Keywords: Equal Opportunity
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AUSTRALIA
- Moira Rayner
- 09 April 2010
79 Comments
No firestorm of blame would be raging in the media were Christine Nixon not a
woman, a decent and strong woman, a prominent woman and an
ethically sound woman of an age and with the experience to possess a
raging integrity of her own and, by her very being, to offer ruthless
men a soft target.
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AUSTRALIA
- John Warhurst
- 02 March 2010
12 Comments
We are often quick to blame government ministers. In the case of Bill Shorten, Stephen Conroy and
Peter Garrett, they may emerge with tarnished reputations. But in rushing to criticise our ministers we often let ourselves off the hook too
easily.
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AUSTRALIA
- Moira Rayner
- 23 February 2010
12 Comments
Adolescence is a time of violent, primitive emotions, of play-acting and the most intensely lived reality.
Boys' passionate assertion of relative worth is
developmentally necessary. That child's place in the society of his
peers is, for that moment, a matter of life and death.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 09 February 2010
'Tonight I want to reflect in light of the National Human Rights
Consultation how we as Church can do better in promoting justice for
all in our land. Full text from Frank Brennan's 2010 McCosker Oration, 'The Church as Advocate in the Public Square: Lessons from the National Human Rights Consultation'.
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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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INTERNATIONAL
- Mark Raper
- 18 January 2010
Significant agreement was achieved in Copenhagen on the present and future
forcible displacement of people because of climate change and
environmental degradation. Can global cooperation for the protection of vulnerable displaced persons be renewed to meet new circumstances?
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AUSTRALIA
- Moira Rayner
- 06 January 2010
1 Comment
The Martidja Manyjima
people of the Pilbara want a WA mining registrar to hear their challenge to BHP
Billiton's claim for more mining leases on 200 square kilometres of
their traditional land. The outcome will affect every one of us. September 2009
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 14 October 2009
1 Comment
Even if all our recommendations were implemented tomorrow, there would still be vulnerable
Australians missing out on essential economic and
social rights. Responsibility for meeting these needs cannot rest
solely with government. We need to take
responsibility for each other.
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AUSTRALIA
- Moira Rayner
- 22 September 2009
10 Comments
The Martidja Manyjima
people of the Pilbara want a WA mining registrar to hear their challenge to BHP
Billiton's claim for more mining leases on 200 square kilometres of
their traditional land. The outcome will affect every one of us.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 18 September 2009
4 Comments
In Life and Death: How do we honour the Patient's Autonomy and the Doctor's Conscience?
Frank Brennan's Sandra David Oration at St Vincent's Clinic, Darlinghurst, Sydney, 17 September 2009.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tony Smith
- 21 August 2009
Sydney's history has traditionally been interpreted through the
artefacts of a people who are literate and industrial: through
documents and buildings. The Colony acknowledges the equal importance of the sparse traditions of the Indigenous peoples.
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INTERNATIONAL
- Moira Rayner
- 13 August 2009
What do our major religions have to fear from changes to equal
opportunity law? The challenge is a worthy and a practical one: in what way do the
activities of religious institutions actually reflect the values of
their prophets and visionaries.
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