Keywords: National Press Club
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ENVIRONMENT
- Charles Rue
- 08 August 2008
4 Comments
During recent media appearances Sir Gustav Nossal has reiterated the same
biotech message the pro-GM lobby has peddled for more than a
decade. Anti-GM farmers encourage scientific research, but good science should not be equated with GM.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 29 November 2007
The power of the State can be exercised capriciously and unaccountably when the “Don’t ask; don’t tell” approach to government is immune from parliamentary, judicial or public scrutiny. It is the task of lawyers to make it more difficult for politicians to take this approach.
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AUSTRALIA
- Scott Stephens
- 17 October 2007
11 Comments
The great hypocrisy of Kevin Rudd’s style of politics is that he launched his challenge for the Labor leadership twelve months ago with an appeal to Dietrich Bonhoeffer. One cannot help but be sickened by his recent rebuke of the politically and morally courageous Robert McClelland, for expressing unbridled opposition to capital punishment in Indonesia.
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AUSTRALIA
- Frank Brennan
- 12 September 2007
8 Comments
I agree with the New South Wales bishops that persons with respect for human life should vote against stem cell legislation. However, I will continue to respect the conscience of those politicians who say that they have to legislate for all citizens including those who do not share their religious and philosophical presuppositions.
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INFORMATION
- Michael McKernan, Frank O’Shea, Mark Deasey, Morag Fraser, John Carmody, Brigid Hains, Pip Robertson
- 03 July 2006
Peace drums, Irish visitor, Travellers’ tales, Epiphanies, Deep structure, Counter-terrorism kits, Circling the square
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AUSTRALIA
- Brendan Long
- 26 June 2006
6 Comments
The Federal Goverment believes that church leaders will retreat from the Industrial Relations debate to their cathedrals. It does not realise that the proper relationship between economics and the good of society is a central theological concern.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Frank Brennan
- 26 June 2006
Frank Brennan looks at Philip Ayres’ Owen Dixon.
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AUSTRALIA
- Anthony Ham, David Glanz, Morag Fraser
- 16 June 2006
Death of the king, Little argument, Words to end winter
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AUSTRALIA
Sol Encel on the life of Professor William Macmahon Ball.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 31 May 2006
The following is an edited text of an address given by Frank Brennan SJ as part of the Jesuit Lenten Seminar Series 2004.
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AUSTRALIA
Despite some gains, no one can really question that, as a group, women have been and still are discriminated against by the mere fact of being women.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Keith Shipton
- 14 May 2006
Keith Shipton celebrates the photography of Michael Coyne.
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