Keywords: The House On The Hill
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 04 February 2010
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The blurring of right and wrong in a world where civil
structures have disintegrated, is
seen in the Man's escalating wildness; his desperation to preserve the life of his son, and his conviction that
the end of survival justifies a growing list of dubious means.
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EUREKA STREET TV
- Peter Kirkwood
- 20 November 2009
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ABC1's The Long Journey Home is based on a book written by the best known alumnus of Fairbridge Farm, David Hill. After the heightened emotions surrounding Kevin Rudd’s apology to the Forgotten Australians, there is talk of forgiveness and compensation.
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AUSTRALIA
- John Honner
- 10 November 2009
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A sports hall in Berry, NSW, has won a coveted international architecture prize. This has a special significance for this month's Federal Government apology to the 'Forgotten Australians' who suffered abuse in institutional care.
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ENVIRONMENT
- Greg Foyster
- 28 October 2009
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This Friday, proponents of clean renewable energy will gather to try to rally government support for Solar Systems, Australia's world-leading developer of solar energy technology, which went into receivership in September. They face an uphill battle.
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RELIGION
- Tony Doherty
- 14 October 2009
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We entered the house expecting the warm hospitality usually offered to weary pilgrims. But a small ancient man
barred our way and attacked us with a venom normally reserved for
carriers of some ancient plague, snarling like an enraged guard dog.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- John Kinsella
- 14 July 2009
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I planted that sapling
in ash-soil, with acoustics of the lost tree resounding .. in the now wet and malleable earth, hidden rocks emerge easily and lay claim to surface.
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AUSTRALIA
- Shane Howard with Regina Lane
- 02 July 2009
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Five generations ago, rural Irish migrants built and paid for St Brigid's church at Crossley in south-west Victoria. Today, the people of Crossley and Killarney are fighting to save the gathering place from private ownership.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 14 May 2009
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Good
intentions are not enough. Gone should be the days when Aboriginals are marginal to the corridors of power. Perhaps it will not be until we have seen the first Aboriginal Prime
Minister that agitators for Indigenous justice will be vindicated.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Garry Kinnane
- 04 March 2009
6 Comments
In 1972 Auden abandoned New York to live at Christ Church College, Oxford. He was given a cottage in the grounds, and was expected to give occasional talks and be available to
students. It turned out not to be the success everyone had hoped for.
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INFORMATION
- Brian Haill
- 01 December 2008
It's close on a quarter of a century ago that I first became enmeshed in the world of HIV/AIDS. I found myself labelled an 'activist', catapulted into confronting my church over its attitude to condoms. Last week saw a return to the beginning.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Paddy O'Reilly
- 05 September 2008
The stories rub class against
class, age against youth, the past against the present. The collection is imbued with old-fashioned charm and a postcolonial awareness of what damage old-fashioned England once
wrought.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
The supernatural elements in The Orphanage provide an allegory for Laura's grief for her lost son. But it's the tangible, human elements that will leave both mind and gut churning late into the night. Be prepared to lose sleep.
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