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  • INTERNATIONAL

    Echoes of war

    • Dawn Delaney
    • 11 May 2006

    Dawn Delaney examines the unwelcome legacy of violence against women following the conflict in East Timor.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    A long way to go

    • Jane Mayo Carolan
    • 11 May 2006

    Jane Carolan speaks with doyen feminist and political activist Anne Summers.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Bearing witness

    • Kirsty Sangster
    • 08 May 2006

    Kirsty Sangster looks at the effectiveness of truth commissions.    

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  • RELIGION

    Australia’s judicial isolation

    • Frank Brennan
    • 29 April 2006

    Over the last year a major chasm has opened between decisions of Australia’s High Court and those of the UK House of Lords and the US Supreme Court regarding issues of national security such as the long-term mandatory detention of stateless asylum seekers.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Sensitivity and skill

    • Sara Dowse
    • 25 April 2006

    Sara Dowse finds much to admire in two new novels by Jan Borrie, Unbroken Blue and Nigel Featherstone, Remnants.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    The neighbourhood paedophile

    • Moira Rayner
    • 24 April 2006

    The trouble is that men and women who like, or fantasise about, having sex with children don’t look like monsters. They look just like the neighbours.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Quick review

    • John James, Kathryn Page, Avril Hannah-Jones, Marcelle Mogg
    • 24 April 2006

    Reviews of the books Troubled Waters: Borders, Boundaries and Possession in the Timor Sea; Blush: Faces of Shame; Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince; and Moments of Truth.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Seeking justice for Jack

    • Katherine Wilson
    • 23 April 2006

    Jack Thomas is one of the first Australians charged under the Howard Government’s new anti-terror laws, but is he really a threat to national security or merely a sacrifical lamb?

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  • INTERNATIONAL

    Guatemala’s unforgiven

    • Lucy Turner
    • 23 April 2006

    As the government apologises to victims’ families for state-sanctioned atrocities during the civil war, the perpetrators remain free

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