Keywords: Queen Elizabeth
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AUSTRALIA
- Moira Rayner
- 18 January 2011
22 Comments
I am bloody tired of journalists comparing one woman against another, as if there were a competition to find the 'real' woman leader, a winner and losers. That isn't how women tend to use power: it can be shared, and used for the common good. We saw Bligh and Gillard doing it, and didn't get it.
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AUSTRALIA
- John Warhurst
- 25 January 2010
18 Comments
William's visit laid bare
the weaknesses of members of the Royal Family as
candidates for our head of state. The package represented by William should be anathema to
modern Australia's constitutional future, whatever he might have
to offer as a person.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 18 August 2009
1 Comment
Before the mission was established here, the local Aboriginal community of 200 persons was forced to host 1000 convicts from the mainland for eight years. I daresay not all the convicts were easy-going beachcombers.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 14 May 2009
2 Comments
Good
intentions are not enough. Gone should be the days when Aboriginals are marginal to the corridors of power. Perhaps it will not be until we have seen the first Aboriginal Prime
Minister that agitators for Indigenous justice will be vindicated.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Richard Leonard
- 03 October 2007
1 Comment
Accepting a peer award recently, Sydney Morning Herald film critic Paul Byrnes declared serious film criticism to be in trouble. 'Much of the public now believes that a great film can't be great unless the box office makes it great.' He has a point.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Mark Carkeet
- 26 June 2006
5 Comments
June Saunders was a little-known Queensland poet with a wealth of potential
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AUSTRALIA
- Anthony Ham, David Glanz, Morag Fraser
- 16 June 2006
Death of the king, Little argument, Words to end winter
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AUSTRALIA
Once a model nation state—Hugh Laracy considers Tonga’s future.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Gerard Brennan
- 11 May 2006
Sir Gerard Brennan’s address at the launch of Mark McKenna’s This Country: A Reconciled Republic?
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AUSTRALIA
- Christine Gillespie
- 30 April 2006
3 Comments
Christine Gillespie walks in the steps of her Lalor ancestors.
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INFORMATION
- Gavan Breen, Christopher Fogarty, Lee Beasley and Noelleen Ward
- 29 April 2006
Letters from Gavan Breen, Christopher Fogarty, Lee Beasley and Noelleen Ward
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