Keywords: The Sydney Institute
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AUSTRALIA
- Michele Freeman
- 04 July 2008
5 Comments
Average personal debt is at record levels, yet many Australians say work interferes with their capacity to maintain community connections and friendships. Despite a culture that rewards overwork, part-time work can help create time for
ourselves and our communities.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 03 July 2008
50 Comments
The rights of free speech and assembly should not be curtailed because World Youth Day pilgrims might be annoyed or inconvenienced. The NSW regulation is a dreadful interference with civil liberties, and contrary to the spirit of Catholic Social Teaching on human rights.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 02 June 2008
12 Comments
Both the Federal Government and Opposition have proposed easing the pain of ballooning petrol prices with flat tax reductions. However they would be doing us more of a favour if they treated oil dependency as an addiction, and imposed extra taxes that would further increase the price of petrol.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 26 May 2008
1 Comment
The text is from Professor Frank Brennan's 2008 Institute of Justice Studies Oration from 22 May 2008.
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AUSTRALIA
- John Warhurst
- 07 April 2008
2 Comments
The productivity of the 2020 Summit will come from interplay within groups, not individual performance. It will be a big job to prevent it becoming the pushiest and the loudest rather than the best and the brightest.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 06 February 2008
8 Comments
Even senior traditional hard men of the Liberal Party like Bill Heffernan and Shane Stone have indicated that it is time to act. It is time for Brendan Nelson to draw the line so that we can move on, committed to reconciliation and improvement in Aboriginal health, education, and life expectancy.
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ENVIRONMENT
- John Button
- 09 January 2008
No
wonder people hope for arguments which suggest climate change will go
away. The discussion about climate change has become increasingly
feverish, polemical and downright dishonest. From 13 June 2007.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 29 November 2007
The power of the State can be exercised capriciously and unaccountably when the “Don’t ask; don’t tell” approach to government is immune from parliamentary, judicial or public scrutiny. It is the task of lawyers to make it more difficult for politicians to take this approach.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 14 November 2007
42 Comments
Some religious schools have withdrawn from Amnesty because it has become pro-choice on abortion. But members of organisations such as Amnesty, which take a full spectrum approach to human rights, do not generally agree to every item in the organisations' policy statements.
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CONTRIBUTORS
- Anne Lanyon
- 06 September 2007
Anne Lanyon is the Co-ordinator of the Columban Centre for Peace, Ecology and Justice, one of three centres of the Columban Mission Institute based in Strathfield, Sydney
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AUSTRALIA
Tackling the problem of terrorism by the application of force is unlikely to succeed. Pouring blood on the Iraqi desert produced an upsurge of terrorism where none had been before: cruelty, genocide even, but not terrorism, let alone fundamentalist terrorism.
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CONTRIBUTORS
Kate Mannix, a former ABC producer who was later foundation editor of Online Catholics, is a consultant to the Sydney-based Climate Institute.
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