Keywords: Vietnamese Australians
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AUSTRALIA
- Colin Long
- 05 February 2008
2 Comments
From Ubirr, the wetlands, verdant and abundant with birdlife, stretch to the fringing escarpment. In a place so full of the beauties of nature, one feels keenly the absence of its traditional owners. For Australian and overseas visitors to experience this view, they lost their land.
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INTERNATIONAL
- Peter Hodge
- 31 October 2007
There is extensive evidence of US intelligence gathering techniques, much of it derived from declassified documents. It points to a clearly navigable path from the paranoia of the anti-communist post-WWII era to Abu Ghraib.
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AUSTRALIA
- David Holdcroft
- 17 October 2007
6 Comments
Is Australia's refugee resettlement program primarily intended to help asylum seekers, or assist Australia's economy and nation-building? We need to ask on which set of values we want to base our society.
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INFORMATION
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AUSTRALIA
- James Massola
- 24 December 2006
It’s the fourth night of Ramadan. As the days begin to get longer, there are further challenges for Australian Muslims. Many young men, low on energy during the day, but emboldened by full bellies in the evening, find themselves at a loose end. From 3 October 2006.
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AUSTRALIA
- Terry Monagle
- 11 December 2006
2 Comments
White Australians are slow to invent a language which matches this continent and mutes the shock-horror reaction to drought. While politicians talk about Australian values, "little" people are working at a much deeper study of what it means to be native.
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AUSTRALIA
- James Massola
- 16 October 2006
2 Comments
It’s the fourth night of Ramadan. As the days begin to get longer, there are further challenges for Australian Muslims. Many young men, low on energy during the day, but emboldened by full bellies in the evening, find themselves at a loose end.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Christine Gillespie
- 07 August 2006
2 Comments
It’s hard to put the dead to rest. 18 August 2006 is the 40th anniversary of the Battle of Long Tan, in which 18 Australian and more than 245 Viet Cong soldiers were killed. There’s an invitation to go to Perth where they’re naming streets in a new housing development after six soldiers who did not return.
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AUSTRALIA
- Troy Bramston
- 31 May 2006
Revisiting the government of Billy McMahon
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AUSTRALIA
Mark Raper on Australia’s changing attitudes to refugees
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INTERNATIONAL
- Clare O’Neil
- 23 April 2006
Under different leadership, in different times, changes in attitudes towards asylum seekers have been profound and swift
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