keywords: How I Ended This Summer
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AUSTRALIA
- Tania Andrusiak
- 16 October 2009
5 Comments
Every year children aged six to 13 spend
around $328 billion of their own money, and influence another $2 trillion of parental spending.
Children
under eight are not equipped to understand an
advertiser's intent. They take ads as helpful, truthful information.
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EDUCATION
- Ross Fitzgerald
- 24 August 2009
25 Comments
A neoliberal funding policy has undermined the ability of Catholic schools to meet poor children's
needs. Instead, Catholic schools have allowed millions of tax dollars to be siphoned off
public schools and given to the private sector.
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AUSTRALIA
- Paul Cleary
- 20 August 2009
10 Comments
The first feature length film about Indonesia's invasion of East Timor and the deaths of six Australian journalists fails to inform the audience of the diplomatic dirty tricks, and Australian and American complicity.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 09 July 2009
5 Comments
When Julie learned she was pregnant,
Dave advocated termination. Julie could see his logic, but was also
overcome by powerful mothering urges. The writers of Packed to the Rafters are adept at unpacking every skerrick of emotional baggage.
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AUSTRALIA
- John Warhurst
- 13 March 2009
9 Comments
Governors-General are appointed under a system that
freezes out the Parliament, the Opposition and the people. The controversy over Quentin Bryce's trip to Africa has again revealed the office's vulnerability to partisan politics.
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AUSTRALIA
- Tony Kevin
- 22 January 2008
2 Comments
Last week, Immigration Minister Senator Chris Evans paid a little-publicised visit to Jakarta for talks with ministerial counterparts on border control and people smuggling. The circumstances suggest Evans could be out of his depth, and at risk of policy capture by his department.
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AUSTRALIA
- Jack Waterford
- 12 September 2007
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ECONOMICS
- Les Coleman
- 22 August 2007
1 Comment
Both Government and Opposition seem committed to economic reform. But the fact that the Howard Government's fiscal policy is currently being steered by a drunken sailor is cause for alarm, as is Kevin Rudd's lack of experience and seeming inability to come up with his own economic policies.
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AUSTRALIA
- Brendan Long
- 21 August 2006
Unnerved in the knowledge that the Government is hurting over the pain to families from record petrol prices, the Prime Minister grabs the lectern at the dispatch box a bit too tightly and strives to make eye contact with the cameras as his staff have instructed.
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AUSTRALIA
- John Sweeney
- 12 June 2006
15 Comments
Corporate social responsibility is not the same as ethical behaviour, but it is an important component of such action. It is therefore important to measure companies’ social responsibility and work out how their performance can be improved.
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AUSTRALIA
- Andrew Hamilton
- 29 May 2006
1 Comment
Before the Budget, Mr Howard defended tax cuts for wealthy Australians. He said that excellence should be rewarded. Where does excellence begin, and what kind should be rewarded.
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AUSTRALIA
- Frank Brennan
- 14 May 2006
Father Frank Brennan discusses the Howard Government's approach to the issue of asylum seeker detention off-shore.
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