Keywords: Victorian Elections
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 28 January 2010
22 Comments
Cardinal Pell thinks Church positions
on contested moral issues have a better chance of being reflected in law and policy if parliaments are not constrained by a
Human Rights Act. I would beg to differ. Gone are the days when church leaders can do deals with politicians behind closed doors.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 25 January 2010
13 Comments
Before Australia's racism can be dealt with, political leaders must follow General Peter Cosgrove in acknowledging its existence. Their reluctance to support his remarks could reflect
their fear of speaking hard truths in a year of multiple elections.
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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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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Godfrey Moase, Emily Millane, Tom Riemer sj
- 18 June 2006
Reviews of About face: Asian Accounts of Australia; Diplomatic Deceits: Government, Media and East Timor; The Complete Book of Great Australian Women—Thirty-Six women who changed the course of Australia and The Conclave: A sometimes secret and occasionally bloody history of papal elections
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AUSTRALIA
- Jane Mayo Carolan
- 11 May 2006
Jane Carolan speaks with doyen feminist and political activist Anne Summers.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Peter Yewers
- 27 April 2006
Sally Young’s The Persuaders: Inside the Hidden Machine of Political Advertising is an important book for those interested in political and social change, says Peter Yewers.
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INTERNATIONAL
- Jon Greenaway
- 21 April 2006
A few months’ peace in the wake of the tsunami was shattered by an assassin’s bullet.
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