Keywords: Australian Jews
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AUSTRALIA
Foreign Affairs Minister Alexander Downer said recently: "Muslim extremists are a Muslim issue - not ours." The fault with this view is that it transfers ownership of this challenge from the elected leaders to a minority group who simply don’t have the resources to deal with such a global crisis.
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AUSTRALIA
- Deborah Singerman
- 11 December 2006
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Our social networks underpin those casual salutations–"have a good weekend" or a "big night", or the jabber of mobile phones or texting. But they're increasingly elusive in today's world, as migrants already know.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Danby
- 30 October 2006
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Today, Hungary is a country as free as Australia. But 50 years ago—on 23 October 1956—Hungarian students rebelled and issued a manifesto demanding free elections. The Soviets reacted ruthlessly.
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RELIGION
- Andrew Hamilton
- 21 August 2006
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The new Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, has described IMF and World Bank conditional loans to Third World countries as usury.
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RELIGION
- 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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ENVIRONMENT
- Margaret Cassidy
- 10 July 2006
Webcams allow us to see ordinary life as it is being lived around the world. A myriad of sites takes us to tourist sites, places of worship, and even to the Antarctic.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
Jo Dirks looks at a new film on the life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Andrew Hamilton, Godfrey Moase
- 04 July 2006
Reviews of Justice, Jesus, and the Jews; The Land is a Map: Placenames of Indigenous Origin in Australia; Don’t Tell the Prime Minister; Unfinished Business: America and Cuba after the Cold War 1989–2001, and The Double Helix.
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AUSTRALIA
- Peter Pierce, David Glanz, Tony Brennan
- 13 June 2006
News from around the traps.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
Frank Brennan’s Tampering with Asylum prompts Peter Mares to look at this issue again.
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INTERNATIONAL
- Peter Pierce
- 11 June 2006
Peter Pierce gets on the bus.
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RELIGION
- Beth Doherty
- 06 June 2006
'Should I shake someone’s hand or will it offend?’ ‘Should I have my head covered?’ ‘Will they think I’m really thick if I ask why they do that?’. These were some of the common concerns for the 30 young people involved in a multi-faith experiment in late January.
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