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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
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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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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 18 May 2009
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The public thinks rugby league star Matthew Johns behaved disgracefully in the 2002 Christchurch group sex incident. He has done nothing wrong in the eyes of the law. He needs to imagine that he is on his deathbed and then ask 'what would I like to have done?'
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MEDIA
Quality television for children is widely regarded as a good idea. But not all children's TV has their best interests at heart. The ABC3 kids channel, which could receive funding in next week's Federal Budget, is an important step, but may not address all concerns.
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MEDIA
- Jan Forrester
- 20 March 2009
Tolo TV is the most popular network in
Afghanistan. A young population enjoys its Indian soap
operas, racy by conservative Afghan mores. The Government tried to censor Tolo and another leading network. The latter bowed to pressure. Tolo refused.
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