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Western Australia’s award winning Catholic newspaper - Wednesday October 3, 2007
CHILDREN: Archbishop issues Pastoral Letter on caring for kids Page 4
SMASH HIT! Whitfords raises $20,000 for WYD Parish Pilgrims Page 6
Perth, Western Australia ● $2
SCARLET WOMAN: Who was Mary Magdalene? VISTA 4
WYD venue is clear
Ekberg puts the question McGinty doesn’t want to hear
Overseas pilgrims can relax as New South Wales confirms venue for global gathering will be available ■ By Anthony Barich
The NSW Government has once and for all quashed any doubt that World Youth Day will go ahead after a media frenzy over the Australian Jockey Club’s public spat with WYD organisers had some pilgrims concerned. Headlines like those in The Australian last month screaming “Trainers’ ultimatum on papal visit”, had some WYD pilgrims worried that the event itself, set to draw 300,000 from around the world, was in 2 0 0 5 : Yo u t h jeopardy. But the NSW celebrate the Sydney State Government owns announcement in Randwick and leases it Cologne. PHOTO: CNS to the Australian Jockey Club for a “peppercorn rent” – almost nothing.
Like it is: Gunilla Ekberg speaks at the University of Notre Dame in Fremantle on September 21 as she briefs the PHOTO: PETER ROSENGREN public on prostitution’s global reach and how women and girls are the first to suffer. ■ By Peter Rosengren
Continued - Page 12 WYD letter to Sydney priests - Page 13 Perth starts Hour of Power - Page 12 Needed: Beds for WA Days in Dioceses - Page 13 WYD Cross and Icon cross Great Barrier Reef - Page 13
“If prostitution is a free choice [for women and girls] why is it that those with the
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fewest choices are the ones who end up in it?” The uncomfortable question, not the sort the State Government wants to hear at the moment much less know
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Perth priest Fr Tiziano Bogoni led Perth Catholics as they observed the feast of one of the most remarkable saints of the modern era - St Pio of Pietrelcina .
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Editorial/Letters Opinion The World World Youth Day reports Panorama/Classifieds
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about the expertise of the person asking it, was posed at the University of Notre Dame in Fremantle on the evening of Thursday September 21. More than 300 people had
turned out to hear visiting Swedish expert Gunilla Ekberg, a leading European government advisor on combating the sexual exploitation of women in prostitution analyse why some governments feel so overwhelmed by prostitution’s tenacity that they decide to give up trying to control it. Ms Ekberg was Special Advisor on Prostitution and Human Trafficking to the Swedish Government for five years and helped introduce and fine-tune its innovative policy, which has since become a model for other nations in the region; she also helped establish shelters for battered women. She now works in the EU’s headquarters in Brussels. As such she is possibly the most senior bureaucrat in the world when it comes to understanding and dealing with prostitution’s perplexing tenacity. There are two philosophies vying with each other over the issue of prostitution, she said. One, the neo-liberal, sees it only as an issue of choice; it Continued - Page 2
FIVE WOMEN AND AN ABBEY
ABC TV is about to air a program charting the highs and lows of five ordinary Australian women who tried life as Benedictine nuns for 8 weeks.
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