Keywords: National Interest Test
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AUSTRALIA
- Tony Smith
- 14 November 2007
1 Comment
Occasionally individuals manage to defy the negative stereotypes and demonstrate that being a Member of Parliament need not destroy one’s personal integrity. The late Peter Andren, federal member for Calare from 1996 to 2007, was just such an exceptional representative.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 25 October 2007
1 Comment
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 11 July 2007
2 Comments
The largely Protestant World Council of Churches reacted favourably to this week's perceived "one true Church" declaration by the Roman Catholic Church, calling it an honest sharing of divergences that helps the cause of unity. There are lessons for the Federal Government, which should declare its alleged Northern Territory "land grab" to be such, and in the national interest.
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RELIGION
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ENVIRONMENT
- Kate Mannix
- 04 September 2006
4 Comments
When the human body gets to 42°C, it starts to cook. Death is inevitable, and it is the most vulnerable who will go first. While the CSIRO has projections on the likely effects of climate change in Australia, there has been little work on what that will actually mean for human health outcomes in specific regions.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Deborah Gare
- 10 July 2006
Geoffrey Blainey’s Black Kettle and Full Moon: Daily life in a vanished Australia is a welcome discovery for Deborah Gare.
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AUSTRALIA
- Gavan McCormack
- 04 July 2006
Encouraging the North–South relationship offers the best hope for North Korea and the world
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AUSTRALIA
Sol Encel on the life of Professor William Macmahon Ball.
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RELIGION
- Richard Treloar
- 29 May 2006
1 Comment
Morag Fraser, former editor of this journal, expressed a residual unease with the very notion of ‘Australian values’, belonging as she saw it to a ‘vocabulary of expediency’ rather than of conviction. What are 'Australian' values, asks Richard Treloar.
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EDUCATION
- Michele Gierck
- 14 May 2006
Michele Gierck observes how education programs in Kenya are restoring hope for AIDS victims.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Juliette Hughes
- 11 May 2006
When I saw Dawn Fraser on Enough Rope (ABC, Mondays, 9.30pm) in early August, looking grey and grandmotherly, it was hard to remember that she had been the greatest swimmer in the world.
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AUSTRALIA
Tony Kevin considers the cost of the free trade agreement.
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