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By Mark Bahnisch on February 19, 2010
In the wake of Abbott’s Brutopian comments at the Catholic Social Services Australia national conference, Stephen Nash, CEO of Melbourne homelessness and housing support agency HomeGround Services, has published a rebuttal of the claim that homelessness is a choice at [...]
Posted in Authoritarianism, Ethics, Policy, Politics, Poverty, Religion, Sociology | Tagged Andrew Hamilton, Catholic Social Services Australia, Catholicism, conference, Eureka Street, HomeGround Services, housing policy, Jesus, John Falzon, New Matilda, paternalism, poor, Poverty, Religion, Rudd government, Stephen Nash, theology, Tony Abbott, Vinnies |
By Mark Bahnisch on February 16, 2010
It must be ‘write an op/ed for Fairfax about something a political leader said to me’ week. First, Nina Funnell, and now Michael Perusco: I was in Canberra last week and had the opportunity to ask Opposition Leader Tony Abbott [...]
Posted in Authoritarianism, Philosophy, Politics, Sociology | Tagged communitarianism, community, fairfax, George Brandis, homelessness, housing policy, ideology, Kevin Rudd, Liberal Party, liberalism, Malcolm Turnbull, mark latham, Michael Perusco, neo-liberalism, Nina Funnell, political philosophy, political theory, Sacred Heart Mission, social housing, social inclusion, Sociology, Third Way, Tony Abbott, Tony Blair |
By Guest Poster on January 5, 2009
Commenter Angharad discusses Kevin Rudd’s homelessness white paper which didn’t get much discussion because of its timing, but deserves some because of the importance of the issue. -MB A few days before Christmas, Kevin Rudd launched a white paper on [...]
Posted in Policy, Politics, Poverty, Urbanism | Tagged ALP, AMA, homelessness, housing policy, Kevin Rudd, Labor, Rosanna Capolingua, Rudd government, social policy, white paper |
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