Keywords: Identity Politics
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 18 June 2010
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AUSTRALIA
- Aurelien Mondon
- 23 April 2010
5 Comments
As Anzac Day approaches, Australian flags adorn our streets. To many, this display of nationalism is inoffensive and appears even as a sign of
cohesion. But it may also be a worrying facet of the growing appeal
found in exclusionary identity politics.
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AUSTRALIA
The Devil himself could not have better orchestrated Sunday's air tragedy at Smolensk Airport. It was to be a symbolic moment of reconciliation between two neighbouring countries that have been separated by war.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 19 March 2010
4 Comments
The challenges and opportunities are to fund equitably all
networks in education and to ensure that robust morale and community
engagement are hallmarks of all parts of the network, including state
schools and emerging schools such as Muslim schools.
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EDUCATION
- Ben Coleridge
- 05 January 2010
5 Comments
After midnight, a group of international students, on a break from their night jobs as waiters, gather in a concrete stairwell and share their stories. Victorian premier John Brumby could learn a thing or two in that shabby stairwell. September 2009
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RELIGION
- Yannick Thoraval
- 14 December 2009
8 Comments
When the Dalai Lama appeared, people flocked to
the stage, mobile phone cameras in hand, so
they too could own a piece of the Dalai Lama. As a measure of our cultural values, it is interesting to consider that the Dalai Lama has become a commodity.
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EDUCATION
- Ben Coleridge
- 30 September 2009
7 Comments
After midnight, a group of international students, on a break from their night jobs as waiters, gather in a concrete stairwell and share their stories. Victorian premier John Brumby could learn a thing or two in that shabby stairwell.
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AUSTRALIA
- Catherine Marshall
- 31 August 2009
8 Comments
The issue is not whether South African athlete Caster Semenya is male, hyper-androgynous,
or, as she claims, 'entirely female'. More burdensome is the ferocious public response to a
predicament that clearly called for maturity and restraint.
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AUSTRALIA
It is enouraging that the Government's Defence White Paper de-emphasises the US alliance in favour of self-reliance. However, we still desperately need community debate about the ways in which a military force can be used morally.
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MEDIA
- Paul Collins
- 25 February 2009
29 Comments
The public response to the axing of The Religion Report and
other specialist programs late last year by ABC Radio National
management was astonishing. But the response of the ABC was abysmal. It is time to tell the whole story.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 06 October 2008
'Lee and
Christine Rush are your average Ozzie couple, except that their teenage son Scott is on death row in Bali having been
convicted of being a hapless drug mule. It will not go down well on the streets of Jakarta
if Australians are baying for the blood of the Bali bombers one month
and then pleading to save our sons and daughters the next month.'
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Saeed Saeed
- 03 October 2008
The Catch the Fire Ministries religious vilification case was used for political means by both Muslims and Christians. Deen's account discusses wider issues such as the global rise of Islamaphobia, John
Howard's identity politics and the Cronulla
Riots.
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