Vol 20 No 6
29 March 2010
EUREKA STREET TV
6 Comments
09 April 2010 |
Peter Kirkwood
AUSTRALIA
79 Comments
09 April 2010 |
Moira Rayner
No firestorm of blame would be raging in the media were Christine Nixon not a
woman, a decent and strong woman, a prominent woman and an
ethically sound woman of an age and with the experience to possess a
raging integrity of her own and, by her very being, to offer ruthless
men a soft target.
REVIEWS
08 April 2010 |
Tim Kroenert
In comics, the X-Men's 'mutant' powers make them the target of bigotry. They function as a metaphor for homosexuals and other persecuted minorities. In Micmacs, Bazil, ostracised from his 'normal' life by a bizarre crisis, also finds himself on the margins of society.
ENVIRONMENT
2 Comments
08 April 2010 |
Kevin McGovern
The media has reported that
Australia's ban on couples using IVF to choose the sex of their
children might soon be
lifted. Some of the supporters of sex selection
for non-medical reasons are fertility doctors for whom there is a considerable financial incentive.
RELIGION
20 Comments
07 April 2010 |
Frank Brennan
On Monday night on ABC1's Q&A, Tony Abbott was asked about
the recent wave of boat people including Hazaras fleeing the Taliban
in Afghanistan. At the end of one recent meeting in Indonesia, a 15-year-old Hazara named Ali came and told me his heart wrenching story.
CREATIVE
5 Comments
07 April 2010 |
Brian Doyle
As a society we fail our children if we do not carefully remove our
street clothes, don cotton pyjamas, and crawl into the boat
of the bed with a sigh of delight, each and every night, there to voyage,
UnKindled, BlackBerryless, PalmPilotless, into the glory of story.
AUSTRALIA
3 Comments
06 April 2010 |
Binoy Kampmark
From Rudd's 'sorry' to the Stolen Generations, to last year's US Senate resolution
apologising for slavery, the political apology has assumed freight and relevance. An apology issued in the Serbian Parliament last week is exceptional for its attempt to allow the perpetrator into the moral circle.
CREATIVE
3 Comments
06 April 2010 |
Anthony Lynch
He walked with his back hunched, his lowered head inches above his toes. As if he feared cavities or his own anonymity. That black dog stopping at every fence post.
RELIGION
10 Comments
01 April 2010 |
Andrew Hamilton
It is appropriate to attend to the
complex patterns of sin that are involved in abuse and its
consequences. This kind of
gaze resists the temptations to deny or to minimise the extent of sexual
abuse and the harm done by it.
REVIEWS
01 April 2010 |
Tim Kroenert
Youthful hacker Lisbeth Sallander is capable of great
violence. But often her violence is a response to that which has
been inflicted upon her. Her investigation of a decades old missing person case will test her capacity for mercy.
CREATIVE
10 Comments
31 March 2010 |
Vin Maskell
The Chinese couple had kept the shop going for ten years at a time when
milk bars have been disappearing off the map.
In my two decades in this suburb about eight corner shops have closed.
And in the past three years Peter's milk bar, like his wife, was just
hanging on.
AUSTRALIA
9 Comments
31 March 2010 |
Tony Smith
Christian prayer at public meetings cannot have the same
importance as an acknowledgement of country. Indigenous peoples have a genuine
spiritual association with the land. By recognising this, all
Australians can be united in a non-denominational spirituality.
21 Comments
30 March 2010 |
John Warhurst
Tony Abbott had a close association with B. A. Santamaria and personifies church ties with politics through his
relationship with the man he has called his confessor, Cardinal Pell. The question is whether Abbott is a one-off or represents a
larger group of Catholic Liberals.
CREATIVE
13 Comments
30 March 2010 |
Brian Doyle
Augustine. Wondrous lesson, that man, but he has been imprisoned by theology. Grant me chastity but not yet, everyone knows that hilarious remark.
AUSTRALIA
1 Comment
29 March 2010 |
Michael Mullins
The complexity of superannuation products prompts many to choose easy options that attract high fees. Higher fees mount up over many years and significantly affect the quality of life workers are able to enjoy when they retire.
CREATIVE
10 Comments
29 March 2010 |
Colm McNaughton
It is becoming clear that we are probably not going to avert cataclysmic forms of climate change. The foundational Greek and Hebraic imaginaries, the mythical
narratives that frame western civilisation, can no longer contain,
inform and explain what
we experience. We need new stories.