Keywords: Working From Home
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ARTS AND CULTURE
he was diverted.. from the impending roast.. and wiping red wine.. from his generous lips.. he mouthed sweet nothings.. in retaliation.
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RELIGION
- Charles Sherlock
- 16 April 2008
7 Comments
In May, the Rev. Canon Kay Goldsworthy will become Australia's first female bishop. The role will entail pressures from those opposed to having a woman as bishop,
and those who have been waiting for this moment for decades.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Moira Rayner
- 16 April 2008
2 Comments
Having a conflict of interest is not, in itself, wrong — it is the
potential for wrongdoing and corruption that must be avoided. We are
not very good at this in Australia. From July-August 2003
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brenda Niall
- 22 February 2008
1 Comment
Irina Sibley experienced hunger, displacement and bewilderment as a child in war-torn Lithuania. But the first two sentences of her memoir are optimistic: 'A girl-child is born,' she announces. 'It is me.'
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Margaret Simons
- 20 February 2008
7 Comments
The onset of blue-green algae caused the Murray's smell to change from rank to fetid. Halting the damage to the Murray-Darling basin is essential to our
financial survival, yet it may be that it is impossible to stop the
damage without also causing critical economic damage. — Eureka Street, March 1993
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 09 January 2008
3 Comments
We
are now entering a new phase in Aboriginal policy. It is not just about
protecting the children, and the latter phase will challenge taxpayers.
Real jobs and real services don't come cheap in remote Australia,
regardless of the community's racial identity. From 22 August 2007.
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AUSTRALIA
- Patricia McNamara
- 17 October 2007
1 Comment
Women grieve deeply the loss of female victims to family violence. For these women, media reports often mean an agonised re-working of enormous frustration and regret at having been unable to protect one of their own.
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AUSTRALIA
- James Massola
- 12 September 2007
1 Comment
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AUSTRALIA
- Jack Waterford
- 13 June 2007
2 Comments
Jigalong is a remote community in WA, best known for its association with the Rabbit Proof Fence. Remote Aboriginal communities suffer greatly from undeveloped nature of their economies, and the institutional barriers created to prevent them developing.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Peter Bakowski
- 15 May 2007
Having looked at the quarterly figures, he says / that someone will have to go. / It's Weems, a bit of a gambler, a bit of a tippler, / whose eyes stray from sales charts and balance sheets / to ankles and the racing form.
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INFORMATION
Geoff Richardson makes an unusal suggestion for Father of the Year. (From January 30th, 2007)
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AUSTRALIA
- Paul Daffey
- 11 December 2006
1 Comment
Max Muir, who worked on the Victorian Railways all his working life, says many railway employees have hobbies such as fishing or golf—pastimes that can be enjoyed either alone or in groups, and at odd hours if need be. In Muir’s case, he developed the hobby of panning for gold.
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