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  • RELIGION

    What makes a site sacred?

    • Andrew Hamilton
    • 04 September 2006
    17 Comments

    Recently a group broke into the Redfern Catholic Church, and defied their parish priest by painting a large and splendidly executed mural that enshrined the words of Pope John Paul II in Alice Springs 20 years ago. The priest was left with an unpalatable dilemma—leave the mural there, or whitewash Pope John Paul II.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    I open a door in my head

    • Sarah Holland-Batt
    • 10 July 2006

    Here is a boy in a listless room, breathing ...  All is quarantine. Laughter on ration ... Nothing moves except the boy's hand.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Opening Whitlam’s cabinet

    • Troy Bramston
    • 09 July 2006

    The annual release of the once secret cabinet papers on New Year’s Day is now a political ritual. After 30 years, the public is able to look at cabinet’s deliberations on weighty matters, which have been kept under lock and key for a generation.

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  • INTERNATIONAL

    Denying the Grim Reaper

    • Paul Sendziuk
    • 18 June 2006

    Australian responses to AIDS.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    News from all over

    • Anthony Ham, David Glanz, Morag Fraser
    • 16 June 2006

    Death of the king, Little argument, Words to end winter

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  • INTERNATIONAL

    England

    • Peter Pierce
    • 11 June 2006

    Peter Pierce gets on the bus.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Fish tales

    • Jane Mayo Carolan
    • 10 May 2006

    Jane Mayo Carolan goes Down to the sea: The true saga of an Australian fishing dynasty with John Little.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Descent into chaos

    • Anthony Ham
    • 30 April 2006

    Instability in ivory coast.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    A merry mercenary

    • Peter Pierce
    • 25 April 2006
    1 Comment

    Peter Pierce is troubled by the uncertain tone in Helen Nolan’s Between the Battles

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Why I quit the department

    • Tom Davis
    • 24 April 2006

    The organisational culture within Australia’s Department of Immigration appears to have little regard for human rights, but an ex-insider says it didn’t have to be that way

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Seeking justice for Jack

    • Katherine Wilson
    • 23 April 2006

    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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  • INFORMATION

    Letters to Eureka Street

    • Joe Goerke, Colin Samundsett, J.M.T. Groenewegen and Roger Borrell
    • 20 April 2006

    Letters from Joe Goerke, Colin Samundsett, J.M.T. Groenewegen and Roger  Borrell

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