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    'Buddhist' Catholic nun's interfaith leadership

    • Peter Kirkwood
    • 24 February 2012

    'As Catholics we learn that this is the one true faith ... I believe God has opened many paths.' Sister Joan Kirby is a veteran of inter-religious dialogue. She is a past director of one of the oldest interfaith organisations, the Temple of Understanding, and currently serves as its representative at the UN. 

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    'Buddhist' Catholic nun's interfaith leadership

    • Peter Kirkwood
    • 23 February 2012
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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Op-shop religion

    • Matthew Davies
    • 21 February 2012
    2 Comments

    If you try on any more religions, torn, weary and grey like many a tweed jacket from St Vinnie's ... they're never your size.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Innocence lost in Greece and Australia

    • Gillian Bouras
    • 17 February 2012
    11 Comments

    The dismissal of Gough Whitlam by then Governor-General Sir John Kerr in 1975 has been described as the greatest political and constitutional crisis in Australia's history. It seems pallid in comparison with what is now happening here in Greece. 

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    How to wrestle an angel

    • Barry Gittins and P. S. Cottier
    • 14 February 2012

    Try a Cobra Clutch Bulldog; an Elevated Gutbuster; Wheelbarrow Driver; Gorilla Press Slam; a Frankensteiner. There's always the Alley Oop, where you hoist him, (the opponent) on your shoulders. But be aware of the possibility of take-off ... Who will be riding whom?

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    Retired bishop confronts militant religion

    • Peter Kirkwood
    • 10 February 2012

    Much reporting in the mainstream media heightens the sense of threat represented by militant Islamic minorities. William Swing, founder of one of the largest international interfaith organisations, seeks to mobilise believers from all traditions to work towards common goals.

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    Retired bishop confronts militant religion

    • Peter Kirkwood
    • 09 February 2012
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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    If Dickens were alive today

    • Andrew Hamilton
    • 08 February 2012
    6 Comments

    If Dickens wished to address the deprivation and discrimination suffered by Indigenous Australians and asylum seekers today, he would need to turn to the popular media. But even though he was superbly gifted for the genre, his telly series would most likely flop. 

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Abominable blood ties

    • Various
    • 07 February 2012
    1 Comment

    My crumpled iris-rim lip is her lip; the fine spoked wheel beneath my grimacing eye has etched itself deep with years upon her face. The wet red meat of my viscera is made of her, a shy-hood I cannot take off ... Why are you doing this to me?

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    The crossing guard and the dawdler

    • Vin Maskell
    • 01 February 2012
    8 Comments

    He'd pick up sticks and stones, turn them over, put them in his pocket. He was often the last to cross, arriving as the school's public address system played 'hurry up' music at 8:55am. Some people laughed when I said I'd become a school crossing supervisor, but they don't see the things I see.

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    Dreams of pulling Australia out of its slump

    • Ian C. Smith
    • 31 January 2012

    Although most are probably long dead, they seem happy, even excited. Perhaps they will toss triumphant hats. The wind might favour their team, even steal tossed hats, but not hope.

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    Detention centre project spruiks art and humanity

    • Peter Kirkwood
    • 27 January 2012
    6 Comments

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