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AUSTRALIA

Onus now on those who supported Thai coup
- Minh Nguyen
- 16 October 2006
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A former army commander who once declared "the army should never be involved in politics", Surayud Chulanont, was appointed Thailand's interim prime minister at the weekend. But the irony of this appointment matters little in a coup marked by paradoxes.
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AUSTRALIA

George W. Bush and "super-sized" war for freedom and values
- Jack Waterford
- 18 September 2006
George Bush, John Howard and others insist that we are winning the long war against terrorists, and, perhaps by body count they are right. But there is evidence that the way we are fighting the war has massively increased popular sympathy for such people in some parts of the world.
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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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ARTS AND CULTURE

Book reviews
- Miriam Bugden, Andrew Hamilton, Chris O’Connor, Tom Rigby
- 26 June 2006
Reviews of Western Horizon: Sydney’s heartland and the future of Australian politics; Body and Soul: A Spirituality of Imaginative Creativity; One Fourteenth of an Elephant: A memoir of life and death on the Burma–Thailand Railway; What’s Right? and Giving it Away: In praise of philanthropy.
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ENVIRONMENT

Unsexy science
- Tim Thwaites
- 16 June 2006
Archimedes would argue that such science forms the backbone of our society, in the way that adequate sewerage, clean water and good dietary information do more for human health than heart transplants and Viagra.
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INTERNATIONAL

Protecting the vulnerable
- Moira Rayner
- 11 June 2006
Children need help to protect themselves, argues Moira Rayner.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Tastes of the Orient
- Christine Salins
- 14 May 2006
An interview with Asian culinary master, Rosemary Brissenden, by Christine Salins.
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AUSTRALIA

Facing the stranger
- Mark Raper
- 08 May 2006
Mark Raper on Australia’s changing attitudes to refugees
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INTERNATIONAL

Human traffic
- Georgina Costello
- 25 April 2006
Many Thai women come to Australia on the promise of a work visa and a well-paid job, but end up in brothels.
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INFORMATION

Letters to Eureka Street
- Nigel Sinnott, Jan Pinder, Cameron Forbes and Brian McCoy
- 24 April 2006
Letters from Nigel Sinnott, Jan Pinder, Cameron Forbes and Brian McCoy
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ENVIRONMENT

How the people saved their river
- Robert Kennedy
- 24 April 2006
The environmental lessons learned by those who live along the Hudson River in New York can be applied to cleaning up our own rivers in Australia.
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INTERNATIONAL

Burma’s hidden diaspora
- Ron Browning
- 21 April 2006
Hope emerges for the Karen people forced to flee Burma for refugee camps just over the border in Thailand.
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