Keywords: Aboriginal Land Rights
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 28 September 2010
5 Comments
The election result shows that we the people are not happy and we are not confident about the way forward. Frank Brennan's Occasional Address at the Ecumenical Service for the Opening of Parliament, Wesley Church, National Circuit, Canberra.
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EUREKA STREET/ READER'S FEAST AWARD
My granddad was a fourth generation white Australian who worked with
sheep. I used to tell the
story that he was a small town racist who disliked Blacks, Catholics and
Jews. The punch line was that his daughter married a Fijian, his son
married a Jew and my dad married a Catholic.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 07 July 2010
Fr Frank Brennan's address to the Melbourne College of Divinity
Centenary Conference, Trinity College, University of Melbourne, 6 July
2010.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 07 July 2010
11 Comments
Kevin Rudd stood in the forecourt of Parliament
House Canberra and recalled with great emotion the morning on which he
had welcomed the members of the Stolen Generations. There was no mistaking his sense of solidarity: he knew there and then what it was to be dispossessed,
alienated and outcast.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 03 June 2010
23 Comments
The Nigerian priests are disturbed that many Australian Catholic parents send their children to Catholic school but not to Mass. The structured religious lives of children in Nigeria mean that one seminary has had to restrict its intake numbers to 90 per year.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 22 March 2010
2 Comments
Text from Fr Frank Brennan SJ's presentation Poverty and
Plenty: Where Do or Should Christians Stand? at the Centre for an
Ethical Society as part of the 2010 Series Forum at the Australian
Centre for Christianity and Culture, 17 March 2010.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 19 March 2010
4 Comments
The challenges and opportunities are to fund equitably all
networks in education and to ensure that robust morale and community
engagement are hallmarks of all parts of the network, including state
schools and emerging schools such as Muslim schools.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 09 February 2010
'Tonight I want to reflect in light of the National Human Rights
Consultation how we as Church can do better in promoting justice for
all in our land. Full text from Frank Brennan's 2010 McCosker Oration, 'The Church as Advocate in the Public Square: Lessons from the National Human Rights Consultation'.
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AUSTRALIA
- Moira Rayner
- 06 January 2010
1 Comment
The Martidja Manyjima
people of the Pilbara want a WA mining registrar to hear their challenge to BHP
Billiton's claim for more mining leases on 200 square kilometres of
their traditional land. The outcome will affect every one of us. September 2009
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AUSTRALIA
- Sarah Burnside
- 26 October 2009
5 Comments
Mining states often view native title as bureaucratic
red tape that slows down the industry. But the Native Title Act has never given Aboriginal people a right of veto. The High Court recently set an unfortunate precedent that further hinders the ability of traditional owner groups to negotiate.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Pat Mullins
- 16 October 2009
3 Comments
In Mt Druitt lives one of the largest groups of Aboriginal people in Australia. Gillian Cowlishaw shows the hope and despair, the visions and realities, of life in this youthful, growing, struggling and fascinating part of
Australia.
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AUSTRALIA
- Moira Rayner
- 22 September 2009
10 Comments
The Martidja Manyjima
people of the Pilbara want a WA mining registrar to hear their challenge to BHP
Billiton's claim for more mining leases on 200 square kilometres of
their traditional land. The outcome will affect every one of us.
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