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ARTS AND CULTURE

Redemptive Romulus a film for the ages
- Tim Kroenert
- 13 June 2007
Romulus, My Father should be remembered as one of the great Australian films of 2007. It should also be the film that cements Eric Bana’s place as a serious actor of considerable ability.
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RELIGION

Book Review: Frank Brennan answers atheist manifestos
- Frank Brennan
- 05 June 2007
6 Comments
There can be no peace unless believers and atheists share an equal place in the public square of a free and democratic society.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Acting all raucous
- Daniel Donahoo, Tania Andrusiak
- 18 May 2007
Disability is sometimes a matter of perspective
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AUSTRALIA

The virtue of having a go
- Michael Mullins
- 15 May 2007
2 Comments
Martin Flanagan of The Age links the sometimes defiant spirit of having a go with “common goodness”. He says this is found in the midst of wars and despair and, most importantly, “the blindness that flows from political and religious ideology”.
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RELIGION

The cost of our friendship with the United States
- James Massola
- 02 April 2007
2 Comments
Jesuit peace activist John Dear is continuing the tradition of civil disobedience pioneererd by the Berrigan brothers in the 1960s. A month in Australia has convinced him that we want to give up our freedoms in order to become part of the new American Empire.
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RELIGION

Capitalism's ingenious immunity to the guilty conscience
- Scott Stephens
- 27 February 2007
9 Comments
Every attempt to curb capitalism's voracious appetite, to ‘humanize’ its world-wide dominion, to place the world economy back in the service of the greater good, and thus temper its lust for unregulated growth, has not only failed, but has been assimilated.
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RELIGION

Emotional and intellectual tensions rising in cloning debate
- Frank Brennan
- 30 October 2006
1 Comment
As senators reflected on the role of religious thinking in discussion of embryonic cloning, Senator Kay Patterson responded testily to Bishop Anthony Fisher: "Dear me, I might be excommunicated!" This week, the Australian Catholic University brings together two Catholic medical scientists, and two Catholic ethicists, with opposing views.
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AUSTRALIA

News from everywhere
- Kathryn O’Connor, Anthony Ham
- 09 July 2006
MedicarePlus | Global village
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AUSTRALIA

Carmen rolls the dice
- Jack Waterford
- 07 July 2006
Carmen Lawrence sports too many scars and has too much history, not least the undying enmity of Brian Burke’s old mates, ever to contemplate a future leadership role in the Labor Party.
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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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ARTS AND CULTURE

Film reviews
- Juliette Hughes, Allan James Thomas, Alex McDermott, Tim Metherall, Morag Fraser
- 04 July 2006
Reviews of the films Talk to Her; The Pianist; Ned Kelly; Sur Mes Lèvres; and The Hours.
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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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