Keywords: Opening Ceremony
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AUSTRALIA
- Peter Roebuck
- 03 September 2008
Sensing humiliation and still uttering vapid rhetoric about 'insidious foreign hands', Mugabe has lowered himself to talking to his opponents. The old rogue is not going anywhere except in a box or at the end of a gun.
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AUSTRALIA
- Jeremy Clarke
- 05 August 2008
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The torch relay protests unexpectedly strengthened aggressive nationalism, as the Chinese people swung behind the government and its Olympic aspirations. Sport and politics will combine in weeks to come, making for interesting viewing.
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EUREKA STREET/ READER'S FEAST AWARD
Photos from the presentation of the inaugural Eureka Street/Reader's Feast Award the Margaret Dooley
Award for Young Writers 2008 were presented by Mary Dalmau of Reader's
Feast bookstore and Tim Kroenert from Eureka Street at the opening of
the Reader's Feast Crime and Justice Festival on 18 July.
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RELIGION
- Carmel Pilcher
- 18 July 2008
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The organisers of the WYD opening mass did not attempt to integrate Australian elements into the mass, but included them as added extras. The ritual structure of the mass requires creativity to make it connect with different audiences.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 17 July 2008
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The Iñigo Film Festival features films that reflect spiritual experience or the link between faith and justice. The Judas Pane plays upon traditional understandings of the gospels and critiques the subjective depiction of religious icons.
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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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AUSTRALIA
Foreign Affairs Minister Alexander Downer said recently: "Muslim extremists are a Muslim issue - not ours." The fault with this view is that it transfers ownership of this challenge from the elected leaders to a minority group who simply don’t have the resources to deal with such a global crisis.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Margaret Cassidy
- 22 January 2007
U2's Bono is as well known for his political activism as for his songs. He mixes his political evangelism with the concert performances to such an extent that they almost become interchangeable.
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RELIGION
- Richard Treloar
- 24 July 2006
In the years ahead Faith and Order will address potentially church-dividing issues relating to biblical interpretation, theological anthropology, religious pluralism, mutual recognition of baptism, and other aspects of ecclesiology. The FIFA World Cup is an intrusion of the carnivalesque into ‘realpolitik.’ Richard Treloar muses on the intersection of these
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AUSTRALIA
- Gavan McCormack
- 04 July 2006
Encouraging the North–South relationship offers the best hope for North Korea and the world
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AUSTRALIA
David Glanz on the World Social Forum’s agenda.
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AUSTRALIA
This year’s May anniversary of independence for Timor Leste is Xanana Gusmão’s second as President and the country’s fifth as a free territory. Sara Niner looks at the current political machinations.
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