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Wednesday 27 August 2008
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The Catholic Archbishop of Brisbane, John Battersby, under pressure from the Vatican, has threatened to close down the free-wheeling parish of St Mary's, South Brisbane. There have been complaints for years about liturgical irregularities at St Mary's, and even a complaint about a Buddhist statue set up inside the church, but Archbishop Battersby says a letter he wrote four years ago was ignored and that the parish doesn't seem to accept his authority. Is it too late for the parishioners of St Mary's to prevent the axe falling?
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Part 2 of a coversation with Rabbi Professor Avraham Steinberg, distinguished medical ethicist and and paediatric neurologist at Jerusalem's Shaare Zedek Medical Centre.
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Wednesday 20 August 2008
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Remote indigenous communities in the Top End are often seen as hopeless and dysfunctional places where any sense of community has been destroyed by violence and substance abuse. But what impact is Federal government policy having on communities traditional life and kinship structures remain largely intact?
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Wednesday 13 August 2008
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Former General Secretary of the Anglican Church of Australia Dr Bruce Kaye is writing a book about GAFCON, the Lambeth Conference and the crisis in world Anglicanism. We seek his views on where the Anglican communion stands after Lambeth.
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A conversation with Rabbi Professor Avraham Steinberg, distinguished medical ethicist and and paediatric neurologist at Jerusalem's Shaare Zedek Medical Centre. An ordained Orthodox rabbi and a recipient of Israel's highest civil award, the Israel Prize, he is an advisor to Israel's Rabbinic Council, chaired the government inquiry into Israel's Dying Patient Law, and wrote the 7-volume Encyclopaedia of Jewish Medical Ethics.
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Wednesday 06 August 2008
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Falun Gong says that as many as ten thousand of its practitioners have been rounded up in China in the lead-up to the Beijing Olympics and held in forced labour camps. Erphing Zhang is spokesman for the Falun Dafa Information Centre in New York and he says he wants to remind Australians that there is 'another reality' of 'people shedding tears, and maybe blood' behind the scenes in China.
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And with the not-for-profit sector in Australia facing two concurrent reviews at the moment - a Senate inquiry looking at questions of regulation and a review by the Department of the Treasury - we dispel a few myths about church-based charities.
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