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ARTS AND CULTURE
- B. N. Oakman
- 08 December 2009
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Our town nuisance, eyes bulging from a hollowed head, trousers like tattered flags half-mast on broomstick legs, a pest to the tourists ... a handy arrest for the police
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Doyle
- 23 September 2009
My mother-in-law stood up on the night before her daughter
married me, held her glass aloft, and sighed, 'Let's just hope this one
comes off'. Some of the best toasts I ever heard were from children: 'Here's to all mum's husbands past
and present!' said one girl, aged 11.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Gillian Bouras
- 02 September 2009
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In Australia it would beggar belief to see elderly nuns directing garden hoses
against the fires that threaten their convents. But that is what happened
last week in Greece. Australia and Greece resemble each other in many ways, but not in the way they cope with fire.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brendan Ryan
- 01 September 2009
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inventing sins to keep the peace .. Were the priests cheated too, as I was? .. Or did they come to trust a congregation .. by the stories told in confession?
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MARGARET DOOLEY AWARD
Multi-faith dialogue is just a conversation, over time, between dear friends.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
Treachery tumult happiness hope.. Maddening fits of loneliness..
the satirist in him self-abusive.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
You're in a forest somewhere, lying facedown in a box. With a jolt, the box starts to move; a gradual ascent, like a roller coaster beginning its climb to the top of the rise. You feel as though you haven't really lived your life, merely viewed it like a movie on fast-forward.
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RELIGION
- Gillian Bouras
- 17 March 2008
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In the Orthodox Church, Lent is a fairly strict period
of austerity, which is one reason for Carnival: traditional societies
have long understood that sessions of high spirits
are needed before and after difficult times. They are also undisturbed
by the blurring of the sacred and the secular.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Debbie Lustig
- 13 December 2007
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I nearly drowned in fulfilment, surfacing like a batfish gaping at scraps. No words only our breathing – two people
in a garage. Workbenched, love-bolted.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
Women and secrets led me to murky confusion where I have lived ever since. The first girl I ever kissed swore me to secrecy, but we were fourteen years old then and I didn’t actually have anyone to tell the secret to, since my brothers and friends would have fallen down laughing at the very idea that a girl had kissed me.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brendan Ryan
- 27 February 2007
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Their flickering rises to a crescendo / unsettling, like a threat the ground / moves beneath me.
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AUSTRALIA
- Paul Daffey
- 30 October 2006
Phil is always at the end of the bar with his head in a book or, occasionally, a newspaper. He never tires of reading in company, with a either a vodka and Coke or a Cascade Light just off the page.
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