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  • RELIGION

    The baby Jesus and the business of welfare

    • Kate Mannix
    • 23 December 2006
    1 Comment

    The poignant story of the poor baby born in a stable is a reminder that God-with-us means God for every last one of us. Yet it is becoming apparent that God's caritas is being appropriated for the political convenience of the State.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    "Australian values" learned in Budapest uprising

    • Michael Danby
    • 30 October 2006
    5 Comments

    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

    Religious freedom and the inflammatory power of the Cross

    • Andrew Hamilton
    • 18 September 2006

    The unrelated cases of the Melbourne schoolgirl, and the Scottish goalie, both invoke two principles that are normally kept quite separate—the right of individual self-expression, and the right of religious freedom.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Long road back for Ramos Horta

    • Paul Cleary
    • 10 July 2006
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    In 2006, the East Timorese government’s inept handling of a dispute in the army involving soldiers from the western region of East Timor put the young nation on the brink of civil war. Now Jose Ramos Horta has been installed as Prime Minister, but will it make a difference?

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  • RELIGION

    The emerging patterns of Benedict's papacy

    • Andrew Hamilton
    • 12 June 2006

    John Paul II’s world was the post-Reformation Church, seen from a Polish perspective. Benedict XVI is rooted in the Catholic Church before the Reformation, reflecting the subjects of his academic dissertations - Bonaventure and Augustine - who were masters in the exploration of symbols.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Soul food

    • Matthew Klugman
    • 11 June 2006

    Matthew Klugman interviews Richard Tognetti of the Australian Chamber Orchestra.

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  • INTERNATIONAL

    The voices of the silenced

    • Anthony Ham
    • 22 May 2006

    Anthony Ham looks at the national and international legacy of the bombings in Madrid.

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  • RELIGION

    Talking about community

    • Andrew Hamilton
    • 14 May 2006

    Lindsay Tanner and Tony Abbott recently gave thoughtful speeches about the place of the churches in public life, which merit a reflective response.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Anglican lines in the sand

    • Alan Nichols
    • 14 May 2006

    Alan Nichols reviews Muriel Porter’sThe New Puritans:  The  Rise of Fundamentalism in the Anglican Church.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Getting to know Billy better

    • John Button
    • 14 May 2006

    John Button on Aneurin Hughes’s Billy Hughes: Prime Minister and Controversial Founding Father of  the Labor Party.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Irreconcilable differences?

    • Madeleine Byrne
    • 11 May 2006

    Madeleine Byrne takes to the streets of Hong Kong for a pro-democracy march

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Reasons to believe

    • Andrew Hamilton
    • 11 May 2006

    Paul Collins’ latest book looks at why Catholics continue their relationship with the church

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