Keywords: Weapons Of Mass Destruction
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 12 November 2012
39 Comments
Those paying close attention to media coverage of clergy sexual abuse might find Cardinal George Pell’s defence of the Church hard to swallow. But the weekend’s resignation of the BBC director general over mistakes in investigative reporting should cause us to treat the genre with a degree of scepticism, even though the media helps us to empathise with victims.
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AUSTRALIA
- Justin Glyn
- 23 November 2011
5 Comments
Given the leakiness of the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty, it is scarcely surprising that Australia is not concerned about the possibility of breaching it in selling uranium to India. If the world is serious about developing real safeguards against nuclear proliferation, the treaty needs to be replaced, not ignored.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Bruce Duncan
- 20 December 2010
7 Comments
With no hint of regret or apology, John Howard has defended his decision to join the 2003 invasion of Iraq. He gives no consideration to the just war criteria. This is not surprising, as on all these principles the case for a just war fails.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 06 September 2010
14 Comments
Newly-elected Tasmanian independent MP Andrew Wilkie is basing his quest for power on ethical conduct. There’s nothing new about politicians talking about doing the right thing. Wilkie’s point of difference is that he quickly follows his words with action.
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AUSTRALIA
- Shahram Akbarzadeh
- 24 February 2010
8 Comments
Australia is committed to nuclear non-proliferation, and the 'Iran problem'
offers a chance for the Government to demonstrate its
commitment to its ally, the US.
This is tricky as Rudd came to office on a wave of
anti-war backlash against Australia's commitment to the
Iraq war.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 25 January 2010
10 Comments
For a while we were leading the world on climate change. But once Copenhagen collapsed Rudd assured us 'Australia will do no more and no less than the rest of
the world'. The lowest common denominator is not usually the solution to the great moral challenges.
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AUSTRALIA
- Marko Beljac
- 16 June 2008
A new Bush Administration policy opens the door to proportionate nuclear strikes against states that transfer fissile material to terrorists — even if the material is stolen, not knowingly leaked. Such a 'negligence doctrine' increases the chance of inadvertent nuclear war.
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AUSTRALIA
- Tony Kevin
- 03 October 2007
4 Comments
The next year will be scary. There can be no guarantee that the war of words but not bombs with Iran will continue until Bush's term ends. Bush and Cheney have a propensity to recklessness, and Australia should keep a safe distance.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
A 19th century dispute over rights to whale on Victoria’s western coast saw a massacre of local Aboriginal people. The image of uniformed, white officers appearing in Aboriginal communities, supposedly to restore order and protect children, gives eerie timeliness to an uncompromising new account by Bruce Pascoe.
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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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RELIGION
- James Massola
- 02 April 2007
2 Comments
Jesuit peace activist John Dear is continuing the tradition of civil disobedience pioneererd by the Berrigan brothers in the 1960s. A month in Australia has convinced him that we want to give up our freedoms in order to become part of the new American Empire.
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AUSTRALIA
- David Corlett
- 08 March 2007
1 Comment
Pacifist and radical Christian Ammon Hennessy said that courage without love and wisdom is foolhardiness. The longer the war in Iraq continues, the more the decision to invade looks to have been made on the basis of this sort of courage.
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