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Keywords: Beat Culture

ARTS AND CULTURE

Surviving institutional abuse
- Andrena Jamieson
- 05 June 2009
4 Comments
The policy of assimilation made an inhumane idea more important than human beings. Redfern Pastor Bill Simon recovered from his own oppression under Government policies. It's shameful that a miracle was required.
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RELIGION

Euthanasia: doctors' conscience vs patient rights
- Frank Brennan
- 02 March 2009
2 Comments
The medical pledge to do no harm no matter what the cost effective benefits, and the conscience of the doctor are still key elements in any law which promotes good medicine. –Frank Brennan, addressing the Medico Legal Society of Victoria
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AUSTRALIA

No ark in a firestorm
- Moira Rayner
- 11 February 2009
3 Comments
What can I do, I think, that first Sunday, other than being a nuisance at an emergency centre, or a gawker? I fall into something practical, fostering survivors' dogs and cats, and caring for bewildered companion animals who survived but whose owners didn't.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

On not beating cancer
- Brian Doyle
- 04 February 2009
13 Comments
A nun once said cancer is a dance partner you don't like, but with whom you have to dance, and either you die or the cancer fades into the darkness at the other end of the ballroom. The words we use about cancers and wars matter more than we know.
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AUSTRALIA

Why Gen Y loves Obama
- Charles McPhedran
- 11 June 2008
5 Comments
Barack Obama is more than just the rock-star candidate. His speech in Minneapolis invoked the tradition of liberal American reformers. For the majority of young loft-living leftists in New York, Obama is our JFK.
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RELIGION

Feeling good about feeling guilty
- Andrew Hamilton
- 28 February 2008
4 Comments
Although feeling guilty is commonly associated only with worthlessness, it comprises a variety of feelings. Some are appropriate and helpful after we have acted wrongly, and may lead us to remedy in some measure what we have done.
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RELIGION

Is New Zealand a Christian country?
- Peter Matheson
- 13 June 2007
The question of whether New Zealand should see itself as a Christian country has bubbled up in an unexpected way. The word ‘Christian’, itself, has become, almost unusable, associated in the public mind with fundamentalist bookshops and the like, or with short lived political parties which tout moralistic codes.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Deep truths revealed with deceptive simplicity
- Tony Smith
- 21 August 2006
1 Comment
Powerful prose from a young indigenous woman that makes you remember the feelings of your home, your family, your losses and regrets, and yet makes you determined to continue.
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AUSTRALIA

Wotjobaluk man
- As told by William John Kennedy Snr
- 08 July 2006
1 Comment
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

Film reviews
- Siobhan Jackson, Brett Evans, Morag Fraser, Marcelle Mogg, Allan James Thomas
- 06 July 2006
Reviews of the ﬁlms About Schmidt; Standing in the Shadows of Motown; Taking Sides; Chicago and Bowling for Columbine.
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AUSTRALIA

Any excuse
- Anthony Ham, Kath O’Connor, Bruce Duncan, Clive Shepherd
- 01 July 2006
Any excuse, Privatise or perish, Clear and present danger, Keep left unless undertaking
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Love’s Brother
- Lucille Hughes
- 05 June 2006
Lucille Hughes discusses the state of the Australian ﬁlm industry
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Keywords: Beat Culture