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  • AUSTRALIA

    "Australian values" learned in Budapest uprising

    • Michael Danby
    • 30 October 2006
    5 Comments

    Today, Hungary is a country as free as Australia. But 50 years ago—on 23 October 1956—Hungarian students rebelled and issued a manifesto demanding free elections. The Soviets reacted ruthlessly.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    The frontier fallen

    • 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

    Occasional harmonies

    • Gerard Windsor
    • 04 July 2006

    Gerard Windsor in Sicily.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Any excuse

    • Anthony Ham, Kath O’Connor, Bruce Duncan, Clive Shepherd
    • 01 July 2006

    Any excuse, Privatise or perish, Clear and present danger, Keep left unless undertaking

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Could Australia become another island in the Indonesian archipelago?

    • Paul Osborne
    • 26 June 2006
    2 Comments

    Mr Howard has travelled to Indonesia to mend the rift in relations betwen the two countries. Critics of the proposed legislation designed to appease Indonesia, fear that Australia is in serious danger of surrendering its sovereignty by allowing another country to force its hand on policy matters, such as migration.

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  • RELIGION

    Religious and human freedoms

    • 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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  • AUSTRALIA

    News from all over

    • Anthony Ham, David Glanz, Morag Fraser
    • 16 June 2006

    Death of the king, Little argument, Words to end winter

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  • INTERNATIONAL

    Rwandan mist

    • Michele Gierck
    • 31 May 2006

    Ten years after the genocide Rwanda still mourns its dead.

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  • ENVIRONMENT

    The Australian wound

    • Mark Byrne
    • 18 May 2006

    Mark Byrne looks at the particular characteristics that make an Australian 'hero', and asks what it is about the interior of this country that moulds the interior of our collective suconscious in such a unique way.  

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  • RELIGION

    The charge of secular Spain

    • Anthony Ham
    • 14 May 2006

    Anthony Ham wonders whether Spain can still be considered a Catholic country after all.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    The end of a friendship

    • Matthew Lamb
    • 14 May 2006

    Matthew Lamb on the great dispute: Sartre and Camus: A Historic Confrontation and Camus and Sartre: The Story of a Friendship and the Quarrel that Ended It.

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  • RELIGION

    Oil change

    • Graeme Garrett
    • 11 May 2006

    In the biblical narrative, priests and prophets are more chalk and cheese than birds of a feather.

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