Keywords: Separation Of Powers
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 09 February 2010
'Tonight I want to reflect in light of the National Human Rights
Consultation how we as Church can do better in promoting justice for
all in our land. Full text from Frank Brennan's 2010 McCosker Oration, 'The Church as Advocate in the Public Square: Lessons from the National Human Rights Consultation'.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 11 May 2009
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While it is inherently racist for a person to claim membership of the
best race, it is no bad thing for a religious person to claim
membership of the one true religion. That is what religious people do.
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AUSTRALIA
No 'group' can be assumed to be full of
criminals. Men form friendships out of common, innocuous interests. Laws introduced in NSW interfere with civil liberties and are likely to be ineffective at addressing organised crime.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 12 December 2007
Eighteen months on from the 2006 unrest, Australian and New Zealand troops are still patrolling the streets of Dili. There has been no imperative for them to exchange berets and operate under UN auspices as occurred with the original INTERFET engagement.
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INTERNATIONAL
- Kerry Murphy
- 25 July 2007
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Under Section 501 of the Migration Act, you can be told: 'you fail the character test, please respond, but we cannot tell you what are the accusations against you'. Dr Mohammed Haneef has experienced the worst case scenario.
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AUSTRALIA
- Moira Rayner
- 04 July 2006
Moira Rayner traces the sorry history of Australia’s anti-corruption bodies
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RELIGION
- Dan Madigan, Abdullah Saeed and Frank Brennan
- 24 June 2006
Dan Madigan, Abdullah Saeed and Frank Brennan examine religious conflict in Australia
as part of the Jesuit Seminar Series.
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AUSTRALIA
- George Morgan
- 15 June 2006
George Morgan on the cruelty of punitive attitudes to children.
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AUSTRALIA
In a knee-jerk of anti-terrorist fervour, the French Government seems to want religion to be totally private, walled in.
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