Keywords: Edmund Rice Centre
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 20 April 2009
9 Comments
The military misadventures of nations
including Australia contribute greatly to the motivation of
asylum seekers. Australian immigration policy must de-emphasise border protection in favour of being a 'good international citizen'.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Andrew Hamilton
- 13 November 2008
3 Comments
The Edmund Rice Centre's Phil Glendenning is is the ordinary gruff Australian bloke abroad - a
Merv Hughes or an Ian Chappell, not naturally articulate but enduring
and not to be fobbed off with smooth talk. His
silent listening is the moral centre of this powerful SBS TV documentary about returned asylum seekers.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 25 August 2008
5 Comments
The Coalition opposes the Government's Pacific Guest Worker scheme due to a range of 'unanswered questions'. Brendan Nelson's 'dirt poor Pacific islanders' jibe suggests that fear, not compassion, fuels these concerns.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 30 June 2008
2 Comments
Plastic is for when when durability is required. The use of plastics
in the manufacture of household appliances has enabled them to be
priced at a level affordable to most people. But single-use bags and bottles are just too costly to the environment.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 07 April 2008
1 Comment
Zimbabwe's struggle for freedom took a wrong turn when Robert Mugabe opted for a strategy of vindictiveness. Recently Australia's 'father of Reconciliation' Pat Dodson identified
the secret of Nelson Mandela's success in building the nation of South
Africa from the ruins of the apartheid regime: Love your enemy.
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CONTRIBUTORS
- Phil Glendenning
- 17 May 2007
Phil Glendenning is the director of the Edmund Rice Centre. He is also the National President of Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation (ANTaR).
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CONTRIBUTORS
John Sweeney is team leader of the Business Ethics Initiative of the Edmund Rice Centre in Sydney. He edits Good Business.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins & James Massola
- 21 August 2006
When he was installed last week, Archbishop Mark Coleridge of Canberra-Goulburn said that it can't be left to the leader to have all the bright ideas and to make all the best suggestions.
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AUSTRALIA
- Phil Glendenning
- 21 August 2006
The Parliament has shown it is no longer willing to play politics with the lives of asylum seekers. But this latest victory simply maintains the status quo, and eight more people have been sent to Nauru in the past week.
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