Keywords: Margaret Dooley Award For Young Writers
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AUSTRALIA
- Patrick McCabe
- 24 October 2012
3 Comments
Proponent of an immigration 'free market' Gary Becker would accommodate poor migrants by allowing businesses to lend them the 'immigration fee' in exchange for their labour upon arrival. Poor migrants tend to be unskilled, so this scheme would remain largely unutilised. Moreover, this arrangement might amount to indentured servitude.
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MARGARET DOOLEY AWARD
- Sarah Burnside
- 26 September 2012
5 Comments
Human beings have a bias towards a belief that the world is a fair place in which one's actions have appropriate consequences. This 'just world hypothesis' implies that those who suffer calamity must be at fault. It is the opposite of empathy and poses a serious challenge for those who seek to implement progressive social policies.
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MARGARET DOOLEY AWARD
- Matthew Holloway
- 19 September 2012
31 Comments
Australia is seeing a divisive battle between those who oppose people being forced into sex work, and those who advocate for the right of people with disabilities to access sex workers. It is hard to see justice in a situation where one disadvantaged group needs to stay disadvantaged in order to service another disadvantaged group.
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RELIGION
- Patrick McCabe
- 22 February 2012
22 Comments
Where Richard Dawkins could be described as a missionary intent on saving souls from religion, fellow atheist de Botton is more concerned with the spiritual needs of the existing flock. His latest book Religion for Atheists is likely to annoy believers and non-believers alike.
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MARGARET DOOLEY AWARD
- Patrick McCabe
- 27 July 2011
11 Comments
Ignatius of Loyola and Michel de Montaigne both had privileged upbringings. But where Montaigne was committed to personal fulfillment, Loyala was devoted to service. I, too, had a privileged upbrining and education. I'm not yet sure whose example is best to follow.
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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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AUSTRALIA
- Sarah Kanowski
- 08 October 2009
5 Comments
Big families are no longer fashionable, but they had their benefits. Vastly outnumbered, there's no chance for adults
to practice the kind of helicopter parenting common to my own
generation, where we hover over our one or two, soothing and solving.
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MARGARET DOOLEY AWARD
- Helen Brake
- 03 September 2009
8 Comments
For international students, the eagerness to accept new faces is intensified by a desire to make Australian friends, improve communication skills, and embrace all the opportunities available to them.
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MARGARET DOOLEY AWARD
- Ben Coleridge
- 14 August 2009
The lecturer's joke about religion is met with laughter. Here, 'faith' is the jester. In dismissing faith, we dismiss people for whom faith is central to the search for truth. We exclude them from that task of imagination and creation.
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AUSTRALIA
- Sarah Kanowski
- 24 July 2009
7 Comments
After my first child was born I was overwhelmed by a new
appreciation for the work required to grow a single human
being. History's catalogue of achievements now mean little to me. Man Walks on
Moon? Big deal. Each day the headlines should shout, Woman Gives Birth!
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EUREKA STREET/ READER'S FEAST AWARD
Reader's Feast Bookstore is delighted to once again join with Eureka Street to offer an award in the area of social justice writing. Funded by Reader's Feast Bookstore and organised by Eureka Street, the theme for the essay was 'Climate change and the global financial crisis: can we afford to save the planet?'
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EUREKA STREET/ READER'S FEAST AWARD
Submission guidelines for the Eureka Street/Reader's Feast and Margaret Dooley Awards 2009 are now online.
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