keywords: Friends In Deed
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ENVIRONMENT
- Drew Taylor
- 06 October 2009
10 Comments
Australian online and wireless games constitute a rapidly-growing, billion-dollar industry, and sites such as Facebook increasingly dominate our social networks. Have we taken the first step towards 'trusting the computer' too much?
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Val Noone
- 04 September 2009
7 Comments
At the height of Willam Hackett's republican involvements, the Jesuit provincial
offered him a choice of silence or appointment
to Australia. Through a combination of personal memoir and public history, Brenda Niall unravels the riddles of Hackett's life.
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AUSTRALIA
- Paul Cleary
- 20 August 2009
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The first feature length film about Indonesia's invasion of East Timor and the deaths of six Australian journalists fails to inform the audience of the diplomatic dirty tricks, and Australian and American complicity.
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AUSTRALIA
- Ben Coleridge
- 12 August 2009
18 Comments
If there's a problem with Somali youth integrating into the community, let's all own it. That means taking an interest and being open to friendship. It's not just the responsibility of bureaucrats who devise 'policy solutions'.
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RELIGION
- Herman Roborgh
- 25 June 2009
4 Comments
The scriptures of both Islam and Christianity are full of paradoxes.
Some readers of paradoxes simply emphasise only one part of the paradox. Critics of Islam and of Christianity feast on
one-sided interpretation of this sort.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
Kamel Sachet, a 'hero' from the Iran/Iraq war, eventually made the rank of
general. But he grew disenchanted with the
rule of Saddam. As he tried to withdraw from active service, he became more religious as an observant Muslim.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
The variety of Quaker service in Aboriginal communities and around the world is extraordinary. In light of the GFC and climate change, the Quakers' emphasis on small-scale food and water security projects will prove prescient.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Carolyn Masel
- 03 April 2009
Vincent Buckley's work evolves from the explicitly religious to the
exploration of experience. But when individual and common experience of love, suffering, or
conflict is treated with such depth of seriousness, the result is much the same.
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MEDIA
- Philip Harvey
- 24 February 2009
10 Comments
Melbourne had the strange experience of reading and
listening to bushfire reports for five days while neither seeing nor
smelling smoke.
When the mind has no sensory leads to interpret, words become critical.
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ECONOMICS
- Julian Butler
- 18 February 2009
6 Comments
Some of the soup van's clients collect cans to sell to a scrap dealer. The work supplements their welfare income and provides a sense of
fulfillment. Since the global market crash business has been slow: 'China doesn't want aluminium now.'
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AUSTRALIA
- Peter Matheson
- 08 January 2009
4 Comments
An overweening trust in
military muscle has led Israel into this campaign; it is hard to overlook the parallels with the Shock and Awe
curtain-raiser to the Iraq debacle. It seems there is an unspoken assumption that
Palestinian lives are not so important as Israeli ones.
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ENVIRONMENT
- Ben O'Mara
- 15 December 2008
2 Comments
I spent untold hours playing on my Commodore 64. I upgraded to a PC, to fight the beasties of Duke Nukem 3D as I chugged too many coffees and Mars bars. Interactivity is videogames' strength, and can be applied in socially constructive ways for marginalised communities.
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