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AUSTRALIA

Witnessing East Timor's independence
- Meredyth Tamsyn
- 28 August 2009
1 Comment
Ten years ago, the East Timorese voted overwhelmingly via UN referendum for independence from Indonesia. The euphoria would not last. By nightfall there were over a hundred refugees seeking shelter in the backyard of the UN house where we were staying.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Discerning truth in Balibo's fiction
- Tim Kroenert
- 20 August 2009
5 Comments
'Cinema,' says director Robert Connolly, 'can take the audience and show them a tragedy in a way that creates empathy. I was interested in exploring the ability of this country to compel people to tell its story. It's hard not to start caring for what happened there.'
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AUSTRALIA

How Balibo distorts history
- Paul Cleary
- 20 August 2009
10 Comments
The first feature length film about Indonesia's invasion of East Timor and the deaths of six Australian journalists fails to inform the audience of the diplomatic dirty tricks, and Australian and American complicity.
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RELIGION

Pope's 'new anthropology' shoots for the moon
- David Holdcroft
- 17 August 2009
7 Comments
Reflections on the 40th anniversary of the first manned lunar landing can help us understand the major themes of Pope Benedicts's social encyclical, and explain why many critics of this radical document have missed the point.
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AUSTRALIA

Australia's chance to lead climate change action
- Michael Mullins
- 11 May 2009
3 Comments
The community is divided over the Government's revised climate change strategy. Australia has the most visible evidence of climate change, which makes it all the more urgent for us to provide leadership on the world stage.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

What Frank did
- Frank Brennan
- 21 April 2009
4 Comments
Frank Costigan was a man of such moral authority that you would not need to speak to him, just think, 'What would Frank do?' When Frank was being wheeled in for surgery, he completed reading the morning papers, then waved to his children.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Eulogy for Francis Xavier Costigan QC
- Frank Brennan
- 20 April 2009
2 Comments
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INTERNATIONAL

Forward with fairness for asylum seeker policy
- Kerry Murphy
- 17 April 2009
3 Comments
The tragic death of several asylum seekers on a boat while being towed to Christmas Island again shows the dangers for people coming to Australia by boat. But it does not justify a return to the harsh policies of the past.
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INTERNATIONAL

The logic of the Bali death machine
- Peter Hodge
- 04 March 2009
3 Comments
In Kafka's 'The Penal Colony', a brutal, archaic killing device is valued more highly than the law it enforces. As members of the Bali 9 continue to languish, we ask whether 'because the law says so' is sufficient reason for them to die.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Maori for cannibal
- Jennifer Compton
- 27 January 2009
1 Comment
There was a custom for Maori warriors to eat the enemy they killed in battle. This was called long pig because it tastes like pork but the bones are longer.
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AUSTRALIA

Indonesia's Obama dreaming
- Dewi Anggraeni
- 22 January 2009
3 Comments
In the big cities in Indonesia, most taxi drivers want to talk about the new president in the USA. Obama lived four years in Indonesia, and the country, the people and the culture left their marks on him, too.
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AUSTRALIA

Amrozi execution gets Rudd's gloat
- Michael Mullins
- 12 January 2009
1 Comment
The execution of the Bali bombers is imminent, and Kevin Rudd has encouraged Australians to have the 'last gloat'. The Muslim world will interpret our gloating as Australia's endorsementof the Bush Doctrine in its dying days.
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