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	<title>The REAL Mary MacKillop&#187; Education</title>
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	<description>A weblog dedicated to Mary MacKillop</description>
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		<title>ATHEIST PROFESSOR STEPHEN HAWKING AND HIS NEW BOOK: Does it really disprove God?</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/professor-stephen-hawking-and-his-new-book-does-it-really-disprove-god</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2010 14:01:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stephen Hawking, Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University, retired last year after 30 years in the job.
Professor Hawking has been a larger-than-life figure in some ways – an expert in fields too tricky for most of us &#8212; like quantum theory, black holes and dark matter.
And his heroic courage, in battling on despite being crippled by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DEMOCRATIC LABOR PARTY (DLP) SENATOR ELECTED: Good or bad for politics in Australia?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Aug 2010 14:01:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This blog recently recommended readers to consider voting DLP. * 
Many people did. Throw in a bit of apparent good luck with preferences &#8212; and it happened.
Now John Madigan is a Senator-elect.
What is the Democratic Labor Party all about?
* * *
(1) History
Those interested in Labor Party history know that a good case can be made for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PRO-MUSLIM PROPAGANDA IN SCHOOLS FUNDED BY US TAXPAYERS: Catholic and western culture deleted</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/pro-muslim-propaganda-in-schools-funded-by-us-taxpayers-catholic-and-western-culture-deleted</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 15:39:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Australian Federal Government in 2008 set up a National Centre for Excellence in Islamic Studies.
The Centre has run workshops &#8212; and now published a booklet—on the theme of “Bringing Muslim Perspectives into Australian Schools”.
All paid for by you and me out of our taxes.
* * *
Their booklet complains that Australian school textbooks mostly have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RAMPANT TEENAGE FEMALE PHYSICAL AND MENTAL MUTILATION: Is there worse to come?</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/teenage-female-physical-and-mental-mutilation-is-rampant-is-there-worse-to-come</link>
		<comments>http://marymackillop.org/teenage-female-physical-and-mental-mutilation-is-rampant-is-there-worse-to-come#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 14:01:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Abortion]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 2008, more than 200 girls aged 15 and under had abortions in Victoria.
Some without the parents’ knowledge.
Some were aged 12.
One abortionist told reporters the biggest increase has been among 14-year-olds “copying what they see on television&#8221;.
* * *
When asked by abortionists, &#8216;Did you agree to this?&#8217; such girls tend to say, &#8216;. . . [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AUSTRALIA’S NEW “NATIONAL CURRICULUM”: Is it as bad as they say?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 14:01:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Australia’s new National History Curriculum has been criticised as being political propaganda in disguise.
It certainly pushes Aboriginal, anti-Catholic and/or environmentalist (“sustainability”) perspectives.
No harm in mentioning Aboriginal traditions, of course. They are nearly 3 percent of our population. Perhaps they should occupy about 3 percent of the history course.
But Aboriginal issues receive coverage at great length &#8212; their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BLESSED MARY MACKILLOP’S LETTERS NOW IN BOOK FORM: But do we still misrepresent her goals?</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/blessed-mary-mackillop%e2%80%99s-letters-now-in-book-form-but-do-we-still-misrepresent-her-goals</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2010 14:23:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Years ago, when our family lived in Fiji, there was a tremendous mango tree at the back of our compound.
I estimated it to be roughly 60 feet tall. Later I discovered that it was exactly 80 feet.
How did I come to be so sure?
It fell over. Then it could be measured as it lay on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ULTRASOUND VIEWINGS FOR WOMEN SEEKING ABORTION: Conflicting attitudes</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/ultrasound-viewings-for-women-seeking-abortion-conflicting-attitudes</link>
		<comments>http://marymackillop.org/ultrasound-viewings-for-women-seeking-abortion-conflicting-attitudes#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2010 15:43:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Tuesday, West Australian Member of Parliament, Peter Abetz, proposed that women seeking an abortion should be required to view an ultrasound picture of their unborn child.
No other medical procedure is done without obtaining informed consent based on provision of the maximum possible amount of available relevant information.
Seeing a 3D colour ultrasound of the baby [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BRAIN DAMAGE: How to avoid it</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/brain-damage-how-to-avoid-it</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2010 21:25:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Professor Susan Greenfield is a neuroscientist at Lincoln College, Oxford, England, who specialises in “synaptic pharmacology” &#8212; an expert on Alzheimer&#8217;s disease and similar brain diseases.
Her work makes her aware of the “plasticity” of the human brain.
Every moment, what we do with our brain modifies its architecture, leaving it not quite the same brain as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FAITH AND DOUBT: Mary MacKillop and “Doubting Thomases”</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/faith-and-doubt-mary-mackillop-and-%e2%80%9cdoubting-thomases%e2%80%9d</link>
		<comments>http://marymackillop.org/faith-and-doubt-mary-mackillop-and-%e2%80%9cdoubting-thomases%e2%80%9d#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Apr 2010 16:36:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is called “Low Sunday” &#8212; in contrast with the high drama of Easter, celebrated last Sunday.
Last Sunday’s gospel readings described the rising of Jesus from the dead.
Today’s gospel describes the difficulties one believer had in believing it.
The apostle Thomas, absent when the risen Christ first visited the disciples, said he would not believe “unless [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CONDOMS: Protection? An illusion of protection? Protection from what?</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/condoms-protection-an-illusion-of-protection-protection-from-what</link>
		<comments>http://marymackillop.org/condoms-protection-an-illusion-of-protection-protection-from-what#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Apr 2010 00:32:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chlamydia, a sneaky disease with few symptoms, leaves many women sterile &#8212; 80 percent of its female victims being aged 15 to 24 years. 
Cases of Chlamydia increased in the Australian state of Tasmania, from 17,000 to 60,000 notified cases, between 2000 and 2009. (The World Today, ABC Radio, 9/4/2010)
Tasmania’s Director of the Sexual Health Services, [...]]]></description>
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