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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.
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.
George Bush, John Howard and others insist that we are winning the long war against terrorists, and, perhaps by body count they are right. But there is evidence that the way we are fighting the war has massively increased popular sympathy for such people in some parts of the world.
On your bus, Kerala leads, Sudan in Australia, Coming to terms.
September 11, 2001 changed the life of Muslims in the West, including Australia. Muslims in Australia today, their beliefs, values, practices and institutions, are under the microscope. There is a fear among many Muslims in Australia that is difficult to explain. In turn, Muslims are feared by many non-Muslim Australians, many of them Christians.
In contrast to previous government apathy, Indonesia’s academics respond to a militant minority.
Western intelligence agencies fell down badly over Iraq. So did our consciences, argues Bruce Duncan.
Kerrie O’Brien tells the story of Martin Flanagan.
Xenophobia lives on in Australian society. In this edition of Eureka Street we focus on the representation of indigenous Australians, Muslims, and Chinese immigrants.
Despite some gains, no one can really question that, as a group, women have been and still are discriminated against by the mere fact of being women.
Letters from Joan Kimm, Michael Donovan and Tim Usherwood
Jack Thomas is one of the first Australians charged under the Howard Government’s new anti-terror laws, but is he really a threat to national security or merely a sacrifical lamb?
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