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Keywords: Mud

  • AUSTRALIA

    Wotjobaluk man

    • As told by William John Kennedy Snr
    • 08 July 2006
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    William John Kennedy Snr. is the oldest male Aboriginal elder in the State of Victoria. He fought in the Second World War. He worked on the railways. He campaigned for land rights. And he just happens to be my grandfather. To most people he’s known as ‘Uncle Jack’, but to me, he’s ‘Pop’. This is his story.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    The word shifter

    • Penelope Buckley
    • 08 July 2006

    Penelope Buckley reflects on Aileen Kelly’s City and Stranger.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Pastoral Dreams

    • Matthew Klugman
    • 06 July 2006

    Are they utopian or can they be realised? Matthew Klugman reports.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Temporary inanity

    • Juliette Hughes
    • 26 June 2006

    I cocoon all day and well into the night, watching TV, chatting on the phone or fiddling aimlessly with the laptop. I am the luckiest being in history, warm and fed and sheltered and entertained and surrounded by family.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Anarchy rules

    • Brian Matthews
    • 16 June 2006

    Just say you were on Who Wants to be a Millionaire? and, coming up to the $500,000 question, Eddie asks you, as he would be highly likely to do at that moment, ‘What do the following have in common?

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  • INTERNATIONAL

    Pass gently by these ruins

    • Anthony Ham
    • 31 May 2006

    Anthony Ham recalls the people and place of Arg-è Bam.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Winds of change

    • Brian Matthews
    • 22 May 2006

    Towards the end of a bleak, mid-February Friday, the wind started to groan through the narrow, village streets. Shutters creaked and in the valley below a filmy curtain materialised over the vines and blurred the outlines of the farmhouses.

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  • RELIGION

    Soaring angels

    • Anna Griffiths
    • 22 May 2006

    Anna Griffiths marvels at the beauty of Los Angeles’ Our Lady Queen of the Angels Cathedral.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    The pilgrim’s way

    • Anthony Ham
    • 14 May 2006

    Anthony Ham follows the historical footsteps toward Mecca.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    The young and the restless

    • Jan Forrester
    • 14 May 2006

    Iran's youth ready for change.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    The threat to empire

    • Luke Fraser
    • 11 May 2006

    An ageing population may be the downfall of the Western empire

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  • AUSTRALIA

    The sons of privilege

    • Anthony Ham
    • 11 May 2006

    Anthony Ham travels the enigmatic and affluent Saudi Arabia

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