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AUSTRALIA

Nationalist zealots stealing Australia Day
- Tom Cranitch
- 24 January 2008
18 Comments
National Australia Day Council chair Lisa Curry Kenny says Australia Day "reminds us to embrace our difference and celebrate friendship". It would be nice if this were true. In fact Australian nationalists are increasingly using the day to promote the perceived certainties of a rather dubious monoculture.
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AUSTRALIA

Saying thank you to an ambivalent society
- Saeed Saeed
- 13 June 2007
3 Comments
The Sudanese Lost Boys Association of Australia recently organised an Appreciation Day. The newly arrived South Sudanese community engaged in community work. Despite the jubilant atmosphere and images of the South Sudanese men, woman and children planting trees in the park, the most remarkable aspect of this event was that it happened at all.
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AUSTRALIA

A comfortable nation afraid to get off the couch
- Scott Stephens
- 05 June 2007
3 Comments
John Howard’s "relaxed and comfortable" approach to national life, then, was not simply a rejection of Paul Keating’s aggressive, deliberate reforms. It represented a vile pandering to our cultural inertia, an affirmation of our basest tendencies.
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MEDIA

Alan Jones and the power of one
- Morag Fraser
- 16 April 2007
13 Comments
Jones' reflexes on air are assertive and territorial. A 'power of one' he may be, but he also makes a powerful appeal to the tribal in all of us. When we retreat into the tribe we lose the chance to experience of the kindness of strangers.
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AUSTRALIA

Background to blocked East Timor leadership challenge
- Paul Cleary
- 27 February 2007
As the Prime Minister of East Timor, Mari Alkatiri, prepared a strategy that successfully blocked Friday's leadership vote, hanging on the wall of a conference room in his office is a satellite photo of Dili on fire...
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Explaining anti-Chinese sentiment in Indonesia
- Dewi Anggraeni
- 27 February 2007
In the 1990s, Soeharto and his ministers were renting their power to business-savvy ethnic Chinese. The masses, unable to vent their anger at corrupt officials, shifted their targets to those associated with them, knowing that they could do that with impunity.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Carmen Lawrence exposes the Politics of Fear
- James Massola
- 24 July 2006
Former ALP heavyweight Carmen Lawrence asserts that the developed world is safer today than it's ever been. Her argument flies in the face of the reality that there has never been greater rewards for politicians willing to peddle fear.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

On your bus
- Grant Morgan, Anthony Ham, Matthew Albert, Steven Columbus
- 07 July 2006
On your bus, Kerala leads, Sudan in Australia, Coming to terms.
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INFORMATION

Peace drums in Europe
- Michael McKernan, Frank O’Shea, Mark Deasey, Morag Fraser, John Carmody, Brigid Hains, Pip Robertson
- 03 July 2006
Peace drums, Irish visitor, Travellers’ tales, Epiphanies, Deep structure, Counter-terrorism kits, Circling the square
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Tales from the bench
- Frank Brennan
- 26 June 2006
Frank Brennan looks at Philip Ayres’ Owen Dixon.
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AUSTRALIA

It comes down to Trafalgar Square
- Morag Fraser
- 26 June 2006
1 Comment
As the first anniversary of the London bombings approaches, people celebrate England's football victory, and Trafalgar Square is under repair. Celebration and cleaning mark the resilience of London and its refusal to allow fear to dominate public life.
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INTERNATIONAL

Idyll times
- Anthony Ham
- 13 June 2006
Anthony Ham visits Tunisia, Homer’s land of the Lotus-Eaters
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