Keywords: Indian Students
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AUSTRALIA
- Paul Cleary
- 24 August 2010
3 Comments
Kevin Rudd's failure to embrace the Timor legend with more imagination and
substance was a missed opportunity to connect with Labor's Second World
War legacy. Wartime Prime Minister John Curtin saw the guerilla war in
Timor as a unique and significant part of turning back the Japanese
tide.
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EUREKA STREET/ READER'S FEAST AWARD
- Nigel Pearn
- 18 August 2010
3 Comments
The book was banned after parents complained about its anti-authoritarian attitude: 'Wanja [the dog] loved to chase the [police] van ... to bark at the van ... to bite at the wheel. The police van would drive away.' Like Jewish humour, Aboriginal humour is a response to a history of oppression.
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EUREKA STREET/ READER'S FEAST AWARD
My granddad was a fourth generation white Australian who worked with
sheep. I used to tell the
story that he was a small town racist who disliked Blacks, Catholics and
Jews. The punch line was that his daughter married a Fijian, his son
married a Jew and my dad married a Catholic.
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AUSTRALIA
- Tom Clark and Ravi de Costa
- 02 July 2010
1 Comment
Survivors of the Indian Residential Schools who testified to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission complained of shocking treatment, violence
and sexual abuse. Testimonies left
no doubt that Canada's churches were heavily culpable.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 21 June 2010
5 Comments
SBS TV's world renowned Subtitling Unit is about to lose one third of its staff. It's perfectly valid for SBS to jettison its subtitlers if it determines that SBS is fundamentally no longer a multicultural broadcaster. It's up to SBS management to come clean on its current purpose.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 15 March 2010
15 Comments
For the past week we've been transfixed by the disintegrating
relationship between a promising cricket vice captain and a famous
model. The good that celebrities do receives scant media attention compared
with exhaustive reporting of the details of their relationships and wealth.
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MEDIA
- Peter Hodge
- 27 January 2010
14 Comments
When western campaigners used the Beijing Olympics to promote
the Tibet issue, the Chinese felt the attention was sensationalist and unfair. So it's no surprise the Chinese media took notice when violence against foreign students in Australia came to prominence.
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AUSTRALIA
- John Warhurst
- 25 January 2010
18 Comments
William's visit laid bare
the weaknesses of members of the Royal Family as
candidates for our head of state. The package represented by William should be anathema to
modern Australia's constitutional future, whatever he might have
to offer as a person.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 25 January 2010
13 Comments
Before Australia's racism can be dealt with, political leaders must follow General Peter Cosgrove in acknowledging its existence. Their reluctance to support his remarks could reflect
their fear of speaking hard truths in a year of multiple elections.
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AUSTRALIA
- Cara Munro
- 06 January 2010
13 Comments
They came to stop the violence. Four, maybe five of them, in hooded jackets and pale, worn jeans. Hovering in the car
park. Shadow-like. Haunted. We
were gathered outside the place to which he had come, bleeding, begging
for help. Wrongly, we assumed they had come to join us.
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EDUCATION
- Ben Coleridge
- 05 January 2010
5 Comments
After midnight, a group of international students, on a break from their night jobs as waiters, gather in a concrete stairwell and share their stories. Victorian premier John Brumby could learn a thing or two in that shabby stairwell. September 2009
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