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ECONOMICS
- Jim McDermott
- 20 October 2008
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As I walk the streets of Manhattan, things seem much the same as
always. Yet newspapers are peppered with references to the
market 'cratering', a term that conjures the desolate landscape of the moon. A friend suggested another interpretation: 'A crater is what's left after a massive explosion.'
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 26 March 2008
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Camus' plague was a metaphor for the Second World War German occupation of France. Our plague is no metaphor. It's the truth of the planet's advancing impatience with its reckless colonisers.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 18 May 2007
Traffic chaos suggests a reason Italians are so good at opera. Life in their cities unfolds each day not with the rational continuity of the novel, or the spareness of the short story, but with traditional opera’s volatility and impatience with the mundane.
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AUSTRALIA
- Kathryn O’Connor, Anthony Ham
- 09 July 2006
MedicarePlus | Global village
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Grant Morgan, Anthony Ham, Matthew Albert, Steven Columbus
- 07 July 2006
On your bus, Kerala leads, Sudan in Australia, Coming to terms.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Mary Manning
- 01 July 2006
Fiction by Mary Manning
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Michele Gierck
- 14 May 2006
An extract from the book by Michele Gierck, 700 days in El Salvador.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 11 May 2006
The timelessness of great art is not just a matter of it still being around every time you happen to look.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Mary Manning
- 29 April 2006
I haven’t decided what I will do in my next life although the people who organise these things have been sending me reminders about it for the past two years.
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AUSTRALIA
- Jeremy Clarke
- 27 April 2006
The Chinese people are conscious of the immense work involved in bringing a ‘New Beijing’ into being before the ‘Great Olympics’
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