Keywords: Arnold Schwarzenegger
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INTERNATIONAL
When Cynthia Nixon announced she was running for governor of New York the excitement was instantaneous. Not because she was a woman, as there have been no female governors of the state, nor because she once played Miranda on Sex and the City, but because she spoke in a way that captured leftie hearts the world over.
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INTERNATIONAL
- Garry Westmore
- 20 October 2015
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Hollywood need not deny the violence cartels have perpetrated upon one another, members of the public, police and military. But to almost exclusively engage with Mexico in terms of this violence provides a badly limited perspective on that country. Hollywood does something similar when it goes to Africa and tells only stories of warlords and child soldiers. To do so brings nothing to the conversation, but merely exploits tragic situations for the benefit of laughs and action.
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INTERNATIONAL
- Andrew Hamilton
- 23 April 2014
6 Comments
Killer robots — drones in an advanced stage of development — are now a daytime reality. They will be autonomous in their operation, able to identify targets, track them down, work out the best way to destroy them, and learn from their failures, all without the need for human direction. These qualities raise serious ethical questions. Obama's use of just war theory to defend such drones was misguided at best, pernicious at worst.
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ENVIRONMENT
- Binoy Kampmark
- 31 May 2011
25 Comments
Actors specialise in image making, an imitation of life rather than life itself. While the carbon tax being spruiked by Cate Blanchett and other celebrities is ostensibly designed to target polluters, in truth the Gillard Government is simply finding another avenue for raising revenue.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- 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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AUSTRALIA
- Eureka Street editors
- 13 June 2006
A note from the Editors of Eureka Street.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Moira Rayner
- 12 June 2006
Moira Rayner reviews Hillary Rodham Clinton’s Living History.
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AUSTRALIA
- Margaret Coffey
- 10 May 2006
The Hispanic population may play a critical role in the forthcoming US elections
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Siobhan Jackson, Allan James Thomas, Zane Lovitt, Gil Maclean
- 30 April 2006
Reviews of the films Bad Santa; Team America: World Police; Finding Neverland and Napoleon Dynamite.
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