Keywords: Osama Bin Laden
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AUSTRALIA
- Pat Walsh
- 12 October 2012
4 Comments
The bombing in Bali ten years ago today did not target Balinese directly, but they took the collateral damage to tourism, their bread and butter, very personally. Drawing his finger across his throat in a slitting motion, a smiling Balinese says he is happy the bombers have been executed.
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AUSTRALIA
- Jim McDermott
- 10 September 2012
3 Comments
The US finished Act One of its quadrennial orgiastic political kabuki last week with the Republican and Democratic National Conventions. Originally conventions were intended to choose candidates, but today they’re more about motivating the parties’ bases, but really just a total schmozzle.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- P. S. Cottier
- 12 January 2012
'Kennedy was a cold warrior, but Johnson took it to the next level. He had the same my-balls-are-bigger-than-yours complex as Dubya.' The narrator journeys into the past in order to produce a kinder America. One that may not throw itself into Vietnam with such lust. Published 16 November 2011
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AUSTRALIA
- Brian Doyle
- 11 January 2012
1 Comment
To remember the roaring courage of the people who rushed to help, or the people who used their last minutes on earth to call their families and say I love you I love you I will you forever, is to pray for them and us and even the poor silly murderers, themselves just lanky frightened children. Published 8 September 2011
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AUSTRALIA
- Moira Rayner
- 04 January 2012
6 Comments
Barack Obama has committed his people to a legal and ethical mistake which will be a continuing obstacle to the West's integrity in its pursuit of freedom, democracy, internationally recognised standards of justice and human rights, and lasting peace. Published 3 May 2011
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- P. S. Cottier
- 17 November 2011
'Kennedy was a cold warrior, but Johnson took it to the next level. He had the same my-balls-are-bigger-than-yours complex as Dubya.' The narrator journeys into the past in order to produce a kinder America. One that may not throw itself into Vietnam with such lust.
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EUREKA STREET TV
- Peter Kirkwood
- 28 October 2011
7 Comments
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 24 October 2011
17 Comments
Gaddafi undoubtedly suffered from some form of mental illness that had unspeakably tragic consequences for the people of Libya. The jubilation of Libyans is understandable, but the country will not prosper while Gaddafi supporters remain antagonised and the country divided.
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EUREKA STREET TV
- Peter Kirkwood
- 21 October 2011
'We can not achieve justice by acting unjustly.' Throughout her long and colourful legal career, Moira Rayner has been an unwavering advocate for human rights. A series of personal and professional crises in 2005 led to a reappraisal of her life, which included the discovery of a totally new spiritual direction.
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AUSTRALIA
- Brian Doyle
- 09 September 2011
3 Comments
To remember the roaring courage of the people who rushed to help, or the people who used their last minutes on earth to call their families and say I love you I love you I will you forever, is to pray for them and us and even the poor silly murderers, themselves just lanky frightened children.
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AUSTRALIA
- Catherine Marshall
- 09 September 2011
2 Comments
A soft toy. A restaurant menu. A business card. An agony so great it swamped the world. While America was busy hunting down Osama bin Laden, my son and his contemporaries, who were children at the time of the attack, grew up and inherited a world irrevocably changed.
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EUREKA STREET TV
- Peter Kirkwood
- 01 July 2011
6 Comments
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