Keywords: Flesh
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Damian Balassone
- 14 August 2018
2 Comments
Italians are a people of integrity / who celebrate a celibate celebrity.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
You are saying these people are not good enough because they come from elsewhere. You are saying their English is too creative. You are saying their growing numbers are a constant threat. You are saying they are never as good as you, genetically even. You are saying no.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Deanne Davies
- 16 July 2018
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Movements of time — Farewell to ancient granite. Greetings to gleaming streams and striating ribbons of colour.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 12 June 2018
With the downfall of white society, Thoomi and other Aboriginal people have abandoned their white-established communities, to return to the land. Through embracing ancient communal practices, they are proving far more resilient than their white counterparts. It is through them that Andy may ultimately discover the key to survival.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Barry Gittins
- 16 April 2018
2 Comments
Mohandas was a lawyer and a saviour, who took his beatin's and refused to eat; Mahatma won, the Union Jack was flaggin’, then one of his own dropped Gandhi at his feet. Jesus was a rabbi and a dreamer, who talked and stirred and gave up carpentry; Mary cried as spearpoint slid past femur, godson egressed into mystery.
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INTERNATIONAL
- Binoy Kampmark
- 15 March 2018
22 Comments
The rush to pay tribute to the cosmological colossus had an air of reflex about it. People paid respects, but many were not entirely sure why. He'd be missed, but in what way? Such is the way of celebrity, even those rare intellectual ones who burst the barrier of mass marketing. They become symbols in their time, ciphers of an age.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Grant Fraser
- 15 January 2018
7 Comments
On days like this, with blisters of tar already softening on the road, the nuns would curdle in the heat, shifting their stays by habit; sometimes, a bead of sweat would tempt their brows. Cooped in our desks, we steered our wilful pens over acreages of white pages.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 15 January 2018
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'Most of his life, Dr Johnson was a priest. Most of his life, he started his day sharing this bread of life with the world. He spent his childhood years here in Rocky, and he enjoyed his twilight years here. Rockhampton was home. Yet the cosmopolitan Grove was ever so much more at home in Rome, Paris or Sydney. And he meant that as no offence to the people of Rockhampton.' Homily delivered for the funeral of the 94 year old priest Grove Johnson.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Sean O'Carroll
- 11 December 2017
6 Comments
And hear God dropping pins, like tropical rain; torrential.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Barry Gittins
- 05 December 2017
1 Comment
2017 has seen us stirring a large pot of sticky issues with our 14-year-old daughter and 11-year-old son. Old-school parenting used to play nice, with no discussion of sexuality, religion or politics. While recognising the need to speak appropriately to the ages and maturity of our kids, I disagree with that convention.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Barnaby Smith and Earl Livings
- 03 November 2017
5 Comments
Think also of you, my father, tending to aircraft engines, or helping out on black-market runs in small cargo planes ... No action as such, though early in the war you crossed submarine-haunted seas on a troop ship, and patrolled a jungle aerodrome ...
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Wally Swist
- 02 October 2017
2 Comments
Even when I was a child, I had a distinct intuition that I had lived previous lives in which I was trying to enlighten others around me. I find most people are not receptive.
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