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Students victims of 'violent' policies
- Andrew McGowan
- 16 June 2009
When our universities enrol international students based on balance-sheet needs rather than strategies of international partnership and engagement, a whole branch of education policy is revealed as bankrupt.
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RELIGION

The 'bad eggs' of Ireland's abuse scandal
- Frank O'Shea
- 05 June 2009
24 Comments
After a lifetime in schools run by religious orders, I am appalled to think abuse against children in institutions in Ireland was 'endemic'. I try to persuade myself that 'Brendan', the saintliest man I ever knew, cancels out the bad eggs.
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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.
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AUSTRALIA

Why Good Friday should not be gambled
- Andrew Hamilton
- 19 March 2009
12 Comments
Arguments for preserving Good Friday are based on respect for Christians, or the benefits to society of a day free from work. Neither argument is conclusive. Perhaps it is helpful to ask, why should there be any public holidays at all?
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MEDIA

The language of fire
- Philip Harvey
- 24 February 2009
10 Comments
Melbourne had the strange experience of reading and listening to bushfire reports for five days while neither seeing nor smelling smoke. When the mind has no sensory leads to interpret, words become critical.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

All that jazz
- Grant Fraser
- 24 January 2009
To an outsider jazz might seem a mysterious, prowling place because it defies simple definition. This is a journal for slow reading, recommend to those who are not jazz devotees and do not prowl ... yet.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Life as a game show
- Tim Kroenert
- 18 December 2008
1 Comment
Having grown up an orphan in a Mumbai slum, Jamal is an unlikely candidate for Who Wants To Be A Millionaire. A sense of the divine pervades the film, but while Jamal seems destined for good fortune, his brother Salim diverges towards corruption.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Big rat poems
- Christopher Kelen
- 02 December 2008
1 Comment
this poor house where ... as in the book of songs ... a famous rat eats the seedlings ... as they rise
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AUSTRALIA

A linguist's vision for multicultural Australia
- Michael Clyne
- 18 November 2008
6 Comments
Bilingualism trains the mind and encourages more flexible problem solving. Such qualities go unnoticed in a society with a strong monolingual mindset. Social inclusion policy must also move beyond the socioeconomic dimension to prevent the exclusion of significant sections of Australian society.
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AUSTRALIA

Vote 1 Michael Palin
- Brian Doyle
- 18 September 2008
3 Comments
When I heard John McCain had chosen 'Palin' as his running mate, I thought, wow, Michael Palin! Palin understands women (he's worn his share of dresses), animal rights (especially dead parrots), and commerce (particularly the cheese industry).
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ARTS AND CULTURE

'Freaks' on film
- Tim Kroenert
- 04 September 2008
1 Comment
In 1932, Todd Browning's Freaks sought to unsettle with the 'otherness' of its circus sideshow performer characters. A modern-day festival of films by and about people with disability emhasises not otherness, but humanity.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Books survive the orgasm of closure
- Brian Matthews
- 20 August 2008
3 Comments
We've seen the 'end of history' and the 'death of God', yet the humble book lives on. While technology buffs embrace the e-book, printed books continue to exercise an atavistic attraction through their fusion of form and content.
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