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May72016

BOOK REVIEW A sliver of hope

MUSIC CINEMA & BOOKS, UncategorizedMay 7, 2016

WITHOUT YOU THERE IS NO US: My Time with the Sons of North Korea’s Elite by Suki Kim (Crown, New York, 2015) Hardback: 304 pagesPrice: AUD$33.99 Reviewed by Terry Noone Towards the end of this book Suki Kim comments on a trip to North Korea by a fellow journalist. She says that he will report on the “designated sliver that the regime had permitted him to see”. Kim is writing about her own “designated sliver”, although hers is one of which we in the West rarely get a glimpse. She spent two semesters teaching English at a…

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May72016

BOOK REVIEW A primer on Western civilisation

MUSIC CINEMA & BOOKS, UncategorizedMay 7, 2016

SOUL OF THE WEST: Christianity and the Great Tradition by David Daintree (Connor Court, Ballarat, 2015) Paperback: 90 pagesPrice: AUD$22.95 Reviewed by Peter Madison Can one really know Western civilisation without understanding the part that Christianity has played in it? David Daintree answers firmly in the negative: “The West cannot be fully understood without a proper and informed appreciation of its close connection with the Christian religion.” (p1) As the title, Soul of the West, suggests, Christianity is not one of the many changeable accidents of our civilisation, it was its animating force for centuries upon centuries,…

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May72016

CANBERRA OBSERVED Mild unpopularity of Libs preferable to ALP slogans

POLITICS, UncategorizedMay 7, 2016

The looming 2016 election will be a crucially important one for Australia’s future. Will the nation decide to oust yet another short-term government by electing Labor, or will it seek stability by giving the Coalition a chance at settling into governing for at least a full term. Policy differences will be much amplified during the campaign but will boil down to alternate policies on negative gearing, on how best to deal with alleged cavalier and arrogant behaviour by the banks, and how best to deal with alleged stand-over merchants and intimidators in the building unions. There will also be an…

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POETRY LETTERS & HUMOURApril 23, 2016

Suicide? Sir, Although I am not currently subscribing to News Weekly, I happened to come across an article by Lucy Sullivan, “Euthanasia: a false start to end-of-life dilemmas”, which appeared in your January 30, 2016, edition. In the article, Lucy Sullivan describes how her friend, a stroke victim, decided to eventually take her own life by refusing all medical attention, food and drink. I was left with the uneasy feeling that while this act did not involve a second party, which defines euthanasia, it certainly did point to suicide; a point I believe should have been made. Margaret O‘Hagan, Applecross,…

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