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INFORMATION

Helping Frank Brennan
- Jim Wallace
- 02 February 2010
5 Comments
The Australian Christian Lobby never claims to represent the views of all Christians any more than the Greens represent the views of all tree-lovers or Fr Brennan represents the views of all Catholics — just ask Cardinal Pell!
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RELIGION

Pope skips language of love in Anglicans manifesto
- Charles Sherlock
- 20 November 2009
25 Comments
Pope Benedict XVI's recent Apostolic Constitution Anglicanorum coetibus (‘Groups of Anglicans’) moves the pastoral openness of Vatican II towards a ‘Rome is right’ mentality. This is disturbing and dangerous, not only for Anglicans, but for Roman Catholics themselves.
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ENVIRONMENT

It takes more than hope to save the world
- Francis Keaney
- 28 October 2009
7 Comments
My 'Hopenhagen citizenship' was easy to obtain, but what would it get me? Was I entitled to vote or apply for social benefits? Could I move there for the summer? It didn't take long before the penny dropped. This place was not so much a city-state as a state of mind.
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EDUCATION

Antique religious education policy needs reform
- Teresa Russell
- 29 September 2009
20 Comments
According to NSW education policy, if a parent wants their child to opt out of religious education, that child is not entitled to any instruction during this period. An alliance of parents and educators is pushing for an ethics-based alternative to religious education.
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INTERNATIONAL

Israel's pain over Darfur refugees
- Joel Burstyner
- 03 October 2007
8 Comments
Israel is yet to justify its deportation of 48 Sudanese asylum seekers in August. It appears this action could be part of a blanket closed door policy that precludes the proper assessment of asylum claims according to Israel's legal and ethical obligations.
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MEDIA

Spreading the word
- Tony Malkovic
- 18 May 2007
Tony Malkovic investigates an Australian Christian broadcasting service into the Asia-Pacific
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Ash Street
- Brian Doyle
- 18 May 2007
Brian Doyle considers the people of his neighbourhood
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AUSTRALIA

Mahathir Mohamad embraces human rights?
- Binoy Kampmark
- 08 March 2007
1 Comment
Malaysia's colourful former Prime Minister is setting up a war crimes tribunal, to "assuage the pain that has been suffered by so many people in Iraq, Palestine, Afghanistan and elsewhere". Mahathir, it seems, hopes to reinvent the wheel, and a rickety one at that.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

The joker in the pack—top ten limericks
- Judges Philip Harvey, James Massola and Andrew Hamilton
- 23 December 2006
8 Comments
In a cage in Guantanamo bay / David Hicks sees his life slip away... The top ten entries in Eureka Street's limerick competition.
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AUSTRALIA

Onus now on those who supported Thai coup
- Minh Nguyen
- 16 October 2006
1 Comment
A former army commander who once declared "the army should never be involved in politics", Surayud Chulanont, was appointed Thailand's interim prime minister at the weekend. But the irony of this appointment matters little in a coup marked by paradoxes.
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RELIGION

What makes a site sacred?
- Andrew Hamilton
- 04 September 2006
17 Comments
Recently a group broke into the Redfern Catholic Church, and defied their parish priest by painting a large and splendidly executed mural that enshrined the words of Pope John Paul II in Alice Springs 20 years ago. The priest was left with an unpalatable dilemma—leave the mural there, or whitewash Pope John Paul II.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

V. good
- Juliette Hughes
- 10 July 2006
New Year’s resolutions: 1. No more TV IQ tests that expose one’s innumeracies and estimate one’s intelligence at somewhere between a One Nation voter and a newt.
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