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ARTS AND CULTURE

Courting: An intimate history of love and the law
- Gillian Bouras
- 19 April 2024
Love is a creature of its time, and so ideas, attitudes and conduct of affairs of the heart change and evolve as time passes. Courting explores breach of promise cases in Australia from 1788 until the 1970s, and in doing do, documents the development of Australian society from a penal colony to a free and much more individualistic one.
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RELIGION

Freedom from the tyranny of doing
- Gillian Bouras
- 06 February 2018
12 Comments
The human brain has always needed silence, and there have always been people who needed solitude, at least for certain periods. In 1948 war hero and adventurer Patrick Leigh Fermor retreated to a French monastery simply in order to write. But the experience of silence was an unexpected bonus.
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RELIGION

Best of 2012: Who is the loudest and ugliest religious donkey?
- Irfan Yusuf
- 10 January 2013
2 Comments
Donkeys are gorgeous but make an ugly sound. Sadly, religious discussion in Australia too often sounds like donkeys competing to see whose braying is the loudest and ugliest. Recently Christian lobbyists spread misinformed messages about sexual orientation. Loud braying was heard on Saturday too when a group of louts hijacked what should have been a peaceful Muslim protest. Tuesday 18 September
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RELIGION

Who is the loudest and ugliest religious donkey?
- Irfan Yusuf
- 18 September 2012
34 Comments
Donkeys are gorgeous but make an ugly sound. Sadly, religious discussion in Australia too often sounds like donkeys competing to see whose braying is the loudest and ugliest. Recently Christian lobbyists spread misinformed messages about sexual orientation. Loud braying was heard on Saturday too when a group of louts hijacked what should have been a peaceful Muslim protest.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

After Greece's party ended
- Gillian Bouras
- 15 August 2012
3 Comments
Things were speeding up. Greece entered the European Community, banks were throwing money at every Tom, Dick and Spiro, credit cards seemed a form of modern magic. The party is over now, and the ones who have survived in the best shape are the older villagers who never expected a party and so did not join in the spree.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Maori for cannibal
- Jennifer Compton
- 27 January 2009
1 Comment
There was a custom for Maori warriors to eat the enemy they killed in battle. This was called long pig because it tastes like pork but the bones are longer.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Personal odyssey in the steps of three Gobi women
- James Massola
- 23 December 2006
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After discovering books by three women, a Lonely Planet editor from Melbourne resolves to follow in their footsteps, in the hope of giving some purpose to her aimless wanderlust.
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INTERNATIONAL

Protecting women from danger in Darfur
- Ben Fraser
- 11 December 2006
Internally displaced person (IDP) camps offer a modicum of safety and sustenance amidst spiraling levels of deprivation and insecurity. But there is an increasing incidence of rape and physical assault upon women who have ventured outside the camp to comb the barren landscape for firewood. In Darfur, an environment where law and order often functions as the exception rather than the rule, rights are regularly challenged and violated. For those denied protection, each day plays out in a familiar way—seeking little, but risking all.
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EDUCATION

In praise of teaching
- Jenny Stewart
- 14 May 2006
It’s the best of jobs and the worst of jobs, and it’s time we all took it a lot more seriously.
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RELIGION

In my mother’s footsteps
- Anna Griffiths
- 14 May 2006
Italy, Caravaggio and Catholicism.
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Keywords: Donkeys