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What to make of the rally

Sheila Liaugminas | 31 August 2010 |
tags: Dr. Martin Luther King, Glenn Beck, Rev. Al Sharpton, Washington rally
The massive rally on the mall of Washington over the weekend has the media in a tangle. It was larger…


Can you hear us now?

Melinda Tankard Reist | 31 August 2010 |
tags: Australia, pornography, sexualisation of children
Australian women raise a collective shout against the pornification of culture and the harm it is doing.


The bitter fruit of a myth

Michael Kirke | 30 August 2010 |
tags: Catholic Church, Ireland, terrorism
Ireland has been stunned by the revelation that a Catholic priest appears to have been responsible for a terror bombing in which nine people died in 1972.


Aftershock

Alistair Nicholas | 30 August 2010 |
tags: China, family values, films
A Chinese blockbuster about the survivors of two earthquakes is a remarkable story of loss and redemption.


The Waiting City

Lucy Smith | 30 August 2010 |
tags: adoption, films, India, The Waiting City
Forget Julia Roberts doing meditation. This Australian movie will tell you so much more about prayer - and love.


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Shifting political labels

Sheila Liaugminas | 29 August 2010 |
tags: centrists, political labels, Tea Party
Before this year, it was already an intriguing question to wonder what the reference point was for left and right…


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Competing rallies, same essential message

Sheila Liaugminas | 29 August 2010 |
tags: civil rights movement, Dr. Martin Luther King, Mall of Washington rally
Restore, renew, reclaim. Two rallies take place today in Washington on this anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King’s ‘I Have…


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Stem cell drama

Sheila Liaugminas | 27 August 2010 |
tags: biomedical science, embryonic stem cell research, stem cell ethics
What timing. Just as I’m hurrying to leave town and have no time to blog, this major stem cell decision…


Upsetting the stem cell applecart

Michael Cook | 26 August 2010 |
tags: stem cells, US
Have two US presidents and a raft of agencies been misinterpreting a federal law for nearly ten years? A judge says Yes.


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‘Lower age of consent’ says gay rights campaigner

Carolyn Moynihan | 26 August 2010 |
tags: age of consent, Pope Benedict XVI, sexual abuse
A high profile British homosexual activist wants the age of sexual consent lowered to 14, on the basis that currently…


College diplomas, anyone?

Thomas C. Reeves | 26 August 2010 |
tags: college, employment, graduates
The equation more cash = more diplomas = more skilled workers really does not add up.


The college bubble

Kevin Ryan | 26 August 2010 |
tags: college, employment, tuition debt
As senior college administrators’ salaries go through the roof, graduates are left with the equivalent of sub-prime mortgages.


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Child abuse declines, even during recession

Carolyn Moynihan | 26 August 2010 |
tags: child abuse, recession
Contrary to what might have been expected during an economic recession, child abuse declined in the United States in 2008…


The bewitching ways of wickedness

Michael Kirke | 26 August 2010 |
tags: evil, tabloids, yellow journalism
Tabloid journalism desensitises us to the real evils around us.


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‘Vive la distinction’: the gender and schooling debate in France

Carolyn Moynihan | 25 August 2010 |
tags: co-education, France, gender stereotypes
France, that bastion -- if not Bastille -- of egalité, has its own debate on single-sex versus co-ed schooling, to…


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