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  • MEDIA

    Defending defence

    • Jim Molan
    • 21 April 2011
    8 Comments

    Defence has the same problem as society in relation to young people's attitudes to sex, alcohol and social media. I wonder if we handle it better than most. The firestorm of ignorant criticism of the ADF and its 'culture' and leadership was mostly undeserved and could be counterproductive. 

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Invisible Indonesia

    • Ruby J. Murray
    • 15 March 2011
    34 Comments

    You'd never know it, but just above Darwin and sort of to the left, there are 17,000 islands with roughly 240 million people living on them. There's more to this 'Indonesia' place than Bali, Balibo, Bintangs, and bombings. We forget Indonesia at our peril.

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  • INTERNATIONAL

    Best of 2010: Arresting Mexico's borderland femicide

    • Ellena Savage
    • 13 January 2011
    2 Comments

    Some 5000 women have been killed in Juarez since the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was signed in 1994. Most are workers who have been tortured and sexually abused. Because of the boost to the economy associated with NAFTA, Mexican media outlets and academics often turn a blind eye. 

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  • EUREKA STREET TV

    Life after suicide

    • Peter Kirkwood
    • 19 November 2010

    Around 2000 Australians die every year from suicide. Dr Diana Sands guides members of her support groups as they metaphorically try on the shoes of a loved one who has suicided, walk in their shoes, and finally take off the shoes and say goodbye. 

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Greece's wheel of financial hardship

    • Gillian Bouras
    • 03 November 2010
    3 Comments

    The Greek population is trying to cope with the consequences of three decades of greed and irresponsibility. My middle son is in the Army; my youngest son is a fire fighter. Both have had their salaries cut by a total of 3000 euros for the year, and more cuts may follow.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Forgotten Jewish refugees demand recognition

    • Philip Mendes
    • 07 September 2010
    14 Comments

    International concern with Middle East refugees focuses on the approximately 700,000 Palestinian Arabs who left Israel during the 1947–48 war. Far less attention has been paid to the nearly one million Jews who left Arab countries in the decade or so following that war.

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  • EUREKA STREET TV

    Art prize tests religious convention

    • Peter Kirkwood
    • 03 September 2010
    1 Comment

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  • EUREKA STREET TV

    Mixed marriage of Indigenous and Christian spirituality

    • Peter Kirkwood
    • 27 August 2010
    2 Comments

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  • EUREKA STREET TV

    Our man in the Vatican's inter-religious optimism

    • Peter Kirkwood
    • 13 August 2010
    2 Comments

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Why harassment claimant wants to rock DJs

    • Moira Rayner
    • 06 August 2010
    11 Comments

    Kristy Fraser-Kirk has flabbergasted David Jones with her pursuit of $37 million in punitive damages after allegations of sexual harassment against the company's former CEO. The retail giant says it is still interested in settlement. She doesn't want to settle, mate. She wants to make a point.

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  • EUREKA STREET TV

    Jesuit's vision for a pluralist Australia

    • Peter Kirkwood
    • 30 July 2010
    1 Comment

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    Deep water sounds of an Indigenous mystic

    • Peter Kirkwood
    • 16 July 2010
    3 Comments

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