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Divided We Fall: The Australian Greens Party

Sally Neighbour

*Nine days after the Christmas drinks in Canberra, a far more toxic atmosphere prevails as the NSW Greens assemble for their bi-monthly...

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POLITICS

Comment: The Greens and Fundamentalism

Mark Aarons

Despite the new reality in the Senate, there are ominous signs for centre-left politics. The bitter invective recently directed at the...

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 Israel: War, Peace and Storytelling. Amos Oz

WORLD

Israel: War, Peace and Storytelling. Amos Oz

At a time of great upheaval in Israel, one of the country’s most admired thinkers, Amos Oz, takes to the stage in Melbourne to deliver a...

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 Pursuing Peace and Rights in Israel. Naomi Chazan

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Pursuing Peace and Rights in Israel. Naomi Chazan

Naomi Chazan is a senior Israeli academic, a peace and women’s rights activist and a former member of the Knesset. In this wide- ranging...

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WORLD

Comment: Noam Chomsky and the Sydney Peace Prize

Nick Dyrenfurth

It was a sublime moment of coincidence. In the midst of reading The Finkler Question, English novelist Howard Jacobson’s comic meditation...

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 I Shall Not Hate. Izzeldin Abuelaish

WORLD

I Shall Not Hate. Izzeldin Abuelaish

This Sydney Writers' Festival session features one of the most extraordinary human stories you're likely to encounter. Izzeldin Abuelaish...

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The Gaza Strips

Christos Tsiolkas

I’m ageing; I’m becoming the old fart I never wished to be. I am succumbing to nostalgia and its lethal evil twin, bitterness. I listen to...

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The Politics of Prose: David Grossman's 'To the End of the Land'

Inga Clendinnen

The Israeli novelist David Grossman leapt to international attention in the late ’80s with the release of his See Under: Love, translated...

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SOCIETY

Tincture of Health

Mandy Sayer

An emaciated man is begging for help on the back verandah of the Nimbin Hemp Embassy, an organisation lobbying for cannabis law reform. His...

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 Exploring the mission of the Jewish people in the 21st century. A panel discussion (p2)

MEDIA

Exploring the mission of the Jewish people in the 21st century. A panel discussion (p2)

Part 1 | Part 2 Contemporary Judaism faces many challenges as it moves further away in time from the Holocaust and from the foundation of...

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 Exploring the mission of the Jewish people in the 21st century. A panel discussion

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Exploring the mission of the Jewish people in the 21st century. A panel discussion

Part 1 | Part 2 Contemporary Judaism faces many challenges as it moves further away in time from the Holocaust and from the foundation of...

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