Eureka Street

Keywords: Platitudes

ECONOMICS

Financial decisions not value-free
- Les Coleman
- 08 August 2007
Investors are buyers of financial products and services and this affords them a unique opportunity to shape the nature of markets and financial institutions. They should not be shy to use their power to promote sustainability.
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AUSTRALIA

The master of talkback radio
- Colin Long
- 15 May 2007
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Mr Howard is a master of talking over people he doesn’t want to hear from. By going on talkback, politicians can appear to be available in an open and unstructured forum, reaching out over the heads of the media to constituents.
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RELIGION

Capitalism's ingenious immunity to the guilty conscience
- Scott Stephens
- 27 February 2007
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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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RELIGION

All are one before the law
- Frank Brennan
- 27 February 2007
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The last state authorised execution in Australia—that of Ronald Ryan—occurred 40 years ago last week. 12 year old Frank Brennan felt it was wrong. His adolescent moral sensibilities found resonance in public debate, law reform and policy change.
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AUSTRALIA

The end of the line
- Anthony Ham
- 14 May 2006
The people of Togo will determine their future in democratically held elections this month.
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