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BOOK REVIEW That other great Irish prelate

MUSIC CINEMA & BOOKS, UncategorizedJune 18, 2016

FAITH, IRELAND AND EMPIRE: The Life of Patrick Joseph Clune CSSR, 1864–1935, Archbishop of Perth, Western Australia by Christopher Dowd OP St Paul’s Publications, Strathfield Paperback: 371ppPrice: AUD$39.95 Reviewed by Michael E. Daniel In recent years biographies of several Australian Catholic prelates have been published. This excellent study of the life and ministry of Patrick Clune, Archbishop of Perth, is a valuable contribution to Australian Catholic Church history. The author, Rev Dr Christopher Dowd OP, is the Provincial Historian for the Australian Dominican Province, and Catholic Chaplain at Monash University. Patrick Clune was born in 1864, the…

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POETRY LETTERS & HUMOURJune 18, 2016

Furphy falsified Sir, As usual Jeffry Babb (News Weekly, May 21, 2016) has produced a scholarly article on Arthur Calwell. However, I must dispute his belief that Jim Killen saved the Menzies government in the 1961 election. This furphy has been demolished by John Howard in chapter 13 of his The Menzies Era entitled “Saved by Santamaria”. In my review of the Howard book (News Weekly, November 8, 2014) I underscored Howard’s demolition of the Killen myth. John Barich,Claremont, WA Moral burden of vote Sir, The coming federal election is of vital importance above all for the moral issues…

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A day in the life of a religious white man from the point of view of evidence and truth

UncategorizedJune 18, 2016

Having read the comedic stylings of Rebecca Shaw in her lol piece on the SBS (Spitefully un-Balanced Service) website, “A day in the life of Scott Morrison if he actually faced the same bigotry as LGBTI people”,[1] News Weekly in awe-inspired humility offers the following parody (it being the sincerest form of flattery).[2] Jason (not…

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Jun182016

CANBERRA OBSERVED Double-dissolution election likely to deliver disillusionment

POLITICSJune 18, 2016

Part of Malcolm Turnbull’s rationale for calling a double-dissolution election – the first in 29 years – was to clean out the cumbersome Senate of renegade and recalcitrant independents. Boy, am I redfaced .. or, is that, greenfaced? Hard to tell in shades of grey. Mr Turnbull, like Tony Abbott before him, was frustrated at having to negotiate with the disparate group of self-important independents who had found themselves able to wield enormous political power. Some were there seemingly by accident, some on the back of a handful of primary votes, or, in the case of the ex-Palmer United Party…

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