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Georgina Pike on the plight of the Sri Lankan asylum seekers who have been sent to Christmas Island.
A former army commander who once declared "the army should never be involved in politics", Surayud Chulanont, was appointed Thailand's interim prime minister at the weekend. But the irony of this appointment matters little in a coup marked by paradoxes.
George Bush, John Howard and others insist that we are winning the long war against terrorists, and, perhaps by body count they are right. But there is evidence that the way we are fighting the war has massively increased popular sympathy for such people in some parts of the world.
Has Michel Houellebecq earned the criticism that has come his way?
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.
Archimedes would argue that such science forms the backbone of our society, in the way that adequate sewerage, clean water and good dietary information do more for human health than heart transplants and Viagra.
Children need help to protect themselves, argues Moira Rayner.
An interview with Asian culinary master, Rosemary Brissenden, by Christine Salins.
Mark Raper on Australia’s changing attitudes to refugees
Many Thai women come to Australia on the promise of a work visa and a well-paid job, but end up in brothels.
Letters from Nigel Sinnott, Jan Pinder, Cameron Forbes and Brian McCoy
The environmental lessons learned by those who live along the Hudson River in New York can be applied to cleaning up our own rivers in Australia.
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