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RELIGION

Women deacons: Is it time?
- Elizabeth Young
- 15 August 2024
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Copious research has demonstrated the historical existence of women deacons, including St Phoebe, the only person in scripture with the descriptor Deacon. So how far off is Australia from ordaining women deacons?
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RELIGION

What to make of the Viganò Schism?
- Miles Pattenden
- 23 July 2024
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Schism is an entrenched idea within Church History. What should we make of Pope Francis’ very modern schism: a decision by the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith to declare Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò guilty of ‘public statements resulting in a denial of the elements necessary to maintain communion with the Catholic Church’ and to excommunicate him?
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Spiralling into understanding
- Andrew Hamilton
- 19 July 2024
The spiral metaphor ties together 800+ pages of lyrical meditations, environmental rage, and historical reflections from Australia’s most celebrated and prolific poets. With powerful social critiques that blur poetry's lines, Kinsella's work rewards close reading with its deep exploration of our connection to a changing world.
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INTERNATIONAL

Why are we being forced to buy into AI?
- Michael McVeigh
- 18 July 2024
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In a world racing to embrace AI, we rarely hear about AI's voracious appetite for energy. As tech giants like Google and Microsoft see their emissions soar, questions arise about the environmental cost of this digital revolution. Is AI's promise worth the toll on our climate goals?
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AUSTRALIA

Comic from detention illustrates lives unseen
- Danielle Terceiro
- 18 June 2024
In Still Alive: Notes from Australia’s Immigration Detention System (2021), artist Safdar Ahmed shares the harrowing stories of asylum seekers through comic art. He vividly depicts their plight by incorporating artwork from a drawing group he started at Villawood Detention Centre.
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RELIGION

Does Vatican II offer a blueprint for political healing?
- Julian Butler
- 15 May 2024
Next year marks the 60th anniversary of the conclusion of the Second Vatican Council. What lessons might our contemporary democratic community take from the Church over that period that might that help our common conversation?
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Here we are now, entertain us
- Barry Gittins
- 01 May 2024
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The raw power of ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ blasted Nirvana past the mainstream and into the realm of music immortality. So what was it about Cobain’s music that resonated with young people in the early 90s and continues to find vast audiences 30 years later?
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ENVIRONMENT

The unyielding spirit of Uncle Kevin Buzzacott
- Michele Madigan
- 18 April 2024
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An Arabunna man, Uncle Kevin Buzzacott devoted himself to the protection of that delicate, glorious country of north eastern South Australia with its Great Artesian Basin’s ancient waters threatened by the succession of powerful mining companies operating Roxby’s Olympic Dam.
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INTERNATIONAL

Americans look after each other because their government won't
- Sarah Klenbort
- 03 April 2024
4 Comments
Americans, facing high healthcare costs, frequently resort to crowdfunding for essential treatments, highlighting a reliance on volunteerism to fill government gaps. Meanwhile, Australians, benefiting from a higher tax-funded safety net, donate less to charity. So how do differing approaches to social welfare influence the spirit of community and generosity?
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Searching for the truth about a wartime massacre
- Juliette Hughes
- 15 March 2024
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Two books about a 1942 massacre of Australian nurses were released last year. One is reliable, the other is notable for factual omissions. If we leave something out, are we then guilty of censorship? Alternatively, if our truth-telling offends someone else, what is our justification for so doing?
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RELIGION

Why did the Vatican take a new stance on blessing 'irregular' relationships?
- Bill Uren
- 07 March 2024
4 Comments
In December, the Vatican issued ‘Fiducia Supplicans’ (‘Supplicating Trust’), licensing priests to bless partners in same-sex and other ‘irregular’ relationships (divorced and remarried couples, couples ‘living in sin’, etc ) when they are approached in good faith.
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AUSTRALIA

The geography of loneliness
- John Chesterman and Ilan Wiesel
- 01 March 2024
1 Comment
The key to combatting increasing levels of loneliness and social isolation will likely start in the way we think about cities, public spaces and social care to enable meaningful connections between people, and help to guard against harms caused by habitual loneliness. But we'll need to get creative.
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