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AUSTRALIA

Julie Bishop is one hell of a survivor
- Moira Rayner
- 25 February 2019
12 Comments
After five or so years as a better-than-most foreign minister, and a serial turner-up at branch fundraisers and social events, she has been mourned as 'the prime minister we never had,' and someone who was never fully or adequately appreciated. I think this was inevitable.
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AUSTRALIA

Growing up with Baryulgil's asbestos genocide
- Dani Larkin
- 14 September 2016
9 Comments
On 8 September the ABC's 7:30 revealed yet another heartbreaking story of just another person who has contracted an asbestos-related disease. Ffloyd Laurie is a Bunjalung man from the Aboriginal community of Baryulgil, NSW - my home town. Like the rest of the Baryulgil community, including my mother, uncles, nan and pop, Ffloyde worked and lived with no idea of the consequences and health risks caused by that asbestos. Those consequences have proven to be fatal already for my pop.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Abbott's animal charms
- Barry Gittins and Jen Vuk
- 03 May 2013
5 Comments
Casting a Victorious PM Abbott as a puppet of Pell and Howard, or a fiddler with women's rights, seems risible; Abbott is bound by social restraints after all. Nonetheless, there is something ominous in David Marr's droll observation: 'His values have never stood in his way.'
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INTERNATIONAL

Australian teacher's refugee wake-up call
- Jessica Brown
- 27 March 2013
7 Comments
A large, harrowing eye is marked on the clay outside the door of one refugee family, tears splashing down. Depression hangs in the air, mingling with the overwhelming odour from the inadequate sewage system. Still, the family unity remains strong, and the seed of hope is evident among the young people.
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AUSTRALIA

Coal mining, civil disobedience and the public good
- Michael Mullins
- 14 January 2013
11 Comments
Fake ANZ media release activist Jonathan Moylan did the wrong thing in undermining public confidence in the share trading system. But he would not have seen the need to act if governments and the coal industry were acting with integrity and in the public interest.
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ENVIRONMENT

Practical solutions to climate despair
- Lyn Bender
- 13 December 2012
21 Comments
The Doha climate talks have come and gone, and it is all business as usual. Actually, it is full steam ahead with coal, despite dire warnings from the World Bank that if we don't turn down the heat we face clear threats to our great god, The Economy. While denial and despair are tempting options at this point, there are healthier ways to respond.
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AUSTRALIA

Bad business goes beyond individuals
- Andrew Hamilton
- 30 April 2009
10 Comments
Richard Pratt's death focused attention on his collusion in price fixing. Judgments against James Hardie focused on their former Chair, Meredith Hellicar. This focus on individuals risks losing sight of the social implications of the way business is conducted.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Imagination beguiles in dystopic Russian debut
- Jen Vuk
- 11 July 2008
Amid the Eastern Bloc ruins, Sasha wears her disenfranchisement like a seasoned dissident, while her mother wants to turn her into a good little Soviet. Petropolis employs comic absurdity in order to examine the human condition.
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INFORMATION

Peace drums in Europe
- Michael McKernan, Frank O’Shea, Mark Deasey, Morag Fraser, John Carmody, Brigid Hains, Pip Robertson
- 03 July 2006
Peace drums, Irish visitor, Travellers’ tales, Epiphanies, Deep structure, Counter-terrorism kits, Circling the square
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Where the real men are
- Juliette Hughes
- 30 April 2006
Real men may brew beer but they don’t have to prove anything, unlike the sad creatures that run the men’s rights websites.
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AUSTRALIA

Winds of change in Egypt
- David Glanz
- 25 April 2006
David Glanz finds that talk of democracy is a double-edged sword.
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