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  • RELIGION

    Why so little moral outrage at the destruction of Lebanon?

    • Andrew Hamilton
    • 07 August 2006
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    Out of the passion of Lebanon, one hopeful image remains. It is the barely restrained rage of UN representative, Jan Egeland, at such unnecessary devastation. It made evident the general absence of moral passion or even reflection on the destruction in Palestine and Lebanon.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Truth, politics and the Fourth Estate

    • Morag Fraser
    • 14 May 2006

    The following essays by Morag Fraser and John Schumann are edited addresses from the Jesuit Lenten Seminar Series held in February–March 2005.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Truth? You can’t handle the truth

    • John Schumann
    • 14 May 2006

    Morag Fraser and John Schumann reflect on the crucial role of truth in our society.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Debates and discourses

    • Juliette Hughes
    • 14 May 2006

    In our house, we’ll continue to tolerate each other’s programs up to the point of nausea or embarrassment. We’ll be able to watch the animal documentaries, Media Watch, and Roy and H. G.’s new Memphis Trousers Half Hour.

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  • RELIGION

    Moral equivalence

    • Andrew Hamilton
    • 11 May 2006

    A good way to close discussion of Iraq, Palestine or refugees is to accuse your opponents of holding the doctrine of moral equivalence.

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  • INTERNATIONAL

    Survivor secrets

    • Dorothy Horsfield
    • 10 May 2006

    Dorothy Horsfield investigates an initiative to help the survivors of torture

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Winds of change in Egypt

    • David Glanz
    • 25 April 2006

    David Glanz finds that talk of democracy is a double-edged sword.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Expendable innocents

    • Andrew Hamilton
    • 24 April 2006

    The death of Jean Charles de Menezes invites us to reflect on where our conscription into that war has brought us.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Fair gone

    • Anthony Ham
    • 24 April 2006

    Becoming what we fear.

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