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01 May 2006
Peter Davis charts the success of a land-remapping project.
Michael Ashby looks at our attitudes towards dying and palliative care.
We met as usual ... and some half hour or so into our conversation I said that while travelling into town I’d had a ‘terrific idea’ for a short story.
For at least the past 20 years, people have predicted the demise of the newspaper, the magazine, and, probably, ultimately, the book. I do not believe it for a second.
In this edited extract from the 2006 Manning Clark Lecture, ‘5 R’s for the Enlargers: Race, Religion, Respect, Rights and the Republic’, Frank Brennan focuses on respect.
Poem by Peter Steele - for Margaret Manion
Father Frank Brennan discusses the Howard Government's approach to the issue of asylum seeker detention off-shore.
An extract from the book by Michele Gierck, 700 days in El Salvador.
For Michele Gierck, the publication of her first book is the culmination of a journey that began seven years ago.
Despite some gains, no one can really question that, as a group, women have been and still are discriminated against by the mere fact of being women.
Robert Hefner speaks with Morag Fraser and Peter Steele about the qualities that made Eureka Street a special magazine.
Ray Cassin recalls the beginning of Eureka Street.
Brian Doyle’s grace notes on the joys of everyday life.
Tom Cranitch, chief executive officer of Jesuit Communications Australia, welcomes readers to Eureka Street Mark II.
Letters from Marcelle Mogg and Robert Hefner
Iran's youth ready for change.
What gives, Australia?
Gay and married in Madrid.
In the Catholic funeral liturgy, we hear that ‘Life is changed, not ended’. These words, laconic and simple, have stayed with me recently.
Anthony Ham on power and politics in the world’s third-poorest country.
Keith Shipton celebrates the photography of Michael Coyne.
The lives of Ned Kelly and Oscar Wilde bear uncanny symmetries.
It’s the best of jobs and the worst of jobs, and it’s time we all took it a lot more seriously.
A new Australian film examines the powerful role of poetry in times of oppression.
George Silberbauer’s links with Botswana go back a long way, but his special concern is for Kalahari Bushmen on the verge of losing their ancestral homeland.
Besotted by books and the printed word for his first 55 years, this computer convert now finds himself getting as much pleasure from the screen as from the page.
Alan Nichols reviews Muriel Porter’sThe New Puritans: The Rise of Fundamentalism in the Anglican Church.
Peter Pierce onThe Autobiography of Wilfred Burchett.
Frank O’Shea reviews Andrew Moore’s Francis De Groot: Irish Fascist, Australian Legend.
John Button on Aneurin Hughes’s Billy Hughes: Prime Minister and Controversial Founding Father of the Labor Party.
Reviews of Carry Me Down, Great Australian Racing Stories, The Story of Christianity and Macquarie Atlas of Indigenous Australia
Keith Harrison recalls the life of Philip Martin.
Reviews of the films Inside Man, V for Vendetta, Capote, and The March of the Penguins.
Well, here we are, talking like this for the last time. How has it been for you, the last ten years?
Biology can certainly document the process of human reproduction - but when human life begins is not a scientific but a moral question, which we ourselves have to decide.