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In Terror and Hope

October 2, 2001 – 7:57 pm

Guy Rundle

Posted in editorial | Also tagged 9/11, Afghanistan, Albanian terrorists, Andy Butfoy, Angela Mitropoulos, anti-globalisation, anti-semitism, biological weapons, chemical weapons, civil liberties, civil society, colonialism, Damien Lawson, development, Douglas McQueen-Thomson, ethnic cleansing, executive power, foreign policy, free trade, GATT, Geoff Sharp, George W Bush, global justice, globalisation, Gulf War, Guy Rundle, heroin, holocaust, International Monetary Fund (IMF), IRA, Iraq, Jimmy Carter, John Hinkson, Kashmiri terrorists, Kimberley Serca, Kosovo, labour rights, malnutrition, market, militant Islam, Mullah Omar, Nauru, Nehal Bhuta, neo-liberalism, Osama bin Laden, Pakistan, Palestine, peace movement, Pentagon, preventable disease, propaganda, protectionism, reconciliation, refugee action movement, security, shar’ia, solidarity, sovereignty, Taliban, terror organisations, terrorism, UN Security Council, United Nations (UN), United States, violence, war, Winston Churchill, World Bank, World Trade Centre (WTC), World Trade Organization (WTO), Zapatista uprising | Comments Off

Drugs and the Empire of Desire

June 2, 2001 – 9:39 am

Guy Rundle: Chasing the ‘Pernicious Commodity’ All the Way into the Self

Posted in editorial | Also tagged addiction, advertising industry, anti-drug propaganda, British Empire, cocaine, East India Company, European culture, Guy Rundle, heroin, illicit drugs, manufactured demand, opium, opium trade, parental authority, prison, Romanticism, Sigmund Freud, substance abuse, temperance movement, Warren Hastings, William Wilberforce | Comments Off

A Treaty Between Our Nations

December 2, 2000 – 7:08 am

Marcia Langton on the status of Aboriginal Australians

Posted in features | Also tagged Aboriginal customary laws, Aboriginal dispossession, Aboriginal self-government, Bark Petition, British sovereignty, Canada, Chief Justice Marshall, colonialism, colonisation, Constitutional entrenchment of Aboriginal rights, Donald Thomson, Dr Coombs, First Nations people, full equality, Henry Reynolds, Indigenous Australian laws, Indigenous Australians, international human rights, international law, Judith Wright, Kevin Gilbert, Mabo, Maori, Maori Land Council Case, Marcia Langton, Native Title, Native Title Act, negotiated settlements, New Zealand, Patrick Dodson, reconciliation, Richard Bartlett, rights, Ronald Berndt, stolen generations, taonga, Tasmania, the Aboriginal Treaty Committee, the Council of Aboriginal Reconciliation, the Native Title Act of 1994, US Supreme Court, USA | Comments Off

Smooth Schooling

December 2, 2000 – 7:06 am

Guy Rundle Aspirational Class Sizes

Posted in editorial | Also tagged aspirational class, David Kemp, elite private schools, fundamentalist religious private schools, Guy Rundle, school funding, swinging voters | Comments Off

Long Live Shame

December 2, 1999 – 6:49 am

Building a republic must become a common project writes Christopher Scanlon

Posted in editorial | Also tagged apology, Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie, Benedict Anderson, Christopher Scanlon, Doug White, East Timor, East Timor independence, globalisation, Graeme Byrne, indigenous people, Indonesia, industrial & environmental exploitation, Louise Byrne, militia violence, nationalism, Paul Keating, referendum, republic, Republicans, Robert Menzies, Snowy River Hydro-Electric Scheme, stolen generation, Timor | Comments Off

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