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Keywords: Year Of Mercy

  • RELIGION

    Stark contrasts on Aboriginal Rights in Pope's Alice Springs address

    • Laraine Crowe RSJ
    • 27 February 2007

    On 29 November this year, many Australians call to mind the most fondly remembered Address given by Pope John Paul II during his 1986 visit to Australia. Most striking is the depth and decisiveness of the Address, and both Indigenous and non-Indigenous men and women who work to alleviate the disadvantage of Aboriginal people.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Forgotten victims

    • Hugh Dillon
    • 26 June 2006

    Hugh Dillon reviews W.G. Sebald’s On the Natural History of Destruction and Mark Roseman’s The Villa, the Lake, the Meeting: Wannsee and the Final Solution.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Cut from the same cloth

    • Nicholas Gruen
    • 14 May 2006

    The lives of Ned Kelly and Oscar Wilde bear uncanny symmetries.    

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