Keywords: English Teacher
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Paul Collins
- 30 March 2009
10 Comments
Ronald Conway (1927–2009) was of a rare breed in Australia. He stood
against the prevailing climate of thought which ignores important questions of faith, spirituality and human experience, and
focuses on the conventional and politically correct.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Charlotte Clutterbuck
- 24 March 2009
2 Comments
Dawkins would say I am deluded .. in a world unhoused, split between .. those who think they know everything .. those who think they know there is nothing.
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AUSTRALIA
- Frank O'Shea
- 17 March 2009
5 Comments
St Patrick holds the Irish in a powerful emotional thrall. Parades all over the world honour the man who brought Christianity to Ireland. This week in Northern Ireland, saintly ghosts of the past have been called upon to bless murder.
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EDUCATION
- Eleanor Massey
- 03 March 2009
10 Comments
The student teacher is doing his best, trying to teach abstract ideas in a difficult play about a postmodern world. A girl in the front row is discussing her new 'vampire' boyfriend. 'He's in 12B,' she says. 'I can't take my eyes off him.'
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AUSTRALIA
- Sebastian Strangio
- 23 February 2009
1 Comment
It was a momentous event: a senior leader of the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime standing trial in a court of law. The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia has set itself a
mandate that goes far beyond rendering impartial verdicts.
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EDUCATION
- Frank O'Shea
- 02 February 2009
11 Comments
These are earnest kids, wanting to succeed. Society has told
them that to succeed they must be able to draw a parabola,
find the vertex, state the axis of symmetry. This city
has two million adults — how many ever heard of an axis of
symmetry?
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RELIGION
- Andrew Hamilton
- 28 November 2008
21 Comments
For many young Catholics in the 1960s the defining issue was poverty.
An idealistic social activism was part the contemporary culture. Brian Stoney, who died last week, was a significant figure in shaping ways of accompanying the
poor.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Frank O'Shea
- 05 November 2008
3 Comments
First she gave up sugar in her tea. His Catholic guilt nagged him, and he followed suit. Then came fat-free milk. There is a puritan streak in today's narcissistic culture of gyms and dieting that makes anathema many of life's little luxuries.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 06 October 2008
'Lee and
Christine Rush are your average Ozzie couple, except that their teenage son Scott is on death row in Bali having been
convicted of being a hapless drug mule. It will not go down well on the streets of Jakarta
if Australians are baying for the blood of the Bali bombers one month
and then pleading to save our sons and daughters the next month.'
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ARTS AND CULTURE
What is Germaine to her personality? .. Her Catholic childhood I fear.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Alexandra Coghlan
- 08 August 2008
2 Comments
That a woman was elected to the House of
Representatives in 1943 is remarkable. Enid Lyons' drive and endeavour led many to cast her as the political force and her husband Joe Lyons, Australia's tenth Prime Minister, as a figurehead.
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AUSTRALIA
- Barbara Chapman
- 10 June 2008
13 Comments
Brendan Nelson told Kevin Rudd to direct his war on binge drinking at his own backyard after Young Labor delegates hosted a drunken party in a Canberra hotel. But Australia's addiction to the bottle runs deeper than mere substance abuse.
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