Keywords: Identity Politics
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EUREKA STREET TV
- Peter Kirkwood
- 26 August 2011
Political commentator John Warhurst has devoted his working life to observing what motivates politicians, particularly their religious beliefs. He sees an Australian republic as a 'logical, necessary and natural evolution of Australian political and constitutional identity'.
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MEDIA
- Moira Byrne Garton
- 19 August 2011
12 Comments
Politicians are always pitilessly represented in cartoons. Just ask Kevin 'Tintin' Rudd and Julia 'Nose' (or 'Bottom') Gillard. Portrayals of Tony Abbott in Speedos are not part of a plot to undermine him. The public is able to recognise cartoons as exaggerated political commentary.
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MARGARET DOOLEY AWARD
- Sarah Burnside
- 17 August 2011
8 Comments
Opponents of workplace regulation are well-resourced and powerful. In order to meet them head-on, the Government must do more than invoke the value of hard work. After all, if work automatically confers great dignity, what does it matter that conditions are unsatisfactory?
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 18 July 2011
5 Comments
When I appeared on Q&A with Christopher Hitchens, a young man asked whether we can 'ever hope to live in a truly secular society' while the religious continue to 'affect political discourse and decision making' on euthanasia, same-sex unions and abortion. Hitchens was simpaticao. I was dumbstruck.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 02 May 2011
1 Comment
Jesuit Social Services recently set up a project in Alice Springs to resource the local parish and local Aborigines who want to take more control of their own lives. If we are to get our teeth into issues of acute injustice, we need to eyeball both the decision makers and those affected by those decisions.
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INTERNATIONAL
- Mark Raper
- 17 November 2010
3 Comments
May I tell you about one refugee whom I met during the 20 years I lived and worked JRS? The story has no happy outcome, indeed far from it. But it may help to communicate some of the feelings that inspire many who accompany the refugees.
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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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EDUCATION
- Fatima Measham
- 01 November 2010
16 Comments
Principals and teachers can keep gay young people safe at school only to the extent that they are also safe in the wider community. While ticking boxes on ‘teacher training, resources and consultancy’ may not adequately address the source of the behaviour of homophobic bullies, such programs remain important.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Ellena Savage
- 10 September 2010
1 Comment
University student unions are cesspools of toxicity, sociopathy and tedium. I should know — I'm a student politician. In his latest novel, Chaser alumnus Dominic Knight strikes a balance between sardonic parody and genuine reverence for those whose political conviction outweighs their pessimism.
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INTERNATIONAL
- Ben Coleridge
- 16 August 2010
2 Comments
Flicking the frisbee with a well practised arm, Jimmy told me about his former
home in Sri Lanka. 'Last time I was
there, I was carrying bodies to their graves in my arms, even the bodies
of friends.'
Homer's Iliad is a poem of force in
which, at all times, the human spirit is shown modified by its relations
with force.
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EUREKA STREET/ READER'S FEAST AWARD
My granddad was a fourth generation white Australian who worked with
sheep. I used to tell the
story that he was a small town racist who disliked Blacks, Catholics and
Jews. The punch line was that his daughter married a Fijian, his son
married a Jew and my dad married a Catholic.
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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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