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AUSTRALIA
- Catherine Marshall
- 31 August 2009
8 Comments
The issue is not whether South African athlete Caster Semenya is male, hyper-androgynous,
or, as she claims, 'entirely female'. More burdensome is the ferocious public response to a
predicament that clearly called for maturity and restraint.
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INTERNATIONAL
- Catherine Marshall
- 18 August 2009
5 Comments
One night 11 years ago I joined members of a local police commando to report on a mission to intercept Mozambique refugees travelling into South Africa. It is easier to 'tolerate the intolerance' in under-resourced, refugee-deluged South Africa than in Australia.
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ENVIRONMENT
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Barbara Creed and Richard Leonard
- 18 March 2009
3 Comments
People have stopped going to church, but they still
have an eye for and an expectation of the mystical. At the cinema,
spectators, primed by the structures of the cinema itself, enter into
a mystical experience with the shadow world being played out before them.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 09 March 2009
The Victorian bushfires occurred during a time of financial uncertainty, but Australians gave their money generously. It was as if they were consciously and calculatingly investing their funds in the solidarity of the community.
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INTERNATIONAL
- Oskar Wermter
- 30 January 2009
A young
man, well educated, with several diplomas in his pocket, pestered me about getting funds to do a course in South
Africa. Not because he needs that course, but merely to get out of
Zimbabwe. The rats are leaving the ship.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 23 December 2008
11 Comments
Our decision to make Eureka Street content free of
charge has been a resounding success. Traffic to our website has more
than doubled.
We have received only a few expressions of misgiving from readers who would prefer to pay for the content.
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AUSTRALIA
- Oskar Wermter
- 17 December 2008
6 Comments
Jestina Mukoko was a television presenter, but left to become director of the Zimbabwe Peace Project, which has documented many atrocities and crimes of Mugabe's regime. Last week she was abducted by a group of armed agents.
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AUSTRALIA
- Oskar Wermter
- 08 July 2008
5 Comments
Robert Mugabe was a bright and ambitious boy, but angry, lonely and insecure. Nothing has changed. His greatest weakness is that he cannot accept criticism, responding with anger and
aggression. The whole of Africa knows that now, to its cost.
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AUSTRALIA
- Oskar Wermter
- 30 June 2008
4 Comments
Gangs of party youth rampage through working class Harare assaulting anyone suspected of voting against Robert Mugabe. When they kill, these youths — uneducated, frustrated, high on Mugabe's ideology of hatred — think they are defending Zimbabwe's sovereignty.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 31 March 2008
3 Comments
Unchecked acquisition and possession of material objects can destroy lives and relationships. Hoarders point to a deeply ingrained pathology in which each of us
is starting to value things more than people.
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ENVIRONMENT
- Michael Kelly
- 10 March 2008
5 Comments
Disastrous consequences for the environment and humanity are a distinct possibility, if rational activity is not placed in the context of moral values.
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