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  • AUSTRALIA

    Grass roots amongst the rubble

    • Rebecca Duffy
    • 12 June 2006

    Rebecca Duffy is an Australian student studying in Indonesia. She witnessed first-hand the earthquake in Yogyakarta; this is her account.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Words and images

    • Kirsty Sangster
    • 06 June 2006

    Kirsty Sangster on Plenty: Art into Poetry  by Peter Steele.    

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Gangsters, bishops, letters and tea pots

    • Eureka Street
    • 22 May 2006

    Terms of endearment. Smashing idea. Back in the saddle.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Costs and benefits of protest camp

    • Marisa Pintado
    • 18 May 2006
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    The fire at the Camp Sovereignty Aboriginal protest action staged to coincide with the Melbourne Commonwealth Games was finally extinguished last week. Some believe it has thrust indigenous rights back onto the political agenda, while others believe the action has inadvertently reversed years of hard work.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Far canal

    • Brian Matthews
    • 14 May 2006

    Pundits who were left gasping by the announcements of Colin (‘Cry me a river’) Barnett  would have been less surprised if they’d read the last issue of the Okotsk Institute Journal of Research into Inexplicable Public Behaviours.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    A long way to go

    • Jane Mayo Carolan
    • 11 May 2006

    Jane Carolan speaks with doyen feminist and political activist Anne Summers.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    New ideas

    • Troy Bramston
    • 10 May 2006

    Troy Bramston looks at new ideas in Imagining Australia: Ideas for our future.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    With true love showers

    • Kirsty Sangster
    • 10 May 2006

    Kirsty Sangster reviews Christine Balint’s Ophelia’s fan: A story about dreams, Shakespeare and love.  

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Bearing witness

    • Kirsty Sangster
    • 08 May 2006

    Kirsty Sangster looks at the effectiveness of truth commissions.    

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    The best that money can buy

    • Peter Yewers
    • 27 April 2006

    Sally Young’s The Persuaders: Inside the Hidden Machine of Political Advertising is an important book for those interested in political and social change, says Peter Yewers.

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  • MARGARET DOOLEY AWARD

    Remembering Etty

    • Kirsty Sangster
    • 21 April 2006

    Kirsty Sangster recalls a Holocaust survivor.    

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Around the world and back again

    • Matthew Lamb
    • 21 April 2006

    Matthew Lamb on John Ralston Saul’s The Collapse of Globalism: And the Reinvention of the World.

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