keywords: Northern Territory
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 18 September 2009
4 Comments
In Life and Death: How do we honour the Patient's Autonomy and the Doctor's Conscience?
Frank Brennan's Sandra David Oration at St Vincent's Clinic, Darlinghurst, Sydney, 17 September 2009.
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AUSTRALIA
- Myrna Tonkinson
- 07 September 2009
3 Comments
Like many Aboriginal communities, the Western Desert communities of WA's Pilabara are dealing with many pressing local issues. If plans for a national representative body can address some of these without introducing
cumbersome structures that will inevitably fail, it will have achieved
much.
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AUSTRALIA
- Binoy Kampmark
- 03 September 2009
4 Comments
The Rudd Government would be wise to ignore calls to 'bin' UN Special Rapporteur
on Indigenous Human Rights' James Anaya's statement on the Intervention. Sometimes it takes an international body to condemn an obnoxious law or practice.
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AUSTRALIA
- John Warhurst
- 26 August 2009
2 Comments
The process of making public policy shouldn't be like a
school reunion. Former politicians have a right to do what they like
after leaving Parliament, but those who opt to serve the community sector, rather than
hanging around politics, are to be admired.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 16 July 2009
9 Comments
Last week, Pope Benedict gave Kevin Rudd a copy of his new encyclical Caritas in Veritate. Rudd gave the Pope a copy of the National Apology. I wonder what the radical Redfern priest Ted Kennedy would have made of this exchange of literary gifts.
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AUSTRALIA
- Myrna Tonkinson
- 08 July 2009
2 Comments
The focus on the sensational when discussing the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous health tends to obscure
some positives. Many families are dealing with problems of abuse and neglect
with remarkable success.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 14 May 2009
2 Comments
Good
intentions are not enough. Gone should be the days when Aboriginals are marginal to the corridors of power. Perhaps it will not be until we have seen the first Aboriginal Prime
Minister that agitators for Indigenous justice will be vindicated.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 11 May 2009
2 Comments
While it is inherently racist for a person to claim membership of the
best race, it is no bad thing for a religious person to claim
membership of the one true religion. That is what religious people do.
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