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INTERNATIONAL
- Ben Fraser
- 28 September 2010
4 Comments
Amid the horror and gloom there have been moments of inspiration in the flood crisis that have largely gone unreported. While they warmly accept the staples of relief, they know through a history of crippling food insecurity and mass displacement that they are masters of their own destiny.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Sasha Shtargot
- 04 August 2010
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You don't get many words out of him, and when he does speak they always end in a question. 'It's gonna cost a lot to get new tyres, knowata mean? You're better off getting re-treads, knowata mean?' In our society there are hundreds of jobs that barely rate a mention, and armies of unsung workers who keep it functioning and well-oiled.
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INTERNATIONAL
- James Dorsey
- 13 July 2010
6 Comments
One Moroccan organisation for lesbians,
transsexuals and homo- and bisexuals, estimates
that some 5000 people have been jailed in Morocco or forced to emigrate
because they are gay. Mithly, the Arab world's only gay magazine, hopes to steer the debate into calmer waters.
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EUREKA STREET TV
- Peter Kirkwood
- 18 June 2010
13 Comments
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AUSTRALIA
- Jack Waterford
- 18 May 2010
5 Comments
Seven houses — not bad for three and a half years work and hundreds of millions of dollars. At that rate the gap will be closed in about 7000 years. Minster Macklin frequently redefines what she is pretending to be doing, or uses weasel words.
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MEDIA
- Andrew Hamilton
- 07 May 2010
22 Comments
Catherine Deveny's sacking smells of hypocrisy. Some will say that those who live by the sword die by the sword. But in this case it
appeared that those who provided her with the sword and encouraged her
to use it liberally, stabbed her in the back with it.
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RELIGION
- Andrew Hamilton
- 29 April 2010
15 Comments
When I first heard of the Melbourne Storm tragedy, I laughed. My attitudes to games had remained stuck in an ill-spent childhood in which a little cheating was part of playing games. Even now, I confess, I enjoy stories of cheating done in style.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Vin Maskell
- 31 March 2010
12 Comments
The Chinese couple had kept the shop going for ten years at a time when
milk bars have been disappearing off the map.
In my two decades in this suburb about eight corner shops have closed.
And in the past three years Peter's milk bar, like his wife, was just
hanging on.
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AUSTRALIA
- Alex McDermott
- 15 March 2010
7 Comments
Two of the most significant changes in Australian history, the post-war migration scheme and the 1980s economic reform, would not have occurred without political spin. It is no accident that the first teaching to devote
itself to the art of spin was born
simultaneously with democracy in ancient Athens.
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AUSTRALIA
- Tony Kevin
- 03 February 2010
7 Comments
It is disingenuous for Labor education ministers' to say MySchool will create political pressure to boost 'under-performing' schools. Meanwhile parents, voting with their feet, may foster the very outcomes they fear: underprivileged, low-morale schools breeding a
generation of alienated, under-achieving kids.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 01 February 2010
2 Comments
Both the Apple iPad and the MySchool website will improve our lives if we overcome the urge to deify or demonise. The iPad is priced to appeal to the mass market rather than an elite, and it could hold the key to a manageable large-scale transition from printed books and newspapers.
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AUSTRALIA
- Catherine Marshall
- 11 January 2010
9 Comments
Whether grotesquely augmented, stricken with cancer or tumbling
unbidden from the frocks of soccer wives, breasts guarantee rapt
attention.
But never are these appendages more hotly debated than when they are being used according to their very purpose and design. October 2009
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