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Eureka Street Podcasts
English, Religion, 1 season, 258 episodes
Eureka Street Podcasts
English, Religion, 1 season, 258 episodes
Banning repugnant figures reflects a harsh, fearful society
10/7/2015 • 0
Corporate benefit trumps public welfare in TPP
10/6/2015 • 0
Growing old in Australia is a difficult business
10/6/2015 • 0
US gun law change can't come soon enough
10/6/2015 • 0
Blood and the Bard
9/30/2015 • 0
Search for truth continues 50 years after Indonesia's purge
9/30/2015 • 0
Francis sticks in Republicans' craw
9/29/2015 • 0
Hamid crushed by Australia's immigration laws
9/27/2015 • 0
Oppressing compassion in Europe and Australia
9/27/2015 • 0
The roots of troll culture are closer than we think
9/24/2015 • 0
Grace and quiet rage in David Gulpilil's country
9/23/2015 • 0
Reflect and connect to give peace a chance
9/23/2015 • 0
Eureka Street's journalism of empathy
9/20/2015 • 0
Moral injury and the recalibration of priorities
9/17/2015 • 0
I was a teenage Cold War Russophile
9/17/2015 • 0
Transgender sex worker fights back from the margins
9/16/2015 • 0
Australian Citizenship Day with an edge
9/16/2015 • 0
A political death
9/15/2015 • 0
Broken porcelain illuminates destructive Dutch colonial legacy
9/15/2015 • 0
Moving on after two unhappy years
9/15/2015 • 0
The aquarium's tapestry of colour and light
9/14/2015 • 0
How Abbott was defeated by his own pugnaciousness
9/14/2015 • 0
Judging Eureka Street
9/13/2015 • 0
Chinese economy a work in progress
9/13/2015 • 0
Images the catalyst for action but not change
9/10/2015 • 0
Asylum seekers are people like us
9/10/2015 • 0
A moment of compassion and solidarity that nurtures hope
9/10/2015 • 0
Bishops' statement challenges politicians' hard hearts
9/9/2015 • 0
It’s time Mr Heydon was taken to court
9/8/2015 • 0
Syrian refugee settlement in Australia must be permanent
9/8/2015 • 0
Why calls for compassion for refugees don't work
9/8/2015 • 0
Flowers react to Spring
9/7/2015 • 0
The emptiness of reform rhetoric in Australian politics
9/7/2015 • 0
Family rape victims delivered to a worse hell
9/6/2015 • 0
Operation Fortitude aftershocks
9/6/2015 • 0
The seven Dadly sins
9/3/2015 • 0
Border Force Keystone Cops no laughing matter
9/3/2015 • 0
Spiritual enlightenment on the transplant waitlist
9/2/2015 • 0
Australian Border Force cuts through the fence of law and due process
9/2/2015 • 0
Traditional marriage needs fixing
9/1/2015 • 0
Remembering Veronica Brady
9/1/2015 • 0
Untangling Abbott from Santamaria
8/31/2015 • 0
Redesign my soul
8/31/2015 • 0
Be wary of politicians who speak about moral obligation
8/27/2015 • 0
Don't fence me in
8/27/2015 • 0
Does religion in schools go beyond branding?
8/26/2015 • 0
Rock star Streep and the uphill battle for Hollywood diversity
8/26/2015 • 0
Ashley Madison leak exposes a prurient and uncaring society
8/25/2015 • 0
The Lord's Resistance Army is alive and well
8/25/2015 • 0
Dyson Heydon and the PM's quest for political purity
8/24/2015 • 0
The girl who stole her brothers' honour
8/24/2015 • 0
Thai turmoil continues
8/24/2015 • 0
'Vigilante' applies to the government more than environmentalists
8/23/2015 • 0
What's an older person's life worth?
