Search Results: underbelly
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 10 June 2010
4 Comments
Nicky is curled up asleep on the couch. She is an innocent, and we feel affection for her. But as the camera pans around, we realise we have been sharing Andrew's leering perspective. The scene foreshadows Animal Kingdom's most appalling atrocity.
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MEDIA
- Andrew Hamilton
- 21 April 2010
43 Comments
When celebrities who have treated people violently suffer
themselves from violence, their suffering is approved because it is an
expected part of the plot. The death of Carl Williams has been covered as if it were an
episode of Underbelly. Williams deserves
better than this.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Colm McNaughton
- 29 March 2010
10 Comments
It is becoming clear that we are probably not going to avert cataclysmic forms of climate change. The foundational Greek and Hebraic imaginaries, the mythical
narratives that frame western civilisation, can no longer contain,
inform and explain what
we experience. We need new stories.
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RELIGION
- Scott Stephens
- 06 April 2009
2 Comments
Manny, terrified and bewildered,
clutches a crucifix and prays, while lawyers
spew jargon-laden bile at one another. It might seem strange to invoke a Hitchcock film at Easter, but we can see a similar horror at work in the trial of Jesus.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 26 March 2009
1 Comment
Let's face it, caricature is easy. Rhetoric that links bikies with terrorism and organised crime makes for sensational news, but good journalism demands more than that. So does compelling storytelling.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Colleen Schirmer
- 01 October 2008
1 Comment
The black and tan fox terrier bared its teeth
and growled. Its milk-swollen underbelly let us know it had a litter nearby. We were at the farmhouse, revisiting the place where it had happened, to strip the events of their power.
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AUSTRALIA
- Moira Rayner
- 18 June 2008
2 Comments
Bodies such as the NSW Crime Commission and Victoria's Office of Police Integrity have proven either ineffective or vulnerable to influence themselves. Ultimately, we the people are responsible for keeping these bodies accountable.
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RELIGION
- Kylie Crabbe
- 20 March 2008
6 Comments
It seems Victoria Police's Chief Commissioner, Christine Nixon, was fast-tracked to unpopularity by trying to be a thoughtful, discerning leader. The bitterness displayed by those she's locked horns with is
testament to the danger of reforming a powerful institution.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Kiera Lindsey
- 18 May 2007
Kiera Lindsey reviews Craig McGregor’s Australian son: Inside Mark Latham and Brian Costar and Jennifer Curtin’s Rebels with a cause: Independents in Australian politics.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Michael Ashby
- 30 October 2006
1 Comment
The author of The Sound of One Hand Clapping and Gould’s Book of Fish has come up with a veritable novel "for our times". Here is a gripping tale of Australia (well, Sydney at least) in the midst of a terror campaign.
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RELIGION
- James McEvoy
- 19 June 2006
Forty years into the journey, commentators debate whether the Council was overly optimistic about modernity. Did the heady days of the early ’60s influence the Council’s agenda to its detriment?
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RELIGION
- Annette Binger
- 31 May 2006
Annette Binger on secret women’s business—female clerics.
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