Search Results: holocaust
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AUSTRALIA
- Andrew Hamilton
- 07 June 2010
14 Comments
Public conversation about the military actions of Israel is always
noisy and combative. Large statements of principle, contradictory
stories and ad hominem arguments make evaluation difficult. In reflecting on the events of the past week I found myself returning to my first visit to Israel over 30 years ago.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 07 January 2010
18 Comments
Bishop Bathersby and Fr Kennedy are pastoral, down to earth men. If there had been more dialogue between them, and between Cardinal Pell and Bishop Robinson, the Catholic Church would
be more the Church Jesus would want it to be. March 2009
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INTERNATIONAL
- Mick MacAndrew
- 11 August 2009
16 Comments
In April, Germany's highest court ruled against animal rights group PETA. It said the Holocaust is part of the identity of being a Jew, and any attempt to use the fate of the victims for trivial reasons is a defamation of the religion.
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AUSTRALIA
- Shane Howard with Regina Lane
- 02 July 2009
15 Comments
Five generations ago, rural Irish migrants built and paid for St Brigid's church at Crossley in south-west Victoria. Today, the people of Crossley and Killarney are fighting to save the gathering place from private ownership.
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AUSTRALIA
- Nigel Mitchell
- 25 May 2009
7 Comments
The Pope visited the Middle East in an attempt to address the controversy regarding 'Holocaust denier' Bishop Richard Williamson. In the same week, in Australia, 'revisionist' historian Frederick Toben was sentenced to three months in jail.
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AUSTRALIA
- Nick Toscano
- 20 April 2009
43 Comments
Although it was a military disaster, the battle of Gallipoli was a defining moment in Australia's history. But that same battle also marked a nation's destruction: a campaign was underway to exterminate the Armenian race.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 27 March 2009
42 Comments
Bishop Bathersby and Fr Kennedy are pastoral, down to earth men. If there had been more dialogue between them, and between Cardinal Pell and Bishop Robinson, the Catholic Church would
be more the Church Jesus would want it to be.
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RELIGION
- Andrew Hamilton
- 12 February 2009
12 Comments
A compulsive fire lighter sets fire
to a few leaves. The fire grows and ends up causing many
deaths. While it is momentarily satisfying to find someone on whom to fix blame for
the fires, it is unhelpful to be fixated in blame.
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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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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Barry Gittins
- 20 November 2008
There are no soothing words to truly quieten deep pain, but Fugitive Pieces shows redemption is a possibility, even in the face of undying memories.
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AUSTRALIA
- Irfan Yusuf
- 01 October 2008
15 Comments
Conventional wisdom tells us democracies are inherently stable, yet an extremist spirit has emerged in mainstream Indian politics. The silence among Australian Christians about the suffering of Indian Christians is as deafening as that of Australian Muslims towards Muslims in Darfur.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Philip Mendes
- 12 September 2008
34 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.
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