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Ten months after the renewed violence and lawlessness in East Timor, nobody is holding their breath for a simple resolution. It seems the dirty politicking will continue until a new order order has been established to properly replace the vacuum left when the state imploded in 1999. The first of two runner up essays in Eureka Street's Margaret Dooley Young Writers Award 2006.
New Year’s resolutions: 1. No more TV IQ tests that expose one’s innumeracies and estimate one’s intelligence at somewhere between a One Nation voter and a newt.
The following is an edited text of an address given by Fr Frank Brennan sj ao, at the launch of his most recent book, Tampering with Asylum.
Dorothy Horsfield reports on the rebuilding of Afghanistan.
James Griffin reviews the Australian Dictionary of Biography, Vol.16, John Ritchie and Diane Langmore, eds.
Australia is in a one-in-a-century drought. In India, water is always scarce and the conflict over its management rife—a precise illustration of what not to do. Maybe we can learn?
Moira Rayner traces the sorry history of Australia’s anti-corruption bodies
Pioneer? Racist? Or product of his time?
Fiction by Mary Manning
Bob Reece reviews Patrick Collins’ Goodbye Bussamarai: The Mandandanji Land War, Southern Queensland 1842–1852.
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.
Peter Pierce gets on the bus.