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RELIGION

Mabo 20 years on
- Frank Brennan
- 29 October 2012
'Though land rights and self-determination provide no utopia for the contemporary indigenous Australian community, they have belatedly put right an ancient wrong. The cost and inconvenience are unavoidable. Terra nullius is no longer an option.' Full text is from Fr Frank Brennan's keynote speech at the Central Queensland Law Association Conference, Mercure Capricorn Resort, Yeppoon, 27 October 2012.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Robert Hughes, the Australian exile who never left
- Binoy Kampmark
- 09 August 2012
3 Comments
Hughes was part of that movement of Australian artists and intellectuals — Germaine Greer and Clive James among them — who fled to Europe in the 1960s. Yet he was unable to escape the antipodean orbit he found arid and constricting. Australian reference points followed his pen with nagging persistence, a permanent shadowing.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Love with an open hand
- Various
- 13 March 2012
When I'm with you, I take off my rings, unlatch my watch and untie my hair. And it's so quiet, so so quiet, like a film without a soundtrack.
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MEDIA

Defending defence
- Jim Molan
- 21 April 2011
8 Comments
Defence has the same problem as society in relation to young people's attitudes to sex, alcohol and social media. I wonder if we handle it better than most. The firestorm of ignorant criticism of the ADF and its 'culture' and leadership was mostly undeserved and could be counterproductive.
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AUSTRALIA

Why we're slow to help Pakistan
- Michael Mullins
- 30 August 2010
4 Comments
The Australian public is being delivered a profoundly misleading subliminal message that, because the Taliban are active in the region, they are tied up in providing relief for flood victims. We need to forget politics for a while and think about the part we can play in helping Pakistanis through their crisis.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

The gospel according to John Hughes
- Tim Kroenert
- 13 August 2009
4 Comments
I don't use the word gospel lightly. Here was a secular film that extrapolated, in teenagers' language, the notion of 'love thy neighbour'. Filmmaker John Hughes died last week. The Breakfast Club remains his masterpiece.
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AUSTRALIA

Obama and Baz Luhrmann's Australia
- Brian McCoy
- 23 January 2009
4 Comments
Australia Day comes this year shortly after Obama's entry into the White House. Like the child in Australia — a film that captures something of the mixed history of our Australian footprint — Obama embodies the possibility of healing across racial and other divides.
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AUSTRALIA

Beyond the picket fence
- Clare Coburn
- 25 February 2008
2 Comments
During the Howard years, a culture of fear saw us closeted within our houses, reluctant to engage with the community. Prime Minister Rudd's apology to the Stolen Generations may have collapsed a few symbolic fences so that messages can begin to pass back and forth.
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AUSTRALIA

Community in an electronic age
- Rufus Black
- 09 July 2006
Technology has changed human relationships, argues Rufus Black.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Old days, lost ways
- Juliette Hughes
- 04 July 2006
My grandmother lost four children. Born in the 1870s, she lived the perilous life of a respectable married woman of the working classes in the early part of the 20th century.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

On disc
- Juliette Hughes, Maryanne Confoy
- 03 July 2006
Juliette Hughes reviews the John Butler Trio’s Living 2001-2002 and The Liszt Album, and Maryanne Confoy reviews Australia’s Religious Communities.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Myth-take no mistake
- Juliette Hughes
- 24 June 2006
Juliette Hughes reviews Terry Pratchett’s The Wee Free Men and Eoin Colfer’s Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code.
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