Keywords: Stronger Australia
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 09 March 2009
The Victorian bushfires occurred during a time of financial uncertainty, but Australians gave their money generously. It was as if they were consciously and calculatingly investing their funds in the solidarity of the community.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Doyle
- 04 February 2009
13 Comments
A nun once said cancer is a
dance partner you don't like, but with whom you have to dance, and
either you die or the cancer fades into the darkness at the other
end of the ballroom. The words we use about cancers and wars matter more than we know.
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MEDIA
- Kimberley Layton
- 13 November 2008
9 Comments
India is very proud of the fact that it is one of the few Asian examples of a deeply rooted democratic system. Just ask them about it - they'll tell you. Australians too seem quietly smug. So it's surprising that we rank only 28th in the 2008 Reporters Without Borders Press Freedom Index.
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AUSTRALIA
- Tony Smith
- 23 October 2008
The creed of Roy Slaven and H. G. Nelson is that too much sport is barely enough. While Ricky Ponting has denied talk of a falling out with his chief 'quick' Brett Lee, the plight of the Australian team in India proves there is such a thing as too much cricket.
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AUSTRALIA
- Robert Salter
- 02 September 2008
4 Comments
Many low-paid workers experience stress and illness due to jobs that are dangerous, arduous or powerless. Perhaps it is they who should be compensated with higher pay, rather than those who perform interesting, high-status work.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 31 October 2007
4 Comments
Cardinal Pell does not underscore his climate change denial with theological justification, as he does with his position on issues such as human cloning. It is unfair to him, and to the Catholic Church, to assume that his personal views on climate change represent Church teaching.
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INTERNATIONAL
- Andrew Hamilton
- 25 October 2007
11 Comments
Whether the African component of the immigration quota has been reduced too sharply is a matter of judgment. But it is part of the necessary business of government to evaluate the relative need of different groups, and also to ask which groups of refugees will best be helped by resettlement.
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AUSTRALIA
- Ursula Stephens
- 25 October 2007
4 Comments
Voters want their government to ensure that Australia’s economic prosperity benefits those who most need it. A strong economy is not enough — rather, it is the social economy, made up of nonprofit, community and other organisations working primarily for the common good, that plays a major role in making our country fairer and our local communities stronger.
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AUSTRALIA
Eureka Street's ongoing analysis of the Federal Election race, helping you discern your vote at the ballot in November.
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AUSTRALIA
- Tony Kevin
- 19 September 2007
3 Comments
Australia has ceased to believe in a rules-based international order. Our increasing cynicism about the UN, and participation in coalitions with powerful world players, effectively denies our sovereignty. Rudd Government foreign policy would would need to involve more than fine-tuning.
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ECONOMICS
- Les Coleman
- 22 August 2007
1 Comment
Both Government and Opposition seem committed to economic reform. But the fact that the Howard Government's fiscal policy is currently being steered by a drunken sailor is cause for alarm, as is Kevin Rudd's lack of experience and seeming inability to come up with his own economic policies.
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AUSTRALIA
It is looking more and more that Labor will win, and that the present unforeseen Coalition government majority in the Senate may be lost too. There are interesting moral questions arising from this analysis for us "bleeding hearts", among whom I am happy to count myself.
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