Keywords: Sexual Abuse Crisis
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AUSTRALIA
- Jack Waterford
- 18 May 2007
It couldn’t make it as an issue in the federal election campaign, but the Howard Government is now embarked on radical change in Aboriginal affairs.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michele Gierck
- 18 May 2007
Michele Gierck meets the people on the other end of the line
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AUSTRALIA
- Frank Quinlan
- 16 October 2006
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Just last week, the coroner’s report into the death in custody of Palm Island man Mulrunji, called for a major overhaul of how the justice system deals with indigenous Australians. Yet in the same week, a Senate Committee began looking into a Bill that will increase the potential for injustice in sentencing decisions affecting indigenous people, and other cultural minorities.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Andrew Hamilton
- 06 July 2006
Reviews of American Catholic Social Teaching; War on Iraq: What Team Bush doesn’t want you to know; September 11, 2001: Feminist Perspectives; Inside Al Qaeda, and Marriage and the Catholic Church.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Andrew Hamilton
- 04 July 2006
Andrew Hamilton surveys four books on power and the Catholic Church.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Avril Hannah-Jones, Chloe Wilson, Terry Monagle
- 24 June 2006
Reviews of Sex, Power and the Clergy; Media Mania: why our fear of modern media is misplaced; Saving Francesca and Olhovsky Prince of Hamburg.
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AUSTRALIA
- Peter Pierce, David Glanz, Tony Brennan
- 13 June 2006
News from around the traps.
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AUSTRALIA
- Myrna Tonkinson
- 12 June 2006
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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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AUSTRALIA
Brian McCoy has worked with Aboriginal communities for thirty years. He says that male indigenous leaders should be consulted and supported in their efforts to deal with violence.
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AUSTRALIA
- Jane Mayo Carolan
- 11 May 2006
Jane Carolan speaks with doyen feminist and political activist Anne Summers.
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