Search Results: meditation
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AUSTRALIA
- Sarah Kanowski
- 24 July 2009
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After my first child was born I was overwhelmed by a new
appreciation for the work required to grow a single human
being. History's catalogue of achievements now mean little to me. Man Walks on
Moon? Big deal. Each day the headlines should shout, Woman Gives Birth!
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 23 July 2009
Australia, 1902. One year since Federation. The nation is a sickly child, as yet unaware of its weakness. The colonisers deceive themselves into thinking they can tame the land. A century later, not much has changed.
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AUSTRALIA
- Carol Ransley
- 19 June 2009
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Sitting inside a purpose-built cell within Burma's notorious Insein prison, Suu Kyi today turns 64. Despite the 'bells and whistles' of a Burmese court, Suu Kyi is unlikely to receive a fair trial and will likely spend the next few years in prison.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Gillian Bouras
- 20 May 2009
6 Comments
Les Murray describes himself as a poet who is religious
rather than a religious poet, and celebrates a sense of wonder and
mystery. In an increasingly secular age, poetry has a new
function as an alternative or complement to religion.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 13 April 2009
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Bishop Geoffrey Robinson's book is an invitation to put fear behind us. Given the treatment it has received by people who should have known better, it has become an icon; a call to conversation without fear.
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RELIGION
- Sarah Kanowski
- 22 December 2008
3 Comments
Silent breakfast in a still-dark zendo, mist
rising on the mountains, has been replaced by a scramble against the
clock, one eye on the newspaper, one hand reaching for
the Weet Bix, our toddler clambering, garbage trucks
screeching outside.
How to find silence here?
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Philip Harvey
- 21 November 2008
Although not a beat poem, a Peter Steele poem shares Ginsberg's aesthetic of the poem as measure of breath. Breath is commanding like an original lecture, enspiriting like a true sermon, propulsive like a perfect dinner conversation.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 06 October 2008
'Lee and
Christine Rush are your average Ozzie couple, except that their teenage son Scott is on death row in Bali having been
convicted of being a hapless drug mule. It will not go down well on the streets of Jakarta
if Australians are baying for the blood of the Bali bombers one month
and then pleading to save our sons and daughters the next month.'
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ENVIRONMENT
- Harry Nicolaides
- 14 July 2008
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As Australia considers the Garnaut Report and the CSIRO predicts petrol could reach $8 a litre within a decade, the subject of biofuel has garnered increased interest. Jatropha, the so-called darling of second-generation biofuels, could cripple third world economies and ecosystems.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 05 June 2008
The magic of Flight of the Red Balloon is its delicate approach
to exposition. Details are revealed gradually, like a photo blooming in a
darkroom. Simon's carefree childishness shines in contrast with the complexity of the adults' lives.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
Water colour petals grow into a crowd .. They populate the dustproof draft of an afternoon under the offices .. a saint shall guide anyone towards a meditation on
the whole picture .. the Central Business District.
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MARGARET DOOLEY AWARD
- Sophie Rudolph
- 13 December 2007
International travel requires ethical justification. This can be achieved through a traveller's deliberate attempt to enter into conversation with those whose land is visited.
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