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THE FUTURE OF EUROPE ROAD TO A CIVILIZATION SUICIDE SUMMARY: Revision 2005 Since the 18th and the Enlightenment, Europe has been the cradle of Civilization ( Freedom-Reason- Technical progress-Pursuit of Happiness). Europe has conquered quite the entire world in building vast colonial empires and its migrants have settled in new continents such as North and South America or Australia. Then, Europe lost its empires. Nevertheless, most of the world culture in civilized cou

H igh in the rainforest of New South Wales’ Nightcap Range, my fellow study-abroaders and I had our first “bush” encounter at a place called Dharmananda. After making it through orientation the week before, I was eager to embark on the first of many field trips throughout Australia, getting acquainted with the land I was supposed to be studying. There was one problem though: the mini-portrait I’d gathered of Australia so far included the city of Brisbane and my program’s orientation site —

Recently, I was interviewed by Paul Comrie-Thomson for Counterpoint, a current affairs radio programme broadcast on ABC Radio National. The topic was the potential role of nuclear power in Australia. Below is the transcript of the interview, broadcast on 13 July, and a link to the original .MP3 audio of the broadcast. I’d be interested in any feedback you, as BNC readers, have — not only on the content of the interview (remember, this was done off the top of my head, so there may be a few minor

VAST earthworks are rising in the heart of Australia's richest rock art province: their contours, precise, well-engineered, cut carefully between the red boulder piles and jumbled hills. What was once an austere wilderness rich in ceremonial sites is now an industrial zone, dissected and divided, reshaped and tamed.