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AUSTRALIA

Indonesian democracy is maturing
- Michael Danby
- 13 November 2006
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Once a corrupt military dictatorship, Indonesia is becoming a healthy democracy. Many Australians persist with pathetic stereotypes including the perception of Indonesian judges as monkeys.
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ENVIRONMENT

Biotech revolution promises to alter human nature
- Ursula Stephens
- 13 November 2006
4 Comments
The most significant threat posed by contemporary biotechnology is the possibility that it will alter human nature—and thereby move us into what Fukuyama calls a "post human" stage of history.
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AUSTRALIA

PNG needs Channel 7 publicity machine
- Michael Mullins
- 16 October 2006
The bizarre mission of TV host Naomi Robson to West Papua, to "rescue" a young boy from cannibalism, achieved nothing but publicity for Channel 7. If the station really cared about the plight of young people in the region, it would have given priority to coverage of Papua New Guinea's AIDS crisis.
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AUSTRALIA

Letter: 1965 genocide of Indonesian Chinese did not occur
- Charles Coppel
- 04 September 2006
Charles Coppel argues that there was no empirical evidence to support Jack Waterford's view in the last Eureka Street, that there was a kind of Chinese Holocaust in Indonesia in 1965. The victims of the 1965 anti-communist massacre were overwhelmingly Javanese and Balinese, and the slaughter was politicide rather than genocide.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Carmen Lawrence exposes the Politics of Fear
- James Massola
- 24 July 2006
Former ALP heavyweight Carmen Lawrence asserts that the developed world is safer today than it's ever been. Her argument flies in the face of the reality that there has never been greater rewards for politicians willing to peddle fear.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

A planet of slums
- Gary Pearce
- 10 July 2006
Mike Davis' new book belongs to a long tradition of studies of the urban poor – among them, Friedrich Engels’s examination of Victorian Manchester in The Condition of the Working Class in England. Davis updates this genre for a period of globalisation.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Asian relations
- Dewi Anggraeni
- 10 July 2006
Dewi Anggraeni examines Australia’s ambivalence towards Asia by J.V. D’Cruz and William Steele.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Not another word
- Jim Davidson
- 10 July 2006
Jim Davidson’s verdict on Don Watson’s Death Sentence: The Decay of Public Language.
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EDUCATION

Need to know basis
- Robin Jeffrey
- 04 July 2006
It is crucial that Australia increases its knowledge of Asia
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INFORMATION

Peace drums in Europe
- Michael McKernan, Frank O’Shea, Mark Deasey, Morag Fraser, John Carmody, Brigid Hains, Pip Robertson
- 03 July 2006
Peace drums, Irish visitor, Travellers’ tales, Epiphanies, Deep structure, Counter-terrorism kits, Circling the square
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Worth a fatwa?
- Peter Pierce & Catherine Pierce
- 02 July 2006
Has Michel Houellebecq earned the criticism that has come his way?
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AUSTRALIA

MILK, the Bros, gongs for science, mitre stuff
- Eureka Street editors
- 01 July 2006
News from everywhere
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