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RELIGION
- Peter Scally
- 22 September 2010
5 Comments
If British MPs think that, on balance, support for the Pope is a vote-winner, they are probably right. That tells us a great deal about the views of ordinary British people — as opposed to the views of the relatively small band of metropolitan 'opinion-formers' who work in the media.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 20 September 2010
12 Comments
Social commentator Frank Furedi wrote that the Pope's UK visit provided Britain's cultural elite with 'a figure that it is okay to hate'. We might regard the angst as a manifestation of the
growing pains that are to be expected in a world of emerging pluralism.
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RELIGION
- Paul Collins
- 17 September 2010
39 Comments
It's not that Catholicism has nothing to answer for, but the problem is that caricatures quickly become
facts. Many Catholics have learned to 'cop it sweet', but there comes a
point where you have to say something. The papal visit to
the UK might just be it.
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INTERNATIONAL
- Tony Kevin
- 09 September 2010
11 Comments
What do young Australians take away from John Marsden's novels - and now, the film Tomorrow, When the War Began? They are more than escapist fantasies. They convey value messages, calling on young Australians to cherish our country, not to take it for granted, and to be prepared if necessary to kill and die for it.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Various
- 07 September 2010
3 Comments
somewhere, .. on a dusty stump .. or parched rock ... far from here on the road inside myself .. patiently fanning flies .. and hoping that I'll have the heart .. to travel on and not look back.
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RELIGION
- Frank O'Shea
- 31 August 2010
7 Comments
Throughout more than 30 years of killing and maiming in Northern
Ireland, the media and governments maintained that the unrest was a political conflict. Though virtually everyone on one side was Catholic and those on the other were
Protestant, nobody dared call it a religious war.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 11 August 2010
1 Comment
For all our modern sophistication, refinement and technology, we remain in imaginative thrall to one of the most venerable and terrifying of folk figures. The vampire combines two of human kind's profoundly obsessive preoccupations: mortality and sex.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 26 July 2010
24 Comments
Julia Gillard appears to be in no mood to countenance the type of conviction politics that would be required to ratify the ban of cluster bombs. This is a far cry from the glory days of Kevin07 when Rudd said he would ratify Kyoto, then did exactly that.
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AUSTRALIA
- Catherine Marshall
- 25 June 2010
35 Comments
Rudd's eviction should strike fear into the hearts of feminists
everywhere. For this is how the Labor Government operates, unsheathing
the swords, wrenching power, cutting down a leader before he has had
time to really prove himself. Imagine what it will do when that leader
is a woman.
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RELIGION
- Andrew Hamilton
- 13 May 2010
15 Comments
This week's headlines have been about elections in the UK, the economy in Greece, and justice and law in Australia regarding banning the burqa and monstering asylum seekers. The way these are played out leaves little room for love, altruism, forgiveness, restoration, reconciliation and freedom, and no space for grace.
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AUSTRALIA
Gordon Brown's dignified resignation underlines the fact that Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg's options in choosing a coalition partner remain open. He is wise not to rush a decision to finalise a deal. After the election that everybody lost, a coalition that works could make winners of the British people.
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AUSTRALIA
- Peter Scally
- 30 April 2010
8 Comments
Gordon Brown's campaign has hit rock-bottom thanks to an inadvertent remark being whipped into a huge story by mischief-making reporters. He is to Tony Blair what Pope Benedict is to John Paul II — shy, serious, and a little too 'heavy' for our sound-bite culture.
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