Keywords: Freedom Of Information
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MEDIA
- Kimberley Layton
- 13 November 2008
9 Comments
India is very proud of the fact that it is one of the few Asian examples of a deeply rooted democratic system. Just ask them about it - they'll tell you. Australians too seem quietly smug. So it's surprising that we rank only 28th in the 2008 Reporters Without Borders Press Freedom Index.
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EUREKA STREET/ READER'S FEAST AWARD
- Arnold Zable
- 24 September 2008
3 Comments
There was good reason for keeping the message simple. We wanted our cards to get past the censors. There is a time for advocacy, and a time for simple words of support. Together they make up the 'human' and the 'rights' in human rights.
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AUSTRALIA
The internet was once touted as a force for democracy. China has successfully turned this threat to its own advantage, and could show the way to other totalitarian nations.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 03 July 2008
50 Comments
The rights of free speech and assembly should not be curtailed because World Youth Day pilgrims might be annoyed or inconvenienced. The NSW regulation is a dreadful interference with civil liberties, and contrary to the spirit of Catholic Social Teaching on human rights.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 26 May 2008
1 Comment
The text is from Professor Frank Brennan's 2008 Institute of Justice Studies Oration from 22 May 2008.
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ENVIRONMENT
Science coverage in the media is dominated by boffins and nerds in lab coats . It loses out to “real” stories of politics and economics in the serious broadsheets, magazines and current affairs programs, and to crime and celebrities in the tabloids and to infotainment on TV.
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RELIGION
- Scott Stephens
- 27 February 2007
9 Comments
Every attempt to curb capitalism's voracious appetite, to ‘humanize’ its world-wide dominion, to place the world economy back in the service of the greater good, and thus temper its lust for unregulated growth, has not only failed, but has been assimilated.
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INTERNATIONAL
- Ben Fraser
- 22 January 2007
Credible estimates put the Darfur death toll at close to 400,000. President Bashir's most recent claim was less than 10,000. Slovenian journalist Tomo Kriznar received a two year custodial sentence after trial on charges of espionage and ‘bad-mouthing’ the government of Sudan.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 09 July 2006
The following is an edited text of an address given by Fr Frank Brennan sj ao, at the launch of his most recent book, Tampering with Asylum.
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INTERNATIONAL
Kel Dummett finds that Australia is content to ignore the troubles of Biak, West Papua.
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AUSTRALIA
Sol Encel on the life of Professor William Macmahon Ball.
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INFORMATION
- Tom Ryan SM, Spiro Tanti, John Carmody
- 11 June 2006
The courtesy of God, the consequences of conscience and 20th-century giants
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