Keywords: Greek Neighbour
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AUSTRALIA
- Gillian Bouras
- 20 June 2012
6 Comments
Greeks expect the positive outcome of last weekend's election to be weak and short-lived. Austerity has brought predictable unemployment, homelessness, and a rising suicide rate. The elderly are reminded of the fear and the helplessness that accompanied the hideous years of the Civil War and the dictatorship of the Colonels.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Gillian Bouras
- 28 March 2012
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Maria was born into poverty and did not have much luck in escaping it. Yet she was an unchallenged believer, who would say regularly, Oti thelei o Theos: Whatever God wants. This, while I would huff and puff and mutter that God helps those who help themselves. But part of me envied Maria her certainties.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Gillian Bouras
- 07 July 2010
10 Comments
When you love, you must be prepared to die another death before you die
your own. Five minutes before 19-year-old Aristomenis died, he called in at his mother's place of work
to tell her he thought the exam had gone well.
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ENVIRONMENT
- Paul Mitchell
- 20 January 2010
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Air conditioners are necessary when the weather gets very hot, not leastof all for the wellbeing of babies, the sick, elderly and frail. But sometimes it seems that we Australians can't tell a cool change from climate change.
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MARGARET DOOLEY AWARD
Multi-faith dialogue is just a conversation, over time, between dear friends.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
Tolkien’s epic resists allegory, but Dorothy Lee found it open to mythological and spiritual exploration.
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RELIGION
- Abdullah Saeed
- 24 June 2006
September 11, 2001 changed the life of Muslims in the West, including Australia. Muslims in Australia today, their beliefs, values, practices and institutions, are under the microscope. There is a fear among many Muslims in Australia that is difficult to explain. In turn, Muslims are feared by many non-Muslim Australians, many of them Christians.
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