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Hope documents the fate of the people-smuggling vessel SIEV-X and the 353 people who died when it sank en route to Australia. The film suggests a parliamentary inquiry is essential into the Howard Government's handling of the tragedy.
The supernatural elements in The Orphanage provide an allegory for Laura's grief for her lost son. But it's the tangible, human elements that will leave both mind and gut churning late into the night. Be prepared to lose sleep.
Reviews of the films Hero; The story of the weeping camel; In my father’s den and Steamboy.
To the extent that novels exist to provide insights into character, minds and decisions, Tom Keneally's new novel is arguably his best.
A desperate attempt to remember often produces fragments which are deeply moving and yet, at the same time, are parodies of the larger, solemn picture we cannot reassemble.
While the journeys made both by Alice and the children in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe are about escaping reality, the arthouse film Pan's Labyrinth presents fantasy and altruism as the way to transcendence.
June Saunders was a little-known Queensland poet with a wealth of potential
Frank O’Shea considers Hope and History by Gerry Adams.
Reviews of the films Ten; Kill Bill Vol. 1; Intolerable Cruelty and In This world
Anthony Ham on power and politics in the world’s third-poorest country.
Reviews of the books Labour of Love: Tales from the World of Midwives; The Long, Slow Death of White Australia and The Dead Place.
The old religion versus evolution debate is back. The latest contender in the conservative religion corner is known as intelligent design.
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