keywords: Sydney Morning Herald
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RELIGION
- Brian Lucas
- 22 August 2017
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In the Sydney Morning Herald on 17 August Lindsay Murdoch reported on the public hearing by the Australian Parliament’s Joint Committee investigating a Modern Slavery Act. The proposed legislation is broad but this article focused on one aspect—the institutionalisation of children.
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AUSTRALIA
- Frank Brennan
- 20 August 2017
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The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse has published a 2000-page three volume Criminal Justice Report. One of its recommendations is that the states and territories 'create a criminal offence of failure to report targeted at child sexual abuse in an institutional context'.
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CARTOON
- Fiona Katauskas
- 15 August 2017
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This week's offering from Eureka Street's award winning political cartoonist.
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CARTOON
- Fiona Katauskas
- 08 August 2017
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CARTOON
- Fiona Katauskas
- 27 June 2017
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CARTOON
- Fiona Katauskas
- 19 June 2017
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CARTOON
- Fiona Katauskas
- 13 June 2017
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CARTOON
- Fiona Katauskas
- 06 June 2017
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AUSTRALIA
- Frank Brennan
- 31 May 2017
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Indigenous leaders this last week have called for the creation of two new legal entities. They want a First Nations Voice enshrined in the Constitution, and a Makarrata Commission set up by legislation. The Makarrata Commission would supervise agreement making between governments and First Nations and engage in truth telling about history. The envisaged destination is a national Makarrata (or treaty). So the immediate constitutional issue is the creation of the First Nations Voice. There is no point in proceeding with a referendum on a question which fails to win the approval of Indigenous Australia. Neither is there any point in proceeding with a referendum which is unlikely to win the approval of the voting public.
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CARTOON
- Fiona Katauskas
- 30 May 2017
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CARTOON
- Fiona Katauskas
- 23 May 2017
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 17 May 2017
As the Church of 2030, we need to be more attentive to the contemplation of believers and our experience of spiritual realities, as well as the preaching of the church. Pope Francis has no time whatever for the notion of the Church as a perfect society. But, there is no way that Francis wants to abandon the ideals and the commitment to truth and justice so well exemplified by his predecessors John Paul II and Benedict.
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