Search Results: addiction
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AUSTRALIA
- Tony Kevin
- 24 January 2012
20 Comments
Catholics in Australia have tended to be more tolerant of alcohol and gambling than 'wowser' Protestants. But too many Catholics turn a blind eye to how today's poker machine technology and operating environment is designed to nurture dangerous (but profitable) addiction.
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MEDIA
- Philip Harvey
- 16 January 2012
12 Comments
Somedays it looks like the most extravagant love letter to the humanist project, other days like the biggest ragbag of unsorted intellectual capital. The sheer scale of information is truly amazing. But as a reference, the time has come for Wikipedia to up its game.
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AUSTRALIA
- Madeleine Hamilton
- 16 December 2011
23 Comments
When she had her first baby at 18, her neighbour asked if she was trying to make a buck from the baby bonus. Given the liberalisation of abortion laws, pregnant teens are accused of deliberately ruining their lives or ripping off the public purse if they choose to continue their pregnancies.
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MEDIA
- Matthew Holloway
- 28 November 2011
25 Comments
It is commonly thought that men represent both the main producers and consumers of pornography. Germaine Greer points out that men are also its victims. In the case of gay porn, just because there is no woman involved doesn't mean that it is not exploitative.
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AUSTRALIA
- Moira Rayner
- 20 July 2011
38 Comments
Those who rise by media approval, will fall by it. Once, talkback radio hosts and reporters drummed up Gillard as tomorrow's PM and the day's bright star in the political firmament. Today she's 'JuLiar', the 'witch', a fallen princess. What went wrong?
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MEDIA
I sat glued to US actor Charlie Sheen's fall from grace, which came to a head yesterday with his sacking from high-rating sitcom Two and A Half Men. The drama played out by his family, more so than the actor's meltdown, brought back a painful episode from my own past.
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AUSTRALIA
- Fran Hogan
- 21 February 2011
3 Comments
I had anguished over a particular sentence which was the subject of days of media comment. One of my fellow judges stuck his head around the door and said, 'Neil Mitchell says you are right.' This I found unsettling. Then he added, 'But don't worry, Derryn Hinch says you are a disgrace.' Phew!
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MEDIA
- Andrew Hamilton
- 09 February 2011
55 Comments
While it is refreshing to hear politicians speak in unguarded colloquial language from time to time, any human misfortune is demeaned if we believe it is a sufficient explanation to say, as Tony Abbott said of the death of a soldier serving in Afghanistan, 'shit happens'.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Doyle
- 04 January 2011
2 Comments
For every greedy evil rapacious liar priest .. there are thirty great and subtle men .. Who wake alone quite early and don their vocations .. Willingly like a thorny endlessly tumultuous prayer
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Marlene Marburg and Edith Speers
- 14 September 2010
13 Comments
Come as you are, Marilyn Manson ... that's how I want you, Peter Kennedy ... Trust me again, Germaine Greer ... Don't run away, Catherine Deveney ... Nothing can change, Pope Benedict ... the love that I bear you, George Pell
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 26 August 2010
7 Comments
Ben Cousins is no angel, but neither is he a
demon; just a man with a problem that he's fought to contain.
His story has mirrors in the lives of many people who have battled
addiction. Seven's treatment of it borders on exploitative.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
For every greedy evil rapacious liar priest .. there are thirty great and subtle men .. Who wake alone quite early and don their vocations .. Willingly like a thorny endlessly tumultuous prayer
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