One Man's • Voice the Christian Brothers' Foundation for Charitable Works Presents the 150Th Anniversary Dinner to Celebrate the Foundation of the Christian Brothers
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One man's • VOICe The Christian Brothers' Foundation for Charitable Works presents the 150th Anniversary Dinner To Celebrate the Foundation of the Christian Brothers 1994 marks th e 150th Anniversary of the death of Christian Brothers of St Patrick's Province, are Edmund Ignatius Rice, the founde r of the Con organising a dinner at Moonee Valley on Thurs gregation of Christian Brothers. From a small day August 11th. group of men in Wate1iord, Ireland the Con gregation has spread to all parts of the world All friends, past students, parents and any -today the Christian Brothers are educa one associated in any way with the brothers tors, missionaries and working with margin is invited to attend. In particular we are look ali sed youth in welfare. ing for groups of past students who may have To celebrate the 150 years since the death of lots contact with friends or old mates to enjoy an Edmund Rice, the Foundation, together with the evening together. 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Volume 4 Number 6 August 1994 A magazine of public affairs, the arts and theology CoNTENTS 4 27 COMMENT ARCHIMEDES Frank Brennan on racial vilification; 'Authority is the one Andrew Hamilton on Yasser Arafat in 28 Palestine (pS ); ONE MAN'S VOICE eyed man in the Bede Heather on the new National Coun Morris West contrasts charity and author kingdom of the cil of Churches in Australia (p6); ity in the Church, in the Veech Lecture. Philip Kennedy on the scope of papal blind. It can power (p7). 33 QUIXOTE command us to 9 everything except OBITUARY 34 James Griffin pays tribute to Kevin Kelly. SELECTIVE AMNESIA love and Matthew Ricketson reviews Australia's 10 response to war crimes and criminals. understanding' LETTERS - Morris West, 38 13 THE GOOD LIFE, Part Two the Veech Lecture. CAPITAL LETTER Steven Tudor talks ethics with philoso phers Peter Singer and Rae Langton. See p28. 14 THE POLITICS OF 46 NEIGHBOURHOOD WATCH BOOKS IN BRIEF Dewi Anggraeni assesses Indonesian-Aus Pamela Foulkes reviews When Women tralian relations. Michael McGirr inter W ere Priests; Michael McGirr looks at views the former editor of TEMPO (pl6). Shane Malon ey's Stiff (p47}; Andrew Hamilton glances through Father Browne: 17 A Life in Pictures (p47). COUNTERPOINT 48 18 THEATRE YOU JUST WOULDN'T READ Jim Davidson charts the progress of play ABOUT IT wright Louis Nowra, and reviews his Cosi. Alan Gill looks at the history of censor Geoffrey Milne takes the long view of the Cover and photograph p28 by Stuart Bell Shakespeare Company (pS O) . Windsor, co urtesy Morris West. ship in religious press. Cartoons ppiO, 19, 26, by Dean Moore. Graphics ppl4-15 by Liz Dixon. 20 52 Photograph p21 by Jack Waterford. BOUND BY HATRED FLASH IN THE PAN Cartoon p24, 53, by Peter Fraser Photographs pp34-35, 38-39 by Jack Waterford investigates causes and Reviews of the films Manhattan MurdeT Emmanuel Santos. cures in Rwanda. Mystery; Fearless; Mavericl<; The Hud sucker Proxy; The House of the Spirits. 24 THE CASE OF THE 54 VANISHING COURT ON SPEC Eureka Street magazine Moira Rayner documents a loss of democ Jesuit Publications racy in Victoria. 