Keywords: Make Poverty History
-
RELIGION
- Bruce Duncan
- 02 October 2008
15 Comments
There is tension in the churches between those focused on piety and those engaged with social justice. Benedict's document on globalisation will presumably stress that concern for social justice is essential to the Church's mission.
READ MORE 
-
ENVIRONMENT
- Charles Rue
- 08 August 2008
4 Comments
During recent media appearances Sir Gustav Nossal has reiterated the same
biotech message the pro-GM lobby has peddled for more than a
decade. Anti-GM farmers encourage scientific research, but good science should not be equated with GM.
READ MORE
-
AUSTRALIA
We have learned that the damage caused by sexual abuse often continues for decades and into future generations. We can hope that Government interventions will make a long-term difference, but such complex issues cannot be reduced to a simple absolute: ‘the child must come first’.
READ MORE
-
AUSTRALIA
- Chloe Wilson
- 08 March 2007
1 Comment
The Prime Minister attended the funeral of Jake Kovco, the first Australian casualty in Iraq. However, he did not attend that of Mark Bingley, a Blackhawk captain who died whilst on duty in Fiji. Absences are not simple events. They often make political statements.
READ MORE
-
RELIGION
- Brian Doyle
- 13 November 2006
No politician or poet from the Old World will lead us there. It will be someone from the new lands, who mills ideas into food and education and healing for thousands of people, who understands that power only matters, finally, when it is a verb.
READ MORE
-
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.
READ MORE