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  • AUSTRALIA

    Why change Aborigines into images of ourselves?

    • Brian McCoy
    • 24 December 2006
    2 Comments

    It was one thing for some of our politicians to reveal that they clearly misunderstand Aboriginal people and their culture. It is quite another thing when a reporter goes to live in a community for ten days and thinks she got the measure of 'the cultural and social issues at play'. From 22 August 2006.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Arnhem Land vision for sanity in the city

    • Jonathan Hill
    • 23 December 2006
    10 Comments

    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.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Grief exploited for political purposes

    • Richard White
    • 04 September 2006

    A grief counsellor reflects on the death of an 18-year-old from meningicoccal disease, following outbursts of anger from the family, and political repercussions for the NSW Health Minister.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Why change Aborigines into images of ourselves?

    • Brian McCoy
    • 21 August 2006
    12 Comments

    It was one thing for some of our politicians to reveal that they clearly misunderstand Aboriginal people and their culture. It is quite another thing when a reporter goes to live in a community for ten days and thinks she got the measure of 'the cultural and social issues at play'.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Perilous journeys

    • Arnold Zable
    • 04 July 2006

    Refugee stories told by Arnold Zable.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Worth a fatwa?

    • Peter Pierce & Catherine Pierce
    • 02 July 2006

    Has Michel Houellebecq earned the criticism that has come his way?

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  • INTERNATIONAL

    The voices of the silenced

    • Anthony Ham
    • 22 May 2006

    Anthony Ham looks at the national and international legacy of the bombings in Madrid.

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  • ENVIRONMENT

    The Australian wound

    • Mark Byrne
    • 18 May 2006

    Mark Byrne looks at the particular characteristics that make an Australian 'hero', and asks what it is about the interior of this country that moulds the interior of our collective suconscious in such a unique way.  

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Road much travelled

    • John Honner
    • 11 May 2006
    1 Comment

    John Honner travels down memory lane with Michael McGirr’s Bypass: The story of a road

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Wedding belle

    • Anthony Ham
    • 11 May 2006

    Spanish royal wedding

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Out of our depth

    • Andrew Hamilton
    • 29 April 2006

    In our January issue, we wrote facetiously about tsunamis.  By the time you received Eureka Street in late December, it was in deplorable taste.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Stark images in black and white

    • Mark Byrne
    • 25 April 2006

    Australian film-makers have to date been much better at reflecting the often ugly reality of racial relations than at imagining a different future

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