Keywords: Purgatory
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Barry Gittins and Jen Vuk
- 15 November 2013
3 Comments
Punter is a bloke's bloke, 'brung up' in a limited but nurturing suburbia of cricket, cricket, golf and cricket. I was genuinely touched by his acknowledgement of the role his wife, Rianna, and their daughters have played in his maturation. Yet while life experiences invariably expanded young Ponting's mind, it's fair to say that there remains something of the awkward teen in the man.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Barry Gittins and Jen Vuk
- 31 May 2013
It wasn't so much a phone call as a lifeline — the day the fertility clinic called me with news of my pregnancy. After six years of hoping, the life my husband and I had all but given up on was to be ours. At that same time, radio host Sheridan Voysey and his wife Merryn were facing a more heartbreaking outcome.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Maria Takolander
- 17 July 2012
3 Comments
Sophie, a Malagay slave in Mauritius, torched a barn housing a collection of leather straps — the flames soaring like the sounds of the black horses inside — and was packed off in a ship-sized crate to New South Wales.
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AUSTRALIA
- Tony Kevin
- 18 November 2011
9 Comments
Australia is now indelibly associated with Obama's strong messages to China in Canberra. We were used. But our government wanted this, because it will all be popular with the middle ground former Labor voters Gillard is trying to win back from Abbott and the Greens.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
What's more unfeasible? The dim prospect of churches selling off real estate to house and feed and clothe the homeless, or elephants, webskidding with zeal?
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 09 March 2011
3 Comments
Parents and teachers have absconded. A violent altercation is documented by students with camera phones. During a drug-and-booze-addled party, a girl is assulted and left for dead. A pricey education is no substitute for an ethical framework.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Adrian Phoon
- 08 July 2010
4 Comments
The toys are brought to a landfill, where they are
dragged towards an incinerator, a fiery pit equivalent to any
vision of Hell confected by Dante. It's harrowing stuff for an animated feature, but you can never tell what the toys find more threatening: death
itself or the despair of becoming obsolete.
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RELIGION
- Andrew Hamilton
- 27 May 2010
23 Comments
Many Catholics complained Carl Williams was allowed burial in a
Catholic Church. Some victims of sexual abuse were angry that bishops and priests glorified the funeral
of a priest who had been charged with sexual abuse.
These responses reflect a changing
understanding of funerals in the Church.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Jennifer Harrison
- 27 October 2009
1 Comment
on my way to the gospel gig, I watch .. the bible buskers Trucking for Jesus on Sackville Street
... Once, I heard a priest say, perhaps in a dream, .. It's useless to nail oneself to the wall.
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AUSTRALIA
- Scott Stephens
- 01 June 2009
10 Comments
Our failure to care for and honour our elderly is one of the great causes of
moral impoverishment in our culture. Lives tempered by age
and hard-earned virtue are gifts from God. It is to our
detriment that we ignore them.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Michael Mullins
- 08 April 2009
2 Comments
Prior to the devastation of Monday's earthquake, L'Aquila was a
picturesque hillside city of 75,000 inhabitants nestled in the Gran
Sasso mountains. It was not always a plagued, razed purgatory.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 05 February 2009
6 Comments
Never mind purgatory: suburbia is hell, barbed with tedious career
obligations, awash with too-bright light
that leaves the skin looking transluscent, and populated with
overly-cheerful, deluded demons.
I was raised in the 'burbs, and still live there.
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