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Keywords: East Timor

  • AUSTRALIA

    Could Australia become another island in the Indonesian archipelago?

    • Paul Osborne
    • 26 June 2006
    2 Comments

    Mr Howard has travelled to Indonesia to mend the rift in relations betwen the two countries. Critics of the proposed legislation designed to appease Indonesia, fear that Australia is in serious danger of surrendering its sovereignty by allowing another country to force its hand on policy matters, such as migration.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Lessons learned from Icarus

    • Brian Matthews
    • 26 June 2006

    There’s a lot of reality around at the moment – at Guantanamo, in Baghdad, in East Timor, in Australian workplaces. To be fully human, we must observe, take account of, and if possible influence these realities as best we can; at the same time life, ordinary quotidian life, must go on.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    East Timor rebuilding must focus on young people

    • Peter Hosking
    • 26 June 2006
    3 Comments

    Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri's resignation has occurred, but the country's future hinges on addressing the needs of young people. Offering a new spirit of hope through vocational training and other intiatives, is a key priority in the nation's rebuilding.

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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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  • AUSTRALIA

    Observations from our contributors

    • Morag Fraser, David Glanz, Anthony Ham, Andrew Bullen
    • 26 June 2006

    Dr Seuss’ books, Peace under fire, The good life, Sidney Nolan

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  • INTERNATIONAL

    Sunken diplomacy

    • Tony Kevin
    • 18 June 2006
    1 Comment

    Tony Kevin’s diplomatic career has directly lead him to investigate SIEV X.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Heavy hand

    • Lia Kent
    • 18 June 2006

    Nation-building is a fraught and messy business. Michael Ignatieff knows that well.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Book reviews

    • Godfrey Moase, Emily Millane, Tom Riemer sj
    • 18 June 2006

    Reviews of About face: Asian Accounts of Australia; Diplomatic Deceits: Government, Media and East Timor; The Complete Book of Great Australian Women—Thirty-Six women who changed the course of Australia and The Conclave: A sometimes secret and occasionally bloody history of papal elections

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  • INFORMATION

    Letters to Eureka Street

    • Philip Mendes, John Haughey, Gavan Breen
    • 16 June 2006

    Letters from Philip Mendes, John Haughey, Gavan Breen.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Well-laid plans

    • Jack Waterford
    • 16 June 2006

    Most of the uncertainties of the year ahead are international, particularly in our region. John Howard will be lucky if things work out as he hopes.

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  • INTERNATIONAL

    Deathly silence

    • Kel Dummett
    • 13 June 2006

     Kel Dummett finds that Australia is content to ignore the troubles of Biak, West Papua.

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  • RELIGION

    The war of the willing

    • Bruce Duncan
    • 13 June 2006

    Western intelligence agencies fell down  badly over Iraq. So did our consciences, argues Bruce Duncan.

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