Keywords: Ethical Fashion
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 10 December 2008
5 Comments
Sixty years on, it is fashionable to describe the Declaration of Human Rights as a peculiarly western, individualistic conception. It was not. Now is the time for Australia to discuss how best to make the State attentive to the still, small voice of conscience.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Alexandra Coghlan
- 30 May 2008
1 Comment
A change of British statutes in 1815 gave mental illness a new public face that was unequivocally female. Mad, Bad and Sad is a new study that charts the role of madness as a barometer of the values, concerns and morals of its day.
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ENVIRONMENT
- Tim Kroenert
- 12 December 2007
Live Earth had united popular musicians around the world for a series of concerts highlighting climate change. In an oblivious act of irony they had contributed, on several levels, to the very problem they were trying to confront.
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AUSTRALIA
A tradition of disposable clothing has been emerging in the fashion industry for many years, clothing that falls apart easily, garments that you wear twice and then give away. However, we rarely consider what effect this impulsive consumption has on the world's poor.
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AUSTRALIA
- Stephen Yorke
- 18 May 2007
Stephen Yorke considers the effects of the decisions we make.
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AUSTRALIA
- Brendan Long
- 21 August 2006
Unnerved in the knowledge that the Government is hurting over the pain to families from record petrol prices, the Prime Minister grabs the lectern at the dispatch box a bit too tightly and strives to make eye contact with the cameras as his staff have instructed.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
Peter Rose on writing Rose Boys.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Peter Steele
- 01 July 2006
Art speaks, but we sometimes need translation
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AUSTRALIA
- Daisy Gardener
- 26 June 2006
1 Comment
The Independent Contractors Legislation recently introduced in Parliament affects many immigrant outworkers. The fashion industry faces a serious challenge over unfair practices towards outworkers.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Godfrey Moase
- 08 May 2006
Godfrey Moase reviews Peter Singer’s The president of good & evil and Patricia Marchak’s Reigns of Terror.
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