Sentences with phrase «centre of political debate»

Journalists» rights to intrude on people's private lives are at the centre of political debate today.

Since Murray Goulburn slashed the farm-gate milk price from $ 5.60 a kilogram milk solids to $ 4.75 - $ 5 and warned it would not meet profit forecasts in late February, the dairy industry has been at the centre of a political debate.

Not exact matches

Certainly some evangelical groups — the Signpost Research Centre, for example — have engaged the political debate in South Africa in such a way as advertently or inadvertently to lend support to the morally odious system of apartheid.

And from raging debates about creationism to political candidates proclaiming their religious convictions, religion seems to be at the centre of American life.

As the current protest has grown, it has rekindled a desire for change amongst lower - working class citizens, as their daily struggle has finally returned to centre - stage of political debate.

Whilst the economic circumstances might make it more difficult to actually implement the New Labour mantra of increased investment in public services funded by a growing economy, there's little to suggest that the terms of debate in the political centre ground have undergone a paradigm shift such as the one experienced in the post-Thatcherite era.

The obsession with the political centre which has so reduced debate in this country since 1997 was noticeably shaken by the financial crisis, and one might hope that the stage is set for a new generation of politicians to emerge who occupy a political spectrum without the baggage of the seventies and eighties, even if those were the times that formed them.

Perhaps the most peculiar aspect of current political debates centres on education policy.

The sun is out, the constituency has been the centre of national debate for months and voters have a real feeling of being able to inflict change on the political system.

Over its first couple of years, Lib Dem wobbles and the European meltdown forced the coalition's austerity programme front and centre in political debate.

Cabinet Office minister Liam Byrne and Jill Kirby, of the Centre for Policy Studies, debate whether charities have become too similar to political lobby groups.

The political debate often centres around competing claims on the quality and cost of free schools.

Some passionate disagreement — the antithesis of a silent consensus — would in many ways be preferable, and put climate change where it deserves to be: at the centre (not the periphery) of political debates.

Last year, we took a look at the gestation of the statement issued by one of those professional bodies — the American Geophysical Union — and argued that these statements should be seen as political attempts to put science centre - stage of climate debates rather than objective appraisals of the state of knowledge.

Coal, on the other hand, is at the centre of heated political debate.

The current debate around the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain Pipeline centres around political posturing, provincial jurisdiction, investment priorities, climate change, coastal protection and consent by First Nations communities, but when the pipeline was originally being built in 1952, civil defence and the threat of war with the Soviet Union was a going concern.