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  • AUSTRALIA

    Two models for educating our children and ensuring our future

    • Andrew Hamilton
    • 05 June 2007
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  • AUSTRALIA

    Poor People's Summit on the Niger River

    • Anthony Ham
    • 24 July 2006
    1 Comment

    As the leaders of the world’s richest and most powerful countries gathered in St Petersburg this month, a few hundred activists were meeting in a dusty frontier town 350km beyond Timbuktu, for what they dubbed ‘the Poor People’s Summit’.

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  • ENVIRONMENT

    Filters, fixes and flimsy in new Net policy

    • Paul Osborne
    • 10 July 2006

    Communications Minister Helen Coonan's latest plan is to give every family in the country a free Internet filter program for their computer. The government is also putting more money into its NetAlert advisory service for parents and will roll out a community education program - all at a cost of $117 million.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    On your bus

    • Grant Morgan, Anthony Ham, Matthew Albert, Steven Columbus
    • 07 July 2006

    On your bus, Kerala leads, Sudan in Australia, Coming to terms.

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  • EDUCATION

    Need to know basis

    • Robin Jeffrey
    • 04 July 2006

    It is crucial that Australia increases its knowledge of Asia

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  • INTERNATIONAL

    Beyond the frame

    • Peter Davis
    • 26 June 2006

    Manipulating images: from the real to the ideal

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  • INTERNATIONAL

    Idyll times

    • Anthony Ham
    • 13 June 2006

    Anthony Ham visits Tunisia, Homer’s land of the Lotus-Eaters

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Ways of reading sexual abuse in Aboriginal communities

    • Myrna Tonkinson
    • 12 June 2006
    4 Comments

    It has become unpopular to invoke cultural and individual factors to explain the appalling conditions of Australia's Indigenous population. Some of the pronouncements emanating from government and other quarters are patronising and couched in terms that suggest that Indigenous people are wilfully recalcitrant.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Cultural collapse

    • Jim Davidson
    • 31 May 2006

    Jim Davidson explores Morris Berman’s The Twilight of American Culture.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Legal riddles

    • Godfrey Moase
    • 31 May 2006

    Godfrey Moase casts a legal eye over Litigation: Past and Present and Adventures in Law and Justice: Exploring Big Legal Questions in Everyday Life.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    The state of education

    • Mike Ticher
    • 31 May 2006

    Mike Ticher looks at the value of public schools to the community.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Movie reviews

    • Allan Thomas, Zane Lovitt, Lucille and Juliette Hughes, Siobhan Jackson, Allan James Thomas
    • 14 May 2006

    Reviews of the films Oldboy, Bride and Prejudice, The Illustrated Family Doctor and House of Flying Daggers.

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