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Keywords: Despair

ARTS AND CULTURE

The politics of suicide
- Gillian Bouras
- 02 May 2012
14 Comments
Albert Camus said suicide was the one serious philosophical problem in that it poses the question as to whether life is worth living. Some suicides are a private solution to anger and despair, but others, such as suicide bombings and the recent suicide of retired pharmacist Dimitris Christoulas, are both public and coercive.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Christmas gallows
- Charlotte Clutterbuck
- 22 December 2010
1 Comment
Despair, Damnation, and Capital Punishment are my Christmas fare this year. During my research into literary executions, I was shocked to find so few cases where they were opposed on Christian grounds, and so many examples of Christian acceptance.
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AUSTRALIA

Don't despair of election 'race to the bottom'
- Bruce Duncan
- 06 August 2010
The election has been plagued by trivial spats and personality conflicts, to the neglect of policies based on the values of equity and social justice for everyone. This reinforces the importance of church and community groups being more active in their social advocacy.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Toy Story 3's vision of heaven and hell
- Adrian Phoon
- 08 July 2010
4 Comments
The toys are brought to a landfill, where they are dragged towards an incinerator, a fiery pit equivalent to any vision of Hell confected by Dante. It's harrowing stuff for an animated feature, but you can never tell what the toys find more threatening: death itself or the despair of becoming obsolete.
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RELIGION

Human Rights Act door still swinging
- Frank Brennan
- 07 June 2010
13 Comments
When the Government announced that its response to the National Human Rights Consultation would not include a legislative Charter of Rights, many activists despaired. I am more sanguine. We knew from the beginning that a Human Rights Act would be a big ask.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Aboriginality's urban outback
- Pat Mullins
- 16 October 2009
3 Comments
In Mt Druitt lives one of the largest groups of Aboriginal people in Australia. Gillian Cowlishaw shows the hope and despair, the visions and realities, of life in this youthful, growing, struggling and fascinating part of Australia.
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AUSTRALIA

Death, despair and global economic fallout
- Gillian Bouras
- 27 April 2009
4 Comments
Australian Shareholders Association says the BrisConnections 'lifeline' offered by the Macquarie Group won't cover 'the bulk of desperate investors'. Sometimes bad things happen to good people at the mercy of the clever and the greedy.
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AUSTRALIA

The virtue of having a go
- Michael Mullins
- 15 May 2007
2 Comments
Martin Flanagan of The Age links the sometimes defiant spirit of having a go with “common goodness”. He says this is found in the midst of wars and despair and, most importantly, “the blindness that flows from political and religious ideology”.
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