Keywords: World Communication Day
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ENVIRONMENT
- Ben O'Mara
- 15 December 2008
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I spent untold hours playing on my Commodore 64. I upgraded to a PC, to fight the beasties of Duke Nukem 3D as I chugged too many coffees and Mars bars. Interactivity is videogames' strength, and can be applied in socially constructive ways for marginalised communities.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Gillian Bouras
- 06 October 2008
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Mental illness has always been with us. Hippocrates attached melancholia to an excess of black bile. Christ cast out demons from the afflicted.
My sister suicided after years of suffering, undiagnosed because of fear of stigma.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 04 September 2008
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In 1932, Todd Browning's Freaks sought to unsettle with the 'otherness' of its circus sideshow performer characters. A modern-day festival of films by and about people with disability emhasises not otherness, but humanity.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Gillian Bouras
- 25 August 2008
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Imagine the horror of a completely silent world. The deaf person requires strategies: they must make requests, or provide tactful reminders. Lip-reading is a useful skill, but beards and moustaches can provide difficulty.
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AUSTRALIA
- Tom Cranitch
- 28 April 2008
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With Anzac Day over, and the 100th anniversary of the
Gallipoli campaign just under a decade away, it's time to re-examine, re-frame, and hopefully tame the Anzac legend. You don't need to be an expert to understand that 'Anzac'
has a stranglehold over Australian public life.
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RELIGION
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ENVIRONMENT
The Kiwis have managed to stamp their name all over a fruit that is not even native to their land.
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AUSTRALIA
- Stephen Yorke
- 18 May 2007
Stephen Yorke considers the effects of the decisions we make.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins & James Massola
- 24 July 2006
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United Nations relief coordinator Jan Egeland has condemned the destruction caused by Israeli airstrikes in Beirut as a 'violation of humanitarian law'. Meanwhile the website of Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert leads with his proclamation to the Members of Knesset: 'This is a National Moment of Truth'.
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AUSTRALIA
Technology has changed human relationships, argues Rufus Black.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Andrew Hamilton, Godfrey Moase
- 04 July 2006
Reviews of Justice, Jesus, and the Jews; The Land is a Map: Placenames of Indigenous Origin in Australia; Don’t Tell the Prime Minister; Unfinished Business: America and Cuba after the Cold War 1989–2001, and The Double Helix.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Kristie Dunn
- 04 July 2006
Kristie Dunn reviews Dark Victory by David Marr and Marian Wilkinson.
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