Eureka Street

Keywords: Seamus Heaney

RELIGION

Maintaining the UN's moral gold standard
- Frank Brennan
- 10 December 2008
5 Comments
Sixty years on, it is fashionable to describe the Declaration of Human Rights as a peculiarly western, individualistic conception. It was not. Now is the time for Australia to discuss how best to make the State attentive to the still, small voice of conscience.
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RELIGION

Frank Brennan's Cardinal Newman Lecture, March 2008
- Frank Brennan
- 24 June 2008
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RELIGION

Amplifying the 'still, small voice' of indigenous rights
- Frank Brennan
- 02 April 2008
5 Comments
The Rudd Government is consulting and working out what to do about the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. The symbolism of reversing Australia's vote against the Declaration would need to be matched by more work in partnership with indigenous Australians.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Recovering Jesus through poetry
- Philip Harvey
- 02 April 2007
John Deane grew up in Catholic Ireland, which has now seen the Church questioned and rejected. But unlike those who have walked away, Deane goes to poetry to help pick up the pieces of a broken religion.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

The Consolations of Biography
- Peter Rose
- 08 July 2006
Peter Rose on writing Rose Boys.
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INFORMATION

Peace drums in Europe
- Michael McKernan, Frank O’Shea, Mark Deasey, Morag Fraser, John Carmody, Brigid Hains, Pip Robertson
- 03 July 2006
Peace drums, Irish visitor, Travellers’ tales, Epiphanies, Deep structure, Counter-terrorism kits, Circling the square
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AUSTRALIA

The Eureka moment
- Robert Hefner
- 14 May 2006
Robert Hefner speaks with Morag Fraser and Peter Steele about the qualities that made Eureka Street a special magazine.
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