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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Lotus flowers bloom regardless

    • Anne Carson
    • 15 April 2008
    3 Comments

    Our musician guide tells how he was made to smash his violin, his love. Fifty years on and grief still shapes his hands; splinters in his palms.

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  • INTERNATIONAL

    The moral disintegration of Burma's military

    • Carol Ransley and Toe Zaw Latt
    • 15 November 2007
    1 Comment

    Carol Ransley and Toe Zaw Latt provide an update on civil-military relations in Burma.

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  • INTERNATIONAL

    What provoked Burmese people's fearless stand

    • Carol Ransley & Toe Zaw Latt
    • 03 October 2007
    4 Comments

    Two out of five children in Burma are severely malnourished, and the majority of people live in dire poverty. Then the ruling State Peace and Development Council instructed all Ministry of Energy distribution outlets to raise the prices of fuel.

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  • RELIGION

    Downsizing as a form of modern asceticism

    • Paul Collins
    • 13 June 2007
    8 Comments

    We live in a world where the dogmas of economic rationalism and consumerism rule supreme. Rather than physical penance, today's asceticism involves a deliberate downsizing and an abandonment of infinite expansion as the measure of success.

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  • INFORMATION

    Margaret Smith's response to Andrew Hamilton's 'Hate sin, love the sinner' piece

    • 18 April 2007

    Margaret Smith's response to Andrww Hamilton's 'Hate sin, love the sinner' piece.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Indonesian democracy is maturing

    • Michael Danby
    • 13 November 2006
    9 Comments

    Once a corrupt military dictatorship, Indonesia is becoming a healthy democracy. Many Australians persist with pathetic stereotypes including the perception of Indonesian judges as monkeys.

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  • ENVIRONMENT

    Creating evolution

    • Tim Thwaites
    • 01 July 2006

    We are so used to the astonishing applications of genetics these days that a milestone has passed almost unnoticed.

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  • RELIGION

    The art of letting go

    • Donna Noble
    • 18 June 2006

    Peter Davis on Tibetan monks and impermanence.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Unbounded love

    • Anna Griffiths
    • 15 June 2006

    Anna Griffiths reviews William Dalrymple’s White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth Century India.

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  • ENVIRONMENT

    Monkey business

    • Tim Thwaites
    • 05 June 2006

    You don’t have to delve far into the media to recognise what a difficulty homosexuality presents for the Christian churches and to society in general. It’s no less a problem for biology.

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  • MEDIA

    Peace correspondents: The new reporters

    • Jan Forrester
    • 05 June 2006

    Conventional journalism portrays war as a zero sum game, a series of violent exchanges between contending parties. ‘War reporting’ requires clear winners and losers, and the media interprets the events contributing to conflict accordingly.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Basil Hume: Spiritual celebrity in secular Britain

    • Michael Ashby
    • 29 May 2006

    Basil Hume died as one of the most respected religious figures of the twentieth century.  He was able to balance London and Rome without losing local liberals, or incurring curial and papal ire.   

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