Keywords: Democratic Labor Party
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AUSTRALIA
- Tony Smith
- 14 November 2007
1 Comment
Occasionally individuals manage to defy the negative stereotypes and demonstrate that being a Member of Parliament need not destroy one’s personal integrity. The late Peter Andren, federal member for Calare from 1996 to 2007, was just such an exceptional representative.
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AUSTRALIA
- Kerry Murphy
- 31 October 2007
1 Comment
ALP Immigration Policy includes both change and continuity. It gives more priority to teaching English over testing, but there's still too much reliance on ministerial discretion rather than the judicial system.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 25 October 2007
There are times when we Australians get the balance between national interest and individual liberty wrong, especially when the individual is a member of a powerless minority. One way of improving the balance is including the judiciary in the calculus, as has now happened in the United Kingdom and New Zealand.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 25 October 2007
1 Comment
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AUSTRALIA
- David Corlett
- 08 March 2007
1 Comment
Pacifist and radical Christian Ammon Hennessy said that courage without love and wisdom is foolhardiness. The longer the war in Iraq continues, the more the decision to invade looks to have been made on the basis of this sort of courage.
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RELIGION
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Francis Sullivan
- 26 June 2006
Shadow Minister Craig Emerson (pictured), has an intelligent and provocative book that approaches social and economic issues from the right of the ALP. His starting point alone will win him friends and foes. But it will also put some energy into a staid policy making process.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Moira Rayner
- 12 June 2006
Moira Rayner reviews Hillary Rodham Clinton’s Living History.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 31 May 2006
The following is an edited text of an address given by Frank Brennan SJ as part of the Jesuit Lenten Seminar Series 2004.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
Stephen Holt reviews Michael Gilchrist’s Wit and Wisdom: Daniel Mannix
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AUSTRALIA
- Peter Hamilton
- 10 May 2006
Peter Hamilton prepares to cast his first vote in a US election
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AUSTRALIA
- Troy Bramston
- 29 April 2006
Warning signs for the Whitlam Government were there in 1974, with an ailing economy, a political storm in the Senate, sliding popularity and a scandal unfolding in secret.
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