keywords: Remembrance Day
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AUSTRALIA
Seven years after the optimism born of independence, East Timor burns. Rival gangs fight in the streets, Australian soldiers try to keep the peace, and the people of Dili wait to see whether calm can be restored.
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AUSTRALIA
This year’s May anniversary of independence for Timor Leste is Xanana Gusmão’s second as President and the country’s fifth as a free territory. Sara Niner looks at the current political machinations.
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RELIGION
There is an art to the big event. Anyone who’s planned a wedding knows it, and that should be enough to give hives to anyone imagining what it took to get George Bush’s inauguration off the ground.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
A new Australian film examines the powerful role of poetry in times of oppression.
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AUSTRALIA
E.J Banfield
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AUSTRALIA
An ageing population may be the downfall of the Western empire
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AUSTRALIA
- Dorothy Horsfield
- 08 May 2006
Dorothy Horsfield visits the fastest growing Jewish community in Europe
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AUSTRALIA
- Hugh Dillon
- 29 April 2006
Both the Dresden firestorm and the Holocaust were products of the insidious tendency in wartime for the previously unthinkable to become routine.
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MARGARET DOOLEY AWARD
- Kirsty Sangster
- 21 April 2006
Kirsty Sangster recalls a Holocaust survivor.
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AUSTRALIA
- Luke Fraser
- 21 April 2006
Samuel Pepys’s diaries chronicling London life in the 17th century—now on the internet—remain as fresh and engaging as ever
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AUSTRALIA
- Adrian Caesar
- 20 April 2006
War games are not child's play.
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RELIGION
- Isabel Huggan
- 20 April 2006
Four days in a French convent were not enough to satisfy the curiosity of this writer.
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