Keywords: World Economic Forum
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 28 January 2010
1 Comment
The full text of Frank Brennan's January 2010 address to the Australian Association of Catholic Bioethicists, 'Toothless, Trojan or True to Trinitarian Anthropology? Reflecting on the 2009 National Human Rights Consultation'.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Pat Mullins
- 16 October 2009
3 Comments
In Mt Druitt lives one of the largest groups of Aboriginal people in Australia. Gillian Cowlishaw shows the hope and despair, the visions and realities, of life in this youthful, growing, struggling and fascinating part of
Australia.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 14 October 2009
1 Comment
Even if all our recommendations were implemented tomorrow, there would still be vulnerable
Australians missing out on essential economic and
social rights. Responsibility for meeting these needs cannot rest
solely with government. We need to take
responsibility for each other.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 08 October 2009
2 Comments
Text from the speech presented by Father Frank Brennan SJ at the launch of the Report by the Committee of the National
Human Rights Consultation at Parliament House, Melbourne on 8 October
2009.
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AUSTRALIA
- Luke Fraser
- 09 September 2009
The relationship between Australia and Russia is over 200 years old. It
began with great promise, but relations cooled following the Russian
Revolution. The financial crisis presents an opportunity for both
countries to look to each other with optimism once again.
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AUSTRALIA
- Munyaradzi Makoni
- 26 June 2009
2 Comments
Yesterday's political archrivals are today's strange bedfellows. The coalition government of Mugabe, Tsvangirai and
Mutambara has halted Zimbabwe's hemorrhaging. Now that a veneer of progress exists, can Zimbabwe heal itself?
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 06 October 2008
'Lee and
Christine Rush are your average Ozzie couple, except that their teenage son Scott is on death row in Bali having been
convicted of being a hapless drug mule. It will not go down well on the streets of Jakarta
if Australians are baying for the blood of the Bali bombers one month
and then pleading to save our sons and daughters the next month.'
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INTERNATIONAL
Sold to a contractor at the age of 13, Roghini Govindhan was put to work churning out matchboxes 11 hours a day. Now 24, Govindhan has campaigned as part of World Vision's Don't Trade Lives anti-slavery campaign.
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INTERNATIONAL
- James Ingram
- 04 July 2008
In his keynote message to the World Food Summit Pope Benedict XVI called for new strategies to promote food production. Feeding the world population in the coming decades is as big a challenge as climate change, and no less important.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 19 May 2008
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Last week's Federal Budget showed Kevin Rudd's determination to stare down the prevailing economic wisdom, in order to stay on track as a man of his word committed to building a fairer Australia. The humiliating fate of his UK counterpart Gordon Brown suggests what might happen if he strays.
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AUSTRALIA
In both the Olympic Games and the Catholic Church's World Youth Day, young people advance ideals that could benefit the world. It should not surprise if people committed to international understanding are also committed to universal human rights.
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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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