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01 April 2004
This Lent the Passion of the Christ has been the biggest Christian show in town.
So Mr Latham thinks he has a problem. If elected Prime Minister this year, he is worried that he will have two houses, one in Sydney and the other in Canberra.
Letters from Marilyn Shepherd and Brent Howard
Mark Latham is doing far better than anyone expected. No one had particular faith in him, but the signs, so far, are good.
Dialogue is no luxury; peace depends on it. The question most simply put is: How shall we live our lives together?
Thoughts from Rosie Hoban, Morag Fraser, Kate Stowell
It has been one of those Australian summers where nature has been dominant. The heat, the drought, the dust and the ever-present, terrifying spectacle of the bushfires, sweeping away all in their path.
A friend of mine, fond of fashioning his own brand of aphorism, announced one day, after what he claimed had been a long period of research, ‘butchers are much given to bullshit.’
Greg Barns on the life of Xavier Herbert.
Poems by Dimitris Tsaloumas & Michael Farrell
Anthony Ham recalls the people and place of Arg-è Bam.
Beth Doherty examines the Community, Adversity and Resilience report.
Jane Mayo Carolan considers Jim Griffin’s John Wren: A life reconsidered.
Juliette Hughes looks at the impact of The Passion of the Christ.
How society chooses: Policy and values, past and future.
Ten years after the genocide Rwanda still mourns its dead.
The following is an edited text of an address given by Frank Brennan SJ as part of the Jesuit Lenten Seminar Series 2004.
Radhika Gorur reviews Brigid Hains’ The Ice and the Inland: Mawson, Flynn and the Myth of the Frontier.
Aaron Martin meets Madeleine Albright in Madam Secretary: A memoir.
Mike Ticher looks at the value of public schools to the community.
Revisiting the government of Billy McMahon
Guy Rundle reflects on the lives of James McAuley and Harold Stewart.
Social policy advocates equip themselves for the economic debate
Annette Binger on secret women’s business—female clerics.
Jim Davidson explores Morris Berman’s The Twilight of American Culture.
Anna Straford reviews the MTC’s The Glass Menagerie.
Godfrey Moase casts a legal eye over Litigation: Past and Present and Adventures in Law and Justice: Exploring Big Legal Questions in Everyday Life.
Georgina Costello critiques Tasmania’s proposal to legalise prostitution.
For whatever reason, I never really got into Friends. It was the sort of thing you’d watch with the young ones, to keep up with new stuff, so that the old parent-kid relationship wasn’t so gappy.
Reviews of the films The Station Agent, The Passion of the Christ, The Fog of War and Irreversible.