keywords: Political Correctness
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MEDIA
- Max Atkinson
- 13 October 2011
6 Comments
In supporting her opposition to gay marriage, the best Janet Albrechtsen could say was that the opinion was her own, and was 'fundamental'. These remarks shed light on Albrechtsen's bizarre attack on the judges of the High Court over their decision on the Malaysia solution.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 06 April 2011
7 Comments
We need clever strategic and moral thinkers among our health professionals, who can engage with the demands of an aging population, with the gap in life-expectancy between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australians, and with the increasingly politically correct debate about euthanasia.
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MEDIA
- Ellena Savage
- 01 April 2011
36 Comments
Some perceive the racial vilification case against Herald Sun columnist Andrew Bolt as a challenge to free speech. But this case is about more than silencing critiques of the construction of race, and indeed Bolt himself.
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AUSTRALIA
Julia Gillard has invited people to say what they feel on the issue of how Australia should manage its borders. It's worth recalling what happened when
an Australian Government last instructed its defence force
to vigorously repel asylum-seeker boats.
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AUSTRALIA
Christian prayer at public meetings cannot have the same
importance as an acknowledgement of country. Indigenous peoples have a genuine
spiritual association with the land. By recognising this, all
Australians can be united in a non-denominational spirituality.
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ENVIRONMENT
- Neil Ormerod
- 08 January 2010
3 Comments
Many conservative
Catholics are sceptical about global warming. For them
environmentalism is the new communism. This echoes the paranoia
of the '50s and '60s are clear, when anyone with an interest in social
justice was suspect. September 2009
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Margaret Simons
- 02 October 2009
2 Comments
An alliance of traditional owners in the Murray Darling Basin is seeking to assert their role in decisions concerning water management.
In Murray River Country, Jessica K. Weir shows how their view for a healthy river could bring
economics and ecology into alignment.
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ENVIRONMENT
- Neil Ormerod
- 04 September 2009
20 Comments
Many conservative
Catholics are sceptical about global warming. For them
environmentalism is the new communism. This echoes the paranoia
of the '50s and '60s are clear, when anyone with an interest in social
justice was suspect.
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AUSTRALIA
- Sarah Burnside
- 04 August 2009
12 Comments
A recent editorial in The Australian regretted that Australian
conservatives have conceded the intellectual high ground to Labor. In fact, the Liberal Party and its supporters have arguably been far
more astute than the ALP in nurturing academics and research fellows
sympathetic to the 'liberal conservative' cause.
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INFORMATION
- Joanna Thyer
- 23 December 2008
2 Comments
Always on for a challenge, one of the first things Brian said to me
that day was 'Who's your favourite character in the Bible?' and then
'We need women priests.'
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 24 June 2008
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RELIGION
- Peter Hodge
- 03 April 2008
2 Comments
Not all behaviour that offends religious beliefs amounts to vilification. However, when freedom of
expression results in incitement to religious hatred,
a line has been crossed.
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