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01 March 2006
While many Australian people remain divided on the question of capital punishment, we can rejoice in the fact that in this country there is public debate about the issue.
Letters from Joe Goerke, Colin Samundsett, J.M.T. Groenewegen and Roger Borrell
War games are not child's play.
Shangri-La in the high country.
The responsiveness of ritual to culture is evident in an Australia increasingly shaped by fear of terror.
In the spirit of the times, Archimedes writes a column about positive, upbeat happenings in science—the things to which we often pay too little attention.
In the footsteps of St Cuthbert.
Is it just me, or is it always a bit strange at the start of another year? As if you can feel the earth and the sky and the ambience of things shifting wearily into another gear with a here-we-go-again crunching of cosmic cogs.
My grandfather was a founding member of the Party nearly 90 years ago, and, although he stayed in until his death, he never ceased to say how much it had disappointed him.
With the unlinking of the politics of asylum from the debate over national identity, Australia is now within reach of an opportunity to engage in much-needed policy reform.
The final year of the Whitlam Government was tumultuous, but despite enormous obstacles and ultimate dismissal, the government implemented a visionary and far-reaching policy agenda that forever changed the face of Australia.
Peter Rodgers on where cricket is heading.
In drought-ravaged, impoverished Niger, slavery is still a way of life for many.
Four days in a French convent were not enough to satisfy the curiosity of this writer.
Poems by Danny Fahey & Ouyang Yu.
Mathias Heng’s extraordinary images of people left homeless by Pakistan’s devastating earthquake.
Gillian Bouras examines the intertwined lives of two extraordinary 19th-century sisters.
Deep anguish and frustration, not a desire for violence, is the plight of Haiti’s impoverished people.
Graham Ring on the failure of native title.
Artist Lin Onus had a way of stimulating empathy by giving people something to connect with—not merely on an intellectual level but at the level of the heart.
With the encouragement of an Australian nun, inmates at Becora Prison are finding ways out of the darkness of their crimes into the light of new hope.
We all know about the supposedly true books that turn out to be fakes, but perhaps even more remarkable is the way fiction can somehow become fact.
The best of 2005 - Jennifer Moran on three annual anthologies of Australian writing.
Peter Pierce reviews The Diaries of Donald Friend, Volume Three, edited by Paul Hetherington.
Jacqueline Healy on Geoffrey and James Bardon’s Papunya: A Place Made After the Story.
Philip Harvey reviews Ann McCulloch’s Dance of the Nomad: A Study of the Selected Notebooks of A. D. Hope.
Michele M. Gierck reviews Arch and Martin Flanagan’s The Line: A Man’s Experience of the Burma Railway; A Son’s Quest to Understand.
Denis Tracey on Ronald Wright’s A Short History of Progress.
Reviews of the books The Penelopiad; Saving Fish from Drowning; No Place Like Home; and Breastwork: Rethinking Breastfeeding.
Reviews of the films Brokeback Mountain, Jarhead and Munich.
Brian Doyle on incarceration, American style.