Keywords: Young People In Detention
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AUSTRALIA
- Brian Toohey
- 25 July 2007
8 Comments
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.
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INTERNATIONAL
- Andrew Hamilton
- 27 June 2007
3 Comments
Australia's treatment of refugees has been out of the headlines for some months, perhaps due to changes in the Department after the Cornelia Rau scandal. But despite some improvements, Australian refugee policy remains destructive.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Mary Manning
- 16 April 2007
With characters at low points in their lives, Nights in the Asylum is saved from being a dark novel by moments where care and love bring positive change.
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RELIGION
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 27 February 2007
7 Comments
The last state authorised execution in Australia—that of Ronald Ryan—occurred 40 years ago last week. 12 year old Frank Brennan felt it was wrong. His adolescent moral sensibilities found resonance in public debate, law reform and policy change.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 09 July 2006
The following is an edited text of an address given by Fr Frank Brennan sj ao, at the launch of his most recent book, Tampering with Asylum.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Grant Morgan, Anthony Ham, Matthew Albert, Steven Columbus
- 07 July 2006
On your bus, Kerala leads, Sudan in Australia, Coming to terms.
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INTERNATIONAL
Stowaways’ rights to seek asylum are being denied, argues David Manne.
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AUSTRALIA
- Anthony Ham, Rosie Hoban
- 19 June 2006
From Cuba to Congo and back again | Children at war
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 31 May 2006
The following is an edited text of an address given by Frank Brennan SJ as part of the Jesuit Lenten Seminar Series 2004.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Andrew Hamilton
- 22 May 2006
Andrew Hamilton critiques Robert Manne’s Quarterly Essay, Sending them Home: Refugees and the new politics of indifference.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Andrew Hamilton
- 11 May 2006
A recent showing of the documentary, My Foetus, stirred discussion both of the morality of abortion, and also of the propriety of showing an abortion on television.
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