Keywords: Public Transport
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MEDIA
- Kylie Baxter and Rebecca Barlow
- 05 September 2007
2 Comments
Last month, 13 people died in the Mississippi River collapse. On the same day in Iraq, a suicide bomber killed 14 when he drove an explosive laden car into a line of police. Media coverage suggests a disproportionate amount of Australian grief was directed towards the US victims.
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ECONOMICS
- Daniel Donahoo
- 08 August 2007
1 Comment
An obsession with an economics graduate who founded an aged care organisation provokes memories of a night on the streets in the company of a homeless man named Patrick.
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AUSTRALIA
- Philip Mendes
- 25 July 2007
The ALP has historically been committed to government intervention in the free market to promote a fairer distribution of income. However, since Hawke and Keating, the ALP moved towards a free market agenda focusing on the alleviation of poverty rather than structural change.
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AUSTRALIA
- Clare Coburn
- 02 April 2007
Images from the Burnley tunnel accident showed thick plumes of smoke billowing from the outlet chimney. If a shark kills a lone swimmer off a beach, we call for netting or shooting. We have a much more lenient attitude towards roads.
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AUSTRALIA
- Frank Quinlan
- 27 February 2007
After months of deliberation with Government, other church groups, our board and member organisations, Catholic Social Services Australia has advised its 61 member organisations not to participate in the Financial Case Management measures under the Government’s harsh new Welfare to Work legislation, which came into effect on 1 July this year.
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AUSTRALIA
- Jack Waterford
- 09 July 2006
Of all the comments made after Mark Latham’s surprise ascension to the Labor leadership, Paul Keating’s remark—that it represented a defeat for the bankrupt ALP factional system and its operatives—was the most sound.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Grant Morgan, Anthony Ham, Matthew Albert, Steven Columbus
- 07 July 2006
On your bus, Kerala leads, Sudan in Australia, Coming to terms.
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INFORMATION
- Greg Hawthorne, John Dobinson
- 26 June 2006
Letters from Greg Hawthorne, John Dobinson
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AUSTRALIA
- David Nichols and John Wiseman
- 26 June 2006
Community Development projects can make a difference
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AUSTRALIA
- Anthony Ham, David Glanz, Morag Fraser
- 16 June 2006
Death of the king, Little argument, Words to end winter
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ENVIRONMENT
Paul Martin finds Victoria’s Water Act is full of holes.
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AUSTRALIA
- Fatima Measham
- 12 June 2006
Fatima Measham on the dilemma of poverty in Australia.
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