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  • RELIGION

    'Clash of civilisations' rhetoric distorts cultural differences

    • Daniel Baldino
    • 30 October 2006
    1 Comment

    Manipulating narrowly conceived notions of national values simply triggers a storm of prejudice, while undercutting efforts to improve conceptions of the nation’s Muslim community.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    The only hope

    • Robert Phiddian
    • 04 July 2006

    Robert Phiddian reviews Ghassan Hage’s Against Paranoid Nationalism: Searching for hope in a shrinking society.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Keeping God's politics honest

    • Dave Hoskin
    • 26 June 2006

    God's Politics is a book which, though flawed, does manage to straddle the divide between left and right, and in so doing, poses some interesting questions that neither side of politics can comfortably answer.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    A more sustainable Australia needs better public policy

    • Michael Mullins & James Massola
    • 26 June 2006
    1 Comment

    Eureka Street supports the efforts of a rival online publication to encourage political parties to make policy that moves beyond political expediency and 'what's in it for me?'  

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Finding common ground

    • David Nichols and John Wiseman
    • 26 June 2006

    Community Development projects can make a difference

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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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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Cultural rites

    • Beth Doherty
    • 22 May 2006

    Beth Doherty reviews Safiya Hussaini Tungar Tudu’s I, Safiya.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Anglican lines in the sand

    • Alan Nichols
    • 14 May 2006

    Alan Nichols reviews Muriel Porter’sThe New Puritans:  The  Rise of Fundamentalism in the Anglican Church.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Truth, politics and the Fourth Estate

    • Morag Fraser
    • 14 May 2006

    The following essays by Morag Fraser and John Schumann are edited addresses from the Jesuit Lenten Seminar Series held in February–March 2005.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Debates and discourses

    • Juliette Hughes
    • 14 May 2006

    In our house, we’ll continue to tolerate each other’s programs up to the point of nausea or embarrassment. We’ll be able to watch the animal documentaries, Media Watch, and Roy and H. G.’s new Memphis Trousers Half Hour.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Thoughtful reflection

    • Andrew McGowan
    • 14 May 2006

    Andrew McGowan on Peter Carnley’s Reflections in glass: Trends and tensions in the contemporary Anglican church.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Dan and Mel get religion

    • Michael McGirr
    • 11 May 2006

    While Dan Brown and Mel Gibson can draw a crowd, Michael McGirr finds their stories still miss the mark.

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