Keywords: Federal Cabinet
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AUSTRALIA
- Brian Toohey
- 25 July 2007
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Terrorism involves the ancient crime of murder. Dr Mohamed Haneef is not charged with murdering anyone, nor involvement in any murder. The ministerial prerogative exercised by Immigration Minister Kevin Andrews should not exist.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Jan Forrester
- 16 April 2007
Indigenous programming attracts few national advertisers. Getting more Indigenous content on TV screens requires a dedicated Indigenous TV channel such as NITV, which is finally due to go to air within two months.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- James Massola
- 23 December 2006
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After discovering books by three women, a Lonely Planet editor from Melbourne resolves to follow in their footsteps, in the hope of giving some purpose to her aimless wanderlust.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- James Massola
- 24 July 2006
Former ALP heavyweight Carmen Lawrence asserts that the developed world is safer today than it's ever been. Her argument flies in the face of the reality that there has never been greater rewards for politicians willing to peddle fear.
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AUSTRALIA
- Troy Bramston
- 09 July 2006
The annual release of the once secret cabinet papers on New Year’s Day is now a political ritual. After 30 years, the public is able to look at cabinet’s deliberations on weighty matters, which have been kept under lock and key for a generation.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 31 May 2006
The following is an edited text of an address given by Frank Brennan SJ as part of the Jesuit Lenten Seminar Series 2004.
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AUSTRALIA
- Troy Bramston
- 31 May 2006
Revisiting the government of Billy McMahon
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AUSTRALIA
This year’s May anniversary of independence for Timor Leste is Xanana Gusmão’s second as President and the country’s fifth as a free territory. Sara Niner looks at the current political machinations.
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AUSTRALIA
- Jack Waterford
- 14 May 2006
Aboriginal affairs has moved a long way since John Howard won office in 1996, though whether forwards or backwards is arguable.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Michael McGirr
- 14 May 2006
Ross McMullins’ So Monstrous a Tragedy: Chris Watson and the world’s first national labour government is reviewed by Michael McGirr.
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AUSTRALIA
Despite some gains, no one can really question that, as a group, women have been and still are discriminated against by the mere fact of being women.
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AUSTRALIA
- Jane Mayo Carolan
- 11 May 2006
Jane Carolan speaks with doyen feminist and political activist Anne Summers.
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