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Jesuit Jubilee Conference Evangelisation and Culture in a Jesuit Light Friday 28 July-Sunday 30 July 2006 St Patrick's Campus, Australian Catholic University, liS Victoria Pde, Fitzroy Major Speakers include Fr Daniel Madigan SJ Director of the Pontifical Institute for the Study of Religions and Culture, Rome Fr Frank Brennan SJ AO Institute of Legal Studies, Australian Catholic University Program begins Friday 7pm and ends with Mass, celebrated by Bishop Hilton Deakin, at 4pm on Sunday. Provisional charges, including light meal Friday, lunches and refreshments: Full conference $1 00; Friday evening, $25; Saturday or Sunday only, $50 (unwaged $60, $15 and $30, respectively). Conference dinner (optional) Saturday night. For more information contact Jesuit Theological College. Telephone OJ 9341 5800 Email [email protected] Sponsored by ~ACU ~c ~1ona· Jesuit Theological College Australia n Ca tholic University Rro\b.!<lt' \yantoy C.tn~"• Ball•••t M~lboume \lh II~ \II.\\ .... 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I.I AN },SUII"> <)> Os; '> O::Cl EUREKA STREE Iz> ot:! s:o"'~ COMMENT 28 Th e law of th e land )> -n nc Graham Ring on the failure of native "'"Io:> 4 Peter Norden Commonwealth J r title. ~n death tally ;>J )> 30 Coming home to the land r=::g Donna Leslie pays tribute to the art "'>§S;i3 LETTERS O">Y' of Aboriginal painter Lin Onus. --< I 5 Joe Goerke, Colin Samundsett, [. M. T. 32 Redemption in East Timor m Groenewegen and Roger Borrell )> eureka street fj u:'ri :ka stri :t/ Sian Prior speaks with an Australian "'--< nun who is helping inmates at Becora "')> I have found it! The exultant cry z of 'eureka'. A way, a public road in COLUMNS Prison find ways out of the darkness. 0 --< I a city or town, a path to a rebellion. 34 Tru e fakes m 7 Summa theologiae Simon Caterson on the way that fiction 0 A way of questioning, a place of Andrew Hamilton Liturgy in a time 5 discovery, a distinctly Australian can somehow become fact. () of terror -< forum for conversation and new 46 Going to jail 8 Archimedes ideas. There are many paths, but Brian Doyle on incarceration, Tim Thwaites Positive thinking there is only one Eureka Street. American style. 10 By th e way Brian Matthews One m ore time around POETRY 11 Ca pital letter 22 Ouyang Yu The Kingsbury Tales: Jack Waterford Country character the storeman's tale 22 Danny Fah ey Revolutions 50 Watching Bri ef Juliette Hughes Eight-legged freak-out IN PRINT 36 Vintage 2005 THE MONTHS' TRAFFI C Jennifer Moran on three annual 6 Adrian Caesar Terrible paradox anthologies of Australian writing. 7 Anthony Taylor Searching for Suggan 38 Drawing from the text Buggan Peter Pierce reviews The Diaries of Martin Elliott A missionary's 9 Donald Friend, Volume Three, edited lonely ramble Acting editor Robert Hefner by Paul Hetherington. Graphic designer Maggie Power Chi ef executive officer Tom Cran it ch 40 Like warriors of old Business manager Mark Dowell FEATURES Ja cqueline Healy on Geoffrey and Marketing/advertising manager Cami lle Collins James Bardon's Papunya: A Place Made Subscriptions Denise Ca mpbell 12 Redefining th e Austra li an nat ion Editorial, production and administration After the Story. assistants Gera ldine Battersby, Lee Beasley, David Corlett says that Australia is Clare Gichard within reach of a chance to engage in 42 Riding out th e Romantic Storm Film editor Siobhan Jackson much-needed policy reform. Philip Harvey reviews Ann Poetry editor Philip Harve)' McCulloch's Dance of the Nomad: jes uit editorial board Andrew Hamilton SJ, 14 The yea r of living dangerousl y A Study of the Selected Notebooks Greg Baum, Virgi nia Bourke, Jane Mayo Troy Bramston examines the fraught last Carolan, Tom Cra nitch, Robert Hefner, Ja ck of A. D. Hope. Waterford. days of the Whitlam Government. 