Keywords: Ageing Population
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Deborah Singerman
- 08 March 2007
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The popularity of Waz and Gav, the gay couple in the first series of Channel 9’s The Block, helped them launch their own design company. It also highlighted the boundaries of acceptable mainstream images of gay men.
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AUSTRALIA
- Stuart Braun
- 30 October 2006
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A decade of economic growth has been good for many Australians. The property market has boomed. Wages have spiralled. Equity markets continue to ride record highs. Ordinary Australians have grown rich—but others have missed out.
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AUSTRALIA
- Anthony Ham
- 04 September 2006
Europe and Africa lie just 14km apart across the Straits of Gibraltar which separate Spain from Morocco, but when it comes to living standards, there is no wider gulf between neighbours anywhere in the world.
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EDUCATION
- Robin Jeffrey
- 04 July 2006
It is crucial that Australia increases its knowledge of Asia
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AUSTRALIA
- Gavan McCormack
- 04 July 2006
Encouraging the North–South relationship offers the best hope for North Korea and the world
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INFORMATION
- Michael McKernan, Frank O’Shea, Mark Deasey, Morag Fraser, John Carmody, Brigid Hains, Pip Robertson
- 03 July 2006
Peace drums, Irish visitor, Travellers’ tales, Epiphanies, Deep structure, Counter-terrorism kits, Circling the square
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AUSTRALIA
Africa resists the moral authority of the West, says Anthony Ham.
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AUSTRALIA
- Francis Sullivan
- 16 June 2006
It is time for government leaders to stage a ‘walk in’ and recommit the country’s resources for the health of everyone.
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EDUCATION
The imposition on students of greater burdens for repayment when they leave university is likely to cause a drought in the number of graduates who will be prepared to work for community agencies and the public service.
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AUSTRALIA
- Jack Waterford
- 13 June 2006
If I were Tony Abbott, I would be carefully listening to doctors’ whinges about medical insurance.
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AUSTRALIA
- Andrew Hamilton
- 11 June 2006
It is a minor paradox of war that in film clips, the politicians and generals who confer about present wars seem larger than life, whereas in the footage of past wars they look shrivelled—diminished by the destruction they have abetted.
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AUSTRALIA
- Francis Sullivan
- 14 May 2006
Mixed signals lead one to wonder whether the Commonwealth is pulling back from shouldering its share of the cost of aged care.
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