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December 2003

01 December 2003


 

  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Book reviews

    • Michele M. Gierck, Daniel Marti, Fatima Measham, Philip Harvey
    • 12 June 2006

    Reviews of Bamboo Palace; The Suicidal Church; The Lowest Rung: Voices of Australian Poverty and Flesh and Glory: Symbol, gender and theology in the Gospel of John.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Linda or Anne, in blue and green

    • Evan Jones
    • 12 June 2006

    Poem by Evan Jones

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Respecting Australian rules

    • Kerrie O’Brien
    • 12 June 2006

    Kerrie O’Brien tells the story of Martin Flanagan.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Writing history

    • Frank O’Shea
    • 12 June 2006

    Frank O’Shea considers Hope and History by Gerry Adams.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Stormy Weather | Matching

    • Evan Jones
    • 12 June 2006

    Poems by Evan Jones

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  • AUSTRALIA

    The forgotten people

    • Fatima Measham
    • 12 June 2006

    Fatima Measham on the dilemma of poverty in Australia.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Moving images

    • Philip Harvey
    • 12 June 2006

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Preparing for the fifth wave

    • Peter Mares
    • 12 June 2006

    Frank Brennan’s Tampering with Asylum prompts Peter Mares to look at this issue again.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    First impressions

    • Moira Rayner
    • 12 June 2006

    Moira Rayner reviews Hillary Rodham Clinton’s Living History.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Information serfing

    • David Ferris
    • 12 June 2006

    David Ferris reports on Information Feudalism: Who Owns the Knowledge Economy? by Peter Drahos with John Braithwaite.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Film reviews

    • Lucille Hughes, Allan James Thomas, Tim Metherall, Siobhan Jackson
    • 12 June 2006

    Reviews of the films Ten; Kill Bill Vol. 1; Intolerable Cruelty and In This world

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  • AUSTRALIA

    What’s a charity?

    • Toby O’Connor
    • 12 June 2006

    The draft Charities Bill 2003

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Powerful lives

    • Hugh Dillon
    • 12 June 2006

    Hugh Dillon on Simone Weil and George Orwell

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Fast forward

    • Juliette Hughes
    • 12 June 2006

    Although it feels like last Christmas was only about four months back, it also seems like a year since Reggie Bird walked out of the Big Brother house, and an absolute aeon since Kath & Kim finished.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Watermark

    • Martin Flanagan
    • 12 June 2006

    Martin Flanagan on Tasmanian Aborigines, Henry Melville and the ABC.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Sensitive listening

    • Grant Fraser
    • 12 June 2006

    Grant Fraser on Learning Human by Les Murray.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    A race for stayers

    • Brian Matthews
    • 11 June 2006

    As Melbourne Cup time comes round each year, I remember—with a mixture of dread and triumph—the Sir Robert Menzies Memorial Lecture that I gave on Tuesday, 5 November, in the Chancellors Hall of the University of London Senate House in 1996.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    The voyage out

    • Kate Pollard
    • 11 June 2006
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    Migrants to Australia reunite to recall a living history

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Soul food

    • Matthew Klugman
    • 11 June 2006

    Matthew Klugman interviews Richard Tognetti of the Australian Chamber Orchestra.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Unnecessary necessities

    • Jon Greenaway, Kristie Dunn, Georgina Costello
    • 11 June 2006

    Unnecessary necessities | Letter from Broome | Heavy traffic

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  • AUSTRALIA

    The diversions of war

    • Andrew Hamilton
    • 11 June 2006

    It is a minor paradox of war that in film clips, the politicians and generals who confer about present wars seem larger than life, whereas in the footage of past wars they look shrivelled—diminished by the destruction they have abetted.

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  • INTERNATIONAL

    Next generation

    • Michele M. Gierck
    • 11 June 2006

    Michele M. Gierck speaks to Njongonkulu Ndungane, Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Driving the tide

    • Jack Waterford
    • 11 June 2006

    In America, the political scientists are trying to attract the NASCAR dads—the sort of guys who are fans of racing cars. ‘NASCAR dads’ was once used to describe small-town and rural men.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Arise Sir John

    • Eureka Street editors
    • 11 June 2006

    Knight to remember, baulking at the rail, star-gazing voyager and sour grapes.

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  • INTERNATIONAL

    Protecting the vulnerable

    • Moira Rayner
    • 11 June 2006

    Children need help to protect themselves, argues Moira Rayner.

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  • INFORMATION

    Letters to Eureka Street

    • Tom Ryan SM, Spiro Tanti, John Carmody
    • 11 June 2006

    The courtesy of God, the consequences of conscience and 20th-century giants

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  • ENVIRONMENT

    Spotting a niche

    • Tim Thwaites
    • 11 June 2006

    Charles Darwin left us with more than a model of how the biological world develops. In evolution by natural selection, he provided an analogy for how all sorts of things change over time. And haven’t we seized on it.

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  • INTERNATIONAL

    England

    • Peter Pierce
    • 11 June 2006

    Peter Pierce gets on the bus.

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  • RELIGION

    New (old) ways

    • Andrew Hamilton
    • 11 June 2006

    ‘The more things change, the more they stay the same’, is a cynical aphorism, done best with a French shrug. Much more interesting is its converse, ‘The more things are the same, the more they have changed’.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Oiling the wheels

    • Anthony Ham
    • 11 June 2006

    Africa has been watching closely while Iraq descends into conflict.

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