Search Results: multiculturalism
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Hilary Rogers
- 09 January 2008
There’s
something very reassuring about the idea that what we loved to read
will still appeal to kids now. Choosing a brand of food for our pets is
less fraught, unless we were dogs in past lives. From 15 May 2007.
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AUSTRALIA
- Jack Waterford
- 25 October 2007
2 Comments
Jack Waterford writes that Australia is likely to have a new government by December 2007.
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AUSTRALIA
- Joseph Camilleri
- 18 May 2007
In light of the federal election, Joe Camilleri considers the questions that have yet to be asked
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CONTRIBUTORS
- Maria Vamvakinou
- 17 May 2007
Maria Vamvakinou has been Labor Member for Calwell since 2001. Prior to her election, Maria worked for two State Labor Ministers and a Federal Labor Senator. Her main areas of interest are multiculturalism, human rights, foreign affairs, immigration and social justice.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Hilary Rogers
- 15 May 2007
8 Comments
There’s something very reassuring about the idea that what we loved to read will still appeal to kids now. Choosing a brand of food for our pets is less fraught, unless we were dogs in past lives.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Scott Stephens
- 04 April 2007
Scott Stephens on the passing of Jean Baudrillard.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Richard Leonard
- 02 April 2007
1 Comment
A new ocker comedy depicts young protégés at a suburban dance school immersing themselves in choreographies about starvation, people dying of AIDS and the nuclear holocaust.
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AUSTRALIA
- Shahram Akbarzadeh
- 27 February 2007
3 Comments
A quiet revolution is being carried out by ordinary men and women who happen to be Muslim, but are otherwise undistinguishable from the rest of the community. Muslims living in Australia don't have to turn their backs to religion to be good citizens, indeed they're turning to the essentials of their faith to fulfil their citizenship.
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INTERNATIONAL
- Anthony Ham
- 23 December 2006
The Madrid barrio of Lavapiés has always been peopled with immigrants. The easy coexistence of tradition and diversity there is especially important, on a continent made suddenly uneasy by its burgeoning immigrant populations.
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RELIGION
- Daniel Baldino
- 30 October 2006
1 Comment
Manipulating narrowly conceived notions of national values simply triggers a storm of prejudice, while undercutting efforts to improve conceptions of the nation’s Muslim community.
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AUSTRALIA
- Maria Vamvakinou
- 30 October 2006
Whilst many see and use dialogue as a way to identify our similarities, its true value often lay in the way it can teach us to recognise and respect other people’s differences, and to see difference as valuable in and of itself.
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AUSTRALIA
- Tony Smith
- 07 August 2006
1 Comment
Former Labor minister John Button anticipated the current low point in political discourse, with defenders and critics of government policy having lost the capacity to engage in dialogue, particularly in the field of public morality.
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