Showing posts with label Indonesia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Indonesia. Show all posts
Friday, May 30, 2014

OPINION: Aussies doing their best to upset key neighbour

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Abbott's emphasis on the 'Anglosphere' as the focus of Oz's foreign policy confirmed suspicions that Australia saw i...
Saturday, May 29, 2010

OPINION: Refugee Hysteria Suggests Aussies Have Forgotten Their Own Ancestors

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YOU can always tell when Australia has entered election mode. Suddenly the really big issues come to the fore - issues that affect the econo...
Friday, May 28, 2010

OPINION: Rising trend of fearmongering on refugees and passports ...

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Coalition rhetoric now appears to slipping back to the worst practices of the Howard era, IRFAN YUSUF writes ... Tony Abbott wasn’t exactly ...
Thursday, August 13, 2009

INDONESIA: Tabloid expert declares terrorists poised to take over ...

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Daily Telegraph resident blogger Tim Blair is worried about Indonesia being on the verge of taken over by the likes of Noordin Top. Appare...
Wednesday, July 01, 2009

REVIEW: Ambitious cultural journey loses its way ...

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A Stranger to History: A Son's Journey Through Islamic Lands By Aatish Taseer Text Publishing, 323pp, $34.95 WE all inhabit the same pla...
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Saturday, April 25, 2009

COMMENT: Border Insecurity ...

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The letters section of the Daily Telegraph of Friday 24 April 2009 has two typical examples of uninformed hysteria concerning the issue of ...
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Thursday, December 04, 2008

OPINION: Appreciating Australia's indigenous heritage ...

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When I was growing up, some of my Indo-Pakistani aunties expressed some extraordinary views. One was particularly scathing of Indo-Pakistani...
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Monday, October 06, 2008

OPINION: What do Aussies really know about Indonesia?

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Indonesia is our closest neighbour. It also happens to be the largest Muslim-majority state in the world. Yet just how much do Australians k...
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Thursday, October 02, 2008

CRIKEY: Shame - the secret behind Amrozi's smile ...

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I never realised just how much ordinary Indonesians hated the Bali bombers until I actually went there. It was January 2006, and I was on an...
Saturday, September 20, 2008

UPDATE: Even more stuff published elsewhere ...

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The delightful people at ABC Unleashed have run this piece on the campaign to discredit Barack Obama by focussing on his cultural and relig...
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Tuesday, September 09, 2008

CRIKEY: Downer laughs at water-boarding and other "pretty fascinating" stuff ...

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Well, it's great to see Alexander Downer having a good laugh in his retirement: *Laughing at the use of waterboarding and other to...
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Monday, August 11, 2008

CRIKEY: Oz government sort of, but not really, opposes the death penalty ...

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The Herald Sun reports that Foreign Minister Stephen Smith reckons there is no contradiction between pleading clemency for Australian ...
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Sunday, May 04, 2008

EVENT: Indonesian Festival @ Queanbeyan ...

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You and family are cordially invited to an Indonesian Cultural Festival to celebrate the first anniversary of the Indonesian Community of Qu...
Monday, March 24, 2008

COMMENT: The Oz hatchets work of research student ...

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The Australian carried a disturbing story today about a sermon delivered by Abubakar Basyir, widely regarded as the spiritual head of the ...
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Tuesday, January 29, 2008

OPINION: Suharto no angel, but still mourned ...

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During the late 1990s, I worked for a lawyer who spent his spare time making documentaries. A decade earlier, he produced a documentary abou...
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Tuesday, October 24, 2006

RELIGION/COMMENT: Religious festivals back-to-back

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This year, 2 major festivals of 2 major world religions will coincide. Over the weekend, Hindus will commemorate the Festival of Lights, oth...