Search Results: Singapore
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AUSTRALIA
- Dewi Anggraeni
- 12 June 2006
The depiction of domestic helpers from Indonesia is disturbing. At home, they're portrayed as puerile characters, easily manipulated and needing guidance. In destination countries, they're seen as bereft of any sense of ethics or morality.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 11 June 2006
As Melbourne Cup time comes round each year, I remember—with a mixture of dread and triumph—the Sir Robert Menzies Memorial Lecture that I gave on Tuesday, 5 November, in the Chancellors Hall of the University of London Senate House in 1996.
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RELIGION
- Anna Griffiths
- 14 May 2006
Italy, Caravaggio and Catholicism.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
Peter Pierce onThe Autobiography of Wilfred Burchett.
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AUSTRALIA
The following essays by Morag Fraser and John Schumann are edited addresses from the Jesuit Lenten Seminar Series held in February–March 2005.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Madeleine Byrne
- 14 May 2006
Madeleine Byrne finds Getting Away with Genocide? Elusive Justice and the Khmer Rouge Tribunal, by Tom Fawthrop and Helen Jarvis, vivid and timely.
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AUSTRALIA
- Margaret Coffey
- 11 May 2006
Margaret Coffey watches as Australia welcomes Sudanese refugees.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- 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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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Denis Tracey
- 29 April 2006
Gavan Daws’s Prisoners of the Japanese: POWs of World War II in the Pacific prompts some reflection from Denis Tracey.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Jeffrey Grey
- 25 April 2006
Jeffrey Grey challenges some of Cameron Forbes’s conclusions in Hellfire: The Story of Australia, Japan and the Prisoners of War.
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INFORMATION
- Nigel Sinnott, Jan Pinder, Cameron Forbes and Brian McCoy
- 24 April 2006
Letters from Nigel Sinnott, Jan Pinder, Cameron Forbes and Brian McCoy
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MEDIA
- Alison Aprhys
- 21 April 2006
Alison Aprhys on the role of a free press in a democratic society.
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