Search Results: race violence
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 04 November 2010
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Cardinal Pell, with whom I have voiced disagreement, preached superbly at the mass of thanksgiving after the canonisation of Mary MacKillop. 'She does not deter us from struggling to follow her.' As we wrestle with the common good, let's make a place for all our fellow citizens.
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MARGARET DOOLEY AWARD
- Susie Byers
- 20 October 2010
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Harry Wetnose the Bigeye Tuna will probably never adorn any T-shirts. Nevertheless, the endangered Bigeye Tuna is in big trouble and could do with some help. The way we relate to fish raises some important questions about what it is to be a responsible person in the world.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Ellena Savage
- 10 September 2010
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University student unions are cesspools of toxicity, sociopathy and tedium. I should know — I'm a student politician. In his latest novel, Chaser alumnus Dominic Knight strikes a balance between sardonic parody and genuine reverence for those whose political conviction outweighs their pessimism.
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AUSTRALIA
- Philip Mendes
- 07 September 2010
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International concern with Middle East refugees focuses on the approximately 700,000 Palestinian Arabs who left Israel
during the 1947–48 war. Far less attention has been paid to the nearly
one million Jews who left Arab countries in the decade or so following that war.
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EUREKA STREET/ READER'S FEAST AWARD
- Nigel Pearn
- 18 August 2010
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The book was banned after parents complained about its anti-authoritarian attitude: 'Wanja [the dog] loved to chase the [police] van ... to bark at the van ... to bite at the wheel. The police van would drive away.' Like Jewish humour, Aboriginal humour is a response to a history of oppression.
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EUREKA STREET/ READER'S FEAST AWARD
My granddad was a fourth generation white Australian who worked with
sheep. I used to tell the
story that he was a small town racist who disliked Blacks, Catholics and
Jews. The punch line was that his daughter married a Fijian, his son
married a Jew and my dad married a Catholic.
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AUSTRALIA
- Tom Clark and Ravi de Costa
- 02 July 2010
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Survivors of the Indian Residential Schools who testified to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission complained of shocking treatment, violence
and sexual abuse. Testimonies left
no doubt that Canada's churches were heavily culpable.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
During the massacre Rurangwa's grandmother was murdered mid-prayer, various family
members called to god for help, while the killers, fellow parishioners
of the local church, struck their machetes until faith fell with
precious bodies into a pile.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 01 April 2010
Youthful hacker Lisbeth Sallander is capable of great
violence. But often her violence is a response to that which has
been inflicted upon her. Her investigation of a decades old missing person case will test her capacity for mercy.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 11 February 2010
From the moment of Malik's imprisonment he finds that if he is to survive, he needs to choose between
conflicting evils. His Muslim roots appear from time to time, but while these moments lend
transcendence to the film, they give no moral credence to Malik's actions.
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INTERNATIONAL
- Mark Raper
- 18 January 2010
Significant agreement was achieved in Copenhagen on the present and future
forcible displacement of people because of climate change and
environmental degradation. Can global cooperation for the protection of vulnerable displaced persons be renewed to meet new circumstances?
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AUSTRALIA
- Cara Munro
- 06 January 2010
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They came to stop the violence. Four, maybe five of them, in hooded jackets and pale, worn jeans. Hovering in the car
park. Shadow-like. Haunted. We
were gathered outside the place to which he had come, bleeding, begging
for help. Wrongly, we assumed they had come to join us.
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