Keywords: National Apology
-
AUSTRALIA
- Virginia Millen
- 05 October 2010
10 Comments
He had the emaciated cheeks of an addict. She was smaller, toothless and aged beyond her years. As we closed our gate he struck her. She fell on the bitumen, lit by the headlight of a passing car. 'You touch her and I'll belt you too,' the man yelled to my partner.
READ MORE 
-
ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 08 September 2010
1 Comment
Lieutenant Yoo Hoo Hoo leans forward to read the
tape: 'Gillard offers Katter trip to Russian Space Station'. Our voices are drowned out by a persistent beeping sound. The specially
engineered Windsor-Oakeshott Thrusters have split and the Ostracise is going into reverse.
READ MORE
-
CARTOON
- Fiona Katauskas
- 11 August 2010
READ MORE
-
CARTOON
- Fiona Katauskas
- 04 August 2010
READ MORE
-
AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 19 July 2010
14 Comments
The public stoush between Paul Keating and Bob Hawke seems little more than soap opera for political
junkies. Australian Jesuit Fr Frank Brennan longs for a political morality
to guide politicians at times of political upheaval, such as Kevin Rudd's emotional departure from the Labor leadership.
READ MORE
-
RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 07 July 2010
Fr Frank Brennan's address to the Melbourne College of Divinity
Centenary Conference, Trinity College, University of Melbourne, 6 July
2010.
READ MORE
-
RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 07 July 2010
11 Comments
Kevin Rudd stood in the forecourt of Parliament
House Canberra and recalled with great emotion the morning on which he
had welcomed the members of the Stolen Generations. There was no mistaking his sense of solidarity: he knew there and then what it was to be dispossessed,
alienated and outcast.
READ MORE
-
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.
READ MORE
-
AUSTRALIA
If there is any vestige of democratic socialism left in Labor, the Gillard Government needs to raise taxes without
apology, knowing its social welfare policies are just and
necessary. It also needs to remain committed to redistributing wealth to eliminate huge discrepancies in living standards.
READ MORE
-
INTERNATIONAL
- Binoy Kampmark
- 17 June 2010
5 Comments
Lord Saville's report this week into a seminal moment of 'The Troubles' in Northern Ireland included the admission that the killing of 14 demonstrators by the British Army was 'unjustified and unjustifiable'. True reconciliation can only ever take place with a true recounting of
memory.
READ MORE
-
RELIGION
- Garry Eastman
- 23 March 2010
12 Comments
Pope Benedict's letter to the Catholic Church in Ireland released this weekend is a watershed in the way the Church speaks on abuse committed by priests and religious. The Pope's letter would have been better received, not just in Ireland but throughout the world, if he had added a few extra paragraphs.
READ MORE
-
EUREKA STREET/ READER'S FEAST AWARD
READ MORE