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ARTS AND CULTURE

Fighter who found community on the streets
- Steve Sinn
- 10 December 2014
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Sue will always be for me flesh and blood, her trust I will forever cherish. Hers was a wretched life from the beginning to the end. But for some reason I feel impelled to lift her name out of the anonymity narrative that includes the vast numbers of people who have gone before us.
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RELIGION

Tonti-Filippini's intellectual quest undaunted by physical pain
- Zac Alstin
- 13 November 2014
7 Comments
Utilitarian philosopher Peter Singer paid tribute to his friend and intellectual nemesis Nicholas Tonti-Filippini, who died last Friday after suffering pain and discomfort for much of his life. The majority of Tonti-Filippini’s influence on bioethics in Australia took place out of the public spotlight, including has work as chair of a govenment committee on the care of people in an unresponsive or minimally responsive state.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Last of the cat poems
- Karl Cameron-Jackson and Mike Hopkins
- 06 March 2012
5 Comments
With fresh blood in your mouth you are no longer cat, house-trained to please. Now you kill wantonly, revel in the fear you invoke in others. Man was created, just like you, to run free in the killing-fields ... Is this what God meant you to be? To revert to what you once were?
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Paul Collins and the Vatican
- Peter Kirkwood
- 07 April 2011
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Paul Collins and the Vatican
- Peter Kirkwood
- 07 April 2011
In 2001 Collins resigned from priestly ministry because of a dispute with the Vatican over his book Papal Power. In the interview he discusses his views on the Church and its governance, as well as eco-theology.
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AUSTRALIA

Pope-hate in broken Britain
- Michael Mullins
- 20 September 2010
12 Comments
Social commentator Frank Furedi wrote that the Pope's UK visit provided Britain's cultural elite with 'a figure that it is okay to hate'. We might regard the angst as a manifestation of the growing pains that are to be expected in a world of emerging pluralism.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

After the Latin
- Peter Steele
- 04 May 2010
1 Comment
They change the sky but not their soul who run .. across the sea: the impartial earth .. gapes for the child of a pauper as for a princeling ... (For Peter Porter)
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Conway's maverick way
- Paul Collins
- 30 March 2009
10 Comments
Ronald Conway (1927–2009) was of a rare breed in Australia. He stood against the prevailing climate of thought which ignores important questions of faith, spirituality and human experience, and focuses on the conventional and politically correct.
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RELIGION

Poor man's pioneer
- Andrew Hamilton
- 28 November 2008
21 Comments
For many young Catholics in the 1960s the defining issue was poverty. An idealistic social activism was part the contemporary culture. Brian Stoney, who died last week, was a significant figure in shaping ways of accompanying the poor.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

The domestic space of gay men and lesbians
- Deborah Singerman
- 08 March 2007
1 Comment
The popularity of Waz and Gav, the gay couple in the first series of Channel 9’s The Block, helped them launch their own design company. It also highlighted the boundaries of acceptable mainstream images of gay men.
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AUSTRALIA

News from everywhere
- Eureka Street editors
- 07 July 2006
Philip Berrigan, accountability, comic opera, and senior graffiti
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MEDIA

Online social networking beyond the grave
- Margaret Cassidy
- 12 June 2006
The presence of the deceased is palpable in the obituary postings at MyDeathSpace.com. In addition to declarations of love, many speak of knowing that the deceased has “gone to a better place”.
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