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  • AUSTRALIA

    Consumer confidence can't be bought

    • Andrew Hamilton
    • 16 June 2008
    2 Comments

    Rising petrol prices and interest rates mean Australians' confidence in the economy has declined to the lowest level for 16 years. There is a need for a deeper source of confidence beyond economic good times.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Bricks and mortar don't care for children

    • Daniel Donahoo
    • 23 April 2008
    3 Comments

    The Prime Minister's proposal for 'one-stop shop' child and parent centres is a big idea, but not a new one. All those early childhood advocates busily patting themselves on the back for getting their issues back on the front page should demand more for the youngest Australians.

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  • ENVIRONMENT

    Rational climate change response requires moral focus

    • Michael Kelly
    • 10 March 2008
    5 Comments

    Disastrous consequences for the environment and humanity are a distinct possibility, if rational activity is not placed in the context of moral values.

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  • RELIGION

    Hiroshima insider's imprint on Jesuit sensibility

    • Andrew Hamilton
    • 08 August 2007
    2 Comments

    This year marks the centenary of the birth of Pedro Arrupe, the Basque Jesuit who worked in Japan and later became the Jesuits' Superior General. He was present at Hiroshima on 6 August 6 1945, the day on which the atomic bomb was dropped.

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  • CONTRIBUTORS

    Cally Cowan

    • Cally Cowan
    • 17 May 2007

    Cally works as a case manager in foster care with child protection clients. She also spends much time doodling, designing cards for weddings, birthdays … and when feeling perplexed by humanity she draws the odd cartoon for your enjoyment. Click here to see the archive of her cartoons for Eureka Street.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Finding God in the Dark: Spirituality and the Cinema

    • Richard Leonard
    • 27 February 2007
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    This is the full text of a speech given by Richard Leonard SJ in Queensland on spirituality and cinema, on the occasion of the opening of a new spirituality centre.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Giving Anangu women a say on child protection

    • Joan Healy
    • 04 September 2006

    Four Josephite sisters and a child protection expert visit the western desert of South Australia. They hear that when parents cannot care for their children properly due to petrol sniffing and other factors, the 'Anangu way' is for grandmothers and aunties to step in. But they need financial support.

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  • RELIGION

    Poor fellow my country

    • Frank Brennan
    • 09 July 2006

    The following is an edited text of an address given by Fr Frank Brennan sj ao, at the launch of his most recent book, Tampering with Asylum.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    The creatures & their words

    • Peter Steele
    • 06 July 2006

    Peter Steele looks at poetry about the birds and beasts.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Romance v. reality

    • Virginia Bourke
    • 24 June 2006

    The cost of raising a child is no measure of a parent’s love.

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  • INTERNATIONAL

    The voices of the silenced

    • Anthony Ham
    • 22 May 2006

    Anthony Ham looks at the national and international legacy of the bombings in Madrid.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    The great divide

    • Virginia Bourke
    • 14 May 2006

    Virginia Bourke examines the assumptions that underlie equality in parenting and work.

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