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AUSTRALIA

What we talk about when we talk about mental health
- Paul Mitchell
- 19 October 2021
2 Comments
Millions of Australians are slowly emerging from another lockdown and it’s again reported our mental health has suffered. The Victorian Government recently announced 93,000 hours for mental health clinicians to work across the state, and the delivery of 20 pop-up community mental health sites.
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RELIGION

Is it time to re-think seminaries?
- Gideon Goosen
- 23 September 2021
60 Comments
The Final Report of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse identified clericalism as a significant contributor to abuse across religious institutions Australia-wide. Clericalism is rooted in a theological belief that the clergy are different to the laity, having undergone an ‘ontological change’ at ordination, and feeds the notion that the clergy may not be challenged. And according to the report, the culture of clericalism is on the rise in seminaries in Australia.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Slow Train Coming: Bob Dylan’s spiritual journey
- Paul Mitchell
- 01 June 2021
11 Comments
Like the best religious poetry, Dylan’s works resists easy interpretation and remains open to endless meditation. Dylan’s overtly political songs — ‘Hurricane’, ‘Political World’ — and love songs — ‘Idiot Wind’, ‘Tangled up in Blue’ — have often been challenging. It’s the same with his religious output.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

The meek find the violent absolute
- Carolyn Masel
- 07 May 2018
Early traumas last, the experts say ... but memory can resemble an old wound that presages damp days or, like a sharp new line, make one gasp again. What violence do they endure who with nightmare slowness flee a wolfish past? And are theirs unexamined lives who have attained the modern armour-plated dream?
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Writing workshops at the Muslim School
- Jenny Blackford
- 22 January 2018
3 Comments
I ask the kids to pick a character and write a sentence or a paragraph to start the telling of those lives cut short. A tragedy so far away in space and time is made brand-new, but still as sad, by Aussie Muslim hands and shiny minds.
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AUSTRALIA

The burning of a tainted church
- Andrew Hamilton
- 16 April 2015
76 Comments
The burning of a church offers possibilities. It would be a bold and noble gesture, exactly measured to the destruction done to the Catholic Church by priests' sexual abuse, to leave the ruined walls of St James as a shrine to the victims, a record of the evil that was done, and a pledge that never again will children be unprotected in the Catholic Church.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Godiva exposed
- Liam Guilar
- 25 November 2008
I mounted up and rode ... into a dream of silent shuttered houses ... I waited for an outraged God to strike me down ... for flaunting breasts and pubic hair
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ARTS AND CULTURE

His God was Dylan, Bob
- Liam Guilar
- 29 July 2008
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The world seemed too untidy for the lyrics of a song .. but he could build a conversation from quotations. .. I wanted mountains, rivers, knowledge .. he stayed, confusing eloquence with revelation.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Someone will have to go
- Peter Bakowski
- 15 May 2007
Having looked at the quarterly figures, he says / that someone will have to go. / It's Weems, a bit of a gambler, a bit of a tippler, / whose eyes stray from sales charts and balance sheets / to ankles and the racing form.
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AUSTRALIA

The arc of European reconciliation
- Hugh Dillon
- 29 April 2006
Both the Dresden firestorm and the Holocaust were products of the insidious tendency in wartime for the previously unthinkable to become routine.
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