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01 November 2005
If our actions are contributing to a climate which makes catastrophic hurricanes more likely, surely we owe it to the dead, maimed and homeless to examine those actions more closely.
After the deplorable Bali bombings, the deportation of American peace activist Scott Parkin may seem trivial. But both events invite us to ask what kind of an Australia we want.
Martin N. White and Marcelle Mogg
Kiwis flocking to a new destiny
Spain’s Catholics take to the streets
Forty years ago, Vatican II promulgated one of its last documents: the Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World. Many have said that it was too optimistic about modernity.
Although a Delta Goodrem launch would no doubt draw a larger attendance, perhaps a celebration of Henry Lawson, would be a more notable and important Australian event.
Regarding climate change, what we need is not a new way of engineering but a new way of living.
The interesting, and probably enduring, thing about The Latham Diaries is not Mark Latham’s critique of the Labor Party, or even what the book tells about his own self-centredness and self-destructiveness.
Jack Thomas is one of the first Australians charged under the Howard Government’s new anti-terror laws, but is he really a threat to national security or merely a sacrifical lamb?
Niger’s descent to the world’s worst place to live has been paved with greed and good intentions
Margaret Dooley Award Winner, 2005: Sarah Kanowski argues that reading is a moral practice.
As the government apologises to victims’ families for state-sanctioned atrocities during the civil war, the perpetrators remain free
The politics of crisis is undermining the rights of indigenous Australians
Fifty years ago Rosa Parks inspired African Americans by refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man, and her example is still inspiring Aboriginal people today
As she slowly became a participant in this rural Mexican culture, Cate Kennedy was reminded of what her own culture has forgotten
Forty years after she first saw the film Zorba the Greek, an Australian in Greece takes a second look and finds herself deeply shocked
Under different leadership, in different times, changes in attitudes towards asylum seekers have been profound and swift
Bruce Duncan summarises the major statements of the Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church.
Scrapping unfair dismissal laws will leave most Australian workers vulnerable. The effect on society could be profound.
Crossing the border to better understand ‘the other’ can help not just them, but us as well
Poem by Judy Rowley.
Locals might find it boring, but this visitor to the Outer Hebrides found more than enough to make the sabbath special
Sara Dowse admires Anne Manne’s book Motherhood: How should we care for our children?
Herman Roborgh reviews the revised third edition of John L. Esposito’s Islam: The Straight Path.
Peter Pierce is entertained by Joe Queenan’s Queenan Country and Roger Law’s Still Spitting at Sixty.
Philip Harvey reviews Tom Frame’s The Life and Death of Harold Holt.
Daniel Herborn finds John Edwards’s Curtin’s Gift a convincing re-examination of some of the key strands of Curtin’s life.
Godfrey Moase reviews Rene Baker: File #28/E.D.P, by Rene Powell and Bernadette Kennedy, and Peopling the Cleland Hills: Aboriginal History in Western Central Australia 1850–1980, by Michael Alexander Smith.
Reviews of the books Snowy River Story: The Grassroots Campaign to Save a National Icon; Yarra: A Diverting History of Melbourne’s Murky River; and A Short History of Myth.
Reviews of the films Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit; Me and You and Everyone we Know; and The Magician.
There were some curious choices in Nine’s honour roll of the 50 top Australian programs: it was done by some process that wasn’t made plain to me.