Keywords: A Century Of Influence
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AUSTRALIA
- Tony Smith
- 07 August 2006
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Former Labor minister John Button anticipated the current low point in political discourse, with defenders and critics of government policy having lost the capacity to engage in dialogue, particularly in the field of public morality.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Margaret Coffey
- 10 July 2006
Margaret Coffey reviews Sean McConville’s weighty tome, Irish Political Prisoners, 1848–1922, Theatres of War.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Godfrey Moase, Marcelle Mogg, John Carmody
- 10 July 2006
Reviews of Frontier Justice: Weapons of mass destruction and the bushwacking of America; Best Australian political cartoons and Quarterly Essay, ‘Made in England: Australia’s British Inheritance’.
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AUSTRALIA
Minh Nguyen considers the challenges for the US under the influence of the neo-conservatives.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
Peter Rose on writing Rose Boys.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- 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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INFORMATION
- Michael McKernan, Peter Pierce, Liz Curran, Peter Seidel, Frank Fisher
- 05 July 2006
Strange times, Cooling off in Tasmania, Where now for reconciliation?, Tides of history, Being scared of GM
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RELIGION
- Abdullah Saeed
- 24 June 2006
September 11, 2001 changed the life of Muslims in the West, including Australia. Muslims in Australia today, their beliefs, values, practices and institutions, are under the microscope. There is a fear among many Muslims in Australia that is difficult to explain. In turn, Muslims are feared by many non-Muslim Australians, many of them Christians.
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RELIGION
- James McEvoy
- 19 June 2006
Forty years into the journey, commentators debate whether the Council was overly optimistic about modernity. Did the heady days of the early ’60s influence the Council’s agenda to its detriment?
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INTERNATIONAL
Anthony Ham visits Tunisia, Homer’s land of the Lotus-Eaters
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ENVIRONMENT
Mark Byrne looks at the particular characteristics that make an Australian 'hero', and asks what it is about the interior of this country that moulds the interior of our collective suconscious in such a unique way.
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RELIGION
- Andrew Hamilton
- 14 May 2006
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the death of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and the 40th of Winston Churchill’s. They never met and had totally different temperaments. But some things they had in common.
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