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  • AUSTRALIA

    El Salvador: rise of the left

    • Rodrigo AcuÑa
    • 24 March 2009
    1 Comment

    US Republicans lobbied President Obama to impose hardships on Salvadorians livingin the US should the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front win last week's election. When the left did triumph, he did the opposite and congratulated the new leader.

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  • ENVIRONMENT

    Rudd's great greenwash

    • Tony Kevin
    • 08 January 2009
    11 Comments

    Kevin Rudd's announcement of a 5 per cent 2020 emissions reduction target is a betrayal. He has put short-term political survival ahead of his responsibilities to the next generation. Where is Bonhoeffer when we need him? (December 2008)

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  • ENVIRONMENT

    Rudd's great greenwash

    • Tony Kevin
    • 15 December 2008
    7 Comments

    Kevin Rudd's announcement of a 5 per cent 2020 emissions reduction target is a betrayal. It appears he has put short-term political survival ahead of his responsibilities to the next generation. Where is Bonhoeffer when we need him?

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Pastoral Dreams

    • Matthew Klugman
    • 06 July 2006

    Are they utopian or can they be realised? Matthew Klugman reports.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Roving ambassador

    • John Button
    • 10 May 2006

    John Button travels Twelve cities: A memoir with Roy Jenkins.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Echoes of Eureka

    • Christine Gillespie
    • 30 April 2006
    3 Comments

    Christine Gillespie walks in the steps of her Lalor ancestors.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    The boy who would not grow up

    • Frank O’Shea
    • 25 April 2006

    The life and writings of J.M. Barrie gave rise to great creations, controversies and connections

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  • ENVIRONMENT

    How the people saved their river

    • Robert Kennedy
    • 24 April 2006

    The environmental lessons learned by those who live along the Hudson River in New York can be applied to cleaning up our own rivers in Australia.

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