Keywords: Equal Opportunity
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AUSTRALIA
- Moira Byrne Garton
- 02 September 2010
9 Comments
Many of us value our participation in the election and have been excited by the resulting hung parliament. But some adult citizens cannot be placed on the roll at all, with a significant number of
Australians with intellectual disabilities or mental illness disenfranchised.
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EUREKA STREET/ READER'S FEAST AWARD
- Bill Collopy
- 25 August 2010
11 Comments
X people work hard. Y people are natural athletes. Z
people treat the world like they own it. Q people are violent. R people
are drunkards. S people mistreat women. V
people are queue jumpers. Racial generalising becomes racist only if we
accept its false premise.
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AUSTRALIA
- Moira Rayner
- 06 August 2010
11 Comments
Kristy Fraser-Kirk has flabbergasted David Jones with her pursuit of $37 million in punitive damages after allegations of sexual harassment against the company's former CEO. The retail giant says it is still interested in settlement. She doesn't want to settle, mate. She wants to make a point.
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RELIGION
- Andrew McGowan
- 16 July 2010
17 Comments
Gay and lesbian youths are at greater risk from suicide and mental
illness, and from religious and other forms of exclusion than from their own sexuality. Jesus cared less about the risk he might 'promote'
Samaritanism than about the need to promote an ethic of unconditional
acceptance.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 07 July 2010
Fr Frank Brennan's address to the Melbourne College of Divinity
Centenary Conference, Trinity College, University of Melbourne, 6 July
2010.
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EUREKA STREET TV
- Peter Kirkwood
- 02 July 2010
3 Comments
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AUSTRALIA
- Moira Rayner
- 25 June 2010
25 Comments
The importance of a woman getting the highest political post in the land is not in its being a 'first', but that Gillard is her own woman. She has not turned into an 'honorary bloke'. Gillard's singular attribute is her sincerity and the genuineness of her public conversations. And she can laugh.
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AUSTRALIA
- Moira Rayner
- 22 June 2010
14 Comments
David Jones acted promptly upon complaints of sexual harassment against its CEO Mark McInnes. But most
women pay in blood for making sexual harassment complaints against
powerful men in high places.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 19 April 2010
6 Comments
Premier John Brumby's boast that Victoria has the best health system came unstuck
during his address to the National Press Club. Putting patients first is about understanding the social context of
those with acute health challenges, not the construction of
political ego.
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AUSTRALIA
- Moira Rayner
- 09 April 2010
79 Comments
No firestorm of blame would be raging in the media were Christine Nixon not a
woman, a decent and strong woman, a prominent woman and an
ethically sound woman of an age and with the experience to possess a
raging integrity of her own and, by her very being, to offer ruthless
men a soft target.
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AUSTRALIA
- John Warhurst
- 02 March 2010
12 Comments
We are often quick to blame government ministers. In the case of Bill Shorten, Stephen Conroy and
Peter Garrett, they may emerge with tarnished reputations. But in rushing to criticise our ministers we often let ourselves off the hook too
easily.
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AUSTRALIA
- Moira Rayner
- 23 February 2010
12 Comments
Adolescence is a time of violent, primitive emotions, of play-acting and the most intensely lived reality.
Boys' passionate assertion of relative worth is
developmentally necessary. That child's place in the society of his
peers is, for that moment, a matter of life and death.
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