Keywords: Sustainable Population
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AUSTRALIA
- Ruby J. Murray
- 01 July 2010
24 Comments
I don't know about you, but last time I got on an outrageously late,
over-crowded train at peak hour full of apparently longstanding Aussies
in business suits, the first thing I thought was: I really wish
Australia accepted fewer immigrants.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 18 June 2010
1 Comment
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 10 May 2010
13 Comments
Kevin Rudd has been accused of plucking the goose that laid the golden egg. Amid fears of frightening mining investors, few have queried the rush to plunder Australia's mineral wealth. Future generations could need it more than we do.
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ENVIRONMENT
In Australia's next federal election, I'll vote One, Zero, Zero — Greens 1, Labor 0, Coalition 0. This is the only way I can fulfil my voter duty, while recording protest at the failure of our major parties to offer real policies on the planet's climate crisis.
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INTERNATIONAL
The story of Haiti, even from the earliest decades of its independence,
is one of a downward spiral into debt and underdevelopment. It has been at the short end of the stick, time and time again,
in its relationships with richer and powerful countries. Haiti, it
turns out, never stood a chance.
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ENVIRONMENT
- James Dorsey
- 02 February 2010
Like much of the Gulf, Yemen faces a reduced water supply
compounded by climate change and poor management.
The crisis plays into the hands of the Al Qa'ida offshoot that claimed responsibility
for the failed Christmas Day bombing of a USA airliner.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 28 January 2010
1 Comment
The full text of Frank Brennan's January 2010 address to the Australian Association of Catholic Bioethicists, 'Toothless, Trojan or True to Trinitarian Anthropology? Reflecting on the 2009 National Human Rights Consultation'.
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EUREKA STREET/ READER'S FEAST AWARD
- Ruth Limkin
- 02 December 2009
7 Comments
There are those who argue that the fight to stave off the negative impacts of climate change is a fight to save the world from humans themselves. Dialogue from population-control advocates fails to recognise the dignity of each person.
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EUREKA STREET/ READER'S FEAST AWARD
- Arnold Zable
- 04 November 2009
Observing this unique means of fishing, I realised an alternative intelligence was at work, born of the islanders' relationship to the environment. Ironically, this island is one of a growing number facing inundation by rising waters due to climate change.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Alexandra Coghlan
- 16 January 2009
Landscape has long been acknowledged as central to Australian colonial history. In contrast to the harsh conditions endured by
settlers in Sydney Cove, convicts in Tasmania experienced a veritable Eden. (March 2008)
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ENVIRONMENT
- Tony Kevin
- 08 January 2009
11 Comments
Kevin Rudd's announcement of a 5 per cent 2020 emissions reduction target is a betrayal. He has put short-term political survival ahead of his responsibilities to the next generation. Where is Bonhoeffer when we need him? (December 2008)
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ENVIRONMENT
- Tony Kevin
- 15 December 2008
7 Comments
Kevin Rudd's announcement of a 5 per cent 2020 emissions reduction target is a betrayal. It appears he has put short-term political survival ahead of his responsibilities to the next generation. Where is Bonhoeffer when we need him?
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