Keywords: Eureka Street Radio
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 20 October 2008
18 Comments
The ABC is abandoning the Religion Report and other specialist programs as part of changes intended to make the most of new technology. Management must explain how dumbing down content will ensure Radio National's relevance in the future.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 29 September 2008
3 Comments
Online publications know that the flame throwers among those who post comments invariably draw a crowd. Such an environment is potentially fertile ground for character assassination, rather than reasoned argument.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 04 August 2008
2 Comments
Accusations of greed followed Canterbury Bulldogs star Sonny Bill Williams' decision to break his contract and accept a lucrative deal with a French union club. Greed is surprisingly pervasive in Australia. The reintroduction of death duties might keep it in check.
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RELIGION
- Andrew Hamilton
- 17 July 2008
7 Comments
World Youth Day pilgrims have said they are going to 'hear' Pope Benedict. In the time of John Paul II, they spoke of 'seeing' the Pope. The emphasis has switched from theatre to scholarship.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 19 June 2008
2 Comments
Unfinished Sky succeeds as a sweetly observed, cross-cultural love story. Themes regarding human trafficking and sexual slavery are exploited, not, it seems, from genuine concern, but in a misguided attempt to lend the film social clout.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 02 June 2008
12 Comments
Both the Federal Government and Opposition have proposed easing the pain of ballooning petrol prices with flat tax reductions. However they would be doing us more of a favour if they treated oil dependency as an addiction, and imposed extra taxes that would further increase the price of petrol.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 05 May 2008
4 Comments
The WA Liberal Party has shown that it is more worried about the damage its 'rough diamond' leader might cause to its electibility than the hurt to the human beings involved in the recently-revealed inappropriate behaviour incident.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Ian Woolverton
- 09 April 2008
4 Comments
Apnalaya, a Mumbai-based non government organisation that works with slum dwellers, commissioned Melbourne photographer Ian Woolverton to create a photo essay of scenes from Mumbai. Eureka Street presents a selection of images from this powerful essay.
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RELIGION
- Andrew Hamilton
- 08 April 2008
4 Comments
Symbolic gestures such as the apology to the Stolen Generations are often seen as a substitute for practical action. But sentiment provides important pathways into understanding the human impact of government policy-making.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 06 March 2008
The Black Balloon's early '90s suburban locale is a tangible and familiar environment,
where intolerance and ignorance brood beneath the surface. Lead actor Rhys Wakefield embodies everything that it is to be a teenager on the brink
of adulthood.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Andrew Hamilton
- 05 March 2008
5 Comments
Brakes are useful when riding down a mountain at dusk, but they are not to be taken for granted. The god of cyclists gives and takes away, and punishes and rewards. Eureka Street June-July 1994
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AUSTRALIA
The outbreak of violence in East Timor April 2006 showed that the UN had not reached first base in its efforts to lay the foundation for a small but robust nation. Now the Rudd Government has provided a template that may be of significant use to those involved with nation building in East Timor.
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