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    • Importance of competitiveness

      Over the past two decades, social partnership agreements have served the State well. The numbers at work have increased by one million people and the incidence of industrial disputes has been greatly reduced. Pay increases combined with tax cuts have raised the real incomes of those at work and enhanced certainty has improved the environment for business planning and investment. It is important that these gains be preserved at a time when economic conditions are deteriorating. p

    • Australia's apology

      That "sorry" is the most difficult and yet liberating word in the political vocabulary has once more been affirmed in Australian prime minister Kevin Rudd's eloquent apology to the country's Aboriginal population this week. p
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    • Time for the Minister to learn about autism

      When it comes to educating children with autism, Mary Hanafin doesn't know what she is talking about, according to Geraldine Leader, Julian Leslie, Kevin Tierney, Olive Healy, Veronica Cullinan and Rita Honan , six leading professionals in applied behaviour analysis. p

    • More faith in system? No thanks

      In fairness, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, could hardly have avoided speaking about Islamic religious law last week, given that he was delivering the inaugural lecture in a series entitled Islam in British Law , writes David Adams . p

    • Promoting giving while living

      Tax incentives and banking practices need to be developed to encourage Ireland's newly wealthy to indulge in philanthropy, writes Colin McCrea . p
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    • An Irishman's Diary

      It was good of John Delaney to cover for me the way he did, writes Frank McNally . But now that Denis has been outed, it's only a matter of time before somebody leaks the full story to the red-tops. So you might as well find out here. Yes, I am the mystery benefactor who put up the other half of Giovanni Trapattoni's salary. p
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