8/23/2015 • 0
Nanny state Australia could learn from Europe
8/20/2015 • 0
Real estate agents and the crime of locality theft
8/20/2015 • 0
Former Xavier students' love transcends AIDS horror
8/19/2015 • 0
The gloriously flawed humanity of our federal politics
8/19/2015 • 0
The holy mystery of why the Sisters are not in charge of the Church
8/18/2015 • 0
Silence won't make abuse go away
8/18/2015 • 0
UK Labour's hysterical power struggle
8/17/2015 • 0
He is not the killer he used to be
8/17/2015 • 0
Coalition tactics on marriage and climate change risk self-destruction
8/16/2015 • 0
Kickstart our dire democracy by giving teens the vote
8/16/2015 • 0
Maintaining the rage beyond the golden rhythm of youth
8/13/2015 • 0
New app will breed capitalists, and that might be a good thing
8/13/2015 • 0
Teen girls learn the language of love and violence
8/12/2015 • 0
Family violence more complex than sexual abuse
8/12/2015 • 0
The nun who couldn't say no
8/11/2015 • 0
Four preconditions for supporting marriage equality
8/11/2015 • 0
Politicians' cognitive dissonance over blaming the system
8/10/2015 • 0
The laws of cricket rewritten for the fairy world
8/10/2015 • 0
Thoughts on a lonely God
8/9/2015 • 0
Applaud the collapse of the Trans Pacific Partnership
8/9/2015 • 0
What might have been for the toddler in the suitcase
8/6/2015 • 0
The ins and outs of a regional solution for refugees
8/5/2015 • 0
A euthanasia parable in the outback
8/5/2015 • 0
Neither blame nor thank the Jesuits for Abbott and co.
8/5/2015 • 0
Doogue, Brereton on keeping faith in the face of the abuse crisis
8/4/2015 • 0
Why we aren't more shocked by Nauru revelations
8/4/2015 • 0
Goodes, Gillard, and Australia's sick culture of victim-blaming
8/3/2015 • 0
Greece's lonely season
8/3/2015 • 0
Should Labor break ties with the unions?
8/2/2015 • 0
Australian academics right to resist respected global warming skeptic
8/2/2015 • 0
Celebrity fury not enough to tame lion killers
7/30/2015 • 0
Rich retirees may need the aged pension
7/30/2015 • 0
The ethical consequences of making the ALP electable
7/29/2015 • 0
Skank-shaming Amy Schumer
7/29/2015 • 0
Political donations reform is not so easy
7/28/2015 • 0
Booing Adam Goodes
7/28/2015 • 0
The problematic 'saving lives at sea' argument
7/27/2015 • 0
Love's twists and turns
7/27/2015 • 0
The white male gaze that drives child sex tourism
7/26/2015 • 0
The Government's inconsistent ethical argument for coal
7/26/2015 • 0
Post-sanctions Iran will be force for stability
7/23/2015 • 0
Future shock is the new normal
7/23/2015 • 0
Why Marvel was wrong to whitewash 'wifebeater' Ant-Man
7/22/2015 • 0
The spider web of disadvantage
7/22/2015 • 0
Modest but realistic hope for a 2017 Referendum
7/21/2015 • 0
Middle age suits me just fine
7/21/2015 • 0
Addiction is about social exclusion not moral failing
7/20/2015 • 0
Tough but fair confronts human vulnerability
7/20/2015 • 0
Pope's pungent pontification against greed
7/19/2015 • 0
Cold War blinkers threaten MH17 truth
7/19/2015 • 0
Zen and the art of wealth amassment
7/16/2015 • 0
Terrorist or criminal? Why it matters
7/16/2015 • 0
Love and violence in Thomas Hardy’s England
7/15/2015 • 0
Pope Francis looks beyond hammer and sickle crucifix chatter
7/15/2015 • 0
Tears as a sign of inner strength in troubled waters
7/14/2015 • 0
Encyclical's groundbreaking critique of technology
7/14/2015 • 0
Coal warriors targeting Pope Francis
7/14/2015 • 0
The depths of common cause between Australia and Nauru
7/13/2015 • 0
The moment of not knowing wishes do not come true
7/13/2015 • 0
A time for all Australians to nurture Indigenous heritage
7/12/2015 • 0
Foreign fighter with the 'Anzac spirit'
7/12/2015 • 0
Confessions of a news junkie who hides the news from his kids
7/9/2015 • 0
'The Australian' gangs up on Pope Francis
7/9/2015 • 0
Carefully burning Scientology
7/8/2015 • 0
When life and death break into the game
7/8/2015 • 0
The limits to private ownership of property
7/7/2015 • 0
Intimidated ABC embraces self-censorship
7/6/2015 • 0
Elegy for Joshua Hardy
7/6/2015 • 0
The normalisation of lying in Australian politics
7/5/2015 • 0
The Border Force Act's disquieting parallels
7/5/2015 • 0
Feminism colluding with religion to manage men's sexual desire
7/2/2015 • 0
The US Supreme Court's gay marriage overreach
7/2/2015 • 0
Who killed Amy Winehouse?
