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  • INTERNATIONAL

    England

    • Peter Pierce
    • 11 June 2006

    Peter Pierce gets on the bus.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Ethics v. politics

    • David Ferris
    • 06 June 2006

    David Ferris reviews The Ethical State? Social Liberalism in Australia by Marian Sawer.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Thinly veiled

    • Joshua Puls
    • 05 June 2006

    In a knee-jerk of anti-terrorist fervour, the French Government seems to want religion to be totally private, walled in.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    All that jazz

    • Christopher Heathcote
    • 14 May 2006

    Television’s engagement with the arts.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Book reviews

    • Nathan Kensey, Daniel Marti, Aaron Martin, Beth Doherty
    • 14 May 2006

    Reviews of the books: Who did this to our Bali?; Off Course: From Public Place to Marketplace at Melbourne University; Dark Dreams, Australian refugee stories by young writers; A history of the devil:  From the Middle Ages to the present.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Returning to place

    • Daniel Donahoo
    • 14 May 2006

    Daniel Donahoo examines the experiences of an expat in Peter Conrad’s Tales of Two Hemispheres.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    The art of philanthropy

    • David R. Jones
    • 11 May 2006

    David R. Jones reviews A Tradition of Giving: Seventy-Five Years of Myer Family Philanthropy by Michael Liffman, and Mr Felton’s Bequests by John Poynter.

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  • ENVIRONMENT

    Higher learning

    • Tim Thwaites
    • 10 May 2006

    No fewer than eight Fellows of the Royal Society of London were taught and inspired at secondary school by one science teacher, Len Basser of Sydney Boys High School. This fact emerged from the 2004 Prime Minister’s Prizes for Science.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Roving ambassador

    • John Button
    • 10 May 2006

    John Button travels Twelve cities: A memoir with Roy Jenkins.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Things that go bump in the night

    • Brian Matthews
    • 08 May 2006

    Between 1 January and 1 October this year I slept in at least 19 different beds.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Yes, Minister

    • John Button
    • 08 May 2006

    John Button peruses the diaries of Harold Macmillan.

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  • RELIGION

    Australia’s judicial isolation

    • Frank Brennan
    • 29 April 2006

    Over the last year a major chasm has opened between decisions of Australia’s High Court and those of the UK House of Lords and the US Supreme Court regarding issues of national security such as the long-term mandatory detention of stateless asylum seekers.

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