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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Young men damaged by a war they don't understand

    • Rochelle Siemienowicz
    • 28 February 2008
    1 Comment

    Hank Deerfield's son goes missing soon after he returns from Iraq. When he decides to investigate, he finds an army bureaucracy that shuts him down at every point, and similarly unhelpful young soldiers.

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  • INTERNATIONAL

    Boots on the ground cannot replace faces in a community

    • Jack Waterford
    • 09 January 2008

    Three decades ago, a task force was commissioned by the Commonwealth to tackle a national disaster among Aborigines. Today's is much more problematic, with cops, then with army officers, then some doctors not yet consulted or organised, and no sense of engagement with the service providers on the ground, let alone the objects of the attention. From 27 June 2007.

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  • INTERNATIONAL

    Senseless death of Sri Lankan Good Samaritan

    • Danielle Vella
    • 03 October 2007
    4 Comments

    Last week, a local Jesuit Refugee Service coordinator in Sri Lanka was killed when his van was blown up by a mine in rebel-held territory, as he was delivering aid to displaced people and orphans. Typically the army and Tamil Tigers blamed each other for the blast, and we are unlikely to discover the truth.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Great leaders love their teams

    • Chris Lowney
    • 25 July 2007
    1 Comment

    Eric Shinseki was the highest ranking US military officer in the United States until he ran afoul of his boss, former US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsel. He had told a Congressional hearing that the US Army would more soldiers to Iraq than planned, to keep the peace Saddam Hussein's removal.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Boots on the ground cannot replace faces in a community

    • Jack Waterford
    • 27 June 2007
    5 Comments

    Three decades ago, a task force was commissioned by the Commonwealth to tackle a national disaster among Aborigines. Today's is much more problematic, with cops, then with army officers, then some doctors not yet consulted or organised, and no sense of engagement with the service providers on the ground, let alone the objects of the attention.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Burmese Days and banana leaves

    • Sarah Nichols
    • 13 June 2007
    2 Comments

    Nearly twenty years ago, San San Maw was a student revolutionary fighting the Burmese Army on the Thai-Burma border. Now she lives in an outer eastern suburb of Melbourne.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Long road back for Ramos Horta

    • Paul Cleary
    • 27 February 2007

    In 2006, the East Timorese government’s inept handling of a dispute in the army involving soldiers from the western region of East Timor put the young nation on the brink of civil war. Now Jose Ramos Horta has been installed as Prime Minister, but will it make a difference?

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Onus now on those who supported Thai coup

    • Minh Nguyen
    • 16 October 2006
    1 Comment

    A former army commander who once declared "the army should never be involved in politics", Surayud Chulanont, was appointed Thailand's interim prime minister at the weekend. But the irony of this appointment matters little in a coup marked by paradoxes.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Long road back for Ramos Horta

    • Paul Cleary
    • 10 July 2006
    5 Comments

    In 2006, the East Timorese government’s inept handling of a dispute in the army involving soldiers from the western region of East Timor put the young nation on the brink of civil war. Now Jose Ramos Horta has been installed as Prime Minister, but will it make a difference?

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  • INTERNATIONAL

    'Red pole' justice in Nepal

    • Sushma Joshi
    • 12 June 2006

    The three metre long red wooden pole is an instrument of humiliation for convicted criminals that is chillingly reminiscent of the Chinese Red Army. It has made its appearance,  not under Maoist inspiration, but because of the absence of a functioning state legal system.

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  • CONTRIBUTORS

    Tim Kroenert

    • Tim Kroenert

    Tim Kroenert was the editor and film reviewer for Eureka Street. He previously worked for five years with The Salvation Army's National Editorial Department, working as a subeditor and staff writer across its various publications including the flagship publication Warcry. He is a published fiction writer and his articles and reviews have appeared in The Age, Inside Film, WQ, the Courier-Mail and The Big Issue.

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  • CONTRIBUTORS

    Barry Gittins

    • Barry Gittins

    Eureka Street columnist Barry Gittins is a Melbourne writer and poet who's worked as an editor, journalist, proof-reader, reviewer and researcher. He is the Melbourne assistant manager of the Salvation Army Australia Museum.

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