Keywords: Margaret Dooley
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AUSTRALIA
- Sarah Kanowski
- 24 July 2009
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After my first child was born I was overwhelmed by a new
appreciation for the work required to grow a single human
being. History's catalogue of achievements now mean little to me. Man Walks on
Moon? Big deal. Each day the headlines should shout, Woman Gives Birth!
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MARGARET DOOLEY AWARD
Multi-faith dialogue is just a conversation, over time, between dear friends.
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EUREKA STREET/ READER'S FEAST AWARD
Reader's Feast Bookstore is delighted to once again join with Eureka Street to offer an award in the area of social justice writing. Funded by Reader's Feast Bookstore and organised by Eureka Street, the theme for the essay was 'Climate change and the global financial crisis: can we afford to save the planet?'
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INTERNATIONAL
In Melbourne, 2000 Indian students gather to protest a lack of Government response to a spate of violent attacks. I am
with them because I am ashamed that a white Christian woman is safer
in the military capital of Rawalpindi than these students are on a
train in Melbourne.
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EUREKA STREET/ READER'S FEAST AWARD
Submission guidelines for the Eureka Street/Reader's Feast and Margaret Dooley Awards 2009 are now online.
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RELIGION
- Sarah Kanowski
- 22 December 2008
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Silent breakfast in a still-dark zendo, mist
rising on the mountains, has been replaced by a scramble against the
clock, one eye on the newspaper, one hand reaching for
the Weet Bix, our toddler clambering, garbage trucks
screeching outside.
How to find silence here?
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AUSTRALIA
- Sarah Kanowski
- 30 October 2008
9 Comments
Where Obama waxed lyrical about kings and pioneers, Rudd rhymed clumsily about Iced Vo Vos and getting on with the job. Australians don't do magnificence, and our national 'shyness' is nowhere clearer than in our political rhetoric.
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MARGARET DOOLEY AWARD
- Cara Munro
- 08 October 2008
5 Comments
Noor, an Albanian refugee, ran a slick kitchen; a vital, sunny-windowed place. Since his accident, a piece of his skull is missing and a thick line of cable stitching closes the place where his brain was exposed.
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MARGARET DOOLEY AWARD
- Jonathan Hill
- 10 September 2008
5 Comments
Teachers arriving in remote Aboriginal schools represent merely the latest in a long, transient line. What will separate them from their predecessors is their ability to listen and learn from the people whose land they now live on.
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MARGARET DOOLEY AWARD
- Ruth Limkin
- 13 August 2008
12 Comments
Euthanasia advocates often overlook the implication notions of dignity have for
those with disabilities. To say some of the processes of dying are undignified passes judgement not upon the death of
some, but upon the life of many.
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EUREKA STREET/ READER'S FEAST AWARD
Photos from the presentation of the inaugural Eureka Street/Reader's Feast Award the Margaret Dooley
Award for Young Writers 2008 were presented by Mary Dalmau of Reader's
Feast bookstore and Tim Kroenert from Eureka Street at the opening of
the Reader's Feast Crime and Justice Festival on 18 July.
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EUREKA STREET/ READER'S FEAST AWARD
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