Keywords: Abc Radio National
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AUSTRALIA
- Sarah Kanowski
- 02 June 2009
7 Comments
Sex scandals can make celebrities out of the most unlikely figures. But just how similar is the case of the Oxford poetry professorship candidate accused of sexually harrassing his students, and Australian Rugby League's group sex scandal?
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Cassandra Golds
- 15 May 2009
1 Comment
Jones' working life has been devoted to stories. In Through A Glass Darkly, she tells of her father's death. Her account questions the experiences behind modern medical miracles, and acts as a guide for understanding suffering and grief.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Sarah Kanowski
- 16 April 2009
The narrator of Philip Roth's novella The Dying Animal is self-indulgent, narcissistic, and driven by the urge to sexually conquer. The film Elegy transposes Roth's log of masculine decline into a mournful lament for the dead.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 13 April 2009
4 Comments
Bishop Geoffrey Robinson's book is an invitation to put fear behind us. Given the treatment it has received by people who should have known better, it has become an icon; a call to conversation without fear.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Paul Collins
- 30 March 2009
10 Comments
Ronald Conway (1927–2009) was of a rare breed in Australia. He stood
against the prevailing climate of thought which ignores important questions of faith, spirituality and human experience, and
focuses on the conventional and politically correct.
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AUSTRALIA
- Rodrigo AcuÑa
- 24 March 2009
1 Comment
US Republicans lobbied President Obama to impose hardships on Salvadorians livingin the US should the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front win last week's election. When the left did triumph, he did the opposite and congratulated the new leader.
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MEDIA
- Peter Kirkwood
- 06 March 2009
11 Comments
This week Compass celebrates its 21st birthday. In the fickle, faddish world of television that's quite an achievement. It's ironic that serious coverage of religion is being celebrated on ABC TV, while being purged from radio.
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MEDIA
- Paul Collins
- 25 February 2009
29 Comments
The public response to the axing of The Religion Report and
other specialist programs late last year by ABC Radio National
management was astonishing. But the response of the ABC was abysmal. It is time to tell the whole story.
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AUSTRALIA
- Paul Collins
- 13 February 2009
12 Comments
Though the fires are still burning, the blaming has already begun, with environmentalists and academics pitted against rural people and firefighters. We have entered a new era of fires and will need to take a long, ecologically sensitive look at what has happend.
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AUSTRALIA
- Sarah Kanowski
- 13 January 2009
1 Comment
Working mums were 'offended' and 'disgusted' by Mem Fox's childcare slam. Other critics berated 'selfish mothers' and a society sick with affluenza. There was one word missing word from all the brouhaha: 'fathers'. (September 2008)
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RELIGION
- Sarah Kanowski
- 22 December 2008
3 Comments
Silent breakfast in a still-dark zendo, mist
rising on the mountains, has been replaced by a scramble against the
clock, one eye on the newspaper, one hand reaching for
the Weet Bix, our toddler clambering, garbage trucks
screeching outside.
How to find silence here?
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ECONOMICS
- Cameron Durnsford
- 03 December 2008
4 Comments
After the 2001 Argentine economic disaster, workers' collectives organised to autonomously run their enterprises. The collapse of the ABC Learning empire should not be seen as a total calamity, despite the obvious potential for fallout.
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