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  • INTERNATIONAL

    Jaffna heading towards "silent death"

    • Eureka Street Staff
    • 27 February 2007

    A group of priests in Sri Lanka has written to let the outside world know about the "isolated, unknown and silent death" of many people on the Jaffna Peninsula

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Migrants already know about loneliness

    • Deborah Singerman
    • 11 December 2006
    1 Comment

    Our social networks underpin those casual salutations–"have a good weekend" or a "big night", or the jabber of mobile phones or texting. But they're increasingly elusive in today's world, as migrants already know.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Community in an electronic age

    • Rufus Black
    • 09 July 2006

    Technology has changed human relationships, argues Rufus Black.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    The brush and the pen

    • Peter Steele
    • 01 July 2006

    Art speaks, but we sometimes need translation

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Casualties of conflict

    • Moira Rayner
    • 26 June 2006

    Conflicts of interest pose a serious threat to democracy

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Cuban rhythms

    • Anthony Ham, Rosie Hoban
    • 19 June 2006

    From Cuba to Congo  and back again | Children at war

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Easing tensions in Sydney's Little Shanghai

    • Deborah Singerman
    • 29 May 2006
    4 Comments

    With a predominantly working class Anglo-Celtic population, pre-World War II Ashfield was a green escape from inner-city Sydney. But now Chinese have settled in large numbers, and some blame them for what they see as Ashfield’s disrepair and unwelcoming atmosphere.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    African dreams

    • Matthew Albert
    • 10 May 2006

    Youth of the future

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  • AUSTRALIA

    The Spanish factor

    • Margaret Coffey
    • 10 May 2006

    The Hispanic population may play a critical role in the forthcoming US elections

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    New ideas

    • Troy Bramston
    • 10 May 2006

    Troy Bramston looks at new ideas in Imagining Australia: Ideas for our future.

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  • ENVIRONMENT

    The ethics and myths of stem cells

    • T.J. Martin
    • 25 April 2006

    In the flurry of media reports surrounding the stem cell debate, it can be difficult to grasp exactly what the research involves. Professor John Martin of St Vincent’s Institute of Medical Research outlines the science and the ethical implications.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Selling the silver

    • Jack Waterford
    • 25 April 2006

    The largesse in the Budget shouldn’t have proven a surprise, even if conventional wisdom is that budgets following elections are the ones in which governments make tough decisions.

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