Keywords: Democratic Labor Party
-
RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 04 November 2010
15 Comments
Cardinal Pell, with whom I have voiced disagreement, preached superbly at the mass of thanksgiving after the canonisation of Mary MacKillop. 'She does not deter us from struggling to follow her.' As we wrestle with the common good, let's make a place for all our fellow citizens.
READ MORE
-
AUSTRALIA
- Tony Smith
- 26 August 2010
10 Comments
Since both major parties wasted their chance to secure a clear
mandate, the Independents have been treated by the media as opportunists and vengeful egotists. By making Parliament complex,
the rise of Independents complicates the lives of political hacks.
READ MORE 
-
AUSTRALIA
- Paul Collins
- 17 August 2010
26 Comments
Tony Abbott is wrong to suggest that B. A. Santamaria made Australian Catholicism 'more
intellectual'. Santamaria embraced a form of doctrinaire conformism that is
the death of thoughtful commitment. It would be worrying if this kind of integralist Catholicism infected contemporary public life.
READ MORE
-
INFORMATION
- Gerard Henderson
- 17 August 2010
8 Comments
How times change. Early in the 20th Century, it was Protestant
Orangemen who warned Australians not to vote for a Catholic. In the
early 21 Century, such warnings are now delivered by a former Catholic
priest in a publication of the Jesuit Order. –Gerard Henderson, The Sydney Institute
READ MORE
-
RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 10 August 2010
123 Comments
It would be regrettable if an attack by Cardinal Pell and the Australian Christian Lobby on the 'anti-Christian' Greens could be construed as an indirect shot across the bows of the atheist Prime Minister. On some policy issues the Greens have a more Christian message than the major parties.
READ MORE
-
AUSTRALIA
- John Warhurst
- 27 July 2010
18 Comments
Appearing last week on ABC1's Q+A, Julie Bishop claimed that following a preference deal with the Labor Party, the Greens were now effectively a Labor faction. Preference deals are as old as the preferential system itself. The impact of these deals should not be exaggerated.
READ MORE
-
AUSTRALIA
If there is any vestige of democratic socialism left in Labor, the Gillard Government needs to raise taxes without
apology, knowing its social welfare policies are just and
necessary. It also needs to remain committed to redistributing wealth to eliminate huge discrepancies in living standards.
READ MORE
-
AUSTRALIA
- John Warhurst
- 30 March 2010
22 Comments
Tony Abbott had a close association with B. A. Santamaria and personifies church ties with politics through his
relationship with the man he has called his confessor, Cardinal Pell. The question is whether Abbott is a one-off or represents a
larger group of Catholic Liberals.
READ MORE
-
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.
READ MORE
-
AUSTRALIA
- Alex McDermott
- 15 March 2010
7 Comments
Two of the most significant changes in Australian history, the post-war migration scheme and the 1980s economic reform, would not have occurred without political spin. It is no accident that the first teaching to devote
itself to the art of spin was born
simultaneously with democracy in ancient Athens.
READ MORE
-
INFORMATION
- Gerard Henderson
- 11 March 2010
2 Comments
Towards the end of his life, the French philosopher Jacques Maritan thought it was a you-beaut idea to advocate Catholic/communist dialogue between the Vatican and Stalin's heirs in Moscow. Santamaria made mistakes, yet on the issue of Soviet totalitarianism he was smarter than Maritan.
READ MORE
-
RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 28 January 2010
1 Comment
The full text of Frank Brennan's January 2010 address to the Australian Association of Catholic Bioethicists, 'Toothless, Trojan or True to Trinitarian Anthropology? Reflecting on the 2009 National Human Rights Consultation'.
READ MORE