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AUSTRALIA

Renewed acquaintances: Australia and Russia
- Luke Fraser
- 09 September 2009
The relationship between Australia and Russia is over 200 years old. It began with great promise, but relations cooled following the Russian Revolution. The financial crisis presents an opportunity for both countries to look to each other with optimism once again.
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ENVIRONMENT

Why green Catholics are not communists
- Neil Ormerod
- 04 September 2009
20 Comments
Many conservative Catholics are sceptical about global warming. For them environmentalism is the new communism. This echoes the paranoia of the '50s and '60s are clear, when anyone with an interest in social justice was suspect.
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INTERNATIONAL

Pol Pot and the repentant Swede
- Binoy Kampmark
- 24 November 2008
1 Comment
Gunnar Bergstrom returned to Cambodia last week hoping to atone for his one-time approval of the Khmer Rouge's Year Zero. In 1978 he and his comrades from the Sweden-Kampuchea Friendship Association were hosted by a gracious and grateful Pol Pot.
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AUSTRALIA

US-backed Georgia pokes the Russian bear
- Tony Kevin
- 19 August 2008
7 Comments
Provocation by the US and the Saakashvili government has realigned the balance of power between Russia and the West. The Georgia conflict is the most important event in East-West relations since the fall of Soviet Communism.
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AUSTRALIA

Muslim and Catholic pilgrims share the wisdom of travel
- Irfan Yusuf
- 16 July 2008
8 Comments
WYD pilgrims, like Muslim pilgrims to Mecca, know that in the act of travelling, they will learn things about themselves that they could never learn from books and sermons. Pilgrims are warriors whose battles are internal and spiritual.
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AUSTRALIA

Reviving the domino theory
- Daniel Baldino
- 18 May 2007
1 Comment
The notion of preventing Islamic influence has strong echoes of the simple Cold War ‘domino theory’. This powerful metaphor and enemy image, popular in the 1950s and 1960s and used to justify US military intervention in Southeast Asia, was later widely criticised for its undeveloped and unstructured generalisations about political systems that are quite different.
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AUSTRALIA

Catholic-inspired Bayrou seeks to break French left-right mould
- Stefan Gigacz
- 02 April 2007
1 Comment
French Presidential candidate Francois Bayrou could emerge as favourite for the run off as socialists and conservatives seek to block their rivals from the Presidency. The 55 year old practising Catholic has managed to carve out political positions that respect Church teaching without necessarily alienating other groups.
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RELIGION

Lessons from case of Poland's collaborator archbishop
- Andrew Hamilton
- 22 January 2007
5 Comments
Harsh persecution polarises communities and corrupts them from within. It is the seedbed not only of heroic witness to faith, but also of cowardice and of vindictiveness.
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INTERNATIONAL

Undeclared war on Haiti's poor
- Kent Rosenthal
- 10 July 2006
5 Comments
Living conditions in Ouanaminthe, a ‘town’ of around 100,000 inhabitants amount to an undeclared war on the poor. There’s a lack of services, which makes Ouanaminthe a gathering place for human traffickers, smugglers and corrupt authorities ready to profit from people desperate to leave for the Dominican Republic.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

On your bus
- Grant Morgan, Anthony Ham, Matthew Albert, Steven Columbus
- 07 July 2006
On your bus, Kerala leads, Sudan in Australia, Coming to terms.
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AUSTRALIA

Coincidence, visas, ATSIC and Mabo day
- Eureka Street editors
- 26 June 2006
Thoughts from all over
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ARTS AND CULTURE

The question mark
- Terry Monagle
- 26 June 2006
1 Comment
Experiencing death in the midst of life
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