Keywords: Dream Of The Earth
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AUSTRALIA
- Sarah McKenzie
- 26 March 2010
13 Comments
According to the International Astronomical Union, nearly 30 per cent of the world's population cannot see the Milky Way. Vincent Van Gogh said 'the sight of the stars make me dream'. When we over-light our cities, it's not just sleep we're losing, it's the chance to dream.
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EUREKA STREET TV
- Peter Kirkwood
- 04 December 2009
1 Comment
Religious bigotry, fanaticism, and associated violence are still very much with us. A central ethos of the Parliament of Religions is to honour, preserve and seek to
understand the particularities of different faiths rather than try to
make them all the same.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Paul Collins
- 11 June 2009
12 Comments
Thomas Berry (1914-2009), Catholicism's most significant thinker in ecological theology, argued that religion had failed to provide a way of making sense of the cosmos. Christians oppose homicide, but have no morality to deal with the killing of the planet.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 27 February 2009
3 Comments
Professor Martha Nussbaum's recent book Liberty of Conscience provides a rich textured treatment of the place of religion in the public square. If God is taken out of the picture,
it may be difficult to maintain a human rights commitment to the
weakest and most despised in society.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tom Clark
- 23 September 2008
1 Comment
Peter Taylor, selected straight from .. Petersham firsts to bowl his offies .. for the baggy green, taught us how .. the 'Strayan dream can fizz and spit .. through Sydney's fond atmosphere.
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RELIGION
- Peter Matheson
- 02 April 2007
1 Comment
Lively humour is deadly earnest. It erupts in the yawning gap between our dawn dreams of joy and justice and the noonday reality of cruelty and corruption. No totalitarian regime tolerates it for long.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 18 September 2006
4 Comments
It was hard to notice the recent death of Colin Thiele, arguably Australia's greatest children's writer. In a philistine nation under philistine leadership, Thiele’s quiet cultured tone and its sad silencing could not compete for proper, courteous and deserved recognition with the phony vernacular outpouring that is supposed to be our true voice.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
Kevin Hart on the poetry and essays of Czeslaw Milosz.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Donald Russell
- 12 June 2006
A genuine Australian story with no hint of the dreaded 'cultural cringe', there are some genuinely humorous moments amidst the tension in this film.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- 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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INTERNATIONAL
- Dorothy Horsfield
- 10 May 2006
Dorothy Horsfield investigates an initiative to help the survivors of torture
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Anthony Ham
- 27 April 2006
Spain is celebrating the 400th anniversary of its most famous novel, Miguel de Cervantes’ Don Quixote.
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