Keywords: The Freedom Paradox
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RELIGION
- Katharine Massam
- 11 January 2011
1 Comment
Mary MacKillop's face is on the Sydney Habour Bridge, at least temporarily. Is she becoming one of the clichés for Australia, alongside bushmen and Hills Hoist mums in our catalogue of national identity?
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RELIGION
- Katharine Massam
- 15 October 2010
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Mary MacKillop's face is on the Sydney Habour Bridge, at least temporarily. Is she becoming one of the clichés for Australia, alongside bushmen and Hills Hoist mums in our catalogue of national identity?
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AUSTRALIA
- Andrew Hamilton
- 20 May 2010
13 Comments
The arrival of Jessica Watson back in Australia was small news in
cosmic terms, but provoked a great deal of discussion around the
coffee pot. Most had to do with values. Some questions said more about the questioners than about the sailor.
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EDUCATION
- Eleanor Massey
- 03 March 2009
10 Comments
The student teacher is doing his best, trying to teach abstract ideas in a difficult play about a postmodern world. A girl in the front row is discussing her new 'vampire' boyfriend. 'He's in 12B,' she says. 'I can't take my eyes off him.'
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AUSTRALIA
- Ruby J. Murray
- 14 January 2009
Paradoxes can be hard to digest, but it doesn't mean they're not good for you. During question time, the panellists try hard not to disagree with each other on the state of modern feminism. My g-string's giving me a wedgie, and I shift uncomfortably. (October 2008)
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Ruby J. Murray
- 03 October 2008
10 Comments
Paradoxes can be hard to digest, but it doesn't mean they're not good for you. During question time, the panellists try hard not to disagree with each other on the state of modern feminism. My g-string's giving me a wedgie, and I shift uncomfortably.
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AUSTRALIA
- Ben Coleridge
- 12 December 2007
1 Comment
Russia's apathetic young people assert that even if they vote, nothing will change. They don't actually want things to change. They compare Russia with the troubled Yeltsin years. The economy and lifestyle have boomed, so why worry about free speech?
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INTERNATIONAL
- Allister Hayman
- 27 June 2007
1 Comment
Despite mounting criticism of the human rights record of Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, foreign donors, including Australia, continue to back him financially. It seems that the economic growth and stability he has fostered is more valuable than transparency, the rule of law, and human rights.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Peter Steele
- 08 July 2006
Peter Steele reviews Terry Eagleton’s Sweet Violence: the Idea of the Tragic.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Matthew Klugman
- 11 June 2006
Matthew Klugman interviews Richard Tognetti of the Australian Chamber Orchestra.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
Jim Davidson explores Morris Berman’s The Twilight of American Culture.
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RELIGION
- Andrew Hamilton
- 22 May 2006
Football teams, empires and prime ministers rise and fall but, it is said, God’s word abides forever. True, but the books of scripture themselves also rise and fall in popularity.
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