Eureka Street

Search Results: ghosts

ARTS AND CULTURE

Ten short poems
- Various
- 02 November 2010
4 Comments
Lost — Waiting for Spring — God owes me Royalties — Niche — Folding & Flying — Judas and Jezebel — Donne captains a ship of fools — Home — Loose Change — election
READ MORE
ARTS AND CULTURE

The boy who thought he was Jesus
- Morag Fraser
- 17 September 2010
3 Comments
Part memoir, part travelogue, and part apologia, Exposure is also the diary of a young man suffering from a form of obsessive-compulsive disorder which manifests in excruciating symptoms. More interesting, and more agonising, is his driven response to poverty and to suffering when he encounters it.
READ MORE
ARTS AND CULTURE

The angel's telling smile
- Michael Healey and Grant Fraser
- 31 August 2010
He is Gabriel, delicately boned, familiar, .. he has turned towards the Virgin .. who stands in her long solemnity, .. amongst the sober prophets, .. and the proper saints.
READ MORE
EUREKA STREET/ READER'S FEAST AWARD

Australia racist? Well, der!
- Bill Collopy
- 25 August 2010
11 Comments
X people work hard. Y people are natural athletes. Z people treat the world like they own it. Q people are violent. R people are drunkards. S people mistreat women. V people are queue jumpers. Racial generalising becomes racist only if we accept its false premise.
READ MORE
ARTS AND CULTURE

Fatherhood after the apocalypse
- Tim Kroenert
- 04 February 2010
5 Comments
The blurring of right and wrong in a world where civil structures have disintegrated, is seen in the Man's escalating wildness; his desperation to preserve the life of his son, and his conviction that the end of survival justifies a growing list of dubious means.
READ MORE
ARTS AND CULTURE

Life after gold
- Jesse Shipway | Maria Takolander | Rodney Williams
- 20 October 2009
uneasy in its valley of ghosts .. this gold town lives on beyond bust .. graves cut steep and deep through stone .. some folk buried here standing up
READ MORE
RELIGION

Patient autonomy and the doctor's conscience
- Frank Brennan
- 18 September 2009
4 Comments
In Life and Death: How do we honour the Patient's Autonomy and the Doctor's Conscience? Frank Brennan's Sandra David Oration at St Vincent's Clinic, Darlinghurst, Sydney, 17 September 2009.
READ MORE
ARTS AND CULTURE

Ghosts of sisters present
- Prue Gibson
- 29 July 2009
1 Comment
When we were small, my sister and I used to wake from the same nightmare. As adults, we draw a feeling of wellbeing from our connection, but there are pitfalls — husbands can get jealous and siblings can take offence. It is the hazard of exclusion.
READ MORE
ARTS AND CULTURE

Prick and it'll bleed
- Chris Andrews
- 28 July 2009
1 Comment
When I was a kid the right knee of my pants usually tore first, but I can only sneer on the left .. My body goes this way up for 16 hours, then should be laid flat in the dark.
READ MORE
AUSTRALIA

Aged care in purgatory
- Scott Stephens
- 01 June 2009
10 Comments
Our failure to care for and honour our elderly is one of the great causes of moral impoverishment in our culture. Lives tempered by age and hard-earned virtue are gifts from God. It is to our detriment that we ignore them.
READ MORE
ARTS AND CULTURE

Walking with Port Kembla's ghosts
- Eleanor Massey
- 18 May 2009
9 Comments
In 1962, Port Kembla was stoked with the dispossessed of the Old World, pouring steel back into the reconstruction of their war-ravaged homelands. Now, it's a ghost town. They're putting together an industrial museum, and that has an ominous ring to it.
READ MORE
AUSTRALIA

Irish, prisoners of a sacred past
- Frank O'Shea
- 17 March 2009
5 Comments
St Patrick holds the Irish in a powerful emotional thrall. Parades all over the world honour the man who brought Christianity to Ireland. This week in Northern Ireland, saintly ghosts of the past have been called upon to bless murder.
READ MORE

Subscriber login

Search Results: ghosts