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Keywords: June Factor

  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Israeli history's 'definitive' rewrite

    • Philip Mendes
    • 12 September 2008
    34 Comments

    Benny Morris, Israel's best-known revisionist historian, led more and more Israelis and Diaspora Jews in the 1980s to accept the legitimacy of an independent Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Morris has changed his spots.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Fidel's social justice legacy

    • Chris McGillion
    • 13 November 2006
    2 Comments

    No assessment of Fidel Castro’s legacy will be complete without serious attention to his thoughts on religion and to how and why, over the past 20 years, he has turned Cuba from an international troublemaker into a global champion for social justice.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Sentencing laws will further alienate indigenous Australians

    • Frank Quinlan
    • 16 October 2006
    3 Comments

    Just last week, the coroner’s report into the death in custody of Palm Island man Mulrunji, called for a major overhaul of how the justice system deals with indigenous Australians. Yet in the same week, a Senate Committee began looking into a Bill that will increase the potential for injustice in sentencing decisions affecting indigenous people, and other cultural minorities.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Giving Anangu women a say on child protection

    • Joan Healy
    • 04 September 2006

    Four Josephite sisters and a child protection expert visit the western desert of South Australia. They hear that when parents cannot care for their children properly due to petrol sniffing and other factors, the 'Anangu way' is for grandmothers and aunties to step in. But they need financial support.

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  • INFORMATION

    Letters to Eureka Street

    • Matthew Klugman; Maree Nutt; Fr John Hill, Emily Millane
    • 19 June 2006

    Letters from Matthew Klugman; Maree Nutt; Fr John Hill, Emily Millane

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Who cares about the facts?

    • Moira Rayner
    • 18 June 2006

    More evidence emerges for the stolen generation.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Those among us: Three stories

    • John Laurie
    • 12 June 2006

    Photographer John Laurie traces three brief portraits of immigrants who have come to this country seeking work, opportunities and freedom. While their lives may not have turned out as planned, the three subjects profiled here have two things in common - lives well lived, and a love for this country, and what it has given them.

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  • MEDIA

    Little boy lost

    • Kerrie O’Brien
    • 11 May 2006

    Kerrie O’Brien revisits the Jaidyn Leskie case

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Affordable for whom?

    • Don Gazzard
    • 11 May 2006

    Don Gazzard wonders about the state of Australian real-estate pricing

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    The known world

    • Anna Griffiths
    • 27 April 2006

    Anna Griffiths argues that Grace Cossington Smith captures the genius loci of her environment as finely as any painter of the grand sublime vista.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    The year of living dangerously

    • Troy Bramston
    • 20 April 2006

    The final year of the Whitlam Government was tumultuous, but despite enormous obstacles and ultimate dismissal, the government implemented a visionary and far-reaching policy agenda that forever changed the face of Australia.

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