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Keywords: Pregnancy

  • ENVIRONMENT

    Don't shoot science messengers, they're an endangered species

    • Robyn Williams
    • 03 October 2007
    7 Comments

    Few want to dedicate their professional lives to communicating the often bad news that comes from science researchers. Williams, Swan, Dr Karl, Flannery and Winston represent a fading generation. The real future should belong to fresh voices. Where are they?

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  • RELIGION

    Wive's tales

    • Andrew Hamilton
    • 18 May 2007

    It is a disconcerting fact of life that people who take unpopular moral positions are marginalised.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Catholic Social Services have a role to play in pregnancy counselling

    • Joe Caddy
    • 27 February 2007
    5 Comments

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  • RELIGION

    Christmas takes us beyond 'family first'

    • Andrew Hamilton
    • 23 December 2006
    19 Comments

    Family First's claim that it is not a Christian political party should not be surprising. In Mark’s Gospel, the greatest single obstacle to faith is to put family first.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Boys need not be boys forever

    • Tim Martyn
    • 16 October 2006
    2 Comments

    Adolescent boys of Western Kenya's Bukusu tribe are ushered to the threshold of manhood by participating in rituals in which they must endure all without exhibiting pain. Western society lacks procedures in which boys can transform and emotionally re-emerge, ready to carry the burden of male responsibility.

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  • ENVIRONMENT

    When human life is not really human life

    • Tim Thwaites
    • 07 August 2006
    6 Comments

    The term 'therapeutic cloning' is unfortunate, as it has nothing to do with replicating humans. Researchers undertaking therapeutic cloning would say that the circumstances under which they stimulate human eggs to develop ensure there is no way the result could ever become a human baby.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Deeper water

    • Pam O’Connor
    • 26 June 2006

    Pam O’Connor reviews Margaret Simons’ The Meeting of the Waters: the Hindmarsh Island Affair.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Romance v. reality

    • Virginia Bourke
    • 24 June 2006

    The cost of raising a child is no measure of a parent’s love.

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  • RELIGION

    Sexuality and ministry

    • Andrew Hamilton
    • 19 June 2006

    Churches today run into trouble on gender and sexuality. Public discussion reveals passionately held differences within churches and between churches, and culture.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Ways of reading sexual abuse in Aboriginal communities

    • Myrna Tonkinson
    • 12 June 2006
    4 Comments

    It has become unpopular to invoke cultural and individual factors to explain the appalling conditions of Australia's Indigenous population. Some of the pronouncements emanating from government and other quarters are patronising and couched in terms that suggest that Indigenous people are wilfully recalcitrant.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Cultural rites

    • Beth Doherty
    • 22 May 2006

    Beth Doherty reviews Safiya Hussaini Tungar Tudu’s I, Safiya.

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  • RELIGION

    Talking about community

    • Andrew Hamilton
    • 14 May 2006

    Lindsay Tanner and Tony Abbott recently gave thoughtful speeches about the place of the churches in public life, which merit a reflective response.

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