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Keywords: Invasion

INTERNATIONAL

Australian invasion anxiety in adolescent fantasy
- Tony Kevin
- 09 September 2010
13 Comments
What do young Australians take away from John Marsden's novels - and now, the film Tomorrow, When the War Began? They are more than escapist fantasies. They convey value messages, calling on young Australians to cherish our country, not to take it for granted, and to be prepared if necessary to kill and die for it.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Discerning truth in Balibo's fiction
- Tim Kroenert
- 20 August 2009
5 Comments
'Cinema,' says director Robert Connolly, 'can take the audience and show them a tragedy in a way that creates empathy. I was interested in exploring the ability of this country to compel people to tell its story. It's hard not to start caring for what happened there.'
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AUSTRALIA

How Balibo distorts history
- Paul Cleary
- 20 August 2009
10 Comments
The first feature length film about Indonesia's invasion of East Timor and the deaths of six Australian journalists fails to inform the audience of the diplomatic dirty tricks, and Australian and American complicity.
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AUSTRALIA

Olympics a good time to start wars
- Gillian Bouras
- 15 August 2008
5 Comments
Politics is never far from the surface at the Olympics. Even at the so-called friendly Games in Melbourne in 1956, the famous 'Blood in the Water' water-polo match reflected tensions surrounding the Soviet invasion of Hungary ten days before.
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AUSTRALIA

Congo thrives under Chinese 'invasion'
- Fernando Franco
- 07 August 2008
6 Comments
European and US corporations are on the retreat in Africa, while the progress of Chinese and Indian companies is bearing positive results. They stand to fulfill the promise of 'development' that has remained a dream since independence.
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AUSTRALIA

Guilt edged leaders
- Gillian Bouras
- 01 July 2008
4 Comments
'Iguanagate' pariahs Belinda Neal and John Della Bosca can hardly be compared with Bush, Blair and Howard, but they are arguably on the same continuum. Surely the notion that leadership and responsibility go together still has some meaning.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Film reviews
- Morag Fraser, Siobhan Jackson, Allan James Thomas
- 22 May 2006
Reviews of the films Monster, The Cat in the Hat, The Barbarian Invasions, and Capturing the Friedmans.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Portuguese invasion
- Brian Matthews
- 27 April 2006
I suppose that, in evolution’s daring script, the millipede has a role, but intense scrutiny has failed to reveal it to me.
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