Keywords: Young People In Detention
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AUSTRALIA
- Myrna Tonkinson
- 08 July 2009
2 Comments
The focus on the sensational when discussing the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous health tends to obscure
some positives. Many families are dealing with problems of abuse and neglect
with remarkable success.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 11 June 2009
2 Comments
Sister Carmel Wauchope is a Sister of the Good
Samaritan and lives up to that name. Outraged
by the conditions faced by asylum seekers in detention in Australia, she has spent years visiting detainees and
advocating on their behalf.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Andrena Jamieson
- 05 June 2009
4 Comments
The policy of assimilation made an inhumane idea
more important than human beings. Redfern Pastor Bill Simon recovered from his own oppression under Government policies. It's
shameful that a miracle was required.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 11 May 2009
2 Comments
While it is inherently racist for a person to claim membership of the
best race, it is no bad thing for a religious person to claim
membership of the one true religion. That is what religious people do.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Andrew Hamilton
- 13 November 2008
3 Comments
The Edmund Rice Centre's Phil Glendenning is is the ordinary gruff Australian bloke abroad - a
Merv Hughes or an Ian Chappell, not naturally articulate but enduring
and not to be fobbed off with smooth talk. His
silent listening is the moral centre of this powerful SBS TV documentary about returned asylum seekers.
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AUSTRALIA
- Susan Biggar
- 26 September 2008
12 Comments
Maybe we shouldn't have been surprised when the rejection letter arrived in the mail. After all, the Immigration Department is entrusted with separating the sheep from the goats, and our family, apparently, has some black sheep.
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AUSTRALIA
- Oskar Wermter
- 08 July 2008
5 Comments
Robert Mugabe was a bright and ambitious boy, but angry, lonely and insecure. Nothing has changed. His greatest weakness is that he cannot accept criticism, responding with anger and
aggression. The whole of Africa knows that now, to its cost.
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AUSTRALIA
- Brian Toohey
- 09 January 2008
1 Comment
Terrorism
involves the ancient crime of murder. Dr Mohamed Haneef is not charged
with murdering anyone, nor involvement in any murder. The ministerial
prerogative exercised by Immigration Minister Kevin Andrews should not
exist. From 26 July 2007.
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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
- Carol Ransley & Toe Zaw Latt
- 17 October 2007
A new generation of young activists was born on the streets of Rangoon last month. The war being raged by the Burmese military against its own people has faded from the international headlines, but Burmese young people from all walks of life continue to step up their non-violent resistance campaign.
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INTERNATIONAL
- Carol Ransley & Toe Zaw Latt
- 03 October 2007
4 Comments
Two out of five children in Burma are severely malnourished, and the majority of people live in dire poverty. Then the ruling
State Peace and Development Council instructed all Ministry of
Energy distribution outlets to raise the prices of fuel.
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AUSTRALIA
- Luke James
- 19 September 2007
2 Comments
Coverage of the South Pacific Games was dominated by an Australian reporter posing a loaded question about RAMSI to the Samoan prime minister. It's a reminder that much remains to be done to positively promote the diversity and spirit of the region.
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