Keywords: Muslim Australians
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AUSTRALIA
- Dewi Anggraeni
- 22 January 2009
3 Comments
In the big cities in Indonesia, most taxi drivers want to talk about the new president in the USA. Obama lived four years in Indonesia, and the country, the people and the culture left their marks on him, too.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 12 January 2009
1 Comment
The execution of the Bali bombers is imminent, and Kevin Rudd has encouraged Australians to have the 'last gloat'. The Muslim world will interpret our gloating as Australia's endorsementof the Bush Doctrine in its dying days.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 03 November 2008
28 Comments
The execution of the Bali bombers is imminent, and Kevin Rudd has encouraged Australians to have the 'last gloat'. The Muslim world will interpret our gloating as Australia's endorsementof the Bush Doctrine in its dying days.
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AUSTRALIA
- Irfan Yusuf
- 01 October 2008
15 Comments
Conventional wisdom tells us democracies are inherently stable, yet an extremist spirit has emerged in mainstream Indian politics. The silence among Australian Christians about the suffering of Indian Christians is as deafening as that of Australian Muslims towards Muslims in Darfur.
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RELIGION
- Margaret Rice
- 15 July 2008
3 Comments
When it comes to international aid, Australians pride themselves on their generosity. There is a similar dimension to events such as World Youth Day, which play a formative role in the lives of young people from developing countries.
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AUSTRALIA
Kevin Rudd's visit to Jakarta today and continued inter-cultural dialogue could do much to enrich Australia's friendship with Indonesia. Indonesia's labelling as a basket case of corruption and terrorism denies the significant strides the country has taken since its democratic reformation.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 26 May 2008
1 Comment
The text is from Professor Frank Brennan's 2008 Institute of Justice Studies Oration from 22 May 2008.
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AUSTRALIA
- Bill Calcutt
- 17 October 2007
A primary objective of terrorism is to engender disproportionate fear in the community, and to act as a catalyst for negative changes. Terrorists can therefore be highly effective without having to undertake terrorism operations.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 05 June 2007
6 Comments
There can be no peace unless believers and atheists share an equal place in the public square of a free and democratic society.
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AUSTRALIA
- Daniel Baldino
- 18 May 2007
1 Comment
The notion of preventing Islamic influence has strong echoes of the simple Cold War ‘domino theory’. This powerful metaphor and enemy image, popular in the 1950s and 1960s and used to justify US military intervention in Southeast Asia, was later widely criticised for its undeveloped and unstructured generalisations about political systems that are quite different.
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AUSTRALIA
- Andrew Hamilton
- 16 April 2007
11 Comments
The proliferation of flags, the singing of national anthems, and the desire to make Anzac Day emblematic of Australian values, all diminish the real humanity of those who have died, in order to allow another generation to inflate its image of itself.
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AUSTRALIA
- James Massola
- 24 December 2006
It’s the fourth night of Ramadan. As the days begin to get longer, there are further challenges for Australian Muslims. Many young men, low on energy during the day, but emboldened by full bellies in the evening, find themselves at a loose end. From 3 October 2006.
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