Eureka Street

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AUSTRALIA

Water, cool clear water
- Andrew Hamilton
- 08 June 2023
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Once viewed as the purest and most dependable, public tap water has faced a crisis of confidence due to the proliferation of bottled water and privatisation of water resources. Yet some maintain trust in public water, finding joy in drinking from public taps. Is this faith naive or a testament to the enduring belief in accessible water for all?
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Thinking through language: Editing poetry in Eureka Street
- Philip Harvey
- 02 February 2022
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I was invited to read the poetry at Eureka Street by Morag Fraser, sometime in the mists. She shouted me coffee at the Chinese place across Victoria Street from the magazine’s Richmond offices. That was nearly twenty years ago. As we crunched on fortune cookies, she popped the question. I’ve been editing poetry at Eureka Street ever since and have only chosen to let go of the job this summer.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Love's twists and turns
- Isabella Fels
- 28 July 2015
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How I love spending good quality time with you | You twist yourself around me giving me no space. I just want to hurl you into space | You're leaving, that's a fact, you said it straight out, with hardly any tact | I'm so alone being without you, I can still feel your glare | Thank you for giving me your love.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Using the Uber app in the city of brothers
- Tess Ashton
- 30 September 2014
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Our Uber appeared, a black Chevvy sculpture, a mere click of the fingers, from there to here, Denzel Washington, quipped hubby later was the driver, tall as a Pennsylvania night and lustrous as a god.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

My father's reign of mathematical precision
- Nick Gadd
- 16 July 2014
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He was a civil engineer. His professional life was a matter of mathematics and rules. Driving over a bridge, he’d quote the equations that ensured it was safe and stable. There were formulae in his domestic life too. Strict rules about stacking the dishwasher. Knives and forks pointed downwards, to avoid careless stabbings.
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RELIGION

Why I still love the Catholic Church
- Frank Brennan
- 15 July 2013
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Sean Faircloth, a US director of one of the Dawkins Institutes committed to atheism, raised what has already become a hoary old chestnut, the failure of Francis when in Argentina during the Dirty Wars to adequately defend his fellow Jesuits who were detained and tortured by unscrupulous soldiers. Being a Jesuit, I thought I was peculiarly well situated to respond. I confess to having got a little carried away.
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RELIGION

A funny thing happened on the way to the Vatican
- Richard Leonard
- 18 March 2013
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Francis stood there alone for the cruellest time. This is why members of royal families never appear on balconies alone: you can only wave so often. The Latin Americans went nuts. This guy is now the most famous Argentine ever, jumping Che, Evita and Maradona. Like 'Francis', they specialise in one-name handles too, but with friends like that ...
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Swimming in ink
- Vin Maskell
- 17 November 2010
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He is out there, a fellow water man, in the real dark, in the blue-black ink. I am just here in the shallows, for I am not a swimmer. I can neither see him nor hear him but know he is there because his bike and his clothes are in their usual spot by the footpath.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Book reviews
- Emily Millane, Beth Doherty, Chloe Wilson and Godfrey Moase
- 07 June 2006
Orwell’s Australia: From Cold War to Culture Wars | A Woman of Independence | The Man Who Knew Too Much
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Taxi cab tales
- Brian Matthews
- 14 May 2006
Cab cultures, not to mention the cabbies themselves, vary widely around the world. The Australian habit of hopping into the front seat with the hack and exchanging a cheery word is not generally welcome in Paris.
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