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My childhood, their childhood and the missing peace
Written by Abdalhadi Alijla
I was born in Gaza, a small, lovely coastal strip on the map. I am now 28 years old so I was born when the Palestinian territory was under Israeli control, and under occupation. I was three years old when the first intifada erupted. For a child like me, it […]
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As peace slowly restores, Rio Tinto slowly returns
Written by Morioka
It’s been almost fifteen years since the end of the civil war and the landowners on the island of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea (PNG) are discussing the return of the mining giant Rio Tinto. Rio’s infamous Panguna mine, owned by its subsidiary Bougainville Copper Limited (BCL) was at the […]
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Let’s focus on the things that unite us, not the things that divide us
Written by Dominika Ricardi
Photo by A. Ricardi As a daughter of Polish migrants to Australia, I have always been aware of sources of tension and division within our community, be they ethnicity, religion, social status and so forth. We proclaim to be multicultural – which for me is a source of both […]
