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ARTS AND CULTURE

Blaming Batman for gun violence
- Tim Kroenert
- 26 July 2012
12 Comments
As far as US politicians are concerned, blaming Batman for the massacre at Aurora is as good as hiding their heads in the sand. The larger issue is not violent entertainment, but gun control. Ironically, the Batman films take a decidedly thoughtful approach to violence in general, and gun violence in particular.
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AUSTRALIA

Reflections on Gillard's atheism
- John Warhurst
- 17 October 2011
10 Comments
Gillard's atheism puts her in stark contrast to her immediate predecessors Kevin Rudd and John Howard. We consider several implications of Gillard's position, including her relations with church-state issues and community attitudes towards gay marriage and euthanasia.
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RELIGION

Julia Gillard and Labor's moral decline
- Frank Brennan
- 27 September 2011
28 Comments
Julia Gillard asked her advisers to design a system not for offshore processing but for offshore dumping. If John Howard had tried this in 2001, Labor would have gone ballistic. The advice of Gillard's intermittently trusted advisers is no longer worth the paper it is written on.
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AUSTRALIA

Rudd resurrection no miracle cure for Labor
- John Warhurst
- 19 September 2011
9 Comments
If Rudd was re-installed as leader, Howard's Lazarus impersonation and Menzies' return to office in 1949 would have been outdone by the most remarkable twist ever in Australian politics. Only insiders know whether it might happen. Only voters know whether it might work.
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AUSTRALIA

The twin terrors of 2001
- Michael Mullins
- 05 September 2011
8 Comments
Before Tampa, refugees were regarded as a positive for Australia's economy and lifestyle. After Tampa they were a threat to our sovereignty that was somehow grafted on to the sense of public malaise prompted by the 9/11 attacks on the sovereignty of the United States.
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Religion and republicanism in Australian politics
- Peter Kirkwood
- 26 August 2011
12 Comments
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Religion and republicanism in Australian politics
- Peter Kirkwood
- 26 August 2011
Political commentator John Warhurst has devoted his working life to observing what motivates politicians, particularly their religious beliefs. He sees an Australian republic as a 'logical, necessary and natural evolution of Australian political and constitutional identity'.
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AUSTRALIA

Parable of the unwelcome strangers
- Greg Foyster
- 20 June 2011
22 Comments
One day a stranger knocks on the door. 'Help!' he shouts. 'The people in my house are trying to kill me!' Instinctively, you reach for the door handle. A wrinkled hand, old yet firm, grabs your wrist. You look up and see your landlord, a bald man with thick rectangular glasses and bushy eyebrows.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Stories from the Struggletown Library
- John Falzon
- 25 May 2011
10 Comments
There was a liberal use of corporal punishment in my school. We were seen as a loutish bunch of lads who needed a firm hand. It did nothing to help my education. You don't create a smart and confident Australia by taking to people with a stick.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Dangers of democracy
- Various
- 17 May 2011
You ... are a man of steel with an impotent nation in your care: talk peace; but make strong allies everywhere.
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RELIGION

Interminable Intervention
- Frank Brennan
- 13 February 2011
9 Comments
Three years since Kevin Rudd's National Apology to the Stolen Generations, discriminatory aspects of John Howard's Intervention are still in place. Let's hope that by the fourth anniversary, we are no longer singling out Aborigines for such 'special treatment'.
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AUSTRALIA

Why we lost the Ashes: it’s politics, stupid
- John Honner
- 07 January 2011
3 Comments
The fortunes of the English and Australian cricket teams follow the fortunes of their nations' conservative governments.
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