April 2005

01 April 2005

ARTS AND CULTURE

Far canal
- Brian Matthews
- 14 May 2006
Pundits who were left gasping by the announcements of Colin (‘Cry me a river’) Barnett would have been less surprised if they’d read the last issue of the Okotsk Institute Journal of Research into Inexplicable Public Behaviours.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Football Fiction
- Ian C. Smith
- 14 May 2006
Poem by Ian C. Smith
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Paradise gained and lost
- Andrew Hamilton
- 14 May 2006
Andrew Hamilton reviews Luther’s Pine: an Autobiography, by John Molony.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Suds and duds
- D. L. Lewis
- 14 May 2006
D. L. Lewis commends Andrew Mercador’s Super Aussie Soaps to those with an interest in popular culture and television.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Returning to place
- Daniel Donahoo
- 14 May 2006
Daniel Donahoo examines the experiences of an expat in Peter Conrad’s Tales of Two Hemispheres.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Great leap forward
- Robert Hefner
- 14 May 2006
Robert Hefner catches Tim Flannery’s enthusiasm for our most famous marsupial in Country.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Elusive justice
- Madeleine Byrne
- 14 May 2006
Madeleine Byrne finds Getting Away with Genocide? Elusive Justice and the Khmer Rouge Tribunal, by Tom Fawthrop and Helen Jarvis, vivid and timely.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Birth of a nation
- Troy Bramston
- 14 May 2006
Troy Bramston takes a closer look at America’s founding fathers in Gore Vidal’s Inventing a Nation: Washington, Jefferson, Adams.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Piety parodied
- Peter Pierce
- 14 May 2006
Peter Pierce identifies a salutary failure in Rowan Metcalfe’s Transit of Venus.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

The politics of aid
- Francesca Beddie
- 14 May 2006
Francesca Beddie discovers much of interest in Daniel Oakman’s Facing Asia: A History of the Colombo Plan.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Book reviews
- Lee Beasley, Kathryn Page, Matthew Lamb, Steve Gome
- 14 May 2006
Reviews of the books In Tasmania; Women and media: International perspectives; Havoc, in its third year and The Tomb in Seville.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Movie reviews
- Allan Thomas, Zane Lovitt, Lucille and Juliette Hughes, Siobhan Jackson, Allan James Thomas
- 14 May 2006
Reviews of the films Oldboy, Bride and Prejudice, The Illustrated Family Doctor and House of Flying Daggers.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Debates and discourses
- Juliette Hughes
- 14 May 2006
In our house, we’ll continue to tolerate each other’s programs up to the point of nausea or embarrassment. We’ll be able to watch the animal documentaries, Media Watch, and Roy and H. G.’s new Memphis Trousers Half Hour.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Elephants dancing in the rain
- Robert Hefner
- 14 May 2006
Robert Hefner sees more than just coincidence in these weather patterns.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Footloose at the foot store
- Brian Doyle
- 14 May 2006
Brian Doyle recalls a shopping excursion that was anything but pedestrian.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Young artists take the lead
- Fatima Measham
- 14 May 2006
The Rudder Project, an art-mentoring program sponsored by Jesuit Social Services, has helped make two young women’s dreams come true.
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INTERNATIONAL

Cattle currency
- Matthew Albert
- 14 May 2006
1 Comment
When elders and officials in South Sudan are asked about the challenges facing peace in their region they talk of cows.
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INTERNATIONAL

Selective evidence
- Steven Churches
- 14 May 2006
Was the decision to deny the Bakhtiyaris refugee status based on all the facts?
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AUSTRALIA

Altered states
- Jack Waterford
- 14 May 2006
It is worth contemplating the dismal failures of conservative coalitions at state level while John Howard’s star has increased, and his own revolutionary shifts in the federal compact.
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AUSTRALIA

The end of the line
- Anthony Ham
- 14 May 2006
The people of Togo will determine their future in democratically held elections this month.
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AUSTRALIA

Into the fray
- Martin Elliott
- 14 May 2006
Living history
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AUSTRALIA

State of the union
- Aaron Martin
- 14 May 2006
Turkey and the EU
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AUSTRALIA

Race memories
- Peter Pierce
- 14 May 2006
A day at the museum
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AUSTRALIA

Truth, politics and the Fourth Estate
- Morag Fraser
- 14 May 2006
The following essays by Morag Fraser and John Schumann are edited addresses from the Jesuit Lenten Seminar Series held in February–March 2005.
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AUSTRALIA

Truth? You can’t handle the truth
- John Schumann
- 14 May 2006
Morag Fraser and John Schumann reflect on the crucial role of truth in our society.
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AUSTRALIA

A part-time ‘working’ nation
- Tim Martyn
- 14 May 2006
While Australia enjoys its lowest official unemployment rate in 28 years, it’s time to reflect upon the true level of labour-market exclusion and prospects for the unemployed and working poor.
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RELIGION

The charge of secular Spain
- Anthony Ham
- 14 May 2006
Anthony Ham wonders whether Spain can still be considered a Catholic country after all.
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RELIGION

An evolutionary vision
- Andrew Hamilton
- 14 May 2006
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the death of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and the 40th of Winston Churchill’s. They never met and had totally different temperaments. But some things they had in common.
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RELIGION

After the parade
- Kylie Crabbe
- 14 May 2006
There is an art to the big event. Anyone who’s planned a wedding knows it, and that should be enough to give hives to anyone imagining what it took to get George Bush’s inauguration off the ground.
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ENVIRONMENT

Business contacts
- Tim Thwaites
- 14 May 2006
In the early 1990s Dr Peter Steinberg, a marine ecologist from the University of New South Wales, discovered a small red seaweed in Botany Bay that keeps its fronds free of bacteria. Archimedes continues the tale.
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INFORMATION

Letters to Eureka Street
- Helen Noakes, Frank Donovan, Alistair Pound and Frank Brennan
- 14 May 2006
Letters from Helen Noakes, Frank Donovan, Alistair Pound and Frank Brennan.
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