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AUSTRALIA

Refugee refusual echoes 'Tampa election' rhetoric
- Kerry Murphy
- 19 February 2008
10 Comments
Senator Chris Evans refused a protection visa to convicted people smuggler 'Mr A', even though he was assessed by Immigration as a refugee. Senator Evans had an opportunity to improve upon the previous government's treatment of asylum seekers, but instead reverted to the same hostile rhetoric.
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RELIGION

Loose reasoning on death penalty - Frank Brennan
- Frank Brennan
- 25 October 2007
We think it is wrong for foreign states to impose the death penalty on Aussie drug traffickers and drug mules. But we apply different reasoning to non-Australians facing death at the hands of the state. The practical, hands on, Aussie approach often plays fast and loose with moral reasoning about what is right and wrong.
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AUSTRALIA

Iraq's Asia Cup victory hides reality of ungovernable society
- Scott Stephens
- 08 August 2007
5 Comments
The press coverage of Iraq’s surprise victory in the Asian Cup final was — as Ernst Bloch might have put it — full of utopian sentiment. The win was, admittedly, a remarkable achievement, but one that hardly accounted for the sheer exuberance of the outpoured emotion that followed.
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AUSTRALIA

Iraq's overlooked political factions
- Dan Read
- 08 August 2007
The Iraq situation is a lot more complex than a simple standoff between western democracy and political Islam. Until this is understood, a viable solution that takes Iraq towards genuine democracy and self government is impossible.
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AUSTRALIA

Great leaders love their teams
- Chris Lowney
- 25 July 2007
1 Comment
Eric Shinseki was the highest ranking US military officer in the United States until he ran afoul of his boss, former US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsel. He had told a Congressional hearing that the US Army would more soldiers to Iraq than planned, to keep the peace Saddam Hussein's removal.
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AUSTRALIA

Zarqawi’s death a turning point in Iraq?
- James Massola
- 27 February 2007
The death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi last Wednesday has the potential to be a major turning point in Iraq for both the civilian government, and for the coalition forces. What happens next could shape Iraq's future.
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AUSTRALIA

Remembering a hanging
- Peter Norden
- 27 February 2007
33 Comments
Forty years ago Ronald Ryan had a noose put around his neck by the prison hangman. With the authority of the Victorian State Government, its then Premier, Henry Bolte, and the Victorian Supreme Court he was killed. Ryan was the last man hanged in Australia, and many believe he will always retain that infamous privilege.
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AUSTRALIA

Slow progress with North Korea is better than no progress
- Joseph Camilleri
- 30 October 2006
8 Comments
The North Korean regime is more likely to be loosened from its present grip on power by the slow but persistent attempts to change the economic and psychological landscape inside North Korea, than by the external application of brute force.
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AUSTRALIA

As other people see us...
- Morag Fraser
- 16 October 2006
1 Comment
In the Providence Journal, chief political columnist M. Charles Bakst notes that in the Democratic state of Rhode Island, "Bush" is just short of a swear word. The New York Times condemns the Detainee legislation in an editorial headed “Rushing Off a Cliff”. It doesn’t spare the Democrats either.
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RELIGION

Poor fellow my country
- Frank Brennan
- 09 July 2006
The following is an edited text of an address given by Fr Frank Brennan sj ao, at the launch of his most recent book, Tampering with Asylum.
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MEDIA

Thirty years of war
- Joshua Puls
- 09 July 2006
Joshua Puls meets the BBC’s John Simpson, broadcaster and war correspondent.
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RELIGION

Just war I
- Bruce Duncan
- 07 July 2006
The history, the current circumstances
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