Keywords: Political Finance
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AUSTRALIA
- Jack Waterford
- 08 August 2007
3 Comments
Interviewed a year ago for the biography John Winston Howard, Treasurer Peter Costello complained about the Government's binge spending. Since then, the PM has committed many billions more, and given every indication the pace of spending will increase enormously between now and the election.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
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.
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AUSTRALIA
- Fatima Measham
- 18 May 2007
Fatima Measham investigates the declining credibility of Filipino President Gloria Arroyo.
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RELIGION
- James McEvoy
- 02 April 2007
3 Comments
Lily Brett's writing about her struggle to come to grips with her emotional scars in middle age gives us insight into our own. Moreover, the doctrine of original sin suggests that our temptation to blame violence entirely on terrorists is far too simplistic.
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AUSTRALIA
- Paul Cleary
- 27 February 2007
In 2006, the East Timorese government’s inept handling of a dispute in the army involving soldiers from the western region of East Timor put the young nation on the brink of civil war. Now Jose Ramos Horta has been installed as Prime Minister, but will it make a difference?
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Margaret Cassidy
- 22 January 2007
U2's Bono is as well known for his political activism as for his songs. He mixes his political evangelism with the concert performances to such an extent that they almost become interchangeable.
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AUSTRALIA
- Tony Smith
- 07 August 2006
1 Comment
Former Labor minister John Button anticipated the current low point in political discourse, with defenders and critics of government policy having lost the capacity to engage in dialogue, particularly in the field of public morality.
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AUSTRALIA
In 2006, the East Timorese government’s inept handling of a dispute in the army involving soldiers from the western region of East Timor put the young nation on the brink of civil war. Now Jose Ramos Horta has been installed as Prime Minister, but will it make a difference?
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AUSTRALIA
Commonwealth cousins Australia and Canada are headed toward distinctly different futures
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INTERNATIONAL
- Paul Sendziuk
- 18 June 2006
Australian responses to AIDS.
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AUSTRALIA
Paul Osborne asks: Should we export uranium at all? Should we lock up the reserves and declare Australia nuclear free - setting an example to the rest of the world? What is Australia's moral responsibility when a country suddenly turns around and wants to use material from nuclear processes, fuelled by Australian uranium, for weapons?
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Troy Bramston
- 10 May 2006
Troy Bramston looks at new ideas in Imagining Australia: Ideas for our future.
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