Keywords: Australian Fashion
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ARTS AND CULTURE
One time we were in a meeting when a very important person proposed a very stupid idea. We knew our uncivil friend would pop a gasket, and he did, albeit in memorably incisive fashion. The silence that followed was a remarkable sound.
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AUSTRALIA
- Madeleine Hamilton
- 27 March 2008
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This year marks the 60th anniversary of the first showing of Christian Dior's New Look fashion designs in Sydney. After years of wartime material restraints the New Look offered Australian women a fresh way of expressing their individuality and sensuality through fashion.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Margaret Simons
- 20 February 2008
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The onset of blue-green algae caused the Murray's smell to change from rank to fetid. Halting the damage to the Murray-Darling basin is essential to our
financial survival, yet it may be that it is impossible to stop the
damage without also causing critical economic damage. — Eureka Street, March 1993
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Alexandra Coghlan
- 13 December 2007
The recurrence of the ‘big' issues of politics, religion, and sexuality in Best Australian Essays 2007 is predictable enough. But the essays become more interesting when we see particular trends, such as surveillance and the individual's right to privacy, emerge in each.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 12 December 2007
Eighteen months on from the 2006 unrest, Australian and New Zealand troops are still patrolling the streets of Dili. There has been no imperative for them to exchange berets and operate under UN auspices as occurred with the original INTERFET engagement.
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AUSTRALIA
- John Warhurst
- 25 July 2007
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Much of the flesh of an election year grows on a skeleton made up of public opinion polls. But they are only as good as the interpretation that accompanies them. Sometimes commentators see only what they want to see.
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INFORMATION
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 13 June 2007
Romulus, My Father should be remembered as one of the great Australian films of 2007. It should also be the film that cements Eric Bana’s place as a serious actor of considerable ability.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 18 May 2007
Your common wombat probably wouldn’t appreciate being described as a ‘lumbering marsupial’ but truth will out.
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AUSTRALIA
Mr Howard is a master of talking over people he doesn’t want to hear from. By going on talkback, politicians can appear to be available in an open and unstructured forum, reaching out over the heads of the media to constituents.
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INTERNATIONAL
If you look closely at the laws in Ireland 200 years ago, you will see that they denied to Irish Catholics all the civil and political, economic, social and cultural rights we aim to protect under the proposed Australian Human Rights Act.
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AUSTRALIA
The construction of new stadiums has been accompanied by increased surveillance and control over the spectator space. Entertainment organised by the stadium managers, which they and their sponsors can make money from, is OK – but spontaneous entertainment is forbidden.
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