Keywords: Monash University
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AUSTRALIA
- William Gourlay
- 18 October 2011
16 Comments
First appearing in 1906, the islamic periodical Molla Nasreddin displayed a sardonic and satirical take on women's rights, the role of religion in society and government, press freedom and education. The Arab Spring is the latest expression of this forestalled progressive sentiment.
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AUSTRALIA
- William Gourlay
- 22 June 2011
7 Comments
Much has been made of Turkey as a model for reform and democratisation in the Muslim world. If the Turkish experience is indicative, then the process of establishing robust and viable democracies in the Middle East will be long and slow.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- William Gourlay
- 12 April 2011
6 Comments
Crowding onto ferries in Istanbul, Turks arrive on the island they call Büyükada early in the morning, Muslim pilgrims en route to a Greek Orthodox church to ask favours of St George. No one is sure when the Muslim practice of venerating St George began, but it is well documented.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 14 March 2011
31 Comments
Independent Senator Nick Xenophon has said the 'unsustainable' $1 per litre milk price will force farmers off the land and ruin Australia's dairy industry. Economists ridicule this sentiment. Low milk prices are the market god's gift to consumers.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Various cat poets
- 22 February 2011
4 Comments
I didn't have much hope. Soon I would be 50. Love was fitful and glorious and painful. There will always be thugs in caves murdering children and crowing. But we are capable of creating wonders beyond our imagination every second of the game.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Stuart Barnes
- 01 February 2011
5 Comments
marriage is a sacred sanatorium .. better late than pregnant .. Heaven knows no beauty like a woman divorced .. absence makes the heart grow abscesses
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- John Falzon
- 17 December 2010
4 Comments
Syd Tutton, national president of the St Vincent de Paul Society in Australia, died on Sunday. He was a fighter for social justice, uninterested in personal recognition, making light, for example, of the Papal Knighthood he received in 2009, threatening to ask the Vatican for a horse to go with the title.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
Go and open the door .. stare at the bright blue sea .. for boats .. struggling southwards from Sri Lanka and Afghanistan. .. Feel the rippling fear of refugees .. wondering if supplies will last .. or a hand reach out .. or turn and lock the door.
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EUREKA STREET TV
- Peter Kirkwood
- 08 October 2010
3 Comments
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EUREKA STREET TV
- Peter Kirkwood
- 08 October 2010
Renowned sociologist Gary Bouma is one of most respected observers of religion in this country. He predicts that, by 2021, less than 50 per cent of Australians will call themselves Christian.
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AUSTRALIA
- Philip Mendes
- 07 September 2010
14 Comments
International concern with Middle East refugees focuses on the approximately 700,000 Palestinian Arabs who left Israel
during the 1947–48 war. Far less attention has been paid to the nearly
one million Jews who left Arab countries in the decade or so following that war.
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ENVIRONMENT
- Paul Collins
- 04 August 2010
16 Comments
Sadly the Commission played the blame game. This happens after every major fire and originates in the need to find scapegoats. Neither Christine Nixon nor the others who copped the blame could have known they were dealing with a whole new era of firestorm.
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