Keywords: Catholic Immigration
-
AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 22 June 2009
1 Comment
Controversry over the documentary Stolen at this month's Sydney Film Festival underlined how difficult it is to even acknowledge that slavery exists. Suppression of information about slavery in Australia allows the slave trade to continue.
READ MORE 
-
ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 11 June 2009
2 Comments
Sister Carmel Wauchope is a Sister of the Good
Samaritan and lives up to that name. Outraged
by the conditions faced by asylum seekers in detention in Australia, she has spent years visiting detainees and
advocating on their behalf.
READ MORE
-
RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 11 May 2009
2 Comments
While it is inherently racist for a person to claim membership of the
best race, it is no bad thing for a religious person to claim
membership of the one true religion. That is what religious people do.
READ MORE
-
RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 02 April 2009
3 Comments
We need to be on our guard against laws and policies enacted in the name of the public interest but with insufficient consideration for the human rights of the minority.
READ MORE
-
ARTS AND CULTURE
- Greg O'Kelly
- 13 March 2009
5 Comments
The decades spanning the 1920s–1970s were times of intense change for Australia and the Church. Post war immigration, the Labor split, the Vietnam War and Vatican II all occurred during 'Matty' Beovich's time as Archbishop of Adelaide.
READ MORE
-
RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 26 May 2008
1 Comment
The text is from Professor Frank Brennan's 2008 Institute of Justice Studies Oration from 22 May 2008.
READ MORE
-
INTERNATIONAL
- David Rosen
- 19 March 2008
3 Comments
The United Nations estimates that 5,000 honour killings occur annually. These killings are a rebellion against modernity, attempts to hold on to older traditional
values, especially concerning social relations and sexuality.
READ MORE
-
AUSTRALIA
- Tony Smith
- 11 February 2008
3 Comments
The Minister for Immigration insists Labor will retain the citizenship test. Prime Minister Rudd jokes about the need to retain questions on mid-20th century cricket. The new government's credibility on issues of social inclusion is damaged.
READ MORE
-
RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 29 November 2007
The power of the State can be exercised capriciously and unaccountably when the “Don’t ask; don’t tell” approach to government is immune from parliamentary, judicial or public scrutiny. It is the task of lawyers to make it more difficult for politicians to take this approach.
READ MORE
-
AUSTRALIA
- Greg O'Kelly
- 25 October 2007
6 Comments
Immigration Minister Kevin Andrews has decided to reduce the proportion of African refugees being admitted into Australia. In making his remarks the Minister has unwittingly but distressingly helped fuel the racism of some in our community.
READ MORE
-
RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 25 October 2007
There are times when we Australians get the balance between national interest and individual liberty wrong, especially when the individual is a member of a powerless minority. One way of improving the balance is including the judiciary in the calculus, as has now happened in the United Kingdom and New Zealand.
READ MORE
-
RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 25 October 2007
1 Comment
READ MORE