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RELIGION

Wive's tales
- Andrew Hamilton
- 18 May 2007
It is a disconcerting fact of life that people who take unpopular moral positions are marginalised.
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AUSTRALIA

Our deathly cars and trucks
- Clare Coburn
- 02 April 2007
Images from the Burnley tunnel accident showed thick plumes of smoke billowing from the outlet chimney. If a shark kills a lone swimmer off a beach, we call for netting or shooting. We have a much more lenient attitude towards roads.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Is this really the worst drought on record?
- Brian Matthews
- 02 April 2007
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Statisticians of weather can have a shot at telling us where this drought stands in the pantheon of arid disasters. Is this the 'worst drought' in a thousand years, as Mike Rann is said to have claimed? Who knows?
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Fluttering locusts stripping the paddocks bare
- Brendan Ryan
- 27 February 2007
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Their flickering rises to a crescendo / unsettling, like a threat the ground / moves beneath me.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Nomads' perspective on destruction of the planet
- Robert Hefner
- 22 January 2007
After many thousands of years, modernity is sweeping away nomadic existence. Cosmologies such as Aboriginal Dreaming encode irreplaceable knowledge of the natural world, and nomadic cultures emphasise qualities of tolerance, adaptability and human interconnectedness.
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RELIGION

A wide Brown land shaking off its collective memory
- Brian Matthews
- 23 December 2006
In a country which periodically agonises its way through debates about its history and frets regularly about the quality of history teaching, it is remarkable how resistant we are to embedding notes and pointers on our past in the urban and rural landscapes.
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RELIGION

Emotional and intellectual tensions rising in cloning debate
- Frank Brennan
- 30 October 2006
1 Comment
As senators reflected on the role of religious thinking in discussion of embryonic cloning, Senator Kay Patterson responded testily to Bishop Anthony Fisher: "Dear me, I might be excommunicated!" This week, the Australian Catholic University brings together two Catholic medical scientists, and two Catholic ethicists, with opposing views.
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AUSTRALIA

Iconoclasts' challenge to turn the other cheek
- Michael Mullins & James Massola
- 18 September 2006
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When the Jesuits' founder St Ignatius Loyola was on the road riding with a Moor in 1522, the Moor argued that the Virgin Mary was no longer a virgin after Christ was born. The recent former soldier Ignatius wanted to kill the Moor on the spot.
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MEDIA

Shifting sands in the online music marketplace
- Margaret Cassidy
- 21 August 2006
The physical music store is in serious decline as people buy and download online. Internet social networking points such as YouTube and MySpace are also providing music distribution outlets, and also vehicles for many young wannabe and established artists to promote their songs.
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AUSTRALIA

Wotjobaluk man
- As told by William John Kennedy Snr
- 08 July 2006
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William John Kennedy Snr. is the oldest male Aboriginal elder in the State of Victoria. He fought in the Second World War. He worked on the railways. He campaigned for land rights. And he just happens to be my grandfather. To most people he’s known as ‘Uncle Jack’, but to me, he’s ‘Pop’. This is his story.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Film reviews
- Siobhan Jackson, Brett Evans, Morag Fraser, Marcelle Mogg, Allan James Thomas
- 06 July 2006
Reviews of the ﬁlms About Schmidt; Standing in the Shadows of Motown; Taking Sides; Chicago and Bowling for Columbine.
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ENVIRONMENT

The things that divide us
- Anthony Ham
- 05 July 2006
Australia is in a one-in-a-century drought. In India, water is always scarce and the conflict over its management rife—a precise illustration of what not to do. Maybe we can learn?
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