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RELIGION

The disruptiveness of an election year Easter
- Andrew Hamilton
- 15 April 2019
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This year both the public and the Christian Easter are overshadowed by the forthcoming election. In the public world election means that assured people choose their rulers. In the Christian story election means that desperate people are chosen. Each kind of election has its place.
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ENVIRONMENT

Climate action future is for the young
- Greg Foyster
- 29 March 2019
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Twenty thousand students are chanting 'climate action now!' He has been shouting the same thing for decades, first in scientific papers and then in newspapers, televised debates and rallies just like this one. Now he stands with a new generation, but he can't open his mouth to join them. He is scared he will say what he knows he can't say.
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AUSTRALIA

Don't sit and watch antisemitism rising
- Na'ama Carlin
- 06 February 2019
21 Comments
In the wake of the St Kilda riots, while I sit petrified, third generation to Holocaust survivors, I can't stop thinking about my grandfather, who lived and came to Australia. In 2018 there was a rise in antisemitic incidents across Australia compared with 2017, which also saw a rise on previous years.
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AUSTRALIA

What we can learn from the Covington incident
- Chris Middleton
- 04 February 2019
Because this story is in the political arena, it seems vicious comments from celebrities, politicians, and countless others are made with impunity. And we wonder why young people can be so cruel online and why it is so hard to educate them that words matter; that words hurt. Then, as they say, the story got complicated.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

A Christmas carol for a divided world
- Gillian Bouras
- 21 December 2018
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In this season, I usually re-read A Christmas Carol, that timeless tour de force of the Dickensian imagination. The second spirit, the Ghost of Christmas Present, takes Scrooge to the shops, where the former restores good humour to squabbling delivery boys. For, they said, it was a shame to quarrel on Christmas Day.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Modern day hearts of darkness
- Gillian Bouras
- 12 December 2018
14 Comments
A commentator recently described most politicians as being professional liars, and it can be argued that they tend to deceive themselves as well. Many can be compared with Heart of Darkness's Kurtz, who hid 'in the magnificent folds of his eloquence the barren darkness of his heart'.
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ECONOMICS

Women's economic security plan is no safety net
- Eliza Berlage
- 22 November 2018
1 Comment
The government finally released its women's economic security statement. The package is built around three pillars — workforce participation, earning potential, and economic independence — totalling $109 million dollars over four years. It is a drop in the ocean compared to what is needed to address the crisis of gender violence and substantial inequality.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Enterprises begun, projects explored
- Denham Grierson
- 13 November 2018
4 Comments
It feels odd to be recycled, my atoms billions of years old, stretching back millennia. What adventures they have had, enterprises begun, projects explored, voyages completed.
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AUSTRALIA

Nauru children: Why did we wait so long?
- Andrew Hamilton
- 03 November 2018
11 Comments
To distant observers the hesitation and delay are hard to understand. They ask how it is possible to look on idle and unmoved at children in despair when you are in a position to address the causes of their despair. What is it that enables us to pass by damaged children, untroubled? The answer may lie in the quality of our moral imagination.
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AUSTRALIA

The worst may already have happened
- Fatima Measham
- 24 October 2018
6 Comments
Under such conditions, it is hard to get people to concede that what they believe might be incomplete. No one wants to give anything up. This is an attempt to get people to give something up. Here is how to do it: ask what is the worst that can happen. Then accept that it may have already happened. But not to you.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Resignation syndrome
- Colleen Keating
- 22 October 2018
4 Comments
The concurrent symptoms for this poem: vague staring into mid air; take to their bed; not eating or drinking regularly; not toileting; not responding. Imagine a child without light in their eyes. It is not a flash back. It is now. It is the Australian people.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Here comes the man
- John Cranmer
- 24 September 2018
2 Comments
The one coming as king on the donkey-colt, declaring to the heart of the nation a way of universal peace, a way of confronting the powers of militarism and political compromise.
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Keywords: Despair