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Favourite body parts
- Jordie Albiston
- 13 September 2011
6 Comments
Thank you feet, for putting one after another along shorelines and long paths ... Sorry for all the concrete, landmines and shoes. To hands, many thanks, for touching many things ... I hope you enjoyed the feel of another's occasional flesh.
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AUSTRALIA

Behind Berlin's and Israel's walls
- Binoy Kampmark
- 22 August 2011
8 Comments
Walls are not merely concrete manifestations but cultural and psychological ones. One East Berlin native recalled his mother 'cried for hours when the Wall fell'. Israel, in constructing a wall around Jerusalem, faced a host of issues as complex as those that faced East Germany.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Lessons from a loveless marriage
- Gillian Bouras
- 22 September 2010
7 Comments
Once upon a time a man told me that he had gone ahead and married his wife, even though he knew he didn't love her. 'But why?' I asked, mystified, for surely living with someone you are not in love with is the hardest thing in the world. 'Because it wasn't important,' he replied.
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ENVIRONMENT

Organic carrots and grocery store ethics
- Alison Sampson
- 09 June 2010
11 Comments
People in my own city are hungry, people across the world are starving, yet here I am buying local organic olive oil, ten times the price of a good oil from Crete. The first time I tasted an organic carrot, I realised that every other carrot I had ever eaten was a mere shadow.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Death and rebirth of a migrant
- Gillian Bouras
- 14 April 2010
4 Comments
When such melancholy descends the only thing to do is walk. I fetched up near a chapel on a hill, for the village is ringed by chapels, six of them, in a kind of protective belt. Outside I found a gum tree and a Judas tree standing side by side: my life, or my two lives in a neat symbol.
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EDUCATION

Best of 2009: Stairway to international student security
- Ben Coleridge
- 05 January 2010
5 Comments
After midnight, a group of international students, on a break from their night jobs as waiters, gather in a concrete stairwell and share their stories. Victorian premier John Brumby could learn a thing or two in that shabby stairwell. September 2009
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EDUCATION

Stairway to international student security
- Ben Coleridge
- 30 September 2009
7 Comments
After midnight, a group of international students, on a break from their night jobs as waiters, gather in a concrete stairwell and share their stories. Victorian premier John Brumby could learn a thing or two in that shabby stairwell.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Abyss of abbreviated old age
- Ian C. Smith
- 27 May 2008
Treachery tumult happiness hope.. Maddening fits of loneliness.. the satirist in him self-abusive.
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AUSTRALIA

Anzac a 'politically pliable' legend
- Tom Cranitch
- 28 April 2008
16 Comments
With Anzac Day over, and the 100th anniversary of the Gallipoli campaign just under a decade away, it's time to re-examine, re-frame, and hopefully tame the Anzac legend. You don't need to be an expert to understand that 'Anzac' has a stranglehold over Australian public life.
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INTERNATIONAL

Pressure unrelenting
- Andrew Hamilton
- 07 July 2006
The python is an emblem of Australian immigration policy that crushes asylum seekers in order to excrete them.
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AUSTRALIA

Simple pleasures in the concrete heart of Melbourne
- Paul Daffey
- 18 May 2006
3 Comments
Paul Daffey looks at community gardens in Melbourne which provide the plot-holders with much more than vegetables...
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ARTS AND CULTURE

The dance goes on
- Gillian Bouras
- 23 April 2006
Forty years after she first saw the film Zorba the Greek, an Australian in Greece takes a second look and finds herself deeply shocked
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