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AUSTRALIA

Disaster capitalism on Manus Island
- Michael Mullins
- 15 August 2011
6 Comments
'Disaster capitalism' entails profiting from the misery of others. Papua New Guinea's motives for agreeing to the reopening of the Manus detention centre are economic. By proceeding with the plan Australia would be complicit in the exploitation of asylum seekers for financial gain.
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AUSTRALIA

Earthquakes, poets and God
- Michael Mullins
- 21 March 2011
13 Comments
Most of us vehemently reject claims such as that made by FoxNews' Glen Beck, that the Japan earthquake was the work of a vengeful God. In his Quarterly Essay last week, David Malouf gives a nuanced reading of the position that Beck has bastardised.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Death by tiger
- L.K. Holt
- 22 September 2009
1 Comment
The teenage boy .. drunk, taunting, now hanging from .. your latch of jaw
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AUSTRALIA

Book copyright debate ignores the future
- Michael Mullins
- 20 July 2009
3 Comments
Accusations of author greed and cultural philistinism dominate debate surrounding Productivity Commission recommendations on territorial copyright for books. Both sides have a point, but the argument may be irrelevant to the future of book publishing.
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AUSTRALIA

The rich list of Australian politics
- John Warhurst
- 16 June 2009
6 Comments
What can Malcolm Turnbull's place among Australia's richest 200 people tell us about wealth and politics? First and most obviously, that the extremely wealthy almost always get involved on the conservative side.
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AUSTRALIA

Obama could face race vote melt
- Jim McDermott
- 27 October 2008
8 Comments
In 1982 African-American Tom Bradley ran for governor of California. He lost, despite polls that showed him to be up by 12 points. Since then, analysts refer to the percentage point melt for African-American candidates on election day as the 'Bradley Effect'.
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AUSTRALIA

War on terror fosters US anti-immigrant hysteria
- David Rosen
- 13 December 2007
4 Comments
A recent series of raids by the US Department of Homeland Security signals a new era of anti-immigrant sentiment in the country. This is rationalised by a false association of undocumented immigrants with the 'war on terror'.
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MEDIA

Al-Jazeera suffers both US and Arab hostility
- Michael Mehr
- 13 December 2007
3 Comments
At al-Jazeera's Doha newsroom, employees are reminded that the channel must show 'the opinion and the opposite opinion'. Arab governments are not amused, and many have closed its bases in their territories. Yet Foxtel and other major providers in Australia and the US still decline to carry al-Jazeera.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Cousin Betty, the asylum and the EJ Holden
- Roger Trowbridge
- 05 September 2007
1 Comment
The old EJ was a last link to Betty. It was her pride and joy. She’d wash and polish it with the care most people reserved for their children. Betty had none. She was a "spinster".
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AUSTRALIA

Mahathir Mohamad embraces human rights?
- Binoy Kampmark
- 08 March 2007
1 Comment
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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AUSTRALIA

As other people see us...
- Morag Fraser
- 16 October 2006
1 Comment
In the Providence Journal, chief political columnist M. Charles Bakst notes that in the Democratic state of Rhode Island, "Bush" is just short of a swear word. The New York Times condemns the Detainee legislation in an editorial headed “Rushing Off a Cliff”. It doesn’t spare the Democrats either.
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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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