Keywords: Personal Narrative
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RELIGION
- Yannick Thoraval
- 14 December 2009
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When the Dalai Lama appeared, people flocked to
the stage, mobile phone cameras in hand, so
they too could own a piece of the Dalai Lama. As a measure of our cultural values, it is interesting to consider that the Dalai Lama has become a commodity.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Anthony Morris
- 19 November 2009
For once in the Coens’ recent comedies not everyone here is an idiot. But not being an idiot doesn’t help serious man Gopnik much, as his world continues
to spiral out of control.
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AUSTRALIA
- John Falzon
- 12 October 2009
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A Japanese homeless man was sending the most exquisite poems to a popular newspaper. There is nothing extraordinary about a person experiencing homelessness producing great poetry. Yet the scenario was regarded with astonishment.
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EDUCATION
- Ben Coleridge
- 30 September 2009
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After midnight, a group of international students, on a break from their night jobs as waiters, gather in a concrete stairwell and share their stories. Victorian premier John Brumby could learn a thing or two in that shabby stairwell.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Morag Fraser
- 10 July 2009
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McGirr seems more the magpie than the dormouse.
Even when he's curling up under his desk for a
post lunch kip you figure he's just giving his brain a few horizontal
minutes to organise and file the prodigious miscellany that
might otherwise leak out.
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RELIGION
- Andrew Hamilton
- 26 February 2009
22 Comments
The standard by which the most vocal Catholic Bishops judged Obama was his position on abortion, same sex marriages, and on the use of embryos for
research.
Obama has done the churches a favour by stealing their clothing.
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INTERNATIONAL
- Ben Coleridge
- 08 January 2009
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We were invited to share a meal with a Jewish family in Haifa. They welcomed us, and conversation was happy and inviting. Inevitably, the topic of conflict between Israel and Palestine reared its head. The atmosphere was transformed.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Chris Laming
- 07 November 2008
After nearly 40 years living in Indigenous communities, Brian McCoy manages to move through difficult terrain with the sure-footedness of an ancient Aboriginal tracker, and a confidence founded on years of sitting, listening, observing and quietly healing.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Ellena Savage
- 24 October 2008
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Marsden shows us Hamlet, Horatio and Ophelia as
children playing in the forest. They discover a dying badger and
agree it needs to be euthanised. Hamlet stalls.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Alexandra Coghlan
- 19 September 2008
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George Orwell and Evelyn Waugh occupied opposing aesthetic, philosophical and political poles. This conceptually agile book suggests they attained moral — if not spiritual — agreement from fundamentally opposing directions.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 04 September 2008
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In 1932, Todd Browning's Freaks sought to unsettle with the 'otherness' of its circus sideshow performer characters. A modern-day festival of films by and about people with disability emhasises not otherness, but humanity.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 17 April 2008
'Geo-politically astute' astrologer Jessica Murray believes revelations about China's violations against Tibet were prompted by astrological activity. For all their glib outlandishness and pseudo-scientific jargon, contemporary astrologers still fascinate.
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