Keywords: Melbourne Model
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RELIGION
- Andrew Hamilton
- 19 February 2010
30 Comments
Expressing scepticism
about the value of politicians committing to healing
social problems, Abbott quoted Jesus: 'The poor you
have with you always'. This phrase, used here to diffuse the claim the poor make on us, is much richer in meaning when read in context.
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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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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Ellena Savage
- 22 January 2010
7 Comments
When we think of pin-up girls from the '40s and
'50s, we might assume they were desperate women who unwittingly participated in an industry that exploited them. In her new book, Madeleine Hamilton argues they were in fact 'trailblazers of the sexual revolution'.
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RELIGION
- Yannick Thoraval
- 14 December 2009
8 Comments
When the Dalai Lama appeared, people flocked to
the stage, mobile phone cameras in hand, so
they too could own a piece of the Dalai Lama. As a measure of our cultural values, it is interesting to consider that the Dalai Lama has become a commodity.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Andrew Hamilton
- 11 December 2009
25 Comments
The conflict between Archbishop John Bathersby and Fr Peter Kennedy was passionate and public. This book
shines a light on the dispute, setting it into a human context that is much larger than that offered by the media coverage.
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AUSTRALIA
- Andrew Hamilton
- 06 November 2009
9 Comments
Shaun Carney from The Age remarks that governments can be expected to treat refugee policy as 'just politics'. We have seen the consequences for the economy of tolerating 'business as usual'. It would be a pity to prostitute government in the same way.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 22 October 2009
2 Comments
The characters speak dutifully of Mass and Confession, but their Catholicism does not seem to pervade deeply, and contrasts with their unethical lifestyles. The adults, busy jealously guarding their own needs and desires, are oblivious to what their kids are up to.
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ECONOMICS
- Neil Ormerod
- 20 October 2009
2 Comments
Sixty years ago, Jesuit Bernard Lonergan developed an analysis of the boom and bust cycles of economy. He often asked, 'Where were the Christian counter-parts of Karl Marx, sitting in the British Museum voraciously reading
and relentlessly studying about political economy?'
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- L.K. Holt
- 22 September 2009
1 Comment
The teenage boy .. drunk, taunting, now hanging from
.. your latch of jaw
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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
- Brian Doyle
- 05 August 2009
2 Comments
What if all the cars and sports teams we name for fleet
and powerful animals and cosmic energies and cool-sounding things that
don't exist or mean anything are, effective
immediately, renamed for literary characters and authors.
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