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ENVIRONMENT

Best of 2010: Gillard's climate coup
- Tony Kevin
- 12 January 2011
3 Comments
If the Gillard Government manages to serve a full term, there is a good chance that Parliament will pass a well-designed, effective national carbon pricing policy into law in 2012. This would be a major policy success that Gillard could legitimately boast of going into a 2013 full-term election.
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INTERNATIONAL

Gillard's climate coup
- Tony Kevin
- 29 September 2010
6 Comments
If the Gillard Government manages to serve a full term, there is a good chance that Parliament will pass a well-designed, effective national carbon pricing policy into law in 2012. This would be a major policy success that Gillard could legitimately boast of going into a 2013 full-term election.
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RELIGION

Mary MacKillop's template for the Independents
- Andrew Hamilton
- 23 September 2010
9 Comments
The aftermath of the election gave play to the mythical Australian preference for the underdog as people enjoyed the Greens' and Independents' day in the sun. There is an intriguing contrast to be drawn between this and the life of Mary MacKillop, who will become Australia's first saint.
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AUSTRALIA

Hope for a stitched-up government
- Andrew Hamilton
- 10 September 2010
12 Comments
Many of us will wish the new government well, but refrain from putting our own money on its survival. Hopefully our two major parties, which were so happy to do whatever it took to win, no matter what the cost to human lives and ethical values, will recover a deeper sense of what matters.
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AUSTRALIA

The politician who can't be bought
- Michael Mullins
- 06 September 2010
14 Comments
Newly-elected Tasmanian independent MP Andrew Wilkie is basing his quest for power on ethical conduct. There’s nothing new about politicians talking about doing the right thing. Wilkie’s point of difference is that he quickly follows his words with action.
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AUSTRALIA

All MPs have Independents envy
- Tony Smith
- 26 August 2010
10 Comments
Since both major parties wasted their chance to secure a clear mandate, the Independents have been treated by the media as opportunists and vengeful egotists. By making Parliament complex, the rise of Independents complicates the lives of political hacks.
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AUSTRALIA

Hung parliament could be the making of Gillard
- Tony Kevin
- 24 August 2010
22 Comments
There was a massive loss of confidence in Labor's policies. The Australian electorate saw through the triviality of what both major parties were offering. Gillard would deserve her party's full support in leading a Labor Government in a hung parliament. This may be the making of her as a great prime minister.
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ENVIRONMENT

Shame under Howard and Rudd
- Tony Kevin
- 27 May 2010
29 Comments
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

The virtue of having a go
- Michael Mullins
- 15 May 2007
2 Comments
Martin Flanagan of The Age links the sometimes defiant spirit of having a go with “common goodness”. He says this is found in the midst of wars and despair and, most importantly, “the blindness that flows from political and religious ideology”.
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AUSTRALIA

The inconvenient truth
- Jack Waterford
- 05 June 2006
By any standards it seems a fine kettle of fish. Most of the intelligence gathered by two of the best-equipped nations on earth seems to have been false.
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AUSTRALIA

Truth, politics and the Fourth Estate
- Morag Fraser
- 14 May 2006
The following essays by Morag Fraser and John Schumann are edited addresses from the Jesuit Lenten Seminar Series held in February–March 2005.
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