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ARTS AND CULTURE

The gay Jewish butcher and other tales of Israeli conflict
- Tim Kroenert
- 12 August 2010
1 Comment
Aaron initially rationalises his sexuality as a test from God, a test that priveleges him, as it gives him an opportunity to prove his resilience. Ultimately his affair with a younger man is rather more serious than simply a rebellion against an oppressive ultra-orthodox society.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Scenes from a Chinese milk bar
- Vin Maskell
- 31 March 2010
12 Comments
The Chinese couple had kept the shop going for ten years at a time when milk bars have been disappearing off the map. In my two decades in this suburb about eight corner shops have closed. And in the past three years Peter's milk bar, like his wife, was just hanging on.
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INTERNATIONAL

Chile's tremble
- Antonio Castillo
- 04 March 2010
7 Comments
Concepción, the second largest city in Chile, was worst affected by the weekend's earthquake. I was there little more than a month ago, visiting old comrades and my sister and her family. At the moment of writing I have been unable to contact them.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Today I desire less debris
- Marlene Marburg
- 16 February 2010
It is harder to write poetry .. when you are rich ... People in Haiti are dead .. dying, grieving, .. starving and hunting for loved ones, .. and if they have the energy .. looting the few things left. .. Do I really believe .. that mine is yours, my friend?
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AUSTRALIA

Back to the future for Indigenous youth
- Brian McCoy
- 06 July 2009
4 Comments
Young people ideally move into adulthood with pride and a sense of generational history. Identity is not just about becoming an individual, but knowing, valuing and embodying one's ancestral past. But moving forwards while looking backwards can be risky.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Denying the divine
- Adrian Gibb
- 23 April 2008
11 Comments
Through a scientific imbalance, I, and about ten percent of my world's populace, am unable to experience anything beyond normal human intellectual capacity. We became mediators, lecturers, scientists and editors — anything which required a complete lack of spiritual moral parameters.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

9/11 movie more glossy heroism than gritty realism
- Tim Kroenert
- 16 October 2006
1 Comment
Among recent documentaries commemorating the fifth anniversary of September 11, one stood out as particularly harrowing. 9/11—The Falling Man makes a fascinating counterpoint to World Trade Center, the first mainstream feature film to turn its eye to that fateful day.
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AUSTRALIA

Compassion requires more courage than war
- Katharina Weiss
- 07 August 2006
To fight wars we have to deny our own and others’ humanity. Israeli Defence Force commander General Dan Halutz was asked about his feelings when he piloted a plane dropping bombs on people in Gaza in 2002. His reply was that he felt 'a light bump to the plane'.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

On your bus
- Grant Morgan, Anthony Ham, Matthew Albert, Steven Columbus
- 07 July 2006
On your bus, Kerala leads, Sudan in Australia, Coming to terms.
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INFORMATION

Strange times
- Michael McKernan, Peter Pierce, Liz Curran, Peter Seidel, Frank Fisher
- 05 July 2006
Strange times, Cooling off in Tasmania, Where now for reconciliation?, Tides of history, Being scared of GM
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ENVIRONMENT

The things that divide us
- Anthony Ham
- 05 July 2006
Australia is in a one-in-a-century drought. In India, water is always scarce and the conflict over its management rife—a precise illustration of what not to do. Maybe we can learn?
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Of bullocks and bulldust
- John Sendy
- 26 June 2006
1 Comment
John Sendy revisits Joseph Furphy’s Such is Life
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