Search Results: alcoholism
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 02 April 2009
13 Comments
Mary is a socially awkward adolescent, growing up in 1970s
suburban Melbourne. Her penpal Max
is a lonely New Yorker, a chronic overeater with Asperger's. Adam Elliot's films are not just about difference. They are about justice.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Philip Mendes
- 27 March 2009
1 Comment
Some enjoyed supportive placements and moved successfully into
mainstream society. Others
were disempowered and even traumatised by their time in care, and left
with serious health and emotional deficits.
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AUSTRALIA
- Tom Cranitch
- 05 September 2007
5 Comments
Everyone from radio shock jocks to the Prime Minister have beaten up fallen rugby league hero Andrew Johns for being a poor role model for young people. Children will get over it. It's adults who get lost in the fog around the edges of such an issue.
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AUSTRALIA
- Matthew Smeal
- 16 October 2006
3 Comments
Government-run shelters have become much more than a safe refuge for the children, but somewhere where they can actually be children. Nobody knows whether the recent ceasefire between the Government and the LRA rebels will hold.
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AUSTRALIA
Commonwealth cousins Australia and Canada are headed toward distinctly different futures
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ARTS AND CULTURE
Guy Rundle reflects on the lives of James McAuley and Harold Stewart.
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RELIGION
- Andrew Hamilton
- 14 May 2006
Lindsay Tanner and Tony Abbott recently gave thoughtful speeches about the place of the churches in public life, which merit a reflective response.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Michael McGirr
- 14 May 2006
Ross McMullins’ So Monstrous a Tragedy: Chris Watson and the world’s first national labour government is reviewed by Michael McGirr.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Luke O’Callaghan, Andrew Hamilton, Michele M. Gierck
- 29 April 2006
Reviews of the books After the Fireworks: A life of David Ballantyne; When faiths collide; Classical literature: A concise history and In the shadow of ‘Just Wars’: Violence,politics and humanitarian action.
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AUSTRALIA
- Jenny Stewart
- 25 April 2006
1 Comment
The journey towards understanding our depression can be the most worthwhile, and the most taxing, that we ever make
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Daniel Herborn
- 23 April 2006
Daniel Herborn finds John Edwards’s Curtin’s Gift a convincing re-examination of some of the key strands of Curtin’s life.
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