Keywords: Eureka Street Tv
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RELIGION
- Irfan Yusuf
- 03 April 2013
27 Comments
Many must have wondered if it was an April Fools joke. An episode of Q&A worth watching? One without a single pompous pundit or partisan politician? Despite the presence of two atheists, religion dominated, perhaps because the most articulate spokesperson for atheism was herself representing a faith.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 15 March 2013
8 Comments
The roots of Assange's civil disobedience are linked to his derision of his mother's penchant for ineffective peaceful protest. His family's run-ins with the mountain cult of which they were one-time members hints at lasting psychological trauma in Asssange that may contribute to his later persona as a lone avenger.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 11 March 2013
4 Comments
Channel 7's Weekend Sunrise mocked the Catholic Church during its papal conclave preview. The Vatican's culture of secrecy encourages journalists to act like children. Last week the US cardinals took a more open approach and got positive media. But they were slapped down and the coverage became trivial once again.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 17 December 2012
3 Comments
Browsing the highlights and lowlights of the year, media treatment of vulnerable people has been a constant. The regrettable circumstances surrounding the suicide of nurse Jacintha Saldanha come to mind, but there are surprising moments when journalists have distinguished themselves with investigative reporting for the common good.
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EUREKA STREET TV
- Peter Kirkwood
- 14 December 2012
For the past three years video consultant Peter Kirkwood has produced a fortnightly series featuring some of the world's leading figures of faith and spirituality. We take a look back at some of his best Eureka Street TV interviews, including Hans Kung, Anwar Ibrahim, Peter Kennedy and more.
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EUREKA STREET TV
- Peter Kirkwood
- 13 December 2012
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 29 November 2012
2 Comments
This year, in my immediate family, there has been a separation, the sale of a beloved home, the purchase of another house, and the birth of a child, my nephew. If you, like me, are someone who is accustomed to Christmas Day as a 'family occasion', you may be equally aware of the fraught nature of that innocent description.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 22 November 2012
2 Comments
A teen attempts suicide after being ridiculed by the judges of an American Idol style talent show. A news anchor spouts propaganda so extreme it might make a Fox News presenter blush. A reality TV participant extracts an in-use tampon and hurls it at a rival. Appalled by this endless stream of TV trash, one man snaps.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 30 August 2012
18 Comments
They stop short of calling it Go Back to Where You Came From: Celebrity Edition, but it's hard to escape the view that SBS is going out of its way to top the ratings success of the original series. There's not much insight to be gained from watching Catherine Deveny and Peter Reith snipe at each other, fun as it may be.
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RELIGION
- Geraldine Doogue
- 03 August 2012
94 Comments
I've come to believe that the world beyond the institutional Church is kinder, gentler, full of more conscientious ethics, values and care for others; that the secular world in which lay people live is more functional and more ready to conscience-examine than the institutional Church. Why then am I still a Catholic?
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EUREKA STREET TV
- Peter Kirkwood
- 27 July 2012
32 Comments
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EUREKA STREET TV
- Peter Kirkwood
- 27 July 2012
To believe Dawkins, and many of the other speakers at the conference, you'd think there is a deep gulf between science and religion, that the two are intractably at loggerheads and have nothing useful to say to each other.
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