Keywords: Global Financial Crisis
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Ben Coleridge
- 22 April 2010
5 Comments
Winter in the Russian industrial city of Yaroslavl has been hard since
the Global Financial Crisis. The 'contract' between Russia's elite and ordinary
Russians, whereby the latter sacrifice their civil and political rights
for economic wellbeing, is not delivering.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Colm McNaughton
- 29 March 2010
10 Comments
It is becoming clear that we are probably not going to avert cataclysmic forms of climate change. The foundational Greek and Hebraic imaginaries, the mythical
narratives that frame western civilisation, can no longer contain,
inform and explain what
we experience. We need new stories.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 08 February 2010
12 Comments
That Senator Joyce's arguments for reducing foreign aid make little sense does not stop them from winning
popular support. Many voters decide on the basis of emotion rather than
rationality. And tapping voter greed is likely to be more successful
than appealing to altruism.
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ENVIRONMENT
- Peter Hodge
- 08 February 2010
6 Comments
Between Rudd's ETS and Abbott's 'climate con job', Australians concerned about climate change have little to cheer about. A growing acceptance of the failings of our market based economy has put
wind in the sails of an idea becalmed for a decade.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 27 January 2010
3 Comments
Senator Steve Fielding attempted to debunk climate change theories using graphs based on Channel 9's Snicko. The debate petered out when Tony Abbott incautiously declared it was all 'crap'. Re-thinking, he amended
crap to tax — it was just a big tax.
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RELIGION
- Bruce Duncan
- 07 January 2010
8 Comments
In his World Day of Peace statement
for 2010, the Pope again highlights the urgency of responding to
climate change. Pope Benedict has had major problems in communicating this message, notably a lack of journalistic expertise to make his documents more readable.
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EUREKA STREET TV
- Peter Kirkwood
- 18 December 2009
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 14 December 2009
5 Comments
If Hawke and Keating had failed to act on economic reform, the opportunity cost would have been devastating unemployment during the GFC. It is not difficult to imagine the opportunity cost of the priority Rudd is giving to his own popularity over reforms that are now urgently needed.
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RELIGION
- Yannick Thoraval
- 14 December 2009
8 Comments
When the Dalai Lama appeared, people flocked to
the stage, mobile phone cameras in hand, so
they too could own a piece of the Dalai Lama. As a measure of our cultural values, it is interesting to consider that the Dalai Lama has become a commodity.
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EUREKA STREET/ READER'S FEAST AWARD
- Ruth Limkin
- 02 December 2009
7 Comments
There are those who argue that the fight to stave off the negative impacts of climate change is a fight to save the world from humans themselves. Dialogue from population-control advocates fails to recognise the dignity of each person.
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AUSTRALIA
- Deborah Singerman
- 26 November 2009
1 Comment
Just as architecture plays a role in community building,
community building is important to architects
looking to develop as creative
innovators. A new breed of public spaces is helping put the flesh and blood back into 'community'.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 16 November 2009
3 Comments
Significant portions of the Australian population have been living in a
permanent recession, cut off from opportunity and prosperity. We should offer better pay to those who have stood with them.
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