Keywords: Missionary Work
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ARTS AND CULTURE
Events such as the National Apology and the Northern Territory Intervention loom large in the collective memory. Many of the struggles faced by early 20th century activist Fred Maynard regarding the protection
of Indigenous rights remain with us today.
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AUSTRALIA
Brazil produces plenty of food and has large exports thanks to its plentiful GM crops. Yet 40 per cent of its people go to bed hungry. GM is about making money, not feeding the hungry.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Robin Koning
- 24 January 2008
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Too often, generic statements about missionaries colluding with colonialism and destroying indigenous cultures are presumed to say all that needs to be said. Detailed study of mission history is essential if we are to move beyond the clichés.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Joanna Cruickshank
- 25 July 2007
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At a German mission in Victoria's Wimmera, a young Wotjobaluk man converted to Christianity in 1860. After a vision of Jesus sweating blood in Gethsemane, he began evangelising his people in their own language.
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ENVIRONMENT
It came to light at the Vatican's recent Climate Change Seminar that powerful and vested interests are confusing farmers in developing countries. They are saying that technology will solve their agricultural problems, and that the increase in atmospheric CO2 is good and willed by God.
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AUSTRALIA
- Juliette Hughes
- 09 July 2006
Juliette Hughes interviews Dawn Cardona, principal of Darwin’s Nungalinya Theological College.
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INFORMATION
- Michael McKernan, Peter Pierce, Liz Curran, Peter Seidel, Frank Fisher
- 05 July 2006
Strange times, Cooling off in Tasmania, Where now for reconciliation?, Tides of history, Being scared of GM
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AUSTRALIA
- Brigid Hains
- 02 July 2006
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Pioneer? Racist? Or product of his time?
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INTERNATIONAL
- Kent Rosenthal
- 26 June 2006
The people of Colombia’s Cacarica River Basin face an uncertain future.
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RELIGION
- Jeremy Clarke
- 25 April 2006
If Pope Benedict XVI can continue the work of both his immediate predecessor and his namesake, there will be cause for thanks
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