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ARTS AND CULTURE

A wild new pope
- Barry Gittins, Brian Doyle and B. A. Breen
- 12 March 2013
8 Comments
Man, yeah, I would be pope, if the phone rang, late at night, collect from the Vatican. Yes, I would, if I could do it right. I'd call a meeting of the Curia and say boys, we are letting women run everything for the next five years. Each of you gets a new boss in high heels.
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AUSTRALIA

The dubious removal of Paraguay's former bishop president
- Rodrigo Acuña
- 03 July 2012
6 Comments
The recent ouster of Paraguay’s left-wing president Fernando Lugo probably broke some type of world record. Having had just two hours to prepare his defence, the leader who was once 'Bishop of the poor' described his impeachment as a 'parliamentary coup d’état'. He had a point.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

The virtues of hoarding
- Various
- 10 April 2012
4 Comments
Let me have things about me not thrown out! Reminding things are made by hands, spent from the earth. You can't take any with you, that is sure, nor likely leave behind. But when they ask, 'Do you have a widget, a grommet, a poem by ...?' yes, I have.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

The hell of hoarding
- Ellena Savage
- 20 January 2012
3 Comments
Inside an old case of art supplies I'd lugged in and out of three houses but rarely opened, I found a plastic bag with something like a dead rat in it. It was not an animal however but a full head of my own hair from the time I shaved my head. There is internal logic to hoarding, but it has its perils.
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RELIGION

Opposing society's Scrooges
- Andrew Hamilton
- 22 December 2010
3 Comments
Outside of Christmas, Scrooge is back in favour. If a government has big ideas and plans to spend money, all the talk will be about the burden on taxpayers and on the deficit. But to spend money for the benefit of people is a good thing to do.
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AUSTRALIA

Blessed are the messmakers
- Michael Mullins
- 31 March 2008
3 Comments
Unchecked acquisition and possession of material objects can destroy lives and relationships. Hoarders point to a deeply ingrained pathology in which each of us is starting to value things more than people.
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AUSTRALIA

Unions personify collective humanity
- Chris Perkins
- 21 November 2007
2 Comments
The union movement in Australia has fought hard to protect Australians' rights to equal pay for equal work, without discrimination. However the Howard Government's Work Choices legislation seems to have undermined this.
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ENVIRONMENT

World Youth Day's ecological conversion opportunity
- Stefan Gigacz
- 08 March 2007
9 Comments
More than 100,000 international visitors are also expected at next year's World Youth Day event hosted by the Catholic Church in Sydney. A large number of these will arrive on flights close to 25 hours duration, putting 7-8 tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent into the atmosphere.
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RELIGION

The god of plenty
- Richard Treloar
- 26 June 2006
The principle of scarcity—the fear that there is not enough to go round (enough love, enough food, enough land, enough of God, enough ‘salvation’) is a strong motivator for possessiveness and for jealousy.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Film reviews
- Annelise Balsamo, Gordon Lewis, Juliette Hughes
- 24 June 2006
Reviews of the films Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle; Autofocus; Confessions of a Dangerous Mind and A Mighty Wind.
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