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RELIGION

Patient autonomy and the doctor's conscience
- Frank Brennan
- 18 September 2009
4 Comments
In Life and Death: How do we honour the Patient's Autonomy and the Doctor's Conscience? Frank Brennan's Sandra David Oration at St Vincent's Clinic, Darlinghurst, Sydney, 17 September 2009.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Lying in the confessional
- Brendan Ryan
- 01 September 2009
2 Comments
inventing sins to keep the peace .. Were the priests cheated too, as I was? .. Or did they come to trust a congregation .. by the stories told in confession?
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AUSTRALIA

Young Somalis are Australians too
- Ben Coleridge
- 12 August 2009
18 Comments
If there's a problem with Somali youth integrating into the community, let's all own it. That means taking an interest and being open to friendship. It's not just the responsibility of bureaucrats who devise 'policy solutions'.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Walking with Port Kembla's ghosts
- Eleanor Massey
- 18 May 2009
9 Comments
In 1962, Port Kembla was stoked with the dispossessed of the Old World, pouring steel back into the reconstruction of their war-ravaged homelands. Now, it's a ghost town. They're putting together an industrial museum, and that has an ominous ring to it.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Guernseys of sackcloth and ashes
- B. N. Oakman
- 15 July 2008
2 Comments
There's more silver in my teeth .. than in our trophy cupboard .. Gravestones bear witness to our only premiership .. Every year we leap for the heavens .. and flop in the gutter .. My football team is hopeless.
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INTERNATIONAL

Dirty words for child labour
- Saeed Saeed
- 09 July 2008
1 Comment
Sold to a contractor at the age of 13, Roghini Govindhan was put to work churning out matchboxes 11 hours a day. Now 24, Govindhan has campaigned as part of World Vision's Don't Trade Lives anti-slavery campaign.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Egyptian musicians' night in limbo
- Tim Kroenert
- 03 July 2008
From its opening scene, The Band's Visit strikes a tone that is at once funny and sad. The film prods cross-cultural disparity for humour and stirs the humanity of its simple story.
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AUSTRALIA

Big Brother cameras inhibit teacher performance
- Gillian Bouras
- 28 April 2008
6 Comments
The proposed performance-related pay structure for teachers, whereby short videos will be made of teachers in the classroom, seems geared towards extroverts. Individuals with a more flamboyant style will likely be deemed the better performers.
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AUSTRALIA

Parents model responsible drinking
- Margaret Rice
- 17 March 2008
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd plans to spend $53 million on the problem of binge drinking, including $19.1 million to target underage drinkers. It's hard to tell your teenager not to drink as you reach into the fridge to grab another sauv blanc.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Recollections of a reluctant kids sports coach
- Brian Doyle
- 27 February 2008
4 Comments
At the end of his last season as coach of his sons' basketball team, Brian Doyle found himself savouring the job that he didn't want three years ago. While occasionally there is a flash of creativity and grace among his players, it's the egregious mistakes he will miss the most.
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RELIGION

What’s wrong with Voting for Jesus?
- Scott Stephens
- 27 February 2007
3 Comments
I must confess to growing bored very quickly when I hear that our real problem today is the erosion of spirituality, of belief in a deeper dimension of life, and the consequent rampant materialism. From a properly Christian perspective, the problem today is not materialism, but religion itself.
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MEDIA

A generation of online material girls
- Margaret Cassidy
- 30 October 2006
Members of the Zebo online community are encouraged to blog with a commercial focus, to keep a shopping journal of shopping experiences and tips.
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