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AUSTRALIA

Rudd and Abbott charge the north
- Dean Ashenden
- 20 August 2013
7 Comments
Official Australia has a history of trying to conquer and develop the north. That long and frequently violent struggle now seems to be reaching a new stage. We like to think that the devastation of one population and culture by another is all in the past, but the apparent failure of Rudd and Abbott to notice that northern Australia is shared country suggests that there might be more to come.
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AUSTRALIA

The Australian wars that Anzac Day neglects
- Dean Ashenden
- 22 April 2013
24 Comments
Around 20,000 people died in a series of violent conflicts between peoples extending across the entire continent and more than half of our history. We have yet to find a way to remember the loss of those people with anything like the scale and intensity of our other commemorations, such as Anzac Day.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Cool hip tear-shaped suburb
- Pauline Reeve
- 15 March 2011
1 Comment
Someone now cast in forgetfulness, out cold – dumped down in a sleeping bag moulded like a burial mound. And by their side neatly aligned, threads of an abandoned bedside.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Money is rooted
- Various
- 07 December 2010
3 Comments
You can't have your cake if it's eaten. Or your cooked goose if it's no good for a gander. Golden eggs are useless in a fragile economy. And what goes up must keep going.
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AUSTRALIA

Labor, unleash your rock star
- Paul Mitchell
- 20 October 2010
5 Comments
Labor has used its rock star politician to push paper around. Peter Garrett was a hero to a lot of us. Get him out of that godawful suit and let him speak — sing, if he has to! — his mind on every issue that made him the most outspoken rock singer this country has seen.
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Aussie Zen Buddhist's religious prize
- Peter Kirkwood
- 24 September 2010
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Aussie Zen Buddhist's religious prize
- Peter Kirkwood
- 24 September 2010
Australian poet Tasha Sudan just won the Blake Prize for Religious Poetry, and in October will be ordained in a Zen Buddhist monastery. In simple but evocative language the poem speaks of the Buddha from his son's point of view.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Weapon on a train
- A. Frances Johnson
- 21 September 2010
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extracted .. from a small black bag .. on a peak hour train .. Held sharp and confident as a new razor .. against the shunt and shuck .. of the carriage .. Throwback to industrial tortures .. held against the soft wet eye
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Past the letterbox, to the cemetery
- Susan Fealy and Jamie King-Holden
- 06 July 2010
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A cracked grey angel .. shadows a snatch of brown weeds .. in a Coke bottle. .. A marble stone reads: .. 'our loving son, died too young' .. he sleeps, snug in clay.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

A poetic word on gay spirituality
- Will Day
- 05 March 2010
5 Comments
What a pity gay Christians, who might so greatly enrich and evolve our religious institutions if permitted to flourish, are still obliged to eke their way along the shadowy paths of discretion if they want to be part of God's gang.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

One year after Kinglake burned
- Susan Fealy
- 09 February 2010
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Black stumps, capped with snow — no, capped with lime, beside the road, tree ferns, fanning their wing in the sun. A sign: children crossing. The road is so large. The CFA building, those three letters almost the three sides of a cross.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Kisses of life and death
- Ian C. Smith
- 06 October 2009
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The kiss of peace in the Eucharist .. Judas' kiss of death, CPR's of life .. Georgie Porgie's, spin the bottle's .. the kiss of a rolling billiard ball .. Gene Simmons' great tongue Kiss
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