Baby dearest: Australians wanting to adopt children from overseas face forbidding costs and a frustrating amount of red tape

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Overseas adoption can cost Australian parents up to $35000 and even more, who are outraged at the state bureaucracies that guard every angle not allowing parents to directly contact orphanages or donor country governments. The inconsistency of the government's decision to subsidise infertility treatments and not adoption is inequitable and sends a message about adoption not being supported way of family building.

Public Finance Activities, Legal issues & crime, Government regulation (cont), Government regulation, Legal/Government Regulation, Public Administration-Total Govt, Public Administration, Laws, regulations and rules, Adoption

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Opera in the dark

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The author criticizes the Australian government for passing on the fourth opportunity to have the Sydney Opera House listed as a World Heritage site. The importance of the Opera House as a cultural mark is examined, including international prestige and the economic benefits from increased tourism.

Social aspects, Appreciation, Political aspects, Architecture, Theaters, Architecture and society, Australians

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Prize fighter

Article Abstract:

The immigration of writer J. M. Coetzee from South Africa to Australia is discussed. His writings depict the violence and abuses of colonialism and apartheid.

South Africa, Authors, Writers, Achievements and awards, Emigration and immigration, Works, Coetzee, J.M.

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