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March 2005

01 March 2005


 

  • AUSTRALIA

    Out of our depth

    • Andrew Hamilton
    • 29 April 2006

    In our January issue, we wrote facetiously about tsunamis.  By the time you received Eureka Street in late December, it was in deplorable taste.

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  • INFORMATION

    Letters to Eureka Street

    • Gavan Breen, Christopher Fogarty, Lee Beasley and Noelleen Ward
    • 29 April 2006

    Letters from Gavan Breen, Christopher Fogarty, Lee Beasley and Noelleen Ward

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  • AUSTRALIA

    The Right stuff

    • Jack Waterford
    • 29 April 2006

    The old firm is now entirely back in charge of the Labor Party. Not just Kim Beazley but the NSW Right.

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  • INTERNATIONAL

    Joy and sorrow in Sri Lanka

    • Mick Sexton
    • 29 April 2006

    As the old saying goes, joy and sorrow are two faces of the one coin. Well, the coin certainly flipped quickly for us here in Sri Lanka.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Back up to par

    • Ben Fraser
    • 29 April 2006

    Golf in Kabul 

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  • ENVIRONMENT

    Spicks and specks

    • Tim Thwaites
    • 29 April 2006

    Scientific research is all about making life more predictable. So it’s odd that one of the great fascinations of research is its very unpredictability.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Plus ça change

    • Brian Matthews
    • 29 April 2006

    When February dawned last year, I had been living in a small Provençal village for about a month.

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  • RELIGION

    Violence transformed

    • James McEvoy
    • 29 April 2006

    The waves of generosity in response to victims of the recent tsunami bring to light a real strength in modern culture. We have high standards of compassion.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    The arc of European reconciliation

    • Hugh Dillon
    • 29 April 2006

    Both the Dresden firestorm and the Holocaust were products of the insidious tendency in wartime for the previously unthinkable to become routine.

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  • INTERNATIONAL

    The case for reconciliation

    • Kirsty Ruddock
    • 29 April 2006

    Is Australia’s intervention in the Solomon Islands healing the wounds of the tension?

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Random thoughts

    • Ouyang Yu
    • 29 April 2006

    Yang Weizhen Random thoughts, Yang Ji Mountains deep and shallow, Zhang Zhihe Fishing song, Li Yu Moon like a hook, translated by Ouyang Yu

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  • RELIGION

    Australia’s judicial isolation

    • Frank Brennan
    • 29 April 2006

    Over the last year a major chasm has opened between decisions of Australia’s High Court and those of the UK House of Lords and the US Supreme Court regarding issues of national security such as the long-term mandatory detention of stateless asylum seekers.

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  • RELIGION

    The comforting word

    • Gillian Bouras
    • 29 April 2006

    In extremis, we seek what we know, or something very close to it.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    A farewell to arms?

    • Anthony Ham
    • 29 April 2006

    The road towards a Spain free from ETA violence remains one fraught with peril.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Beginning of the end

    • Troy Bramston
    • 29 April 2006

    Warning signs for the Whitlam Government were there in 1974, with an ailing economy, a political storm in the Senate, sliding popularity and a scandal unfolding in secret.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    March for Brosnan

    • Louise Clarke
    • 29 April 2006

    As a public figure, Father John Brosnan was hard to ignore. Throughout his life he worked tirelessly for social justice, providing support for those in prison. Next month, the Brosnan Centre celebrates his life and work.

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  • INTERNATIONAL

    What lies beneath

    • Peter Davis
    • 29 April 2006

    Peter Davis looks at the efforts of Sri Lanka to eradicate landmines.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    A boy in Damascus

    • Susan Dirgham
    • 29 April 2006

    Susan Dirgham is entranced by a local Damascene.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    The third Great Bang

    • Mary Manning
    • 29 April 2006

    I haven’t decided what I will do in my next life although the people who organise these things have been sending me reminders about it for the past two years.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    An ecumenical spirit

    • Philip Harvey
    • 29 April 2006

    Philip Harvey reviews Fresh Words and Deeds: The McCaughey Papers, edited by Peter Matheson and Christiaan Mostert.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Tracking a reign of terror

    • Ben Fraser
    • 29 April 2006

    Ben Fraser follows Sally Neighbour through In the Shadow of Swords: On the trail of terrorism from Afghanistan to Australia.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Lost in the detail

    • Peter Stanley
    • 29 April 2006
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    Peter Stanley reviews John Hamilton’s Goodbye Cobber, God Bless You.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    The shores of the past

    • Jane Mayo Carolan
    • 29 April 2006

    Jane Carolan enjoys an encounter with Barry Hill in The Enduring Rip: A History of Queenscliffe.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Forgiving and forgetting

    • Denis Tracey
    • 29 April 2006

    Gavan Daws’s Prisoners of the Japanese: POWs of World War II in the Pacific prompts some reflection from Denis Tracey.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Book reviews

    • Luke O’Callaghan, Andrew Hamilton, Michele M. Gierck
    • 29 April 2006

    Reviews of the books After the Fireworks: A life of David Ballantyne; When faiths collide; Classical literature: A concise history and In the shadow of ‘Just Wars’: Violence,politics and humanitarian action.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Rare fruit

    • John Carmody
    • 29 April 2006

    John Carmody savours Prokofiev’s The Love for Three Oranges.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Film reviews

    • Morag Fraser, Allan James Thomas , Zane Lovitt, Siobhan Jackson
    • 29 April 2006

    Reviews of the films Alexander, Closer, Sideways and Million Dollar Baby.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Must grumble

    • Juliette Hughes
    • 29 April 2006

    ‘Mu-um!’ he said the other day when I was arguing with the telly. ‘You certainly do know how to ruin a night’s viewing.’

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