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Keywords: Human Relationships

  • AUSTRALIA

    Treating people well in Abbott's Australia

    • Andrew Hamilton
    • 12 September 2013
    40 Comments

    On the asylum seeker issue there is little to be gained in indulging resentment against the Prime Minister and the Coalition except the sour consolations of self-righteousness. The real challenge is to persuade our fellow Australians that each person matters, not because of the choices they make or the qualities they possess, but because they are human, and that a society is measured by the quality of its relationships.

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  • INTERNATIONAL

    Challenging Frank Brennan on gay marriage

    • Rodney Croome
    • 26 November 2010
    14 Comments

    I'd hoped a reformer and humanist like Frank Brennan would understand that in this world of disposable relationships, valuing love, commitment and inclusion must be our paramount goal. Instead, he has reverted to orthodoxy when confronted with a change that troubles his Catholic conscience. 

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  • RELIGION

    Cricket viewed from the Tower of Babel

    • Andrew Hamilton
    • 31 January 2008
    7 Comments

    Tuesday was being described as cricket's "day of shame" following the Harbhajan Singh verdict. A look at the Tower of Babel encourages us to ask whether the problem is that technological changes have distorted the human relationships on which cricket relies.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Community in an electronic age

    • Rufus Black
    • 09 July 2006

    Technology has changed human relationships, argues Rufus Black.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Indonesia: Earthquake and good relations

    • Andrew Hamilton
    • 29 May 2006

    It is a pity we need disasters to respond honorably to our world.  The earthquake around Yogyakarta put into the right perspective Australian relationships with Indonesia. It put human beings first.

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