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MARGARET DOOLEY AWARD

Meeting the moral cost of recreational travel
- Sophie Rudolph
- 13 December 2007
International travel requires ethical justification. This can be achieved through a traveller's deliberate attempt to enter into conversation with those whose land is visited.
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Sophie Rudolph
- Sophie Rudolph
- 12 December 2007
In 2006-2007 Sophie Rudolph spent 20 months working, volunteering and traveling in Europe, Africa and South East Asia. In 2008 she will be teaching at Collingwood College in Melbourne.
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Patrick Barrow
- Patrick Barrow
- 01 November 2007
Patrick Barrow teaches English overseas and has worked as a tour guide in Europe. He has travelled extensively in China, Poland, Thailand and Germany, and currently resides in Russia, in the Ural mountains on the western edge of Siberia.
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Sebastien de Robillard
- Sebastien de Robillard
- 17 May 2007
Sebastien de Robillard is a freelance writer. He is currently recovering from a month on his couch watching the World Cup, after spending the last six months travelling through Italy.
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David Sutherland
- David Sutherland
- 17 May 2007
David Sutherland has written about subjects as diverse as business, sport and travel, but has specialised for the past few years in food writing.
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Elizabeth Ascroft
- Elizabeth Ascroft
- 17 May 2007
Elizabeth is a Melbourne based freelance writer, with a special interest in South-East Asia where she has both lived and travelled extensively.
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Hilary Rogers
- Hilary Rogers
- 17 May 2007
Hilary Rogers is commissioning editor at Hardie Grant Egmont, a children's publisher based in Melbourne. This gives her the opportunity to play peek-a-boo and deem it work-related. Hilary adores travel, hates carob and spends much of her time trying to teach her little boy not to eat the books she loves.
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AUSTRALIA

Vietnam's miracles of balance
- Peter Pierce
- 15 May 2007
The city cyclo traffic could be negotiated because cramped spaces have generated considerate attitudes rather than rage. Physical accommodations to crowding and privation tempt the traveller into laudatory flights, but the people’s attitudes seem altogether too matter-of-fact.
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ENVIRONMENT

Climate change - it's the apocalypse, stupid
- Mark Byrne
- 27 February 2007
1 Comment
Like many other politicians and scientists, the man who "used to be the next President of the United States" thinks that "the most serious crisis ever confronting human civilisation is this climate crisis". At the same time, in An Inconvenient Truth, the documentary about his travelling climate change slide show, Al Gore laments his failure to have shifted US government policy on the issue.
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AUSTRALIA

Eating in and out in Rome
- Hilary Reynolds
- 18 September 2006
1 Comment
It’s fascinating what travel does for food prejudices. Tripe, abhorrent back in Australia, off-white spongy mounds in parents’ horror stories of post-Depression childhood, was trippa con spinaci on Taverna Guila’s menu.
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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

Could Australia become another island in the Indonesian archipelago?
- Paul Osborne
- 26 June 2006
2 Comments
Mr Howard has travelled to Indonesia to mend the rift in relations betwen the two countries. Critics of the proposed legislation designed to appease Indonesia, fear that Australia is in serious danger of surrendering its sovereignty by allowing another country to force its hand on policy matters, such as migration.
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Keywords: Travel