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EDUCATION

Advice for graduating health sciences students
- Frank Brennan
- 18 October 2013
'My sixth piece of advice is for all graduates and not just those of you who are religious. We all need to develop a comprehensive worldview, nurturing the sense of the transcendent in the human spirit, and holding together in tension ideals and reality, dreams and our shortcomings.' Full text from Frank Brennan's La Trobe Graduation Address, Health Sciences, 18 October 2013.
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RELIGION

We need a pope who can handle the truth
- Brian Lucas
- 11 March 2013
15 Comments
Effective chief executives are those who work with collaborators who are better at most things than they are. The next pope needs to collaborate with the best theologians, communicators, diplomats and administrators, and have the strength of character to surround himself with those who will not defer to his status but tell him the truth.
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AUSTRALIA

Harmonising the government bureaucracy symphony
- David Cappo
- 06 February 2012
2 Comments
The Federal Government is using the word coordination a lot. But coordination of health, education and employment services could come to nothing if the coordinating bodies are not given power. And power is the very thing bureaucracy treasures and wants to keep to itself.
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EDUCATION

Will a real university please stand up
- Neil Ormerod
- 29 July 2010
7 Comments
In 2012 Australian universities will experience a radical shift in government policy, resulting in a marketplace where universities must hawk their wares in a bid to attract the best and brightest. Whether all the present universities will survive in this competitive marketplace is an open question.
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AUSTRALIA

Reinventing our gathering places
- Deborah Singerman
- 26 November 2009
1 Comment
Just as architecture plays a role in community building, community building is important to architects looking to develop as creative innovators. A new breed of public spaces is helping put the flesh and blood back into 'community'.
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MEDIA

Newspaper's golden age
- Moira Rayner
- 19 December 2008
7 Comments
It is apparently old-fashioned to expect to be primarily informed and engaged by a newspaper, yet that is what Melburnians loved about The Age. As a one-time Age columnist, I came in — and went out — at the turning point for that once venerable organ.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Talking turkey for a cliché-free year
- Tom Clark
- 10 December 2008
15 Comments
Sick of singing from the same song sheet during a perfect storm? Try our innovative 12-step cliche evasion program and see if, at the end of the day, it impacts your speech and enhances your conversation, going forwards into 2009.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Purging Howard's national insecurity
- Tony Kevin
- 04 April 2008
1 Comment
The most profound shock to Australian foreign policy was not 9/11 but our change of government in 1996. Under Rudd Labor, Australia's international agenda is once again becoming less about national security and more about being a good international citizen.
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ENVIRONMENT

Recherche Bay researcher aided natural beauty preservation
- Peter Pierce
- 13 June 2007
1 Comment
Five years ago, when Recherche Bay in Tasmania's far south was threatened with logging, the heritage importance of the area had to be freshly and strenuously established. The work of local historian Bruce Poulson proved crucial.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Untitled for a man
- Peta Edmonds
- 30 April 2006
Poem by Peta Edmonds.
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INTERNATIONAL

Another African tragedy
- Dorothy Horsfield
- 21 April 2006
For this peace prize winner, northern Uganda is the worst place on earth to be a child today.
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