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Scene from an Athens newspaper office
- Jena Woodhouse
- 16 October 2012
6 Comments
The pagemakers wear masks of chronic weariness, and stubbled cheeks: stoics conditioned by a heartless press ... Smoke rises from untidy desks as from a ship that's sinking fast, taking all hands on its burning deck ...
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AUSTRALIA

A temporary halt to Grexit and Drachmageddon
- Gillian Bouras
- 20 June 2012
6 Comments
Greeks expect the positive outcome of last weekend's election to be weak and short-lived. Austerity has brought predictable unemployment, homelessness, and a rising suicide rate. The elderly are reminded of the fear and the helplessness that accompanied the hideous years of the Civil War and the dictatorship of the Colonels.
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AUSTRALIA

Economic hard times even tougher for refugees
- Andrew Hamilton
- 19 June 2012
11 Comments
The readiness of developed nations to help and receive refugees and asylum seekers has come under greater strain. Xenophobia has intensified in Europe, where Greece's Golden Dawn party threatened to expel migrants from schools and hospitals if elected.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Voyeur God comes to sordid Sydney
- Tim Kroenert
- 01 December 2011
9 Comments
Shay has escaped from her abusive stepfather into a life of prostitution. Holly has accumulated wealth as a high-class call girl. Their work is more dangerous than either had imagined. For them, if there is a God, he simply watches, rather than watching over.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Shoulder angels
- Diane Fahey
- 14 December 2010
3 Comments
The one on the left, wearing crimson tights, promises the world, probes with his pitchfork for hidden desires, sports a prehensile tail able to wrap around your mind ... his counterpart, in snowy alb, meditates on your right shoulder, sending into your soul's bloodstream a thirst for peace ...
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The spider-web fisherman
- Arnold Zable
- 04 November 2009
Observing this unique means of fishing, I realised an alternative intelligence was at work, born of the islanders' relationship to the environment. Ironically, this island is one of a growing number facing inundation by rising waters due to climate change.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Economists and other prophets
- Brian Matthews
- 12 August 2009
3 Comments
Economists are often, sometimes spectacularly, wrong. But like all prophets, they are unabashed by and unpunished for abject failures. They pop up from each new set of ruins, surprised yet unrepentant, princes of a plethora of evanescent predictions.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Godiva exposed
- Liam Guilar
- 25 November 2008
I mounted up and rode ... into a dream of silent shuttered houses ... I waited for an outraged God to strike me down ... for flaunting breasts and pubic hair
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Different rememberings of the Battle of Long Tan
- Christine Gillespie
- 07 August 2006
2 Comments
It’s hard to put the dead to rest. 18 August 2006 is the 40th anniversary of the Battle of Long Tan, in which 18 Australian and more than 245 Viet Cong soldiers were killed. There’s an invitation to go to Perth where they’re naming streets in a new housing development after six soldiers who did not return.
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INFORMATION

Peace drums in Europe
- Michael McKernan, Frank O’Shea, Mark Deasey, Morag Fraser, John Carmody, Brigid Hains, Pip Robertson
- 03 July 2006
Peace drums, Irish visitor, Travellers’ tales, Epiphanies, Deep structure, Counter-terrorism kits, Circling the square
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Fuel to burn
- Brian Matthews
- 05 June 2006
As far as events in the Place de l’Horloge are concerned, Madame Gauguin is the one who knows all.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Plus ça change
- Brian Matthews
- 29 April 2006
When February dawned last year, I had been living in a small Provençal village for about a month.
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Keywords: Golden Dawn