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INTERNATIONAL

El Paso shooting and the rise of eco-fascism
- Jeff Sparrow
- 07 August 2019
4 Comments
The widespread despair about climate change, and the seeming inability of progressives to offer a solution, provides fertile soil for ecofascism to grow. In a sense, given the scale of the crisis, their apocalyptic vision of an environmental race war can sound more realistic than the pallid centrist nostrums that everyone knows won't work.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Courting women's and gay rights
- Tim Kroenert
- 27 September 2017
2 Comments
The showdown between Bill Jean King and self-styled 'chauvinist pig' Bobby Riggs came at a time when King and other women tennis pros were protesting against unequal pay, and while King herself was coming to terms with her identity as a gay woman. A film about the match and its context should have plenty to say to present day socio-politics of sexuality and gender. But this one suffers from an identity crisis.
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Reclaiming faith from the props of belief
- David Tacey
- 05 June 2015
32 Comments
'We were told to 'believe' that God could perform miracles, but this was a false lead in terms of what we now know about sacred discourse in the holy lands. This literalism was used against other religions to prove the supremacy of Christianity, but ironically it is what turned the majority of Europeans and Australians off religion as education has swept through Western nations in recent times.' David Tacey reflects on faith and belief. Andrew Hamilton replies.
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ENVIRONMENT

Australia out of step with Pope's climate action mission
- Thea Ormerod
- 27 January 2015
33 Comments
It is no coincidence that Pope Francis chose to visit the Philippines before he releases his encyclical on the environment, and that he made a point of visiting Tacloban, which was ground zero for super typhoon Haiyan. This follows the recent UN climate talks in Lima, where Australian negotiators so regularly blocked consensus that they won us the 'colossal fossil' award for 2014 from environmental observers.
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EUREKA STREET TV

A place for women in church leadership
- Peter Kirkwood
- 01 October 2014
34 Comments
For two weeks from this Sunday, the much anticipated Synod on the Family will take place at the Vatican. Those attending include around 150 bishops, a number of lay experts and 14 married couples. An interested observer from afar is former NSW Labor premier Kristina Keneally, theologically trained and one of the most prominent lay Catholics in Australia.
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RELIGION

Reconciling religion, politics and human rights
- Frank Brennan
- 04 November 2010
15 Comments
Cardinal Pell, with whom I have voiced disagreement, preached superbly at the mass of thanksgiving after the canonisation of Mary MacKillop. 'She does not deter us from struggling to follow her.' As we wrestle with the common good, let's make a place for all our fellow citizens.
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AUSTRALIA

'Bumbling' Karadzic faces political justice
- Binoy Kampmark
- 24 July 2008
One of the vices of nationalism is the symptom of long memory. Punishing accused war criminal Radovan Karadzic will do little to convince those who are set in their positions — Bosnia's Muslims will feel vindicated, but Bosnian Serbs are simply weary.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

The elusive ideal of a "normal" family
- Sebastien de Robillard
- 30 October 2006
1 Comment
Although the characters in Little Miss Sunshine are extreme in many ways, it is this very quality that allows us to most relate to them. They are a very sympathetic group, and the message of the film is that few families are truly "normal".
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Two wheels and the world at your feet
- Sarah Kanowski
- 24 April 2006
As elegant and practical and liberating as they are, why on earth did bicycles take so long to invent?
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