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Today, Hungary is a country as free as Australia. But 50 years ago—on 23 October 1956—Hungarian students rebelled and issued a manifesto demanding free elections. The Soviets reacted ruthlessly.
When we associate a year with a nation, the people of that nation have usually had little to celebrate. This has been the year of Iraq.
Frank Brennan’s Tampering with Asylum prompts Peter Mares to look at this issue again.
Brian McCoy has worked with Aboriginal communities for thirty years. He says that male indigenous leaders should be consulted and supported in their efforts to deal with violence.
On the 25th anniversary of the election of the Sandinista government, Nicaragua is still subject to the machinations of Central American politics
Over the last year a major chasm has opened between decisions of Australia’s High Court and those of the UK House of Lords and the US Supreme Court regarding issues of national security such as the long-term mandatory detention of stateless asylum seekers.
Reviews of the books After the Fireworks: A life of David Ballantyne; When faiths collide; Classical literature: A concise history and In the shadow of ‘Just Wars’: Violence,politics and humanitarian action.
Philip Harvey reviews Tom Frame’s The Life and Death of Harold Holt.
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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