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Draconian Asylum and Immigration System Needs Reform, Says Minister Shatter
By Colette Browne Justice Minister Alan Shatter has rightly decried the “inconvenient truth” that the State’s doors “were kept firmly closed to German Jewish families trying to flee from persecution and death” during the Holocaust. However, maybe he should ask himself if the State would…
Author: Irish Examiner
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Health reform challenge in Australia: Repairing the fundamentals and building on stronger foundations
Australia’s Prime Minister praises biomedical research at the University of Queensland as an example of what can be achieved when government, universities and philanthropy work together in partnership. It is good to be back home; it’s good to be back in Brisbane; good to be…
Author: Prime Minister of Australia
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Pupils show they have the write stuff
Efforts to increase child literacy has experts flocking to Ballymun, writes Gabrielle Monaghan Youngballymun and Barnardos are Atlantic grantees. Across the road from the Virgin Mary Girls’ National School, some of Ballymun’s last tower blocks stand half-empty. Roddy Doyle may have immortalised them in The…
Author: The Sunday Times (London)
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Giving While Living: Chuck Feeney’s Role in This World
The term “Giving While Living” is globally associated with Chuck Feeney, the Founding Chair of The Atlantic Philanthropies, a major international philanthropic foundation. He is the “anonymous donor”, a man who lives to give away billions. Photo: Charles Feeney – Atlantic Philanthropies Founding Chairman…
Author: Daily Maverick