Keywords: Us Federal Reserve
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 22 November 2011
1 Comment
Text from the 4th Annual Gerald Ward Lecture 'How do we design a dignified welfare safety net without becoming a Nanny State? — Lessons from Catholic Social Teaching', presented by Fr Frank Brennan SJ at the National Library of Australia, 18 November 2011.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 08 March 2010
7 Comments
Tony Abbott says health reform should cure patients and not feed bureaucracy. Yet properly structured bureaucracy is needed to protect patients' interests from those health industry lobbyists with profit motivations.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 18 January 2010
4 Comments
Wealth can enable a person to flourish if it is used to nourish the
soul. But if people use their money for ugly, ignorant, unimaginative
or banal purposes, then they lack a moral title to their wealth.
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AUSTRALIA
- John Warhurst
- 16 June 2009
6 Comments
What can Malcolm Turnbull's place among Australia's richest 200 people tell us about wealth and politics? First and most obviously, that the extremely wealthy almost always get involved on the conservative side.
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ECONOMICS
- Les Coleman
- 22 October 2008
3 Comments
Circumstantial evidence suggests that during the past few weeks we have seen a massive manipulation of monetary policy to support US bank stocks. The manipulation has been played out in plain view, which, of course, is the best place to hide a secret.
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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
The vote in East Timor's presidential election has unified the nation, and given democracy a second change, after the fractious violence of 2006. It underscores the depth of the antipathy towards the Fretilin government after it badly managed the country’s post-independence development and sparked renewed violence last year.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Frank Brennan
- 26 June 2006
Frank Brennan looks at Philip Ayres’ Owen Dixon.
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AUSTRALIA
Paul Osborne asks: Should we export uranium at all? Should we lock up the reserves and declare Australia nuclear free - setting an example to the rest of the world? What is Australia's moral responsibility when a country suddenly turns around and wants to use material from nuclear processes, fuelled by Australian uranium, for weapons?
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ENVIRONMENT
- Alison Aprhys
- 27 April 2006
The Australian Bush Heritage Fund is quietly securing important areas of biodiverse bush to preserve and manage for future generations
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