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  • CONTRIBUTORS

    Chris Lowney

    • Chris Lowney
    • 26 July 2007

    Chris Lowney, who is visiting Australia 20-28 August 2007, served as managing director of JP Morgan & Co. in New York, Tokyo, Singapore, and London. He is author of Heroic Leadership: Best Practices from a 450-Year-Old Company that Changed the World (Loyola Press ISBN 0829418164)

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  • RELIGION

    Is New Zealand a Christian country?

    • Peter Matheson
    • 13 June 2007

    The question of whether New Zealand should see itself as a Christian country has bubbled up in an unexpected way. The word ‘Christian’, itself, has become, almost unusable, associated in the public mind with fundamentalist bookshops and the like, or with short lived political parties which tout moralistic codes.

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  • RELIGION

    Power of polemic is self-perpetuating, but not persuasive

    • Andrew Hamilton
    • 13 June 2007
    10 Comments

    The much commented-on recent books by Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens have reintroduced a broad brush anti-religious polemic. It has much in common with religious polemic against the secular world.

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  • ENVIRONMENT

    Grieving at Amazon.com

    • Daniel Donahoo
    • 18 May 2007
    7 Comments

    We can only imagine the shelves of an online bookshop to be dustless. But this does not preclude the very real presence of the spirit of a close relative who died two decades before the Internet took hold.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Book reviews

    • Jess Low, Sally Cloke, Rachel Hewitt, Lee Beasley
    • 18 May 2007

    Reviews of the books The Sparrow Garden; The Pyjama Girl Mystery; Stargazing: Memoirs of a young lighthouse keeper and Sacred Space, The prayer book 2005.

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  • CONTRIBUTORS

    Will Fraser

    • Will Fraser
    • 17 May 2007

    Will Fraser's poetry has appeared in journals across Australia and in NZ and the UK. His chapbooks, Leema's Llamas (2005) and The Leema Conspiracy (2006) have been published by Picaro Press.

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  • CONTRIBUTORS

    Andrew West

    • Andrew West
    • 17 May 2007

    Andrew West teaches journalism at the University of Canberra. A long-time newspaper journalist, he is also the author of two books, the latest being Inside The Lifestyles of the Rich and Tasteful, a look at class and politics in Australia.

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  • CONTRIBUTORS

    Bill Williams

    • Bill Williams
    • 17 May 2007

    Bill Williams is a doctor on the Victorian surf coast and vice-president of the Medical Association for the Prevention of War. He has had two books published, Kumanjayi's Country, and a book on men's health, Men. He is also an excellent surfer.

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  • CONTRIBUTORS

    Chris McGillion

    • Chris McGillion
    • 17 May 2007

    Chris McGillion is an expert in both religion and Cuba; he is the religious affairs columnist for the Sydney Morning Herald, and has written and edited a number of books, including Unfinished Business: America and Cuba After the Cold War, 1989-2001; Cuba, the United States, and the Post-Cold War World, and The Chosen Ones: The politics of salvation in the Anglican Church.  

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  • CONTRIBUTORS

    Mark Miller

    • Mark Miller
    • 17 May 2007

    Mark Miller is an Australian poet who has published two books of poetry. His first - Conversing with Stones - won the Anne Elder Award.

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  • CONTRIBUTORS

    Juan Garrido-Salgado

    • Juan Garrido-Salgado
    • 17 May 2007

    In 1990 Juan Garrido-Salgado was granted asylum in Australia after fleeing Chile's Pinochet, where he had been imprisoned and tortured. He has had published three books in Australia and one in Chile.

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  • CONTRIBUTORS

    Sean McDonagh

    • Sean McDonagh
    • 17 May 2007
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    Sean McDonagh is a Columban missionary priest who is the author of several books. Originally from North Tipperary, he now resides at Dalgan Park, Navan, Co Meath in Ireland.      

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