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  • RELIGION

    Institutionalising Christian compassion for the poor

    • Richard Mulgan
    • 22 January 2007
    2 Comments

    Kevin Rudd and other Christians have been inspired by Christ’s concern for the disadvantaged. They have seen state-based social justice policies as a way of institutionalising this concern. But such compassion can easily slide into patronising assumptions about the distance between those who give and those who receive.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Money talks in the new Ireland, just like Australia

    • Michael Mullins
    • 11 December 2006

    Sometimes we need to look elsewhere to realise what is happening in our own backyard. Ireland is not Australia, but both countries have become prosperous at a time when many other developed nations are in the midst of an economic downturn.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Discourse without dialogue in Australian politics

    • Tony Smith
    • 07 August 2006
    1 Comment

    Former Labor minister John Button anticipated the current low point in political discourse, with defenders and critics of government policy having lost the capacity to engage in dialogue, particularly in the field of public morality.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    The Consolations of Biography

    • Peter Rose
    • 08 July 2006

    Peter Rose on writing Rose Boys.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    News from everywhere

    • Eureka Street editors
    • 07 July 2006

    Philip Berrigan, accountability, comic opera, and senior graffiti

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Occasional harmonies

    • Gerard Windsor
    • 04 July 2006

    Gerard Windsor in Sicily.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Roman surprises, home truths, and Malcolm Williamson remembered

    • Eureka Street editors
    • 03 July 2006

    News from everywhere

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  • INFORMATION

    Peace drums in Europe

    • Michael McKernan, Frank O’Shea, Mark Deasey, Morag Fraser, John Carmody, Brigid Hains, Pip Robertson
    • 03 July 2006

    Peace drums, Irish visitor, Travellers’ tales, Epiphanies, Deep structure, Counter-terrorism kits, Circling the square

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Worth a fatwa?

    • Peter Pierce & Catherine Pierce
    • 02 July 2006

    Has Michel Houellebecq earned the criticism that has come his way?

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Romance v. reality

    • Virginia Bourke
    • 24 June 2006

    The cost of raising a child is no measure of a parent’s love.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Taking responsibility

    • Francis Sullivan
    • 16 June 2006

    It is time for government leaders to stage a ‘walk in’ and recommit the country’s resources for the health of everyone.  

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Heavy penalties

    • George Morgan
    • 15 June 2006

    George Morgan on the cruelty of punitive attitudes to children.

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