Keywords: The Waiting City
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MARGARET DOOLEY AWARD
- Christine Kearney
- 22 January 2007
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Ten months after the renewed violence and lawlessness in East Timor, nobody is holding their breath for a simple resolution. It seems the dirty politicking will continue until a new order order has been established to properly replace the vacuum left when the state imploded in 1999. The first of two runner up essays in Eureka Street's Margaret Dooley Young Writers Award 2006.
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AUSTRALIA
- Binoy Kampmark
- 11 December 2006
In the end, Thorpe was swimming against himself. There were rivals, but there was nothing left, other than the treadmill of performances. The admission came in his last conference: "I needed a closing point." There is reason for him to be proud.
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AUSTRALIA
- Paul Daffey
- 30 October 2006
Phil is always at the end of the bar with his head in a book or, occasionally, a newspaper. He never tires of reading in company, with a either a vodka and Coke or a Cascade Light just off the page.
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AUSTRALIA
- Tony Smith
- 07 August 2006
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Former Labor minister John Button anticipated the current low point in political discourse, with defenders and critics of government policy having lost the capacity to engage in dialogue, particularly in the field of public morality.
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AUSTRALIA
- Eureka Street editors
- 09 July 2006
Latham negotiates political ladders, lovely views at the gallery and passports to freedom.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- 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
- 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
- Mary Manning
- 01 July 2006
Fiction by Mary Manning
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AUSTRALIA
- Francis Sullivan
- 16 June 2006
It is time for government leaders to stage a ‘walk in’ and recommit the country’s resources for the health of everyone.
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AUSTRALIA
- Rebecca Duffy
- 12 June 2006
Rebecca Duffy is an Australian student studying in Indonesia. She witnessed first-hand the earthquake in Yogyakarta; this is her account.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Ralph Carolan
- 29 May 2006
Ralph Carolan reviews Frank McCourt's Teacher Man, and finds that the life of a teacher can be a sometimes solitary, sometimes Sisyphean, and sometimes satisfying job.
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INTERNATIONAL
Anthony Ham looks at the national and international legacy of the bombings in Madrid.
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