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01 March 2005
Is Australia’s intervention in the Solomon Islands healing the wounds of the tension?
As a public figure, Father John Brosnan was hard to ignore. Throughout his life he worked tirelessly for social justice, providing support for those in prison. Next month, the Brosnan Centre celebrates his life and work.
Letters from Gavan Breen, Christopher Fogarty, Lee Beasley and Noelleen Ward
Peter Stanley reviews John Hamilton’s Goodbye Cobber, God Bless You.
I haven’t decided what I will do in my next life although the people who organise these things have been sending me reminders about it for the past two years.
In extremis, we seek what we know, or something very close to it.
The waves of generosity in response to victims of the recent tsunami bring to light a real strength in modern culture. We have high standards of compassion.
Reviews of the books After the Fireworks: A life of David Ballantyne; When faiths collide; Classical literature: A concise history and In the shadow of ‘Just Wars’: Violence,politics and humanitarian action.
The road towards a Spain free from ETA violence remains one fraught with peril.
Yang Weizhen Random thoughts, Yang Ji Mountains deep and shallow, Zhang Zhihe Fishing song, Li Yu Moon like a hook, translated by Ouyang Yu
‘Mu-um!’ he said the other day when I was arguing with the telly. ‘You certainly do know how to ruin a night’s viewing.’
Peter Davis looks at the efforts of Sri Lanka to eradicate landmines.
Golf in Kabul
Scientific research is all about making life more predictable. So it’s odd that one of the great fascinations of research is its very unpredictability.
Over the last year a major chasm has opened between decisions of Australia’s High Court and those of the UK House of Lords and the US Supreme Court regarding issues of national security such as the long-term mandatory detention of stateless asylum seekers.
Jane Carolan enjoys an encounter with Barry Hill in The Enduring Rip: A History of Queenscliffe.
Philip Harvey reviews Fresh Words and Deeds: The McCaughey Papers, edited by Peter Matheson and Christiaan Mostert.
Both the Dresden firestorm and the Holocaust were products of the insidious tendency in wartime for the previously unthinkable to become routine.
John Carmody savours Prokofiev’s The Love for Three Oranges.
The old firm is now entirely back in charge of the Labor Party. Not just Kim Beazley but the NSW Right.
Reviews of the films Alexander, Closer, Sideways and Million Dollar Baby.
Susan Dirgham is entranced by a local Damascene.
As the old saying goes, joy and sorrow are two faces of the one coin. Well, the coin certainly flipped quickly for us here in Sri Lanka.
When February dawned last year, I had been living in a small Provençal village for about a month.
Gavan Daws’s Prisoners of the Japanese: POWs of World War II in the Pacific prompts some reflection from Denis Tracey.
Ben Fraser follows Sally Neighbour through In the Shadow of Swords: On the trail of terrorism from Afghanistan to Australia.
Warning signs for the Whitlam Government were there in 1974, with an ailing economy, a political storm in the Senate, sliding popularity and a scandal unfolding in secret.
In our January issue, we wrote facetiously about tsunamis. By the time you received Eureka Street in late December, it was in deplorable taste.