Eureka Street Is Delighted to Announce the Inaugural Margaret Dooley Young Writers' Award
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- A new award for young writers Eureka Street is delighted to announce the inaugural Margaret Dooley Young Writers' Award One of the distinguishing features of Eureka Street is its encouragement of reasoned ethical argument based on humane values. These arguments ideally address people who own religious belief, and those whose view of the world is secu lar. To reflect ethically on pub lic issues is a demanding discipline. The Margaret Dooley Award is offered in order to support the development of young writers who will carry on the contribution of Eureka Street in this field. Margaret and Brendan Dooley have longstanding connections to the Jesuits and Xavier College. Margaret always appreciated the value of communication and education for young people, based on spiritual and personal values . She graduated from Sacre Coeur College in 1950, commenced nursing at St Vincent's Hospital and, with Brendan, raised four children. Margaret died in 2004. The Dooley family are pleased to support this initiative. The annual award of $2000 is open to any writer, previously published or unpublished, under the age of 40. Entrants must subm it two previously unpub li shed articles that offer: ethical reflection directed to a non-specialist audience on any serious topic, appeal to humane values, such as those that are found within, but are not exclusive to, the best of the Christian tradition, clear argument and elegant expression, and a generosity and courtesy of spirit animating forceful argument. One article should be of no more than 800 words. The second should be of no more than 2000 words. They may take up the same, or different, topics. Entries are to be submitted by 5pm Friday, 29 July 2005, to: Margaret Dooley Young Writers' Award, Eureka Street, PO Box 553, Richmond VIC 3121. The award will be made only if the judges believe that the best entry is of sufficient quality. 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Arnerica are almost as good as her words on 26 A ship and a harb our p26. PU ZZLED Cover des ign: Maggie Power Sarah Kanowsl<i questions the Cartoons: Dea n Moore p9, p16, p35. traveller's relationship to place. 47 foan Nowotny Cryptic crossword corn mcnt Andrew Hamilton Us and them T m STORY a> COJ<N<UA RAu seemed " fi<St We should not be too hard on the psychologists who to be an isolated personal tragedy. But we now know failed to see what was before their eyes. It is hard that more Australians have been wrongly detained. for psychologists paid to work in detention centres One Australian woman was deported, and could not to retain the moral and human compass which be found for some years. guides their craft. The question initially asked about Cornelia Rau It is also understandable that Cornelia Rau was was why an Australian citizen should be treated so placed in a 'management unit'-a small, windowless badly- jailed, detained, and despite clear mental cell, with only a mattress, in which the subj ect is disturbance, sanctioned as if she was responsible for under perpetual video surveillance, with the light her bizarre behaviour. This question was morally never turned off. For people who are not like us, such adrift. We should ask why any human being could be methods work. Like the cells at Port Arthur, they treated in this way. The answer is clear and disturb can turn rebellion into whimpering apathy. ing. She, and other people wrongfully detained and Those responsible for the detention of asylum deported, was not like us. seekers have created a culture in which we expect The Queensland authorities passed Cornelia that people who are not like us should be treated dif Rau over to the immigration department because she ferently. They have created a regime of inhumanity. spoke in German and acted bizarrely- unlike us. It is not surprising that Australians who seem The immigration authorities failed to establish to be unlike us are wrongly detained, imprisoned her identity, kept her in police cells, transferred her and deported.