Keywords: History Of Early Sydney
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INTERNATIONAL
The story of Haiti, even from the earliest decades of its independence,
is one of a downward spiral into debt and underdevelopment. It has been at the short end of the stick, time and time again,
in its relationships with richer and powerful countries. Haiti, it
turns out, never stood a chance.
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INTERNATIONAL
- Catherine Marshall
- 11 February 2010
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I clearly remember what I was doing the day Nelson Mandela walked free from prison. The behemoth apartheid state shifted so thoroughly and so smoothly that
even the erratic events of the past 20 years have done little to
diminish South Africa's reputation as a miracle nation.
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EUREKA STREET TV
- Peter Kirkwood
- 18 December 2009
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EUREKA STREET TV
- Peter Kirkwood
- 06 November 2009
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Progressive Christian activist Jim Wallis is one of Barack Obama's key advisors on religious and ethical issues. He has been a key proponent of Obama's controversial health care reform legislation, which has raised the ire of some conservative Christians.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Pat Mullins
- 16 October 2009
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In Mt Druitt lives one of the largest groups of Aboriginal people in Australia. Gillian Cowlishaw shows the hope and despair, the visions and realities, of life in this youthful, growing, struggling and fascinating part of
Australia.
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EDUCATION
- Teresa Russell
- 29 September 2009
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According to NSW education policy, if a parent wants their child to opt out of religious education, that child is not
entitled to any instruction during
this period. An alliance of parents and educators is pushing for an ethics-based alternative to religious education.
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EUREKA STREET TV
- Peter Kirkwood
- 11 September 2009
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Cardinal Pell called some of this year's Blake Prize finalists 'anti-religious' and reflecting 'confusion about what is
religious or spiritual'. Religious experience is not confined within the walls of holy buildings. This year's Blake Prize winner attests to this.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Val Noone
- 04 September 2009
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At the height of Willam Hackett's republican involvements, the Jesuit provincial
offered him a choice of silence or appointment
to Australia. Through a combination of personal memoir and public history, Brenda Niall unravels the riddles of Hackett's life.
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INFORMATION
Ross Fitzgerald claims Catholic schools 'have become the instrument through which tax dollars are siphoned off public schools and given to the private sector'. His argument is a misrepresentation of the facts.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tony Smith
- 21 August 2009
Sydney's history has traditionally been interpreted through the
artefacts of a people who are literate and industrial: through
documents and buildings. The Colony acknowledges the equal importance of the sparse traditions of the Indigenous peoples.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
When we were small, my sister and I used to wake from
the same nightmare. As adults, we draw a feeling of wellbeing from our connection, but there are pitfalls — husbands can get jealous and siblings can take offence. It is the hazard of exclusion.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
Australia leads the world
in mammalian extinction and in threatened species. The rag-tag group of contributors to Boom & Bust provide a timely scientific reminder that the fate
of birds is inextricably tied to our own.
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