Keywords: Victorian State Election
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 29 November 2007
The power of the State can be exercised capriciously and unaccountably when the “Don’t ask; don’t tell” approach to government is immune from parliamentary, judicial or public scrutiny. It is the task of lawyers to make it more difficult for politicians to take this approach.
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AUSTRALIA
- Paul Mitchell
- 21 November 2007
There has been much vilification of Kevin Rudd's approach. But Labor was bound to produce someone prepared to
run a colourless campaign, or it would risk watching Howard from the
other side of parliament for four more years.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 25 October 2007
We think it is wrong for foreign states to impose the death penalty on Aussie drug traffickers and drug mules. But we apply different reasoning to non-Australians facing death at the hands of the state. The practical, hands on, Aussie approach often plays fast and loose with moral reasoning about what is right and wrong.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 25 October 2007
There are times when we Australians get the balance between national interest and individual liberty wrong, especially when the individual is a member of a powerless minority. One way of improving the balance is including the judiciary in the calculus, as has now happened in the United Kingdom and New Zealand.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
But for its indubitable basis in reality, Shane Maloney's political thriller Sucked In would be fine therapy for those jaded Australians hoping to see an election year eruption of idealism in the affairs of state.
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AUSTRALIA
Reforming Medicare is a favoured New Year’s resolution
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INFORMATION
- Michael McKernan, Peter Pierce, Liz Curran, Peter Seidel, Frank Fisher
- 05 July 2006
Strange times, Cooling off in Tasmania, Where now for reconciliation?, Tides of history, Being scared of GM
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AUSTRALIA
- Anthony Ham, Kath O’Connor, Bruce Duncan, Clive Shepherd
- 01 July 2006
Any excuse, Privatise or perish, Clear and present danger, Keep left unless undertaking
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 14 May 2006
In this edited extract from the 2006 Manning Clark Lecture, ‘5 R’s for the Enlargers: Race, Religion, Respect, Rights and the Republic’, Frank Brennan focuses on respect.
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AUSTRALIA
Beth Doherty examines the response by governments and charities to poverty in Australia
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AUSTRALIA
Nick Way looks at the reasons behind poor morale among Victoria’s biggest union.
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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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