Search Results: vernacular
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Paul Dignam and Jonathan Hadwen
- 07 June 2011
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Jesus said 'G'day mate, why don'tcher try a cast off the point there, I had a few bites just now, reckon you'll catch a feed, at least. I'll get the billy on ...'
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Michael Loughnane
- 12 April 2011
6 Comments
‘I don’t like middle class people very much,’ said Joe Bageant in an interview for the documentary Deer Hunting with Jesus. Bageant championed the cause of the ‘white redneck’, a social group he saw as being one of the most marginalised and disenfranchised in America.
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MEDIA
- Andrew Hamilton
- 09 February 2011
55 Comments
While it is refreshing to hear politicians speak in unguarded colloquial language from time to time, any human misfortune is demeaned if we believe it is a sufficient explanation to say, as Tony Abbott said of the death of a soldier serving in Afghanistan, 'shit happens'.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 10 December 2010
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'Apodemialgia' is the opposite of nostaligia: a desire to escape. Add the brash, McDonald's-sponsored presence of Oprah to the pleasant but undeniably testing rigours of Christmas and apodemialgics all over the country will be reaching for something stronger than McCoffee.
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RELIGION
- Neil Ormerod
- 25 February 2010
33 Comments
It's unlikely people will flock back to mass simply because a new
translation is in place. Far more likely
is that, as with the change at Vatican II, there will be a disaffected
minority who cease to practice because their experience of the
sacred has been violated.
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EUREKA STREET TV
- Peter Kirkwood
- 31 July 2009
2 Comments
For those who value serious content over sensationalism and glitz, who
want media meat rather than fairy floss and cake, the 'slow TV' movement is a welcome part
of the new media explosion on the internet.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Aileen Kelly
- 21 July 2009
Angling my foreground to move with me along a crowded pavement in one clarified direction, eyes set to recognise one doorway of gravelled glass and a particular curlicued frame.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 13 May 2009
If Shakespeare had dabbled in cuisine, dishes
such as 'eye of newt' and 'fillet of fenny snake' may have been a sensation. As the first 'foody' to emerge from the obscurity of Stratford-upon-Avon, he would have an unlikely successor: Gordon Ramsay.
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AUSTRALIA
No 'group' can be assumed to be full of
criminals. Men form friendships out of common, innocuous interests. Laws introduced in NSW interfere with civil liberties and are likely to be ineffective at addressing organised crime.
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RELIGION
- Neil Ormerod
- 25 March 2009
44 Comments
The parish acts as a beacon in social justice and inclusion. It is hard to see why they can't do this without breaking the Church's rules. Dorothy Day of the Catholic Worker Movement managed to marry social activism with a conservative religious life.
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MEDIA
- Chris McGillion
- 01 September 2008
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Market realities demand corporate managers do not trash the 'brand'. The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and the Financial Review are respected brands because they contain quality reporters and commentators.
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RELIGION
- Chris Middleton
- 18 May 2007
81 Comments
Amnesty International has improved the lives of countless numbers of people wrongly imprisoned for their beliefs, or subjected to inhuman and degrading treatment. Now its decision to abandon its neutral stance on abortion could undermine the effectiveness in its main advocacy work.
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