Keywords: Cricket Australia
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RELIGION
- Andrew Hamilton
- 31 January 2008
7 Comments
Tuesday was being described as cricket's "day of shame" following the Harbhajan Singh verdict. A look at the Tower of Babel encourages us to ask whether the problem is that technological changes have distorted the human relationships on which cricket relies.
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ENVIRONMENT
- Kirstyn McDermott
- 28 January 2008
The Government's Clean Feed initiative will allow families to surf the Net without risk of stumbling upon adult content. But there is real concern that the definition of inappropriate content could be widened.
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AUSTRALIA
- Tom Cranitch
- 24 January 2008
18 Comments
National Australia Day Council chair Lisa Curry Kenny says Australia Day "reminds us to embrace our difference and celebrate friendship". It would be nice if this were true. In fact Australian nationalists are increasingly using the day to promote the perceived certainties of a rather dubious monoculture.
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AUSTRALIA
- Tony Smith
- 20 January 2008
2 Comments
Cricket is a microcosm of society and the furore over sportsmanship
reflects the division of Australia into two classes — the venal, whose
ultimate measure of success is the potential for profit, and the naïve,
who believe in higher values.
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AUSTRALIA
It’s
an ordinary day at the Citizenship Traditional School. Citizenship
questions are about Australian values – fair go, mateship, correct use
of English, etc. Take the questions home and memorise the right answers. From 18 May 2007.
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AUSTRALIA
- Peter Roebuck
- 22 August 2007
8 Comments
South Africa is determined to resist calls to boycott its cricket tour of Zimbabwe. Mugabe's turning the slaughter and starvation over which he has so blithely presided into a " them and us" confrontation has paid dividends.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Michael Mullins
- 25 July 2007
The Australian character is set against that of the European nations from which the 'new Australians' arrived after World War II. For them, Australia offered "considerably safety and little menace", but heavily curtained windows rather than dancing in the streets they were accustomed to.
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INFORMATION
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AUSTRALIA
It’s an ordinary day at the Citizenship Traditional School. Citizenship questions are about Australian values – fair go, mateship, correct use of English, etc. Take the questions home and memorise the right answers.
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CONTRIBUTORS
- Peter Roebuck
- 17 May 2007
2 Comments
Peter Roebuck is a writer for the The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald, amongst other publications, and a commentator on the ABC. He also helped found the the LBW Trust, which helps young Zimbabweans attend university.
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AUSTRALIA
The construction of new stadiums has been accompanied by increased surveillance and control over the spectator space. Entertainment organised by the stadium managers, which they and their sponsors can make money from, is OK – but spontaneous entertainment is forbidden.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Richard Leonard
- 27 February 2007
1 Comment
This is the full text of a speech given by Richard Leonard SJ in Queensland on spirituality and cinema, on the occasion of the opening of a new spirituality centre.
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