Keywords: Grand Final Man
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 28 September 2010
5 Comments
The election result shows that we the people are not happy and we are not confident about the way forward. Frank Brennan's Occasional Address at the Ecumenical Service for the Opening of Parliament, Wesley Church, National Circuit, Canberra.
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EUREKA STREET/ READER'S FEAST AWARD
My granddad was a fourth generation white Australian who worked with
sheep. I used to tell the
story that he was a small town racist who disliked Blacks, Catholics and
Jews. The punch line was that his daughter married a Fijian, his son
married a Jew and my dad married a Catholic.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Andrew Hamilton
- 30 April 2010
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Most of these could be described as love songs, even when they
focus on the land, on values or on people overwhelmed by misery. Although they tap deeply into the darkness of being human,
they are sweet and wistful in the hope that animates them.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brendan Ryan
- 07 October 2008
newspaper sub-headings — 'war on terror' .. each page apportioning blame .. every fridge doing its bit .. modest ceremonies for the men who jumped .. to enlist, to escape
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- B. N. Oakman
- 15 July 2008
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There's more silver in my teeth
.. than in our trophy cupboard .. Gravestones bear witness to our only premiership .. Every year we leap for the heavens
.. and flop in the gutter .. My football team is hopeless.
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AUSTRALIA
Northern Ireland has celebrated a year of normal political life. If St Paul got hit by a bolt of lightning, what persuaded Ian Paisley to change from a brand-name for bigotry into a reasonable human being?
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Mary Manning
- 16 April 2007
With characters at low points in their lives, Nights in the Asylum is saved from being a dark novel by moments where care and love bring positive change.
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AUSTRALIA
- Greg O'Kelly
- 02 April 2007
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Australia is ranked 29th internationally in the teaching of maths and science. To suggest that a national curriculum would raise such a ranking is a non sequitur. Curriculum is about content. It's standards that refer to performance measurement.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Richard Leonard
- 27 February 2007
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This is the full text of a speech given by Richard Leonard SJ in Queensland on spirituality and cinema, on the occasion of the opening of a new spirituality centre.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brendan Ryan
- 27 February 2007
1 Comment
Their flickering rises to a crescendo / unsettling, like a threat the ground / moves beneath me.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
Peter Rose on writing Rose Boys.
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INTERNATIONAL
- Dorothy Horsfield
- 07 July 2006
Dorothy Horsfield reports on the rebuilding of Afghanistan.
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