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Holy victuals bitter sweet for Great Southern Land : Comments
By Joanne Lau, published 5/9/2008Catholicism exerts a pervasive influence in Australia’s political, economic and cultural economy.
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No question there – it has been doing it successfully, spectacularly so, for the past 14 years after the United Nations Population and Development in Cairo. Not because of committed faithful like Paul Collins; but the political stranglehold exerted by the fundamentalist enthusiasm of Brian Harradine, Tony Abbott, and like-minded colleagues. And because of the moral turpitude of Governments pandering to them.
What a terrible price has been imposed upon women in the poorest nations of the world. What extra stress imposed upon the earth's resources in supporting the resulting unnecessarily high rate of population expansion.