Keywords: Working Mothers
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AUSTRALIA
- Patricia McNamara
- 17 October 2007
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Women grieve deeply the loss of female victims to family violence. For these women, media reports often mean an agonised re-working of enormous frustration and regret at having been unable to protect one of their own.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Gil Maclean, Siobhan Jackson, Allan James Thomas
- 18 May 2007
Reviews of the films Hero; The story of the weeping camel; In my father’s den and Steamboy.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
The big Mobil was built in town, then Woolworths started selling discount petrol. Customers who had been coming in for years either grew to old to drive, or passed away, with few new customers taking their place.
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AUSTRALIA
- Joan Healy
- 04 September 2006
Four Josephite sisters and a child protection expert visit the western desert of South Australia. They hear that when parents cannot care for their children properly due to petrol sniffing and other factors, the 'Anangu way' is for grandmothers and aunties to step in. But they need financial support.
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AUSTRALIA
- Paul Mitchell
- 21 August 2006
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While sometimes laugh-out-loud funny, the new Australian film hero Kenny Smyth also provides a strong social critique. The movie is dedicated to those who do menial jobs and are often overlooked, and even sometimes scorned by their fellow Australians.
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AUSTRALIA
The new Welfare to Work legislation was implemented on 1 July. The St Vincent de Paul Society marked the day with a sad heart. National Council CEO Dr John Falzon says the new laws will see many people with disabilities and single mothers and their children pushed into greater poverty and indignity.
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INTERNATIONAL
- Peter Browne
- 04 July 2006
A remarkably peaceful change of government in Kenya could significantly improve the lives of refugees in the country’s remote camps. But Australia and other western countries must play a part.
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INTERNATIONAL
- Kent Rosenthal
- 26 June 2006
The people of Colombia’s Cacarica River Basin face an uncertain future.
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AUSTRALIA
- Peter Matheson
- 12 June 2006
Phrases such as ‘family values’ are increasingly bandied about, as a conservative reaction against modern pluralism, and against ethnic, particularly Turkish enclaves, in the 'new' Germany.
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RELIGION
- Margaret Cody
- 12 June 2006
Margaret Cody belongs to two Catholic parishes, one in the city and one in the country. They offer a striking contrast in liturgical experience and congregational demographics.
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AUSTRALIA
- Virginia Bourke
- 14 May 2006
Virginia Bourke examines the assumptions that underlie equality in parenting and work.
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AUSTRALIA
Despite some gains, no one can really question that, as a group, women have been and still are discriminated against by the mere fact of being women.
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