Keywords: Search And Rescue
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EUREKA STREET/ READER'S FEAST AWARD
- Selma Sergent
- 07 September 2011
13 Comments
A lot of people refused to leave. Sydneysiders with waterfront properties could not fathom that the mansions that had cost them millions of dollars were going to be under water. There were stories of eastern suburbs socialites loading their antiques into boats. And drownings. Lots of drownings.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 22 March 2010
2 Comments
Text from Fr Frank Brennan SJ's presentation Poverty and
Plenty: Where Do or Should Christians Stand? at the Centre for an
Ethical Society as part of the 2010 Series Forum at the Australian
Centre for Christianity and Culture, 17 March 2010.
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INTERNATIONAL
- Antonio Castillo
- 04 March 2010
7 Comments
Concepción, the second largest city in Chile, was worst affected by the weekend's earthquake. I was there little more than a month ago, visiting old
comrades and my sister and her family. At the moment of writing I have
been unable to contact them.
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AUSTRALIA
- Tony Kevin
- 05 November 2009
11 Comments
Peter
Costello draws a long bow in presuming smugglers provided the boat that sank off the Cocos Islands this week. As with the sinking of the SIEV X, it is unfortunate that it takes a tragedy to remind us that at the heart of this issue are desperate human beings.
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MEDIA
Joshua Puls meets the BBC’s John Simpson, broadcaster and war correspondent.
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AUSTRALIA
- Brigid Hains
- 02 July 2006
1 Comment
Pioneer? Racist? Or product of his time?
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ECONOMICS
- David Ferris
- 24 June 2006
David Ferris on the mysteries of the global economy.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Emily Millane, Beth Doherty, Chloe Wilson and Godfrey Moase
- 07 June 2006
Orwell’s Australia: From Cold War to Culture Wars | A Woman of Independence | The Man Who Knew Too Much
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