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01 May 2005
Death brings us all back to earth. So Pope John Paul II has died and has left his responsibilities to others.
So often in the poverty debate the actual human stories have been lost.
Europe's immigration conundrum
James Gleeson Retrospective.
As humans, we seem to love putting things into boxes, sorting them into categories—black and white, horses and zebras, living and dead. But biology isn’t like that. It’s a continuum.
The population is ageing. In 40 years, seven million Australians—a quarter of the population—will be aged 65 or older. So what’s the answer to this as a public policy dilemma?
I suppose that, in evolution’s daring script, the millipede has a role, but intense scrutiny has failed to reveal it to me.
Robert Drummond: Riding the bycycle, The abyss
Real peace is likely to come to Northern Ireland only when a new generation sets aside the long-dead icons of 1916 and 1922.
It is a happy accident that brings together in 2005 the anniversaries of three Jesuits who worked in German: Peter Canisius, Hans Urs von Balthasar and Karl Rahner.
Nick Way looks at the reasons behind poor morale among Victoria’s biggest union.
Traces of Rome have become part of the scenery.
Spain is celebrating the 400th anniversary of its most famous novel, Miguel de Cervantes’ Don Quixote.
Ulm Minster is a testament to the eternal longing humans have always had for understanding
Judith Wright was not just a much greater writer than most of the artist-activists who had preceded her, but also a much greater activist.
Madeleine Byrne explores the boundaries, both geographical and moral, between Australia and Timor-Leste.
Young people have become increasingly wary of the hard sell, especially when pitched by the major political parties.
The Australian Bush Heritage Fund is quietly securing important areas of biodiverse bush to preserve and manage for future generations
In many ways Elizabeth Bennet was a far more illuminating role model for the women of her time than her twittery descendant Bridget Jones.
Anna Griffiths argues that Grace Cossington Smith captures the genius loci of her environment as finely as any painter of the grand sublime vista.
The Chinese people are conscious of the immense work involved in bringing a ‘New Beijing’ into being before the ‘Great Olympics’
Rosamund Dalziell reviews Haunted Earth, by Peter Read.
Christopher Gleeson finds much to admire in Maryanne Confoy’s Morris West: Literary Maverick.
Andrew Hamilton reflects on Marion Maddox’s God under Howard: The Rise of the Religious Right in Australian Politics.
Sally Young’s The Persuaders: Inside the Hidden Machine of Political Advertising is an important book for those interested in political and social change, says Peter Yewers.
Ralph Elliott reviews Gustav Born’s new edition of Max Born’s The Born-Einstein Letters 1916 –1955: Friendship, Politics and Physics in Uncertain Times.
Robert Hefner reviews Hannie Rayson’s Two Brothers.
Reviews of the books Speaking for Australia: Parliamentary speeches that shaped our nation; Direct action and democracy today; Scraps of Heaven and Lazy Man in China.
Reviews of the films Bad Education, Young Adam, Look at Me and Robots.
Dad’s and Uncle George’s stories come back to me when I consider the upcoming series on SBS As It Happened: Germany’s War.