Keywords: We Are The World
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AUSTRALIA
- Andrew Hamilton
- 12 September 2024
Anxieties about democracy around the world today are well-founded. While we rightly celebrate our democratic institutions, it's crucial to acknowledge the vast wealth disparities and the growing influence of powerful corporations.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael McVeigh
- 11 September 2024
Gambling ads are infiltrating children's sports content, raising concerns about the impact on the development of young minds. Is our current gambling culture something we want to hand on to the next generation?
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RELIGION
- John Warhurst
- 03 September 2024
Lay-led organizations, once marginalised, are now ascendant in the Church, challenging traditional hierarchies and redefining what church might look like in future. Ministerial Public Juridic Persons (MPJPs) have a growing influence, and for some, hold the potential for a more inclusive, lay-led Church.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Peter Steele
- 29 August 2024
Good poetry stops us in our tracks, visited as we are by whatever it is that has stopped the poet in his tracks. This agency may properly be, as in Walcott's case, something stemming from cultural marginality, from a fascination with the dramatic, from an equipoise between the lyrical and the epical, or from the interweaving of all these. (From the Eureka Street archives)
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Warwick McFadyen
- 21 August 2024
In my part of the world, the earth has begun to awaken from its winterlong sleep. The colours of the day are changing and the earth and its attendant branches of family are blooming into beauty.
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INTERNATIONAL
- Gillian Bouras
- 21 August 2024
In an uncertain world, the one certainty is that of change. Much like David Malouf’s idea that we are all exiles, even those of us who never leave home, for this is the effect that the passing of time has: familiar worlds become strange no matter where we are.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Andrew Hamilton
- 15 August 2024
In a world driven by profit and speed, poetry stands as a quiet rebellion. It honours and explores what is distinctive about human beings – communication through words. And if we dismiss as a waste of time the slower rhythms involved in the writing and reading of poetry, we are likely to discover how time spent unreflectively wastes us.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Eddie Hampson
- 08 August 2024
Blanche DuBois is a character defined by her fragility, and her descent into madness is a harrowing testament to the pressures of a society that offers little mercy to women. But when Blanche is portrayed as a figure of power and defiance, she lacks the vulnerability of her predecessors and the logic of her descent into ‘madness’ isn’t as clean-cut.
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AUSTRALIA
- Mark Gaetani
- 08 August 2024
The Parliamentary Budget Office has unveiled the staggering cost of Australia's negative gearing and capital gains tax policies. As the housing affordability crisis deepens, critics question whether politicians' personal interests are hampering reform in a nation where one in five taxpayers owns investment property.
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INTERNATIONAL
- Michael McVeigh
- 18 July 2024
In a world racing to embrace AI, we rarely hear about AI's voracious appetite for energy. As tech giants like Google and Microsoft see their emissions soar, questions arise about the environmental cost of this digital revolution. Is AI's promise worth the toll on our climate goals?
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INTERNATIONAL
- Warwick McFadyen
- 15 July 2024
Following the assassination attempt on Donald Trump, politicians, including the US President were quick to condemn the shooting, all saying it had no place in American society or democracy. Tell that to children killed by gunfire. Every day, guns take young lives in the US. Gun violence was recently declared a national health crisis in the United States.
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ENVIRONMENT
- Julie Perrin
- 12 July 2024
In her new Quarterly Essay Highway to Hell, Australian climate scientist Joëlle Gergis pleads in language beyond the careful neutrality of traditional science-speak: ‘We need you to stare into the abyss with us and not turn away.’
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