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  • RELIGION

    Gentle Benedict concedes papal roadshow must go on

    • Paul Collins
    • 11 July 2007
    14 Comments

    Following earlier scepticism, Pope Benedict XVI last week confirmed that he is coming to Sydney for World Youth Day next July. Unlike his predecessor, he doesn't see himself as ‘bishop of the world’. Instead he has reasserted the traditional pastoral role of the pope as Bishop of Rome.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Someone will have to go

    • Peter Bakowski
    • 15 May 2007

    Having looked at the quarterly figures, he says / that someone will have to go. / It's Weems, a bit of a gambler, a bit of a tippler, / whose eyes stray from sales charts and balance sheets / to ankles and the racing form.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Mexican wave ban reflects sponsor tyranny

    • Colin Long
    • 08 March 2007
    4 Comments

    The construction of new stadiums has been accompanied by increased surveillance and control over the spectator space. Entertainment organised by the stadium managers, which they and their sponsors can make money from, is OK – but spontaneous entertainment is forbidden.

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  • MEDIA

    Google pays the price to capture online video zeitgeist

    • James Massola
    • 30 October 2006
    2 Comments

    The battle for the living rooms of 21st century consumers has begun, and all the big players know it. Google, with its stockpile of $A13.5 billion, has gambled on YouTube delivering market supremacy in the online video arena.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Cricket King's saintly gestures

    • Tony Smith
    • 18 September 2006

    The reactions of many Australians to the deaths of a crocodile showman and a racing car driver suggest that media images canonise our secular saints. Meanwhile the fictional Chris Anderson's love for his family and friends, and his integrity and humility, are very appealing characteristics.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Odds on

    • David Glanz
    • 10 July 2006
    1 Comment

    Long before there was a monopoly on gambling, there were nit-keepers, discovers David Glanz.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Waiting

    • Morag Fraser
    • 05 July 2006

    At a time like this, when the world—literally the whole world—waits on words, it is bracing to hear hope extolled, and exhilarating to think hard about the foundations of peace and how we might lay them down.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Hammered at the heath

    • Peter Pierce
    • 03 July 2006

    Peter Pierce goes to the races.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Temporary inanity

    • Juliette Hughes
    • 26 June 2006

    I cocoon all day and well into the night, watching TV, chatting on the phone or fiddling aimlessly with the laptop. I am the luckiest being in history, warm and fed and sheltered and entertained and surrounded by family.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Longchamp | Smoke and mirrors | Island life

    • Peter Pierce, David Glanz, Tony Brennan
    • 13 June 2006

    News from around the traps.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Driving the tide

    • Jack Waterford
    • 11 June 2006

    In America, the political scientists are trying to attract the NASCAR dads—the sort of guys who are fans of racing cars. ‘NASCAR dads’ was once used to describe small-town and rural men.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Pride of Erin

    • John Carmody, Morag Fraser, Peter Pierce
    • 05 June 2006

    Pride of Erin | Across the fence | Descending gloom

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