keywords: Reclaim The Night
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AUSTRALIA
- Kate Galloway
- 12 September 2019
7 Comments
A policy genuinely in support of moving into employment would not seek to capitalise on the ambiguity of accounting in the year of transition from welfare to work — which is effectively what robodebt does.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 26 October 2017
9 Comments
The first thing to note about this 500th anniversary of the Reformation is that it is the first centenary celebration or commemoration that we have been able to share together and without rancour.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Earl Livings
- 07 April 2015
3 Comments
The addled cultures of exclusivity clash, and clash again, as have all zealots, all purgers of scapegoats, all crusading armies, to the same breathless end. We can only stand before each, Torah, Gospel, Qu’ran, as if before an opening star, and know them as incarnations of that lush silence that inspires believer and non-believer to Truth, Beauty, Good.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 01 November 2010
3 Comments
There is an emerging Aboriginal middle class. The contested questions in those communities relate to the expensive delivery of services including health, housing and education. The contested issue in the urban community is over self-identification as Aboriginal by persons of mixed descent.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Richard Leonard
- 27 February 2007
1 Comment
This is the full text of a speech given by Richard Leonard SJ in Queensland on spirituality and cinema, on the occasion of the opening of a new spirituality centre.
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AUSTRALIA
- Jonathan Hill
- 23 December 2006
10 Comments
After a visit to Ngukurr in Arnhem Land, a return home to Sydney and the horrifying reality of a culture that measures progress by the extent to which humans can destroy the land.
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AUSTRALIA
- Marg Honner, Anthony Ham, Matthew Albert
- 14 May 2006
Letters from Marg Honner, Anthony Ham, Matthew Albert
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AUSTRALIA
- Anthony Ham
- 30 April 2006
The legacy of Franco still looms large in the Spanish imagination
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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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MEDIA
- Celeste Liddle
- 13 August 2018
6 Comments
For too long, the media has been complicit in maintaining the conditions which allow the likes of Cottrell and Hanson to become 'figures'. They fuel history wars, demonise migrants, target Aboriginal activists, objectify and ridicule women while ensuring at the end of the day, the Murdochs and Packers of the world still have hefty pay cheques.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Neve Mahoney
- 18 April 2018
8 Comments
In perspective, my hair colour really isn't that big of a deal. I don't face institutional discrimination because I'm a redhead. But because of the cultural fascination with red hair, people will always try to project their own ideas about redheadedness onto me. So as I've grown older, I decided to claim this part of my identity for myself.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 06 September 2017
10 Comments
Inspired by the exploits of Aboriginal AFL stars, the young Lumumba quickly recognised football as an arena in which a black man could flourish. This fact makes his treatment at the Collingwood Football Club years later all the more galling. The club so far has failed to Lumumba's comments in any meaningful way. He deserves better, and so do we.
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