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How not to make a toast
- Brian Doyle
- 23 September 2009
My mother-in-law stood up on the night before her daughter married me, held her glass aloft, and sighed, 'Let's just hope this one comes off'. Some of the best toasts I ever heard were from children: 'Here's to all mum's husbands past and present!' said one girl, aged 11.
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Agnostic in bed with science and religion
- Jen Vuk
- 24 July 2009
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Nikki Gemmell, an agnostic, isn't afraid to confront uncomfortable themes in order to glean a glimmer of understanding. Religion and science may not have the selling power of sex, but each have indelibly shaped individuals as well as history.
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EUREKA STREET TV

Winton's numinous Breath
- Peter Kirkwood
- 17 July 2009
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A few weeks ago Tim Winton's Breath was awarded this year's Miles Franklin Literary Award. This video trailer is a poetic combination of strong images, haunting music, quotes, and eloquent interview with the author.
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EUREKA STREET TV

New ethics of new media
- Peter Kirkwood
- 02 July 2009
The video featured on this page is a substandard, pirated copy of an artist's work, posted on YouTube. For most of us, it's the only means of seeing some of the most celebrated work of one of Australia's leading emerging artists.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

The ultrasound
- David McCooey
- 23 June 2009
Your ribs cast a tent of .. light, dramatic and impossible .. your bifurcated brain .. the chambers of your heart .. your spine, your face — surprisingly familiar and haunting
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Prayer for a drunk dad
- Brian Doyle
- 22 April 2009
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At 1am I noticed that the dad of a friend of mine was in the corner drinking hard and telling funny stories. He got drunker and drunker until, at about 3am, he started shouting and cursing and some glass smashed. Finally he fell down.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

The dead walk among the living
- Barry Gittins
- 20 November 2008
There are no soothing words to truly quieten deep pain, but Fugitive Pieces shows redemption is a possibility, even in the face of undying memories.
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AUSTRALIA

Life of a perpetual migrant
- Gillian Bouras
- 28 October 2008
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The Rudd Government's rationale for cutting migration to Australia is economic, rather than humane. Migrants are forever tapping at the window of the past, unable to ever truly go home.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Haunted by the ghosts of SIEV-X
- Rochelle Siemienowicz
- 12 June 2008
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Hope documents the fate of the people-smuggling vessel SIEV-X and the 353 people who died when it sank en route to Australia. The film suggests a parliamentary inquiry is essential into the Howard Government's handling of the tragedy.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Spanish chiller evokes ghosts of grief
- Tim Kroenert
- 29 May 2008
The supernatural elements in The Orphanage provide an allegory for Laura's grief for her lost son. But it's the tangible, human elements that will leave both mind and gut churning late into the night. Be prepared to lose sleep.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Love, lies and cholera
- Rochelle Siemienowicz
- 24 April 2008
The Painted Veil explores the painful dynamics of an unhappily married couple and the broader social issues that impact on their union. Filmed entirely in China, it depicts a country boiling with internal conflict, and a growing resentment of the colonial presence.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Sarajevo cellist's celebration of humanity
- Andrena Jamieson
- 14 March 2008
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For 22 days, Vedran Smailovic played the cello in the ruined Sarajevo market place to honour the 22 people killed there in mortar fire. The Cellist of Sarajevo is a noble book.
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