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ARTS AND CULTURE

'Jihad' evangelicals on trial
- Saeed Saeed
- 03 October 2008
The Catch the Fire Ministries religious vilification case was used for political means by both Muslims and Christians. Deen's account discusses wider issues such as the global rise of Islamaphobia, John Howard's identity politics and the Cronulla Riots.
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ECONOMICS

It's time to ditch GDP
- John Wicks
- 23 September 2008
9 Comments
The 'trickle down' of wealth proclaimed by neo-liberalism is debatable, and hardships flowing from sub-prime activities descend on the disadvantaged with the finesse of a freight train. Some economists have demanded the GDP measure be replaced by goods and services data that promote the common good.
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AUSTRALIA

Labor honeymoon could last
- Tony Smith
- 12 December 2007
A new government enjoys public goodwill as it tackles a residue of issues, resentments and injustices. How quickly this dissipates is a measure of the sincerity with which the new government operates. Hopes are high for Rudd Labor.
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INTERNATIONAL

What provoked Burmese people's fearless stand
- Carol Ransley & Toe Zaw Latt
- 03 October 2007
4 Comments
Two out of five children in Burma are severely malnourished, and the majority of people live in dire poverty. Then the ruling State Peace and Development Council instructed all Ministry of Energy distribution outlets to raise the prices of fuel.
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RELIGION

Capitalism's ingenious immunity to the guilty conscience
- Scott Stephens
- 27 February 2007
9 Comments
Every attempt to curb capitalism's voracious appetite, to ‘humanize’ its world-wide dominion, to place the world economy back in the service of the greater good, and thus temper its lust for unregulated growth, has not only failed, but has been assimilated.
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MEDIA

New media's role in US mid-term sensation
- Margaret Cassidy
- 13 November 2006
1 Comment
New media extended the life and added an additional dimension to the continued use of a range of old media, in the lead up to this month’s mid-term congressional elections in the United States.
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INTERNATIONAL

Palestinian factions holding back negotiations with Israel
- Bernard Sabella
- 18 September 2006
1 Comment
The situation in the Palestinian Territories, particularly in Gaza, remains bleak, especially since public sector employees went on strike. What is most worrying about the strike is that it is strengthening the factional divisions and infighting among Palestinians.
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AUSTRALIA

Discourse without dialogue in Australian politics
- Tony Smith
- 07 August 2006
1 Comment
Former Labor minister John Button anticipated the current low point in political discourse, with defenders and critics of government policy having lost the capacity to engage in dialogue, particularly in the field of public morality.
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AUSTRALIA

Inland Flynn
- Brigid Hains
- 02 July 2006
1 Comment
Pioneer? Racist? Or product of his time?
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Hacking the parties
- Terry Lane
- 02 July 2006
Terry Lane on The Andren Report.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Book reviews
- Miriam Bugden, Andrew Hamilton, Chris O’Connor, Tom Rigby
- 26 June 2006
Reviews of Western Horizon: Sydney’s heartland and the future of Australian politics; Body and Soul: A Spirituality of Imaginative Creativity; One Fourteenth of an Elephant: A memoir of life and death on the Burma–Thailand Railway; What’s Right? and Giving it Away: In praise of philanthropy.
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AUSTRALIA

Grass roots amongst the rubble
- Rebecca Duffy
- 12 June 2006
Rebecca Duffy is an Australian student studying in Indonesia. She witnessed first-hand the earthquake in Yogyakarta; this is her account.
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