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  • ENVIRONMENT

    Live Earth goes with the consumer flow

    • Tim Kroenert
    • 12 December 2007

    Live Earth had united popular musicians around the world for a series of concerts highlighting climate change. In an oblivious act of irony they had contributed, on several levels, to the very problem they were trying to confront.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Quality observation in no-frills suburban drama

    • Tim Kroenert
    • 14 November 2007
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    Boxing Day is a low-budget Australian film that combines different techniques to achieve a simmering fly-on-the-wall documentary-style drama. It seeks hope and forgiveness against a low-income suburban landscape, in a way that contributes to the broader story of reconciliation.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Smart hospitals need good policy more than clever politics

    • Francis Sullivan
    • 03 October 2007

    Political leaders attribute hospital crises to administrative bungles rather than a lack of political oversight or investment. But they can't continue to put off dealing with the rising public frustration at the inadequacy of the system's capacity to meet the demand of an ageing population.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    What Paris did next

    • James Massola
    • 13 June 2007
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    The big news recently has been Paris Hilton, the heiress and celebrity who is famous for being famous. Hilton has been in the news because she was sent to jail for drink driving. One wonders what all this has contributed to the sum of human existence.

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  • CONTRIBUTORS

    Debbie Lustig

    • Debbie Lustig
    • 17 May 2007

    Debbie contributes to Roomers Magazine. She won the 2005 Glen Eira Council Literary Festival/My Brother Jack Award for poetry.

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  • CONTRIBUTORS

    Jack Waterford AO

    • Jack Waterford
    • 17 May 2007

    Jack Waterford has been an editor of the Canberra Times since 1995. He contributes to Eureka Street regularly.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Strong characters outlast cheesy moments

    • Tim Kroenert
    • 07 August 2006

    Footy Legends has its share of cheesy moments, but as a tribute to working-class Australian suburbia, and a good-natured reflection on the iconic ‘little Aussie battler’, it’s a film that will move and amuse in equal parts.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Paternal instinct

    • Leslie Cannold
    • 25 April 2006

    Who’s the real father? Men’s rights, women’s quandaries and the truth about misattributed biological paternity.

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  • CONTRIBUTORS

    Andrew Hamilton

    • Andrew Hamilton

    Andrew Hamilton is a Jesuit priest. He taught theology at the United Faculty of Theology for many years, and has contributed widely to theological and religious journals. He has had a long-standing engagement with refugee communities and issues. He is currently editorial consultant of Eureka Street and a policy officer with Jesuit Social Services.

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  • CONTRIBUTORS

    Neve Mahoney

    • Neve Mahoney
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    Neve Mahoney was a student at RMIT university and was a columnist and assistant editor at Eureka Street. She has also contributed to Australian Catholics and The Big Issue.

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