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01 September 2005
Tim Martyn reviews Amin Saikal’s Islam and the West: Conflict or Co-operation.
Reviews of the films The Child (L’Enfant), Wolf Creek and Kung Fu Hustle.
Poem by Medbh McGuckian
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
Letters from Nigel Sinnott, Jan Pinder, Cameron Forbes and Brian McCoy
Celia Conlan finds food for thought in Fast Food and No Play Make Jack a Fat Boy, by Andy Griffiths, Jim Thomson and Sophie Blackmore.
The ‘right to return’ to Israel does not mean that all Jews visiting there for the first time will like the reality they find.
The environmental lessons learned by those who live along the Hudson River in New York can be applied to cleaning up our own rivers in Australia.
Sara Dowse visits the turbulent childhood world in Mandy Sayers’s Velocity: A Memoir.
Selena Reynolds finds good advice in Don’t Think of an Elephant by George Lakoff.
The death of Jean Charles de Menezes invites us to reflect on where our conscription into that war has brought us.
Sleazily located above an adult supermarket in St Kilda, Icon Tours was uncorrupted by its neighbour and fully bore out its claim to provide something unique among day tours.
A reflection on contemporary Christianity
As elegant and practical and liberating as they are, why on earth did bicycles take so long to invent?
Peter Pierce reviews Colin Dyer’s The French Explorers and the Aboriginal Australians 1772–1839 and Bruce Poulson’s Recherche Bay: A History.
The old religion versus evolution debate is back. The latest contender in the conservative religion corner is known as intelligent design.
I just feel so guilty, being a TV critic and all, I’m supposed to have some kind of taste. But I started watching Big Brother, despite saying I wasn’t going to. And then got, well, sucked in.
The Make Poverty History campaign has inspired global solidarity. The challenge of ending poverty has progressed from an idea of good intent to a global campaign, enthusiastically embraced.
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. And I, among them. Why else would I, a priest, be tempted to comment on a book called Priests in Love ?
Tania Andrusiak reviews Affluenza, by Clive Hamilton and Richard Denniss.
Brian Doyle succumbs to puppy love.
John Button reviews Henry Speagle’s Editor’s Odyssey: A Reminiscence of Civil Service 1945–1985.
Becoming what we fear.
John Howard, the state premiers and the federal ALP are playing politics with terrorism.
Joanne Davies and Michelle Medhurst review a digital photography exhibition.
Microcredit relief for the poor
In grappling with a growing Muslim population, Europe must choose between assimilation, integration or accommodation.
The trouble is that men and women who like, or fantasise about, having sex with children don’t look like monsters. They look just like the neighbours.
Mathias Heng finds many Acehnese still suffering after the tsunami.
Reviews of the books Troubled Waters: Borders, Boundaries and Possession in the Timor Sea; Blush: Faces of Shame; Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince; and Moments of Truth.
Tracy Crisp surveys the issues surrounding prenatal testing.
The transition from school to work or study is harder now than it has been since the recession "we had to have" in 1990.
