Keywords: Betrayal Of Trust
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 22 November 2011
1 Comment
Text from the 4th Annual Gerald Ward Lecture 'How do we design a dignified welfare safety net without becoming a Nanny State? — Lessons from Catholic Social Teaching', presented by Fr Frank Brennan SJ at the National Library of Australia, 18 November 2011.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 30 June 2011
4 Comments
The Tree of Life is at once sublime and earthy. Watching it has been likened to 'living inside a prayer'. The adolescent Jack bonds with his emotionally distant father after taking his first tentative steps across the threshold of sin and sexuality.
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RELIGION
- Neil Ormerod
- 23 March 2011
32 Comments
I received a letter from a former student. Ten years ago, he had suddenly vanished without warning or further communication. Now he was about to reveal the reasons for his disappearance. It was the sort of story I had heard often before.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 28 October 2010
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is reportedly displeased with the film. The decay of his friendship with co-founder Eduardo Savarin during the creation of a site predicated on accumulating 'friends' is the film's greatest irony, and greatest tragedy.
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AUSTRALIA
- Moira Rayner
- 08 September 2010
22 Comments
Three Independents, belittled as 'The Three Amigos' but riding into the sunset nonetheless, have won the trust of their electorates and been able to exercise a little, meaningful power about how Parliament should work. This may not last, now that the decision has been announced.
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AUSTRALIA
- Philip Mendes
- 07 September 2010
14 Comments
International concern with Middle East refugees focuses on the approximately 700,000 Palestinian Arabs who left Israel
during the 1947–48 war. Far less attention has been paid to the nearly
one million Jews who left Arab countries in the decade or so following that war.
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RELIGION
- Andrew Hamilton
- 29 April 2010
15 Comments
When I first heard of the Melbourne Storm tragedy, I laughed. My attitudes to games had remained stuck in an ill-spent childhood in which a little cheating was part of playing games. Even now, I confess, I enjoy stories of cheating done in style.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Visontay
- 23 April 2010
9 Comments
The salary cap in sport is one of the last remnants of Australian
egalitarianism. This is one of the reasons why the Melbourne Storm's
behaviour is so offensive. It is an offence against one of the values Australians hold so dear, especially at Anzac Day — a
fair go.
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ECONOMICS
- Catherina Toh
- 03 August 2009
8 Comments
An ethos of tough love balks at taxpayer subsidies for
anyone foolish or unlucky enough to make the wrong investment decision. In Australia we prefer to see people as victims and expect the government to clean up the mess.
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RELIGION
- Andrew Hamilton
- 09 April 2009
4 Comments
The Easter story suggests we should not expect a new economic order in which greed and short-term interests will yield to humane values. Easter doesn't make the mistrust go away. But it does confront cynicism and apathy.
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AUSTRALIA
- Cecily McNeill
- 09 November 2008
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Kiwi voters opted at the weekend for political newcomer John Key, over the steady management style of longtime leader Helen Clark. They may look back on the Clark days with nostalgia when they discover the new administration is most concerned with pleasing blue-chip investors.
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AUSTRALIA
- Chris Fotinopoulos
- 08 August 2007
Friendship and family are invariably mentioned in the same breath. Although most parents expect their children to trust family ahead of friends, children tend to place greater faith in friends, who are more likely to ‘allow them to breathe’.
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