7/1/2015 • 0
The pace of Muslim integration into Australian society
7/1/2015 • 0
Constitutional change that will improve indigenous quality of life
6/30/2015 • 0
ABC apology was the error of judgment in Q&A affair
6/28/2015 • 0
Retrospectivity a blow to the rule of law
6/28/2015 • 0
Whistleblowing and other new crimes
6/25/2015 • 0
All deaths great and small
6/25/2015 • 0
Inside the trauma of childhood change
6/24/2015 • 0
Understanding Pope Francis' hard line against population control
6/24/2015 • 0
Who cares for lonely white Muslim converts?
6/23/2015 • 0
The rhetorical question with an answer
6/23/2015 • 0
An Orwellian reading of our anti-terror legislation
6/21/2015 • 0
Why Pope Francis' new encyclical is so radical
6/21/2015 • 0
There's hope for mediocre women
6/18/2015 • 0
Francis puts environment above short-term politics
6/18/2015 • 0
Dubious revolutionary Russell Brand takes it to the banks
6/17/2015 • 0
It's time to ask why refugees are on the nose
6/17/2015 • 0
Magna Carta's spotlight on today's political arbitrariness
6/16/2015 • 0
A rant about America's weapons fired economy
6/16/2015 • 0
'Australian Muslim' is not an oxymoron
6/14/2015 • 0
Finding an antidote to populism
6/14/2015 • 0
Do working mums raise better boys?
6/11/2015 • 0
Italian perspective on Australia's asylum seeker shame
6/11/2015 • 0
Royal Commission hatred is childish
6/10/2015 • 0
Missing girls expose town's threadbare soul
6/10/2015 • 0
South China Sea dispute exposes soft Australia
6/9/2015 • 0
Management thinking in schools is a bad business
6/8/2015 • 0
Could Immigration 'secrecy' act trump mandatory reporting of abuse?
6/8/2015 • 0
The generosity of Joan Kirner
6/4/2015 • 0
Roman holiday's graffiti highlight
6/4/2015 • 0
Child assassin's slow escape from cult corruption
6/3/2015 • 0
Same sex marriage a defeat for humanity?
6/3/2015 • 0
Australia wants to know nothing about asylum seekers' torture history
6/2/2015 • 0
Winter chill has a purpose
6/2/2015 • 0
Australia lags as Shorten leads on same sex marriage
5/31/2015 • 0
Fossil fuel divestment economics in line with morality
5/31/2015 • 0
Australian citizenship as a political plaything
5/28/2015 • 0
Government chipping away at our liberties
5/28/2015 • 0
Seeking restitution for Nazi art theft
5/27/2015 • 0
Education with higher expectations
5/27/2015 • 0
Painful memories of my schooldays
5/26/2015 • 0
Labor's Operation Sovereign Borders dilemma
5/24/2015 • 0
PM's super pitch needs solid policy foundation
5/24/2015 • 0
The tyranny of career
5/21/2015 • 0
Neoliberal economics can't care for the disadvantaged
5/21/2015 • 0
Xenophobia threatens Mandela's vision for a diverse South Africa
5/19/2015 • 0
Speak of the Devil no longer
5/19/2015 • 0
Joe Hockey's 'better bang' foreign aid cut delusion
5/17/2015 • 0
Stopping the boats as a part of our national identity
5/17/2015 • 0
Child care in reverse follows Dad's health emergency
5/14/2015 • 0
Europe rejects the 'Australian Solution'
5/14/2015 • 0
Stage legend's age rage
5/13/2015 • 0
Is faith more than metaphor?
5/13/2015 • 0
Budget must move beyond political fetish
5/11/2015 • 0
Will new Greens leader Di Natale do a Pope Francis?
