I!I:L.U WITN 000 ~inister to Yourself Mid-life Sabbatical in the San francisco Bay .t\rea NOVEMBER HIGHLIGHTS Integrate theology, spirituality, ministry Pat Jalland: Death in Australia Deepen your journey with God Joy Hooton: Women's Memoirs Nurture personal development Peter Beilharz on Robert Hughes and Bob Ellis ~r?2nt"1T' SCHOOL OF APPLIED THEOLOGY V#fLl~ Graduate Theological Union Brenda Niall on Gwen Harwood's Letters 2400 Ridge Road Berkeley, CA 94709 Doreen Mellor on Aboriginal Art Four Months, Fall/Spring or Nine Months Juno Gemes in Spoleto, 1965 Audit, Credit or M.A. Memories of Pound, Ginsberg and Menotti Room/Board ava ilab le on site • Partial Scholarships 510-652-1651 • 800-831-0555 [email protected] • www.satgtu.org Subscribe now! $63.50 for ten issues (inci.GST) Serving laity, clergy and religious since 1960 Ph: (03) 9429 6700 or E-mail: abr(a vicnet.net.au Also a\ailable at select bookstores and newsagents "We are pa rt of a humanity that is capable of unspeakable acti ons, of 'crimes again st humanity'. 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The Melbourne Anglican 1998 winner of the Gutenberg Award for Excellence in Religious Communicati on www.jesuit.org.au Mention this ad for a free sample copy of TMA Phone: (03) 9653 4221 Contact: Br ian Cribb SJ or email: [email protected] PO Box 136 Tl, e Pymblc NS W 2073 Tel 02 9488 4525 <)> Os;: '>co ELJREKA STREE I 3::)> :~ zm~z cO 3::-, "'"mC "'"'cDC: zn o> <::;; ~?: mV> "'"';;o - ~~om ~ )> ...,;;o V> )> z 0..., I m 0 r 0 () -< COMMENT 4 Morag Fraser Keep in mind 5 Andrew Hamilton Local talk SNAPSHOT 6 Marginal decisions, fighting words, fa m ous writers and champion wood-choppers. Publisher Andrew H arnihon SJ Edi tor M orag Fraser COVER STORY Ass istant editor Kate M anton TH E MONTH'S TRAFF IC Graphic des igner Siobhan jackson 22 A Pa cific so lution 8 Anthony Ham Water ways General manager M ark Dowell Peter Mares on journalism, global M arketing Ki rsty Grant 10 Jam es Griffin PNG diplomacy politics and local immigration matters. 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FLASH IN THE PAN © j esuit Publica tions 2001 U nso licit ed manu sc ripts w ill be return ed 30 How w ill the domesti c iss ues 44 Reviews of the fi lms Our Lady of the onl y if accompani ed by a stamped, Assassins; America 's Sweethearts; se lf-addressed envelo1>e. Reques ts for wash up? permi ss ion to reprint material from th e Francis Sullivan, Bruce Duncan and Vertical Ray of the Sun; Legally magazin e shou ld be addressed in w riling Toby O'Connor deal with health, jobs Blonde and About Adam. to the editor. and the regions. Thi s month : 35 Recurring images Cover des ign by Siobhan jackson SPEC IFIC LEVITY Graph ics pp6, 12, 14, 18- 19, 22- 29, 30, Robin Gerster on representations of 35, 38, 39 by 5iobhan Ja ckson horror. 47 Joan Nowotny Cryptic crossword COMMENT: l MORAG FRASER Keep in mind L AST YeAR I WAT HW' famous politician lose the trust of a school-hall-full of eager VCE students. It happened in about fiv e seconds. M om ents before, h e'd h ad them with h im , beaming down with a footy coach's blend of authority and jocular ease. Then came question tim e. VCE students close to exams are fi red up. They expect to be answered as frankly as they are addressed. On this occasion their questions were the entirely legitimate ones of young women and m en about to vote for the first time-questions about education funding, health and drugs issues, about equity, about jobs, about the fu ture. The politician, questioned sharply, shifted abruptly into hectoring mode. He bullied where he m ight simply and h onestly have answered their questions. If he'd allowed, even for a mom ent, that he was fallible and that politics is a hard gam e, they would have listened. But he didn't. He stayed 'on m essage', and was obdurate. And h e lost them , completely. You could hear the rasp of disillusion­ m ent all around the hall. What wa s lost was not just one politician's opportunity but political idealism. Fortunately, in this case, not for long, because students are resilient, and EUREKA STREET Forum at St Ignatius Norwood, Adelaide AUSTRALIA'S REFUGEE POLICY IN THE WAKE OF THE TAMPA PETER M ARES Prese nter of Asia Pa cific on ABC Radio National and author of Borderline: Australia's Treatment of Refugees and Asylum Seeke rs With responses from Adelaide's hri stopher Swan, jeremy Moore and Javad Mavrae. Foll owed by open di sc uss ion. Books avoi loble on the night from Imprints Bookshop All welcome. Enq uiries : Kirsty Grant (03) 9427 73 1·1 Thursday 22 November 2001, 7 .30pm Corner Queen and Wi lliam Streets, Norwood, Adelaide 4 EUREKA STR EET • N OVEMBER 2001 this group was confident enough to believe that they were deepened rather than shadowed by the events of would do a better job, given the chance. They were September 11 . Teachers, like the rest of us, have to also lucky students, well educated in matters beyond be able to think about more than one thing at a time. their own immediate advantage or social gain. I drove That's why wisdom was not a wild card- more the some of them home and, listening to their intelligent ace in the conference pack. and open-hearted talk, felt happy to leave the world Education is one of the few areas where ideals to them- if only they would stay broad in their and aspiration still stand in proper tension with sympathies and wise in their deliberations. ambition and self-interest. Teachers still think of their In Brisbane in late September, education was also work as a vocation, not just a job-in their quieter the topic of conversation. m om ents at least . And students, encou raged and It was school holidays. Hundreds of escapees from lovingly educated, understand when they are m oving as far away as Perth and Tasm ania go t together to towards som ething richer and more challenging than talk about learning, teaching and fair dealing in the tabulation of fa cts and the calculation of advan­ education- the bread-and-butter issu es of their tage. Being hopeful and alert doesn't stop them fro m profession. But they also talked about wisdom- the focusing on jobs, health and the latest rugby result, ancient guiding spirit of sophia. or even on being sent to a war. T he occasion was the N ational Catholic Educa­ We should think hard about giving our children tion Commission's conference, only the fo u rth since the chance to grow wise.