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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    New medium is Bono's message

    • Margaret Cassidy
    • 22 January 2007

    U2's Bono is as well known for his political activism as for his songs. He mixes his political evangelism with the concert performances to such an extent that they almost become interchangeable.

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  • ENVIRONMENT

    Keeping an eye on our behaviour

    • Tim Thwaites
    • 10 July 2006

    Warnings are more effective if accompanied by a photo of someone watching you.  Maybe this reflects our human evolution.  But if we are to talk sensibly about human evolution, we need a more sophisticated understanding of it than commonly prevails.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Being about thinking

    • Paul Tankard
    • 02 July 2006

    Paul Tankard reviews 101 Experiments in the Philosophy of Everyday Life by Roger-Pol Droit.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Finding common ground

    • David Nichols and John Wiseman
    • 26 June 2006

    Community Development projects can make a difference

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  • AUSTRALIA

    The forgotten people

    • Fatima Measham
    • 12 June 2006

    Fatima Measham on the dilemma of poverty in Australia.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Writing history

    • Frank O’Shea
    • 12 June 2006

    Frank O’Shea considers Hope and History by Gerry Adams.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Just the ticket

    • Michael McGirr
    • 31 May 2006

    So Mr Latham thinks he has a problem. If elected Prime Minister this year, he is worried that he will have two houses, one in Sydney and the other in Canberra.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Basil Hume: Spiritual celebrity in secular Britain

    • Michael Ashby
    • 29 May 2006

    Basil Hume died as one of the most respected religious figures of the twentieth century.  He was able to balance London and Rome without losing local liberals, or incurring curial and papal ire.   

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Letter from a Chinese restaurant

    • Michael McGirr
    • 22 May 2006

    Michael McGirr farewells Alistair Cooke.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Road much travelled

    • John Honner
    • 11 May 2006
    1 Comment

    John Honner travels down memory lane with Michael McGirr’s Bypass: The story of a road

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Dealing with old discontents

    • Kiera Lindsey
    • 25 April 2006

    Kiera Lindsey reviews The Best Australian Stories 2004, edited by Frank Moorhouse, and The Best  Australian Essays 2004, edited by Robert Dessaix.

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