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AUSTRALIA
- John Warhurst
- 02 April 2013
8 Comments
In days past the 'consultancy' activity of former senior politicians was cloaked in respectability and not perceived as being at the hands-on end of lobbying. That pretence has now ended and Alexander Downer and Peter Costello are good examples. It is an unhealthy development with plenty of room for conflicts of interest.
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RELIGION
- Irfan Yusuf
- 10 January 2013
2 Comments
Donkeys are gorgeous but make an ugly sound. Sadly, religious discussion in Australia too often sounds like donkeys competing to see whose braying is the loudest and ugliest. Recently Christian lobbyists spread misinformed messages about sexual orientation. Loud braying was heard on Saturday too when a group of louts hijacked what should have been a peaceful Muslim protest. Tuesday 18 September
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ECONOMICS
- David James
- 12 November 2012
12 Comments
Even after the most dangerous financial crises ever seen, finance industry lobbyists still argue that the sector should not be too heavily regulated as that would be counterproductive. This is nonsense. Money is rules. It is a question of who sets the rules and what kind of rules they should should be.
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RELIGION
- Irfan Yusuf
- 18 September 2012
34 Comments
Donkeys are gorgeous but make an ugly sound. Sadly, religious discussion in Australia too often sounds like donkeys competing to see whose braying is the loudest and ugliest. Recently Christian lobbyists spread misinformed messages about sexual orientation. Loud braying was heard on Saturday too when a group of louts hijacked what should have been a peaceful Muslim protest.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 10 September 2012
9 Comments
Lobbies such as the Australian Churches Gambling Taskforce are frustrated but doing the right thing by attempting to appeal to the sense of compassion in our politicians. We can only trust in human nature that this will ultimately prevail. Unfortunately other groups such as the Australian Christian Lobby think in terms of the 'Christian vote' and play on politicians fear of electoral oblivion.
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AUSTRALIA
- Jan Forrester
- 05 December 2011
8 Comments
In Afghanistan, the past isn't the past yet. The last 150 years bear directly on its present perilous state. Now that the US is leaving, some US lobbyists and Afghan women wonder what will happen if the Taliban return.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 28 March 2011
21 Comments
Currently the churches and the Greens have a mostly dysfunctional relationship. More than a few Greens owe their passion for social justice to a strong Christian upbringing. But while they both want values to triumph over pragmatism in government, they regard each other as the enemy.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 08 March 2010
7 Comments
Tony Abbott says health reform should cure patients and not feed bureaucracy. Yet properly structured bureaucracy is needed to protect patients' interests from those health industry lobbyists with profit motivations.
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AUSTRALIA
- Tony Kevin
- 02 December 2009
23 Comments
Turnbull's and Hockey's personal dilemmas are now great. Could
they in good conscience stand as Liberals in the next election, which
they will know was provoked by the machinations of climate change
denialists and carbon lobbyists whose views now control the Liberal
Party?
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ENVIRONMENT
- Charles Rue
- 30 November 2009
46 Comments
Climate sceptics use proven lobbying techniques to confuse people and delay political action. That Cardinal George Pell allows himself to be aligned with them compromises the credibility of church mission to serve
humanity.
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RELIGION
- Neil Ormerod
- 25 September 2009
3 Comments
When the Hawke-Keating Government cut back funding for overseas aid, churches said nothing. Last week, 260 Christian young people set out to lobby politicians about Australia's failure to meet its obligations to developing nations.
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AUSTRALIA
- John Warhurst
- 26 August 2009
2 Comments
The process of making public policy shouldn't be like a
school reunion. Former politicians have a right to do what they like
after leaving Parliament, but those who opt to serve the community sector, rather than
hanging around politics, are to be admired.
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