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Ways to Claim a Country

November 14, 2010 – 10:11 am

Gillian Cowlishaw reflecting on the settler consciousness of place and origin

Posted in arena essay | Also tagged Aboriginal Australians, Aboriginal history, Anglo-Australians, archaeology, Captain Cook, colonisation, cultural hegemony, egalitarianism, equal rights, genocide, Gillian Cowlishaw, human rights, identity, immigrants, Indigenous Australians, Indigenous dispossession, Indigenous writers & artists, Israel, Jerusalem, Jewish history, Jewish state, Judaisation, legitimacy, nation building, nationalism, Native Title, oppression, Palestine, resistance, sovereignty claims, West Bank, white supremacy, Zionism | Comments Off

Afghanistan: Gift or Grand Conceit?

November 14, 2010 – 9:10 am

It is beyond most Westerners to understand today how offers of democracy are really much more than this: there is a widespread incapacity to grasp the social assumptions embedded in our ‘gifts’ writes John Hinkson

Posted in editorial | Also tagged Adam Smith, capitalism, China, colonialism, democracy, global markets, Greens, Greg Sheridan, intifada, Iraq, Israel, John Hinkson, Julia Gillard, market, media, Middle East, Muslim, Pakistan, technology, terrorism, Tony Abbott, United Sates, universities, war, Western culture | Comments Off

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