Keywords: Irish Australian
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INTERNATIONAL
- Binoy Kampmark
- 17 June 2010
5 Comments
Lord Saville's report this week into a seminal moment of 'The Troubles' in Northern Ireland included the admission that the killing of 14 demonstrators by the British Army was 'unjustified and unjustifiable'. True reconciliation can only ever take place with a true recounting of
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 25 May 2010
3 Comments
When Fr Julian Tenison Woods was no longer welcome in the south, he came and conducted scientific expeditions and parish missions in Queensland. In 1881, he conducted a parish mission in Maryborough, where he got Martin Brennan, my
great-grandfather, off the grog and back to church.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 25 May 2010
Fr Frank Brennan SJ's address at the Commemoration of Julian Tenison Woods Park, Penola SA, 23 Mary 2010
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Frank O'Shea
- 28 April 2010
7 Comments
The case was not reported in the local paper, much to our disappointment, so we never had the distinction of being described as
'local youths'. In our pre-teen innocence, we were convinced our parents would appeal, all the
way to the High Court if necessary. They had more sense.
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AUSTRALIA
- Binoy Kampmark
- 23 March 2010
6 Comments
The Greens are arguably the true winners of Saturday's inconclusive Tasmanian state election. The Rudd Government should be worried. An arrangement with the Greens may be unavoidable should Labor wish to retain power.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 19 March 2010
4 Comments
The challenges and opportunities are to fund equitably all
networks in education and to ensure that robust morale and community
engagement are hallmarks of all parts of the network, including state
schools and emerging schools such as Muslim schools.
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EUREKA STREET TV
- Peter Kirkwood
- 26 February 2010
19 Comments
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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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AUSTRALIA
- Brian McCoy
- 25 January 2010
1 Comment
Australia Day remindes us of stories of separation within our country, such as the stories of the Stolen Generations. Separation from a parent is something Prince William understands. 'Did your mummy die?' a six-year old asked him during his visit last week.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 11 January 2010
2 Comments
Because we lived so long with a policy of assimilation, our ingrained
racism takes time to shake. We need public policy that
reasserts the principles of multiculturalism. Instead our
Prime Minister is caught out making an ethnic jibe. June 2009
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RELIGION
- Andrew Hamilton
- 15 December 2009
34 Comments
Christmas is a time for hospitality, and hospitality is central in the Christian tradition. You may not have thought this was so when, recently, the Anglican Church in Bendigo, Vic., was denied the use of a Catholic cathedral for the ordination of four female deacons.
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MEDIA
- Tim Kroenert
- 08 October 2009
13 Comments
Marrying Out recalls the vicious sectarian divide between Catholics and Protestants in Australia during much of the 20th century. Blame is allocated to neither Protestants nor Catholics, but to the human propensity for distrust and hatred.
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