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	<title>The REAL Mary MacKillop&#187; Politics</title>
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		<title>CLINTON, THE SECURITY COUNCIL AND THE &#8220;ARAB SPRING&#8221;: short-cutting to world-wide Sharia Law?</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/clinton-the-security-council-and-the-arab-spring-short-cutting-to-world-wide-sharia-law</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:51:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Death]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[US Secretary of State, H. Clinton, wants the UN Security Council to “send a clear message of support to the people of Syria”.
i.e. to get rid of President Bashar al-Assad and have him replaced by somebody else.
Who else?
Recent history shows that each time the US and its Western friends involve themselves in the internal affairs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>JULIAN BURNSIDE, HUMAN RIGHTS, BOAT PEOPLE: seeking a balanced perspective.</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/julian-burnside-human-rights-boat-people-seeking-a-balanced-perspective</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:40:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lawyer Julian Burnside, QC, is known as a “human rights advocate”.
One of his themes is how “Australia doesn’t need to be protected from asylum seekers: asylum seekers need to be protected from their persecutors”.
And he seems to get away with it.
* * *
Mr Burnside must know that the ones needing protection are those in refugee [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SCIPIONE ON TATTOOS FOR POLICE OFFICERS: a tough stance.</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/scipione-on-tattoos-for-police-officers-a-tough-stance</link>
		<comments>http://marymackillop.org/scipione-on-tattoos-for-police-officers-a-tough-stance#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:01:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lifestyle]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[NSW Police Commissioner, Andrew Scipione, proposes that new recruits for the police force must have no tattoos.
Opposition party spokesman, John Robertson, calls the suggestion “absurd”: focussing on something trivial instead of on investigating serious crime.
The police response is that the move is about “professionalism”.
* * *
Most, or at least many, tattoos depict themes like the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>JULIA GILLARD AND THE ABORIGINAL TENT EMBASSY: how to really reconcile?</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/julia-gillard-and-the-tent-embassy-how-to-really-reconcile</link>
		<comments>http://marymackillop.org/julia-gillard-and-the-tent-embassy-how-to-really-reconcile#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:48:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[God]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Justice]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The occupants of Canberra’s Aboriginal “Tent Embassy” did their cause no good by terrorising our Prime Minister on Thursday.
That doesn’t mean that the Embassy should not exist.
Aboriginal culture includes the notion of their spirits belong to the land.
Not any land, but the land associated with one’s clan, totem or whatever.
Belonging to this particular land, you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MORE LYING IN POLITICS: Gillard etc: do we really deserve these characters?</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/more-lying-in-politics-gillard-etc-do-we-really-deserve-these-characters</link>
		<comments>http://marymackillop.org/more-lying-in-politics-gillard-etc-do-we-really-deserve-these-characters#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 10:32:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ethics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Money]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[After last election Julia Gillard promised Independent MP, Mr Wilkie, that she would legislate for mandatory pre-commitment for high-intensity poker machines by 2014.
That was enough to buy his support in forming a government.
Did she ever intend to keep her promise?
Now she has got around to saying she isn’t going to do it.
* * *
The government [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ADVERTISING ABORTION: what price the sanctity of human life?</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/5695</link>
		<comments>http://marymackillop.org/5695#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:14:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Abortion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Common Sense]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Britain’s Broadcast Committee of Advertising Practice has recently ruled that there is no justification for prohibiting private abortion clinics from advertising their services on television.
Private abortion businesses will be permitted to advertise themselves using terms such as “post-conception advice services”, with the emphasis on how they can arrange ultrasound scans etc.
They will not be obliged [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SANTORUM, CATHOLIC: will the media destroy him?</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/santorum-catholic-will-the-media-destroy-him</link>
		<comments>http://marymackillop.org/santorum-catholic-will-the-media-destroy-him#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 14:30:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Faith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mr Rick Santorum is not favourite to win the American presidency &#8212; but it is not impossible.
Santorum hasn’t got as much money as the other candidates.
He does not have the blessing of the rich who own the media.
Western “democratic” nations are less demo-cratic than they are pluto-cratic.
The big money owns the media. The media own [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MARIJUANA: a dangerous drug: can legalisation be justified?</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/marijuana-a-dangerous-drug-can-legalisation-be-justified</link>
		<comments>http://marymackillop.org/marijuana-a-dangerous-drug-can-legalisation-be-justified#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:06:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Canada’s Liberal Party has voted to legalise marijuana if and when they get into power.
Their policy is that legalisation will “ensure the regulation and taxation of its production, distribution and use, while enacting strict penalties for illegal trafficking, etc.”
An unrealistic policy, rivalling the naivety of Australia’s Greens Party.
* * *
We have had, for years, scientific [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SCHOOL CHAPLAINS: do they have a future? should they have a future?</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/school-chaplains-do-they-have-a-future-should-they-have-a-future</link>
		<comments>http://marymackillop.org/school-chaplains-do-they-have-a-future-should-they-have-a-future#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 10:11:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[God]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[School chaplains have been around for a long time.
Somebody students could turn to for advice who is not part of the machine.
Historically chaplains also educated students in the reality of the spiritual world – less so in recent years.
The Australian Government’s Chaplaincy Program was revised last year allowing schools which preferred could get rid of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>POPULATION IMPLOSION: birth dearth in Russia</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/population-implosion-birth-dearth-in-russia</link>
		<comments>http://marymackillop.org/population-implosion-birth-dearth-in-russia#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 14:01:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Abortion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ethics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lifestyle]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the last 20 years the population of Russia has FALLEN 3 percent.
The average number of children per family is currently 1.4, well below replacement rate.
The Russian government has enacted a scheme which pays mothers $10,000 approx for having more children – but with no effect.
It recently voted to ban abortions beyond 12 weeks into [...]]]></description>
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