Opinion
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Love problems? There’s a pill for that, but Plato offers a wiser cure
We take pills and potions for everything from a bad back to depression. Why shouldn’t we adopt the same approach to love and the miseries it may cause? Oxford ethicist …
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‘Orientalising’ Greece in the international press and how we are missing the coming threat
Since I started covering Greece from the ground in autumn 2014, the country’s image in the international media has gone through several phases. While a worthwhile task that perhaps should …
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Australian crimes against asylum seekers
Future gemerations will damn the present for its atrocities, as we damn and indict the past for theirs. The offshore custodial predicaments that have degenerated to indefinite immigration detention will …
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Against the Ruins
Do we lean against the ruins? Or are we ideologically against ruins in general and crave their demolition? The polysemy of the Hellenic Museum’s latest exhibition: “Against the Ruins: Photographs …
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Australians are drinking less… and that may not be a good thing
I know, that headline might sound a little bad. Alcohol is the main cause for many risks to our health when not consumed in moderation. It affects people’s livers, hearts, …
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Too many rules or no rules at all?
I came across a piece of news the other day: according to a report, a council within the Mornington Peninsula is set to pass a new law that doesn’t allow …
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Greek and Australian politics, strangely aligned
Last week, it was Greece’s Odyssey, equalled by Australia’s Iliad. As the Greek PM Alexis Tsipras celebrated his country’s end of a homeric journey out of the crisis, 15,000 km …
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Greece exits its third bailout but eurozone still has much to learn from the crisis
After nine years of unprecedented peacetime economic hardship, Greece exits its IMF bailout programme. So ends a series of three bailouts organised by the so-called troika of the IMF, European …