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Section: International

  • INTERNATIONAL

    Us and them

    • Andrew Hamilton
    • 25 April 2006

    The question initially asked about Cornelia Rau was why an Australian citizen should be treated so badly. This question was morally adrift. We should ask why any human being could be treated in this way.

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  • INTERNATIONAL

    A ship and a harbour

    • Sarah Kanowski
    • 25 April 2006

    Travelling in order to see how different people live is essential to the formation of a genuine tolerance of other cultures.  

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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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  • INTERNATIONAL

    More than small change

    • Janet Palafox
    • 24 April 2006

    Microcredit relief for the poor

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  • INTERNATIONAL

    Are we giving our fair share?

    • Shaun Cannon
    • 24 April 2006

    The Make Poverty History campaign has inspired global solidarity.   The challenge of ending poverty has progressed from an idea of good intent to a global campaign, enthusiastically embraced.

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  • INTERNATIONAL

    Guatemala’s unforgiven

    • Lucy Turner
    • 23 April 2006

    As the government apologises to victims’ families for state-sanctioned atrocities during the civil war, the perpetrators remain free

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  • INTERNATIONAL

    A history that gives hope

    • Clare O’Neil
    • 23 April 2006

    Under different leadership, in different times, changes in attitudes towards asylum seekers have been profound and swift

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  • INTERNATIONAL

    Balancing heart and spleen

    • Robert Hefner
    • 23 April 2006

    Crossing the border to better understand ‘the other’ can help not just them, but us as well

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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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  • INTERNATIONAL

    Tensions mount in Sri Lanka

    • Jon Greenaway
    • 21 April 2006

     A few months’ peace in the wake of the tsunami was shattered by an assassin’s bullet.  

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  • INTERNATIONAL

    Another African tragedy

    • Dorothy Horsfield
    • 21 April 2006

    For this peace prize winner, northern Uganda is the worst place on earth to be a child today.  

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  • INTERNATIONAL

    A sorry tale of human bondage

    • Anthony Ham
    • 20 April 2006

    In drought-ravaged, impoverished Niger, slavery is still a way of life for many.  

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