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  • AUSTRALIA

    Debates a sham, no argument

    • David Rosen
    • 08 October 2008
    2 Comments

    The great 1858 debates between Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas addressed slavery and the future of the union. Today's debates are a sham, excluding third-party candidates and inhibiting meaningful engagement over major issues.

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  • RELIGION

    Top cop confronts underbelly of corruption

    • Kylie Crabbe
    • 20 March 2008
    6 Comments

    It seems Victoria Police's Chief Commissioner, Christine Nixon, was fast-tracked to unpopularity by trying to be a thoughtful, discerning leader. The bitterness displayed by those she's locked horns with is testament to the danger of reforming a powerful institution.

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  • RELIGION

    The cost of our friendship with the United States

    • James Massola
    • 02 April 2007
    2 Comments

    Jesuit peace activist John Dear is continuing the tradition of civil disobedience pioneererd by the Berrigan brothers in the 1960s. A month in Australia has convinced him that we want to give up our freedoms in order to become part of the new American Empire.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Master mixer of politics and religion

    • Frank Brennan
    • 27 February 2007
    5 Comments

    One of Jesuit congressman Robert Drinan's political claims to fame was that he had moved the first motion of impeachment against Richard Nixon. He showed that the mix of politics and religion on Capitol Hill was difficult, especially concerning abortion.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Driving the tide

    • Jack Waterford
    • 11 June 2006

    In America, the political scientists are trying to attract the NASCAR dads—the sort of guys who are fans of racing cars. ‘NASCAR dads’ was once used to describe small-town and rural men.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Easy relations

    • Jack Waterford
    • 22 May 2006

    John Howard and Alexander Downer do Australia no favours in suggesting that to place Australia’s interests ahead of those of the United States, is proof of anti-Americanism or unsound policy.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Truth, politics and the Fourth Estate

    • Morag Fraser
    • 14 May 2006

    The following essays by Morag Fraser and John Schumann are edited addresses from the Jesuit Lenten Seminar Series held in February–March 2005.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    A long way to go

    • Jane Mayo Carolan
    • 11 May 2006

    Jane Carolan speaks with doyen feminist and political activist Anne Summers.

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  • INFORMATION

    Letters to Eureka Street

    • Stephen Brown, Chris Curtis and Kerry Bergin
    • 08 May 2006

    Letters from Stephen Brown, Chris Curtis and Kerry Bergin.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    The long view

    • Margaret Coffey
    • 08 May 2006

    Senator Eugene Mccarthy

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Film reviews

    • Siobhan Jackson, Allan James Thomas
    • 25 April 2006

    Reviews of the films The Assassination of Richard Nixon, 2046 and Ae Fond Kiss.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Tired of the injustice

    • Brian McCoy
    • 23 April 2006

    Fifty years ago Rosa Parks inspired African Americans by refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man, and her example is still inspiring Aboriginal people today

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