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Mark Byrne looks at the particular characteristics that make an Australian 'hero', and asks what it is about the interior of this country that moulds the interior of our collective suconscious in such a unique way.
Reviews of the books: Who did this to our Bali?; Off Course: From Public Place to Marketplace at Melbourne University; Dark Dreams, Australian refugee stories by young writers; A history of the devil: From the Middle Ages to the present.
In the biblical narrative, priests and prophets are more chalk and cheese than birds of a feather.
Reviews of the books: A man after his own heart; The Master; Car wars: How the car won our hearts and conquered our cities; and Travellers’ Tales.
Is Australia’s intervention in the Solomon Islands healing the wounds of the tension?
For many years a pariah, the nation run by Colonel Mu’ammar Gaddafi has suddenly become the darling of the West
The organisational culture within Australia’s Department of Immigration appears to have little regard for human rights, but an ex-insider says it didn’t have to be that way
Reviews of the books Troubled Waters: Borders, Boundaries and Possession in the Timor Sea; Blush: Faces of Shame; Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince; and Moments of Truth.
Reviews of the films The Child (L’Enfant), Wolf Creek and Kung Fu Hustle.
Reviews of the books Snowy River Story: The Grassroots Campaign to Save a National Icon; Yarra: A Diverting History of Melbourne’s Murky River; and A Short History of Myth.
Hardliners remain at daggers drawn, but their relevance is fading as Ireland embraces globalisation.
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