Keywords: Public Servants
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AUSTRALIA
Seven years after the optimism born of independence, East Timor burns. Rival gangs fight in the streets, Australian soldiers try to keep the peace, and the people of Dili wait to see whether calm can be restored.
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AUSTRALIA
- Jack Waterford
- 14 May 2006
For at least the past 20 years, people have predicted the demise of the newspaper, the magazine, and, probably, ultimately, the book. I do not believe it for a second.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 14 May 2006
In this edited extract from the 2006 Manning Clark Lecture, ‘5 R’s for the Enlargers: Race, Religion, Respect, Rights and the Republic’, Frank Brennan focuses on respect.
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AUSTRALIA
The following essays by Morag Fraser and John Schumann are edited addresses from the Jesuit Lenten Seminar Series held in February–March 2005.
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AUSTRALIA
Beth Doherty examines the response by governments and charities to poverty in Australia
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AUSTRALIA
Nick Way looks at the reasons behind poor morale among Victoria’s biggest union.
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AUSTRALIA
- Jack Waterford
- 25 April 2006
The largesse in the Budget shouldn’t have proven a surprise, even if conventional wisdom is that budgets following elections are the ones in which governments make tough decisions.
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AUSTRALIA
The organisational culture within Australia’s Department of Immigration appears to have little regard for human rights, but an ex-insider says it didn’t have to be that way
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ENVIRONMENT
- Robert Kennedy
- 24 April 2006
The environmental lessons learned by those who live along the Hudson River in New York can be applied to cleaning up our own rivers in Australia.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- John Button
- 24 April 2006
John Button reviews Henry Speagle’s Editor’s Odyssey: A Reminiscence of Civil Service 1945–1985.
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