Search Results: prostitution
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 22 August 2007
8 Comments
For most Australians, endearing naughtiness was the beginning an end of the Kevin Rudd sex club story. What was sadly overlooked was the de facto promotion of the sex industry, and implicit toleration of the damage it does to human dignity and the long struggle to ensure that women are not looked upon as sex objects.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 22 August 2007
The Jammed is a frank and gritty cinematic reminder that the issue of human trafficking is not just on Australia’s doorstep—tragically, it’s part of the furniture. The most unsettling human degradation is protected by walls of silence and secrecy, and is the oxygen that keeps the sex industry alive.
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RELIGION
- Greg Soetomo
- 27 February 2007
2 Comments
When I reflect on this conversation, I am also struck by how different what I see in daily life is from what I read and watch in the media about about Muslim militants, the clash between Christians and Muslims, fundamentalism, or terrorism. Every age has its own false ideas. In our time, it is the notion that identifies Islam with hostility and aggression.
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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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INTERNATIONAL
- Peter Cronau
- 24 December 2006
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Barely reported by Australia's media, Papua New Guinea's AIDS crisis is on track to cause the collapse of the country's economy, with AusAID forcasting a 37.5% decline in the labour force by 2020. From 3 October 2006.
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AUSTRALIA
- Peter Cronau
- 16 October 2006
2 Comments
Barely reported by Australia's media, Papua New Guinea's AIDS crisis is on track to cause the collapse of the country's economy, with AusAID forcasting a 37.5% decline in the labour force by 2020.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Peter Cronau
- 16 October 2006
16 Comments
Barely reported by Australia's media, Papua New Guinea's AIDS crisis is on track to cause the collapse of the country's economy, with AusAID forcasting a 37.5% decline in the labour force by 2020.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
Despite overweening corporate visions, the exploding lights and multicultural crowds of New York's Times Square show that people will continue to claim their right to be part of the city spectacle.
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INTERNATIONAL
- Paul Sendziuk
- 18 June 2006
Australian responses to AIDS.
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AUSTRALIA
- Robert Manne
- 18 June 2006
This is the full text of the speech prepared for the debate with Keith Windschuttle at the Melbourne Writers’ Festival. It draws on some of the contributions found in Robert Manne’s (ed), Whitewash: On Keith Windschuttle’s Fabrication of Aboriginal History (Black Inc, 2003).
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Juliette Hughes
- 18 June 2006
Juliette Hughes talks to Gil Courtemanche about A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali
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AUSTRALIA
- Jon Greenaway, Kristie Dunn, Georgina Costello
- 11 June 2006
Unnecessary necessities | Letter from Broome | Heavy traffic
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