Keywords: Detention Centres
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INTERNATIONAL
- Carol Ransley & Toe Zaw Latt
- 03 October 2007
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Two out of five children in Burma are severely malnourished, and the majority of people live in dire poverty. Then the ruling
State Peace and Development Council instructed all Ministry of
Energy distribution outlets to raise the prices of fuel.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
A 19th century dispute over rights to whale on Victoria’s western coast saw a massacre of local Aboriginal people. The image of uniformed, white officers appearing in Aboriginal communities, supposedly to restore order and protect children, gives eerie timeliness to an uncompromising new account by Bruce Pascoe.
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INTERNATIONAL
- Andrew Hamilton
- 27 June 2007
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Australia's treatment of refugees has been out of the headlines for some months, perhaps due to changes in the Department after the Cornelia Rau scandal. But despite some improvements, Australian refugee policy remains destructive.
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AUSTRALIA
Tackling the problem of terrorism by the application of force is unlikely to succeed. Pouring blood on the Iraqi desert produced an upsurge of terrorism where none had been before: cruelty, genocide even, but not terrorism, let alone fundamentalist terrorism.
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AUSTRALIA
It is looking more and more that Labor will win, and that the present unforeseen Coalition government majority in the Senate may be lost too. There are interesting moral questions arising from this analysis for us "bleeding hearts", among whom I am happy to count myself.
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INFORMATION
- Christine Bacon, Chris Curtis
- 18 May 2007
Letters from Christine Bacon, Chris Curtis
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INTERNATIONAL
- Andrew Hamilton
- 07 July 2006
The python is an emblem of Australian immigration policy that crushes asylum seekers in order to excrete them.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Kristie Dunn
- 04 July 2006
Kristie Dunn reviews Dark Victory by David Marr and Marian Wilkinson.
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