Keywords: Five Billion Years
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AUSTRALIA
- Jack Waterford
- 08 August 2007
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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
- Paul Cleary
- 27 February 2007
As the Prime Minister of East Timor, Mari Alkatiri, prepared a strategy that successfully blocked Friday's leadership vote, hanging on the wall of a conference room in his office is a satellite photo of Dili on fire...
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INTERNATIONAL
- Angelica Hannan
- 27 February 2007
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To address the problem of Third World debt, citizens of developed countries need to place the satisfaction of human needs at the heart of government policy. A history of poor governance, greed, and cultural imperialism are at the core of the Global North’s exploitation of the South.
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INTERNATIONAL
- Dorothy Horsfield
- 07 July 2006
Dorothy Horsfield reports on the rebuilding of Afghanistan.
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RELIGION
- Bruce Duncan
- 13 June 2006
Western intelligence agencies fell down badly over Iraq. So did our consciences, argues Bruce Duncan.
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AUSTRALIA
Africa has been watching closely while Iraq descends into conflict.
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INTERNATIONAL
- Peter Pierce
- 11 June 2006
Peter Pierce gets on the bus.
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AUSTRALIA
Seven years after the optimism born of independence, East Timor burns. Rival gangs fight in the streets, Australian soldiers try to keep the peace, and the people of Dili wait to see whether calm can be restored.
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AUSTRALIA
- Francis Sullivan
- 14 May 2006
Mixed signals lead one to wonder whether the Commonwealth is pulling back from shouldering its share of the cost of aged care.
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AUSTRALIA
Anthony Ham follows the historical footsteps toward Mecca.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Juliette Hughes
- 14 May 2006
Well, here we are, talking like this for the last time. How has it been for you, the last ten years?
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AUSTRALIA
Don Gazzard wonders about the state of Australian real-estate pricing
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