Keywords: The Final Quarter
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EUREKA STREET/ READER'S FEAST AWARD
- Meg Mundell
- 03 August 2011
7 Comments
In her field some ethnic markers can be overlooked, but skin colour has an undeniable influence on earnings. These are suspicious times. Even the new finance minister, whose grandmother was Aboriginal, caved in to pressure and became noticeably lighter prior to his new appointment.
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INTERNATIONAL
- Jan Forrester
- 22 October 2010
11 Comments
The situation in Afghanistan is far more complex than the Australian parliamentary debate seems to credit. The international community and the Afghan government should be starting a bigger conversation about how a more transparent and accountable political culture can be encouraged.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 28 January 2010
1 Comment
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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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 14 October 2009
1 Comment
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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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 07 October 2009
1 Comment
The one thing more potent than the anticipation of seeing your team in a grand final is the misery of seeing them defeated. A wet, bedraggled lamb glimpsed en route to Melbourne proved to be an ill omen for one footy fan.
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RELIGION
- Frank O'Shea
- 05 June 2009
24 Comments
After a lifetime in schools run by
religious orders, I am appalled to think abuse against children in institutions in Ireland was 'endemic'. I try to persuade myself that 'Brendan', the saintliest man I ever knew, cancels out the bad eggs.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Helen Hagemann
- 06 May 2008
1 Comment
You hear the river cry in the darkness.. It takes a breath over trickling stones.. over endless white cracks.
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AUSTRALIA
- Philip Mendes
- 10 March 2008
13 Comments
Over the years, many simplistic arguments have been advanced in an attempt to justify the West Bank settlement project. None of these arguments had any substance in the 1980s, and they have even less validity now.
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AUSTRALIA
- James Massola
- 10 July 2006
2 Comments
While refereeing standards have been the subject of much debate at this World Cup, and some have decried the paucity of goals, the re-assertion of ‘Old Europe’s’ footballing pre-eminence has escaped serious analysis.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
Peter Rose on writing Rose Boys.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
Hugh Dillon reviews W.G. Sebald’s On the Natural History of Destruction and Mark Roseman’s The Villa, the Lake, the Meeting: Wannsee and the Final Solution.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Morag Fraser, Allan James Thomas, Juliette Hughes, Gordon Lewis
- 26 June 2006
Reviews of the films Naqoyqatsi; Open Hearts; The Matrix Reloaded and La vérité si je mens! 2.
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