Keywords: The Sydney Institute
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AUSTRALIA
- Paul Cleary
- 25 August 2010
3 Comments
Hundreds of Timorese men and boys served alongide Australian fighters in an amazing guerilla campaign throughout 1942 that tied up several thousand Japanese troops while the battle for
New Guinea was underway. Australia has made at best half-hearted efforts to acknowledge this debt.
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AUSTRALIA
- Paul Cleary
- 24 August 2010
3 Comments
Kevin Rudd's failure to embrace the Timor legend with more imagination and
substance was a missed opportunity to connect with Labor's Second World
War legacy. Wartime Prime Minister John Curtin saw the guerilla war in
Timor as a unique and significant part of turning back the Japanese
tide.
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INFORMATION
- Gerard Henderson
- 17 August 2010
8 Comments
How times change. Early in the 20th Century, it was Protestant
Orangemen who warned Australians not to vote for a Catholic. In the
early 21 Century, such warnings are now delivered by a former Catholic
priest in a publication of the Jesuit Order. –Gerard Henderson, The Sydney Institute
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EUREKA STREET TV
- Peter Kirkwood
- 13 August 2010
2 Comments
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- Peter Kirkwood
- 13 August 2010
One of Australia's most eminent theologians, Redemptorist Anthony Kelly, believes that what currently feels like a global breakdown of beliefs and culture may actually be the beginnings of a breakthrough to new forms of belief.
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AUSTRALIA
- Bruce Duncan
- 06 August 2010
The election has been plagued by trivial spats and personality conflicts, to the neglect of policies based on the values of equity and social justice for everyone. This reinforces the importance of church and community groups
being more active in their social advocacy.
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AUSTRALIA
- Frank Quinlan
- 30 July 2010
7 Comments
The current kind of content-free campaigning, appealing to popular
biases and stereotypes, has real
consequences for the social services sector and the people they serve.
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- Peter Kirkwood
- 30 July 2010
When it comes to asylum seekers, both Labor and Liberal leaders spruik policy that taps into negative community feelings toward 'the other'. Fr Francis D'Sa offers an alternative vision embracing multiculturalism and religious pluralism.
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AUSTRALIA
A new round of Sydney-Melbourne rivalry has broken out, this one over which has the most dysfunctional train
system. It's time Australian cities looked to public transport models that work, such as that of Zurich.
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EUREKA STREET TV
- Peter Kirkwood
- 07 May 2010
31 Comments
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 19 March 2010
4 Comments
The challenges and opportunities are to fund equitably all
networks in education and to ensure that robust morale and community
engagement are hallmarks of all parts of the network, including state
schools and emerging schools such as Muslim schools.
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INFORMATION
- Bruce Duncan
- 12 March 2010
1 Comment
Dr Henderson does Maritain a grave
injustice in so cavalierly dismissing him as favouring the 'you-beaut
idea to advocate Catholic/communist dialogue'. Maritain was strongly
opposed to communist ideology, but he also recognised it contained positive elements,
some of which he said were drawn with the Gospels.
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