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Keywords: Taste

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Empathetic and provocative parts of the sum

    • Tim Kroenert
    • 27 June 2007

    Multi-story films have a special power. They examine the lives of seemingly unrelated people whose fates become potently, albeit incidentally, connected. But sometimes a set of strong short films does not add up to a powerful feature.

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  • ENVIRONMENT

    Clever Kiwis

    • Tim Thwaites
    • 18 May 2007

    The Kiwis have managed to stamp their name all over a fruit that is not even native to their land.

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  • CONTRIBUTORS

    Andrew West

    • Andrew West
    • 17 May 2007

    Andrew West teaches journalism at the University of Canberra. A long-time newspaper journalist, he is also the author of two books, the latest being Inside The Lifestyles of the Rich and Tasteful, a look at class and politics in Australia.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    The storycatcher charged with finding stories that matter

    • Brian Doyle
    • 15 May 2007
    5 Comments

    Brian Doyle said 'no' to an editor's request in the aftermath of September 11: "The only proper thing in your mouth at such a time is prayer." His kids had to reflect back to him: "Well, dad, you are always lecturing us about how if God gives you a talent and you don’t use that talent that’s a sin."

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Film locates warmth in Stasi darkness

    • Tim Kroenert
    • 02 April 2007
    2 Comments

    The Lives of Others is part of the recent wave of acclaimed German films focusing on the country’s troubled 20th century, while simultaneously seeking out stories of hope, inspiration or simple humanity.

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  • RELIGION

    'Hate the sin, love the sinner' more sentimental than moral?

    • Andrew Hamilton
    • 27 February 2007
    19 Comments

    It sounds nice. Until we begin to name names. Adolf Hitler, Jozef Stalin, Pol Pot, Osama Bin Laden. These are monsters. To suggest that God loves them is to sentimentalise God, and to remove any firm basis for morality.

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  • RELIGION

    Vatican II rolled back by the restoration of Latin Mass?

    • Andrew Hamilton
    • 12 February 2007
    54 Comments

    Andrew Hamilton SJ reflects on the rights, wrongs and theological difficulties involved in re-instituting the Latin Mass.

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  • INTERNATIONAL

    There's no bacon in Adjumani

    • Bryan Pipins
    • 23 December 2006

    An Australian aid worker escapes the Sharia prohibition of pork and wine when he moves from Darfur to Northern Uganda. But his arrival coincides with the outbreak of swine fever and the drying up of the bacon supply.

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