Keywords: The Sydney Institute
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 06 February 2008
8 Comments
Even senior traditional hard men of the Liberal Party like Bill Heffernan and Shane Stone have indicated that it is time to act. It is time for Brendan Nelson to draw the line so that we can move on, committed to reconciliation and improvement in Aboriginal health, education, and life expectancy.
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ENVIRONMENT
- John Button
- 09 January 2008
No
wonder people hope for arguments which suggest climate change will go
away. The discussion about climate change has become increasingly
feverish, polemical and downright dishonest. From 13 June 2007.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 29 November 2007
The power of the State can be exercised capriciously and unaccountably when the “Don’t ask; don’t tell” approach to government is immune from parliamentary, judicial or public scrutiny. It is the task of lawyers to make it more difficult for politicians to take this approach.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 14 November 2007
42 Comments
Some religious schools have withdrawn from Amnesty because it has become pro-choice on abortion. But members of organisations such as Amnesty, which take a full spectrum approach to human rights, do not generally agree to every item in the organisations' policy statements.
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CONTRIBUTORS
- Anne Lanyon
- 06 September 2007
Anne Lanyon is the Co-ordinator of the Columban Centre for Peace, Ecology and Justice, one of three centres of the Columban Mission Institute based in Strathfield, Sydney
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AUSTRALIA
Tackling the problem of terrorism by the application of force is unlikely to succeed. Pouring blood on the Iraqi desert produced an upsurge of terrorism where none had been before: cruelty, genocide even, but not terrorism, let alone fundamentalist terrorism.
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CONTRIBUTORS
Kate Mannix, a former ABC producer who was later foundation editor of Online Catholics, is a consultant to the Sydney-based Climate Institute.
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INTERNATIONAL
- Georgina Pike
- 04 April 2007
1 Comment
Georgina Pike on the plight of the Sri Lankan asylum seekers who have been sent to Christmas Island.
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AUSTRALIA
- Tim Kroenert
- 27 February 2007
2 Comments
As a child in Afghanistan, Hussain Sadiqi idolised martial arts icon Bruce Lee. Today, with two shaolin kung fu Afghani national championship wins under his belt, the 27-year-old's achievements in the ring are nothing compared with the fight he’s faced away from it.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Danby
- 13 November 2006
9 Comments
Once a corrupt military dictatorship, Indonesia is becoming a healthy democracy. Many Australians persist with pathetic stereotypes including the perception of Indonesian judges as monkeys.
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AUSTRALIA
- Alice Bergin
- 24 July 2006
The Federal Government is seeking to scare the smoking public with the replacement of tamer text warnings with a range of photographs depicting cases of lung disease, tongue cancers and even a dissected brain.
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INFORMATION
- Michael McKernan, Frank O’Shea, Mark Deasey, Morag Fraser, John Carmody, Brigid Hains, Pip Robertson
- 03 July 2006
Peace drums, Irish visitor, Travellers’ tales, Epiphanies, Deep structure, Counter-terrorism kits, Circling the square
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