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At a gallery opening in Bali, the Australia-Indonesia relationship was compared to a rope with many strands, with art and culture the most resilient. In the audience were Australian lawyers who have supported members of the Bali Nine, and lawyers acting for Indonesian minors still held in long term detention in Australia without charge.
The troubles facing Australian Catholicism have been documented in a new report. When people focus on this most think of sexual abuse. In fact this is more a symptom than the actual core of the problem.
In Ireland, the attitude of locals to the Murphy and Ryan reports into child abuse in Catholic institutions is commonly anger at the apparent obfuscation by Church leaders. This St Patrick's Day, spare a thought for the ordinary priest in modern Dublin.
After a visit to Ngukurr in Arnhem Land, a return home to Sydney and the horrifying reality of a culture that measures progress by the extent to which humans can destroy the land.
The Catholic Church has been actively involved in the crisis in East Timor from the very beginning. It has been both a safe haven for the people affected by it, and a political player.
George Orwell’s take on language has an increasing contemporary relevance
Dr Seuss’ books, Peace under fire, The good life, Sidney Nolan
Andrew Hamilton reviews Luther’s Pine: an Autobiography, by John Molony.
Gillian Bouras looks at the role of the body in death
On the 25th anniversary of the election of the Sandinista government, Nicaragua is still subject to the machinations of Central American politics
If Pope Benedict XVI can continue the work of both his immediate predecessor and his namesake, there will be cause for thanks
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