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Jill RowbothamLegal Affairs Correspondent

Jill Rowbotham is an experienced journalist who has been a foreign correspondent as well as bureau chief in Perth and Sydney, opinion and media editor, deputy editor of The Weekend Australian Magazine and higher education writer.

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The Nation

Wealth up, age down on Forbes rich list

THE rich are getting richer, and younger.

Jill Rowbotham

The Nation

Universal primate plan ‘overstated’

IT’S nowhere near time for Henry VIII to start rolling in his grave, but Anglicans bowing to the authority of the pope has been acknowledged as a theoretical possibility.

Jill Rowbotham and Religious affairs writer

The Nation

Grassroots idea grows into $90 million scheme

JOHN Howard’s $90 million initiative for a chaplain for every school germinated at a grassroots level on the Mornington Peninsula.

Jill Rowbotham and Religious affairs writer

The Nation

Teachers baulk at Howard’s chaplains

THOUSANDS of religious counsellors will be appointed to schools that join a new $90 million federal program to fill a significant “spiritual and pastoral” gap in services to Australian students.

Jill Rowbotham and Religious affairs writer

The Nation

Catholic youth in danger, warns Pell

YOUNG Catholics are more confused about religion than other Christian groups their age.

Jill Rowbotham and Religious affairs writer

The Nation

Vatican checks up on festival

WORLD Youth Day organisers will host a delegation of papal representatives this week, sent to check their preparations for the massive Catholic festival to be held in Sydney in July 2008.

Jill Rowbotham and Religious affairs editor

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