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Keywords: Witnesses

  • AUSTRALIA

    Truth, politics and the Fourth Estate

    • Morag Fraser
    • 14 May 2006

    The following essays by Morag Fraser and John Schumann are edited addresses from the Jesuit Lenten Seminar Series held in February–March 2005.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Elusive justice

    • Madeleine Byrne
    • 14 May 2006

    Madeleine Byrne finds Getting Away with Genocide? Elusive Justice and the Khmer Rouge Tribunal, by Tom Fawthrop and Helen Jarvis, vivid and timely.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    On atonement

    • Paul Bourke
    • 10 May 2006
    1 Comment

    Paul Bourke reviews Joe Cinque’s consolation by Helen Garner

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  • INTERNATIONAL

    Liberty and justice

    • Hugh Dillon
    • 30 April 2006

    Hugh Dillon unravels the challenges of justice in Guantanamo Bay.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Morality questioned

    • Tony Smith
    • 30 April 2006

    Tony Smith reviews Ian Rankin’s Fleshmarket Close; Garry Disher’s Kittyhawk Down and Alexander McCall Smith’s The Sunday Philosophy Club.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    A merry mercenary

    • Peter Pierce
    • 25 April 2006
    1 Comment

    Peter Pierce is troubled by the uncertain tone in Helen Nolan’s Between the Battles

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  • INTERNATIONAL

    A ship and a harbour

    • Sarah Kanowski
    • 25 April 2006

    Travelling in order to see how different people live is essential to the formation of a genuine tolerance of other cultures.  

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  • ENVIRONMENT

    Designer deity

    • Tim Thwaites
    • 24 April 2006

    The old religion versus evolution debate is back. The latest contender in the conservative religion corner is known as intelligent design.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    The neighbourhood paedophile

    • Moira Rayner
    • 24 April 2006

    The trouble is that men and women who like, or fantasise about, having sex with children don’t look like monsters. They look just like the neighbours.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Personal tragedy, wider injustice

    • Godfrey Moase
    • 23 April 2006

    Godfrey Moase reviews Rene Baker: File #28/E.D.P, by Rene Powell and Bernadette Kennedy, and Peopling the Cleland Hills: Aboriginal History in Western Central Australia 1850–1980, by Michael Alexander Smith.

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