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01 December 2004
Letters from Christine Bacon, Chris Curtis
Your common wombat probably wouldn’t appreciate being described as a ‘lumbering marsupial’ but truth will out.
Stephen Yorke considers the effects of the decisions we make.
Migration hurdles #2
Disability is sometimes a matter of perspective
Brian McCoy examines the theories of Joan Kimm in A fatal conjunction: Two laws two cultures.
Juliette Hughes tells it like it is (or, how it should be).
Anthony Ham discovers that Basque is not a region but a way of life
Michele Gierck meets the people on the other end of the line
Poems by Heather Matthew.
Thoughts from around the nation
Fatima Measham investigates the declining credibility of Filipino President Gloria Arroyo.
Crossing the boundaries John Kinsella boards Sarah Day’s The Ship.
It is a disconcerting fact of life that people who take unpopular moral positions are marginalised.
Brian Doyle considers the people of his neighbourhood
In light of the federal election, Joe Camilleri considers the questions that have yet to be asked
Reviews of the books The Sparrow Garden; The Pyjama Girl Mystery; Stargazing: Memoirs of a young lighthouse keeper and Sacred Space, The prayer book 2005.
Poem by Tim Edwards.
Bronwyn Fredericks argues for the identity of urban Indigenous Australians
Reviews of the films Hero; The story of the weeping camel; In my father’s den and Steamboy.
Migration hurdles
With the sudden death of Marie Tehan, we at Eureka Street have lost a dear friend and patron.
Tony Malkovic investigates an Australian Christian broadcasting service into the Asia-Pacific
Kiera Lindsey reviews Craig McGregor’s Australian son: Inside Mark Latham and Brian Costar and Jennifer Curtin’s Rebels with a cause: Independents in Australian politics.
It couldn’t make it as an issue in the federal election campaign, but the Howard Government is now embarked on radical change in Aboriginal affairs.
The Kiwis have managed to stamp their name all over a fruit that is not even native to their land.
Tim Martyn gets up close and personal on the campaign trail
John Carmody meets Opera Australia’s Madeleine Lee.