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AUSTRALIA

How the politics of prohibition fuelled a gang war
- Juliette Hughes
- 29 January 2025
While health advocates hail falling smoking rates, Australia’s tobacco taxes have inadvertently fuelled a black market in tobacco, with small businesses and law enforcement often bearing the consequences. Policymakers now question how the social toll measures against the health gains.
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AUSTRALIA

Spare the rod and respect the child
- Andrew Hamilton
- 28 March 2024
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As a response to a wave of youth crime, some State Governments and Federal politicians have committed to policies that neglect the human reality of the young people concerned. This will likely have negative consequences both for those immediately affected and for society at large.
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INTERNATIONAL

The perils of being a civilian
- Tony Smith
- 22 February 2024
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The illusion of warfare as a contest between professionals should have disappeared forever as the twentieth century brought numerous examples of barbarous armies butchering civilians. And unfortunately, the pattern now is that some 90 per cent war casualties are civilians.
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AUSTRALIA

Best of 2023: How Australia's asylum seeker policy has evolved over thirty years
- Kerry Murphy
- 04 January 2024
Throughout recent decades of Australian history, the stance every government has taken on asylum seekers has reflected the shifting political landscapes and challenging humanitarian issues that have continually shaped Australia's response to those seeking refuge.
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AUSTRALIA

How a High Court verdict upended indefinite detention
- Kerry Murphy
- 08 December 2023
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On 8 November, the High Court ordered a stateless Rohingya refugee known only as NZYQ to be released from detention. He could not be granted a visa because he was found gulity of sexually assaulting a minor, and he could not be sent anywhere because he is stateless. Until 8 November, he was stuck in indefinite mandatory detention.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Hollywood poems
- Damian Balassone
- 24 August 2023
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I have played Gandhi, King Tut, gangster, giant, elf, / but a lifetime of lifetimes destroyed my mental health: if you’re all things to all men, you’re no one to yourself.
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AUSTRALIA

Three steps back and one step forward: Three decades of asylum seekers in Australia
- Kerry Murphy
- 28 July 2023
How has Australia's asylum seeker policy changed over the past thirty years? The approach of every government has reflected the shifting political landscapes and challenging humanitarian issues that have continually shaped Australia's response to those seeking refuge.
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RELIGION

Culture and conspiracy: In conversation with Fr Gerald Arbuckle
- Michael McVeigh
- 09 June 2023
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Known for incisive insights into societal issues like fundamentalism, loneliness, and abuse, theologian and cultural anthropologist Fr Gerald Arbuckle is now examining the rise of conspiracy theories. In conversation with Michael McVeigh, Arbuckle discusses his work, cultural anthropology, and the impact of 'cultural trauma'.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Disciplining delinquent words
- Andrew Hamilton
- 28 October 2021
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Sins have often been divided into those of thought, word and deed, with deed regarded as the worst. Today we pay more attention to sinful words, realising the harm that they can do. Bad words can bring social exclusion. Yet complex questions surrounding the use of words remain.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

I did not join the gang of boys
- David Ishaya Osu
- 04 September 2019
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There was a love that manifested in my house that needed no naming. It transcended adjectives or nouns. We were so playful to the extent we tried our mother's dresses, skirts, blouses. In days when I felt the fullness of my mischievousness, I dressed like my mother or sister and ran out of the house to make people laugh. There was no fuss about it.
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INTERNATIONAL

Hypocrisy in Australian-Turkish chest puffing
- Justin Glyn
- 25 March 2019
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The stoush between Erdogan (who said New Zealanders and Australians visiting Turkey would leave it 'in coffins ') and Morrison (all options to erase this insult were 'on the table') amounts to less than meets the eye. But it speaks volumes about what a toxic brew hypocrisy and the prospect of a forthcoming election can produce.
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AUSTRALIA

The casual service industry is broken
- Devana Senanayake
- 14 December 2018
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David Leyonhjelm recently thanked men from South Asian backgrounds for delivering his pizza, groceries and online purchases; for rolling up their sleeves for jobs others refused. This gesture is seriously problematic. The casual service industry is broken and exploitative and needs to be carefully regulated and constantly audited.
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Keywords: Gangs