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Keywords: Colour

AUSTRALIA

Mahathir Mohamad embraces human rights?
- Binoy Kampmark
- 08 March 2007
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Malaysia's colourful former Prime Minister is setting up a war crimes tribunal, to "assuage the pain that has been suffered by so many people in Iraq, Palestine, Afghanistan and elsewhere". Mahathir, it seems, hopes to reinvent the wheel, and a rickety one at that.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Humiliation at the hands of the US military
- Tim Kroenert
- 13 November 2006
For those of us who recognise the injustice inherent to a system that could justify the imprisonment of innocent people based only on the colour of their skin, The Road To Guantanamo stands as a stark reminder that it’s not only radical Islamic fundamentalists who “terrorise” their perceived enemy.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Models for a good life and an honest death
- Clive O'Connell
- 16 October 2006
Historian Inga Clendinnen's reviews, childhood recollections, multi-coloured reminiscences of her working career, and informed discourse on simple events or complex ideas, are collected in a way that reveals a tempered tolerance seemingly inherited from her favourite essayist, Montaigne.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Primary Colours
- Tim Edwards
- 21 August 2006
Gold crayons for Christ's hair / red for the fires of Hell—so Father O'Malley told us.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Impersonating genius for gain
- Sebastien De Robillard
- 26 June 2006
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Colour Me Kubrick, whilst not quite a work of genius, is none the less a very satisfying film. It is a pithy, witty film, that Kubrick fans will enjoy immensely.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Colourful ties
- Jenny Zimmer
- 15 June 2006
Jenny Zimmer looks at Patrick McCaughey’s The Bright Shapes and the True Names.
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INTERNATIONAL

Common thread
- David Holdcroft
- 05 June 2006
David Holdcroft writes on the colourful culture at the World Social Forum.
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