Search Results: Asian Australians
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AUSTRALIA
- Binoy Kampmark
- 11 December 2006
In the end, Thorpe was swimming against himself. There were rivals, but there was nothing left, other than the treadmill of performances. The admission came in his last conference: "I needed a closing point." There is reason for him to be proud.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tony Smith
- 30 October 2006
The situation of children who experience not just a generation gap, but also a distance from parents whose migrant inheritance includes a "million scruples that made no sense".
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AUSTRALIA
- Charles Coppel
- 04 September 2006
Charles Coppel argues that there was no empirical evidence to support Jack Waterford's view in the last Eureka Street, that there was a kind of Chinese Holocaust in Indonesia in 1965. The victims of the 1965 anti-communist massacre were overwhelmingly Javanese and Balinese, and the slaughter was politicide rather than genocide.
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INFORMATION
A pointed response to Jack Waterford's piece on teaching the history of our region from August 22.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Dewi Anggraeni
- 10 July 2006
Dewi Anggraeni examines Australia’s ambivalence towards Asia by J.V. D’Cruz and William Steele.
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EDUCATION
- Robin Jeffrey
- 04 July 2006
It is crucial that Australia increases its knowledge of Asia
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INTERNATIONAL
Tony Kevin’s diplomatic career has directly lead him to investigate SIEV X.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
Greg Barns on the life of Xavier Herbert.
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AUSTRALIA
- Frank Brennan
- 18 May 2006
It could be time to think of abandoning the present system of native land title, which mainly benefits lawyers. A better system may be an arbitral system that declares what the rights of the parties ought to be according to the justice and circumstances of the individual case.
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ENVIRONMENT
Mark Byrne looks at the particular characteristics that make an Australian 'hero', and asks what it is about the interior of this country that moulds the interior of our collective suconscious in such a unique way.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 14 May 2006
In this edited extract from the 2006 Manning Clark Lecture, ‘5 R’s for the Enlargers: Race, Religion, Respect, Rights and the Republic’, Frank Brennan focuses on respect.
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AUSTRALIA
Tony Kevin considers the cost of the free trade agreement.
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