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	<title>The REAL Mary MacKillop</title>
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		<title>NSW TEACHERS STOP WORK: it&#8217;s a worry.</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/nsw-teachers-stop-work-its-a-worry</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 20:39:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday NSW teachers held a stop-work meeting.
The media report “a big turnout” of teachers with over 2000 schools being affected.
The NSW Teachers’ Federation listed grievances including the government’s proposed policies failing to guarantee class sizes, salaries etc. and that too much control is passing into the hands of local school principals.
No doubt persuasive cases can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PROFESSOR KURUVILLA GEORGE: victim of thought police?</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/professor-kuruvilla-george-victim-of-thought-police</link>
		<comments>http://marymackillop.org/professor-kuruvilla-george-victim-of-thought-police#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 09:32:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Professor Kuruvilla George, Victoria’s deputy chief psychiatrist has found it necessary to resign from his membership of the board of the Victorian Equal Opportunity Commission.
As a private citizen he had signed a Senate inquiry submission which argued that marriage should remain a heterosexual state because it was important for the nation&#8217;s health.
The submission was signed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CODE OF CONDUCT FOR POLITICIANS? code of conduct for everybody.</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/code-of-conduct-for-politicians-code-of-conduct-for-everybody-2</link>
		<comments>http://marymackillop.org/code-of-conduct-for-politicians-code-of-conduct-for-everybody-2#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 14:05:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some American research suggests that having married parents is a key factor in one’s chances of succeeding in advanced education.
Dr Molly A. Martin, Sociology Professor at Penn State University, has analysed data from the US National Educational Longitudinal Study (NELS, 1988-2002), which followed children from the eighth grade until age 26.
Despite the single mothers in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CODE OF CONDUCT FOR POLITICIANS? code of conduct for everybody.</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/code-of-conduct-for-politicians-code-of-conduct-for-everybody</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 10:27:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The conduct of Australia’s politicians is in the news.
The Prime Minister says she is “very open to a code of conduct”.
But the Opposition Leader says “no Member of Parliament should need to be told that fraud, theft and sexual harassment are wrong.”
He’s right. We’ve already got a code of conduct already &#8212; the Ten Commandments.
* [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MOTHERS&#8217; DAY &amp; MOTHERHOOD: two ways of looking at it.</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/mothers-day-two-ways-of-looking-at-it</link>
		<comments>http://marymackillop.org/mothers-day-two-ways-of-looking-at-it#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2012 11:53:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Happiness]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[French feminist, Elizabeth Badinter, has written a new book, &#8220;The Conflict: how modern Motherhood undermines the status of women&#8221;.
She says, “The object of this book is to defend the right of women to make their own choices and to take issue with this idea that you are a bad mother if you bottle feed your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TROUBLED YOUTH, SOCIAL MEDIA: recipe for trouble.</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/troubled-youth-social-media-recipe-for-trouble</link>
		<comments>http://marymackillop.org/troubled-youth-social-media-recipe-for-trouble#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2012 06:51:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A local psychologist told our local paper, “I absolutely despise web-based social media”.
He works with young people harmed by cyber bullying and considering harming themselves.
But these social (anti-social?) media are not going away. More likely, they will increase.
What to do?
There is no law of nature dictating that only superficial/mean/meaningless material can be transmitted electronically . [...]]]></description>
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		<title>VIOLENCE IN SCHOOLS: boys, men and feminism.</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/violence-in-schools-boys-men-and-feminism</link>
		<comments>http://marymackillop.org/violence-in-schools-boys-men-and-feminism#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 10:50:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week, the New Zealand newspapers have reported how girls are now more violent at NZ schools than boys.
They quote percentages from various surveys.
Boys have always traditionally had rough-and-tumble, outgoing, assertive natures.
After all, it was their job to grow up to defend their family from outside threats, to be the breadwinner and to make leadership [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SURROGATE MOTHERHOOD: an important moral issue.</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/surrogate-motherhood-an-important-moral-issue</link>
		<comments>http://marymackillop.org/surrogate-motherhood-an-important-moral-issue#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 14:41:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The media are telling that would-be US president, Mitt Romney, has two young twin grandchildren.
Romney’s son, Tagg, now has three children from the same surrogate mother.
He posted on Facebook: “special thanks to our gestational surrogate who made this possible for us. Life truly is a miracle, and we feel so blessed . . . .”
Mitt [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AN ACT OF BRAVERY: do unto others . . . .</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/an-act-of-bravery-do-unto-others</link>
		<comments>http://marymackillop.org/an-act-of-bravery-do-unto-others#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 08:11:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Monday, a worker in New Jersey, USA, jumped into a vat of nitric acid to save a co-worker who had fallen into the tank.
Rob Nuckols watched as his colleague, Martin Davis, plunged through a roof and into the vat of diluted (40 to 70 percent) acid and became fully submerged.
The nitric acid solution is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IN VITRO FERTILISATION: more headaches.</title>
		<link>http://marymackillop.org/in-vitro-fertilisation-more-headaches</link>
		<comments>http://marymackillop.org/in-vitro-fertilisation-more-headaches#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 May 2012 11:31:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arnold Jago</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week’s media reported “new hope” for infertile couples troubled about possible genetic disease problems.
Researchers at Melbourne’s Monash University have managed a “breakthrough” in embryo screening techniques.
The new methods will detect chromosomally abnormal embryos with “99 percent accuracy”.
Screening for Down Syndrome etc. is to be done “before pregnancy” &#8212; using cells from 5-day old embryos.
* [...]]]></description>
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