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Eureka Street Denis Freney Memorial THE AusTRALIAN REsEARCH Scholarships - up to $1 o,ooo Applications are invited from people currently engaged THEOLOGY FouNDATION INc. in (or about to commence) a research , writing or cultural project which contributes to the labour and progressive invites applications for grants towards movements in Australia. research in theology, wh ether via formal The SEARCH Foundation wi ll award scholarships to assist with the cost of such projects, with priority to projects with academic structures, new projects, or other good prospects of publication or other public use, but means, for 2004. without access to other funding . SEARCH is an independent, non-profit foundation Requests for further information and applica­ established to promote social justice, environmental tion forms should be made in writing to: sustainability and the development of a more democratic and egalitarian society. Details of its aims and objectives The Administrative Officer are available on request. Suitably qualified appl icants should contact SEARCH for A.R.T.F. Inc. detailed application guidelines. P.O. Box 782 Applications must be received by Croydon, Vi c 3136 July 10, 2004 (Previous app lica nts please note the new address) Social Education and Research Concerning Humanity (SEARCH) Foundation Applications must be received by the 15th of Rm 610, 3 Smail Street, May. The governors will dec ide the grants by BROADWAY NSW 2007 Ph : (02) 9211 4164 ; Fax: (02) 9211 1407 the end of june. Funds will normally be www.search.org.au [email protected] .au avai lable for successful applica nts by instalment over a calendar year beginning no SEARCH ea rlier than September. FOUNDATION ACN 050 096 976 I I Pl ease note that our custom has been to Our raffle gets bigger & bigger! se nd a book of raffle ti ckets to each sub­ I Yes, all prizes are up! 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Fifth Prize - $300 worth of books I Subscriber number ...... ....... ......... ......... .. 9_~ :s;.)> 3 ~ It) )> EUREKA STREE I ~ N ~~ &-nc 0 It) v COMMENT ~ c WOJ 4 Andrew Hamilton The final word )> C:: -o n 5 Michael McGirr Just the ticket COVER STORY ::.: > N =i1 16 Pass gently by th ese ruins O)> t: '~ LETTERS Anthony Ham's memories of Bam . __, I 6 Marilyn Sh epherd, Brent Howard )> ~ 36 Th e legacy of Ern M all ey ~ THE MONTH'S TRAFFI C Guy Rundle reflects on the lives of 6 8 Rosie Hoban A sporting chance Jam es McAuley and H arold Stewart. :i m 8 Morag Fra ser Seven last words 39 En gaging the enemy § 10 Ka te Stowell Dutch (er, Russian) courage Peter Hartnett looks on as social policy S! advocates and economists meet. COLUMNS 41 Th e ministry of women Annette Binger on the business of 7 Ca pita l letter fe m ale clerics. Jack Waterford Credit overdrawn 46 Don't give th e gree n I ight to the red 9 Summa Th eo logiae light distri ct f. G. Danders The thick and thin of inter-religious dialogue Georgina Costello critiques Tasm ania's proposal to legalise prostitution. 10 Archimedes Tim Thwaites Green science 11 By th e w ay TH EATRE Brian Matthews Butchering words 44 Anna Straford reviews the MTC's The Glass Menagerie. Publisher Andrew Hamilton Sl 50 W atching brief Editor M arcelle Mogg Juliette Hughes Hot buttered bliss Ass istant editor Beth Dohert y Graphic des igners )anneke Storteboom IN PRINT and Ben Hider Direc tor Christopher Gleeson SJ SNAPSHOT 20 Lost in the battle Business manager M ark Dowell Marketing & advertising manager Kirsty Grant 12 Estimating God and oily w recks. fane Mayo Carolan considers Jim Subscriptions Denise Ca mpbell Griffin's fohn Wren: A life reconsidered. Editori al, production and adm ini stration 29 Frontier romance assistants Geraldine Batt ersby, Steven Cont e, POETRY Lee Beasley, Ben Hider. Radhika Corm reviews Brigid Hains' Fi lm editor Siobhan Jackson 15 