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  • AUSTRALIA

    Government sincerity in NT communities requires questioning

    • Jonathan Hill
    • 11 July 2007
    19 Comments

    How does compulsory acquisition of land help abused children? It doesn’t. Public support for the Federal Government’s radical intervention sadly reflects the ignorance of white Australians.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Ben Cousins not alone in the wasteland of addiction

    • Barbara Chapman
    • 27 June 2007

    "John" shares the same city and roughly the same age as Ben Cousins. Uneducated and unsupported, he successfully fought his drug addiction with inner resolve, but eventually alcohol caused him more grief than the 'hard stuff’.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Tough times ahead

    • Jack Waterford
    • 18 May 2007

    It couldn’t make it as an issue in the federal election campaign, but the Howard Government is now embarked on radical change in Aboriginal affairs.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Phone a friend

    • Michele Gierck
    • 18 May 2007

    Michele Gierck meets the people on the other end of the line

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Too little justice

    • Brian McCoy
    • 18 May 2007

    Brian McCoy examines the theories of Joan Kimm in A fatal conjunction: Two laws two cultures.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Catholic Social Services have a role to play in pregnancy counselling

    • Joe Caddy
    • 27 February 2007
    5 Comments

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  • RELIGION

    Lessons for Church in the new Ireland

    • Piaras Jackson
    • 21 August 2006

    History shows how Irish people have relied on the Church in coping with adversity. The 'official' church may now choose to follow where the people have led, into an Ireland that is more diverse, urban and secular than before.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Ways of reading sexual abuse in Aboriginal communities

    • Myrna Tonkinson
    • 12 June 2006
    4 Comments

    It has become unpopular to invoke cultural and individual factors to explain the appalling conditions of Australia's Indigenous population. Some of the pronouncements emanating from government and other quarters are patronising and couched in terms that suggest that Indigenous people are wilfully recalcitrant.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Ars artis gratia

    • Kevin Summers
    • 07 June 2006

    Kevin Summers reflects on art for arts sake in Silencia.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Aboriginal Communities: Who may speak?

    • Brian McCoy
    • 29 May 2006
    19 Comments

    Brian McCoy has worked with Aboriginal communities for thirty years. He says that male indigenous leaders should be consulted and supported in their efforts to deal with violence.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    March for Brosnan

    • Louise Clarke
    • 29 April 2006

    As a public figure, Father John Brosnan was hard to ignore. Throughout his life he worked tirelessly for social justice, providing support for those in prison. Next month, the Brosnan Centre celebrates his life and work.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    The neighbourhood paedophile

    • Moira Rayner
    • 24 April 2006

    The trouble is that men and women who like, or fantasise about, having sex with children don’t look like monsters. They look just like the neighbours.

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