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RELIGION
- Andrew Hamilton
- 24 June 2010
6 Comments
If we look at income quarantining as an ethical and not as a political
question, it raises many questions. To answer them we would need to look
beyond its effectiveness in preventing excessive expenditure on
socially undesirable goods like alcohol and pornography.
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AUSTRALIA
- Moira Rayner
- 22 June 2010
14 Comments
David Jones acted promptly upon complaints of sexual harassment against its CEO Mark McInnes. But most
women pay in blood for making sexual harassment complaints against
powerful men in high places.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 21 June 2010
5 Comments
SBS TV's world renowned Subtitling Unit is about to lose one third of its staff. It's perfectly valid for SBS to jettison its subtitlers if it determines that SBS is fundamentally no longer a multicultural broadcaster. It's up to SBS management to come clean on its current purpose.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 25 May 2010
Fr Frank Brennan SJ's address at the Commemoration of Julian Tenison Woods Park, Penola SA, 23 Mary 2010
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AUSTRALIA
- Frank Quinlan
- 12 May 2010
23 Comments
If a 'fiscally responsible Budget' can increase spending on Australia's representatives in elite sports by $237 million, it is hard to imagine that there is not room somewhere for our unemployed to eat a little better.
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AUSTRALIA
- Catherine Marshall
- 06 May 2010
36 Comments
What's the difference between wanting a thin wife and wanting an invisible wife? Which is more democratic: the western tendency to idealise the porn-star aesthetic, or the old-fashioned imperative for modesty and virtue?
When the chips are down, is raunch culture really more dignifying than discretion?
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RELIGION
The crisis facing the Church arising out of sexual abuse is arguably the most serious challenge it has faced since the Reformation. Issues such as authoritarianism, compulsory celibacy, the participation of women and the teaching on sexuality cannot be brushed aside.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 15 April 2010
'Like most politicians, she was driven by psychological angels and demons', writes musician David Byrne of Imelda Marcos, the former first lady ofthe Philippines. Byrne has written a 'musical' about Marcos' life. From the outset, he risks deifying a monster.
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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
- Brian Matthews
- 25 March 2010
5 Comments
Few people give a toss about Bilbies, the Arts
or Heritage, but the moment someone rediscovers them and deems them indispensable, only to find that
Bilbies are disappearing and Arts and Heritage are in palliative care,
Garrett's a goner — again.
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AUSTRALIA
- Jim McDermott
- 24 March 2010
6 Comments
Unlike the night of Obama's election, there was no cheering to be heard in the streets after the bill passed, no roars of joy, no celebrations. If there were any exclamations, they were probably sighs of relief.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 19 March 2010
4 Comments
The challenges and opportunities are to fund equitably all
networks in education and to ensure that robust morale and community
engagement are hallmarks of all parts of the network, including state
schools and emerging schools such as Muslim schools.
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