Cruise ship Australia

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Australia is cruising through time like a hedonistic cruise ship, not to the destination of unending prosperity assumed by aspirational Australians, but to a sobering destiny. An obsessive focus on material acquisition, encouraged by governments who worship economic growth and little else, has locked Australians into a probable long-term disaster scenario for Cruise Ship Australia and for the planet as a whole.

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Why Australia needs the death penalty

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The number of murders in the US dropped from 25,000 a year to 15,000 between 1995 and 2005, though the credit cannot be given to death penalty alone. A poll conducted by CoreData between February 16 and 21, 2006 showed the percentage of people who agreed to death penalty and who did not along with their reasons for the same.

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Black and white: Fred McGIll was a polyglot in a land being conquered by the language of elsewhere. Kim Scott muses on a time when Australia was for the white man

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Reflections on Fred McGill, an aboriginal intellectual in the age of "Australia for the white man," leads to thoughts on language and its relationship to identity and belonging. Australian English, the default language, lacks words to describe and signify Australian terrestrial nuances, and thus reveals its inadequacy.

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