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January - February 2005

01 January 2005


 

  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Where the real men are

    • Juliette Hughes
    • 30 April 2006

    Real men may brew beer but they don’t have to prove anything, unlike the sad creatures that run the men’s rights websites.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Descent into chaos

    • Anthony Ham
    • 30 April 2006

    Instability in ivory coast.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Replacing neglect with engagement

    • John Langmore
    • 30 April 2006

    John Langmore reflects on the relationship between Australia and the United Nations

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Book reviews

    • Lee Beasley, Rebecca Marsh
    • 30 April 2006

    Reviews of the books The happy phrase: Everyday conversation made easily and In pursuit of plants: Experiences of nineteenth and early twentieth century plant collectors.

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  • INFORMATION

    Letters to Eureka Street

    • Anne Dooley, Lynn Webber
    • 30 April 2006

    Letters from Anne Dooley and Lynn Webber.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Time to make history

    • Jack Waterford
    • 30 April 2006

    Has John Howard ever been so much in charge of affairs?  He has a complete ascendency over a defeated, demoralised and directionless Opposition.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    In the shadows of the past

    • Anthony Ham
    • 30 April 2006

    The legacy of Franco still looms large in the Spanish imagination

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Bless you, love letters, high tide and the travel bug

    • Eureka Street editor
    • 30 April 2006

    Thoughts from around the nation.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Point of interest; Wrap

    • Aileen Kelly
    • 30 April 2006

    Poems by By Aileen Kelly

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  • INTERNATIONAL

    Liberty and justice

    • Hugh Dillon
    • 30 April 2006

    Hugh Dillon unravels the challenges of justice in Guantanamo Bay.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Walking for justice

    • Avril Hannah-Jones
    • 30 April 2006

    Avril Hannah-Jones looks at the effectiveness of protesting.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Morality questioned

    • Tony Smith
    • 30 April 2006

    Tony Smith reviews Ian Rankin’s Fleshmarket Close; Garry Disher’s Kittyhawk Down and Alexander McCall Smith’s The Sunday Philosophy Club.

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  • ENVIRONMENT

    Galileo’s legacy

    • Tim Thwaites
    • 30 April 2006

    An irony about scientists’ traditional lack of interest in politics is that science is profoundly socially disturbing—especially for ideologues with a conservative point of view.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Here I go on my way

    • Peter Pierce
    • 30 April 2006

    Luke Fraser reviews On the warpath: An anthology of Australian military travel, edited by Robin Gerster and Peter Pierce.

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  • EDUCATION

    On human leadership

    • Marilyn Warren
    • 30 April 2006

    As I reflect upon leadership and my human experience, one of my first thoughts is that leadership has to be for something. It is not a goal in itself.

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  • MEDIA

    Tales of life, not death

    • Nigel Starck
    • 30 April 2006

    Obituaries provide a window on the lives of those great and small

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Word up

    • Brian Matthews
    • 30 April 2006

    Brian Matthews has words with Julian Burnside’s Word Watching, and Don Watson’s Weasel  Words.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Film reviews

    • Siobhan Jackson, Allan James Thomas, Zane Lovitt, Gil Maclean
    • 30 April 2006

    Reviews of the films Bad Santa; Team America: World Police; Finding Neverland and Napoleon Dynamite.

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  • RELIGION

    Human dignity and democracy

    • Andrew Hamilton
    • 30 April 2006

    Cardinal George Pell recently spoke to the Acton Society on the limits of liberal democracy.

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  • INTERNATIONAL

    More than a cure

    • Madeleine Byrne
    • 30 April 2006

    Sir Gustav Nossal is passionate about the lives of those the world often ignores.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    A democracy of convenience

    • Kate Stowell
    • 30 April 2006

    Kate Stowell visits Uzbekistan, a democratic republic still under the reign of its former communist party leader.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    All is grace

    • Christopher Gleeson
    • 30 April 2006

    Chris Gleeson investigates Brian Doyle’s The wet engine: Exploring the mad wild miracle of the heart.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Tally-ho!

    • Brian Matthews
    • 30 April 2006

    I see that the Brits are about to bite the quirt and outlaw fox hunting. Only in England would the pursuit of the common fox threaten to divide the nation.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Echoes of Eureka

    • Christine Gillespie
    • 30 April 2006
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    Christine Gillespie walks in the steps of her Lalor ancestors.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Dirty hands, happy hearts

    • Nikki Fisher
    • 30 April 2006

    Getting children out of the house just became a little easier

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Natural talent

    • Michele Gierck
    • 30 April 2006

    Michele Gierck meets Ulli and Georgina Beier.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Untitled for a man

    • Peta Edmonds
    • 30 April 2006

    Poem by Peta Edmonds.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Breaching the barricade

    • Matthew Lamb
    • 30 April 2006

    Matthew Lamb reviews Kisch in Australia by Heidi Zogbaum.

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