Keywords: Founding Editor
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EUREKA STREET TV
- Peter Kirkwood
- 28 January 2011
1 Comment
Eureka Street’s founding publisher Michael Kelly is one of the Australian Jesuits who had long discussed a journal of intelligent comment on topical issues in church and society. The models included long-running Jesuit publications overseas including America in the USA, established in 1909, and the The Month in Britain (1864-2001).
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- John Falzon
- 17 December 2010
4 Comments
Syd Tutton, national president of the St Vincent de Paul Society in Australia, died on Sunday. He was a fighter for social justice, uninterested in personal recognition, making light, for example, of the Papal Knighthood he received in 2009, threatening to ask the Vatican for a horse to go with the title.
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RELIGION
- Andrew Hamilton
- 30 November 2010
22 Comments
It is 30 years this week since Catholic radical Dorothy Day died. She was a quirky woman who lived on the margins of Church and United States society. Her life was lived in harsh conditions, but the way she put its elements together was sweet and attractive.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 28 October 2010
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is reportedly displeased with the film. The decay of his friendship with co-founder Eduardo Savarin during the creation of a site predicated on accumulating 'friends' is the film's greatest irony, and greatest tragedy.
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MEDIA
- Paul Collins
- 25 February 2009
29 Comments
The public response to the axing of The Religion Report and
other specialist programs late last year by ABC Radio National
management was astonishing. But the response of the ABC was abysmal. It is time to tell the whole story.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Michelle O'Connor | Tammy Ho Lai-Ming
- 18 November 2008
1 Comment
It would have to be the world-wide web... wouldn't it? ... But you wouldn't call it hubris, would you?
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EUREKA STREET/ READER'S FEAST AWARD
- Arnold Zable
- 24 September 2008
3 Comments
There was good reason for keeping the message simple. We wanted our cards to get past the censors. There is a time for advocacy, and a time for simple words of support. Together they make up the 'human' and the 'rights' in human rights.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Andrew Hamilton
- 14 November 2007
The energy of Alex Miller's novel Landscape of Farewell comes from the paradox that is often manifest when people of very different cultures come together and words fail them. Out of their silence can come words more profound than the individuals could have spoken alone.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Daniel Donahoo, Tania Andrusiak
- 18 May 2007
Disability is sometimes a matter of perspective
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AUSTRALIA
- Tom Griffiths
- 05 July 2006
Historians are fighting a mini war over frontier history and the number of Aboriginal dead. Tom Griffiths argues for a different approach.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
Remembering the life and talents of Richard Victor Hall, 1937–2003
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 18 May 2006
1 Comment
Mother Teresa devoted her energies to providing urgent care for those who present as poor. The Jesuits attempt to build on this, using tools of social analysis to work out who is actually poor and why.
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