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- Australian invasion anxiety in adolescent fantasy
 What do young Australians take away from John Marsden's novels - and now, the film Tomorrow, When the War Began? They are more than escapist fantasies. They convey value messages, calling on young Australians to cherish our country, not to take it for granted, and to be prepared if necessary to kill and die for it.
Issue 17 : Published 09-Sep-2010
- Natural disaster and human greed in Pakistan
 The name Sukkur is derived from the Arabic word for intense. For aid workers, the epithet seems apt. This disaster seems as vast as the swollen country-long lake that the Indus River has become. But the real human suffering and loss can be obscured by or sanitised into mere statistics.
Issue 17 : Published 01-Sep-2010
- World Cup a triumph, now South Africa must keep its head
 Like many emerging societies, South Africa is a long way from being truly inclusive. The World Cup experience brought it much closer to that goal. Now it needs to ensure this progress is not undermined.
Issue 13 : Published 14-Jul-2010
- Morocco's queer uprising
 One Moroccan organisation for lesbians,
transsexuals and homo- and bisexuals, estimates
that some 5000 people have been jailed in Morocco or forced to emigrate
because they are gay. Mithly, the Arab world's only gay magazine, hopes to steer the debate into calmer waters.
Issue 13 : Published 13-Jul-2010
- Anti poverty protesters miss the language of justice
 The latest G8 meeting sparked new protests at the failure of rich countries to honour their promises to increase aid. The protest pointed not only to the failures of the G8 governments, but also to the limitations of the mantras 'make poverty history' and 'an end to poverty'.
Issue 12 : Published 29-Jun-2010
- The real people of Afghanistan
 I am struck by lurid online comment on whether Aussie troops should go or stay in Afghanistan, a miasma of old-left vs new-right
trench exchanges, armchair military strategists and conspiracy theorists. As in the national game of Buzkashi, Afghanistan is a goat carcass fought over by a gaggle of teams.
Issue 12 : Published 28-Jun-2010
- True memories of Bloody Sunday
 Lord Saville's report this week into a seminal moment of 'The Troubles' in Northern Ireland included the admission that the killing of 14 demonstrators by the British Army was 'unjustified and unjustifiable'. True reconciliation can only ever take place with a true recounting of
memory.
Issue 11 : Published 17-Jun-2010
- Freedom Flotilla and Israeli 'pirates'
 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.
Issue 10 : Published 02-Jun-2010
- Arresting Mexico's borderland femicide
 Some 5000 women have been killed in Juarez since the North American Free Trade Agreement was signed in 1994. These women are not 'essential victims'; we do them a favour if we realise their victimhood lies in their abuse, not as a
quality they possess for being female and working-class.
Issue 10 : Published 26-May-2010
- The Western origins of Hati's 'curse'
The story of Haiti, even from the earliest decades of its independence,
is one of a downward spiral into debt and underdevelopment. It has been at the short end of the stick, time and time again,
in its relationships with richer and powerful countries. Haiti, it
turns out, never stood a chance.
Issue 0 : Published 04-Mar-2010
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