Keywords: Minority Communities
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 25 October 2007
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AUSTRALIA
Foreign Affairs Minister Alexander Downer said recently: "Muslim extremists are a Muslim issue - not ours." The fault with this view is that it transfers ownership of this challenge from the elected leaders to a minority group who simply don’t have the resources to deal with such a global crisis.
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AUSTRALIA
- Hector Welgampola
- 15 May 2007
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Last week, Sri Lanka's media reported Mahela Jayawardena’s Buddhist parents praying at a Hindu temple for his team’s success in the World Cup cricket. The continuing war is a legacy of the divide and rule strategy of the colonial elites.
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RELIGION
- Greg Soetomo
- 27 February 2007
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When I reflect on this conversation, I am also struck by how different what I see in daily life is from what I read and watch in the media about about Muslim militants, the clash between Christians and Muslims, fundamentalism, or terrorism. Every age has its own false ideas. In our time, it is the notion that identifies Islam with hostility and aggression.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Dewi Anggraeni
- 27 February 2007
In the 1990s, Soeharto and his ministers were renting their power to business-savvy ethnic Chinese. The masses, unable to vent their anger at corrupt officials, shifted their targets to those associated with them, knowing that they could do that with impunity.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Grant Morgan, Anthony Ham, Matthew Albert, Steven Columbus
- 07 July 2006
On your bus, Kerala leads, Sudan in Australia, Coming to terms.
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INFORMATION
- Michael McKernan, Peter Pierce, Liz Curran, Peter Seidel, Frank Fisher
- 05 July 2006
Strange times, Cooling off in Tasmania, Where now for reconciliation?, Tides of history, Being scared of GM
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INTERNATIONAL
- Peter Browne
- 04 July 2006
A remarkably peaceful change of government in Kenya could significantly improve the lives of refugees in the country’s remote camps. But Australia and other western countries must play a part.
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RELIGION
- Dewi Anggraeni
- 18 June 2006
In contrast to previous government apathy, Indonesia’s academics respond to a militant minority.
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RELIGION
- Greg Soetomo
- 12 June 2006
1 Comment
Islam in Indonesia is not monolithic, Indonesian Muslims have generally engaged with other faiths, and are unique in tolerating without outrage the conversion of their people to Christianity.
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EDUCATION
- Joanna Leonard
- 22 May 2006
The move to private education is not always what parents might hope.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Gerard Brennan
- 11 May 2006
Sir Gerard Brennan’s address at the launch of Mark McKenna’s This Country: A Reconciled Republic?
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