Keywords: Getting A Walk In
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Doyle
- 19 November 2008
4 Comments
When you get hit by a bullet you never ever forget what it feels like. It feels like you got hit with the biggest rock there ever was. We were going along in the boat and we went around a beach where there was a battle, and a slug hit me in the armpit and knocked me right over.
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AUSTRALIA
- John Honner
- 10 November 2008
3 Comments
My favourite banker was Peter May, graceful batsman and cautious
captain of the English cricket team in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
He once broke his umbrella on the way to work, playing an imaginary
cover drive at an imaginary fast bowler.
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EUREKA STREET/ READER'S FEAST AWARD
- Maddy Oliver
- 27 August 2008
10 Comments
The power differential between helper and the helped is insidious. 'Lady Bountiful' wants credit for giving without thought of return, but can't help counting her sacrifices. Refugees can spot threats to their privacy and self-respect from a mile off.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 14 August 2008
What happens when a renegade architect goes head to head with the US government in an effort to gain permission to build houses out of garbage?
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AUSTRALIA
- John Honner
- 12 August 2008
21 Comments
Imagine a young person in State care trying to access the rental market with no money or employment history. Beryl the Chook was last in the pecking order, but through a 'constructive alliance' her strengths began to overcome her defecits.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Jennifer Compton
- 05 August 2008
2 Comments
He told me it was called the Grievance Room. I looked askance ... He offered me the use of their Spirituality Centre. I declined. But made sure of their Smoke Zone.
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RELIGION
The situation of Christians in Bethlehem is difficult, and many are leaving. It is hard to shed tears for Jewish victims of the Holocaust while living under Israeli military occupation, and it is equally difficult being part of a Christian minority in a predominately Middle Eastern Muslim society.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 13 December 2007
In the world of popular music, the transition from intimate theatre or festival gigs, to stadium rock shows, indicates the move from an authentic emphasis on great music, to 'music as spectacle', or pure commerce. It appears Missy Higgins has reached this point.
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MARGARET DOOLEY AWARD
- Michelle Coram
- 12 December 2007
9 Comments
The Camino de Santiago in Spain is over a thousand years old and trodden by tens of thousands of pilgrims each year. But for this pilgrim it was simply a cheap holiday, a sure way to get fit. She wasn't expecting any miracles.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 19 September 2007
1 Comment
Digital photography allows the easy recording of almost every moment of our lives. Putting to your dog the proposition 'The unexamined life is not worth living', he would look at you with an expression that respectfully suggested, 'Human beings are so dumb'.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 04 September 2006
At Midnight Mass and blissed-out on the music playing on his Walkman, the newly atheist Zac daydreams that he’s floating up to the rafters, taking flight as the congregation below 'ooh-oohs' to the refrain of the Stones’ 'Sympathy For the Devil'. More than escapism, the scene reflects Zac’s unconscious desire to transcend the natural order of his world.
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AUSTRALIA
- David Nichols and John Wiseman
- 26 June 2006
Community Development projects can make a difference
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