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Keywords: Moral Outrage

RELIGION

When tolerance doesn't cut it
- Andrew Hamilton
- 27 August 2009
5 Comments
One striking feature of our society is the contrast between an emphasis on tolerance, and an increasingly punitive approach to lawbreaking. Shock jock Kyle Sandilands and violent youths in our cities have been exposed to this.
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AUSTRALIA

Cousins, Chaser and the court of public morality
- Andrew Hamilton
- 15 June 2009
3 Comments
What do footballers who give photographers the bird, comedians who make jokes about sick children, boat owners who bring asylum seekers to Australian shores, cooks who swear, and cricketers who drink have in common?
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AUSTRALIA

Fashion fix won't mend failed states
- Michael Mullins
- 01 December 2008
1 Comment
A fashion magazine proposed that 'blowing the budget on something outrageously extravagant will let you know you're still alive'. There is a place for fantasy during financial hard times, but there are also good reasons to act decisively.
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EUREKA STREET/ READER'S FEAST AWARD

SIEV X, the boat that sank
- Tony Kevin
- 30 July 2008
6 Comments
Coming closer, one sees these are paintings of drowning people, headsor bodies suspended in metallic seawater. There are 353 images, mostly children and women, for it was mostly children and women who boarded the boat.
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AUSTRALIA

Talking to the enemy
- Shahram Akbarzadeh
- 04 June 2008
8 Comments
Jimmy Carter's meeting with exiled Hamas leader Khaled Masha'al contradicted US policy of not negotiating with terrorists. Hamas carries a popular mandate to establish Palestine as a sovereign state. Peace is not going to reign in Palestine or Israel if Hamas is excluded from negotiations.
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AUSTRALIA

Legal fusion the way forward
- Binoy Kampmark
- 12 February 2008
7 Comments
The Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams might have tread more carefully when he suggested Britons might learn to live with some form of Sharia law in their midst. He was simply reiterating the obvious: thatlegal systems and obligations often have mutually sustaining andre-enforcing values.
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RELIGION

Protecting human rights in the next Federal Parliament - Frank Brennan
- Frank Brennan
- 25 October 2007
There are times when we Australians get the balance between national interest and individual liberty wrong, especially when the individual is a member of a powerless minority. One way of improving the balance is including the judiciary in the calculus, as has now happened in the United Kingdom and New Zealand.
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RELIGION

Frank Brennan replies to Tony Abbott on religion in politics
- Frank Brennan
- 25 October 2007
1 Comment
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INTERNATIONAL

What provoked Burmese people's fearless stand
- Carol Ransley & Toe Zaw Latt
- 03 October 2007
4 Comments
Two out of five children in Burma are severely malnourished, and the majority of people live in dire poverty. Then the ruling State Peace and Development Council instructed all Ministry of Energy distribution outlets to raise the prices of fuel.
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INFORMATION

A selection of some of the letters regarding Frank Brennan's most recent piece
- 13 July 2007
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ARTS AND CULTURE

History rises amidst film's humane depth
- Tim Kroenert
- 11 July 2007
Lucky Miles is an outrageous buddy comedy set in 1990 in the Western Australian wilderness, with echoes of September 11, border security, and the totalitarian Indigenous intervention. This topicality borders on prophetic, as the film was conceived seven years ago.
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AUSTRALIA

Building blocks for a compassionate society
- Barry Jones
- 05 June 2007
9 Comments
Tackling the problem of terrorism by the application of force is unlikely to succeed. Pouring blood on the Iraqi desert produced an upsurge of terrorism where none had been before: cruelty, genocide even, but not terrorism, let alone fundamentalist terrorism.
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Keywords: Moral Outrage