Keywords: Sunday Afternoon
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Andrew Hamilton
- 20 May 2009
10 Comments
I only met Bud Tingwell once. Like so many others, I went away the
better for the brief encounter. But the meeting also led me to ask
questions about what matters, and how we should nurture it in
Australian society.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Susan Hurley and Grace Yee
- 05 May 2009
4 Comments
even if we spent the next hundred years .. carving roast lamb on Sundays .. buttering white bread .. and boiling Brussels sprouts .. we could never be them .. nor they us
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MEDIA
- Peter Kirkwood
- 06 March 2009
11 Comments
This week Compass celebrates its 21st birthday. In the fickle, faddish world of television that's quite an achievement. It's ironic that serious coverage of religion is being celebrated on ABC TV, while being purged from radio.
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AUSTRALIA
- Scott Stephens
- 17 October 2007
11 Comments
The great hypocrisy of Kevin Rudd’s style of politics is that he launched his challenge for the Labor leadership twelve months ago with an appeal to Dietrich Bonhoeffer. One cannot help but be sickened by his recent rebuke of the politically and morally courageous Robert McClelland, for expressing unbridled opposition to capital punishment in Indonesia.
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AUSTRALIA
Those of us who played school or local footy in our youth remember bitterly cold days, ankle-deep mud and finding it difficult to tell team mates from opposition through the layers of mud caked on jumpers. My twelve year old has already played for more than five years, but has not experienced one of those afternoons.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 16 April 2007
1 Comment
A desperate attempt to remember often produces fragments which are deeply moving and yet, at the same time, are parodies of the larger, solemn picture we cannot reassemble.
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AUSTRALIA
- John Button
- 16 April 2007
4 Comments
The social policies of the Australia's past worked reasonably well in protecting people from serious poverty. But now we require new policies providing a similar sense of security and contemporary relevance.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Doyle
- 22 January 2007
Dick Queen was released from captivity in July 1980 after the Iranians noticed he was getting really sick. He was one of 66 US hostages. Held at the height of summer, the Welcome Home Dick Queen party was everything you could ever want in a party.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Juliette Hughes
- 18 June 2006
Juliette Hughes talks to Gil Courtemanche about A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali
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AUSTRALIA
- Peter Pierce, David Glanz, Tony Brennan
- 13 June 2006
News from around the traps.
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INTERNATIONAL
- Peter Pierce
- 11 June 2006
Peter Pierce gets on the bus.
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AUSTRALIA
- Anthony Ham
- 30 April 2006
The legacy of Franco still looms large in the Spanish imagination
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