Keywords: Violent Television
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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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RELIGION
- Andrew Hamilton
- 24 September 2009
7 Comments
Stabbings, bashings and glassings are much reported and much deplored. Now the violent video game Left 4 Dead 2 has been banned.
Violence goes with being human. It may be avoidable, but it is not likely to be avoided.
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AUSTRALIA
In both the Olympic Games and the Catholic Church's World Youth Day, young people advance ideals that could benefit the world. It should not surprise if people committed to international understanding are also committed to universal human rights.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 13 June 2007
3 Comments
Rural landowners are planning a day of "civil obedience" on 1 July to assert what they believe is their right to clear native vegetation from their land. How is this different from the civil disobedience of anti-war protestors such as the Pine Gap Four?
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Richard Leonard
- 27 February 2007
1 Comment
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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INTERNATIONAL
- Ben Coghlan
- 30 October 2006
4 Comments
This month The Lancet published the findings of an Iraq war mortality survey that put the toll at more than 600,000. The US should recognise this figure because other studies in Darfur, Kosovo and Afghanistan employing identical methods are widely accepted.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Juliette Hughes
- 26 June 2006
I cocoon all day and well into the night, watching TV, chatting on the phone or fiddling aimlessly with the laptop. I am the luckiest being in history, warm and fed and sheltered and entertained and surrounded by family.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Avril Hannah-Jones, Chloe Wilson, Terry Monagle
- 24 June 2006
Reviews of Sex, Power and the Clergy; Media Mania: why our fear of modern media is misplaced; Saving Francesca and Olhovsky Prince of Hamburg.
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AUSTRALIA
- Jon Greenaway, Kristie Dunn, Georgina Costello
- 11 June 2006
Unnecessary necessities | Letter from Broome | Heavy traffic
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Allan James Thomas, Morag Fraser, Gordon Lewis and Siobhan Jackson
- 31 May 2006
Reviews of the films The Station Agent, The Passion of the Christ, The Fog of War and Irreversible.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Donald Russell
- 29 May 2006
Donald Russell reviews Hidden, a harrowing film from acclaimed French director Michael Haneke that examines racism, voyeurism and a too-comfortable middle-class family.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Siobhan Jackson, Gil Maclean
- 14 May 2006
Reviews of the films Inside Man, V for Vendetta, Capote, and The March of the Penguins.
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