Explainer – Why did past targets to protect nature fail over the last decade?
Montreal, Canada Reuters This month’s UN biodiversity talks in Montreal aim to hammer out a new, global agreement. But this isn’t the first time governments have tried to halt environmental loss through agreed targets. In fact, many of the 24 conservation targets under discussion now aim to avoid past mistakes and improve on the world’s […]
Haiti earthquake: Anger rises over aid response to past disasters
LAURA GOTTESDIENER and DAVE GRAHAM, of Reuters, report from Haiti in the wake of Saturday’s earthquake…
US apology to Native Americans: How a new spiritual movement is calling for official recognition
EMILY MCFARLAN MILLER, of Religion News Service, reports on efforts – led by Negiel Bigpond and former US senator and ambassador Sam Brownback – to see an apology to Native Americans issued in 2010 to be formally recognised in a White House ceremony…
HAITI: UN CRITICISED FOR FAILING ON PROMISE TO HELP CHOLERA VICTIMS
ANASTASIA MOLONEY, of the Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on the fight against cholera in Haiti in the aftermath of the devastating 2010 earthquake…
ELECTION 2010: CONFUSED? DON’T WORRY – HELP IS AT HAND
PETER HALLETT, pastor and writer of the Australian Christian Voter blog, provides a detailed list of where you can go online to find out more about parties, their policies and the questions that matter most to you…
Rudd and Abbott address Christians across the nation
Tens of thousands of Christians gathered in churches across Australia this week to watch Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and Opposition Leader Tony Abbott talk about their Christian faith and to address issues ranging from asylum seekers to climate change, marriage, school chaplains and the sexualisation of children. The event at Old Parliament House in Canberra, […]
ESSAY: LEADERS’ QUESTION TIME REVEALS STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES
A former Federal Greens candidate, JIM REIHER was among the tens of thousands who watched the live event. He gives his view on how he thought the two leaders performed…