Keywords: Rural Australians
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 12 October 2009
20 Comments
A majority of Australians seem to view the Black Faces segment on Hey Hey as benign, at worst. A Human Rights Charter might amplify the voice of the Koori woman who called a talkback radio station to say the segment had undermined her sense of equality.
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AUSTRALIA
- Richard Curtain
- 17 July 2009
3 Comments
Life in Dili has improved greatly over the past 18 months. The government has directed large amounts of money into the economy, much of it into the hands of the poor. By contrast, Australia's substantial contribution often
appears passive and reactive.
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AUSTRALIA
- Myrna Tonkinson
- 08 July 2009
2 Comments
The focus on the sensational when discussing the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous health tends to obscure
some positives. Many families are dealing with problems of abuse and neglect
with remarkable success.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Andrew Hamilton
- 20 May 2009
10 Comments
I only met Bud Tingwell once. Like so many others, I went away the
better for the brief encounter. But the meeting also led me to ask
questions about what matters, and how we should nurture it in
Australian society.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
The variety of Quaker service in Aboriginal communities and around the world is extraordinary. In light of the GFC and climate change, the Quakers' emphasis on small-scale food and water security projects will prove prescient.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 12 December 2007
In working through the maze of economic and scientific dilemmas at the UN climate change meeting, looking at the faces of the world's poor is not a bad way to start. In the past, solutions to ecological problems have often been directed to needs other than those of the people most directly affected.
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AUSTRALIA
- Tony Smith
- 14 November 2007
1 Comment
Occasionally individuals manage to defy the negative stereotypes and demonstrate that being a Member of Parliament need not destroy one’s personal integrity. The late Peter Andren, federal member for Calare from 1996 to 2007, was just such an exceptional representative.
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AUSTRALIA
- Bronwyn Fredericks
- 18 May 2007
3 Comments
Bronwyn Fredericks argues for the identity of urban Indigenous Australians
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Juliette Hughes
- 18 May 2007
Juliette Hughes tells it like it is (or, how it should be).
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AUSTRALIA
- Joe Caddy
- 27 February 2007
5 Comments
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RELIGION
- 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
- Deborah Gare
- 10 July 2006
Geoffrey Blainey’s Black Kettle and Full Moon: Daily life in a vanished Australia is a welcome discovery for Deborah Gare.
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