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01 April 2005
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the death of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and the 40th of Winston Churchill’s. They never met and had totally different temperaments. But some things they had in common.
Letters from Helen Noakes, Frank Donovan, Alistair Pound and Frank Brennan.
Living history
Turkey and the EU
A day at the museum
There is an art to the big event. Anyone who’s planned a wedding knows it, and that should be enough to give hives to anyone imagining what it took to get George Bush’s inauguration off the ground.
It is worth contemplating the dismal failures of conservative coalitions at state level while John Howard’s star has increased, and his own revolutionary shifts in the federal compact.
Pundits who were left gasping by the announcements of Colin (‘Cry me a river’) Barnett would have been less surprised if they’d read the last issue of the Okotsk Institute Journal of Research into Inexplicable Public Behaviours.
Poem by Ian C. Smith
The people of Togo will determine their future in democratically held elections this month.
Was the decision to deny the Bakhtiyaris refugee status based on all the facts?
Robert Hefner sees more than just coincidence in these weather patterns.
While Australia enjoys its lowest official unemployment rate in 28 years, it’s time to reflect upon the true level of labour-market exclusion and prospects for the unemployed and working poor.
Brian Doyle recalls a shopping excursion that was anything but pedestrian.
The Rudder Project, an art-mentoring program sponsored by Jesuit Social Services, has helped make two young women’s dreams come true.
Anthony Ham wonders whether Spain can still be considered a Catholic country after all.
When elders and officials in South Sudan are asked about the challenges facing peace in their region they talk of cows.
The following essays by Morag Fraser and John Schumann are edited addresses from the Jesuit Lenten Seminar Series held in February–March 2005.
Morag Fraser and John Schumann reflect on the crucial role of truth in our society.
Andrew Hamilton reviews Luther’s Pine: an Autobiography, by John Molony.
D. L. Lewis commends Andrew Mercador’s Super Aussie Soaps to those with an interest in popular culture and television.
Daniel Donahoo examines the experiences of an expat in Peter Conrad’s Tales of Two Hemispheres.
Robert Hefner catches Tim Flannery’s enthusiasm for our most famous marsupial in Country.
Madeleine Byrne finds Getting Away with Genocide? Elusive Justice and the Khmer Rouge Tribunal, by Tom Fawthrop and Helen Jarvis, vivid and timely.
Troy Bramston takes a closer look at America’s founding fathers in Gore Vidal’s Inventing a Nation: Washington, Jefferson, Adams.
Peter Pierce identifies a salutary failure in Rowan Metcalfe’s Transit of Venus.
Francesca Beddie discovers much of interest in Daniel Oakman’s Facing Asia: A History of the Colombo Plan.
Reviews of the books In Tasmania; Women and media: International perspectives; Havoc, in its third year and The Tomb in Seville.
Reviews of the films Oldboy, Bride and Prejudice, The Illustrated Family Doctor and House of Flying Daggers.
In our house, we’ll continue to tolerate each other’s programs up to the point of nausea or embarrassment. We’ll be able to watch the animal documentaries, Media Watch, and Roy and H. G.’s new Memphis Trousers Half Hour.
In the early 1990s Dr Peter Steinberg, a marine ecologist from the University of New South Wales, discovered a small red seaweed in Botany Bay that keeps its fronds free of bacteria. Archimedes continues the tale.