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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Censorship in the age of social media

    • Sarah Klenbort
    • 01 August 2023
    5 Comments

    When a comedic story is withdrawn from a literary contest for referencing Putin, it bears reflecting on various shades of censorship. In an interconnected world where social media storms can shape the narrative, what does freedom of speech mean for writers today?

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Eureka Street person of the year

    • David Halliday, Michael McVeigh, Laura Kings, Michele Frankeni, Andrew Hamilton, Julian Butler
    • 21 December 2022
    2 Comments

    To close the year for Eureka Street, the editorial team wanted to nominate who we considered to be the Eureka Street ‘person of the year’ based on who we think somehow embody Eureka Street values.

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  • INTERNATIONAL

    Inside Catalonia's cypherpunk referendum

    • Marta Poblet Balcell
    • 06 October 2017
    3 Comments

    Activism advocating widespread use of encryption and privacy-enhancing technologies to bring political change in Catalonia is perhaps a sign of emerging trends on the internet: the horizontal, decentralised internet that Vint Cerf and Tim Berners-Lee, inventors of its core technologies, initially envisioned and are currently demanding.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Man of faiths

    • Peter Kirkwood
    • 01 September 2010
    28 Comments

    On his return to Europe after many years absence, Raimon Panikkar said: ‘I left as a Christian, I found myself a Hindu, and I return a Buddhist, without having ceased to be a Christian.' This statement of his own multiple religious belonging is just one of many challenging insights and ideas that he wrote about with passion and eloquence.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    The original Europeans

    • Anthony Ham
    • 18 May 2007

    Anthony Ham discovers that Basque is not a region but a way of life

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Wintry conscience

    • Edmund Campion
    • 01 July 2006

    George Orwell’s take on language has an increasing contemporary relevance

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Book reviews

    • Lee Beasley, Kathryn Page, Matthew Lamb, Steve Gome
    • 14 May 2006

    Reviews of the books In Tasmania; Women and media: International perspectives; Havoc, in its third year and The Tomb in Seville.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Roving ambassador

    • John Button
    • 10 May 2006

    John Button travels Twelve cities: A memoir with Roy Jenkins.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Europe’s Muslim future

    • Anthony Ham
    • 24 April 2006

    In grappling with a growing Muslim population, Europe must choose between assimilation, integration or accommodation.

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