Keywords: Child Mortality
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AUSTRALIA
- Myrna Tonkinson
- 08 July 2009
2 Comments
The focus on the sensational when discussing the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous health tends to obscure
some positives. Many families are dealing with problems of abuse and neglect
with remarkable success.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 29 June 2009
6 Comments
When celebrities die, public grief is disproportionate, because death reasserts the humanity of one who has seemed beyond
it. Jackson had become so far removed
from his humanity that the shock of his mortality is even more
profound.
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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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RELIGION
- Bishop Pat Power
- 25 October 2007
There is a danger in today's climate with so many demands of compliance from government and even church that those in church welfare work can become so "professional" that they lose sight of the human persons involved.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 25 October 2007
2 Comments
On foreign aid, development assistance and trade justice, Peter Costello says “Economic growth is the real poverty buster”. The bishops say: "True, but economic growth must go hand in hand with eradicating poverty and ensuring trade justice".
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Chris Johnston
- 12 September 2007
An archive of Chris Johnston's cartoons.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- John Kinsella
- 18 May 2007
Crossing the boundaries John Kinsella boards Sarah Day’s The Ship.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
Peter Rose on writing Rose Boys.
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INTERNATIONAL
Jessica Gadd interviews Dr Nouria Salehi about the rights of Afghan women.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Luke O’Callaghan, John Molloy, Nathan Kensey, Rachel Hewitt
- 11 May 2006
Reviews of the books: A man after his own heart; The Master; Car wars: How the car won our hearts and conquered our cities; and Travellers’ Tales.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Austin Cooper
- 08 May 2006
Austin Cooper reviews Joanna Denny’s Anne Boleyn.
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INTERNATIONAL
- Shaun Cannon
- 24 April 2006
The Make Poverty History campaign has inspired global solidarity. The challenge of ending poverty has progressed from an idea of good intent to a global campaign, enthusiastically embraced.
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