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  • INTERNATIONAL

    Protecting the vulnerable

    • Moira Rayner
    • 11 June 2006

    Children need help to protect themselves, argues Moira Rayner.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Book reviews

    • Emily Millane, Beth Doherty, Chloe Wilson and Godfrey Moase
    • 07 June 2006

    Orwell’s Australia: From Cold War to Culture Wars | A Woman of Independence | The Man Who Knew Too Much

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  • RELIGION

    A fair go in an age of terror

    • Frank Brennan
    • 31 May 2006

    The following is an edited text of an address given by Frank Brennan SJ as part of the Jesuit Lenten Seminar Series 2004.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Fuelling the fire over Dili

    • Paul Cleary
    • 29 May 2006

    Seven years after the optimism born of independence, East Timor burns. Rival gangs fight in the streets, Australian soldiers try to keep the peace, and the people of Dili wait to see whether calm can be restored.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Easy relations

    • Jack Waterford
    • 22 May 2006

    John Howard and Alexander Downer do Australia no favours in suggesting that to place Australia’s interests ahead of those of the United States, is proof of anti-Americanism or unsound policy.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Guerrilla to President: Xanana Gusmão

    • Sara Niner
    • 22 May 2006

    This year’s May anniversary of independence for Timor Leste is Xanana Gusmão’s second as President and the country’s fifth as a free territory. Sara Niner looks at the current political machinations.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    First give West Papuans a human welcome

    • Andrew Hamilton
    • 18 May 2006
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    The arrival of West Papuan refugees raises complex questions. Discussion must begin by honouring the humanity of the West Papuans involved.

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  • ENVIRONMENT

    The Australian wound

    • Mark Byrne
    • 18 May 2006

    Mark Byrne looks at the particular characteristics that make an Australian 'hero', and asks what it is about the interior of this country that moulds the interior of our collective suconscious in such a unique way.  

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  • AUSTRALIA

    The real task for John Howard in Washington

    • Jack Waterford
    • 18 May 2006

    Jack Waterford examines the widening range of problems facing John Howard as jets over to visit George W. Bush for the seventh time in six years.  

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  • AUSTRALIA

    The Eureka moment

    • Robert Hefner
    • 14 May 2006

    Robert Hefner speaks with Morag Fraser and Peter Steele about the qualities that made Eureka Street a special magazine.  

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    No cheap shots

    • Keith Shipton
    • 14 May 2006

    Keith Shipton celebrates the photography of Michael Coyne.    

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  • INTERNATIONAL

    Echoes of war

    • Dawn Delaney
    • 11 May 2006

    Dawn Delaney examines the unwelcome legacy of violence against women following the conflict in East Timor.

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