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July - August 2003

01 July 2003


 

  • MEDIA

    United we stand

    • Andrew Hamilton
    • 26 June 2006

    The recent controversy about the ABC has been studied as an exercise in politics, as a lesson in handling criticism and as an exercise in free speech. It may also be part of a larger cultural shift in the way governments see themselves in relation to the people they govern.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Cut price care

    • Francis Sullivan
    • 26 June 2006

    The Howard government wants a different Medicare: one where people who can, pay more to visit a doctor. The government is grappling with a complex economic issue, but should not dismiss the social benefits that Medicare delivers to the very sick and less well off.

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  • INFORMATION

    Letters to Eureka Street

    • Greg Hawthorne, John Dobinson
    • 26 June 2006

    Letters from Greg Hawthorne, John Dobinson

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  • AUSTRALIA

    New tricks

    • Jack Waterford
    • 26 June 2006

    Labor’s leadership problems have been a dream for the Liberal Party, not least by obscuring the fact that the real victor in leadership games over recent months has been the prime minister, John Howard.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Coincidence, visas, ATSIC and Mabo day

    • Eureka Street editors
    • 26 June 2006

    Thoughts from all over

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Observations from our contributors

    • Morag Fraser, David Glanz, Anthony Ham, Andrew Bullen
    • 26 June 2006

    Dr Seuss’ books, Peace under fire, The good life, Sidney Nolan

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  • RELIGION

    The god of plenty

    • Richard Treloar
    • 26 June 2006

    The principle of scarcity—the fear that there is not enough to go round (enough love, enough food, enough land, enough of God, enough ‘salvation’) is a strong motivator for possessiveness and for jealousy.

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  • ENVIRONMENT

    Mind and matter

    • Tim Thwaites
    • 26 June 2006

    Archimedes’ interest was sparked by recent studies linking behaviour with physical changes in the human body.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Casualties of conflict

    • Moira Rayner
    • 26 June 2006

    Conflicts of interest pose a serious threat to democracy

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Samuel Beckett’s Wrinkles

    • Libby Hart, Chris Wallace-Crabbe
    • 26 June 2006

    Poems by Libby Hart and Chris Wallace-Crabbe

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Bowled over

    • Brian Matthews
    • 26 June 2006

    Some time in November 1962, I decided to upgrade my living arrangements from squalid to moderately conventional ...

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  • INTERNATIONAL

    In the name of the sons

    • Andra Jackson
    • 26 June 2006

    Justice has become a life’s work for the Guildford Four’s Paul Hill.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    African solutions

    • Anthony Ham
    • 26 June 2006

    Africa resists the moral authority of the West, says Anthony Ham.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Deeper water

    • Pam O’Connor
    • 26 June 2006

    Pam O’Connor reviews Margaret Simons’ The Meeting of the Waters: the Hindmarsh Island Affair.

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  • INTERNATIONAL

    Beyond the frame

    • Peter Davis
    • 26 June 2006

    Manipulating images: from the real to the ideal

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Finding common ground

    • David Nichols and John Wiseman
    • 26 June 2006

    Community Development projects can make a difference

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    The question mark

    • Terry Monagle
    • 26 June 2006
    1 Comment

    Experiencing death in the midst of life

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  • INTERNATIONAL

    An Australian slave trade

    • Georgina Costello
    • 26 June 2006
    1 Comment

    The trafficking of women highlights the consequences of the government’s policy on illegal immigration

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  • AUSTRALIA

    In the skin of a tiger

    • Nick Lenaghan
    • 26 June 2006

    A Naga poet keeps her culture alive even without a recognised homeland

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Hamlet in hard times

    • Peter Craven
    • 26 June 2006

    Peter Craven on John Bell’s Hamlet.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Tales from the bench

    • Frank Brennan
    • 26 June 2006

    Frank Brennan looks at Philip Ayres’ Owen Dixon.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    The wild cliff’s brink

    • Mark Carkeet
    • 26 June 2006
    5 Comments

    June Saunders was a little-known Queensland poet with a wealth of potential

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Barriers to grace

    • Michael McKernan
    • 26 June 2006

    Michael McKernan confronts an ugly Australian.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Forgotten victims

    • Hugh Dillon
    • 26 June 2006

    Hugh Dillon reviews W.G. Sebald’s On the Natural History of Destruction and Mark Roseman’s The Villa, the Lake, the Meeting: Wannsee and the Final Solution.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    In memoriam

    • Tony Coady
    • 26 June 2006

    Remembering the life and talents of Richard Victor Hall, 1937–2003

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  • INTERNATIONAL

    In adversity, strength

    • Kent Rosenthal
    • 26 June 2006

    The people of Colombia’s Cacarica River Basin face an uncertain future.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Legal fiction friction

    • James Minchin
    • 26 June 2006

    James Minchin reviews Chris Lydgate’s Lee’s Law: How Singapore Crushes Dissent.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Of bullocks and bulldust

    • John Sendy
    • 26 June 2006
    1 Comment

    John Sendy revisits Joseph Furphy’s Such is Life

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  • RELIGION

    Problems with belief

    • Lyn Riddett
    • 26 June 2006

    Lyn Riddett struggles to explain her unbelief to believing friends.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Book reviews

    • Miriam Bugden, Andrew Hamilton, Chris O’Connor, Tom Rigby
    • 26 June 2006

    Reviews of Western Horizon: Sydney’s heartland and the future of Australian politics; Body and Soul: A Spirituality of Imaginative Creativity; One Fourteenth of an Elephant: A memoir of life and death on the Burma–Thailand Railway; What’s Right? and Giving it Away: In praise of philanthropy.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Film reviews

    • Morag Fraser, Allan James Thomas, Juliette Hughes, Gordon Lewis
    • 26 June 2006

    Reviews of the films Naqoyqatsi; Open Hearts; The Matrix Reloaded and La vérité si je mens! 2.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Temporary inanity

    • Juliette Hughes
    • 26 June 2006

    I cocoon all day and well into the night, watching TV, chatting on the phone or fiddling aimlessly with the laptop. I am the luckiest being in history, warm and fed and sheltered and entertained and surrounded by family.

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