44 On down th e line Patrons Eureka Street gratefully acknowledges 17 Th e grea test ga me the support of C. and A. Ca rter; the Michele M. Gierck reviews Arch and Peter Rodgers on where cricket trustees of the esta te of Miss M. Condon; Martin Flanagan's The Line: A Man's W.P. & M.W. Gurry is heading. Experience of the Emma Railway; Eureka Street magazine, IS SN 1036- 1758, 18 A sorry tale of human bondage A Son's Quest to Understand. Aust ralia Post Print Pos t approved Slavery is still a way of life for many 45 A disaster waiting to happen pp349181 /00314, is published six times a year in Niger, reports Anthony Ham. by Eureka Street M agazine Pt y Ltd, Denis Tracey on Ronald Wright's 300 Victoria Street, Richmond VIC 3121 20 Mystery of th e monastere A Short History of Progress. PO Box 553, Richmond VIC 3121 Four days in a French convent were Te l: 03 9427 73 11 Fax: 03 9428 4450 email : eureka®jespub.jes uit.org.a u not enough to satisfy Isabel Huggan's http://www.eurekastrcct. eom.au/ curiosity. THE SHORTLIST Responsi bility for editorial con tent is accepted 47 Reviews of the books The Penelopiad; by Andrew Hamilton st, 23 Plea from Pakistan 300 Victoria Street, Ri chmond Mathias Heng's extraordinary images Saving Fish from Drowning; No Printed by D ora n Printing of people left homeless by Pakistan's Place Like Home; and Breastwork: 46 Industrial Drive, Braeside VIC 3 195. Rethinking Breastfeeding. © jesuit Publications 2006 devastating earthquake. Unsolicited manusc ript s will not be returned. 24 Tracking twins Pl ease do not se nd o ri ginal photograph s or art work unl ess req uested. Req uests for permission Gillian Bouras examines the FLASH IN THE PAN to reprint material from the magazine should intertwined lives of two extraordinary 48 Reviews of the film s be addressed in writing to the ed itor. Brokebacl< 19th-century sisters. Mountain, Jarh ead and Munich. Thi s issue 26 Tension and grief in the Ca ribbea n Cover: Photo by Mathias Heng Kent Rosenthal reports on the plight Cover design: Maggie Power PUZZLED Cartoons: Dea n Moore, pp35,37, of Haiti's impoverished people, and how Darby Hudson, p43 it's not being helped by the media. 51 Joan Nowotny Cryptic crossword comment Peter- N orden Commonwealth death tally T mNATWNS mTH' CnMMONW<ALTH"" indebted to legal representatives, this young Australian had admitted his Britain for many things, but one unfortunate legacy that 37 of guilt, co-operated with authorities in Singapore and Australia the 54 Commonwealth countries owe to former British rule and had so much to offer, were his right to life to be acknowl­ is the death penalty. Of those Commonwealth countries that edged by the Singapore government. retain the death penalty as part of their criminal code, seven The voices of so many Australian people fell on the deaf have carried out executions in recent years: Bangladesh, Bot­ ears and hard heart of the Singapore government during the swana, India, Malaysia, Nigeria, Pakistan and Singapore. final months. Australian government officials and representa­ Singapore is one of the world's leading executioners, with tives constantly reported that they had engaged in numerous more than 400 prisoners having been hanged there since 1991. private negotiations and representations with the Singapore With a population of just four million, this gives the Singa­ government. With several weeks to go before the execution pore government the dubious title of having the highest rate of occurred on 2 December, both the Australian Prime Minister execution of any country in the world. and the Foreign Minister suggested that they had done all that The Singapore Penal Code provides for a mandatory death was possible. Many in Australia would have liked to hear a sentence for a broad range of different offences, including clear statement from the Prime Minister that he opposed capi­ murder, attempted murder and 20 different drug offences. In tal punishment and the execution of this young Australian. such cases, the criminal court is deprived of any discretion to While many Australian people remain divided on the weigh the evidence in order to consider the circumstances in question of capital punishment, we can rejoice in the fact that which the crime was committed.
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