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Keywords: Civilisation

  • AUSTRALIA

    Something old, something new

    • Nadja Breton
    • 14 May 2006

    European allegiances have been tested by the conflict in Iraq.

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  • RELIGION

    The charge of secular Spain

    • Anthony Ham
    • 14 May 2006

    Anthony Ham wonders whether Spain can still be considered a Catholic country after all.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Dan and Mel get religion

    • Michael McGirr
    • 11 May 2006

    While Dan Brown and Mel Gibson can draw a crowd, Michael McGirr finds their stories still miss the mark.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    The art of philanthropy

    • David R. Jones
    • 11 May 2006

    David R. Jones reviews A Tradition of Giving: Seventy-Five Years of Myer Family Philanthropy by Michael Liffman, and Mr Felton’s Bequests by John Poynter.

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  • RELIGION

    The challenge of reconciliation

    • Jeremy Clarke
    • 25 April 2006

    If Pope Benedict XVI can continue the work of both his immediate predecessor and his namesake, there will be cause for thanks

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  • INTERNATIONAL

    A ship and a harbour

    • Sarah Kanowski
    • 25 April 2006

    Travelling in order to see how different people live is essential to the formation of a genuine tolerance of other cultures.  

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    In a minor key

    • Luke Fraser
    • 25 April 2006

    Luke Fraser reviews Frontier Justice: A History of the Gulf Country to 1900, by Tony Roberts.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Dealing with old discontents

    • Kiera Lindsey
    • 25 April 2006

    Kiera Lindsey reviews The Best Australian Stories 2004, edited by Frank Moorhouse, and The Best  Australian Essays 2004, edited by Robert Dessaix.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Fair gone

    • Anthony Ham
    • 24 April 2006

    Becoming what we fear.

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  • RELIGION

    The voice of the Vatican

    • Bruce Duncan
    • 23 April 2006

    Bruce Duncan summarises the major statements of the Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    A short history of Islam

    • Herman Roborgh
    • 23 April 2006

    Herman Roborgh reviews the revised third  edition of John L. Esposito’s Islam: The Straight Path.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    British smiles

    • Peter Pierce
    • 23 April 2006

    Peter Pierce is entertained by Joe Queenan’s Queenan Country and Roger Law’s Still Spitting at Sixty.

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