January - February 2006

01 January 2006

AUSTRALIA

Who's watching?
- Robert Hefner
- 21 April 2006
Comment by Robert Hefner.
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INFORMATION

Letters to Eureka Street
- David Dyer, Margaret Smith, Bill Ranken, Bill Versteegh, Joan Pearson and Philip Mendes
- 21 April 2006
Letters to Eureka Street
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AUSTRALIA

Magnificent mare
- Peter Pierce
- 21 April 2006
Dream run for Makybe Diva
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EDUCATION

Political lessons
- Ian Slater
- 21 April 2006
Learning from foreign students
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RELIGION

Servant of silence
- Andrew Hamilton
- 21 April 2006
Theology dances awkwardly with silence. The natural business of theology is to put together words about God. But the better the words, the more clearly inadequate they are to their subject and the sooner they run out into silence.
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ENVIRONMENT

Vying for vaccine
- Tim Thwaites
- 21 April 2006
What with tsunamis, hurricanes, earthquakes, mudslides and bombings, we’ve been beaten around the head with more than a few hard lessons on the limits to human power in the past year. And it looks like we are about to get another one—bird flu.
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AUSTRALIA

Trust me
- Jack Waterford
- 21 April 2006
John Howard has a new pitch to the public on nearly everything, but particularly on national security and industrial relations: Trust me.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Tchaikovsky in Hanoi
- Brian Matthews
- 21 April 2006
Nha Hat Lon, as the Opera House is known locally, was, with its Napoleonic panache and grandeur, just the place for large gestures and significant announcements.
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MARGARET DOOLEY AWARD

Who is my neighbour?
- Meaghan Paul
- 21 April 2006
Meaghan Paul’s personal epiphany.
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MEDIA

The silent summer
- Alison Aprhys
- 21 April 2006
Alison Aprhys on the role of a free press in a democratic society.
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AUSTRALIA

Beyond the Troubles
- Hugh Dillon
- 21 April 2006
Hardliners remain at daggers drawn, but their relevance is fading as Ireland embraces globalisation.
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INTERNATIONAL

Burma’s hidden diaspora
- Ron Browning
- 21 April 2006
Hope emerges for the Karen people forced to flee Burma for refugee camps just over the border in Thailand.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Figments of my imagination
- Jennifer Compton
- 21 April 2006
Jennifer Compton on the creative life.
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AUSTRALIA

Sniffing at tragedy
- Graham Ring
- 21 April 2006
Aboriginal communities across central Australia, struggling with the scourge of petrol sniffing, have been told it’s their problem—fix it.
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MARGARET DOOLEY AWARD

Remembering Etty
- Kirsty Sangster
- 21 April 2006
Kirsty Sangster recalls a Holocaust survivor.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Searching for Borrisnoe
- Peter Hamilton
- 21 April 2006
1 Comment
It’s a long way to Tipperary from New York, via Victoria, and once there it’s not so easy to trace your grandmother’s footsteps
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ARTS AND CULTURE

At Parramatta
- Kerry Leves
- 21 April 2006
Poem by Kerry Leves
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Before it goes to the tip
- Michael McGirr
- 21 April 2006
The National Museum of Australia in Canberra is both garage and op shop for the nation.
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EDUCATION

The art of discovering values
- Freya Mathews
- 21 April 2006
It is far better for children to learn tolerance than it is for them to have it imposed upon them.
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AUSTRALIA

The Pepysian paradox
- Luke Fraser
- 21 April 2006
Samuel Pepys’s diaries chronicling London life in the 17th century—now on the internet—remain as fresh and engaging as ever
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AUSTRALIA

Spreading seeds of culture
- Michele Gierck
- 21 April 2006
Determined to preserve old stories and encourage young voices, tribal elders in Western Australia took a bold publishing step.
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INTERNATIONAL

Tensions mount in Sri Lanka
- Jon Greenaway
- 21 April 2006
A few months’ peace in the wake of the tsunami was shattered by an assassin’s bullet.
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INTERNATIONAL

Another African tragedy
- Dorothy Horsfield
- 21 April 2006
For this peace prize winner, northern Uganda is the worst place on earth to be a child today.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Palatable pleasures
- Christine Salins
- 21 April 2006
An international food summit in Adelaide has resolved to fight the spread of ‘techno-food’
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Around the world and back again
- Matthew Lamb
- 21 April 2006
Matthew Lamb on John Ralston Saul’s The Collapse of Globalism: And the Reinvention of the World.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

No wannabes or posers
- D.L. Lewis
- 21 April 2006
D. L. Lewis welcomes Robert Holden’s Crackpots, Rebels and Ratbags.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

City of tarnished glories
- Sarah Kanowski
- 21 April 2006
Sarah Kanowski savours Orhan Pamuk’s Istanbul: Memories of a City.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

A year spent observing
- Brian McCoy
- 21 April 2006
Brian McCoy on Mary Ellen Jordan’s Balanda: My Year in Arnhem Land.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

The child as verb
- Brian Doyle
- 21 April 2006
Brian Doyle on miraculousness.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Quick reviews
- Brooke Davis, Elizabeth Allen, Joel Townsend, Robert Hefner
- 21 April 2006
Reviews of the books Everyman’s Rules for Scientific Living; Invisible Yet Enduring Lilacs; The Weather Makers: The History and Future Impact of Climate Change; and Does my head look big in this?
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Film reviews
- Film reviewers
- 21 April 2006
Reviews of the films Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire; The Brothers Grimm; Good Night, and Good Luck; and The Constant Gardener.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Trouble in the kitchen
- Juliette Hughes
- 21 April 2006
Inspired by TV cooking programs, men are buying cookbooks that were never meant to leave the top of a coffee table - and then they make shopping lists that include squid ink and quinoa.
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