Keywords: Progress Report
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ENVIRONMENT
The Howard years made me feel ashamed to be Australian, and I felt about his electoral defeat the way East Germans felt about the Berlin Wall coming down: as a kind of cleansing. Rudd disappoints for a different reason.
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AUSTRALIA
- Jack Waterford
- 18 May 2010
5 Comments
Seven houses — not bad for three and a half years work and hundreds of millions of dollars. At that rate the gap will be closed in about 7000 years. Minster Macklin frequently redefines what she is pretending to be doing, or uses weasel words.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 19 March 2010
4 Comments
The challenges and opportunities are to fund equitably all
networks in education and to ensure that robust morale and community
engagement are hallmarks of all parts of the network, including state
schools and emerging schools such as Muslim schools.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Sarah Burnside
- 19 February 2010
3 Comments
In 2009, the Federal Government embarked on consultations with
Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory about the Northern
Territory Emergency Response, commonly referred to as the Intervention. This is what they said.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 15 February 2010
6 Comments
On the second anniversary of the apology to Indigenous Australians, we
look instinctively to the Prime Minister to tell us what he's done. He presented his report card to Parliament on Thursday. But he's not the only one who needs to account.
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AUSTRALIA
- Aurelien Mondon
- 05 February 2010
7 Comments
The Haitians need help, but are not a failed people. Two hundred years ago, Haiti became a beacon of light and freedom for
all oppressed people. Colonialism was defeated, and the myth of white supremacy dealt a mortal blow. For this, the little country would pay.
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AUSTRALIA
- Frank Quinlan
- 17 December 2009
3 Comments
Governments are likely to grasp at feeble evidence
in order to support preferred policy positions. When reporting on issues such as welfare quarantining as part of the Intervention, The Australian and the ABC ought to read further than the Minister's press release.
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INFORMATION
- Michael Brull
- 27 October 2009
4 Comments
Everyone progressive, liberal and leftwards breathed a sigh of relief at the end of two long Bush Administrations. I too share the hope for change from the Bush era. Sadly, Obama's not the change we're looking for.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- L.K. Holt
- 22 September 2009
1 Comment
The teenage boy .. drunk, taunting, now hanging from
.. your latch of jaw
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ENVIRONMENT
- Tony Kevin
- 16 September 2009
5 Comments
If anyone expected Ross Garnaut to be bitter about the
Government's inadequate response to his 2008 Review, they were wrong.
He is optimistic about the positive public impact of the Review and said climate change denialists are 'grasping at straws'.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 31 August 2009
6 Comments
There's good reason for East Timor to opt for a tribunal to deliver justice for past crimes. But Australia cannot expect to receive a special hearing. Our attempts to push for justice for the sake of stability would be perceived as a promotion of our own self-interest.
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AUSTRALIA
- Richard Curtain
- 17 July 2009
3 Comments
Life in Dili has improved greatly over the past 18 months. The government has directed large amounts of money into the economy, much of it into the hands of the poor. By contrast, Australia's substantial contribution often
appears passive and reactive.
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