Keywords: Lebanese Australians
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AUSTRALIA
The boys of Lebanon have found a niche in Aussie pop culture. Several recent films deal with Arab-Australians as the 'other',
examining the extent of their assimilation, the codes they live
by, and their functions within a 'tolerant' society.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 27 February 2009
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Professor Martha Nussbaum's recent book Liberty of Conscience provides a rich textured treatment of the place of religion in the public square. If God is taken out of the picture,
it may be difficult to maintain a human rights commitment to the
weakest and most despised in society.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 10 December 2008
5 Comments
Sixty years on, it is fashionable to describe the Declaration of Human Rights as a peculiarly western, individualistic conception. It was not. Now is the time for Australia to discuss how best to make the State attentive to the still, small voice of conscience.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
But for its indubitable basis in reality, Shane Maloney's political thriller Sucked In would be fine therapy for those jaded Australians hoping to see an election year eruption of idealism in the affairs of state.
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AUSTRALIA
- Daniel Baldino
- 18 May 2007
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The notion of preventing Islamic influence has strong echoes of the simple Cold War ‘domino theory’. This powerful metaphor and enemy image, popular in the 1950s and 1960s and used to justify US military intervention in Southeast Asia, was later widely criticised for its undeveloped and unstructured generalisations about political systems that are quite different.
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