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  • EDUCATION

    Theological colleges on shaky ground

    • Neil Ormerod
    • 26 November 2008
    6 Comments

    Theological colleges increasingly need to turn to churches for underwriting, yet church congregations are dwindling, which affects them financially as well. Something has to give ... and in Brisbane, it already has.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Tossed salad state of mind

    • Various
    • 29 April 2008
    4 Comments

    he was diverted.. from the impending roast.. and wiping red wine.. from his generous lips.. he mouthed sweet nothings.. in retaliation.

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  • CONTRIBUTORS

    Andrew Slattery

    • Andrew Slattery
    • 17 May 2007

    Andrew Slattery is a communications graduate from Newcastle University. His poems have appeared in a number of literary journals, magazines, radio and anthologies. In 2004, Andrew was awarded the Harri Jones Memorial Prize for Poetry.

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  • RELIGION

    Confessions of a land rights advocate

    • Frank Brennan
    • 24 December 2006
    2 Comments

    It could be time to think of abandoning the present system of native land title, which mainly benefits lawyers. A better system may be an arbitral system that declares what the rights of the parties ought to be according to the justice and circumstances of the individual case. From 16 May 2006.

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  • ENVIRONMENT

    Keeping an eye on our behaviour

    • Tim Thwaites
    • 10 July 2006

    Warnings are more effective if accompanied by a photo of someone watching you.  Maybe this reflects our human evolution.  But if we are to talk sensibly about human evolution, we need a more sophisticated understanding of it than commonly prevails.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    A race for stayers

    • Brian Matthews
    • 11 June 2006

    As Melbourne Cup time comes round each year, I remember—with a mixture of dread and triumph—the Sir Robert Menzies Memorial Lecture that I gave on Tuesday, 5 November, in the Chancellors Hall of the University of London Senate House in 1996.

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  • RELIGION

    The ministry of women

    • Annette Binger
    • 31 May 2006

    Annette Binger on secret women’s business—female clerics.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    George Orwell's homage to a fellow underdog

    • Brian Matthews
    • 29 May 2006
    1 Comment

    Almost exactly 60 years ago George Orwell published a wonderful essay called, Some Thoughts on the Common Toad... The point of the essay was to insist ‘that the pleasures of spring are available to everybody, and cost nothing’.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Confessions of a land rights advocate

    • Frank Brennan
    • 18 May 2006

    It could be time to think of abandoning the present system of native land title, which mainly benefits lawyers. A better system may be an arbitral system that declares what the rights of the parties ought to be according to the justice and circumstances of the individual case.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Going online

    • Michael Mullins
    • 18 May 2006
    1 Comment

    Mother Teresa devoted her energies to providing urgent care for those who present as poor. The Jesuits attempt to build on this, using tools of social analysis to work out who is actually poor and why.  

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Don’t fence me in

    • Mark Wakely
    • 14 May 2006

    Mark Wakely looks at our instinct to build fences

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