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Issue 18

Featured Article
What Lurks Beneath
Media & Culture | Stephen Phillips
Dec 12: So we're multicultural, but that doesn't mean everything is hunky-dory. Living side-by-side comes with a boatload of issues.

Crash
Media & Culture | Keith Jacobs
Dec 10: In a movie review of Crash, we find that American racial schisms are actually not so far from home.

Before the Gallows
Law | Stuart Loh
Dec 10: A death in vain? After the execution of Nguyen Truong Van, will the campaigning continue?

Postcard from North East Thailand – May 2005
Health | Camy Wong
Dec 14: A first-hand child sponsorship experience. Camy takes a trip to rural Thailand to meet her sponsor child.

The Young, the Spendthrift
Generation Y | Edmund Ang
Dec 10: International university students still know nothing about managing their finances, especially when it comes from mummy and daddy.

The Productivity of My Real Life
Domestic Politics | Manuel F. McDonald
Dec 10: The Federal Government's call for productivity isn't all that productive.



Watching a beach sunset
Photo: Budgy Smugglers/Sydney

This is the Final Issue of The Backbench
Media & Culture | The Editors
Dec 10: Sadly, this is the final issue of The Backbench!

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