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AUSTRALIA
- Irfan Yusuf
- 06 October 2011
12 Comments
Today is the tenth anniversary of the war on Afghan jihadists. We civilised Westerners decided we’d had enough of barbarians flying planes into our skyscrapers, killing thousands of our civilians. And hence we sent our own planes to drop huge bombs on their villages and towns.
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AUSTRALIA
- Catherine Marshall
- 08 September 2011
2 Comments
A soft toy. A restaurant menu. A business card. An agony so great it swamped the world. While America was busy hunting down Osama bin Laden, my son and his contemporaries, who were children at the time of the attack, grew up and inherited a world irrevocably changed.
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INTERNATIONAL
- Jan Forrester
- 22 October 2010
11 Comments
The situation in Afghanistan is far more complex than the Australian parliamentary debate seems to credit. The international community and the Afghan government should be starting a bigger conversation about how a more transparent and accountable political culture can be encouraged.
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INTERNATIONAL
- Antonio Castillo
- 14 September 2010
24 Comments
At least those of us who survived Chile's 9/11 didn't have to stomach the phoney sombre Australian journalists 'live from New York' or the sight of a former Prime Minister crossing the Brooklyn bridge wearing an ACB tracksuit. But more than 30 years on, the Chilean people are still waiting for the United States' admission of guilt.
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INTERNATIONAL
- Binoy Kampmark
- 02 June 2010
31 Comments
Turkey has condemned the attacks on a flotilla carrying humanitarian supplies to Gaza as piracy. Branding activists as terrorists and denying the human
situation in Gaza will not help an Israeli cause that is proving increasingly
alienating.
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AUSTRALIA
- Catherine Marshall
- 29 January 2010
50 Comments
Tony Abbott and I have something in common: we've both been having the sex talk with our teenage daughters.
The bizarre glorification of virginity and the latent distaste of our
daughters' sexuality removes the very power with which we strive to arm
them.
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RELIGION
- Herman Roborgh
- 09 October 2009
3 Comments
Modern atheists in the West and modernist Muslims in Islam are both abusing religion. Their discourse about God has been influenced by the popular demand for
scientific empirical verification, and they have lost confidence in the
ability of figurative language to open a way to truth.
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AUSTRALIA
- Hanifa Deen
- 17 September 2009
6 Comments
Visits by our senior politicians offering glib reassurances
will not halt the turndown in Indian enrolments in our tertiary institutions. We need to revisit the days when we treated international
students as people rather than statistics in an export industry.
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RELIGION
- Herman Roborgh
- 20 July 2009
14 Comments
Many in the media have labelled the bombings in Jakarta as the work of jihad. When we understand the Qur'anic verses that advocate jihad in their proper historical context, it is clear that the Qur'an expresses acceptance and respect for non-Muslims.
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RELIGION
- Herman Roborgh
- 25 June 2009
The scriptures of both Islam and Christianity are full of paradoxes. Some readers of paradoxes simply emphasise only one part of the paradox. (Full text of Herman Roborgh's Dialogue Australasia article, May 2009.)
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Philip Mendes
- 09 January 2009
6 Comments
Benny Morris, Israel's best-known revisionist historian, led more and more Israelis and Diaspora Jews in the 1980s to accept
the legitimacy of an independent Palestinian state in the West Bank and
Gaza Strip. Morris has changed his spots. (September 2008)
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AUSTRALIA
- Peter Matheson
- 08 January 2009
4 Comments
An overweening trust in
military muscle has led Israel into this campaign; it is hard to overlook the parallels with the Shock and Awe
curtain-raiser to the Iraq debacle. It seems there is an unspoken assumption that
Palestinian lives are not so important as Israeli ones.
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