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AUSTRALIA
- Tony Kevin
- 28 January 2014
34 Comments
It is now weeks since any asylum seekers arrived in Australia, and under the Abbott Government there have been no reported deaths at sea involving Australian border protection interception action or failure to act. This is a striking improvement on the high death rate under the Rudd and Gillard governments. Tony Abbott has kept his pre-election promise to stop the boats, but at what huge cost!
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Gillian Bouras
- 02 October 2013
12 Comments
The International Day of Non-Violence on 2 October coincides with the birthday of Gandhi, who pioneered the concept of political non-violence and the notion of passive resistance, and paid the highest price for his moral choices. A great many people, like Gandhi, desire a non-violent world, in which whistleblowers and thoughtful, idealistic individuals are honoured rather than punished.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Anne M. Carson
- 19 February 2013
Cash-strapped, post midnight. Transport police rifle our rucksacks, suspicious of backpackers. One prises open my Kodak canister, sniffs, says 'ach!', fires Czech questions at me. 'Vegemite fur frustuck,' I say, trying to convince Vegemite is not hash resin. I smile the smile of someone who doesn't know how bad it can get.
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AUSTRALIA
Can Abbott and Morrison be serious about turning back the boats? Do they really want to expose the Navy to the fear, the rage, the encouragement to self-harm and lethal criminality, the emotional damage, the risks to Australian-Indonesian relations that have beset past turn-back policies?
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AUSTRALIA
- Binoy Kampmark
- 30 April 2012
4 Comments
Former Liberian president Charles Taylor's conviction by an international criminal court for crimes against humanity is the first conviction of a head of state since World War II. It does little to change the fact that it remains notoriously difficult to bring heads of state to trial for grave crimes.
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AUSTRALIA
- Moira Rayner
- 04 January 2012
6 Comments
Barack Obama has committed his people to a legal and ethical mistake which will be a continuing obstacle to the West's integrity in its pursuit of freedom, democracy, internationally recognised standards of justice and human rights, and lasting peace. Published 3 May 2011
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AUSTRALIA
- Binoy Kampmark
- 04 November 2011
20 Comments
So-called people smugglers are often penniless teenagers who are simply a link in the chain for those who are seeking legitimate asylum. The Government's new retrospective law will punish such individuals for an act that was legal at the time it was committed.
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AUSTRALIA
Barack Obama has committed his people to a legal and ethical mistake which will be a continuing obstacle to the West's integrity in its pursuit of freedom, democracy, internationally recognised standards of justice and human rights, and lasting peace.
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AUSTRALIA
The former head of the Khmer Rouge's main interrogation centre has just been sentenced to 30 years prison. There are important lessons internationally. If a state becomes evil, its orders must be resisted.
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AUSTRALIA
- Binoy Kampmark
- 24 July 2008
One of the vices of nationalism is the symptom of long memory.
Punishing accused war criminal Radovan Karadzic will do little to convince those who are set
in their positions — Bosnia's Muslims will feel vindicated, but Bosnian
Serbs are simply weary.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
Jo Dirks looks at a new film on the life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Godfrey Moase, Marcelle Mogg, John Carmody
- 10 July 2006
Reviews of Frontier Justice: Weapons of mass destruction and the bushwacking of America; Best Australian political cartoons and Quarterly Essay, ‘Made in England: Australia’s British Inheritance’.
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