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Jesuit martyrs bolster El Salvador's Left
- Jeremy Tarbox
- 11 November 2009
5 Comments
Twenty years ago, six Jesuits were assassinated for their promotion of social justice and human rights in El Salvador. This month, their deaths are being used to shine a light on El Salvador's first democratically elected FMLN socialist government.
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RELIGION

Patient autonomy and the doctor's conscience
- Frank Brennan
- 18 September 2009
4 Comments
In Life and Death: How do we honour the Patient's Autonomy and the Doctor's Conscience? Frank Brennan's Sandra David Oration at St Vincent's Clinic, Darlinghurst, Sydney, 17 September 2009.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Malcolm Turnbull and the parable of the pelicans
- Brian Matthews
- 08 July 2009
3 Comments
Years ago, a trout fisherman with 'irresistible' bait was outsmarted by a flock of pelicans. Like a punter with unshakeable conviction, Malcolm Turnbull also learned the hard way that there's no such thing as a dead certainty.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Exposure: a fable in three parts
- Tim Kroenert
- 19 March 2009
1 Comment
Be it fact or fiction, there is something humanising in the notion of young Pauline Hanson exposing her not-so-innocence to her then boyfriend's camera.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Redeeming the all-American racist
- Tim Kroenert
- 29 January 2009
4 Comments
To be fair, Walt dislikes everybody. He dismisses the local priest as an 'overeducated 27-year-old virgin' and spews vile, xenophobic slander towards his Hmong refugee neighbours. Walt respects those who can give as good as they get.
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AUSTRALIA

Thoughts from a Gaza voyeur
- 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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AUSTRALIA

Forgotten veterans' hard-won legacy
- Clive Mitchell-Taylor
- 26 August 2008
Clive Mitchell-Taylor, President, Vietnam Veterans Association of Australia, National Council, NSW Branch, gave the following Vietnam Veterans and Long Tan Day address at Martin Place, Sydney, on 18 August 2008. It was submitted to Eureka Street as a response to Tony Smith's article about Vietnam War protesters.
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AUSTRALIA

Converting Paisley the Irish demagogue
- Frank O'Shea
- 27 May 2008
3 Comments
Northern Ireland has celebrated a year of normal political life. If St Paul got hit by a bolt of lightning, what persuaded Ian Paisley to change from a brand-name for bigotry into a reasonable human being?
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RELIGION

Getting the balance right after the 2020 Summit
- Frank Brennan
- 26 May 2008
1 Comment
The text is from Professor Frank Brennan's 2008 Institute of Justice Studies Oration from 22 May 2008.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Purging Howard's national insecurity
- Tony Kevin
- 04 April 2008
1 Comment
The most profound shock to Australian foreign policy was not 9/11 but our change of government in 1996. Under Rudd Labor, Australia's international agenda is once again becoming less about national security and more about being a good international citizen.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Critics with the measure of a good film
- Richard Leonard
- 03 October 2007
1 Comment
Accepting a peer award recently, Sydney Morning Herald film critic Paul Byrnes declared serious film criticism to be in trouble. 'Much of the public now believes that a great film can't be great unless the box office makes it great.' He has a point.
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INFORMATION

A selection of some of the letters regarding Frank Brennan's most recent piece
- 13 July 2007
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