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Historians are fighting a mini war over frontier history and the number of Aboriginal dead. Tom Griffiths argues for a different approach.
Art speaks, but we sometimes need translation
Tourists in Cambodia can combine a visit to the Killing Fields with a trip to the shooting range. There they can shoot at outlines of human bodies. The juxtaposition shows a lack of respect for the Cambodian dead.
Reviews of the films Naqoyqatsi; Open Hearts; The Matrix Reloaded and La vérité si je mens! 2.
Bob Reece reviews Patrick Collins’ Goodbye Bussamarai: The Mandandanji Land War, Southern Queensland 1842–1852.
This is the full text of the speech prepared for the debate with Keith Windschuttle at the Melbourne Writers’ Festival. It draws on some of the contributions found in Robert Manne’s (ed), Whitewash: On Keith Windschuttle’s Fabrication of Aboriginal History (Black Inc, 2003).
Reviews of Legacies of White Australia: Race, Culture and Nation; The Uniting Church in Australia: The first 25 years; Landscapes of Memory: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered and A girl, a smock and a simple plan
The unfolding affair of the floating sheep would move most people, even someone named Truss, to poetry, because it is full of echoes, paradoxes and drama.
Why did Australians rally behind Van Nguyen yet appear to care little about the Bali Nine? The differing responses of the community to particular cases appears to be driven more by emotion and social identification than principles, or practical reason.
Father Frank Brennan discusses the Howard Government's approach to the issue of asylum seeker detention off-shore.
An extract from the book by Michele Gierck, 700 days in El Salvador.
Keith Shipton celebrates the photography of Michael Coyne.
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