Keywords: History Of Early Sydney
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 06 October 2008
'Lee and
Christine Rush are your average Ozzie couple, except that their teenage son Scott is on death row in Bali having been
convicted of being a hapless drug mule. It will not go down well on the streets of Jakarta
if Australians are baying for the blood of the Bali bombers one month
and then pleading to save our sons and daughters the next month.'
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AUSTRALIA
- Mustafa Qadri
- 17 September 2008
3 Comments
The tribal peoples of northern Pakistan distrust foreigners due to centuries of interference that have left them marginalised. The casual nature with which US forces excuse civilian casualties suggests an abject ignorance of this history.
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RELIGION
- Andrew Hamilton
- 28 August 2008
3 Comments
If we show an interest in the lives of soapies characters, we may be seen as aesthetically and culturally dim. People whose religious imagination expresses itself in exuberant devotional practices are often seen in the same way.
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RELIGION
- Andrew Hamilton
- 19 September 2007
3 Comments
The internal logic of total security regards the dignity of people who stand in the way, as dispensable. Once respect for some human beings is treated as optional, the human dignity of those offered security becomes equally dispensable.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 18 May 2007
1 Comment
Indigenous beliefs were - and are - considered subversive, and therefore suppressed in colonised societies on earth. Zimbabwe's Witchcraft Suppression Act of 1899 was repealed last year as part of Robert Mugabe's heightened reaction against colonialism.
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AUSTRALIA
- Binoy Kampmark
- 22 January 2007
3 Comments
Whatever criticisms have been levelled against Warnie, he is seen as the reviver of cricket. For better or worse, he brought cricket up-to-speed with other sports, in terms of quality, and scandal. Whatever criticisms have been levelled against Warnie, Australians remain loyal to his superiority. Warne is seen as the reviver of cricket, bringing slow bowling back from the desert.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Christine Gillespie
- 07 August 2006
2 Comments
It’s hard to put the dead to rest. 18 August 2006 is the 40th anniversary of the Battle of Long Tan, in which 18 Australian and more than 245 Viet Cong soldiers were killed. There’s an invitation to go to Perth where they’re naming streets in a new housing development after six soldiers who did not return.
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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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INFORMATION
- Michael McKernan, Peter Pierce, Liz Curran, Peter Seidel, Frank Fisher
- 05 July 2006
Strange times, Cooling off in Tasmania, Where now for reconciliation?, Tides of history, Being scared of GM
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AUSTRALIA
- Tom Griffiths
- 05 July 2006
Historians are fighting a mini war over frontier history and the number of Aboriginal dead. Tom Griffiths argues for a different approach.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
Hugh Dillon reviews W.G. Sebald’s On the Natural History of Destruction and Mark Roseman’s The Villa, the Lake, the Meeting: Wannsee and the Final Solution.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
John Sendy revisits Joseph Furphy’s Such is Life
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