keywords: The Fault In Our Stars
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Robert DiNapoli
- 20 May 2019
4 Comments
The work that's held my undivided heart now hangs upon the lip of the inane, a path I've struck, unwinding meaning's ball, or else a futile tangle, every day more lost to telos, purpose and design. No one else seems to have passed this way.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
Our salt-blasted car rental veteran guzzled fuel, gearbox a disaster gasping past wallaby roadkill leaving the dramatic volcanic mountainscape for glimpses of carved bays, Crusoe beaches contrasting with weathered scrub, still farms.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 12 June 2014
1 Comment
Augustus and Hazel meet in a support group for cancer sufferers. During the course of their ensuing romance they both prove to be pragmatic about their own mortality. They share frank discussions about God and the afterlife, and gain little comfort from them. It's an inherently sad story, but to parallel the individual horror of their cancer with the experiences of Anne Frank during the Holocaust is a step to far.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
Some lessons need to be learned more than once. A young boy punches an older peer in defence of the honour of a girl he admires. The girl is so impressed that she invites the boy on a date. Is violence, then, an approved medium for the defence of romantic ideals? The boy tests this premise twice more, with less gratifying results.
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RELIGION
- B. F. Moloney
- 18 April 2012
25 Comments
The man becomes priest upon taking his vows of celibacy. He is no longer a man who would work and care for family, enjoy his leisure and be father to his children. In his robes and vestments he is for the flock, but not of them. What can the church offer a man or a woman who chooses celibacy?
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 13 September 2011
5 Comments
The Church of the 21st century should be the exemplar of due process, natural justice and transparency. While there can be little useful critique of the final decision of Pope Benedict to force the early retirement of Bishop Bill Morris, there is plenty of scope to review the processes leading up to it.
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AUSTRALIA
- John Honner
- 10 November 2009
3 Comments
A sports hall in Berry, NSW, has won a coveted international architecture prize. This has a special significance for this month's Federal Government apology to the 'Forgotten Australians' who suffered abuse in institutional care.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 12 August 2009
3 Comments
Economists are often, sometimes
spectacularly, wrong. But like all prophets,
they are unabashed by and unpunished for abject failures. They pop
up from each new set of ruins, surprised yet unrepentant, princes
of a plethora of evanescent predictions.
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AUSTRALIA
It is time we stopped allowing football
administrators, advertisers and television stations to set the standards for ethical behaviour. The only way that
the current unethical rugby league culture can be removed is for the
code itself to disappear.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Margaret Simons
- 20 February 2008
7 Comments
The onset of blue-green algae caused the Murray's smell to change from rank to fetid. Halting the damage to the Murray-Darling basin is essential to our
financial survival, yet it may be that it is impossible to stop the
damage without also causing critical economic damage. — Eureka Street, March 1993
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AUSTRALIA
- Barbara Chapman
- 27 June 2007
"John" shares the same city and roughly the same age as Ben Cousins. Uneducated and unsupported, he successfully fought his drug addiction with inner resolve, but eventually alcohol caused him more grief than the 'hard stuff’.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 27 February 2007
Comprehensively drawn characters demonstrate that guilt has a way of catching up with people, forcing them to make a clear choice regarding where they will seek long-term happiness.
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