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Life to the full : rights and social justice in Australia / [edited by James Franklin].
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Ballan, Vic. :: Connor Court Pub.,
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2007.
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iv, 139 p. ; 21 cm.
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Nagle Library copy ex dono James Franklin, SJC, 1971-1974.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Monograph
ISBN:
9781921421006 (pbk.) 1921421002 (pbk.);
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1. The right to life --2. The right to serve and worship God in public and private -- 3. The right to religious formation -- 4. The right to personal liberty under law -- 5. The right to equal protection of just law regardless of sex, nationality, colour
or creed -- 6.The right to freedom of expression -- 7. The right to choose and freely maintain a state of life, married or single, lay or religious 8. The right to education -- 9. The right to petition government for the redress of grievances -- 10. The right to nationality -- 11. The right to have access to the means of livelihood, by migration if necessary --12. The right of association and peaceful assembly -- 13. The right to work and choose one's occupation -- 14. The right to personal ownership, use and disposal of property subject to the right of others -- 15. The right to a living wage 16. The right to collective bargaining --17. The right to associate by industries and professions to obtain economic justice -- 18. The right to assistance from society, if necessary from the State, in distress of persons or family.

Explains in clear and concise language that traditional Christian social justice theory is neither socialist nor free market, neither naive nor utopian, but the framework that has already made our society one of the most just and liveable in the world.
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