Spiritual Companioning Formation A course for those exploring companioning/ direction and the skills required This ecumenical course is offered as part of the ongoing program of the Australian Network for Spiritual Direction. An orchestra drawn from members of the Melbourne It comme nces early in 2002 a nd Symphony, State Orchestra, Victorian College of the applications close 1st November 2001. Arts and Faculty of Music Orchestras. It is a part time, two year program which Conducted by Richard Gill comprises residential schools, a guided reading program in small groups and Sunday 14th October 2001 opportunities for supervision. The successfi.u completion of rhe program leads to possible Melbourne Town Hall accreditation as a spiritual director. FOR BOOKINGS: Tickets $10/15 Full details available from: The Malthouse Box Office, The Registrar (Mr John Sruart) The C.U.B. 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Ass istant editor Kate Manton Graphic designer Siobhan jackson THE MONTH 'S TRAFF IC General manager Mark Dowell 9 Kathryn O'Connor United notions M arke ting Kirsty Grant BOOKS Advertising representa tive Ken H ead 10 Tim Stoney Performance anxiety Subscription manager Wendy Marlowe 1 1 James Ensor Bank on it 35 Documenting compli city Ed itori al, prod ucti on and ad minist rat ion assistan ts Juliette Hughes, Ben Hider, 12 Mich ael Pu tney In m em oriam, Peter Mares reviews John Martinkus' Susa nnah Buckley, Sandy W aterworth, Archbishop Francis Rush A Dirty Little War and John Paul Fyfe 51, Geraldine Battersby, Birmingham 's 'Appeasing Jakarta'. Ka te Hird, M rs Irene Hunter Contributing editors Adelaide: Greg 37 House divided O'Kelly 51. Perth: Dea n M oore, Syd ney: CO LUMNS Timothy Gaden examines Faithfulness Edmund Campion & Gerard Windsor, Queensland: Peter Pi erce 7 Capita l Letter in Fellowship: Reflections on United Kingdom Denis Minns OP Jacl< Wa terford Selling off the silver Homosexuality and the Church. South East Asia Jon Greenaway Jesuit Editorial Board Peter L'Estrange 51. 11 Summa Theologiae 38 Programm ing chi ldren Andrew Bul len 51. Andrew Hamilton 51 A ndrew Hamilton Try lateral Kids, schools and computers: Pet er Steele 51, Bil l Uren 51 dangerous mix? Rowan Cahill reviews Pa trons Eureka Street gratefully 22 Archimedes The Child and the Machine. acknowledges th e support o f Tim Th waite Hard cell C. and A. Ca rter; the tru stees of the es tat e 39 Fair shares of Miss M. Condon; W .l'. & M.W. Gurry 46 W atching Bri ef Rosemary West reviews Ethical eJ Eureka Street magazine, t55N 1036- 1758, Juliette Hughes Shot through Australia Post Print Post approved Active Shareholding: An Australian pp3491 81/00314, is published ten times a Investor's Guide. year by Eureka Street Magazine Pt y Ltd , 41 Th e th ing not sa id 300 Victoria Street Ri chmond VIC 31 2 I FEATURES PO Box 553, Richmond VIC 3121 Michael McGirr enj oys Charles Tel : 03 9427 73 11 Fa x: 03 9428 4450 17 Refuge in the law? Waterstreet's Preciou Bodily Fluids emai l: eu reka@jes pub.jes uit .org.au Legislative change is restricting the http://www .eurekastreet.com.au/ and Repeating the Leaving. Res ponsibility for editori al content is power of the courts in refugee cases, accepted by Andrew Hamilton 51, argues Liz Curran. 300 Victoria Street, Richmond Printed by Doran Printing 19 To ou r know ledge THEATRE 46 Industri al Drive, Braes ide VIC 3195. How high is education on 42 Th e grea test of ease © Jes uit Publications 2001 Australia's priority list? Unsolicit ed manu sc ripts w ill be returned Geoffrey Milne runs away to the onl y if accompanied by a stam ped, Madeleine Mattarozzi Laming reports. circus. se lf-addressed envelope. Reques ts for 23 Fac ing th e other side permission to reprint material from th e magazine should be addressed in writing Moral indignation alone will not to the editor. protect children, argues Moira Rayner. FLASH IN THE PAN This month: 24 Singa pore's wouldabee n democrat 44 Reviews of the films Before Night Cover des ign by Siobhan jackson. What happens when you oppose the Falls; Sexy Beast; Along Came a Cover ph otographs courtesy th e powers that be? Jon Greenaway Canberra Times. Spider; Planet of the Apes and The Photographs p4 (top) and pp 19-2 I investigates the case of J.B. Jeyaretnam. Tailor of Pan ama. by Andrew Stark 30 Free as a bird Cartoon p4 by Peter Fraser Graphics pp9, 12, 23, 30- 3 1, 38, 40-41 Essay by Marl< Mordue. by Siobhan Jackson 32 Life class SPE CIFIC LEVITY Cartoon p1 0 by Dean Moore Photographs pp24-29 by Jon Greenaway Pa ul Strangio on writing biography. 