Keywords: Queensland Election
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AUSTRALIA
- James Massola
- 07 November 2007
2 Comments
With two and a bit weeks to go until the election, there is still
plenty of time for a knock-out blow to be landed by either side. Two local issues emerging above all others in the nation's capital. Both will have implications for the rest of the country.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 25 October 2007
1 Comment
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AUSTRALIA
- Scott Stephens
- 17 October 2007
11 Comments
The great hypocrisy of Kevin Rudd’s style of politics is that he launched his challenge for the Labor leadership twelve months ago with an appeal to Dietrich Bonhoeffer. One cannot help but be sickened by his recent rebuke of the politically and morally courageous Robert McClelland, for expressing unbridled opposition to capital punishment in Indonesia.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Richard Flynn
- 17 October 2007
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.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 27 June 2007
45 Comments
The Prime Minister has said, “We are dealing with children of the tenderest age who have been exposed to the most terrible abuse”. He asks, “What matters more: the constitutional niceties, or the care and protection of young children?" It is not a choice of one or the other.
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AUSTRALIA
- Jack Waterford
- 18 May 2007
It couldn’t make it as an issue in the federal election campaign, but the Howard Government is now embarked on radical change in Aboriginal affairs.
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AUSTRALIA
- Paul Osborne
- 27 February 2007
1 Comment
Paul Osborne analyses the Queensland State election, and the aftermath.
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RELIGION
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AUSTRALIA
- Jack Waterford
- 22 January 2007
3 Comments
With so many matters in John Howard's political calculus beyond his capacity to influence or control – Iraq, Afghanistan, the Pacific crises, wheat scandals and water reform – he must be thinking it would be nice to have a hold on something.
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INFORMATION
- Michael McKernan, Peter Pierce, Liz Curran, Peter Seidel, Frank Fisher
- 05 July 2006
Strange times, Cooling off in Tasmania, Where now for reconciliation?, Tides of history, Being scared of GM
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INFORMATION
- Michael McKernan, Frank O’Shea, Mark Deasey, Morag Fraser, John Carmody, Brigid Hains, Pip Robertson
- 03 July 2006
Peace drums, Irish visitor, Travellers’ tales, Epiphanies, Deep structure, Counter-terrorism kits, Circling the square
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ARTS AND CULTURE
It is interesting and somewhat disturbing to discover how readily popular novelists regard politics as an appropriate background for crime stories. Tony Smith previews two novels that get much mileage from the intrigue of the political sphere.
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