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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Confessions of a rogue library book buyer

    • Malcolm King
    • 04 February 2008
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    In October 1998, the writer raided departmental library budgets in order to place in his university library, $27,000 worth of books he believed it should own. Before leaving his job, he inspected the books in the library and was convinced he had "done good by doing bad".

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  • CONTRIBUTORS

    Morag Fraser

    • Morag Fraser
    • 17 May 2007

    Morag Fraser is the former editor of Eureka Street. She is currently Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at La Trobe University, and writes for a diverse range of magazines and newspapers.

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  • EDUCATION

    Need to know basis

    • Robin Jeffrey
    • 04 July 2006

    It is crucial that Australia increases its knowledge of Asia

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  • ENVIRONMENT

    Fluid interpretations

    • Tim Thwaites
    • 03 July 2006

    Archimedes was heartened by one aspect of the whole sad Warne anti-doping affair—that people knew enough about the issues to filter out the bulldust.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Little voice

    • Brian Matthews
    • 01 July 2006

    Little voice

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Heavy penalties

    • George Morgan
    • 15 June 2006

    George Morgan on the cruelty of punitive attitudes to children.

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  • INFORMATION

    Letters to Eureka Street

    • Tom Ryan SM, Spiro Tanti, John Carmody
    • 11 June 2006

    The courtesy of God, the consequences of conscience and 20th-century giants

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Pride of Erin

    • John Carmody, Morag Fraser, Peter Pierce
    • 05 June 2006

    Pride of Erin | Across the fence | Descending gloom

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  • INTERNATIONAL

    A sporting chance | Seven last words | Dutch (er, Russian) courage

    • Rosie Hoban, Morag Fraser, Kate Stowell
    • 31 May 2006

    Thoughts from Rosie Hoban, Morag Fraser, Kate Stowell

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  • ENVIRONMENT

    Sunrise on Silicon Valley

    • Jonathon Greenaway
    • 11 May 2006

    The IT industry prepares for the next boom

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Hands on

    • Morag Fraser
    • 11 May 2006

    Morag Fraser meets recent travellers to East Timor.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Brilliant buddies

    • Ralph Elliott
    • 27 April 2006

    Ralph Elliott reviews Gustav Born’s new edition of Max Born’s The Born-Einstein Letters 1916 –1955: Friendship, Politics and Physics in Uncertain Times.

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