Keywords: Right To Intervene
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 12 October 2012
2 Comments
Fr Frank Brennan SJ's paper 'Reflections on the death penalty on the tenth anniversary of the Bali Bombings' presented at the Australian Lawyers for Human Rights and Australians Against Capital Punishment Dinner, Red Hill, Brisbane, 12 October 2012, Commemorating the 10th World Day Against the Death Penalty.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 25 January 2012
57 Comments
Just because there is no legal remedy to the denial of natural justice to former bishop Bill Morris, that is no reason for the senior hierarchy not to reflect acutely on their treatment of him. Respectful dialogue with Toowoomba's church leaders would be a good start.
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AUSTRALIA
- Ben Coleridge
- 29 March 2011
2 Comments
Many regard the 'Responsibility to Protect' as a doctrine which licences military intervention when civilians' lives are threatened by murderous governments. In fact, R2P emphasises the 'responsibility to prevent' as much as it does the responsibility to intervene.
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MEDIA
Following the success of the UN Security Council approved action in Libya, Gaddafi ought to be allowed into some safe international haven. To push hm into a last-ditch Hitlerian bunker stand would cause much unnecessary civilian death and destruction.
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RELIGION
- Ashleigh Green
- 06 March 2011
17 Comments
Renowned theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking's book The Grand Design purported to explain why a creator is unnecessary. John Polkinghorne, a Cambridge University theologian and scientist, has shed light on a new complementary model of science and religion.
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AUSTRALIA
- Neil Ormerod
- 11 January 2011
18 Comments
Tony Abbott has been in public life for a long time. Most recently there has been his meteoric rise to leadership of the Liberal party and to a hair’s breadth from the prime ministership itself. Charming and disarming as he can be, there is something deeply disturbing in the way he carries out his public role.
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AUSTRALIA
- Neil Ormerod
- 08 November 2010
61 Comments
Tony Abbott has been in public life for a long time. Most recently there has been his meteoric rise to leadership of the Liberal party and to a hair’s breadth from the prime ministership itself. Charming and disarming as he can be, there is something deeply disturbing in the way he carries out his public role.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 06 October 2010
1 Comment
Fiction writers have to arrange events so that they achieve the required outcome without stretching credulity. Yet real life routinely throws up sequences so bizarre that a fiction writer wouldn't dare to own them. Try this one.
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AUSTRALIA
- Moira Rayner
- 06 August 2010
11 Comments
Kristy Fraser-Kirk has flabbergasted David Jones with her pursuit of $37 million in punitive damages after allegations of sexual harassment against the company's former CEO. The retail giant says it is still interested in settlement. She doesn't want to settle, mate. She wants to make a point.
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AUSTRALIA
- John Warhurst
- 30 June 2010
6 Comments
Christians rarely agree on what they want from government. The Australian Christian Lobby jumped the gun last week with its forum for political leaders to address Christian voters: the elevation of Julia Gillard means it now needs to engage afresh with a new Prime Minister.
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AUSTRALIA
- Moira Rayner
- 06 January 2010
1 Comment
The Martidja Manyjima
people of the Pilbara want a WA mining registrar to hear their challenge to BHP
Billiton's claim for more mining leases on 200 square kilometres of
their traditional land. The outcome will affect every one of us. September 2009
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AUSTRALIA
- Moira Rayner
- 22 September 2009
10 Comments
The Martidja Manyjima
people of the Pilbara want a WA mining registrar to hear their challenge to BHP
Billiton's claim for more mining leases on 200 square kilometres of
their traditional land. The outcome will affect every one of us.
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