55 PO Box 553 Richmond VIC 3121 SPECIFIC LEVITY T el (03) 9427 73 11 26 Fax (03) 9428 4450 SPORTING LIFE Jon Greenaway mixes his codes. C OMMENT A magazine of public affairs. the arts F RAN K BRENNAN and theology Publisher Micha el Kell y SJ Ed.itor Thought police and Mon1g Fraser Producti on editor Ray Cassin racial vilification Consulting editor Micha el McGirr SJ Editorial assistant: Jon Greenaway A umAUA A>OUT CAW • nd mo,.Uty m usu Production assistants: J. Ben Booncn CFC, D .ms" ally caused by calls for the dccriminalisation of conduct that John Doyle SJ, Juliette Hughes, is no longer thought to be publicly harmful, or on which Siobhan Jackson, Chris Jenkins SJ. there is no longer a community consensus about the immo Contributing ed itors rality of the conduct. Whether it be abortion or hom osexual Adelaide: Greg O'Kelly SJ activity between consenting adults, there is room fo r disa Bri sbane: Ian Howells SJ greem ent not only about the m orality of the conduct but Perth: Dea n Moore also about the purposes and limits of the criminal law. Sydn ey: Edmund Campion, Andrew Riemer, Rarely have w e debated the need for the creation of new Gerard Windsor. criminal offences. Our federal politicians arc considering the Europea n correspondent: Damien Simonis de irability of m a king racist violence and racial vili fica tion US corres pondent: T homas H. Stahcl SJ criminal offences punishable by substantial prison terms. Acts of violence are already punishable. The argument Editorial boa rd is that the law ought n ow to be more severe and specific in Peter L'Estrangc SJ (chair), its treatment of attackers who choose their victim on the Margare t Coady, Margaret Coff ey, grounds of race. Irene Moss, as Race Discrimination om Madeline Duckett RSM, Trevor Hales, missioner of the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity om Mari e Joyce, Kev in McDonald, m ission, reported that racist violen ce was on the increase Jane Ke ll. y IB VM, and that grea ter legal sanctions w ere needed to stem the tide. Ruth Pcndavingh, Peter Steele SJ, Bill Urcn SJ Violent physical attacks on persons arc already crimi nal acts. A judge or m agistrate sentencing an off ender is Business manager: Mary Foster a lrea dy entitled to take the a ttacker's m otivation into Adve rtising representative: Tim Stoney account in considering sentence. While being repelled by rac P<ltro ns ist violence, the judge m ay be equally repelled by sexist vio Eurelw SLreet gratefull y acknowledges the lence, religious violence, or what we will now have to call support of C.L. Adami ; the trustees of the person-specific violence. estate of Miss M. Condon; A.J. Costello; When introducing the bill to outlaw racist violence in D.M. C ullity; R.J. and H.M. Gehrig; December 1992, the Federal Minister, Peter Duncan, said in W.P. & M.W. Gurry; his second-reading speech, 'For instance, if an Anglo-Saxon the Roche fa mily. woman who has converted to Islam is m ore likely to be at tacked wearing the hijab, or Muslim women's headscarf, she Eurelw Street m<1gazine, JSSN 1036- 1758, is attacked not because the attacker believes she is a Mus Australia Post Pri nt Post app roved lim but because the attacker thinks she is an Arab wom an .' pp349 l 8 I /003 14 is pu bli shed ten t imes a ye<1r Really? One might ask 'Why?' The attacker can alrc<Jd y be by Eureka Street Magazine Pty Ltd, convicted of any number of offences that include assault as 300 Victoria Street, Richmond, Vi ctoria 3 121. an clem ent. Even the threat of violence is punishable. Pre Responsibili ty fo r editori<l i content is accepted by sumably, in future if the jury could be convinced beyond Michael Kelly, 300 Victoria Street, Ri chmond. reasonable doubt that the attacker had been motivated by a Printed by Dora n Printing, mistaken belief that the victim was Arab, the court would 4 Commercial Road, 1-li ghett VIC 3 190. have to consider the offence more serious than if the attack © jesuit Publications 1993 er had m erely been motivated by a belief that the wom an Unsoli ci ted m anuscripts, including poet ry and was a Muslim, or by the certainty that she was his estranged fiction, wi ll be returned onl y if accompani ed by a wife or longtime enemy, or simply because she was an inno stamped, self-addressed enve lope.