Keywords: Catholic High Schools
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EDUCATION
- Neil Ormerod
- 26 November 2008
6 Comments
Theological colleges increasingly need to turn to churches for underwriting, yet church congregations are dwindling, which affects them financially as well. Something has to give ... and in Brisbane, it already has.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 06 October 2008
'Lee and
Christine Rush are your average Ozzie couple, except that their teenage son Scott is on death row in Bali having been
convicted of being a hapless drug mule. It will not go down well on the streets of Jakarta
if Australians are baying for the blood of the Bali bombers one month
and then pleading to save our sons and daughters the next month.'
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RELIGION
- Chris McGillion
- 21 February 2008
3 Comments
Cuba’s post-Castro leadership will need to come to terms with the fact that the revolution cannot answer all of life’s questions and that religion in general — and the Catholic Church in particular — has a legitimate role in supplying its answers without interference from the State.
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AUSTRALIA
- Peter Roebuck
- 09 January 2008
Everyone
must pray for Mugabe's death (though his mother reached three figures).
At present the best response is to help those seeking justice and to
assist those promoting education, thereby sustaining hope for a better
tomorrow. From 2 April 2007.
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RELIGION
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AUSTRALIA
- Andrew Hamilton
- 05 June 2007
5 Comments
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RELIGION
In 2005, Pope Benedict targeted Australians as world leaders in Godlessness. However a recent book argues that Australian spirituality is understated, wary of enthusiasm, authority, and characterised by "a serious quiet reverence".
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AUSTRALIA
- Peter Roebuck
- 02 April 2007
28 Comments
Everyone must pray for Mugabe's death (though his mother reached three figures). At present the best response is to help those seeking justice and to assist those promoting education, thereby sustaining hope for a better tomorrow.
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AUSTRALIA
- Greg O'Kelly
- 02 April 2007
3 Comments
Australia is ranked 29th internationally in the teaching of maths and science. To suggest that a national curriculum would raise such a ranking is a non sequitur. Curriculum is about content. It's standards that refer to performance measurement.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 27 February 2007
Those who are rejected by their peers live their lives on the edge, in much the same way as others whose lives are upturned by bushfires. In the end, they are often richer for the experience.
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ENVIRONMENT
- Kent Rosenthal
- 27 February 2007
1 Comment
When multinationals and politicians seem to be looking the other way in the face of an impending climate change crisis, it’s good to know there are people out there pushing for reform and stirring debate at the highest levels.
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AUSTRALIA
- Paul Cleary
- 27 February 2007
As the Prime Minister of East Timor, Mari Alkatiri, prepared a strategy that successfully blocked Friday's leadership vote, hanging on the wall of a conference room in his office is a satellite photo of Dili on fire...
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