Keywords: Third World Poverty
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AUSTRALIA
- Stuart Braun
- 30 October 2006
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A decade of economic growth has been good for many Australians. The property market has boomed. Wages have spiralled. Equity markets continue to ride record highs. Ordinary Australians have grown rich—but others have missed out.
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RELIGION
- Andrew Hamilton
- 21 August 2006
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The new Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, has described IMF and World Bank conditional loans to Third World countries as usury.
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AUSTRALIA
As the leaders of the world’s richest and most powerful countries gathered in St Petersburg this month, a few hundred activists were meeting in a dusty frontier town 350km beyond Timbuktu, for what they dubbed ‘the Poor People’s Summit’.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
Mike Davis' new book belongs to a long tradition of studies of the urban poor – among them, Friedrich Engels’s examination of Victorian Manchester in The Condition of the Working Class in England. Davis updates this genre for a period of globalisation.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 09 July 2006
The following is an edited text of an address given by Fr Frank Brennan sj ao, at the launch of his most recent book, Tampering with Asylum.
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AUSTRALIA
- Gianni Zappalà
- 15 June 2006
Gianni Zappalà examines the relationship between public policy and corporate citizenship.
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AUSTRALIA
- George Morgan
- 15 June 2006
George Morgan on the cruelty of punitive attitudes to children.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Eliza Bergin
- 15 June 2006
Eliza Bergin navigates Nicholas Hasluck’s The Legal Labyrinth
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RELIGION
- Juliette Hughes
- 22 May 2006
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Juliette Hughes interviews Fr Joseph Nguyen Cong Doan SJ.
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INTERNATIONAL
Anthony Ham on power and politics in the world’s third-poorest country.
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AUSTRALIA
Norway has enjoyed great prosperity but this may not continue indefinitely
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AUSTRALIA
- John Langmore
- 30 April 2006
John Langmore reflects on the relationship between Australia and the United Nations
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