5/10/2015 • 0
Getting ready for Pope Francis' environmental Rerum Novarum
5/10/2015 • 0
Give sporting politicians a sporting chance
4/7/2015 • 0
The death of bullying victim Vangelis Giakoumakis
4/7/2015 • 0
The other side of religious zealotry
4/6/2015 • 0
Funding cut signals the destruction of Aboriginal life in Australia
4/6/2015 • 0
Family's bipolar drama is a laughing matter
4/1/2015 • 0
Easter's April Fools
4/1/2015 • 0
Women are not responsible for violent crimes against them
3/31/2015 • 0
The General of the poor and the Iron Lady of industry
3/31/2015 • 0
Triumph over forced adoption practice
3/29/2015 • 0
Netflix and Fairfax in an uncaring new media environment
3/29/2015 • 0
Cricket's assault on Australian racism
3/26/2015 • 0
How super hurts the poor and middle income earners
3/26/2015 • 0
Mannix, master conjurer in the cause of the underdog
3/25/2015 • 0
Protestant and Catholic corruption in 1971 Belfast
3/25/2015 • 0
Stepping on to mandatory data retention's slippery slope
3/24/2015 • 0
The enigma of Malcolm Fraser
3/22/2015 • 0
Australia no longer a global Good Samaritan
3/22/2015 • 0
Inside the head of an IS martyr
3/19/2015 • 0
Emboldened Netanyahu maintains hard line against US-Iran deal
3/19/2015 • 0
Confessions of a grumpy old man
3/18/2015 • 0
Ode to the death of hippie idealism
3/18/2015 • 0
In love with Sooty
3/17/2015 • 0
Political roadblock stalls remote kidney disease treatment
3/17/2015 • 0
Blessed are the taxpayers in Abbott's Australia
3/15/2015 • 0
God's bikie trashes New Age feelgoodism
3/12/2015 • 0
Medicare co-payment failed to understand illness as a relationship
3/12/2015 • 0
Remote 'lifestyle choices' need careful consideration
3/12/2015 • 0
Nuclear weapons the biggest threat to our security
3/11/2015 • 0
A larrikin look at sinful sugar
3/11/2015 • 0
How to be a gym junkie and a food junkie at the same time
3/10/2015 • 0
Why Indonesians joke about our Chan and Sukumaran clemency pleas
3/8/2015 • 0
Who to blame for Aboriginal homelessness
3/8/2015 • 0
Images that empower women
3/5/2015 • 0
The dark side of a migrant's American Dream
3/4/2015 • 0
Intergenerational fairness goes beyond economic competition
3/4/2015 • 0
An ode to WOMAD
3/3/2015 • 0
State elections the biggest opinion poll of all
3/3/2015 • 0
McClure Report a challenge for the new Scott Morrison
3/1/2015 • 0
Abbott's ill-judged crusade against red tape
3/1/2015 • 0
Negotiating climate deniers and plovers
2/26/2015 • 0
What drives young Australian Muslims to join IS
2/25/2015 • 0
Edward Snowden's lessons for a secure Australia
2/25/2015 • 0
Unmasking Australia's boat-stopping deal with the Sri Lankan devil
2/24/2015 • 0
The case for defending children and their advocates
2/24/2015 • 0
Allow Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumuran to flourish
2/22/2015 • 0
Britain's Bahrain bid triggers human rights alert
2/22/2015 • 0
Why Selma needs no Oscars
2/19/2015 • 0
Ciggie butt brains indict Aussie middle class elitism
2/19/2015 • 0
Chris Kenny's Don Quixote moment
2/18/2015 • 0
Living and dying for Martin Luther King's dream
2/18/2015 • 0
A brief history of not drawing Muhammad
2/17/2015 • 0
Defending Gillian Triggs
2/17/2015 • 0
Making a difference in the age of high-speed politics
2/16/2015 • 0
My mother often used to say
2/16/2015 • 0
Oil and gas redraw world strategic alliance map
2/15/2015 • 0
Government's mixed report card on taking responsibility
2/15/2015 • 0
'Strong' leadership misses the mark
2/11/2015 • 0
Oscar Romero's cinematic sainthood
2/11/2015 • 0
Self-righteous road use causes accidents
2/10/2015 • 0
ISIS not the only enemy for Iraqi Kurds
2/10/2015 • 0
The Archbishop of Canterbury's advice for Joe Hockey
2/8/2015 • 0
The financial crisis the Government wants us to have
2/8/2015 • 0
What Tony Abbott owes working mothers
2/5/2015 • 0
Petrol price plunge won’t arrest car decline
2/5/2015 • 0
Linguist's life and language lost to Alzheimer's
2/4/2015 • 0
Pope Francis as media role model for Tony Abbott
2/4/2015 • 0
Nice guy Jokowi a death penalty strong man
2/3/2015 • 0
Avoiding the other 'F' word
2/3/2015 • 0
The tweets of Murdoch's self-destruction
2/1/2015 • 0
High Court fails high seas detainees
2/1/2015 • 0
The PM's taste for old blood
1/29/2015 • 0
Pop up shop of poetic pollie horrors
1/29/2015 • 0
The view from outside glass house Australia
1/28/2015 • 0
Grieving pilgrim's wild days in the wilderness
1/28/2015 • 0
Luther's flawed hardware decisions
1/27/2015 • 0
Obama misfires on Russian 'threat'
1/27/2015 • 0