keywords: A Lack Of Opposition
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AUSTRALIA
- Ursula Stephens
- 23 December 2006
5 Comments
A NSW Labor Senator predicts that Kevin Rudd’s leadership of the ALP will be sophisticated and incisive in identifying the trigger points that will defeat the Howard government.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- James Massola
- 24 July 2006
Former ALP heavyweight Carmen Lawrence asserts that the developed world is safer today than it's ever been. Her argument flies in the face of the reality that there has never been greater rewards for politicians willing to peddle fear.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
Mike Davis' new book belongs to a long tradition of studies of the urban poor – among them, Friedrich Engels’s examination of Victorian Manchester in The Condition of the Working Class in England. Davis updates this genre for a period of globalisation.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 09 July 2006
A week in which Mark Latham becomes the Leader of the Opposition and begins talking about ‘rungs of opportunity’.
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RELIGION
- Bruce Duncan
- 13 June 2006
Western intelligence agencies fell down badly over Iraq. So did our consciences, argues Bruce Duncan.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 31 May 2006
The following is an edited text of an address given by Frank Brennan SJ as part of the Jesuit Lenten Seminar Series 2004.
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AUSTRALIA
Don Gazzard visits the national libraries of France and Britain.
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AUSTRALIA
- Jack Waterford
- 10 May 2006
Most of the election so far has proven to be a referendum on whether we could endure having John Howard back.
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AUSTRALIA
- Andrew Hamilton
- 21 January 2020
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Australia Day would be wasted if it were devoted simply to self-congratulation. In the wake of the catastrophic fires we need to ask questions about how Indigenous Australians before settlement managed the land and how our agricultural and economic practices have contributed to the perilous situation in which we now find ourselves.
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RELIGION
- John Warhurst
- 11 December 2019
50 Comments
What's going on within the Catholic Church always matters more widely given its size and power. Lay participation in leadership, especially of women, is a major social issue. Observers of social trends should watch this space for its wider public policy implications.
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INTERNATIONAL
- Yen-Rong Wong
- 27 November 2019
6 Comments
I have the luxury of laughing off jokes that make light of the power dynamic between mainland China and Taiwan and Hong Kong, but for many of my friends, it's not such a light matter. I struggle to put myself in their shoes, and I feel a sense of hopelessness that I'm not able to do more.
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AUSTRALIA
- Jeff Sparrow
- 06 November 2019
27 Comments
I can't imagine how anyone could look at the Melbourne Cup and see a vision of the 'fair go'. On the contrary, much hostility to horse racing — this year's Cup attracted the smallest crowd since 1993 — stems from a perception that its rituals celebrate grotesque inequalities.
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