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Theology coloured by clergy sex abuse
- Peter Kirkwood
- 10 February 2011
Lay Catholic theologian Neil Ormerod's approach was strongly coloured in the early 1990s when he and his wife Thea became activists on behalf of survivors of clergy sexual abuse.
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AUSTRALIA

Best of 2010: Other unsung Indigenous heroes
- Myrna Tonkinson
- 14 January 2011
Not yet 40, she must live in Perth, hundreds of kilometres from home, to receive dialysis. She is currently in hospital recovering from spinal surgery, and so is separated even from her city-based loved ones. Yet she appears always with a beaming smile.
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RELIGION

Best of 2010: Mary MacKillop's Australian story
- Katharine Massam
- 11 January 2011
1 Comment
Mary MacKillop's face is on the Sydney Habour Bridge, at least temporarily. Is she becoming one of the clichés for Australia, alongside bushmen and Hills Hoist mums in our catalogue of national identity?
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AUSTRALIA

Why we lost the Ashes: it’s politics, stupid
- John Honner
- 07 January 2011
3 Comments
The fortunes of the English and Australian cricket teams follow the fortunes of their nations' conservative governments.
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RELIGION

Mary MacKillop's Australian story
- Katharine Massam
- 15 October 2010
1 Comment
Mary MacKillop's face is on the Sydney Habour Bridge, at least temporarily. Is she becoming one of the clichés for Australia, alongside bushmen and Hills Hoist mums in our catalogue of national identity?
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AUSTRALIA

Other unsung Indigenous heroes
- Myrna Tonkinson
- 07 July 2010
1 Comment
Not yet 40, she must live in Perth, hundreds of kilometres from home, to receive dialysis. She is currently in hospital recovering from spinal surgery, and so is separated even from her city-based loved ones. Yet she appears always with a beaming smile.
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AUSTRALIA

Gillard sustains population myth
- Ruby J. Murray
- 01 July 2010
24 Comments
I don't know about you, but last time I got on an outrageously late, over-crowded train at peak hour full of apparently longstanding Aussies in business suits, the first thing I thought was: I really wish Australia accepted fewer immigrants.
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Hugh Mackay on spirituality vs religion
- Peter Kirkwood
- 18 June 2010
13 Comments
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AUSTRALIA

Granny chic is fashionable exploitation
- Jen Vuk
- 16 June 2010
11 Comments
As a child of migrant parents, I was taught to respect my elders, to view each wrinkle as the mark of wisdom and a full head of silvery hair as the ultimate badge of honour. I wonder how those in their twilight years feel about young celebrities dying their hair grey in the name of fashion?
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AUSTRALIA

MySchool: helping rich schools get richer
- Tony Kevin
- 03 February 2010
7 Comments
It is disingenuous for Labor education ministers' to say MySchool will create political pressure to boost 'under-performing' schools. Meanwhile parents, voting with their feet, may foster the very outcomes they fear: underprivileged, low-morale schools breeding a generation of alienated, under-achieving kids.
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ENVIRONMENT

The perverse skills of climate change deniers
- 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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EDUCATION

Sex, schools and students
- Fatima Measham
- 20 October 2009
7 Comments
A Queensland father removed his children from a Catholic primary school in protest against the graphic sexual education given to his children. Schools are best placed to cover sexual health because students can be supported in developing a mature sexual ethic.
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