Keywords: Aboriginal Poet
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 24 June 2008
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 02 April 2008
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The Rudd Government is consulting and working out what to do about the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. The symbolism of reversing Australia's vote against the Declaration would need to be matched by more work in partnership with indigenous Australians.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Andrew Hamilton
- 14 November 2007
The energy of Alex Miller's novel Landscape of Farewell comes from the paradox that is often manifest when people of very different cultures come together and words fail them. Out of their silence can come words more profound than the individuals could have spoken alone.
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ENVIRONMENT
- Peter Pierce
- 13 June 2007
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Five years ago, when Recherche Bay in Tasmania's far south was threatened with logging, the heritage importance of the area had to be freshly and strenuously established. The work of local historian Bruce Poulson proved crucial.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
John Sendy reviews Words for Country: landscape & language in Australia, Tim Bonyhady and Tom Griffiths, eds.
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AUSTRALIA
- Tom Griffiths
- 05 July 2006
Historians are fighting a mini war over frontier history and the number of Aboriginal dead. Tom Griffiths argues for a different approach.
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AUSTRALIA
- Nick Lenaghan
- 26 June 2006
A Naga poet keeps her culture alive even without a recognised homeland
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ARTS AND CULTURE
Remembering the life and talents of Richard Victor Hall, 1937–2003
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INTERNATIONAL
- Rosie Hoban, Morag Fraser, Kate Stowell
- 31 May 2006
Thoughts from Rosie Hoban, Morag Fraser, Kate Stowell
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ENVIRONMENT
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.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Bonyhady
- 27 April 2006
Judith Wright was not just a much greater writer than most of the artist-activists who had preceded her, but also a much greater activist.
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