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AUSTRALIA

Remembering a hanging
- Peter Norden
- 27 February 2007
33 Comments
Forty years ago Ronald Ryan had a noose put around his neck by the prison hangman. With the authority of the Victorian State Government, its then Premier, Henry Bolte, and the Victorian Supreme Court he was killed. Ryan was the last man hanged in Australia, and many believe he will always retain that infamous privilege.
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AUSTRALIA

Iconoclasts' challenge to turn the other cheek
- Michael Mullins & James Massola
- 18 September 2006
7 Comments
When the Jesuits' founder St Ignatius Loyola was on the road riding with a Moor in 1522, the Moor argued that the Virgin Mary was no longer a virgin after Christ was born. The recent former soldier Ignatius wanted to kill the Moor on the spot.
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RELIGION

What makes a site sacred?
- Andrew Hamilton
- 04 September 2006
17 Comments
Recently a group broke into the Redfern Catholic Church, and defied their parish priest by painting a large and splendidly executed mural that enshrined the words of Pope John Paul II in Alice Springs 20 years ago. The priest was left with an unpalatable dilemma—leave the mural there, or whitewash Pope John Paul II.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Jesuit premise fails but resilience of humanity proved
- Richard Leonard
- 21 August 2006
2 Comments
As the fascinating Seven Up documentary series develops, the supposed principle of St Ignatius—'give me a boy until he is seven, and I will give you the man'—is found to be increasingly untrue.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Book reviews
- Miriam Bugden, Andrew Hamilton, Chris O’Connor, Tom Rigby
- 26 June 2006
Reviews of Western Horizon: Sydney’s heartland and the future of Australian politics; Body and Soul: A Spirituality of Imaginative Creativity; One Fourteenth of an Elephant: A memoir of life and death on the Burma–Thailand Railway; What’s Right? and Giving it Away: In praise of philanthropy.
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EDUCATION

Values fruitful
- Christopher Gleeson
- 05 June 2006
Recent statements by government leaders accusing their own schools of ‘values neutral’ education demonstrate clearly how out of touch they are with teaching and learning in the nation’s classrooms.
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AUSTRALIA

First give West Papuans a human welcome
- Andrew Hamilton
- 18 May 2006
2 Comments
The arrival of West Papuan refugees raises complex questions. Discussion must begin by honouring the humanity of the West Papuans involved.
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AUSTRALIA

A part-time ‘working’ nation
- Tim Martyn
- 14 May 2006
While Australia enjoys its lowest official unemployment rate in 28 years, it’s time to reflect upon the true level of labour-market exclusion and prospects for the unemployed and working poor.
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AUSTRALIA

Advancing Australia fair
- Tim Martyn
- 27 April 2006
Young people have become increasingly wary of the hard sell, especially when pitched by the major political parties.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Turning the soul
- Christopher Gleeson
- 25 April 2006
Christopher Gleeson praises Roslyn Arnold’s Empathic Intelligence: Teaching, Learning, Relating.
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EDUCATION

Facing a lifetime without work
- Tim Martyn
- 24 April 2006
The transition from school to work or study is harder now than it has been since the recession "we had to have" in 1990.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

The rise of radical Islam
- Tim Martyn
- 24 April 2006
Tim Martyn reviews Amin Saikal’s Islam and the West: Conflict or Co-operation.
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