September 2003

01 September 2003

ARTS AND CULTURE

Thames
- Grant Fraser
- 24 June 2006
Poem by Grant Fraser
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RELIGION

Truth, conscience and conversations
- Andrew Hamilton
- 24 June 2006
Debates about primacy of conscience illustrate the necessity for a passion both for truth and for freedom.
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AUSTRALIA

Gallipoli Revisited
- Dale Blair
- 24 June 2006
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The birthplace of a nation? Anzac Cove lies in wait for Australian pilgrims.
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AUSTRALIA

Romance v. reality
- Virginia Bourke
- 24 June 2006
The cost of raising a child is no measure of a parent’s love.
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INTERNATIONAL

Artistic freedom
- Sarah Dickson-Hoyle
- 24 June 2006
Artists respond to Australia’s treatment of asylum seekers.
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RELIGION

Muslims & Christians … where do we stand
- Dan Madigan, Abdullah Saeed and Frank Brennan
- 24 June 2006
Dan Madigan, Abdullah Saeed and Frank Brennan examine religious conflict in Australia as part of the Jesuit Seminar Series.
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RELIGION

Religious and human freedoms
- Abdullah Saeed
- 24 June 2006
September 11, 2001 changed the life of Muslims in the West, including Australia. Muslims in Australia today, their beliefs, values, practices and institutions, are under the microscope. There is a fear among many Muslims in Australia that is difficult to explain. In turn, Muslims are feared by many non-Muslim Australians, many of them Christians.
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RELIGION

Encountering the other
- Frank Brennan
- 24 June 2006
Professor Saeed and Fr Madigan make religious dialogue look easy. You would almost wonder what is the problem.
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INTERNATIONAL

The king of children
- Moira Rayner
- 24 June 2006
Moira Rayner on Janusz Korczak and the early history of children’s rights.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

The rage within
- Margaret Rice
- 24 June 2006
Margaret Rice talks to the man behind The Rage in Placid Lake.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Political overdrive
- Stephen Holt
- 24 June 2006
Stephen Holt meets Marilyn Dodkin’s Bob Carr: The Reluctant Leader.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Myth-take no mistake
- Juliette Hughes
- 24 June 2006
Juliette Hughes reviews Terry Pratchett’s The Wee Free Men and Eoin Colfer’s Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code.
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AUSTRALIA

The empire’s new clothes
- David Glanz
- 24 June 2006
Will America take over the world? Not necessarily, says David Glanz.
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AUSTRALIA

Grass roots
- Lachlan Harris
- 24 June 2006
Local government meets Indigenous culture.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Sacred ground
- Jim Davidson
- 24 June 2006
Jim Davidson looks at Colin Holden’s Church in a Landscape: A History of the Diocese of Wangaratta.
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ECONOMICS

Smith’s invisible hand
- David Ferris
- 24 June 2006
David Ferris on the mysteries of the global economy.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Our killing fields
- Bob Reece
- 24 June 2006
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Bob Reece reviews Patrick Collins’ Goodbye Bussamarai: The Mandandanji Land War, Southern Queensland 1842–1852.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Jungian Counterpoint
- Meg McNena
- 24 June 2006
Poem by Meg McNena
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Book reviews
- Avril Hannah-Jones, Chloe Wilson, Terry Monagle
- 24 June 2006
Reviews of Sex, Power and the Clergy; Media Mania: why our fear of modern media is misplaced; Saving Francesca and Olhovsky Prince of Hamburg.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Film reviews
- Annelise Balsamo, Gordon Lewis, Juliette Hughes
- 24 June 2006
Reviews of the films Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle; Autofocus; Confessions of a Dangerous Mind and A Mighty Wind.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Fabulous nobodies
- Juliette Hughes
- 23 June 2006
What is it about some aspects of our viewing culture that gets me so pen-snappingly cross? Perhaps I should start at the beginning, with a small Spot Quiz, folks.
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AUSTRALIA

Family ties
- Greg Barns
- 23 June 2006
Commonwealth cousins Australia and Canada are headed toward distinctly different futures
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INFORMATION

Letters to Eureka Street
- Matthew Klugman; Maree Nutt; Fr John Hill, Emily Millane
- 19 June 2006
Letters from Matthew Klugman; Maree Nutt; Fr John Hill, Emily Millane
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RELIGION

Sexuality and ministry
- Andrew Hamilton
- 19 June 2006
Churches today run into trouble on gender and sexuality. Public discussion reveals passionately held differences within churches and between churches, and culture.
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AUSTRALIA

Just browsing?
- Eureka Street editors
- 19 June 2006
Thoughts from all over.
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AUSTRALIA

The boy who cried wolf
- Jack Waterford
- 19 June 2006
John Howard is correct in thinking that the public can discern between a grand lie and a little lie. He’s not, really, a grand liar.
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AUSTRALIA

Cuban rhythms
- Anthony Ham, Rosie Hoban
- 19 June 2006
From Cuba to Congo and back again | Children at war
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RELIGION

The church in the world
- James McEvoy
- 19 June 2006
Forty years into the journey, commentators debate whether the Council was overly optimistic about modernity. Did the heady days of the early ’60s influence the Council’s agenda to its detriment?
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ENVIRONMENT

Curiouser and curiouser
- Tim Thwaites
- 19 June 2006
Curiosity may have been the death of the cat, but it is the lifeblood of science. Recently Archimedes came across two delightful examples of how human the events leading to advances in scientific research can be.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Blair whiching
- Brian Matthews
- 19 June 2006
Tony Blair was in trouble. Grey-faced, uncharacteristically faltering, he could only reiterate under siege in the press, on television and in parliament that the Weapons of Mass Destruction which had convinced him to take Britain to war really did exist and would be found.
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AUSTRALIA

The alienation of Iraq
- Anthony Ham
- 19 June 2006
Anthony Ham on Iraq and America.
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