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EUREKA STREET TV
- Peter Kirkwood
- 15 January 2010
1 Comment
Safran's stunts — such as hoodwinking a Palestinian sperm bank into donating Palestinian sperm to the Israelis, and vice versa — are cringe-making. But they are in the context of a cogent and
pithy argument that has serious intent. October 2009
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EUREKA STREET TV
- Peter Kirkwood
- 23 October 2009
4 Comments
Safran's stunts — such as hoodwinking a Palestinian sperm bank into donating Palestinian sperm to the Israelis, and vice versa — are cringe-making. But they are in the context of a cogent and
pithy argument that has serious intent.
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AUSTRALIA
- Sarah Kanowski
- 08 October 2009
5 Comments
Big families are no longer fashionable, but they had their benefits. Vastly outnumbered, there's no chance for adults
to practice the kind of helicopter parenting common to my own
generation, where we hover over our one or two, soothing and solving.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Andrena Jamieson
- 17 April 2009
Loreto Sister Veronica Brady has taken on the Government for its treatment of Indigenous Australians, the church for its treatment of women, and Australian society for its materialism. She belongs to the long tradition of Australian stirrers.
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INTERNATIONAL
- Peter Hodge
- 04 March 2009
3 Comments
In Kafka's 'The Penal Colony', a brutal, archaic killing device is valued more highly than the law it enforces. As members of the Bali 9 continue to languish, we ask whether 'because the law says so' is sufficient reason for them to die.
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MEDIA
- Philip Harvey
- 24 February 2009
10 Comments
Melbourne had the strange experience of reading and
listening to bushfire reports for five days while neither seeing nor
smelling smoke.
When the mind has no sensory leads to interpret, words become critical.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 22 December 2008
7 Comments
Just ten days after the killing of Melbourne 15-year-old Tyler Cassidy, a Sydney woman was wounded at the weekend, in yet another police shooting. It's time to question the extent to which we should be proud of the anti-authoritarianism in our culture.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 06 October 2008
'Lee and
Christine Rush are your average Ozzie couple, except that their teenage son Scott is on death row in Bali having been
convicted of being a hapless drug mule. It will not go down well on the streets of Jakarta
if Australians are baying for the blood of the Bali bombers one month
and then pleading to save our sons and daughters the next month.'
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 22 August 2007
8 Comments
For most Australians, endearing naughtiness was the beginning an end of the Kevin Rudd sex club story. What was sadly overlooked was the de facto promotion of the sex industry, and implicit toleration of the damage it does to human dignity and the long struggle to ensure that women are not looked upon as sex objects.
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INTERNATIONAL
- Peter Cronau
- 24 December 2006
1 Comment
Barely reported by Australia's media, Papua New Guinea's AIDS crisis is on track to cause the collapse of the country's economy, with AusAID forcasting a 37.5% decline in the labour force by 2020. From 3 October 2006.
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AUSTRALIA
- Deborah Singerman
- 11 December 2006
1 Comment
Our social networks underpin those casual salutations–"have a good weekend" or a "big night", or the jabber of mobile phones or texting. But they're increasingly elusive in today's world, as migrants already know.
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AUSTRALIA
- Stuart Braun
- 30 October 2006
1 Comment
A decade of economic growth has been good for many Australians. The property market has boomed. Wages have spiralled. Equity markets continue to ride record highs. Ordinary Australians have grown rich—but others have missed out.
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