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MEDIA

Campaigning journos are failing Assange
- Jeff Sparrow
- 24 October 2019
7 Comments
Assange's latest court appearance coincided with the launch of the Right to Know campaign, backed by the major press organisations in Australia as well as the Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance. To its immense credit, the MEAA has consistently defended him. But many prominent Australian journalists have not.
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INTERNATIONAL

Trump joins the game of Kurdish betrayal
- Binoy Kampmark
- 14 October 2019
3 Comments
While expecting an indefinite US presence in Syria was unrealistic as part of bargaining for a homeland, the Kurdish forces are right in feeling the sting of yet another historical abandonment. They have been more than useful fighters, a point that is also held against them. The question now is how bloody this next chapter will prove for them.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Paul Kelly and the lighthouse in the sky
- Julie Perrin
- 14 October 2019
7 Comments
The musicians stepped forward, heads close around one microphone. The words of the 23rd Psalm were familiar and re-cast all at once. They met us in hope and in despair in 'the middle of the air'. There was a space of yearning there; the space where artists, songwriters and psalmists send us. That is the place we can be met.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Breaking through one dimensional seeing
- John Cranmer
- 25 September 2019
4 Comments
i am a dinosaur / old fogie off with pixies / poor old dodder-bloke! / i grow wings and fly ... telling my song-story / you would put me in my box?
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ARTS AND CULTURE

The quiet assimilators
- Denise O'Hagan
- 16 September 2019
4 Comments
Take almost any street, in any modern city, and we are there. We are the substrata of society, ever-present, the unseen lining, the padding in the crowd. We carry our backgrounds closer than our wallets, effortlessly. Yet they inform our every step.
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INTERNATIONAL

Australia's true relationship with Timor-Leste
- Sophie Raynor
- 09 September 2019
13 Comments
Australia’s priority is clear: self-protection at all costs, no matter the sacrifice required of Timor-Leste. And it’s a theme that continues today: Australia’s neighbourly relationship with Timor-Leste remains one of taking anything it can, not of sharing like friends.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Labels can be useful for diversifying the arts
- Sukhmani Khorana
- 26 August 2019
A recent report on the lack of culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) representation in arts leadership recognises the limitations of the label. In an era marked by media bubbles, it is more vital than ever that we use categories such as CALD to build bridges, while not losing sight of our differences and varying levels of disadvantage.
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ENVIRONMENT

Power in Rebellion's civil disobedience
- Jacinta Bowler
- 15 August 2019
7 Comments
Extinction Rebellion is the biggest environmental movement we've seen in Australia in years, and the group is well aware of the disruption they are causing — it's baked into their strategy. Is the inconvenience, disruption, and vitriol worth it? Is it actually going to turn public opinion one way or another? History suggests it just might.
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INTERNATIONAL

Australia's illogic over Timor and West Papua
- Pat Walsh
- 13 August 2019
8 Comments
One wonders if the Prime Minister will be aware of the supreme irony of these two events, the lack of logic in Australia's conflicting policies on the fate of the two peoples, and Canberra's flexible approach to the much vaunted international rules based order when it does not serve pragmatic national interests.
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ENVIRONMENT

'Climate emergency' endangers democracy
- Jeff Sparrow
- 21 June 2019
7 Comments
Historically, a declaration of emergency, whether in response to war, civil unrest or natural disaster, allows the state to suppress debate to enable a militarised response to an urgent problem. You can see why that might appeal as a solution to the environmental crisis. But addressing climate change requires more democracy, not less.
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ENVIRONMENT

Living with dystopia
- Cristy Clark
- 09 May 2019
7 Comments
Researchers have been documenting the rise of 'eco-anxiety' or 'eco-angst' for some time, and these feelings of despair and powerlessness are common. But we need to become the heroes of this dystopic film plot. Somehow, in the face of all our anxiety and despair, we need to locate our capacity for hope and our courage to take action.
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AUSTRALIA

On first reading Boochani on Manus
- Andrew Hamilton
- 07 May 2019
10 Comments
No Friend But the Mountains deservedly won an Australian prize but was considered ineligible for others because the writer was not Australian. The book itself mocks that exclusion. Boochani's years on Manus Island branded him as Australian in the same way African slaves became American by the brand American owners burned on to them.
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Keywords: Resistance