4 7 Joan Nowotny Cryptic crossword COMMENT:l Friends 'I,TWO MW STROCUNG in the qu'd"ng)c of Sydney University in the image at left (by documen­ tary photographer Andrew Stark) are not in fact Henry Bolte and Gough Whitlam. But imagine a political world in which such leisured conjunctions were possible. Imagine one where learning and politics were not oppositional by default, where political and ideological tensions led to imaginative compromise, not just a hardening of the intellectual arteries. It would not be today's political Australia that you were imagining. The pre-poll mood in the electorate is sour and the news and analysis from the media magnifies rather than dissipates the prevailing cynicism. Tax and disparagement-that seems to be our lot. Yet when you walk into a suburban school gym packed with citizens who go out on cold winter nights to discuss everything from water conservation to the way our sport is run, the mood is oddly positive-and energetic. People want to discuss social policy, they want a say. They want leadership but they also want participation in the democratic process. They don't believe they are getting that at the moment. There is a lag between national aspiration and political delivery. One of the functions of a magazine like Eureka Street is to provide a forum and a meeting place for such discussion. Since March we have been having regular gatherings, in Melbourne, then in Adelaide, soon in Brisbane and Sydney (Darwin and Perth-we will visit as soon as we can). We have also launched a Friends of Eureka Street (FEST) program, to help us keep body and soul together but also to establish a group of people from all walks of life who can link up to talk to one another about the direction we want this country to take, and then work for the appropriate action or legislation. (See our website, www.eurekastreet.com.au, for details of FEST activities and benefits. Keep an eye out for develop­ ments in both). So please join us in this new venture. Join FEST. Add to the groundswell for lively, civil debate- about values, even about the much-derided vision thing. And in the process enjoy yourselves, as our cartoonist Peter Fraser did (see centre left) when we offered him an honorary gold membership. • -Morag Fraser 4 EUREKA STREET • SEPTEMBER 2001 OMMENT:2 Education blues A USTRAUAN MW<CAC ,eswche< •nd Nobel Pcize That sounds more like a threat than a construc­ winner, Peter Doherty, has been in town recently. tive suggestion. The public has good reason to be Predictably, Professor Doherty has had a few conver­ alarmed if universities are indeed in danger of becom­ sations about education, and about universities in ing unviable. What has DETYA been doing over the particular. last decade or so, under governments of both persua­ One of the people the scientist spoke to was a sions, if things have come to this pass? The public has federal minister. His view on university funding was even more reason to worry when the story being told straightforward: if the government gave the univer­ by the mandarins who control the education purse­ sities any more money, he said, they'd just spend it strings is at such variance from the account being given on their gardeners. by the administrators, teachers, researchers The minister's remark would be funny if it did and students who work in universities. not in fact signal a failure of trust and a gap in under­ standing between universities and the government of L ERE JS ANOTHER DANGER arising out of this climate the day.