Keywords: Chinese New Year
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AUSTRALIA
- Fatima Measham
- 18 May 2007
Fatima Measham investigates the declining credibility of Filipino President Gloria Arroyo.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Gil Maclean, Siobhan Jackson, Allan James Thomas
- 18 May 2007
Reviews of the films Hero; The story of the weeping camel; In my father’s den and Steamboy.
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AUSTRALIA
- Binoy Kampmark
- 08 March 2007
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Malaysia's colourful former Prime Minister is setting up a war crimes tribunal, to "assuage the pain that has been suffered by so many people in Iraq, Palestine, Afghanistan and elsewhere". Mahathir, it seems, hopes to reinvent the wheel, and a rickety one at that.
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RELIGION
- Morag Fraser
- 23 December 2006
1 Comment
In the ideal world, the Christmas stockings of politicians would be filled with books. No bottles of single malt. No Tom Waits triple CD (alas). Only books.
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AUSTRALIA
- Jack Waterford
- 21 August 2006
If the Federal Government is serious about history, it should be devoting as much time to having us understand the history of our neighbours, and having our neighbours understand our sense of our own. It's mostly virgin territory.
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MEDIA
- Paul Mitchell
- 10 July 2006
The Torch Project creates plays that reconcile groups in conflict. Earlier this year it staged a play that dealt with the bitter dispute about safe injecting room that six years earlier had divided Mission from Church Congregation.
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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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EDUCATION
- Robin Jeffrey
- 04 July 2006
It is crucial that Australia increases its knowledge of Asia
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AUSTRALIA
- Gavan McCormack
- 04 July 2006
Encouraging the North–South relationship offers the best hope for North Korea and the world
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ARTS AND CULTURE
John Sendy revisits Joseph Furphy’s Such is Life
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Lucille Hughes, Allan James Thomas, Tim Metherall, Siobhan Jackson
- 12 June 2006
Reviews of the films Ten; Kill Bill Vol. 1; Intolerable Cruelty and In This world
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AUSTRALIA
- Deborah Singerman
- 29 May 2006
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With a predominantly working class Anglo-Celtic population, pre-World War II Ashfield was a green escape from inner-city Sydney. But now Chinese have settled in large numbers, and some blame them for what they see as Ashfield’s disrepair and unwelcoming atmosphere.
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