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Keywords: Cambodia

INTERNATIONAL

Anti-corruption measures eclipse human rights in Cambodia
- Allister Hayman
- 27 June 2007
1 Comment
Despite mounting criticism of the human rights record of Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, foreign donors, including Australia, continue to back him financially. It seems that the economic growth and stability he has fostered is more valuable than transparency, the rule of law, and human rights.
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AUSTRALIA

Election year strategies for bleeding hearts
- Tony Kevin
- 05 June 2007
3 Comments
It is looking more and more that Labor will win, and that the present unforeseen Coalition government majority in the Senate may be lost too. There are interesting moral questions arising from this analysis for us "bleeding hearts", among whom I am happy to count myself.
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AUSTRALIA

Who pays for our impulsive consumption?
- Beth Doherty
- 18 May 2007
4 Comments
A tradition of disposable clothing has been emerging in the fashion industry for many years, clothing that falls apart easily, garments that you wear twice and then give away. However, we rarely consider what effect this impulsive consumption has on the world's poor.
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CONTRIBUTORS

Beth Doherty
- Beth Doherty
- 17 May 2007
Beth Doherty currently works for Caritas Australia, the international aid and development agency of the Catholic Church. She has worked in Cambodia with the Jesuit Refugee Service, is a freelance writer for Jesuit Communications, and a former assistant editor of Eureka Street.
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Colin Long
- Colin Long
- 17 May 2007
1 Comment
Colin Long lectures in cultural heritage at Deakin University. He is an urban historian with interests in Vietnamese, Lao and Cambodian history and heritage, Australian urban and labour history, and heritage in post-communist societies. He is also the President of the Deakin Branch of the National Tertiary Education Union.
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CONTRIBUTORS

Joan Healy RSJ
- Joan Healy
- 17 May 2007
Joan Healy is a Josephite sister who has worked in child and family care and with Cambodian refugees. More recently she has cultivated friendships with indigenous Australians in the northern suburbs of Melbourne.
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CONTRIBUTORS

Ben Coghlan
- Ben Coghlan
- 17 May 2007
Dr Coghlan is a specialist in applied epidemiology and is currently based at the Burnet Institute in Melbourne. He has been involved extensively in public health work in developing countries, and has worked for a range of organisations including Medecins Sans Frontieres, the International Rescue Committee, and the Australian Red Cross.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Master mixer of politics and religion
- Frank Brennan
- 27 February 2007
5 Comments
One of Jesuit congressman Robert Drinan's political claims to fame was that he had moved the first motion of impeachment against Richard Nixon. He showed that the mix of politics and religion on Capitol Hill was difficult, especially concerning abortion.
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AUSTRALIA

Cambodia's slow recovery from Khmer Rouge
- Matthew Smeal
- 13 November 2006
2 Comments
Now in his mid-thirties, former child soldier Aki Ra has dedicated his life to the removal of mines and unexploded ordinance throughout Cambodia.
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AUSTRALIA

Letter: 1965 genocide of Indonesian Chinese did not occur
- Charles Coppel
- 04 September 2006
Charles Coppel argues that there was no empirical evidence to support Jack Waterford's view in the last Eureka Street, that there was a kind of Chinese Holocaust in Indonesia in 1965. The victims of the 1965 anti-communist massacre were overwhelmingly Javanese and Balinese, and the slaughter was politicide rather than genocide.
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AUSTRALIA

Washed clean
- Andrew Hamilton
- 09 July 2006
In Cambodia, included in the celebration of the new year is a washing ceremony.
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EDUCATION

Need to know basis
- Robin Jeffrey
- 04 July 2006
It is crucial that Australia increases its knowledge of Asia
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Keywords: Cambodia