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AUSTRALIA

The most expensive bananas in Thailand
- Harry Nicolaides
- 09 June 2009
7 Comments
Harry Nicolaides was a prisoner at Bangkok Remand Prison from September 2008 to February 2009, held on charges of lèse majesté. There he met Benny Moafi, who is serving a 22-year sentence for a crime he did not commit.
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INFORMATION

Swine Flu: The Musical
- Brian Haill
- 03 June 2009
3 Comments
Victoria, with its spate of swine flu cases, is no longer 'The place to be'. Prudence is one thing, but absurdity also needs to be recognised. Exhibit A: Archbishop Hart's instruction to priests not to offer chalices of wine during Communion.
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INTERNATIONAL

The logic of the Bali death machine
- 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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INTERNATIONAL

Nicolaides free, but writers' persecution persists
- Arnold Zable
- 27 February 2009
8 Comments
Harry Nicolaides should never have been jailed, and his release is a cause for celebration and relief. Yet it leaves many unanswered questions about the reason for his imprisonment, and highlights the plight of many other persecuted writers.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Degrees of guilt in Nicolaides' Thai insult case
- Tim Kroenert
- 26 February 2009
2 Comments
We received an email from an acquaintance of Harry Nicolaides, a journalist and Eureka Street contributor. Harry had been arrested in Bangkok: 'Publish his story. He is in a bad condition. Please help.' We acted immediately.
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AUSTRALIA

Thai airport protesters' victory short-lived
- Nicholas Farrelly and Andrew Walker
- 04 December 2008
The protesters who occupied Bangkok's airports are claiming victory in their political battle, following the Constitutional Court's dissolution of the ruling party. But this is far from the end. The government is down, but not out.
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INFORMATION

Life of Brian, AIDS activist
- Brian Haill
- 01 December 2008
It's close on a quarter of a century ago that I first became enmeshed in the world of HIV/AIDS. I found myself labelled an 'activist', catapulted into confronting my church over its attitude to condoms. Last week saw a return to the beginning.
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RELIGION

Obama's Dream at the Lincoln Memorial
- Frank Brennan
- 11 November 2008
10 Comments
The great orator Obama is yet to put real shape on his message of change and hope. Should he harness the good will he has evoked across traditional boundaries and be granted a second term, he will be able to mount those steps at the Lincoln Memorial on the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington and proclaim to the world, 'Yes we can, because we have a dream'.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

The feminist eunuch
- Various
- 26 August 2008
1 Comment
What is Germaine to her personality? .. Her Catholic childhood I fear.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Uncreation story
- Val Yule
- 12 August 2008
3 Comments
Mountains and hills! Men bore, quarry and scalp them .. Fruit trees and cedars! Men spray them and clearfell them .. Beasts and cattle! Men extinguish or factory-farm them .. Creeping things and flying birds! Men wipe them out also.
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CONTRIBUTORS

Patrick Barrow
- Patrick Barrow
- 01 November 2007
Patrick Barrow teaches English overseas and has worked as a tour guide in Europe. He has travelled extensively in China, Poland, Thailand and Germany, and currently resides in Russia, in the Ural mountains on the western edge of Siberia.
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CONTRIBUTORS

Toe Zaw Latt
- Toe Zaw Latt
- 18 October 2007
Toe Zaw Latt, a former 1988 student activist, is the Thailand Bureau Chief of Democratic Voice of Burma.
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