Keywords: 21St Century Man
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AUSTRALIA
- Jack Waterford
- 08 August 2007
3 Comments
Interviewed a year ago for the biography John Winston Howard, Treasurer Peter Costello complained about the Government's binge spending. Since then, the PM has committed many billions more, and given every indication the pace of spending will increase enormously between now and the election.
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AUSTRALIA
- Rodrigo Acuña
- 16 April 2007
3 Comments
Venezuela's President Hugo Chávez has urged the Catholic Church to take its part in building his 'Socialism for the 21st century'. In return, the Venezuelan Episcopal Conference has called for a "style of socialism that upholds free speech, tolerates opposing views and respects religious education".
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Philip Harvey
- 02 April 2007
John Deane grew up in Catholic Ireland, which has now seen the Church questioned and rejected. But unlike those who have walked away, Deane goes to poetry to help pick up the pieces of a broken religion.
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RELIGION
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RELIGION
- Julian Madsen
- 13 November 2006
6 Comments
For many, the War on Terror equals a War against Islam. Yet there is a real battle of ideas within Islam that is rarely heard by the West.
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AUSTRALIA
- Morag Fraser
- 21 August 2006
2 Comments
Our former editor writes that her dentist always asks curly questions when she is defenceless with a mouthful of wadding. 'I don’t think it’s a power thing because he is a gentleman in every sense.'
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AUSTRALIA
- Tony Smith
- 07 August 2006
1 Comment
Former Labor minister John Button anticipated the current low point in political discourse, with defenders and critics of government policy having lost the capacity to engage in dialogue, particularly in the field of public morality.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Morag Fraser, Lucille Hughes
- 10 July 2006
Reviews of the films Master And Commander: The Far Side of the World; In The Cut; Mystic River and Nicholas Nickleby.
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AUSTRALIA
The new Welfare to Work legislation was implemented on 1 July. The St Vincent de Paul Society marked the day with a sad heart. National Council CEO Dr John Falzon says the new laws will see many people with disabilities and single mothers and their children pushed into greater poverty and indignity.
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INTERNATIONAL
- Dorothy Horsfield
- 07 July 2006
Dorothy Horsfield reports on the rebuilding of Afghanistan.
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AUSTRALIA
- Matthew Klugman
- 06 July 2006
Are they utopian or can they be realised? Matthew Klugman reports.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Michael McGirr
- 04 July 2006
Michael McGirr looks into Peter Singer’s Pushing Time Away.
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