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Keywords: War On Drugs

  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    The highs and lows of substance addiction

    • Tim Kroenert
    • 23 December 2006

    In a cerebral sci-fi movie, America’s war on drugs emerges as a reflection of the real-world War on Terror, where government forces rage against a demonised and largely faceless enemy.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Personal odyssey in the steps of three Gobi women

    • James Massola
    • 23 December 2006
    1 Comment

    After discovering books by three women, a Lonely Planet editor from Melbourne resolves to follow in their footsteps, in the hope of giving some purpose to her aimless wanderlust.

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  • INTERNATIONAL

    Gut reaction aside, those on the ground know Iraq reality

    • Ben Coghlan
    • 30 October 2006
    4 Comments

    This month The Lancet published the findings of an Iraq war mortality survey that put the toll at more than 600,000. The US should recognise this figure because other studies in Darfur, Kosovo and Afghanistan employing identical methods are widely accepted.

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  • ENVIRONMENT

    Renewed esteem for a former marine enemy

    • Tim Thwaites
    • 16 October 2006

    Grey nurse sharks were cast as villains who preyed on unsuspecting swimmers. It's now regarded as an endangered species, whose potential disappearance from the marine ecosystem could lead to nasty imbalances further down the food chain.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Times Square's slice of life in the Big City

    • Gary Pearce
    • 24 July 2006

    Despite overweening corporate visions, the exploding lights and multicultural crowds of New York's Times Square show that people will continue to claim their right to be part of the city spectacle.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Historical novels

    • Delia Falconer
    • 06 July 2006

    Are we writing too many of them? Is there a crisis of relevance in Austlit? No, argues Delia Falconer.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Any excuse

    • Anthony Ham, Kath O’Connor, Bruce Duncan, Clive Shepherd
    • 01 July 2006

    Any excuse, Privatise or perish, Clear and present danger, Keep left unless undertaking

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Film reviews

    • Annelise Balsamo, Gordon Lewis, Juliette Hughes
    • 24 June 2006

    Reviews of the films Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle; Autofocus; Confessions of a Dangerous Mind and A Mighty Wind.

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  • INTERNATIONAL

    Denying the Grim Reaper

    • Paul Sendziuk
    • 18 June 2006

    Australian responses to AIDS.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Anarchy rules

    • Brian Matthews
    • 16 June 2006

    Just say you were on Who Wants to be a Millionaire? and, coming up to the $500,000 question, Eddie asks you, as he would be highly likely to do at that moment, ‘What do the following have in common?

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  • AUSTRALIA

    The diversions of war

    • Andrew Hamilton
    • 11 June 2006

    It is a minor paradox of war that in film clips, the politicians and generals who confer about present wars seem larger than life, whereas in the footage of past wars they look shrivelled—diminished by the destruction they have abetted.

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  • RELIGION

    Are we asleep at the wheel?

    • Frank Brennan
    • 14 May 2006

    In this edited extract from the 2006 Manning Clark Lecture, ‘5 R’s for the Enlargers: Race, Religion, Respect, Rights and the Republic’, Frank Brennan focuses on respect.  

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