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Note to Gillard: go back to where you came from

by on 22. Jun, 2011 in Africa, Australia, Culture, Ethnicity, Human rights, Local community, Migration, Multiculturalism, My life, Politics, Refugees

For those engaged in Australia’s asylum seeker debate, SBS Television’s 3 part reality series ‘Go back to where you came from‘ has been one of the year’s most anticipated TV events and I for one certainly wasn’t going to miss it.  Even before the series went to air, a good 40,000 people on Facebook indicated [...]

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Using celebrities to promote a cause – damned if you don’t, damned if you do?

by on 06. Jun, 2011 in Australia, Culture, Environment, My life, Politics

My past week has been a very colourful one at work with the launch of our big campaign supporting a price on carbon pollution, particularly with the media furor surrounding Cate Blanchett‘s participation in our television ad: Valiantly led by a number of News Ltd newspapers, the media who were reporting on the launch of [...]

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The selective nature of our religious tolerance

by on 27. May, 2011 in Australia, Culture, Human rights, Politics, Religion

XNYRK87XA2C4 Ask many left-leaning, well informed Australians what they think about France’s ban on wearing the burqa in public and you’ll typically hear cries of dissent and disgust at this violation of human rights and attack on religious freedom.  However, talk to the same people about a topical issue involving Christians or the church in [...]

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The big C word: Compassion

by on 15. May, 2011 in My life

Today is the International Day of Compassion, as declared by Bloggers Unite, encouraging social media enthusiasts to promote and share some compassion.  I could hardly resist the offer to do this, given part of my motivation for starting this blog was to stir up a bit more compassion out there on the battle ground of [...]

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