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- Australia racist? Well, der!
X people work hard. Y people are natural athletes. Z
people treat the world like they own it. Q people are violent. R people
are drunkards. S people mistreat women. V
people are queue jumpers. Racial generalising becomes racist only if we
accept its false premise.
Issue 16 : Published 25-Aug-2010
- Teaching children to read the Aboriginal world
The book was banned after parents complained about its anti-authoritarian attitude: 'Wanja [the dog] loved to chase the [police] van ... to bark at the van ... to bite at the wheel. The police van would drive away.' Like Jewish humour, Aboriginal humour is a response to a history of oppression.
Issue 16 : Published 18-Aug-2010
- The mingled yarn
My granddad was a fourth generation white Australian who worked with
sheep. I used to tell the
story that he was a small town racist who disliked Blacks, Catholics and
Jews. The punch line was that his daughter married a Fijian, his son
married a Jew and my dad married a Catholic.
Issue 0 : Published 21-Jul-2010
- Eureka Street/Reader's Feast Award 2010: Australia - a racist country?
Issue 0 : Published 22-Feb-2010
- People are the answer, not the problem
There are those who argue that the fight to stave off the negative impacts of climate change is a fight to save the world from humans themselves. Dialogue from population-control advocates fails to recognise the dignity of each person.
Issue 23 : Published 02-Dec-2009
- The spider-web fisherman
Observing this unique means of fishing, I realised an alternative intelligence was
at work, born of the islanders'
relationship to the environment. Ironically, this island is one of a growing number facing inundation by rising waters due to climate change.
Issue 21 : Published 04-Nov-2009
- Money doesn't make babies happy
We are terrible at caring for the planet because we are terrible at caring for each other. And we are lousy at caring for each other because we don't seem to have any idea of where the roots of human emotional sustenance lie. We might begin to look at our obsessive love of money and power.
Issue 19 : Published 30-Sep-2009
- Winners of Eureka Street's writers awards 2009
Reader's Feast Bookstore is delighted to once again join with Eureka Street to offer an award in the area of social justice writing. Funded by Reader's Feast Bookstore and organised by Eureka Street, the theme for the essay was 'Climate change and the global financial crisis: can we afford to save the planet?'
Issue 0 : Published 16-Jul-2009
- Eureka Street/Reader's Feast and Margaret Dooley Awards 2009
Submission guidelines for the Eureka Street/Reader's Feast and Margaret Dooley Awards 2009 are now online.
Issue 0 : Published 22-Mar-2009
- Something rotten in Islam
When a Muslim woman was kidnapped by the
Byzantine empire, the Caliph in Baghdad threatened to
send a vast army to rescue her.
Today, Muslim leaders do nothing to help
women being mistreated and held in captivity in their own countries.
Issue 21 : Published 22-Oct-2008
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