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  • AUSTRALIA

    Industrial relations is the Church's business

    • Brendan Long
    • 26 June 2006
    6 Comments

    The Federal Goverment believes that church leaders will retreat from the Industrial Relations debate to their cathedrals. It does not realise that the proper relationship between economics and the good of society is a central theological concern.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Erosion of tribalism leads to Origin trouble

    • Tom Cranitch
    • 26 June 2006
    2 Comments

    What's behind the decline of State of Origin football in the northern states? Can the vitality the competition enjoyed in the 1970's ever be recaptured?

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  • AUSTRALIA

    A more sustainable Australia needs better public policy

    • Michael Mullins & James Massola
    • 26 June 2006
    1 Comment

    Eureka Street supports the efforts of a rival online publication to encourage political parties to make policy that moves beyond political expediency and 'what's in it for me?'  

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Cut price care

    • Francis Sullivan
    • 26 June 2006

    The Howard government wants a different Medicare: one where people who can, pay more to visit a doctor. The government is grappling with a complex economic issue, but should not dismiss the social benefits that Medicare delivers to the very sick and less well off.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    New tricks

    • Jack Waterford
    • 26 June 2006

    Labor’s leadership problems have been a dream for the Liberal Party, not least by obscuring the fact that the real victor in leadership games over recent months has been the prime minister, John Howard.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Coincidence, visas, ATSIC and Mabo day

    • Eureka Street editors
    • 26 June 2006

    Thoughts from all over

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Observations from our contributors

    • Morag Fraser, David Glanz, Anthony Ham, Andrew Bullen
    • 26 June 2006

    Dr Seuss’ books, Peace under fire, The good life, Sidney Nolan

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Casualties of conflict

    • Moira Rayner
    • 26 June 2006

    Conflicts of interest pose a serious threat to democracy

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  • AUSTRALIA

    African solutions

    • Anthony Ham
    • 26 June 2006

    Africa resists the moral authority of the West, says Anthony Ham.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Could Australia become another island in the Indonesian archipelago?

    • Paul Osborne
    • 26 June 2006
    2 Comments

    Mr Howard has travelled to Indonesia to mend the rift in relations betwen the two countries. Critics of the proposed legislation designed to appease Indonesia, fear that Australia is in serious danger of surrendering its sovereignty by allowing another country to force its hand on policy matters, such as migration.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Finding common ground

    • David Nichols and John Wiseman
    • 26 June 2006

    Community Development projects can make a difference

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  • AUSTRALIA

    In the skin of a tiger

    • Nick Lenaghan
    • 26 June 2006

    A Naga poet keeps her culture alive even without a recognised homeland

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