Keywords: Personal Development
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 19 March 2010
4 Comments
The challenges and opportunities are to fund equitably all
networks in education and to ensure that robust morale and community
engagement are hallmarks of all parts of the network, including state
schools and emerging schools such as Muslim schools.
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AUSTRALIA
- Bruce Duncan
- 10 March 2010
12 Comments
In July 1953, the Vatican's agent Rosemary Goldie — who died on 27 February — met Santamaria but was unable to convince him of the need to keep Catholic Action out of direct political involvements. She was dismayed by the Movement's defiance of clear directives from the Holy See.
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EUREKA STREET/ READER'S FEAST AWARD
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AUSTRALIA
- John Falzon
- 18 February 2010
22 Comments
Everyone has a story, and they don't happen in limbo. Tony Abbott's comments about homelessness mimic the paternalistic attitude pushed by Margaret Thatcher, where the focus is on supposed individual deficits rather than structural deficits.
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ENVIRONMENT
- Peter Hodge
- 08 February 2010
6 Comments
Between Rudd's ETS and Abbott's 'climate con job', Australians concerned about climate change have little to cheer about. A growing acceptance of the failings of our market based economy has put
wind in the sails of an idea becalmed for a decade.
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INTERNATIONAL
- Kent Rosenthal
- 18 January 2010
9 Comments
In 2006 while living in Haiti I wrote about the plight
of human trafficking victims. But the same issue of justice doesn't
enter the picture when talking about an earthquake. What light could I shed on the enormity of suffering and destruction with my slight contribution?
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ENVIRONMENT
- Maryanne Loughry
- 24 November 2009
6 Comments
Visiting Kiribati and Tuvalu it is obvious that both populations are dealing
with overcrowding, unemployment, poverty, pollution, and modernisation.
Climate change is a driver for some of these stressors as well as a
multiplier of their effects.
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AUSTRALIA
- Tony Smith
- 19 November 2009
3 Comments
Premier Nathan Rees asked two ministers for their resignations, effectively sacking them. He will
have to hope that he has not thrown away Labor’s last chance to retain government.
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