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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Jesuit premise fails but resilience of humanity proved

    • Richard Leonard
    • 21 August 2006
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    As the fascinating Seven Up documentary series develops, the supposed principle of St Ignatius—'give me a boy until he is seven, and I will give you the man'—is found to be increasingly untrue.  

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Book reviews

    • Miriam Bugden, Andrew Hamilton, Chris O’Connor, Tom Rigby
    • 26 June 2006

    Reviews of Western Horizon: Sydney’s heartland and the future of Australian politics; Body and Soul: A Spirituality of Imaginative Creativity; One Fourteenth of an Elephant: A memoir of life and death on the Burma–Thailand Railway; What’s Right? and Giving it Away: In praise of philanthropy.

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  • EDUCATION

    Values fruitful

    • Christopher Gleeson
    • 05 June 2006

    Recent statements by government leaders accusing their own schools of ‘values neutral’ education demonstrate clearly how out of touch they are with teaching and learning in the nation’s classrooms.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    First give West Papuans a human welcome

    • Andrew Hamilton
    • 18 May 2006
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    The arrival of West Papuan refugees raises complex questions. Discussion must begin by honouring the humanity of the West Papuans involved.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    A part-time ‘working’ nation

    • Tim Martyn
    • 14 May 2006

    While Australia enjoys its lowest official unemployment rate in 28 years, it’s time to reflect upon the true level of labour-market exclusion and prospects for the unemployed and working poor.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Advancing Australia fair

    • Tim Martyn
    • 27 April 2006

    Young people have become increasingly wary of the hard sell, especially when pitched by the major political parties.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Turning the soul

    • Christopher Gleeson
    • 25 April 2006

    Christopher Gleeson praises Roslyn Arnold’s Empathic Intelligence: Teaching, Learning, Relating.

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  • EDUCATION

    Facing a lifetime without work

    • Tim Martyn
    • 24 April 2006

    The transition from school to work or study is harder now than it has been since the recession "we had to have" in 1990.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    The rise of radical Islam

    • Tim Martyn
    • 24 April 2006

    Tim Martyn reviews Amin Saikal’s Islam and the West: Conflict or Co-operation.

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  • INTERNATIONAL

    Commonwealth death tally

    • Peter Norden
    • 20 April 2006

    While many Australian people remain divided on the question of capital punishment, we can rejoice in the fact that in this country there is public debate about the issue.

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