Keywords: Higher Education
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RELIGION
- Neil Ormerod
- 25 March 2009
44 Comments
The parish acts as a beacon in social justice and inclusion. It is hard to see why they can't do this without breaking the Church's rules. Dorothy Day of the Catholic Worker Movement managed to marry social activism with a conservative religious life.
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EDUCATION
- Andrew McGowan
- 17 February 2009
5 Comments
A recent report into higher education is caught between discontent and fatalism about what prevents universities from doing better for students from the margins. The system's biggest failure may lie in what the report didn't ask.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Philip Mendes
- 09 January 2009
6 Comments
Benny Morris, Israel's best-known revisionist historian, led more and more Israelis and Diaspora Jews in the 1980s to accept
the legitimacy of an independent Palestinian state in the West Bank and
Gaza Strip. Morris has changed his spots. (September 2008)
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EDUCATION
- Neil Ormerod
- 26 November 2008
6 Comments
Theological colleges increasingly need to turn to churches for underwriting, yet church congregations are dwindling, which affects them financially as well. Something has to give ... and in Brisbane, it already has.
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RELIGION
- Andrew Hamilton
- 16 October 2008
2 Comments
Two people embrace on a verandah. The camera pulls back to disclose a housing estate, with couples embracing on each verandah. Relativism works like the move from close-up to broad perspective in film, by seeming to deflate the significance of what we have just seen.
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RELIGION
- Anne Schmid
- 09 October 2008
6 Comments
The market crash was driven by fear as much as greed. Greed results from the gap between rich and poor, which leads everyone to feel they are holding on to
their way of life by a thread. A truly just economy would be a stable economy.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Philip Mendes
- 12 September 2008
34 Comments
Benny Morris, Israel's best-known revisionist historian, led more and more Israelis and Diaspora Jews in the 1980s to accept
the legitimacy of an independent Palestinian state in the West Bank and
Gaza Strip. Morris has changed his spots.
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AUSTRALIA
- Robert Salter
- 02 September 2008
4 Comments
Many low-paid workers experience stress and illness due to jobs that are dangerous, arduous or powerless. Perhaps it is they who should be compensated with higher pay, rather than those who perform interesting, high-status work.
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