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  • MARGARET DOOLEY AWARD

    An unlikely pilgrim

    • Michelle Coram
    • 12 December 2007
    9 Comments

    The Camino de Santiago in Spain is over a thousand years old and trodden by tens of thousands of pilgrims each year. But for this pilgrim it was simply a cheap holiday, a sure way to get fit. She wasn't expecting any miracles.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Magazines must embrace the future

    • James Massola
    • 03 October 2007
    1 Comment

    The digital age has arrived. Some newspapers are struggling with just how much content to replicate online, and how it might be differentiated from print and whether people should pay for it. Magazines face similar, though not identical challenges.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Chávez embraces Christian socialism

    • Rodrigo Acuña
    • 16 April 2007
    3 Comments

    Venezuela's President Hugo Chávez has urged the Catholic Church to take its part in building his 'Socialism for the 21st century'. In return, the Venezuelan Episcopal Conference has called for a "style of socialism that upholds free speech, tolerates opposing views and respects religious education".

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Mahathir Mohamad embraces human rights?

    • Binoy Kampmark
    • 08 March 2007
    1 Comment

    Malaysia's colourful former Prime Minister is setting up a war crimes tribunal, to "assuage the pain that has been suffered by so many people in Iraq, Palestine, Afghanistan and elsewhere". Mahathir, it seems, hopes to reinvent the wheel, and a rickety one at that.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Models for a good life and an honest death

    • Clive O'Connell
    • 16 October 2006

    Historian Inga Clendinnen's reviews, childhood recollections, multi-coloured reminiscences of her working career, and informed discourse on simple events or complex ideas, are collected in a way that reveals a tempered tolerance seemingly inherited from her favourite essayist, Montaigne.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    An inconvenient but upbeat truth

    • Tim Kroenert
    • 18 September 2006

    Despite the bleak prognosis, An Inconvenient Truth is an optimistic film. Al Gore is no doomsday prophet, but an engaging orator who believes humans can change to meet the threat posed by global warming.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    The creatures & their words

    • Peter Steele
    • 06 July 2006

    Peter Steele looks at poetry about the birds and beasts.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Ghazal, The boat, and What I have lost

    • Kate Llewellyn
    • 11 May 2006

    Poems by Kate Llewellyn 

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Braving our inner weather

    • Jenny Stewart
    • 25 April 2006
    1 Comment

    The journey towards understanding our depression can be the most worthwhile, and the most taxing, that we ever make

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  • INTERNATIONAL

    Are we giving our fair share?

    • Shaun Cannon
    • 24 April 2006

    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.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Beyond the Troubles

    • Hugh Dillon
    • 21 April 2006

    Hardliners remain at daggers drawn, but their relevance is fading as Ireland embraces globalisation.

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