Keywords: Great Barrier Reef
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AUSTRALIA
- Paul W. Newbury
- 23 January 2011
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Indigenous antipathy to Australia Day is deeply entrenched. Wattle as a symbol offers an alternative because it is native to this place, and it is not a memorial of our ties with Great Britain.
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INFORMATION
- Damien Quinnell
- 19 November 2009
Right now, Australian’s elected politicians will decide our fate when
they vote on one of the most important pieces of legislation to come
before the Federal parliament in recent history. All of us will be directly affected by what is about to happen when the
Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS) is re-introduced into Federal
Parliament.
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ENVIRONMENT
- Tony Kevin
- 16 September 2009
5 Comments
If anyone expected Ross Garnaut to be bitter about the
Government's inadequate response to his 2008 Review, they were wrong.
He is optimistic about the positive public impact of the Review and said climate change denialists are 'grasping at straws'.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 06 October 2008
'Lee and
Christine Rush are your average Ozzie couple, except that their teenage son Scott is on death row in Bali having been
convicted of being a hapless drug mule. It will not go down well on the streets of Jakarta
if Australians are baying for the blood of the Bali bombers one month
and then pleading to save our sons and daughters the next month.'
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ENVIRONMENT
- Michele Gierck
- 05 September 2007
Climate change disrupts the symbiotic relationship that sustains coral. Short-term stress allows recovery. But if it is sustained, coral dies.
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RELIGION
- James Massola
- 02 April 2007
2 Comments
Jesuit peace activist John Dear is continuing the tradition of civil disobedience pioneererd by the Berrigan brothers in the 1960s. A month in Australia has convinced him that we want to give up our freedoms in order to become part of the new American Empire.
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ENVIRONMENT
- Tim Thwaites
- 05 July 2006
The power of nature has been dominant this summer—the heat, the drought, the dust and the terrifying spectacle of the bushfires, sweeping away all in their path.
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ENVIRONMENT
It has been one of those Australian summers where nature has been dominant. The heat, the drought, the dust and the ever-present, terrifying spectacle of the bushfires, sweeping away all in their path.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Bonyhady
- 27 April 2006
Judith Wright was not just a much greater writer than most of the artist-activists who had preceded her, but also a much greater activist.
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AUSTRALIA
- Troy Bramston
- 20 April 2006
The final year of the Whitlam Government was tumultuous, but despite enormous obstacles and ultimate dismissal, the government implemented a visionary and far-reaching policy agenda that forever changed the face of Australia.
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