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Keywords: Celebrations

  • RELIGION

    Lenten signs

    • Andrew Hamilton
    • 03 July 2006

    Rituals are like spinning tops—they keep changing direction around a still centre. Lent is a good example.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    It comes down to Trafalgar Square

    • Morag Fraser
    • 26 June 2006
    1 Comment

    As the first anniversary of the London bombings approaches, people celebrate England's football victory, and Trafalgar Square is under repair. Celebration and cleaning mark the resilience of London and its refusal to allow fear to dominate public life.

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  • RELIGION

    Care to remember?

    • Andrew Hamilton
    • 17 June 2006

    We would normally expect outrage at this combination of evil doing and mendacity. Instead we find indifference.

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  • INTERNATIONAL

    Deathly silence

    • Kel Dummett
    • 13 June 2006

     Kel Dummett finds that Australia is content to ignore the troubles of Biak, West Papua.

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  • INTERNATIONAL

    'Red pole' justice in Nepal

    • Sushma Joshi
    • 12 June 2006

    The three metre long red wooden pole is an instrument of humiliation for convicted criminals that is chillingly reminiscent of the Chinese Red Army. It has made its appearance,  not under Maoist inspiration, but because of the absence of a functioning state legal system.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    The rise of family values in Angela Merkel's new Germany

    • Peter Matheson
    • 12 June 2006

    Phrases such as ‘family values’ are increasingly bandied about, as a conservative reaction against modern pluralism, and against ethnic, particularly Turkish enclaves, in the 'new' Germany.

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  • RELIGION

    Testing Australian values

    • Richard Treloar
    • 29 May 2006
    1 Comment

    Morag Fraser, former editor of this journal, expressed a residual unease with the very notion of ‘Australian values’, belonging as she saw it to a ‘vocabulary of expediency’ rather than of conviction. What are 'Australian' values, asks Richard Treloar.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Something old, something new

    • Nadja Breton
    • 14 May 2006

    European allegiances have been tested by the conflict in Iraq.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Denizen of a disturbed time

    • Frank O’Shea
    • 14 May 2006

    Frank O’Shea reviews Andrew Moore’s Francis De Groot:  Irish  Fascist,  Australian  Legend.

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  • RELIGION

    After the parade

    • Kylie Crabbe
    • 14 May 2006

    There is an art to the big event. Anyone who’s planned a wedding knows it, and that should be enough to give hives to anyone imagining what it took to get George Bush’s inauguration off the ground.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Wedding belle

    • Anthony Ham
    • 11 May 2006

    Spanish royal wedding

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Hands on

    • Morag Fraser
    • 11 May 2006

    Morag Fraser meets recent travellers to East Timor.

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