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First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 1 reports

Unlocking Australia's incarceration culture

The Commonwealth and the Victorian state budgets this year were marked by a contradiction. Both committed more money to incarceration — immigration detention centres and prisons; and both limited programs to help the people confined there. Such contradictions ... [Published Eureka Street - May 22 2013]

Entities: prison, Australia, Andrew Hamilton, Immigration

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 1 reports

Lives broken by false abuse claims

Broken (MA). Director: Rufus Norris. Starring: Cillian Murphy, Tim Roth, Zana Marjanovic, Eloise Laurence, Robert Emms, Rory Kinnear, Rosalie Kosky, Bill Milner, George Sargeant. 87 minutesAlong with the Danish film The Hunt, the British film Broken was ... [Published Eureka Street - May 22 2013]

Entities: Tim Roth, Abuse, Bill Milner, Allegation, Robert Emms

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 1 reports

Kevin Rudd

Rudd's gay marriage backflip fires church-state debate

Most responses to Kevin Rudd's conversion on same-sex marriage have inevitably focused on whether it will change Australia's political dynamic on the issue. Equally predictably, more cynical members of the commentariat have chosen to see Rudd's announcement ... [Published Eureka Street - May 21 2013]

Entities: Kevin Rudd, Heterosexuality, Homosexuality

First reported May 19 2013 - Updated May 19 2013 - 1 reports

New maritime rescue failure leaves unanswered questions

On Friday, Fairfax Indonesia correspondent Michael Bachelard reported on another ordeal at sea, over ten days between 27 April and 7 May. The story as we know it so far raises disturbing questions about Australia’s adherence to its rescue-at-sea obli ... [Published Eureka Street - May 19 2013]

Entities: Marine Vessel, Christmas Island, Jason Clare, Surveillance Aircraft, Australia

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

Labor goes from Robin Hood to the Sheriff of Nottingham

When Labor handed down its first Budget in 2008 many in the social welfare sector felt that Robin Hood might have just fired off his first humble arrow.There are some good things in this week's Budget announcement: major reforms that should be warmly ... [Published Eureka Street - May 16 2013]

Entities: Robin Hood, Unemployment, Alan Rickman

First reported May 15 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 1 reports

Gutsy budget built around icons

This is a legacy budget. The further into history it recedes, the better it is going to look in terms of economic management.From the perspective of community services agencies, it's a budget framed around three icons: a national disability insurance ... [Published Eureka Street - May 15 2013]

Entities: Concession, Education, Social Welfare, Lin Hatfield Dodds

First reported May 15 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 1 reports

Cheap shots at religious fish out of water

On paper this sounds like a great concept. Six young people from different religious backgrounds undergo a two-week immersion/swap with one of the other participants. They live in that person's home, adopt their style of cultural dress, interact with ... [Published Eureka Street - May 15 2013]

Entities: Religion, Cheap, Compass, Buddhism

First reported May 14 2013 - Updated May 14 2013 - 1 reports

Flawed beauty in back-to-the-wall Budget

With Labor's back to the wall due to fiscal pressure and an election only four months away, last night's Federal Budget represented this Government's last statement of its values and priorities.We saw in evidence its values and priorities reflected in ... [Published Eureka Street - May 14 2013]

Entities: Labor, Taxes, Catholic

First reported May 13 2013 - Updated May 14 2013 - 1 reports

Time to draw the line between Australia and Timor Leste

THE MEDDLING PRIEST Australian governments of both political persuasions have continued to reassure the Australian public that they are decent and special when it comes to dealing with the Timorese over disagreements in the Timor Sea. Time for such special ... [Published Eureka Street - May 13 2013]

Entities: East Timor, Australia, Dili (East Timor), Indonesia

First reported May 10 2013 - Updated May 11 2013 - 1 reports

Getting a grip on our asylum seeker whingeing

Having been in international meetings recently as a non-government delegate for the Australian Government with the UNHCR it has been embarrassing when delegates of other countries ask why Australia is so worried about the number of asylum arrivals it ... [Published Eureka Street - May 10 2013]

Entities: Australia, Australian Government, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (...

