Keywords: Forced Marriage
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RELIGION
- Andrew Hamilton
- 14 August 2008
20 Comments
The year 1968 is usually associated with student protests. In the Catholic Church, it is remembered for Humanae Vitae, the papal document directed against artificial contraception, and for the turmoil that followed it.
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AUSTRALIA
- Barbara Chapman
- 10 June 2008
13 Comments
Brendan Nelson told Kevin Rudd to direct his war on binge drinking at his own backyard after Young Labor delegates hosted a drunken party in a Canberra hotel. But Australia's addiction to the bottle runs deeper than mere substance abuse.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Dimitrios Bouras
- 04 June 2008
4 Comments
In Australia I had never been taunted because of my migrant
father, but after moving to Greece I was ridiculed and bullied because I was half-foreign, and because my mother was
entirely so. I began to do my best to deny her existence.
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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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AUSTRALIA
- Frank Brennan
- 12 September 2007
8 Comments
I agree with the New South Wales bishops that persons with respect for human life should vote against stem cell legislation. However, I will continue to respect the conscience of those politicians who say that they have to legislate for all citizens including those who do not share their religious and philosophical presuppositions.
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INTERNATIONAL
- Peter Browne
- 04 July 2006
A remarkably peaceful change of government in Kenya could significantly improve the lives of refugees in the country’s remote camps. But Australia and other western countries must play a part.
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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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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Lucille Hughes, Allan James Thomas, Tim Metherall, Siobhan Jackson
- 12 June 2006
Reviews of the films Ten; Kill Bill Vol. 1; Intolerable Cruelty and In This world
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ENVIRONMENT
Mark Byrne looks at the particular characteristics that make an Australian 'hero', and asks what it is about the interior of this country that moulds the interior of our collective suconscious in such a unique way.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Christopher Gleeson
- 27 April 2006
Christopher Gleeson finds much to admire in Maryanne Confoy’s Morris West: Literary Maverick.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
Sara Dowse visits the turbulent childhood world in Mandy Sayers’s Velocity: A Memoir.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Gillian Bouras
- 23 April 2006
Forty years after she first saw the film Zorba the Greek, an Australian in Greece takes a second look and finds herself deeply shocked
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