http://www.eurekastreet.com.au Eureka Street http://www.eurekastreet.com.au http://www.eurekastreet.com.au/images/img_eureakstreet_logo_rss.gif http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Eureka Street Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:34:12 +1100 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:34:12 +1100 If you were a familiar Irish cap, and had waited all night every night for 30 years for the blessing of the morning when he'd reach for you, knead you and fold you gently over his ungovernable hair, wouldn't you wonder where he was the first few days after he vanished, and feel something like a silent sadness? http://www.eurekastreet.com.au/article.aspx?aeid=36274 http://www.eurekastreet.com.au/article.aspx?aeid=36274 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:34:12 +1100 Comparison of these two cases is illuminating. One is the recruit to the Australia A cricket team, Pakistani born Fawad Ahmed. The other is, in Tony Abbott's words, the 'convicted Jihadist terrorist', Egyptian born Sayed Ahmed Abullatif. Ahmed will be the second Pakistani born cricketer in an Australian side that desperately needs a good leg-spinner. Abdullatif has possibly a more difficult road ahead.  http://www.eurekastreet.com.au/article.aspx?aeid=36663 http://www.eurekastreet.com.au/article.aspx?aeid=36663 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:34:12 +1100 View this week's offering from Eureka Street's award winning political cartoonist. http://www.eurekastreet.com.au/article.aspx?aeid=36665 http://www.eurekastreet.com.au/article.aspx?aeid=36665 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:34:12 +1100 Alluding to his own military style intervention in Kosovo, Bill Clinton warned Obama not to look like a 'wuss' on Syria. Still, Obama's decision to start providing arms to Syrian rebels is an enormous risk. Australia's history of state interventions to tackle Indigenous disadvantage provide surprisingly apt criteria for evaluating the decision. http://www.eurekastreet.com.au/article.aspx?aeid=36664 http://www.eurekastreet.com.au/article.aspx?aeid=36664 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 00:00:00 +1100 Recent ABS data reveals NT has both the highest rate of people experiencing homelessness and the highest imprisonment rate of any Australian state. Former Spanish PM Zapatero said 'a decent society is one that does not humiliate its members'. Successive Australian governments have systematically humiliated citizens on the basis of cultural background or health or social status. http://www.eurekastreet.com.au/article.aspx?aeid=36646 http://www.eurekastreet.com.au/article.aspx?aeid=36646 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 00:00:00 +1100 A man swims back to you like a friendly dog. Asks you for spare change. He hasn't eaten since Thursday and it's Sunday now in the city. You empty your wallet of all its coins. $2.70. The city is heavenly, full of karma. A kid with a snake tattooed on his wrist gives you two cigarettes. http://www.eurekastreet.com.au/article.aspx?aeid=36660 http://www.eurekastreet.com.au/article.aspx?aeid=36660 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 00:00:00 +1100 Ted didn't need a translator. He spoke Kriol fluently having spent many years working with Aboriginal people across the Territory. The locals smiled and visibly opened to him, clearly honoured by his effort to meet with them in their country on the basis of equality and respect. Learning the vernacular, and learning through the vernacular, establishes in students a sense of pride and power. http://www.eurekastreet.com.au/article.aspx?aeid=36567 http://www.eurekastreet.com.au/article.aspx?aeid=36567 Mon, 17 Jun 2013 00:00:00 +1100 Sometimes events take on a significance beyond their historical context. That was the case with Gallipoli and the Eureka Stockade. It may also prove to be the case with the bodies left in the water after an asylum seeker boat sank, and the delay by the Australian authorities to take responsibility for their recovery. http://www.eurekastreet.com.au/article.aspx?aeid=36645 http://www.eurekastreet.com.au/article.aspx?aeid=36645 Mon, 17 Jun 2013 00:00:00 +1100