Dimitris Tsaloumas Old Man's Last Th e Ice and the Inland: Mawson, Flynn Poetry editor Philip Harvey Pilgrimage and the Myth of the Frontier. Jesuit editorial board Andrew H amilton Sl, 15 Mich ael Farrell poem without dice Greg Baurn, Virginia Bourke, M ari e Tehan, 30 Flintlike Jane M ayo Carolan, Christopher Gleeson Sl, M arce lle M ogg, Jack Wa terford. Aaron Martin m eets Madeleine Albrigh t Patrons Eureka Slreel gratefu lly FEATURES in Madam Secretary: A Memoir. ackn owledges the support of C. and A. Ca rt er; th e trustees of th e estate of 13 Remembering Herbert 43 Cultural coll apse Miss M. Condon; W. P. & M.W. Gurry Greg Barns on the life of Xavier Herbert. Jim Davidson explores M orris Berm an's The Twilight of American Cultme. Eureka Street magaz ine, ISSN 1036- 1758, 18 Th e durab ility of poverty Australi a Post Print Pos t approved Beth Doherty examines the Community, 45 Lega l ridd les pp349181/00314, is published ten times a Godfrey Moase casts a legal eye yea r by Eureka Street M agaz ine Pty Ltd, Adversity and Resilience report. over Litigation: Past and Present 300 Victoria Street, Richmond VIC 3121 21 Of pass ion and belief PO Box 553, Ri chmond VIC 3 12 1 and Adventmes in Law and Justice: Ju liette Hughes looks at the impact of Tel: 03 9427 73 11 Fax: 03 9428 4450 Ex ploring Big Legal Questions in email : eure ka@ jespub.jes uit.org.a u The Pa ssion of the Christ. http://www.eurekastreet. com.au/ Everyday Life . 22 Th e future offami lies Res ponsib ility for editori al content is 47 Shortlist accepted by Andrew Hamilton SJ, Frank Ca stles examines the politics and Reviews of the books: The Mmdoch 300 Victori a Street, Ri chmond values of social choices for fa m ilies. Printed by Dora n Pr inting Archipelago; A chieving Social Justice: 46 Industri al Drive, Braes ide VIC 3195. 24 Rwanda n mist Indigenous Rights and Australia 's © j esuit Publications 2004 Michele Gierck visits Rwanda ten years Unsoli ci ted ma nusc ripts w ill not be Future; Th e World from Islam and A returned. Pl ease do not send ori gi nal after the genocide. Story Dreamt Long Ago. photographs or art work unless reques ted. Reques ts for perm ission to reprint materi al 26 A fa ir go in an age of terror from the magazine should be addressed in Frank Brennan's address at the Jesuit FLASH IN THE PAN w ri ting to th e editor. Lenten Seminar Series. 48 Reviews of the films The Station Agent, Th is month 31 Th e state of ed uca ti on The Pa ssion of the Christ, The Fog of Cover: Ph oto of Bam by Anthony Ham, full Mil< e Ticher looks at the value of public story pp.l 6- 17. War and Irreversible. Cove r des ign: Jannekc Sto rt eboom schools to the community. All illustrat ions by Janneke Stort eboom 33 Wherefore art th ou Billy? unless oth erw ise indicated. PUZZLED Cartoons: p 1 9 by Dca n Moore, p3 8 by Tro y Bramston opens the files on the Katheri ne Brazenor. government of William McMahon. 51 Joan N owotny Cryptic crossword Andrew Hamilton The final word L,L>NT TH' Pa ssion of the ch,ist h" been of your policies when putting them in place. You the biggest Christian show in town. Among the are free sunnily to involve yourself in bombing many faults theological critics have found in it, they Iraq or in imprisoning children without seeing the have accused Mel Gibson of being false to the Gos­ faces of those whom you have maimed physically pel by wallowing in the gore and weat of the Pas­ or spiritually. You need not contemplate your own sion at the expense of the Resurrection. death or the death of those whom you afflict. Where That criticism surely misses the target. In the policy is radically dissociated from the reality of Gospels, Christ rises only after fully testing the dev­ death, the paradoxical result is a society dominated astating power of death. Although Mark's account of by the logic of death.
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