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  • ECONOMICS

    Remembering a homeless man named Patrick

    • Daniel Donahoo
    • 08 August 2007
    1 Comment

    An obsession with an economics graduate who founded an aged care organisation provokes memories of a night on the streets in the company of a homeless man named Patrick.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    The disappearing distinction between Labor and Coalition welfare policy

    • Philip Mendes
    • 25 July 2007

    The ALP has historically been committed to government intervention in the free market to promote a fairer distribution of income. However, since Hawke and Keating, the ALP moved towards a free market agenda focusing on the alleviation of poverty rather than structural change.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Our deathly cars and trucks

    • Clare Coburn
    • 02 April 2007

    Images from the Burnley tunnel accident showed thick plumes of smoke billowing from the outlet chimney. If a shark kills a lone swimmer off a beach, we call for netting or shooting. We have a much more lenient attitude towards roads.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Catholic Social Services refuses to police "harsh" Govt policy

    • Frank Quinlan
    • 27 February 2007

    After months of deliberation with Government, other church groups, our board and member organisations, Catholic Social Services Australia has advised its 61 member organisations not to participate in the Financial Case Management measures under the Government’s harsh new Welfare to Work legislation, which came into effect on 1 July this year.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Gloves on

    • Jack Waterford
    • 09 July 2006

    Of all the comments made after Mark Latham’s surprise ascension to the Labor leadership, Paul Keating’s remark—that it represented a defeat for the bankrupt ALP factional system and its operatives—was the most sound.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    On your bus

    • Grant Morgan, Anthony Ham, Matthew Albert, Steven Columbus
    • 07 July 2006

    On your bus, Kerala leads, Sudan in Australia, Coming to terms.

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  • INFORMATION

    Letters to Eureka Street

    • Greg Hawthorne, John Dobinson
    • 26 June 2006

    Letters from Greg Hawthorne, John Dobinson

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Finding common ground

    • David Nichols and John Wiseman
    • 26 June 2006

    Community Development projects can make a difference

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  • AUSTRALIA

    News from all over

    • Anthony Ham, David Glanz, Morag Fraser
    • 16 June 2006

    Death of the king, Little argument, Words to end winter

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  • ENVIRONMENT

    Caught in the Act

    • Paul Martin
    • 15 June 2006

    Paul Martin finds Victoria’s Water Act  is full of holes.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    The forgotten people

    • Fatima Measham
    • 12 June 2006

    Fatima Measham on the dilemma of poverty in Australia.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Welcome to Eureka Street, Mark II

    • Tom Cranitch
    • 14 May 2006
    1 Comment

    Tom Cranitch, chief executive officer of Jesuit Communications Australia, welcomes readers to Eureka Street Mark II.

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