First reported May 09 2013 - Updated May 09 2013 - 1 reports

Not poor just broke

THE SAVAGE MINDFriday is the final day of the Oaktree Foundation's Live Below the Line campaign, in which participants raise money for those living in extreme poverty and challenge themselves to live on just $2 a day.The campaign has run annually in Australia ... [Published Eureka Street - May 09 2013]

Entities: Social Welfare, Disposable income, Microwave

First reported May 08 2013 - Updated May 08 2013 - 1 reports

Mixed messages about exploiting girls

Spring Breakers (R). Director: Harmony Korine. Starring: James Franco, Selena Gomez, Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Benson, Rachel Korine.The opening montage looks like the off-cuts from an R-rated cola commercial. Boozed up, barely-dressed teens bounce to dance ... [Published Eureka Street - May 08 2013]

Entities: Harmony Korine, Ashley Benson, Objectification, James Franco, Selena Gomez

Quotes

...On 7 February 2013, Bob Carr assured the Australian Senate: "We have received no indication from Timor-Leste that would suggest CMATS would be terminated." This assurance caused some surprise to those in the know in Dili

Time to draw the line between Australia and Timor Leste [Published Eureka Street - May 13 2013]

Women's and girls rights advocate Melinda Tankard Reist has said that "in a culture that rewards exhibitionism, your achievements count for nothing unless you're willing to get naked" . Korine has offered us a harrowing though imperfect vision of such a culture taken to its extreme...

Mixed messages about exploiting girls [Published Eureka Street - May 08 2013]

...She noticed: good mothers are adept at the business of picking up signals, of tuning into significant vibes. She got out of the car and said, "Do not worry. You are perfectly capable of looking after this baby."

The imperfect mother [Published Eureka Street - May 07 2013]

He raises the issue of caretaker conventions, claiming that "no government should make decisions that are legitimately the province of a potential successor" . In the past caretaker conventions have been applied only to the period after a government enters caretaker mode upon the issuing of the writs for the...

'Lame duck' governments and democracy [Published Eureka Street - May 03 2013]

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Unlocking Australia's incarceration culture [Published Eureka Street - May 22 2013]
Lives broken by false abuse claims [Published Eureka Street - May 22 2013]
Rudd's gay marriage backflip fires church-state... [Published Eureka Street - May 21 2013]
New maritime rescue failure leaves unanswered q... [Published Eureka Street - May 19 2013]
Labor goes from Robin Hood to the Sheriff of No... [Published Eureka Street - May 16 2013]
Gutsy budget built around icons [Published Eureka Street - May 15 2013]
Cheap shots at religious fish out of water [Published Eureka Street - May 15 2013]
Flawed beauty in back-to-the-wall Budget [Published Eureka Street - May 14 2013]
Time to draw the line between Australia and Tim... [Published Eureka Street - May 13 2013]
Getting a grip on our asylum seeker whingeing [Published Eureka Street - May 10 2013]
Not poor just broke [Published Eureka Street - May 09 2013]
Mixed messages about exploiting girls [Published Eureka Street - May 08 2013]
Catholic communicators navigating new media [Published Eureka Street - May 07 2013]
The imperfect mother [Published Eureka Street - May 07 2013]
'Lame duck' governments and democracy [Published Eureka Street - May 03 2013]
Mary MacKillop's advice for today's politicians [Published Eureka Street - May 03 2013]
Abbott's animal charms [Published Eureka Street - May 02 2013]
Abortion drugs wake-up call [Published Eureka Street - May 02 2013]
Ensnared by sex abuse paranoia [Published Eureka Street - May 01 2013]
Banksters' deadly game of Sheldon's three-perso... [Published Eureka Street - Apr 30 2013]
My family connection to Aboriginal genocide [Published Eureka Street - Apr 27 2013]
Abbott's GG gripe points to Australian republic [Published Eureka Street - Apr 23 2013]
Refugee's tram ride to freedom [Published Eureka Street - Apr 23 2013]
The Australian wars that Anzac Day neglects [Published Eureka Street - Apr 19 2013]
Australia's 'comfortable' racism [Published Eureka Street - Apr 19 2013]
Pilgrims in the landscape of lament [Published Eureka Street - Apr 18 2013]
Malaysia Solution is dead in the water [Published Eureka Street - Apr 18 2013]
Maintaining empathy as Boston mourns [Published Eureka Street - Apr 17 2013]
Positives of discrimination [Published Eureka Street - Apr 17 2013]
How an advertiser toppled a dictator [Published Eureka Street - Apr 17 2013]