Keywords: Indigenous Affairs
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MEDIA
- Ellena Savage
- 01 April 2011
36 Comments
Some perceive the racial vilification case against Herald Sun columnist Andrew Bolt as a challenge to free speech. But this case is about more than silencing critiques of the construction of race, and indeed Bolt himself.
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EUREKA STREET TV
- Peter Kirkwood
- 25 March 2011
2 Comments
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EUREKA STREET TV
- Peter Kirkwood
- 25 March 2011
1 Comment
Earlier this year Frank Brennan celebrated the 25th anniversary of his ordination as a Jesuit priest. Former Prime Minister Paul Keating once dubbed him a 'meddling priest', a label he accepts with mixed feelings.
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INFORMATION
- Jenny Macklin
- 17 March 2011
18 Comments
Dear Father Brennan, I do not accept the way you have characterised the Government's actions in relation to the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 and the Intervention, and am concerned that your article could mislead people into considering that the Government's measures in the NT are discriminatory.
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AUSTRALIA
- Myrna Tonkinson
- 14 January 2011
Not yet 40, she must live in Perth, hundreds of kilometres from home, to receive dialysis. She is currently in hospital recovering from spinal surgery, and so is separated even from her city-based loved ones. Yet she appears always with a beaming smile.
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AUSTRALIA
- Frank Quinlan
- 11 November 2010
9 Comments
Currently, we have national plans for such things as defence, conservation and management of sharks, national broadband, combating pollution of the sea, and recovery of the south-eastern red-tailed black cockatoo. It's time we had a national plan to overcome poverty.
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EUREKA STREET TV
- Peter Kirkwood
- 30 July 2010
1 Comment
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- Peter Kirkwood
- 30 July 2010
When it comes to asylum seekers, both Labor and Liberal leaders spruik policy that taps into negative community feelings toward 'the other'. Fr Francis D'Sa offers an alternative vision embracing multiculturalism and religious pluralism.
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AUSTRALIA
- Myrna Tonkinson
- 07 July 2010
1 Comment
Not yet 40, she must live in Perth, hundreds of kilometres from home, to receive
dialysis. She is currently in hospital recovering from spinal surgery,
and so is separated even from her city-based loved ones. Yet she appears always with a beaming smile.
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AUSTRALIA
- John Warhurst
- 30 June 2010
6 Comments
Christians rarely agree on what they want from government. The Australian Christian Lobby jumped the gun last week with its forum for political leaders to address Christian voters: the elevation of Julia Gillard means it now needs to engage afresh with a new Prime Minister.
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AUSTRALIA
- Jack Waterford
- 18 May 2010
5 Comments
Seven houses — not bad for three and a half years work and hundreds of millions of dollars. At that rate the gap will be closed in about 7000 years. Minster Macklin frequently redefines what she is pretending to be doing, or uses weasel words.
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AUSTRALIA
- Frank Quinlan
- 12 May 2010
23 Comments
If a 'fiscally responsible Budget' can increase spending on Australia's representatives in elite sports by $237 million, it is hard to imagine that there is not room somewhere for our unemployed to eat a little better.
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