Keywords: Progress Report
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AUSTRALIA
- Jack Waterford
- 13 June 2007
2 Comments
Jigalong is a remote community in WA, best known for its association with the Rabbit Proof Fence. Remote Aboriginal communities suffer greatly from undeveloped nature of their economies, and the institutional barriers created to prevent them developing.
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AUSTRALIA
- Daniel Donahoo
- 08 March 2007
6 Comments
Our idolising of childhood and youth means we treat them like demi-gods, and in doing so fail to honour their humanity. UNICEF research shows that the overall health and well-being of Australian children is poor compared with those in most other developed countries.
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ENVIRONMENT
- Tim Thwaites
- 27 February 2007
In the past six months, climate change has gone from an idea which may have some future relevance to something which is already happening around us. Each region of the world seems to have had its own epiphany over climate change.
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RELIGION
- Charles Sherlock
- 26 February 2007
Charles Sherlock on the progress being made towards a reformation of the Catholic and Anglican churches.
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RELIGION
- Clive Hamilton
- 24 December 2006
2 Comments
The error of post-modernism, which grew out of the broad academic left and now dominates Western society, is that it has no metaphysical foundation for a moral critique. From 31 October 2006.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 23 December 2006
1 Comment
Reports about the death of US technology journalist James Kim in the snowdrifts of the Oregon wilderness suggest his fatal mistake was that he had put his faith in electronic mapping.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael McVeigh
- 11 December 2006
A new Generation Y study says that today's young people have grown up in a very skeptical and cynical society. Therefore they're isolated, and don’t feel too good about believing in, or belonging to, anything.
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RELIGION
- Clive Hamilton
- 30 October 2006
17 Comments
The error of post-modernism, which grew out of the broad academic left and now dominates Western society, is that it has no metaphysical foundation for a moral critique. The churches remain the repository of the deeper understanding of life that once motivated some elements of the left.
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ENVIRONMENT
- Tim Thwaites
- 04 September 2006
4 Comments
The outcry with which people greeted ex-planet Pluto’s change in status surprised many. Even the language used was astonishing. Pluto had been “demoted”, “banished” and “stripped of its status”. The Times of India reported people buying bumper stickers asking fellow drivers to “Honk if Pluto is still a planet”.
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AUSTRALIA
- Ben Fraser
- 07 August 2006
Since the Darfur Peace Agreement was ratified in May, the Sudanese government has variously courted, confused and harangued the international community in an apparent successful effort to create discord in the peace process.
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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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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Pam O’Connor
- 26 June 2006
Pam O’Connor reviews Margaret Simons’ The Meeting of the Waters: the Hindmarsh Island Affair.
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