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AUSTRALIA
We have just experienced a Shakespearean moment. There is real excitement in the land, a sense of new beginnings, as the Elizabethan figure of Julia Gillard takes the reins as Prime Minister. Rudd, to his credit, has accepted the inevitable with grace and dignity.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 21 June 2010
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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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AUSTRALIA
- Sarah McKenzie
- 26 March 2010
13 Comments
According to the International Astronomical Union, nearly 30 per cent of the world's population cannot see the Milky Way. Vincent Van Gogh said 'the sight of the stars make me dream'. When we over-light our cities, it's not just sleep we're losing, it's the chance to dream.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
Remember the man who yelled 'iron my shirt!' at Hillary Clinton? No doubt Clinton knows the
problems women face in their fight to be taken seriously in the
workplace. Acclaimed The Hurt Locker director Kathryn Bigelow has similarly found that male peers seem more
interested in her body than her body of work.
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RELIGION
- Andrew Hamilton
- 03 December 2009
The job of parliaments is to pass legislation after debating its merits. They get things done. The Parliament of Religions, which begins in Melbourne today, offers religious perspectives on public issues including discrimination, poverty, indigenous welfare and care for the environment.
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AUSTRALIA
The pro-rape website set up by students of a Sydney college may be attributed to a culture that peddles sexualised images to both boys and girls from an increasingly young age. When a young girl's body is stripped of its innocence, we all lose out.
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ENVIRONMENT
- Francis Keaney
- 28 October 2009
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My 'Hopenhagen citizenship' was easy to obtain, but what would it get me? Was I entitled to vote or
apply for social benefits? Could I move there for the summer?
It didn't take long before the penny dropped. This place was not so much a city-state as a state of mind.
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EDUCATION
- Fatima Measham
- 20 October 2009
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A Queensland father removed his children from a Catholic primary school in protest against the graphic sexual education given to his children. Schools are best placed to cover sexual health because students can be
supported in developing a mature sexual ethic.
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AUSTRALIA
- Tania Andrusiak
- 16 October 2009
5 Comments
Every year children aged six to 13 spend
around $328 billion of their own money, and influence another $2 trillion of parental spending.
Children
under eight are not equipped to understand an
advertiser's intent. They take ads as helpful, truthful information.
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MARGARET DOOLEY AWARD
- Helen Brake
- 03 September 2009
8 Comments
For international students, the eagerness to accept new faces is intensified by a desire to make Australian friends, improve communication skills, and embrace all the opportunities available to them.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 10 August 2009
5 Comments
Kyle Sandilands and other shock jocks may want to behave well,
but they are constrained by commercial logic, and need the
helping hand of regulation. Even John Laws
intimated this last week when he told VEGA 95.3: 'I never wanted to create mischief that would be damaging to people.'
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AUSTRALIA
It is time we stopped allowing football
administrators, advertisers and television stations to set the standards for ethical behaviour. The only way that
the current unethical rugby league culture can be removed is for the
code itself to disappear.
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