Keywords: Working From Home
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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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AUSTRALIA
- Matthew Smeal
- 13 November 2006
2 Comments
Now in his mid-thirties, former child soldier Aki Ra has dedicated his life to the removal of mines and unexploded ordinance throughout Cambodia.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tony Smith
- 30 October 2006
The situation of children who experience not just a generation gap, but also a distance from parents whose migrant inheritance includes a "million scruples that made no sense".
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INTERNATIONAL
- Kent Rosenthal
- 10 July 2006
5 Comments
Living conditions in Ouanaminthe, a ‘town’ of around 100,000 inhabitants amount to an undeclared war on the poor. There’s a lack of services, which makes Ouanaminthe a gathering place for human traffickers, smugglers and corrupt authorities ready to profit from people desperate to leave for the Dominican Republic.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 26 June 2006
There’s a lot of reality around at the moment – at Guantanamo, in Baghdad, in East Timor, in Australian workplaces. To be fully human, we must observe, take account of, and if possible influence these realities as best we can; at the same time life, ordinary quotidian life, must go on.
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AUSTRALIA
- Dewi Anggraeni
- 12 June 2006
The depiction of domestic helpers from Indonesia is disturbing. At home, they're portrayed as puerile characters, easily manipulated and needing guidance. In destination countries, they're seen as bereft of any sense of ethics or morality.
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AUSTRALIA
- Jon Greenaway, Kristie Dunn, Georgina Costello
- 11 June 2006
Unnecessary necessities | Letter from Broome | Heavy traffic
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AUSTRALIA
- Deborah Singerman
- 29 May 2006
4 Comments
With a predominantly working class Anglo-Celtic population, pre-World War II Ashfield was a green escape from inner-city Sydney. But now Chinese have settled in large numbers, and some blame them for what they see as Ashfield’s disrepair and unwelcoming atmosphere.
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AUSTRALIA
The following essays by Morag Fraser and John Schumann are edited addresses from the Jesuit Lenten Seminar Series held in February–March 2005.
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AUSTRALIA
- Marg Honner, Anthony Ham, Matthew Albert
- 14 May 2006
Letters from Marg Honner, Anthony Ham, Matthew Albert
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AUSTRALIA
- Francis Sullivan
- 14 May 2006
Mixed signals lead one to wonder whether the Commonwealth is pulling back from shouldering its share of the cost of aged care.
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