Keywords: Indigenous Welfare
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Andrena Jamieson
- 05 June 2009
4 Comments
The policy of assimilation made an inhumane idea
more important than human beings. Redfern Pastor Bill Simon recovered from his own oppression under Government policies. It's
shameful that a miracle was required.
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AUSTRALIA
- Frank Quinlan
- 13 May 2009
3 Comments
Rudd Labor's first Budget last year seemed to indicate a turn towards a fairer Australia. After the scripted theatre of pre-budget
leaks, secure lock-ups and dazzling announcements are stripped away,
the 2009–10 Budget indicates we may be waiting for a
long time yet.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 15 December 2008
3 Comments
As Kevin Rudd ends 2008 and his first year on a high, it seems he's every bit the trickster John Howard was. We're heading into one of the worst recessions in living memory, yet the government leapt to a six month high in last week's Newspoll.
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AUSTRALIA
- Irfan Yusuf
- 01 October 2008
15 Comments
Conventional wisdom tells us democracies are inherently stable, yet an extremist spirit has emerged in mainstream Indian politics. The silence among Australian Christians about the suffering of Indian Christians is as deafening as that of Australian Muslims towards Muslims in Darfur.
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AUSTRALIA
- Myrna Tonkinson
- 11 September 2008
11 Comments
An emerging school of thought claims that substance abuse is the cause, not the symptom, of the present-day Indigenous crisis. Such myths give an inadequate account for the situation, and fail to provide prescriptions for change.
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AUSTRALIA
- Brian McCoy
- 04 September 2008
11 Comments
The news Tony Abbott would spend three weeks in a remote Aboriginal community came as a pleasant surprise to many. He gave himself a chance to learn, and his reflections reveal a genuine interest in the lives of the people.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 24 June 2008
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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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AUSTRALIA
Australia could learn much from East Timor about the importance — and
limitations — of acknowledging a painful past. East
Timor's experience suggests the significance of both symbolic acknowledgement and material reparations.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 03 March 2008
2 Comments
'Nothing beats being there and listening. I wonder who cares enough to live with the communities?' If the logic of last month's Parliamentary Apology to the Stolen Generations is translated into Government policy and action, there is every hope that 'being there and listening' could be adopted as an official strategy.
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RELIGION
- Andrew Hamilton
- 13 February 2008
15 Comments
Some Australians still believe it unreasonable for anybody to expect them to take responsibility for the wrongdoing of past generations. In the Christian tradition, the prophets did not simply sheet home blame to officials responsible, but imputed it to the whole people, who would also suffer the consequences.
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AUSTRALIA
- Ursula Stephens
- 05 December 2007
1 Comment
Labor has adopted social inclusion as an organising
principle of the nation's social and economic policy. Social inclusion
is about recognising that economic prosperity in and of itself is not
enough: it is central to the work of government to make sure that this
prosperity leaves no-one behind.
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