Keywords: History Of Early Sydney
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 06 April 2011
7 Comments
We need clever strategic and moral thinkers among our health professionals, who can engage with the demands of an aging population, with the gap in life-expectancy between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australians, and with the increasingly politically correct debate about euthanasia.
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EUREKA STREET TV
- Peter Kirkwood
- 10 February 2011
Lay Catholic theologian Neil Ormerod's approach was strongly coloured in the early 1990s when he and his wife Thea became activists on behalf of survivors of clergy sexual abuse.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Helen Koukoutsis and Jennifer Compton
- 25 January 2011
A young man, made of ebony, from Senegal or Somalia or the Côte d'Ivoire, sat down beside me gracefully… I gave him the twenty euro that I had to hand. Stammering, ill at ease, he asked me what I had in mind.
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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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AUSTRALIA
- John Warhurst
- 11 November 2010
12 Comments
Nine prime ministers have been observant Christians. Two have been conventional Christians. Ten have been nominal Christians. Five have been articulate atheists or agnostics. One was a nominal atheist or agnostic.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 01 November 2010
3 Comments
There is an emerging Aboriginal middle class. The contested questions in those communities relate to the expensive delivery of services including health, housing and education. The contested issue in the urban community is over self-identification as Aboriginal by persons of mixed descent.
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AUSTRALIA
- Paul Cleary
- 24 August 2010
3 Comments
Kevin Rudd's failure to embrace the Timor legend with more imagination and
substance was a missed opportunity to connect with Labor's Second World
War legacy. Wartime Prime Minister John Curtin saw the guerilla war in
Timor as a unique and significant part of turning back the Japanese
tide.
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EUREKA STREET/ READER'S FEAST AWARD
- Nigel Pearn
- 18 August 2010
3 Comments
The book was banned after parents complained about its anti-authoritarian attitude: 'Wanja [the dog] loved to chase the [police] van ... to bark at the van ... to bite at the wheel. The police van would drive away.' Like Jewish humour, Aboriginal humour is a response to a history of oppression.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Emily Millane
- 25 June 2010
7 Comments
In early 2008, 89 per cent of us thought Rudd to be a 'man of vision'. Recall his essay on Bonhoeffer in The
Monthly; the promise of a politics of decency and equality; the Apology; the ideas
summit. After that it all goes a bit foggy.
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AUSTRALIA
- Adrian Phoon
- 23 June 2010
6 Comments
When Switzerland scored with a crazy goal against the heavily favoured Spain, I could
almost hear my father leaping from the couch and cheering. Before he died, he was a football fanatic. I have learned to love it. It's my way of communing with him.
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ENVIRONMENT
The Howard years made me feel ashamed to be Australian, and I felt about his electoral defeat the way East Germans felt about the Berlin Wall coming down: as a kind of cleansing. Rudd disappoints for a different reason.
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EUREKA STREET TV
- Peter Kirkwood
- 12 March 2010
2 Comments
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