Keywords: National Gallery
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 14 October 2011
Mary visited Rome as a young religious woman when she was being persecuted by local bishops for being too independent. She got a good hearing from the Pope and great assistance from Fr Anderledy who became the Superior General of the Jesuits. If only Bishop Bill Morris could have received the same sympathetic hearing.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 01 June 2011
5 Comments
At a gallery opening in Bali, the Australia-Indonesia relationship was compared to a rope with many strands, with art and culture the most resilient. In the audience were Australian lawyers who have supported members of the Bali Nine, and lawyers acting for Indonesian minors still held in long term detention in Australia without charge.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 01 November 2010
3 Comments
There is an emerging Aboriginal middle class. The contested questions in those communities relate to the expensive delivery of services including health, housing and education. The contested issue in the urban community is over self-identification as Aboriginal by persons of mixed descent.
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AUSTRALIA
- Tony Smith
- 26 August 2010
10 Comments
Since both major parties wasted their chance to secure a clear
mandate, the Independents have been treated by the media as opportunists and vengeful egotists. By making Parliament complex,
the rise of Independents complicates the lives of political hacks.
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AUSTRALIA
- Adrian Phoon
- 26 July 2010
2 Comments
Malcolm Turnbull recently compared Kevin Rudd to the Shakespearean character Coriolanus, a reviled control freak. Politicians sometimes invoke Shakespeare to flatter their own cause. But
this is fraught with dangers:
they can come off sounding pompous, or their analogies
may backfire.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Matthews
- 25 March 2010
5 Comments
Few people give a toss about Bilbies, the Arts
or Heritage, but the moment someone rediscovers them and deems them indispensable, only to find that
Bilbies are disappearing and Arts and Heritage are in palliative care,
Garrett's a goner — again.
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MARGARET DOOLEY AWARD
Multi-faith dialogue is just a conversation, over time, between dear friends.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Jessica Frawley
- 02 March 2009
8 Comments
Paintings that once would have once sparked controversy now adorn biscuit tins, umbrellas, notebooks and a range of
other merchandise. We have killed the controversy and challenges faced in the past by branding it to death.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 17 October 2008
9 Comments
'For me, talk of the death penalty evoked the young, frightened faces of
Scott and Emmanuel, as well as the laughing, haughty faces of Amrozi,
Mukhlas and Imam Samudra.' Full text from Frank Brennan's session on 'Killing People for Killing People', Ubud Writers Festival, 17 October 2008.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 06 October 2008
'Lee and
Christine Rush are your average Ozzie couple, except that their teenage son Scott is on death row in Bali having been
convicted of being a hapless drug mule. It will not go down well on the streets of Jakarta
if Australians are baying for the blood of the Bali bombers one month
and then pleading to save our sons and daughters the next month.'
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EUREKA STREET/ READER'S FEAST AWARD
Coming closer, one sees these are paintings of drowning people, headsor bodies suspended in metallic seawater. There are 353 images, mostly children and women, for it was mostly children and women who boarded the boat.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- John Bartlett
- 10 July 2008
2 Comments
Nations need to believe in the nobility of their soldiers — anything less would be unbearable. There is an excess of ugliness in German artist Otto Dix's Der Krieg Cycle, perhaps the most powerful and unpleasant antiwar statement in modern art.
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