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AUSTRALIA

Changing the housing story
- John Falzon
- 21 September 2023
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In the face of Australia's pressing housing crisis, is the solution merely a question of funds, or does it demand a deeper overhaul? Many are calling for a transformed government role, one that abandons the shackles of neoliberalism, prioritises social infrastructure, and champions the collective good over select interests.
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AUSTRALIA

Robodebt: Anatomy of a scandal
- James Massola
- 14 July 2023
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Catherine Holmes' Royal Commission report exposes the staggering mismanagement and human cost of Australia's Robodebt scandal. The scheme burdened over 500,000 Australians with non-existent debts and is linked to at least three suicides. This report unravels the culture behind the disaster and the potential repercussions ahead.
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AUSTRALIA

Protesting in South Australia: Then and now
- Michele Madigan
- 29 June 2023
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Following a rally by climate action group Extinction Rebellion, anti-protest laws were rushed through the SA lower house, increasing the maximum fines for disruptive protests along with potential jail time. Sadly, SA is not an outlier here, but is rather in step with the rest of the country with similar ‘draconian’ laws regulating protests.
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AUSTRALIA

Life and death in the Cathedral
- Andrew Hamilton
- 10 October 2022
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Two weeks ago, Bishop Hilton Deakin died. My memories of him are inextricably tied to the Mass he celebrated in 1999 at St Patrick’s Cathedral in Melbourne, certainly the most emotionally charged event that I have seen there, following the violence orchestrated by the Indonesian military following the Referendum on Independence in East Timor. During the struggle for Independence, many East Timorese had joined the Catholic Church.
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AUSTRALIA

On remembering the forgotten
- Andrew Hamilton
- 08 June 2022
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In his initial speech as leader of the Liberal Party Peter Dutton committed himself to care for the forgotten voters, echoing a foundation document of the Liberal Party: Robert Menzies’ speech after an electoral defeat in 1942 refers to forgotten people to point the way forward for the new party. The phrase was central to a re-imagining of Australian society.
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AUSTRALIA

Insights from Cardinal Newman on Religious Discrimination and Religious Freedom
- Frank Brennan
- 22 February 2022
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In recent days, if you were to listen to the media reports, you could be forgiven for thinking that religious educators want to retain a right to exclude children or teachers from their schools on the basis of their gender or sexual orientation. Nothing could be further from the truth. Or nothing should be further from the truth.
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INTERNATIONAL

What’s next for Afghanistan?
- Hava Rezaie, Hayat Akbari, Zaki Haidari
- 28 September 2021
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It has now been over a month since the Taliban seized Kabul. As attention inevitably shifts elsewhere, the painful question arises: What's next? Is this another 'back to the future' moment? The signs are grim. Over the last two weeks, the Taliban have issued a number of edicts which demonstrate that their attitudes to women have not changed.
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INTERNATIONAL

Fragile fraternity a hundred years on from Black Friday
- Andrew Hamilton
- 15 April 2021
4 Comments
The parallels with our own times of the events of Black Friday in 1921, with its movement from a time of heavy social spending and the flowering of social capital to a time of recovery, and the fateful choices that are made at such times, are evident. We await the results of the economic choices being made by government and their effects on community and solidarity.
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RELIGION

Faith and reason, same-sex relationships and blessings
- Ross Jones
- 06 April 2021
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The opening line of John Paul’s encyclical is memorable: ‘Faith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth.’ The recent pronouncement by the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) on the blessing of same-sex unions certainly had people assessing its reasonableness as a so-called ‘deposit of faith’.
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ECONOMICS

A way forward to COVID-19 economic recovery
- Joe Zabar
- 05 May 2020
6 Comments
To date, most of the Morrison government’s economic packages could best be described as ‘economic welfare’. They are measures designed to limit the impact on the economy of the COVID-19 pandemic. The recovery phase will very much need to be about stimulating the Australian economy.
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INTERNATIONAL

Trauma revisited: Coronavirus in Hong Kong
- Jocelin Chan
- 11 February 2020
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The coronavirus transfixed everyone; I couldn’t ride a lift or have New Year dinner or go hiking without hearing a conversation about the coronavirus. The demon of the past had reared its head again.
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INTERNATIONAL

Seeking balance in diverse Indonesia
- Devana Senanayake
- 30 September 2019
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With Widowo's decision to reconsider the proposed updates, policymakers should seek to initiate balanced and nuanced reforms that help liberal lifestyles and conservative values coexist. While appeasing the conservative portion of the electorate is a good tactic, ignoring a diverse electorate is a recipe for disaster in the long term.
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Keywords: Civil Unions