is not room somewhere for our unemployed to eat a little better.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 08 March 2010
7 Comments
Tony Abbott says health reform should cure patients and not feed bureaucracy. Yet properly structured bureaucracy is needed to protect patients' interests from those health industry lobbyists with profit motivations.
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