Keywords: Forgotten Children
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AUSTRALIA
- John Warhurst
- 11 November 2010
12 Comments
Nine prime ministers have been observant Christians. Two have been conventional Christians. Ten have been nominal Christians. Five have been articulate atheists or agnostics. One was a nominal atheist or agnostic.
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MARGARET DOOLEY AWARD
- Scott Steensma
- 03 November 2010
4 Comments
The back label of my taboo-smashing pre-10am cake was covered in an unintelligible language, which I could only presume was Dutch. What I had thought a tasty sounding Breakfast Cake was apparently also known less appetisingly as an 'Ontbijtkoek'. I can neither read nor speak Dutch despite my Dutch migrant heritage.
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RELIGION
- Moira Rayner
- 11 October 2010
12 Comments
Men's control over Christian women's religious lives has grown vastly over the centuries. Perhaps MacKillop might have agreed with Virginia Woolf, 'The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.'
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INTERNATIONAL
- Antonio Castillo
- 14 September 2010
24 Comments
At least those of us who survived Chile's 9/11 didn't have to stomach the phoney sombre Australian journalists 'live from New York' or the sight of a former Prime Minister crossing the Brooklyn bridge wearing an ACB tracksuit. But more than 30 years on, the Chilean people are still waiting for the United States' admission of guilt.
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EUREKA STREET/ READER'S FEAST AWARD
- Bill Collopy
- 25 August 2010
11 Comments
X people work hard. Y people are natural athletes. Z
people treat the world like they own it. Q people are violent. R people
are drunkards. S people mistreat women. V
people are queue jumpers. Racial generalising becomes racist only if we
accept its false premise.
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INTERNATIONAL
- Ben Coleridge
- 16 August 2010
2 Comments
Flicking the frisbee with a well practised arm, Jimmy told me about his former
home in Sri Lanka. 'Last time I was
there, I was carrying bodies to their graves in my arms, even the bodies
of friends.'
Homer's Iliad is a poem of force in
which, at all times, the human spirit is shown modified by its relations
with force.
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AUSTRALIA
Julia Gillard has invited people to say what they feel on the issue of how Australia should manage its borders. It's worth recalling what happened when
an Australian Government last instructed its defence force
to vigorously repel asylum-seeker boats.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
The pastor terrifies and humiliates his adolescent son with tall tales about
a painful and fatal illness that can be contracted through
masturbation. We are led to believe such secret acts of parental abuse lay at the core of the more public crimes that occur in the village.
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AUSTRALIA
- Brian McCoy
- 25 January 2010
1 Comment
Australia Day remindes us of stories of separation within our country, such as the stories of the Stolen Generations. Separation from a parent is something Prince William understands. 'Did your mummy die?' a six-year old asked him during his visit last week.
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AUSTRALIA
- John Honner
- 13 January 2010
The Prime Minister offered his apology to those who spent their childhood in care, via a carefully crafted speech. He said it is an 'ugly story' that must be told without fear or favour. Some who worked in or were associated with these children's homes may not like this judgement. November 2009
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AUSTRALIA
- Sarah Ayoub
- 18 December 2009
5 Comments
Men of dark hair and olive skin travelling in packs, bound by an unbreakable tradition. They have found a niche for themselves in South-West Sydney, and no matter how they are stereotyped, they continue to
meet, greet and roar as they beat, pa-rum-pum-pum-pum, on their drums.
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AUSTRALIA
- Gillian Bouras
- 25 November 2009
4 Comments
My generation of Australians grew up with bigotry: the cordial loathing between Catholics and Protestants has faded only recently.
But only when I married into a Greek family did I learn of the bitter and complicated antipathy of the Greeks for Albanians.
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