Keywords: Religion Report
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AUSTRALIA
- Rodrigo Acuña
- 16 April 2007
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Venezuela's President Hugo Chávez has urged the Catholic Church to take its part in building his 'Socialism for the 21st century'. In return, the Venezuelan Episcopal Conference has called for a "style of socialism that upholds free speech, tolerates opposing views and respects religious education".
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Richard Leonard
- 27 February 2007
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This is the full text of a speech given by Richard Leonard SJ in Queensland on spirituality and cinema, on the occasion of the opening of a new spirituality centre.
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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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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Clive O'Connell
- 16 October 2006
Historian Inga Clendinnen's reviews, childhood recollections, multi-coloured reminiscences of her working career, and informed discourse on simple events or complex ideas, are collected in a way that reveals a tempered tolerance seemingly inherited from her favourite essayist, Montaigne.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Juliette Hughes, Maryanne Confoy
- 03 July 2006
Juliette Hughes reviews the John Butler Trio’s Living 2001-2002 and The Liszt Album, and Maryanne Confoy reviews Australia’s Religious Communities.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Frank Brennan
- 26 June 2006
Frank Brennan looks at Philip Ayres’ Owen Dixon.
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MEDIA
- Jan Forrester
- 05 June 2006
Conventional journalism portrays war as a zero sum game, a series of violent exchanges between contending parties. ‘War reporting’ requires clear winners and losers, and the media interprets the events contributing to conflict accordingly.
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AUSTRALIA
- Shahram Akbarzadeh
- 29 May 2006
Journalists may be fully aware of the issues that affect our multicultural society and may even be sympathetic to the Muslim community. But such efforts take place within the framework of media competition and an unrelenting drive for more readers and a greater market share.
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INTERNATIONAL
Dawn Delaney examines the unwelcome legacy of violence against women following the conflict in East Timor.
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ENVIRONMENT
- T.J. Martin
- 25 April 2006
In the flurry of media reports surrounding the stem cell debate, it can be difficult to grasp exactly what the research involves. Professor John Martin of St Vincent’s Institute of Medical Research outlines the science and the ethical implications.
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MEDIA
- Robert Hefner
- 25 April 2006
Robert Hefner meets the outspoken editor of Harper’s Magazine, Lewis H. Lapham.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Siobhan Jackson, Allan James Thomas
- 25 April 2006
Reviews of the films The Assassination of Richard Nixon, 2046 and Ae Fond Kiss.
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