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ECONOMICS

How financial devils came to rule the universe
- David James
- 05 June 2013
7 Comments
Religious authorities may not spend a lot of time pondering the nature of global financial systems, but the Pope's recent comment that 'money has to serve, not rule' suggests it can be useful when they do. Given scope to become rule makers, rather than just people who know how to exploit the rules, financiers have moved themselves to a position of mastery.
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INTERNATIONAL

Euthanasing the disabled
- Moira Byrne Garton
- 29 June 2012
6 Comments
Earlier this month a Canadian Supreme Court effectively legalised physician-assisted euthanasia. While there is a general perception that those opposed to euthanasia do so on religious grounds, many people with disabilities oppose euthanasia because they believe it is bad policy that denies their right to live.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Testing nature vs nurture
- Tim Kroenert
- 29 September 2011
5 Comments
During the 1970s, a chimpanzee named Nim was placed with and raised by a human family, with the aim of seeing whether he could learn language. On a larger canvas the experiment asked the question, 'how much can we make Nim human?'
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MEDIA

Julia Gillard vs Kim Jong-il
- Alan Austin
- 29 July 2011
21 Comments
North Koreans admire their glorious leader and his visionary ministers, despite their poor economic and human rights record. By contrast, most Australians despise the current Labor Government, despite the high esteem with which it is regarded internationally. How can this be?
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Good journalism and Murdoch's pie-gate
- Tim Kroenert
- 21 July 2011
1 Comment
Rupert Murdoch's News International has found itself with more than egg on its face over the News of the World scandal. As this case reveals journalism at its most prurient and base, a new film pays tribute to journalism at its most noble and courageous.
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MARGARET DOOLEY AWARD

Being humanistic about fish
- Susie Byers
- 20 October 2010
2 Comments
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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EUREKA STREET TV

Rabbi takes on Religious Right
- Peter Kirkwood
- 09 April 2010
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AUSTRALIA

Patron saint of troublemakers
- James Martin
- 07 August 2009
8 Comments
In 1871 Mary MacKillop was excommunicated by her local bishop on the grounds that 'she had incited the sisters to disobedience and defiance'. The idea of a holy woman who had been at loggerheads with the hierarchy is not new in the annals of the saints.
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RELIGION

Obama's Dream at the Lincoln Memorial
- Frank Brennan
- 11 November 2008
10 Comments
The great orator Obama is yet to put real shape on his message of change and hope. Should he harness the good will he has evoked across traditional boundaries and be granted a second term, he will be able to mount those steps at the Lincoln Memorial on the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington and proclaim to the world, 'Yes we can, because we have a dream'.
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AUSTRALIA

Freedom fries not to Solzhenitsyn's taste
- Michael Mullins
- 11 August 2008
1 Comment
While he was best known for his unrelenting criticism of the Soviet system, Alexander Solzhenitsyn also provided a devastating critique of the excesses of Western capitalism.
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AUSTRALIA

Don’t fence me in
- Mark Wakely
- 14 May 2006
Mark Wakely looks at our instinct to build fences
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Searching for Suggan Buggan
- Anthony Taylor
- 20 April 2006
Shangri-La in the high country.
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