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- Become a friend of EUREKA STREE I Enjoy a close association with Eureka Street, help it continue to publish leading articles, and contribute to a writing scholarship for a member of Australia's indigenous communities. Some of the benefits you'll enjoy as a friend: • Invitations to Eureka Street events where you'll hear stimulating discussions on contemporary and topical issues • Discounts on the price of dozen lots of Sevenhill Wines • Discounts on annual subscriptions to Australian Book Review • Concession prices at all paid Melbourne Writers' Festival, Adelaide Writers' Week or Adelaide Festival of Ideas events. For further information: visit www.eurekastreet.eom.au/pages/fest.html, call (03) 9427 7311 or email [email protected] "God is more interested in who you're becoming than what you're doing." Dr Arch Hart, professor of Psychology at Fuller Theological Seminary "It is almost as unusual to have a friend who is a church-going Anglican than one who is an animal-keeper in the zoo." Dr Peter Jensen, Anglican Archbishop of Sydney The Melbourne Anglican 1998 winner of the Gutenberg Award for Excell ence in Religious Communicati on Mention this ad for a free sample copy of TMA Phone: (03) 9653 4221 or email: [email protected] - Til< - ELJREKA STREE I )> Vl"'"""" )> z 0 I"""" m 0 r 0 () FEATURE -< 16 And all the rest COMMENT Ja ck Waterford's Election File: 4 Andrew Hamilton Face value & Part Two. Moment of choice POETRY SNAPSHOT 33 Kate Llewellyn Red Rover All Over Publisher Andrew Ham ilton 51 Editor Morag Fras er 6 Words in vogue, heads in gear, real Assistant editor Kate Manton estate, refugee aid, and the war artist. 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Requests for 20 Other ways permission to reprint ma teria l from th e Anthony Ham rethinks travel writing. magazine should be addressed in writing FLASH IN THE PAN to the editor. 23 Moving mountains 44 Reviews of the films He Died With a Peter Davi in Tibet. Th is month: Felafel in His Hand; The Bank; Cover design by Siobhan Jackson. Cover 26 Through the barriers photograph by Peter Davis: monks at the Jura ssic Park III; Purely Belter and monastery in Shigatse, Tibet. Brian McCoy in Australia. Lantana. Photographs, p3: Libya, by Anthony Ham; 28 Believing in Greece Ti betan pol, by Peter Da vis. Graphics pp 6, 10, 26, 28, 31-32, 38 Gillian Bouras in Greece. by Siobhan Jackson. SPECIF IC LEVITY Cartoon p 11 by Shelle Miller. 31 The last time I saw .. Cartoon p 15 by Dea n Moore. Peter Pi erce in Paris. 47 Joan Nowotny Cryptic crossword COMMENT: 1 Face value T •MAw o• TH' Wodd Tmde towe« coll•p,ing seemed to leave nothing to the imagination. But at a deeper and fateful level they left everything to the imagination. On the quality of imagination we bring to these catastrophic events and to the smaller daily afflictions suffered by Jews and Palestinians, much The New York skyline, 11 September 2001, as televi sion ca ptured it. will depend. Not least the way in which we remem ber the dead. And most of us will acknowledge that our imagination is not pure, not undivided. One part of our imagination is readily seduced by the big picture: the scale of devastation, the mechanics of terrorism , the sheeting home of blame, the calculus of rights and wrongs of aggrieved parties, the demands of national honour, and the technicalities of suitable reprisal. This way of imagining violent events is nourished by the standard action movies. It is a way of coping, but it ultimately demands and condones death in response to death. Another way of imagining atrocity is to focus on the faces of those who are affected by it. These are for the most part ordinary people: passengers in planes, cleaners leaving office buildings, office- Noted Above: Twelfth -century granary store, Libya. Below: W elcome pot on th e boi l at Punu M eggna village, Tibet. See Eureka Street's se ri es on 'journeys', pages 20-33. Anthony Ham, Eurelza Street's correspondent and photographer, won the 2001 Australasian Catholic Press Association 'Best Feature' award for his series on Africa. The judge's comment: 'At its best, his story on Niger put m e in mind of the travel writing of V.S. Naipaul. Ham writes about the forces of history that have made the country, but always stays close to the people who live through that process.' Eureka Street won the 2001 award for best magazine layout and design. In the Australasian Religious Press Association Awards, Maggie Helass was highly commended for her report, 'Divided family', in Eureka Street, May 2000. 4 EUREKA STREET • OCTOBER 2001 workers arriving. And for each of these bloody faces When the dominant imagination of a society is of the dead and injured, there are many faces of grief: technological and impersonal, it is trapped in violence. those of spou ses, children, friends. A network of It looks for security in overw helming force and pain and incom prehension . inviolable defences against enemies too sm all to be These faces are relatively easy to imagine. We intimidated by force or kept away by large shields. It m ay have to work harder to keep in focus the features com es to respect the dignity neither of its own dead of those who will suffer in reprisal-women, men and nor of the victims of its retaliation . children who die and are injured in acts of retaliation . The Ch ristian im agination is personal. It is And in our own societies, the faces of m embers of compassionate, begim1ing with faces, domestic and ethnic and religious groups who are abused and foreign, and their claims on us. On such an imagination shunned because they are held responsible. are built policies that can alone promise security. • CO MMENT:2 Moment of choice N AD<ZHOA MAND,CSTAM, wik of t h' poet Osip, absolu te control over those who entered Australia. left one of the great m emoirs of the Stalinist period. As a logical consequence, it demanded that govern Of her journey into exile, she wrote mem orably: m ents deterred any who would seek asylum on-shore. T he sym bol of this ideology is detention, in which There is a moment of truth when you are overcome one grou p of suffering people is mistreated in order to by sheer astonishment. So that's where I'm living, and deter others. the sort of people I'm living with ! So this is what For those who accept this ideology, Australia they're capable of! So this is the world I live in! ' We must do what it takes to deter asylum seekers. Stand are so stupefied that we even lose the power to scream. ards of decency and humanity are flexible. The Tampa It was this sort of stupefaction, with the consequent affair certainly shows how far they have been relaxed.