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AUSTRALIA

Obama masks and New York monks
- Alexandra Collier
- 31 October 2008
1 Comment
In Brooklyn, politics and Halloween overlap. On one house, a 'Vote McCain' sign abuts another, declaring, 'Haunted House'. As the West Village prepares for its annual parade, the homeless sit in a curve, supplicating to the wealthy.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Hunger, pain
- Tim Kroenert
- 30 October 2008
1 Comment
In life and art Nick Cave is drawn to the potent territory where the sacred meets the profane. Steve McQueen's brutal, beautiful portrait of Irish republican prisoners of an uncaring Thatcher government achieves a similar transcendence.
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AUSTRALIA

Unequal pay favours 'white-collar chums'
- Robert Salter
- 02 September 2008
4 Comments
Many low-paid workers experience stress and illness due to jobs that are dangerous, arduous or powerless. Perhaps it is they who should be compensated with higher pay, rather than those who perform interesting, high-status work.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Incivility trumps the empty dance of manners
- Brian Doyle
- 25 June 2008
5 Comments
One time we were in a meeting when a very important person proposed a very stupid idea. We knew our uncivil friend would pop a gasket, and he did, albeit in memorably incisive fashion. The silence that followed was a remarkable sound.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Abyss of abbreviated old age
- Ian C. Smith
- 27 May 2008
Treachery tumult happiness hope.. Maddening fits of loneliness.. the satirist in him self-abusive.
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AUSTRALIA

Musharraf throws dice in bid to hold power
- Suzanna Koster
- 11 July 2007
This week's operation against the radical clerics has prompted messages of support for Pakistan's General Musharraf from western allies. But in the eyes of the common Pakistanis the president has lost credibility forever.
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ENVIRONMENT

The psychology of climate change denial
- Paul Collins
- 16 April 2007
2 Comments
The economic tools we are using to deal with climate change are inappropriate, and the long-term consequences for local areas are largely unknown. Global warming skeptics should critique the analysis of climate change rather than just retreat into a psychology of denial.
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AUSTRALIA

The myth of belonging masks our insecurity
- Colin Long
- 02 April 2007
2 Comments
The Prime Minister has used myths surrounding Gallipoli and racial politics to tap into our felt, but barely understood, craving for belonging. The tenuous nature of our sense of community make us susceptible to the fear campaigns that have dominated Australian politics over the past decade.
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INTERNATIONAL

Catastrophe on Australia's doorstep (Best articles of 2006 special edition)
- Peter Cronau
- 24 December 2006
1 Comment
Barely reported by Australia's media, Papua New Guinea's AIDS crisis is on track to cause the collapse of the country's economy, with AusAID forcasting a 37.5% decline in the labour force by 2020. From 3 October 2006.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Catastrophe on Australia's doorstep (photo essay)
- Peter Cronau
- 16 October 2006
16 Comments
Barely reported by Australia's media, Papua New Guinea's AIDS crisis is on track to cause the collapse of the country's economy, with AusAID forcasting a 37.5% decline in the labour force by 2020.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Models for a good life and an honest death
- Clive O'Connell
- 16 October 2006
Historian Inga Clendinnen's reviews, childhood recollections, multi-coloured reminiscences of her working career, and informed discourse on simple events or complex ideas, are collected in a way that reveals a tempered tolerance seemingly inherited from her favourite essayist, Montaigne.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Cultural divide, family tie
- Mike Ticher
- 02 July 2006
Mike Ticher reviews Hugo Hamilton’s The Speckled People.
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