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  • ENVIRONMENT

    The Australian wound

    • Mark Byrne
    • 18 May 2006

    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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  • AUSTRALIA

    Simple pleasures in the concrete heart of Melbourne

    • Paul Daffey
    • 18 May 2006
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    Paul Daffey looks at community gardens in Melbourne which provide the plot-holders with much more than vegetables...  

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  • AUSTRALIA

    An ancient culture in peril

    • Juliette Hughes
    • 14 May 2006

    George Silberbauer’s links with Botswana go back a long way, but his special concern is for Kalahari Bushmen on the verge of losing their ancestral homeland.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Poisonous seeds

    • Andrew Hamilton
    • 25 April 2006

    For those with a feel for European or Australian history, the rejection of the constitution in France and the Netherlands is deeply concerning.

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  • ENVIRONMENT

    How the people saved their river

    • Robert Kennedy
    • 24 April 2006

    The environmental lessons learned by those who live along the Hudson River in New York can be applied to cleaning up our own rivers in Australia.

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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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  • INTERNATIONAL

    Balancing heart and spleen

    • Robert Hefner
    • 23 April 2006

    Crossing the border to better understand ‘the other’ can help not just them, but us as well

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    The greatest game

    • Peter Rodgers
    • 20 April 2006

    Peter Rodgers on where cricket is heading.

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