Keywords: Pacific Solution
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AUSTRALIA
- Kerry Murphy
- 31 October 2007
1 Comment
ALP Immigration Policy includes both change and continuity. It gives more priority to teaching English over testing, but there's still too much reliance on ministerial discretion rather than the judicial system.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 25 October 2007
2 Comments
On foreign aid, development assistance and trade justice, Peter Costello says “Economic growth is the real poverty buster”. The bishops say: "True, but economic growth must go hand in hand with eradicating poverty and ensuring trade justice".
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RELIGION
- 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
- 25 October 2007
1 Comment
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Richard Flynn
- 17 October 2007
As Australians wait for a Federal election, Hilary Glow’s book is timely evidence that what is wrong with the world is what politicians would have us believe. Contemporary playwrights are wrestling with the issues seen as crucial to the notion of who we really are as Australians in the twenty-first century.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 19 September 2007
4 Comments
The Howard Government must be given credit for increasing the size of our migration program, including the refugee and humanitarian component. But the deliberations of civil society should provide a fair go for all refugees, including those who arrive by boat without a visa.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Chris Johnston
- 12 September 2007
An archive of Chris Johnston's cartoons.
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AUSTRALIA
- Keith Harvey
- 27 June 2007
2 Comments
The Government’s "fairness" Bill provided that new agreements should compensate employees for loss of particular award conditions. Since individual agreements remain the cornerstone of the Government’s laws, the fundamental right of employees to bargain collectively and be represented by their union remains absent.
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INFORMATION
- Christine Bacon, Chris Curtis
- 18 May 2007
Letters from Christine Bacon, Chris Curtis
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AUSTRALIA
- David Corlett
- 02 April 2007
4 Comments
What matters is not where the 83 Sri Lankan asylum seekers will be processed – Christmas Island or Nauru – but the nature of their reception and processing.
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AUSTRALIA
- Andrew Hamilton
- 02 April 2007
4 Comments
Immigration Minister Kevin Andrews justified his decision send the 83 Sri Lankan asylum seekers to Nauru, on the grounds that it was necessary to send a message to other would-be illegal immigrants. It is like a teacher beginning class by beating a couple of boys at random in order to discourage others from playing up.
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AUSTRALIA
- Phil Glendenning
- 21 August 2006
The Parliament has shown it is no longer willing to play politics with the lives of asylum seekers. But this latest victory simply maintains the status quo, and eight more people have been sent to Nauru in the past week.
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