Keywords: Irish Australian
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 10 December 2008
5 Comments
Sixty years on, it is fashionable to describe the Declaration of Human Rights as a peculiarly western, individualistic conception. It was not. Now is the time for Australia to discuss how best to make the State attentive to the still, small voice of conscience.
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AUSTRALIA
- Frank O'Shea
- 08 December 2008
16 Comments
Most Irish would be content with the suggestion that the push for an Australian Republic was
an Irish plot. When Ireland declared itself a republic 60 years ago, it did
so without the awkwardness of a referendum or political grandstanding.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 30 October 2008
1 Comment
In life and art Nick Cave is drawn to the potent territory where the sacred meets the profane. Steve McQueen's brutal, beautiful portrait of Irish republican prisoners of an uncaring Thatcher government achieves a similar transcendence.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 24 June 2008
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Dimitrios Bouras
- 04 June 2008
4 Comments
In Australia I had never been taunted because of my migrant
father, but after moving to Greece I was ridiculed and bullied because I was half-foreign, and because my mother was
entirely so. I began to do my best to deny her existence.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Frances Devlin-Glass
- 02 May 2008
It will be difficult for bookshops to house The Mystery of Rosa Morland, as its genre is a wonderful hybrid of crime fiction and poetry. The verse novel represents a very modern feminist take on sexual and
actual violence within marriage.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brenda Niall
- 18 April 2008
1 Comment
Many Irishmen volunteered to fight for Britain in the
First World War. Others took part in the 1916 Easter Rising and subsequent struggle for independence. Like Gallipoli the previous year, the doomed Rising became a legend more
powerful than a military success could have been.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 02 April 2008
5 Comments
The Rudd Government is consulting and working out what to do about the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. The symbolism of reversing Australia's vote against the Declaration would need to be matched by more work in partnership with indigenous Australians.
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ENVIRONMENT
- John Button
- 09 January 2008
No
wonder people hope for arguments which suggest climate change will go
away. The discussion about climate change has become increasingly
feverish, polemical and downright dishonest. From 13 June 2007.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 12 December 2007
In working through the maze of economic and scientific dilemmas at the UN climate change meeting, looking at the faces of the world's poor is not a bad way to start. In the past, solutions to ecological problems have often been directed to needs other than those of the people most directly affected.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Andrew Hamilton
- 03 October 2007
4 Comments
In a time of perplexity about Catholicism and religion generally, the
perspective of Christian Brothers' founder Edmund Rice is strongly anchored in a faith focused on the
neediest groups in society. It points us towards recognising the good values and motives of those with whom
we differ.
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AUSTRALIA
- Ursula Stephens
- 13 June 2007
16 Comments
This year's anniversaries are reminders of the importance of "sorry" in the reconciliation process. Why is it so hard to admit that most human of qualities, fallibility? Regret, atonement and forgiveness lie very much at the core of spiritual values.
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