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  • CONTRIBUTORS

    Clare Coburn

    • Clare Coburn
    • 17 May 2007

    Clare Coburn is an educator, writer and mediator. Currently she is working on a doctorate on listening in mediation as well as teaching mediation and dispute resolution in the School of Law at La Trobe University.

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    Gill Straker-Bryce

    • Gill Straker-Bryce
    • 17 May 2007

    Gill Straker-Bryce has a PhD in psychology and is a consultant to Encompass Australasia in addition to working in private practice in Sydney. She is also a clinical professor inthe medical faculty at Sydney University.    

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  • CONTRIBUTORS

    Chloe Wilson

    • Chloe Wilson
    • 17 May 2007

    Chloe Wilson is completing Honours in English at the University of Melbourne. Formerly a journalist who worked exclusively on the subject of pipelines, she now works at a small publisher as an editorial assistant.

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    Colin Long

    • Colin Long
    • 17 May 2007
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    Colin Long lectures in cultural heritage at Deakin University. He is an urban historian with interests in Vietnamese, Lao and Cambodian history and heritage, Australian urban and labour history, and heritage in post-communist societies. He is also the President of the Deakin Branch of the National Tertiary Education Union.

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  • CONTRIBUTORS

    Peter Roebuck

    • Peter Roebuck
    • 17 May 2007
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    Peter Roebuck is a writer for the The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald, amongst other publications, and a commentator on the ABC. He also helped found the the LBW Trust, which helps young Zimbabweans attend university.

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    Rodrigo Acuña

    • Rodrigo Acuña
    • 17 May 2007

    Rodrigo Acuña is a PhD candidate in International Studies at Macquarie University, Sydney. He writes regularly on Latin American affairs in the Australian press and has been interviewed on ABC Radio, SBS Radio (Spanish) and Radio Adelaide among others.

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    Les Coleman

    • Les Coleman
    • 17 May 2007

    Dr Les Coleman lectures in finance at the University of Melbourne. His principal research focus is on the nature and consequences of firm risks.

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  • RELIGION

    Acting on Faith-Based Conscience in a Pluralist Democracy

    • Frank Brennan
    • 27 February 2007

    Links to the full text and audio of the speech delivered by Frank Brennan SJ at the Australian Catholic University on 29 July.  

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  • RELIGION

    Emotional and intellectual tensions rising in cloning debate

    • Frank Brennan
    • 30 October 2006
    1 Comment

    As senators reflected on the role of religious thinking in discussion of embryonic cloning, Senator Kay Patterson responded testily to Bishop Anthony Fisher: "Dear me, I might be excommunicated!" This week, the Australian Catholic University brings together two Catholic medical scientists, and two Catholic ethicists, with opposing views.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Feeding the habit

    • Geoffrey Milne
    • 06 July 2006

    Theatre critic Geoffrey Milne took time off this summer to write two books on Australian theatre. What has drawn him into theatres more than 100 times a year over the past three decades—as a journalist and as a theatre historian? His excuse is that his university teaching demands close acquaintance with actual performances. But that’s not the whole story.

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  • EDUCATION

    The price of education

    • Liz Curran
    • 13 June 2006
    1 Comment

    The imposition on students of greater burdens for repayment when they leave university is likely to cause a drought in the number of graduates who will be prepared to work for community agencies and the public service.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    A race for stayers

    • Brian Matthews
    • 11 June 2006

    As Melbourne Cup time comes round each year, I remember—with a mixture of dread and triumph—the Sir Robert Menzies Memorial Lecture that I gave on Tuesday, 5 November, in the Chancellors Hall of the University of London Senate House in 1996.

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