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ARTS AND CULTURE
I found the remains of my bicycle on the carport wall. They were broken and twisted, like the body of a victim left to rot in a serial killer movie. The police officer told me it was strange. So strange that his partner took photos and dusted for prints. I couldn't make sense of the robbery. While sturdy, my bicycle was seven years old, and had seen better days. It wasn't worth much money. Who would buy worn leather and a few scratched bits of metal on eBay? Or risk being caught for second hand parts?
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AUSTRALIA
- Ellena Savage
- 03 December 2015
7 Comments
In November I did not change my profile picture to a European flag. I did not post a link to a fresh journalistic insight into a gang of men with machetes who are desperate to feel relevant in the empty ravine of history. I felt mild joy for Myanmar, but if I am honest, I don't know enough about Myanmar. I felt indignant that no-one changed their profile pictures to the Mali flag after 170 people were taken hostage there. Then my indignation dissolved when I realised I didn't know what the Mali flag looked like.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 26 February 2015
9 Comments
Call me paranoid if you like, but as I walked away, affecting a nonchalant strolling gait, I knew, I just knew, that she was a climate change denier and was daring me to argue the point. Had I hesitated one more moment, I would have been regaled with statistics about the mild coastal summer and other utterly benign climatological phenomena.
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AUSTRALIA
- Bronwyn Lay
- 20 October 2014
19 Comments
The French social scientist Bruno Latour referred to the 'uniquely Australian strategy of voluntary sleepwalking towards catastrophe'. His view conflicts with that of our prime minister, who said last week that coal is good for humanity. Abbott's thinking forgets that humanity lives within the earth's critical zone, a home that's not looking so good for humanity.
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Mullins
- 10 March 2013
4 Comments
Channel 7's Weekend Sunrise mocked the Catholic Church during its papal conclave preview. The Vatican's culture of secrecy encourages journalists to act like children. Last week the US cardinals took a more open approach and got positive media. But they were slapped down and the coverage became trivial once again.
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AUSTRALIA
- John Menadue
- 07 March 2012
9 Comments
The High Commissioner for Refugees has warned Australians about 'populist explanations ... and fears that are overblown'. He clearly had the Coalition in mind. One-liners and slogans don't make for credible refugee policy. Neither does recycling failed policies of the past.
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CARTOON
- Fiona Katauskas
- 14 June 2011
1 Comment
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ENVIRONMENT
- Jeffrey Nicholls
- 09 July 2010
3 Comments
Every year we mine about a billion tonnes of iron ore. If we keep this
up for five billion years, we will have dug up the whole earth to a
depth of about 10 km. Here is a guide to how human existence might continue until the sun dies.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Peter Mitchell and Kathryn Hamann
- 15 June 2010
1 Comment
she migrates the long, thin pole around the recycling dumpster. Beer bottles clink, aluminium cans become metal kebabs ... on the road: her set eyes read the worlds of nature — the sky as upturned colander, shaking droplets of rain.
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ECONOMICS
- Julian Butler
- 18 February 2009
6 Comments
Some of the soup van's clients collect cans to sell to a scrap dealer. The work supplements their welfare income and provides a sense of
fulfillment. Since the global market crash business has been slow: 'China doesn't want aluminium now.'
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Earl Livings
- 22 July 2008
1 Comment
In his first serious essay .. he applies Occam's razor .. to God's reputation .. he favours the universe as is .. launched by laws of urge and reaction .. no recourse to maker or judge.
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RELIGION
- Peter Hodge
- 03 April 2008
2 Comments
Not all behaviour that offends religious beliefs amounts to vilification. However, when freedom of
expression results in incitement to religious hatred,
a line has been crossed.
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