Keywords: Student Politics
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AUSTRALIA
- Brian Lawrence
- 17 February 2011
10 Comments
Despite extensive welfare activities, Catholics have made only a modest contribution to public debate about the economic foundations of family life. Yet the Australian institution that is most associated in the public mind with 'pro-family' policies is the Catholic Church.
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AUSTRALIA
- Neil Ormerod
- 11 January 2011
18 Comments
Tony Abbott has been in public life for a long time. Most recently there has been his meteoric rise to leadership of the Liberal party and to a hair’s breadth from the prime ministership itself. Charming and disarming as he can be, there is something deeply disturbing in the way he carries out his public role.
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INTERNATIONAL
- Kerry Murphy
- 17 December 2010
12 Comments
Let's hope Wednesday's tragic events are not exploited for political advantage. We remember those who died and offer prayers and condolences for their families. For the living, they need to be treated with dignity.
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AUSTRALIA
- Susan Biggar
- 16 December 2010
18 Comments
Were she to suffer a broken leg or burst appendix and find herself a customer on the doorstep of our excellent and equitable healthcare system, America's best-known mouth might go home peddling a message that could change her society.
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AUSTRALIA
- Neil Ormerod
- 08 November 2010
61 Comments
Tony Abbott has been in public life for a long time. Most recently there has been his meteoric rise to leadership of the Liberal party and to a hair’s breadth from the prime ministership itself. Charming and disarming as he can be, there is something deeply disturbing in the way he carries out his public role.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Ellena Savage
- 10 September 2010
1 Comment
University student unions are cesspools of toxicity, sociopathy and tedium. I should know — I'm a student politician. In his latest novel, Chaser alumnus Dominic Knight strikes a balance between sardonic parody and genuine reverence for those whose political conviction outweighs their pessimism.
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EUREKA STREET TV
- Peter Kirkwood
- 30 July 2010
1 Comment
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- Peter Kirkwood
- 30 July 2010
When it comes to asylum seekers, both Labor and Liberal leaders spruik policy that taps into negative community feelings toward 'the other'. Fr Francis D'Sa offers an alternative vision embracing multiculturalism and religious pluralism.
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EUREKA STREET TV
- Peter Kirkwood
- 09 April 2010
6 Comments
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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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EDUCATION
- Ben Coleridge
- 05 January 2010
5 Comments
After midnight, a group of international students, on a break from their night jobs as waiters, gather in a concrete stairwell and share their stories. Victorian premier John Brumby could learn a thing or two in that shabby stairwell. September 2009
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EDUCATION
- Ben Coleridge
- 30 September 2009
7 Comments
After midnight, a group of international students, on a break from their night jobs as waiters, gather in a concrete stairwell and share their stories. Victorian premier John Brumby could learn a thing or two in that shabby stairwell.
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