Keywords: Sex And The City
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Margaret McCarthy | Jennifer Compton
- 09 August 2011
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There are weary smiling workers recovering from a Thursday night event. There are men planning this, the second weekend, with their family. There are married couples — one in the throes of giving up hope of being touched, the other working hard to ensure the weekend is chaste.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 04 August 2011
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We passed Paul's house each day on the walk to primary school. One day on a whim we knocked and invited him to join us. Once out of sight around the corner we proceeded to berate him, and to rough him up. We thought it was such fun that we did it again the next day. Kids can be cruel. I'm ashamed to say I was.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 18 July 2011
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When I appeared on Q&A with Christopher Hitchens, a young man asked whether we can 'ever hope to live in a truly secular society' while the religious continue to 'affect political discourse and decision making' on euthanasia, same-sex unions and abortion. Hitchens was simpaticao. I was dumbstruck.
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AUSTRALIA
Far from being demonised, people living rough on the streets should be respected and admired for their tenacity and inventiveness. This week a group of business and community leaders will seek to learn from the people who live in the guts of our greatest social problem.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 09 March 2011
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There are homosexual persons who enter into loving, faithful and committed relationships. It is difficult to characterise a law that gives non-discriminatory protection to such couples as 'so harmful to the common good as to be gravely immoral' as Benedict has previously done.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 04 November 2010
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Cardinal Pell, with whom I have voiced disagreement, preached superbly at the mass of thanksgiving after the canonisation of Mary MacKillop. 'She does not deter us from struggling to follow her.' As we wrestle with the common good, let's make a place for all our fellow citizens.
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RELIGION
- Paul Collins
- 11 October 2010
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Robertson may be a celebrity QC, but historian he is certainly not. He touts the notion that the Vatican is not a real state and that as a consequence Benedict XVI should not be granted immunity from prosecution for his alleged responsibility in covering up clerical sexual abuse.
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AUSTRALIA
- Catherine Marshall
- 11 January 2010
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Whether grotesquely augmented, stricken with cancer or tumbling
unbidden from the frocks of soccer wives, breasts guarantee rapt
attention.
But never are these appendages more hotly debated than when they are being used according to their very purpose and design. October 2009
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Ruby Hamad
- 27 November 2009
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It may be a box office boon, but critics have slammed the Twilight series, and feminists complain that lead character Bella is a subservient drip and the vampire she loves, Edward, is a stalking patriarch. Why are smart films for women in such short supply?
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AUSTRALIA
- Catherine Marshall
- 19 October 2009
20 Comments
Whether grotesquely augmented, stricken with cancer or tumbling
unbidden from the frocks of soccer wives, breasts guarantee rapt
attention.
But never are these appendages more hotly debated than when they are being used according to their very purpose and design.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Gillian Bouras
- 10 September 2009
3 Comments
The first known suicide document is an Egyptian New
Kingdom papyrus entitled 'Dialogue of a World-Weary Man with his
Ba-Soul'.
In 1996 my sister Jacqui killed herself. Three years later our cousin Andrew did the same thing. Suicide has always been part of the human condition.
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AUSTRALIA
- Frank Bowden
- 13 July 2009
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What we call people can determine the way we treat them. At one hospital in the 1980s, the rank odour of urine, tobacco and grime that characterised some homeless patients led to them being referred to as 'dunnies'.
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