Keywords: Victoria Police
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AUSTRALIA
- Vinay Verma
- 12 October 2010
11 Comments
The Victoria Police 'electrocution email' scandal has again displayed Australian inhospitality to the world. Despite this, Indian hospitality remains steadfast. The guest is God in an Indian household. Australia's athletes would know this hospitality well.
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AUSTRALIA
- Andrew Hamilton
- 19 August 2010
7 Comments
This election campaign has been reminiscent of the Italian hunting season, where it becomes dangerous
to go out of doors when so many guns are pointed into the air. Elections are like the shooting season. High fliers are safe. Low fliers are not.
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AUSTRALIA
- Fatima Measham
- 11 August 2010
15 Comments
In Sunday's Liberal campaign launch, Tony Abbott repeated the phrase 'big new tax' five times. Through taxes, we invest in a civilised society that would provide for
us in times of need. Taxes are therefore not a necessary evil. They are a
necessary good.
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ENVIRONMENT
- Paul Collins
- 04 August 2010
16 Comments
Sadly the Commission played the blame game. This happens after every major fire and originates in the need to find scapegoats. Neither Christine Nixon nor the others who copped the blame could have known they were dealing with a whole new era of firestorm.
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AUSTRALIA
- Moira Rayner
- 09 April 2010
79 Comments
No firestorm of blame would be raging in the media were Christine Nixon not a
woman, a decent and strong woman, a prominent woman and an
ethically sound woman of an age and with the experience to possess a
raging integrity of her own and, by her very being, to offer ruthless
men a soft target.
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AUSTRALIA
- Moira Rayner
- 23 February 2010
12 Comments
Adolescence is a time of violent, primitive emotions, of play-acting and the most intensely lived reality.
Boys' passionate assertion of relative worth is
developmentally necessary. That child's place in the society of his
peers is, for that moment, a matter of life and death.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- B. N. Oakman
- 08 December 2009
1 Comment
Our town nuisance, eyes bulging from a hollowed head, trousers like tattered flags half-mast on broomstick legs, a pest to the tourists ... a handy arrest for the police
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 03 September 2009
Roo makes a quick buck starring in a porn film. Trisha and Katrina are arrested for shoplifting. Orton and Stacey
are runaways from an untenable home
life. Blessed finds hope in the cracks between mothers and their teenage children.
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AUSTRALIA
- Fatima Measham
- 05 August 2009
3 Comments
Cory Aquino will be remembered for the role she played in the Philippines' People Power Revolution of 1986. It was the first instance in modern times where civilians, not the
military, unseated a corrupt leader without even a call to arms.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 03 August 2009
Tasers are
regarded as a fast and easy means for police to restrain alleged offenders.
But that's not what's needed for a response that
respects the rights of the individuals being apprehended.
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AUSTRALIA
No 'group' can be assumed to be full of
criminals. Men form friendships out of common, innocuous interests. Laws introduced in NSW interfere with civil liberties and are likely to be ineffective at addressing organised crime.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 26 March 2009
1 Comment
Let's face it, caricature is easy. Rhetoric that links bikies with terrorism and organised crime makes for sensational news, but good journalism demands more than that. So does compelling storytelling.
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