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Hooked on monogamy
- Jen Vuk
- 10 August 2011
6 Comments
New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan said recently that sanctioning gay marriage could lead to demands for the legalisation of polygamy. US author Sidney Callahan argues that, gay or straight, we all strive for 'pair bonding that contributes to equality and unity'.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Kids learning violence
- Tim Kroenert
- 31 March 2011
1 Comment
Christian defeats a bully using violence more severe than that which he suffered. He learns a frightening lesson about the capacity of violence to still conflicts. Casey Heynes, whose videoed retaliation against a school bully became a hit on YouTube, can probably relate.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Testing marriage
- Tim Kroenert
- 16 February 2011
1 Comment
Becca is appalled by the insufficiency of religious platitudes. Howie's emotions are unbridled and barely tempered, emerging as a lunging stallion roar. Separated by the obelisk of grief for their dead son, they seek solace individually.
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Life after suicide
- Peter Kirkwood
- 19 November 2010
1 Comment
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Life after suicide
- Peter Kirkwood
- 19 November 2010
Around 2000 Australians die every year from suicide. Dr Diana Sands guides members of her support groups as they metaphorically try on the shoes of a loved one who has suicided, walk in their shoes, and finally take off the shoes and say goodbye.
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AUSTRALIA

Kristina Keneally's rational Catholic conscience
- Tony Smith
- 15 October 2010
39 Comments
Traditionally, Catholic-Labor links have been so strong that wits described the Church as 'the Labor Party at prayer'. NSW Labor Premier Kristina Keneally represents a growingly assertive Catholicism which might be described as progressive, rational and independent.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Sharing the selfish illness
- Helen Brake
- 15 September 2010
12 Comments
As I grated the sandpaper across my face, the skin rubbed away but didn't bleed as I expected. Gooey plasma softened the paper's rigid surface. I picked another piece and tried again. Three weeks later I was diagnosed with major depressive disorder.
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AUSTRALIA

Football racism evokes ugly past
- Myrna Tonkinson
- 18 June 2010
14 Comments
Timana Tahu left the NSW State of Origin team after racist comments by assistant coach Andrew Johns. AFL heavyweight Mal Brown described Aboriginal players as cannibals. Why is it an insult to call someone black?
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AUSTRALIA

The Budget of social exclusion
- Frank Quinlan
- 12 May 2010
23 Comments
If a 'fiscally responsible Budget' can increase spending on Australia's representatives in elite sports by $237 million, it is hard to imagine that there is not room somewhere for our unemployed to eat a little better.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Music as religion
- Tim Kroenert
- 29 April 2010
3 Comments
Fingers, impossibly nimble, weave melody amid the dappled tips of sunny seas. Rush it to foamy, gushing peaks. Drop it amid thundering, vigorous rolls. Set it adrift once more, wet, bruised and quietly thrilled. It's the moment when God arrives, whatever it is you understand 'god' to be.
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AUSTRALIA

Palestine's heavy metal revolution
- James M. Dorsey
- 19 April 2010
5 Comments
Boosted by technologies that facilitate mass distribution without government control, the heavy metal and hip-hop music scene in the Middle East recalls the role music played in the velvet revolution that toppled regimes in Eastern Europe and Indonesia.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

The ant's prayer
- Vinay Verma
- 23 March 2010
As angels of innocence cast .. Imperfect shadows .. God idioms are intoned .. Perfunctory .. As morning ablutions .. Disciples invoking pacts of compromise .. Offering souls and solutions .. Silent in their conspiracy
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