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AUSTRALIA
- John Warhurst
- 30 June 2010
6 Comments
Christians rarely agree on what they want from government. The Australian Christian Lobby jumped the gun last week with its forum for political leaders to address Christian voters: the elevation of Julia Gillard means it now needs to engage afresh with a new Prime Minister.
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RELIGION
- Andrew Hamilton
- 24 June 2010
6 Comments
If we look at income quarantining as an ethical and not as a political
question, it raises many questions. To answer them we would need to look
beyond its effectiveness in preventing excessive expenditure on
socially undesirable goods like alcohol and pornography.
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AUSTRALIA
- Jack Waterford
- 18 May 2010
5 Comments
Seven houses — not bad for three and a half years work and hundreds of millions of dollars. At that rate the gap will be closed in about 7000 years. Minster Macklin frequently redefines what she is pretending to be doing, or uses weasel words.
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EDUCATION
- Fatima Measham
- 28 April 2010
19 Comments
Julia Gillard has not truly engaged with concerns from teachers,
principals, academics and parents regarding the overemphasis on NAPLAN-based school comparisons. For many teachers, the professional and only ethical thing is to oppose such moves.
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ENVIRONMENT
New technology can improve health care for geographically remote and ethnically diverse Australians. But it won't make much difference unless these people know how to use the technology and are involved in its design and implementation.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 22 March 2010
9 Comments
The cost to human dignity makes compulsory income management counter-productive. It assumes that some welfare recipients are
unable to make rational decisions that take into account the
long-term consequences of their actions. The same might be said for
some governments.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 08 March 2010
7 Comments
Tony Abbott says health reform should cure patients and not feed bureaucracy. Yet properly structured bureaucracy is needed to protect patients' interests from those health industry lobbyists with profit motivations.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Sarah Burnside
- 19 February 2010
3 Comments
In 2009, the Federal Government embarked on consultations with
Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory about the Northern
Territory Emergency Response, commonly referred to as the Intervention. This is what they said.
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AUSTRALIA
- John Falzon
- 15 January 2010
3 Comments
A Japanese homeless man was sending the most exquisite poems to a popular newspaper. There is nothing extraordinary about a person experiencing homelessness producing great poetry. Yet the scenario was regarded with astonishment. October 2009
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AUSTRALIA
- Frank Quinlan
- 17 December 2009
3 Comments
Governments are likely to grasp at feeble evidence
in order to support preferred policy positions. When reporting on issues such as welfare quarantining as part of the Intervention, The Australian and the ABC ought to read further than the Minister's press release.
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AUSTRALIA
- John Falzon
- 11 December 2009
7 Comments
Aside from a few fanatical poverty-deniers, there is a broad consensus that we have a serious problem. Frantz Fanon reminded us nearly 50 years ago that we need a redistribution of wealth. 'Humanity must reply to this question, or be shaken to pieces by it.' We have been shaken to pieces.
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AUSTRALIA
- Tony Smith
- 08 December 2009
5 Comments
Some cynics say female leaders are the housewives and mothers of politics, expected to clean the mess left by the men who preceded them. Male premiers have been shaping NSW for over 150 years now, so Kristina Keneally must clean up after 41 predecessors.
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