Tag: social inclusion

Carols for Radical Compassion

16/12/201508/02/2016 by Elenie Poulos

This is a short reflection I offered at the Love Makes a Way ‘Carols for Compassion’ event on 10 December 2015, outside the Sydney offices of the Department of Immigration and Border Protection.

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Budget 2014: Ignoring Real Lives

22/05/201408/02/2016 by Elenie Poulos

The 2014 Budget from the Abbott Government confirms my impressions of this Government as one committed to punishing people for making the ‘wrong’ decisions.

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Teachers and the Enterprise of Hope: A Graduation Address

28/06/201308/02/2016 by Elenie Poulos

Acting Chancellor, Vice Chancellor, members of the Council, Staff of the University, Families and Friends of Graduates, and most importantly, Graduates, it is a great privilege to have been invited to give the Occasional Address at this graduation ceremony tonight.

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Injustice is not an article of faith for all churches

31/01/201308/02/2016 by Elenie Poulos

In all the outcry about the broad exemptions granted to faith-based organisations in the Government’s draft anti-discrimination legislation, the fact that there are some faith-based organisations that think differently about such matters has been largely overlooked.

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Protecting 'The Australian Way of Life'

03/08/2010 by Elenie Poulos

A number of times I have heard Julia Gillard refer to the Labor Party’s commitment to protecting ‘The Australian Way of Life’. Every time she mentions it, it comes capitalised and in quotation marks.

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