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Anwar invokes true meaning of sharia law
- Peter Kirkwood
- 29 January 2010
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Selling short Nelson Mandela and rugby
- Tim Kroenert
- 28 January 2010
Are we to accept that the inspiration of sporting victory is alone sufficient to solve conflict and soothe the way to redemption and rebirth for a divided nation? If so, it must be said that Eastwood's film is history rendered as a fairytale.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Celebrating Aboriginality on the road from Freo to Broome
- Tim Kroenert
- 21 January 2010
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From a patronising priest to a pair of impressionable hippies, the white characters are all doofuses. Bran Nue Dae provides a means for introducing young people to the ongoing impacts of white settlement upon Indigenous Australians.
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EUREKA STREET TV

Best of 2009: John Safran the holy fool
- Peter Kirkwood
- 15 January 2010
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Safran's stunts — such as hoodwinking a Palestinian sperm bank into donating Palestinian sperm to the Israelis, and vice versa — are cringe-making. But they are in the context of a cogent and pithy argument that has serious intent. October 2009
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AUSTRALIA

Keeping vigil for slain Indian student
- Cara Munro
- 06 January 2010
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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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INFORMATION

Lessons from the Parliament of the World's Religions
- Herman Roborgh
- 05 January 2010
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Other religions need not be a threat. As the Dalai Lama said, the problems facing the world are related to the ego and the emotions. And all the religious traditions of the world provide a path to confront one's selfishness and emotional struggles.
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EUREKA STREET TV

Ethical solutions to the global moral crisis
- Peter Kirkwood
- 18 December 2009
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Samson and Delilah and other great Australian stories
- Tim Kroenert
- 17 December 2009
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Back in March, I strolled the streets of Fitzroy in Melbourne's inner north with Warwick Thornton, trying to find a quiet spot for an interview. Two months prior to the release of his feature debut, Samson and Delilah, Thornton was quietly hopeful his film would be positively received.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Children and other wild things
- Tim Kroenert
- 10 December 2009
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Max has an erratic imagination, and is prone to extremes of emotion. There are hints of mental illness, but, really, he is simply Every Child. Following a ferocious fight with his mother, he flees into fantasy and becomes king to a group of melancholic monsters.
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ENVIRONMENT

The silent narrative of trees
- Thor Beowulf
- 07 December 2009
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Trees are recognised as powerful cosmological agents in many of the earth's myths, rituals and religious beliefs. A worldwide 'bell ringing for climate justice' on 13 December will signify a vocal, moral and spiritual re-engagement of churches with nature.
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RELIGION

Men in dresses and conversations about peace
- Katherine Marshall
- 04 December 2009
There's as much cynicism as hope around such 'Kumbaya' happenings as the Parliament of Religions. And the male domination at official interfaith gatherings turns many off. The goals for interfaith meetings, however, are ambitious and right at the heart of today's global agendas.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

An almost true story about corporate crime
- Tim Kroenert
- 03 December 2009
In the early 1990s Mark Whitacre, an executive at American agricultural powerhouse Archer Daniels Midland, became an informant for an FBI investigation into price-fixing. But Whitacre is not the 'white hat' he claims to be.
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