Keywords: Queensland Election
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 28 January 2010
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The full text of Frank Brennan's January 2010 address to the Australian Association of Catholic Bioethicists, 'Toothless, Trojan or True to Trinitarian Anthropology? Reflecting on the 2009 National Human Rights Consultation'.
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AUSTRALIA
- Tony Smith
- 08 December 2009
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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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AUSTRALIA
- Tony Smith
- 19 November 2009
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Premier Nathan Rees asked two ministers for their resignations, effectively sacking them. He will
have to hope that he has not thrown away Labor’s last chance to retain government.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 14 October 2009
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Even if all our recommendations were implemented tomorrow, there would still be vulnerable
Australians missing out on essential economic and
social rights. Responsibility for meeting these needs cannot rest
solely with government. We need to take
responsibility for each other.
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MEDIA
Bloggers
are being hunted and jailed in countries such as Burma and Iran. In Western nations they are incurring the wrath of disgruntled mainstream journalists. The plight of St Mary's South Brisbane holds a useful metaphor for this crusade on free speech.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 17 October 2008
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'For me, talk of the death penalty evoked the young, frightened faces of
Scott and Emmanuel, as well as the laughing, haughty faces of Amrozi,
Mukhlas and Imam Samudra.' Full text from Frank Brennan's session on 'Killing People for Killing People', Ubud Writers Festival, 17 October 2008.
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EUREKA STREET/ READER'S FEAST AWARD
Coming closer, one sees these are paintings of drowning people, headsor bodies suspended in metallic seawater. There are 353 images, mostly children and women, for it was mostly children and women who boarded the boat.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Richard Flynn
- 09 January 2008
As
Australians wait for a Federal election, Hilary Glow’s book is timely
evidence that what is wrong with the world is what politicians would
have us believe. Contemporary playwrights are wrestling with the issues
seen as crucial to the notion of who we really are as Australians in the twenty-first century. From 17 October 2007.
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AUSTRALIA
- Scott Stephens
- 12 December 2007
2 Comments
The 2007 election saw the Howard Government caught in a perfect
electoral storm. Boredom disconnected the Coalition from the
electorate, and the refusal to
ratify the Kyoto Protocol left the Government stranded in a kind of
moral no-man's land.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 29 November 2007
The power of the State can be exercised capriciously and unaccountably when the “Don’t ask; don’t tell” approach to government is immune from parliamentary, judicial or public scrutiny. It is the task of lawyers to make it more difficult for politicians to take this approach.
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AUSTRALIA
- Chris Perkins
- 21 November 2007
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The union movement in Australia has fought hard to protect Australians' rights to equal pay for equal work, without discrimination. However the Howard Government's Work Choices legislation seems to have undermined this.
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AUSTRALIA
- Scott Stephens
- 14 November 2007
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Perhaps the clearest indication of the underwhelming torpor that has
become the defining feature of the federal election
campaign, is the fact that its highlights have been provided by
luminaries of Labor past — Paul Keating and Mark Latham.
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