Keywords: African Australians
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RELIGION
- Peter Kirkwood
- 12 June 2009
8 Comments
In the Rudd/Obama era there are new parallels and convergences with regard to religion in Australia and the US. The figures may be on the slide, but rumours of the death of Christianity are greatly exaggerated.
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AUSTRALIA
Perhaps it's an omen: election day in Somalia, and the first voter to approach the polling station wears an Obama t-shirt. Elections, and the act of voting, are a powerful affirmation of one's ability to stand and be counted. For refugees, it is all the more significant.
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AUSTRALIA
- Brian McCoy
- 23 January 2009
4 Comments
Australia Day comes this year shortly after Obama's entry into the White House. Like the child in Australia — a film that captures something of the mixed history of our Australian footprint — Obama embodies the possibility of
healing across racial and other divides.
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AUSTRALIA
- Saeed Saeed
- 20 January 2009
6 Comments
Upon hearing my ambition to become a journalist, elders in my community
suggested I adopt a western pen-name to increase my chances of
employment. Obama's win goes a long way to short
circuiting the negativity in African Australian communities bred by
historical grudges and ineffective social services.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Clyne
- 18 November 2008
6 Comments
Bilingualism trains the mind and encourages more flexible problem solving. Such qualities go unnoticed in a society with a strong monolingual mindset. Social inclusion policy must also move beyond the socioeconomic dimension to prevent the exclusion of significant sections of Australian society.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 17 October 2008
31 Comments
We should feel deep regret when the bullets pierce the hearts of the Bali Bombers. Neither just nor useful, the death penalty is immoral. Prime Minister Rudd is well positioned to contribute to its abolition.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 17 October 2008
9 Comments
'For me, talk of the death penalty evoked the young, frightened faces of
Scott and Emmanuel, as well as the laughing, haughty faces of Amrozi,
Mukhlas and Imam Samudra.' Full text from Frank Brennan's session on 'Killing People for Killing People', Ubud Writers Festival, 17 October 2008.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 25 February 2008
This month Australia's nationhood has been bolstered by Federal Parliament's apology to the Stolen Generations. Kenya is moving in the opposite direction, with a local Jesuit analyst suggesting we could soon be speaking of 'a country that was once Kenya'.
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INTERNATIONAL
- Ursula Stephens
- 12 September 2007
1 Comment
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AUSTRALIA
- Peter Roebuck
- 22 August 2007
8 Comments
South Africa is determined to resist calls to boycott its cricket tour of Zimbabwe. Mugabe's turning the slaughter and starvation over which he has so blithely presided into a " them and us" confrontation has paid dividends.
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AUSTRALIA
The Sudanese Lost Boys Association of Australia recently organised an Appreciation Day. The newly arrived South Sudanese community engaged in community work. Despite the jubilant atmosphere and images of the South Sudanese men, woman and children planting trees in the park, the most remarkable aspect of this event was that it happened at all.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 05 June 2007
6 Comments
There can be no peace unless believers and atheists share an equal place in the public square of a free and democratic society.
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