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Keywords: Anthropology

AUSTRALIA

Why we forgot the Apology
- Myrna Tonkinson
- 19 February 2009
9 Comments
The muted recognition of the anniversary of the National Apology was partly due to the bushfires in Victoria, which continue, understandably, to monopolise attention and emotion. But the momentous event of February 2008 has not been followed up by significant developments in Indigenous affairs.
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AUSTRALIA

Dodson honour deflects neoliberal orthodoxy
- Myrna Tonkinson
- 29 January 2009
9 Comments
Dodson can be expected to show courageous leadership, and not shrink from challenging government. The responses of Tony Abbott and some Aboriginal leaders exemplify the fact that many see the focus on Indigenous rights as passé.
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AUSTRALIA

The new Indigenous affairs orthodoxy
- Myrna Tonkinson
- 11 September 2008
11 Comments
An emerging school of thought claims that substance abuse is the cause, not the symptom, of the present-day Indigenous crisis. Such myths give an inadequate account for the situation, and fail to provide prescriptions for change.
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AUSTRALIA

East Timor's continued uphill battle to secure a future
- Paul Cleary
- 11 July 2007
3 Comments
A potentially unstable coalition government with few detailed policies and weak administrative ability is now certain to emerge following the fragmented result in the recent election. But grounds for hope remain.
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CONTRIBUTORS

Myrna Tonkinson
- Myrna Tonkinson
- 17 May 2007
Dr Myrna Tonkinson is an honourary research fellow in anthropology in the School of Social and Cultural Studies at the University of Western Australia who has done research among Aboriginal people in the Western Desert of WA since 1974.
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RELIGION

What’s wrong with Voting for Jesus?
- Scott Stephens
- 27 February 2007
3 Comments
I must confess to growing bored very quickly when I hear that our real problem today is the erosion of spirituality, of belief in a deeper dimension of life, and the consequent rampant materialism. From a properly Christian perspective, the problem today is not materialism, but religion itself.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

An alternative to the crude barometer of public opinion
- Michael Ashby
- 11 December 2006
Most political studies are poll-driven. Because qualitative data are far less likely to be available, little is known about the the political experience and imaginings of "ordinary" Australians.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Tower of Babel
- Meg McNena
- 11 December 2006
1 Comment
Lean Cuisine and single flannelette sheets to the heaven / of anywhere else. Born for higher things, a fair share / of paradise beyond the pale of suburban confinement.
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RELIGION

The World Game of ecumenical dialogue
- Richard Treloar
- 24 July 2006
In the years ahead Faith and Order will address potentially church-dividing issues relating to biblical interpretation, theological anthropology, religious pluralism, mutual recognition of baptism, and other aspects of ecclesiology. The FIFA World Cup is an intrusion of the carnivalesque into ‘realpolitik.’ Richard Treloar muses on the intersection of these
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AUSTRALIA

The frontier fallen
- Tom Grifﬁths
- 05 July 2006
Historians are ﬁghting a mini war over frontier history and the number of Aboriginal dead. Tom Grifﬁths argues for a different approach.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Temporary inanity
- Juliette Hughes
- 26 June 2006
I cocoon all day and well into the night, watching TV, chatting on the phone or fiddling aimlessly with the laptop. I am the luckiest being in history, warm and fed and sheltered and entertained and surrounded by family.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Our killing fields
- Bob Reece
- 24 June 2006
2 Comments
Bob Reece reviews Patrick Collins’ Goodbye Bussamarai: The Mandandanji Land War, Southern Queensland 1842–1852.
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