keywords: A Lack Of Opposition
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Andrena Jamieson
- 17 April 2009
Loreto Sister Veronica Brady has taken on the Government for its treatment of Indigenous Australians, the church for its treatment of women, and Australian society for its materialism. She belongs to the long tradition of Australian stirrers.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Mark Skulley
- 03 December 2008
1 Comment
The hand-in-glove nature of Perth business politics was hard to detect when money was cheap. Australia had a credit boom between 1983–1985, but the days of easy money faded. Then came the king wave: the sharemarket crash. (April 1991)
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AUSTRALIA
- John Warhurst
- 12 March 2008
5 Comments
Kevin 07 ended his campaign with a wooden and self-absorbed election-night speech. Supporters took a deep breath and hoped 2008 would be better. So far it has been.
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RELIGION
- Andrew Hamilton
- 12 September 2007
8 Comments
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AUSTRALIA
Mr Howard is a master of talking over people he doesn’t want to hear from. By going on talkback, politicians can appear to be available in an open and unstructured forum, reaching out over the heads of the media to constituents.
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AUSTRALIA
- Julian Madsen
- 27 February 2007
1 Comment
Heated disputes arose in Egypt late last year following comments by the Culture Minister Farouk Hosni that the rising number of Egyptian women wearing the Islamic headscarf or hijab was a "regressive" trend.
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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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