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Keywords: Stereotype

  • RELIGION

    What’s wrong with Voting for Jesus?

    • Scott Stephens
    • 27 February 2007
    3 Comments

    I must confess to growing bored very quickly when I hear that our real problem today is the erosion of spirituality, of belief in a deeper dimension of life, and the consequent rampant materialism. From a properly Christian perspective, the problem today is not materialism, but religion itself.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Arnhem Land vision for sanity in the city

    • Jonathan Hill
    • 23 December 2006
    10 Comments

    After a visit to Ngukurr in Arnhem Land, a return home to Sydney and the horrifying reality of a culture that measures progress by the extent to which humans can destroy the land.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Indonesian democracy is maturing

    • Michael Danby
    • 13 November 2006
    9 Comments

    Once a corrupt military dictatorship, Indonesia is becoming a healthy democracy. Many Australians persist with pathetic stereotypes including the perception of Indonesian judges as monkeys.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Book reviews

    • Godfrey Moase, Marcelle Mogg, John Carmody
    • 10 July 2006

    Reviews of Frontier Justice: Weapons of mass destruction and the bushwacking of America; Best Australian political cartoons and Quarterly Essay, ‘Made in England: Australia’s British Inheritance’.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Inland Flynn

    • Brigid Hains
    • 02 July 2006
    1 Comment

    Pioneer? Racist? Or product of his time?

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  • RELIGION

    Muslims & Christians … where do we stand

    • Dan Madigan, Abdullah Saeed and Frank Brennan
    • 24 June 2006

    Dan Madigan, Abdullah Saeed and Frank Brennan examine religious conflict in Australia as part of the Jesuit Seminar Series.  

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  • AUSTRALIA

    News from all over

    • Anthony Ham, David Glanz, Morag Fraser
    • 16 June 2006

    Death of the king, Little argument, Words to end winter

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  • INTERNATIONAL

    Encountering the homeless

    • Jane Mayo Carolan
    • 06 June 2006

    Jane Mayo Carolan confronts poverty in Australia.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Of passion and belief

    • Juliette Hughes
    • 31 May 2006
    1 Comment

    Juliette Hughes looks at the impact of The Passion of the Christ.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Engaging the enemy

    • Peter Hartnett
    • 31 May 2006

    Social policy advocates equip themselves for the economic debate

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Aboriginal Communities: Who may speak?

    • Brian McCoy
    • 29 May 2006
    19 Comments

    Brian McCoy has worked with Aboriginal communities for thirty years. He says that male indigenous leaders should be consulted and supported in their efforts to deal with violence.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Future leaders

    • Matthew Albert
    • 11 May 2006

    Kenyan student elections

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