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	<title>The REAL Mary MacKillop&#187; Justice</title>
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	<description>A weblog dedicated to Mary MacKillop</description>
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		<title>DOCTORS, INDIGENOUS (ABORIGINAL) PATIENTS, “CLOSING THE GAP&#8221;: Can idealistic-sounding ends justify unjust means?</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/doctors-indigenous-aboriginal-patients-%e2%80%9cclosing-the-gap%e2%80%9d-and-race-based-discrimination-can-idealistic-sounding-ends-justify-unjust-means</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 14:01:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A popular slogan amongst politicians, social workers etc. is how we must “close the gap” between “indigenous” and “non-indigenous” Australians.
The gap in question being the statistic that people claiming Aboriginal descent die an average of 17 years younger than the rest of us.
Life is always full of gaps.
How is it proposed to close this one?
* [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SUICIDE BOMBERS AND CORRUPT GAMBLING CRICKET PLAYERS: What do they have in common?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2010 14:01:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The confusion over the alleged gambling corruption involving three Pakistan cricketers is sorting itself out.
During the England v Pakistan test match at Lord&#8217;s two weeks ago, it is alleged that deliberate no-balls were bowled.
It seems that the News of the World newspaper paid a middle-man 200,000-plus dollars, in return for advance knowledge of the no-balls, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ANDREW WILKIE, INDEPENDENT MP FOR DENISON, TASMANIA: Interesting views about poker machines.</title>
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		<comments>http://marymackillop.org/andrew-wilkie-independent-mp-for-denison-tasmania-interesting-views-about-poker-machines#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 14:01:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Australian Labor Party used to be more or less anti-poker machines.
John Cain, Labor Premier of Victoria in the 1980s, refused to permit them.
But it was Joan Kirner, a Labor Premier succeeding him, who introduced them.
About that time something very nasty happened to the Labor Party . . . .
Current Victorian Premier, Mr Brumby, is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DEMOCRATIC LABOR PARTY (DLP) SENATOR ELECTED: Good or bad for politics in Australia?</title>
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		<comments>http://marymackillop.org/democratic-labor-party-dlp-senator-elected-good-or-bad-for-politics-in-australia#comments</comments>
		<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>COMPASSION, OR LACK OF IT, IN POLITICS: Greens, Labor, Liberal, Nats all equally bad?  Or are some even worse?</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/compassion-or-lack-of-it-in-politics-greens-labor-liberal-nats-all-equally-bad-or-are-some-even-worse</link>
		<comments>http://marymackillop.org/compassion-or-lack-of-it-in-politics-greens-labor-liberal-nats-all-equally-bad-or-are-some-even-worse#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Aug 2010 22:31:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jesus Christ was a person of compassion.
Today’s gospel reading in Catholic churches, describes this:
Entering a certain town, Jesus met ten men who were lepers, who, raising their voices, said: “Jesus, Master, have mercy on us.” He saw them and said: “Go, show yourselves to the priests.” 
It came to pass that, as they went, they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HOMOSEXUAL COUPLES, ADOPTION RIGHTS, FUNDAMENTALISM, DISCRIMINATION: Slogans-overload</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/homosexual-couples-adoption-rights-fundamentalism-discrimination-slogans-overload</link>
		<comments>http://marymackillop.org/homosexual-couples-adoption-rights-fundamentalism-discrimination-slogans-overload#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 14:01:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In June 2010, New South Wales MP, Clover Moore, introduced a bill to legalise adoption by homosexual couples.
One adoption agency, Anglicare, threatens to withdraw its adoption services if such laws are introduced – and has written to MPs urging them to vote against the bill.
Anglicare’s chief executive, Peter Kell, says adoption is not a “gay [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SAME-SEX MARRIAGE IN CALIFORNIA: Has anything really changed?</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/same-sex-marriage-in-california-has-anything-really-changed</link>
		<comments>http://marymackillop.org/same-sex-marriage-in-california-has-anything-really-changed#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2010 14:01:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday in California, a federal judge overturned the state&#8217;s ban on same-sex marriage.
In November 2008 a referendum in California known as Proposition 8 voted, by a 52 percent majority, to ban such marriages.
Judge Walker now rules that Proposition 8 “does nothing more than enshrine in the California constitution the notion that opposite sex couples are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>JULIA GILLARD AND THE NAURU QUESTION: The asylum-seekers have to go somewhere.</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/julia-gillard-and-the-nauru-question-the-asylum-seekers-have-to-go-somewhere</link>
		<comments>http://marymackillop.org/julia-gillard-and-the-nauru-question-the-asylum-seekers-have-to-go-somewhere#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 22:36:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nauru is a nation with no means of support. No industries, nothing for tourists to look at, precious little arable land . . . .
Its unemployment rate is 90 percent.
When Australia closed its asylum-seeker detention centre in Nauru in 2007, one of the main sources of paid work disappeared &#8212; 10 percent of the nation’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GOD, JUDGMENT, HELL: Some Christian doctrines are often misunderstood</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/god-judgment-hell-some-christian-doctrines-are-often-misunderstood</link>
		<comments>http://marymackillop.org/god-judgment-hell-some-christian-doctrines-are-often-misunderstood#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jul 2010 14:01:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today’s Gospel reading in traditional Catholic churches is about sin and judgement and &#8212; by implication &#8212; hell.
Hell isn’t a frequent theme in the Gospels, but it’s one that we can’t ignore.
Our Lord talked most about how God wants to save us into his Kingdom.
Once in a while he reminds us what the alternative is.
* [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WOULD AUSTRALIA UNDER PRIME MINISTER GILLARD BE A DEMOCRACY? Does it matter?</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/would-australia-under-prime-minister-gillard-be-a-democracy-does-it-matter</link>
		<comments>http://marymackillop.org/would-australia-under-prime-minister-gillard-be-a-democracy-does-it-matter#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 15:08:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Australia’s Prime Minister is refusing to declare a policy on “climate change”
She is proposing instead a plan to create a 150-member &#8220;Citizens&#8217; Assembly&#8221; of rank-and-file Australians to decide . . . .
Well not exactly to decide . . . .
Didn’t she also say, &#8220;The role of this Citizens&#8217; Assembly will not be to become the [...]]]></description>
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