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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Worth a fatwa?

    • Peter Pierce & Catherine Pierce
    • 02 July 2006

    Has Michel Houellebecq earned the criticism that has come his way?

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Book reviews

    • Miriam Bugden, Andrew Hamilton, Chris O’Connor, Tom Rigby
    • 26 June 2006

    Reviews of Western Horizon: Sydney’s heartland and the future of Australian politics; Body and Soul: A Spirituality of Imaginative Creativity; One Fourteenth of an Elephant: A memoir of life and death on the Burma–Thailand Railway; What’s Right? and Giving it Away: In praise of philanthropy.

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  • ENVIRONMENT

    Unsexy science

    • Tim Thwaites
    • 16 June 2006

    Archimedes would argue that such science forms the backbone of our society, in the way that adequate sewerage, clean water and good dietary information do more for human health than heart transplants and Viagra.

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  • INTERNATIONAL

    Protecting the vulnerable

    • Moira Rayner
    • 11 June 2006

    Children need help to protect themselves, argues Moira Rayner.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Tastes of the Orient

    • Christine Salins
    • 14 May 2006

    An interview with Asian culinary master, Rosemary Brissenden, by Christine Salins.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Facing the stranger

    • Mark Raper
    • 08 May 2006

    Mark Raper on Australia’s changing attitudes to refugees

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  • INTERNATIONAL

    Human traffic

    • Georgina Costello
    • 25 April 2006

    Many Thai women come to Australia on the promise of a work visa and a well-paid job, but end up in brothels.

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  • INFORMATION

    Letters to Eureka Street

    • Nigel Sinnott, Jan Pinder, Cameron  Forbes and Brian McCoy
    • 24 April 2006

    Letters from Nigel Sinnott, Jan Pinder, Cameron  Forbes and Brian McCoy

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  • ENVIRONMENT

    How the people saved their river

    • Robert Kennedy
    • 24 April 2006

    The environmental lessons learned by those who live along the Hudson River in New York can be applied to cleaning up our own rivers in Australia.

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  • INTERNATIONAL

    Burma’s hidden diaspora

    • Ron Browning
    • 21 April 2006

    Hope emerges for the Karen people forced to flee Burma for refugee camps just over the border in Thailand.  

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  • RELIGION

    Liturgy in a time of terror

    • Andrew Hamilton
    • 20 April 2006

    The responsiveness of ritual to culture is evident in an Australia increasingly shaped by fear of terror.  

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  • ENVIRONMENT

    Positive thinking

    • Tim Thwaites
    • 20 April 2006

    In the spirit of the times, Archimedes writes a column about positive, upbeat happenings in science—the things to which we often pay too little attention.

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