keywords: University Of Melbourne
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INFORMATION
- Chris Bisset
- 15 October 2009
4 Comments
Kevin Rudd calls them the 'vilest form of people on the planet'. How dare these impoverished, yet slightly entrepreneurial fishermen let
their social consciousness blind them from considering the interests of
white Australians?
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MARGARET DOOLEY AWARD
- Ben Coleridge
- 14 August 2009
The lecturer's joke about religion is met with laughter. Here, 'faith' is the jester. In dismissing faith, we dismiss people for whom faith is central to the search for truth. We exclude them from that task of imagination and creation.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Avril Hannah-Jones
- 07 August 2009
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The Australian Student Christian Movement was ahead of the mainstream church in its rejection of fundamentalism, its activism, support for ecumenism, and encouragement of lay and female leadership. Since the 1960s it has been a movement in exile.
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MEDIA
Put-downs of post-colonial India are often seen as a continuation of the colonial mentality. The Indian media's portrayal of Australia as racist following the attacks on Indian students does more harm than good.
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MARGARET DOOLEY AWARD
Multi-faith dialogue is just a conversation, over time, between dear friends.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Jonathan Hill
- 17 July 2009
6 Comments
Kennedy is not portrayed as a saint. Imperfections such as his
unpredictable temper, his occasional liking for a drink and his initial
insensitivity to Aboriginal Australians reveal that he, like us, was a
man of flesh and blood.
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AUSTRALIA
- Ben Coleridge
- 10 July 2009
4 Comments
The current strategy is underpinned by a consensus on counter-insurgency that has gained ground since 2007. Marine Brigadier General Nicholson advocates drinking tea and eating goat with the locals, over and above firing bullets.
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RELIGION
I am shocked and angered by the actions of fellow religious Brothers detailed in the Ryan Report. There were basic things lacking in our training that could have led to a very warped way of looking at oneself and the world.
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INFORMATION
- Andrew McGowan
- 16 June 2009
When our universities enrol international students based on balance-sheet
needs rather than strategies of international partnership
and engagement, a whole branch of education policy is revealed as
bankrupt.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Susan Hurley and Grace Yee
- 05 May 2009
4 Comments
even if we spent the next hundred years .. carving roast lamb on Sundays .. buttering white bread .. and boiling Brussels sprouts .. we could never be them .. nor they us
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Andrena Jamieson
- 17 April 2009
Loreto Sister Veronica Brady has taken on the Government for its treatment of Indigenous Australians, the church for its treatment of women, and Australian society for its materialism. She belongs to the long tradition of Australian stirrers.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Carolyn Masel
- 03 April 2009
Vincent Buckley's work evolves from the explicitly religious to the
exploration of experience. But when individual and common experience of love, suffering, or
conflict is treated with such depth of seriousness, the result is much the same.
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