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  • INTERNATIONAL

    Lavapiés – where old Europe meets new

    • Anthony Ham
    • 23 December 2006

    The Madrid barrio of Lavapiés has always been peopled with immigrants. The easy coexistence of tradition and diversity there is especially important, on a continent made suddenly uneasy by its burgeoning immigrant populations.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    No place for Colin Thiele in memorial ratings

    • Brian Matthews
    • 18 September 2006
    4 Comments

    It was hard to notice the recent death of Colin Thiele, arguably Australia's greatest children's writer. In a philistine nation under philistine leadership, Thiele’s quiet cultured tone and its sad silencing could not compete for proper, courteous and deserved recognition with the phony vernacular outpouring that is supposed to be our true voice.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Beyond the clichés of US colonisation of Australia

    • Michael Ashby
    • 07 August 2006

    Denis Altman's 51st State aims to undermine the clichés associated with Australian-US Relatons, without underestimating the remorseless destruction of Australian identity, and political and business life, as well as many local norms and icons.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Unfinished business

    • Morag Fraser
    • 03 July 2006

    It’s a cliché, and that in itself should make you suspicious. In George Orwell’s centenary year, doubly so.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Film reviews

    • Morag Fraser, Allan James Thomas, Juliette Hughes, Gordon Lewis
    • 26 June 2006

    Reviews of the films Naqoyqatsi; Open Hearts; The Matrix Reloaded and La vérité si je mens! 2.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Irish dignity

    • Gary Pearce
    • 11 May 2006

    Gary Pearce reviews Lady Gregory’s Toothbrush by Colm Tóibín.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    The child as verb

    • Brian Doyle
    • 21 April 2006

    Brian Doyle on miraculousness.

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  • CONTRIBUTORS

    Andrew Hamilton

    • Andrew Hamilton

    Andrew Hamilton is a Jesuit priest. He taught theology at the United Faculty of Theology for many years, and has contributed widely to theological and religious journals. He has had a long-standing engagement with refugee communities and issues. He is currently editorial consultant of Eureka Street and a policy officer with Jesuit Social Services.

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  • CONTRIBUTORS

    Kerry Murphy

    • Kerry Murphy

    Kerry Murphy is a partner with the specialist immigration law firm D'Ambra Murphy Lawyers. He is a student of Arabic, former Jesuit Refugee Service coordinator, teaches at ACU and was recognised by AFR best lawyers survey as one of Australia's top immigration lawyers.

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  • CONTRIBUTORS

    Sara Niner

    • Sara Niner

    Dr Sara Niner is a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Arts Faculty at Monash University. She is the editor of To Resist is to Win: the Autobiography of Xanana Gusmão with selected letters and speeches. Her new research into women and handcrafts in East Timor is available here and here.

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  • CONTRIBUTORS

    Helen Ting

    • Helen Ting

    Helen Ting completed a PhD in political science at the Institut d'études politiques de Paris. She is currently based in Kuala Lumpur ahead of taking up an appointment at the Institute of Malaysian and International Studies (IKMAS) of the National University of Malaysia (Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia).

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  • CONTRIBUTORS

    Cristy Clark

    • Cristy Clark

    Dr Cristy Clark is a senior lecturer with the Faculty of Business, Government and Law at the University of Canberra. Her work focuses on the intersection of human rights, neoliberalism, activism and the environment, and particularly on the human right to water.

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