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September 20, 2013
I am really disappointed at the absence of women in Cabinet positions in the new Liberal Government in Canberra. My disappointment is because I am tired of having to justify […]
September 23, 2013
‘When is doing nothing no longer an option?’ This was the question asked by Journalist Robin Lustig in The Guardian Weekly (p.18) last week on the situation in Syria and […]
September 26, 2013
In the debate about Asylum Seekers and Refugees, it seems the concept and practice of transparency has become another tradeable commodity in our consumer marketplace. It is not seen as […]
October 3, 2013
Money has created a throw-away culture – ‘a by-product of our global economic system that cares only about profit’, according to Pope Francis. Pope Francis has called for an economic […]
October 4, 2013
France’s Upper House of Parliament, the Senate, recently made a very interesting decision to ban ‘Mini-Miss’ beauty pageants as part of its gender equality bill. The argument presented was concerned […]
October 9, 2013
Aged care services work well without people generally paying it much attention. Occasionally, an issue achieves some coverage in the media, but mostly, services to our elderly Australians are provided […]
October 24, 2013
Last week was Anti-Poverty Week. I’m not sure yet of the numbers of people and organisations who supported the week by attending events or by putting on their own activities […]