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01 June 2004
Lindsay Tanner and Tony Abbott recently gave thoughtful speeches about the place of the churches in public life, which merit a reflective response.
Letters from John Kelly, David Holdcroft, John Carmody
The High Court’s judgment that the Family Court did not have the authority to release children from the Baxter detention centre provides a compelling reason for Australia to revisit the question of a Bill of Rights.
Aboriginal affairs has moved a long way since John Howard won office in 1996, though whether forwards or backwards is arguable.
Thoughts from around the nation.
Cab cultures, not to mention the cabbies themselves, vary widely around the world. The Australian habit of hopping into the front seat with the hack and exchanging a cheery word is not generally welcome in Paris.
Letters from Marg Honner, Anthony Ham, Matthew Albert
Former South African Supreme Court Judge, Justice Laurie Ackermann spoke recently about how he struggled with his judicial role under apartheid.
Tunisian human rights activist and University of Paris XIII Associate Professor of Public Health, Moncef Marzouki argues that there are three approaches to health.
Mixed signals lead one to wonder whether the Commonwealth is pulling back from shouldering its share of the cost of aged care.
Virginia Bourke examines the assumptions that underlie equality in parenting and work.
Anthony Ham follows the historical footsteps toward Mecca.
European allegiances have been tested by the conflict in Iraq.
Leanne McKay sheds light on the reality of unaccompanied minors arriving in Australia
Ross McMullins’ So Monstrous a Tragedy: Chris Watson and the world’s first national labour government is reviewed by Michael McGirr.
Michele Gierck observes how education programs in Kenya are restoring hope for AIDS victims.
Mark Wakely looks at our instinct to build fences
Andy Blunden examines proposals to target poverty and exclusion.
Italy, Caravaggio and Catholicism.
Celia Conlan reviews Stephanie Bennett’s The Gatton Murders.
Television’s engagement with the arts.
Andrew McGowan on Peter Carnley’s Reflections in glass: Trends and tensions in the contemporary Anglican church.
Matthew Lamb on the great dispute: Sartre and Camus: A Historic Confrontation and Camus and Sartre: The Story of a Friendship and the Quarrel that Ended It.
Bede Heather reviews Jacques Dupuis’ Toward a Christian Theology of Religious Pluralism.
An interview with Asian culinary master, Rosemary Brissenden, by Christine Salins.
Ralph Carolan reviews Benign or Imperial? Reflections on American Hegemony by Owen Harries.
Reviews of the books: Who did this to our Bali?; Off Course: From Public Place to Marketplace at Melbourne University; Dark Dreams, Australian refugee stories by young writers; A history of the devil: From the Middle Ages to the present.
When men are cooked for, the call is for lots of fried red meat and spuds, with bacon featuring everywhere. But when they take to the stove, it’s a different story.