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  • AUSTRALIA

    "Australian values" learned in Budapest uprising

    • Michael Danby
    • 30 October 2006
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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.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Costly conflict

    • Andrew Hamilton
    • 13 June 2006

    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.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Preparing for the fifth wave

    • Peter Mares
    • 12 June 2006

    Frank Brennan’s Tampering with Asylum prompts Peter Mares to look at this issue again.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Aboriginal Communities: Who may speak?

    • Brian McCoy
    • 29 May 2006
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    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.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Power left behind

    • Andrew West
    • 08 May 2006

    On the 25th anniversary of the election of the Sandinista government, Nicaragua is still subject to the machinations of Central American politics

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  • RELIGION

    Australia’s judicial isolation

    • Frank Brennan
    • 29 April 2006

    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.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Book reviews

    • Luke O’Callaghan, Andrew Hamilton, Michele M. Gierck
    • 29 April 2006

    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.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Who was Harold Holt?

    • Philip Harvey
    • 23 April 2006

    Philip Harvey reviews Tom Frame’s The  Life and Death of Harold Holt.

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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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