April 2003

01 April 2003

EDUCATION

Need to know basis
- Robin Jeffrey
- 04 July 2006
It is crucial that Australia increases its knowledge of Asia
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Howletts
- Juliette Hughes
- 04 July 2006
Juliette Hughes talks with the animals.
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AUSTRALIA

Watchdogs put down
- Moira Rayner
- 04 July 2006
Moira Rayner traces the sorry history of Australia’s anti-corruption bodies
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Dire diary
- Brian Matthews
- 04 July 2006
By and large I disapprove of diaries or, to be more precise, I disapprove of the effort required to keep diaries.
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AUSTRALIA

Perilous journeys
- Arnold Zable
- 04 July 2006
Refugee stories told by Arnold Zable.
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INTERNATIONAL

Surviving Africa
- Peter Browne
- 04 July 2006
A remarkably peaceful change of government in Kenya could significantly improve the lives of refugees in the country’s remote camps. But Australia and other western countries must play a part.
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AUSTRALIA

Seoul-centring Korea
- Gavan McCormack
- 04 July 2006
Encouraging the North–South relationship offers the best hope for North Korea and the world
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ARTS AND CULTURE

The purest of pleasures
- Gillian Bouras
- 04 July 2006
Or is it? Gillian Bouras gardens in Greece.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Occasional harmonies
- Gerard Windsor
- 04 July 2006
Gerard Windsor in Sicily.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Book reviews
- Andrew Hamilton, Godfrey Moase
- 04 July 2006
Reviews of Justice, Jesus, and the Jews; The Land is a Map: Placenames of Indigenous Origin in Australia; Don’t Tell the Prime Minister; Unfinished Business: America and Cuba after the Cold War 1989–2001, and The Double Helix.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

The Viennese moment
- Michael McGirr
- 04 July 2006
Michael McGirr looks into Peter Singer’s Pushing Time Away.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Tall tales, but true
- Kristie Dunn
- 04 July 2006
Kristie Dunn reviews Dark Victory by David Marr and Marian Wilkinson.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

The only hope
- Robert Phiddian
- 04 July 2006
Robert Phiddian reviews Ghassan Hage’s Against Paranoid Nationalism: Searching for hope in a shrinking society.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Agreeing on something
- Andrew Hamilton
- 04 July 2006
Andrew Hamilton surveys four books on power and the Catholic Church.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Film reviews
- Juliette Hughes, Allan James Thomas, Alex McDermott, Tim Metherall, Morag Fraser
- 04 July 2006
Reviews of the films Talk to Her; The Pianist; Ned Kelly; Sur Mes Lèvres; and The Hours.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Old days, lost ways
- Juliette Hughes
- 04 July 2006
My grandmother lost four children. Born in the 1870s, she lived the perilous life of a respectable married woman of the working classes in the early part of the 20th century.
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INFORMATION

Epiphanies
- Morag Fraser
- 03 July 2006
There are submarines in the New South Wales country town of Holbrook. They lie snugly berthed in the grass of the classic Australian park that runs alongside the main street.
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ENVIRONMENT

Fluid interpretations
- Tim Thwaites
- 03 July 2006
Archimedes was heartened by one aspect of the whole sad Warne anti-doping affair—that people knew enough about the issues to filter out the bulldust.
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AUSTRALIA

Hammered at the heath
- Peter Pierce
- 03 July 2006
Peter Pierce goes to the races.
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AUSTRALIA

Unﬁnished business
- Morag Fraser
- 03 July 2006
It’s a cliché, and that in itself should make you suspicious. In George Orwell’s centenary year, doubly so.
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AUSTRALIA

Changeover time
- Andrew Hamilton
- 03 July 2006
Eureka Street farewells Morag Fraser and welcomes new editor Marcelle Mogg.
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AUSTRALIA

Roman surprises, home truths, and Malcolm Williamson remembered
- Eureka Street editors
- 03 July 2006
News from everywhere
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AUSTRALIA

Grim reaping
- Jack Waterford
- 03 July 2006
The United States will probably complete its war against Iraq with its military clout enhanced, its diplomatic clout reduced, and its place in the world less secure.
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INFORMATION

Peace drums in Europe
- Michael McKernan, Frank O’Shea, Mark Deasey, Morag Fraser, John Carmody, Brigid Hains, Pip Robertson
- 03 July 2006
Peace drums, Irish visitor, Travellers’ tales, Epiphanies, Deep structure, Counter-terrorism kits, Circling the square
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RELIGION

Lenten signs
- Andrew Hamilton
- 03 July 2006
Rituals are like spinning tops—they keep changing direction around a still centre. Lent is a good example.
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