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  • AUSTRALIA

    Brendan Keilar points the way to a better world

    • Michael Mullins
    • 27 June 2007

    See Judge Act forms the template of a strand of Catholic social activism. Brendan Keilar, the Melbourne good Samaritan who was fatally shot this month, did exactly this, in very fast motion.

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  • CONTRIBUTORS

    David Manne

    • David Manne
    • 17 May 2007

    David Manne is coordinator and principal solicitor at the Refugee and Immigration Legal Centre in Melbourne.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Cricket King's saintly gestures

    • Tony Smith
    • 18 September 2006

    The reactions of many Australians to the deaths of a crocodile showman and a racing car driver suggest that media images canonise our secular saints. Meanwhile the fictional Chris Anderson's love for his family and friends, and his integrity and humility, are very appealing characteristics.

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  • INFORMATION

    Strange times

    • 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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  • AUSTRALIA

    Watchdogs put down

    • Moira Rayner
    • 04 July 2006

    Moira Rayner traces the sorry history of Australia’s anti-corruption bodies

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    The wild cliff’s brink

    • Mark Carkeet
    • 26 June 2006
    5 Comments

    June Saunders was a little-known Queensland poet with a wealth of potential

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Legal fiction friction

    • James Minchin
    • 26 June 2006

    James Minchin reviews Chris Lydgate’s Lee’s Law: How Singapore Crushes Dissent.

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  • EDUCATION

    The price of education

    • Liz Curran
    • 13 June 2006
    1 Comment

    The imposition on students of greater burdens for repayment when they leave university is likely to cause a drought in the number of graduates who will be prepared to work for community agencies and the public service.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Another Waugh brings up a century

    • Mark Carkeet
    • 13 June 2006

    Mark Carkeet celebrates the life and work of Evelyn Waugh.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Refugee Legislation proves Government's reform desire a sham

    • David Manne
    • 18 May 2006
    3 Comments

    Refugee lawyer David Manne sets new refugee legislation in its historical context, and exposes its radical and brutal character.

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  • MEDIA

    Tales of life, not death

    • Nigel Starck
    • 30 April 2006

    Obituaries provide a window on the lives of those great and small

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  • INTERNATIONAL

    The case for reconciliation

    • Kirsty Ruddock
    • 29 April 2006

    Is Australia’s intervention in the Solomon Islands healing the wounds of the tension?

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