Keywords: Conspiracy Theories
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Barry Gittins and Jen Vuk
- 26 July 2013
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What we have here is a memoir of a woman wronged. And by that I don't mean our former PM. Well, not exclusively, anyway. Journalist Kerry-Anne Walsh may deny either a relationship with Gillard or an outright allegiance, but they're connected where it counts: at the heart of injustice. Both have been let down by a party that has seen much, much better days.
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AUSTRALIA
- Philip Mendes
- 26 February 2013
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Some Jewish Australians bring from their childhoods in tranquil Australia a special degree of idealism and innocence to their involvement in homeland conflicts. It may be this, rather than spy-catcher conspiracy theories, which best explains what happened to Ben Zygier and other young Australians who have died in conflicts in the Middle East.
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RELIGION
- Muhammad Izhar ul Haq
- 07 June 2011
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Everything Western nations do is analysed by the Muslim world in the light of 'conspiracy theories'. Fanatics present the French burqa ban as a reflection of anti Islamic sentiment. In fact millions of Muslim women in France and elsewhere do not cover their faces.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Philip Mendes
- 05 February 2010
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The myth of an international Jewish communist conspiracy has long been a central diet of anti-Semitic agendas. Dutch academic Andre Gerrits provides a dispassionate an balanced account of this contentious topic.
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AUSTRALIA
- Nigel Mitchell
- 25 May 2009
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The Pope visited the Middle East in an attempt to address the controversy regarding 'Holocaust denier' Bishop Richard Williamson. In the same week, in Australia, 'revisionist' historian Frederick Toben was sentenced to three months in jail.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Shahram Akbarzadeh
- 13 June 2008
Earlier this month, Islamic zealots the Defenders of Islam attacked a Muslim sect
they accuse of apostasy. In My Friend the Fanatic Sadanand Dhume falls
on his strength of constructing narratives to explore the rise of radicalism in Indonesia.
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AUSTRALIA
- Shahram Akbarzadeh
- 27 February 2007
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A quiet revolution is being carried out by ordinary men and women who happen to be Muslim, but are otherwise undistinguishable from the rest of the community. Muslims living in Australia don't have to turn their backs to religion to be good citizens, indeed they're turning to the essentials of their faith to fulfil their citizenship.
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INTERNATIONAL
We have to take racism seriously, says Anthony Ham.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Paul Tankard
- 02 July 2006
Paul Tankard reviews 101 Experiments in the Philosophy of Everyday Life by Roger-Pol Droit.
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AUSTRALIA
- Peter Pierce, David Glanz, Tony Brennan
- 13 June 2006
News from around the traps.
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INFORMATION
- Philip Mendes, Stephen Brown
- 05 June 2006
What is anti-Semitism? | The undeserving poor
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