Keywords: Nature Is The Enemy
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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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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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RELIGION
- Abraham Rushdi
- 27 February 2007
1 Comment
The full text of "The selling of Islamic martyrdom and why some buy it", by Abraham Rushdi.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Chris McGillion
- 13 November 2006
2 Comments
No assessment of Fidel Castro’s legacy will be complete without serious attention to his thoughts on religion and to how and why, over the past 20 years, he has turned Cuba from an international troublemaker into a global champion for social justice.
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ENVIRONMENT
- Tim Thwaites
- 16 October 2006
Grey nurse sharks were cast as villains who preyed on unsuspecting swimmers. It's now regarded as an endangered species, whose potential disappearance from the marine ecosystem could lead to nasty imbalances further down the food chain.
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AUSTRALIA
- Daniel Baldino
- 10 July 2006
9 Comments
Howard’s legal positivist stance limits individual rights to the confines of a particular legal system. In the ‘war against terrorism’, there is no safeguard against executive excesses or the seizure by the state of absolute power, no basis to defend the dignity of human persons.
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RELIGION
- Bruce Duncan
- 07 July 2006
The history, the current circumstances
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AUSTRALIA
The birthplace of a nation? Anzac Cove lies in wait for Australian pilgrims.
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AUSTRALIA
- Nicholas Way
- 05 June 2006
The Federal Government abhors workers using unions to bargain collectively. But there is different thinking for small business.
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RELIGION
- Andrew Hamilton
- 14 May 2006
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the death of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and the 40th of Winston Churchill’s. They never met and had totally different temperaments. But some things they had in common.
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