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AUSTRALIA
We have learned that the damage caused by sexual abuse often continues for decades and into future generations. We can hope that Government interventions will make a long-term difference, but such complex issues cannot be reduced to a simple absolute: ‘the child must come first’.
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INFORMATION
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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
- Frank Brennan
- 05 June 2007
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There can be no peace unless believers and atheists share an equal place in the public square of a free and democratic society.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
Brian McCoy examines the theories of Joan Kimm in A fatal conjunction: Two laws two cultures.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Richard Leonard
- 27 February 2007
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This is the full text of a speech given by Richard Leonard SJ in Queensland on spirituality and cinema, on the occasion of the opening of a new spirituality centre.
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AUSTRALIA
- Julian Madsen
- 27 February 2007
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Heated disputes arose in Egypt late last year following comments by the Culture Minister Farouk Hosni that the rising number of Egyptian women wearing the Islamic headscarf or hijab was a "regressive" trend.
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RELIGION
- Abraham Rushdi
- 27 February 2007
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The full text of "The selling of Islamic martyrdom and why some buy it", by Abraham Rushdi.
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MARGARET DOOLEY AWARD
- Christine Kearney
- 22 January 2007
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Ten months after the renewed violence and lawlessness in East Timor, nobody is holding their breath for a simple resolution. It seems the dirty politicking will continue until a new order order has been established to properly replace the vacuum left when the state imploded in 1999. The first of two runner up essays in Eureka Street's Margaret Dooley Young Writers Award 2006.
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RELIGION
- Abraham Rushdi
- 23 December 2006
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There is a strong argument that the Qur'an does not sanction the use of martyrdom operations. But it must be asked why radical interpretations of the Qur'an resonate with some Muslim communities.
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RELIGION
- Scott Stephens
- 11 December 2006
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Instead of all those Baroque paintings of the baby Jesus in arms, the work of art that best captures the spirit of Christianity is arguably Andres Serrano's controversial Piss Christ.
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RELIGION
- Julian Madsen
- 13 November 2006
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For many, the War on Terror equals a War against Islam. Yet there is a real battle of ideas within Islam that is rarely heard by the West.
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