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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brendan Doyle, Ben Walter and Rob Wallis
- 28 May 2013
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With every boat that sinks our grief's untold; the smugglers just don't care they're overfull; So join the queue, no need to bribe with gold; and get a proper visa in Kabul.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 03 April 2012
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In the south people love to compare Sydney and Melbourne Catholicism, as if there is no other. But no one does Catholicism quite as ecumenically, quite as incarnationally, and quite as laidback as in Queensland. There is something distinctive and admirable in it, and it is summed up in the life of Fr John Dobson.
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AUSTRALIA
- Catherine Marshall
- 22 December 2011
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My daughter, at seven, imagines a Barbie doll that does not exist, one that has 'a very cool gun and real lipstick'. My son, at five, asks for 'a Jeep, a hot air balloon and real false teeth'. These preserved Christmas lists record my children's growth more accurately than their physical measurements.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
In the tiny church built of ecumenical brick, with barely any aesthetic pleasure to distract from the humility of the message, Patrick and his cohort in both the earlier football match and in the communion to come, sat quietly, though with the telltale legs of novices swinging restlessly under the front pew.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Vin Maskell
- 09 February 2011
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After she died — her mind went first, then the rest — he moved across town, where he lived in a different type of street. A busy street with traffic and noise. No place for a street party. Once a year, though, he returns to see the next generation of neighbours. New leaves on old trees.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Adrian Phoon
- 08 July 2010
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The toys are brought to a landfill, where they are
dragged towards an incinerator, a fiery pit equivalent to any
vision of Hell confected by Dante. It's harrowing stuff for an animated feature, but you can never tell what the toys find more threatening: death
itself or the despair of becoming obsolete.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 13 February 2008
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This week we heard that the Ten Network has snared the rights to the forthcoming Indian Premier League series from Channel Nine. For three decades, broadcast cricket has been synonymous with Nine, which has delivered many advances including 'stump cam'.
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AUSTRALIA
- Andrew Hamilton
- 11 June 2006
It is a minor paradox of war that in film clips, the politicians and generals who confer about present wars seem larger than life, whereas in the footage of past wars they look shrivelled—diminished by the destruction they have abetted.
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RELIGION
- Richard Leonard
- 29 May 2006
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A good read, a tedious film, a historical mess, and great publicity for the Catholic Church. Richard Leonard looks at The Da Vinci Code.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 25 April 2006
In a life liberally studded with trips in cabs, I have found cabbies to be in general an amiable lot.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Kerry Leves
- 21 April 2006
Poem by Kerry Leves
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CONTRIBUTORS
Megan Graham is a freelance writer, journalist, and occasional blogger based in Melbourne. She is passionate about writing that humanises and empowers people, particularly women. She won Eureka Street's 2013 Margaret Dooley Award for Young Writers and has been published in Crosslight newspaper and Adios Barbie. Follow Megan on Twitter @secondhandstori
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