keywords: Global Financial Crisis
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INTERNATIONAL
- Kevin McGovern
- 31 July 2009
1 Comment
The call by law professor Loane Skene for women to sell their eggs for embryonic stem cell research
ignores medical evidence of the health risks, and international evidence that the
legalisation of the sale of eggs leads to exploitation of women.
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EUREKA STREET/ READER'S FEAST AWARD
Reader's Feast Bookstore is delighted to once again join with Eureka Street to offer an award in the area of social justice writing. Funded by Reader's Feast Bookstore and organised by Eureka Street, the theme for the essay was 'Climate change and the global financial crisis: can we afford to save the planet?'
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RELIGION
- Bruce Duncan
- 10 July 2009
4 Comments
The Pope's encyclical on social teaching is not a strident critique of
capitalism, but it does confront
abuses in the global economy. Benedict is critical of the free market ideology which extolled wealth
creation but ignored the need for equity and social justice.
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AUSTRALIA
- Beth Doherty
- 22 June 2009
12 Comments
After returning home from six months of volunteer work overseas, my
plan was that I would spend a couple of weeks looking, and that after a
few resumés were sent out, the phone calls would start pouring in.
They didn't.
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ECONOMICS
- Thomas Sullivan
- 29 May 2009
8 Comments
In the 16th century, following its conquest of Latin America, Spain drained the area of its gold and silver.
One might suspect that this windfall turned Spain into an economic
powerhouse. But some funny things happened when the easy money arrived.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Eleanor Massey
- 18 May 2009
9 Comments
In 1962, Port Kembla was stoked with the dispossessed of the Old World, pouring
steel back into the reconstruction of their war-ravaged homelands.
Now, it's a ghost town. They're putting together an
industrial museum, and that has an ominous ring to it.
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AUSTRALIA
- John Warhurst
- 12 May 2009
1 Comment
Catholic Social Teaching promotes the common good, distributive justice and a preferential option for the poor as key principles to underpin any budget. If might is right then the preferences of the strong will overpower those of the vulnerable.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
The variety of Quaker service in Aboriginal communities and around the world is extraordinary. In light of the GFC and climate change, the Quakers' emphasis on small-scale food and water security projects will prove prescient.
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