Keywords: Volunteer Guilt
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EDUCATION
It's a common cry among progressives that teachers should get paid more. In some instances, this is true. What is, however, more pressing are the poor working conditions that force teachers to choose between students and their own wellbeing and lead them to leave the profession in droves.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tony London
- 17 March 2009
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This searing that killed simply by stealing the light and burning up the air they needed. 'This here is where the windscreen melted.' 'It was like they had been cremated in embrace.'
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EUREKA STREET/ READER'S FEAST AWARD
- Maddy Oliver
- 27 August 2008
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The power differential between helper and the helped is insidious. 'Lady Bountiful' wants credit for giving without thought of return, but can't help counting her sacrifices. Refugees can spot threats to their privacy and self-respect from a mile off.
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MARGARET DOOLEY AWARD
- Michelle Coram
- 12 December 2007
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The Camino de Santiago in Spain is over a thousand years old and trodden by tens of thousands of pilgrims each year. But for this pilgrim it was simply a cheap holiday, a sure way to get fit. She wasn't expecting any miracles.
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INTERNATIONAL
With the encouragement of an Australian nun, inmates at Becora Prison are finding ways out of the darkness of their crimes into the light of new hope.
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