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  • ECONOMICS

    Remembering a homeless man named Patrick

    • Daniel Donahoo
    • 08 August 2007
    1 Comment

    An obsession with an economics graduate who founded an aged care organisation provokes memories of a night on the streets in the company of a homeless man named Patrick.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    A short note on secrets

    • Brian Doyle
    • 13 June 2007
    5 Comments

    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

    Bali Cigarette

    • Tim Edwards
    • 18 May 2007

    Poem by Tim Edwards.

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  • CONTRIBUTORS

    Tim Edwards

    • Tim Edwards
    • 17 May 2007

    Tim Edwards is a Perth poet who has had his work published in a number of Australian literary journals.

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  • RELIGION

    The ten commandments of marketing

    • Greg Soetomo
    • 27 February 2007
    1 Comment

    You cannot worship God and Mammon, Jesus says. But when people see themselves as divided by their understanding of God, Mammon can be a bridge on which they can stand together and talk. Hermawan Kartajaya reminded me of this recently.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Poor People's Summit on the Niger River

    • Anthony Ham
    • 24 July 2006
    1 Comment

    As the leaders of the world’s richest and most powerful countries gathered in St Petersburg this month, a few hundred activists were meeting in a dusty frontier town 350km beyond Timbuktu, for what they dubbed ‘the Poor People’s Summit’.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Graphic smoke packs a shock to the system

    • Alice Bergin
    • 24 July 2006

    The Federal Government is seeking to scare the smoking public with the replacement of tamer text warnings with a range of photographs depicting cases of lung disease, tongue cancers and even a dissected brain.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    V. good

    • Juliette Hughes
    • 10 July 2006

    New Year’s resolutions: 1. No more TV IQ tests that expose one’s innumeracies and estimate one’s intelligence at somewhere between a One Nation voter and a newt.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Gallipoli Revisited

    • Dale Blair
    • 24 June 2006
    1 Comment

    The birthplace of a nation? Anzac Cove lies in wait for Australian pilgrims.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    One cat, burned also

    • Brian Doyle
    • 11 May 2006

    Brian Doyle on community.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Inferno bound

    • Brian Matthews
    • 11 May 2006

    The timelessness of great art is not just a matter of it still being around every time you happen to look.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Film reviews

    • Juliette Hughes, Allan James Thomas, Siobhan Jackson
    • 10 May 2006

    Reviews of the films Letters to Ali, Coffee and cigarettes and The Village.

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