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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Cricket King's saintly gestures

    • Tony Smith
    • 18 September 2006

    The reactions of many Australians to the deaths of a crocodile showman and a racing car driver suggest that media images canonise our secular saints. Meanwhile the fictional Chris Anderson's love for his family and friends, and his integrity and humility, are very appealing characteristics.

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  • RELIGION

    Fine lines

    • Andrew Hamilton
    • 09 July 2006

    It is a truism that most people today are intensely interested in spirituality, less interested in religion, and little interested in churches.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    The word shifter

    • Penelope Buckley
    • 08 July 2006

    Penelope Buckley reflects on Aileen Kelly’s City and Stranger.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Of bullocks and bulldust

    • John Sendy
    • 26 June 2006
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    John Sendy revisits Joseph Furphy’s Such is Life

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Heavy hand

    • Lia Kent
    • 18 June 2006

    Nation-building is a fraught and messy business. Michael Ignatieff knows that well.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Just neighbours

    • Madeleine Byrne
    • 27 April 2006

    Madeleine Byrne explores the boundaries, both geographical and moral, between Australia and Timor-Leste.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Tour buzz

    • Brian Matthews
    • 24 April 2006

    Sleazily located above an adult supermarket in St Kilda, Icon Tours was uncorrupted by its neighbour and fully bore out its claim to provide something unique among day tours.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Identity: Stranger in a strange land

    • David Glanz
    • 24 April 2006

    The ‘right to return’ to Israel does not mean that all Jews visiting there for the first time will like the reality they find.

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  • RELIGION

    When the walls come down

    • Richard Rymarz
    • 24 April 2006

    A reflection on contemporary Christianity

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  • RELIGION

    Servant of silence

    • Andrew Hamilton
    • 21 April 2006

    Theology dances awkwardly with silence. The natural business of theology is to put together words about God. But the better the words, the more clearly inadequate they are to their subject and the sooner they run out into silence. 

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    The greatest game

    • Peter Rodgers
    • 20 April 2006

    Peter Rodgers on where cricket is heading.

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