Keywords: Marginalisation
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AUSTRALIA
- Jonathan Campton
- 03 July 2009
1 Comment
While day one of the National Human Rights Consultation hearing ended
with a growing hope for the rights of the oppressed, day
two, dominated by politicians and lawyers, diluted this hope in legalism, fear and falsehoods.
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AUSTRALIA
- Andrew Hamilton
- 19 March 2009
12 Comments
Arguments for preserving Good
Friday are based on respect for
Christians, or the benefits to society of
a day free from work. Neither argument is conclusive. Perhaps it is helpful to ask, why should there be any public holidays at all?
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ENVIRONMENT
- Ben O'Mara
- 15 December 2008
2 Comments
I spent untold hours playing on my Commodore 64. I upgraded to a PC, to fight the beasties of Duke Nukem 3D as I chugged too many coffees and Mars bars. Interactivity is videogames' strength, and can be applied in socially constructive ways for marginalised communities.
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AUSTRALIA
With the expiry of a five-year ban, former Deputy Prime Minister Anwar
Ibrahim today regains his freedom to contest a Malaysian general
election or internal party election. He is undoubtedly the darling of the foreign press, but many Malaysians doubt his commitment to multiculturalism.
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AUSTRALIA
- Saeed Saeed
- 28 March 2008
6 Comments
The Australia 2020 Youth Summit seems destined to be a chinwag of the 'haves' to the exclusion of the have-nots. Realistic solutions to youth violence and alienation can only be achieved through holistic community approaches.
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RELIGION
- Greg Soetomo
- 27 February 2007
2 Comments
When I reflect on this conversation, I am also struck by how different what I see in daily life is from what I read and watch in the media about about Muslim militants, the clash between Christians and Muslims, fundamentalism, or terrorism. Every age has its own false ideas. In our time, it is the notion that identifies Islam with hostility and aggression.
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AUSTRALIA
- James Massola
- 24 December 2006
It’s the fourth night of Ramadan. As the days begin to get longer, there are further challenges for Australian Muslims. Many young men, low on energy during the day, but emboldened by full bellies in the evening, find themselves at a loose end. From 3 October 2006.
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AUSTRALIA
- James Massola
- 16 October 2006
2 Comments
It’s the fourth night of Ramadan. As the days begin to get longer, there are further challenges for Australian Muslims. Many young men, low on energy during the day, but emboldened by full bellies in the evening, find themselves at a loose end.
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RELIGION
- Andrew Hamilton
- 16 October 2006
4 Comments
The concept of Catholic Culture Wars is destructive, because it makes truth the slave of power. Its logic can be seen in a recent Quadrant review, which projects onto an art exhibition a preoccupation with the occult and sexually ambiguous.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
Mike Davis' new book belongs to a long tradition of studies of the urban poor – among them, Friedrich Engels’s examination of Victorian Manchester in The Condition of the Working Class in England. Davis updates this genre for a period of globalisation.
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AUSTRALIA
- Francis Sullivan
- 26 June 2006
The Howard government wants a different Medicare: one where people who can, pay more to visit a doctor. The government is grappling with a complex economic issue, but should not dismiss the social benefits that Medicare delivers to the very sick and less well off.
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AUSTRALIA
- George Morgan
- 15 June 2006
George Morgan on the cruelty of punitive attitudes to children.
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