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  • CONTRIBUTORS

    Veronica Brady IBVM

    • Veronica Brady
    • 17 May 2007

    A Loreto nun, Sister Veronica is emeritus Professor of English at the University of Western Australia who was a member of the inaugural ABC Board in the 1980s.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    No place for Colin Thiele in memorial ratings

    • Brian Matthews
    • 18 September 2006
    4 Comments

    It was hard to notice the recent death of Colin Thiele, arguably Australia's greatest children's writer. In a philistine nation under philistine leadership, Thiele’s quiet cultured tone and its sad silencing could not compete for proper, courteous and deserved recognition with the phony vernacular outpouring that is supposed to be our true voice.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    East Timor Catholic Church caught in the crossfire

    • Paul Cleary
    • 24 July 2006

    The Catholic Church has been actively involved in the crisis in East Timor from the very beginning. It has been both a safe haven for the people affected by it, and a political player.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Charting a future course

    • Juliette Hughes
    • 09 July 2006

    Juliette Hughes interviews Dawn Cardona, principal of Darwin’s Nungalinya Theological College.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Cuban rhythms

    • Anthony Ham, Rosie Hoban
    • 19 June 2006

    From Cuba to Congo  and back again | Children at war

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Fine friends

    • Kirsty Grant
    • 07 June 2006

    Kirsty Grant reveals a world of decadence in Les Liaisons Dangereuses.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Population time bomb

    • Anthony Ham
    • 27 April 2006

    Europe's immigration conundrum

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    True north

    • John Carmody
    • 25 April 2006

    Jack Carmody reflects on the life of Fr Ted Kennedy, pastor to Sydney’s urban indigenous community.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Quick reviews

    • Emily Millane, Ali Lemer, Joel Townsend
    • 23 April 2006

    Reviews of the books Snowy River Story: The Grassroots Campaign to Save a National Icon; Yarra: A Diverting History of Melbourne’s Murky River; and A Short History of Myth.

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  • RELIGION

    Mystery of the monastère

    • Isabel Huggan
    • 20 April 2006

    Four days in a French convent were not enough to satisfy the curiosity of this writer.  

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  • INTERNATIONAL

    Redemption in East Timor

    • Sian Prior
    • 20 April 2006

    With the encouragement of an Australian nun, inmates at Becora Prison are finding ways out of the darkness of their crimes into the light of new hope.

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