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Tourists in Cambodia can combine a visit to the Killing Fields with a trip to the shooting range. There they can shoot at outlines of human bodies. The juxtaposition shows a lack of respect for the Cambodian dead.
Anthony Ham on Iraq and America.
Western intelligence agencies fell down badly over Iraq. So did our consciences, argues Bruce Duncan.
Africa has been watching closely while Iraq descends into conflict.
By any standards it seems a fine kettle of fish. Most of the intelligence gathered by two of the best-equipped nations on earth seems to have been false.
The following is an edited text of an address given by Frank Brennan SJ as part of the Jesuit Lenten Seminar Series 2004.
Paul Osborne asks: Should we export uranium at all? Should we lock up the reserves and declare Australia nuclear free - setting an example to the rest of the world? What is Australia's moral responsibility when a country suddenly turns around and wants to use material from nuclear processes, fuelled by Australian uranium, for weapons?
Australians have been brilliant at ideas, and poor at using them to practical purposes. In our rush to generate a more productive research culture, we must guard against cutting off the well-spring of ideas.
Dr Shahram Akbarzadeh considers the historical context of the current nuclear impasse, and its relevance for relations between East and West.
John Langmore reflects on the relationship between Australia and the United Nations
Out of jail but not free
For many years a pariah, the nation run by Colonel Mu’ammar Gaddafi has suddenly become the darling of the West
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