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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.
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.
Italy, Caravaggio and Catholicism.
Peter Pierce onThe Autobiography of Wilfred Burchett.
The following essays by Morag Fraser and John Schumann are edited addresses from the Jesuit Lenten Seminar Series held in February–March 2005.
Madeleine Byrne finds Getting Away with Genocide? Elusive Justice and the Khmer Rouge Tribunal, by Tom Fawthrop and Helen Jarvis, vivid and timely.
Margaret Coffey watches as Australia welcomes Sudanese refugees.
Luke Fraser reviews On the warpath: An anthology of Australian military travel, edited by Robin Gerster and Peter Pierce.
Gavan Daws’s Prisoners of the Japanese: POWs of World War II in the Pacific prompts some reflection from Denis Tracey.
Jeffrey Grey challenges some of Cameron Forbes’s conclusions in Hellfire: The Story of Australia, Japan and the Prisoners of War.
Letters from Nigel Sinnott, Jan Pinder, Cameron Forbes and Brian McCoy
Alison Aprhys on the role of a free press in a democratic society.
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