{"id":199,"date":"2007-12-06T07:04:06","date_gmt":"2007-12-05T21:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/sdo\/index.php\/2007\/12\/06\/the-desire-for-community\/"},"modified":"2007-12-06T07:04:06","modified_gmt":"2007-12-05T21:04:06","slug":"the-desire-for-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/2007\/12\/06\/the-desire-for-community\/","title":{"rendered":"The desire for community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" vspace=\"10\" align=\"right\" width=\"255\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gainesville.org\/images\/main.about.voting.ballot.jpg\" hspace=\"15\" alt=\"Voting\" height=\"192\" style=\"width: 255px; height: 192px\" title=\"Voting\" \/>With the dust slowly settling after the Australian federal election, many analysts and commentators are trying to make sense of the emphatic win for Rudd and Labor when the Australian economy is in such good shape.<\/p>\n<p>It is interesting to see the results of a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/articles\/2007\/11\/30\/1196394625553.html\">recent opinion poll,<\/a> conducted post election.\u00c2\u00a0 It showed that more voters were concerned about health, education, workplace relations and climate change than about taxation, interest rates or prices.<\/p>\n<p>While a strong economy has been appreciated, many believe there are other things far more important, typified by a talk-back radio comment, &#8220;We live in a society, not an economy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>An opinion article states: Our happiness depends on such qualities as loving and being loved, security, autonomy, productive work, enjoyable leisure, achievements and harmony.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/stories\/2007\/12\/04\/2108688.htm\" title=\"Article from ABC news\">read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the dust slowly settling after the Australian federal election, many analysts and commentators are trying to make sense of the emphatic win for Rudd and Labor when the Australian economy is in such good shape. It is interesting to see the results of a recent opinion poll, conducted post election.\u00c2\u00a0 It showed that more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":307,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18,14,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}