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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 14 July 2010
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Burke and Wills have long since attained the kind of heroic status Australians seem inclined to assign to catastrophic failure. But perhaps, in mid 2010, we might see their expedition's story as being more about the strains, perils and transience of leadership.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 16 June 2010
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He was horribly contorted. His head was bent over his right shoulder as
if being crushed down. The angle of the head concealed the right ear and enforced a distortion of his mouth
and right eye. You don't stare at such afflicted people so I gazed elsewhere until
he was on the move.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 19 May 2010
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If Iceland's Eyjafjallajökull volcano erruption was disruptive, its cousin Katla may have worse in store. Volcanoes, emanating a kind of preternatural, primal,
patience, are landlords whose unchanging message is: you are renting; you
haven't bought.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Vinay Verma
- 23 March 2010
As angels of innocence cast .. Imperfect shadows .. God idioms are intoned .. Perfunctory .. As morning ablutions .. Disciples invoking pacts of compromise .. Offering souls and solutions .. Silent in their conspiracy
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Val Noone
- 04 September 2009
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At the height of Willam Hackett's republican involvements, the Jesuit provincial
offered him a choice of silence or appointment
to Australia. Through a combination of personal memoir and public history, Brenda Niall unravels the riddles of Hackett's life.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Jonathan Hill
- 17 July 2009
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Kennedy is not portrayed as a saint. Imperfections such as his
unpredictable temper, his occasional liking for a drink and his initial
insensitivity to Aboriginal Australians reveal that he, like us, was a
man of flesh and blood.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Andrena Jamieson
- 17 April 2009
Loreto Sister Veronica Brady has taken on the Government for its treatment of Indigenous Australians, the church for its treatment of women, and Australian society for its materialism. She belongs to the long tradition of Australian stirrers.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Greg O'Kelly
- 13 March 2009
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The decades spanning the 1920s–1970s were times of intense change for Australia and the Church. Post war immigration, the Labor split, the Vietnam War and Vatican II all occurred during 'Matty' Beovich's time as Archbishop of Adelaide.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Garry Kinnane
- 04 March 2009
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In 1972 Auden abandoned New York to live at Christ Church College, Oxford. He was given a cottage in the grounds, and was expected to give occasional talks and be available to
students. It turned out not to be the success everyone had hoped for.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- James Massola
- 12 December 2008
Of particular interest are the chapters on the mythologising of the 'Busby Babes', the young team that perished in the Munich air disaster in 1958. White examines the impact of the disaster on the club's brand, and the manner in which it has been exploited.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Andrew Hamilton
- 05 December 2008
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If Manning Clark was oversensitive to criticism, he was also strongly, sometimes brutally, criticised by his peers and by journalists. Matthews' biography presents the relationship between Clark's writing and his dramatic inner world.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Alexandra Coghlan
- 19 September 2008
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George Orwell and Evelyn Waugh occupied opposing aesthetic, philosophical and political poles. This conceptually agile book suggests they attained moral — if not spiritual — agreement from fundamentally opposing directions.
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